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12 January 2017 Last updated at 15:10 GMT
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Lonely Planet put the West Yorkshire city fifth on its list of best places to visit in Europe - saying it had shrugged off its "industrial past".
Zagreb in Croatia is named in first place, followed by Gotland in Sweden.
Leeds was praised for its "urban regeneration", "flourishing cultural scene", "thriving nightlife and "reputation for food and craft beer".
Lonely Planet's Best in Europe list is published each year, highlighting the most exciting destinations.
James Smart, Lonely Planet UK destination editor, said: "Once defined by its industrial past, Leeds is now a confident, cultural hub in the north of England.
"With major events this year, including the reopening of Leeds Art Gallery and the 50th anniversary of Leeds Carnival, there's never been a better time to head to Yorkshire and join the party."
Mr Smart said all the destinations offer "something new, exciting or undiscovered that make them worth exploring right now."
1. Zagreb, Croatia :: 2. Gotland, Sweden :: 3. Galicia, Spain :: 4. Northern Montenegro :: 5. Leeds, UK :: 6. Alentejo, Portugal :: 7. Northern Germany :: 8. Moldova :: 9. Paphos, Cyprus :: 10. Le Havre, France
Judith Blake, leader of Leeds City Council, said it was a "fabulous endorsement" for the city.
"To be recognised as one of the top places in Europe, we can all be incredibly proud of," she said.
"It's particularly encouraging to see the quality of our city's impressive cultural, leisure and nightlife scenes acknowledged and I hope this recognition means we will soon be welcoming even more visitors from across Europe and beyond."
At number one, Lonely Planet said Zagreb was "often overlooked" in favour of Croatia's extensive Adriatic coastline.
"This booming inland capital is both cosmopolitan and edgy, combining sun-splashed Austro-Hungarian squares brimming with coffee drinkers with a heady mix of Brutalist architecture, thriving street art and urban regeneration."
God Save the Queen, the national anthem for the UK as a whole, is currently used for England during most sporting events.
However, Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins believes England needs its own anthem and presented his case in the House of Commons as a ten minute rule motion.
His English National Anthem Bill was adopted by the House.
The idea will be debated again at a second reading on 4 March.
The bill would bestow a responsibility on the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to hold a consultation across the UK, and Mr Perkins suggested there could even be an "X Factor style programme" to select a song.
Goodbye to God Save the Queen?
Jerusalem's meaning
Mr Perkins said it "seemed incongruous" for the English to sing about Britain when their teams play against other home nations, while the Welsh and Scots sing an anthem that reflects their nation's identity.
"It reflects a sense that we see Britain and England as synonymous," he said.
"This not only denies us English an opportunity to celebrate the nation that is being represented but is also a cause for resentment amongst other countries within the British Isles who feel that England have requisitioned a British song."
But his proposal for an English anthem was opposed by Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conservative MP for North East Somerset.
"When the honourable gentleman for Chesterfield said that now English crowds take St George's flag rather than the Union Jack, to me that's a matter of pity, of shame, that we have given up viewing ourselves as one United Kingdom, whether we are supporting England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland," he said.
"These expressions of the individual nationalism are a disuniting factor in our country, in a country that we ought to want to make more united," he said.
Mr Perkins said there had been a lot of interest in choosing an anthem when he spoke on radio stations across England.
"I won't say which area it was that thought the most appropriate choice for an English national anthem should be Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," he said.
"It will remain a secret between myself and the listeners of BBC Humberside, but it was perhaps reflective that each local area has its own sense of what Englishness means."
Campaign group England In My Heart wants Jerusalem to be adopted and arranged for a van with loudspeakers to drive around Parliament playing the song ahead of the debate.
"It's about time England was able to celebrate being English at sporting events," said group member Eddie Bone.
"Let the Scots and the Welsh celebrate theirs and then we come together at the end and sing God Save the Queen."
Another campaign group, Anthem 4 England, said Jerusalem has come out as favourite in previous polls.
Member Gareth Young said it was his personal favourite too.
"It's a beautiful song and it actually mentions and is about England, unlike its competitors," he said.
He said people wrongly think it's a hymn and also "object to the fact that it references a Middle Eastern city" but said these objections were "largely based on ignorance" as Jerusalem was a metaphor for a better place.
Using the UK anthem as the English anthem was an "unnecessary strain on relations between England and Scotland" in the wake of the independence referendum, he added.
"God Save the Queen is the British anthem and should belong equally to the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish," he said.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said that Jerusalem would be his choice for England's national anthem, according to the ConservativeHome website.
Jerusalem was chosen as the anthem to be played for English athletes competing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi following a month-long public vote.
The England cricket team have used Jerusalem as an unofficial anthem for more than a decade - but still also sing God Save The Queen before many matches.
Land of Hope and Glory - which was used by England at the Commonwealth Games before 2010 - often comes up as second choice, behind Jerusalem, in public polls.
Toby Perkins said I Vow To Thee, My Country and There'll Always Be an England were also options.
Campaigners have also suggested creating an anthem from scratch.
Mr Aikman, who raised more than £500,000 with his "Gordon's Fightback" campaign, died aged 31 on 3 February.
Politicians including Nicola Sturgeon, Kezia Dugdale and Alistair Darling joined Mr Aikman's husband Joe Pike for the service in Edinburgh.
Celebrant Caroline Lambie, who also married the couple, told mourners "there was no-one like Gordon".
Ms Lambie, from the Humanist Society of Scotland, said that it was natural to mourn.
She added: "In a way, we are mourning that our lives will never be the same without him."
People arrived at Warriston Crematorium in Edinburgh to a recording of Highland Cathedral, played by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
The coffin was taken into the service to the strains of Forever Young by Bob Dylan.
The service heard an account of Mr Aikman's diagnosis with MND, and his successful campaign of fundraising for research into the condition.
His husband read the poem Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep.
The celebrant told the congregation that while the pain of losing Mr Aikman would diminish over time, the light he had brought into their lives would not.
Ms Sturgeon, who agreed to double the number of specialist MND nurses after meeting Mr Aikman, said she was filled with admiration for his tenacity.
She said: "Gordon faced up to his diagnosis with incredible courage and dignity.
"His campaign to raise awareness of MND and achieve better care and treatment for those diagnosed was inspirational and will make a huge difference for others in the future."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale also spoke about her memories of close friend Mr Aikman.
She said: "Today I'm saying goodbye, but also thank you.
"Gordon gave us all something so special. He gave us his friendship, his courage and the determination to make things better for those who follow.
"He did so much good in such a short space in time. We miss you terribly but pledge to honour your life in how we now choose to live ours - to savour every day."
Alistair Darling, who worked with Mr Aikman on the Better Together campaign in the lead-up to the Scottish independence referendum, described him as a true hero.
Referring to his involvement in a charity ice bucket challenge, the former chancellor said: "It takes some convincing to get me to agree to have a bucket of cold water over my head but I did it because Gordon was an inspiration.
"Truly, we have lost a hero but he leaves us greater hope that one day there will be a cure. That was what he wanted. We will not forget him."
Mr Pike said it was "so painful" to say goodbye, but said the service was about celebrating Mr Aikman's achievements.
He said: "Life is never without Gordon and never will be without Gordon.
"He is gone but I, like so many others, now see life through Gordon's eyes.
"He has made me a better person because, even when he was dying, Gordon taught us all so much about how to live."
The cremation service was followed by a celebration of Mr Aikman's life in Edinburgh city centre.
Mr Aikman, from Edinburgh, was diagnosed with MND in 2014 while he was director of research for the Better Together campaign in the Scottish independence referendum.
He went on to win cross-party support for his campaign calling for funding to find a cure for MND and for specialist nursing care.
He was awarded a British Empire Medal in 2015 and an honorary doctorate from Edinburgh University for his work to transform care for people with the disease.
The case was due to be heard next week, but Betsi Cadwaladr health board will now consult on the future of services at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan.
It had planned to reduce services to midwife-led care only.
Interim chief executive Simon Dean apologised for the "difficult period of uncertainty and worry".
He added: "After very careful consideration following legal advice and despite significant ongoing concerns about the obstetric service at Glan Clwyd Hospital, we have advised the court that we no longer seek to contest the judicial review brought against us.
"I wish to make it clear that the legal process is ongoing and has not yet been concluded.
"We all acknowledge what a difficult period of uncertainty and worry this has been for our staff and patients, for which we are very sorry."
Ann Jones, Labour AM for the Vale of Clwyd, said the decision marked "a stage to move forward and for the board to work hard to regain peoples trust whilst continuing to provide vital public services".
Shadow Health Minister Darren Millar said: "I'm glad that NHS chiefs have finally caved in, but it shouldn't have taken the threat of judicial review for the health board to do the right thing."
The health board had been expected to go ahead with the plans to end consultant-led services in April, but the bid for a judicial review put them on hold.
Llyr Gruffydd, Plaid Cymru's North Wales AM said: "They ignored nurses, midwives, doctors, patients and the general public on this matter and ploughed ahead without even a consultation. This arrogance from senior management must stop."
Liberal Democrats' North Wales AM Aled Roberts called it a "botched process" that had "gone on for too long".
Captain Dara Fitzpatrick was taken to hospital on Tuesday after being found in a critical condition by RNLI crew.
The surface search for her three colleagues who are still missing will continue overnight.
The air search, however, will be scaled down until first light on Friday.
The aircraft lost contact at about 01:00 local time as it was coming in to refuel during a rescue operation.
The three other crew on board have been named as Chief Pilot Mark Duffy and winchmen Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith.
Irish coastguard search and rescue manager, Gerard O'Flynn said Ms Fitzpatrick was the most senior pilot with CHC which runs the contract to provide search and rescue services in the Republic of Ireland.
"She's been with the company for some 20 years and outside of her work as a pilot she did an enormous amount of work on water safety and was always available to do school visits and just highlight basic water safety," he said.
"For all of us involved in the coastguard and particularly, for her family and everybody, it does come as a complete shock, and we want to extend our sincere sympathy to all her family and indeed to her flying colleagues in CHC and simply to everybody who knew her."
Capt Fitzpatrick was the mother of a young son. Her sister, Niamh Fitzpatrick, paid tribute to her on Twitter and asked for prayers for her missing crew members.
Mr O'Flynn said the Irish naval service, the Garda (police) diving unit and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) had joined the coastguard's "hugely resourced" search operation.
He also said that a number of fishing vessels were assisting the emergency services and were "doing Trojan work out there".
"Obviously with the passage of time the chances of recovering somebody alive decreases, but we are treating this as a search operation and we don't give up hope until we absolutely have to."
I spoke to one of those who had been out and he described the conditions as quite rough with a four to five metre swell but said they had recovered some of the wreckage.
He said that the debris field covered quite a considerable area.
But the search is continuing for those three missing crew members as well as the flight recorders which may go some way to explaining what actually happened here.
The head of the Irish coastguard, Eugene Clonan, told a news conference earlier on Tuesday that it was a "very dark day" for emergency services in Ireland.
He added that as time went on, "hopes are fading that we will find the rest of the crew".
Debris has been spotted in the water and a search by two RNLI lifeboats, two Irish coastguard helicopters and several local fishing boats is focusing north of Achill Island in County Mayo.
The helicopter which crashed was a Dublin-based aircraft that had been providing support for another Sligo-based coastguard helicopter during an overnight rescue mission.
The Sligo helicopter had been responding to a distress call from a crewman in need of medical attention on a UK fishing vessel about 150km west of Eagle Island.
The BBC understands that the second helicopter, the R116 from Dublin, was sent to help the Sligo aircraft communicate with the base at Malin, as the fishing boat was too far out for the first helicopter to stay within communication range.
The Sligo crew picked up the fisherman, who had a serious hand injury, and transferred him to hospital.
Shortly afterwards, communication was lost with the Dublin-based aircraft.
Conditions were described as good when the R116 helicopter - crewed by two pilots, a winch man and a winch operator - lost contact on its final approach to Blacksod refuelling depot.
The Sligo helicopter returned to the scene and began to search for their colleagues.
Declan Geoghegan from the Irish coastguard said the accident had hit the "rescue family" hard.
"We don't know what happened and obviously there will be an air accident investigation into it," he said.
"We'll continue to search for the missing crew members until such time as we have recovered them and the flight recorder."
The Irish President, Michael D Higgins, paid tribute to Cpt Fitzpatrick on "behalf of the people of Ireland".
He said she had lost her life "while providing assistance to others".
"We are all grateful for the courage, resolution and exemplary commitment to the aims of the coastguard that Captain Fitzpatrick and her colleagues have consistently displayed.
"My thoughts are with her family at this difficult moment and also with the families of the missing crew," the president said.
The Irish Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross, also offered his condolences, saying: "As the search for the Dublin-based helicopter R116 is currently under way I would like to express my sincere support and sympathies for all those involved."
The search operation is being led by the Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Centre in Malin Head, County Donegal.
The Irish naval vessel, the LÉ Róisín, arrived in the search zone to assist on Tuesday morning.
It is the second fatal accident involving Irish Coastguard crew members over the past six months.
In September 2016, volunteer Coastguard Caitriona Lucas died while assisting in a rescue operation off the County Clare coast.
The mother of two was one of three crew members on board a rigid inflatable boat which flipped over during a search for a man near cliffs at Kilkee.
"Once they're done I'm going to say, 'Okay, that's goodbye to all that,'" he said in an interview with his grandson.
"At this point in my life, age 80, it'd give me more satisfaction."
The actor and director, known for such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, was recently seen in a remake of Disney film Pete's Dragon.
The Oscar-winning star of The Sting and Out of Africa is also known for founding the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
Speaking to his grandson Dylan, Redford said he was "an impatient person" who found it hard "to sit around and do take after take after take".
The actor, who once studied as an artist in Paris, also revealed he was considering "going back to sketching" as he entered his ninth decade.
Redford said he had a pair of acting projects in the pipeline - "a love story for older people" and "a lighter piece".
The two films - Our Souls at Night co-starring Jane Fonda and The Old Man and the Gun co-starring Casey Affleck - will be released in 2017.
Redford's last directorial feature was The Company You Keep, a 2012 thriller in which he also appeared.
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Ryley Turner, five, got the top of his shoe trapped in the escalator at intu Lakeside in Essex on Saturday.
As the escalator kept running, his foot was drawn further into the mechanism.
Bystanders and firefighters spent more than an hour releasing him in a rescue described as a "miracle" by Ryley's father Adrian.
Mr Turner, from Grays, was visiting the shopping centre to get foreign currency for a holiday, and to go to the cinema with his son.
"We were on the escalator, about two-thirds of the way down, when Ryley started shouting 'ow ow ow'," Mr Turner said.
"His shoe was being dragged into the mechanism. I tried to pull him out, I was screaming for someone to push the stop button."
Mr Turner, 36, said hundreds of shoppers stopped to watch the rescue attempt, with a number of shoppers offering to help free Ryley's foot - including one man who had bought a screwdriver.
A member of staff from a BHS shop at the bottom of the escalator sat with Ryley and tried to keep him and Mr Turner calm.
"The people who helped were just amazing," Mr Turner said. "I wish I had their names. I would like to say thank you to everyone who helped us."
Mr Turner and Ryley's mother dropped off a thank-you card to firefighters from Grays who had assisted during the "very distressing" rescue.
"When they pulled him out, I cried my eyes out," Mr Turner said.
Ryley was left with a cut to his foot but no broken toes or other bones, an escape his father described as "a miracle".
Police officers were called to the town's High Street at 12.20pm.
The area was cordoned off and an investigation was launched.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "The death is currently being treated as unexplained and inquiries are ongoing."
16 February 2016 Last updated at 17:11 GMT
When whales are beached like this it can be really dangerous for them and, if they can't make it back into deeper waters, they don't survive.
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Sports Minister Leonardo Picciani said the armed forces would get an extra $24m (£18m) to help them meet security needs.
The military would begin patrolling sports venues from 24 July, he added.
More than 80,000 police and soldiers will patrol the streets of Rio for the duration of the games.
The state of Rio de Janeiro has recently cut budgets across the board, including that of the police.
The police in Rio recently staged demonstrations against the late payment of salaries and a lack of basic necessities like car fuel and toilet paper.
Correspondents say the protests are a symptom of the political and economic woes which have engulfed Brazil in recent times.
Brazil's Senate suspended the country's President Dilma Rousseff in May, and then began impeachment proceedings against her over allegations that she manipulated the government budget ahead of her 2014 re-election campaign.
On the economic front, government figures for the first quarter of 2016 showed that Brazil was experiencing its worst recession in 25 years.
And the Olympic organising committee has had to deal with news that several famous sportsmen - including golf world number one Jason Day - have withdrawn from the games because of fears about the Zika virus.
However, the CEO of the games has said that concerns about the virus affecting the Olympics have been "blown out of the proportion."
The 29-year-old was suspended last month "pending an internal investigation into behaviour away from the club".
He helped England to a Test series win over New Zealand in November, having made just 13 Super League appearances in 2015 because of injury.
The club said his suspension has been lifted and he has been disciplined "in line with club policy".
The raids took place at informal refugee camps in the Baalbek region.
On Monday, at least eight bombers blew themselves up in the predominantly Christian village of Qaa, killing five people and injuring almost 30 others.
No group has said it was behind the attacks, but suspicion has fallen on jihadist militants from Islamic State.
IS has carried out previous suicide bombings that have killed scores of people in Lebanon.
Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) cited an army statement as saying that troops had raided Syrian refugee encampments on Tuesday and arrested 103 Syrians "for not having legal papers". Nine motorbikes were also confiscated.
Troops also searched the Qaa Projects (Masharia Qaa) camp for "wanted individuals", according to an NNA reporter in the area.
Masharia Qaa is located outside the village of Qaa, where the mayor advised residents to stay indoors after Monday's unprecedented attacks.
In the first wave of attacks, four suicide bombers blew themselves up one after the other at dawn outside a house in Qaa.
Five people were killed and another 15 wounded, including four soldiers who went to investigate the first blast.
It was not immediately clear who or what the attackers planned to target, but the house was about 150m (490ft) from a Lebanese customs border point on the road linking the Bekaa valley to the Syrian town of Qusair.
In the main square of Qaa, a statue of Saint Elias, holding his sword menacingly, stands tall and imposing.
Emotions are running high in the predominantly Christian border town, where anger is mounting towards tens of thousands of Syrian refugees living in makeshift settlements nearby.
The mayor described the residents of these encampments as "ticking bombs".
As such, the suicide attacks might have been a turning point in the relationship between the Lebanese and the Syrian refugees there; from annoyance to suspicion and accusation.
The consequences for both groups could be dire.
Many residents believe that ultimately the saint will protect the town. But they are not only counting on God's intervention. People openly carry weapons, from guns to rifles, dangling from their waists or in their grasp.
They are vowing to take security in their own hands.
Soon after nightfall on Monday, 13 other people were wounded when another four assailants opened fire and detonated their explosive vests near the Church of Saint Elias, shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest"), NNA said.
People had reportedly gathered at the church for the funerals of those killed that morning.
The army later issued statements calling on residents not to gather anywhere in the area and requesting that the funerals be postponed until further notice.
Baalbek-Hermel governor Bashir Khodr also imposed a curfew on Syrian refugees living in the village and surrounding areas.
"The security situation today is above all considerations," Mr Khodr told the television channel LBC.
The militant Shia Islamist movement, Hezbollah, blamed the attacks on IS and said it was postponing a religious event in Beirut on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, who visited Qaa after Monday morning's attacks, said the border villages formed part of a "fence" for Lebanon. "When a terrorist enters, he can go anywhere," he added.
Mr Bassil, whose Free Patriotic Movement party leads the largest Christian bloc in parliament, called on Sunday for municipalities to ban gatherings or camps of Syrian refugees.
Lebanon has seen repeated attacks linked to the five-year conflict in Syria, where Hezbollah has sent thousands of fighters to support President Bashar al-Assad.
Bhupinder Kondal resigned from Oldknow Academy in January 2014, saying she was under "undue pressure" from governors.
Ofsted later said the school was "inadequate" and governors promoted a "narrow, faith-based" ideology.
Mrs Kondal returned after a new board was appointed in September but has now quit to seek a "fresh challenge".
In a statement the school thanked Mrs Kondal for her 13 years as principal and for leading the school through "a period of transition".
The academy's latest Ofsted report, in March, said it was "making reasonable progress towards the removal of special measures".
The education charity Ark will take over Oldknow Academy from September and is now set to appoint a new head teacher
The academy was one of 21 schools in Birmingham investigated as part of the Trojan Horse affair.
It was subsequently found that a small group of governors had tried to "make significant changes to the ethos and culture of the academy without full consultation".
Ark said Oldknow will "remain a local, non-selective, non-denominational, mixed school".
The charity, which runs 31 schools nationwide, including four in Birmingham, has promised to consult with parents, staff and pupils over its plans.
The school said a celebration event for Mrs Kondal will be held in July.
Tom Dunn opened the scoring in the first minute, while Paul Grant, Anthony Watson and Tom Homer all crossed to wrap up a bonus point by half-time.
Six further tries followed, with Grant and Watson each getting their second, before Rhys Priestland, Zach Mercer, Ben Tapuai and Ross Batty all crossed.
Mosese Ratuvou scored the French side's only try of the game.
Bath's comprehensive victory means they finish top of Pool Four.
And their superior points difference over Pool Three winners Brive, who also finished with 23 points, means they pipped the French side - their likely opponents in the last eight - to a home quarter-final.
Bath: Homer; Rokoduguni, Joseph, Fruean, Watson; Ford (co-capt), Fotuali'i; Catt, Dunn, Palma-Newport, Ewels, Stooke, Mercer, Louw (co-capt), Grant.
Replacements: Batty, Obano, Knight, Charteris, Mercer, Cook, Priestland, Tapuai.
Pau: Buros; Lestremeau, Fumat, Dupouy, Ratuvou; Fajardo, Moa Teutau; Hurou, Lespiaucq Brettes Sclavi, Pesenti, Ramsay, Habel Kuffner, Dougall, Butler (capt).
Replacements: Boundjema, Jacquot, Tierney, Tutaia, Daubagna, Dupichot, Malie, Bernad.
Sin-bin: Habel Kuffner (36)
Ref: Ben Whitehouse
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Seven sailors were left missing and three injured after Saturday's collision, which the US Navy said almost sank the destroyer.
The US Navy said rescue workers found the bodies on Sunday after gaining access to damaged parts of the ship.
It said they will be taken to a Japanese hospital to be identified.
The incident took place some 56 nautical miles (104km) south-west of the Japanese port city of Yokosuka, at about 02:30 local time on Saturday (17:30 GMT Friday).
Japanese broadcaster NHK said the collision led to the flooding of the crew's sleeping quarters while they were asleep.
USS Fitzgerald crash: In pictures
"The damage was significant," 7th Fleet commander Vice-Admiral Joseph P Aucoin said. "There was a big gash under the water." Repairs would take some time to complete, he said.
At a press conference in Japan on Sunday, Vice Adm Aucoin would not confirm how many remains had been found so far. Families of the sailors are being notified, he said.
"This loss is something we all feel," he said.
Marine traffic records suggest the ACX Crystal, a 222-metre (730ft) Filipino-flagged container ship, made a sudden U-turn roughly 25 minutes before the crash. It is not known why it changed course.
Similar records for the USS Fitzgerald are not publicly available.
The Navy ship's starboard side was heavily damaged in the collision, but the vessel later managed to slowly return to its base in Yokosuka, with the assistance of US navy tug boats.
Japan's coastguard said the ACX Crystal had a gross tonnage of just under 30,000, about three times that of the USS Fitzgerald.
It sustained lighter damage to its port bow.
The Associated Press agency said there were no injuries reported among the 20 Filipino crew members on board the ACX Crystal.
It remains at port in Tokyo.
The 25th Oil and Gas Survey found 67% of north east Scotland businesses had shed staff at a faster rate than at any time in the survey's history.
But a similar proportion felt the sector had reached "rock bottom" and the rate of job cuts would now slow.
More than 40% had cut pay or changed benefits to cope with low oil prices.
The survey, conducted by Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Fraser of Allander Institute, canvassed the views of 130 businesses, employing more than 308,000 UK staff in total.
The findings included:
James Bream, research and policy director at Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce, said: "We're likely to remain in an uncertain position through 2017 and 'the bottom' will arrive at different times and feel different for each company.
"It is clear that companies are striving to become fitter, leaner and they are working hard to look for new markets to secure their future and employment levels where that is within their control.
"There is no question of complacency in the north east and our brilliant people will continue to demonstrate that the oil and gas sector should be considered a success story in generating economic value for the UK economy."
The survey was conducted in September.
Meanwhile, the UK's oil and gas industry has claimed chemical discharges to sea and emissions to the air have continued on a downward trend over the last 15 years.
Trade body Oil & Gas UK said the average oil-in-water concentration last year was less than half of the recommended limit set by the OSPAR Commission.
That was despite the industry's first increase in production since 2000.
The findings are contained in Oil & Gas UK's Environment Report 2016.
Mick Borwell, health, safety and environment policy director with Oil & Gas UK, said: "The environment report comes at a challenging time for the UK oil and gas which is working extremely hard to navigate through the downturn, while maintaining environment and safety standards.
"Despite the UK Continental Shelf being a mature basin with technically challenging production, the overall trend for the last 15 years is downwards for discharges, emissions and accidental releases. Put simply, we are using the same amount of chemicals and emitting less CO2 in the production of more oil and gas.
"Industry is committed to minimising the effect on the natural environment and all operators have an environmental management system which is designed to minimise environmental effect."
The attack happened at a house on Phibsboro Road at about 22:30 local time on Saturday night.
The man was taken to the Mater Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
A woman in her 40s was arrested in connection with the incident.
It says a PIRC (Pensions & Investment Research Consultants) report wrongly states the firm has a chief executive-to-average-employee pay ratio of 400:1.
The retailer says the PIRC figures include a bonus that was never paid, and a "true ratio" would be about 9:1.
PIRC denied these claims, saying its analysis of the period from 1 August 1 2015 to 31 July 31 2016 was correct.
It added in a statement: "At the time of collation, PIRC's analysis of the ratio for the period under review was correct. Changes to the company remuneration scheme in subsequent periods will be updated in our 2017 annual review.
"Far from being 'fake news', PIRC's analysis was correct and the company had an opportunity to question our analysis at that time. The [Sports Direct] remuneration policies that led to PIRC's analysis were only subsequently amended."
A chief executive-to-average-employee pay ratio of 400:1 would be the second highest in the FTSE 350.
Sports Direct had said that the data sets used in the PIRC study were "incorrect", and included a bonus entitlement which was accrued by former chief executive Dave Forsey, but was never collected.
"This is fake news that appears to have been either deliberately or recklessly circulated by an irresponsible organisation that is making headlines at the expense of Sports Direct," a spokesman for Sports Direct said.
"We have contacted PIRC to request a copy of the report and we will be writing to them to express our disappointment. It is incorrect to state that Sports Direct has the second-highest ratio of chief executive-to-average-employee pay."
The PIRC wages data was originally published in City AM, a free newspaper for workers in the City of London.
Over the past year Sports Direct has faced a barrage of criticism over its financial performance, corporate governance and conditions for workers at its warehouse in Shirebrook, Derbyshire.
A report by the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills committee said employees of the company were "not treated as humans".
Since then, the company has promised an independent inquiry and to undertake significant reforms, including offering compensation to workers who had been underpaid.
Several senior employees have left the company. Mr Forsey stepped down as chief executive and was replaced by Mr Ashley. Veteran banker David Brayshaw was recruited as an independent director.
The figure was released following a Freedom of Information request by the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
It includes the cost of upkeep for buildings and maintaining the force's mechanical and electrical systems.
Police Scotland responded by saying it was developing an estate investment programme.
Last October, the Scottish Police Federation raised concerns about the "crumbling police estate".
The Association of the Scottish Police Superintendents later said that the force was facing "significant budget challenges" and that many stations were in a "shocking state of disrepair".
Police Scotland has been reviewing buildings in a number of locations which could be closed as part of a wide-ranging estate review.
In November, the force said it needed "modern, flexible buildings which are fit for the future".
In releasing the maintenance figures, Scottish Lib Dem justice spokesman Liam McArthur said: "We've seen reports of police cars held together with duct tape, leaking interview rooms and officers searching charity shops for gear.
"Now this Freedom of Information request reveals that, over the next 10 years, the cost of routine maintenance of the police estate will be more than a quarter of a billion pounds.
"That is a huge bill and it is what is required just to keep up, replacing outdated electrical equipment and buildings.
"It won't even begin to cover the new investment that is required to ensure officers and staff have the 21st century resources they need."
In its response, Police Scotland said the estimated spending on maintenance included replacing "components and systems assessed against the anticipated lifecycle" that may be required over the next 10 years.
Police Scotland Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said: "The Police Scotland estate was inherited from the legacy arrangements of eight forces and the Scottish Police Services Authority.
"Much of the estate had not been maintained or upgraded to an adequate standard. In addition, a number of the buildings are no longer suitable for the demands or needs of local communities."
Mr Livingstone said the total was the amount the force would have to pay "if we were simply to maintain our current estate".
He added: "However, that is not our intention, and through the Policing 2026 Strategy, which was approved by the SPA and placed before the Scottish Parliament this week, we laid out ambitious plans to build the police service Scotland needs for the future.
"These plans detail our intention to ensure Police Scotland becomes financially and operationally sustainable within three years.
"As part of these plans, Police Scotland is now developing an estate investment programme to ensure we have buildings which are fit for purpose across the wide range of communities we serve.
"The actual amount Police Scotland will spend on estates over the next 10 years will be calculated and refined as this investment programme is developed to ensure we continue to deliver a quality service to local communities."
Mr McArthur blamed the size of the maintenance bill on the "botched centralisation" of the force by the Scottish government in 2013.
But the government responded by saying it was "committed to protecting the £1bn police resource budget in real terms in every year of this parliament, a boost of £100m by 2021".
A spokeswoman added: "We have also increased the capital budget in real terms in 2017-18 and provided a further £61m to support the delivery of Policing 2026, the 10-year strategy to ensure Police Scotland is equipped to tackle new and emerging threats.
"We will continue to press UK ministers over the glaring disparity on VAT which sees Police Scotland, unlike all other UK territorial police forces, unable to recover VAT."
15 December 2016 Last updated at 08:32 GMT
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The corpse was discovered in a BMW outside West Bromwich police station on Thursday morning.
Formal identification and a post-mortem examination of the dead man will take place in due course, West Midlands Police said.
Sukhwinder Singh, 40, of MacDonalds Close, Tividale is due to appear before Walsall Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
The 20-year-old forward, on loan from Millwall, headed in Dan Walker's cross to give the visitors the lead.
Damon Lathrope then doubled the advantage when his 30-yard free-kick looped over home keeper Ritchie Branagan and into the top corner.
Kristian Dennis had a late effort blocked for the hosts, but the Shots defence held firm for a clean sheet.
Aldershot Town boss Barry Smith told BBC Surrey:
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"It was a good away performance, we got the goals at good times and the boys worked ever so hard to get that result.
"The starting eleven and the boys that came on, they worked very hard defensively and that allowed us to win chances in order to take them.
"I think overall our team defensively ensured a good performance, where the strikers worked hard to stop them getting the ball forward and when they did get it forward the midfielders tracked their runners which allowed us to defend well.
"I've got a great squad, their attitude is superb and I've said that all along. The players have worked ever so hard during the week topping up their fitness levels and that showed."
The New Zealand-born 26-year-old arrived in Wales in 2014 and has scored 337 points for the region.
Anscombe, who was named in Wales' summer tour squad earlier this week, has played for Wales nine times.
"It is great to see Gareth re-signing his dual contract and becoming another player to commit his future to the game in Wales," said coach Warren Gatland.
"Gareth has recovered well from recent injuries to hit form once again and is deserving of his place in Wales' upcoming summer tour."
Anscombe says he is pleased to be staying somewhere he now considers "home".
"It's pleasing to recommit to Wales and Cardiff Blues, who are a region I very much want to be a part of," Anscombe commented.
"I'm looking forward to the summer tour, but I'm only at the start of my international career and hopefully I can contribute a lot more in the years to come.
"There's a lot more to do before that and it's very important for me that Cardiff Blues finish the season well and next year push into to the top six and play at a consistent high level.
"Wales feels like home now, the boys have been a big part of that and my partner and I feel really settled here in Cardiff."
Blues go to Stade Francais in a semi-final play-off on Friday, 19 May for the last remaining place in the European Champions Cup.
If successful, Anscombe will then link up with Wales for the summer Test matches against Tonga and Samoa in June after the play-off final on Friday, 26 May.
Blues head coach Danny Wilson added: "It's great news that Gareth has recommitted his future to Cardiff Blues and Wales.
"Since he has returned from injury he has got better every week and proven his quality.
"He is a key figure for us and is not just a good professional, but also an important leader within the squad.
"Gareth has a big future with Cardiff Blues and he has all the quality and potential to kick on with Wales."
Swans have had three managers in 2016-17 with Paul Clement having arrived in January with the club at the foot of the table.
Their struggle ended as Hull were relegated instead after their 4-0 defeat by Crystal Palace.
"I don't think it needs a big overhaul in the squad," said Jenkins.
"I think that's always dangerous."
There has been speculation over the futures of striker Fernando Llorente and midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson, whose efforts played a major part in the Welsh club looking forward to a seventh season in the top flight.
Sigurdsson has 13 assists for the season, while Llorente has 14 goals and scored in each of the three victories Swansea recorded during a timely late unbeaten run of four matches.
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Chelsea were reportedly interested in Llorente in January while Everton have been linked with Sigurdsson.
Jenkins hopes neither player wants to move on with Llorente contracted until the end of 2017-18, while Sigurdsson has signed a deal until June 2020.
"Now and again you get players who want to leave the club for whatever reason and we have to deal with that," Jenkins told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
When asked whether Sigurdsson and Llorente would want to stay, Jenkins responded: "We'll have to discuss that and hopefully they will."
"It's always a difficult one offering new contracts to players every year."
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Jenkins says the club's priority will remain being financially stable while hoping to hold on to their top players.
"I don't think there's been many an occasion at Swansea City over the last six years in the Premier League when players have left because we've wanted to transfer them," said Jenkins.
"And I think that will always continue as finances will dictate and we'll do our best to make sure that better players want to stay with us.
"Sometimes we don't satisfy everybody's wishes, but we've got to try and work within the financial situation we are in and parameters we've got.
"We'll always try and do that and make sure the club is financially sound and to me that's first and foremost."
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Jenkins remained chairman when Swansea were taken over by an American consortium led by Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien in July, 2016.
There has been controversy over their management of the club since, particularly the decision to appoint Bob Bradley as the Premier League's first American manager in October.
He took over from Italian Francesco Guidolin, was was dispensed with after poor early form.
Clement succeeded Bradley and after overseeing a change in fortunes and hopes Sigurdsson and Llorente will be part of his squad next season with talks to start with the American owners and Jenkins over the next few days.
"Gylfi has remained extremely professional - and there has been a lot of speculation about him during this period," said Clement.
"But he's focused totally on playing well, putting the work in on the training field, delivering performances week-in, week-out, home and away.
"There's no wonder that the fans have this affection for him.
"I've enjoyed working with him and I would like to do that moving into the future, but we'll see what happens.
Clement added: "I think Llorente and Sigurdsson have enjoyed their time here this season, especially the second half.
"They've been instrumental in our form and how we've done, but no decisions have been made on any player, really, moving ahead to next season.
"We need to do that over the coming days, but ultimately me as the manager, coach, I want to keep the best players here."
In the Middle East media, pan-Arab Al-Arabiya TV quotes observers as saying that the agreement is "loose, and open to interpretation". The TV adds that the "Munich agreement remains mere pledges on paper as US Secretary of State John Kerry admitted."
Syrian TV in its early morning bulletin focuses on military successes against "terrorists" and reports the Russian deputy foreign minister's announcement of an agreement to settle the crisis only near the end of its newscast.
However, the agreement is widely reported in Iran which is supportive of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but Iranian media stress that the cessation of hostilities does not include regions under the control of "terrorist groups" such as the so-called Islamic State and al-Nusra Front.
Iranian English-language Press TV also broadcast an interview with Ken Stone, described as a Canadian peace activist, who sees the plan as a "step forward".
The Saudi, pro-government Al-Riyadh newspaper quotes various "experts" as saying that it was unlikely that any agreed ceasefire would be "implemented on the ground". In contrast, Lebanon's Al-Akhbar newspaper, which backs the Syrian government, runs a front-page headline heralding "a Syrian breakthrough in Munich".
In Russia, which backs the Syrian government militarily, the Munich talks feature prominently on TV news bulletins. Channel One follows up its report on the talks with a jubilant report on the advances of the Syrian army, creating the overall impression that government forces are gaining momentum on the ground.
Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung, publishing in Munich where the talks have been held, is upbeat, reporting hopes of a "realistic implemention in 7 to 10 days".
But the conservative Berlin paper, Die Welt, is more sceptical, headlining its story "Ceasefire all round, unless the Russians don't want it". It says the "partial success" of the Munich security conference has led to "very fragile agreements", concluding that "almost everything depends on the Russians".
French papers, too, express little confidence about the deal. Le Monde talks of a "fragile agreement for a humanitarian truce" and Liberation says the deal was reached with "difficulty amid distrust and caution".
Le Figaro says bluntly: "The outcome of the Syrian conflict is still far from over. John Kerry did not hide the issues he is still in disagreement with Russia on, especially the fate of Bashar al-Assad."
But in the USA, The New York Times sees the agreement as "a chance to halt the brutality in Syria", saying in an editorial that it sees "a glimmer of hope after the relentless attacks by Russia in support of the Syrian regime".
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Shapovalov was fined $7,000 (£5,600) for his actions during a Davis Cup match with Great Britain's Kyle Edmund.
The 17-year-old trailed 6-3 6-4 2-1 when he struck the ball in anger and hit Arnaud Gabas, defaulting the match.
"I know how dangerous it can be to fire a ball," he told the BBC. "My first concern was that the referee was OK."
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast's Nicky Campbell, he added: "I turned over and saw the official bending down, holding his eye. So from that moment on I was in complete shock and regret right away.
"I kind of blacked out for the next 10 minutes maybe. I remember going to the bench, asking if the ref's OK."
Shapovalov, who escaped the maximum $12,000 (£9,600) fine because it was deemed to be unintentional, said he spoke to Gabas after the match and the French umpire even managed to "joke around a little bit" regarding the incident in Ottawa.
Gabas went to hospital as a precaution but no damage to the cornea or retina was found. He was due to see an eye doctor in France for a further examination.
"I've been hit several times in the eye and other parts, so I know how dangerous it is," added world number 251 Shapovalov.
"I'm very lucky he is OK. If things had gone worse I don't think I would have been able to forgive myself and I don't think I would be able to move past it.
"I'm hoping I'll learn from it and move forward so that it is a lesson for me."
The teenager also apologised to Edmund and and the British fans, saying he was "odds on" to lose match before he was disqualified.
"I feel bad that I didn't allow the British team to have the celebration that they deserved," he added.
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The Raglan Road pub in Nottingham created the unusual tribute to the billionaire business mogul in its men's toilets.
Manager Ruth Beraki said it was the owner's idea but insisted it was not meant to be a political statement.
"We are not trying to influence people. It is only meant to be a bit of fun," she said.
She said many people have been spotted taking selfies with the image and "think it is brilliant".
No complaints had been made and no-one had said anything about it "not being appropriate".
"It's a talking point," Ms Beraki added.
The Raglan Road bar was converted from a lighting shop to a pub in 2008.
In March, a pub in Kennington set up urinal-style voting booths, with the help of the Last Leg satire show, featuring the likenesses of Donald Trump and fellow Republicans Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz to allow punters to vote for their least favourite candidate.
In August, a pub in Dublin also decorated its urinal with a portrait of the Republican candidate to make patrons' trip to the toilet "a wee bit more entertaining".
Ms Beraki said she had not yet considered putting a photo of Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton next to the one of Mr Trump.
The BBC has made efforts to contact Mr Trump for a comment but is yet to receive a response.
The singer and X Factor judge cited "unreasonable behaviour" in the action filed at the High Court in London.
The high profile couple split in February after claims the England star had been unfaithful during their four-year marriage.
The divorce could go through before the World Cup in South Africa next month, according to reports.
The 26-year-old Girl s Aloud star married the footballer in 2006 in a lavish ceremony in Hertfordshire.
The pair met in 2004 and were engaged a year later after the footballer proposed in Dubai.
OK! magazine covered the wedding, despite Cheryl Cole's earlier insistence that the ceremony would be a "quiet affair".
In 2008, the couple's marriage was rocked by tabloid speculation about Ashley Cole's infidelity.
They eventually split following further claims made in tabloid newspapers.
It was alleged that Ashley had texted compromising photographs of himself to several women, while another came forward to claim she had slept with him in 2009.
The removal of the engines, which have lain idle for two years, would leave 142 active vehicles in the capital.
Savings from the proposal would be invested in making more staff available to crew Fire Rescue Units.
But the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said it would be "dangerous and reckless" to get rid of them permanently.
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) has released three plans to make the savings.
It insists no stations will close and no firefighters will be forced to leave their jobs.
The Brigade said it had continued to meet London-wide attendance time targets while the 13 engines had been out of service.
It said that bringing them back would improve response times by about four seconds for the first engine to reach the scene.
An alternative proposal has been put forward by London Assembly Member Andrew Dismore, who recommends putting the 13 fire engines back into service but making savings by establishing alternate crewing at stations with some specialist appliances.
The proposals will be discussed on 2 December and there will be a full public consultation on how the Brigade will find the savings, LFB said.
The FBU said it was "opposed to the removal of any fire engine from London."
A spokesman said: "In wake of the Paris attacks, it would be dangerous and reckless to reduce the number of fire engines and we would urge the London Fire Brigade to think again.
"The ten fire stations that were closed last year increased response times. By removing these fire engines, we fear that response times could increase again."
They were hit by the silver van on the A25 Reigate Road in Dorking, near the junction of Pixham Lane, at about 18:50 BST on Friday.
A man died at the scene while a woman was taken to St George's Hospital in London where she was pronounced dead, Surrey Police said. The force described the two victims as elderly.
The road was closed for officers to investigate but has since reopened.
Police are appealing for witnesses.
United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust (ULHT) has said from Wednesday 17 August the department will only open from 09:00 to 18:30 daily.
The trust says it does not have enough doctors to staff the department safely and also maintain services in Lincoln and Boston.
Protesters claim the decision will put lives at risk, which the trust denies.
Charmaine Morgan, the Labour County Councillor for Grantham South, said she hoped the protest would make the trust rethink.
"This is one of the most serious situations the people of Grantham could face and is potentially life-threatening for some of our residents.
"This is a drastic change and it is not even only a night time closure but from the early evening."
The trust said the temporary closure at Grantham would enable to it maintain safe staffing levels at its two other A&E departments, both of which take a higher number of A&E patients.
Emergency departments at the hospital normally work based on having 15 consultants and 28 registrar or middle grade doctors.
However, it currently has just 14 consultants - 10 of whom are locums - and 12 middle grades.
Dr Suneil Kapadia, medical director at ULHT, said: "We have not made this decision lightly, but we've made it for the right reasons - to maintain patient safety in all three A&Es.
"We know this will be an unpopular decision but reducing the opening hours of Grantham A&E is the safest option for Lincolnshire."
He said the trust was actively trying to recruit more doctors and would fully reopen Grantham's A&E as soon as possible.
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However, he confirmed the club are now negotiating a compensation deal with the RFU to allow Borthwick to join Eddie Jones' England backroom team.
"They think they can ride roughshod over everybody, but they are finding out they can't," said Lansdown.
"I can't believe that the the governing body has acted in such a way."
Borthwick agreed a long-term contract with Bristol following the World Cup and despite handing in his resignation and the RFU releasing a statement saying the former England captain would work for new national team boss Jones as forwards coach, Championship leaders Bristol have yet to release him.
Likewise, Premiership side Northampton have taken issue over the RFU's approach for backs coach Alex King, with Saints boss Jim Mallinder saying the club have been "kept in the dark".
"It is totally unprofessional," Lansdown he told BBC Radio Bristol. "I don't think the RFU have covered themselves in any form of glory whatsoever."
He said the club did not wish to stop 36-year-old Borthwick from taking the England job, negotiations with the RFU were "not always pleasant".
Lansdown continued: "Our stance, from Steve Borthwick's point of view is that it is big career move and we don't want to stand in his way. But we want adequate compensation to allow him to go.
"We put in a lot of time and effort in recruiting Steve. He has been in a short period of time and made a big difference to us already and we have an eye on winning the play-offs. We wanted him for that, we have aims and ambitions."
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Peter Kassig is shown at the end of a video apparently showing the death of British taxi driver Alan Henning, and a masked man says he will be next.
The 26-year-old from Indiana has worked in Lebanon, Turkey and Syria to help victims of the Syrian conflict.
The BBC understands he was kidnapped when in an ambulance in Syria in 2013.
Mr Kassig's capture at the hands of IS was confirmed by the White House on Friday evening.
"At this point we have no reason to doubt the authenticity of the video released earlier today," said spokesperson Caitlin Hayden.
"We will continue to use every tool at our disposal - military, diplomatic, law enforcement and intelligence - to try to bring Peter home to his family."
A family statement referred to him as Abdul-Rahman Kassig, saying he had converted to Islam while in captivity. And they extended their concern for the family of Alan Henning.
"We have read about his work and his generous character with great respect and admiration.
"We ask everyone around the world to pray for the Henning family, for our son, and for the release of all innocent people being held hostage in the Middle East and around the globe."
A US Army veteran, Mr Kassig was discharged after the Iraq War and he became an emergency medical technician.
He travelled to Lebanon in May 2012 to work as a volunteer helping Palestinian refugees and as time went on, people affected by the war in Syria, setting up a charity called Special Emergency Response and Assistance (Sera).
In an interview before his capture, Mr Kassig described himself as an idealist who had found a sense of purpose in aid work amidst the complexities of the Middle East conflict.
The White House condemned the "brutal murder" of Mr Henning, who it had said "worked to help improve the lives of the Syrian people and his death is a great loss for them, for his family and the people of the United Kingdom".
Mr Henning becomes the fourth Western hostage to be killed by the group.
The beheadings of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and Scottish aid worker David Haines, have previously been filmed.
The father of another UK hostage, John Cantlie, appealed on Friday for him to be released.
His son, a journalist, was kidnapped in Syria in 2012 and has so far appeared in three videos.
Islamic State (IS) - also known as Isis or Isil - has taken control of large areas of Syria and Iraq and declared a caliphate.
The US has led a campaign of air strikes in Iraq for several weeks and in Syria for almost two weeks.
Speaking in Beijing, Ms Sturgeon, who is on a trade visit to China and Hong Kong, said gender equality could help transform the global economy.
Addressing senior women in government, academia and business, she referred to Hillary Clinton's famous "women's rights are human rights" speech.
Her trip is aimed at improving Scotland's links with China.
This September will mark the 20th anniversary of the then US first lady's address at the United Nations' fourth world conference on women in the same city.
Amnesty International has accused the Chinese government of a crackdown on human rights activists and women's groups in recent months.
It follows the arrest and detention for more than a month of five female activists who were planning to mark International Women's Day in March by launching a campaign against sexual harassment.
In her remarks to an audience at the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Ms Sturgeon said gender equality, as well as being a fundamental human rights issue, was "one of the great economic opportunities of the 21st century".
She said: "There are currently well over two billion working age women across the world. But there is virtually no country, on any continent, where women have equal economic opportunities to men.
"For virtually every nation, fully empowering women is probably the single simplest way, in which they can sustainably increase their productive potential.
"Gender equality can help to transform the global economy."
She added: "I know that much of the work we do in Scotland will strike a chord here in China. Gender equality is incorporated in your constitution. Women account for 45% of your workforce. And you recognise the importance of women being fully involved in decision-making.
"But like all societies - certainly including Scotland - there is also more that China can do.
"To give just one example, women are still significantly under-represented among key decision-makers in business and in government.
"The truth is, that virtually all countries are on a journey towards true gender equality, but none have completely achieved it. We all need to learn from each other how best to make progress."
Naomi McAuliffe, Amnesty International's programme director in Scotland, said: "The first minister has made a significant statement of support for equality and human rights in Beijing, and we trust that she will continue a dialogue on these issues throughout her time in China."
Wigan went ahead when new signing Alex Gilbey latched onto Yanic Wildschut's left-wing delivery to fire home.
Tammy Abraham, who joined Bristol City on loan from Chelsea, levelled from close range with 10 minutes to play.
Bobby Reid scored a late winner for the hosts when Wigan failed to clear their lines and his deflected shot went in.
Reid's strike helped Bristol City to their first win on the opening day in the Championship since their 1-0 victory against Blackpool in 2008.
Defeat for Wigan in their first game back in the Championship after a one-season absence means they have won just one of their last seven opening day games, their last victory having come against Barnsley in 2013.
Gilbey, who scored five goals in 37 League One games last season, joined the Latics from Colchester United on a three-year deal this summer.
Having scored 74 goals in 98 youth games for Chelsea at different levels, Abraham got on the scoresheet late on with his first goal in senior football.
Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson: "We put an awful lot of work into signing Tammy Abraham, meeting his parents and convincing Chelsea of our philosophy.
"But we felt he was worth waiting for. He is a top talent and we now have two centre forwards capable of getting a lot of goals this season.
"I am looking forward to helping a top young player improve. He is a very grounded lad with great parents and we need to keep his feet on the ground and help him develop."
Wigan manager Gary Caldwell: "The first half was very positive and we can take a lot from it. If we had continued in the same way I couldn't see us losing.
"Our squad looks light and we need to strengthen with some new faces who can add some quality at Championship level.
"The players we have need some help. We showed for 45 minutes that if we stick to our game plan we can do well, but we have to maintain our form for 90 minutes."
Match ends, Bristol City 2, Wigan Athletic 1.
Second Half ends, Bristol City 2, Wigan Athletic 1.
Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Lee Tomlin (Bristol City).
David Perkins (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left following a set piece situation.
Foul by Gary O'Neil (Bristol City).
Max Power (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hördur Bjorgvin Magnusson (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Colclough (Wigan Athletic).
Jonathan Kodjia (Bristol City) hits the left post with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Gary O'Neil.
Goal! Bristol City 2, Wigan Athletic 1. Bobby Reid (Bristol City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Gary O'Neil.
Attempt missed. Gary O'Neil (Bristol City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Aden Flint (Bristol City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Joe Bryan with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Bristol City) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is blocked.
Luke Ayling (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Jonathan Kodjia (Bristol City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Freeman.
Luke Freeman (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Donervon Daniels (Wigan Athletic).
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Ryan Colclough replaces Yanic Wildschut.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by Alex Gilbey.
Goal! Bristol City 1, Wigan Athletic 1. Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gary O'Neil with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by Dan Burn.
Donervon Daniels (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Joe Bryan (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Donervon Daniels (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Bristol City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Freeman.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Donervon Daniels replaces Luke Burke.
Foul by Bobby Reid (Bristol City).
Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Bristol City. Luke Freeman replaces Callum O'Dowda.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by David Perkins.
Attempt blocked. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Yanic Wildschut.
David Perkins (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by David Perkins (Wigan Athletic).
Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Michael Jacobs replaces William Grigg.
The lambs' identity was "protected due to their age and vulnerability", West Midlands Police said.
The woolly passengers were spotted after they were herded into the back of a car and driven around by suspected rustlers.
But the subsequent image circulated by the force turned out to be a joke.
Nic Barlow commented on Facebook: "I wondered why the picture looked a bit woolly."
Abbas Zen said: "It would be an animal rights issue if they didn't [blur the images]."
Other people were less amused by the force's sense of fun.
"Police show criminal sense of humour as they release pictures of stolen sheep with pixelated faces," tweeted Solene Deplanche.
Officers said three suspected sheep rustlers found in the car near Hob Moor Road, Yardley in Birmingham were rounded up in nearby gardens - with one up a tree and another penned in a conservatory.
The men aged 22, 27, and 28, were arrested on suspicion of theft, while police traced owners of the sheep.
Jokes aside, officers said the lambs were unhurt and have been temporarily re-homed on a farm in Sheldon.
By Dominic Casciani, BBC News home affairs correspondent
British police have guidelines over what information they reveal about victims of crime - but was there a bit of woolly thinking in the West Midlands force after journalists were given an image obscuring the faces of allegedly-rustled lambs?
The Data Protection Act and Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, which covers family and private life, require the police to protect personal information unless there is a good reason to release it.
My mint sources tell me that an officer in the case blurred the image as a joke.
He presumably concluded he had an obligation under the Ewe-ropean Convention on Eweman Rights to hide the poor little lambs' faces.
In the 15.3 overs that were bowled, the hosts progressed from their overnight second-innings score of 20-0 to 62-1.
Cameron Bancroft (22) was the only wicket to fall, edging a John Hastings delivery to Ross Whiteley at slip.
But the bad weather saw an early lunch taken at 12:30 BST at Cheltenham and no further play was possible.
Gloucestershire lead Worcestershire, who are second in the table and started the match 26 points behind leaders Nottinghamshire, by 145 runs going into the final day.
The farmers died in Mandsaur after shots were fired during their protest to demand loan waivers and better prices for their produce.
Protesters accused the police of opening fire, but officials blamed some "anti-social elements" for the deaths.
State Home Minister Bhupendra Singh said an inquiry had been ordered.
Farmers have been protesting for days to put pressure on the government and other parts of the state have also witnessed similar rallies.
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said he was "deeply pained by the turn of events".
"I have already accepted all fair demands of the farmers," he said.
Mr Chouhan also announced that the state government would give compensation to the families of the victims, and pay medical expenses for the injured.
Rahul Gandhi, vice-president of the main opposition Congress party, said Mr Chouhan's government "was at war with farmers".
Mr Chouhan rejected the allegation and accused the Congress party of inciting farmers.
That's the question I was trying to answer in Liverpool this week as part of the Today programme's series of reports on big election issues.
Housing is one of them, for obvious reasons: the gap between the number of new homes needed in England and those available is estimated at 100,000 a year.
While our politicians are quick to acknowledge the problem, it's far less clear if the solutions they propose will deliver change on the required scale.
In the meantime, the experience of 33-year-old Michael Sergison tells a bigger story.
At first glance he appears to have everything going for him; he and his new wife both have stable jobs - his in a Liverpool lettings agency, hers in a local hospital.
But for the last few years, they've been living with his parents, trying to save enough for a deposit on a house.
After they got married last month, that situation no longer felt right. "We wanted to move out. Not straight away, but as a married couple we feel as if we should be on our own, rather than with my mum and dad."
Having spent a lot of their savings on their wedding in Las Vegas last month, the only option was to rent.
The day I met Michael he was in the process of moving into a one-bedroom flat, with his father, also Michael Sergison, helping him out.
Michael Senior is quick to reflect on the contrast between his son's situation and what he could do at the same age: he and his wife paid £10,500 for their first home, a three-bedroom semi, in 1978.
The home that Michael Junior and his wife Francine dream of buying in Liverpool is upwards of £200,000: on a combined salary of £40,000 per annum, they could be years away from it.
For now, they're out of his parents' home and into one that belongs to someone else - his landlady Sue Earle, whose experience of the housing market also tells a bigger story.
She is a buy-to-let investor and sees the flat as a way to safeguard her future.
"I own two properties with my brother, which we purchased just to rent out.
"We both have successful careers, but we felt we needed to make sure that we have additional funds when we retire."
She hopes the rental income, of about £530 per month, will pay off the mortgage within ten years. After that, she could continue to let the flat out, or sell it at a profit.
Sue says she knows what it's like to have to save for a deposit, and worked hard to build up the funds that enabled her three mortgages.
For Michael, it's all about that first step on the housing ladder, for which his work at the lettings agency is not only crucial to his earnings, but also a valuable insight into the property market.
His manager at Belvoir Sales & Lettings, Adam Rastall, thinks the government should look at particular points where the market seizes up.
"I would focus more on the OAPs and the baby boomers and look for appropriate and suitable housing for them in the future.
"If we can help the older generation find suitable accommodation and give them incentives to move, then that would free up some good-quality housing for the younger generation."
I thought immediately of the older Michael Sergison, who has just retired from his work as a pipe-fitter and is living with his wife in a four-bedroom house. But downsizing? Not a chance.
"It's not our fault. When you get to a certain age you think 'why should I?' he explained to me.
"Whatever incentive they offered me, it just wouldn't work. I'm quite happy where I am."
Not surprisingly, Michael Senior wants to enjoy the house - and garden - that is the fruit of his own working life.
He looks around his son's one-bedroom flat and struggles to imagine it as home. "I couldn't live in this. I'd go stir crazy," he says.
But he knows this is the reality for many thousands of younger people. As far as the younger Michael is concerned, he's looking to the future, satisfied to be making the right start to married life. "I'm happy that we've got a place to call our own. It's not our house or our flat, but we'll make it our home."
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The inventor said the idea that Britain could not trade successfully outside the EU was "absolute cobblers".
He said the single market did not work because exporters had to adapt products like his to cater for different languages and different types of plugs.
Britain Stronger in Europe said: "James Dyson wanted the UK to join the euro. He was wrong then and he is wrong now."
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Sir James, who is best known for designing a bagless vacuum cleaner, said the UK "will create more wealth and more jobs by being outside the EU than we will within it".
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
"When the Remain campaign tells us no-one will trade with us if we leave the EU, sorry, it's absolute cobblers. Our trade imbalance with Europe is running at £9bn a month and rising. If this trend continues, that is £100bn a year."
Sir James argued that if, after a vote to leave, the EU imposed a 10% tariff on UK goods, Britain would do the same on imported EU goods. He said that because Britain imported far more from the EU than it exported there, it would bring in an extra £10bn a year for the UK.
In other developments:
Sir James, who is worth more than £3bn, also criticised the EU's free movement for not allowing the talented staff he needed to work in the UK.
"We're not allowed to employ them, unless they're from the EU," he said. "At the moment, if we want to hire a foreign engineer, it takes four-and-a-half months to go through the Home Office procedure. It's crazy.
"Why on earth would you chuck out researchers with that valuable technology which they then take back to China or Singapore and use it against us?"
Sir James has also been involved in several battles with the European Court against the EU's labelling policy for vacuum cleaners.
"It's a politically motivated court of justice," he said. "Politically motivated to protect vested interests."
But Britain Stronger in Europe accused Sir James of "wanting to have his cake and eat it when it comes to the EU".
It highlighted that in 2000 Sir James had said Britain would be "suicidal" not to join the single currency and that in 2014 he had called for the free movement of people within the EU to be retained.
Sir James's comments come as a new poll suggests the Brexit camp has a 10-point lead. The latest online survey of 2,000 people on Wednesday and Thursday by ORB for the Independent put the scores at 55% to 45% in favour of pulling out, after allowing for an individual's likelihood to vote.
Vote Leave has tweeted that it does not believe the poll, adding it thinks the split is closer to 50-50.
Cumbria County Council boss Jill Stannard left her £170,000-a-year post in May 2013.
The authority said reducing staff numbers "is never cost-free" and it had followed its statutory obligations.
Critics attacked it as "mind-blowing" and "a misuse of taxpayers' money".
Ms Stannard received £26,079 in salary, an £87,500 termination payment, including three-months' payment in lieu of notice, and £297,446 in pension contributions.
John Stevenson, Conservative MP for Carlisle, told BBC Radio Cumbria: "I'm absolutely appalled by the amount involved.
"I think it's a misuse of taxpayers' money. The Labour leadership on the council clearly have some fairly serious questions to answer."
Former Conservative county council leader Eddie Martin said: "These are mind-blowing figures most of us can only dream about."
In recent years, Cumbria County Council's budget has been reduced by £88m and it must save a further £50m by 2016.
Ms Stannard joined the council in 2005 as the corporate director for adult services and had 23 years of experience working in adult social care.
In a statement, the authority said: "These costs are the consequence of the government's decision to cut council funding as part of its efforts to balance the nation's books.
"The council has planned as prudently as possible for the scale of change that it is being asked to make and has followed its statutory obligations throughout this process.
"As a result of the senior officer restructuring that took place last year, the council will achieve a permanent annual saving of £584,000."
Communities Minister Brandon Lewis said: "All local authorities should be focusing resources on protecting frontline services and keeping council tax down rather than throwing away taxpayers' money.
"Councils are now legally required to open up their books to public scrutiny and councillors now have the powers to stop exorbitant pay deals.
"They should use them."
Mr Hastert, 73, allegedly withdrew $1.7m (£1.1m; €1.6m) in small amounts to skirt federal reporting rules.
According to the indictment, he agreed to pay $3.5m to an unnamed individual to "conceal his prior misconduct".
He served as a Republican congressman from Illinois for more than 20 years until 2007.
The indictment alleges that Mr Hastert, who is also charged with lying to the FBI, made a deal in 2010 with "Individual A" to make payments in recompense for unspecified prior misconduct.
Individual A lives in Yorkville, Illinois, where Mr Hastert was a high school teacher and wrestling coach between 1965 to 1981, and has known the former speaker most of his life.
According to the indictment, Mr Hastert began by making $50,000 withdrawals and passing the cash to Individual A every six weeks.
As a result of federal rules that require banks to report withdrawals of more than $10,000, the former speaker being questioned by his bank.
Thereafter, the indictment says, Mr Hastert made a series of $10,000 withdrawals in an attempt to avoid detection.
When questioned by the FBI, Mr Hastert said he was withdrawing the money because he did not trust the bank.
"Yeah... I kept the cash. That's what I'm doing," he said.
By the time the charges were announced on Thursday, he had paid about half agreed sum of $3.5m, the indictment says.
Each of the two charges against Mr Hastert carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
He could not be reached for comment.
After losing the job of speaker in 2006 and resigning from the House of Representatives in 2007, Mr Hastert joined the Washington law firm Dickstein Shapiro as a senior adviser.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange said on Thursday that he had resigned from the law firm's board.
The stocky striker latched on to Miles Hippolyte's long throw to slot home the first into the far corner.
His second came after the break when he was on hand to drive in Lee Miller's low cross from the right.
Rory Loy's left-footed strike from just inside the box gave the Buddies hope of a point, but that was the most the Paisley side could muster.
There had been an air of expectancy around the home crowd before the game, as Saints fans anticipated a new dawn after an encouraging Scottish Cup win at Dundee and a raft of new signings.
One of them - on loan Aberdeen forward Cammy Smith - looked bright early on, but that early enthusiasm was punctured when Baird struck his first.
St Mirren were unhappy that Hippolyte took his throw-in about 10 yards further up the pitch from where the ball went out, yet the home defence was still guilty of not being on their toes.
Baird took the ball towards goal from the left-hand side of the box and stroked it low beyond Billy O'Brien from a fairly tight angle.
Fourth-top Falkirk watched Craig Sibbald's 20-yard effort cannon back off the crossbar before half-time but did get their second after 63 minutes.
Baird's predatory instincts paid off when Fraser Aird and Miller linked to provide the forward with a low centre that he despatched with ease.
Loy's first goal for St Mirren was out of nothing, receiving the ball with back to goal from Lewis Morgan's pass and skipping by a couple of challenges before sending it low into the far corner beyond Danny Rogers.
Falkirk manager Peter Houston: "It was a good win for us and I thought it should have been more comfortable than it was.
"John Baird's probably not scored enough league goals this season, but he works hard and we're delighted for him."
St Mirren manager Jack Ross: "There was a decision made in the lead-up to the first goal that we concede that's wrong.
"However, we don't defend it properly after that, so I wouldn't use it as an excuse for conceding the goal or losing the match.
"But I would like sometimes for officials to take responsibility and say they made a mistake.
"Our players made a mistake and it led to the goal, but the assistant referee made a mistake."
Match ends, St. Mirren 1, Falkirk 2.
Second Half ends, St. Mirren 1, Falkirk 2.
Attempt missed. Jack Baird (St. Mirren) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Mark Kerr.
Substitution, Falkirk. Luca Gasparotto replaces John Baird.
Robert McHugh (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card.
Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Sibbald (Falkirk).
Substitution, Falkirk. Lewis Kidd replaces Fraser Aird.
Cameron Smith (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fraser Aird (Falkirk).
Substitution, Falkirk. Robert McHugh replaces Lee Miller.
Foul by Stephen McGinn (St. Mirren).
Lee Miller (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Luke Leahy (Falkirk) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Josh Todd (St. Mirren).
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John Sutton (St. Mirren).
Paul Watson (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Mark Kerr (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card.
Rory Loy (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark Kerr (Falkirk).
Substitution, St. Mirren. Josh Todd replaces Craig Storie.
Attempt missed. Lee Miller (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Foul by Craig Storie (St. Mirren).
Fraser Aird (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cameron Smith (St. Mirren).
Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Craig Storie (St. Mirren).
Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! St. Mirren 1, Falkirk 2. Rory Loy (St. Mirren) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lewis Morgan.
Gary Irvine (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lee Miller (Falkirk).
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Gary Irvine.
Attempt missed. Luke Leahy (Falkirk) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Mark Kerr.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Fraser Aird.
Gary Irvine (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John Baird (Falkirk).
Goal! St. Mirren 0, Falkirk 2. John Baird (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT), will strike for a second time this week in a row over pay and conditions on the service.
Transport for London (TfL) stressed it was "focussed on 12 September" for the launch, but the RMT says bosses privately believe it is not possible.
Four unions have rejected London Underground's latest pay deal.
"These tubes are going to be running for the best part of 72 hours," an RMT spokesman said.
"At the moment they're going to lose two engineering and maintenance shifts.
"These shifts are absolutely essential in terms of testing the infrastructure, cleaning the tunnels, getting rid of the dust. The only time they're going to have to fix these problems is overnight on Sunday. They haven't planned for any of this.
"Behind the scenes TfL managers are telling you this ain't gonna work."
The RMT said its members will be forced to work extra shifts to plug "gaping holes" in staff capacity.
The Unite union, the train drivers' union Aslef and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) have also rejected the latest offer from London Underground, which is designed to compensate staff for weekend night working.
This week's 24-hour strike will start at 21:30 BST on Wednesday, although commuters travelling home during the evening rush hour are expected to face delays.
Ewan Williamson died in July 2009 after becoming trapped while tackling a blaze at the Balmoral Bar on Dalry Road.
Last year the service was fined £54,000 after admitting health and safety breaches that contributed to his death.
The SFRS has published a report into the incident containing a series of lessons and recommendations.
They include the urgent need for a policy on the use of breathing apparatus, tactical ventilation of buildings and improved communication.
The report also identified a need for risk management training and support for firefighters in stressful situations.
Mr Williamson, 35, was the first firefighter in the history of the Lothian and Borders Fire Service to die tackling a blaze.
He became trapped in conditions of zero visibility and extreme heat as he was deployed at the incident on 12 July 2009.
Alasdair Hay, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service chief officer, said there was a commitment to implementing all the recommendations.
He said: "Moving to a single service gave us the unique opportunity to introduce the pan-Scotland programme in 2014 and since then we have been proactively learning from the past to improve firefighter safety in the future. We are making progress."
He added: "The role of a firefighter will always be inherently dangerous but this report will help us reduce potential risk through more effective procedures and a culture of continuous improvement."
Chris McGlone, Fire Brigades Union executive council member, welcomed the report.
He said: "We are confident that, when fully implemented, the Safer Firefighter Programme will promote lasting improvements to the safety of firefighters not only in Scotland but across the UK.
"We believe that this report can be the start of that journey and will help us to achieve our shared aim that no firefighter should lose their life protecting our communities."
How does the £500m add up?
Most of the new money is dedicated to issues that are Northern Ireland specific.
A total of £188m will be made available for security-related spending.
The PSNI will get an unconditional £160m over the next five years to tackle dissident republicans and other paramilitaries.
A further £25m will be released if the executive comes up with matched funding from its own resources.
The remaining £3m relates to the cost of establishing a new monitoring and implementation body.
'Shared future' cross-community issues will benefit from an additional £60m over five years.
Some of this money will go towards projects aimed at leading to the removal of Belfast's 'peace walls'.
There will be £125m for the Social Security Agency to tackle fraud and error.
But here is where the final number becomes a bit less certain.
The assumption is that the investment will allow the Social Security Agency to detect up to £300m of additional fraud and error over the next five years.
Stormont will be allowed to keep half of that money.
In the last financial year, the Social Security Agency detected losses of £17.4m from official error, £9.3m from customer error and £25.2m in customer fraud.
That's a total of £51.9m .
So the assumption is that the new investment will increase detection of fraud and error by more than 100% per year.
The politicians seem confident that is achievable but if it isn't the financial package could come up short.
The other thing to bear in mind is that the DUP and Sinn Féin have decided they will fund measures to mitigate the impact of welfare reform.
Those mitigating measures will remove £585m from departmental spending - more than is being gained in this financial package.
The world number 66 followed up his earlier wins over Mark Selby and Barry Hawkins by beating world number two Stuart Bingham 6-4.
Hamilton, 45, whose last final was at the 2002 China Open, will face Ali Carter in Sunday's decider.
Carter, the 2013 winner, beat defending champion Martin Gould 6-2.
The world number 14 took control after establishing a 3-1 lead, winning a tense sixth frame on the black to go 4-2 ahead before wrapping up victory.
"It was workmanlike, but on the whole a good performance," he told World Snooker.
"I made a couple of really good clearances but there was a lot of pressure.
This is one of my favourite events and to win it would be extra special."
Hamilton led 5-1 at one stage but Bingham fought back to 5-4 with breaks of 80 and 55 before Hamilton, who has never won a ranking title, sealed it with a break of 77 in the 10th frame.
Richard Bernard, 51, was found injured outside his flat on Trocadero Court in Derby on 24 May and died shortly after.
Mohammed Ibrahim, 19, of no fixed address, was sentenced after pleading guilty to murder at Nottingham Crown Court in December.
The court was told the killer never explained why he had attacked his victim.
Mr Bernard's mother Nita, sister Claire and brother Andrew said previously they were "devastated" by his death and he had been a "very much-loved son and brother".
In the proverbial game of two halves, Callum Cooke fired home on 22 minutes to put the home side ahead in an opening 45 minutes they dominated.
But after the break, the Exiles roared back with Dan Butler volleying an equaliser and skipper Joss Labadie stroking home the winner on 88 minutes.
The result leaves Newport still nine points from safety.
Newport caretaker boss, Mike Flynn, told BBC Radio Wales: "It's a massive win. It lifts the whole place. You could see the smiles on the boys' faces. The fans were exceptional.
"I said we had to fight and scrap and in the second-half, the boys were absolutely exceptional. I couldn't be any happier.
"I told them at half-time what I told them before the game, that I believe in them. We've got to put the pressure on other teams now, we've got to drag them into it."
Match ends, Crewe Alexandra 1, Newport County 2.
Second Half ends, Crewe Alexandra 1, Newport County 2.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Charlie Kirk replaces Oliver Turton.
Goal! Crewe Alexandra 1, Newport County 2. Joss Labadie (Newport County) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Tom Owen-Evans.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by George Ray.
Joss Labadie (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Wintle (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joss Labadie (Newport County).
Substitution, Newport County. Jaanai Gordon replaces Alex Samuel.
Billy Bingham (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County).
Attempt missed. James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Callum Ainley (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mickey Demetriou (Newport County).
Attempt blocked. Alex Samuel (Newport County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Ben Nugent.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Joss Labadie.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Callum Ainley replaces Alex Kiwomya.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Dan Butler.
Attempt blocked. Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Zoumana Bakayogo.
Foul by Jordan Bowery (Crewe Alexandra).
Mickey Demetriou (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Newport County. Jazzi Barnum-Bobb replaces David Pipe because of an injury.
Delay in match Billy Bingham (Crewe Alexandra) because of an injury.
Ryan Wintle (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joss Labadie (Newport County).
George Ray (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alex Samuel (Newport County).
Hand ball by Scot Bennett (Newport County).
Attempt missed. Dan Butler (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Mickey Demetriou.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. George Cooper replaces Callum Cooke.
Zoumana Bakayogo (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Bird (Newport County).
Foul by Ben Nugent (Crewe Alexandra).
Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Alex Samuel (Newport County) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Ryan Bird (Newport County) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by George Ray.
The construction supply and packaging firm has posted increased pre-tax profits of 6.8 million euros (£5.8m) for 2016.
The company, comprising of operations once run by Fermanagh businessman Sean Quinn, employs more than 770 people.
Its headquarters is in Derrylin in Fermanagh, but has operations in the Republic of Ireland and England.
Chief executive Liam McCaffrey said: "We see Brexit as presenting challenges, which we will continue to assess as a clearer picture emerges from trade negotiations.
"Whatever the outcome our focus is on those factors which fall within our control and ensuring an efficient supply chain to the UK mainland, which accounts for 50% of our sales."
Mr Quinn left his position as a consultant at the firm a year ago.
Black flags will be raised in the Azadi Stadium and some terraces will be set aside for bussed-in crowds of mourners.
The match is being held on the first of two mourning days on the Shia Islam calendar.
South Korea will wear black armbands as a sign of respect for the hosts.
Some clergymen have said it would be better for Iran to forfeit the game, but it has been decided mourning will take place at the 100,000-seat stadium.
Meanwhile, Iranian officials have complained after the captain of South Korea likened Tehran to a big prison.
Swansea midfielder Ki Sung-yueng also said some Iranian fans threw bottles and other missiles at his team-mates when they arrived in Tehran wearing air pollution face masks.
Kasra Naji, BBC Persian Service
Tuesday is Tasu'a, when Shia Muslims mourn the start of a battle that ended the next day (Ashura), when Imam Hussein - an important figure in the religion - was martyred in the battle of Karbala, in today's southern Iraq. Seventy two of his followers and members of his family also perished.
On these two days, men in Iran gather in long processions beating their chests to the rhythm of a drum. Some may even flagellate their backs with chains. Crowds come out on the streets to watch them. Clergymen sit on raised platforms in mosques recalling the historical event that is eulogised as the martyrdom of Imam Hussein.
Radio and television channels only play sombre mourning music. Cinemas and theatres are closed, as are government offices and shops.
Radio Cymru Mwy will be available for 15 weeks on weekday mornings.
The station will focus on more music and easy listening while the main Radio Cymru schedule continues as normal.
It is part of a series of digital innovations in the run-up to the anniversary of a station which first broadcast on 3 January 1977.
BBC Radio Cymru editor Betsan Powys said it would "offer a very different listening experience".
"We've been clear from the start that this is a pilot, an innovative experiment, that will offer the opportunity to trial new sounds and new concepts," she said.
He was struck as he walked along Walton Road, Walton, close to a McDonald's restaurant, just before 19:00 on Sunday night, Merseyside Police said.
The boy, who has not been identified, later underwent surgery.
Police said the drivers of both cars immediately stopped at the scene and were helping officers with their inquiries.
The England international was given a "substantial" fine and ordered to undergo diversity awareness training after a video of the incident emerged.
He said he had not realised that the term - "Jap" - is offensive.
Show Racism the Red Card said it was "encouraged" that Vardy had recognised the "huge mistake" he made.
In an excerpt from his autobiography published in The Sun, the footballer said: "The word 'racist' is a permanent stain against my name. It's worse than a criminal record.
"I was angry at the time and I'd had too much to drink but I'd never have used the word 'Jap' if I'd known it was racist."
Writing about the diversity awareness training, Vardy said: "The tutors explained some of the context behind the word and its meaning, dating back to the Second World War.
"It made me feel more embarrassed."
Show Racism the Red Card said many people do not understand that "Jap" - a derogatory term for a Japanese person - is offensive.
"As an anti-racism education charity, it is important that we look at the history of the word used and help people to consider why it is regarded as racist," it said in a statement.
"Jamie Vardy made a mistake; he has recognised it, apologised and undertaken diversity training.
"If people can learn from their mistakes and change their behaviour then not only is it unlikely that they will act in a racist way in the future, but they may also help others to modify their language and behaviour too."
Vardy made the racial slur at Leicester's Grosvenor Casino in July 2015.
After investigating, Leicester opted against sacking him after taking into account his "prompt apology".
He went on to be a key figure in Leicester winning the Premier League title in one of the greatest sporting stories of all time.
Vardy said he has personally apologised to the man involved.
"I needed him to see how sorry I was," he wrote in the book, which is due to be published by Ebury Press.
"I wanted him to know there was ignorance, not malice or prejudice, behind the word I used."
Leicester sacked three players - including the son of former manager Nigel Pearson - in June 2015 after they took part in a racist sex tape filmed on the club's end-of-season tour of Thailand.
His suspicious death on 6 June, just days after he vowed to press ahead the fight for universal suffrage, has caused an uproar in Hong Kong, where public opinion has forced the Chinese government to promise to re-open a criminal investigation into his final moments.
Mr Li's death at a hospital in the central province of Hunan was initially ruled a suicide, before it was re-classified as an accident.
He was reportedly found hanging from the hospital window with a strip of cloth around his neck.
But the public, as well as Mr Li's friends and supporters in China, believes the disabled activist, who was in his 60s, may have been murdered because of his politics.
His death has special resonance in Hong Kong, where the 1989 Tiananmen Square killings highlighted the former British colony's fears about Chinese rule, and because one of his last interviews was with a Cantonese-language cable television station.
"Each ordinary man has a responsibility for democracy, for the well-being of the nation. For China to enter a democratic society sooner, for China to realise a multi-party political system sooner, I will not look back even if I have to risk my head," he was quoted as telling Hong Kong's iCable.
Mr Li's supporters doubt whether a fair, objective assessment will be made.
That is why volunteers gathered in Hong Kong on Sunday to urge passers-by in the busy commercial district of Mongkok to sign a petition demanding a proper, transparent investigation.
A steady stream of people stopped to sign the petition, which has garnered 50,000 signatures.
The youngest signatory was five-year-old Christopher, who scribbled his name alongside his mother Coris Leung.
"We are from Hong Kong, but we are also Chinese. I want him to understand our culture, our history and what really happened to this man," she said.
Don Mak, who describes himself as largely apolitical, said he felt angered and frustrated by Mr Li's death.
"One of the fundamental rights of a human being is the right to live and the right to free speech. He was deprived of both," said the 22-year-old university graduate.
Volunteers plan to gather 100,000 signatures before presenting the petition to Chinese President Hu Jintao, who is expected to visit Hong Kong at the end of June to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the city's return to China - again highlighting the case's potential sensitivities.
Hong Kong is a city split between two political camps: the pan-democrats who are generally critical of the authoritarian rule of the Communist Party in Beijing, and the pro-establishment lawmakers who generally support the central government.
But in the Li Wangyang case, the two sides have largely come together to demand accountability.
Lee Cheuk-yan, chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China and head of the pan-democratic Labour Party, believes anger from all strata of Hong Kong society has put pressure on the pro-establishment lawmakers.
In September, the members of Hong Kong's parliament, called the Legislative Council, will face re-election. All eligible voters are allowed to participate.
On 10 June, Mr Lee led 25,000 people on a protest march that culminated in a gathering at Beijing's Liaison Office in western Hong Kong.
He said it was the biggest-ever protest at the central government's representative office. Police, who fired tear gas to keep the protesters at bay, said 5,000 people attended the march.
"We protested over the jailing of Ai Weiwei and Chen Guangcheng," said Mr Lee, referring to two of China's best-known dissidents.
"But this case is different. This time somebody died. Li Wangyang is obviously a victim of Tiananmen. He was maimed, blinded and made deaf during his imprisonment. His death is a very clear case of the high-handed, tyrannical way the government dealt with a citizen. We are demanding justice."
Rita Fan, Hong Kong's delegate to the elite Standing Committee in China's parliament, has written to the National People's Congress to express the people's doubts.
And over the past week, senior civil servants in the Hong Kong government, from Food and Health Secretary York Chow to Chief Executive Donald Tsang, have made rare public statements saying Mr Li's death was indeed suspicious.
Civil servants are meant to be above the political fray, so their comments demonstrate the amount of official support for a thorough investigation.
A report last week from the Beijing-backed Hong Kong China News Agency quoted a public security official in Hunan province as saying forensic experts from outside the province had been commissioned to carry out an autopsy.
Experienced criminal investigators were also now involved, the spokesman said.
But Mr Lee, the pan-democrat lawmaker, said there was widespread doubt on the mainland and in Hong Kong whether the investigation would be effective. Most of the evidence seems to be gone.
Mr Li's body was taken away by police just hours after it was found, according to his family and friends. The body was reportedly cremated a few days later on 9 June, against the wishes of the family.
It is unclear how, without the body, a new autopsy can be conducted.
But even with little evidence left, Mr Li's supporters in Hong Kong demand an investigation. They fear democratic rights in their own city may someday be curtailed if they do not make a stand now.
Even though this city is part of China, it is guaranteed the right to free speech and free assembly, both of which are unknown on the mainland.
"In Hong Kong, we have a saying, 'Today's mainland is tomorrow's Hong Kong'," said Claudia Mo, a politician for the pan-democratic Civic Party, who helped to gather signatures on Sunday.
"Some people ask us, 'What's the point? He is already dead!' Well, we may or may not win this fight. But we are here to answer to history. We are here to answer to the next generation."
Following Thursday night's provincial draws, 2015 winners Monaghan will play Fermanagh in the preliminary round, with the winners taking on Cavan.
The beaten finalists in 2016, Donegal, will play Antrim while Down have been handed a last-eight clash against neighbours Armagh.
Tyrone won the 2016 Ulster title by beating Donegal 0-13 to 0-11.
Derry and the Red Hands also met at Celtic Park in the opening round of the 2016 Ulster SFC in May, with Tyrone running out 3-14 to 0-12 winners.
The victors in next year's contest will take on Donegal or Antrim in the semi-finals.
The other semi-final will see Down or Armagh facing Monaghan, Fermanagh or Cavan.
All-Ireland champions Dublin begin their defence of the Sam Maguire Cup against Carlow or Wexford in the Leinster SFC quarter-finals.
Father Berrigan emerged as a radical Catholic voice against the war in the 1960s and won fame when he and his younger brother seized draft records of troops about to be deployed in Vietnam.
The pair and other Catholics burned the files in rubbish bins.
The brothers were convicted of destroying government property.
But when they were due to be sentenced they went into hiding before eventually being arrested.
Released from prison in 1972 the left-leaning Fr Berrigan continued his peace activism until in his 80s, founding the anti-nuclear weapons Plowshares Movement in 1980.
Fr Berrigan also protested against the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and abortion.
He was even reported to have taken part aged 92 in the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York's Zuccotti Park.
The priest was born into a German-Irish Catholic family in Minnesota and joined the Jesuit order in 1939, becoming ordained in 1952.
He authored more than 50 books, with his first volume of poetry, Time Without Number, winning the Lamont Prize in 1957. He also wrote a play, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.
Fr Berrigan in the 1960s became an intellectual star of the Roman Catholic "new left", The New York Times reports.
The paper says he argued that racism and poverty, militarism and capitalist greed were all interconnected and part of an unjust society.
Asked in a magazine interview for an inscription for his gravestone, Fr Berrigan said: "It was never dull. Alleluia."
Steven Sheerer faces charges of child endangerment and distribution of obscenity to a minor, authorities said on Saturday.
Sheerer, 25, was arrested on Friday night at his home in Barnegat, New Jersey, police said.
He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted, authorities said.
His bail was set at $40,000 (£25,485) cash.
"Rosie's concern has been and always will be the health, safety and well-being of her daughter," O'Donnell's spokeswoman Cindi Berger told the AP news agency.
"Rosie is profoundly appreciative for the work the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office has done and the diligence of the local police," she added.
US comedian and talk show host O'Donnell tweeted last Tuesday that Chelsea "has been found and is safe in police custody - thank u all for the help and light".
The 17-year-old was reported missing to police in Nyack, New York state, on 11 August after failing to return home.
O'Donnell, 53, had asked for the public's help in finding her adopted daughter, who was with a therapy dog.
"Chelsea, like millions of people, lives with mental illness," said Ms Berger at the time.
BBC Sport has learned Infantino will meet Robert Torres, a member of the investigatory chamber of the Fifa ethics committee.
The interview in Zurich - possibly as early as Friday - is part of a preliminary probe.
If there is sufficient evidence then a full investigation could be opened.
Under such circumstances Infantino could be suspended from his role for up to 90 days.
The allegations relate to a possible conflict of interest when using private jets laid on by a World Cup-bidding country; that he filled senior posts without checking people's eligibility for the role; and billing Fifa for mattresses, flowers, an exercise machine and personal laundry.
A Fifa spokesperson told BBC Sport: "The Fifa president has stated publicly he fully respects the independence and work of the ethics committee and that he would provide, if required, whatever information necessary to facilitate any potential review by the committee.
"The president has made clear that he has acted appropriately and in accordance with Fifa's code of ethics."
Infantino is said to be "very confident" that no further action will be taken with sources close to the former Uefa secretary general describing the allegations as "absurd" and "baseless".
External legal counsel is said to have been hired by Fifa to provide an independent assessment of the claims against Infantino. It is believed to have concluded he has no case to answer.
The same sources have described the allegations as part of a "vendetta" against Infantino by unnamed people who have recently left Fifa. Documents, it is claimed, have been deliberately leaked in order to destabilise the man elected to the top job in world football in February.
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Fifa has been hit by a spate of high profile departures in recent months.
Domenico Scala resigned as Fifa's head audit and compliance in May while the governing body's one time finance director and acting secretary general, Markus Kattner, was sacked that same month amid allegations of financial impropriety.
Kattner was fired after the discovery of a secret bonus scheme which paid him millions of dollars over a period of years.
A number of other employees have left, or are expected to leave, following a major restructuring within Fifa's Zurich headquarters.
A further 18 potential witnesses are understood to have been questioned as part of the preliminary probe into Infantino.
Torres is said to be leading the investigation given that the chairman of the ethics investigatory chamber, Cornel Borbely, and Infantino are both Swiss nationals.
The interview by investigators follows the leaking, to German media, of an internal Fifa memo.
Infantino was alleged by an unnamed Fifa insider to have used private jets during a trip to visit the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts Russia and Qatar, raising questions of a potential conflict of interest.
Fifa organised the flight to Moscow but an airline transfer to Doha was not available following a late change in the schedule by his Russian hosts.
Infantino and his staff then travelled by private jet, arranged by the Russians. The Gulf state in turn organised the return trip to Switzerland.
There have also been reports in Swiss and German media that Infantino, after attending the Champions League Final in Milan in May, flew on to Rome for an audience with the Pope. He then returned to Geneva.
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But sources say that flight will be argued not to be a breach of Fifa's code of ethics given it was a private arrangement with a family friend who is unconnected to football.
The leaked internal document also alleges that Infantino demanded Fifa hire an external driver, who then billed the governing body for driving Infantino's family and advisors around while he was abroad.
It also details costs authorised by Infantino of:
•£8,795 for mattresses at his home
•£6,829 on a stepper exercise machine
•£1,086 for a tuxedo
•£677 on flowers
•£132 on personal laundry
It also makes reference to how many of the candidates chosen by Infantino to fill senior posts had not passed the relevant eligibility checks, including the new Fifa secretary general, Fatma Samoura.
But Infantino believes the case will be dismissed given the relevant facts.
For example, it's understood Infantino wanted a bed removed from an office space previously occupied by Sepp Blatter. The former Fifa president is understood to have been partial to an afternoon nap on occasion.
In its place Infantino asked for a step machine, with an expectation one would be brought in from Fifa's on-site gymnasium.
Instead, officials purchased a new one with the resultant invoice being used by Infantino's enemies, according to sources, to damage him.
The Swiss-Italian is also under pressure for failing to sign an employment contract, with reports of a dispute between him and Scala, who helped set pay levels, over his salary.
A spokesman for Fifa's investigatory chamber declined to comment "on possible preliminary investigations."
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Galatasaray and Sevilla have shown an interest in the 26-year-old, while Southampton are also considering a move after captain Jose Fonte asked to leave St Mary's.
The France international signed a new long-term deal at Anfield in 2015.
But he has not played for the first team since April because of off-field issues.
Sakho was sent home from Liverpool's pre-season tour of the United States by manager Jurgen Klopp as a disciplinary measure.
He was also handed a 30-day suspension by Uefa in April for testing positive for a prohibited substance following a Europa League tie against Manchester United the previous month.
Liverpool decided to make Sakho unavailable for selection while the disciplinary process was ongoing and he subsequently missed the Europa League final defeat by Sevilla in Basel.
Uefa failed to impose a further ban after Sakho's defence team questioned whether the substance, understood to be a fat-burner, should have been on its prohibited list.
The central defender has made 56 league appearances in three years at Liverpool but is currently training with the under-23 squad.
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As the president turns 91, satirist Ikenna Azuike takes an irreverent look at his excesses of power in this week's episode of What's Up Africa.
What's Up Africa is a BBC and RNW co-production and is on Focus on Africa on BBC World News & partner stations across Africa every Friday from 17:30 GMT.
Steve Stannard, 37, died of multiple stab wounds at his Norwich flat in Bowers Avenue on 5 November last year.
Hassiem Baqir, 20, of Howberry Road, Thornton Heath in south London, had denied his murder but had admitted dealing drugs from Mr Stannard's home.
The jury at Norwich Crown Court found Baqir guilty on Thursday. He has been given a life sentence.
Judge Anthony Bate, sentencing, said Baqir had "showed a callous indifference to Steven's fate after he had been stabbed".
"You left him bleeding to death on the ground and made no attempt then or later to summon help."
He said the sale of drugs was "an evil trade that blights and ends live".
The court had earlier heard how Mr Stannard was stabbed twice in the back and three times in the front. The wounds perforated his lung and his heart.
His dog, a border collie called Trixie, was also stabbed.
ASA research suggests many people find it difficult to make sense of current adverts.
More than 80% were unable to calculate the total cost of a broadband contract when asked to do so, the ASA found.
TalkTalk has said it will scrap separate line rental charges.
In a study of how people reacted to current adverts, conducted with regulator Ofcom, only 23% of participants could correctly identify the total cost per month after their first viewing. Twenty-two per cent were still not able to identify this figure after a second viewing, said the ASA.
To make sure broadband providers ensure they stay within the new rules, the ASA recommends that future ads should:
Commenting on the changes, ASA chief executive Guy Parker said: "We recognise the importance of broadband services to people's lives at work and at home. The findings of our research, and other factors we took into account, showed the way prices have been presented in broadband ads is likely to confuse and mislead customers.
"This new tougher approach has been developed to make sure consumers are not misled and get the information they need to make well-informed choices."
Issues with current ads include:
"This kind of pricing would tax a maths professor, let alone a consumer who just wants to find the right broadband deal for their household," said telecoms expert Dan Howdle, from comparison website Cable.
"The practice - known as compound pricing - was outlawed in the air industry in 2015. It is recognised as a misleading and disingenuous way to sell a product - luring customers in with cheap headline prices they simply won't be paying at the till."
TalkTalk said it would "lead the way" and called on other providers to make sure that people were not lulled into "seemingly good deals that all too often mask extra charges".
Tristia Harrison, TalkTalk's consumer managing director, said: "As long as line rental and broadband are priced separately, the temptation to advertise deals in this way will always be there. But it's time for providers to be honest about this - it's a bad habit we have all been guilty of, it doesn't serve customers well and it's time it stopped."
Mr Howdle said: "Now TalkTalk has opened fire, the rest of the industry will have to follow."
British Heart Foundation Cymru (BHF) said about 30 people under 35 die unexpectedly of cardiac-related problems in Wales each year.
It wants studies to identify the genes.
BHF said it could protect children from unknown conditions and provide new treatments.
The charity claims previous estimates by science researchers the PHG Foundation that up to 18,000 people in Wales could be living with undiscovered faulty genes, may be inaccurate due to under-diagnosis.
It said people with inherited heart conditions could pass them on to children, and its Fight for Every Heartbeat campaign aims to highlight the problem.
Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director at the BHF, said: "We urgently need to accelerate research into inherited heart conditions.
"Over recent years researchers have made great strides in identifying some of the genes that cause inherited heart conditions.
"A genetic test in a child of an affected parent can save their life. More research is now urgently needed to identify all the genes responsible for these deadly disorders."
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The hole in the plane's side appeared shortly after take-off from Mogadishu at 10,000ft (3,048m), a colleague of one of the passengers told the BBC.
It is not clear what caused the damage. Officials say two passengers were hurt.
The Daallo Airlines flight, bound for Djibouti, was carrying about 60 people on board, a police officer at the scene told the Bloomberg news agency.
Some reports say a fire broke out shortly after take-off.
Darren Howe, who had a colleague on the plane, took a photo of the damaged aircraft after it had landed.
"It was not an explosion but a fuselage failure at 10,000ft," he told the BBC.
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After Wednesday's Fernando Forestieri had seen a goal ruled out for offside, Ross Wallace scored from 25 yards.
The visitors lost four players to injuries, including top scorer Tomer Hemed and winger Anthony Knockaert.
With Brighton down with 10 men, Kieran Lee slotted in a second to stretch the Owls' lead before Monday's second leg.
Centre-back Connor Goldson and midfielder Steve Sidwell also left the field prematurely as the Seagulls, who narrowly missed out on automatic promotion by drawing at Middlesbrough on the final day of the season, saw their 14-game unbeaten run come to an end.
Hemed had already headed against the post for Brighton during a frenetic start before the biggest talking point of the first half.
Forestieri, standing several yards offside when goalkeeper Keiren Westwood cleared upfield, fired in low past Brighton's David Stockdale for what he thought was the opening goal.
The home side were convinced that Gary Hooper had flicked the ball onto Forestieri - who by then had got himself into an onside position - but their protests were waved away by referee Andre Marriner, who consulted with his officials before deciding to disallow the goal.
Wednesday, in particular head coach Carlos Carvalhal, were incensed by the decision, which was later proved to be correct by television replays.
Wednesday had only lost twice in the league at Hillsborough all season and Brighton's chances of a positive first-leg result in South Yorkshire were severely hampered by the loss of four key men to injuries.
Already without defender Lewis Dunk and Dale Stephens because of suspension, as well as injured veteran striker Bobby Zamora, manager Chris Hughton was forced into two first-half substitutions when Goldson and Hemed left the field within 30 seconds of each other.
Sidwell followed soon after the interval and Brighton were faced with the prospect of playing the final 30 minutes with 10 men when Knockaert had to be carried from the field on a stretcher.
Dunk will return from his ban for the second leg, which a depleted Brighton will enter needing to overturn a two-goal deficit to reach the play-off final at Wembley on 28 May.
Chris Waddle, ex-Sheffield Wednesday winger on BBC Radio 5 live
"This game's not finished. Sheffield Wednesday could have put it to bed. Give Brighton credit, they've had a horrendous night with injuries and everything's been against them.
"I thought Sheffield Wednesday were excellent in spells tonight. I just hope they don't regret killing this game by three or four."
Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal: "I think we did one of our best performances of the season and if you exclude a moment when Brighton had a chance early on, I think we played very well.
"We are happy about the game and the score but we know we have won absolutely nothing - we have the advantage but we must understand that we can't play thinking we are winning 2-0.
"The game will start at 0-0 and we will do our best to get a good result at Brighton."
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Brighton manager Chris Hughton: "The injuries were all substantial enough to go off and not one of them wanted to go off. At the moment I wouldn't be too optimistic about all four of them.
"I've never been involved in a game like that. We've gone through a decent period with injuries after a really tough period in the first half of the season, and whether it's the consistent games and the tempo we've had to play at in the last few weeks, I don't know.
"We have to be realistic enough to know it's going to be a tough task, but it is something that can be achieved."
Match ends, Sheffield Wednesday 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 0.
Second Half ends, Sheffield Wednesday 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 0.
Foul by Tom Lees (Sheffield Wednesday).
Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Liam Rosenior.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Liam Rosenior.
Attempt missed. Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Tom Lees.
Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lucas João (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Marco Matias (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Marco Matias (Sheffield Wednesday).
Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Bruno (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Kieran Lee following a set piece situation.
Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gordon Greer (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Attempt blocked. Lucas João (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Atdhe Nuhiu with a headed pass.
Attempt blocked. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gaëtan Bong (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Attempt saved. Sam Baldock (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Liam Rosenior.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Lucas João replaces Gary Hooper.
Attempt missed. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Sam Baldock.
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Bruno (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jiri Skalak (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Liam Rosenior.
Foul by Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday).
James Wilson (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jiri Skalak (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Foul by Marco Matias (Sheffield Wednesday).
Gaëtan Bong (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jiri Skalak (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Daniel Pudil (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Cooke, 29, won the first of Great Britain's gold medals at Beijing in 2008 in the women's road race.
Since then, Lizzie Armitstead has taken over as team leader, meaning Cooke could have to sacrifice London gold to Armitstead on Sunday under team orders.
The race, over about 140km (87m), began at midday, and supporters in Wick, Vale of Glamorgan, believe she can win gold.
"I think her chances are exceptional," said David Bullen, landlord of the Lamb and Flag pub, before the race began.
"Look at her history - she has been exceptional in the past. We are all hoping for the best."
"We've got lots of people coming along to cheer Nicole on. They want to see her win.
"We are doing a little buffet. We've got the bunting up and flags and bits and pieces like photos of Nicole.
"All my locals have told me about the last Nicole Cooke win in 2008 and what they did then.
"The village put on a fete last time when she won. They love a party in Wick."
Four years ago, Cooke became the first Welsh athlete in 36 years to win Olympic gold.
But while her parents stayed at home for her triumph in China, this time her parents Tony and Denise are in London to watch her.
Mr Bullen, who has been landlord of the pub since February, said they popped in before setting off for the Games.
"Her parents came in on Thursday to thank us for what we're doing," he added.
"It was lovely to meet them when they came in and gave us bunting.
"We've also hopefully got a video coming from Nicole to thank the Lamb and Flag for what we've done for her in the past."
The road race began from The Mall before the riders head south-west through the city.
They then cross the River Thames at Putney Bridge and continue out through Richmond Park, Bushy Park and past Hampton Court Palace.
The Surrey section of the course incorporates two circuits of a challenging loop around Box Hill before the riders head north through Leatherhead, Esher, Kingston-upon-Thames, Richmond Park and finish back at The Mall.
Elsewhere, other Welsh competitors include swimmer Georgia Davies in the 100m backstroke heats while Ieuan Lloyd competes in the 200m freestyle.
Davies was impressive in her heat on Sunday morning at the Aquatics Centre, qualifying sixth fastest for the semi-final on Sunday night, as Australian Emily Seebohm set a new Olympic record.
Fellow Ieuan Lloyd missed out on a place in the 200m freestyle semi-final, after finishing sixth in his heat and 19th overall.
At the rowing at Eton Dorney, Victoria Thornley and the women's eight will compete in Tuesday's repechage after finishing third in their heat.
But there was disappointment for Elena Allen, who failed to qualify for the women's skeet shooting final
Sarah Thomas could feature for the GB women's hockey team's opening match against Japan.
Some 60 troops were wounded in the violence near Benghazi airport, medics and military sources say.
Libya has seen fierce fighting between rival militias that helped topple Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
In Benghazi, special army forces allied to former general Khalifa Haftar have been battling armed Islamist groups who control most of the city.
Thursday's bombings targeted a checkpoint near the city's Benina airport, which has been shut down since May.
The Islamist militias have already overrun army bases in the area, making the airport one of the last sites still under the control of Gen Haftar.
The forces are part of Benghazi's Shura Revolutionary Council, a body set up after they took control of Benghazi in August.
Military sources told the Associated Press that Haftar-allied forces launched air strikes in a bid to stop the militants taking over the airport on Thursday.
Gen Haftar was previously head of the Libyan army under Gaddafi before he was sacked in 1987.
He joined the anti-Gaddafi uprising in 2011, and earlier this year launched a campaign against what he says are hardline groups in Benghazi.
Hundreds of people are believed to have died in a recent upsurge of unrest in Libya, while thousands have fled their homes to escape the violence.
Human Rights Watch says more than 250 people have been killed in Benghazi and Derna alone this year.
More than three years after Gaddafi was overthrown and killed, Libya's police and army remain weak in comparison with the militias, who control large parts of the country.
Donald Tusk said he was speaking out to defend his "vision of Europe".
He said he could not "remain silent" after Mr Johnson compared the EU's aims with Hitler's.
Leave campaigners said EU chiefs joining the referendum debate would help their cause.
The UK votes on 23 June on whether to remain in the EU or to leave.
Mr Tusk chose a joint news conference with the Danish prime minister to make his intervention, saying that ex-London mayor Mr Johnson had shown "political amnesia".
He said: "To defend does not mean to lecture anyone. The British citizens will make this decision themselves and they do not need any whisperers, especially from Brussels.
"I understand this very well. But when I hear the EU being compared to the plans and projects of Adolf Hitler I cannot remain silent. Such absurd arguments should be completely ignored if they hadn't been formulated by one of the most influential politicians of the ruling party."
Mr Tusk said the EU remained a "firewall" against conflict between European countries, saying the "banal" truth was that "the only alternative for the Union is political chaos, the return to national egoisms, and in consequence, the triumph of anti-democratic tendencies, which can lead to history repeating itself".
Mr Johnson, a high-profile figure in the Leave campaign, sparked criticism when he said both Hitler and Napoleon had failed at unification of Europe and the EU was "an attempt to do this by different methods".
He has stood by his comments, describing the ensuing row as an "artificial media twit storm", and fellow Leave campaigners have defended him.
One of them, House of Commons Leader Chris Grayling, said: "I think what Boris said at the weekend was a view from a historian. What we had this morning was a contribution to the debate from the European institutions.
"Frankly I think the more the European institutions get involved in the debate about what the future of Britain is in the EU the more likely we are to get a Leave vote."
But Lord Heseltine, a Conservative former deputy prime minister who is campaigning for a Remain vote, said he would be "very surprised" if Mr Johnson - seen as a future party leader - became prime minister after his "preposterous, obscene" remarks during the referendum campaign.
He told the BBC he found Mr Johnson's comparison of the EU and Hitler "deeply distressing".
"He is behaving now irresponsibly, recklessly and I fear that his judgement is going," he added.
"We can only talk about a civilian mission, not military," European Council President Donald Tusk told a news conference in Kiev.
Earlier Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko said the EU or the UN should deploy peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine.
Pro-Russian rebels have been bombarding a village near the city of Mariupol.
On Sunday tank and mortar rounds pounded the village - Shyrokyne - near government-held Mariupol, a vital port city.
Mr Tusk said the EU would send a civilian "assessment" mission to Kiev, to explore ways to further boost security assistance for Ukraine.
The heavily armed rebels have been fighting government forces for a year in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The West accuses Russia of arming the rebels and sending in regular soldiers. Moscow denies that, insisting that any Russians on the rebel side are volunteers.
Mr Poroshenko says peacekeepers are needed to ensure proper monitoring of frontline areas and the rebel-controlled border with Russia.
Mr Tusk said: "We are concerned about reports of weapons still entering eastern Ukraine".
International OSCE observers were "not able to verify a withdrawal of heavy weaponry", he said.
Under the Minsk ceasefire deal signed in February both sides were supposed to pull heavy weapons back from the conflict zone.
Mr Tusk reiterated that EU sanctions against Russia would remain in place until the Minsk conditions were met in full.
On Sunday OSCE observers said they experienced the most intense shelling of Shyrokyne since fighting began there in mid-February. Heavy weapons including tanks were spotted in rebel-held areas near there, they said.
Fighting hits Ukraine's EU ambitions - by Tom Burridge, BBC News, Donetsk:
As the leaders met in Kiev, we could hear the steady boom of shelling in a bombed-out neighbourhood, on the edge of Donetsk.
Valentina, 54, emerged from her blackened apartment block, with most of its windows smashed, to tell us of "constant fighting, every single day".
"We're sick of all this," she said as tears filled her eyes. "It's affecting us psychologically."
We watched some 20 pro-Russian fighters travel back from the frontline on top of an armoured personnel carrier, and another group of around 20 replace them, heading towards the fighting.
A tank was parked up, idle for now. Tank shells were visible in the back of another vehicle. According to a rebel soldier, we were about 2km (one mile) from the frontline.
When you see and hear fighting on a daily basis in eastern Ukraine, at least some of the political and economic aspirations of European and Ukrainian leaders seem hollow.
The economic cost of the war undermines Ukraine's ambition for greater economic integration with the EU.
It also makes some political aspirations, like visa-free travel for Ukrainian citizens in the EU, highly unlikely.
Yet the EU leaders' visit is hugely symbolic. They are keen to show solidarity in the face of what they see as Russian-fuelled aggression in the east.
But the rebels will probably interpret the summit as another provocation.
EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker also attended the Kiev talks.
It is the first such summit since a key EU-Ukraine association agreement was signed last June. Talks will continue in Kiev on Tuesday.
The EU is anxious for Ukraine to enact far-reaching economic reforms to tackle unsustainable debts, inflation and widespread corruption.
The EU agreed to delay implementing the association deal with Ukraine until January 2016, in response to Russian complaints.
Russia is suspicious of the agreement, arguing that free trade could turn Ukraine into a conduit for cheap goods flooding into Russia.
Mr Juncker said Ukrainians' living conditions were "very difficult", and he pledged more EU financial assistance to help in the "painful" reform process. "Ukrainian citizens want to live in a corruption-free country," he said.
Reform of the heavily subsidised energy sector is a priority, BBC economics expert Andrew Walker says, as energy inefficiencies are a big drain on the national budget.
Police were first called to Hampstead Ponds, Hampstead Heath, at 17:30 BST on Wednesday, to reports a boy had been seen under the water.
About 30 firefighters attended and used three boats to search the water but were unable to find anything.
The body was recovered just before 23:00 BST by the Marine Policing Unit.
Wednesday was the hottest day of the year so far, with a temperature of 25C (77F) recorded in London.
Mauricio Macri was elected with 51.5%, ending the 12-year rule of outgoing president Cristina Kirchner's party.
The long-running dispute over the British overseas territory intensified after Ms Kirchner took power in 2007.
UK Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire said he looked forward to working with the new administration.
Mr Macri's victory in the presidential election was the first in more than a decade for Argentina's centre-right opposition and ends the rule of the Peronist Party.
The outgoing mayor of Buenos Aires, will take control of the presidency on 10 December.
Addressing the House of Commons, Mr Swire said: "We look forward to working with the new government of Argentina who hopefully will not suffer from the bullying and bellicosity shown by the former government of Argentina to the people of the Falkland Islands."
It came in response to Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell, who asked the government to call on new Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau to continue his country's support for the Falkland Islanders' right to self-determination when he visits the UK this week.
Mr Swire told him: "You can be reassured we expect the same from Prime Minister Trudeau.
"He's on his way to London to meet with our prime minister and Her Majesty before travelling on to Chogm (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting) in Valletta.
"We expect exactly the same relationship. It's an ancient and potent relationship between ourselves and Canada."
Argentina lays claim to the Falkland islands, which it calls the Malvinas, but the government says the claim has "no basis in international law" and should be withdrawn.
In 2013, Falkland Islanders took part in a referendum, voting by 1,513 to three to remain a British overseas territory.
Mr Macri is the outgoing mayor of Buenos Aires and will take control of the presidency on December 10.
Maker SoftBank is hoping that it will spur new apps and new capabilities for the humanoid robot which has sold well but still has no clear defined purpose.
Ten thousand of the robots have been sold but developers have been slow to make apps for its closed Naoqi operating system.
Android will run on a tablet strapped to the robot's chest.
Neither Google nor SoftBank has disclosed what sort of business deal they have struck and it is unclear if the robot will take advantage of new features such as the recently announced artificial intelligence Google Assistant.
But it will almost certainly offer Google some degree of control over the robot as well as a cut of revenues.
Pepper has been in big demand in Japan with each batch of 1,000 units selling out in minutes. It will go on pre-sale in the US in July.
It costs 198,000 yen ($1,800) and each one is sold at a loss.
The 1.2m (4ft) humanoid bot features more than 20 motors and has articulated arms. It was designed to understand emotions and mimic human body language - so, for instance, its shoulders go up when it is in standby mode, imitating sleep.
So far, Pepper is being used as a waiter, salesman and customer service representative in around 500 companies in Japan, including Nestle, Mizuho Bank and Nissan.
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Wales last week qualified for their first major tournament since 1958.
Bale, 26, also praised Coleman's predecessors - the late Gary Speed and John Toshack - but said much of the credit had to go to the current boss.
"He's been amazing. All the players love him. I think he's created such a great atmosphere in the camp," he said.
The Real Madrid forward said all of the players "enjoy going away with Wales" and "never want to miss it".
He added: "Even the ones who miss out - we're all texting and they're always gutted not to be there."
Appointed in January 2012, Coleman started his Wales reign with four losses, and considered resigning after the 6-1 defeat by Serbia in September 2012.
But the 45-year-old former Fulham boss transformed his side's fortunes and is set to sign a new contract.
Bale said: "He's been incredible. He's really brought that passion and pride back for Wales. Even just at lunchtimes and meetings there's always that bit of banter.
"He's a great person to have around as well as being your manager. We respect him as a manager and a man as well."
Bale said Coleman had "grown into his own" after a "bit of a rocky start".
"It's obviously been a long process," he added. "A lot of us who are playing now were with John Toshack and Gary Speed and now with Chris Coleman, but [credit] mostly to Chris I think because he has really pushed us on and made us really kick on and have that belief in ourselves.
"It was a difficult time with the death of Gary for us as players, we were very close to him. It was one of those times that maybe made us a little bit stronger.
"We wanted to do it for Gary and his family as well. Chris Coleman coming in really gave us that belief. It was a difficult time but we have tried to use it as a positive and do it for Gary."
Having qualified on Saturday despite losing 2-0 in Bosnia-Herzegovina, thanks to Cyprus beating Israel, Wales ended their campaign with a 2-0 win against Andorra three days later.
"It's a bit surreal," said Bale. "We know we have done it but it hasn't quite fully sunk in to be honest.
"It's obviously a major achievement but I think it will really sink in when we start to go to France and the hype and the buzz around the tournament will really kick in."
Bale said Wales' achievement was on a par with winning the Champions League with Real Madrid.
He added: "It's such an historical moment for Wales. I think everybody knows how much it means to me to play for Wales and to create history for the country, so to qualify probably meets it right up there.
"We're not going there to make up the numbers, we really want to make an impact in the tournament and give everybody a run for their money. We believe in ourselves and hopefully we can make a whole nation proud."
Watch the interview on Sport Wales at 19:00 BST on BBC Two Wales on Friday, then on Football Focus at 12:10 on BBC One on Saturday.
Leaders and managers in public life rarely escape criticism when they make unpopular decisions either. "The power has gone to his head" is an oft-heard accusation.
So are leaders losing touch with reality when they act in a power-hungry way?
According to psychologist Guy Claxton, professor of learning sciences at the University of Winchester, their actions could be to do with "a disorder of intelligence".
At a Royal Society of Medicine conference this week, entitled The Intoxication Of Power, Prof Claxton says that human intelligence is made up of four different mental systems working in harmony.
When one of these systems is not used, the decision-making process can become unreliable and potentially dangerous.
Instead of analysing actions, checking through the consequences of those actions and chatting through the decisions made, leaders too often rely on impulsive decision-making - and this is when hubris can set in.
"None of these systems is infallible. You need a jazz quartet of them to achieve full human intelligence," Prof Claxton says.
When it comes to governments and prime ministers, this failure of intelligence creates the need for ways of stopping power getting out of hand like the House of Lords checking the power of the House of Commons.
When individuals are in positions of great power, there are other dangers, he says.
"Politics can become dangerous. Leaders have the power to create wars."
When the rest of the world makes it known that they do not like this type of leadership, they tend to resort to something which Prof Claxton calls 'messianic hubris'.
"They transpose their leadership into a sense of humility, as if they are listening to an inner god or higher power when making decisions."
This is when self-deception and an inflated sense of self-worth sets in.
To combat against this, a sense of humour is a useful tool, Prof Claxton says.
"Traditionally, powerful people had a joker following them around, making jokes and poking fun at them, reminding them that they are just human beings."
This suggests that a reminder of your own fallibility is necessary when you are a leader in any field.
Another danger for powerful people is a potential lack of empathy for others, a subject also discussed at the Royal Society of Medicine conference.
Neuroscience studies have shown that the human brain responds to seeing someone in pain by activating pain in its own nerve endings, in order to mirror their pain.
Further research in this area suggests that if one person does not like another, for whatever reason, then feelings of empathy are less likely.
Dr Jamie Ward, reader in psychology at the University of Sussex, says that power has the same effect.
"You are less likely to imitate a low-status person if you are high status because you are unlikely to recognise or empathise with them. That could mean that the powerful are less empathetic."
The Royal Society of Medicine conference, entitled The Intoxication of Power: From neurosciences to hubris in healthcare and public life, takes place on Tuesday, 9 October 2012.
It also allows customers to "digitise" their debit and credit cards to speed up purchases from online stores.
The firm also intends to allow users of phones with near-field communication (NFC) chips to make contactless payments in high street shops.
It is the latest of several firms to charge retailers a transaction fee for making it easier to shop.
The service will be free to consumers at first, but O2 said that it would charge 15p for each money message sent by text at a later date.
The network provider said that more than 100 retailers had agreed to accept payments from the service. They include Debenhams, Comet, Sainsbury's Direct and Tesco Direct.
Users can also benefit from a search facility that compares how much goods cost, the ability to load money onto the app from their debit cards and a "transaction history" that keeps track of what they have spent.
The firm said it had held off introducing contactless payments as only a handful of retailers had installed the necessary systems.
By Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent
Every week seems to bring news of a mobile money product launch - but so far British consumers have proved lukewarm about the idea that their phones can substitute for their wallets.
What's intriguing about O2's new venture is that it's the biggest attempt so far by a mobile operator, rather than a bank or credit card issuer, to enter this market.
In developing countries like Kenya it is mobile firms which have successfully pioneered mobile money innovation - but that's because products are aimed at the many who don't have bank accounts.
In the UK, where that isn't the case, O2 will have to convince customers that their money is safe on their mobiles.
If and when UK phone users do get enthusiastic about mobile money, there's a very lucrative business opportunity - and mobile operators will find themselves in a battle with the banks to grasp it.
It added that it was also in discussions with a rail operator to add a button to buy train tickets.
James Le Brocq, managing director at O2 Money said: "We believe it will transform the way people manage their finances and spend money."
One of the biggest stumbling blocks for uptake of such technology is fears about security. He noted that all personal details, pin codes, passwords and other financial data were held on remote central servers rather than on the mobile device.
"O2 wallet has been trialled internally for months and has undergone extensive 'stress-testing' with security experts," he added.
"This is, we believe, the safest and most secure way to deliver mobile payment services."
Eden Zoller, analyst at Ovum, said the service was part of a wider plan.
O2 and its rivals Vodafone and EverythingEverywhere are working on a national mobile payments service - dubbed Project Oscar. They had hoped to have it up and running in time for the London Olympics.
But the project is held up in Brussels, subject to an anti-competitive investigation.
"For O2 if this project is in danger of being stalled or even derailed it make sense to move ahead with a solo initiative," said Ms Zoller.
It is not the first time O2 has experimented with mobile wallets. In 2009 it tested using mobiles as an Oyster card replacement to pay for travel on London's Underground network.
Last summer saw the launch of the UK's first mobile payment service with Orange and Barclaycard teaming up to offer contactless payments in a range of stores, including Pret a Manger, Little Chef and the National Trust.
Juniper Research estimates that one in six mobile devices will be NFC-enabled by 2014.
O2 currently has 200,000 customers with NFC-enabled phones in the UK.
As South Africa hosted the tournament, every nation on the continent received an artificial surface as part of Fifa's Win In Africa With Africa project.
There were questions as to whether the surface at Harare's Rufaro Stadium was good enough for top-flight football.
"A lot of players complained about the hard pitch," said Lloyd Mutasa coach of local side Dynamos.
"Getting back to the natural turf is good for the players."
The surface was not maintained properly and became worn out, and is believed to have been responsible for numerous injuries, particularly knee problems.
After months of work the stadium has re-opened with a natural grass surface, with the country's most popular club Dynamos winning on the opening weekend of action.
Fifa believed that African countries would benefit greatly from the project as an artificial surface can be used as many times a day as wanted, and that it would help countries that struggled to maintain their pitches in very hot or very wet conditions.
But the quality of the donated pitches was not comparable to that of the artificial surfaces that are used in Europe even for training pitches.
So the much-vaunted project that saw then Fifa president Sepp Blatter inaugurate the Rufaro Stadium pitch will be considered a failure from Zimbabwe's point of view.
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Double world champion and Olympic silver medallist James, 25, announced her retirement on Wednesday, 17 August and plans to start a baking business.
"It came about two weeks ago and I thought 'this is what I want to do' and it just clicked," she said.
"I came to the decision it was the right thing for me to do and I'm feeling very excited."
The Welsh athlete won the world sprint and keirin titles in 2013 and took silver at the same events at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Her Olympic success came after a two-year battle with knee injuries and illness and after she "gave up" her life for a year to concentrate on qualification.
Speaking on BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme, James explained she had spent a year-long break after Rio contemplating her future career.
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"It's been up and down," she said.
"I was on such a high after the Olympics, and then you have a massive dip and it's really hard to get out of that rut.
"People say you have the post-Olympic blues and I definitely had that, but then I came out of that dip and I was half training and trying to figure out what to do.
"I was so happy with my decision and was scared to tell people what I wanted to do. I had to do what I wanted in my heart."
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James' decision to turn her cake-making hobby into her profession was announced less than a month after she said she was looking forward to returning to action after her break.
But the Abergavenny competitor says she can look back on her career without regrets.
"I kind of gave up my life the year before Rio because I wanted to give it everything," said James.
"So I gave up my life, I shipped off my dog Lola to George (boyfriend, rugby player George North) and committed everything just to get to Rio.
"I'm so happy with everything I've achieved in my career. I didn't feel like I was desperate to carry on to the next Olympics, I'm so chuffed with what I've done.
"I just felt for me this is the right time to move and start my next career.
"If it (cycling) wasn't what I wanted to do I knew in my heart I wouldn't achieve what I'd want to. I couldn't do anything half-hearted - if I didn't really want to do it I knew I wouldn't achieve my goals and be the best I could be."
We know that Europe and western Asia was dominated by the Neanderthals before Homo sapiens displaced them.
But remains belonging to equivalent populations in East and Central Asia have been scarce.
It's unclear if the finds are linked to the Denisovans, a mysterious human group known only from DNA analysis of a tooth and finger bone from Siberia.
Prof Erik Trinkaus, one of the authors of a study on the remains in Science journal, said it was not possible to say at this stage whether the ancient people from Xuchang were connected to the Denisovans.
"The issue here is the patterns of variation and the population dynamics of 'archaic' populations during the later part of the Pleistocene," Prof Trinkaus, from Washington University in St Louis, told BBC News.
Modern humans (Homo sapiens) originated in Africa some 200,000 years ago before expanding out across Asia, Europe, Oceania and the Americas about 60,000 years ago. As they spread across the world, they displaced the existing populations they encountered, such as the Neanderthals and Denisovans - but some limited interbreeding occurred.
The partial skulls from China are between 105,000 and 125,000 years old and lack faces. But they show clear similarities to and differences from their Neanderthal contemporaries in the west.
"There's a certain amount of regional diversity at this time, but also there are trends in basic biology that are shared by everybody. And the supposed Neanderthal characteristics show that all these populations were interconnected," Prof Trinkaus explained.
Prof Trinkaus, Zhan-Yang Li, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and others found that the specimens show some characteristics, like a low, broad braincase, that link them to even earlier humans from the same region, who lived in the Middle Pleistocene.
But some features of the skull that were more pronounced in earlier humans, such as the bony ridges over the eyes and a bony prominence at the back of the skull called the nuchal torus, are not as marked in these specimens. Erik Trinkaus says this represents evidence for a process of "gracilisation" - a reduction of bone mass through evolution - that was common to other human groups at the time.
And the two specimens from Xuchang have comparatively large braincases - reflecting a trend towards larger brain sizes across the Old World - Europe, Africa and Asia.
One of the ancient Chinese skulls - Xuchang 1 - is at the high end of the scale. Prof Chris Stringer, from London's Natural History Museum, who was not involved with the study, said the individual had a "remarkable brain size, up there with the largest known Neanderthal and early modern examples".
As regards any potential relationship with the Denisovans, he said: "Unfortunately, the skulls lack teeth so we cannot make direct comparisons with the large teeth known from Denisova Cave, but another similarly-dated fossil from Xujiayao in China does have Neanderthal-like traits in the ear bones, like Xuchang, and does have large teeth, so these may all represent the same population.
"From genetic data, the Denisovans are believed to have split from the Neanderthal lineage about 400,000 years ago - about the time of the Sima de los Huesos early Neanderthals known from Atapuerca in Spain. So one might expect some level of Neanderthal features in their morphology, added to by evidence of some later interbreeding with the Neanderthals.
"We must hope that ancient DNA can be recovered from these fossils in order to test whether they are Denisovans, or a distinct lineage."
The skulls were found during excavations at Lingjing, Xuchang County in Henan Province, between 2007 and 2014.
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Police confirmed that the cache was discovered in Baljaffray Road, near Langfaulds Cemetery, Bearsden, at 22:45 on Sunday.
Glasgow gangland figure Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll, who was shot dead in Robroyston in January 2010, is buried in the graveyard.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said forensic examinations were ongoing.
William Paterson, 35, is serving a minimum of 22 years in prison for the murder of Carroll, 29, at an Asda car park.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that the shooting was carried out by two masked gunmen at lunchtime in front of shoppers.
It is not known if Paterson was one of the gunmen, or driving the Volkswagen Golf that was driven away from the Asda to Coatbridge where the weapons were dumped in plastic bags under shrubbery behind a library.
The getaway car was later found on fire on a country road in Glenmavis, North Lanarkshire.
The murder took just 25 seconds and left Carroll dead in the back of his black Audi A3 that was riddled with 13 bullets.
Carroll was described in court as "violent".
There have also been other high-profile shootings over the past few months.
Ross Monaghan was shot in the back by a man pushing a buggy near St George's Primary School, Penilee, on 16 January.
The shooting happened as Mr Monaghan, 35, was dropping off a child at the school. He was released from hospital later the same day.
Mr Monaghan had been cleared of killing Kevin Carroll in 2012 after a judge ruled there was no case to answer due to insufficient evidence.
In November Euan Johnston, 26, was murdered in a late-night car shooting in Glasgow which was described by police as a pre-planned attack.
Mr Johnston, 26, was in the driver's seat of a black Audi when he was shot on Shields Road, near Scotland Street, on 15 November.
He died a short time later at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Following the discovery of the cache, a spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: "Around 22:45 hours on Sunday 5th February, police recovered a quantity of firearms and ammunition from Baljaffray Road, near Langfaulds Cemetery in Bearsden.
"Inquiries, including forensic examinations, are currently ongoing in relation to this matter."
Burge has made 10 appearances for the Sky Blues this season, but he has not featured since the FA Cup first round defeat by Northampton Town in November.
The 22-year-old, who started his career with League One side Coventry, also had a loan spell with Nuneaton in 2013.
Reice Charles-Cook is City's first-choice keeper, while 18-year-old Corey Addai will become his back-up.
City currently have six loan players, defenders Jack Stephens and Baily Cargill, midfielders James Maddison, loaned back to them following his sale to Norwich City, and Gael Bigirimana, as well as front players Adam Armstrong and Jacob Murphy. But the maximum permitted in any first team matchday squad is five.
"You could ask the question," said City manager Tony Mowbray, "why haven't we gone and got another goalkeeper on loan?
"We've already got a number of loans and I don't really want to be wasting a loan with someone who is just going to sit on the bench."
The facility at Derriford Hospital, the South West's designated major trauma centre, will enable Devon and Cornwall's air ambulances to land at night.
It will also be able to receive search and rescue (SAR) helicopters.
The current landing facility has been described as "not fit for purpose".
The small grassy area used for air ambulance landings is further away from the emergency department, unsuitable for larger helicopters and has no lighting.
Currently, SAR helicopters have to land at nearby Marjons, with patients then being transferred to hospital by land ambulance.
Dr Anthony Kehoe, a consultant in emergency medicine, said: "The current strip is unfit for purpose and can't be used in all conditions or at all at night.
"Certain air ambulances and search and rescue can't land here and diversion to a secondary site can add around 30 minutes, which can be critical at that time."
The Helicopter Emergency Landing Pads Appeal (HELP) has contributed £850,000 towards the helipad construction, with £900,000 coming from capital funding from the Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Russian Paralympic Committee president Vladimir Lukin said he is considering an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
The Rio Paralympics begin in a month's time, on 7 September, but 267 Russian competitors across 18 sports will now miss the Games.
The country's doping scandal was exposed by the McLaren report.
"The vast majority of our sportsmen are absolutely clean," Lukin told a news conference in Moscow on Monday. "I'm used to a dose of absurdity in life, but this dose is now off the scale."
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) confirmed the ban on Sunday.
The decision was in contrast to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which chose not to hand Russia a blanket ban from the Olympic Games.
Announcing the decision, IPC president Sir Philip Craven said Russia's anti-doping system is "broken, corrupted and entirely compromised".
In response, Lukin said his committee was "not even mentioned" in the McLaren report and this action would mean "lives are broken".
"Inevitably, suspicions arise that this is provoked by something unsportsmanlike, something else," he added.
"We absolutely do not want to quarrel, get carried away with emotions. Only the weak get carried away with emotions.
"We will stand our ground in a civilised way."
Richard McLaren, a Canadian law professor, published a report that found Russia's sports ministry manipulated urine samples provided by its athletes between 2011 and 2015.
The report identified 27 samples relating to eight Para-sports, five of which are summer sports, including some governed by the IPC.
The IPC also found evidence that samples were swapped during the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games, adding that it planned to reanalyse every Russian sample given at the event
The IPC allowed the Russian Paralympic Committee to present its case before it decided on the ban.
The IOC was widely criticised for ignoring the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) recommendation to ban Russia from the Rio Olympics.
Instead, each individual sporting federation was given the power to decide if Russian competitors were clean to compete.
A three-person IOC panel then had the final say.
In the end, more than 270 Russian athletes were cleared to compete at the Olympics, which started on 5 August.
The restrictions have been put in place around a house and garden in Inverkip as part of an investigation into the disappearance of Margaret Fleming.
The 36-year-old was reported missing from the house by her two carers on 28 October. The last independent sighting of her was on 17 December 1999.
Media organisations have used to drones to capture footage of the search.
Officers have said it is possible Ms Fleming, who is believed to have learning difficulties, "may have come to some harm" and say their priority is establishing her movements and lifestyle from 1999 onwards.
Specialist search teams have been combing the cottage where she lived and excavating its grounds with a view to finding any documents, clothes or other personal items that could help in the effort to track her down.
The aircraft restriction around the area was put into force under Article 239 of the Air Navigation Order 2016, and will be in place until late February.
Under the new rules, all aircraft - including drones - are banned from flying below 1,500 ft in the area, except those operated by police, ambulance or the coastguard.
The restrictions extend to a radius of one nautical mile (1.852m) from Main Road in Inverkip.
Ms Fleming lived at the house in Inverkip with her carers Edward Cairney, 75, and Avril Jones, 56.
She is thought to have attended James Watt College in Greenock between 1996 and 1998.
Police officers had gone to Ms Fleming's house on 28 October about a social work issue. Her carers said she had left that day. They later reported her missing.
During the investigation, members of the public who visited the house have told police that they never saw Ms Fleming.
The 38-year-old won the 2010 race but was later suspended for 38 months.
The judgement to recover her appearance fees and prize money for the 2010 and 2011 races needs enforcing by Russia.
"Cheats should not benefit," said London Marathon Events Ltd chief Nick Bitel. "It will be a long and difficult process but we will pursue it."
Ethiopian Aselefech Mergia was named the winner of the 2010 London Marathon after Shobukhova was stripped of her win. The Russian was runner-up in 2011.
Bitel said any money returned by Shobukhova will be redistributed to athletes that were "cheated out of their rightful dues".
Shobukhova also had her results from 2009 annulled and was also stripped of Chicago Marathon wins in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Her ban was reduced by seven months, for assisting a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation.
Shobukhova is banned for life from taking part in the London Marathon and in any of the five other marathons that make up the World Marathon Majors.
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (BSUH) NHS Trust entered special measures for care and finances.
The trust runs Brighton's Royal Sussex County Hospital and the Princess Royal in Haywards Heath.
It is being taken over by Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which was rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.
The trust runs St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, Worthing Hospital, and Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea.
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NHS Improvement, which is responsible for overseeing foundation trusts, NHS trusts and independent providers, said the "new buddying arrangement" was a step towards "a longer term partnership".
Staff in Brighton's Royal Sussex Hospital tell me this is a "take over" but not a merger.
They say they were "surprised" at the news and found out late in the day.
I understand there wasn't much discussion, but this will hopefully provide stability for the thousands who work in one of our busiest hospitals .
The agreement, signed between Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Improvement, has created an interim arrangement between the two trusts to begin a new way of working together.
From 1 April 2017, the chief executive and chair of Western Sussex will also carry out those roles for BSUH.
Dr Gillian Fairfield, interim chief executive of BSUH, said it had been "working incredibly hard to stabilise the trust" and had made significant progress in a large number of areas.
She said: "It is essential that BSUH keeps up the momentum it has started and this new arrangement with Western Sussex will help ensure this can be achieved both in the short-term and the long-term."
So far tested in mice, it is hoped the device could act as an early warning system in patients, alerting doctors to cancer spread.
The implant also seemed to stop rogue cancer cells reaching other areas where new tumours could grow.
The findings appear in Nature Communications .
Cancer Research UK said nine in 10 cancer deaths were caused by the disease spreading to other areas of the body.
About 5mm (0.2in) in diameter and made of a "biomaterial" already approved for use in medical devices, the implant has so far been tested in mice with breast cancer.
Experiments showed that implanting the device in either the abdominal fat or under the skin sucked up cancer cells that had started to circulate in the body.
The implant mimicked a process where cells broken loose from a tumour were attracted to other areas in the body by immune cells, the researchers said.
They found that these immune cells set up camp on the implant - a natural reaction to any foreign body - drawing the cancer cells in.
Initially, the researchers "labelled" cancer cells so they would light up and be easily spotted.
But they then moved on to a special imaging technique that can distinguish between cancerous and normal cells, and found they could detect cancer cells that had been caught in the implant.
Unexpectedly, when they measured cancer cells that had spread in mice with and without the implant, they found that the device not only captured cancer cells, it reduced the numbers present at other sites.
Researchers have long been looking for ways to detect the spread - or metastasis - of cancer at an early stage, but cancer cells that circulate in the bloodstream are rare and hard to detect.
Study leader Prof Lonnie Shea, from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, said they were planning the first clinical trials in humans fairly soon.
"We need to see if metastatic cells will show up in the implant in humans like they did in the mice, and also if it's a safe procedure and that we can use the same imaging to detect cancer cells," he said.
He said they were continuing work in animals to see what happened to the overall outcome if cancer spread was detected at a very early stage - something which was not yet fully understood.
Lucy Holmes, Cancer Research UK's science information manager, said: "We urgently need new ways to stop cancer in its tracks.
"So far this implant approach has only been tested in mice, but it's encouraging to see these results, which could one day play a role in stopping cancer spread in patients."
So it is playing out again, as Greece has struggled to secure adequate loans from its eurozone and International Monetary Fund (IMF) creditors to avoid the disaster of failing to keep up its payments to the IMF.
For months the government, led by Alexis Tsipras, failed to convince these creditors he was taking appropriate and adequate steps to balance Greece's books.
With almost no time left before a de facto default - and, more frighteningly perhaps, with a Greek banking system on the brink of total collapse because savers had lost all confidence that a rescue for their state could be found - Mr Tsipras has come up with a plan that his fellow eurozone leaders see, at last, as the basis for a deal.
So subject to technical talks - on raised taxes for businesses and the wealthy; higher pension contributions; and selective increases in VAT - an actual deal to release life-saving additional loans for Greece may be reached at the end of the week.
But, as per the normal cliched eurozone script, the drama will go on for months.
First, existentially important talks on providing relief to Greece on its excessive debts is to be deferred for negotiation in coming months.
Second, the flight of savings and deposits from Greek banks has been so great that they have almost exhausted the assets or collateral in their possession that is available to swap for life-saving loans from the Bank of Greece and European Central Bank.
So unless Greeks can be persuaded to start retrieving their cash from under their mattresses to deposit in banks, Greek banks will remain perilously close to collapse - and will struggle to provide the finance that the sick Greek economy so desperately needs.
"Suspicious items" were found at the 27-year-old's home on Naseby Road in Alum Rock, West Midlands Police said.
Police went to the address following reports of the man walking around with a hammer. A search revealed substances in unlabelled bottles.
Detectives are investigating his "background, links and recent movements".
The contents of the bottles are being analysed by specialists.
Homes in the street were temporarily evacuated on Sunday while police, the fire service and army officers conducted safety checks on the items, but explosive experts said there was no immediate risk to the public.
Vince Cable wants to see if there is enough evidence to start disqualification proceedings against Andy Hornby, Lord Stevenson and Sir James Crosby, a source told the BBC.
A report on Friday blamed them for failures in the bank's 2008 collapse.
Mr Cable "feels outraged" by the situation, the source said.
He has told officials at the investigations and enforcement branch of the government's Insolvency Service to see if there is sufficient evidence to start disqualification proceedings against the three, the Business Department confirmed.
HBOS collapsed in 2008, wiping out shareholders' assets and costing thousands of jobs.
The bank was then forced to merge with Lloyds in early 2009 and received a £20.5bn taxpayer bailout. It was one of the most high-profile casualties of the UK's banking crisis, which precipitated a wider economic downturn.
In its report on Friday, the Banking Standards Commission expressed frustration that City regulators had "taken no steps" to consider banning the three men from further involvement in financial services.
None of the men has been formally punished for their roles leading up to HBOS's failure, despite what the commission described as a "colossal failure of management" and a strategy dating back to 2001 that "sowed the seeds of disaster".
A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills spokesman said: "The business secretary has instructed officials at the Insolvency Service to look into the Financial Conduct Authority report when it is published to see whether there are matters that could lead to further action."
Sir James has a pension pot worth £25m, entitling him to an annual income of £700,000, The Sunday Times reported. He also made millions by selling some of his shares in the bank in 2006, well before the bank's collapse, the newspaper said.
Labour MP John Mann - who sits on the House of Commons' Treasury Committee - has called for Sir James, described as the "architect" of HBOS's downfall, to be stripped of his title.
Following the report, Sir James, who served as chief executive at HBOS between 2001 and 2006, resigned from an advisory position he held at London-based private equity firm Bridgepoint.
But he retains other positions, including the post of non-executive director at Compass Group, a food services company.
Calls to strip Sir James of his knighthood echo what happened to Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, who lost his knighthood in 2012 after being held responsible for the biggest annual loss in UK corporate history.
Mr Goodwin eventually agreed to a cut in his pension following an outcry over what happened to RBS - to £350,000 a year.
Lord Stevenson, who presided as chairman of HBOS throughout its eight-year existence, is currently a non-executive director at the bookseller Waterstone's.
Mr Hornby, who took over the running of HBOS in 2006, has been the chief executive of gambling company Coral since 2011.
The Banking Standards Commission was set up to improve the UK's banking system following the 2008 financial crisis.
Wanderers have been without a permanent boss since Neil Lennon left in March.
Academy boss Jimmy Phillips, 50, took charge for the remainder of the season but could not prevent Bolton's relegation from the Championship to League One.
Bolton are expected to make a decision within the next few weeks.
Former Scunthorpe, Southampton and Reading boss Adkins, 51, was sacked by Sheffield United in May after missing out on the League One play-offs. He has won promotion from the third tier three times.
Cotterill, 51, was dismissed as Bristol City boss in January after leading them to the League One title and the Johnstone's Paint Trophy the previous season.
He has also managed Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, Notts County, Burnley, Stoke, Cheltenham and Sligo Rovers.
At the start of an important year in athletics - including this summer's World Championships in London - BBC Sport's lead commentator Steve Cram is in South Africa mentoring a group of British athletes during a training camp at altitude in Potchefstroom, two hours' drive from Johannesburg.
We've got the South African football team the Kaiser Chiefs staying in the same accommodation as us and our athletes are definitely doing a lot more than those guys, that's for sure.
Most athletes are doing two sessions a day plus gym sessions, massage, nutritionist appointments - they are busy days. A meal out with a dessert every once in a while is their idea of a wild night out here in Potchefstroom.
Double sessions bring me on to the discussion of Laura Muir. Laura has had a great start to the season with a British 5,000m record and she is looking great out here in South Africa.
She's at a really good place in her career but what she doesn't have yet is a major championship medal.
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The European Indoor Championships is a great chance for her and I know there has been some talk about her doubling up over 1,500m and 5,000m, both indoors and outdoors, this season. I am not sure whether Laura has actually said that is what she definitely wants to do, rather she has said the schedule allows it, which is a little bit different.
The very fact that she is talking about it though shows she is obviously not setting her targets low, which is great. You don't win things by not thinking big. Laura has always struck me as quite quiet but she has never lacked confidence. I've seen her train quite a lot over the last few years - she doesn't have very many easy days.
To be fair there aren't many easy days for anyone out here. Our group mainly consists of 800 or 1500m runners, with the likes of Laura Weightman and Kyle Langford also in the group.
This is a crucial time of year for them to get the endurance base that will carry them through the summer. It's a bit of a departure for us from recent years in that we have come to South Africa rather than Iten in Kenya. Iten is about 8,000 ft, while Potch is more like 4,000ft. Being at a slightly lower altitude means you can do a bit more quality work while still getting the benefit of being at altitude. The food is better too.
The athletes then sleep in altitude tents at night to get that added benefit too. The benefits of altitude are not a new thing to me - I wrote my dissertation about its benefits back in 1981 and I used to use it by training in Colorado during my career - and in many ways the sport is very similar to when I did it.
There is a lot more science behind everything now and the level of support athletes get with a physiologist, physiotherapist, nutritionist etc is very different but in essence running is very straightforward. I trained hard and they train hard.
British athletics will have a hard act to follow in the coming years. With Jessica Ennis-Hill having retired and Mo Farah having talked about 2017 being his last track season, we are going to go through a bit of a transition. It's a big two years or so.
At the World Championships in London we'll still be talking about the same athletes as the last few years, like Mo and Greg Rutherford, in terms of medals. But in the next couple of years there is a huge opportunity for some of the younger ones to get into the medal mix.
Tom Bosworth is one of those athletes in the race walk. On a broader level I do feel that athletics is in a pretty good place. The work that has been done and is ongoing regarding the drugs issue has given people a bit of an uplift. The issue of performance-enhancing drugs will never go away completely of course but Tom is one of those athletes who has been incentivised by the ban on Russia, who have been a dominant force in the race walks.
After his performance in Rio, where he finished sixth, Tom is now on the highest level of funding and wants to learn how to win a medal in future years. That is not a situation you would have expected for a British race walker a few years ago.
Mo has made a habit of winning at a canter for a number of years now but I wasn't overly concerned about his defeat at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country. He knew he wasn't expecting to win but he showed there just why he is a champion - because he cares.
I thought he did a good job. He was 12th at one point and he could have run around at 90% from then on and come 11th. He chose not to and ended seventh. I thought it was really telling that he refused to stop giving it everything. He didn't know where he was at ahead of Edinburgh - now he knows exactly where he is and what he's got to do.
The London World Championships might seem a long way from South Africa in mid-January but the hard work starts now…
About 305,000 diazepam tablets were recovered in two linked police operations on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The first took place in Reid Street, Coatbridge, and was followed by a second raid in Avalon Place, Airdrie.
Police Scotland appealed for anyone with information to come forward and said a report would be sent to the procurator fiscal.
Det Insp Kevin Jamieson, from Lanarkshire Division CID, said: "We will continue to act on any information received to ensure that drug dealing has no home in our communities.
"This is a significant recovery of diazepam which has reduced the potential harm which could have been caused by these drugs, both in Lanarkshire and beyond."
Davies produced wonderful saves to keep out Aaron Mooy, Izzy Brown and Collin Quaner and end Town's winning streak.
Defender Michael Hefele powered home a header from Mooy's corner to open the scoring after 18 minutes.
Marley Watkins volleyed Adam Hammill's cross in at the near post to equalise for Barnsley, who twice cleared off the line from Brown.
David Wagner's side are now five points off second-placed Newcastle and six adrift of Championship leaders Brighton, who won 3-0 at home to Reading.
However, Huddersfield came up against an inspired goalkeeper in the form of Davies and a determined defence, which withstood plenty of pressure to claim a hard-fought draw.
Barnsley, who came into the game on the back of a 2-0 defeat against Brighton, were denied a chance to take the lead when Ryan Kent's appeal for a penalty was waved away.
After Hefele's fifth league goal of the season had put the visitors ahead, Huddersfield made several chances, but Davies kept his side in it - a double save from Mooy and Brown the stand-out.
The Tykes had failed to find the net in three of their past four league matches, but Watkins finished smartly to give them something to hold on to and they survived a few scares to become the first side to take points off Huddersfield in six weeks.
Barnsley manager Paul Heckingbottom told BBC Radio Sheffield:
"I was pleased with the point because we weren't at our best today.
"The second half we were better, we played with more drive and intensity. We relied on a couple of saves from Adam Davies.
"We were pleased to be in at 1-0 down at half-time and in the second half we were much better and played with a better energy but just not the quality."
Huddersfield boss David Wagner told BBC Radio Leeds:
"Everybody has seen that we deserved more from that performance, but that's football and sometimes you have to accept that you only get one point when you deserve three.
"We created great opportunities and I think their goalkeeper was man of the match. Unfortunately we only got a draw because we missed too many chances, I can accept this.
"Sometimes you play against a goalkeeper who has their best match of the season. I was very happy with the performance."
Match ends, Barnsley 1, Huddersfield Town 1.
Second Half ends, Barnsley 1, Huddersfield Town 1.
Attempt blocked. Isaiah Brown (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Joe Lolley.
Substitution, Barnsley. Ryan Williams replaces Adam Armstrong.
Adam Davies (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card.
Isaiah Brown (Huddersfield Town) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Isaiah Brown (Huddersfield Town).
Adam Davies (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Philip Billing (Huddersfield Town).
Tom Bradshaw (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Gethin Jones.
Attempt missed. Adam Armstrong (Barnsley) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marley Watkins with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Tom Bradshaw (Barnsley) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marc Roberts.
Attempt blocked. Josh Scowen (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Barnsley. Conceded by Tommy Smith.
Attempt blocked. Michael Hefele (Huddersfield Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Chris Löwe with a cross.
Corner, Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Andy Yiadom.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Joe Lolley replaces Rajiv van La Parra.
Attempt saved. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Rajiv van La Parra with a cross.
Corner, Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Josh Scowen.
Isaiah Brown (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Armstrong (Barnsley).
Attempt missed. Marc Roberts (Barnsley) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Adam Hammill with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Barnsley. Conceded by Collin Quaner.
Dangerous play by Isaiah Brown (Huddersfield Town).
Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Huddersfield Town. Isaiah Brown tries a through ball, but Collin Quaner is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Isaiah Brown (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tommy Smith.
Goal! Barnsley 1, Huddersfield Town 1. Marley Watkins (Barnsley) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Adam Hammill with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Rajiv van La Parra (Huddersfield Town).
Andy Yiadom (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Jon Gorenc Stankovic (Huddersfield Town) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Aaron Mooy with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Adam Hammill.
Foul by Tommy Smith (Huddersfield Town).
Adam Hammill (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) because of an injury.
Delay in match Angus MacDonald (Barnsley) because of an injury.
Michael Hefele (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Armstrong (Barnsley).
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Prince William is working with Bond Air Services and will under go job-specific training before he flies missions, Kensington Palace said.
The mandatory training will involve simulator, helicopter aircraft and in-flight skills training.
The charity, which has bases in Norwich and Cambridge, ordered a new £1.7m helicopter four years ago.
It will come into service in Cambridge in April and is set to be flown by Prince William.
The air ambulance attends emergencies across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
In his new role with the charity he is due to earn about £40,000 a year but the after-tax salary will be donated to charity.
Prince William gave up his role as an RAF search and rescue helicopter pilot in September 2013.
During his seven years flying Sea Kings, he carried out more than 150 missions and completed more than 1,300 flying hours.
Prince William has begun work a few weeks ahead of the birth of his second child and is likely to take paternity leave, as he did for his first child Prince George, born in July 2013.
In November 2013 a police helicopter operated by Bonds crashed into a pub in central Glasgow killing the civilian pilot and two police officers onboard, six people on the ground, with another dying two weeks later from injuries received in the pub.
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Armagh were only four behind with 12 minutes left when they had James King sent off and two late James Connolly goals sealed Antrim's 6-21 to 4-14 win.
After Declan Coulter's early Armagh goal, goals from John Dillon, Conor Carson and Ciaran Clarke helped the Saffrons lead 3-14 to 2-8 at half-time.
Two Eoin McGuinness goals kept Armagh in it before the crucial red card.
Ciaran Clarke top-scored with 2-7 as he he netted a second goal after the resumption but Ryan Gaffney's frees helped Armagh draw to within three points of the Saffrons before King, who had notched a brilliant goal in first-half injury-time, was dismissed after getting a second yellow card.
Armagh were into the game believing that they had a chance of upsetting an Antrim side potentially low on morale after their failure to win the Christy Ring Cup.
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Coulter's third-minute goal gave Armagh an early advantage and they were still in front by the 22nd minute thanks to Gaffney's accuracy and further points from Fiachra Bradley, Cahal Carvill and McGuinness.
However, Dillon's goal put the Saffrons 1-8 to 1-6 ahead and two further three-pointers over the next seven minutes from Carson and Clarke pushed Antrim's advantage to 3-9 to 1-8.
The Saffrons looked almost out of sight as they led 3-14 to 1-8 in first-half injury-time but King's superb goal before the break breathed life back into the Armagh challenge.
Antrim's lead was reduced to five points within three minutes of the resumption as two more Gaffney points were followed by the first of McGuinness' two goals.
Clarke's second goal was quickly cancelled out by McGuinness' second three-pointer as Armagh sensed the possibility of a sensational comeback win.
However, King's dismissal had a huge effort on the closing minutes as Connolly's two late goals gave the scoreboard a somewhat harsh look for the brave Orchard County players.
Antrim joint-manager Dominic McKinley confirmed after the game that he and Sambo McNaughton have both stepped down from their positions, as they had already indicated.
SUNDAY'S GAA RESULTS
ULSTER SENIOR HURLING FINAL
Antrim 6-21 4-14 Armagh
ULSTER MINOR HURLING FINAL
Antrim 2-15 0-11 Down
CONNACHT SFC FINAL
Galway 0-13 1-10 Roscommon
ALL-IRELAND SFC QUALIFIERS
Clare 0-14 1-10 Laois
MUNSTER SHC FINAL
Tipperary 5-19 0-13 Waterford
The Office for National Statistics said 163,000 more people came to live in the UK for 12 months or more than had left, compared with 247,000 the year before.
The ONS said this was driven by a drop in immigration, and study remained the most common reason to come to the UK.
Ministers want to cut net migration to the "tens of thousands" by 2015.
The ONS said the figure of 515,000 people who had immigrated to the UK in the year ending June 2012 was "significantly lower" than the 589,000 who had come in the previous year.
Its figures also showed:
By Dominic CascianiHome affairs correspondent
Immigration is pushed and pulled by a myriad of factors, from family life to global economics. But, ultimately, the politics of migration in the UK, whether you agree or not, comes down to the numbers.
And so ministers will point to these figures as evidence that their policies of tackling immigration abuse and some categories of students are biting. They're certainly closer to their net migration target than they had expected to be.
However, critics will ask whether part of the fall relates to whether the UK remains attractive.
The UK cannot turn away EU workers - but there's been a drop in the arrival of those industrious Eastern Europeans whom business bosses love. Statisticians think some of those people may now be heading to Germany instead.
Secondly, there's been a slight rise in emigration as more Britons and people from Commonwealth nations find jobs abroad.
Immigration minister Mark Harper said: "Our tough reforms are having an impact in all the right places - we have tightened the routes where abuse was rife and overall numbers are down as a result.
"We will continue to work hard to bring net migration down from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands by the end of this Parliament and to create a selective immigration system that works in our national interest."
But Chris Bryant, shadow immigration minister, said: "Net migration is falling but public concern is rising.
"These figures demonstrate that the government is not focusing on the kind of immigration that worries people the most. Half the drop is down to students, while 30% of the net migration reduction is down to fewer British people.
"Worryingly, the government appear to be taking some students away from full visas with proper checks and giving them student visitor visas instead, yet we know these visas have fewer checks and are more open to abuse. This is an own goal."
UKIP immigration spokesman Gerard Batten said "These figures hardly reduce immigration to the 'tens of thousands' promised by the government. They reflect the tightening up of the student visa system which was, and still is, open to flagrant abuse.
"These reductions in the net figure represent a temporary dip since the government has no long-term plan to control EU migration."
Dr Scott Blinder, of Oxford University's Migration Observatory, predicted that the government could find it "even more challenging" from now on to reach its target.
"Of the decline of 92,000 in net migration from its recent peak, a bit more than half come from changes in non-EU migration, where the government's policy changes may be having an impact.
"Making the further cuts in non-EU net migration needed to reach the target... could still be a difficult task, as these figures are greater than the total remaining reductions projected in the government's impact assessments for its policy changes."
Pressure group Migration Watch UK welcomed the overall drop in net migration. Its chairman Andrew Green said it was "evidence that the government's policies are starting to take effect".
"The universities have been wrong to claim that their sector was suffering from the restrictions designed to tackle bogus college students," he added.
But the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank said much of the fall in immigration had been the result of a fall in the number of people coming to study in the UK - which was down from 239,000 to 197,000 - which would only have a short-term effect on the net migration figures.
Sarah Mulley of the IPPR think tank said: "Because most students stay in the UK only for a short time, reduced immigration now will mean reduced emigration in the future, which by 2015 could partially reverse the falls we are seeing today."
The previous set of figures - to the end of March 2012 - showed net migration was 183,000.
The UK government's repeal bill details how thousands of powers would be moved.
It involves temporarily holding powers at Westminster including devolved areas such as agriculture and environment.
But Elin Jones said she believed a "showdown" could be avoided if the UK government takes notice of any vote.
Brexit Secretary David Davis said last month the UK government would seek the consent of the devolved institutions on the transfer of the EU legislation.
Under a political convention between the devolved institutions and Westminster, any new law which relates to devolved matters needs a legislative consent motion passed.
But the convention does not have legal force.
Ms Jones, the Plaid Cymru AM for Ceredigion, accused the UK government of choosing the path of greatest resistance on the matter.
"If that view is ignored then we are in a constitutional crisis," she told BBC's Sunday Politics Wales.
"The people of Wales have voted for the legislative constitutional framework that we have currently - and for that view to be ignored by any government of any political colour or by any houses of parliament is a serious constitutional crisis.
"I am hopeful, reasonably confident, that we will not get to that point.
"There are means of achieving the aims that the UK government wants to achieve with its deliberations with the EU without having this constitutional showdown between the National Assembly, the Scottish parliament and the UK parliament."
First Minister Carwyn Jones has already said he would not support the repeal bill.
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns earlier told Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme he hopes the proposed arrangement would come to an end within a few years.
He said many of the powers covering devolved areas would be transferred to the assembly once a trading arrangement with the EU and other countries had been established.
"We are working in a practical sense of what is right for industry to allow Welsh farmers to continue to sell Welsh lamb to France," he said.
"Unless we can offer the European Union reassurance that we are not going to run away from animal welfare standards or we are not going to over-subsidise any one particular sector for example then if you cannot give those promises to any international market, and particularly the European one, then there would be little chance of getting a trading arrangement.
"This is about giving certainty to industry."
The 26-year-old, whose career has been riddled with injuries, scored his first goal since January in his fifth game since returning from knee surgery.
"We changed the schedule and philosophy and the way of training," Bilic said.
"He always used to come back after five or six weeks of training, but it doesn't help him."
The Croat, who replaced Sam Allardyce in the summer, told BBC Sport: "He goes running into the box and fighting with people.
"Now he was training hard for six to eight weeks and came back in the team gradually.
"His quality was never in question. If he's in good shape now we have a good chance that he will be injury free for a long time. In that case, West Ham and England will benefit from that a lot."
Former Newcastle striker Carroll has only made 24 Premier League starts since his £15m move from Liverpool more than two years ago. The last of his nine England caps came in 2012.
Carroll - who came on midway into the second half and scored 10 minutes later - told BBC Match of the Day: "We've got a great atmosphere at the training ground.
"It's fantastic to be a part of. Slaven is a top manager - he analyses the opposition and then tells us how to beat them.
"We all thought we could beat them today. It wasn't about Chelsea, it was about us. We've had some great wins this season and hopefully we'll carry on. The way we're going, we've got a right shot at it [a high finish]. I don't see why not."
The hosts led 21-17 at the break with tries from Vereniki Goneva, Opeti Fonua and Telusa Veainu.
Bryce Heem and Andy Symons went over to keep Worcester in touch but as the weather worsened Leicester's pack gained the ascendency.
Will Evans secured the bonus point for Tigers and booked their play-off spot.
Fourth-placed Leicester's win completed the play-off jigsaw alongside Saracens, Exeter Chiefs and Wasps, but the make-up of the respective semi-finals will go down to the final weekend.
Victories for leaders Saracens and second-placed Wasps on Sunday would secure them both home semi-finals, in which case Tigers could overhaul Exeter on the final day.
Both sides took some time to settle into the game at Welford Road but once they did the first-half points arrived in earnest.
Goneva opened the scoring by intercepting Chris Pennell's pass out wide before Francois Hougaard took an interception of his own and Heem finished the try.
Leicester's second five-pointer was of a completely different variety as Fonua bulldozed his way through Worcester's defence and created his own gap from close range.
Symons and Veainu exchanged further tries late in the first half as Leicester took a narrow lead into the dressing room.
As the teams ran out for the second half the April showers set in, making points more difficult to come by.
Worcester fly-half Tom Heathcote missed an easy shot at goal and as Leicester's pack gained the upper hand, the home side grew in confidence.
Replacement Evans finished a textbook driving maul and his first Premiership try sealed victory.
Leicester head coach Aaron Mauger: "I'm pleased to get to the semis, it's a nice feeling. But the performance was a bit flat.
"It was probably a reflection of the last four weeks, four big, emotional games - Gloucester, the European quarter-final against Stade Francais, the derby against Northampton, and Racing.
"We could see during the week that the boys were mentally and emotionally flat and that transferred into the performance."
Worcester director of rugby Dean Ryan: "It was a great performance and we are disappointed we didn't win.
"We were always in the contest and we are frustrated we missed three or four chances. There were two forward pass decisions that were flat at best. They were tries.
"We are frustrated that it ended the way it did, a scrum reversal giving them the match and the bonus point.
"We were in the contest all the way through and looked sharp, dangerous and physical."
Leicester Tigers: Veainu; Thompstone, Betham, Tait, Goneva; Williams, Harrison; Ayerza, Ghiraldini, Balmain, Barrow, Kitchener, Slater (capt), McCaffrey, Fonua.
Replacements: Bateman, Genge, Cole, Croft, Evans, B Youngs, Bell, Smith.
Worcester Warriors: Pennell; Heem, Symons, Mills, Vuna; Heathcote, Hougaard; Rapava Ruskin, Annett, Schonert, Cavubati, Barry, Dowson, Kirwan, van Velze (capt).
Replacements: Bregvadze, Leleimalefaga, Johnston, O'Callaghan, Betty, Baldwin, Lamb, Hammond.
Referee: Greg Garner (RFU)
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The victims' bodies were found on Sunday morning after the storm passed. Several people are still missing.
Some of the victims drowned in their cars. Parts of the city's ring road were swept away in the floods, dragging cars into nearby fields.
Three-and-a-half inches (93mm) of rain fell in Skopje in the storm - more than the average for the whole of August.
The water level reached as high as five feet (1.5 metres) in some of the affected areas, reports said.
"Everything was a mess. Televisions, the fridge, the sofa, everything was floating... it was a nightmare," said Baze Spriovski, a 43-year-old from Singelic in the outskirts of Skopje.
Many homes remain flooded and without electricity; some are reported to have collapsed.
The authorities have declared a crisis situation in Skopje and Tetovo for the next 15 days, the Macedonian Information Agency said.
The Mayor of Skopje, Koce Trajanovski, said: "This is a disaster. We have never experienced such a thing."
"There were thunderbolts with lightning almost every second. It was really horrific," said Biljana Joneska, 62, in Skopje.
Local media reported that ambulances were called out 65 times across the city, more than 20 people were treated in hospital, and the army was called in to help.
Three villages in the north-east of the country were cut off because of landslides.
Police said about 70 vehicles were stuck because of one such incident between the villages of Stajkovci and Radisani.
Health authorities have advised residents in the worst hit areas to use only bottled water or water from public authority cisterns for drinking and cooking.
The work will involve setting standards for the financial sector in terms of resilience to the type of cyber threats which could undermine the UK economy.
The new body - now renamed the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) - was unveiled last year by the Chancellor.
It is designed to bring the UK's cyber expertise into one place.
Ciaran Martin, currently a senior official at GCHQ, will be the NCSC's first head.
"We need to have a one-stop shop that people inside and outside government can go to," Matthew Hancock, the Minister for the Cabinet Office told the BBC, saying that the NCSC will aim to be the authoritative voice on information security in the UK.
The new centre is designed to deal with criticism of the current arrangements as too opaque.
GCHQ is the lead agency on cybersecurity but because it is a secret intelligence service based in Cheltenham, it has not always been accessible or set up to share information and communicate more broadly.
The new centre is designed to remedy that problem by having a foot in both the closed intelligence world and the public and corporate space.
The centre will work with regulators - such as the Bank - to provide advice for the private sector.
It will also work with other government departments, critical national infrastructure and the broader business community and the public.
The greater the potential risk to the country, the closer the centre is likely to be involved with a particular department or business.
In the event of future cyber breaches such as that of Talk-Talk last year, it is likely to be the Centre which acts as the focal point for communication and advice.
Those involved stress that the role of government will be to protect the country from cyber-attack and promote good practice but that the liability for any attack that does take place will still rest with whoever owns the data.
The NCSC will be based in London and is expected to fully open for business in October.
Alongside Ciaran Martin, Dr Ian Levy, currently Technical Director of Cyber Security at GCHQ, will join as Technical Director.
Last season's Betfair Chase and King George VI Chase winner was well beaten by Irish Cavalier (16-1) and Menorah (12-1)
Paddy Brennan's mount (8-11 fav) was well in contention but struggled when he was called on for an effort late on.
The winner is the biggest success for jockey Jonathan Moore.
Trainer Rebecca Curtis admitted afterwards she was surprised with the horse's performance.
"I thought he'd run well, but I didn't think he'd win," she said. "He's still only seven and he obviously gets three miles. He's improving every season.
"There were a couple of blips last year, but they were when our horses were wrong. He did win at Punchestown.
"The more you race him the better he is."
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght:
If Cue Card was any horse other than the nation's best and favourite chaser, people would be saying this was a perfectly decent first run of the season, nicely setting up an attempt on race number two.
But as his trainer Colin Tizzard said in an interview with BBC Sport last week, when you get to this kind of level people expect more.
The fact is, it was first time out.
Remember too that his Wetherby win last season wasn't his best, and under the conditions of Saturday's race he had to carry more weight than the winner, so there's no need to panic.
It marks the first time the tech firm has broadcast footage from a sports event in this way.
The high definition-quality stream is being offered in partnership with the TV network ESPN and the organisers of the Championships.
Several of Silicon Valley's leading tech firms are investing in live-streaming technologies.
Twitter bought Periscope in January 2015, before the app had formally launched.
Then in April this year, it signed a $10m (£7.7m) deal to stream NFL American football games later this year.
In August, 2015 Facebook launched its own live video feature. The company is paying dozens of media companies and celebrities more than $50m to use the service, according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal.
Google's YouTube has been able to show live video since 2011. But the firm recently added the ability to stream 360-degree footage, and is in the process of testing a "go live" button on its mobile app.
The Wimbledon feed features a video window at the top of the page, below which are shown related comments, unless the screen is expanded on a computer screen to give enough room for the tweets to appear in a separate column.
The hashtag #Wimbledon is automatically added to tweets that users post.
Users to not have to be members of the network to see the feed.
There is no way to scroll back or otherwise control the video. However, Twitter suggested the design was a work in progress.
"This live-stream is an extremely early and incomplete test experience, and we'll be making lots of improvements before we launch it in its final form," it said in a statement.
Twitter's growth in active users - people who log in at least once a month - has slowed in recent quarters, even going into reverse at one point.
One expert said live-streams had the potential to help attract new people.
"Major sporting events already drive a huge amount of traffic on Twitter, and being able to mash that up with live video - which in theory should engage its audience more effectively - could be a very powerful combination", commented Ben Wood from the tech consultancy CCS Insight.
"If Twitter is willing to make the investment to secure properties that people are desperate to watch, it will absolutely drive traffic."
Twitter has not revealed the terms of the deal to stream the Wimbledon matches.
The 38-year-old woman was found dead with a serious head injury at Gainslea Court in Derby Road on Friday evening.
Police have named the woman as Hayley Dean but formal identification is yet to take place.
James D'Arcy, 50, from Bournemouth, has been charged with murder and is due before the town's magistrates on Monday.
A post-mortem examination on Saturday found that Ms Dean died as a result of "blunt force trauma" to her head.
A cordon remains in place at the flat while crime scene investigators continue to examine the scene.
Det Insp Neil Phillips, of Dorset Police's major crime investigation team, said: "Family liaison officers have updated Hayley's family with this development and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.
He added: "I would like to hear from anyone who heard anything suspicious in or around Gainslea Court between 14:00 on Thursday 15 September and 18:30 BST on Friday 16 September.
"I am particularly keen to speak with any members of the public who saw or spoke with Hayley Dean or James D'Arcy between these times."
William Burns, 56, threw sulphuric acid into Russell Findlay's face after turning up at his door disguised as a postman on 23 December 2015.
He denied the charge but was found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow.
The attack took place months after Burns had been freed early from a 15-year jail term for shooting a woman during a post office robbery in 2001.
The court was told about his extensive criminal record, including convictions for assault, firearms and carrying offensive weapons.
Burns, from Paisley, was convicted of assaulting Mr Findlay, 44, to the danger of his life by throwing sulphuric acid in his face.
He was remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced next month.
A not proven verdict was returned on Burns' co-accused Alexander Porter, 48, who had faced the same charge.
During the trial, Burns said he had only turned up at Mr Findlay's door to "beat up" the journalist, who was investigative editor of the Scottish Sun at the time.
Burns claimed Mr Findlay had threatened to show his wife a photo of him with a young blonde woman.
He went on to suggest the journalist - who has also written books on gangland crime - must have thrown a corrosive substance in his own face.
Prosecutor Richard Goddard described Burns' evidence as "improbable, bizarre and absurd".
A jury had heard how Mr Findlay had answered his door and was told he had to sign for a parcel.
He was handed a card to sign, then acid was thrown in his face.
The journalist said: "I felt liquid on my face. Something very wrong had happened. He came at me in the hall. I knew I was being attacked."
He wrestled Burns out of the house, held on to him and yelled for help.
After the verdict, Mr Findlay described Burns as a coward and said the verdict was "long overdue".
He said Burns was "paid a significant sum of money" to go to his home.
"He threw sulphuric acid in my face and attempted to stab me on the orders of a major organised criminal who is in prison for another matter," he said.
"This man should be held to account."
Det Sgt Craig Warren, who led the investigation, said Burns had been known to have links to serious organised crime in Glasgow.
He said: "William Burns is a career criminal and he does not care about anyone other than himself and his activities."
Burns and Mr Porter, also of Paisley, had also been accused of attempting to murder Ross Sherlock in a shooting near St Helen's primary school in Bishopbriggs in September 2015.
They were cleared of that charge after Judge Lord Matthews ruled there was "insufficient evidence".
Officers were called to Sainsbury's on Darwen Road at about 10:25 BST on Friday after a "significant" amount of money was stolen.
Two men attacked the pair with a crowbar and a sledgehammer, Greater Manchester Police said.
They escaped in an Audi A3 car driven by a third man. It was found burnt out in a nearby backstreet.
One of the victims has a broken arm and the other was knocked unconscious and has a suspected broken jaw. The men continued to assault the drivers even after taking the money, police added.
Det Insp Matthew Bailey-Smith said: "This was a planned and extremely nasty attack which has culminated in a sustained, armed assault on two men.
"Both were taken to hospital after a terrifying and traumatic ordeal which has also resulted in a significant amount of cash being stolen."
Sergei Fedorovtsev tested positive for Trimetazidine in a routine test by Russia's Anti-Doping Agency on 17 May, the World Rowing Federation (WRF) said.
Fedorovtsev, 36, competed a week later at Olympic qualifying in Lucerne, where Russia finished first to qualify.
New Zealand, who were third, will now take Russia's sculls place in Rio.
Following the positive test, the WRF announced "the results of all competitions in which the rower participated after 17 May 2016 are therefore automatically disqualified".
The WRF said the rower's 'A' and 'B' samples both contained the substance, which is a banned metabolic modulator.
The International Olympic Committee last week announced prospective Olympians from Russia in track and field disciplines would have to pass individual anti-doping assessments before being considered eligible for competition.
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Its London-based version urged readers to back the Conservatives and "stop the SNP running the country".
By contrast, the Scottish Sun said the Tories did not understand Scotland and praised SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, as "a phenomenon who inspires people".
It comes as one opinion poll suggested the SNP could be on track to win all of Scotland's 59 seats.
The newspapers are the two biggest selling dailies north and south of the border.
They are both part of the newspaper group News UK, formerly called News International, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
The Scottish Sun - which also supported the SNP in the Scottish parliament elections in 2011 - said Ms Sturgeon had been the "star" of the campaign.
Its front page, inspired by Star Wars, pictured Ms Sturgeon as Princess Leia and encouraged voters to back her as a "new hope" for Scotland.
The Sun meanwhile portrayed David Cameron as a newborn baby, and said after a "long painful delivery" the newspaper had decided to back the Conservatives.
It described the SNP as "wreckers" and said the Tories were the "best bet for millions of ordinary people".
It warned of what it called a Labour/SNP "nightmare".
The Sun -Conservatives
Scottish Sun - SNP
Mirror - Labour
Express - owner Richard Desmond has given £1m to UKIP
Financial Times - has called for tactical voting to produce another coalition between the Conservatives and Lib Dems
Daily Mail - backed the Conservatives in 2010 - as did the Mail on Sunday
Telegraph - both daily and Sunday editions backed the Conservatives in 2010
The Guardian - backed the Liberal Democrats in 2010
Observer - backed the Liberal Democrats in 2010
The Times - backed the Conservatives in 2010
Independent on Sunday - said it is not advising readers how to vote in 2015
Andrew Nicoll, political editor of the Scottish Sun, said the newspapers' split reflected "two distinct editorial positions from two distinct, editorially-diverse newspapers".
"We are a Scottish newspaper, run in Scotland, printed in Scotland, produced in Scotland by Scots, and it's not a surprise to anybody - least of all Rupert Murdoch - that these two papers have a diversion of view tonight," he said.
He denied that it was a cynical move to block Labour leader Ed Miliband from power, or a commercially-driven decision.
"In the time that I've worked at the Sun we've supported the Labour Party, the SNP, the Tories. We've fought vigorously against the SNP, we've supported the SNP.
"Sometimes that support has gone the way the vote has gone, sometimes it hasn't.
"The people of Scotland seem to have chosen the SNP, and we're going with them."
A spokesman for the Sun said: "The Sun is written first and foremost for its readers, and the UK edition and Scottish edition have two very distinct audiences.
"If Scotland and England were playing each other at football, no one would expect the Scottish Sun to support the English national team."
The BBC's Scotland correspondent Colin Blane said what the two Murdoch titles had in common was a front page comment attacking Labour.
Both editions of the newspaper have changed their allegiance to political parties over the years.
In the late 1980s, the Sun and the Scottish Sun came out in support of the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher.
By 1992, the Scottish paper proclaimed its support for independence with the memorable headline: "Rise Now And Be A Nation Again."
However, while it backed independence, it did not formally endorse the SNP.
In 1997, both editions of the newspaper backed Labour and Tony Blair.
Then, in 2007, the Scottish Sun's front page on the Scottish parliament elections proved controversial. It featured a hangman's noose in the shape of an SNP logo with the message "Vote SNP today and you put Scotland's head in the noose".
The Sun turned away from the Labour Party and supported the Conservatives before the last general election.
During the Scottish independence referendum, neither newspaper stated its position.
The Economist has also backed the Conservatives ahead of polling day on 7 May - or at least a government led by David Cameron.
The magazine's Britain editor, Joel Budd, told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: "We think again that a government at least led by David Cameron - if not necessarily a Conservative majority - is the best outcome.
"It is fantastically hard to cut state spending in the way that this coalition government has done without either driving the economy into a ditch or wrecking the functioning of the state.
"They have managed to do that and that is a really extraordinary accomplishment."
He added that Labour under Ed Miliband had become "worryingly interventionist" and "extremely statist".
The Financial Times has also backed a Tory-led government, but has called for tactical voting for the Liberal Democrats in some constituencies to produce a continuation of the 2010 coalition.
It argues that the Conservatives' "instincts on the economy, business and reform of the public sector are broadly right" but cautions that the party is preoccupied with Europe.
The FT feels that Labour leader Ed Miliband has "stepped too far away from the New Labour position" and was "preoccupied with inequality".
It follows backing for Labour from the New Statesman, which said that the coalition had choked economic recovery in 2010 and argued neither the Conservatives nor Lib Dems deserved to be returned to power.
However, the magazine claimed that Ed Miliband's "narrow rhetorical and ideological focus on political economy has left him unable to reach the aspirational voters required to build a broad electoral coalition".
The region is still coming to terms with the consequences of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 which tipped the chessboard of Middle Eastern power politics upside down.
Most of those consequences are unwelcome to the oil-rich Gulf Arab states.
In Iraq, the despotic Sunni regime of President Saddam Hussein has been replaced by a Shia-led government seen by many here as a proxy of Iran.
The subsequent marginalisation of Iraq's Sunni population in recent years helped give rise to the violent jihadist group calling itself Islamic State (IS).
Today, the region's leaders are looking nervously at a range of threats, both within their borders and beyond.
Using the Arabic term 'Daesh' for the so-called Islamic State, Saudi Arabia's urbane Foreign Minister, Adel Jubeir, said the organisation that has seized large parts of Iraq and Syria under its black banner was not a religious movement but a cult.
Thousands of Saudis have joined its ranks, drawn by the similarities to some of their own country's strict, ascetic interpretations of Islam.
This year Saudi Arabia has suffered several deadly attacks by IS suicide bombers, mostly targeting mosques, both Sunni and Shia, as the militant group attempts to provoke a sectarian conflict in the Gulf.
Bahrain announced that it had identified 70 of its nationals fighting for IS and a further 24 individuals have been charged with trying to form a branch of IS in Bahrain. Sixteen of these suspects remain at large.
The Saudi foreign minister categorised those would-be jihadists who go off to join IS in three ways.
Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond gave a keynote speech to the conference in which he admitted that the UK had been "too slow in the past to recognise the links between non-violent extremism and violent extremism."
He added: "For decades we have clung to a false distinction between the two.. With hindsight, we've been too tolerant of intolerance."
Britain, he said, would shortly be introducing legislation to ban the most dangerous extremist organisations.
There is a fair degree of nervousness here about how Iran will spend the soon-to-be-released billions of dollars in unfrozen funds as a result of the UN-backed nuclear deal.
Many of the Gulf Arab states see Iran as a strategic threat even without its nuclear programme, which Iran says is purely for peaceful purposes.
Both Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have accused Iran of interfering in their countries and exporting terrorism. On a visit to London last month a senior Iranian official strongly denied this.
"We want to have the best possible relations with Iran," said Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir without a hint of irony, (Iran and Saudi Arabia are regional rivals with a history of mutual distrust).
"But the reason they are not good is because of Iran's interventions in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen and its attempts to destabilise Bahrain".
Mr Jubeir said Saudi Arabia welcomed the Iran deal but that Iran had huge infrastructure challenges and the region did not yet know whether it would spend the proceeds from the deal on developing its infrastructure at home - or on funding what he called "aggressive policies" abroad.
Bahrain recently expelled the Iranian ambassador after blaming it for supplying a major arms cache to insurgents. There were no Iranian officials at this year's Manama Dialogue.
But Nazenin Ansari, a London-based Iranian journalist for Kayhan newspaper, attending the conference, told me that "there are different (power) centres with different agendas in Iran.
"The Foreign Ministry would like to have a more civilised and a more cordial relationship with the outside world and to be able to reintegrate Iran into the outside world.. But there are those in Iran who see this as a death knell for their power structures within Iran and they will use every means at their disposal to put a stop to that."
In a side room of the conference Bahrain's Chief of Police, Maj-Gen Tariq Al-Hassan showed delegates round a chilling display of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), claymore mines, machine guns and grenades discovered by security forces here over the last four years.
Bahrain has been wracked by more than four years of intermittent protests that have cost the lives of 22 people, 11 of them policemen.
The police chief said a total of 445 IEDs had been uncovered, all exported by Iran. The US Navy, whose powerful 5th Fleet is headquartered in Bahrain, has been providing the Bahrainis with intelligence tip-offs.
Although the violence has subsided considerably from its peak in 2011, human rights organisations still accuse the Bahraini authorities of abuses.
Opposition activists and journalists have previously accused the government of exaggerating the threat from terrorism but a senior British military officer present said the finds on display were all genuine.
The conflict raging in Syria has dominated this year's Manama Dialogue. The Saudi foreign minister, just back from the talks in Vienna, sounded pessimistic about the chances of any imminent breakthrough.
Although there had been agreement on some more minor points there remained two serious sticking points dividing those supporting and opposing Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad. These were:
The US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken found himself on the defensive over US policy on Syria. He announced a further $100m in aid for the Syrian opposition and insisted that progress was being made against IS in Iraq.
As a country on the extreme southwest tip of the Arabian Peninsula, what happens in Yemen concerns all six Gulf Arab states and there was much discussion of the seven-month war there that has cost more than 4,000 lives.
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain reiterated their view that blame lay with the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who took over much of the country last year.
But international concern over civilian casualties has been mounting, especially those caused by Saudi-led air strikes.
The Saudi foreign minister said he believed the war had now entered its final phase and that a deal based on a UN Security Council resolution was possible.
Embarrassingly for the conference organisers however, two respected Yemeni delegates were expelled from Bahrain at the request of Yemen's acting Foreign Minister, Riyadh Yasseen, claiming incorrectly that they were Houthis.
One was even had to leave midway through a conference workshop session. The move has been widely criticised as being completely contrary to the spirit of "a dialogue" and has painted both the Bahraini authorities and Yemen's exiled government in a poor light.
The Torquay United fan will be replaced by comedian Lloyd Griffith and former footballer Jimmy Bullard.
The news was shared by Soccer AM in a tweet which read: "Farewell and thank you to Mrs Soccer AM. This place won't be the same without you."
Chamberlain joined the Sky Sports show in 1995 and presented alongside Tim Lovejoy until he left in 2007.
She most recently co-hosted with John Fendley who will continue to present the show alongside its new hosts.
He paid tribute to his former colleague on Twitter, saying: "There's only one @HellsBellsy."
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Griffith said his new role was a "dream come true" while Bullard said: "Saturday mornings won't be the same again."
The former Hull and Fulham footballer also paid tribute to Chamberlain, writing: "In my excitement forgot to mention @HellsBellsy - impossible to step into her shoes.
"Amazing presenter & always be grateful to her."
Some fans tweeted their disappointment at Chamberlain's departure with several saying the show would not be the same without her.
Deb H wrote: "Can't believe that @HellsBellsy isn't going to be on anymore, can't see it lasting much longer now."
John O Hare said: "It's thank you and good luck from this viewer. It's a shame that there is not enough female pundits to replace her."
Tommy Crison said: "You held it together most weeks and the only reason I tuned in. Will miss you as part of my match day routine... farewell."
This entitles her to access to health care, education and other welfare services which she had been denied.
As her parents have been out of Cuba for some time, the girl had been unable to claim Cuban citizenship and she had been effectively left "stateless".
This test case will affect other children in such legal limbo.
The case has been going through the South African courts for several years, and the Supreme Court of Appeal's decision came after the government challenged a ruling brought by a lower court.
The BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg says the home affairs ministry had argued that granting the girl a South African birth certificate would open the floodgates to new applications.
The court's judgement is a reaffirmation of existing laws in South Africa which give citizenship to stateless children.
The Supreme Court of Appeal gave the government 18 months to get its house in order and put in place a mechanism for processing similar claims.
Lawyers say the implementation of this ruling would bring South Africa into line with many other countries.
It could also help many of the thousands of stateless youngsters born in South Africa, who are now being put up for adoption and whose birth parents were foreign migrants or refugees, our reporter says.
A spokesman for South Africa's Department of Home affairs said it welcomed the chance to re-evaluate its position.
South Africa is home to many African migrants who have moved to the country for better economic fortunes in one of the continent's largest economies or to seek political refuge.
It says the national initiative - involving 44 local plans - has lost credibility and needs reviewing.
Under proposals put forward A&E, maternity and stroke units could be scaled back in many parts of England.
NHS bosses - supported by ministers - have launched the programme to modernise the NHS and allow more investment in community services.
But Labour said the process - known as sustainability and transformation plans (STP) - was causing confusion and risked being driven by money rather than what was best for patients.
Earlier this year an investigation by the BBC found hospital services in nearly two thirds of the 44 areas were under threat with widespread concern the infrastructure was not in place in the community to cope.
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said a "moratorium" was now needed so each of the plans could be properly reviewed.
"These decisions have been decided behind closed doors with no genuine involvement of local people.
"It's a disgrace. The public deserves better."
But the Conservatives dismissed the idea and said funding was in place to pay for the changes.
It is Labour's second election announcement on the NHS, following last week's promise to increase pay for NHS staff.
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The STP proposals have been drawn up as part of NHS England's five-year strategy to release £22bn of efficiency savings by 2020.
Reviews were set up in early 2016 in 44 different areas led by local managers.
Each area was asked to submit plans to NHS England, which all have done, and public consultations are due to take place later this year where major changes are being proposed.
NHS England has said the programme is not about cutting services, but delivering them in more efficient and appropriate ways.
It believes patients will benefit from more care in the community and say the programme will lead to a range of benefits, including:
Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb was also critical of the STP process.
He said they were "based on the fantasy that there is enough money".
"The Conservatives are re-organising the deck-chairs while the good ship NHS is sinking because they are starving it of funds," he added.
But Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "These local plans are developed by local doctors and communities, backed by the top doctors and nurses of the NHS, and will improve patient care."
He said they were "underpinned" by extra funding the health service was receiving up to 2020 and that only the Conservatives could "lock in the economic progress we have made and keep improving the NHS".
This is not the first time political parties have tried to make the idea of hospital cuts an issue in an election.
In the run up to the 2010 general election, Tory shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said he wanted to see a moratorium on hospital closures being proposed.
Some of the changes that were being proposed back then are part of the STP process.
The truth is closing hospital services has been a political "hot potato" for decades.
While there is widespread agreement the NHS is too based around hospitals - over half of the budget is spent on them - changing the status quo has proved difficult.
NHS England has argued shifting care into the community will save money and also benefit patients by providing care in the community and closer to their home.
In theory, that will help them get care at an earlier stage before their condition worsens. Some have estimated that could help save a third of the £22bn efficiency target.
If this is not to happen, Labour needs to set out how it will make savings or whether it will increase the NHS budget by more than is currently planned - and how that will be paid for.
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Colston Hall bosses had previously maintained that the Bristol attraction was named after the street it is on, rather than Edward Colston.
Much of the Bristol-born MP and merchant's wealth came from the slave trade.
The change, which will not come into effect until 2020, follows a campaign to urge Colston Hall to alter its name.
Louise Mitchell, chief executive of the Bristol Music Trust charity that runs Colston Hall, said it was the "right thing to do" for artists, the public and the "diverse workforce" at the venue, which recently announced plans for a refurbishment costing nearly £50m.
She said: "The name Colston does not reflect the trust's values as a progressive, forward-thinking and open arts organisation.
"We want to look to the future and ensure the whole city is proud of its transformed concert hall and so when we open the new hall, it will be with a new name."
She acknowledged there would be a "backlash" over the change, but admitted the trust had "needed to resolve" the issue ahead of talks with potential sponsors.
"Effectively, I've been selling a toxic brand up to now," she said.
"We need to move forward on this. It's not actually about commerce, it's about doing the right thing."
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Over the years, some of the world's biggest music stars have performed at Colston Hall, including The Beatles, David Bowie, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Bob Dylan.
The legendary Bristol band Massive Attack have always refused to play at Colston Hall, and the city's mayor Marvin Rees has said he is "not a fan" of the name. A petition launched in February calling for a change gathered more than 2,000 signatories.
Edward Colston (1636-1721)
Source: BBC History/Nigel Pocock
However, the majority of those who have taken to BBC Radio Bristol's Facebook page to express their opinions have not welcomed the move.
Chris Goldsworthy said it was "political correctness gone mad", while Nick Davies said it was a mistake as the "past should not be airbrushed out".
Kate Gillam said "changing the name won't change what happened. It's part of our heritage".
The music venue is not the only place in Bristol with links to Colston that has come under fire. Bristol Cathedral is reportedly considering removing a large stained-glass window dedicated to the merchant, following criticism from anti-racism campaigners.
Fox-Pitt, 47, has entered the Burnham Market trials with four horses.
"It is all systems go here and everything is on target," he said. "I hope to be competing soon."
The three-time Olympic medallist was placed in an induced coma after falling at the World Young Horse Championships in Lion-D'Angers on 17 October.
Fox-Pitt revealed in December he had started riding again.
Among the horses he hopes to make his comeback on at Burnham Market - which takes place from 1-3 April - is 2015 Badminton winner Chilli Morning.
Fox-Pitt is Britain's most successful rider, with 20 major championship medals.
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People living in Llandudno made the 1,500 tarts needed for Friday's event.
Alice Liddell, the little girl who was Lewis Carroll's inspiration for Alice, spent her family holidays in Llandudno.
The record attempt took place at 12:00 BST and will be confirmed at a later date if they have succeded.
The woman, who is in her 30s, was driving on the Pembroke Loop Road in the west of the city at about 07:00 GMT on Sunday morning.
A man ran out in front of her car, forcing her to stop.
Another man approached the vehicle and opened the driver's door before forcing the woman out of the car.
The two men got into the black Citroen C5 estate, along with a third man, before driving off.
The car has not yet been recovered.
Valero submitted plans for a Pembroke power generation unit last year, and employs 1,200 people locally,
However, it said it is vital "it is a swift process", describing it as "a development of national significance".
The Welsh Government agreed but said that the planning process worked the same for everyone.
Texas-based Valero bought Pembroke refinery in 2011 in a £447m deal.
It announced the £100m development to create a combined heat and power generation unit last November, saying this would secure future jobs and maintain the viability of the plant.
While plans are still at an early stage and a decision will not be made until next year, the company's Stephen Thornton said the company would re-evaluate if the process is not quick.
"The onus is on the Welsh Government to ensure we reach our schedule," he said.
"This is a development of national significance."
Concerns about the competitiveness of the area have also been raised by the Port of Milford Haven - which is the UK's third biggest and its largest energy port.
Chief executive Alec Don warned that they are competing in a global market, citing the closure of Murco Oil Refinery that shut in 2014, with 400 job losses.
"That refinery plant is being dismantled, and being sold to Pakistan, where it will be exported and rebuilt to continue refining in another country that's half-way around the globe," he said.
"So that's the challenge we had as a country, it's not a little local affair, it's a global market place and we've got to be competitive.
"So unless we're mindful of the competitive position, we're going to continue losing these businesses."
Mr Don also believes the Welsh Government has "a very strong part to play".
While ports are not devolved, it has control over areas like the economy, planning and the environment.
Minister Lesley Griffiths, who is the cabinet secretary responsible for planning issues, said she agreed that Valero's application needed to be dealt with swiftly.
"That's why we've brought forward the Planning Act in 2014. I am now implementing various parts of that," she said.
"But it is really important that this is a speed that works for them. However, planning is for everyone, it's there for the development and use of our land."
The 7.8-magnitude quake struck more than a week ago and has claimed more than 5,000 lives.
Shaun Moody is one of six South Wales Fire and Rescue Service officers who are out there working in a UK team of 67 rescuers.
He told BBC Radio Wales some areas have suffered "total devastation".
The rescuers have been working on securing the roof of an 800-bed hospital in the capital, Kathmandu.
He added: "It is a lot worse out of the city, where 100% of properties have been destroyed in some areas.
"But the people are very resourceful and when the rescuers are getting to them, the first thing they are doing is offering them food. It is very humbling."
Ninety-six fans were killed as a result of the crush at the football ground in Sheffield in April 1989.
Images of potential witnesses at the stadium's Leppings Lane end have been released as part of Operation Resolve.
Senior investigating officer Neil Malkin stressed the men pictured "had done nothing wrong".
Det Ch Supt Malkin said the men seen near Exit Gate C when it opened at about 14:50 were in the "right place at the right time" and may be able to identify others.
"Together with evidence already gathered, it would mean we can provide a complete picture of events to the Crown Prosecution Service," he said.
"We just want to focus on them to try and conclude what happened. The potential evidence could help shape our understanding of what happened at Gate C."
In April an inquest jury concluded the 96 who died at Hillsborough were unlawfully killed.
It found a number of errors by South Yorkshire Police and South Yorkshire Ambulance Service, as well as stadium defects, contributed to the deaths.
Hillsborough inquests: The 96 who died
Operation Resolve is one of two criminal investigations ordered following the publication of the Hillsborough Independent Panel's report in 2012.
A separate criminal investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission is examining police conduct.
Some relatives of those who died have expressed concerns over the new appeal for witnesses near Gate C.
Lou Brookes, who lost her brother Andrew at Hillsborough, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme earlier she was "absolutely disgusted".
She said: "I have serious concerns for their motives and objectives for pursuing this issue."
Lawyer Elkan Abrahamson, who is representing a number of Hillsborough families, said: "Operation Resolve in the course of the inquest came up with an absurd theory that Gate C was opened before [police match commander] David Duckenfield gave the order to open it.
"When we corrected this they then abandoned that theory and they seemed then to be pursuing another theory that even if it was opened after the order was given, it wasn't opened because of the order."
"If that is the theory that they are still pursuing I just can't see the point in it."
An Operation Resolve spokesperson said comments made by some families had been raised and considered."
They added: "Our job is to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation particularly around the opening of gate C.
"We are keen to identify and interview the 19 people in our witness appeal as we believe that they could hold vital information."
Operation Resolve has taken more than 1,200 statements from fans who approached from the Leppings Lane end on the day of the disaster.
A video reconstruction of the ground as it was in 1989 has been created to help jog people's memories.
Det Ch Supt Malkin said: "We are hoping with the context people will recognise themselves or friends and family. These people may recognise each other.
"We want to hear their experience of entering through Gate C, how they came to be there at that time, what they saw, what they heard."
The detective urged people to come forward and to inform police if any of the 19 have since died so they can be eliminated from the investigation.
A file is expected to be passed to the Crown Prosecution Service at the end of the year.
Around ten miles of trails have been published online after an environment group borrowed a special camera from technology company Google.
Using the backpack camera, volunteers walked the paths recording imagery which took almost a year to stitch together.
People can now view the paths in 360 degree detail, using the information to plan a day out.
The Belfast Hills Partnership hopes it will encourage more people to use the trails. the special backpack contained 15 cameras each taking 24 images a minute.
GPS technology logged location information. Four volunteers were used to do the work last summer.
The result is now available through Google Maps' Street View function.
There are also links on the Belfast Hills website http://belfasthills.org/.
Jim Bradley was one of those who lugged the equipment around the hills.
"It weighed about three stone, or nineteen kgs and by the time I got to the top of Cave Hill, it felt even heavier," he said.
People do not always react well when they spot the Google Street View car recording imagery and can sometimes make inappropriate gestures.
Mr Bradley said he did not think there had been such a reaction from the people whom they had met in the hills.
"But I haven't checked all the footage yet," he said.
In a recording obtained by the paper, a voice similar to Mr Trump's purporting to be a media representative advocates for the billionaire businessman.
Reporters would hear from the "spokesman", John Miller or John Baron, when asking to interview Mr Trump.
Mr Trump denied the story to the Today Show on Friday.
"No, I don't know anything about it. You're telling me about it for the first time and it doesn't sound like my voice at all," he said.
"I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice and you can imagine that. This sounds like one of these scams, one of the many scams. It doesn't sound like me.
"It was not me on the phone. And it doesn't sound like me on the phone, I will tell you that. It was not me on the phone."
Donald Trump is an unusual man who often behaves, shall we say, unconventionally. There's plenty of evidence for this, whether or not he made calls 25 years ago pretending to be his own publicist.
Many New York reporters are convinced that this is a bona fide recording of the billionaire, and the fact that he's (allegedly) boasting about his dating prowess and celebrity socialising probably isn't the kind of story Mr Trump wants circulating as he tries to present himself as a more serious general election candidate.
This is just the start, however. While Mr Trump has been in the public eye for decades, and New York tabloid scrutiny can be daunting, nothing compares to the glare of the presidential spotlight. Given that this is Mr Trump's first foray into public office, his past will receive extra scrutiny - with more revelations to come. The Washington Post, for instance, has assigned a team of 20 reporters to sift through Mr Trump's background, from his business dealings to oddball stories.
This latest episode definitely falls into the latter category.
However, in 1990, Mr Trump admitted in court he and one of his employees used the name "John Baron" in business dealings during a case about undocumented Polish workers constructing Trump Tower.
A lawyer for the workers said he received a call from someone named "Mr Baron" who threatened to sue if he did not drop a lawsuit over withheld pay for the workers, the New York Times reported.
A reporter for People magazine contacted Mr Trump's office in 1991 to interview him about the end of his marriage to Ivana Trump and his relationship with model Marla Maples.
The "media spokesman" called the reporter, Sue Carswell, back and began telling her about why Mr Trump broke up with Ms Maples for Italian model Carla Bruni.
"He really didn't want to make a commitment," said the man claiming to be John Miller. "He's coming out of a marriage, and he's starting to do tremendously well financially."
Once, Mr Miller slipped out of talking about Mr Trump in the third person in a conversation with Ms Carswell, but quickly corrected himself.
Mr Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee after pushing out more than a dozen Republican rivals in the race for the White House.
Traditional Republicans are warming to him to unify the party and beat likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
The divisive candidate, who in the past has been a registered Democrat, has no prior political experience. He has made controversial calls to build a border wall with Mexico, deport undocumented immigrants from the country and ban Muslims from the US.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has still not officially backed him but the two recently met in Washington and had a "productive meeting".
"It was an epiphany," Harry says of the first time he set eyes on John Lennon at college.
"I remember the particular moment exactly as it happened. I was sitting in the canteen, suddenly I looked up and this guy was striding by and he was like a teddy boy. He was quite striking.
"I saw all the other art students in the canteen and virtually every one of them was in a duffle coat and turtle-neck sweater. I thought blimey, they're supposed to be non-conformists and yet they all look the same. That guy is the one who looks different, he's the rebel, he's the one I'd like to meet.
"So I got to know him and took him to our local pub and introduced him to Stuart Sutcliffe and Rod Murray.
"He was a Jekyll and Hyde character. With me, Stuart and Rod, the four of us called ourselves The Dissenters. We used to talk about art and literature and read books by the San Francisco poets and the Olympia press in Paris.
"Then on the other hand, John went with this other bunch from the art college and used to get drunk and steal and get up to all sorts of mischief. With them he'd be rough, aggressive, wild, and with us he was talking about creative ideas and inspiration.
"When The Dissenters got together, we made a vow to make Liverpool famous. John would do it with his music, Stuart and Rod with their painting and I'd do it with my writing. That was the aim. But we didn't know how big things would get.
"There was great creativity, particularly in the Liverpool 8 area where we lived. We had the Mersey poets, country music groups, folk groups, sculptors, comedians, and we knew them. We used to drink together. We felt we were right in the middle of something that was mushrooming. We really made an effort to change things and create things.
"I booked The Beatles for the art college dances. We used to do dances on a Saturday night. Paul and George were next door to us in the Institute [The Liverpool Institute High School for Boys] and they used to come into the canteen.
"I was there when John and Stuart came up with the name Beatles. I just called them the college band because they weren't using The Quarrymen any more and couldn't seem to think of a decent name.
"They were sitting talking in Gambier Terrace [where Lennon and Sutcliffe shared a flat] trying to think of a decent name - they'd come up with silly names like The Moondogs.
"Stuart was saying 'We play a lot of Buddy Holly numbers, how about a name like Buddy Holly's backing band The Crickets?' And John said 'Yeah, let's think of insects'. So they tried The Beetles. It was in August 1960 that they finally decided on The Beatles.
"When I took the first edition of Mersey Beat to all the music shops, I went into [Brian Epstein's shop] Nems and asked to see the manager. Brian came down, I told him about the paper and he took a dozen. In the afternoon, he phoned me and couldn't believe that the dozen had sold straight away. For issue two, he ordered 12 dozen copies.
"The entire front cover was 'The Beatles record in Germany' with a photo of the leather-clad Beatles. He called me into his office and asked if he could be my record reviewer. I said OK, so his reviews appeared in issue three.
"He took me to lunch twice to ask about The Beatles and then asked if I could arrange for him to go down to the Cavern. He didn't want to stand in a queue with kids. So I phoned and Brian went down with his assistant and that's how it happened.
"It was with Love Me Do when they realised it was going to take off - they suddenly felt, this is it, we've made it. That was the turning point."
Bill Harry's new e-book titled Love Me Do, about the story of the song, is out now.
The 25-year-old joined County in September after overcoming injury problems following his release from Dundee United after their relegation.
Dow has made 23 appearances this season for the club, who have almost secured their top-flight status.
He follows County striker Craig Curran, who recently extended his own contract by a further year.
Ilvarasan and Vinothan Rajenthiram groomed nine girls before plying them with alcohol and assaulting them.
Ilvarasan, 26 of Wallasey Village, Wirral, was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison, while Vinothan, 27 of Wigan, received 18 and a half years.
They were found guilty of a total of 30 charges spanning more than five years.
Sentencing them at Liverpool Crown Court, Judge Norman Wright said "both abused their position in the shops to target teenage girls".
The grooming happened at convenience stores the brothers worked in at Birkenhead, Walton and Garston between 2010 and January 2016.
Judge Wright said they gave the 14 and 15-year-old girls free sweets and mobile phone top-ups, as well as serving them cigarettes, "to win their trust and confidence".
The pair, known to victims as Ara and Vino, then invited them to go for drives, listen to music and "chill out".
"The final step was to take them back to unoccupied flats and ply them with alcohol," the judge said.
Judge Wright added that it was all about the brothers' "sexual gratification".
Det Supt Dave Brunskill described the pair as "calculating sexual predators who went to extraordinary lengths to groom their victims".
He said: "In most cases, they gained the trust of the young girls then took the relationship further by coercing the girls to take part in sexual activity after plying them with alcohol.
"Victims mistakenly believed that these men genuinely had feelings for them and they didn't realise that they were being groomed and sexually exploited."
In a statement to court, one of the victims said the experience had "ruined my life".
She said she "trusted him to be a good person" and thought they had "something special".
"I had not done anything wrong," she said. "I was just a vulnerable, naive child who should have been safe in his company."
The mother of another victim said their sentences "will never justify the damage they have caused my daughter and all the others involved".
"The fact that those men pleaded not guilty sickened me and proves that they feel no guilt, shame or remorse. They have no conscience in my eyes," she added.
Ilvarasan was found guilty of 15 counts of sexual activity with a child, three counts of sexual assault and two counts of perverting the course of justice.
Vinothan was convicted of four counts of sexual assault, one rape, four counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of perverting the course of justice.
The pair were ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life.
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The driver sustained minor injuries in the crash and was taken to hospital for a check-up.
The crash happened at a roundabout on Daniels Road, Norwich, at about 11:30 GMT.
Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service said all the turkeys were accounted for and the RSPCA was helping get them a "safe place".
Traffic was "snarled up" as a result of the crash, a BBC reporter at the scene said
The BBC understands the Bernard Matthews turkeys were heading from a farm to a factory.
Norfolk Police said diesel had spilt and entered drains in the road, close to Notcutts garden centre.
Scott Norman, from the fire service, said the turkeys looked "fine" and the RSPCA was helping to ensure they were "removed to a safe place".
"There's a lot of diesel gone on the floor and there's some livestock in the lorry, so we're ensuring its welfare," Mr Norman said.
A Bernard Matthews spokesman said: "The driver has been taken to hospital for a precautionary measure but we understand they have escaped relatively unscathed."
The RSPCA said an inspector had assessed the site and was happy the "turkeys' welfare is not in any further immediate danger".
BBC Radio Norfolk reporter Bob Carter said the lorry's windscreen was smashed in the crash, in which the vehicle hit a lamppost.
He said traffic was "very, very snarled up".
Norfolk Police said officers were diverting traffic on to Ipswich Road.
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He is the second man to be arrested in connection with robberies in Linlithgow, Cowdenbeath, Burntisland and Kincardine on Monday.
The second man has also been charged with robberies in Larkhall on 23 December, Glenboig on 6 January and Clarkston on Monday.
Two men, 28 and 38, are due to appear at Dunfermline Sheriff Court later.
Det Insp Colin Robson, of Police Scotland, said: "Thanks to the combined efforts of officers from four territorial divisions, as well as specialist resources, two men have now been charged in connection with these incidents and we're not currently looking for anyone else.
"I want to again commend the staff involved for their assistance following these distressing incidents, as well as thank the local communities and everyone who came forward with information for their support."
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Xiao Jiguo, a 30-year-old Chinese actor, rose to fame for his uncanny resemblance to the outgoing president.
Such is Mr Xiao's fame in his homeland, that the direction and popularity of US foreign policy had direct impact on his own burgeoning career.
"People in media, television programmes and movies were worried that inviting me could become political."
"When President Obama holds office, I sort of have to take political factors into account. But after he steps down, my path as an actor may become clearer," Mr Xiao told the BBC.
Mr Xiao had always dreamed of becoming a singer but after moving to Guangdong from Sichuan province over a decade ago, he worked as a security guard to make ends meet.
Then in 2008, one of his co-workers told him he looked like President Obama. At that point Mr Xiao had no idea who President Obama was as he did not really follow politics or global affairs.
But he scented opportunity and started mimicking President Obama: his expressions, gestures and unique way of talking.
In a curious sense, their careers can be seen to mirror one another. So just as President Obama was elected and sworn into the White House, so Mr Xiao launched his new and unusual career.
Mr Xiao speaks very little English but this never stopped him. He even developed a habit of making up words that approximated to English sounds when "giving speeches" during his performances.
But his career only really took off last year. His resemblance to the president attracted a lot of Chinese and international media interest, particularly during Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States.
Mr Xiao has since then become immensely popular for marketing events and has landed several commercial and movie deals. He recently starred in a streaming comedy called "'Obama' goes on blind dates".
But, he says, this resemblance was not always helpful: "While he was in power, the name Obama became relatively sensitive in China," be said.
Mr Xiao recalls his first appearance on television, in 2012, when he appeared on a talent show to showcase his singing ability. When the producers realised that people on set were talking about his resemblance to Mr Obama, they ordered that the sequence be filmed again, without mention of the president, such is the sensitivity.
But it has made him richer than he could have imagined when he started work as a security guard.
The Obama impersonator told the BBC that he earns at least 100,000 yuan ($14,700; £11,700) every month now since last year.
The United States and China have not always exhibited the most cordial of relations, but Mr Xiao is counting his blessings.
"The majority of Chinese people know President Obama. He has left an impression among people from all over the world… People will not be able to forget him so soon."
"He is the first black US president. Putting politics aside, people admire that."
Mr Xiao is now studying part-time at a drama school in Beijing.
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The striker, 34, is considering offers after leaving Paris St-Germain but few will be as creative as what Rot-Weiss Oberhausen have put forward.
The club says the striker's signature on a two-year contract would see the city introduce a monarchy that Ibrahimovic will head, while a local beer will be renamed to feature his name.
Sweden captain Ibrahimovic is known to be a confident operator, so could a seat on a newly-formed throne tempt him?
If this is not enough, a local swimming pool - which closed over 20 years ago - would again be filled with water and opened for the former Barcelona player whenever he needs it.
In a statement, the club referred to their target as "God" and confirmed they have "made an offer" featuring an "attractive package".
After finishing fifth last season, Oberhausen are in the market for "a powerful forward who's good in the air" and Ibrahimovic - who scored 156 times in 180 games at PSG - fits the bill.
"In a football province like Oberhausen, there are a few things which other places wouldn't have," club president Hajo Sommers told German broadcaster Sport1.
"If he wants to expand his horizons, let him come."
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Rot-Weiss Oberhausen have also offered to construct a new stand using materials sourced from a Swedish retailer if Ibrahimovic moves to the city and Sommer even agreed to pick his man up from the airport.
This chauffeur service once worked for Manchester United in their pursuit of Dimitar Berbatov and the Red Devils - heavily linked with Ibrahimovic - may well need to again pull out all the stops if they are to acquire the former AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus front man.
United can of course offer average attendances in excess of 75,000 compared to the 2,100 Oberhausen pulled in last season, not to mention sizeable financial initiatives.
But crucially, they are yet to put forward a 'king of Manchester' proposal.
"In the coming days the player will decide. We are cautiously optimistic that his decision will be positive," concluded the German minnows.
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Abdul Hadi Arwani, 48, was found dead on 7 April in Wembley. He was believed to be a critic of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
A 36-year-old man was arrested on Friday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and has since been bailed.
Two people arrested remain in custody and a man has been charged with murder.
Leslie Cooper, 36, appeared in court charged with Mr Arwani's murder.
At Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court Mr Cooper, of Nightingale Road, Brent, was remanded in custody.
Last week, officers said they were searching a number of addresses including the mosque at the An Noor Cultural and Community Centre in Acton, west London, where Mr Arwani had been an imam.
Mr Arwani, who was a British national, was found with bullet injuries to his chest in a parked car at the junction of Greenhill and The Paddocks.
The father of six had been an imam at the An Noor mosque from 2005 to 2011, and is believed to have attended protests against the Assad regime outside the Syrian embassy in London in 2012.
In 1982, he claimed he was forced to flee Syria after being sentenced to death for photographing damage in his home city of Hama following government suppression of a rebellion.
A 61-year-old man held in connection with the murder has also been arrested over terrorism acts.
A 53-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of terror acts in connection with the death.
Thomasina Bennett, 80, is thought to have suffocated underneath the wardrobe when it toppled on to her at Milford House Care Home, Derbyshire, in 2012.
Gerald Hudson, 71, from Ambergate, is accused of failing to secure the wardrobe, check monitoring systems and ensure staff were trained correctly.
He denies all the charges against him.
Mrs Bennett was found dead underneath the double wardrobe on 9 April 2012.
Amber Valley Borough Council launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death after post-mortem tests carried out at the time proved inconclusive.
A monitoring system designed to alert staff when a resident gets outs of bed failed to work.
Jonathan Owen, for the prosecution, told Derby Crown Court it was "systematically unsafe" and criticised emergency procedures, saying staff "reacted in a state of disarray".
However, John Cooper QC for the defence, said patients might get out of bed in such a way their movement did not trigger the monitor.
Addressing the jury, Judge Stuart Rafferty QC said: "This isn't a murder trial, it is a case which deals with health and safety.
"The real issue is if there were in place sufficient systems to ensure the care and protection of that lady."
The trial continues.
The group "wanted to make the women into fighters", Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.
The suspects were held after police found a car filled with gas cylinders.
One of the women, identified as Sarah H, aged 23, had been engaged separately to two French jihadists, both now dead, who carried out attacks this year.
A policeman was stabbed during an operation late on Thursday to arrest the women, after the discovery of the suspect car near Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Sunday.
Police shot and wounded one of the women during the operation in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, south-east of the city.
One of those arrested, identified as Ines Madani, aged 19, reportedly declared her allegiance to IS in a letter. Mr Molins said she had tried several times to travel to Syria.
The third woman was identified as Amel S, 39. Her 15-year-old daughter, who had been radicalised, was also taken into custody, the prosecutor said.
Mr Molins said Sarah H had been engaged to Larossi Abballa, who killed two police officials in June before being shot dead himself, and subsequently to Adel Kermiche, who was shot dead by police in July after slitting the throat of an elderly priest in his church.
Her current fiance was arrested on Thursday, Mr Molins said.
The women and their associates had already been under surveillance but the discovery of the gas-filled car near Notre Dame had pitted the security forces in "a race against time" to arrest them, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
The three women were believed to be planning other imminent and violent attacks, he said.
President Francois Hollande said: "An attack was derailed... a group has been disbanded, but there are others and we must be able to act each time before it is too late and that's what we're doing."
Mr Molins said the latest plot provided more evidence that IS was ready to use women for attacks.
"If at first it seemed that women were confined to carrying out family and domestic tasks by the terrorist organisation, we are now forced to see that vision is largely outdated," he said.
The Pankhurst Centre in Chorlton-on-Medlock sits in the Manchester Central constituency, where turnout was the lowest in Britain at the last general election.
Just 44.3% of the electorate voted, compared to a national figure of 65.1%.
The suffragettes would be happy that the victor in the 2012 by-election for the seat was a woman but with only 39% of women aged 18-24 voting nationally in 2010, they might feel there is still work to be done.
A group of first time voters from Whalley Range Sixth Form College in Manchester visited the centre and spoke about why they will be heading to the polling booth.
"Women fought a lot in the past for the right to vote and I think that women should make the most of the vote. I was going to vote anyway but coming here today I am even more determined to vote.
As youngsters we can think that we are really distant from politics because we're more into education and not into wider society. We're not well integrated into society.
Many people of my generation are turned off by politics - they think it is not really cool to know what is going on.
But there is a rising trend of people who think it is cool to listen to the news.
At our sixth form I say it is 50/50 whether girls will vote.
I am totally sure I will be voting. Women like the suffragettes have worked really hard and sacrificed so much - now that we have the right why don't we make use of it.
Some girls of our age are more into their own things, make up, beauty technology, phones. They ignore this side of the world they turn their backs on it and they think it's a thing for elderly people.
I need to know about the government and know it will affect me. With such things as university fees I will have to pay £21,000 fees at the end of my university life and that is quite a lot of money and something I am totally against.
I am voting. I knew about the suffragettes before I came to the Pankhurst Centre but I didn't know the centre actually existed. People should be more aware of its whereabouts.
We're the future generation and we don't want the next generation to be like the past. I know people of my generation find it annoying that all of the politicians are from schools that are like Eton. We just want someone normal of our age.
You have to vote just to be able to have an impact on the government.
By not voting you are saying you don't want to have an impact on society. Make the most of it now you have the chance.
People tend not to vote at our age because they don't see how much it impacts on them but if they were made more aware of how it impacts on them I think they would vote.
"If young women watch Prime Minister's Questions what do they see? A group of men, shouting at each other, making strange noises, grunting away for half an hour.
"What do young women feel is relevant to them in that?
I think that politicians are just not engaged - young women don't feel that there is anything they can give them.
What I would say to young women is, that only if you vote will change happen. I don't blame them.
People say to me 'do you feel frustrated when people don't vote?'
A little bit, but maybe politicians have to look at why people are not voting. Ultimately if we don't vote we don't have a voice. It is important; unless they vote things won't change.
I think the leaders debate where Ed Miliband was outnumbered (by women) was really important but what was really important was the way the females performed in that debate, they were absolutely superb.
The way the women handled themselves and behaved was so much better than the males. If we can just get a higher proportion of females in parliament it would be so much healthier for the democratic system.
The young women who are here are 18. Hopefully the fact they are voting on 7 May means they will remember this as this place [the Pankhurst Centre] as where it all started it where the suffragette movement began.
Hopefully it will inspire these young women even if they are disillusioned and thinking politicians are all the same.
Hopefully they will remember this is where it all began and where those women made all those massive sacrifices from and it is really important to just vote.
London-based Shakeel Begg sued after being accused on the Sunday Politics show of espousing extreme beliefs.
The judge said Lewisham Islamic Centre's chief imam had hidden his true views behind a cloak of respectability.
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said he "clearly promotes and encourages violence in support of Islam and espouses a series of extremist Islamic positions".
"On occasions when it has suited him…he has shed the cloak of respectability and revealed the horns of extremism."
A spokesman for the BBC welcomed the ruling against the imam who now faces an enormous legal bill.
Imam Begg is extremely influential among followers of hardline conservative Islam in the UK.
He has been involved in inter-faith work with Jewish and Christian leaders but has also faced accusations of extremism, including supporting organisations that have campaigned on behalf of suspected terrorists.
He personally appealed to the self-styled Islamic State group to spare the British hostage Alan Henning - a sign of his theological credibility within their branch of Islam.
In November 2013, BBC presenter Andrew Neil alleged on the Sunday Politics that the imam had said that jihad was the greatest of deeds.
Jihad typically refers to a personal struggle to do good - but violent extremists use it to refer to fighting holy war.
Despite the imam's protestations during the libel trial, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said four of his speeches showed he had promoted such violence and two that he had espoused extremist positions.
"Shakeel Begg, is something of a Jekyll and Hyde character," he said.
"He appears to present one face to the general, local and inter-faith community and another to particular Muslim and other receptive audiences. The former face is benign, tolerant and ecumenical.
"The latter face is ideologically extreme and intolerant."
In one speech in 2006, Imam Begg encouraged a student audience to fight in the Palestinian territories. Two years later he praised Muslims who had travelled abroad to fight enemies of Islam.
A third speech outside the maximum security Belmarsh Prison in south-east London, which holds some of the most dangerous terrorism convicts in the country, was described by the judge as "particularly sinister".
He said: "The various core extremist messages which emerge from the claimant's speeches and utterances would, in my view, have been quite clear to the audiences.
"The claimant's ostensible cloak of respectability is likely to have made his [extremist] message in these speeches all the more compelling and seductive. For this reason, therefore, his messages would have been all the more effective and dangerous.
"It is all too easy for someone in the claimant's position of power and influence as an Imam to plant the seed of Islamic extremism in a young mind, which is then liable to be propagated on the internet."
A spokesman for the BBC said: "We were right to stand by the journalism of the Sunday Politics. The judge has concluded, based on the evidence, that Imam Begg has preached religious violence and an extremist worldview in his remarks."
Claudia Ruiz Massieu met the survivors in hospital in Cairo, and said they were doing well.
She called for a thorough investigation into the incident, which happened on Sunday in Egypt's western desert.
The exact circumstances of the attack remain unclear.
A Egyptian prosecutor has issued an order banning journalists from reporting details of the investigation now taking place.
Egypt says its forces had been pursuing Islamic militants in the Western Desert and mistook the Mexican tourists for the militants.
It has apologised, but has insisted the group were in a restricted area. Local sources deny the claim.
Egypt has been battling Islamist militants for years, with attacks escalating since the 2013 ousting of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
Until recently, most of the fighting has taken place in the Sinai Peninsula with occasional attacks taking place in Cairo and other cities.
The tour group had been travelling in a convoy of four 4x4s near the Bahariya oasis, a popular tourist location. The organisers said they had stopped for a picnic when the group was attacked.
The interior ministry said an Apache helicopter targeted the tourists "by mistake".
Egypt's ambassador to Mexico City, Yasser Shaban, said the tourists' 4x4 vehicles resembled those used by the militants the security forces were chasing.
Ms Ruiz Massieu said she hoped to be able to return home both the injured, their families and the bodies of those who had died in the next few days.
The Blues won the title in Conte's first season in charge and face Arsenal in the FA Cup final on Saturday.
The 47-year-old was named League Managers' Association manager of the year and has been linked with Inter Milan in his native Italy.
However, he said: "If the club give me the possibility to stay and extend my contract, for sure I'm available to."
Former Juventus boss Conte has two years left on his contract, having joined Chelsea last summer after a spell in charge of Italy.
His team could complete Chelsea's second league and FA Cup Double with victory over the Gunners at Wembley and the Italian said: "We have the same idea about the future, the way we have to do together, to improve the squad and the team.
"And I'm happy for this season. I'm happy to stay here and I hope to stay here for many years."
An HP shareholder says the US PC-maker paid too much for the UK software firm.
The lawsuit, filed in California on Monday, accuses the two auditors and other named defendants of failing in their duty to spot that Autonomy was not worth as much as it claimed, and then misrepresenting the deal's value.
Both firms have denied responsibility for valuing Autonomy at the time.
"Simply put, HP grossly overpaid for Autonomy," claims the legal action, which was brought by Philip Ricciardi, an HP shareholder since 2007.
Last week, HP announced that it was writing off $8.8bn of the $11.1bn it paid for Autonomy, of which $5bn was "linked to serious accounting improprieties, misrepresentation and disclosure failures".
HP's boss, Ms Whitman, said that her firm had relied on the work of the UK unit of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, which had acted as Autonomy's auditor prior to the acquisition.
She also said HP had relied on KPMG's audits of Deloitte's work.
The computer maker said it would be taking civil action itself to try and recover money for shareholders.
Shares in the US computer-maker have lost 60% of their value since the Autonomy deal was announced in August last year - including a steep fall on the day after the announcement - and are down by three-quarters since their peak in April 2010.
The legal case, which came to light on Wednesday, has been brought by the shareholder against the two auditors, as well as against Autonomy's former chief executive Mike Lynch, HP chief executive Meg Whitman, former HP chief executive Leo Apotheker, and Barclays and Perella Weinberg Partners, who acted as financial advisers on the deal.
It claims that the two auditors, as well as other advisers and employees paid to work for HP, failed in their duty to the company and "consistently misled the public with improper statements".
The two auditors "consciously disregarded numerous red flags" that should have alerted them to Autonomy's allegedly inflated value, the lawsuit said, according to the Bloomberg news agency.
KPMG has denied HP's claims, saying that it was engaged only to provide limited services and did not carry out any audit work.
For its part, Deloitte has insisted that it was not responsible for the due diligence work that HP carried out on Autonomy before going ahead with the purchase.
Barclays and Perella Weinberg could not be reached for comment.
It is the second such lawsuit to be filed by an HP shareholder over the Autonomy deal. Another investor, Allan Nicolow, filed a similar case at the same court and on the same day.
The other legal case has been brought against Hewlett-Packard, as well as various executives of the firm - but not against the two auditors or the two financial advisers - and seeks damages for HP's purchase of Autonomy, as well as an earlier purchase of Electronic Data Systems Corporation, which the suit also claims was overvalued.
Mr Nicolow's lawyers hope to turn his case into a class action lawsuit on behalf of all investors who owned shares in HP between 19 August 2011 - the day after the Autonomy acquisition - and 20 November 2012.
Autonomy's former head, Mike Lynch - who is a non-executive director of the BBC - has rejected HP's claims that former Autonomy management misled them as to the company's value.
The 35-year-old, who married Portman in 2012, will take up his role in October 2014.
Portman, 31, won an Oscar for her work in Black Swan, collecting the award in February 2011 while pregnant.
She and Millipied welcomed their son, Aleph, in June that year.
Millepied is a former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet who left in 2011 to create his own dance company in Los Angeles.
Founded in 1661 by Louis XIV, the Paris Opera Ballet is the oldest and one of the most prestigious ballet companies in the world.
Portman will be seen later this year reprising her role as scientist Jane Foster in comic book sequel Thor: The Dark World.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Emperor Akihito are attending a memorial in Tokyo, and joined a moment of silence nationwide at the exact moment the quake hit.
The magnitude-9.0 quake struck offshore, creating a giant wave out at sea, called a tsunami, which grew to 10 metres high.
It also triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster for 25 years, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The earthquake on 11 March 2011 was one of the most powerful ever recorded.
But it was the following tsunami that claimed the most lives, as a wall of seawater powered through coastal areas of Tohoku, flattening entire towns and villages.
At 2.46pm Tokyo time (5.56am British time), the exact moment the quake was detected, people across Japan bowed their heads as a mark of respect for the victims.
Bells rang, and in the capital the underground metro came to halt.
"Many of the people affected by the disaster are aging, and I worry that some of them may be suffering alone in places where our eyes and attention don't reach," Emperor Akihito said at the ceremony.
The tsunami also damaged a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, leading to the world's worst nuclear disaster for 25 years.
Water flooded the plant, taking cooling systems offline which set off a series of meltdowns.
The disaster leaked radiation over a wide area and forced the evacuation of more than 160,000 local people.
The government has spent billions of dollars on reconstruction work, but five years on, many people have not been able to return to their homes.
Source: Reconstruction agency
The 30 year-old scored 17 goals in 69 league appearances for the Millers in two seasons at The New York Stadium.
He has previously played for Blackburn, Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest.
The club said in a statement: "We would like to place on record our thanks to Matt for his major contribution over the past two seasons where he has been a key player."
Tutton won European bronze in the 100m breaststroke on 18 May after setting a national record for the 200m in April.
Davies, an Olympic silver medallist in 1980, says the 19-year-old "came out of nowhere" but does not expect her to win a medal at Rio 2016.
"We needed it because British women's breaststroke has not been amazing," said the 53-year-old Briton.
Tutton shaved three seconds off her personal best when she broke the British record in Glasgow - a performance that led to selection for the GB team going to this summer's Olympics in Brazil.
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Her bronze medal-winning performance at the European Championships in London was followed by sixth place in the 200m final.
After that race Tutton vowed to improve before the Games, which start on 5 August.
"It's an amazing experience and I think I can learn a lot," she said.
"So that's what I'll do - I'll go away and I'll see what I can improve on and hopefully come back stronger."
Davies, runner-up in the 400m medley in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, added: "I don't think we're expecting Chloe to go there to win medals.
"She could probably make a final, which I think would be her target - certainly a semi final."
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Ruth Walmsley, 73, of Telford, said she had been fundraising for Conakry Refugee School in Guinea since 2004 after a daughter helping out there stated it could not pay rent.
She added it now had 500 pupils after dipping to about 300 at one stage.
Mrs Walmsley said she was "quite shocked" to have been honoured.
She said: "I was completely flabbergasted... I just thought I was doing what needed to be done and just putting my energies into something that I thought was very important."
Mrs Walmsley said one of her daughters, Tanya, was travelling in West Africa and turned up to help the school containing refugees from civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The mother sent £60 "to keep the school open for a month," she said.
Other friends gave £60 for the next two months and following more fundraising, Friends of Conakry Refugee School later became a registered charity, Mrs Walmsley said.
When numbers dropped from about 400 to 300, as some children in the area were in jobs rather than being at school, it started a free school meals programme and numbers rose to about 500, she said.
Mrs Walmsley, who has been honoured with an MBE for services to children in Conakry, is now a trustee of the charity, after being director for 10 years.
The Plas Madoc centre, in Acrefair, was saved from demolition in 2014 by local people and councillors.
Volunteers set up the Splash Magic charitable trust to run the centre and have overhauled the facilities.
The site could have shut at the end of the month had Wrexham council not granted the money.
It is half the amount the trust wanted but the decision has also paved the way for it to be able to receive a further £500,000 from the Welsh Government which had been conditionally pledged.
Darrell Wright, chairman of Splash Magic Trust, said the decision was a "surprise" because a council report had recommended a grant request be rejected, partly due to concerns over governance.
"I think that public pressure and a look at some of the answers we had given to the points raised swayed their judgement and gave us a positive result," he said.
"It's given us the confidence to move forward with plans we have in mind and to establish a rosier future for the centre."
The trust said the money would go towards the building's development.
Since taking over, it said it has drastically cut losses and increased footfall with 400,000 visits this year.
The move comes days after reports that South Sudan had ordered its troops to withdraw a short way from the border.
Disputes over the border remain unresolved and the two countries fought over the Heglig oilfield in 2012.
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Mr Bashir has asked the Sudanese authorities to "take all measures" for the reopening, state news agency Suna reported.
Last week Mr Bashir also agreed to consider lowering the fees paid by South Sudan for the use of Sudanese infrastructure to export oil.
South Sudan contains most of the oilfields that belonged to Sudan before 2011.
The new country descended into civil war in 2013 when fighting broke out between forces loyal to Mr Kiir and his then deputy Riek Machar, splitting the country down ethnic lines.
Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese have fled to neighbouring countries including Sudan.
The Advertising Standards Authority said there was insufficient evidence to prove a direct link between blue light and retinal damage.
It ruled the ad, which promoted blue light filters, "must not appear again in its current form".
Boots said it was disappointed by the decision.
The advert, which ran in newspapers in January 2015, said: "Did you know that some blue light, from smartphone screens to sunshine, can affect your eyes?"
It went on to say smartphones, LED TVs and light bulbs were a source of blue light that "cause your retinal cells to deteriorate over time".
And in promoting the Boots Protect Plus Blue lenses, it said they "come with a special finish that filters out the harmful blue light and eases eye strain and fatigue".
However, a pharmacist and one other person said it was incorrect to argue that blue light from such sources damaged the eyes, and questioned whether the lenses offered protection.
The Advertising Standards Authority considered evidence submitted by Boots.
In its judgement the ASA said: "Because the evidence was not sufficient to establish a direct link between harmful blue light and retinal damage over time, we concluded that the claims were misleading and had not been substantiated."
A Boots spokeswoman said: "As a health-led Optician we are at the forefront of developing new solutions for our customers, including blue light filtering technology."
She said "We are disappointed that the ASA did not accept the clinical evidence we provided" and that Boots would provide further evidence that their lenses were effective.
The organisers, members of the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno), say they want to "uphold Malay dignity", leading to fears the march could stoke racial tensions.
It follows opposition rallies two weeks ago demanding that PM Najib Razak step down over a financial scandal.
Unmo said those rallies were attended by anti-government ethnic Chinese.
Race-relations are fraught in Malaysia, where ethnicity dominates politics.
Malays make up about two-thirds of Malaysia's population and play prominent roles in government and the civil service. Ethnic Chinese represent about a quarter of the population but own considerably more than that share of the wealth.
Organisers of Wednesday's march said it was call for respect for ethnic Malays.
"We will not provoke anyone or spark a racial clash. We will not riot," said Jamal Yunos, a key organiser and a senior Umno official.
People attending Wednesday's protests have been asked to wear red - the colour of the ruling party - to counter the distinctive yellow T-shirts worn by protesters at the late August rallies.
Security has been increased around Chinese areas of the capital, while many Chinese-run business have remained closed.
Ever since deadly sectarian riots in 1969 Malaysian governments have usually been keen to clamp down on overt racial provocations.
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said any banners with "sensitive" wording would be confiscated.
Mr Najib, the president of Unmo, has not officially endorsed the rally but has allowed it to go ahead.
Last month, tens of thousands of people marched through Kuala Lumpur and other cities demanding Mr Najib resign amid allegations he personally profited from a state investment scheme.
He had denied the allegations, and Malaysia's anti-corruption agency has said the money came from foreign donors.
The Umno-controlled governing coalition has been in power since Malaysian independence in 1957.
But it has lost support in recent years as Chinese voters have moved to the multi-racial opposition, prompting an increasing use of anti-Chinese rhetoric by Malay hardliners.
The march is going ahead despite a thick haze enveloping the city, caused by illegal forest fire clearances in nearby Indonesia. Singapore and Indonesia itself are also badly affected.
The world number one said the Irishman's meticulous attention to detail had helped set up Europe's eighth win in 10 Ryder Cups.
"He has just been the most wonderful captain," said McIlroy.
"I think I speak on behalf of all the 12 players and say he couldn't have done anything else. He was fantastic."
McGinley, 47, had drawn on the experience of former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who addressed the team prior to the start of the tournament.
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McIlroy added: "From the first day we got here, the speeches that he gave, the videos he showed us, the people that he got in to talk to us, the imagery in the team room, it all tied in together.
"It was all part of the plan, all for the cause of trying to win this Ryder Cup, and he was meticulous in his planning. He left no stone unturned."
McGinley's side led 10-6 going into the final day and Europe needed four points to retain the trophy they claimed two years ago, but they won five matches and halved three more to seal a comfortable victory.
Lee Westwood, 41, playing in his ninth Ryder Cup this week, said McGinley has laid down the blueprint for future European Ryder Cup captains, while Spaniard Sergio Garcia, now a seven-time veteran, suggested McGinley had modernised the role.
"I think you could base your captaincy and your future captain around the way Paul did it this week," said Westwood.
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And Garcia added: "He has been so methodical. Every single aspect he needed to touch on, he did. I've been fortunate to have a lot of great captains. Paul did things a little bit differently, but with great style.
"He has been a little bit more of a modern captain, taking care of every single detail. He knew what we had was good but improved it without changing it."
McGinley, who sank the winning putt as a player at the Belfry in 2002, insists he has no plans to try to do the job again or act as someone else's vice-captain.
"I've got a role now in deciding who the next captain will be, and we'll see where that goes in the next few months on behalf of the European Tour," he said.
"But certainly, no, I've done my piece and I'm happy to have the honour and happy to help in any way going forward but I don't think it would be right for me to go into the vice-captaincy role."
More than 300 family members travelled to the region on Friday, exactly four months after the Airbus A320 went down.
The unidentified remains of the 150 victims were buried on Thursday night in a cemetery in the town of Le Vernet, ahead of the memorial service.
Mayor Francois Balique said they had been placed in a mass grave.
"For the families of the victims, it's a second burial because they have already buried the remains of their loved ones that could be identified by DNA," he told AFP.
The aircraft crashed on 24 March during a flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, killing everyone on board.
Investigators believe co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew the plane into a mountain, after locking the captain out of the cockpit.
There were passengers from 18 countries on the flight, although most were Spanish or German.
All of the remains that could be identified by French police were returned to their families for burial.
The chief executive of the airline Lufthansa, which owns Germanwings, did not attend Friday's interfaith ceremony.
Carsten Spohr has been involved in a disagreement with some of the families over compensation pay outs.
The parents of 16 German students, who were returning from a school trip, said Mr Spohr had failed to apologise for the crash.
In an open letter they said a compensation offer of €85,000 (£60,000; $93,000) "deeply insults us, and above all else our children".
A Lufthansa spokesman said "the tense atmosphere" meant Mr Spohr would not be attending the memorial service, AFP reports.
"He does not want to disturb the ceremony with this issue," a spokesman added.
He had been taken to the hospital in Paris with an intestinal infection on Friday morning, his wife said.
Etaix was best known for films such as Yoyo, and Happy Anniversary which won him an Oscar in 1962.
Influenced by his experiences as a circus acrobat and clown, he saw himself as part of a silent movie tradition that went back to Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
In a submission to the government's review of the "on-demand" economy seen by the BBC, the firm says that at present the law prevents it from offering enhanced rights because it classifies its riders as self-employed.
Deliveroo says it uses that classification to provide its riders with the flexibility to work when they want.
It says employment rules should be changed so that people who work for companies like Deliveroo and Uber can receive enhanced benefits and not lose that flexibility.
Sources say that the firm is willing to look at enhanced payments to riders to cover things like sickness pay - and that the money would probably be administered under a government controlled scheme similar to national insurance or pensions contributions.
It may mean that Deliveroo riders and others working for similar on-demand firms like Uber are "reclassified" as gig workers.
The move comes after a slew of criticism and court cases against gig economy companies over how they treat people who work for them.
"Central to our popularity with riders and our success as a business is the flexible nature of the work that we offer," the submission says.
"We want to offer riders more security.
"We believe everyone - regardless of their type of contract - is entitled to certain benefits, but we are constrained in offering these at the moment."
'Gig economy' workers 'should get minimum wage'
'Pay self-employed minimum wage'
At the moment "self-employed" workers in the gig economy do not have the right to sickness pay, holiday pay or maternity and paternity leave.
They also are not covered by the minimum wage rules.
That has led to criticism that the people who ride or drive for gig companies are actually "workers" and should receive a wide range of benefits.
There are also concerns that companies are exploiting loopholes in employment law and lack of enforcement to run their businesses profitably.
Deliveroo says that if it did offer "worker" contracts, flexibility, which is very popular with its riders, would be lost.
Deliveroo riders, for example, are allowed to work for other on-demand economy businesses at the same time.
This makes it impossible, the firm argues, to guarantee the minimum wage which is based on working for a single employer.
Deliveroo says its riders earn on average £9.50 an hour, £2 more than the National Living Wage.
The firm says it is wrong that riders are at present involved in a "trade-off" between flexibility in the way they work, and the security of full employment benefits.
Company sources have told me that, following moves on sickness pay, Deliveroo would be willing to look at holiday pay, pension rights and maternity and paternity entitlements.
Those rights could be "earned" by riders after a certain number of deliveries have been achieved.
"At present, companies in the UK are forced to class the people they work with as either 'employees', 'workers' or 'self-employed'," the submission says.
"Our riders are 'self-employed'. This gives them full flexibility - but the quid pro quo is that they are not entitled to certain benefits.
"In short, there is currently a trade-off between flexibility and security and we want to play our part in overcoming this divide."
Deliveroo is one of a new breed of "on-demand" firms which operate in what is known as the gig economy.
Riders for the firm - 60% of whom are under the age of 25 - log on to the company's digital platform and receive "jobs" delivering food, on a bike or a scooter.
Matthew Taylor, the head of the Royal Society of Arts, was asked by the government to review this new world of work, including the gig economy and zero hours contracts.
He is expected to publish his report imminently on how to reform employment law so that workers can be flexible without being exploited.
Deliveroo's announcement today has received pretty short shrift from the TUC. Here's general secretary Frances O'Grady on my story this morning:
"This reads like special pleading. There's nothing stopping Deliveroo from paying their workforce the minimum wage and guaranteeing them basic rights like holiday and sick pay.
"Plenty of employers are able to provide genuine flexibility and security for their workforce. Deliveroo have no excuse for not following suit.
"The company's reluctance to offer benefits now is because they want to dodge wider employment and tax obligations by labelling staff as self-employed."
Here's another update. The boss of Deliveroo, Will Shu, has told me that the company is willing to go further than offering its riders sick pay and injury insurance.
I put it to him that the benefits debate in the gig economy went far further than sickness benefits and injury insurance, and asked whether the company would look at issues like pension payments and holiday entitlements.
"This is the beginning of the debate," Mr Shu told me.
"We sat down with - me personally - hundreds of riders and asked, what do you care most about today?
"It was sick pay and insurance for injury and that is what we are starting with. But we are open minded to different things."
That sounds like a yes, the company is willing to look at further benefit areas.
It will be interesting to see how Matthew Taylor's report, expected next week, deals with the issue of broader rights for gig workers.
I asked Mr Shu for his response to critics who say that the only way firms like his make money is by not paying national insurance payments for their riders, pension contributions and other benefits.
"Not at all," he answered.
"I understand [the criticism] - it is a new way of doing businesses.
"The on-demand economy in Britain is five or six years old and there are hundreds of thousands of people in it so the growth has been huge, and so it is understandable that people haven't understood the intricacies.
"At the end of the day though, let's take it back, it is a very different relationship than regular employment. People can come and go as they please.
"The issue is this - if we offer benefits to people the courts may reclassify self-employed people as workers thus robbing them of the flexibility they ultimately signed up for, for the job.
"What that practically means is that you would work on a shift pattern, you wouldn't log in and out as you please. It is a very different work relationship."
And would mean that Deliveroo wouldn't be, well, Deliveroo.
Bennett is being considered for the Sevens team in Brazil in August.
Only three players in coach Vern Cotter's "tight" 27-man squad were not named for the 2016 Six Nations.
Scrum-half Henry Purgos and hooker Fraser Brown were injured, while 22-year-old wing Damien Hoyland, who has one cap, comes in.
Sean Maitland, who dropped out during the Six Nations through injury, has also been chosen for the travelling party.
The inclusion of the London Irish wing along with Edinburgh's Hoyland means there is no place for Glasgow Warriors' Sean Lamont, the 35-year-old with 104 caps who said this year that he had no intention of retiring from international duty.
"Damien was involved in the pre-World Cup preparations and has done some very good things," Cotter noted. "He can score points and gets over the try-line, has a good step on him and is hard to tackle.
"There are a few things for him to work on and this is a good opportunity for him to come away with the team and start doing things at a more accurate level, which is what he'll need in the Test arena.
"Sean Lamont has been a great soldier for Scotland and has done really well. He will have a bit of rest at home and it is an opportunity for Damien to come through."
Hooker Brown is preferred to team-mate Pat MacArthur, while four other Glasgow players drop out despite being involved in the Six Nations.
Fly-half Duncan Weir, prop Gordon Reid and back-rowers Adam Ashe and Chris Fusaro also miss out.
With Glasgow's Pyrgos included as the second scrum-half behind captain Greig Laidlaw, Edinburgh's Sam Hidalgo-Clyne has been overlooked.
Also missing are London Irish back-row Blair Cowan, Edinburgh lock Ben Toolis and Gloucester-bound centre Matt Scott, while Glasgow prop Zander Fagerson - who made his debut in the Six Nations - is included in the Under-20s squad for next month's World Championship.
"Matt [Scott] was very close, but he has just come back from injury and hasn't had a lot of game time," Cotter said. "We know we can count on Matt and there are a few more games before the end of the season, so more players may be added to the squad."
With Glasgow centre Alex Dunbar being assessed for a knee injury sustained in Glasgow's Pro 12 defeat at Connacht on Saturday, Cotter said any additions could also include Bennett - who played sevens for Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - if he is not selected for the GB Sevens team.
"It is a great opportunity for him," Cotter said. "He wants to do it and we said we won't stand in his way, if he does get selected.
"It is a dream of his and if he gets the opportunity, that will be great. It was his choice. He is very excited about it."
Cotter said he had not discussed the prospect of Olympic sevens selection with full-back Stuart Hogg, who he said "had made up his mind that he was coming on tour".
Scotland face Asian champions Japan on Saturday 18 June at Toyota Stadium, Toyota City, and on 25 June at Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo.
Both matches will be broadcast live by BBC Scotland, with 11:20 BST kick-offs.
Scotland beat Japan 45-10 at last year's World Cup, four days after the Japanese caused one of the biggest upsets in rugby history by beating South Africa 34-32.
"We are expecting two very tough games and are taking it very seriously," Cotter added. "Japan are probably the most improved team in world rugby and have a number of players developing in Super Rugby.
"In addition we will only have five days after the flight to prepare for the first Test, so this is a chance for this group to develop under that sort of duress."
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Props: Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh), Moray Low (Exeter Chiefs), Willem Nel (Edinburgh), Rory Sutherland (Edinburgh). Hookers: Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors); Ross Ford (Edinburgh), Stuart McInally (Edinburgh Rugby). Locks: Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors), Richie Gray (Castres), Tim Swinson (Glasgow Warriors). Back-rowers: John Barclay (Scarlets), David Denton (Bath), John Hardie (Edinburgh), Josh Strauss (Glasgow Warriors); Ryan Wilson (Glasgow Warriors).
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Full-back: Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors). Wings: Damien Hoyland (Edinburgh), Sean Maitland (London Irish), Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), Tim Visser (Harlequins). Centres: Alex Dunbar (Glasgow Warriors), Peter Horne (Glasgow Warriors), Duncan Taylor (Saracens). Fly-halves: Ruaridh Jackson (Wasps), Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors). Scrum-halves: Greig Laidlaw (Gloucester), Henry Pyrgos (Glasgow Warriors).
He is just one of the hundreds of patients who have gathered at the small open-air clinic in the grounds of St Theresa's - the Roman Catholic cathedral in Juba.
On Sunday, they sang for peace as a Nigerian cardinal, visiting from the Vatican, held the service and then delivered a letter from the Pope to President Salva Kiir, asking him - and his deputy - for that very same thing.
For three months the two men, whose political differences sparked civil war, have been sitting at the same table, trying to make a transitional government of national unity work.
That dramatically fell apart the night before South Sudan celebrated five years of independence in a barrage of bullets, which the president's spokesman said left 273 dead bodies lying in the street outside State House.
He showed us the bullet holes, the smashed glass, the blood-stained concrete, the empty brass casings, and he blamed someone else.
It was bodyguards for opposition leader-turned first Vice-President Riek Machar and Mr Kiir's presidential guards who fought each other, sparking days of violence earlier this month which killed many hundreds of soldiers and civilians.
Bizarrely, both leaders were inside the building at the time, as were the city's press corps - they videoed themselves cowering as the gunfire erupted around them.
As the shooting stopped, the two men gave a joint press conference appealing for calm.
That the fighting continued for the next few days is either a sign they that do not control their troops, or they care more about settling scores than they do about their people.
The man who went from vice-president to opposition leader and back to vice-president again says it was an attack on him.
Eugene Owusu, Unmiss deputy head
"This represents, in my view, a major reversal for South Sudan - and also undermines prospects for the peace agreement going forward"
Many of Mr Machar's best troops were killed and he fled the capital. It is not known where he is and, as South Sudan's peace deal hangs by a thread, it appears he is back to being an opposition leader again.
Amid talk of rifts within the opposition, the president says the peace deal both men signed still stands, and that Mr Machar can return to the capital and take up his old job.
Mr Machar has called for a neutral force to police the peace in Juba, but the president does not agree.
The African Union has pledged to send troops, but President Kiir says he does not want or need them.
The United Nations has been piling on the pressure. The UN struggled to keep civilians safe in this latest round of fighting and is concerned about where this leaves the peace deal.
"This represents, in my view, a major reversal for South Sudan, and also undermines prospects for the peace agreement going forward," said Eugene Owusu, the deputy head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (Unmiss).
"I really do hope that with the big guns in Juba being silent, the main protagonists will see the primacy of peace and to ensure that the people of this country can live a life of peace and prosperity and dignity."
When the fighting started, UN peacekeepers were blocked from getting more than 500m from their bases by government checkpoints.
Thousands of people rushed into the already crowded protection of civilian camp known as UN House in Juba.
Its numbers swelled to more than 35,000 as heavy fighting took place nearby.
Water trucks were not able to deliver the 150 loads required every day, and a shell hit an armoured UN vehicle inside the base. Two peacekeepers were killed and others injured.
Close by to UN House, international aid workers were attacked by soldiers - some were raped and badly beaten. The UN was unable to reach them to help.
A World Food Programme warehouse containing enough food for 220,000 people for a month was completely looted - even the fabric of the building was taken.
"I think the mission is very, very constrained in terms of resources," said Mr Owusu.
"So we could absolutely do with additional resources, both in terms of human capabilities and also in terms of assets like helicopters."
More on South Sudan's crisis:
And in the meantime the humanitarian crisis is deepening.
Journalists still were not able to visit UN House amid security fears, but aid organisations set up clinics and help-points around Juba.
"Every day, we are seeing 400 people in our mobile clinics - the problems are malaria, malnutrition - we are seeing a lot of severe acute malnutrition," said Dr Farah Hussein from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
That does not happen in a week - it comes from years of war and a collapsed economy. South Sudan now has the highest inflation rate in the world at 300%.
It was an MSF nurse who was treating Taban, and many other patients in the cathedral grounds.
Bodies are still being collected by the Red Cross around Juba and there are still reports of gunshots.
We will probably never know how many people died the weekend the world's youngest country celebrated its fifth birthday - or of all the terrible things that happened when the guns and rockets were being fired across its capital.
The emphasis is now on the leaders to lead - and to put the people ahead of the politics.
There seems little hope for the unity government with Mr Machar weakened and not in town - though his place could be taken by another.
Either way it is not the road to stability South Sudan appeared to be on before the fighting broke out at State House.
About 70 of the 284 pupils at Dearham Primary School in Maryport are off sick after contracting the winter vomiting bug over the weekend.
A spokesman said they were following protocol and those affected have been asked to stay away from school for 48 hours until they are symptom-free.
Public Health England said it was investigating an outbreak among pupils.
Norovirus is one of the most common stomach bugs in the UK and causes diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting.
Speaking to the Voice of the Viewer and Listener lobby group, Lord Hall said the BBC needed to do more with its "world-class" audio content.
Citing the BBC's domestic on-demand iPlayer service for video, he said he wanted a similar platform for radio but aimed at audiences outside the UK.
However, he gave no detail as to how or when such a service would begin.
Lord Hall said the online on-demand video service Netflix had cited the BBC as its inspiration with the success of the corporation's iPlayer.
Netflix, a commercial subscription service also available via TV sets, has had success with dramas such as House of Cards, Orange is the New Black and The Crown.
"With our world-class content, we could use our current output and the richness of our archive to create a Netflix of the spoken word," said Lord Hall.
Explaining his thinking, he said: "One of my goals in the years ahead is to strengthen and expand those areas in which we really lead the way globally.
"News, natural history and drama, yes. But also education, science and the arts. And audio."
He said Britain offered some of best radio in the world and, alongside the BBC's World Service output, there was more significant potential to offer more content around the world.
"One of the big challenges I have set my teams is just that: to enhance our global audio offer. The BBC makes the best radio in the world. It is one of our crown jewels, and we have an extraordinary wealth of audio riches at our disposal.
"It's one of the things that will help the BBC carry the full weight of Britain's culture and values, knowledge and know-how to the world in the years ahead. And say something really important about modern Britain."
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Paul McMullan scored the other as the Pars ended a run of five games without a win to move three points clear of the visitors in the Championship.
The Sons' reply by Daniel Hardie came with only four minutes to go.
Confusion reigned after Dunfermline's second goal as Carswell left the pitch to be treated for a bleeding nose.
Sam Stanton hastily came on as a replacement for the Sons, who had gone into the game unbeaten in their last four games.
Michael Moffat set up the opener for the Pars after only seven minutes with a teasing cross that found Clark unmarked to nod home.
Clark set up McMullan for number two and the winger curled a wonderful right-foot shot into the top corner.
Then came the bizarre incident between Carswell and Docherty.
Clark continued to cause problems for the Sons defence and duly scored goals three and four with headers inside the six-yard box.
The striker's fourth came when he was allowed to turn and fire a shot in from the edge of the penalty box.
Dumbarton's small band of supporters had something to cheer when Harvie fired in from 12 yards.
Match ends, Dunfermline Athletic 5, Dumbarton 1.
Second Half ends, Dunfermline Athletic 5, Dumbarton 1.
Attempt missed. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Garry Fleming (Dumbarton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Daniel Harvie (Dumbarton) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Lee Ashcroft (Dunfermline Athletic).
Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. David Smith (Dumbarton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Goal! Dunfermline Athletic 5, Dumbarton 1. Daniel Harvie (Dumbarton) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Garry Fleming.
Goal! Dunfermline Athletic 5, Dumbarton 0. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Andrew Geggan.
Foul by Gavin Reilly (Dunfermline Athletic).
Darren Barr (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Garry Fleming (Dumbarton) is shown the yellow card.
Callum Morris (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Garry Fleming (Dumbarton).
Goal! Dunfermline Athletic 4, Dumbarton 0. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lewis Spence.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Gavin Reilly replaces Michael Moffat.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Garry Fleming replaces Christian Nade.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Lewis Spence replaces Nathaniel Wedderburn.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Tom Lang replaces Mark Docherty.
Attempt saved. Paul McMullan (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic).
Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic).
Daniel Harvie (Dumbarton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic).
Mark Docherty (Dumbarton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Dunfermline Athletic 3, Dumbarton 0. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Kallum Higginbotham with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Gregor Buchanan.
Samuel Stanton (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nathaniel Wedderburn (Dunfermline Athletic).
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Rhys McCabe replaces John Herron because of an injury.
Delay in match John Herron (Dunfermline Athletic) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Christian Nade (Dumbarton) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Jason Talbot.
Darren Barr (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The World Health Organization declared the infection a global public health emergency last month after an outbreak in the Americas.
University of Manchester said it hoped to deliver results within 18 months after being awarded £178,000 funding.
Scientists in other countries are also working on possible Zika vaccines.
Manchester researchers hope to "test a vaccine based on a safe derivative of a pre-existing smallpox vaccine - the only disease to have been successfully globally eradicated," a university spokesman said.
Dr Tom Blanchard, who is leading the project, said: "As we have seen in the case of Ebola, there is now a real need to react quickly to fast-spreading tropical diseases."
He said Zika can cause serious illness, but "it often has no visible symptoms, so a vaccine for those at risk is one of the most effective ways of combating it."
The grant was announced after the UK government said it would increase its funding for rapid research into countering the virus from £1m to £3m - alongside a £1m commitment from the health charity Wellcome Trust.
Despite the increase, manufacturing output was still down 0.6% from the same month last year.
The wider measure of industrial production fell 0.2% in September, but was 1.1% higher than a year earlier.
Other figures from the ONS indicated the goods trade deficit narrowed to £9.35bn in September.
The deficit - showing that the UK imported more goods than it exported - was down from a gap of £10.79bn in August.
The deficit in goods and services narrowed to £1.4bn in September from £2.9bn the previous month.
However, for the July-to-September quarter, the trade deficit in goods and services widened to £8.5bn, from a gap of £5.1bn in the previous quarter.
Last month, the ONS said the UK's economy grew by 0.5% in the third quarter, in its first growth estimate for the quarter.
The latest ONS figures show that industrial production rose by 0.2% in the July-to-September period, slightly below initial estimates of 0.3%, while manufacturing output fell by 0.4%.
Lee Hopley, chief economist at the manufacturers' organisation, the EEF, said: "While manufacturing contracted in the last quarter, there are signs that some parts of industry at least were mounting a comeback after a summer lull."
She added, though, that there were risks from the economic slowdown happening elsewhere around the world: "Another disappointing set of trade figures for manufacturing show that these effects are already being felt, with a significant fall in goods exports to China over the past three months."
Though he is guilty of nothing, this Pakistani labourer is on the run - with his five children.
His wife, Asia Bibi, has been sentenced to death for blaspheming against Islam. That is enough to make the entire family a target.
They stay hidden by day, so we met them after dark.
Mr Masih told us they move constantly, trying to stay one step ahead of the anonymous callers who have been menacing them.
"I ask who they are, but they refuse to tell me," he said.
"They say 'we'll deal with you if we get our hands on you'. Now everyone knows about us, so I am hiding my kids here and there. I don't allow them to go out. Anyone can harm them," he added.
Ashiq Masih says his daughters still cry for their mother and ask if she will be home in time for Christmas.
He insists that Asia Bibi is innocent and will be freed, but he worries about what will happen next.
"When she comes out, how she can live safely?" he asks.
"No one will let her live. The mullahs are saying they will kill her when she comes out."
Asia Bibi, an illiterate farm worker from rural Punjab, is the first woman sentenced to hang under Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law.
As well as the death penalty hanging over her, Asia Bibi now has a price on her head.
A radical cleric has promised 500,000 Pakistani rupees (£3,700; $5,800) to anyone prepared to "finish her". He suggested that the Taliban might be happy to do it.
Asia Bibi's troubles began in June 2009 in her village, Ittan Wali, a patchwork of lush fields and dusty streets.
Hers was the only Christian household.
She was picking berries alongside local Muslim women, when a row developed over sharing water.
Days later, the women claimed she had insulted the Prophet Muhammad. Soon, Asia Bibi was being pursued by a mob.
"In the village they tried to put a noose around my neck, so that they could kill me," she said in a brief appearance outside her jail cell.
Anarchy threat
Asia Bibi says she was falsely accused to settle an old score. That is often the case with the blasphemy law, critics say.
At the village mosque, we found no mercy for her.
The imam, Qari Mohammed Salim, told us he cried with joy when sentence was passed on Asia Bibi.
He helped to bring the case against her and says she will be made to pay, one way or the other.
"If the law punishes someone for blasphemy, and that person is pardoned, then we will also take the law in our hands," he said.
Her case has provoked concern abroad, with Pope Benedict XVI joining the calls for her release.
In Pakistan, Islamic parties have been out on the streets, threatening anarchy if she is freed, or if there is any attempt to amend the blasphemy law.
Under Pakistan's penal code, anyone who "defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet" can be punished by death or life imprisonment. Death sentences have always been overturned on appeal.
Human right groups and Christian organisations want the law abolished.
"It was designed as an instrument of persecution," says Ali Hasan Dayan, of Human Rights Watch in Pakistan. "It's discriminatory and abusive."
While most of those charged under the law are Muslims, campaigners say it is an easy tool for targeting minorities, in this overwhelmingly Muslim state.
"It is a hanging sword on the neck of all minorities, especially Christians," says Shahzad Kamran, of the Sharing Life Ministry, which ministers to prisoners, including Asia Bibi.
"In our churches, homes and workplaces we feel fear," he says.
"It's very easy to make this accusation because of a grudge, or for revenge. Anyone can accuse you.
"Even our little children are afraid that if they say something wrong at school, they will be charged with blasphemy."
Asia Bibi's story has sparked a public debate in Pakistan about reforming the law, but it is a touchy - and risky - subject which many politicians would prefer to ignore.
Campaigners fear that the talk about reform of the blasphemy laws will amount to no more than that.
When Pakistan's Minister for Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, raised the issue six months ago, he was threatened with death.
"I was told I could be beheaded if I proposed any change," he told us.
"But I am committed to the principle of justice for the people of Pakistan. I am ready to die for this cause, and I will not compromise".
Mr Bhatti, himself a Christian, hopes that Asia Bibi will win an appeal to the High Court, or be pardoned by Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari.
He says she is one of dozens of innocent people who are accused every year.
"I will go to every knock for justice on her behalf and I will take all steps for her protection".
But even behind bars Asia Bibi may not be safe.
Several people accused of blasphemy have been killed in jail.
Thirty-four people connected with blasphemy cases have been killed since the law was hardened in 1986, according to Pakistan's Justice and Peace Commission, a Catholic campaign group.
The death toll includes those accused, their relatives, and even a judge.
In a neglected graveyard by a railway track in the city of Faisalabad, we found two of the latest victims of the blasphemy law.
They are brothers, buried side by side, together in death, as they were in life.
Rashid Emmanuel was a pastor.
His brother, Sajid, was an MBA student. They were gunned down in July during their trial - inside a courthouse, in handcuffs and in police custody.
Relatives, who asked not to be identified, said the blasphemy charges were brought because of a land dispute.
After the killings, the extended family had to leave home and move to another city. They say they will be moving again soon.
"We don't feel safe," one relative told us.
"We are shocked, like an electric shock. We are going from one place to another to defend ourselves, and secure our family members."
Once a month they come to the cemetery to pray at the graves of their lost loved ones.
They are too frightened to visit more often.
They bow their heads and mourn for two men who they say were killed for nothing - except being Christian.
Co-op Group reported a pre-tax loss of £132m for 2016, a sharp deterioration on the previous year's profit of £23m.
It reduced the value of its 20% stake in Co-operative Bank from £185m to zero, reflecting the bank's continuing problems.
The group also said that its financing costs had risen by £74m in 2016.
The Co-op Bank, which has four million customers, put itself up for sale in February.
It almost collapsed in 2013, but was rescued by a group of US investors. Under that deal, Co-operative Group kept a 20% stake in the bank.
But the new owners have struggled to revive the bank's fortunes. Last year, it lost £477m - the fifth consecutive year of losses.
Co-op Group said it had made a "prudent valuation" of its stake in Co-operative Bank based on the "volatility" caused by the sale of the bank.
Co-op Group said that operating profits, which exclude the loss related to the bank stake, were up 32% in 2016 at £148m.
Those profits were boosted by the sale of its crematoria and a 3% rise in sales.
"We've made great progress in rebuilding our Co-op, with all our businesses delivering strong performances," said chief executive Steve Murrells.
He said that in 2017, the Co-op Group would look to expand outside of its current markets.
"We are exploring how we can enter markets that are not serving people well and challenging existing providers," he said.
Tipu Sultan, 32, was found with a single gunshot wound outside the town's Herbs n Spice Kitchen on 7 April.
Two men were captured on CCTV leaving the scene on a motorbike after what police have said was a planned attack.
The detective leading the investigation said he hoped the reconstruction would encourage witnesses to come forward.
Det Ch Insp John Bent of Northumbria Police said: "To shoot someone in the throat from half a metre away is a cold-blooded killing.
"This is a man who was very much a pillar of society, well known, well respected, polite, considerate and a young father.
"Those who did this are particularly dangerous people and people that we need to catch."
The victim's brother Mahsum Sultan said: "He was an amazing person.
"You have that one person in your life who is always smiling and you never see them sad. He was that person."
Since the murder investigation was launched, more than 1,000 homes have been visited by officers carrying out house-to-house enquiries and 225 statements taken.
Officers have also received more than 100 phone calls, emails and letters from members of the public.
A 35-year-old Newcastle man has been arrested and bailed in connection with the death.
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Roger Gower, 37, who worked for a conservation fund, had been flying near an elephant killed by poachers when his helicopter came under fire last month.
The murder trial itself is due to be held separately in a higher court.
Tanzania lost 60% of its elephant population between 2009 and 2014, mainly due to poaching, officials say.
The four men, among nine people in total charged in connection with Mr Gower's death, pleaded guilty on Thursday to "unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition" at a court in Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam.
They each received prison sentences ranging between 15 and 20 years.
Mr Gower was originally from Birmingham in the UK and worked in London before moving to East Africa to work as a helicopter pilot.
He was shot down in the Maswa Game Reserve, which borders the world-famous Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania.
Mr Gower managed to land his helicopter but died from his wounds before he could be rescued.
The Spaniard, seeded fifth, had called for the doctor twice before he pulled out trailing 3-0 in the deciding set against world number 94 Damir Dzumhur.
"Hopefully it's nothing, it's just the extreme conditions," said Nadal.
"I called the doctor a couple of times but I felt I was not safe there, so I decided to go."
Dzumhur, the world number 94 from Bosnia-Herzegovina, was leading 2-6 6-4 3-0 after one hour and 50 minutes when Nadal called it a day.
"Everything was fine until the end of the first set," added the 29-year-old.
"I started to feel not very good, it was getting worse and worse and worse. In the second set I realised that I was not able to keep playing. I tried to resist but I got a little bit scared to be too dizzy.
"I wanted to finish the match but I seriously couldn't."
The last match Nadal retired from was the 2010 Australian Open quarter-final against Britain's Andy Murray.
Fourth seed Stan Wawrinka was another leading name to make an early exit, the Swiss player going down 6-4 6-3 to Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov.
Sheku Bayoh, 31, was held following an incident in Hayfield Road, Kirkcaldy, on 3 May but died in custody.
His relatives claim they were told five different versions of what happened.
Peter Watson of PBW Law said: "Comments made by those representing the family of the deceased promote a completely inaccurate and misleading account."
He added: "The officer injured remains off work, has had several hospital visits and is now in rehabilitation.
"An examination by a leading consultant confirms her injuries were significant. The injuries have been documented and photographed.
"The officers involved have never refused to provide statements. It was agreed at the outset with the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) that they would revert to us when they wanted statements and when they were clear on the basis that statements were to be given.
"PIRC emailed me this morning at 10:46 asking for our assistance to organise interviews and we answered at 11:29 confirming we would be pleased to assist. Those are the facts."
Brian Docherty, Scottish Police Federation chairman, criticised comments made by the Bayoh family's lawyer Aamer Anwar.
He said: "Mr Anwar can try to throw whatever mud he wishes but the fact remains that a petite female police officer was violently assaulted by a large male and believed she was going to die as a consequence.
"In directing increasingly hyperbolic, inaccurate and bizarre rhetoric at the Scottish Police Federation, one could be mistaken for believing that Mr Anwar being at the centre of attention appears to be of greater importance than allowing the investigation to proceed without interference."
PIRC is carrying out an investigation into the death of Mr Bayoh, who had two young sons.
Last month lawer Mr Anwar said Mr Bayoh was a "well-liked, peaceful and healthy young man" who had no previous history of violence.
Mr Anwar said: "The family does not understand why the officers involved in engaging with Sheku Bayoh were not immediately suspended without prejudice after his death.
"It is a matter of wider public concern that officers remain at their desks or in contact with the public pending the outcome of the investigation into a death in custody."
The monument is part of a 2013 out-of-court settlement by the UK government when it agreed to pay £20m ($30m) in compensation to Mau Mau veterans.
It also expressed "sincere regret" for abuses committed under colonial rule.
Thousands of veterans crowded into the memorial site in Nairobi to witness the historic unveiling.
The statue shows a woman handing food to a Mau Mau fighter, their faces turned away so they could not reveal the other's identity if caught by the British authorities.
Tens of thousands of Kenyans were held in detention camps during the Mau Mau campaign. Many suffered abuses including beatings, rape and castration.
"The memorial stands as a symbol of reconciliation between the British government, the Mau Mau, and all those who suffered during the emergency period," Christian Turner, the UK High Commissioner to Kenya, said at the ceremony.
At the scene: Anne Soy, BBC News, Nairobi
Many of the veterans and their families who crowded into Nairobi's Uhuru Park were clad in red T-shirts printed with the words "shujaa wa Mau Mau", meaning "heroes of Mau Mau", the underground movement that fought against British colonial rule.
The midday sun did not deter their enthusiasm as they sang old war songs to remember their struggle for independence.
At the centre of the monument is a sculpture depicting an armed dreadlocked fighter receiving food from a woman in a traditional "kiondoo" basket. The sculptor, Kevin Oduor, told the BBC that it acknowledged the role both men and women played to liberate Kenya. "The veterans re-enacted this scene before I came up with the sculpture," he said.
Excited veterans and their families crowded around the monument as soon as it was unveiled to take pictures. There was a look of satisfaction on their faces. For many, it is a symbol of closure.
Daniel Leader, from the London-based Leigh Day law firm that represented the 5,228 victims Mau Mau veterans who sued for compensation, said the memorial was "historic" and represented "the first apology by the UK government for abuses", the AFP news agency reports.
The Mau Mau began a violent campaign against white settlers in 1952, but the uprising was eventually put down by the British colonial government.
The Kenya Human Rights Commission says 90,000 Kenyans were executed, tortured or maimed, and 160,000 people were detained in appalling conditions. A number of historians believe the figure is lower.
"I want to say to this country's friends all around the world," he told a rally in Ottawa, "on behalf of 35 million Canadians - we're back."
His Liberal Party began the campaign in third place but now has a majority.
Mr Trudeau, an ex-high-school teacher, is the son of late PM Pierre Trudeau.
The BBC's Nick Bryant in Toronto says there is jubilation, but also an air of nostalgia about his victory, as the prime minister's residence is also his childhood home.
Addressing cheering supporters alternately in French and English, Mr Trudeau said: "This afternoon we can celebrate but the work is only beginning".
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His economic message - based on low taxes and balancing the books - seemed to exaggerate Canada's ability to ride out the global downturn, whereas Mr Trudeau focused on how many people felt.
Mr Harper leader took a hard line on Syrian refugees and opposed the wearing of the niqab at citizenship ceremonies.
While there was support on both these issues, the tipping point came after he suggested a police hotline to report "barbaric cultural practices".
Bill C51, which strengthened powers of surveillance, rallied many against a perceived attack on civil liberties.
The two leaders never warmed to each other. Mr Harper pushed the Keystone XL pipeline hard on a lukewarm US president.
According to a newspaper, Mr Harper was "deeply frustrated" with a president who he felt was "incapable of making a difficult decision".
In 2006, Mr Harper pledged to clean up politics and he introduced a bill to increase accountability but failed to keep more than half of the pledges.
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The economy loomed large during the campaign. Mr Harper highlighted his legacy of balanced budget and tax cuts, while Mr Trudeau pointed to sluggish growth to support his calls to boost demand through public spending.
Mr Trudeau's infrastructure policy is projected to cost C$10bn in the first two years, equivalent to 0.5% of Canada's GDP - tipping the federal budget into deficit. But, BBC business reporter Rob Plummer says, if the money is spent on the wrong kind of infrastructure, it may not do any good, while saddling the government with unnecessary debt.
Whatever happens, richer Canadians can expect to face a higher tax bill, handing over more than half their income in combined federal and provincial taxes, while ordinary people can look forward to tax breaks.
And in the short term, Mr Trudeau's policies may help stabilise the economy, making it unlikely that the Bank of Canada will cut interest rates further - meaning borrowing costs should remain low and house prices relatively high.
Mr Harper, one of the longest-serving Western leaders, had been seeking a rare fourth term.
He will now stand down as Conservative leader but remain as an MP, his party says.
There is no fixed transition period under Canada's constitution. Mr Trudeau is expected to be sworn in in a few weeks' times.
A 42-year-old man, understood to be Robert Daniel, was treated for an arm injury after being shot outside his home in Stepps on Sunday evening.
Detectives are treating the "targeted" attack as attempted murder.
They believe a white Audi estate driven by the suspects fled along the M80 towards Glasgow.
They are particularly keen to hear from anyone who may have dashcam footage.
The victim was reversing his car out of his drive in Honeywell Drive, Cardowan, just after 21:00 on Sunday when a white Audi estate car pulled up and several shots were fired.
A car matching the description was later found burnt out in the Haghill area.
Officers are still trying to establish how many occupants were in the Audi and said inquiries had revealed it sped off down Honeywell Drive and into Dewar Road. It then drove onto the M80 heading towards Glasgow before finally ending up in Hogarth Park, Haghill.
Det Supt Kenny Graham said: "We are following up a number of lines of enquiry. However, we know several people were walking in Dewar Road and in the surrounding areas around the time of the incident. I would urge these people to contact us as I'm sure they have information which could assist our ongoing investigation.
"In terms of the M80, I am appealing to motorists who were on that road on Sunday night, in particular, anyone with any dashcam footage is asked to pass it on to police.
"It could offer us vital footage on the occupants of the car which could lead us to tracing whoever is responsible for this crime."
Detectives have previously said the shooting may be linked to organised crime.
Officers were continuing to carry out door-to-door inquiries and CCTV footage was still being examined.
The arrest forms part of a PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) investigation into the alleged theft of sensitive security documents.
It is understood the documents contained information the police and security service MI5 believe could put the lives of individuals at risk.
The BBC understands they were released to lawyers without authorisation from the ombudsman, or the PSNI.
The police have suspended the release of any further sensitive material to the ombudsman's office until a review of security protocols is carried out.
A 69-year-old man was arrested in Dartford, Kent, on Sunday after detectives from the PSNI's Serious Crime Branch conducted a joint search with local police.
It is understood he retired from the ombudsman's office a number of years ago and that the documents do not refer to any case currently being investigated by it.
This is hugely embarrassing for the Police Ombudsman.
It's not known if the documents released to lawyers contain the names of informers or suspects under investigation, or both, but it's understood that the documents are regarded as historic and not part of any current investigation.
The fact that the PSNI statement was issued by the Assistant Chief Constable who heads its Crime Operations Department, and not the officer leading the actual investigation, is a clear indication that the issue is being taken very seriously.
There have been huge disagreements between the Ombudsman and the PSNI and MI5 over access to sensitive security material.
Some within the police and security services have strongly resisted requests for access to highly-sensitive material and expressed concern that it could be leaked. The Ombudsman's office has dismissed those concerns and pointed out that investigators with access to such information have high-level security clearance.
However, this incident will strengthen the arguments of those who want to limit the amount of material shared with the Ombudsman. That would seriously undermine the Ombudsman's ability to investigate cases where there are serious allegations of wrongdoing by current or former police officers.
In a statement to the BBC, a spokesman for the ombudsman confirmed he was alerted by police last week about the theft of sensitive material originating from the office.
"The material came to light during legal proceedings not connected to the office," he said.
"We immediately asked the police to begin a criminal investigation into how and when this happened. We also informed the Information Commissioner."
Assistant Chief Constable Steve Martin, head of the PSNI's Crime Operations Branch, confirmed that a man has been arrested as part of the investigation.
"The PSNI can confirm that it has become aware of a suspected theft of sensitive documents from within the Office of the Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland," he said in a statement to the BBC.
"We have now commenced a criminal investigation and are also carrying out an assessment of any impact which may be caused by the unauthorised release of sensitive material.".
The statement added that the police and Police Ombudsman's office have agreed to "a temporary period of review during which sensitive information will not be shared."
In its statement, the office of the Police Ombudsman said it was anticipated that this suspension of the sharing of sensitive material "will be temporary."
Jordon Cox, 18, from Brentwood, Essex, was in Sheffield for a lecture and found a one-way train ticket home would cost £47.
He opted instead to fly from East Midlands Airport to Berlin and then fly from Berlin to Stansted.
Mr Cox said the journey, on 20 January, saved him about £8.
He admitted it was not an environmentally-friendly way to travel or the quickest.
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It took him 12 hours to get home compared with the three-and-a-half hour train journey.
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"Obviously it isn't for everyone. Some people will just want to get home, but if you like travelling and saving money then it's a great way to do it.
"The scenery was also 10 times better than any train trip would have been."
Mr Cox, who blogs on the Money Saving Expert website, took a train from Sheffield to Derby and then a bus to East Midlands Airport, from where he flew to the German capital.
He said the trip gave him time to visit the centre of Berlin, which he probably would not have been to otherwise.
The blogger said the two flights, bus fares, his train to Derby, train fares in Berlin and lunch in the German capital cost £44.07, while the train trip plus bus fares and a sandwich would have cost £51.79.
Going from Bournemouth to Liverpool by air can work out £40 cheaper than going there by train - as long as you're prepared to go via Mallorca.
Analysis of flights and rail services shows how people who are prepared to spend longer travelling and go potentially thousands of miles out of their way can cut the costs, at the expense of their carbon footprint.
A rail ticket from Bournemouth to Liverpool Lime Street on 7 April 2016 would set someone back £113 today, according to thetrainline.com booking service.
Starting at 14:45 BST and with a change at Birmingham New Street the five-hour 266-mile journey works out at about 43p per mile.
However, someone willing to set out earlier, take a bus to Bournemouth Airport then fly at 09:10 BST to Mallorca and on to Liverpool John Lennon Airport will pay £72.31, or 3 pence per mile once the bus at the other end is taken into consideration.
The only catch is it means going a long way around, 2,642 miles in total.
It is a similar story with other flights. Going from Birmingham International to Edinburgh Waverley by rail on 2 February 2016 costs £66.51, or 22p per mile. But fly from Birmingham and stop off in Dublin and the cost is £25.91, or 5 pence per mile.
Whether the environmental impact is justified by the cost is a matter for debate.
Analysis by Daniel Wainwright, BBC data journalist
The 31-year-old, who grew up in Luton, said the man had remarked: "I ain't sitting near a Muslim" on a train service on Wednesday.
"His ignorance is his own ruin," she added in her tweet about what happened.
Hussain has previously spoken about racist abuse and how "it feels like that's become a part of my life now".
"I expect to be shoved or pushed or verbally abused, because it happens, it's happened for years," the mother-of-three told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
She won the 2015 series of the hit baking show and has gone on to become a columnist, author and television presenter.
A contestant from this year's Bake Off, Rav Bansal, replied to Hussain's tweet saying he had recently had a similar experience.
"You are a much better person then he will ever be," Bansal said.
A spokeswoman for Hussain was unable to confirm any further details about the incident.
Last week Hussain told the BBC's 100 Women season she thought it was important not to "feed negativity with negativity".
She said: "I live in a lovely country. I don't want my kids to grow up with a chip on their shoulder.
"Those negative people and those negative comments are the minority and I don't let that dictate how I live my life."
Sixteen executives, including Europe's richest woman, the L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, offered in an open letter to pay a "special contribution" in a spirit of "solidarity".
Later the government is due to announce tighter fiscal measures as it seeks to reassure markets and curb the deficit.
They are expected to include a special tax on the super-rich.
Before the announcement, expected on Wednesday evening, a letter appeared on the website of the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur.
It was signed by some of France's most high-profile chief executives, including Christophe de Margerie of oil firm Total, Frederic Oudea of bank Societe Generale, and Air France's Jean-Cyril Spinetta.
They said: "We, the presidents and leaders of industry, businessmen and women, bankers and wealthy citizens would like the richest people to have to pay a 'special contribution'."
They said they had benefited from the French system and that: "When the public finances deficit and the prospects of a worsening state debt threaten the future of France and Europe and when the government is asking everybody for solidarity, it seems necessary for us to contribute."
They warned, however, that the contribution should not be so severe that it would provoke an exodus of the rich or increased tax avoidance.
The move follows a call by US billionaire investor Warren Buffett for higher taxes on the American ultra-rich.
The French government has already said it is working on a special tax on those earning more than 1m euros (£900,000) a year.
The measures are expected to be part of a new package aimed at cutting up to 14bn euros from the budget deficit over the next two years.
It is not clear exactly what form they will take, but they are expected to include a reduction in tax breaks and increased taxes on big companies.
The government has been forced to act after recent fears that France's AAA credit rating could be downgraded.
France plans to trim its public deficit to 5.7 % this year, 4.6 % next year and 3% in 2013.
Sutton, 34, told BBC Sport he is a victim of probability and assumption.
Suspicious betting patterns were reported after he lost 6-0 to Jamie Burnett in an International Championships qualifier last year.
"Straight away I gave over my phone, email account and my bank details as I had nothing to hide," Sutton said.
There is no suggestion Burnett was involved in any wrongdoing.
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) ruled last week that Sutton was guilty of match-fixing and misusing inside information following an earlier hearing.
Irishman Sutton said he was given 10 days' notice of his invitation to the match in question, and that he felt unwell during the game after a long weekend with friends in Tipperary.
"During the match I knew I was struggling and was trying so hard to get something going but just felt empty and weak," he said.
The father-of-four from Drogheda added: "I will absolutely be appealing this.
"I honestly feel that I am being made a scapegoat as I'm a nobody in the world game. They can afford to brush me aside while being seen as flexing their muscles by showing zero tolerance for breaches of the rules.
"If there's evidence then [they should] make it a criminal case.
"I am a youth group leader in the local community and my wife and I are also trying to get on the list to become foster parents, both of which have had to be stopped because of these findings."
Sutton, who faces a lengthy ban, believes he came under suspicion as two men who placed big wagers on him to lose each practise at his local snooker club.
"They are not friends of mine but I do know them," Sutton said.
"They had another snooker bet on the same day and lost over £4,000 but this was not mentioned.
"Straight after the game I was called into the tournament director's office and it was explained to me about the suspicious betting patterns.
"The amount of anger and disbelief I felt cannot be described.
"I have never been approached by anyone about match-fixing or been aware of a situation of someone I know being approached."
The WPBSA has declined to respond to Sutton's comments, saying it would be inappropriate ahead of a sanction hearing, which is likely next month.
The emergency services were called to the scene at about 23:20 on Sunday.
Detectives have said the man was stabbed during a confrontation. He died a short time later at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
Police Scotland's major investigation team are working on the case and have appealed for witnesses to make contact with them.
The examination of CCTV images has started, along with door-to-door inquiries.
Det Supt Allan Burton said: "A man has died following a violent attack which took place in the middle of the street and it is absolutely imperative that we trace the despicable individual responsible.
"I would appeal to anyone who was in Tweed Avenue, or the surrounding area, between 2230 and 0030 hours last night to please come forward.
"No matter whether you think you have any significant information, let our officers determine that, as you may be able to assist with the investigation."
The department he takes control of is expanded compared to the last executive - it now has responsibility for skills and higher education, as well as economic development.
The fact it was the DUP's first pick suggests the party views it as the most strategically important role.
It puts Mr Hamilton in a position where he will be expected to deliver on his party's top manifesto commitment of "more jobs, rising incomes".
Those four words cover a multitude of issues including skills, the manufacturing slowdown and a weak export performance.
Among the first items in his in-tray will be student financing and university places.
If Northern Ireland is to benefit from cutting corporation tax, it is going to need to produce a reliable pipeline of skilled graduates.
But the universities are actually cutting places for local students because of falling budgets.
So, the issue of raising fees to tackle the funding gap is on the agenda.
The DUP First Minister, Arlene Foster, did not rule out an increase in fees during the election campaign, though Sinn Féin is opposed.
Another thorny issue in his agenda is renewable energy - the Northern Ireland subsidy system has all but collapsed due to changes driven by Westminster.
The DUP manifesto has promised a review, to examine how to develop the sector "at least cost to consumers and business".
Mr Hamilton's department is also sitting on a plan to tackle economic inactivity - it was drawn up by the last executive but had no budget to take it forward.
Tackling this issue, which can be seen as "hidden unemployment", will be a factor in increasing Northern Ireland's employment rate.
There are also the chronic problems of low productivity and wages alongside a weak export performance.
The DUP manifesto hints at action there, mentioning an "up-scaling plan" and "better jobs".
Though, of course, if the UK votes to leave the EU, as Mr Hamilton's party would like, he will quickly find himself having to define and defend Northern Ireland's role in the new trading arrangements that the UK will have to negotiate.
It can discriminate between different types of fabric by looking, touching and listening, in the latter case by using ears in its fingers.
The robot has been built in a laboratory at Glasgow University.
The project has reached the end of its first three years of EU funding. It involves researchers from Scotland, the Czech Republic, Italy and Greece.
The technology could lead to household robots and more jobs for the Scottish textile industry.
It has taken years to get the robot, nicknamed Dextrous Blue, to do the sort of things we humans take for granted.
While robots are now able to take solids and liquids in their stride, fabrics have proved more of a challenge. Until now.
Dextrous Blue stands about 8ft high.
He (the consensus among the research team is that he's male) has a pair of huge, blue, mechanical arms of the kind that may have built your car.
The arms are attached to a strong, swivelling base which is bolted through the concrete floor of the lab to stop him going walkabout. He's a big lad.
At the end of the arms two specially-designed and surprisingly delicate grippers are ready to do the sorting and folding.
Two electronic eyes in the form of digital cameras look down.
And behind all that a massive amount of computing and programming which combines robotic intelligence, sensing and coordination to enable Dextrous Blue to sort wool from cotton from polyester and more.
Research associate Dr Gerardo Aragon said: "The most difficult aspect was to understand the dynamics and the interaction with these type of materials.
"Because they are not completely solid.
"They are very floppy and very difficult to understand what's going on."
Dextrous Blue goes about its chores in a methodical way. It looks at a pile of clothes, has a good long think about how to sort them out, then the big blue arms swing into action.
Dr Paul Siebert, reader in computing science at Glasgow University, told me the advances the project had produced.
"The key innovations behind this machine are the use of vision and how we understand the scene in terms of providing very, very high accuracy in our depth sensing," he said.
"So we treat the clothing as a sort of mountain range and then parse that range into its different shapes, which allows the machine to build up a picture of what state the clothing is in.
"This sounds very trivial, the sort of thing a person could do instantly.
"But to get a machine to do this is a phenomenally difficult task."
How can Dextrous Blue tell the different fabrics apart? Dr Siebert says that among other innovations are those ears in his fingers.
"These grippers are special in that they are a particular shape to allow clothing materials to be picked up.
"Inside that module is an array of sensors that detect pressure.
"So roughly, as we can feel the texture of clothing so the machine can feel the texture.
"But it also has an ear inside there - a microphone - so that it picks up the sound of the texture.
"The gripper is designed so it can rub and therefore we can determine the material type by tactile sensing and listening to the sound of it rubbing."
Dextrous Blue makes his own decisions as he goes along. There's no-one wielding a joystick.
Doctoral student Kevin Li Sun told me that means the robot must work out the most basic things for itself.
He said: "The most difficult part was to design a fully autonomous system.
"To let it know when to start, and how to make the solution for the situation.
"And after the task has finished he will know when the task is finished."
Kevin said there had been a lot of what he called "fine theory" in his work. But it has had its upsides too.
"People say doing a PhD is boring and very difficult", he said.
"But I have the chance to play with this robot.
"It really gave me a lot of fun."
The official name for the project is CloPeMa, short for Clothes Perception and Manipulation. It may one day lead to household robots that can sort your socks or make sure the reds don't get in with the whites.
But Dr Siebert hopes it could also bring textile jobs back home.
He said: "Perhaps the most immediate and serious application is onshoring - how to be able to produce perhaps small runs of custom clothing affordably without having to send it to the other side of the world.
"So you reduce carbon footprint, you increase profitability and you bring textile manufacturing back to Scotland."
There is another possibility which looks likely to win the hearts and minds of even the most convinced Luddites.
It may be only a matter of time before the research creates a robot that can do the ironing.
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Ex-defender Pemberton, 51, played with former England and Arsenal forward Wright while at Crystal Palace.
Abraham, 18, scored his 10th goal of the season on Saturday in City's 4-0 win at Fulham.
"Tammy is very much like Ian Wright with regard to being in the right place at the right time," said Pemberton.
"Ian Wright could create something out of nothing and Tammy is the same with regards to goalscoring.
"He's frightening and he just has this knack of getting there when you think he can't do it, and that is something Wrighty had as well," he told BBC Points West.
Abraham is expected to shake off a dead leg picked up over the weekend to feature against Leeds United on Tuesday.
The Chelsea loanee has helped filled the void left by Jonathan Kodjia, who joined Aston Villa for an initial £11m.
"He is like a sponge, he wants to take everything on board," said Pemberton. "Losing Kodjia has not hurt us as much as we thought it may do and at the moment we feel we might have the better deal."
Yn ôl y Gweinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol ac Iechyd Cyhoeddus, Rebecca Evans, mae'r penderfyniad i wahardd y cadeirydd Dr Paul Thomas a'i ddirpwy Adele Baumgardt yn un "niwtral".
Ond mae'r gweinidog wedi codi gwaharddiad yn erbyn bwrdd rheoli'r corff a phenodi Lawrence Conway'n gadeirydd dros dro.
Dywedodd Ms Evans fod yr adolygiad gan Lywodraeth Cymru wedi datgelu tensiynau rhwng y tîm rheoli a bod y berthynas broffesiynol wedi chwalu.
Mewn datganiad yn y Senedd, dywedodd: "Hoffwn ei gwneud yn glir, er mwyn osgoi unrhyw amheuaeth, fod y casgliadau'n ymwneud yn bennaf â methiant yn y berthynas rhwng aelodau ar lefel uwch yn Chwaraeon Cymru.
"Mae yna faterion sydd dal angen sylw o ganlyniad i'r broses adolygu.
"Yn ogystal, mae nifer o gwynion ffurfiol wedi eu derbyn gan Lywodraeth Cymru wedi i'r adolygiad gael ei gwblhau."
Dywedodd hefyd fod Adele Baumgardt wedi ei hatal o'i swydd o ganlyniad i bryderon eraill yn ymwneud â "gweithrediad cydlynol y bwrdd".
Mae'r gweinidog wedi penodi Lawrence Conway yn gadeirydd dros dro. Mae Mr Conway yn gyn ysgrifennydd preifat i Rhodri Morgan yn ystod ei gyfnod yn Brif Weinidog Cymru.
Bydd John Taylor, sy'n gyn brif weithredwr ACAS, yn gweithio gyda Mr Conway fel ymgynghorydd er mwyn sicrhau bod y bwrdd rheoli yn gallu gweithredu'n gywir ac yn gallu gosod y gyllideb ar gyfer y flwyddyn nesa.
Ym mis Tachwedd 2016, fe gafodd gwaith bwrdd rheoli Chwaraeon Cymru ei wahardd dros dro gan y gweinidog, a dywedodd fod ei phenderfyniad yn "weithred niwtral".
Ychwanegodd bod y cadeirydd Dr Paul Thomas a'r is-gadeirydd Adele Baumgardt wedi cytuno y dylai "holl weithredoedd y Bwrdd gael eu gwahardd am y tro".
Mae un adroddiad mewnol a welwyd gan BBC Cymru o waith Chwaraeon Cymru - a oedd yn hynod feirniadol o "weledigaeth wan" y corff - yn awgrymu y dylai'r corff weld newidiadau sylweddol.
Murray helped Manila Mavericks beat Singapore Slammers 27-19 to claim their first victory of the event.
The Scot and Kirsten Flipkens beat Serena Williams and Lleyton Hewitt 6-1 in the mixed doubles.
Murray then saw off Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-5 in the singles, which was decided by a five-minute shootout.
It brought an end to the Briton's participation in the inaugural IPTL, and he will now head to Miami to begin his annual off-season training block.
"I think a lot of people were sceptical about it," Murray said of the IPTL.
"But if you look at the amount of people who have showed up here, there's been unbelievable support from Friday through to Sunday; it shows the people here love tennis. I hope we can come back next year and do it again."
After failing to register a victory over the first two days in Manila, Murray got on the scoreboard alongside Flipkens in a one-sided doubles as world number one Williams made her debut in the competition.
The American made amends in the following singles set with a 6-3 win over Flipkens.
It looked as though Murray's year would end with a defeat when he trailed the big-serving Kyrgios 5-4, but the former Wimbledon champion broke back to force a shootout.
With the 20-second shot clock driving the pace of play and the winner decided over the course of five minutes, Murray let a 4-0 lead slip and led 6-5 as the clock counted down.
A lengthy baseline rally had the crowd enthralled with victory up for grabs, and Kyrgios cracked first with a backhand into the net.
The four-team competition will now move to Singapore for three days, starting on Tuesday, before heading to Delhi and Dubai. Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer are among the players set to feature.
The seven metre (22ft) long object was discovered on the seabed during a routine sonar survey on Saturday.
A remote operated vehicle (ROV) has also captured video footage of the weapon, which is lying 32m (104ft) below the water's surface.
The Orkney Harbour Master has asked shipping vessels not to anchor within 1,000m (1093 yards) of the torpedo.
Royal Navy divers from the Northern Diving Group at Faslane are expected to view the video footage when they visit Orkney later this week.
The Martime and Coastguard Agency said it poses no immediate danger.
Bev Allen, duty controller for the UK Coastguard, said: "Until the Royal Navy divers have had a chance to examine the footage and the object we are asking that vessels and divers keep at a safe distance and follow the instructions of the Harbour Master and the UK Coastguard."
Scapa Flow was used as a Royal Navy base in both world wars and is now popular with divers due to the British and German relics lying on the seabed.
More than 50 German ships were deliberately sunk in the area at the end of World War One by their commanders to stop them being divided among the Allies.
Now, as politicians, union leaders, and business tycoons discuss how to prevent the UK steel industry from becoming history, here are some steel facts:
Basic oxygen steelmaking v electric arc furnace
The vast majority of steelmaking in the UK is conducted using the basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS) method. Oxygen is blown through liquid iron from the blast furnaces, which lowers the carbon content of the alloy and changes it into low-carbon steel.
Most steel from Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Russia, China and Japan is also made using this method.
In Italy, Spain, India, and the US, the majority of steel is made using the electric arc furnace (EAF) method. Steel production in electric arc furnaces is almost completely based on re-using scrap steel.
In the UK, EAFs are used to produce special quality steels steels alloyed with other metals, and some ordinary (non-alloy) quality steels.
Birth of the skyscraper
Because of its innovative use of steel in a metal weight-bearing frame design, the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, which opened in 1884, is often referred to as the first skyscraper.
It was a 138 feet (42m) tall, 10-storey building, designed by William Le Baron Jenney. In 1890 two further floors were added.
His design was new as it incorporated steel into the building's internal metal frame, alongside traditional cast and wrought iron. In combination with load bearing masonry it provided a more economical building design.
The building was demolished 47 years later in 1931. The building weighed only one-third as much as a similar stone building.
A plaque later placed at the site of the original building stated that it was the "first high building to utilize as the basic principle of its design the method known as skeleton construction and, being a primal influence in the acceptance of this principle was the true father of the skyscraper".
Garden cans and miners' baths
After World War Two a shortage of steel in the UK meant that supplies had to be carefully allocated, particularly when the demands of industry, repair to UK infrastructure, and house-building needs were taken into account.
One surprising side-issue emerged in May 1946 when John Belcher, MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. was asked whether, "in view of the urgent need for increased food production", he would provide steel to manufacturers of high-quality garden cans, "since at the present time market gardeners are unable to obtain them".
Mr Belcher replied that there were "no restrictions on the manufacture of garden cans, but the manufacturers are short of labour and there are difficulties in getting steel in the right gauges".
He added: "The manufacturers are also very busy with orders for other important products such as dustbins, miners' baths and buckets."
High-strength steel was developed by the-then nationalised British Steel in the 1960s in order to build a new, enlarged, aircraft hanger at Heathrow for airline BOAC.
It was soon realised that such a material could be used in a sporting context, and one of the first uses of the new steel was for Celtic Football Club in Glasgow, who were constructing a new stand.
The new 9,000-seater grandstand was built from April to August 1971, in readiness for the opening of the 1971-72 season.
The roof was supported by a huge-central spine girder, which was 320 feet (97.5 metres) long.
At the time this was the largest tubular steel girder of its type in the whole of Europe. Huge strengthened steel girders have since been used in a number of major UK sporting stadiums, and overseas.
Stainless steel
There are many claimants to the title of inventor of stainless steel, including from the UK, Germany, France, Poland, US, and Sweden.
However, what is generally accepted, is that in 1912 Sheffield researcher Harry Brearley, of Brown Firth Laboratories, was given the task of coming up with a way to extend the life of a client's gun barrels, which were eroding away too quickly.
He began experimenting with steel alloys containing chromium, and made several variations of his alloys, ranging from 6% to 15% chromium with differing amounts of carbon.
On 13 August 1913 he came up with a steel with 12.8% chromium and 0.24% carbon, argued to be the first stainless steel. It was later marketed under the Staybrite brand by Firth Vickers in England.
There are now 150 grades of stainless steel used in everything from watches and cutlery to automotive and aerospace construction.
Lt Gen Othman al-Ghanimi told the BBC he hoped the jihadist group would be defeated in the city before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins on 26 May.
Recent gains in the north meant the remaining militants were being squeezed into an ever smaller area, he added.
Mosul fell to IS in 2014 and is its last major urban stronghold in Iraq.
Pro-government forces launched a major offensive to retake the city in October with the support of US-led coalition air strikes.
They managed to take full control of the eastern half of Mosul in January and started an assault on the west the following month.
Fewer than 1,000 militants are now besieged in several north-western districts, including the Old City, along with as many as 450,000 civilians.
"The security forces are carrying out a big and effective effort. I say that Daesh (IS) will be finished in days, God willing," Gen Ghanimi told BBC Arabic's Feras Kilani.
"I say that the rest of Mosul will be liberated before the holy month of Ramadan."
A week ago, units from the army's 9th Armoured Division and the interior ministry's Rapid Response Force opened a new front in the north after the advance into the densely-populated Old City from the south and west stalled.
Progress in the north was initially limited by fierce resistance from militants using suicide car bombs and snipers, but Gen Ghanimi said gains were now being made.
On Wednesday, police commander Lt Gen Raed Jawdat said the Rapid Response Force had stormed the entrances to the Iqtisadiyeen district, south-east of Mushairfa, and killed dozens of militants in heavy clashes.
The United Nations has said the battle has left more than 8,000 civilians dead or wounded, but that figure only includes people transferred to medical facilities.
Iraq's military does not release casualty figures, but a US general said at the end of March that 774 Iraqi security personnel had been killed and 4,600 wounded.
More than 620,000 civilians have also been displaced by the fighting, among them 414,000 from western Mosul, the Iraqi authorities say.
Most have taken refuge in nearby camps and reception centres. Others are staying with relatives and friends.
The UN says another 100,000 to 200,000 could flee the final battle for the Old City.
On Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross expressed concern for civilians inside IS-led districts, saying they were facing "very stark choices" as supplies of food and water ran out.
"This population is not only exposed to the immediate dangers of the conflict itself and being either targeted or hit as collateral damage, but is also facing the effects of just no longer really having much access to the basic essentials that they need to live," deputy Middle East director Patrick Hamilton told Reuters news agency.
"People don't have enough to eat, don't have water," he added. "Babies, elderly and so on of course they are very vulnerable and may already be dying."
China's CNPC has agreed to buy $400bn (£240bn) of gas from Russia's Gazprom.
Russia will ship 38 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas annually over a period of 30 years.
The deal will lessen Russia's dependence on European buyers, who have imposed economic sanctions because of the crisis in Ukraine.
The construction ceremony was attended by Russian President Vladmir Putin and Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli.
China will start work on the construction of its side of the pipeline in the first half of 2015, Mr Zhang said.
The first gas will be pumped from Siberia to north-east China in early 2019.
Over the past 10 years, China has used other gas suppliers. Turkmenistan is now China's largest foreign gas supplier. Last year, it started importing piped natural gas from Myanmar.
China is Russia's largest single trading partner, with bilateral trade flows of $90bn (£53bn) in 2013.
The two neighbours aim to double the volume to $200bn in 10 years.
Most of the bodies found on the streets of Bujumbura appear to be young men killed by gunfire, some with their hands tied behind their backs.
The bodies were found a day after attacks on military sites. Residents accuse police of taking revenge.
Unrest has blighted Burundi since an attempted coup in May and protests over the president's continued rule.
The attempt to overthrow President Pierre Nkurunziza followed his decision to seek a third term in office, which he won in a disputed election in July.
BBC Africa analyst Richard Hamilton says bodies on the streets are almost a daily occurrence in Bujumbura but this is by far the largest number of deaths in one night.
The largest number of bodies found on Saturday were in Bujumbura's Nyakabiga district, a focus of anti-government protests.
Others were discovered in the southern neighbourhood of Musaga. There are reports of more bodies in other parts of the city.
Residents accuse the police of detaining young men during house-to-house searches on Friday and then murdering them.
But a police spokesman told Reuters there were no "collateral victims" and that those killed had been behind attacks on government installations.
Friday saw some of the worst violence since the unrest began. Officials described heavily armed attackers launching co-ordinated assaults on army installations in three areas - Ngagara, Musaga and Mujejuru.
An army spokesman said 12 insurgents were killed.
According to the UN, at least 240 people have been killed since April and more than 200,000 have fled to neighbouring countries.
There have been regular killings of both opposition activists and Nkurunziza supporters.
The violence has raised fears of a return to worsening ethnic tension between Hutus and Tutsis.
Mr Nkurunziza led a Hutu rebel group against the then Tutsi-dominated army during the civil war that followed the killing of Hutu President Melchior Ndadaye in 1993.
April 2015 - Protests erupt after President Pierre Nkurunziza announces he will seek a third term in office.
May 2015 - Constitutional court rules in favour of Mr Nkurunziza, amid reports of judges being intimidated. Tens of thousands flee violence amid protests.
May 2015 - Army officers launch a coup attempt, which fails.
July 2015 - Elections are held, with Mr Nkurunziza re-elected. The polls are disputed, with opposition leader Agathon Rwasa describing them as a "joke".
November 2015 - Burundi government gives those opposing President Nkurunziza's third term five days to surrender their weapons ahead of a promised crackdown.
November 2015 - UN warns it is less equipped to deal with violence in Burundi than it was for the Rwandan genocide
10.4m population
50 years - life expectancy for a man
2nd poorest country in the world
85% are Hutu, 14% Tutsi
300,000 died in civil war
The boy, who was going to the game for the first time, was treated in hospital for a hairline fracture to his face and has three teeth missing.
The 10-year-old was in a minibus of Rangers fans sitting in traffic at Cathcart Road, near Hampden Stadium.
A group of Celtic fans surrounded the bus and hurled abuse at the occupants.
Det Con Kenneth MacEwan said: "This was an appalling assault on the boy who was with his dad and fellow supporters going to his first Celtic v Rangers game.
"He never got to the match but instead was detained overnight in hospital and has a facial injury and teeth missing."
Det Con MacEwan said it appeared that the bottle was deliberately thrown at the minibus but the boy was not specifically targeted.
The man who threw the bottle was described as white, 5ft 11in tall and of heavy build. He was wearing green clothing and possibly a white beanie hat.
He and the men he was with continued along Cathcart Road and into Cathkin Park towards Hampden.
Earlier, police said 37 people were arrested for offences connected with the league cup semi-final, which Celtic won 2-0.
As well as minor public order offences, 12 of the arrests concerned alleged sectarian breaches of the peace.
Of those arrested, 23 people were due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court; 11 have been reported to the procurator fiscal and three were ordered to pay fixed penalty fines.
Match commander Ch Supt Andy Bates said: "As usual the vast majority of the 50,000 fans were here to enjoy the game and support their respective team; they deserve credit for their excellent behaviour.
"However, again, it is the minority of fans who spoiled the occasion by for example setting off flares and singing sectarian songs.
"We dealt with any incidents swiftly and with minimum disruption."
Women born between 1981 and 2000 can expect to be paid 9% less than men when they hit their 30th birthday, it said.
That compares with a 5% pay difference between men and women in their 20s.
As a result, having children carries a "sharp and long-lasting" pay penalty, the think-tank concluded.
It said that over a lifetime, women can lose hundreds of thousands of pounds.
"Young women today face relatively little disadvantage in terms of their pay packets compared to what their parents' and grandparents' generation faced," said Laura Gardiner, senior policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation.
"But while many millennial women haven't experienced much of a pay gap yet, most probably will once they reach their 30s, when they start having children. What's more this pay penalty is big and long-lasting, and remains for younger generations despite the progress in early careers."
The gender pay gap once women reach their 30s has changed very little in a generation, the research showed.
Last year the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) published similar research, concluding that men in their 30s tend to see their wages increase, while women's wages tend to plateau.
Jo Swinson, a former member of the coalition government and now director of Equal Power Consulting, told the BBC that sexism was still partly to blame.
"There is some occupational segregation, with more men going into science and engineering-type roles, but we also know there is discrimination at work."
However, others say the problem is not related to gender discrimination, but is due to more women of child-bearing age working in part-time jobs than men.
On average, part-time jobs carry lower pay rates than full-time jobs.
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The Resolution Foundation is calling on policymakers and businesses to work harder to eliminate the pay gap altogether.
But Jill Kirby, a former director of the Centre for Policy Studies think tank, said change should not be forced on women if they do not want it.
"Women who are highly-qualified will choose to take less demanding jobs - more nine to five, and less nine to nine-type jobs - when they have a family, because they actually feel there are better things in life than spending all their time at the office," she told the BBC.
From April 2018, companies with more than 250 employees will be required to publish detailed information about the size of the pay gap within their workforces.
A government spokesperson said: "The gender pay gap is at a record low, but we have to push further to eliminate it completely. Shining a light on organisations' pay gaps means employers can take action to tackle the causes and drive change."
Barker, a member of the successful team pursuit quartet in Rio, won gold by six points from Japan's Minami Uwano.
Mark Stewart and Ollie Wood took bronze in the madison after clinching second place in the final sprint of the race.
Britain topped the medal table in Appeldoorn, Netherlands, with two golds, two silvers and one bronze.
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Joe Truman, Ryan Owens and Jack Carlin claimed the men's team sprint on Friday. Chris Latham won silver in the men's scratch and Emily Kay matched that result in the women's omnium.
Barker said: "I'm very, very happy. It was a tough race with some really strong riders. That is probably the best I've ever performed in a points race tactically, so I'm very proud."
On Saturday, Ireland's Mark Downey won the men's points race gold.
An Airbus A380 "super jumbo" operated by Emirates landed safely at Glasgow Airport at about 12:35.
Thousands of aviation fans turned up to watch the giant aircraft arrive on Scottish soil for the first time.
The plane's arrival marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of scheduled services between Dubai and Glasgow.
The aircraft stands more than 24m (79ft) tall and has a wing span of almost 80m (262ft). It can carry more than 500 passengers.
Since Emirates began flying from Glasgow in April 2004, it has carried more than 2.4 million passengers between Scotland and the airline's global hub.
It usually flies Boeing 777 aircraft on the route, which operates twice daily.
Scotland's two busiest airports, Glasgow and Edinburgh, are locked in a battle to win new long-haul routes.
Qatar Airways will begin flying between the Scottish capital and Doha on 28 May.
The carrier will offer passengers the opportunity to travel on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which can carry about 250 passengers.
Aviation experts say the Dreamliner's range and fuel efficiency may encourage other airlines to launch long-haul services from Scotland.
The Scottish government has described securing further improvements to the country's air links as "crucial".
The historic landing was praised by Transport Minister Keith Brown who believed that the service is a statement of strength in Scotland's reputation as a global transport hub.
He said: "The Scottish Government has been a supporter of this important link from the outset and you need only look at the passenger numbers to see how successful the route has become.
"The service provides a real boost for Scotland's economy, improving connectivity from both a business and tourism standpoint, and what better way to celebrate this achievement than welcoming the world's largest commercial airliner - the A380 - to Scotland for the first time."
Amanda McMillan, Managing Director of Glasgow Airport, echoed the minister's view that the arrival of the A380 was a marker for the progress of Scottish commercial aviation.
Ms McMillan said: "Over the course of the past 10 years Emirates has established itself as Scotland's leading long-haul airline and we are honoured it has chosen to mark our successful partnership by operating Scotland's first commercial A380 service. This is a significant milestone for Glasgow and for Scottish aviation."
Speaking on board the A380, Emirates Senior Vice President Hubert Frach said: "This is a big day for us. We're marking the tenth anniversary of flights between Glasgow and Dubai and we've brought a big aircraft to celebrate."
The airline has no plans to use the super jumbo on flights to Scotland in future, and believes the current twice daily service using Boeing 777 aircraft suits passengers' needs.
Asked if the A380 could be flown on the route again, Mr Frach said: "We're very happy that we are here with a double daily triple seven service to Dubai. That allows us to offer great connectivity to the market."
Adrian Ismay, 52, was seriously hurt after a booby-trap device exploded under his van in Belfast on 4 March.
The police said that a post-mortem examination showed he died as a "direct result of the injuries" of the bomb.
Police have launched a murder inquiry into Mr Ismay's death.
Ian Simpson, from the Prison Service Benevolent Fund, said the family had been left "devastated" by his death.
"It's a very difficult time for Issy's family after the blast. We had helped him through the week, we expected that he would make a full recovery in time," he said.
"Tuesday's events were totally unexpected and totally devastated the family.
"The family have asked me to speak on their behalf to say that they have a big sorrow in their heart.
"A wonderful husband, a loving father, a friendly, gentle grandfather has been taken out of all of our lives, but particularly his family and that is going to be a massive hill for them to climb."
A dissident republican group, widely referred to as the new IRA, said it carried out the attack.
The organisation said Mr Ismay was targeted for training officers at Maghaberry Prison near Lisburn, County Antrim.
A man appeared in court on Saturday charged in connection with the bomb attack on Mr Ismay.
The PSNI have also repeated an appeal for information on two cars that police believe may have been used by the bombers - a red Citroen C3 and a silver Skoda Fabia.
Among those due to appear in court is the notorious far-right activist, Serge Ayoub.
They face 35 charges including armed violence, theft and attempted murder.
Serge Ayoub was forced to disband two far-right groups he led after sympathisers were involved in a brawl in which a left-wing activist died.
Several of those on trial on Monday for their role in the White Wolves Klan were linked to the groups banned in 2013, the Third Way and the Revolutionary Nationalist Youth.
Serge Ayoub himself is known as "Batskin" because of his fondness for baseball bats.
According to prosecutors the alleged offences took place between 2012 and 2014 and involved attacks on rival groups or former members trying to leave the gang.
In one incident, supporters of a group called Autonomous Nationalists were lured to a garage where they were attacked with knives.
But three years ago, it was a very different scene. Noisy protesters had gathered outside Dublin's government buildings, demonstrating against the country's bailout.
In the midst of the eurozone debt crisis, Ireland was forced to accept a 67bn euros (£57bn) lifeline from the European authorities.
There was anger over the huge burden the bailout had put on Ireland's population.
Now, three years on, Ireland has left the bailout programme.
But few have forgotten the economic pain and particularly the bust in the property market.
During the boom, Dublin's skyline was a forest of construction cranes.
Low global interest rates allowed Irish banks to go on a lending spree, with much of the money ending up in the construction sector.
When the bubble burst in 2008, many companies could not pay off their loans and hundreds of property firms ended up going bust each month.
Jarlath O'Leary experienced the boom and bust in the industry first hand.
His crane hire company did well during the good times, but when the crisis hit he saw demand drop by 85%.
He slashed staff numbers and reduced investment, but managed to survive while many of his competitors went bust.
Now the company is back in expansion mode and Mr O'Leary is positive about the future.
"It's different now from what it was like in the boom; business is much more like what it was historically," says Mr O'Leary.
Having fallen 50% from the peak, house prices are now up 10% in Dublin in the last year.
Residential construction is still fairly subdued but with Google, Facebook and Intel all expanding their operations in Ireland, there are hopes the building industry will grow in a more sustainable way.
"There are a number of big multinational companies that are investing heavily in new offices. Ireland feels like a good place to invest again," said Mr O'Leary.
Having had such a tough recession, many economic indicators in Ireland are bouncing back.
The economy has been creating jobs, with 58,000 new positions created over the last year.
The unemployment rate now stands at 12.5% (though this is still a lot higher than the UK's rate of 7.6%).
But the improvements have come at a price.
Public sector wages have fallen on average by around 20% since the start of the crisis and those in the private sector have also seen their pensions and pay slashed.
In graphics: Eurozone crisis
Part of the story behind the improved jobs numbers has been increase in migration from Ireland over the past few years.
In the last year, more than 34,000 young people have left the country, with the UK and Australia the two most popular destinations.
There's a feeling of relief and celebration around the main square of Trinity College Dublin.
The students filling out of exam rooms ready for the Christmas holidays seem positive about their futures, but the shadow of the financial crisis is never far away.
Cormac Noonan, 21, has seen the pressure of the lack of opportunities in the job market first hand.
His older brother was forced to move to Australia to find work in the construction sector and he is unsure if he will find work in Ireland once he finishes his degree in management and computing.
"It's tough for young people to have to move away to find work. It's also very difficult for their parents, with them being in places like Australia and Canada.
"But hopefully things will pick up and they can come back and work in Ireland again," he said.
The Irish government is trying to strike the right balance between trumpeting the country's achievements and warning about the challenges ahead.
It has already made 28bn euros worth of spending cuts and tax rises over the last three years.
"This is a very important moment. Three years ago this government was broke, we were in a position where nobody would lend to Ireland," says Eamon Gilmore, the deputy prime minister.
"Three years ago this country was losing 7,000 jobs a month. Now we are creating 5,000 jobs a month.
"But there is still lots to do - we still have a very high level of unemployment, especially amongst young people," he said.
There are some who worry that a downturn in the world economy could have a serious impact on Ireland's heavily export-dependent economy.
But for the moment, many in Ireland are just coming to terms with what's become a rare commodity in past five years - good economic news.
Residents reported hearing gunshots and a large part of the street in Greenvale was blocked off during the operation.
Officers with assault rifles and in bomb disposal suits were seen entering one house and searching it.
Australia has been on heightened alert for terrorist activity and has conducted several anti-terror raids in recent months.
Authorities arrested five men last month, also in Melbourne, for allegedly planning an attack on an Anzac Day ceremony.
Last September saw the country's biggest counter-terrorism operation, with more than 800 officers raiding homes in Sydney, and detaining 15 people.
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Kaye Adams is to host a new daily three-hour programme, replacing Morning Call and MacAulay & Co.
Starting in March, it will include debates, interviews and phone-ins.
Fred MacAulay will continue to work for the station on a series of comedy programmes.
They include Breaking The News, a new weekly satirical panel show with comedians and journalists recorded in front of a live audience.
Elsewhere, Good Morning Scotland will be broadcast on Sundays and Newsdrive will be extended by 30 minutes every weekday.
Morning Briefing will no longer be broadcast.
All of the new schedule changes will start in mid to late March.
The changes are being made to bring more news and current affairs to daytime coverage in line with BBC Scotland's "speech by day, music by night" strategy.
Jeff Zycinski, head of radio for BBC Scotland, said: "Both the Commonwealth Games and the referendum showed us that our listeners want to participate in issues that affect their lives and this move will help them do just that.
"They've told us they want to play their part in questioning the people whose decisions impact on their lives and this move, along with a commitment to new comedy, sport and music, will form the spine of our new schedule."
Kaye Adams said: "Our listeners often help us get to the nub of any story and their contributions and reactions frequently shed new light on subjects close to their hearts.
"They tell us how things impact directly on them and that way we, in turn, can ask our decision-makers to explain their thinking.
"This new show will allow us to really discuss and dissect the issues of the day and put our decision-makers on the spot."
The new morning programme "Kaye Adams" will be hosted by John Beattie on Fridays, in addition to his existing lunchtime news programme which runs Monday to Thursday.
As well as Breaking The News, Fred MacAulay will host a series of shows from the Edinburgh Fringe and present a documentary on the impact of comedy on politics.
Mr MacAulay, who has been presenting MacAulay & Co for the last 17 years, said: "I am looking forward to taking my radio audience with me on a new journey as I return to my comedy roots.
"I am excited to be hosting these brand new series and working with BBC Scotland and independent production colleagues."
A new two-hour evening music show, Tonight at The Quay, will also be recorded weekly in front of a live audience at the BBC's Pacific Quay building as part of the changes.
There will be extra sports coverage as well, with extended Sportsound programmes and a weekly magazine show focussing on personal fitness.
Luis Suarez scored twice and Neymar and Andres Iniesta also netted as Barca - for whom Lionel Messi was a second-half substitute - went six points clear of Real at the top of La Liga.
"This victory tastes glorious because it is against our eternal rivals," said Enrique, who played for both sides.
"It will be very difficult for us to better this performance."
Barca were as dominant as the scoreline suggests and could have won by more goals.
Enrique added: "Winning like this against players of such a high level is difficult, but we managed to pull off what we were hoping to do throughout the game.
"I don't think Real Madrid gave up. We were a level above them and we outnumbered them in many areas of the game. The game is more of a reflection of our merits than Madrid's faults."
Messi, returning after nine games out because of a knee injury, had a hand in Suarez's second goal - Barca's fourth.
Suarez and Neymar ensured Barcelona did not miss the Argentine too much during his two months out, scoring all 19 of the club's La Liga goals before Iniesta struck at the Bernabeu.
Enrique had said in his Friday news conference that he would wait until the last minute to decide whether to start the club's all-time top scorer.
But speaking after Saturday's game, he said: "I decided it during the week and I wanted to get feedback from him. It was a relatively easy decision to make, and Leo also understood it."
Barca captain Iniesta, who scored and assisted in a Clasico for the first time, called his side's performance "complete".
"We wanted to win by the highest goal difference possible and the bigger the distance the better," he said. "Our lead is six points but it is not decisive. There's a long way to go."
Iniesta was given a standing ovation by the home fans when he was substituted, and said: "I am grateful for the applause."
Suarez said: "We are six points up against a direct rival but there's a lot left. I'm thrilled. These games are double the fun and I'm very satisfied."
In 2014, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA) ruled on 2,175 cases, with 500 going in favour of the students.
Disputes over academic issues such as degree classification or marks for work formed 61% of complaints.
Universities UK said that two million students were covered by the system and the percentage of complaints was small.
The £400,000 in compensation was paid to 200 students following recommendations made to individual universities by the OIA.
Of the 2,175 complaints dealt with 59% were found unjustified, 14% were found ineligible for OIA intervention and 5% were withdrawn.
Less than a quarter, 23% (figures do not add up to 100% owing to rounding) went in favour of the student.
OIA chief executive Rob Behrens said: "Depending on the case, this may lead to the student being given a second chance to submit work or appeal against a decision, cancellation of a penalty imposed by a university, or financial compensation, which in 2014 reached almost £400,000.
"As importantly, the report shows that, overall, universities are doing a thorough job in dealing with the majority of complaints fairly."
The number of complaints dealt with by the OIA has remained pretty steady, at about 2,000 during the past three years.
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, said: "The shift in England from public funding to increased fees means that students are understandably, and rightly, demanding more from their university courses.
"Universities are responding to this and are also improving the amount of information to students about courses to ensure that their experience matches their expectations.
"It is important to remember that the total number of complaints found to be justified or partly justified [500] represents a small percentage of the two million students covered by the scheme in England and Wales."
The OIA report also said it had dealt with complaints from students involved in protests, who had been unhappy with the way their university had handled the situation.
And each year it received a small number of complaints from students who may be victims or alleged perpetrators in cases of sexual harassment and assault on campus.
It said: "It should be of concern to everyone working and studying in higher education that cases occur of unwanted physical contact, unwanted advances, initiation ceremonies, sexual innuendo and threats.
"We have made, and providers have implemented, recommendations about improving support and strengthening processes to help students, and also staff, involved in such cases.
"The OIA's role is not to judge the behaviour but to look at how the providers dealt with complaints or disciplinary cases."
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The 25-year-old initially moved to Sixways in November last year on a short-term deal to provide cover for the injured Francois Hougaard.
Dowsett has played eight times since joining from Australian Super Rugby side ACT Brumbies.
"Michael has shown tremendous professionalism," director of rugby Gary Gold told the club website.
"He provides important competition in the half-back position and he's a hungry, enthusiastic individual who drives standards across the board."
Fold Housing Association wants to build 244 homes, a community centre and business units on the site.
The development is opposed by some local residents who object to the loss of a site that was previously used for employment purposes.
Belfast City Council's planning committee will decide on the proposals next week.
Fold had been required to revise the scheme after planners said it did not include enough new space for economic or business use.
The plan now includes more space for business units.
The Visteon factory closed in 2009 with the loss of more than 200 jobs.
Its sales increased by 2.1% in the 12 weeks to 22 May compared with the same period last year.
Discount chains Lidl and Aldi continued to post the highest growth, with Lidl up 14.2% and Aldi 11.4% higher.
The "big four" grocers - Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons - continued to shed market share.
Overall, the grocery market was "essentially flat" in the quarter, Kantar said, with the value of sales up by just 0.1%.
The figures relate to overall take-home sales and therefore reflect the impact of store openings or closures.
The Co-operative posted higher sales during the period, up 3.3%, while its market share rose from 6% to 6.2%.
Among the discounters. Aldi's market share rose to 6.0% from 5.4% a year earlier, while Lidl's share increased to 4.4% from 3.9%.
Sales decreased at the four biggest retailers, though the decline of 1% at Tesco was the lowest for two years. Its market share fell to 28.3% from 28.6%.
Sainsbury's posted a similar decline in sales as its market share fell to 16.2% from 16.5%.
However, Edward Garner, director at Kantar Worldpanel, said customers had not abandoned the major retailers, as their combined shopper numbers had dropped by only 0.2% in the past 12 weeks.
"While the big four are struggling to keep their market share what's clear is that consumers aren't flocking away from their stores," he said.
Kantar said food prices fell by 1.5% in the latest quarter, representing the 22nd consecutive period of grocery price deflation.
"Falling prices reflect the impact of Aldi and Lidl and the market's competitive response, as well as deflation in some major categories such as pork, poultry, butter, eggs and vegetables."
With 13.7% of worldwide sales, it's the highest British share since the BPI began recording those figures in 2000.
Sales of albums by British artists rose in Canada, Australia, Italy and Sweden, as well as the US.
Albums from Sam Smith and Pink Floyd also made the top ten list of the world's biggest-sellers of 2014.
According to the BPI's Music Market 2015 report, Taylor Swift topped the list of global recording artists, after shifting six million copies of her album 1989.
The figures, which take into account album sales, track sales and streams, put One Direction in second place and Sheeran in third.
The BPI also found that streaming had doubled in the UK during 2014.
As previously reported, British acts dominated album sales in the UK in 2014, taking each of the top 10 best-selling artist albums of the year for the first time, and accounting for more than half of album sales.
Other British artists making a notable global impact in 2014 include London Grammar in France and Australia, James Blunt in Germany, Paloma Faith in Australia and Arctic Monkeys in countries including the US.
British artists accounted for 20.4% of sales in Australia, while in Italy it was 19.8%.
BPI and Brit Awards chief executive, Geoff Taylor, said the figures showed the UK is a "creative powerhouse".
"Music is a tremendous exports success story for the UK - all around the world, fans are listening to the records we produce, supporting not only our balance of trade but a positive image for Britain overseas," he said.
Source: IFPI (positions are based on album sales, track sales and streams)
James Taggart, from Kingsmere Gardens in Londonderry, was 17 at the time of the offence in February 2012.
He attacked and raped the 19-year-old woman after meeting her in the bar in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.
Jailing him, the judge at Dungannon Crown Court said he met the threshold of a dangerous offender as he posed a significant risk of serious harm.
He had denied the attack but last September, a jury unanimously found him guilty of raping and assaulting the victim after a 10-day trial.
Taggart, who is now aged 20, was handed an extended sentence of nine years in custody, followed by two years on licence.
He must serve at least half of the sentence before being considered for release and he will remain indefinitely on the sex offenders' register.
The judge said the offence was aggravated because he was on bail at the time having been released from prison, had previous convictions for assault, and the attack involved violence.
She said the victim has suffered a significant psychological impact.
Taggart continues to deny his guilt and had claimed to police that the woman had consented to having sex after she returned to his house.
The judge said he had shown no compassion or remorse at his trial, and the victim had been subjected to a lengthy cross-examination in which she had been required to demonstrate how she had been throttled around her throat during the attack.
The victim told the trial that Taggart had "absolutely flipped" and she said she could scarcely breathe and that she was scared for her life.
The court was told he had spent his formative teenage years in custody for a series of violent assaults.
He was assessed as being dangerous at an earlier court hearing in September 2013 after he pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent for an assault in 2011 when he stamped and kicked a person as they lay on the ground.
His defence barrister said that Taggart was addressing his problems and risks of future offending, and that his future was "not too pessimistic."
Early in any new premiership, a new prime minister is asked to write "the last resort letters".
This is a set of instructions for the commanding officers of the Royal Navy's four Vanguard class ballistic missile carrying submarines, which are only to be opened in the event that the prime minister is wiped out in a nuclear attack.
"It's a very big moment," admitted Theresa May's predecessor, David Cameron, in an interview with me and my colleague Peter Hennessey.
"It's the oddest in a way. You've seen prime ministers drive up to Buckingham Palace. You've seen them walking through the door of No 10.
"You can't really believe you're doing it yourself, but that bit in your office, writing out the letters... it is such an extraordinary thing to have to do, you can't really imagine it until you do it."
On Monday, Mrs May will ask the House of Commons to approve a motion on the United Kingdom's independent nuclear deterrent and to support a "decision to take the necessary steps required to maintain the current posture by replacing the current Vanguard-class submarines with four successor submarines".
The debate will mark the culmination of a process that started in December 2006, when Tony Blair's cabinet met and agreed, without a single dissenting voice, to sustain the nuclear deterrent over the period 2020 to 2050 and beyond, by building four new submarines. That's the minimum number required to ensure one submarine is always at sea, providing what is known as continuous at sea deterrence.
The decision was endorsed by parliament in 2007, and in two Strategic Defence and Security Reviews (SDSR) in 2010 and 2015.
The scale, complexity and cost of the acquisition programme is vast.
The government describes it as "a national endeavour… one of the largest government investment programmes, equivalent in scale to Crossrail or HS2".
It is estimated to cost £31bn (including inflation), with a contingency of a further £10bn, spread over 35 years.
Mrs May's views are well known. "It would be sheer madness to contemplate even for a moment giving up Britain's independent nuclear deterrent," she wrote a few weeks ago.
Opponents argue that the UK no longer needs nuclear weapons, that the cost is too high and that emerging capabilities, such as cyber attacks, autonomous underwater vehicles or underwater drones, will make submarines vulnerable.
The government, which devotes considerable resources to assessing the threats from emerging capabilities, rejects such arguments. "The submarines that carry our Trident missiles will not be rendered obsolete by new technologies," said Philip Dunne, minister of state for defence procurement on 19 May.
Given the Conservative majority in the House of Commons, the motion will almost certainly pass. But Mrs May cannot count on the support of some in the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn, a unilateralist and member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, has spent his life campaigning against nuclear weapons. He believes that ridding Britain of nuclear weapons is a moral issue.
Many Labour MPs disagree. Mr Corbyn is expected to offer Labour MPs a free vote.
"We are going to have a discussion about it," he said last week. "I recognise there are big differences of opinion on it.
"My views are very well known on this, the views of others are well known on this, and so there may well be MPs voting in different lobbies."
If the motion passes work on the "successor" submarines will almost certainly continue until the 2020 election, due under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
By that time the first submarine will be taking shape and steelwork for the second will be in full production in the BAE shipyard in Barrow. In addition a multitude of components and sub-assemblies will be being manufactured for all four boats by hundreds of suppliers.
It will be very difficult for a future government to cancel the programme.
There will almost certainly be a British bomb with, as Attlee's foreign secretary Ernest Bevin said in 1946, a "bloody Union Jack on top of it", somewhere in the grey wastelands of the North Atlantic in the 2030s, 2040s and 2050s.
When faced with the nuclear question, Mrs May is the latest in a long line of British prime ministers, who as primary guardians of national security, seem, knowingly or unknowingly, to have been disciples of Cicero, who wrote in De Legibus: Salus populi suprema est lex - The safety of the people is the chief law.
James Jinks is the co-author with Peter Hennessey of The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 (Penguin/Random House, 2016).
Shaesta Waiz, 29, is the first female certified civilian pilot from Afghanistan and aims to be the youngest woman to fly solo around the world.
She started her epic flight in a small, single-engine plane from the US where she now lives and recently arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Ms Waiz told reporters she was excited to be back in the country of her birth.
"It's been almost 29 years. To come back to the country as a pilot who is flying around the world to inspire others - it makes me really happy to be here," she said.
Ms Waiz was born in a refugee camp and travelled from Afghanistan to the US in 1987 with her parents and five sisters to escape the Soviet-Afghan war.
She grew up in an underprivileged area of Richmond, California, and said it wasn't until she discovered aviation that she started thinking about going to college and having a career.
"When I was a little girl I thought maybe I would go to college, but I would get married at a young age and have a family. But then I found something that I really loved and that's flying," she told a news conference in Kabul.
"It's an incredible feeling to be the pilot of your own aeroplane and to fly wherever your heart desires. It's a passion that I really enjoy, that I protect, and that I want women from Afghanistan to experience as well."
She founded a non-profit organisation called Dreams Soar and wants her flight around the world to help inspire girls and young women to pursue science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education.
Ms Waiz is the first person in her family to earn a bachelor's and a master's degree.
She says her message is that you can come "from any background, you can have any set of challenges but what's really important is that you have to dream, to dream big and work hard and go after it".
Ms Waiz began her journey in Florida on 13 May and is visiting 19 countries in her Beechcraft Bonanza A36 plane. After leaving Afghanistan she will fly on through Asia and Australia before crossing the US back to Florida.
She says she already has plans to return to Afghanistan.
"In a couple of years I have every intention of coming back here and maybe opening a flight school or doing something so that women can experience aviation in Afghanistan," she said.
"Women are suffering here a lot," she added. "I am very fortunate to have had the opportunity to be educated, to find something that I love which is flying and it breaks my heart because I know there are a lot of girls my age who haven't had the opportunities.
"I want to do something to give back to these women."
Match Commander David McCallum said the majority of the crowd at the match in Dumfries had been well behaved.
However, he said there were a number of incidents of disorder during the game.
They included one incident, which remains under investigation, where visiting supporters refused requests to remove a banner.
Police said an 18-year-old man had been arrested in relation to public order offences committed while a banner was being removed from advertising hoardings by stewards and police in contravention of ground rules.
They stressed the content of the banner was not in question and number of other banners had been displayed in a manner which had not contravened ground rules.
The increase means new starters could receive up to £29,500 a year.
Ministers said they wanted to attract the "best talent". Prisons with recruitment issues are being targeted.
Jails have been hit by staff strikes and rising violence in recent months. A union welcomed the rise but said ministers were "papering over cracks".
The Prison Officers Association (POA) added that the government was dealing with "crisis management on a daily basis".
The pay increase applies to "band 3" staff, who make up the majority of front-line officers.
Prisons in London and the south-east, including Wormwood Scrubs, Pentonville, Belmarsh and Whitemoor, were chosen as they find it harder to recruit.
The Ministry of Justice said "thousands" of employees would benefit. The £12m package is an attempt to boost falling prison officer numbers.
On Thursday, it was revealed that, in 2016, the number of front-line staff in England and Wales fell by 347 (1.9%) to 17,888.
The leaving rate was almost 9% - almost double the level of four years earlier.
Steve Gillan, the general secretary of the POA, said it had been told about the increase on Tuesday, and that "not a lot of thought" had gone into the rise.
"We welcome any new money," he said, "but we're a national service and this only applies to 31 prisons [out of more than 100 in England and Wales].
"It doesn't apply to the operational support grades, so the lowest-paid people in the service are getting nothing.
"We pointed that out and there was a deathly silence."
Mr Gillan also said that pay was not the only concern of his members.
"The violence in prisons is out of control," he said. "The prisoners are in control, not the staff."
In November a government White Paper announced an extra 2,500 prison officers would be in place by the end of 2018.
That was on top of an extra 400 officers, to be in place by March this year.
The Ministry of Justice said it was "on track" to meet that target, with 389 job offers made to new recruits.
Justice Secretary Liz Truss said: "Prison officers do a challenging and demanding job day in and day out.
"I want front-line staff to know that their work, experience and loyal service is valued.
"We also want to attract the best new talent into the service, ensuring we recruit and retain the leaders of the future."
The 31 prisons affected are: Aylesbury, Bedford, Bullingdon, Coldingley, Cookham Wood, Downview, Elmley, Feltham, Grendon, High Down, Highpoint, Huntercombe, Medway, Send, Stanford Hill, Swaleside, The Mount, Woodhill, Brixton, Belmarsh, Isis, Pentonville, Rochester, Wandsworth, Wormwood Scrubs, Erlestoke, Lewes, Whitemoor, Chelmsford, Guys Marsh and Littlehey.
GPS jammers are believed to be mostly used by people driving vehicles fitted with tracking devices in order to mask their whereabouts.
In one location the Sentinel study recorded more than 60 GPS jamming incidents in six months.
The research follows concern that jammers could interfere with critical systems which rely on GPS.
The team behind the research believes it is the first study of its kind in the UK.
Its findings will be presented at the GNSS Vulnerability 2012: Present Danger, Future Threats conference held at the National Physical Laboratory on Wednesday.
The Sentinel research project used 20 roadside monitors to detect jammer use.
"We think it's the only system of its kind in the world," Bob Cockshott of the ICT Knowledge Transfer Network and organiser of the conference told the BBC.
The sensors recorded every time a vehicle with a jammer passed by.
"We believe there's between 50 and 450 occurrences in the UK every day," said Charles Curry of Chronos Technology, the company leading the project, though he stressed that they were still analysing the data.
He told the BBC that evidence from the project suggested that most jammers were small portable devices with an area of effect of between 200m and 300m.
The project received £1.5m funding from the Technology Strategy Board and involved a number of partners including the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).
Mr Curry said the research had also resulted in the detection and confiscation by the police of one jammer.
"We detected a pattern and they [the police] were able to go and sit and wait," he said.
Mr Curry said the research was also able to establish that jammers were responsible for interference experienced by Ordnance Survey equipment.
GPS jammers are widely available online, one reason Mr Cockshott believes the law around jammers needs tightening.
He thinks the Sentinel project should now work towards developing systems that will help catch those using jammers.
"The next step is to develop the system further so that it can be used for enforcement, so that you can detect a jammer in use and then relate it to the driver that's using it," he said.
Logistics and other companies often install GPS trackers so they can follow the movements of vehicles.
They are also used so vehicles carrying valuable loads can be tracked.
Researchers believe most GPS jammers are used to stop these devices working.
"A GPS satellite emits no more power than a car headlight, and with that it has to illuminate half the Earth's surface," Prof David Last, a past president of the Royal Institute of Navigation, told the BBC.
"A very, very low power jammer that broadcasts on the same radio frequency as the GPS will drown it out.
"Most of them are used by people who don't want their vehicles to be tracked," he said.
But the jamming technology can cause problems for other safety-critical systems using GPS.
In mobile phone and power networks GPS satellite signals are sometimes used as a source of accurate timing information.
GPS is even used to provide accurate time information for some computerised transactions in financial markets.
And other GPS navigation devices used by ships and light aircraft could also be affected by jammers.
In 2009 Newark airport in the US found some of its GPS based systems were suffering repeated interference.
The problem was eventually traced back to a truck driver using a GPS jammer.
It appeared on her Goop lifestyle website last year in a post to announce the separation in March 2014.
She told business magazine Fast Company her editor came up with the phrase.
"When I announced that I was separating on the website, [Elise Loehnen] titled the piece 'Conscious Uncoupling' and I had no idea," she said.
The phrase became one of the most derided terms on the internet, with the Guardian calling it "deluded tosh."
"I just tell them that I think we are creating interesting discussions," she said.
However, Paltrow did actually use a version of the phrase in the text of the blogpost announcing the split, which was written under her and Martin's names.
"We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and co-parent, we will be able to continue in the same manner," they wrote.
She also discussed the phrase on Howard Stern's US Sirius XM Radio show in January, admitting it is a "kind of a goofy term."
"I made a mistake in I didn't give it [the term conscious uncoupling] context," she said.
"I didn't say, 'this is... a philosophy'...I didn't know it was going to cause such a big thing."
Paltrow has also advocated the process of "conscious uncoupling" by posting an article about the philosophy on her website.
Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead could chart inside the top five on Sunday.
MP John Whittingdale said "it would be better" not to play it, while DJ Paul Gambaccini insisted: "It's not something to editorialise about."
A Radio 1 spokesman said a decision would be made "when the final chart positions were clear".
"This is an attempt to manipulate the charts by people trying to make a political point," Mr Whittingdale, who is chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, told the Daily Mail
"Most people find that offensive and deeply insensitive."
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, music critic Neil McCormick opined that "there is no reason for the BBC to risk upsetting many listeners just to satisfy a few troublemakers".
The paper also quoted former Conservative Party chairman Lord McAlpine, who said he was "absolutely astounded" the corporation was "even considering playing it".
But Conservative MP Philip Davies said: 'It's a chart programme so if it's top of the charts they have to play it. It's not for the BBC to define on what basis something is in the charts."
During a visit to Oxfordshire on Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said he did not feel the online campaign was "in very good taste at all" but that it was not for politicians "to start telling the BBC what songs they broadcast".
"Whatever your views are about the song or the campaign, or indeed about Margaret Thatcher, I really don't think we should start telling broadcasters what songs they should play," he told BBC South Today.
A number of media experts have told the BBC the Wizard of Oz track should be played, particularly if it charts inside the Top 10.
They include Trevor Dann, the BBC's former head of music entertainment, who said he could not see "any reason" why it should not be played.
"The chart is almost like a news programme; it's a programme of record," he said.
"It's not for the BBC to judge if it's an appropriate record for people to buy and therefore for them to play."
His position was echoed by radio consultant John Myers, who felt it should be played provided there was no reference to the campaign surrounding it.
"If you set up a chart show to play the nation's most purchased or downloaded songs, that's what you have to play," said Mr Myers, a former chief executive of the Radio Academy.
"You don't have to say why people have bought it, but you do have to play it."
Perhaps the highest profile track to be banned by the BBC in recent years was Frankie Goes to Hollywood's debut single Relax, following its release in 1984.
Then Radio 1 DJ Mike Read was playing the thumping dance anthem on his Radio 1 chart show and removed the needle from the record midway through the song when the sexual nature of the lyrics suddenly dawned on him.
Read branded the record "obscene", vowing never to play it again, with the rest of the BBC swiftly following his lead.
But the airplay ban only served to increase the notoriety and popularity of the record and it went on to occupy the number one spot for five weeks, without the BBC's help.
When Frankie Goes to Hollywood's follow-up single Two Tribes went to number one, Relax climbed back up the charts to number two.
Later that year the ban was finally lifted and Relax featured on the Christmas Top of the Pops and Radio 1's countdown of the year's best-selling records.
Journalist and DJ Paul Gambaccini has expressed a similar opinion, telling BBC WM that the programme was "not a programme of choice".
"The Top 40 is the news of music," he went on. "It's not something to editorialise about - it's just fact. You can't change reality."
"I feel utterly sorry for all the chart shows," added Vivienne Pattison of Mediawatch UK, a group that campaigns for family values in the media.
"It's put them in a really invidious position.
"But chart shows exist to play the most bought or downloaded songs, and to change that is to interfere with a democratic process."
The track is also number one in the Capital Chart's Big Top 40. Earlier this week, its sponsor Vodafone said: "We simply sponsor the chart itself, we don't pass comment on the tracks it contains."
A spokesman for Capital FM said the station was currently "reviewing the situation".
Asked to comment on the subject earlier this week by BBC staff, the corporation's new director general Tony Hall said he found the campaign "pretty tasteless".
"But let's see," he continued. "If there's an editorial reason for saying it's number one, or it's the fastest riser, this week, we'll have to rethink."
Greg Dyke, a former director general of the BBC, said Lady Thatcher herself would have found the idea of not playing the track "ridiculous".
"If they don't play it they are making a political statement," he told Newsbeat's Chi Chi Izundu.
The original track was performed in the 1939 Judy Garland film by characters celebrating the demise of the much-hated Wicked Witch of the East.
Opponents of Margaret Thatcher have been buying copies of the song following the former Prime Minister's death on Monday at the age of 87.
According to the Official Charts Company, Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead is currently on course to claim the number three placing in Sunday's countdown.
Meanwhile, an alternative online campaign has been launched to push the Notsensibles' light-hearted punk track I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher to number one.
The single was initially released in 1980, following the former PM's election victory.
In 1977 the BBC refused to play God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols when it charted during the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations.
Pennie Davies, 47, was found dead in a field in the New Forest on 2 September last year.
Justin Robertson, 36, denies murder while Benjamin Carr, 22, has denied arranging for her to be killed.
Judge Justice Andrew Popplewell QC told the jury both men "had their own interests to serve" in court.
Mr Carr, of Edward Road, Southampton and co-accused Samantha Maclean, 28, of Beech Crescent, Hythe, both deny conspiracy to murder.
Summing up at Winchester Crown Court, the judge said the prosecution's case was that Mr Carr had recruited Mr Robertson to kill Mrs Davis over fears she would go back to police with sexual assault allegations made against him.
Mr Robertson, the judge told jurors, "denied being involved in any such plan."
He had claimed a set of keys found near Mrs Davis's body which linked him to the crime had been "planted".
During trial, Mr Carr had said he recruited Mr Robertson to "scare" Mrs Davis and warn her away from his family, but not to harm her.
The judge said Mr Carr had told the court he and Robertson "hadn't considered the possibility" Mrs Davis could scream and resist during the incident.
"He said that it was simply a case of hoping that putting the frighteners on her would keep her out of his life," the judge said.
Both men had given evidence during trial to support their own case while undermining the other's, the judge told the jury.
"Treat it with caution," he said, "because they have their own interests to serve".
Ms Davis had seven knife wounds to her torso and five to her right arm, the "depth and number" of which may have led jurors to conclude she had been subjected to a "particularly brutal attack", the judge said.
Ms Maclean's case was that "she did not know of any plan" to kill Ms Davies, the judge said.
He is expected to finish summing up on Thursday.
The trial continues.
They say they have been "undermined" over proposals to reform the system of offender management within jails.
There is also concern over safety, with almost 5,000 assaults on prison staff last year.
The Prison Service has said it will be "continuing discussions" with unions to address their concerns.
The Prison Officers Association (POA) told its members to gather outside each prison and hold an hour-long branch meeting between 08:00 BST and 09:00 BST.
Prison officers are technically banned from going on strike but in 2012 they took part in walkouts over pension reforms.
The POA says it is angry that its members have not been consulted over the government's plans to change the way prisoners are supervised during their sentences - which it believes could lead to redundancies.
It has accused prison officials of a "complete lack of engagement" over the plans.
In a joint letter, the POA's national chairman, Mike Rolfe, and general secretary, Steve Gillian, say the reforms will lead to a diminishing of workers' rights and add that they make "no apology" for asking members to call the walkout meetings.
They wrote: "The Prison Service has been in perpetual crisis for a long period of time.
"Many good, committed and hardworking colleagues, our members, have long been struggling to deal with the increasing violence, challenging working environments and destructive budget cuts that have seen a drastic reduction in staffing and have made our establishments dangerous and unsafe places to work."
They added: "We must try and protect and challenge from the ill-conceived, under-resourced and dangerous attack on our terms and conditions and working practices."
A POA spokesman said he expected between 5,000 and 6,000 prison officers to have taken part in the walkout, with the numbers showing the "strength of feeling" of its members.
He added that members had been told to be "responsible" and that patrols took place on prison wings while the meetings were taking place.
Prison officer Mark Fairhurst, a member of the POA's national executive committee who attended the meeting at Liverpool Prison, said proposed changes to terms and conditions had been made with no consultation, adding: "This is completely unacceptable. They need to sit around the table and discuss these things."
He said the plans included outsourcing offender management to probation teams, as well as scrapping the rank of supervising officer.
He added: "We're now in a situation where it's a perfect storm - there are rising violence levels and reduced staffing levels. We're not prepared to put up with it any more."
Prison officer Dave Todd, a member of the POA's national executive committee for London and Kent, said there could be redundancies - though it was not yet clear how the reforms would affect staff.
He said members were "not opposed to reform and change" but that no detail had been disclosed.
On Wednesday the BBC reported that prison officers at five prisons in England had staged unofficial walkouts over the past five months to raise concerns about safety.
In May, four members of staff refused to carry out their duties at the Mount prison in Hertfordshire, while 40 prison officers at Holme House jail, in Stockton on Teesside, withdrew in protest about changes to the regime.
Further unofficial action occurred last month, when officers on two wings at Swinfen Hall in Staffordshire left prisoners locked in their cells because of safety concerns.
A Prison Service spokesman said: "This morning's unlawful industrial action lasted an hour or less at most prisons. All staff have now resumed normal working. An appropriate level of security was in place across the prison estate at all times.
"Strike action is unlawful for prison officers. We are in regular contact with unions and are continuing discussions to address any concerns they have."
He added that "safety and security" of prisons was a priority with "well-established plans" in place to respond to action.
Those who took part in the unofficial walkouts lost an hour's pay, the Prison Service said.
Shadow prisons minister Jo Stevens said: "Any sensible employer undertaking major changes in the workplace would actively engage with their workforce right at the start, so those changes have the best chance of success.
"Our prisons are overcrowded, understaffed and violence against prison officers is at record levels. Prison officers rightly feel aggrieved about the lack of consultation with them."
The Ministry of Justice announced almost £13m in funds to improve safety in prisons last month.
Police believe Shannon Miles targeted Darren Goforth at a petrol station near Houston because Goforth was in uniform.
Houston officials did not disclose a motive, but took issue with recent protests against police officers.
"This rhetoric has gotten out of control," Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman said on Saturday.
"We've heard black lives matter, all lives matter. Well, cops' lives matter too," he said. "Why don't we drop the qualifier, and say 'Lives Matter' and take that to the bank?"
Miles, 30, is black and Goforth, who was 47, was white.
The Black Lives Matter movement grew to prominence after a white policeman killed Michael Brown - an unarmed black teenager - in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.
The protest movement has continued to gain strength over the past year after several controversial police-involved deaths of black people including those of Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and Sandra Bland.
"It is time for the silent majority in this country to support law enforcement," said Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson on Saturday.
"There are a few bad apples in every profession but that does not mean that there should be open warfare declared on law enforcement.
"The vast majority of officers are there to do the right thing, care about community."
The Black Lives Matter movement responded to Mr Hickman and Ms Anderson, saying the group promotes peace.
"It is unfortunate that Sheriff Hickman has chosen to politicise this tragedy and to attribute the officer's death to a movement that seeks to end violence," Deray Mckesson, one of the group's leaders, said on Twitter.
Goforth was pumping petrol on Friday night when prosecutors say Miles approached him from behind and shot him 15 times. A surveillance camera filmed the incident.
Miles appeared in court on Monday as prosecutors laid out the case against him.
Prosecutors said ballistic tests show that Miles owns the weapon that killed Goforth and a witness placed Miles at the scene.
Miles was previously convicted of charges of resisting arrest and disorderedly conduct with a firearm. There is no evidence that he and Goforth knew one another.
Emily Gardner, 14, from Gloucester, died while on holiday in May last year.
She was a passenger on a speedboat when her buoyancy aid became snagged after a large wave overturned the boat.
An inquest heard Emily was under the water for 15 minutes in the sea off Brixham.
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Coroner Ian Arrow described the police video as "extremely stressful" and told the jury it was not their role to "apportion blame".
The hearing was told the speedboat was owned by Paul Pritchard and Philip Marr, had cost them £1,800 from eBay and had been serviced months before the incident.
Investigating officer Det Sgt Andrew Turner told the inquest that two in the group had been at the front and rear of the boat on sea scooters when it "encountered a wave and overturned".
Although the inquest was told Emily was a good swimmer, Det Sgt Turner said her buoyancy aid "got caught in the rear cleat in the upturned boat".
The officer said the weather and sea conditions were force 4-5 with "significant 1.1 metre wave height".
Luke Holland-Bowyer, 18, had been riding one of the sea scooters and said a "wave came out of nowhere" and "it was blue on blue, a blue wave on blue sea".
Mr Pritchard, who was driving the boat, said he did not see the large wave or he would have taken evasive action.
John Ford, skipper of the Silver Sea Brixham Express Ferry, went to help and tried to right it by towing it, to help locate and free Emily.
He estimated Emily was under the water for 15 minutes.
Nicholas Hance, from the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch, said from CCTV footage he estimated Emily was freed 25 minutes after the speedboat capsized.
He said: "The sea is an unpredictable place. The boat was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Torbay lifeboat coxswain Mark Criddle said when she was pulled from the water there was "no sign of life".
She was taken to Torbay Hospital in a critical condition and Dr Atanu Mukherjee said resuscitation attempts were halted after 80 minutes.
Mr Pritchard said: "Both my family and I were devastated, and continue to be devastated, for Emily's tragic death."
The family of the teenager has previously described her as a girl who was "full of life and had the world ahead of her".
The hearing continues.
Senior District Judge Howard Riddle found against him on each of the principal arguments against his extradition.
One of those was that the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) issued against Mr Assange had been issued for the purpose of questioning and not prosecution.
Central to that was the evidence of Mr Assange's Swedish lawyer Bjorn Hurtig.
Judge Riddle found Mr Hurtig to be an "unreliable" witness as to the efforts he made to contact his client between 21, 22 September and 29 September.
He found "attempts were made by the prosecuting authorities to arrange interrogation in the period 21-30 September, but those attempts failed".
Accordingly he found "as a matter of fact, and looking at all the circumstances in the round, this person (Mr Assange) passes the threshold of being an accused person and is wanted for prosecution".
Another question raised by Mr Assange was whether the offences specified in the warrant were extraditable offences.
Key to this argument was the issue of consent, or the lack of it, in the allegations made against Mr Assange by the two women in Sweden.
Judge Riddle said: "I am satisfied that the specified offences are extradition offences."
Much was made of the fact that rape trials in Sweden are customarily held in private. It was argued this was against the principle of open justice and would mean Mr Assange would not receive a fair trial.
The judge noted the decision as to whether the evidence at any trial would be taken in public or private would be taken by the Swedish court.
He did find however there had been "considerable adverse publicity in Sweden for Mr Assange, in the popular press, the television and in parliament".
Mr Assange's legal team has indicated this issue would be central to their appeal against the decision.
On a more technical point, Judge Riddle also found the Swedish Prosecutor Marianne Ny was a "judicial authority with the function of issuing arrest warrants". Her status as an authorised prosecutor had been questioned.
The judge also said extradition was "compatible" with Mr Assange's human rights.
Before the extradition hearing it had been strongly suggested Mr Assange would argue the arrest warrant against him was politically motivated.
Judge Riddle said: "This has been hinted at, but no evidence has been provided, and the bar is neither argued nor found."
Mr Assange's appeal will be heard by the Administrative Court. He has seven days to lodge a notice of appeal and the hearing should take place within a period of 40 days after that. In practice however that can stretch to three to four months.
A further appeal lies to the Supreme Court, but only if the Administrative Court certifies that the appeal involves a point of law of general public importance, or the Supreme Court grants leave to appeal.
Any appeal will be challenging for Mr Assange.
Specialist extradition lawyer Michael Caplan QC said: "Resisting EAW requests are exceedingly difficult.
"The process assumes that a person will get an equally fair trial in any of the member states, so there are very limited grounds for opposing extradition."
The second seed won the last five games of the match to seal victory in one hour 35 minutes.
The 28-year-old Scotsman said: "I played aggressive tennis and was particularly successful at the net."
In Sunday's final will play world number one Novak Djokovic, who beat French Open champion Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland 6-3 3-6 6-0.
Murray will finish the year second in the world rankings if he defeats Djokovic.
He faces a challenging end to the season, with the ATP World Tour Finals in London only eight days away, followed by Britain's first Davis Cup final since 1978, which gets under way in Belgium in three weeks' time.
He added: "It would be nice to achieve my highest-ever year-end ranking, but it is more about seeding for the Australian Open in January. It will help my chances more than if I was seeded three or four.
"I've still got the Davis Cup final to look forward to and these are two things I have never achieved before. It will help keep me motivated."
The world number three has made a habit of starting quickly in Paris this week and broke his opponent's first service game for the fourth successive match.
It spurred eighth seed Ferrer into action and the Spaniard levelled for 3-3 when two unforced errors gave him the break back.
In a see-saw opening set, Ferrer set up four more break points in the eighth game but Murray saved them and went on to steal the Spaniard's serve after he made a string of unforced errors.
The Briton, who now holds a 11-6 career lead over Ferrer, finished a superb exchange at the net with a fine sliced lob to set up two set points. On the first one, Ferrer netted a routine backhand.
However, Ferrer stayed focused and raced to a 3-1 lead in the second set.
Murray dug deep and discovered his range again, finding gravity-defying angles to earn three more breaks of the Spaniard's serve, wrapping up the victory on his first match point when Ferrer netted a drop shot.
The Scot was rewarded for taking the initiative from the outset and hit 26 winners to just 10 from his 33-year-old opponent.
Murray added: "There were a couple of periods where I made more mistakes than usual. In one game I missed four backhands, but when you play high-risk tennis that is what happens.
"I played a good match, apart from the errors."
Murray was able to report a clean bill of health after complaining of a stiffness in his lower back after his punishing three-set victory over Richard Gasquet on Friday.
He added: "My back felt better today. It was a bit stiff when I got up, but I spent a couple of hours with the physio this morning and that helped.
"As a result, I was able to serve bigger and more consistently than yesterday and earn more free points."
Defending champion Djokovic extended his winning run in this competition to 21 matches after ousting Wawrinka in one hour 51 minutes.
The 28-year-old, seeking his 10th title of the year, has now won 19 of his 23 contests against the world number four.
Wawrinka ended Djokovic's 29-set winning streak to level the match, but fell away in the decider, failing to win a game.
Djokovic has triumphed in five of his six encounters with Murray this year, including the Australian Open final, and has won 20 of their 29 overall meetings.
John Pat Cunningham, 27, who had learning difficulties, was shot dead by an Army patrol in County Armagh.
The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) said Dennis Hutchings, 74, from New Road, Cawsand, Torpoint in Cornwall, would be prosecuted.
Mr Hutchings, who is not accused of the murder, was originally charged by detectives in April.
The charge was subject to review by the PPS, which has now been completed.
The decision to prosecute Mr Hutchings was confirmed at Armagh Magistrates' Court on Tuesday morning.
A preliminary inquiry had been scheduled for 15 December 15 but the PPS said that date could no longer be met.
"There is a target date and I am very mindful of that. That date cannot be met, however significant progress has been made," a prosecutor told the court.
Earlier, PPS assistant director Michael Agnew said: "The PPS has carried out a careful examination of all of the available evidence and information in this case.
"We have concluded that there is a reasonable prospect of conviction and that the test for prosecution is met."
Mr Cunningham, who had the mental age of a child between six and 10, had a fear of men in uniform and was apparently running away from an Army patrol when he was killed close to Benburb, a village on the border between counties Armagh and Tyrone.
A new investigation into Mr Cunningham's death was launched in 2013 after the director of public prosecutions, Barra McGrory QC, requested a fresh examination of the circumstances the shooting.
The Hungarian Football Federation was charged with crowd disturbances, setting off fireworks and throwing objects during the draw with Iceland.
Hungary top Group F and face Portugal on Wednesday in their final group game.
Croatia were previously fined 100,000 euros (£77,000) and Russia 150,000 euros (£115,000) after crowd trouble at the tournament in France.
Eight countries, a third of the teams, have now been charged by Uefa over crowd disturbances with Albania, Romania, Turkey, Belgium, and Portugal also facing disciplinary action.
Croatia's match against the Czech Republic on Friday was halted when flares were thrown onto the pitch.
In addition to the fine the Croatia Football Federation has also been banned from selling tickets to fans identified as "hooligans".
Russia were given a suspended disqualification after violent scenes during their opening match against England on 11 June.
They were eliminated from the tournament after losing 3-0 to Wales on Monday and finishing bottom of Group B.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 151 were children and 46 women.
The city of Aleppo has been the focus of bitter fighting between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels.
A Norwegian frigate is meanwhile preparing to collect chemical weapons from Syria for destruction.
The arms are due to be taken from the Syrian port of Latakia to Italy.
There, they will be loaded onto a US Navy ship and taken to international waters for destruction in a specially created titanium tank on board.
The global watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical arms stockpile, has called on Damascus to "intensify its efforts" to help the operation.
The OPCW said it was up to Syria to mitigate the risks involved in transporting the stockpile to the port.
Syria agreed to abandon its arsenal to avert possible US military action in response to a sarin nerve gas attack on the outskirts of Damascus in August.
Under a deal brokered by the US and Russia, the complete elimination of all chemical weapons material and equipment must be completed by the first half of 2014.
OPCW chief Ahmet Umzucu said in a statement that the international community was "poised and ready".
He said the UN, Russia, and other countries directly involved in the removal had agreed on how to escort the cargo vessels from Syria, after a two-day meeting in Moscow.
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Mr Umzucu said Syrian authorities now had to "consider all possible options" to ensure the chemicals' safe transport from 12 storage sites in Syria to the loading bay in Latakia.
The port lies 300km (185 miles) north of the capital Damascus.
The OPCW earlier said that it did not expect to meet the 31 December deadline for shipping out the "most critical" chemicals.
Shifting battle-lines and road closures caused by bad weather appeared to be the main causes of the delay.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based activist group with links to the opposition, condemned the continuing use of barrel bombs in Aleppo and urged outside intervention.
The organisation, which relies on secret networks to relay information from the ground, also described those who failed to criticise the raids as "complicit in the massacres that have been committed and continue to be committed by the Syrian regime".
While the most of those killed by barrel bombs over the past two weeks were civilians, 46 were rebels, according to the SOHR.
The devices have rarely been used on such a sustained scale, says the BBC's Arab Affairs Editor, Sebastian Usher.
Aleppo is devastated and divided, with fighting at a stalemate, but with a major peace conference due next month, the Syrian government is trying to wrest back control of as much territory as possible, our correspondent adds.
In the most recent attack, 25 civilians are reported to have been killed when explosives were dropped on a vegetable market in Aleppo on Saturday.
Gray suffered fatal and unexplained spinal injuries while in police custody, sparking two weeks of protests that turned violent earlier this week.
On Thursday, there were rallies in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Cincinnati.
A national debate over the use of lethal police force has been going on since last summer.
Police investigating Gray's death said they found out about the new van stop from a security camera.
"We discovered this new stop based on our thorough and comprehensive and on-going review of all CCTV cameras and privately owned cameras," Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said.
"This new stop was discovered from a privately-owned camera."
The new video was filmed by a CCTV camera outside a small Korean food shop.
The shop's owner, Jung Hyun Hwang told the Associated Press news agency that police officers visited last week to make a copy of the recording - which was later lost when the shop was looted during the riots.
Mr Hwang said he had not viewed the recording and did not know what it showed.
Investigators have now handed over their inquiry into Gray's death to the state's attorney's office.
The city's top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, will now decide whether to take the case to a grand jury to seek an indictment of any of the six officers involved.
After two nights of violent protests in Baltimore, Thursday was relatively calm. The city is still under a curfew requiring people to be off the streets by 22:00 (02:00 GMT).
Visiting the city earlier in the day, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said the city was "not out of the woods yet".
"There are a lot of people that have legitimate frustrations that are peacefully protesting and we want to protect those people and their right to express their feelings," he said.
"But we're also concerned about their safety because there are other people who just want to cause trouble."
Gray was injured when arrested in Sandtown on 12 April. He lapsed into a coma and died a week later.
Mobile phone video from a bystander shows two officers dragging Gray into the van by the arms.
According to the police timeline of the arrest, the van took 30 minutes to take him to the police station, where paramedics were called.
While in the van, Gray was requesting medical attention which he was wrongly denied, police have admitted.
They also acknowledged that he was not secured in the van by a seatbelt, which contravenes department policy.
According to a local ABC station, quoting unnamed sources, the medical examiner has concluded that Gray received his injuries inside the van, not when he was first arrested.
Previously, police had said the van made three stops, including one to put him in leg irons and another to pick up another prisoner. The new stop makes four in total.
Five of the six officers involved in the arrest gave statements to investigators the day Gray was injured. All six have been suspended.
A separate investigation by the US department of justice is also under way.
What we know about Gray's death
The alleged threat was made as former freelance journalist Ian Bailey was arrested on suspicion of killing Sophie Toscan du Plantier in Cork in 1996.
Mr Bailey, originally from Manchester, is suing the Irish state for wrongful arrest and mistreatment by police.
He was arrested twice but has always denied any involvement in the murder.
Ms Toscan du Plantier was found dead outside her holiday home at Toormore, near Schull, two days before Christmas 1996.
The 39-year-old Frenchwoman had been beaten to death and, 18 years on from the attack, her killer has still not been found.
Mr Bailey, who has lived in west Cork for 23 years, was first arrested in February 1997 and again in January 1998.
He was never prosecuted over the murder, on the instructions of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The former journalist began a lawsuit against the state on Wednesday.
As the case opened at the High Court in Dublin, Mr Bailey's barrister claimed that an officer made a death threat in the back of a Garda (police) car minutes after his client's first arrest on 10 February, 1997.
"He said 'even if we don't pin this on you, you are finished in Ireland. You will be found dead in a ditch with a bullet in the back of the head'," the barrister told the jury.
He added that just four days after the murder, some police officers had decided Mr Bailey was the main suspect and set about "straight away, zoning in".
The barrister said: "Information was fed to the press on a constant basis so that everyone in the community felt under threat, everyone in the community was paranoid, everyone in the community was in fear."
As well as his claim for wrongful arrest, Mr Bailey is suing the state for false imprisonment, assault, battery, trespass of the person, intentional infliction of emotional and psychological harm, harassment and intimidation, terrorising and oppressive behaviour and a breach of his constitutional rights.
The Irish state has denied all of Mr Bailey's claims.
Mr Trump is hosting the Chinese president for a two-day visit at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Last year Mr Trump said China had "raped the US" and vowed to brand the superpower a currency manipulator.
But the meeting appeared to be diplomatic, with both leaders agreeing to a new format for US-China talks.
Mr Tillerson said President Trump's trip to China would be a "state visit" in 2017, but gave no other details.
"Both the atmosphere and the chemistry between the two leaders was positive... all of us are feeling very good about the results of this summit," said Mr Tillerson.
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The leaders of the world's two most powerful economies agreed to a 100-day plan to discuss trade talks directed at boosting US exports and reducing Washington's trade deficit with China, according to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
"Given the range of issues and the magnitude, that may be ambitious, but it's a very big sea change in the pace of discussion," Mr Ross told reporters.
"I think that's a very important symbolisation of the growing rapport between the two countries."
Mr Trump said he believes he made "tremendous progress" in the US-China relationship during talks with Mr Xi.
On the night of the Chinese president's arrival, a US airstrike on an airbase in Syria was launched in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack.
The attack was made public on Thursday evening just moments after Mr Xi and his wife left the resort following dinner.
Beijing has avoided publicly taking sides on the issue.
China's position on Syria is much closer to Russia's than to the US.
And the Chinese government will guess that the timing of the American missile strike was a blunt message that without more robust Chinese help on dismantling Kim Jong-un's nuclear programme, the next target for pre-emptive American military action might be North Korea.
In Chinese protocol, sudden moves disrupting setpiece occasions are avoided wherever possible, and in private, President Xi is likely to be angry that President Trump chose to strike on the very night of his visit.
But in public Mr Xi stuck to his script about the virtues of co-operation while Mr Trump insisted they'd formed an outstanding relationship and made great progress.
As the two presidents went into their final lunch there were no specifics though, and in the aftermath of the US missile strike on Syria, all the big questions which bedevil the US China relationship have been kicked down the road for President Trump's visit to China later this year.
According to a statement on China's foreign ministry website, Mr Xi told Mr Trump: "We have a thousand reasons to get China-US relations right, and not one reason to spoil the China-US relationship."
The pair discussed a range of issues, including North Korea, which the US believes is trying to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting the west coast of the US.
Mr Tillerson said on Friday the US may take its own measure in dealing with Pyongyang.
"We would be happy to work with them," he said. "But we understand it creates unique problems for them and challenges and that we would and are prepared to chart our own course if this is something China is just unable to co-ordinate with us."
The driver of the blue Citroen Picasso has been arrested following the incident in Ynyscynon Road, Trealaw, Rhondda Cynon Taff at 07:45 GMT Sunday.
Two men who police believe were travelling behind in a grey Citroen Picasso were also arrested.
The road was closed for six hours, with the passenger cut from the wreckage and taken to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
Three locations were raided by counter-terrorism police following a tip off.
Two of the raids took place near the capital, Dhaka, and a third in the Tangail district some 100km away.
The dead are all thought to be members of the banned Islamist group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen.
Bangladesh's minister for home affairs said the group's leader in Dhaka was among those killed.
Police have carried out a number of raids on suspected militant hideouts since a deadly attack in July, when dozens of hostages were killed in a siege at a popular cafe in the capital.
Twenty hostages, two policemen and six suspects died during a 12-hour siege at the Holey Artisan cafe.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) group said it carried out the attack, but Bangladesh believes that home-grown Islamists were responsible.
Despite the wealth and palaces, however, the life of a senior royal is not always easy and can - according to royal watchers - be a lonely one.
There are few people who are able to understand what it means to occupy such a high-profile position.
For a future heir like Prince George, the new princess may be the only one who truly can.
The Queen had a famously close relationship with her younger sister, Margaret.
The two had little option but to get on as young girls as they had little contact with the outside world.
Both were home-schooled and a guide troop was even set up in Buckingham Palace to allow them some contact with their peers, but within the confines of the palace.
The sisterly bond continued throughout their lives. Despite being very different in character they were a tight unit, reportedly telephoning each other every day.
Prince Charles and Princess Anne are 21 months apart - the same as Prince George and his new sister.
A private letter written by the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, when Anne was just three weeks old described Charles as being "fascinated by her" and said he treated her "with great care".
However, despite the fact that as adults they have chosen country homes less than 10 miles apart, they have not been seen as particularly close, although they do get on well.
Royal siblings have had tricky relationships over the years.
One of the most dramatic falling outs came in 1478, when Edward IV reportedly had his younger brother George, Duke of Clarence - suspected of treason - drowned in a butt of wine.
Such sibling rivalry is in direct contrast to Prince George's father and uncle who continue to enjoy a very close relationship.
As well as having to grow up in public, William and Harry had to cope with the death of their mother when they were just 15 and 12, and the brothers have spoken about how they are the other's best friends.
Penny Junor, who has profiled both the princes, says being a royal child is difficult.
"They will always be an object of curiosity", she says, adding that having a close sibling was "certainly invaluable for William and Harry when they were growing up and still is today and will be for George and his little chum".
Princess Diana tried to make William and Harry's upbringing as normal as possible, and this is clearly a priority for the Cambridges.
The downside for a public keen to see George and his sibling is that much of their growing up will be done behind closed doors.
Prince George has been an object of global fascination since his birth in July 2013.
However, the media have had few opportunities to film him: the first view on the steps of the Lindo wing, his christening and when he accompanied his parents on their tour of Australia and New Zealand in April last year.
Photographs have been released to mark key moments including his first birthday, and each time his clothes, appearance and demeanour have been scrutinised, commented upon and copied.
Now there are two royal youngsters there will be double the interest.
But they can at least share the intense spotlight which will be trained upon them throughout their lives.
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Nasri, on a season-long loan from Pep Guardiola's side, struck from close range to double Sevilla's lead after Franco Vazquez opened the scoring.
Two goals in three minutes from David Timor and Alexander Szymanowski brought the hosts level.
However, Pablo Sarabia curled in a stunning late winner for Sevilla.
The win was Sevilla's first away from home in La Liga in 23 games and took them to the top of the table before Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid both won later in the day to reclaim the top two places.
Match ends, Leganés 2, Sevilla 3.
Second Half ends, Leganés 2, Sevilla 3.
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Carl Medjani (Leganés).
Attempt missed. David Timor (Leganés) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a set piece situation.
Foul by Vitolo (Sevilla).
Víctor Díaz (Leganés) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Víctor Díaz (Leganés).
Attempt blocked. Robert Ibáñez (Leganés) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Víctor Díaz (Leganés).
David Timor (Leganés) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Timor (Leganés).
Goal! Leganés 2, Sevilla 3. Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner.
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by Martín Mantovani.
Ganso (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rubén Pérez (Leganés).
Foul by Ganso (Sevilla).
Rubén Pérez (Leganés) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Sevilla. Ganso replaces Vicente Iborra.
Samir Nasri (Sevilla) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Vicente Iborra (Sevilla) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Samir Nasri (Sevilla).
Rubén Pérez (Leganés) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Sevilla. Vitolo tries a through ball, but Pablo Sarabia is caught offside.
Substitution, Leganés. Darwin Machís replaces Omar Ramos.
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Timor (Leganés).
Foul by Nico Pareja (Sevilla).
Rubén Pérez (Leganés) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Sevilla. Nico Pareja tries a through ball, but Vitolo is caught offside.
Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Diego Rico (Leganés).
Substitution, Sevilla. Pablo Sarabia replaces Wissam Ben Yedder.
Goal! Leganés 2, Sevilla 2. Alexander Szymanowski (Leganés) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rubén Pérez with a through ball.
Offside, Sevilla. Luciano Vietto tries a through ball, but Samir Nasri is caught offside.
Goal! Leganés 1, Sevilla 2. David Timor (Leganés) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Alexander Szymanowski.
Substitution, Leganés. Robert Ibáñez replaces Gabriel.
And on a wet Wednesday night with Storm Doris brewing, about 150 people in South Antrim filled Ballyclare Town Hall.
Under a glittering disco ball in the former dancehall, they challenged the candidates vying for their votes on 2 March.
The health service, the RHI scandal and Brexit were raised as the campaign's headline issues, but the state of the town's Rashee Road was highly emotive, too.
The event had been organised with just a few days' notice by Robert Robinson, who said people should see they "have the ability to change things".
That was reflected in an audience he described as being switched on, with "their issues in their pockets".
"The political dynamic is changing and people want to bring politics back home," he explained.
"People from Northern Ireland are motivated and they want answers."
Street pastor Alastair Armstrong said there had been more "backward steps instead of frontward steps" at Stormont in recent times.
"But tonight I've been encouraged because there's been quite a lot of young people who've been involved in asking question about their community," he added.
First-time voter Ben Lowry, 18, said he still wasn't sure who would get his first preference next week but the debate had "certainly helped".
"Politicians have to realise the future lies with young people, and they have to work together for young people in particular," he said.
One man, whose interest in politics has only recently been sparked, said Northern Ireland needed to be "brave" and "elect somebody new" to ensure political progress.
Many voters, he said "know what they want" but were not prepared to abandon "green and orange" parties.
"I think we have a low voter turnout because the parties aren't there that represent the voters' views," he added.
One woman said the hustings had been like "having our own little Newsnight" - referring to the BBC current affairs programme.
"Getting to speak to the politicians directly, to ask the questions that were individual to each of us, to have the eye contact, to feel like we were holding them to account, was really interesting," she said.
"I like the idea of having them back again a year later!"
As the party leaders hop from one end of Northern Ireland to the other, the leader of the SDLP has used his Eastwood Express to tour the constituencies, but has he also been employing a body double to head out on the canvass?
It appears that Colum Eastwood has a striking doppelganger, who could come in handy in the final furlong of this campaign.
London-based James Barnard has jokingly offered to stand in for the nationalist candidate at pre-election parties, should he be required.
Mr Barnard was at a gym on Tuesday night when he spotted an election report on the BBC News at Ten, featuring Mr Eastwood.
He decided to put together a spot-the-difference series of photos, recreating some of the SDLP leader's poses from the campaign trail and tweeted it to him.
The resemblance is so striking that Mr Barnard's wife once mistook a photo of Mr Eastwood for her husband.
He is, however, missing a couple of key features.
Firstly, he can't replicate that distinctive Londonderry accent - he's originally from Lincolnshire, and that won't cut the mustard when it comes to political grillings from the press.
And then there's that peculiar little white patch on Mr Eastwood's beard.
The graphic designer said he wouldn't be dying his beard, but he has another solution, as he could use a bit of digital trickery to complete the Eastwood look.
Always one of the primary issues at polling time, health has been high on the agenda again in this election campaign.
In Belfast on Wednesday, health charities, support bodies and trade unions put their questions to candidates at a hustings event hosted by the Belfast Healthy Cities organisation.
The focus was on changing lifestyles - greater freedom for breastfeeding mothers and wider access to green spaces, for example - and on adding sustainability to the health service, through social care reform and investment in mental health services.
Joan Devlin, the health policy and promotion organisation's chief executive, said Stormont needed to commit to long-term plans to tackle inequality in the health system.
She said that instability at Stormont could hamper plans to press forward on those plans, adding that it was "essential" for parties to agree on health matters.
"Having the assembly obviously gives us much closer contact to our ministers and they obviously have a much greater understanding of the key issues," she said.
"But if we can work with civil servants in developing those long-term strategies that will have an impact on improved living that would be an acceptable way forward as an interim."
Rachelle Adams, a masters student in sustainable development at Queen's University in the city, said she still had to be convinced that words from prospective politicians would ultimately become action.
"I really question how it's going to be implemented in practice," she said.
"I don't know if sustainability is really on their agenda, and the social detriments of health, like the increase in the number of people with lifestyle diseases and the focus on preventative care.
"I just hope it's not aspirational, and they're really going to implement it in practice."
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.
Ministers ordered specialists in after it emerged the £842m South Glasgow University Hospital was the worst-performing in Scotland.
Figures last week showed 78.3% of A&E patients were seen and treated within four hours, well below the 95% target.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) said the average was now 89.6%.
NHS GGC chief executive Robert Calderwood acknowledged that there was still work to do to meet the national target of 95%.
"There is still some way to go to achieving a sustained performance and improvement is still required to achieve the national target consistently but I am confident that we are moving in the right direction," he said.
The 1,109-bed hospital, which began taking patients in April, was built on the site of the Southern General and is one of the largest acute hospitals in the UK.
The new campus replaces the Royal Hospital for Sick Kids at Yorkhill, the Southern General Hospital, the Western and Victoria Infirmaries, and the Mansionhouse Unit.
Mr Calderwood again stressed that the process of transferring these services to the new hospital had been challenging but said progress was being made.
"There is no doubt that change on this scale - the biggest hospital migration ever undertaken in the UK - has been a significant challenge to our unscheduled care performance," he said.
"However, our teams have been responding quickly and effectively to these challenges and the tireless efforts of managers and clinicians are now bearing fruit in the form of an improving A&E performance."
Police were called to Bath Street shortly after 17:00 following reports the men had climbed up scaffolding on the St John's Church bell tower.
The first man came down not long after police negotiators arrived.
The second man, who is 35, came down at about 00:40. He is expected to appear at Greenock Sheriff Court later.
Matthew Hamlen had initially been cleared of the crime in 2012 but was found guilty after fresh DNA evidence came to light.
Georgina Edmonds' son found her battered body in her cottage by the banks of the River Itchen, in Hampshire, in 2008.
The 77-year-old widow, who lived alone, had been stabbed several times with a knife and tortured for her bank card Pin code before being battered with a marble rolling pin.
Following a two-year manhunt, during which almost 2,000 people were DNA tested, Hamlen was eventually charged with murder. The DNA profile was incomplete, however, and he was acquitted at Winchester Crown Court in 2012.
With no other suspects, the case was about to be effectively shelved in 2013 when Det Insp Martin Chudley, of Hampshire Constabulary, led a final review of the evidence.
"I always felt it was impossible that he left nothing behind," he said.
"It was a long, prolonged attack, he was there for quite some considerable time - I just couldn't conceive there wasn't a part of him there somewhere."
Forensic samples taken from Mrs Edmonds' trousers and the rolling pin had been thought to be the most likely to yield the killer's DNA as those were items which had clearly been touched.
Hamlen's DNA had been found on the rolling pin but had been mixed with that of Mrs Edmonds. This meant a full profile may have been there but was masked by their shared characteristics.
After the acquittal, Det Insp Chudley asked scientists to re-examine samples taken from the original murder scene.
He was told it was "unlikely to work", but the team decided to examine some of the fibres from the back left sleeve of Ms Edmond's blouse. It proved crucial and in February 2014, a full profile of Hamlen's DNA was identified.
The Court of Appeal subsequently quashed the original not guilty verdict, paving the way for Hamlen, 36, to be put on trial for murder for a second time.
This time the DNA evidence was strong enough, along with mobile phone evidence, for the prosecution to place him at the murder scene.
His mobile phone had been used nearby, close to the time of the murder, and again near to where Mrs Edmonds' mobile had been switched on and then discarded.
Forensic scientist Geraldine Davidson told jurors the material found on the blouse was 26 million times more likely to have come from Hamlen than someone else.
The prosecution alleged he had targeted her for her money. Hamlen had a history of domestic violence and cocaine use, was suspected of dealing drugs and was thought to be considerably in debt.
However, he flatly denied any involvement in the killing.
"I know I didn't do this, I could not do something like this," he told the court. "As far as the DNA goes, I'm not an expert. All I can tell you is, it didn't get there at the time, if it is mine."
For Mrs Edmonds' family, who were left without the closure of a conviction in 2012, the guilty verdict marks the end of what her daughter Doddie described as a "long road".
"I try not to dwell on the details of the actual murder - she was hurt so badly and how terrified she must have been. I always thought of her as safe in her little cottage by the river.
"She was the heart of the family - she brought us all together, she was the warmth of the family.
"I think it will bring some kind of closure, some kind of justice which she deserves. But it will never bring my mother back."
The musician, from Dumfries, made his first appearance in 2014 with an estimated fortune of £30m.
The latest figures put his wealth at £95m which puts him at 27th position on the music millionaires top 50.
The list is topped by Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell with a joint fortune of £760m.
Ian Coxon, who has edited The Sunday Times Rich Lists for 20 years, said: "Calvin is a surprise - he's so successful and gets paid so well.
"People get in fashion and have a great success.
"I don't know whether his success will continue at quite the same rate."
The music millionaires list has been released ahead of the annual Sunday Times Rich List which will be published this weekend.
Resuming on 50-4, Sussex slumped to 71-7 before a 97-run stand between Chris Jordan (57*) and Jofra Archer (46) helped avoid the follow-on on 229.
Having trailed by 77, Sussex then bowled out Worcestershire for 194.
Set 272 to win, Sussex closed on 13-1 for the loss of Chris Nash.
He was caught behind in the final over off Joe Leach by Ben Cox, who had earlier scored his second half century of the match to follow Tom Fell's 85 and 31 from Joe Clarke - the only three Worcestershire batsmen in double figures.
Magoffin's match figures of 10-70, having followed his first-innings 5-38 with an even tidier 5-32, has given Sussex hope, aided by David Wiese (4-18). but Worcestershire look in better shape to win and improve their chances of taking the runners-up spot off Kent in Division Two behind promoted Essex.
Cummins' earlier haul, in only his second appearance for Worcestershire, was not as economical as his career-best 7-45 for Barbados against Trinidad & Tobago at Port of Spain in April 2013 - but it was a big improvement on his wicketless debut against Essex at Chelmsford last week.
Sussex coach Mark Davis told BBC Radio Sussex:
"It was another exciting day and a lot happened but our bowlers kept us in the game. We did well from 71-7 to scrap to 229 and then Steve Magoffin bowled magnificently again on a pitch where you can score runs quite quickly.
"In the last few games he has been absolutely fantastic for us and he got great support from the other seamers, particularly David Wiese.
"Losing Chris Nash at the end was a blow but, as we showed in the first innings, we bat a long way down. It was great to see Chris Jordan and Jofra Archer batting so intelligently. Their partnership might turn out to be absolutely crucial.
Worcestershire assistant coach Matt Mason told BBC Herefordshire & Worcestershire:
"Our batsmen think Steve Magoffin is the best new-ball bowler in the division and he showed it again. He was magnificent for them.
"The first hour tomorrow is going to be crucial to deciding the outcome. If we can take two or three wickets then we'll be in a strong position but if Sussex come hard at us it will be us under a bit of pressure.
"Wickets have tended to fall in clusters but the way Tom Fell and Ben Cox, for the second time in the match, batted showed you can score runs. Their stand might make the difference."
They talked about what had attracted them to London and "how we can continue to build on that for the future," Mrs May told the BBC's economics editor Kamal Ahmed, in Davos.
Her remarks came as several big banks said they may move staff out of London.
Both HSBC and UBS have said they could relocate about 1,000 jobs.
Mrs May was asked if she was disappointed that it was becoming clear that there was a price to Brexit.
"I want to negotiate a free trade agreement with the European Union which will give us the maximum access, the right deal for Britain, maximum access to the single European market for trading with and operating within that market for both goods and services," she said.
"I think that's not just in the interests of the UK, I think that's in the interests of the European Union as well," she added.
May: UK will lead world on free trade
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Mrs May said she had had a "very good positive discussion with banks about the benefits of the City of London, about what it is that has brought them to the City of London and how we can continue to build on that for the future".
There were "huge benefits" for investment in the UK, Mrs May added, which she said had a "fundamentally very strong economy".
She said the service sector was very important to the UK and that she believed that "truly global Britain can bring jobs and prosperity to the UK across the board, including in financial services".
Mrs May was asked if the government might be prepared to give preferential treatment to EU immigrants coming to the UK in exchange for privileged access to the single market.
People who voted for Brexit were voting for "us to take control of our immigration laws for people coming from the EU into the UK", she said.
"We're looking at the various systems that are possible at the moment. The key issue for people in the UK is that we have control, that's it's the government that is deciding our immigration rules," she added.
Earlier, Mrs May told leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the UK will be a "world leader" on trade.
But the prime minister also warned that inequality blamed on globalisation was aiding the "politics of division".
Her speech to business leaders and politicians in Switzerland came after EU leaders said a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK would be "difficult".
The prime minister promised that the UK after Brexit would take on a "leadership role as the strongest and most forceful advocate for free markets and free trade anywhere in the world".
She argued for reforms so the global economy created wealth for all, rather than a "privileged few", and "centre-ground mainstream politics" could "work for everyone".
Mrs May said the world was enjoying an "unprecedented level of wealth", but many people felt this was "not working for them".
Global elites needed to tackle the backlash against globalisation, liberalism, and free trade because leaders who "embrace the politics of division and despair" were working to exploit the situation.
Mrs May said: "Talk of greater globalisation can make people fearful. For many it means their jobs outsourced and their wages undercut. It means having to sit back as they watch their communities change around them.
"And in their minds, it means watching as those who prosper seem to play by a different set of rules, while for many life remains a struggle as they get by, but don't necessarily get on."
Pretty much all of the tech giants attend the vast Vegas expo - either to unveil new products or to clinch deals behind the scene.
But in recent years it's been start-ups that have had many of the most eye-arresting and sensational reveals.
There are more at this year's show than ever before, thanks in part to crowdfunding. They now have to convince retailers - hunting through the halls for the next bestsellers - that the promise of their concept videos has been delivered upon.
Dozens of start-ups are also there thanks to help from governments and other national bodies - France, Israel, Ukraine and the Netherlands all have stands where they'll fly the flag for local talent.
But China may make the biggest splash with more than 1,300 registered exhibitors.
"Every year at CES I meet the people who work on the technology that affects our lives and you can see literally every part of the tech industry represented," innovation evangelist Robert Scoble told the BBC.
Of course, there's a lot of crud too - the challenge is to distinguish the potential hits from the glitch-ridden flops.
Below, we have picked what could be some of the week's highlights:
CES marks the beginning of a land grab by three of the leading virtual assistants: Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana and the Google Assistant.
The companies all want their voice-controlled AIs to power third-party products. And Amazon looks to have the head start.
The headphones specialist OnVocal will be showing off wireless earphones that link up to Alexa, and GE has also preannounced a table lamp that doubles as a speaker powered by Amazon's voice service. Sonos too aims to add the facility to its wireless speakers, though we believe it isn't quite ready to show off its efforts.
But don't count the other two out.
We know Microsoft is working with Harman Kardon on a "premium audio" speaker, and the firm has teased adding Cortana to other types of products, including toasters. And Google has secured at least one bit of kit at CES - the Aviva speaker - to host its cloud-based intelligence.
One expert suggested others will also try to gatecrash the party.
It's not all about voice though.
The French start-up Bixi will be making the case for gesture controls. It will be demoing the final design of a gizmo that lets you control smartphones and tablets with a wave of a hand.
More groundbreaking perhaps is the Blitab, a tactile tablet described as the iPad for the blind.
The Austrian innovation produces small physical bubbles in an area above its touchscreen which delivers refresh double lines of dynamic Braille.
We're still decades away from having the type of androids seen on TV shows such as Westworld or Humans.
But CES is still an opportunity to see how far along more specialised kit has become.
London-based Emotech is one to watch.
It will unveil Olly - a tabletop bot with its own smart assistant that recognises different household members and adapts it personality to suit each one.
The project was developed with help from academics at University College London, Imperial College and Edinburgh University, and has already secured $10m (£8.2m) of investment from China.
There will also be a range of modular robots.
Several companies are backing the concept, which allows users to switch about parts to change skills and manoeuvrability.
Examples will include Modi, a Lego-style kit that lets owners build a bot out of small cubes - each offering different functions such as motors, lights and infra-red detectors.
Another is Unibot, a robotic vacuum cleaner that trebles up as a mobile home security camera and an air purifier/humidifier.
Meanwhile, OAPs can look forward to Cutii, a robot that resembles an iPad on wheels, which will supposedly become their "companion".
And there will also be bots that zoom round tennis courts picking up balls, remove droppings from cat litter, and even move physical chess pieces around a board.
Keep an eye out for Laundroid, too. The Japanese clothes-folding machine raised $60m from Panasonic and others for its giant clothes-folding droid following an appearance at last year's CES.
Some have described the idea as ridiculous.
But it will be interesting to see if it works well enough to go on sale later this year, as planned.
Health and wearables
Pregnancy seems to be one of health tech's preoccupations this year.
There is both Ava, a sensor-equipped wristband that apparently alerts women to when they are most fertile, and Trakfertility, a DIY sperm count test that tells an associated app what steps the owner should take to boost their numbers.
And just in case you are tempted to pair off with the wrong partner, Milo Sensors is in town with what it describes as the world's first blood alcohol wearable.
It's easy to joke, but health tech is booming and analysts are competing to predict how many billions of pounds it will be worth in a decade's time.
The ultimate goal is to create something resembling Star Trek's Tricoder - an all-in-one device that diagnoses any ailment.
An Israeli start-up will be showing off a gadget that promises to get us at least partly there.
The TytoHome is designed to let families take heart, lungs, throat, abdomen and other organs' readings and send them to their clinicians. Its slogan is a "check-up without the check-in", but medics may need convincing.
There will doubtless be new twists on the fitness tracker too. It would be unwise to suggest the market for such devices has peaked - Fitbit's app topped Apple's App Store this Christmas, indicating people are still buying them in droves.
But a more intriguing development is wearables with built-in airbags.
ActiveProtective is promising to show off a prototype smart belt for the elderly that triggers a cushioning action over their hips if it detects a fall.
And Inemotion has developed ski racing clothes with a similar function to prevent injuries on the piste.
France's Wair has a different spin on discreet wearable tech with a internet-connected scarf that doubles as an air filter.
But the question remains whether wearable tech has a profitable future beyond health.
There will be more app-laden smartwatches - including the possibility of the first Android Wear 2.0 devices - at the show, but the sector has not been the hit many had predicted.
We're also promised the world's first vibrating tight cut jeans that offer their wearers directions without having to look at a screen.
If you had asked the experts a decade ago, they would probably have predicted OLED (organic light-emitting diode) TVs would be the norm by now. But the tech has faced several setbacks.
It's stubbornly refused to become as cheap to manufacture as hoped, it doesn't go as bright as LED equivalents and some complain that it "crushes the blacks" making it hard to distinguish detail in the shadows.
Even so, OLED retains a wow factor thanks to its ability to control the light of each individual pixel, helping its images to have more "pop", and its screens to be ever thinner.
Panasonic has hinted it will show off an OLED display at CES that will better handle dim scenes, and there is speculation Sony has similar news.
Plus there's reason to believe prices are about to drop.
Until recently, LG manufactured all the OLED panels used by itself and other brands. But now BOE - a Chinese company - has a rival component. The question is who will break ranks to adopt it.
Expect Samsung to make a loud noise about QLED, a new spin on its "quantum dot" technology that allows its screens to be brighter than ever before.
That's important because of HDR - another acronym you're going to have to get used to. It refers to high dynamic range, which allows images to appear more vibrant and detailed - especially in scenes containing both glints of light and shadows.
The problem is that there are three rival HDR standards - HDR10, Dolby Vision and the BBC's forthcoming HLG - meaning the potential for another format war.
But it is possible to support all three, so it will be revealing to see if any of manufactures make a commitment to do so with their new screens.
It's now relatively cheap and power-efficient to add sensors and wireless data links to products. That's led to an explosion of ideas - some more sensible than others.
It's debateable how many of us really need Genican, for example, a device that scans rubbish's barcodes as it is thrown away in order to build up a shopping list of replacement items.
Likewise, it's not clear whether an aromatherapy diffuser needs to be smartphone-controlled, even if its scents really boost memory and clean lungs, as claimed.
Where things get more interesting is when tech genuinely makes lives simpler without requiring too much effort.
One way firms are trying to do this is by focusing on the refrigerator.
LG has a model that activates a sterilisation process when it senses temperature and/or humidity issues in order to extend food's shelf life.
And for those who would prefer to retrofit their existing equipment, UK start-up Smarter Applications has Fridgecam: a device that keeps track of what its owners have in stock and when it expires, sending alerts to buy new items when necessary.
But one expert says if the sector is to achieve its potential, consumers need to be reassured that the risks do not outweigh the benefits.
"In the last 18 months the conversation about security and privacy has moved from the tech pages to the front pages of newspapers," said John Curran from the consultancy Accenture.
"To make these devices easy to connect and easy to use, some companies have hardcoded passwords or put no security measures in place, and that made them an easy target.
"At CES we're looking for businesses to be more transparent about what data is being collected, how it's being used and with whom it's being shared.
"And they need to make it easier for consumers to adjust their security settings."
There are rumours that HTC will unveil a second-generation Vive VR headset at CES - possibly introducing wireless capabilities - but the system is only nine months old, so that seems a tad optimistic.
The two other big virtual reality firms - Sony and Facebook's Oculus division - launched their kit even more recently.
Even so, there should still be lots of developments.
Huawei has just hired Steve LaValle, one of the brains behind Oculus, and the Chinese firm is set to reveal more about its VR plans at the show.
It's a safe bet that several third-party headsets previously teased by Microsoft will also be on display.
And we will also see the introduction of Fove, a crowdfunded VR headset with eye-tracking abilities, allowing gamers to control action with shifts in their gaze.
Fove won't be the only one trying to offer new ways for users to interact with virtual experiences.
A foot controller that lets you direct where your character walks, a sensor-laden T-shirt that tracks your torso's movements, and various haptic devices that try to let consumers feel virtual objects are just some of the products with CES stands.
With augmented reality - where graphics and real-world views are mixed together - things are still at an early stage.
But Asus and others may reveal handsets that include Google's Project Tango depth-sensing technology, adding basic AR capabilities.
Intel will have more to say about Project Alloy - a headset that lets you see your hands and other real-world objects within VR worlds.
And a start-up called Occipital will demo a contraption that uses an iPhone to create something akin to Microsoft's HoloLens mixed-reality headset.
While hardware may dominate the headlines, it could be content that determines which products are winners.
"In the US the National Basketball Association recently announced that it will broadcast games in virtual reality," noted Mr Curran.
"And as other big media and content companies get involved, they will attract more types of consumers to VR, rather than just the tech-enthused.
"So, I'll be looking to see which platforms the media providers target as they pursue opportunities in this space."
There's going to be a lot of talk and demos of self-driving cars by the big automakers on and off the Las Vegas strip.
Menawhile, rival chipmakers - including Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm - will be excitedly pitching their processors and 5G chips as the potential heart of the autonomous vehicle revolution.
But you'll have to wait for a future CES to find anything road-ready that allows the "driver" to really ignore the steering wheel.
This time round, look instead for new ways to interact with your vehicle.
BMW will unveil its HoloActiv Touch system, in which motorists use finger gestures to interact with graphics that project out of dashboard screens.
And Continental will demo facial recognition tech that recognises who is driving and adjusts mirror and seat positions accordingly.
Faraday Future is also back for a second year to convince sceptics that it can launch an electric car before its funds dry up.
There will also be all kinds of alternative transport ideas including an intelligent scooter that shuts off its power if it detects an accident, a motorised rideable suitcase and the latest evolutions of the hoverboard.
And we've still barely scratched the surface. There are zones dedicated to drones, beauty tech and 3D printing.
Plus there's room for oddities, such as a device that claims to be able to record smells.
The BBC tech team will do its best to keep you across all the major developments from the first press day on Tuesday until the show floors shut on Sunday.
You can keep up to date at bbc.co.uk/ces2017 and by following our Twitter list of those covering CES.
The Children's Society report, which looked at 15 diverse countries, ranked England 14th for life satisfaction of its young people, ahead of South Korea.
More than a third of English children said they had been bullied in school, and half had felt excluded, it found.
The Children's Society called for a new law to provide counselling in schools.
Ministers said schools were encouraged to have counsellors available and all schools must have measures in place to tackle bullying.
The University of York carried out the research in England, which was then drawn together for the Children's Worlds project and compared with data from 14 other countries.
Researchers surveyed more than 53,000 children in total in 2013-14, aged between eight and 12, from diverse cultures and places, from remote villages to large cities.
Levels of satisfaction with "life as a whole" were highest in Romania, where the mean level of satisfaction among 12-year-olds was 9.5 out of 10, followed by Colombia with 9.3 out of 10.
England came 14th out of the countries surveyed, with 12-year-olds giving a mean satisfaction score of 8.4 out of 10, and 7.1% reporting low levels of well-being and happiness.
The survey also found that levels of unhappiness at schools in England grew as children got older - 61% of 10-year-olds said they enjoyed school but the figure fell to 43% by the age of 12.
English children were the most likely of all the countries surveyed to say that they had been left out by other children in their class at least once in the last month, the survey found.
More than a third (38%) aged between 10 and 12 reported being physically bullied in the previous month.
English girls ranked second lowest for happiness with their body confidence, self-confidence and appearance, rating their satisfaction as 7.3 out of 10 on average. This places them just above South Korea, with a mean score of 7.1.
Colombian girls topped the table for body confidence, with an average rating of 9.6, followed by Romania with 9.4.
Whilst the findings do not indicate why children in England feel more unhappy than others, Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers blamed poor mental health on the "narrow curriculum" and "exam factories" culture in schools.
He said children were too often branded "failures" when barely into primary education, and tests at all stages of school life could lead to "serious stress-related anxiety."
Children's Society chief executive Matthew Reed said it was important for schools in England to make counselling available for all children.
"It's already available in Wales, it's already in Northern Ireland - a legal responsibility for schools so all children do get the support they need," he added.
The charity also called for an increase in funding on children's mental health.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said the government was working hard to tackle the issue of mental health, and was providing more than £7m to help schools tackle bullying.
"We are also promoting greater use of counselling in schools, improving teaching about mental health, and supporting joint working between mental health services and schools," she said.
This may be great news if you're not a fan of the device - which fixes onto a camera or phone to allow users a better photo - because they get in the way of the action.
But if you got one for Christmas, you'd better read this Newsbeat guide to the places where your stick is no longer welcome.
On Sunday night, hip-hop legends Run-DMC performed at London's Scala club.
It's been 12 years since the rap group performed in the UK so you can imagine the excitement to make sure that they got a good selfie with Darryl McDaniels and Joseph Simmons in full flow behind them.
So it's lucky Scala says it has no policy (yet) on the selfie stick.
But many music venues do - and have already outlawed them, such as London's O2 Arena.
"The O2 do not allow selfie sticks into the arena due to safety considerations and so as not to impact the view of other fans. We welcome selfies, but leave the stick at home please," the venue states.
And Academy Music Group, which owns the smaller O2 venues like O2 ABC Glasgow and O2 Academy Bristol, told Newsbeat: "Selfie sticks are not permitted at Academy Music Group venues.
"This is in keeping with our existing policy that prohibits the filming and photography during a performance with iPads and other tablet devices and includes any such obstructions for the satisfaction of other customers."
If you're on a ride and want to capture that look of sheer terror on your mates' faces as you zoom around, we hate to break it to you that selfie sticks are not allowed at most UK theme parks.
A spokesman at Chessington World of Adventures said: "Filming or photography of any kind on any ride or attraction here at Chessington World of Adventures resort is not permitted so selfie sticks would be included in this but they haven't been [specifically] banned at the resort."
The same applies at Alton Towers in Staffordshire.
As for nearby Drayton Manor Theme Park, the people there say while they "always encourage people to capture memories at Drayton Manor" when it comes to the selfie stick each ride has a "safety clearance envelope" which is "measured around the seat to create a safe zone".
What that means is, if you put your arm out of the ride it shouldn't hit anything "therefore due to the nature of a selfie stick this would not comply".
Football grounds were the first to stamp their foot down when it comes to fans capturing the moment in as wide a scope as possible.
Several Premier League clubs have also banned the use of selfie sticks.
Manchester United and Arsenal have confirmed the devices are not allowed at matches. In fact they class them alongside knives and fireworks.
Newsbeat spoke to the Tate group and the British Museum which have a similar stance on the selfie stick. They love a selfie in a museum.
But not during paid-for exhibitions.
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The incident occurred in the second minute of the match.
Launchbury, who went on to score two tries, could miss the remaining autumn internationals against Argentina and Australia.
If found guilty at a hearing on Monday, the Wasps captain could be banned for between four and 12 weeks.
The 25-year-old appeared to aim for the ball, but instead struck Tikoirotuma.
Launchbury has started England's last two internationals alongside Courtney Lawes in the second row.
Stephan Villeneuve, a video journalist, and Bakhtiyar Haddad, his fixer, were reporting on an advance by Iraqi forces against Islamic State militants.
Two other French journalists were injured, one of them seriously, by the blast in the Ras al-Jadah district west of the Old City on Monday.
Iraq is one of the world's deadliest countries for journalists.
A total of 27 professional and non-professional journalists have now been killed in Iraq since the start of 2014, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Four have died since Iraqi pro-government forces launched an offensive to recapture Mosul - the last major IS urban stronghold in the country - last October.
Villeneuve and Haddad had been on assignment in Mosul for the France 2 TV channel's current affairs programme, Envoyé Spécial, along with another French video journalist, Véronique Robert.
They had been accompanying Iraqi army forces pushing into IS-held areas of the Old City when the mine exploded beside them.
Haddad was killed by the blast, while Villeneuve and Robert were seriously wounded and were taken to a US military hospital in Qayyara, south of Mosul.
Villeneuve subsequently succumbed to his wounds, France Télévisions said early on Tuesday.
"The management and staff at France Télévisions sympathise with the pain of his partner Sophie, his four children, his family and all those he was close to. They offer their most sincere condolences," the head of the news department said.
Villeneuve had covered numerous conflicts across the world.
Samuel Forey, a French freelance journalist who was with them, was slightly injured by the same explosion and was evacuated to Baghdad. He had been covering the battle for various media including Le Figaro, Télérama and Inrocks.
RSF said Haddad, a Kurdish journalist and fixer from Irbil, had worked for many French media outlets and had received treatment in France last year for a hand injury caused by a sniper round while reporting in the western Iraqi city of Falluja.
"War is obviously dangerous but every death or injury is a victim too many. No-one should have to pay such a high price just for reporting the news," RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said.
IS militants in Mosul are also detaining 10 Iraqi journalists and media workers who they have held for almost two years.
The jihadists seized all of the media outlets in Mosul in 2014, when they seized large parts of Iraq and proclaimed the creation of a "caliphate".
Police said she was approached by a man riding a bike as she walked southwards on Kirk Road between midnight and 01:00.
He got off the bike and physically and sexually assaulted her. He then left in an unknown direction.
Detectives said the "frightening ordeal" had left the victim badly shaken. They appealed for anyone who with information to contact them.
The suspect is described as a white man with a slim build. He is in his late 20s to early 30s and may possibly have ginger hair and a ginger beard.
He was riding a blue/black bike with white markings.
Det Con Lee McCall of Livingston CID said: "We're eager to trace this man as soon as possible and I would ask anyone who was in the Kirk Road area around this time and saw anything suspicious to contact us.
"Likewise, anyone who may recognise the description of the man is urged to come forward immediately."
Surrey Police are investigating an alleged transfer of about £1m to a charitable account in August last year.
One of those arrested is understood to be Will Riches, who quit as federation vice-chairman earlier this week.
Scotland Yard has said two of the men are Met police officers on secondment.
Two of the men are in their 40s and two are in their 50s.
The Police Federation, which represents thousands of officers of constable, sergeant and inspector rank, says it is co-operating with the inquiry.
"We are carrying out a detailed and thorough investigation into allegations of fraudulent activity involving significant amounts of money," said Detective Superintendent Karen Mizzi from Surrey police.
The federation's chairman, Steve White, general secretary, Andy Fittes, and treasurer, Martyn Mordecai, are understood not to be among those arrested, the BBC's Danny Shaw says.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has also been notified.
The Police Federation of England and Wales first raised concerns with Surrey police - the federation's local force - on Tuesday.
The federation then made a formal allegation relating to accounts held by the Federation's Constables' Central Committee on Wednesday.
Det Supt Mizzi said Surrey police had contacted the relevant police forces to inform them of the arrest of their officers.
The force would also be contacting the Charities Commission, she said.
Freedom of Information (FoI) data shows a rise from 17,413 hours in 2013-14 to 46,160 in 2015-16 beyond the standard 15-minute handover period.
All of the region's trusts bar one have seen increases with wait times up six-fold at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.
North West Ambulance Service said demand for emergency care is rising.
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals' Trust said it had recently employed a number of hospital-trained paramedics in its emergency department to help in the "safe handover of patients" to get ambulances back on the road.
Nationally, only one of the UK's 13 ambulance services is currently meeting its target to reach seriously ill and injured patients, the investigation found.
Delays have also been blamed on a crisis in social care provision leading to bed-blocking caused by delays in the discharge of elderly patients.
In the period covered by the FoI, the number of hours spent by ambulance crews waiting to hand over patients at North West A&E units rose by 167% with many hospitals seeing even bigger increases:
Aintree Hospital in Merseyside, where last week 20 ambulance staff were photographed waiting to hand over patients due to a spike in 999 calls, recorded a 234% rise.
One paramedic at Aintree said they spent more than half of their shift standing in corridors.
The only hospital where handover times actually fell was Wythenshawe in Manchester where the number of hours has dropped by 9%.
We have all seen stories of long waits at A&E - bad for patients but bad for ambulance crews too. Put bluntly if they are stuck in a hospital, they are not out on the road dealing with other emergencies.
Just to explain these totals, ambulance services allow 15 minutes to hand patients over. These figures are the number of extra hours they have had to spend waiting to do that.
For the last financial year, that totalled 46,160 hours for the North West - a huge increase on two years earlier when it was just under 17,500.
So why are the figures rising so dramatically? Well, the number of people going to A&E is steadily rising as the population ages. But a number of hospital trusts are also pointing to the gaps in social care provision, particularly for the elderly.
One trust told me they currently had the equivalent of three wards being occupied by people who should not be in hospital at all, simply because there was not anywhere satisfactory for them to go.
And if those beds are occupied, that means there are fewer for the patients coming in to A&E.
Overall, handover delays at hospitals across England, Wales and Northern Ireland have shown a 52% increase in the last two years.
Lisa Grant, chief nurse at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals, said: "Hospitals across the area are working together with partners in community and social care to help to safely discharge patients who no longer require hospital care, providing beds for those in the emergency department who need to be admitted to a ward."
A statement from the North West Ambulance Service said: "We are seeing more and more people in need of our services, especially for Red incidents for patients with serious and life-threatening conditions.
"This contributes to additional activity at hospital emergency departments. During busy periods this can unfortunately result in ambulance crews having to wait longer to hand over patients into the care of hospital staff before they can be clear to respond to other emergencies."
In a statement, he said he was "torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader".
He said he should have dealt "more wisely" with questions relating to his faith during the election campaign, including his views on gay sex.
Possible successors include former ministers Sir Vince Cable, Jo Swinson, Sir Ed Davey and Norman Lamb.
Church leaders praised Mr Farron. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said he was "honourable and decent".
The acting Bishop of London, Pete Broadbent, said "no-one should have to choose between their faith and politics" and it was "deeply regrettable" he felt the need to quit.
In a hastily-arranged statement, and surrounded by his close colleagues, Mr Farron insisted his decision to step down was voluntary and that he retained the support of his party, which he had been proud to lead for nearly two years.
But he said he could no longer reconcile his strong Christian faith with his responsibilities as leader of a liberal party.
"The consequences of the focus on my faith is that I have found myself torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader," he said.
"A better, wiser person may have been able to deal with this more successfully, to remain faithful to Christ while leading a political party in the current environment.
"To be a leader, particularly of a progressive liberal party in 2017 and to live as a committed Christian and to hold faithful to the Bible's teaching has felt impossible for me."
He said he was passionate about defending the rights and liberties of people who believed differently to him, but said he had been the "subject of suspicion" because of his own beliefs.
While questions about his faith were legitimate, he said they "distracted" from the party's election campaign.
During the campaign, he was asked repeatedly in media interviews to clarify his views on gay sex but did not, to begin with, answer directly.
He later insisted that he did not believe it was a sin and that, while he believed political leaders should not "pontificate on theological matters", it was right to address the subject as it had become "an issue".
Earlier on Wednesday, shadow home affairs spokesman Lord Paddick himself quit, citing concerns about Mr Farron's "views on various issues".
As the party does not currently have a deputy leader, Mr Farron will remain in place while an election is held to choose his successor.
Mr Farron succeeded Nick Clegg in 2015 after the party's disastrous election result, in which it lost nearly 50 seats.
Having not served in the coalition government, he positioned himself to the left of Mr Clegg and sought to rebuild the party at grassroots level.
The party increased its tally of seats from nine to 12 at last week's election, but its vote share fell from 7.9% to 7.4%.
They were hoping to make significant headway on the back of a pledge to hold a second EU referendum.
Despite winning back seats in the south of England lost in 2015, and making gains in Scotland, the party's national performance was patchy.
It lost its last remaining seat in Wales, Mr Clegg was defeated in Sheffield, and 375 of the party's candidates lost their deposits after getting less than 5% of the vote.
Senior party figures and Church leaders praised their outgoing leader. Mr Clegg said it must have been an "agonising" decision for him to make.
He tweeted: "I'm sure I was not alone in being moved by the way Tim spoke about the struggle he found in balancing his faith and his politics."
Willie Rennie, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, said Mr Farron had been a "dynamic and inspirational" leader who helped the party bounce back from the "dark days" after the 2015 election.
"I believe he still has a big role to play in British politics," Mr Rennie added.
But former Lib Dem official Miranda Green criticised Mr Farron for making his statement on the same day as the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy in London, in which at least 12 people have died.
She said the timing showed the Lib Dem leader was "myopic and self-obsessed".
The incident happened late in the first half at the Stade Marcel Michelin.
The offence was ruled to be at the low end of World Rugby's sanctions and 12 weeks was selected as the entry point.
But the 23-year-old's good disciplinary record, remorse and relative youth led to the penalty being reduced.
The French prop's ban means he will miss seven Top 14 matches and the European Champions Cup games against Bordeaux-Begles and Exeter before he is eligible to play again on 20 February.
The incident was spotted by Welsh citing commissioner Jeff Mark while the independent disciplinary committee was made up of Jeremy Summers (England), Jean-Philippe Lachaume (France) and John Carroll (Ireland).
Clermont won the game 38-19 to remain in control of Pool Five and damage Ulster's prospects of making the knockout stage.
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This event happens every year at the zoo, and helps the keepers to prepare in case any of the animals escape in real life.
A total of 70 staff helped out in the drill, as well as local police and emergency workers, who helped to capture the fake leopard-on-the-loose.
Zookeeper Toshiya Nomura, who played the snow leopard, was a bit gutted he didn't scare any of the zoo's visitors with his acting: "Personally I feel I did my best, but it didn't work for kids. I'm a bit disappointed,"
Last year the zoo staged a gorilla escape, and there has even been a pretend rhino escape!
Earlier, the space agency released the most detailed picture yet as it hurtled towards the dwarf planet on Tuesday.
The probe was set to grab more images and other data as it passed just 12,500km from the little world at 11:50 GMT (12:50 BST).
The spacecraft is currently out of contact with Earth as it continues its observations.
But scientists already have colour data from the approach and said they might release another new picture of Pluto later on Tuesday.
Images set to be released on Wednesday will be more than 10 times the resolution of those already published.
New Horizons' flyby of 2,370km-wide Pluto is a key moment in the history of space exploration.
It marks the fact that all nine objects considered by many to be the Solar System's planets - from Mercury through to Pluto - have now been visited at least once by a probe.
"We have completed the initial reconnaissance of the Solar System, an endeavour started under President Kennedy more than 50 years ago and continuing to today under President Obama," said the mission's chief scientist, Alan Stern.
"It's really historic what the US has done, and the New Horizons team is really proud to have been able to run that anchor leg and make this accomplishment."
Talking about the main image of Pluto that was returned just before the flyby began, Nasa's science chief, John Grunsfeld, said: "This is true exploration... that view is just the first of many rewards the team will get. Pluto is an extraordinarily complex and interesting world."
The information that has been acquired in recent weeks on approach to the dwarf world will be as nothing to the huge number of observations captured during the flyby. But scientists have already been attempting to interpret the data and images so far.
Dr Stern said: "On the surface we see a history of impacts, we see a history of surface activity in terms of some features we might be able to interpret as tectonic - indicating internal activity on the planet at some point in its past, and maybe even in its present.
"This is clearly a world where geology and atmosphere - climatology - play a role. Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles. It snows on the surface. These snows sublimate - (and) go back into the atmosphere - every 248-year orbit."
The team also released two stretched colour images, of Pluto and its main moon, Charon. The treatment allows scientists to discern more easily some of the differences at the surface of the bodies in terms of composition and processing.
New Horizons is investigating not only Pluto and Charon, but also the four smaller moons in the system: Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra.
To achieve that, it has had to perform a furious set of manoeuvres during the flyby, pointing every which way in the sky to lock on to the different targets.
The cheering and jubilation are phenomenal. There's a powerful sense of achievement at sending a robotic craft three billion miles to Pluto. But there's also something much more instinctive: the thrill of witnessing and sharing a great moment of discovery.
Most moving for me has been catching a few words with the son of the man who first found Pluto. Al Tombaugh is obviously delighted that a sample of his father Clyde's ashes is on board New Horizons, speeding past Pluto and now heading into the unexplored realm of the Kuiper Belt.
I asked Al if his father would have wanted to visit the tiny world. Maybe, he said, but he was always worried about the physical strain of life as an astronaut. Another thought that's very striking here today: so many scientists and engineers and technicians have had a hand in making this mission work, and their excitement is totally justified.
So what about the coming hours? No one here will truly relax until the next signals reach home as the spacecraft slips beyond Pluto.
New Horizons' call home after the flyby is due at 00:53 GMT Wednesday (01:53 BST). It will come through a giant dish in Madrid, Spain - part of Nasa's Deep Space Network of communications antennas.
This signal will contain only engineering information on the status of the probe, but controllers should be able to tell very quickly whether the flyby sequence worked properly or not.
There is a very small possibility that New Horizons could be lost as it flies through the Pluto system.
Any stray icy debris would have been lethal if it had collided with the spacecraft at its 14km/s velocity (31,000mph).
"Hopefully it did [survive]," said Alan Stern, "but there is a little bit of drama."
The first high-resolution pictures from the pass should be downlinked later on Wednesday.
The BBC will be screening a special Sky At Night programme called Pluto Revealed on Monday 20 July, which will recap all the big moments from the New Horizons flyby.
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Governor Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday set the execution dates for eight men.
On 21 October, two inmates are scheduled to die by the state's lethal three-drug cocktail, which includes the controversial drug midazolam.
Executions in the US have been delayed recently amid problems buying drugs as many firms have refused to sell them.
Twenty-seven people have been executed in Arkansas since 1976 when the US Supreme Court reintroduced the death penalty.
The dates were set following the request last week of Attorney General Leslie Rutledge.
She sent letters to the governor telling him that the condemned inmates had run out of appeals options and that state officials had acquired enough of the needed drugs to carry out the punishments.
The state still faces one lawsuit that challenges a new law that allows the state to conceal how it obtains the lethal drugs needed to perform the execution procedure.
However, the US Supreme Court and other federal courts have rejected similar challenges in other states.
Lawyer Jeff Rosenzweig represents the eight condemned inmates as well as a ninth individual whose case is still in the appeals process.
Mr Rosenzweig has said that he plans to file for the executions to be delayed.
On 1 July, the state's Department of Correction said it had enough of the lethal drugs it needed to perform the executions.
Its stockpiles include a sufficient supply of midazolam, which has been criticized since executions last year in Arizona, Ohio and Oklahoma did not go as planned.
In June, the US Supreme court approved the drug for continued use when it rejected a challenge from three Oklahoma death-row inmates.
Cole, 20, joined the Bantams last summer on a two-year deal after his release by Manchester City.
The England Under-20 international is the son of former Newcastle and Manchester United striker Andrew Cole.
Proctor, 23, has scored four goals this season and moves to Valley Parade on a one-month loan deal.
"Devante has got terrific speed and is an exciting player," Cod Army boss Steven Pressley told the club website.
"I hope he brings goals because we need a number nine we can rely on to score goals."
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The southern Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory is home to the country's most endangered species.
The survival of these animals has come under threat from pests like feral cats and foxes. Fires are also a threat to the area.
Indigenous rangers will now work to protect the area.
The new conservation zone - said to be Australia's largest - encompasses deserts and savannas.
The designation follows four years of discussions between the government, Aboriginal organisations and environmentalists.
Aboriginal groups are tasked with managing the Indigenous Protected Area (IPA). Their duties include protecting endangered species like the bilby, a small marsupial, and the great desert skink, a burrowing lizard.
Aside from boosting employment, tribal leaders say the conservation agreement will also help sustain their way of life, says the BBC's Phil Mercer.
Land lies at the heart of Aboriginal culture, where the Earth is considered to be the mother of creation, our correspondent adds.
This summer's Test series against South Africa and West Indies will be its last as title sponsors.
The deal, which was worth about £40m and saw Investec's brand attached to all home Tests, began in 2011.
Investec has opted to exercise a break clause in its contract as it wishes to explore other marketing options.
The ECB will now seek a new sponsor for Test cricket, with high-profile home series against India and Australia scheduled for 2018 and 2019.
Germany's Kerber, 28, was beaten 6-3 6-1 by her 24-year-old Czech opponent, who gained her sixth WTA title.
American Williams, 34, has been world number one since February 2013, and is closing on Steffi Graf's record of 186 consecutive weeks at the top.
Williams withdrew from the tournament with a shoulder injury on Monday.
Kerber, who would be the first German to top the world rankings since Graf, said: "If someday it happens, it happens, but I will not be making too much pressure on this. I've had such a great year so far and it's not over yet."
It was Pliskova's first victory in a final against Kerber at the third attempt.
Kerber, the Australian Open champion, was broken five times in the match and only managed one of her own as she fell to her third defeat to Pliskova.
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The 28-year-old is a popular sporting figure in his homeland, where acknowledgement of his outstanding ability as a rider is matched by an admiration for his dedication and humble down-to-earth nature.
These are some of the qualities which have helped him realise his long-held ambition of becoming Northern Ireland's first world champion in two-wheel motorsport since Joey Dunlop and Brian Reid claimed the Formula One and Formula Two world titles in 1986.
Since laying down a benchmark with a race win in the opening round of this year's World Superbike series at Phillip Island, the County Antrim man has set about rampaging through the record books, providing what could aptly be described as a motorsport masterclass.
Twelve wins from 22 starts this season - and a remarkable record of having stood on the podium in every race for the first 20 of them - tell the tale of the dominance he has enjoyed over his rivals.
Already renowned for his skill, astute racecraft, perseverance and ability to adapt his style to wet conditions, Rea's move to the official Kawasaki team has proved to be the catalyst which has catapulted him to this much-deserved success on the global stage.
For many years, the Isle of Man-based rider showed consistent loyalty to Honda, the manufacturer which helped mould his career in the early years through a rookies scholarship, and maximised the potential of their Supersport and Superbike machinery, taking occasional race wins in the process.
Maintaining those strong links with the Japanese motorsport giant failed however to yield the move which Rea hoped for - a switch to MotoGP, the premier class of world motorcycling.
Seventh and eighth place finishes while standing in for injured world champion Casey Stoner in the Repsol Honda team in 2012 enhanced his reputation but failed to lead to a more permanent arrangement to compete in the series.
Surely only the complex politics which surround the MotoGP paddock prevented him from testing himself against the very elite of the sport.
The young Jonathan Rea's successful participation in youth motocross demonstrated his ability on a motorcycle from an early age and marked him out as a potential star of the future.
After serving his apprenticeship on the circuits of Great Britain and Ireland, he achieved second position overall in the 2007 British Superbike series, followed by a similar placing in the World Supersport class the following year.
His best finish in World Superbikes prior to this season was third in the 2014 championship on board a Ten Kate Honda.
Throughout his distinguished career, the Ulsterman has demonstrated an unwavering gratitude to his sponsors and exhibited a profound appreciation of the collective efforts of the team gathered around him.
Like most of the sport's leading exponents, he has overcome his fair share of injury setbacks along the way, but a regular fitness regime in the form of cycling and hard graft at the gym have paid handsome dividends.
A respectful attitude to his opponents in an environment where egos can easily become inflated and rivalries rampant have been a hallmark of his approach, while his articulate, well-spoken manner has made him a firm favourite with the media.
The son of an accomplished road racer, the Ballyclare man has regularly expressed his admiration for those who participate in the unforgiving discipline of racing on public roads and has displayed a willingness to pass on some of his knowledge to the next generation of potential motorcycling stars.
Boasting a substantial fan base, Rea has also won the Irish Motorcyclist of the Year award, in its various guises, on several occasions.
His supporters can now salute Northern Ireland's newest world champion.
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The East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust was put into special measures in September 2014 because of "serious failures" in patient safety.
England's chief inspector of hospitals, Prof Sir Mike Richards said his recommendation came after an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Matthew Kershaw, the trust's chief executive said there was more to do.
The trust runs the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, the Kent and Canterbury in Canterbury, the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital (QEQM) in Margate, the Buckland in Dover, and the Royal Victoria in Folkestone.
Prof Richards said: "At our last inspection in July 2015, we noted that although East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust had made significant improvements in quality, we needed to see those improvements embedded in practice.
"We have found good evidence that the trust continues to make steady progress.
"We can see real benefits for patients."
Prof Richards has recommended the NHS Trust Development Authority and Monitor take the trust out of special measures.
CQC inspectors visited the hospitals and focused on emergency care, medical services, maternity and gynaecology, and end of life care.
The inspectors rated the quality of care provided by the William Harvey, QEQM and Kent and Canterbury hospitals as "requiring improvement".
Mr Kershaw said: "We have made some investments already in staffing levels in maternity and improvements in equipment.
"Both of those have more to do but we have made real strides in both those areas across both of our main sites."
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Geological surveys have found an "unacceptable risk" that the ground below the Pinner Wood School, in Pinner, north-west London, could become unstable, Harrow Council said.
Pupils of the primary school have been told they will not be able to return to the site until further notice.
But it is also possible they will never be able to return to their school.
Harrow Council said classes would relocate to other educational settings for the summer term while more tests were carried out to assess the site's condition and safety.
Laser imaging of the previously uncharted and unknown tunnels reveal they stretch beneath the school buildings and that mine roofs have collapsed in certain places.
But the surveys could take months and it is possible the ground underneath the school will be deemed so unsafe that the school can never reopen in its current location.
The leader of Harrow Council, Sachin Shah, said: "With the evidence we have discovered in the past few days, we are certain that this is the right decision.
"We would like to stress that the imminent risk to the school buildings is believed to be small."
Dr Clive Edmonds, partner at Peter Brett Associates, which carried out the geotechnical surveys, said it was likely that the mines dated from the early 1800s.
"As is common for chalk mines of this age there are no mine abandonment plans and the mine workings are in a state of breakdown, as confirmed by the laser survey, posing a hazard to surface stability."
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Damon Kelly has been distributing the leaflets since 2012, but he was eventually charged for harassing a lesbian couple in the street.
He subsequently delivered a distressing letter to their home in Leicester.
The 54-year-old, from Northamptonshire, pleaded guilty at Leicester Magistrates Court to harassment without violence.
Kelly had also sent several letters to online newspaper PinkNews, describing them as "the Devil's disciples", although he has not been charged with any offences in relation to this.
Lisa Morris, from the Crown Prosecution Service in the East Midlands, said Kelly's right to free speech must be balanced with the need to protect the public.
"Damon Kelly has caused offence when distributing his leaflets," she said.
"The right of free speech is extremely important in our society, but when this crosses the line into harassment, it is important that the public is protected."
Kelly calls himself "Brother Damon Jonah Kelly" and dresses in monk's robes.
As well as condemning homosexuality, his leaflets condemn sex outside of marriage, contraception, "assisted fertilization", abortion, pornography, divorce, transgender people, euthanasia, atheism and humanism.
He has distributed them at various locations across England, including the East Midlands, Brighton, Cambridgeshire and the West Midlands.
Many people have reported him to the police after being upset and offended by them.
The leaflets were described by witnesses as "vile", "offensive" and "upsetting".
Damon Kelly was given a five-year Criminal Behaviour Order prohibiting him from:
He was also given a 12-month community order requiring him to do 170 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay a £60 victim surcharge.
The CPS has asked people to contact their local police force if they see Kelly breaching the Criminal Behaviour Order.
"It is important that communities are aware that he has been banned by the courts from these activities," said Ms Morris.
The 35-year-old, who has been racing for Red Bull Honda's World Superbike team this year, is being treated at a hospital in Cesena.
The American competed in the latest round of the World Superbike championship in Italy last Sunday.
He won his only MotoGP championship in 2006, preventing Valentino Rossi from winning a sixth successive title.
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April the Giraffe, whose prolonged pregnancy has been watched by millions of amateur zoologists online, has delivered her fourth calf.
"We have a baby! Everything went absolutely perfect. This is great!" park owner Jordan Patch said.
Since a live feed of her enclosure started in February, April has become an internet celebrity.
April lives at the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, almost 200 miles north-west of New York.
The park has given no details on the gender of the calf yet. The mother, whose every move has been closely followed, and baby are said to be fine.
The delivery does not mean they are going away from the public's eyes. There will be a competition to determine the calf's name.
Now April will raise the calf, and weaning could take between six to 10 months, the park explains.
The young giraffe will then be moved to another facility for a breeding programme.
April's delivery has not been without (virtual) hurdles.
Her live feed was briefly removed from YouTube in February after it was flagged as being sexually explicit or having nude content.
The park blamed animal rights activists for reporting the video as inappropriate, a move that infuriated her followers. But, to their relief, the ban was short lived.
Speaking at a conference in Washington on his first US visit in his new role, Mr Johnson said the UK would lead a campaign to bring the group to justice.
He warned of the potential dispersal of IS fighters around the world after they are pushed out of Iraq and Syria.
Mr Johnson proposed a UK summit to examine how to tackle the new threats.
Addressing foreign and defence officials from about 30 nations involved in the fight against IS, Mr Johnson said more needed to be done to collect evidence in territory the group has lost.
Witnesses would need to be identified and data collected so individuals could be held to account and prosecuted, he said.
Later, in a TV interview, Mr Johnson said: "We've got to deal with the whole cancer and its ability to spread and to metastasize, to pop up all over the world in the way that we've been seeing...
"There are thousands of them and we need to start setting in train the process of gathering evidence, of getting more witnesses, so that ultimately they can be prosecuted and held to account for their crimes against humanity and that's something that I said today to everybody and got a large measure of support."
Mr Johnson also defended Nato's principle of mutual self-defence following a suggestion by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that the US might not always come to the aid of the group's fellow members.
Outlining a foreign policy strategy aimed at reducing US expenditure and involvement abroad, Mr Trump said as president he may abandon a guarantee of protection to fellow Nato members unless they have "fulfilled their obligations to us".
Mr Johnson said Nato's "doctrine of mutual defence is incredibly important. It is something I have repeated several times in the last week to people around Europe, to representatives and my counterparts, the Baltic countries and elsewhere.
"It is something that the British government believes in absolutely fervently and something we stand behind four square."
Gross domestic product grew at an annualised pace of 1.5% between July and September, according to the Department of Commerce, down from a rate of 3.9% in the second quarter.
The slowdown was partly due to companies running down stockpiles of goods in their warehouses.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged and said the economy was expanding at a "moderate" pace.
Analysis: Andrew Walker, economics correspondent
Yes, it's a sharp slowdown compared with the previous three months. But the biggest reason for it was companies running down stocks - meeting demand by selling stuff they already have in the warehouse.
That is a process that has a limit. Sooner or later, they will feel they have sold enough and may want to start replenishing those stocks.
Consumer spending remained fairly robust. Yes, it too did slow, but not by all that much. It grew by 0.8% in the three-month period, or 3.2% in the annualised terms that the US official statisticians prefer.
The big question for markets is, when will the Federal Reserve raise interest rates? Will the central bank think the economy is strong enough to take it? The markets seem to think the new figures have, if anything slightly increased the chances that the Fed will move at its next policy meeting in December.
Low oil prices have hit US energy firms so far this year. But lower fuel prices have been good news for consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of US economic activity.
Consumer spending grew at 3.2% in the third quarter, down from 3.6% in the second but still a strong reading.
Analysts said that the running down of warehouse stockpiles in the third quarter was likely to be a temporary effect and they expected growth to accelerate again in the fourth quarter.
"The headline number isn't great but this masks underlying strength," said Luke Bartholomew at Aberdeen Asset Management.
"Inventory adjustment was a drag but final domestic demand is much stronger suggesting the fundamentals of the economy remain solid."
For several months there has been intense debate about when the US central bank will raise interest rates, and now the focus is on its last meeting of the year in December.
The Fed has said in past statements that it expects to raise rates in 2015, and that labour market participation, inflation and the global economy would be the key factors in its decision.
In its latest statement on Wednesday, the Fed said: "In determining whether it will be appropriate to raise the target range at its next meeting, the committee will assess progress - both realized and expected - toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2% inflation."
However, the Fed dropped comments, which had been used in the previous month's statement, that weaknesses in the global economy could affect the US. Financial markets interpreted this as a sign that the Fed might be more likely to raise rates in December.
The Windows system-maker had alleged its rival had infringed a way to let applications talk to a handset's radio communications hardware.
The German court's ruling ends a run of three previous patent victories scored by Microsoft over Google this year.
However, it has little practical effect since Microsoft has already secured bans against several Motorola products.
These include sales restrictions preventing stores offering about a dozen devices including the Droid Razr and Razr Maxx handsets.
The latest case involved software application programming interfaces (APIs) used to allow software developers to write a set of code guaranteed to work with different mobile devices' radio antennas.
Potential uses include letting a mobile phone select a network operator; transfer a call; send and receive a text message; and access individual files stored on the Sim card.
Microsoft laid claim to the methodology in a filing submitted in 2002.
The judge did not explain his reason for rejecting the claim.
Microsoft had previously won German cases based on separate patents related to SMS messages, a way to handle user-input and use of the file allocation table (Fat) file system architecture.
"This decision does not impact multiple injunctions Microsoft has already been awarded and has enforced against Motorola products in Germany," said David Howard, associate general counsel at Microsoft.
"It remains that Motorola is broadly infringing Microsoft's intellectual property, and we hope it will join the vast majority of Android device makers by licensing Microsoft's patents."
A spokeswoman for Google said: "We are pleased with today's favourable outcome for Motorola Mobility, but won't be able to provide more specific information on this matter."
While Microsoft dominates the PC operating system market, it is a relatively small player in the fast-growing smart device sector.
Thanks to the success of its Android software, Google's system powered 68.1% of global smartphone handsets in the April-to-June quarter, according to a study by Canals.
By contrast Microsoft's Windows Phone system had a 3.2% share.
But Microsoft makes money from most Android device sales as it has struck patent licensing deals with other handset makers, including Samsung and HTC, for the use of its technologies in the system.
When Google decided to buy Motorola it said that the action was chiefly driven by a desire to own its 17,000 patents.
The move has allowed it to directly challenge Microsoft and others' claims to set a precedent for other firms using its software, albeit with mixed success.
Motorola has scored its own victories. Earlier this year the division won the right to prevent Germany's stores from selling Microsoft's Xbox 360 games consoles, the Windows 7 operating system, the Internet Explorer browser and Windows Media Player.
However, it has not been able to enforce the ban and faces a related hearing next month.
Meanwhile the two firms are involved in a series of other intellectual property fights in the US. These have already led to an import ban being placed on some Motorola devices.
About 10,000 people have been rescued in worst-hit Uttarakhand state over three days, PM Manmohan Singh said.
Tens of thousands of pilgrims are still stranded in Uttarakhand, where more than 100 people have been killed.
Flood-related deaths have also been reported in Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh states and neighbouring Nepal.
At least 22 people have been killed and 18 are missing in landslides and floods triggered by heavy rainfall in remote parts of Nepal, home ministry spokesman Shankar Koirala told the AFP news agency.
He said that more than 100 homes - mostly in western Nepal - had been damaged by the floods and the government had agreed to step up relief efforts at an emergency meeting.
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The scale of devastation in Uttarakhand is staggering. As rescuers establish contact with more of the affected villages and settlements, they say many have been flattened to the ground.
On Wednesday, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna flew over Kedarnath, Guptkashi, Govindghat and Joshimath areas to assess the damage.
Most of the temple town of Kedarnath - apart from the main Shiva temple - is buried under mud and debris. There are scenes of devastation everywhere. Officials said it would take at least three to four years to get the town back on its feet.
Many of the villages remain cut off with emergency workers unable to reach marooned villages. There are are reported to be groups of people stranded in remote areas without any supplies. Most roads are still closed and many bridges, homes, schools and hotels have been damaged, hampering the relief operation.
The monsoon season generally lasts from June to September, bringing rain which is critical to the farming output of both countries, but this year the rain in the north of India and parts of Nepal has been heavier than usual.
On Wednesday afternoon, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi flew over Uttarakhand to assess the damage caused by the floods.
Mr Singh later described the situation there as "distressing" and announced a 10bn rupee ($170m; £127m) aid package for the state.
"The maximum devastation has been in [the temple town of] Kedarnath and its vicinity," he said. "The priority is to rescue the stranded and provide urgently needed succour to those most needing it."
Mr Singh said in Uttarakhand, 102 people had died, but he feared that "the loss of lives could eventually be much higher".
Meanwhile, more than 5,500 soldiers and hundreds of paramilitary and disaster management officials are working to rescue and provide emergency supplies to thousands of tourists and pilgrims stranded in towns and temples.
Military officials said five airbases were being used to help speed up rescue operations.
The situation in Uttarakhand was "really very bad", top disaster management official Piyush Rautela was quoted as telling news agency AFP.
The floods have swept away buildings and triggered landslides in some places, blocking roads. More than 20 bridges have collapsed.
Portions of a Hindu temple in Kedarnath were washed away and the shrine was "submerged in mud and slush", Uttarakhand disaster relief minister Jaspal Arya said.
India's Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said more than 62,000 pilgrims were stranded at various places.
Most of the pilgrims - bound for local Himalayan shrines - are stranded in Rudraprayag, Chamoli and Uttarkashi districts after roads caved in and bridges collapsed.
Some of the pilgrims who are stranded in a guest house in Joshimath town spoke to the BBC Hindi's Shalini Joshi about their ordeal.
"We were stuck in the car for 14 hours, we spent the entire night there. The mountains were collapsing above us, while a river in spate was raging below us," Delhi resident Asha Mahajan said.
"There was a huge traffic jam, we could neither go forward, nor move back. Anything could have happened. It was raining heavily and we were afraid that there might be a landslide. Thank God we are all right," she added.
"This is the first time we've come to the mountains. But we're now stuck in Joshimath. We are so close to the holy shrine of Badrinath, but we've been told not to go there. It makes me really said, but what can we do? If I survive, I'll come back here," said Dineshbhai Kishanbhai Patel who is visiting from the western state of Gujarat.
"It's been a harrowing trip for us," said Trilochan Singh from Mumbai city. "We hear the roads are all broken, cars and shops have been swept away. It is frightening. We are very lucky to be alive."
Local officials told the BBC that the number of dead was expected to rise as rescue workers had still not reached many affected areas.
In Himachal Pradesh, where at least 10 people have been killed in landslides, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh was himself stranded in Kinnaur district for nearly 60 hours.
He was evacuated on Tuesday by a helicopter hired by his Congress party, reports said.
Motorists also made slow progress after the game, with stop-start traffic on the M4 eastbound between J29 and 26 and on the A48 Eastern Avenue in Cardiff.
An overturned lorry on the A470 north of Cardiff also affected traffic on the M4 at J32, highways officials said.
Arriva Trains Wales issued live travel updates online as fans headed home.
Australia beat Fiji 28-13.
Supporters arriving by car before kick-off endured eight miles of stop-start traffic which was reported on the M4 from junctions 23a to 25a.
Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb told rail bosses to "fix" overcrowding problems after issues at Saturday's Ireland-Canada game.
He said: "I think Cardiff has already got a reputation as the best city in Europe in which to watch rugby and we don't want any transport-related issues undermining the hard-earned reputation that we're acquiring as a great host city for international events... there are loads and loads of big pluses, but let's fix this."
Lynne Milligan, of Arriva Trains Wales, said: "Based on travel demand data and on Saturday evening's experience, we are predicting around 35,000 people wanting to travel back by train after the match.
"We can move on average 10,000 people per hour through our queuing system but unfortunately for some of the busier queues, this could mean up to a three hour wait."
But Dan Panes from Great Western Railway said it was not putting on additional seats, on top of the 10 extra services.
This is after it apologised for underestimating passenger numbers on Saturday calling the situation "embarrassing". The firm put on 8,000 extra seats for Ireland's match against Canada, but had to add 1,500 extra seats.
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As part of her tour, the royal watched live filming at Ealing Studios in west London.
The star said: "I think I have to sweep the red carpet and get there early and get the polishing gear out.
"I'm not due to be working that day but everyone is really excited."
Catherine, who is due to give birth next month, met Downton Abbey's on-screen stars, as well as the behind-the-scenes crew.
Fifty-one-year-old Bonneville, speaking at the Tric awards on Tuesday, said he enjoyed showing people around the film set of the drama.
"I'm pretty good at showing people, I know every inch of Cora's bedroom, if I'm allowed to say that," he said.
"It gets put up and taken down and rebuilt so often for other things; so I'm very good at spotting the joins where they haven't put it back together properly."
Scenes in the kitchen, servants' quarters and working areas of Downton Abbey, and some of the upstairs bedrooms, are filmed at Ealing Studios in London.
Highclere Castle in Hampshire is used for exterior shots and other interior filming.
Downton Abbey has won various awards and by the third series had become one of the most widely watched television drama shows in the world.
On Tuesday, it won the Tric drama programme of the year award with a ceremony held at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.
Fans of the programme are still waiting for news of whether there will be a seventh series or not.
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Dave Marchant, of Henley, found them in the engine compartment of his Toyota Land Cruiser when he checked the oil.
He believes the nesting female and six chicks travelled more than 250 miles (402 km), before being found.
Mr Marchant, said he will not use his car until the chicks have fledged.
Mr Marchant said he had initially found the nest of unhatched eggs after clocking up more than 80 miles (128 km) in one day.
"I didn't think they'd be any good. I thought the mother must have flown away, so I carried on driving it," he said.
After driving for up to another 170 miles (274 km), he checked the nest again.
"When I looked again there were a whole heap of chicks in there and they'd all hatched out," he said.
As soon as he saw the young brood, Mr Marchant said he "stopped driving the car" and "won't use it again until they have flown the nest".
"I've heard of birds nesting in old vehicles but not in one that's in use," he added.
"Just goes to show how steady a driver I am."
Mohammed Chernarli, 31, of Mary Hill Road, Glasgow, and Mehdi Esmalpoor, 39, of Farm Drive, Rawmarsh, were sentenced to ten years in jail for drugs offences at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday.
Nehdi Tajabidi, 32, of no fixed address, was jailed for seven years.
The lab was in a property in Rotherham and police are now hunting the trio.
South Yorkshire Police said it was the first case of methamphetamine - known as crystal meth - production they had dealt with in the region.
The lab was set up in a property Tajabidi rented on Broom Valley Road. Officers found the three had travelled around the country to "purchase large quantities of chemicals and other equipment".
Esmalpoor and Chernarli were arrested on 23 May 2016, with a search of Tajabidi's address the following day finding face masks, plastic drums, filters, mixing utensils and sieves as well as paperwork.
The three men denied the charges against them but Chernarli and Esmalpoor were found guilty of conspiracy to produce a class A drug after a two-week trial.
Tajabidi was convicted of producing a class A drug.
Det Sgt Anna Sedgwick, who led the investigation, said: "Not only were they committing serious crime, they were putting the lives of innocent people, living close to the property at risk because of the dangerous nature of the chemical processes involved.
"We will actively pursue them to ensure they serve their sentences behind bars for their crimes."
Methamphetamine is a highly-addictive stimulant which is sold as crystals, pills or powder.
Dessie Ellis and Martin Ferris shouted their denials in the Dail shortly after their party leader Gerry Adams made a statement on his knowledge of the killing.
Mr Ellis said he was in prison at the time.
Both men were responding to comments made by Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell.
Mr Stack, chief prison officer at the high-security Portlaoise Prison, was shot in the back of the neck as he left a boxing match in 1983.
He was left paralysed and died 18 months later.
In his statement, Mr Adams said that during Ireland's general election campaign in February, he had emailed Irish police commissioner Noírín O'Sullivan a list of four republicans who may have been involved.
The Sinn Féin leader said he had been given the names by Austin Stack, himself a senior prison officer and son of Brian Stack.
Mr Adams said Austin Stack told him the names were given to him (Mr Stack) by journalists and Garda sources.
But Mr Stack, who with his brother, Oliver, and Mr Adams met a senior republican with knowledge of his father's murder in 2013 in Northern Ireland, denies handing over any names.
At the time of the meeting, the senior republican told the brothers the IRA had not sanctioned the shooting of their father and the person responsible had been disciplined.
In his Dail statement, Mr Adams repeated that he had been given the names by Austin Stack and he denied that he had described the four as suspects.
The Sinn Féin leader said that although he had no information about the killing he wrote to the Garda commissioner because Fianna Fail and Fine Gael had sought to exploit the issue during the general election campaign.
He told the Dail that the peace process had worked without senior IRA people being publicly identified and said the issue highlighted the lack of a process for dealing with the past
HMS Hampshire was carrying Lord Kitchener, one of the key figures in World War One, from Scapa Flow for talks with the Tsar of Russia in 1916.
He was among 737 killed after it struck a mine and sank. Only 12 survived.
A stone wall with the names of all those lost in the sinking will be unveiled on Sunday evening, as part of a series of weekend events.
The sinking happened on 5 June 1916, when HMS Hampshire struck a mine while tackling a force nine gale less than two miles off shore.
It was just days after thousands of sailors died during the Battle of Jutland.
After the war, a stone tower was built on sea cliffs overlooking the waters where the wreck lies.
Until now only Lord Kitchener's name has been commemorated at the site.
The unveiling of the memorial wall is due to be held at 20:45 on Sunday.
One of those who died was 38-year-old father-of-seven William Cake.
Granddaughter Jackie Baynes said: "William's body was found on the shore.
"It is thought that he died of hypothermia, as his fingers and nails were badly cut and broken through his efforts to pull himself up the beach.
"Maybe he would have lived if local people had not been stopped from going to rescue survivors.
"At the time of his death, his wife was 39. She was left with seven children, aged from two to 20, to bring up. Hard times indeed."
Mrs Baynes added: "I feel close to my grandfather despite his early death. His family kept his memory alive in their home. A large framed photograph hung proudly in my grandmother's front room.
"Until recently the only memorial had been the Kitchener Memorial.
"The Orkney Heritage Society has now restored this memorial to its original condition and to mark the centenary the Society has built a low granite wall around it, with plaques carrying the names of all those unfortunate seamen lost in the sinking."
The health minister told the Northern Ireland Assembly that he had been made aware of 20 cases in which the trust's response was said to be below standard.
The patients were seen in the emergency, obstetrics, gynaecology or X ray departments.
It is not clear whether the deaths were avoidable. Edwin Poots said the trust's response should have been better.
He said this was especially true, where cases were not identified as "serious adverse incidents".
It is understood the babies were either born prematurely or were less than a month old.
The trust is also completing a review of about 35,000 X rays taken at the Causeway Hospital, Coleraine, County Londonderry, between 2011 and 2012.
Nine patients have been recalled. That review is now being extended across the entire health trust, involving 48,000 X rays.
Health Minister Edwin Poots said the cases, which date from 2008 until the present, were discovered by a "turnaround team" he had sent to the trust.
"I wasn't happy with the Northern Trust, I wasn't happy with the way things were being done there and that's why I put a turnaround team in," he said.
"We do need to offset that with the fact that the Northern Trust was dealing with tens of thousands of cases.
"The Northern Trust is in a considerably better place than when I inherited it in 2011."
Mr Poots said Northern Ireland's hospitals "are safe places", but added: "Do we run perfect hospitals? We don't."
Maeve McLaughlin, the chair of the assembly's health committee, said the the news of the cases was "quite alarming".
"I think there are very serious questions [to answer]," she said.
In a statement, the trust said it recognised that on certain occasions it had "fallen short of the standards the public should expect from us".
"More critically, we failed to learn from these incidents. To those people affected we apologise," the statement said.
"We have identified 20 separate incidents over a five-year period where the response by the trust was below standard. We have advised the department and welcome the minster's statement today and his continued support."
The statement said patients and their families had been let down.
It said it would work to try and prevent that happening in the future and was committed to "a culture of openness and transparency".
The trust said that changing the culture was the key to turning the organisation around.
The highly unusual move is necessary because the Brunt Ice Shelf on which the research station sits has developed a big new crack.
BAS officials say neither staff nor the base are in any immediate danger but believe it would be prudent to withdraw while the situation is assessed.
The plan would be to go back once the Antarctic winter is over, in November.
Halley station comprises a series of hi-tech pods that are mounted on hydraulic legs and skis so that they can be moved periodically further inland, to get away from the shelf edge where icebergs are calved into the ocean.
BAS is in the process of conducting such a move right now. The relocation is all but complete, with the last pod currently in the final stage of being shifted 23km to the new site.
The move was necessitated by a chasm that had opened up in the shelf and which threatened to cut off Halley. But this huge fissure to the west of the station is not the cause of the temporary closure.
Rather, it is another break in the ice some 17km to the north and east of the new base position. It has been dubbed the "Halloween Crack" because it was discovered on 31 October.
"Changes to the ice, particularly the growth of a new crack, presents a complex glaciological picture that means that BAS scientists are unable to predict with certainty what will happen to the ice shelf during the forthcoming Antarctic winter," the research organisation said in a statement.
"As a precautionary measure, BAS will remove its people before the Antarctic winter begins."
The organisation says it does not believe the ice shelf is about to experience a major calving event, but makes the point that if something were to happen it would be very difficult to react in the depths of an Antarctic winter.
"What we've decided is that given the unpredictability, combined with our inability to do anything about it in winter - no aircraft in the continent, it's dark, it's very cold; all those kinds of issues - then actually the prudent thing to do is withdraw our staff, close the station down in a controlled manner and then go back in next summer," BAS director of operations Captain Tim Stockings told BBC News.
Together with the Rothera base on the Antarctic Peninsula, Halley spearheads the UK presence - and scientific activity - on the White Continent.
Halley gathers important weather and climate data, and it played a critical role in the research that identified the ozone "hole" in 1985.
In recent years, Halley has also become a major centre for studying solar activity and the impacts it can have on Earth.
This is most evident in the beautiful auroras that form over the base - the consequence of particles from the Sun crashing into air molecules high in the atmosphere.
Just under 20 permanent staff reside at Halley. In winter, they would watch over experiments. BAS now has to decide if any of those experiments can be left running autonomously, or whether it is better to just shut everything down.
Scientists have placed sensors on either side of the more than 40km-long Halloween Crack so that they can monitor its status.
"Obviously, we'll seek to get out of those whatever we can; we'll also be using satellite imagery over the winter as well. Then, next season we'll send a team in to re-open the station, verify the measurements from our instruments and take the situation from there," explained Captain Stockings.
"But I should say - we are committed to our presence in that part of the British Antarctic Territory and to the science we do there. Absolutely.
"We've spent a long time finding the new site for Halley VI and of itself this site isn't directly at risk - it's just the unpredictability of the whole area."
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The appeal for funds were made on the government's official Facebook page.
It comes after the European Union said it will withhold more than $2m (£1.3m) of funding for the elections.
There have been weeks of violent protests and a failed coup against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term.
The plea asks for money "from patriotic citizens to reinforce a culture of democracy based on the choice of the people". It then gives details of a bank account to put the money directly into.
Money to carry out the the elections was already running low as the former colonial power Belgium has also suspended a similar amount to the EU. The EU said it will withhold the money unless "conditions for a free, peaceful and credible election are secured".
In addition, a French diplomat told AFP news agency that France has suspended its security co-operation with the country.
The parliamentary elections were due to be held on Tuesday but have been delayed by 10 days.
Mr Nkurunziza's critics say the third term contravenes the constitution, which requires him to step down after two terms.
Burundi's Constitutional Court says that Mr Nkurunziza's first term does not count because he was elected by parliament and not voters.
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But it looks like other less high profile legislation has also been put back.
According to the pilots union BALPA, tougher laws to stop laser attacks on planes has been put back "two Parliamentary sessions" - i.e. some months.
The union wants restrictions on high powered lasers as well as more powers for police to stop and search people suspected of carrying lasers.
The government has said it never outlined a timetable but was "looking to make changes as soon as possible".
"Safety is our top priority", a spokesperson for the Department for Transport said.
It comes as one South West Trains driver told us what it's like to be hit in the eyes with a laser.
Steve Upton said it was like looking directly into the sun and it was completely disorientating.
So far there have been 151 recorded laser attacks on train drivers over three years.
That's considerably lower than the number of aircraft being hit every year by lasers. In 2015, there were 1,439 incidents with 121 at Heathrow.
BALPA says urgent action is needed "to avoid a serious crash."
Matthew Leahy was found hanged in his room at the Linden Centre in Chelmsford on 15 November 2012.
Chelmsford Coroner's Court heard Mr Leahy's paperwork was incomplete and a key worker was not assigned to him.
In an open narrative verdict, Coroner Caroline Beasley Murray said the health trust should now consider an inquiry.
A statement read out to the court by the lead juror said: "Matthew Leahy had been subjected to a series of multiple failings and missed opportunities over a long period of time.
"Relevant processes and procedures had not been adhered to."
Mr Leahy did not have a care plan, but after his death staff falsified one and back-dated it, the court heard.
One member of staff was sacked and faces a disciplinary hearing at the Nursing and Midwifery Council, alongside two others from the centre.
North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust insisted the actions of these staff had no bearing on the quality of care Mr Leahy received.
The court heard how during his stay at the centre Mr Leahy had been delusional and believed he had been raped in hospital.
He was also convinced his body "had been infected with parasites".
Mr Leahy had a history of drug-induced psychosis, and had in the past smashed up the caravan where he lived at Bradwell Marina, and had threatened to kill himself.
A post-mortem examination revealed the cause of Mr Leahy's death was hanging.
In thousands of cases women have seen the age for which they can claim moved back by 18 months.
They have been caught up in government efforts to cut the mounting costs of paying for the state pension and to equalise the age at which men and women receive the state pension.
That effort goes back decades, so to help understand the issue here is a little history.
From 1948 for more than 60 years men received their state pension at 65 and women at the age of 60.
But over the years it was argued that the difference was unfair, as women had a longer life expectancy than men.
So under the 1995 Pensions Act a timetable was drawn up to equalise the age at which men and women could draw their state pension.
The plan was to raise the qualifying age for women to 65 and to phase in that change from 2010 to 2020.
But the coalition government of 2010 decided to accelerate that timetable, arguing that the state pension was becoming increasingly unaffordable.
Under the 2011 Pensions Act the new qualifying age of 65 for women was bought forward to 2018.
Also, the qualifying age for men and women would be raised to 66 by October 2020.
Those changes were expected to save £30bn.
In total around 2.6 million women were affected by the 2011 changes. While many of them had plenty of time to adapt to a longer working life, for some the change came as a shock.
In particular around 300,000 women, born between December 1953 and October 1954 and getting close to their state pension age, were made to wait an extra 18 months.
The changes sparked dismay and anger. Women complained that they had not been given time to adjust to the new retirement age and also that the changes in 2011 and 1995 had not been clearly communicated.
Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) emerged to campaign over those issues.
Waspi wants compensation for the "unfair" way the changes of 1995 and 2011 were implemented.
It wants payments for those who have already reached the state retirement age, plus extra income for those still awaiting their state pension.
But it is not asking for women's retirement age to return to 60.
Critics of Waspi say it is not clear how much their demands would cost.
The government has said it has already committed £1bn to mitigate the impact of the changes, ensuring that no one would see their pension date move by more than 18 months. It has said consistently that there will not be any further changes to the policy.
The SNP has icommissioned research to look at five options to compensate women affected by the changes.
It has been promoting one of those options - a return to the 1995 timetable of pension changes.
The SNP says that change could be made for £8bn, however pension experts dispute that calculation, pointing out that the figure only includes costs to 2021. The manifesto is to be published shortly.
In its manifesto Plaid Cymru highlighted their constant campaigning for fair pensions for women.
Pension policy is not devolved, so both parties will have to use their influence in Westminster if they want to see any changes.
In its manifesto the Labour Party said that women affected by the 2011 pension changes deserve "some kind of compensation for their losses".
"Alongside our commitment to extend Pension Credit to hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable women, Labour is exploring options for further transitional protections," it said.
The Liberal Democrats did not mention the issue in their manifesto, however, in March Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron made a broad commitment to helping the women.
He backed calls for "the government to implement fair transitional arrangements for women affected by the State Pension Age changes".
In its manifesto, UKIP notes that the raised retirement age for women has been "hugely unpopular". It does not suggest any compensation for Waspi women, but proposes a "flexible state pension window".
Under UKIP's plan everyone would be able to opt for an earlier retirement for a lower pension, or work longer for a higher pension.
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Cohen had been out recovering from a third knee injury in as many years, sustained in a draw with rivals Derby County in September 2014.
The 28-year-old, who joined from Yeovil in 2005, came on as a substitute at The Valley late in the second-half.
"It's been a long time coming," Cohen told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"It makes all the hard work worthwhile, I've had a few setbacks along the way.
"As positive as I've been sometimes you do wonder if it will ever happen.
"The result wasn't what we wanted with them going down to 10 men but from a selfish point of view it was incredible and the reception I got was amazing."
Former West Ham United trainee Cohen has become a hugely popular figure at the City Ground, not only for his efforts on the field and his captaincy, but also for his continued efforts to return to fitness after long-term injury.
"You do go back to how it was, it does feel very normal, being on the bench was a bit weird because I am normally playing or injured," Cohen added.
"I'm just buzzing to be back out there, but we need to win games of football.
"That's the most important thing, as happy as I am today to be back out there we really need to be beating teams like Charlton who were probably there for the taking."
Cohen said he expected to be nurtured back into regular action but was hopeful of impressing boss Dougie Freedman between now and the end of the campaign.
"The manager has been fantastic with me, he's told me I'm not going to play every game which I completely understand, my idea is to try to change his mind and be a player he can't drop," he added.
"But if I can play as well as I can, I know I can recover and play every game if needed.
"I'm here to help the team as much as I can and whatever part I have to play I will give it my all as I always have done."
The charity says that although all ages are at risk, many older people would not have been aware of how to protect themselves four decades ago.
Figures show that 5,700 over-65s are diagnosed with the condition each year, compared to just 600 in the mid-1970s.
The condition can often be prevented by covering up and avoiding sunburn.
Around 13,300 people are diagnosed with malignant melanoma - the most serious form of skin cancer - each year in the UK. And 2,100 lives are lost to the disease annually.
Numbers are increasing across all age groups but the steepest rise is seen in over-65s.
The charity said all ages are benefitting from public health messages explaining the dangers of holiday sun.
Sue Deans, a 69-year old mother of three, was first diagnosed with skin cancer in 2000 and again in 2007.
She said: "I was part of the generation when package holidays became affordable and you could go abroad nearly every year.
"I don't think there was much understanding at the time about the impact that too much sun can have on your risk of getting skin cancer.
"And I loved the sun but suffered quite a bit of sunburn over the years."
She spotted signs of her cancer early on and has had successful surgery, but remains vigilant for anything that might need further checks.
Professor Richard Marais of Cancer Research UK (CRUK), said: "It is worrying to see melanoma rates increasing at such a fast pace, and across all age groups.
"It is important people keep an eye on their skin and seek medical opinion if they see any changes to their moles or even to normal areas of skin.
"Melanoma is often detected on men's backs and women's legs but can appear on any part of the body."
Research suggests that getting sunburnt just once every two years can increase the odds of developing malignant melanoma.
Dr Julie Sharp, head of health information at CRUK, said: "You can burn at home just as easily as you can on holiday, so remember to spend time in the shade, wear a T-shirt and a hat to protect your skin and regularly apply sunscreen that is at least factor 15 and has four stars."
Johnathon Major, from the British Association of Dermatologists, said: "The increasing incidence of skin cancer within the UK is alarming.
"As people are living longer, more people are reaching an age where they are at a higher risk.
"Interest in package holidays and in fashion tanning are among the reasons that more people are developing skin cancer.
"But it's crucial to remember that you don't have to go on holiday or use a sun bed to heighten your risk. Skin cancers can develop as a result of both short-term and long-term overexposure to the sun's rays within the UK."
Sustrans has called for "active travel" to receive 4% of the transport budget to ensure the Active Travel Act, which became law last year, is successful.
It comes as Carmarthenshire Cycle Forum raised concerns about funding for cycle schemes on trunk roads.
The Welsh government said the act would consider how walking and cycling can be improved.
Sustrans said at least £10 per person needs to be spent on active travel projects, adding that if the act was to achieve its aims "there will need to be greater investment".
This would enable Wales to "achieve the levels of walking and cycling seen in many countries on the continent", it added.
Carmarthenshire Cycle Forum said the county was not getting its fair share of Welsh government money to develop cycle routes.
Phil Snaith, from the forum, said: "We have, in the last five years, only had 0.6% of the funding even though we are one of the largest counties with trunk roads and certainly the second largest in terms of mileage of trunk roads with big towns around those trunk roads."
In response, a Welsh government spokesman said: "The Active Travel Act will ensure that any future investment in highway infrastructure, by the Welsh government or local authorities, will need to consider how walking and cycling can be improved at the same time.
"We are funding a study on improving safety for cyclists on the A48 Cross Hands.
"Since 2008/9 Carmarthenshire council has received nearly £4m for safe walking and cycling schemes through our Safe Routes in Communities programme and earlier this year received £950,000 towards four walking and cycling schemes in the county."
The two scored worst out of 28 countries in a poll of 3,000 business executives conducted by anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI).
The Netherlands and Switzerland came top, while the UK ranked eighth, just ahead of the US and France.
Bribery was reportedly most common to win public sector works and construction contracts.
"It is of particular concern that China and Russia are at the bottom of the index," said TI in its report.
"Given the increasing global presence of businesses from the countries, bribery and corruption are likely to have a substantial impact on societies in which they operate and on the ability of companies to compete fairly in these markets."
Other major developing economies came much higher up the rankings. India was 19th, while Brazil, in 14th place, was one spot ahead of Italy.
The report called for more international action to outlaw companies from paying bribes in foreign countries.
1. Netherlands, Switzerland
3. Belgium
4. Germany, Japan
6. Australia, Canada
8. Singapore, UK
10. US
11. France, Spain
13. South Korea
14. Brazil
15. Hong Kong, Italy, Malaysia, South Africa
19. India, Turkey
22. Saudi Arabia
23. Argentina, UAE
25. Indonesia
26. Mexico
27. China
28. Russia
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"G20 governments must tackle foreign bribery as a matter of urgency," said Huguette Labelle, chair of TI, who said that more resources must be dedicated to investigations and prosecutions.
Russia, which came bottom of the league, was seen by TI as a particularly challenging case.
"Unfortunately... there are no islands of integrity in Russian public and business life," said TI Russian director, Elena Panfilova.
Survey respondents were asked to say how likely companies from each of the foreign countries were to offer back-handers.
Bribe-paying was seen as much more common by businessmen from countries whose governments were also considered to have the least integrity, according to a separate "corruption perceptions" survey carried out by TI last year.
The sector most affected by bribery was public procurement - where companies compete to win contracts from governments for everything from waste collection to road building.
TI noted that the nature of public sector contracts - which are usually large, complex and involve many sub-contractors - makes it much easier to inflate costs and hide inappropriate payments.
However, TI said that paying bribes to win major infrastructure and housing projects "effectively cheats taxpayers out of their money" and can undermine safety standards.
The survey indicated that companies paid bribes almost as routinely to other businesses as they do to government officials.
The mining and the oil and gas sectors - in which Russia and China are most active - also scored low in the poll.
Agriculture was considered the least bribe-prone, while banking ranked the fourth least-corrupt out of 19 industries.
Luke Walsh's clever kick against the grain was chased down by the France full-back to put the Dragons back in front in a topsy-turvy game.
Catalans led 9-6 at half-time, Walsh's goals added to tries apiece from Sam Moa and Albert Kelly respectively.
Two Nick Rawsthorne scores put Hull ahead, before Gigot's score settled it.
Hull's Liam Watts was sent off late on for a high tackle on opposite number Remi Casty, and not even a desperate late flurry from Hull could prevent a third defeat in nine days.
There was plenty of bite and niggle from both teams, with Catalans pair Moa and Arthur Romano heading for spells in the sin-bin in a feisty game.
It was only two weeks earlier that Lee Radford's side had demolished Catalans Dragons 62-0 at the KCOM Stadium in the Challenge Cup.
However, the Dragons seemed fired up for this game by their need for points to boost fading hopes of a top eight finish, amid a run of form which cost club legend Laurent Frayssinous his job as head coach.
The interim coaching staff of Jerome Guisset, Michael Monaghan and Alex Chan lost their first game in charge at high-flying Salford on Friday, but there was a different look to the team on home turf.
Although there will be concerns about their defensive frailty at times, they showed character to come back from behind as the fatigue of two games in four days started to show for both teams.
For Radford, there will disappointment this game slipped away when seemingly won, while they were also denied by the video referee on two occasions when Josh Griffin and Steve Michaels thought they had scored.
Catalans: Gigot; Duport, Romano, Thornley, Yaha; Walsh, Myler; Moa, Aiton, Casty, Dezaria, Bird, Bousquet.
Replacements: Simon, Da Costa, Seguier, Perez.
Hull: Shaul; Rawsthorne, Tuimavave, Griffin, Michaels; Connor, Kelly; Bowden, Houghton, Watts, Manu, Minichiello, Washbrook.
Replacements: Downs, Fash, Turgut, Green.
Referee: James Child
Kleber Da Silva Ramos, 30, took part in the men's Olympic road race on 6 August but failed to finish.
Cycling's world governing body, the UCI, says he failed a Pre-Olympics test on 31 July and is suspended until a ruling is made on his case.
On Friday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced three athletes failed tests - a Chinese swimmer, a Bulgarian runner and a Polish weightlifter.
China's Chen Xinyi, 18, was the first swimmer to fail a doping test at the Rio Olympics and has accepted a provisional suspension while her result is investigated.
Bulgarian runner Silvia Danekova, 33, a 3,000m steeplechase athlete, tested positive for banned blood booster EPO in a doping control conducted a few days after her arrival in Brazil on 26 July.
Her case has already gone before the Court of Arbitration for Sport's anti-doping panel in Rio, which declared her "ineligible to compete".
Athletics' governing body, the IAAF, will now decide her punishment.
Poland's London 2012 Olympic weightlifting champion Adrian Zielinski has joined brother Tomasz in being sent home from Rio 2016 after testing positive for for nandrolene at the Polish Championships in July.
The Polish Weightlifting Federation said the 27-year-old has a legal right to have his B sample tested.
His 25-year-old brother Tomasz was sent home from Brazil on Tuesday.
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Plaid Cymru's Gareth Jones has invited councillors from all groups to form an administration.
But the party's chief executive has said it is not going into coalition with the Conservatives.
Gareth Clubb said the approval of the party nationally was needed before they strike a deal with other parties.
The Tories, unlike Labour, are willing to join Mr Jones' administration.
When asked by BBC Wales on Thursday if he was on track for a cabinet of Plaid Cymru, Conservative and independent councillors, he replied: "Yes."
It comes during a general election campaign where Plaid leader Leanne Wood has promised to "defend Wales against the Tory attacks".
She has previously ruled out working with the Tories in the assembly.
Plaid Cymru chief executive Mr Clubb said: "Plaid Cymru is not entering into coalition with the Conservatives on Conwy council.
"Any decisions involving Plaid Cymru council groups entering into deals with other parties need to be approved by the party nationally."
At the time of his appointment to leader of the council, Mr Jones said: "Coalitions shunt others to a position outside the ruling body. It's not right to keep any group out of office.
"We need to develop an inclusive style of administration which respects what the people of Conwy voted for."
No one party has a big enough majority to secure overall control.
Plaid councillors will need the approval of their national executive committee (NEC) before striking a deal with the Conservatives.
The NEC is due to meet at the end of June, after the general election.
James Vaughan spurned two good chances for the hosts before Mark Marshall broke the deadlock after 56 minutes.
Charlie Wyke then tapped in Bradford's second in the 84th minute to make it back-to-back wins and close the gap on second-placed Bolton to seven points.
The Bantams started strongly, with Alex Jones heading over from a Marshall cross while Wyke's shot was saved by Joe Murphy.
Marshall then tested Murphy at his near post before Bury replied with Vaughan and Jacob Mellis firing wide in quick succession.
Marshall struck straight at Murphy right on half-time, while Callum Styles and Vaughan were off target for the hosts after the break.
But Marshall cut in from the right to open the scoring, curling into the bottom corner from 25 yards.
And although substitute Jordy Hiwula was denied by Murphy, the Bradford substitute later squared for Wyke to convert his seventh Bradford goal and leave Bury one point above the relegation zone.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bury 0, Bradford City 2.
Second Half ends, Bury 0, Bradford City 2.
Paul Caddis (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Paul Caddis (Bury).
Nathaniel Knight-Percival (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Ryan Lowe (Bury) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by James Meredith (Bradford City).
Paul Caddis (Bury) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Charlie Wyke (Bradford City).
Cameron Burgess (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Timothee Dieng (Bradford City).
Scott Burgess (Bury) wins a free kick on the left wing.
James Meredith (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott Burgess (Bury).
Attempt saved. Charlie Wyke (Bradford City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Bury 0, Bradford City 2. Charlie Wyke (Bradford City) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila.
Attempt missed. Scott Burgess (Bury) right footed shot from long range on the left is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Nicky Law (Bradford City).
Paul Caddis (Bury) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Bury. Scott Burgess replaces Jacob Mellis.
Cameron Burgess (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt saved. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Bradford City. Timothee Dieng replaces Mark Marshall.
Foul by Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City).
Callum Styles (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City).
Antony Kay (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Bury. Ryan Lowe replaces Taylor Moore.
Substitution, Bradford City. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila replaces Alex Jones.
Attempt missed. Charlie Wyke (Bradford City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is high and wide to the right.
Attempt saved. Callum Styles (Bury) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bradford City).
Jacob Mellis (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Bradford City. Nicky Law replaces Billy Clarke because of an injury.
Charlie Wyke (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Antony Kay (Bury).
Goal! Bury 0, Bradford City 1. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. James Vaughan (Bury) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Callum Styles (Bury) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
James Vaughan (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy says security review planning, conducted once or twice a decade, should begin "immediately".
And its report criticised ministers' failure to set out contingency plans for Brexit in the last security review.
It accused them of "putting political interests ahead of national security".
Last year's Strategic Defence and Security Review contained a commitment by the government, made for the rest of this decade, to meet the Nato target of spending 2% of GDP on defence.
This implied an annual real-terms increase of 0.5% above inflation in the Ministry of Defence budget, which would result in spending rising from £34.3bn in 2015-16 to £38.1bn in 2019-20.
According to the report, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has highlighted analysis that states the UK's GDP might be reduced by between 2.1% and 3.5% in 2019 as a result of Brexit.
After taking account of the reduced EU contribution, such a reduction would imply a hit to the public finances of between £20bn and £40bn in 2019-20, says the committee.
The report says: "In that context, even if the new government were again to commit to spending at least 2% of GDP on defence, a stagnant or contracting UK economy might mean that the defence budget would be significantly reduced in real terms."
The Committee suggests that Brexit "could impact on the aspirations and capabilities set out in the National Security Strategy".
It adds: "Economic contraction caused by Brexit could limit the ability of the armed forces to fulfil their role effectively.
"The Committee had expected the National Security Strategy (NSS) and Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 (SDSR) to address what action would be required in the short term following a Brexit vote.
"The failure to outline a plan to address that contingency indicates the prioritisation of political interests above national security. If the National Security Strategy is to be credible, it must prioritise the maintenance of national security above political expediency."
The report says the European Union is facing "significant security challenges", such as large-scale migration and an emerging domestic terrorist threat.
"These challenges also have implications for the UK, regardless of whether it is a member of the EU. A new security review must address how the UK will engage with these issues from outside the EU," it says.
The report goes on highlight how the government is commitment to maintaining the size of the regular army at 82,000, and to increase the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force by a total of 700 regular personnel.
But despite this, the committee says that "the manpower fielded by the UK armed forces is inadequate bearing in mind the range, complexity and potential concurrency of tasks expected of them".
In addition, planned reductions in MoD civilian staff could undermine the effective use of the state-of-the-art equipment to be purchased as a result of the NSS and SDSR 2015, the report adds.
Sir Keir Starmer was asked to investigate cases linked to the alleged rape of a woman and claims of an IRA cover-up.
Máiría Cahill told a BBC NI programme that an IRA member raped her when she was a teenager.
She also said the PPS and police did not properly investigate her claims.
Ms Cahill is a member of one of the republican movement's best-known families.
Her great uncle, Joe Cahill, was one of the founders of the Provisional IRA and a long-time associate of Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams.
Ms Cahill told BBC NI's Spotlight programme last year that an IRA member had raped her when she was a teenager and that four other members of the organisation later covered up the alleged abuse.
Three separate trials later collapsed after she and two other alleged victims withdrew their evidence.
Five people were then acquitted of all charges against them.
Afterwards, Máiría Cahill claimed that one of the key reasons the trials collapsed was the fact that it took more than four years for the cases to go to court.
Sir Keir was appointed in October to examine how the PPS had handled the cases.
Speaking in the Sunday Mail, Pamela Munro revealed that she had come face to face with John Leathem during the search to find the 15-year-old.
The 32-year-old shop owner stabbed the teenager 61 times and inflicted more than 140 injuries after she went into his shop in Clydebank on 19 March.
He dumped her body in bushes two days after the attack.
Leathem's appeal against his 27-year minimum sentence is due to be heard at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh on Friday.
Ms Munro has been campaigning against any reduction in Leathem's sentence since news of his appeal plans emerged and a petition opposing a cut in his jail term has been signed by about 11,000 people.
Ms Munro, who has three other children, said: "Even if he got out at 59, he'd still have a life, so 27 years isn't long enough. He's totally deluded. This appeal is cruel."
She added: "With the appeal being on 23 December, there is no way that our first Christmas without Paige can be a normal one - as much as we might try to make it that way for the kids."
Ms Munro also described how Leathem appeared emotionless when she went to his shop, Delicious Deli, to talk to him about putting up posters to help to find Paige.
"Looking back, he was so cold," she told the newspaper.
"There was no emotion in his voice or his face. He never showed signs of knowing anything but I'd never have guessed."
First offender Leathem was given a mandatory life sentence at the High Court in Glasgow in October and was told he must spend at least 27 years behind bars for the "savage and frenzied" murder.
He admitted the killing at an earlier court hearing.
A post-mortem examination found that Paige suffered 61 stab wounds, mainly to her head and neck, and 85 further cuts thought to have been sustained as she tried to fight off her attacker.
Sentencing judge Lady Rae described the killing as "truly reprehensible and impossible to comprehend".
Emergency services were called to the collision on the A72 Peebles to Innerleithen road at about 11:10.
Three men - aged 87, 71 and 42 - were taken to hospital. The 87-year-old died a short time later.
Police Scotland appealed for any witnesses to the crash, which involved a red Vauxhall Meriva and a silver Honda CR-V.
Several roads remain closed across Northern Ireland.
Firefighters rescued 26 people who were trapped by the adverse weather brought on by Storm Desmond.
One of the worst affected areas was Glenfinn Park housing estate in Strabane, County Tyrone, where 10 people were rescued from their homes.
Northern Ireland assistant chief fire officer Alan Walmsley said: "Firefighters used ladders to bring the residents to safety as well as the assistance of sleds to move the residents to dry land."
He said one firefighter sustained minor injuries while responding to flooding calls.
"The weather forecast is to improve from the previous 24 hours, so hopefully things will stabilise," Mr Walmsley added.
"Motorists are advised there are large areas of standing water resulting in some roads being impassable."
The effects of Storm Desmond started on Friday afternoon and finished during the early hours of Sunday morning.
The largest rainfall totals were recorded in Fermanagh - Derrylin had 117.8mm which is just under five inches and more than half of this fell in the 24-hour period from 09:00 GMT on Saturday to 09:00 GMT on Sunday.
There were large variations, even within the same county, as Thomastown also in Fermanagh measured just 60.4mm.
Further spells of wet and windy weather are forecast this week but are not expected to have significant impacts. At this stage no weather warnings have been issued.
A Met Office weather warning for heavy rain in Counties Fermanagh, Tyrone, Antrim and Londonderry on Monday afternoon has been cancelled, but rain is still forecast.
On Sunday, flood water damaged clothing stock thought to be worth millions of pounds at the Linen Green shopping complex near Dungannon, County Tyrone.
Stormont's Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has activated emergency payments of £1,000 for householders affected by heavy rainfall and flooding.
Speaking from Paris, where he is attending the climate change conference, he said he hopes to widen access to emergency compensation.
"I'm looking for approval to extend this scheme so that small businesses and, indeed, community facilities and churches can avail of it as well because I know how desperate a situation it is for people," the minister said.
Mr Durkan told BBC Radio Ulster he circulated a paper on his proposals to his ministerial colleagues in the Northern Ireland Executive last week.
Near Enniskillen, only one road is passable into the village of Boho.
The principal of Killyhommon Primary School in Boho, Eileen McKenzie, told BBC Radio Ulster that it will be a challenge for school buses and school meal deliveries to reach the building.
"The area does traditionally flood, but this is unprecedented," Ms McKenzie said.
"I think it is about 25 years since anybody locally has experienced the level of flooding that we've had over this weekend.
"We will try to get in. It will mean a big detour and it will mean the good will of maybe some farmers taking us in in tractors, but we will try to be there because we've always tried to keep the school open regardless."
Rivers Agency chief executive David Porter said the flooding at the Linen Green shopping complex was caused by a blocked culvert grille that caused the water to overflow.
"It was blocked by predominantly bits of trees and there was also some other material - plastic bags and the like," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster.
Mr Porter said the agency routinely did "grille runs" and that grilles were cleared across Northern Ireland in preparation.
"We have a considerable multi-agency approach to floods now and there were numerous discussions and lots of preparatory action taking last week between Rivers Agency, Northern Ireland Water and Transport NI who are the responders but also Fire and Rescue and the councils who play an important part in co-ordinating our efforts," he added.
Anita Ross, who owns the shop The Boudoir at the complex, said she had more than £100,000 of stock destroyed which "would not be able to be replaced".
"Whenever I arrived at the Linen Green yesterday there were retailers in floods of tears, because that stock will not be able to be replaced because it is such a short window between now and Christmas," she said.
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The avalanche struck on Friday in an area just above Everest base camp at 5,800m (19,000ft).
The guides had climbed up the slope early that morning to fix ropes for climbers and prepare the route.
It was the single deadliest accident in modern mountaineering on the world's highest peak.
"We have decided to stop the search for the missing. We have been unable to identify the location of bodies and at this stage it is difficult to find them in the snow," tourism ministry official Dipendra Paudel told the AFP news agency.
The avalanche struck a passage called the Khumbu Icefall, which is riddled with crevasses and large ice boulders that can break free without warning.
Although relatively low on the mountain, climbers say it is one of its most dangerous points - but there are no safer paths along the famous South Col route first scaled by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
An injured survivor told his relatives that the path was unstable just before the avalanche hit.
Sherpas often make 20-25 round trips to carry kit and supplies to advanced camps, exposing them to greater risk. The most endangered are the so-called Icefall Doctors - a team that maintains and fixes the route.
It was the first major avalanche of this year's climbing season on Everest, which has been scaled by more than 3,000 climbers.
The rising number of tourists has raised concerns about safety and environmental damage, although Nepal still plans to cut fees from next year for those wishing to make the climb.
The government has issued permits to 334 foreign climbers this season, up from 328 for the whole of last year. An equal number of guides also climb to help the foreign mountaineers.
Some 250 climbers have died on the mountain, which is on the border between Nepal and the Chinese region of Tibet and can be climbed from both sides.
Police were called to Nuthurst Park in Moston, Manchester, just before 18:55 BST on Saturday.
Greater Manchester Police said officers responded to reports of a girl being raped. A boy was arrested in a nearby shop.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was remanded to appear at Manchester Crown Court on 10 July.
Dressed in a grey tracksuit, he stood in the dock and spoke only to give his name and address during the five-minute hearing at Manchester Youth Court.
Only reporters and lawyers were present in court along with the defendant's mother and father, who sat in the public gallery holding hands.
No plea was entered by the defendant, the court heard, and there was no application for bail.
As he remanded the teenager in custody, District Judge Mark Hadfield told him: "This charge is an extremely serious charge."
The defendant smiled and nodded to his parents as he was taken down.
Pro-Hezbollah media said the forces were attacking the Jroud Arsal area and Qalamoun mountains from two directions.
The area is home to about 1,000 militants, including Islamic State (IS) group and al-Qaeda's former affiliate.
The operation has raised fears for the safety of thousands of Syrian refugees around nearby Arsal in Lebanon.
Earlier this week, Lebanon's prime minister said the army was preparing its own offensive against militants, who have used Arsal's refugee camps as a safe haven.
Last month, five militants blew themselves up as troops searched camps for suspects and weapons. A young girl was killed and three soldiers wounded by the blasts.
Hezbollah-affiliated media said the operation to flush out "armed terrorists" would carry on indefinitely.
It said Syrian forces and Hezbollah shelled the area, then advanced from Flita on the Syrian side of the border and from the south of Arsal, on the Lebanese side.
Television pictures showed columns of smoke rising as Hezbollah fired artillery towards hills where the militants are based.
Hundreds of militants belonging to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), formerly al-Qaeda's official branch in Syria, are believed to be in Jroud Arsal, and a similar number of IS fighters are thought to be in a neighbouring area.
Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed Lebanese security source as saying refugees were fleeing towards Arsal.
The area around Arsal is home to tens of thousands of refugees from the war in Syria. The influx has heightened sectarian tensions inside Lebanon since the conflict began in 2011.
A Sunni enclave surrounded by Shia villages, Arsal was the scene of an attack in 2014, when more than two dozen Lebanese security force members were seized by militants from al-Qaeda and IS who had crossed the border from Syria.
Sixteen have since been released and four killed by their captors.
Its most recent Companies House filing shows the company as making a pre-tax loss of £28.5m last year, but the firm also paid its 362 UK staff a total of £35.4m in share bonuses.
The share bonuses amount to £96,000 on average per UK Facebook employee.
It means Facebook's UK corporation tax bill was less than the tax the average UK employee paid on their salary.
The average UK salary is £26,500 on which employees pay a total of £5,392.80 in income tax and national insurance contributions.
In January, Facebook reported global fourth-quarter profits of $701m (£462m), a 34% increase on the same period a year earlier.
Total profits for the year were $2.9bn, almost double its profit for 2013.
Facebook said at the time that advertising revenue grew by 53% to $3.59bn, with nearly 70% of that coming from mobile ad sales.
The social networking giant says it now has 1.39 billion active users each month, a 13% increase from a year ago.
The latest revelations will reignite the debate about how much UK corporation tax companies pay at a time when several multinational corporations are being investigated by the European Commission over the tax arrangements they have with European Union member states.
Google, Amazon, a division of the Fiat motor company and Starbucks are all subject to the investigation and the European Commission has said it could widen its probe further.
The investigation came after Starbucks was revealed to have paid just £8.6m in UK corporation tax in the 14 years between 1998 and 2012, despite making more than £3bn in UK sales in the same period.
Last week, EU finance ministers agreed to boost information sharing in response to the so-called LuxLeaks scandal that emerged last year. The scandal showed Luxembourg had issued hundreds of tax rulings allowing companies to lower their tax bill by funnelling their profits through the country.
A spokesperson for Facebook said: "We are compliant with UK tax law, and in fact in all countries where we have operations and offices. We continue to grow our business activities in the UK."
They added that all the firm's employees paid UK income tax on their payouts.
The company recently secured the lease on a high-profile 227,324 sq ft office space in Rathbone Square, near Tottenham Court Road in London, where it plans to open a new headquarters in 2017.
John O'Connell, director of the Taxpayers' Alliance, a think tank that campaigns for lower taxes and highlights examples of government waste, said: "Taxpayers will be justifiably confused and angry about this tax bill. But Facebook is right to say that it is complying with UK law, which shows that the problem lies with our complex tax code, and that is what politicians should address as a matter of urgency.
"We have to ensure our taxes are simple to eliminate loopholes, and that taxes are low to increase our competitiveness, so that companies choose to base themselves here."
Conservative MP Mark Garnier, a member of Parliament's Treasury Select Committee told the BBC that even if companies were not breaking any laws, they should think about their moral responsibility.
"It's about the spirit of the law versus the letter of the law. At the end of the day tax evasion is illegal, when you're deliberately setting out to not pay your tax by hiding your money," he said.
"Tax planning is what most people will be doing with their pensions. And tax avoidance is where you take the letter of the law, to get around the spirit of the law, where you're actively seeking a way of using the letters to not pay tax."
In his March Budget, Chancellor George Osborne pressed ahead with plans to introduce a diverted profits tax on companies that moved their profits overseas.
He added that firms that aided tax evasion would also face new penalties and criminal prosecutions.
The so-called "Google Tax" is designed to discourage large companies diverting profits out of the UK to avoid tax.
And last week, an OECD/G20 report found that laws allowing companies to shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions meant between $100bn and $240bn was lost in tax revenues every year - equivalent to between 4% and 10% of global corporate tax revenues.
Cracks - thought to be caused by persistent rain - began to appear on Old Beer Road in Seaton on Wednesday.
Within 48 hours part of the road had collapsed and Devon County Council is now concerned more of the road could disappear.
The South West Coast Path is being diverted from the route and diversion signs put in place.
Members of the public have been urged to stay away from the "potentially dangerous" road.
Bob Spalding, who lives in Seaton, uses the road every day to walk into Beer.
He contacted the council after noticing hairline cracks on Wednesday, which he photographed.
"The next day the cracks were alarmingly worse and you can see by today's photograph what has happened since," he said.
"Fortunately it's no longer the main road, but is mainly used by local people going to Beer."
Mr Spalding said the road was only resurfaced a few months ago, which is why the signs of erosion were so visible.
The council said the road had dropped by about 1m (about 3ft) in the past 24 hours and barriers had been put up to prevent any access.
Councillor Stuart Hughes, the council's highways and transportation cabinet member, said: "This section of road is moving and is potentially dangerous so I would ask people to steer clear and please respect the barriers that are there for your safety.
"The road will remain shut while we assess how much more of the road could move, but if the wet weather continues further damage could be caused so it is not safe for people to get too close."
Thomas Fox, 29, of Rutland Court in Dublin, is charged with unlawful possession of a handgun.
The offence is alleged to have happened at Avondale House on 23 May, the day before Gareth Hutch was killed in the same area.
Gardaí (Irish police) asked that Mr Fox be remanded in custody for a week.
Chief Supt Pat Leahy told the court gardaí were objecting to bail due to the nature and seriousness of the charge.
He said the offence carries a potential sentence of up to 14 years in prison and he said a further more serious charge may be brought against Thomas Fox.
Defence solicitor Yvonne Bambury told the judge that her client had presented himself voluntarily to gardaí, which was "highly unusual" in such circumstances.
She said he did not appear to be a man who did not intend to stand trial. He has no valid passport and would undertake not to apply for any travel documents. She said his partner was due a baby in six weeks' time.
Gareth Hutch, 35, was shot dead outside flats on North Cumberland Street in Dublin, where he lived, on 24 May.
His murder is believed to be the seventh connected to a feud between two criminal gangs.
A woman was remanded in custody accused of withholding information on Tuesday.
Mary McDonnell, 44, of Avondale House on North Cumberland Street, was charged with failing to disclose information that could assist police.
She was remanded in custody to appear in court again on 7 June.
Gareth Hutch was the nephew of Gerard Hutch, a notorious Dublin criminal known as The Monk.
Six people have died in the greater Dublin area since February as a result of a violent dispute between the Hutch and Kinahan gangs.
Earlier this month Patrick Hutch became the first man to be charged with one of the murders.
He is accused of killing David Byrne in a shooting at a boxing weigh-in event at the Regency Hotel in Dublin in February.
The murder of Gerard Hutch's brother, Gary, in Spain last year is believed to have been the first death in the feud.
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The 1-0 win over Crystal Palace saw them rise to 17th, and they have now picked up eight points from 12.
"We must keep the momentum," said manager Rafael Benitez, with a trip to relegated Aston Villa next week.
Sunderland are a point behind after a 1-1 draw at Stoke and Norwich are two adrift after their 1-0 loss at Arsenal.
Both the Black Cats and the Canaries have a game in hand on Newcastle.
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With £100m the reward for Premier League status next season, Ashley took the plunge and sacked Steve McClaren in March with the team in 19th position.
It took four matches for the former Liverpool and Real Madrid boss to get his first win, but now it is no defeats in the past four.
Andros Townsend scored a brilliant winner against Palace on Saturday, but Benitez also had keeper Karl Darlow to thank for saving Yohan Cabaye's second-half penalty.
"The win could be important for us," said Benitez. "I'm sure it's important for the fans and everyone now when you see the table. But we still have to keep going.
"We know that we have to approach the next game against Aston Villa like another final, and that's it. We cannot look too much at the table - we just have to be sure that the next game, we will be ready."
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Sam Allardyce's Sunderland side required Jermain Defoe's stoppage-time penalty to rescue a point at Stoke.
The Wearsiders have now drawn their last two games and have only won one match in the past nine.
Commenting on Newcastle's win, Allardyce said: "Those things are not in our control.
"What's in our control is making sure that we try and win next week [against Chelsea] and then make the game in hand really count against Everton.
"That's our big task in the next two games. If we can hold our nerve, we have the capabilities to see if we can try and do the escape that this club has done for the last two or three years."
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Alex Neil's Norwich have stuttered in recent weeks.
They have now lost their past three Premier League games, the latest loss coming at Arsenal where the Gunners' Danny Welbeck scored the only goal as a second-half substitute.
Having hovered just above the relegation zone over the past four weeks, they are now down to 19th.
"The last thing you can do down in the dogfight is feel sorry for yourselves," said the Canaries' Scottish manager.
"We didn't get what we deserved at Arsenal. We need three displays like that in the next three games. If you start worrying about the maths and what other people are doing then it'll drive you crazy."
He added: "Newcastle are a different kettle of fish because they've only two games left but I think it's unlikely Sunderland will win their three remaining games.
"We just have to try and take as many points as we can."
She can create a protective force field around herself - an impenetrable bubble. She can also make herself invisible.
Businesses trying to ward off millions of dangerous cyber-attacks in an increasingly connected world probably wish they had the same superpower.
Well, perhaps now, they do.
A cybersecurity firm called Bromium reckons its technology can protect laptop and desktop users in large organisations against malware hidden in email attachments and compromised websites.
It does this through a process called micro-virtualisation.
Every time you open a document or visit a website, Bromium creates a mini protected virtual environment for each task - like a series of Violet's bubbles.
Even if you've clicked on an email link containing a virus, there's nowhere for that malware to go because it is isolated within its bubble. It cannot infect the rest of the machine or penetrate the corporate network.
Bromium co-founder and president Ian Pratt, who sold his first company XenSource to Citrix for $500m (£398m) in 2007, says it has taken his firm six years to perfect the product.
"This is by far the hardest thing I've done by miles," he tells the BBC.
One helpful development was when the big computer chip makers, such as Intel and Arm, began producing chips that had virtualisation capability built in to them.
"We've created a billion virtual machines since we started - no bad stuff has ever escaped from one of them," says Mr Pratt.
The technology has proved popular with intelligence services and other government agencies, he says.
"The US intelligence services tend to compartmentalise data from secret sources using separate banks of computers. Now, using virtualisation, they can keep secret data separate and secure virtually on one computer," he says.
One computer can have 50 virtual machines (VMs) running at the same time without much loss in performance speed, he says, although a typical user will have five to 10 running concurrently.
It is this ability to create VMs instantly without much drain on the computer processor's resources that is one of the product's main advantages, he believes.
At the World Economic Forum's recent Davos summit, a cybersecurity roundtable discussion revealed that the biggest banks can now expect up to two billion cyber-attacks a year; retailers, a mere 200 million.
And recent research from IT consultancy Capgemini finds that only 21% of financial service organisations are "highly confident" they could detect a data breach.
Unfortunately, despite all the latest firewalls and antivirus software, it is we humans who are the weakest link in any organisation's security defences.
Despite all the warnings, we still click on email links and attachments, download software to enable us to watch that cute kitten video, and visit websites we probably shouldn't - even while at work.
Virtualisation is one defence against such attacks.
Prof Giovanni Vigna is a director of the University of California in Santa Barbara's cybersecurity centre and co-founder of malware detection company, Lastline.
He says: "Virtualisation is a very effective way of containing the effects of an attack because it isolates the bad stuff, and that's awesome," he says.
But it is not a "silver bullet", he warns.
"It won't prevent users from giving away sensitive security data in targeted spear phishing attacks," he says.
This is where staff are hoodwinked into giving away security details because hackers have collated enough personal details to make an email or document look entirely official and convincing.
This type of manipulation - called social engineering - is still "very effective", says Prof Vigna. "It's difficult to protect against human stupidity."
Bromium's Ian Pratt accepts that this is a limitation of virtualisation, but he maintains: "In 80% of cases hackers are gaining access to enterprise networks through staff clicking on dodgy links.
"Our system limits the damage that can be caused. We're trying to make these attacks far more expensive to execute."
Traditional anti-virus (AV) software works by identifying malware signatures and adding them to the huge database. Once a known signature has been detected it can then quarantine and delete the suspect program.
The problem with this approach, however, is that it's reactive and does nothing to prevent previously unknown attacks made by new forms of malware, many of which can evolve within an infected system and evade the AV software.
One cybersecurity firm trying to tackle this issue is Invincea, which describes its X product as "machine learning next-generation antivirus".
It aims to detect and stop malware without relying on signatures. It learns how suspect programs look and behave when compared to legitimate programs and other known forms of malware. And if a suspect file exceeds a risk threshold it is quarantined or deleted.
The deluxe version of Invincea's product also ensures that all links and attachments are opened in a virtual isolated environment - it's own version of Violet's bubble.
"Invincea is a major competitor to Bromium," says Prof Vigna. "The advantage is that is works on CPUs [central processing units] that don't support micro-virtualisation, so it can be used in organisations with older computers."
Microsoft has also been exploring the benefits of virtualisation. Its next major Windows 10 update will enable users to run the Edge browser within a protected virtual machine environment.
Prof Alan Woodward from the University of Surrey's computer science department thinks the tech giant could go further.
"Virtualisation is a neat idea," he says. "Lots of people are taking it very seriously. My personal suspicion is that someone like Microsoft may well try to build it into their operating system [OS] directly."
Although we have much better malware detection systems these days, we - "the squidgy bit in the chair", as Prof Woodward calls us - remain the most vulnerable point in this cybersecurity warfare.
Can we develop a version of Violet's bubble to protect us from ourselves?
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Mercedes signed the Finn this week after agreeing a deal to buy him out of his Williams contract to replace Rosberg, who retired after winning last year's world title.
Wolff said: "Lewis said he thought Valtteri was a nice guy.
"One of the guys he actually got along with well in Formula 1 and he felt he was a good option."
Wolff, who was talking to Finnish commentator Oskari Saari for a podcast, said he believed there might be less tension between Hamilton and the 27-year-old Finn than there was between the triple world champion and Rosberg.
"I think that works well," he added. "It was OK already between Nico and Lewis, but there was the luggage of the past... Now it is a completely new relationship and there is no animosity.
"There will be moments where it is going to be difficult, but I think that how the personalities are for the team it's going to be a good situation and one that is maybe a bit easier to handle than the past. But I could be wrong."
BBC Sport revealed on Monday that Bottas had signed a one-year contract, with options to extend it into subsequent seasons.
Wolff said that was because a number of leading drivers' contracts were up for renewal at the end of the 2017 season - including multiple world champions Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso of Ferrari and McLaren - and Mercedes wanted to keep their options open.
"We wouldn't have chosen Valtteri if we thought that he was not good enough to continue with the team," said Wolff.
"But, as a matter of fact, the market is very dynamic at the moment. Next year options open - young drivers, Sebastian, Fernando, Valtteri, many of them. So it is about understanding that - and Valtteri does.
"Equally we have great faith and confidence in him that he can stay with us for a long time, but now we need to see how the season goes."
Kevin McGuigan Sr, 53, was murdered at his home at Comber Court in the Short Strand last Wednesday.
Three men, aged 53, 44 and 41, were arrested on Tuesday morning over the murder.
Fr John Nevin spoke out against the murder during the Requiem Mass at St Matthew's Church in Belfast.
"The only thing that all of us can take from this terrible tragedy and from today's funeral Mass is that violence does not solve problems," Fr Nevin told the hundreds of mourners.
"Violence and war and revenge do not solve problems, but create more - the circle goes on."
Fr Nevin said he had visited the victim's family on Monday and they had questioned the killing.
"I have no answers for these tragedies that wreck families," the priest said.
He added that there had been hundreds of cards at the house and that "this says something about Kevin and his family".
"There is a lot of love, gratitude, appreciation for all the good Kevin did in life."
Police believe two men shot Mr McGuigan several times in the head and chest at point blank range before running off.
He was buried in the City cemetery.
The concept device boasts three 4K screens and is said to be the first portable laptop of its kind.
Razer said the laptops had gone missing from its booth at the tech show on Sunday.
The incident was being taken "very seriously", said chief executive Min-Liang Tan.
A Razer spokesman said it was offering $25,000 (£20,600) for any "original information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction" of those allegedly involved in the crime.
"Our teams worked months on end to conceptualise and develop these units," Mr Tan said in a post on his official Facebook page.
"It is cheating, and cheating doesn't sit well with us. Anyone who would do this clearly isn't very smart."
A spokeswoman for the Consumer Technology Association, which runs CES, confirmed to the BBC that two laptops had been reported as stolen.
"We express our regrets," she said. "The security of our exhibitors, attendees and their products and materials are our highest priority.
"We use a wide variety of security measures at our show to combat theft.
"For example, we delay labour coming on the show floor until an hour after the show closes so that exhibitors have a chance to secure product before dismantling their booths."
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Headquartered in California, Razer was started by Singaporean entrepreneur Min-Liang Tan.
The brand enjoys a cult status among the gaming community, and gamers from around the world expressed their excitement about the device which is part of the firms Project Valerie.
"Razer always finds a way to outclass other brands. No offense to people who like other products," said Jason Vicencio.
"This device is a dream come true for every gamer on the go, no more having to cram graphics and line of vision into just one screen," commented Artie Derilo.
"I would love to open this up on an airplane while sitting in the middle seat," joked Marvin England
But other Facebook users like Malachy Hamilton questioned its design.
"What's the point in three screens? The point of a laptop is portability and being able to do work and some light gaming on the go," he said.
"For this, you'd need a beefy battery which would increase the weight, therefore making it less of a laptop."
Project Valerie is still a prototype and Razer has not yet published a possible release date or price.
Todd Prince, gaming reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal who was at the event, told the BBC the theft was a surprise, given the tight security.
"There were cameras all over the place and how someone was actually able to get this out was a bit of a surprise, that someone would even take that risk," he said.
But the bigger question for some sceptical social media users was if the entire incident was a "publicity stunt".
"If I had some crazy laptop design that I wanted to go viral, I'd claim it had been stolen for free exposure," suggested Facebook user Jon Macleod.
But Mr Prince dismissed this idea.
"Considering how much publicity this product already had gotten before the convention even started, everyone was already talking and writing about it," he said.
"To me, it doesn't seem like Razer would need that much more publicity."
"This morning I'm pleasantly surprised that at 09:00 (06:00 GMT), since midnight, we haven't had a single shot fired," Stepan Poltorak said.
It is the first time there has been a true halt to fighting in 11 months, says BBC correspondent Tom Burridge.
The truce was agreed with pro-Russian rebels and international mediators.
It marks the start of a new school year in Donetsk and Luhansk.
Eastern Ukraine has seen some of its worst violence for months in recent weeks, and there was heavy shelling last weekend.
On Monday international monitors from the OSCE security organisation reported nearly 1,000 explosions in the Donetsk region in just 24 hours - a big spike in fighting along the front line.
Most took place in an area north of Donetsk airport and between the villages of Avdiivka and Yasynuvata.
The neighbouring Luhansk region also saw a big increase in the number of blasts at the weekend.
Ukraine says massive Russian military exercises near the border have exacerbated tension.
Meanwhile, the UK government has added its voice to international appeals for Russia to release a Crimean Tatar leader, Ilmi Umerov, from a psychiatric unit and give him the medical care he needs. He is reported to be suffering from diabetes and Parkinson's disease.
Russia has prosecuted several key Crimean Tatar activists since its annexation of Crimea in March 2014. The Muslim Tatars, like the Ukrainian government, view Russia's annexation as a flagrant breach of international law.
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On Wednesday Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko said France and Germany - the Western powers that brokered a peace deal in Minsk in February 2015 - had backed Ukraine's call for a ceasefire starting on 1 September.
He said he was awaiting a response from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kiev and the West accuse Moscow of arming the rebels and sending Russian regular troops to help them.
The Kremlin denies deploying troops, but admits that Russian volunteers have been fighting alongside the rebels.
A spokeswoman for Ukraine's delegation to the ceasefire talks, Darya Olifer, said more than 150,000 children were attending school in Ukrainian-held areas of Donbass, the industrial region that includes Donetsk and Luhansk.
"We insist that all children in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, wherever they live, have a right to care and security," she said.
More than 9,500 people - including many civilians - have been killed in the two regions since the pro-Russian insurgents took over a large swathe of territory in April 2014.
Despite the ceasefire agreed in Minsk in February 2015, there have been violations by both sides on an almost daily basis.
St Alban's RC School in Pontypool, Torfaen may have to remain shut on Monday after the tree fell overnight.
Head teacher Michael Coady said the canteen and large parts of the school were "out of action".
Torfaen Council's property services team are at the scene removing the evergreen tree and clearing up.
The council said it hoped the school would reopen on Monday but it depended on how long the clear-up took.
Opener John Hastings hit a fifty off just 19 balls to help the Rapids to 190-7.
Dom Sibley made 49 on his Bears debut, but New Zealand spinner Mitchell Santner took 3-16 to restrict the hosts to 185-7.
Worcestershire are now five points off a top-four place with five matches remaining, while the defeat ends a four-game winning run for the second-placed Bears.
Elsewhere in the North Group, table-toppers Derbyshire lost by eight runs to East Midlands neighbours Nottinghamshire Outlaws and Durham defended 157 to beat Yorkshire by one run.
In an evening of tight finishes, Lancashire also maintained their chances of going through to the knockout stages with a four-run victory at Leicestershire.
In the South Group, Glamorgan stayed at the top with an impressive six-run win against Surrey at The Oval and Chris Nash's unbeaten 73 took Sussex to a five-wicket victory against Kent.
Essex Eagles are still bottom despite overcoming Hampshire at Southampton, while Gloucestershire earned a seven-wicket win against Somerset.
In front of a raucous crowd in Birmingham, Hastings and fellow opener Joe Clarke (34) were dominant in the first six overs, clearing the ropes eight times.
The Powerplay included five sixes in a row off Colin de Grandhomme and Boyd Rankin as they raced to 83-1 - New Zealand all-rounder De Grandhomme receiving particularly heavy punishment going for 30 off his only over.
Hastings eventually lost his wicket one ball after reaching fifty, swiping Jeetan Patel to Aaron Thomason in the deep, and Worcestershire stumbled in the rest of their innings to 190.
Sibley, who moved from Surrey to Edgbaston on Thursday, set a fine platform for the Bears' response, but once he was out to a superb diving catch by Santner, the required run-rate climbed and the hosts fell short.
Bristol is just 45 miles from Taunton, which normally means hopping on the coach and perhaps allowing an hour and a half for Friday traffic.
However, an accident on the M5 motorway saw Somerset's trip to Gloucestershire's Brightside Ground take more than four hours - delaying the start by 45 minutes.
If the players thought things could not get any worse, the visitors slumped to 96-8 before Craig Overton's unbeaten 33 helped them make 146 all out.
Ian Cockbain's 47 not out then took the hosts home with 10 balls to spare to leave them second in the South Group.
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It was an indifferent evening for England players past and present, with former limited-overs captain Paul Collingwood continuing his fine form for Durham.
The 41-year-old struck an unbeaten 88 off 54 balls, just five days after hitting his maiden T20 century.
All-rounder David Willey enjoyed a decent evening with both bat and ball, taking 2-23 and then making 40, but could not save Yorkshire from defeat at Chester-le-Street.
Surrey and England opener Jason Roy's difficult campaign continued - the 27-year-old was out first ball to Lukas Carey in their defeat by Glamorgan. He has just one fifty in seven T20 Blast innings this year.
Roy's opening partner for the national side, Alex Hales, was out for just seven for Notts, while Sam Billings hit five sixes in his 74 for Kent.
Limited-overs wicketkeeper Jos Buttler made his third half-century in the tournament with 57 in Lancashire's tight victory at Leicestershire. The former Somerset man is now averaging more than 45 in domestic T20 cricket this summer.
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United's 1-0 Europa League semi-final first-leg win at Celta Vigo on Thursday was their 10th game since 1 April.
With Mourinho's side lying fifth in the Premier League, the Europa League could represent their best chance of reaching next season's Champions League.
"The players that have accumulated lots of minutes are not going to play next weekend," said Mourinho.
Marcus Rashford's free-kick gave United victory in Spain, along with an away goal to take back to Old Trafford for next Thursday's second leg.
If United reach the final in Stockholm on 24 May, it will be their 64th game of the season.
Their stretched squad received a boost in Spain, with defender Chris Smalling, who has been out since March with a knee injury, returning to the bench.
Defender Eric Bailly (ankle) and midfielder Paul Pogba (muscle strain) were also fit enough to start.
But substitute Ashley Young lasted only 11 minutes before having to be replaced with what looked like a hamstring injury.
Rashford also had to be substituted, but Mourinho said that was a result of a problem he carried into the game.
By that time, the 19-year-old had made the telling contribution, curling a free-kick inside the far post from the right of the Celta penalty area.
"He works every day," said Mourinho of the England international. "He loves it. Sometimes he stays behind after training to practise free-kicks.
"It was a great free-kick. The ball was moving really fast. The goalkeeper made a little movement but it was impossible to save."
The 57-year-old was killed in The Old Mill housing estate in Ratoath on 23 March.
He was shot a number of times while sitting in his car outside his home.
It is thought the gun attack was linked to a gangland feud, which left two other men dead earlier this year.
Mr Duggan, a well-known criminal linked to cigarette smuggling, was a friend of Dublin gangland criminal Gerry Hutch.
The Hutch family was caught up in a feud that led to a hotel gun attack in February.
One man died when gunmen posing as police officers opened fire inside Dublin's Regency Hotel on 5 February, during a boxing weigh-in event.
Days later Gerry Hutch's brother, Eddie Hutch Sr, was shot dead in his Dublin flat, in a suspected reprisal for the hotel gun attack.
Their nephew, Gary Hutch, was shot dead in Spain last September, reportedly as part of the same feud.
Dutchman Ake, 21, joined the Cherries on loan last June, and has scored three times in 12 games for them this season.
He has played 12 times for Chelsea since making his debut in 2012, but Conte said the club "is his home".
"He's showing he deserves to stay in a great team like Chelsea," added Conte. "He gives me important options".
Conte will be without central defender John Terry for Saturday's trip to Leicester after the club captain was sent off in their FA Cup third-round win over Peterborough.
Ake has been recalled with immediate effect and will also be eligible for Chelsea in the FA Cup as he did not feature in the competition for Bournemouth.
On Saturday, Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe said losing Ake would be "a huge blow".
"He's done so well. It is easier said than done to say we are going to go and recruit a player of a similar stature to Nathan," Howe added.
"With Simon Francis' suspension and Marc Pugh's injury and now Nathan going back, our defensive resources are certainly stretched."
Conte's side top the Premier League and currently have the second-best defence in the top-tier, conceding 15 goals this season, one more than Tottenham.
The Blues currently have 37 players out on loan.
It comes after months of disagreements between Mr Kern's Social Democrats and the People's Party on policy reform.
Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, of the People's Party, said he would suggest a snap poll to the chancellor on Monday.
An early election will give Austria's far-right Freedom Party another chance of entering national government.
"In my view, the first step is a joint proposal [from the former coalition partners] for early elections," Mr Kurz said, after being voted head of the centre-right People's Party.
The coalition was thrown into doubt when the People's Party's then leader, Reinhold Mitterlehner, quit last week.
"It has to be accepted that the [People's Party] put an end to this coalition on Friday live on television. They made it quite clear that they don't want [to be in coalition] any more," Chancellor Kern said.
"I have difficulty picturing a scenario in which we could put together a stable minority government," Mr Kern added.
Mr Kurz had said earlier that he would only be prepared to lead the People's Party if the position came with sweeping powers on issues including staffing.
If the election goes ahead it could see the Freedom Party, which is currently riding high in opinion polls, enter or even lead a new coalition government.
The coalition between the Social Democrats and the People's Party was meant to govern until September 2018. The two parties have governed Austria for decades, either alone or in coalition.
Last year, Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer, who campaigned on an anti-immigration platform and said that Austria could follow Britain's vote to leave the EU, came close to being elected to the post of Austrian president.
It is hoped the meetings can revive faltering negotiations on an agreement that will provide a comprehensive solution to the Iranian nuclear issue.
Iran's lead negotiator said he was optimistic consensus could be reached before the 20 July deadline for a deal.
Differences reportedly remain over how much uranium enrichment capacity Iran should be allowed to keep.
Both sides are hoping to build on an interim deal agreed in Geneva in November that saw Iran curb enrichment in return for sanctions relief.
The so-called P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China and Russia plus Germany - want its sensitive nuclear activities scaled back permanently to ensure that it cannot assemble a nuclear weapon.
But Iran says its nuclear work, which it insists is peaceful, will continue - and wants an end to the sanctions that have crippled its economy.
The US government believes the negotiations on a long-term deal have reached a "critical moment" and has sent two of its most senior diplomats to Geneva - Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and Jake Sullivan, a top White House adviser.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said he was optimistic about meeting next month's deadline.
"If this does not happen, we'll have to resort to extending the Geneva agreement for another six months so the negotiations can continue," the state news agency Irna quoted him as saying.
A senior US official said the talks would give both sides "a timely opportunity to exchange views" before the next full round of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 in Vienna next week. The last round in May reportedly made little progress.
The BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says big differences remain over how much, if any, uranium enrichment capability Iran should be allowed.
Tehran is keen to have the sanctions that have crippled its economy lifted, but says it does not want to rely on foreign suppliers of enriched uranium for its nuclear reactors.
Washington meanwhile will not lift sanctions if it suspects Iran is enriching uranium to make nuclear weapons.
But, our correspondent adds, the fact that both sides are travelling to Geneva is an indication they remain keen to reach an agreement.
"Losing my close friend made me realise life is too short," says Karen, now the boss of bottled water business Belu. "I wanted to do something more personal."
So in 2008, then aged 38, Karen resigned from her senior role at banking group Barclays.
Also learning to live with type 1 diabetes, she and her husband travelled around the Caribbean, Vietnam and Thailand for six months.
Upon returning to the UK Karen applied for and got a job as marketing director at Belu, the UK's first carbon-neutral bottled water firm and a social enterprise that gives all its profits to charity.
Unfortunately, at the time it wasn't actually making any money. Set up in London in 2004, by 2008 it was saddled with debts of £1.9m.
Karen realised that Belu needed a major shake-up if it was going to be a success, and after knocking up a business plan outlining her vision, eight months later she was promoted to chief executive.
Her plan was to pivot the business away from targeting the supermarkets and their low margins, to instead focus on supplying the more lucrative hotels, restaurants and offices.
Belu had been founded by filmmaker Reed Paget, who stepped down from the top job for Karen to replace him.
"Clearly it wouldn't have been the easiest time for either of us, but we did lunch and cleared the air. And Reed wanted nothing more than to see Belu become successful in a sustainable way," says Karen.
"When I joined Belu it was in debt and it wasn't sustainable. We could have wound up completely - it was time to move on. So we kept the name, but everything changed."
Her business plan was so successful that sales have since soared, with annual revenues of £5.9m in 2015. And since 2011 Belu has donated more than £1.5m to WaterAid, the global charity that aims to give more people in the developing world access to safe drinking water and good sanitation.
Karen says that hotels and restaurants were keen to come on board because they welcomed Belu's commitment to environmental best practice, which she decided to strengthen and promote as much as possible.
In addition to being carbon neutral, and donating to WaterAid, the company's bottles are made from recycled glass and plastic.
"It was important to demonstrate we're doing this properly. First and foremost about our social and environmental mission, and secondly through building sustainability by giving our profits to WaterAid," says Karen.
She adds that Belu forms relationships with restaurateurs who "buy into our mission", and whose customers are pleased to see the Belu name because they understand and appreciate the work it does.
Karen says that this is better than "fighting for [supermarket] shelf space, and having to fund promotions to move goods from the shelves".
While Belu continues to grow, Karen had to deal with another health scare in 2016.
"Last year was the year from hell. I had breast cancer - thankfully I didn't have chemo, and I kept my hair," she says. "I was exhausted and knackered over the summer, but my team really stepped up."
The cancer was successfully removed, and she says her work was a welcome distraction. "I clearly needed a few days at home, but when your job is your passion and purpose it keeps you going."
She adds that when she was really exhausted during that difficult time, she would remember that life was still worse for a "six-year-old walking eight hours a day to collect water". This made her realise that having to deal with her bad news was "no big deal".
To help limit Belu's carbon footprint, Karen encourages her 34-strong workforce to work from home when possible, to remove the need to commute. She herself lives in rural Warwickshire, and usually goes into the office in London only two or three days a week.
"The rule is not to go into the office when you can work at home."
Ryan Doherty, an industry analyst at research group IbisWorld, says that Belu has "garnered a reputation as one of the leading eco-friendly brands among bottled water producers".
He adds: "Its targeting of the hospitality sector and its innovative approach to reducing the environmental impact of its products has driven demand from clients eager to improve their image through corporate sustainability."
When not leading Belu, which bottles in water in Shropshire, Karen spares the time to help young start-ups who also want to achieve positive social change.
She recently took part in a panel discussion for the Chivas Venture, a competition for aspiring social entrepreneurs organised by whisky brand Chivas Regal.
"I love this part of my job," says Karen, who is married with two children. "It reminds me that I'm not a complete disaster, and reminds me of the progress we have made."
She adds that she is keen to educate people about the reality of running a not-for-profit business.
"Launching and running a social enterprise is a wonderful, aspirational thing to do. It's using your skills to do something amazing, but in reality it's harder than you think."
Sebastian Prodl is also doubtful with a calf problem, while Valon Behrami has been ruled out with a thigh injury.
Sunderland midfielder Lee Cattermole is getting closer to making his first appearance since September after a hip problem but Saturday may come too soon.
Victor Anichebe has also returned to training after a long-term injury, while Lamine Kone is fit again.
Mark Scott: "Sunderland will desperately be hoping Jermain Defoe's almost inevitable goal on his England return can kick-start a glut of them at club level, after what constitutes a mini barren patch by his high-scoring standards.
"But others need to step up too in order to get the ball to him more often, as Defoe's been provided with hardly any opportunities during his - and the team's - four-match run without a goal.
"Despite a seven-point cushion above the drop zone, there's some worry around Watford after just two league wins since mid-December has caused them to slip from seventh to 14th.
"Walter Mazzarri insists he's 'not too concerned' about their position in the table - lose this one and that view might have to change."
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Watford head coach Walter Mazzarri: "The last 15 days I have tried to make the players understand that I want them to treat all of the last 10 games as if they were cup finals.
"We always want to win and would like to win this game. I heard the Sunderland manager said they are coming here to get three points.
"We will try and win and play the way I like, we will give everything for sure. Let's not forget that Sunderland are a strong team."
Sunderland manager David Moyes: "We go into these games knowing we have to win them because they are running out. No half measures.
"We have got a big week now, three games this week coming up, so we have to look to take points.
"Watford are a powerful team. I think they've done fine and they have some good players in their team, so it'll be a tough game."
Watford have only taken one point from their past four games and are the team looking the most likely to slide into relegation trouble.
I think the Hornets will stop their slump at the weekend, however, unless Sunderland manage a massive improvement on their recent performances.
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The 18-year-old was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on Friday.
Police said she bought a product containing oil derived from cannabis plants which can be inhaled through a vaporiser.
Officers said she may have had a "severe reaction" to the product but cannot confirm a direct link.
Insp Mark Duncton of Gloucestershire Constabulary said: "Our advice is never to buy or take any kind of drug or drug derivative bought online.
"These products can pose a very serious danger to your health; you do not know what is in them or what their effects might be."
The first will take place on 24 March and the second will be broadcast on 1 May, days before the 5 May election.
The broadcaster is also commissioning a poll to find out about the issues that matter to the electorate.
In addition, the leaders of Scotland's main political parties will be quizzed on BBC Radio Scotland by presenters Gary Robertson and Kaye Adams.
Head of news and current affairs at BBC Scotland, Gary Smith, said: 'We are developing an in-depth and compelling range of content for our audiences across all our platforms.
"Voters are centre-stage and we'll be giving them all the breaking news and views from the campaign trails, as well as expert analysis on the issues that count, as they prepare to go to the polls."
Emergency services were called to a property on City Road near the Penlline Street junction at about 04:30 GMT.
The fire service is investigating after the blaze started in the Moonlight shisha cafe and spread to the flat and roof above it.
Police were asking people to avoid the area.
South Wales Police evacuated the area - home to dozens of cafes, bars and restaurants - at the height of the fire and the fire service said several people now needed temporary accommodation.
Local resident Matthew Haines told BBC Wales he had heard a major explosion and had gone around the corner to see what had happened.
"I thought, 'I wonder what's happened. Is it one of the places round the corner?' We've just had a recent kebab shop go up.
"The fire literally took minutes, it was in full swing. I counted 13 fire engines, water tenders, air lift. The fire service were working non-stop."
In a statement, South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the cause of the fire was still under investigation, adding it had begun in an outside tented area of the cafe.
Tory Marcus Fysh won with 24,178 votes, which exceeded the tally of Lib Dem MP David Laws by more than 5,000.
On losing his seat, Mr Laws described it as "a tough night" for the party in Somerset as well as nationally.
The Tories also ousted the Lib Dems in Bath, where they had held the seat for 23 years.
Ben Howlett won with 17,833 votes - a majority of 3,833. His Lib Dem rival Steve Bradley polled 14,000 votes.
Mr Bradley replaced the retiring Don Foster who has been the constituent MP since 1992.
Wells was another Lib Dem constituency which fell to the Conservatives. The party's James Heappey polled 26,247 votes to Tessa Munt's 18,662.
Tory John Penrose has been re-elected in Weston-super-Mare, as has his colleague Liam Fox in North Somerset. Both increased their majorities.
Fellow Conservatives Rebecca Pow and David Warburton won the Taunton Deane and Somerton and Frome seats respectively while Tory Ian Liddell-Grainger held on to Bridgwater and West Somerset.
And the party's Jacob Rees-Mogg will remain as MP in North East Somerset.
Somerset, once the heartland of the Liberal Democrats, has turned completely blue in the last 12 hours.
Bath and then North East Somerset were first to declare: a Tory gain and hold respectively.
Somerton and Frome delivered a huge Conservative majority of 20,268, overturning a Liberal Democrat majority of 1,817.
Then came the biggest shock of the morning. David Laws, schools minister and successor to Paddy Ashdown, lost Yeovil to Conservative Marcus Fysh by 5,313 votes.
The Tories had thrown everything at the constituency in the last fortnight. David Cameron held a rally in Lord Ashdown's home village, and seven senior Conservatives visited in the space of seven days.
And the Conservative victories kept on coming: Taunton Deane, Wells and Bridgwater and West Somerset saw two gains and a hold.
So Somerset, which before this election had two Conservative MPs and four Lib Dems, now has six Tories and its map is painted truly blue.
The Welsh capital region are five points behind sixth-placed Ulster following their 15-10 defeat by Scarlets on New Year's Day.
Fifth-placed Warriors are nine points ahead of the Blues in fifth.
"We have to get a win up there. If we don't then that top six is slowly slipping away," Warburton said.
"There will be a big emphasis on going up there, putting a lot of pressure on ourselves to produce a big performance.
"Otherwise it is going to be extremely difficult and we will be playing catch-up again."
The top four teams in the Pro12 at the end of the season play-off for the championship.
A top-six finish would also probably secure a place in the European Champions Cup in 2017-18 - Scarlets were the only Welsh region to qualify for this season's tournament.
Head coach Danny Wilson said the Blues missed an opportunity to win at Parc y Scarlets with home coach Wayne Pivac admitting his team were "hanging on a bit" at the end of the game.
The losing bonus point was little consolation for Warburton, who captained the Blues in the absence of injured prop Gethin Jenkins.
The fight for a top four spot will be a motivation for Blues against Glasgow, who completed a European Champions Cup double over Racing 92 in December.
"It is extra motivation because we know if we lose any more than two or three more games we are going to find it extremely difficult to get into that top six," Warburton added.
"There is pressure on all our games now, we have been decent at home, but away is where we have to improve.
"We had a good win away at Munster at the start of the season, but if we want to want to be top six then you have to go to a quality team like Glasgow and pick up wins.
"We have made good signings, from a playing and coaching perspective, and we really need to kick on to that next level and get in that top six.
"It is a huge motivation for the players."
Financial results for the year to 30 June 2015 show a cash balance of £48.3m. Turnover fell by less than 1% and debt remained static at £129m.
But managing director Lee Charnley says the club understand "football and not financial results" are what fans want.
"We must remain positive and retain the belief that we can secure our Premier League status," he added.
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People will be able to order Argos products online, and then collect them in the supermarket locations the same or the following day, Argos said.
Sainsbury's has seen strong demand for non-food products over the past three years.
And in November it found that 6% of shop-floor space was being under-used.
The supermarket giant aims to fill half of that space with clothing lines, and devote half of the space to general merchandise.
"These 10 Argos stores will complement our supermarket offer, giving customers the opportunity to shop for an extended range of non-food items," said Mike Coupe, chief executive of Sainsbury's.
Argos customers can already order products online to be delivered by post, or can opt for so-called 'click-and-collect' - which Argos calls 'check and reserve'.
Check and reserve is important to Argos - it accounts for a third of Argos' total sales.
The digital pilot, which will be in 10 Sainsbury's supermarkets with a floor space of between 30,000 to 100,000 square feet, will be in shops dotted around the UK.
Possible locations of the concessions have been identified, and should be announced within the next few weeks, a Sainsbury's spokeswoman said.
The concessions are likely to be located in areas which are further away from existing Argos shops.
Around 1,000 products will be held in stock in the supermarket, and about 20,000 products will be available to collect the same or following day. Products that are not held in the supermarket will be delivered from one of 140 larger Argos stores.
Argos has ten concessions in Homebase DIY stores - both companies are part of the Home Retail Group.
Sainsbury's already has concessions from around 30 different firms in its shops.
Shoe repair firm Timpson, camera company Jessops, and Virgin Holidays and Thomas Cook travel agents all operate Sainsbury's concessions.
In November, Sainsbury's reined back plans for new shops, saying that like-for-like sales had fallen in the half-year.
The tour will visit five continents in the space of 12 days, calling in on South Korea, Australia, the US and Mexico before winding up in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in August.
Capaldi said it was "fantastic" so many people love Doctor Who.
Fans will first be able to see Capaldi and assistant Jenna Coleman at events in Cardiff and London on 7 August.
Capaldi became the latest regeneration of the Doctor at Christmas, and has spent the past few months working on his first full series starring alongside Coleman who returns as assistant Clara.
Capaldi said: "After eight months solid filming deep in the world of monsters, Jenna and I are thrilled to be heading for the Planet of Fans."
Steven Moffat, executive producer and lead writer Doctor Who which is made by BBC Cymru Wales, added: "I've always thought we'd all be a lot safer if the Doctor conquered the world, instead of the Daleks.
"Now with Jenna and Peter leading the charge, it looks like it's going to happen. I'll be bringing up the rear to handle the exposition scenes, and maybe carry some bags."
Filming is well under way on the new series of Doctor Who with guest stars including Frank Skinner, Ben Miller, Tom Riley, Keeley Hawes and Hermione Norris confirmed to be joining the action.
Resuming on 153-8, with a lead of only 44, Elgar extended his partnership for the ninth wicket with Jack Leach to 96.
He put on 37 for the last wicket with Tim Groenewald (20) to help Somerset reach 278 and finish 113 not out.
But Alex Davies and Liam Livingstone steered Lancs to the close on 152-2.
Despite losing Haseeb Hameed cheaply again, the first of two quick wickets for Lewis Gregory as the England opener added just 7 to two successive ducks, the hosts recovered well from 23-2.
Having so far added 129 for the third wicket with Davies (78 not out), stand-in skipper Livingstone's second half-century of the match (57 not out) has helped his side close to within 17 runs of Somerset, going into day three.
Elgar's earlier effort on a sun-kissed day in Manchester was a commendable first century in England, as he carried his bat.
He passed 10,000 first-class runs when he had reached 71, although showing few variations as he hit just 11 fours in an innings of six hours and 18 minutes,
Lancashire have only lost once in their last 18 meetings with Somerset, who are unbeaten in their last nine away matches - but, with two days still to see out, one of those sequences is likely to come to an end.
Lancashire's Ryan McLaren told BBC Radio Manchester:
"The sun seems to have baked the wicket a bit. It is definitely still doing something, but a bit slower than on day one. And we've had to claw ourselves back.
"We are still trying to get ourselves into a winning position, and that will depend on how we bat but I've been impressed by the mindset and the ambition of the team.
"The set-up at the club is unbelievable - from a player's point of view in terms of preparation, rehab, recovery - I don't think you can get much better."
Somerset's Dean Elgar told BBC Radio Somerset:
"This is my best contribution for Somerset. It was good to get runs in tough conditions. We were in trouble and the Lancashire attack exploited the conditions well.
"It required a very good game plan and it was one of those situations when, if you played and missed, you had to dust yourself off and concentrate on the next ball.
"Jack Leach played well but he has the potential to do so. He's a decent batter who has been working hard at his game."
Saints prop Alex Waller bundled over and Courtney Lawes added a second, but Tim Visser showed electric pace to give Quins a 13-12 half-time lead.
Quins extended their advantage as Jack Clifford ran in from 40 metres but Ben Foden's try put Saints back in front.
Ben Botica missed two crucial penalties for the visitors before Harry Mallinder dotted down Saints' fourth try.
Saints now face two crunch games in their bid to make the play-offs as they travel to third-placed Wasps on 3 April, before hosting Leicester, in fifth, on 16 April.
Harlequins' hopes of sneaking into the top four are fading as they sit six points behind Saints and still have to travel to leaders Saracens before hosting second-placed Exeter on the final day.
With the hosts 22-20 ahead Botica, who had been faultless from the tee all afternoon, missed a difficult kick from 45 metres and then sliced an easier attempt wide of the uprights.
Teenager Mallinder, son of Northampton director of rugby Jim, then made sure of the bonus point as he finished off George Pisi's initial burst.
Northampton Saints: Foden; K. Pisi, G. Pisi, Burrell, North; Myler, Dickson (capt); Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Craig, Lawes, Gibson, Wood, Harrison.
Replacements: Marshall, Ma'afu, Hill, Matfield, Dickinson, Fotuali'i, Hanrahan, Mallinder.
Harlequins: Brown; Walker, Marchant, Roberts, Visser; Botica, Care (capt); Marler, Gray, Collier, Merrick, Horwill, Clifford, Wallace, Easter.
Replacements: Ward, Lambert, Sinckler, Luamanu, Robshaw, Dickson, Hopper, Chisholm.
Murray dominated after saving a break point in the opening game against world number 24 Johnson.
The British number one, 29, will play 13th seed Lucas Pouille of France next.
"I played a very good match. Once I got ahead I managed to keep momentum," said Murray who secured the win in just 74 minutes.
It was Murray's third victory in three meetings with Johnson and was far easier than his 6-0 4-6 7-6 (7-2) quarter-final win at August's Rio Olympics.
The Olympic champion started slowly, but responded to facing a break point in the opening game by playing aggressively - breaking to love in the sixth game to take a 4-2 lead and wrapping up the first set in 40 minutes.
He broke in the third and fifth games of the second set, ending a comfortable victory with 16 winners to Johnson's nine.
"It'll be a hard match," said Murray of his third-round tie with Pouille.
"He goes for his shots, he's a big hitter, he serves well, he's quick around the court. He takes quite a lot of risk out there."
Britain's Kyle Edmund was knocked out in the second round, beaten 6-3 6-4 by Stan Wawrinka.
Edmund, 21, fought back to level the second set after losing five successive games to the world number three.
The Briton had three break-back points as the impressive Wawrinka served for the match, but squandered his chance.
The Swiss, who hit 18 winners to Edmund's six, will next play France's Gilles Simon, who beat China's Wu Di 6-2 6-2.
"I was expecting a tough match because he's improving a lot," Wawrinka said of Edmund.
"I'm happy with the way I controlled the match, serving well. In general, there were a lot of positives for me."
Kelly Pearce, 36, was stabbed in the face and neck 40 times and suffered skull and brain damage in the assault.
Anthony Ayres, 49, of Fairlop Avenue in Canvey, was found guilty of her murder at Chelmsford Crown Court.
The judge said it was an attack of "extreme brutality".
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The court heard Ayres launched a "frenzied attack" on Ms Pearce on 19 November, leaving her with fatal neck wounds.
Cairns Nelson QC, prosecuting, said Ms Pearce, of North Avenue, was murdered in the bathroom of a flat belonging to one of her friends, Joseph Withers.
Ayres told the court he was not in a relationship with Ms Pearce but they had casual sex.
Judge Maura McGown told him: "Kelly's life was blighted by drugs in recent years, but we heard she was fun, kind and with a warm-hearted personality.
"You set about an attack of extreme brutality bordering on sadism".
In a statement read out in court, Ms Pearce's mother, Lynn Wallings said her life had been "shattered forever" on the her daughter was killed.
She said she now found it "difficult to smile, laugh or live with any sense of happiness".
With regards to Ms Pearce's son, she said: "I don't know how Josh will ever come to terms with the death of his mum an I know there will be a huge void in his life.
"Instead of being with her laughing and asking for her guidance, he will now only have memories."
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On Sunday, the first happened on the A489 in Powys followed by two on the A470 in south Wales.
At 08:50 BST a man, 49, died when his bike hit a minibus near Kerry.
On the A470 at 12:10 BST another male biker, 53, collided with a BMW. Just 35 minutes later the third biker died near Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taff, in a crash with a Renault Clio.
South Wales Police and Dyfed-Powys Police are both appealing for witnesses to the incidents.
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Palace lost 3-1 at home to Sunderland on Monday, extending their run without a Premier League win to four games.
Warnock's side had a strong claim for a penalty denied inside the first minute against the Black Cats, when Santiago Vergini brought down Fraizer Campbell.
"I was told we should appeal for penalties a lot more," said Warnock.
"But I don't understand why we should have to appeal. If someone kicks your shin, they should be given."
Steven Fletcher scored twice at Selhurst Park as the Black Cats lifted themselves out of the relegation zone.
Wes Brown's own goal cancelled out Fletcher's first goal, before Jordi Gomez re-established Sunderland's lead and Fletcher sealed the win.
Warnock was left to rue Phil Dowd's refusal to award his side an early penalty, one of a number of decisions the Palace boss feels have gone against his side in recent games.
The 65-year-old was last week charged with misconduct by the Football Association after saying referee Craig Pawson was "influenced" by Chelsea players during the Blues' 2-1 win at Selhurst Park.
He also questioned what he called an "assault" on his goalkeeper Julian Speroni during a 2-2 draw at West Brom.
"To say we are not getting decisions is an understatement," Warnock said.
"There are too many mistakes. You have to give penalties, you have to be brave to give penalties and they don't seem to be doing that at the moment."
Warnock feels his side may need to develop a nasty streak, adding: "I think we're too nice at the moment. We are too honest."
Defeat means Palace drop to 17th in the table, outside the relegation zone only on goals scored.
They head to Manchester United on Saturday without captain Mile Jedinak, who was sent off for a second booking late for kicking out at Gomez in the centre of the pitch.
"He has apologised and has let the lads down in that respect," said Warnock.
"We have got to go to Old Trafford without him now for something as silly as that."
The alarm was raised after the pair were overdue from a walk on An Teallach, a mountain in Wester Ross, on Monday.
Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team and Stornoway Coastguard helicopter made a search early on Tuesday.
The walkers later turned up safe and well in the Loch a'Bhraoin area.
Dundonnell MRT said this was a "considerable distance" from An Teallach and the reason for this was a "suspected navigational error".
Ten volunteers from the rescue team had begun preparing for the search at 02:00 on Tuesday and made searches of ridges and corries.
The coastguard helicopter made sweeps of the mountain using an infra-red camera.
The walkers were found in the Loch a'Bhraoin area at 07:00.
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She was speaking ahead of a meeting with the Irish foreign affairs and justice minsters in Dublin.
US-born Ryan, who switched allegiance to Ireland last year, broke the Irish record for the second time in 24 hours as he clocked 24.72 seconds to triumph.
Ryan, 23, pipped American Justin Ress by 0.01 of a second to make up for the disappointment of missing out on a 100m backstroke medal on Monday.
Gary O'Toole is the only other Irish swimmer to win at the championships.
O'Toole clinched gold at the championships in 1991.
Pennsylvania State University student Ryan qualified for Ireland through his father Thomas who emigrated to the US in the 1980s.
He qualified for the 100m backstroke semi-finals at last year's Olympics.
In total 94,370 properties changed hands in April, down from the record high of 164,400 transactions in March.
HMRC said March had seen a rush to buy properties before the higher rate of stamp duty on second homes came in on 1 April.
Since then landlords and buyers of second homes have had to pay 3% extra.
The number of residential properties sold in April - 84,280 - was the lowest for three years.
Compared to April last year, the number of transactions was down by 14.5%.
He was nominated because of his work in mountain rescue and training climbers, and for setting up the Scottish Mountaineering Heritage Collection.
Mr Tighe will be presented with the accolade at the Fort William Mountain Festival next month.
The award was set up to recognise those who have dedicated their lives to working in Scotland's mountains.
Friends, fans and fellow entertainers have spoken of their shock at her death.
Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute on Twitter to her "huge talent" and "significant contribution to public life".
Bruce Forsyth expressed his shock to the BBC, saying he still thought of Black as "just a kid" and that "72 is no age to leave us all".
"I can't really take it in at the moment. I'm in shock," he said.
"So many people will be so upset. She had such a following with all the shows she did.
"She had that common touch when you get to everybody with your career. She will be greatly missed by all."
Gloria Hunniford said: "It's a total shock, actually it's a bit of disbelief. It was two weeks ago today that we were at a mutual friend's barbecue."
She said she knew "Cilla had little niggly things that were wrong with her".
"For example she had a bit of trouble with her eyesight and her hearing and a bit of trouble with her knee and walking, but then anybody over 70 will recognise all of those," she said.
"But there was nothing on that day, only two weeks ago, that would have suggested that she had anything that was life threatening. I'm very saddened."
She added: "What I loved about her was she had that common touch, that Liverpool marvellous touch, where she could talk to anybody and have a bit of fun."
DJ Tony Blackburn said that "it just doesn't seem possible that she is no longer with us".
He told the BBC News Channel: "She was lovely. She just wanted everyone to do well and have fun.
"She had a great sense of humour. What you saw on television was Cilla Black. There was no pretence about her at all and to suddenly hear today that she's no longer with us is a real shock.
"I think people forget how important she was in the early days of pop music. We forget now how many hit records she had. She had a wonderful career."
Barbara Windsor, who had known Black for many years, said: "Oh it's awful.
"I was only with her a couple of weeks ago. I've seen her twice in the last few weeks and as always she looked immaculate. That was the thing about Cilla, she always looked spot-on.
"But I knew she wasn't very well. She didn't look or seem very well. But I'm so desperately sad."
Sir Paul McCartney said: "Such a shock to hear about Cilla's passing. She was a lovely girl who infected everyone with her great spirit.
"From first meeting her as a cloak room girl at the Cavern in Liverpool, to seeing her many times since, she always had a fun-loving dignity that made her a great pleasure to be around.
"She had a fine distinctive voice and was always a bit of a laugh. It was a privilege to know and love her."
Singer and broadcaster Des O'Connor said: "If ever the words 'the one and only' applied to anyone it was Cilla. She really was unique.
"As a friend she was always fun to be with, kind, generous and caring, a very special lady. We will all miss you Cilla more than words can say."
Singer Sir Cliff Richard said he would miss his "outrageous" friend dearly.
"Some people will always be with us and Cilla is one of those people," he said.
"I will always think of her as outrageous, funny, incredibly gifted but above all full of heart. She was a very special person, and I have lost a very wonderful friend, I will miss her dearly. God bless her."
Many entertainers took to Twitter to pay tribute to Black:
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Record signing Morata - a late substitute - dragged a poor effort wide moments after goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois had blazed over in a first use of a new penalty shootout system.
Premier League champions Chelsea had gone ahead through Victor Moses, before Pedro was sent off for an ugly lunge on Mohamed Elneny.
From the resulting free-kick, debutant Sead Kolasinac headed the Gunners level to take the match to penalties.
The shootout - the first in English football to follow the ABBA format - saw Chelsea miss back-to-back penalties to allow Olivier Giroud to win the match from the spot.
Level at 90 minutes, the match went straight to penalties, which were taken in the ABBA format.
Designed to prevent a perceived advantage to the team going first, the system sees team A take the first kick followed by team B - before team B go again. Team A then get two successive penalties, a little like the tie-break in tennis, and so on until there is a winner.
Confused? You are not alone as not even the players seemed to understand.
After Gary Cahill's opener for Chelsea was cancelled out by Theo Walcott, Arsenal defender Nacho Monreal stepped forward, correctly, to take his kick. However he was waved back by several of his Gunners team-mates, who seemed confused by the new format.
Monreal scored, before Courtois and Morata both missed horribly, to the delight of the Arsenal fans behind the goal.
That allowed first Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and then Giroud to score and start the Arsenal celebrations.
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The Community Shield can be a rather tame occasion, more pre-season friendly than kick-start, but referee Bobby Madley was kept busy in a fiercely contested affair.
Chelsea were first to be upset when winger Willian was booked for a dive in the first half as he went down under a challenge from Hector Bellerin in the penalty area. Replays suggested that the Brazilian was tripped by his own feet, but also that Bellerin may have made contact beforehand.
If that was a tricky call for Madley, his decision to send off Pedro with 10 minutes remaining was more straightforward. The forward was late and high on Elneny, raking the Arsenal man's Achilles with his studs.
Antonio Conte was angered by the decision though, and by his team's marking from the free-kick as they let Kolasinac head home from six yards out.
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Until the red card, it looked like being victory for the champions, who shook off a sleepy first 20 minutes to have the better of the game.
They deservedly took the lead in the opening minute of the second half as Granit Xhaka's dreadful clearance from a corner was headed back in by Gary Cahill for Moses to finish with opportunism.
It looked a long way back from there for Arsenal, especially as they were without key duo Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil, left out of the squad altogether by Arsene Wenger.
Sanchez only returned to training on Tuesday after illness, having taken an extended break following his participation in the Confederations Cup with Chile, while Ozil picked up a minor knock in training in the week and was not risked.
In their absence, the focus was on record signing Alexandre Lacazette, the only debutant to start for either side. The £46.5m man faded after having the best moment of the first period, wrapping a shot against the post after a flowing counter-attack, which he started in his own half.
An out-and-out striker who doesn't stray far from the penalty area, he showed enough to suggest that he will add a focal point to the Arsenal attack - particularly when partnered by Ozil and Sanchez.
Morata, on the other hand, had a debut to forget for Chelsea.
The £60m signing from Real Madrid was left on the bench until the 74th minute and, after replacing the underwhelming Michy Batshuayi, wasted his only sight of goal by shooting over.
He then dragged a poor penalty wide in the shootout to hand Arsenal a chance they took.
Morata, and Conte, will take solace from the fact that the last team to win the Premier League title after winning the Community Shield were Manchester United back in 2010.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger:
"Well, I don't know if it was a sending off or not but at that moment we were dominating. We had some difficult moments at the start of the second half but after that we dominated. We always looked dangerous.
"It is a dream to make the fans happy, a difficult dream, but we try hard. I would like that they stand behind the team as we might go through some very good periods and some not so good periods.
"We want to be united and together throughout the season."
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte:
"I didn't see the situation with the sending off. For this reason, it is very difficult for me to say something about this decision. This is the second game, after the FA Cup [final], that we finish with 10 men.
"I heard there was clearly a penalty but I did not see. We are working, we are trying to do our best. We had a tough pre-season, between the six days until we start the league it is important to be focused on the next game."
The start of the Premier League season.
Arsenal kick off the new top-flight campaign when they host Leicester City on Friday (19:45 BST).
Defending champions Chelsea meet Burnley at Stamford Bridge on Saturday (15:00).
Match ends, Arsenal 1(4), Chelsea 1(1).
Penalty Shootout ends, Arsenal 1(4), Chelsea 1(1).
Goal! Arsenal 1(4), Chelsea 1(1). Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.
Goal! Arsenal 1(3), Chelsea 1(1). Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty missed! Still Arsenal 1(2), Chelsea 1(1). Álvaro Morata (Chelsea) hits the left post with a right footed shot.
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea) left footed shot is too high. Thibaut Courtois should be disappointed.
Goal! Arsenal 1(2), Chelsea 1(1). Nacho Monreal (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Arsenal 1(1), Chelsea 1(1). Theo Walcott (Arsenal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Goal! Arsenal 1, Chelsea 1(1). Gary Cahill (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Arsenal 1, Chelsea 1.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 1, Chelsea 1.
Attempt blocked. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Granit Xhaka with a through ball.
Offside, Chelsea. Cesc Fàbregas tries a through ball, but Antonio Rüdiger is caught offside.
Foul by Rob Holding (Arsenal).
Álvaro Morata (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Héctor Bellerín.
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Foul by Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal).
César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea).
Substitution, Arsenal. Reiss Nelson replaces Danny Welbeck.
Substitution, Chelsea. Charly Musonda replaces Willian.
Goal! Arsenal 1, Chelsea 1. Sead Kolasinac (Arsenal) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Granit Xhaka following a set piece situation.
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Pedro (Chelsea) is shown the red card.
Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Pedro (Chelsea).
Substitution, Chelsea. Antonio Rüdiger replaces Marcos Alonso.
Attempt missed. Álvaro Morata (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Willian with a through ball.
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Luiz (Chelsea).
Attempt missed. Rob Holding (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Granit Xhaka with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Thibaut Courtois.
Attempt saved. Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Rob Holding.
Substitution, Chelsea. Álvaro Morata replaces Michy Batshuayi.
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Luiz (Chelsea).
Foul by Sead Kolasinac (Arsenal).
Victor Moses (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Tanjug (The Telegraphic Agency for the New Yugoslavia) was one of many state-owned media outlets put up for sale. The starting price was about £543,000.
The sale was part of an effort to end state ownership in the sector.
The 72-year-old agency employs around 200 people.
The number of staff has vastly decreased from when the agency was at its peak - as have its profits. In 2014, Tanjug's pre-tax profit was $6,320.
Tanjug was formed in 1943 by Yugoslav Communist partisans, becoming Serbian-owned with the break up of federal Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
It was amongst 38 other state owned media outlets put up for sale in June by Serbia's privatisation agency.
It is unclear whether a new sale effort will be launched.
Labour MPs voted against Mr Corbyn by 172 to 40 in the motion, after a series of shadow cabinet resignations.
Ms Dugdale said that "if I lost the confidence of 80% of my parliamentary colleagues, I could not do my job".
Mr Corbyn said he would not "betray" the members who voted for him by resigning as leader.
More than 20 members of Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet and a similar number of junior ministers have quit, including sole Scottish Labour MP Ian Murray.
Lourd Foulkes, chairman of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party, said no Scottish politicians would fill the shadow Scottish secretary position vacated by Mr Murray while Mr Corbyn is leader.
The former Scottish Office minister said Mr Corbyn would struggle to find "decent people" to fill shadow cabinet posts.
Ms Dugdale said that she had an "excellent" relationship with Mr Corbyn, and said she had spoken with him on the phone on Monday evening.
However, she noted that she had been elected to her position with a similar mandate, and underlined that she could not do her job if she "lost the confidence of 80% of my parliamentary colleagues".
The Scottish Labour leader said it was "difficult" for Mr Corbyn to now continue in his job.
The no-confidence vote held by Labour on Tuesday is not binding.
Lord Foulkes, who chairs the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party at Westminster, claimed that far-left and new members would soon constitute the front bench under Mr Corbyn's leadership.
He also suggested that Labour could lose its last seat north of the border if Mr Corbyn remained in his post.
Mr Corbyn faced calls to resign at a meeting in the House of Commons on Monday after more than 20 members of his shadow cabinet and a similar number of junior ministers walked out, questioning his performance during the EU referendum and ability to lead the party.
Labour's only MP in Scotland, Mr Murray, resigned from his position as shadow Scottish Secretary on Sunday.
He confirmed during a live interview on the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme that he had written to his leader informing him he was stepping down.
Mr Murray said matters had been brought to a head by the result of the EU referendum.
I'm sitting here on College Green looking at the Houses of Parliament and at times you think we are in a Westminster soap opera.
Yesterday Jeremy Corbyn went into a meeting of his MPs after more than 40 said he could no longer work with him.
He got a right royal kicking.
Then he went out to be cheered on by more than 5,000 supporters holding a rally in Parliament Square.
It was like he was in political intensive care, and received a political blood transfusion.
Today's vote doesn't force anything, but Labour MPs will have to make a decision about whether to stand against him."
The quantity of goods bought rose by 0.6% in June from May, which was stronger growth than economists had been expecting.
The rise was driven by strong sales of household goods, clothing and shoes.
That compensated for falling sales at supermarkets and other sellers of food and drinks.
"A particularly warm June seems to have prompted strong sales in clothing, which has compensated for a decline in food and fuel sales this month," ONS statistician Kate Davies said.
Retail sales rose by 1.5% in the three months to the end of June, which wipes out the 1.4% slide in sales over the first three months of the year.
Economists prefer to look at figures over three months, which smooth out volatile moves from month to month.
"We shouldn't get too carried away by these figures. After all, the retail sales figures are very volatile on a month-by-month basis. And the heatwave in June provided a boost to clothing sales that may not be sustained," said Paul Hollingsworth, UK economist at Capital Economics.
Other economists argue the figures should have been even stronger.
"Last month was the fifth warmest June since 1910, and food and clothing sales usually surge when the temperature is unusually high in the summer," said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
"The increase in retail sales in June was relatively modest, given the temporary support to demand from the unusually warm weather."
Economists are keeping a close eye on spending by UK shoppers as it has been supporting the overall economy.
But with inflation now running ahead of wage growth, there have been concerns of a slowdown in spending.
"The outlook of falling real wages and tightening credit conditions suggest that retail sales will struggle to retain Q2's vigour in the second half of this year," Mr Tombs said.
Next week, figures will be released on second quarter growth in the UK. Growth could "perk-up" from the first quarter figure of 0.2% according to Chris Williamson from IHS Markit.
However, Mr Tombs from Capital Economics doubts there will be much improvement, given other weak economic data.
Tim Passmore said claims Douglas Paxton's continued absence was linked to poor relations between the pair were "a load of old tosh".
He said: "There has definitely not been a bust-up. [I] 120% deny that."
He would not elaborate on Mr Paxton's illness. The BBC understands his condition is not life-threatening.
Mr Paxton, 49, started the £133,845-a-year-job in March 2013, having been the only person to apply for the role.
Last month, Conservative PCC Mr Passmore said Mr Paxton would be off "for the foreseeable future" and that Deputy Chief Constable Gareth Wilson would be standing in.
Speaking to BBC Look East, Mr Passmore said he was "really surprised" when he heard Mr Paxton was off work.
"We were at the Christmas lunch in the canteen and he said a few words, we had a chat, I said a few words and the next thing I knew he was off," he said.
In a separate interview with BBC Radio Suffolk's Mark Murphy, Mr Passmore said he was aware of the extent of Mr Paxton's illness, but said he had been "asked not to divulge people's personal medical details".
Mr Passmore said he had disagreed with Mr Paxton about certain issues, including the ultimately doomed proposed merger of Suffolk and Norfolk's control rooms.
"My role as PCC is to hold the constabulary to account via the chief constable and when we have robust conversations, which we do, it's very, very important we explore all the issues in great detail," he said.
"It's not some sort of lovey-dovey relationship."
Suffolk Police declined to comment.
The 23ft (7m)-long bowhead whale was seen in shallow waters at Long Rock Beach, near Penzance on Sunday.
It is the second sighting of the species in the last 15 months after another off the Isles of Scilly in February last year.
Sea Watch Foundation said both appeared to be of juveniles and the sightings could be of the same animal.
Bowhead whales, which can grow to 65ft (20m), are normally found 2,000 miles (3,200km) further north, according to marine conservationists.
Dan Jarvis, regional co-ordinator of British Divers Marine Life Rescue, said there were only an estimated population of 10,000 in the wild.
"We are not sure if it's part of a trend, but it's amazing to see an animal like that in our waters," he said.
A bowhead whale was also spotted off Brittany in France last week according to Sea Watch Foundation.
A small number of personnel had been sent to Camp Shorabak - near the former Camp Bastion - in an "advisory role", the Ministry of Defence said.
They will not be in combat and are part of a larger Nato team, it said.
UK combat operations in Afghanistan ended last year, but about 450 troops remain in mentoring and support roles.
Helmand's governor, Mirza Khan Rahimi, insisted the authorities were still in control of Sangin, in the province, but his own deputy said the town had been overrun by Taliban militants.
The police headquarters reportedly remains under siege after a Taliban attack.
Maj Richard Streatfield, who spent seven months in Sangin in 2009 and 2010 with the Rifles, told the BBC it was "hugely disappointing" to see the town under threat again.
"I won't deny, on a personal level, it does make you wonder - was it worth it?" he said.
"Because if the people we were trying to free Afghanistan from are now able to just take it back within two years, that shows that something went badly wrong at the operational and strategic level."
There are about 10 British personnel now at Camp Shorobak - an army camp some 60 miles by road from Sangin, the BBC understands.
A spokeswoman for the MoD said they would be providing advice to the Afghan National Army as part of the UK's "ongoing contribution" to Nato's Resolute Support mission.
They will not deploy outside the camp, she added.
The Taliban surge, not just in Helmand but in a number of other provinces, has highlighted the dysfunction at the heart of the Afghan government and thrown the continuing problems of the Afghan military into high relief.
The Taliban resurgence is as much a product of the turmoil in its top leadership as anything else, with different factions vying for power and seeking to demonstrate their pre-eminence by displays of military prowess.
The fact that the so-called Islamic State organisation is slowly putting down roots in the turmoil is also worrying Western military planners and adding a new dimension to the Afghan conundrum.
Read more from Jonathan here.
Defence select committee chairman Julian Lewis said British forces must be able to respond more flexibly to extremists in Afghanistan, as well as in Iraq and Syria.
He suggested having a "flexible force which can swoop in and swoop out again, a mixture of special forces supported by air power in support of friendly ground forces where they exist".
The UK, however, should resist getting drawn in permanently to build up a nation in a country that is not ready for it, he told BBC Radio 4's World At One.
Another senior figure, Lord Dannatt - former head of the British Army - said he believed Afghanistan was a lower priority than Syria and Libya, and any upsurge in British military effort should be focused there instead.
Dr Mike Martin, who spent two years in Afghanistan as a British army officer and wrote the book An Intimate War, said the UK should leave Afghanistan alone and not pour money into what he calls a "micro civil war".
Portraying the conflict as the government versus Taliban was "simplistic" when many factors, such as the drugs trade, water, territorial battles, were behind the fighting, he told BBC Radio 4's PM.
October 2001 - Following the 9/11 attacks, the US accuses the Taliban, the ruling power in Afghanistan, of harbouring terrorist Osama Bin Laden. Britain becomes involved soon after, deploying ground troops
December 2001 - The city of Kandahar, the last Taliban stronghold, falls to US coalition forces. Then Prime Minister Tony Blair hails a victory. Within a year it becomes clear the Taliban has regrouped and is fighting back
January 2006 - More than 3,000 British forces move into the southern Helmand province, with their base at Camp Bastion, as fighting intensifies
October 2009 - The UK sends more troops - at the peak of the conflict there are 9,500 British troops in Afghanistan. Nato and the US also send more troops. It becomes the bloodiest year of the campaign, but the coalition begins to win ground
October 2014 - The last British combat troops withdraw from Afghanistan, after 13 years of combat
December 2015 - A small number of personnel are sent to Camp Shorabak in an "advisory role", working as part of a larger Nato team, the MoD says.
Read more about the history of the conflict
Some 12,000 foreign soldiers are deployed as part of the Nato-led Resolute Support international coalition, which is meant to underpin Afghanistan's own security forces.
On Monday, a Taliban suicide bombing near Bagram killed six US soldiers in one of the deadliest attacks on foreign forces in the country this year.
Nato acknowledged progress in the last year had been "uneven", but said the Afghans were "resilient".
It added that they had become more adept at conducting planned operations and were successfully using helicopters now.
The battle for Sangin comes a little over a year after the end of UK combat operations in Afghanistan.
More than 450 British personnel died in the conflict, with the heaviest losses suffered in and around Sangin.
Victoria Bateman, whose husband L/Cpl James Bateman was among them, said it almost took her back to the time he died.
If his death had been for nothing, she believed she was owed an explanation, she told the BBC.
Brenda Hale, whose husband Captain Mark Hale was killed in an explosion in Helmand in August 2009, said: "When I'd seen the headline earlier today my breath was snatched away from me.
"Particularly because it's Sangin and especially at Christmas time when families like mine are just trying to get through the holiday with a very empty chair in our house," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
The six-month-old female cub, nicknamed Fyne, is being cared for at a rescue centre in Fife after being found on the A82 near Glencoe village.
Centre manager Colin Seddon said it was too friendly for a wild animal.
After spotting the otter by the side of the road, the motorist got out of his car to check on it and was surprised when it ran up to him.
The man called the Scottish SPCA and local inspector Dawna Connolly took the cub to a vets before transferring it to the Fife rescue centre.
Mr Seddon said the otter may have been hand-reared after being abandoned, or losing its mother, before being released back into the wild.
He said: "We have no idea how Fyne managed to get where she was found but she's so tame we believe she's been hand-reared.
"In 30 years of caring for wildlife I have only heard of one other hand-reared otter cub being rescued, so this is really rare.
"Fyne is far too friendly for a wild otter and while we shouldn't be able to get anywhere near her she always approaches us."
Mr Seddon added: "The intentions of whoever tried to look after her may have been good, but she wouldn't have survived in the wild had she not been found and rescued.
"What they should have done is contact an organisation with expertise such as the Scottish SPCA."
Fyne will later be transferred to the International Otter Survival Fund (IOSF) on Skye.
Ginger feline Tom had been the former Bishop of Derry's cat for about 15 years before his death in 2016.
Dave Graham from Coleraine said he came across the moggy after searching a pet re-homing site for a new kitten.
"I asked who his owner was and they told me that Bishop Edward Daly's housekeeper had brought him in," he told the BBC. "I was shocked!"
"They had an urgent request to find this guy a home, he's 16 years old and he's deaf.
"Maybe his congregation didn't know that his cat was homeless."
Mr Graham, who has previously worked for the charity Cats Protection, said he visited the Rainbow facility after one of his own cats passed away over Christmas.
"Originally, I had been looking for a kitten so I went down there, I had a look around," he said.
"It's a wonderful place and I went inside and saw him sitting there sound asleep, a beautiful ginger tom.
"I was told that his owner had sadly passed away last year and he was brought into us looking for a new home."
Mr Graham, who already has a number of cats at home, explained that Tom had literally landed in Bishop Daly's lap many years ago.
Edward Daly had gone for a scan and was expecting bad news. However, on his way home from hospital the cat appeared, and sat on his lap.
The stray had been viewed as a good-luck charm ever since.
"He puts the cat into catholic so to speak," said Mr Graham.
"I don't think he's been with other cats before but now he's starting to calm down and he's made a friend and everything.
"He's in a good home at the moment, he could be one of those cats that needs to live alone but no matter what he'll be in a home for the rest of his life.
"Hopefully Bishop Daly is looking down from up above with a big smile on his face," he said.
The former Crystal Palace and Middlesbrough player guided Saints to a sixth successive Welsh Premier title.
Saints also won the Nathaniel MG League Cup and broke Ajax's 44-year-old world record for the longest winning streak in top-flight football.
Newtown striker Jason Oswell was player of the season and Henry Jones of Bangor City won the young player award.
The hosts led 2-0 after Ellen White's opener and Jess Clarke's curler.
Liverpool's Caroline Weir then placed a penalty over the bar and White punished that miss with Notts' third goal.
Katie Zelem pulled one back for Liverpool from the spot after Amy Turner fouled Emma Lundh in the area and Zelem fired in her second to give the Reds hope but Notts held on to win.
Victory lifted Rick Passmoor's side up to fourth, above Liverpool on goal difference.
Both sides are three points behind third-placed Arsenal.
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Notts County striker Ellen White: "We're delighted to get the three points, we've been yearning for that first league win.
"We played some really nice stuff and got some good goals, especially the one Jess scored - it was an absolute screamer.
"But it was disappointing for us not to keep a clean sheet. Those last few minutes must have been exiting for the spectators, but not for us.
"If you take away those two late goals we conceded though, it was a great team performance."
Liverpool captain Gemma Bonner: "We're very disappointed. We started the game well and created a couple of good chances, but in the end we gave ourselves too much to do.
"Going three goals behind meant we had a mountain to climb, but we can take some positives from the last 15 minutes when we pulled two goals back.
"We lost to Chelsea at home last week, but we performed really well and even their manager said we deserved a draw. So we'll go down there next week knowing that we can compete with them, and we'll hopefully come back with three points."
It announced an alliance with India's Ola and South East Asia's GrabTaxi which allows customers to book private cars and taxis in each other's regions, starting next year.
It comes after Lyft announced a partnership with China's largest ride-sharing firm Didi Kuaidi in September.
US-based Uber has aggressively expanded globally in recent years.
Lyft, and the three other companies combined will cover nearly all of South East Asia, India, China and the US to include almost 50% of the world's population, said Lyft - which currently operates only in the US.
"By establishing strategic partnerships with local market leaders Didi, GrabTaxi and Ola, we're able to remove many of the pain points and language barriers that often come with foreign travel, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.
Starting early next year, Lyft users travelling to countries in the regions it has partners in, will be able to access the relevant service provider in English through the Lyft app and pay in US dollars.
The same applies to users of Ola, GrabTaxi and Didi Kuaidi, who will be able to access Lyft services through their company's app and pay in their native currencies.
The companies will also share new technology information, products and knowledge of local markets and regulations.
Uber, which operates in 67 countries, already allows users to use the same app to book rides globally.
But, it has been marred with bans and legal battles in cities around the world, stemming from breaking transport regulations.
Lyft's announcement also comes on the same day as reports that Uber is trying to raise $2.1bn (£1.4bn) in new funding that would take the start-up's valuation to $62.5bn. Analysts said the money would likely be used to grow its global expansion.
The 33-year-old striker has been ruled out of the Republic of Ireland's game against Slovakia on Tuesday after injuring his calf.
"He has a tear in his calf, but we have no timescale," Ipswich physio Matt Byard told the club website.
"We are looking to get him scanned again on Tuesday," he continued. "We will know more from there."
Ipswich face Wolves on Saturday as they continue their push for the play-offs, with the club just four points away from sixth place.
"Needless to say, there has to be a concern about him for the weekend," Byard added.
The first attack occurred early on Thursday as an officer was shot for unknown reasons in an industrial plant car park, a sheriff said.
Two officers were then fatally shot at a trailer park while investigating the first incident.
Five people are in custody, some with gunshot wounds, police said. They do not think any suspects are still loose.
The two wounded officers are undergoing surgery at local hospitals, they added.
The two officers who died have been identified as Deputies Brandon Nielsen, 34, and Jeremy Triche, 27.
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Sheriff Mike Tregre became tearful during a news conference as he described what happened.
The first shooting occurred around 05:00 (10:00 GMT) in the Valero refinery car park, he said.
Officers investigating the incident tracked reports of a speeding car and ended up in a trailer park.
They handcuffed a suspect and knocked on the door of a trailer when a person with a dog answered, said Sheriff Tregre.
"Another person exited that trailer with an assault weapon and ambushed my two officers," he added. "Two deputies were killed and a third was wounded."
The wounded officers are Michael Boyington, 33, and Jason Triche, 30. The Triches are said to be related.
State police spokeswoman Melissa Matey told CNN that two of the deputies had been working off-duty and the other two were on duty.
It is understood the charge is in connection with the discovery of a viable explosive device in the Millbank Park area of north Belfast on 15 August 2009.
Police say the man is expected to appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Tuesday 16 August.
The Welsh Premier League side got off to the worst possible start at the Parken Stadium, when Ben Verbic struck for the hosts after three minutes.
But Newtown refused to crumble and it took until the 74th minute for Kasper Kusk to double Copenhagen's lead.
The second leg at Latham Park is on 23 July.
"I thought the players were tremendous tonight," said Newtown manager Chris Hughes.
"We'd worked hard on the game plan, myself and the coaching staff with the players, and we knew how Copenhagen would play, we knew they'd have lots of possession and we set up fantastically well to cope with that.
"The pleasing thing for me was the last 10 to 15 minutes the fitness levels were really good; for a part-time side to come up against a very, very good full-time team and keep going the way they did they boys can be very proud."
Hughes's side overcame full-time Maltese club Valletta 4-2 on aggregate in the first qualifying round.
The tradition dates back to the Celtic times, when people thought ghosts and spirits came back to the human world on Samhaim - the old name for Halloween.
By wearing masks and costumes when they left their house, people thought the ghosts wouldn't recognise them.
Nowadays people still dress up in spooky costumes and visit neighbours houses, asking for a "Trick or a Treat".
Here at Newsround we've put together some top tips and advice to help you stay safe and enjoy the spooky tradition!
Make sure a responsible adult or guardian goes with you - it could be an older brother or sister if they're over 16.
Also staying together in a small group is a good idea.
Plan your trick or treat route before you leave the house, and make sure someone else knows where you are going before you leave.
Stay close to home and if possible only visit the houses of people you know - you should NEVER go into a stranger's home alone.
Carry a torch and wear reflective or light-coloured clothing, so you can be seen in the dark.
It is almost November so it is pretty chilly outside, make sure you wrap up warm, and if it is raining, wear waterproof clothing and shoes.
If you are wearing a mask, or a costume that covers your face, make sure you can see where you are going when you are moving to the next house.
Not everyone loves Halloween, if some people don't answer their door, or do not have any sweets, don't worry about it, just give them a smile and try the next house!
Also if you are eating your treats as you go, try to pop things like wrappers in your pocket or a bin.
The 24-year-old pitcher Misael Siverio is said to have disappeared from the hotel where the Cuban national team had been staying in the US state of Iowa.
The heads of the Cuban delegation do not expect him to return, reports say.
At least two of the American Major League Baseball's rising stars are Cubans who recently defected to the US.
Mr Siverio, one of the 24 players in the US for a five-game series, told the El Nuevo Herald newspaper that he was going to try to make it in the US baseball leagues.
"Leaving behind your country is not easy, but this was a decision that I gave a lot of thought," Siverio reportedly told Miami's El Nuevo Herald.
Siverio was not in the Cuban team list published by the US organisers on Wednesday.
The Cuban delegation has reportedly declined to comment on the situation.
"From their perspective, he's no longer a member of their delegation," US Baseball director Paul Seiler told the Des Moines Register.
Cubans Yoenis Cespedes, from the Oakland A's and Yasiel Puig, from the Los Angeles Dodgers, who defected in the last two years, are considered to be among the US major baseball league's (MLB) rising stars.
Sheila Boon, 55, transferred money from the woman, who was in a nursing home in Bournemouth, to herself.
She then claimed her relative had no money and made claims for care costs to the local borough council.
Boon, of Weybridge, Surrey, had denied fraud by abuse of position but was found guilty after a three-week trial.
She was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Monday.
Boon spent the money on property, travel expenses and tried to buy a car, police said.
Det Sgt Paul Smith, of Dorset Police, said the investigation into Boon had been "protracted and difficult" due to the fact the victim could not be interviewed "because of her age and frailties".
"The defendant took the decision to secure her inheritance and invested her relative's money without her consent before it was all spent on care fees," he said.
To me it seems like the wrong question. The more pertinent question should perhaps be - why did anybody think Abenomics would work?
Abenomics is the term Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has, in a rather self-aggrandising way, given to his plan to get Japan's economy out of deflation, and back in to growth.
When he launched it nearly two years ago there was much fanfare and much excitement.
Even such an illustrious economist as Paul Krugman declared himself a supporter. But now, 18 months on, Japan's economy is back in recession, and support for Mr Abe - who faces a General Election on Sunday - has been dwindling.
So what went wrong?
In the very simplest terms, Mr Abe and his government tried to do two contradictory things at once. To use a car analogy - he put his foot on the accelerator and the brake at the same time.
In spring 2013 Mr Abe put with his foot hard on the accelerator. Lots of money was pumped in to the Japanese economy.
The government went on a spending spree (fiscal stimulus), and the Bank of Japan printed vast amounts of new money, which was then used to buy assets (quantitative easing).
And for a while that seemed to work.
But then in April this year Mr Abe put his foot on the brake - he raised sales tax from 5% to 8%.
If you live in Europe, where VAT rates are closer to 20%, that may seem like a paltry rise. But in Japan the result was dramatic - Japanese consumers stopped spending.
The economy went into reverse - from growing at a rate of over 6% to shrinking at -7.3%. Mr Abe brushed that off as a blip, the short-term result of the tax rise.
But the contraction has continued. Between July and September Japan's economy shrank again, although at a much lower rate of -1.6%.
Why did Mr Abe think it was a good idea to raise taxes just as the economy was starting to grow? He didn't.
But his government was under tremendous pressure to do something about Japan's massive debt mountain. It currently stands at about 240% of GDP.
In other words it would take nearly 2.5 years of everything that Japan produces to pay off what the government owes.
The only other country that comes close to that is Zimbabwe.
The UK's national debt is, by comparison, 91% of GDP. Getting Japan's debt to at least stop growing so fast is seen as vital to maintaining confidence in the Japanese currency.
In the same week that Mr Abe said he would delay a further tax rise, the ratings agency Moodys downgraded Japan's credit rating.
This brings me back to my original question - why did anybody think Abenomics would work?
The reason I ask that is because most of the economists I talk to agree that Japan's economic woes are not the result of a short-term cyclical drop in demand, they are deep and structural and difficult to change.
The biggest challenge facing Japan is demographic. Japan is shrinking.
Its working age population peaked in the mid-1990s at about 86 million people. Since then it has fallen by nearly 10 million to 77 million today.
Japan's birth rate, at about 1.3 children per woman, is similar or even higher than many European countries.
But countries such as Britain, France, Germany and Italy have staved off population decline by importing workers. Japan, on the other hand, remains adamantly opposed to large-scale immigration.
And so Japan's population is ageing and shrinking faster than any other country in the developed world.
There is a simple rule of economics from which even Mr Abe cannot escape - growth can be achieved either by employing more people or increasing productivity per worker.
For Japan the maths of economic growth simply do not add up.
So what can be done?
Mr Abe appears to have pinned his hopes on Japan exporting its way out of trouble.
If you can't sell more stuff at home, then sell it to foreigners. And to help with this, his government has deliberately and dramatically pushed down the value of the Japanese Yen.
Today it is worth nearly 25% less against the dollar than when he came to power.
A weak yen makes Japanese exports cheaper, and so more people in America, Europe and China will buy them. Or so the theory goes. Except it hasn't worked.
In 2013 Japanese exports declined. This year they have been largely flat.
One reason is that demand all around the world is still low, the prolonged after-effect of the 2008 crash.
More worrying for Japan is the fact that more and more Japanese products are no longer made in Japan.
Over the past 20 years big Japanese corporations have been exporting jobs, to the US, China, and South East Asia.
Next year the number of "Japanese" cars made outside Japan will overtake the number made at home for the first time.
The falling value of the yen has been great for companies such as Toyota, which has reported record profits.
But it hasn't increased demand for cars from its factories in Japan.
This does not mean that Japan is finished. But getting more growth out of a declining population is very hard.
One answer could be women. In simple economic terms, women are a valuable resource.
Japan has one of the most highly educated female populations in the world. And yet much of that talent is going to waste.
Compared to their counterparts in North America and Europe, far more Japanese women give up full-time employment after they have their first child, and fewer go back to full-time work once their child is in school.
According to a research paper by Kathy Matsui, at Goldman Sachs in Japan, getting full-time female employment up to the level of Italy could add 15% to Japan's GDP.
Prime Minister Abe has declared himself a fan of what has become known as "Womenomics".
He has set an extremely ambitious target that by the end of this decade, 30% of all managers in Japanese companies should be women.
There are lots of reasons why this won't happen.
Primary among them is Japan's work culture. Talk to any professional Japanese woman about her experience in the corporate world and you are likely to hear a similar story.
Work hours are extremely long, routinely extending far into the evening. Male-dominated social drinking is a part of corporate life.
Taking time off to have children destroys promotion prospects - as does leaving the office "early" to make dinner for your children.
In short, trying to balance family life and a full-time job is almost impossible.
I recently spoke to a female graduate from one of Tokyo's top universities who told me that when she went to interview for a large Japanese trading company one of the first questions they asked was: "Do you plan to get married?"
Despite a 1986 law banning it, endemic discrimination against women in the workplace is still rife.
Meanwhile Prime Minister Abe's ambitious target for Japan's corporations does not appear to extend to his own party.
A general election is due to take place here on 14 December, for the lower house of parliament.
Of the 342 candidates so far named by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party only 36 are women, just 10.5%.
Some of Japan's problems are unique. But the biggest one is not.
Since the dawn of the industrial age people in industrialised countries have come to expect almost continuous economic growth.
But across the globe birth rates are collapsing. Europe is greying fast. Soon South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and even China will follow.
In much of the world, the era of high growth may be coming to an end.
In that respect, Japan's two decades of low growth may represent something of a success, and a new norm.
Center Parcs has agreed the purchase of a 375-acre site near Ballymahon in County Longford where it will build the 2,500-guest capacity resort.
The company says it will create 750 jobs during construction, plus a further 1,000 jobs on opening.
It says the resort will add 32m euro (£23.5m) to the Irish economy every year.
The company hopes to open to the resort to guests in 2019.
Center Parcs currently has five resorts in the UK, offering short breaks in what it describes as a "secluded and natural woodland setting".
The Irish state forestry company Coillte currently owns the Newcastle Woods site in the country's midlands, and has agreed the sale, subject to planning permission.
The Irish prime minister (taoiseach) Enda Kenny met Center Parcs chief executive Martin Dalby in County Longford today.
The taoiseach said: "This project is a perfect fit with our recently-announced tourism policy statement which aims to create 50,000 new jobs by 2025.
"Center Parcs will be a major addition to our national tourism infrastructure."
Mr Dalby said that only between 10-12% of trees would be removed from woods to build the resort.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it was in the public interest to prosecute the Rt Rev Peter Ball, who served as bishop of Gloucester and bishop of Lewes in East Sussex.
It is alleged Bishop Ball, 82, indecently assaulted a boy aged 12 or 13 and a man aged 19 or 20.
He is due to appear before Brighton magistrates on 10 April.
Bishop Ball is also to be charged with misconduct in public office between 1977 and 1992.
Chief crown prosecutor for the South East Jaswant Narwal, said: "After a thorough and careful review, I have decided that Peter Ball should be prosecuted for misconduct in public office and two indecent assaults.
"It is alleged that he sexually abused a number of young males between 1977 and 1992.
"The misconduct alleged is that he misused his position and authority to manipulate and prevail upon others for his own sexual gratification."
Bishop Ball is due to be charged when he appears before the magistrates.
He served as Bishop of Gloucester until 1993.
California-based Cyphort Labs said that it had detected ads placed on the site being used to spread harmful code on two separate visits during one week.
The celebrity scandal site has not yet commented but was known to have suffered a similar problem last year.
Experts suggested users install ad-blocking plug-ins to defend themselves.
The phenomenon is known as "malvertising", and users do not have to click on the ads to find their device infected.
PerezHilton.com is far from being the only publisher to have hosted the threat.
Cyphort identified 1,654 unique domains that had fallen victim to the parasitical attack in 2015, and said it believed it was on course to see more than 2,000 instances this year.
The New York Times, AOL and BBC.com are among other popular sites thought to have been hijacked in this way. since January.
"Malvertising is effective because users tend to trust mainstream, high-trafficked "clean" websites," security researcher Nick Bilogorskiy blogged.
"The attackers abuse this trust to infect them via third-party ad content."
PerezHilton.com says it is visited by 12 million people every month.
In the first instance on 30 April, the firm said PerezHilton.com's ads caused users to download the Angler exploit kit, which is used to distribute a range of infections including ransomware.
Then on 2 May, it said a different type of exploit kit was spread via the site.
If the users had anti-virus software installed they may have been protected against some of the threats. But in many cases they would not have known they had been exposed.
Like many sites, PerezHilton.com does not check each advert that appears on its pages but instead relies on third parties to place them, sharing the revenue they generate.
"The only organisations which understand the full scale of the threat are the advertising networks themselves, and they don't want to draw attention to their own failure to vet their clients," commented Dr Steven Murdoch, a security expert at University College London.
Cyphort noted that users could protect themselves by installing ad-blocking extensions for their web browser.
Dr Murdoch concurred but questioned whether this was a long-term solution.
"Ad-blockers offer a temporary mitigation against these problems but if everyone starts using them the current business model of the web will no longer be sustainable," he said.
"Other options for keeping the web running include asking users to pay for services - subscriptions - but few websites have been able to make this work."
The 15-year-old has been giving evidence in the trial at Leeds Crown Court since Tuesday.
She and her friend allegedly killed alcoholic Angela Wrightson in her home in Hartlepool, County Durham, in December 2014.
Mr Justice Globe told the jury the girl had a history of self-harming.
He said they would hear evidence from psychiatrists who had been in court to hear the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, giving evidence.
The judge said: "You're going to hear that [the girl] has had a number of incidents in the past of self-harming and there have been incidents of attempted suicide.
"In the context of her giving evidence, there have been three such incidents.
"One of them apparently occurred at the place where she's staying last Wednesday, the second one occurred while she was at this court last Friday and the third one occurred over the weekend.
"Being aware of these incidents, you will perhaps appreciate a bit more the reason why we have been so careful in relation to making sure she's alright and in a fit state to continue giving her evidence."
The court has been sitting for short days during the trial and the girl has been giving her evidence in half-hour time periods. She has been speaking via video link from a separate room.
The girl, who was 14 at the time, has admitted manslaughter and told the court she repeatedly hit and kicked Miss Wrightson but did not think she could die from her injuries.
The second younger girl, who is now 14 and was 13 at the time, says she played no part in the attack.
Miss Wrightson, who was 5ft 4ins and weighed six and a half stone, was found in her blood-spattered living room with more than 100 injuries.
Both girls admit to being present at the time the injuries were inflicted but deny murder.
The trial was adjourned until Tuesday.
Fishlock, 29, has previously spoken about the challenges she has faced as a high-profile gay athlete.
No current Premier League players are openly gay but a recent BBC survey found 82% of fans would have no issue with a gay player.
"The environment and the timing is so important," Fishlock said.
"That's what we have to get - the environment to say 'it's ok and it's not a problem'. That's what we're fighting for and what we've got to work on."
She told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "You don't want a footballer to come out for all the wrong reasons and then have a negative impact for that person.
"What you do want is for them to feel comfortable that they can come out, they can be themselves and they're happy with that."
Former England women's captain Casey Stoney publicly revealed her sexuality for the first time in February 2014 and became the most high-profile active gay footballer in England.
Stoney said homosexuality was more accepted in the women's game than the men's game.
Justin Fashanu was the first player in England to come out as gay in 1990, but took his own life aged 37 in 1998. No male professional player has come out while playing in England since.
The Seattle Reign player, currently on loan at Melbourne City, said she had received abuse during her career for being gay but was also proud she had inspired others come to terms with their own sexuality.
"I've had people write letters telling how me being so open and so happy and so comfortable with who I am at the highest level at a huge sport has actually made them realise it's ok and they don't have to commit suicide or they don't have these dark thoughts anymore," she added.
"When you hear that and when you get that I guess nothing else really matters because that is such a big thing to have."
Ex-Germany and Aston Villa player Thomas Hitzlsperger became the first player with Premier League experience to publicly reveal his homosexuality in January 2014 after he had finished playing in England.
Football Association chairman Greg Clarke told a Commons Select Committee in October that Premier League players would still suffer "significant abuse" if they chose to reveal they were gay.
This weekend, football and rugby union will support a campaign helping to raise awareness of issues faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) fans and players.
The Rainbow Laces campaign, launched by LGBT equality charity Stonewall in 2013, aims to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic attitudes in sport.
Rainbow flags will feature at Premier League fixtures, while referees will wear rainbow-coloured laces and Fishlock says she supports the campaign's aims.
The Black and Whites, who beat Warrington to lift the Challenge Cup on 27 August, went ahead when Mahe Fonua touched down in the right-hand corner.
But Saints led at half-time with tries from Owens and Matty Fleming.
Vea went over twice and Owens got his second, with Sika Manu's try little consolation for the visitors.
Saints stay fourth in the table, six points clear of Dragons in the final play-off place.
Shaun Michaels almost brought about a nervy finish for the hosts, but he was pushed out into touch by Adam Swift before being able to get the ball down.
Vea and Owens' second tries then sealed victory for Saints.
Hull FC, who rested several players from the side that won the Challenge Cup at Wembley for the first time, will lose top spot if Warrington beat Catalans on Saturday.
St Helens: Lomax; Owens, Peyroux, Fleming, Swift; Turner, Fages; Walmsley, Roby, Richards, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Greenwood, Wilkin.
Replacements: Amor, Vea, Ashworth, Knowles.
Hull FC: Shaul; Michaels, Fonua, Talanoa, Naughton; Pryce, Abdull; Bowden, Washbrook, Green, Manu, Hadley, Thompson.
Replacements: Downs, Watts, Paleaaesina, Pritchard.
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The victim received two pictures of an unknown man's penis on her phone via Apple's Airdrop sharing function.
Lorraine Crighton-Smith, 34, said she felt "violated" and reported it to the British Transport Police (BTP).
Supt Gill Murray said this particular crime was new to her force and urged people to report any other incidents.
Ms Crighton-Smith, who was travelling on a train in south London, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: "I had Airdrop switched on because I had been using it previously to send photos to another iPhone user - and a picture appeared on the screen of a man's penis, which I was quite shocked by.
"So, I declined the image, instinctively, and another image appeared, at which [point] I realised someone nearby must be sending them, and that concerned me. I felt violated, it was a very unpleasant thing to have forced upon my screen.`
"I was also worried about who else might have been a recipient, it might have been a child, someone more vulnerable than me.
"My name on Airdrop says Lorraine so they knew they were sending it to a woman. The images were of a sexual nature and it was distressing."
Ms Crighton-Smith called the British Transport Police as she said she was worried about the motives of the perpetrator.
"What's the next stage from sending a naked photograph to a stranger, what happens next, was he getting any sort of gratification from it?"
The BTP has investigated the incident, but said because Ms Crighton-Smith did not "accept" the photograph there was no technological evidence for them to work with and recorded it as intelligence.
Supt Gill Murray said the force had dealt with cases involving Bluetooth but an incident via Airdrop was "new to us".
"Receiving an indecent image from someone you don't know must be very distressing and something we would take very seriously. If it happens to you, our advice would be to remain calm, retain the image and report the matter to police as soon as possible," she said.
"We have a dedicated Cyber Crime Unit who can analyse mobile phones and track data transfers back to suspects' devices. By linking this to physical evidence, such as CCTV footage or witness statements, we can catch offenders and bring them to justice through the courts."
Airdrop is specific to iOS device and Apple Macs. It uses wi-fi and Bluetooth to talk over a short range to other devices, like other iPhones.
Its default setting is for "contacts only", which means only people you know can see you.
But if you want to share your information or your contacts with other people, you may make a change to the settings and change it to "everyone".
"This means that typically in a train carriage, or tube carriage, you can see other devices," commented Ken Munro, a cybersecurity consultant at Pentest Partners.
"That's what's happened in this particular case, someone has enabled everyone and then hasn't then set it back. As a result anyone within wi-fi or Bluetooth range can send something to you that's quite horrible."
He added that Apple could tackle the issue by making Airdrop return to its default setting if it had not been used for 10 minutes or so.
A spokesman for Apple declined to comment.
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The BBC survey suggests the average spend in the county is expected to be £433.16 - £30 less than the average across the areas surveyed.
The figures suggest 52% of people in Lincolnshire are worried about Christmas spending, the joint highest.
However, only 7% of people said they may resort to borrowing.
People in North Yorkshire are expected to spend the most at £508.82 while the average spend across Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and Lincolnshire is expected to be £463.83.
Across Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and Lincolnshire 50% of people surveyed for the BBC said they were concerned about their festive spending.
Concern is highest amongst those aged 18-34 and those with children under 18.
Jane Symonds, money expert at the Money Advice Service, said: "Christmas can be an expensive time of year, but it's important to know that you don't have to live beyond your means to make it a fun time. A big financial hangover is the last thing anyone wants to start the new year with.
"Planning ahead by looking carefully at costs will help you to take control of your spending and reduce some of the pressure. It's best to avoid credit if you can, but if you need to borrow there are more options if you think ahead."
Across the areas surveyed those planning to borrow 68% said they would use their credit card, 18% plan to ask friends and family for help, 18% will use their overdraft, six percent will go to a pay day lender, six percent will take out a loan, and two percent say they will go to a credit union.
On average people said they expected to borrow about £180.
Men said they were likely to borrow on average £214.76, while women said they expected to borrow about £146.36.
More than half of all borrowers said it would take them between a few weeks to a year to repay their debt.
Kevin Peachey, personal finance reporter, BBC News
Financial advisers say it is never too late to draw up a budget for your Christmas spending.
Those who get into trouble often forget to factor in those little extras that add to the festive bill.
So, as well as presents, food and travel, advisers urge families not to ignore the cost of replacing decorations, calling relatives and even taking the children to Santa's grotto.
They suggest shopping around on the internet for all these things to get the best deal.
Those who turn to credit may be deferring the pain, but missing repayments in the new year could start or continue a debt spiral that may be difficult to pull out of.
Instead, advisers say, keep things under control this year, and start saving now to bring some Christmas 2015 cheer to your family and your finances.
Market research agency ComRes interviewed 1,270 people across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, of which 501 were in West Yorkshire, 305 were in South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire, 335 in North Yorkshire, 179 in East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire and 189 in Lincolnshire.
The online survey was carried out for BBC Radio Lincolnshire between 27 November and 1 December.
James Hood, 52, told Jedburgh Sheriff Court that while it was illegal to deliberately hunt a wild mammal with a dog there were some exceptions.
He was giving evidence at the trial of John Clive Richardson, 66, and Johnny Riley, 24, of the Jedforest Hunt.
The father and son deny deliberately hunting a fox with hounds last year.
The offence is alleged to have taken place near Jedburgh in February 2016.
The court had previously seen footage filmed by investigators from the League Against Cruel Sports.
Commenting on the video, Mr Hood said: "A fox can be flushed by dogs from cover to guns.
"My opinion from the footage of the two incidents is that the fox is pursued by a number of hounds across open ground with one or two horsemen and other persons present.
"The pursuit is beyond what is allowed in the exception."
The footage showed the fox disappearing into a "blind spot" or "dead ground" with the dogs in hot pursuit so what happened to the fox was not captured on film.
The court was told that lawyers acting for two huntsmen intend to lead evidence during the trial saying that the dogs were flushing the fox towards a gunman who was in the dead ground area where he shot the fox.
However, Mr Hood - who has since retired from the police force - said he could not hear any gunshots on the videos during the incidents or see any sign of gunmen.
He also visited the scene at Townfoothill near Jedburgh in March 2016 - three weeks after the alleged offence - and discovered the carcass of a fox in the dead ground area.
All that was remaining was a vertebrae and three legs intact and round the paws there was some red fur.
Mr Hood said a post-mortem examination was carried out on the carcass and there was no evidence that the fox had been shot.
He agreed under cross-examination from defence lawyer David McKie that he could not say for certain that it was the same fox which the video had shown being pursued by the dogs.
The trial of the two men, both from Abbotrule, Bonchester Bridge, has been adjourned until next month.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what does this one tell us?
Keeping in mind that the image presented is the one the White House wants to convey, the photograph still invites a number of observations and, perhaps, conclusions.
Here are five of them.
Let's get to the most obvious question first. What is the president watching so intently?
According to Spicer's tweet, the people present are looking at a screen showing Vice-President Mike Pence, Defence Secretary James Mattis and Joseph Dunford, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The trio are part of the national security team at the White House tasked with explaining the results of the strike devised to punish the Syrian government for using chemical weapons on its own population.
That's Spicer, by the way, tucked into the back left corner of the room.
A quick glance at the Trump team photo instantly recalls what was perhaps the most memorable modern "war room" image, from 2011, when President Barack Obama and his national security team clustered around a monitor to watch the raid to kill Osama Bin Laden unfold.
A key difference, of course, is that the Obama photo was taken in the White House Situation Room. Trump and his team gathered in a nondescript location at his Mar-a-Lago private club that has been converted into a Scif - a "sensitive compartmented information facility" - where the president and his aides can conduct secure communications.
Trump and his team are seated in gold-painted chairs and the hint of an ornamental rug can be seen beneath their feet.
Given that Mr Trump has spent most of his weekends at his Mar-a-Lago estate, this room - or one like it - will likely be the scene of more than a few dramatic events during his presidency.
One of the more noteworthy stories earlier in the week, before the Syrian strike blew the news cycle out of the water, was the ongoing feud between presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner and Trump nationalist consigliere Steve Bannon. It seemed Kushner was gaining the upper hand, rapidly expanding his policy portfolio, while Bannon was on the outs - booted from his permanent seat on the National Security Council.
Both men were in the room Thursday night, although the seating arrangement was telling. Kushner was front and centre at the table, casting what seems to be a cold gaze in the general direction of Bannon, who was a lamp away from being pushed up against a wall. (Stephen Miller, one of Bannon's closest White House allies, is also barely visible, seated to Bannon's left.)
There's something else interesting about the seating arrangement in this photograph. On the president's left is his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. On his right? Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin - not the kind of Cabinet officials one would expect to see prominently featured in a national security briefing.
Part of the explanation could be that Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago travel team was heavily stacked with economic advisers for his meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, is seated along the wall on the right. Perhaps they felt comfortable tagging along with the president to learn the results of the missile strike.
It's probably safe to say, however, that a commerce secretary, usually a low man on the cabinet totem pole, has never before had such prominent real estate during a key national security meeting.
During that fateful 2011 raid on Bin Laden's compound, one woman - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - was prominently featured, her hand to her mouth in apparent concern (or, she has since said, a result of seasonal allergies). Another woman, director of counterterrorism Audrey Tomason, is also visible.
There's only one woman among the 15 in the Trump photograph, US Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy Dina Powell.
Ms Powell was an adviser to Ivanka Trump during the presidential transition and originally served as the president's senior adviser for entrepreneurship, economic growth and the empowerment of women. Like Gary Cohn, she also is a former high-ranking officer in the investment bank Goldman Sachs.
All told, the photograph contains six men who can best be described as White House political/staff advisers, four national security or foreign affairs officials, three members of the president's economics team and a military attache.
Oh, and the president. He's there, too.
The Welsh Labour leader has been speaking in Chicago on his US business tour.
He said it was crucial for the party to "get its act together" once the contest between Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn was over.
Mr Jones said UK Labour was currently failing to provide "effective opposition" to the UK government.
He said he did not want to see "weeks and months of animosity" when the new UK Labour leader is announced later this month.
The Pontypridd MP and Labour leadership contender, Owen Smith, said if he wins he would campaign for a new referendum on EU membership, while his opponent Jeremy Corbyn is against this.
Carwyn Jones told the audience in Chicago he also opposed a new EU referendum.
Another vote, he said, would been seen as "an attempt by the establishment to overturn democracy".
Mr Jones has previously said he will not publicly back either of the leadership candidates.
The Manchester United forward earned 37% of the votes cast by members of the England Supporters Club and has now won it four times.
England captain Rooney, 30, scored five goals last year, overtaking Sir Bobby Charlton as England's record goalscorer during Euro 2016 qualification.
Stoke City goalkeeper Jack Butland was voted Under-21 Player of the Year.
In the vote for the senior player of the year, Spurs striker Harry Kane was runner-up with 30% and Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart in third place with 19%.
Butland took 54% of the Under-21 vote, with Manchester United midfielder Jesse Lingard and Southampton's James Ward-Prowse both picking up 15%.
His calculation is that China's economy will slow in a relatively contained way to a more sustainable rate - perhaps 4% or 5% a year compared with the official target of 7% - without a devastating crash that would damage a large number of client economies and engender social unrest in China itself (in employing the great Goldman bull of China Jim O'Neill as his commercial minister, Osborne could hardly wager otherwise).
Today's manifestation of the China bet is confirmation of a long-trailed loan guarantee - initially worth £2bn but likely to rise substantially - to bind in Chinese and French nuclear giants to their promised massive £24.5bn investment in the Hinkley Point C new nuclear plant.
This is certainly long-term strategic planning for more power security by Osborne and the government (well they would say). With oil fluctuating at between $40 and $50 a barrel, Hinkley's prospective electricity looks scarily expensive.
And there is a paradox about how pricey the nuclear megawatts look right now - because one of the big causes of the oil price collapse is the Chinese slowdown that has savaged demand for energy.
But Osborne views Hinkley as a bloated sprat to catch a ginormous mackerel: a Chinese-designed nuclear power plant in Essex is hoped to be in the offing (according to the energy secretary Amber Rudd in today's FT); a wagonload of construction investment in the chancellor's cherished "Northern Powerhouse" is chuntering down the track, according to leaders of north-of-England city council leaders out here with him.
China represents perhaps the purest expression of Osborne's realpolitik approach to promoting prosperity in Britain.
He is blowing a raspberry at human rights campaigners by going to Urumqi, where the indigenous Uighur population complain of economic and cultural discrimination by Han Chinese, to win business for British companies in President Xi's "One Belt, One Road" global transport-infrastructure "grand projet" (a Silk Road for a globalised age).
And Osborne is also politely ignoring Washington, which is increasingly uneasy about what it sees as the Treasury's disloyal Beijing tilt (the White House was unamused, Beijing smug, when the UK became the first western member of the Chinese-sponsored Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank).
The chancellor's calculation is that the Chinese will remember who stuck by them when the going got tougher.
And he is also presuming that as the returns from investing in China itself diminish, Chinese institutions - many of them still loaded - will increasingly think owning a bit of Britain isn't such a crazy idea after all.
Southern Health failed to adopt safe bathing guidelines for two-and-a-half years after Connor Sparrowhawk died following an epileptic seizure in 2013.
His unsupervised death led to a report into hundreds of unexplained deaths.
Fareham MP Suella Fernandes said after "two damning reports, serious changes in the leadership are now needed".
In response to an urgent question in the House of Commons, Health Minister Alistair Burt MP said "a balance between continuity and stability" was needed to "ensure that what the Trust has promised is actually delivered".
He acknowledged that since last year nine changes had been made to the Board.
Trust chairman Mike Petter resigned on Thursday ahead of the publication of the CQC's report.
He said he was stepping down "to allow new board leadership to take forward the improvements".
Mr Burt told MPs: "NHS Improvement has the powers to alter governance, and I know from speaking to them they take that power and responsibility extremely seriously."
The trust provides mental health services to patients in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.
A fuller Parliamentary debate is due to be held in the coming weeks to discuss the trust's governance and failures in care.
Senator Delcidio Amaral said the president knew of wrongdoings and tried to block investigations.
Ms Rousseff has denied any involvement.
Meanwhile, the new justice minister has threatened to remove teams from the Petrobras inquiry if any more material is leaked to the press.
In a statement, Brazil's presidency said Ms Rousseff will sue Senator Amaral for defamation over his interview with a magazine.
He was the leader of her Workers' Party in the Senate and had agreed a plea bargain with prosecutors after being arrested as a result of the Petrobras scandal.
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The inquiry has led to the arrest or investigation of dozens of executives and politicians, suspected of overcharging for contracts with Petrobras and using part of the money to pay for bribes and electoral campaigns.
There is widespread public support for the investigation, known as Operation Car Wash, but Ms Rousseff and her allies have criticised its leading judge, Sergio Moro.
They argue the inquiry has become politicised and some of his actions have been illegal.
Last week, Mr Moro released phone recordings suggesting Ms Rousseff had appointed her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as her chief of staff to spare him arrest over money-laundering charges he denies.
Even though Ms Rousseff vehemently denies it, Supreme Court judge Gilmar Mendes has suspended Lula's nomination, and a final decision is yet to be announced.
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If Lula is a minister, any charges against him can only be dealt with by the Supreme Court, which operates more slowly, and not by Mr Moro.
Earlier this month, Lula was briefly detained and questioned at Mr Moro's request.
Ms Rousseff's supporters have also criticised leaks of questioning and details of the investigation to the media.
New Justice Minister Eugenio Aragao questioned the publication of the unverified phone tap conversations between Ms Rousseff and Lula and said the Car Wash investigation was losing its objectivity.
The release of the recordings has also been criticised by Supreme Court judge Marco Aurelio Mello, who has questioned its legality.
However, the content of the phone calls has increased pressure on Ms Rousseff, who is facing growing calls for her removal.
Additionally, there has been a resurgence in allegations of media bias against Ms Rousseff and her Workers' Party.
Much of the criticism has been against Globo, the country's largest media group and one of the biggest in the world, allegations it denies.
In 2013, the network issued an announcement about its support of the 1964 military coup, which led to a two-decade military dictatorship, and admitted it had made a "mistake".
Simon Chaplin, 62, of Hebron, rigged a bucket of diesel, a pump and pipes in his Peugeot 309.
He activated it after a police officer tried to pull him over for speeding near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
Chaplin must do 100 hours unpaid work and was given six points on his licence at Swansea Crown Court on Tuesday.
PC Dafydd Burge of Dyfed-Powys Police said Chaplin filled the road with fumes as he followed him along country lanes.
He finally pulled over after about five miles and PC Burge, who was forced to keep a distance from him, was able to follow the trail of smoke to find him.
Chaplin was convicted of causing a danger to other road users by deliberately causing smoke to be emitted and admitted driving without insurance and threatening behaviour.
He said he "sort of panicked" when he saw the policeman's flashing blue lights and told the court the device, which he borrowed from another man, was used to kill moles.
Judge Elwen Evans QC, said: "It is in very unusual circumstances that you find yourself before the court. I do not want to see you here again."
The Division One leaders added 128 runs in just 19.4 overs as Toby Roland-Jones smashed 66 and James Franklin made 56 not out before declaring on 536-9.
Facing a first-innings deficit of 332, Durham then slipped to 252 all out.
Spinner Ollie Rayner impressed once again, claiming 5-85 to finish with match figures of 9-102.
Middlesex are now 35 points clear of second-placed Somerset, who have a game in hand, and are almost certain to extend their advantage over Yorkshire in third, whose Roses match against Lancashire is heading for a draw.
It was another day of complete dominance for the hosts at Lord's as they reached their highest score against Durham, surpassing the 511 made at the same ground in 1994.
Roland-Jones and skipper Franklin put on exactly 100 for the eighth wicket in just over an hour in the morning - Roland-Jones hitting six fours and four maximums in his 47-ball knock.
Durham opener Keaton Jennings top scored in their second innings with 45 to become the first batsman in the country to pass 1,000 Championship runs, but the visitors never looked close to making Middlesex bat again.
Durham's own hopes of winning the title now look to be fading as they sit 40 points behind Middlesex with five matches remaining, but with a game in hand on the leaders.
Gayle Leahair, 41, from Rainhill, Merseyside, was operations manager for a team which conned firms into buying adverts in a bogus magazine.
The man behind the Liverpool-based scam, George Williams, 51, was jailed for seven years in January.
Four other men were also sentenced on the same day as Williams at Liverpool Crown Court.
Leahair, of Warrington Road, who was jailed on Thursday, was convicted with Williams in December of conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation and fraudulent trading.
The court had been told they produced a publication called "Emergency Services News" from an office in Dale Street.
They should have produced about 1.2m copies to fulfil their promises to clients but instead police found they only printed 30,000 copies.
The defendants, who called themselves Weinstein Williams Associates Ltd, were found to have falsely claimed that they worked for the emergency services.
The League Against Cruel Sports said the find raised serious questions about the animal's treatment.
It was found in a building on the Buckminster Estate, on the Leicestershire/Lincolnshire border.
The estate - a member of whose staff was filmed visiting the fox - said it had done nothing wrong.
Darryl Cunnington, from the League Against Cruel Sports, said the fox was dehydrated and underweight when it was found.
"The conditions it was kept under were far from ideal," he said.
"There is no reason whatsoever to keep a live, healthy-enough fox in a shed."
Two days after investigators discovered the fox, a man was filmed on a hidden camera visiting the building.
A few hours later the animal charity captured and removed the fox.
The following morning Mr Cunnington said he filmed the same man returning with a net and a bag.
He said the man checked inside and outside the building, but left after seeing the fox was no longer there.
Later the same day, the Belvoir Hunt staged its annual gathering in the village of Buckminster.
Source: Hunting Act 2004
A hunt spokesman said: "The Belvoir Hunt has no knowledge or involvement in this matter.
"They absolutely reject any suggestion that this has anything whatsoever to do with any of its staff or members."
The Buckminster Estate confirmed the man seen at the outbuilding was one of its employees but declined to be interviewed.
In a statement, it said: "[It was] confident that none of its employees have acted in an illegal or improper way."
Lincolnshire Police said its wildlife officers had been made aware of the matter.
After being cared for at an animal sanctuary, the fox was released at a different location.
Students beginning in 2017/18 will be offered a £2,000 discount on fees or a £1,000 discount plus money towards travel and accommodation costs.
They can also choose to receive money towards purchasing a Macbook Pro.
However, they will still pay substantially higher tuition fees than their Northern Irish or European Union counterparts.
Northern Ireland and EU undergraduate students will pay £4,030 in fees in 2017/18 if they study at universities in Northern Ireland.
Fees for their counterparts from England, Scotland and Wales going to study at UU are set at £9,000.
That is a rise of £3,000 from 2016/17, when they were charged £6,000 a year.
However, they will effectively now pay £7,000 or £8,000 a year depending on which discount option they choose.
Queen's University (QUB), meanwhile, is to charge £9,250 in tuition fees to England, Scotland and Wales in 2017/18 - a rise of £250 on 2016/17.
While the vast majority of students at UU and QUB are from Northern Ireland, around 6% of their undergraduates are from elsewhere in the UK.
Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) for 2015/16 show that 1255 of 20835 undergraduates in Northern Ireland were from GB.
A further 1855 undergraduates are from the European Union or are classed as international students.
Separately, figures from the University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) have shown a drop in the number of local students applying to university.
20,290 Northern Irish students have applied to go to UK universities this year, a decline of 4% since 2016 and the lowest number of applicants since 2013.
However, the number of students recruited from elsewhere will have no effect in reducing space for local students as the number of places at UU and QUB for Northern Ireland undergraduates is set by the Department for the Economy.
But he remains modest about the Oscar buzz around his latest film role as a Soviet agent in Steven Spielberg's Cold War thriller Bridge of Spies.
"I try to ignore it, personally, but I'm aware that it's going down well," says the quietly spoken English actor, director and playwright.
"I've been working for a long time, but a lot of people don't know me. I'm like a vintage car they haven't seen before."
In Bridge of Spies, Rylance plays real-life Soviet intelligence officer Rudolf Abel, who is arrested in 1950s New York and prosecuted as a spy.
Abel's case is taken up by a principled insurance lawyer James Donovan, played by Tom Hanks, who wants to ensure Abel receives a fair trial.
Donovan is plunged into the middle of a Cold War crisis when the CIA asks him to secretly negotiate a prisoner swap involving Abel and the pilot of a captured US spy plane.
One surprising fact about Abel is that he was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and was originally known as William August Fisher.
"The only person I met who knew about him was Sting," Rylance says, explaining how he met the Tyneside-born former Police front man after filming was over.
"Sting knew that he was a famous Geordie Russian spy. He said, 'I hope you're playing him as a Geordie.' I said the research I had was that he sounded Scottish. I dodged a bullet, because Geordie is a very difficult accent to do.
"I read that Abel and his father handed out flyers during the First World War trying to convince young English men not to sign up for it. So he'd obviously been involved very politically from a very early age before they then returned to Russia.
"I also read that he could never speak Russian without an English accent."
Rylance was cast in Bridge of Spies after Spielberg saw him on stage in the hit all-male production of Twelfth Night, in which a cross-dressing Rylance played Olivia. His other best-known stage work includes Jerusalem and Boeing-Boeing. For 10 years, he was the artistic director of Shakepeare's Globe.
This is Rylance's biggest film role to date - other movies on his CV include Anonymous and The Other Boleyn Girl - and Rylance says he felt well prepared after playing Thomas Cromwell in the recent BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall.
"The 17-week shoot, playing a character who was so secret and quiet, was a very intense period of work," he says.
"I gained a lot of confidence on that shoot about my ability to register in a camera. That made a big difference."
The actor says that he doesn't mind the lack of rehearsal time that comes with film.
"Often your first instincts and the mistakes you make are better than what your mind is planning," he says. "You just have to throw yourself with faith into the director's hands."
In the theatre, he says, rehearsals should be about creating performances that can "grow and change" throughout the run.
"I don't work with theatre directors who try and lock down a production for the press night and then you have to be the same every night. I just won't do that," he says.
"Rehearsal in theatre is more like preparing a football team to play a whole season."
Bridge of Spies might be Rylance's first collaboration with Spielberg, but it's not the last.
The director was so impressed with Rylance that a week into filming he gave the actor a copy of the screenplay for his next project, a big-screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's The BFG.
"I thought he just wanted my opinion of it," says Rylance. "I didn't realise he was actually offering me the part of the BFG.
"I hadn't read the book, but the script was wonderful. I had to change my plans a little bit to make myself available."
The film was shot in Vancouver earlier this year and is now in post-production.
"It was motion-capture so my performance lives only in a computer," Rylance says of his role, the titular Big Friendly Giant.
"I'll be 24ft high and have big ears."
Roles don't come much bigger than that, but for now all eyes are on Rylance to see if his quietly powerful turn as a Soviet spy will add another statuette to his trophy cabinet.
Bridge of Spies is released in the UK on 26 November. The BFG is out in summer 2016.
The New York Times published a piece on June 7 with a striking byline, the writers were apparently South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and First Vice-President Riek Machar - until recently bitter enemies, now working together in a national unity government.
The article argued that the country needed a truth and reconciliation commission, in which those who revealed the truth about abuses committed during the civil war would be exempt from prosecution.
It suggested Western countries, and in particular the US and the UK, should put aside their support for a hybrid international-local court which was mandated by a peace agreement to try those accused of committing the worst abuses.
"Disciplinary justice," the article argued, "would destabilise efforts to unite our nation by keeping alive anger and hatred among the people of South Sudan."
There was an immediate backlash in the country, many people felt powerful leaders whose troops were accused of mass atrocities were attempting to escape justice.
As David Deng of the South Sudan Law Society put it, if the hybrid court is bypassed "the governance culture that rewards those who wield violence to achieve their political [or personal] objectives while leaving the victims of those abuses to suffer in silence will continue unabated".
This is where the story gets more complicated and perhaps more revealing about the state of affairs in South Sudan.
Mr Machar's office denied that the first vice-president had co-written the article, and said he had no intention of dropping the court.
The New York Times reportedly said it had received the article from government officials, and it should have sought direct confirmation from both camps that the article was written by them.
Suddenly, the picture had changed quite dramatically.
Instead of a rare statement of common purpose by Mr Kiir and Mr Machar, the two old enemies, the article seems to reveal the ongoing distrust between the two men.
Mr Machar's refusal to endorse it is presumably linked to the strong desire of many of his supporters to see those accused of killing their family members face justice.
In the first few days of the war in December 2013, many people from the Nuer ethnic group were killed in Juba, based on their supposed support for Mr Machar, who is a Nuer.
Nuers all over the country went into rebellion in response to this.
Mr Machar's supporters want those responsible for the killings to face trial, and it would be politically difficult for Mr Machar to backtrack on his proclaimed support for the court - even if his own troops also carried out a number of massacres, often also on ethnic lines.
Mr Machar has also tried to position himself as a supporter of democracy and the rule of law - even if his enemies accuse him of unbridled ambition and responsibility for widespread atrocities.
So who actually wrote the article?
Juba-based journalist Jason Patinkin has been doing some digging.
His research seems to suggest it came from the office of the president's press secretary, with some help from foreign consultants.
Did Mr Machar sign off on the letter? His camp says no, but Mr Kiir's team insists he did.
Someone is lying - and it's painfully clear that Mr Machar's return to government does not mean he and the president are on the same page.
Gwent Police is considering plans to have a non-residential area of Pill for prostitutes.
A police spokeswoman said enforcement alone was "not an effective solution".
But Monmouth MP David Davies, who has debated prostitution on the Council of Europe, is cautious about the proposed move.
"I have some concerns about it. I wouldn't want parts of Newport being turned into the centre of Amsterdam," he told BBC Radio Wales.
"If it is about women who work as sex workers having availability to talk to health professionals or finding ways of getting them out of that lifestyle then I can see the arguments for it.
"If it's a case of 'let's just shove everybody out of the way and keep it out of sight' then obviously that's not a good thing.
"Those women who work on the streets are the most vulnerable to attack and women who work as sex workers are attacked a lot."
"Michelle", 48, has been working as a prostitute in Cardiff for the past two years.
She operates from her own home and said she would be "too frightened" to work on the streets.
Michelle fears designated areas could lead to more attacks on sex workers, including rape and murder.
She said: "Having a toleration zone is one thing; having them in the right area is another.
"There are wrong parts of every town and many girls who work the streets have horrendous tales to tell.
"It's like the police will put up with prostitution as long as it's kept out of the way of so-called decent people."
Michelle wants sex workers to be consulted and more safety for women working the streets, with proper policing.
She said: "The law is so intent in criminalising people. There are women in Cardiff who have been forced into the trade, trafficked. That needs to be stopped."
Michelle is part of the English Collective of Prostitutes, a network of sex workers.
A spokeswoman for the network said most sex workers were mothers working to feed their children and called for more resources to help women who want to leave the profession or stop using drugs.
Alex Feis-Bryce, chief executive of National Ugly Mugs, a support service for sex workers when they are victims of crime, welcomed any move that did not involve enforcement.
"It's a good thing," he said.
"I think any approach by police that is a move away from enforcement is a good idea.
"One effect of having less criminalisation and less enforcement is sex workers are able to report to police when they're targeted, and they are frequently targeted in many areas by rapists, the most dangerous criminals."
He added: "Many sex workers want to move away from police. There's a certain lack of trust between sex workers and police.
"If this policy is being pursued it will have to be part of a bigger conversation with local support agencies, with sex workers themselves, with police, in order to ensure sex workers do want to work in the area that's been designated and they're willing to do so or the policy won't work."
The plans follow a similar pilot scheme in the north of England.
The 52-year-old woman had been cycling along Farm Road near Ferndown between 13:30 and 14:30 GMT on Thursday when a car hit the bicycle but failed to stop.
The car has been described as blue with "possibly pink wheels", Dorset Police said.
The victim, from Ferndown, regained consciousness and was taken to Poole General Hospital to be treated for what police described as "serious" injuries.
Police are appealing for witnesses or for information about the driver.
Gwen Munkley', 55, from Wrexham, was convicted in June of perverting the course of justice and helping her husband supply drugs.
Her husband Anthony Munkley, 53 and Lee Roberts, 33, were jailed for life for murdering Sion Davies in June.
Sion Davies, 25, died after falling from a balcony at Anthony Munkley's Caia Park estate flat last October.
They were number one two weeks ago, in a run of success for frontman Ryan Tedder, who wrote James Blunt's single Bonfire Heart, up two to number four.
Tedder has also written hits for singers including Adele, Beyonce, Ellie Goulding and Leona Lewis.
"This is by far the coolest thing that's happened to us," he said.
"I've had a number of number ones with other artists, but never one with this band. This is the highlight of the year."
Lawson were straight in at number three with Juliet, followed by Blunt, while Eminem's Rap God debuted at number five.
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His eighth album, The Marshall Mathers LP2, is released next month.
UK pop group Lawson have now achieved five top 10 hits since forming in 2009.
In the album chart, John Newman's debut album Tribute beat big comebacks from Pearl Jam, Sir Paul McCartney and Cher.
Newman, 23, from Settle in North Yorkshire, found fame with his guest vocals on Rudimental's number one Feel The Love last summer.
Grunge group Pearl Jam made it to number two with Lightening Bolt - their highest chart placing in the UK since VS in 1993, which also made it to the same spot.
Sir Paul, 71, was at three with his 16th solo album, New, while Cher, 67, was at four with Closer to the Truth, her highest-charting studio album since Love Hurts topped the charts 22 years ago.
Britain's Got Talent finalists Jonathan And Charlotte were at number five with their second album Perhaps Love.
Synthpop pioneer Gary Numan debuted at number 20 with his 20th studio album, Splinter.
Developed countries agreed to stop the subsidies immediately and developing nations must follow by the end of 2018.
The WTO, which represents 162 countries, called it "the most significant outcome on agriculture" since the body's foundation in 1995.
But longstanding talks on other trade barriers were left unresolved at the end of the summit in Kenya.
Removing agriculture export subsidies is intended to help farmers in poorer countries to compete more fairly.
"The decision you have taken today on export competition is truly extraordinary," WTO chief Roberto Azevedo said at the closing session in Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
The summit of ministers, which finished on Saturday after five days of talks, was the first to be held in Africa.
The WTO called the farming agreement "historic", while the European Commission said it would be "good for fairer trade".
"For those who had doubts, it proves the relevance of the WTO and its capacity to deliver results," EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said.
Kenya's Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed said the summit would be "remembered as having made that leap" from a time when the WTO was divided along a "developed and developing divide".
It follows a WTO deal in July to cut tariffs on $1.3trn (£833bn) worth of technology products.
But the body had been under pressure in Nairobi to remove other trade barriers after discussions had stalled in recent years.
The lack of progress in the ongoing Doha Round of talks, which first started in the Qatari capital in 2001, had led some countries to seek agreements among smaller groups.
Doha's goals included increased duty-free access for developing countries; lower tariffs on agricultural products, textiles and clothing; and the reduction of trade-distorting subsidies from developed countries.
The final declaration adopted in Nairobi said "many members" reaffirmed their "full commitment to conclude" the Doha Development Agenda goals.
But it added: "Other members do not reaffirm the Doha mandates, as they believe new approaches are necessary to achieve meaningful outcomes in multilateral negotiations."
Two new countries, Afghanistan and Liberia, were accepted into the WTO at the summit and will formally join in the coming weeks.
The women, who had planned protests against sexual harassment, were detained shortly before International Women's Day on 8 March.
The US, UK and European Union had all called for their release.
The five have not been charged but their bail conditions mean charges could be brought at a later date.
Their lawyer, Liang Xiaojun, said they would need to regularly update the authorities on their whereabouts.
Human Rights Watch's Maya Wang said on Twitter that their release "shows international pressure works on China, when it is strong enough", and that the authorities should "cease harassment".
Amnesty International's William Nee said in a statement that the release was "an encouraging breakthrough", but that "the authorities must now follow through and drop all charges and restrictions against the women".
Lu Jun, the co-founder of Chinese campaign group Yirenping - which some of the women were involved with - said their detention was "a glaring injustice", but that advocacy for the release has "actually furthered legal protection of women's rights and strengthened the rule of law in China".
Chinese authorities waited until the last possible moment to release the so-called Beijing Five from detention. Just hours before they were legally mandated to press ahead with a formal case, or release the women, prosecutors elected not to move forward with the recommended charges of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".
The women, now free on bail, will remain under police surveillance. The activists are part of China's Women's Rights Action Group, a loose network of volunteers who organise events promoting gender equality.
Many see the women's high-profile arrests as a red light warning to civil rights groups across China to scale down their activities.
This year's International Women's Day coincided with China's annual parliamentary session, which usually has tight security and is often preceded by the detention of activists.
The women had planned activities including a march in a Beijing park where participants would wear stickers advocating safe sex, and gatherings in Beijing and Guangzhou calling for awareness of sexual harassment on buses.
China said on Monday it had lodged a formal complaint to the US over a statement by Secretary of State John Kerry at the weekend in which he called for their unconditional release.
A passerby pulled the man from the water off the B1050, near Earith, at 17:00 GMT on Saturday.
The rescuer attempted CPR before emergency crews arrived.
Emergency medical charity Magpas said it provided "advanced life support" but the man was pronounced dead en route to hospital. The man was the only person in the Nissan Note.
The Environment Agency has six flood warnings remaining in place for Cambridgeshire.
River levels along the Nene rose after heavy rainfall on Saturday night into Sunday.
Homes near the river in Elton, Nassington, Yarwell and Wansford were said to be most at risk on Sunday.
Norman Surplus, from County Antrim, began his flight in the open cockpit aircraft on 1 June in Oregon.
His journey across the US will take him to Pennsylvania, New York and Maine.
Mr Surplus hopes to reach Stornoway on 23 July before flying to Oban in Argyll and then home to Larne in Northern Ireland.
He has previously flown a gyrocopter over 18 countries in Europe, Middle East and Asia.
The 24-year-old, who has spent the last three seasons with the Ryman League Premier Division club, has agreed a two-year deal with the Daggers.
Robson becomes Dagenham's ninth signing since their relegation from League Two last season.
"He can play centre-half and centre midfield and likes to go forward for set-pieces," boss John Still said.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Kevin Kerger gave the visitors a shock first half lead.
Luxembourg could have extended their lead from the penalty spot but Billy O'Brien denied Ricardo Pinto after Tom Lockyer had handled the ball.
Gethin Jones hit the crossbar before Charles' injury time equaliser.
Charles bundled home from close range from Harry Wilson's cornet to spare Wales' blushes on a frustrating evening for Geraint Williams' side who cannot now qualify for next summer's finals in Poland.
Wales' hopes of automatic qualification were ended by their 4-0 defeat to Denmark in Wrexham the previous Friday.
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Lallana, 26, is manager Brendan Rodgers's second signing of the summer and joins former team-mate Rickie Lambert at Anfield on a long-term deal.
The midfielder, who played for England during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, made 265 appearances for Saints.
"I am so excited for the next chapter of my career, coming to a special club like Liverpool," said Lallana, who passed a medical at the weekend.
"Hopefully I can settle in quickly and I will give it my best throughout the whole time I'm here.
"I hope I can add something to the team and hopefully we can win trophies. That's why I'm here - for success."
The Reds have also agreed a deal to sign Bayer Leverkusen's Germany Under-21 midfielder Emre Can for a fee of about £10m.
Lallana, who will wear the number 20 shirt at Liverpool, earned a place on the PFA's Premier League team of the year for his performances last season, when he was ever-present for Saints, scoring nine goals.
Bournemouth, whom he left to join Southampton as a 12-year-old, will receive a percentage of the fee because they negotiated a sell-on clause written into Lallana's contract.
With Luke Shaw also leaving in a £27m transfer to Manchester United, it has been a summer of change at Saints, who appointed Ronald Koeman as their new manager in June following Mauricio Pochettino's move to Tottenham.
To think, five or six years ago, I was playing in League One
Southampton say the income received from Lallana's transfer will be reinvested in the squad.
Liverpool open their Premier League campaign against Southampton at Anfield on 16 August.
"It's fate," said Lallana. "Rickie Lambert and I spoke about it and he said he could have bet his mortgage on it."
Lallana intends to take a couple of weeks off following what he admitted was a disappointing World Cup campaign in which England failed to qualify from the group stages.
He is relishing the chance to play Champions League football for the first time.
"Everyone is telling me that the atmosphere on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at Anfield is something special," said Lallana, who was made Southampton captain in 2012.
"To think, five or six years ago, I was playing in League One."
The 21-year-old has been loaned to Spanish second-tier side Valladolid.
He only joined Watford last month after his contract with another Spanish side Granada ended.
"I'm not disappointed the important thing is to get more playing time and prepare myself for the upcoming challenges," he told BBC Sport.
"It could be anywhere at Watford or elsewhere.
"I'm looking forward to playing in the Premier League in the coming year - it is a dream come true to sign for a Premier League club."
The midfielder is confident that his time at Granada is going to help him during his loan to Valladolid.
"I had a great experience at Granada and I think that can help me this season," he added.
"The language and the way of football is the same so am hoping to make use of this opportunity to add more experience and maturity to my game."
Marreh spent most of his stint at Granada playing for their B team but has made eight international appearances for The Gambia, including last month's 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Benin.
Four A320 aircraft arrived at the St Athan airfield, Vale of Glamorgan, on Sunday and a fifth is expected to fly to Wales in the next week.
Cyprus Airways, the national carrier, shut down suddenly on Friday after the EU Commission said the Cypriot government had breached subsidy rules.
The planes belong to a leasing company.
There had been speculation in newspaper reports on Tuesday that the jets were being 'hidden' in the UK to avoid claims from EU officials or creditors.
Cardiff Aviation says after maintenance the planes are expected to fly for a new airline under different livery.
"It's good business for us," said Cardiff Aviation's managing director Ray Raoufi.
"They will go into our hanger when we have a slot for them and they will have maintenance," he said.
"It's an opportunity for the local economy and will help to create jobs," said Mr Raoufi.
"We were joking that we now have more aircraft than Cardiff Airport."
The jets are currently parked on an old runway at St Athan.
Cardiff Aviation was started by the heavy rock band's lead singer in 2012.
The Baggies started brightly, with Salomon Rondon netting inside four minutes only to be flagged offside.
Just two minutes later, Morrison latched onto Nacer Chadli's pass and tapped it past Lee Grant.
Saido Berahino, who moved from the Baggies to Stoke in January, was booed when he came on in the 58th minute.
West Brom withstood a late attack from the visitors to keep their second clean sheet in 12 games and stay in eighth place.
The result means that Stoke slip from ninth to 11th in the table, seven points behind the Baggies.
Argentine Claudio Yacob was missing for West Brom after being taken to hospital with suspected appendicitis.
West Brom put the visitors under pressure almost instantly as Jake Livermore's fine pass sailed towards Matt Phillips. Phillips' shot deflected towards Rondon, who found the net but was ruled offside.
Morrison made the breakthrough a minute later, scoring his third goal in five games as he tapped Chadli's pass beyond Lee Grant.
Stoke struggled to keep up with the home side in the first half, with Morrison and Chadli combining well to outpace the Potters' defence.
However, after half-time, it was the visitors who started strongly only for their finishing to let them down - Erik Pieters fluffing a simple header from six yards out.
Stoke had conceded in the 90th minute on the last two occasions the two sides had met and came close again here, but Joe Allen's excellent late block denied Livermore, who was Albion's only permanent signing in the transfer window.
The boos for Berahino began before the match as he warmed up with his teammates and continued as he pulled on a Stoke shirt for the first time.
His £12m move in January after seven years with the Baggies left the fans unimpressed, but the striker hardly saw any of the ball after he was introduced midway through the second half.
His one significant touch in the area, under pressure from the West Brom defence, saw him slip over the ball and allow his former team to counter-attack, which drew wry cheers from the crowd.
Stoke's main attack came from Allen, who was sprightly, but the visitors were unable to make the breakthrough in a tense final 10 minutes.
There was no handshake between the managers as the game ended, with Tony Pulis walking straight down the tunnel while an unimpressed Mark Hughes stayed on the sidelines.
Berahino, however, received an arm around the shoulders from his former team-mate Rondon.
West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "We're pleased. If you look at Stoke, they have a smashing squad of players. They've got a strong squad so it's a good result for us today.
"The supporters have really stuck with us and got behind us and can see what we're trying to do. These things take time to get right and it really annoys me when people change managers quickly.
"You get labelled for things you've done at other clubs, but I have always tried to get the best out of my players at all the clubs I've been at.
On not shaking hands with Hughes: "I shook hands with Eddie [Niedzwiecki, Stoke coach] and Mark was walking away towards their supporters so that was that."
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Stoke City manager Mark Hughes: "We've played a lot better than today. We've been on a decent run and have been playing well but for whatever reason it wasn't good enough
"I was disappointed in the referee to be perfectly honest. West Brom were winning so they weren't going to rush to get the ball back into play so he allowed himself to be messed around in that regard."
On not shaking hands with Pulis: "I was there. If he came over I would have shook it. He didn't shake my hand at the start of the game either. I was the guest of the club, surely."
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West Brom are away at West Ham on Saturday 11 February (15:00 GMT), while Stoke host Crystal Palace on the same day, also at 15:00.
Match ends, West Bromwich Albion 1, Stoke City 0.
Second Half ends, West Bromwich Albion 1, Stoke City 0.
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Chris Brunt tries a through ball, but James McClean is caught offside.
Foul by Phil Bardsley (Stoke City).
Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Erik Pieters (Stoke City).
Hal Robson-Kanu (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Julien Ngoy (Stoke City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Phil Bardsley.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Jake Livermore.
Attempt missed. Phil Bardsley (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Bruno Martins Indi (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Bruno Martins Indi (Stoke City).
Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Sam Field replaces James Morrison.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Hal Robson-Kanu replaces Matt Phillips.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Erik Pieters.
Attempt missed. Erik Pieters (Stoke City) header from the left side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Bardsley with a cross.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Erik Pieters.
Erik Pieters (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt blocked. Darren Fletcher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Lee Grant.
Attempt saved. James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Salomón Rondón.
Hand ball by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).
Substitution, Stoke City. Julien Ngoy replaces Ibrahim Afellay.
Foul by Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City).
Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Nyom tries a through ball, but James McClean is caught offside.
Foul by Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City).
Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Ben Foster (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. James McClean replaces Nacer Chadli.
Offside, Stoke City. Joe Allen tries a through ball, but Ibrahim Afellay is caught offside.
Attempt missed. James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Salomón Rondón.
Attempt saved. Phil Bardsley (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Erik Pieters.
Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Glenn Whelan (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion).
Substitution, Stoke City. Mame Biram Diouf replaces Charlie Adam.
About 6,000 rocks are known in Britain to have ancient cup and ring carvings. More than 2,000 of the sites are found in Scotland.
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has been awarded £807,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council towards the five-year project.
The database would include 2D and 3D models of some of the decorated stone.
The project will be launched next year and involve the University of Edinburgh and Glasgow School of Art.
The purpose and significance of rock art to prehistoric and more recent communities is poorly understood, HES said.
Archaeologists believe the markings may have been made for a number of reasons.
These include for rituals, as territorial markers or mapping the stars. They could even be the "doodlings" of bored, ancient shepherds.
New examples of rock art are still being found. The discovery of a previously unrecorded example was made in the Highlands in 2014.
Rebecca Bailey, who led the grant application for HES, said: "We are absolutely delighted to have secured our first very substantial research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
"The project will be a co-production between our expert staff, academic partners and community groups, in keeping with our vision that the historic environment is understood, shared and enjoyed by everyone.
"We look forward to the teams getting out into the field, making new discoveries, generating new knowledge, and sharing that on an international stage."
The project will be launched in early 2017. It will be led for HES by principal investigator Dr Tertia Barnett.
Co-investigators from the University of Edinburgh and Glasgow School of Art will also be involved and the project's partners include Archaeology Scotland, Kilmartin Museum and the North of Scotland Archaeology Society.
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Robert Noble's March Street Mills in Peebles will close by the end of the year, after its parent company failed to find a buyer.
Moorbrook Textiles managing director Ian Laird said they received "no credible offers" for the business as a going concern.
"We will cease manufacturing at the site by the end of this year with the loss of all jobs," he added.
"We are disappointed that we have not managed to secure a better outcome."
Robert Noble can trace its history back almost 350 years. It was established under the David Ballantyne name in Galashiels in 1666.
In May Moorbrook Textiles, which is based in Ayr, announced a 30 day consultation on possible plans to close the mill.
It claimed the "seasonal and volatile nature of the business", as well as changes in global demand were to blame for the decision.
Tweedale West councillor Keith Cockburn said the closure of the plant will be a "big blow" for Peebles.
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"This will come as a big blow to the work force and their families as well as the overall economy of the town.
"We are all aware that it will be difficult to find full employment locally for such a large number of skilled workers."
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The new law will allow Turkey's telecommunications authority to block websites without first seeking a court ruling.
It will also force internet providers to store data on web users' activities for two years and make it available to the authorities.
The opposition has criticised the move as an assault on freedom of expression.
Internet access in Turkey is already restricted and thousands of websites blocked.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been openly critical of the internet, calling Twitter a "scourge" and condemning social media as "the worst menace to society".
Both Twitter and Facebook were widely used by anti-government protesters to spread information during demonstrations last year.
The new measures were adopted after hours of debate in parliament where Mr Erdogan's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) dominates with 319 of the 550 seats.
At the start of the debate, opposition MP Hasan Oren compared Mr Erdogan to Adolf Hitler.
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Bluebirds supporter Mike Jones travelled to Ewood Park to watch the Championship match on Tuesday.
Mr Jones, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, fell ill near the end of the game. He was taken to hospital but later died.
Cardiff City FC said a tribute to his life would be put in the programme for Saturday's game with Birmingham City.
In a statement, the club said: "We offer our sincere condolences to Mike's family and friends at this very difficult time."
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The Briton, 28, won 6-4 6-4 at the O2 Arena and will next play the winner of the evening match between Stan Wawrinka and Rafael Nadal.
Another victory on Wednesday would ensure Murray ends the year as world number two for the first time.
The Scot's season will continue next week as Great Britain take on Belgium in the Davis Cup final.
"It was a tough match with a lot of long rallies," said Murray. "He fought hard right to the end and made it extremely difficult.
"He didn't serve as well as he can and I played a bit better at the end of both sets, and that got me the win."
After some uncertainty over whether Murray would sacrifice his place in London to remain healthy for the showpiece in Belgium on 27-29 November, the Scot was in committed mood once he stepped out into the O2 Arena for his first round-robin match.
He spent several days last week practising on clay for Britain's first Davis Cup final since 1978, but there was little sign of rustiness on the switch back to an indoor hard court.
Four break points slipped by in the first eight games before Murray finally broke through, thanks to a fine volley and a Ferrer double fault.
The seventh seed, 33, was misfiring, making just 47% of first serves, and he was thankful for a loose Murray service game at the start of the second set.
Ferrer was soon battling to keep Murray at bay once again, however, succumbing in game six as the Scot levelled.
Serving to stay in the match, an eighth double fault saw Ferrer go 0-30 down. Then presented with a first match point a bouncing Murray leapt to put away a smash at the second attempt.
The victory gives him an early lead in Group Ilie Nastase, with two players to qualify for the semi-finals on Saturday.
Former British number one Tim Henman: "A straight-sets win against the world number seven is very good, but to compete against the best players there are too many peaks and troughs in his intensity and level of play.
"When he starts talking to his box, he's not focused on the next point and then he's giving the opponent the chance to be the proactive one dictating play."
BBC Sport tennis commentator Andrew Castle: "Apart from one lapse of concentration that lasted 10 or 15 minutes that was a very impressive performance from Andy Murray. There weren't any real dramas but he had to focus hard in the second set to get the job done."
Prosecutors say the charges she faces include bribery, coercion, abuse of power and leaking state secrets.
The 65-year-old, who is in custody, is accused of allowing close friend Choi Soon-sil to extort money from companies in return for political favours.
Both women deny the charges. Ms Park was removed from office last month.
She lost her presidential immunity and was dismissed from her post when the constitutional court upheld a decision by parliament in December to impeach her.
Ms Choi is accused of using her presidential connections to put pressure on companies to give millions of dollars in donations to non-profit foundations she controlled.
Ms Park is alleged to have been personally involved in this, and to have given Ms Choi unacceptable levels of access to official documents.
Those companies include the country's largest group, Samsung. Its acting head Lee Jae-yong and Ms Choi are in the same detention centre as Ms Park awaiting trial.
Lotte Group chairman Shin Dong-bin was also charged with bribery on Monday, but prosecutors did not detain him. Both Samsung and Lotte deny wrongdoing.
Hwang Kyo-ahn, who is loyal to Ms Park, is now the acting president and an election is to be held by 9 May.
Economist Lord Nicholas Stern has published a review of how to measure the quality of university research.
He also wants all research staff to be assessed, rather than allowing universities to submit their own selection of academics.
Research is vital to economic growth, says Universities Minister Jo Johnson.
Lord Stern's independent review examined the mechanism for measuring university research - the research excellence framework (REF) - which is used to determine the allocation of funding.
In 2015-16, this was worth ??1.6bn to universities and the ratings from the REF are used to decide funding for the following five years or more.
The next round of assessments will be used for allocating funding from 2020 - and could be even more significant for universities worrying about the future of European Union research funding.
Lord Stern, president of the British Academy, says he wants a wider interpretation of research "impact" so that it shows "influence on public engagement and culture".
He also wants to stop universities from playing the system to appear higher in the rankings.
He is recommending that all research staff should have to submit work for assessment, rather than allowing universities to put forward a small selection of their academics.
There were warnings of universities seeking to artificially boost their position by recruiting high quality researchers shortly before the date of the assessment.
Lord Stern's review also wants to reduce the bureaucratic burden. The last round of the information-gathering process, completed in 2014, cost ??246m to administer.
Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group, said assessing all research staff "will be helpful in minimising the risks of game-playing".
But Maddalaine Ansell, chief executive of the University Alliance group of universities, said the assessment process "must not just reward universities with the highest numbers of research-active staff".
She said that there could be significant variations in how much time staff spent on research, when some staff might be more engaged with teaching or on contracts with business.
Pam Tatlow, chief executive of the MillionPlus group of universities, said the recommendations would encourage staff to be focused either on research or teaching, which would "drive a further wedge between teaching and research".
But she welcomed the suggestion that impact "should be more broadly defined".
In the 2014 research rankings, London universities were found to be challenging the dominance of Oxford and Cambridge.
The London School of Economics had the highest proportion of world-leading research, followed by Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College and University College London.
The biggest financial winners from the 2014 results, based on the research of 52,000 academics, were forecast to be Oxford, University College London and Cambridge.
The government also has plans to introduce a parallel system for measuring the quality of teaching, called the teaching excellence framework (TEF).
These teaching assessments will be linked to allowing universities in England to charge higher tuition fees.
Mr Johnson said he welcomed proposals for the research excellence framework that could "reduce the burdens on academics" and which could make improvements on previous assessments.
"Lord Stern recognises the advantage that our world-class research base brings to the UK and the key role our universities play in delivering high-quality teaching, driving productivity and economic growth," he said.
Customers reported "chaos" as they waited for hours, only to be told their vehicle or keys could not be found.
As reported in The Daily Mail, the airport blamed "technical issues".
"It's just incredibly poor customer service," said Jon Reason, one of the passengers affected.
He and his young family arrived back at Stansted from a two-week holiday at 00:30 BST on Sunday to be told their vehicle would be returned to them within two hours.
"It was just chaos - there were people queuing out the door. People were very irate, sitting on grass mounds just waiting for news," he said.
Eventually Mr Reason was informed by staff that his car could not be found, and was forced to wait for another two hours for a taxi back to his home in Billericay, Essex.
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The family's car was eventually brought back to them on Tuesday evening.
"No-one's putting their head above the parapet - I'm surprised Andrew Cowan, the CEO, hasn't come out personally and said 'we're not very good at this'," Mr Reason said.
"I'd never use the meet and greet parking again."
A spokesman for Stansted Airport said its "car parking operations suffered a number of unforeseen issues" on 5 August that caused "significant disruption".
He said "extensive recovery plans" had been put in place, including allocating arriving customers to different onsite car parking and arranging complimentary taxis to minimise disruption.
"The performance of our meet and greet service has fallen well below the standards we strive to provide our customers, and for this we sincerely apologise," the spokesman added.
Australian officials said the man was detained at Melbourne's Tullamarine airport on November 15.
He was carrying three cans of mace and had extremist literature on his mobile devices when he arrived on a flight from the Middle East.
He was deported the following day, Australian Border Force (ABF) said.
"The man was detained by ABF counter-terrorism unit team officers as a result of an assessment of advance passenger processing information, which revealed an anomaly with his electronic travel authority," the ABF said in a statement.
"A subsequent search of his belongings revealed objectionable material of an extremist Ânature on his mobile devices and prohibited goods in his luggage."
Australian media reported that the man had arrived from Abu Dhabi.
Attorney General George Brandis confirmed the incident and said appropriate measures were taken when travellers posed an "unacceptable level of risk".
"What I think this case illustrates is the care which the Australian government takes to ensure that everyone that arrives in Australia is subject to appropriate scrutiny," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
The Australian newspaper reported today that the country has stepped up screening of EU passport holders in the wake of the Paris attacks.
This issue hit me with both barrels between the eyes this week when I had to wrestle with a series of images from besieged Aleppo.
They had been taken by Syrian doctors in an underground hospital and forwarded to me by Dr David Nott, the pioneering war surgeon who has been using social media to teach his colleagues over the internet how to, for example, rebuild a man's face.
I first covered war in 1988 and I've seen more than enough real horror with my own eyes.
But the Aleppo hospital pictures were grim beyond the saying of it. Be warned. What I must write and you will now read is a terrible litany of suffering.
They include a boy, so coated in cement dust I can't say whether he is alive or dead; a boy, dead; two boys, lying on the floor next to a drain because there are no beds left, both dead; a boy, alive, his face a river of blood; a boy, alive, holding up his broken arm; a boy, dead; a girl with ginger hair, dying.
A boy, his face white from dust apart from a smear of blood running from his eyes to his nose; the 17th, a baby girl, dying; a teenage girl in a white headdress, it and her face splotched with arterial blood; a dead infant; a father, covered in cement dust, dead, holding the arm of an infant, also dead, the infant headless.
Most of these images we cannot show you. The reason is simple: there is no watershed on the internet and you cannot put out these kind of images without causing people, especially children, real upset.
I understand this completely.
I returned from Rwanda and Burundi in 1988 from reporting a massacre for the Observer, and back in London described a machete wound to a friend, who wrote TV comedies. His face went green.
I realised that from then on, I should be careful about what I said about the details of man's inhumanity to man; still more about what I showed via image and video.
But then the other thing. Something truly horrible is happening to the people of eastern Aleppo.
They rose up against Bashar al-Assad five years ago. They are not with Isis but against them; they seek a third path between the tyrant and the fanatics.
They are trapped inside a siege. They have nowhere to hide. So when the cluster bombs fall - the ones that don't go off are marked Shoab 0.5m in Russian, so we have a pretty good idea who is dropping them - they kill.
On our BBC Newsnight film we did show something of what happens when a cluster bomb lands on a city packed with children.
The doctors in the underground hospital filmed one little boy with a ball bearing from a cluster bomb in his spine; a second with a ball bearing that had entered the back of his head and lodged in the skull just behind his nose.
We did show blood on the floor of the hospital - there is no time to get rid of it and, since the waterworks has been bombed, no good water supply. We did show neurosurgery taking place on the floor because no beds were free.
But we didn't show what often happens: that cluster bombs kill children. The danger is that, for fear of causing upset, we end up sanitising war.
This matters because Western policy on Syria is in deep trouble. Assad's strategic narrative - it's a choice between me or Isis - is becoming more and more true.
The danger for Western security is that policy may drive good people into the hands of Isis because they hate Assad so much. But if people in the West do not see the reality on the ground because media organisations don't want to cause upset, then the story gets obscured or buried.
Hollywood hoovers up the dreadful dust of war. In multiplex movies you see machine-guns spit and shells fall - but not people with no eyes because of the percussion effect from high explosives; you see heroism, but not children with ball bearings in their spine.
Assad and Russia say they are fighting terrorism. None of the dead children pictured on my phone and indelibly in my memory are terrorists.
Correcting these falsehoods - both benign and malign - is the job of journalism. Right now we are not showing you the full horror of the war in Syria.
From 78-4 overnight, England at least mustered 236 to set the home side a target of 103.
Joe Root hit 78 and Haseeb Hameed, batting with a broken hand, made 59 not out but will now leave the tour.
Parthiv Patel cracked an unbeaten 67 from 54 balls as India extended their undefeated run to 16 Tests.
The world number one side have also gone 17 home matches without being beaten and will wrap up a series victory if they avoid defeat in the fourth Test in Mumbai, which begins on 8 December.
For England, who have now lost four of their past six matches, some players will be allowed to leave India on holiday before the next Test.
"India gave England real hammering," said former England captain Michael Vaughan on Test Match Special.
"England need to look in the mirror and ask, 'why does it keep happening?' There is something not right in the mentality in the dressing room."
After an encouraging performance in the drawn first Test, England have now suffered back-to-back defeats that were largely based on substandard first-innings batting.
In the second Test, England were bowled out for 255 and here, with conditions again suited to run-scoring, the tourists failed to capitalise on winning the toss and only managed 283.
On each occasion, England surrendered a big lead, one they were unable to sufficiently claw back as India's spinners found success in the second innings.
The injury to Hameed will force one change to the side, but the poor form of Gary Ballance and Ben Duckett leaves the tourists with few options unless they make further call-ups.
"England were just not good enough on the first day - that's where it was lost," said Vaughan. "The pitch was perfect for batting. You've got to bat for 140 overs and score 400. 283 was about 150 to 175 below par."
India's spinners ran through the England top order on the third evening and got to work again on Tuesday morning, with Ravindra Jadeja pinning nightwatchman Gareth Batty lbw and Jos Buttler, who got off the mark with a six, caught at deep mid-wicket off Jayant Yadav.
Root remained, giving his team-mates a lesson in how to play the slow bowlers with patient defence, drives through the covers and fast feet to work through the leg side.
He added 45 with Hameed, who batted at number eight, before edging Jadeja to slip, while Woakes counter-punched until both he and Adil Rashid were bounced out by Mohammed Shami.
The arrival of James Anderson was the signal for Hameed to attack and a run-a-ball partnership of 41 only ended when England's number 11 was run out coming back for a second.
Woakes found extra bounce to have Murali Vijay caught at second slip in the second over of the chase, but England had no answer to Parthiv's sparkling strokeplay as India reached their target inside 21 overs.
Hameed is set leave the tour to have a plate inserted in the little finger of his left hand after being struck by Umesh Yadav in the first innings.
Though he was unable to grip the bat with that finger, the 19-year-old once again impressed with the composure and stout defence that have characterised his first three Tests.
Perhaps because of his injury, Hameed, who gave a sharp chance to wicketkeeper Parthiv on five, was initially even more shotless than usual - his first sign of aggression did not come until he played a slog-sweep to the 111th ball he faced.
However, when he was joined by last man Anderson, Hameed displayed his range of strokes, particularly through the leg side.
He brought up his second Test half-century with a six off Ravichandran Ashwin and the last 27 deliveries he faced brought 36 runs before he was left stranded by Anderson's departure.
England captain Alastair Cook: "To get bowled out for 280 in the first innings, we knew we were behind the eight ball. We had a little bit of a sniff at 200-6, but credit to their lower order.
"It's been a frustrating four days. Credit to India - they outplayed us. We've got a few days off to go our separate ways."
India captain Virat Kohli: "None of the pitches have been turners - we are just playing very good cricket. Getting them out for 280 was a great boost for us having lost the toss.
"It's been a complete effort. We're in a good space."
England coach Trevor Bayliss: "I thought we contributed to our own downfall. There were a few embarrassed faces in the changing room from the shots that were played.
"We were always playing catch up. When you're playing a team as good as India are in their back yard, you need to score well in that first innings and we failed to do so."
Despite a second successive heavy defeat, England moved up a place in the International Cricket Council's Test rankings.
Thanks to Pakistan's 2-0 series loss in New Zealand, Alastair Cook's side climbed from third to second, making the series in India a contest between the top two sides in the world.
However, England must win the final two Tests to stay in second place. If they lose them both they will drop to fifth.
The election was called when previous Labour MP Sir Peter Soulsby stepped down to enter the race to become the city's elected mayor.
Mr Ashworth beat Liberal Democrat candidate Zuffar Haq, who came in second place, and the Conservatives' Jane Hunt, who was third.
He won 19,771 votes, compared to 7,693 for Mr Haq and 5,169 for Ms Hunt and promised to work for the city.
In his acceptance speech, Mr Ashworth said: "Labour is listening more, working harder and changing to get in touch."
"I think the adverse publicity that Sepp has received since being re-elected has been phenomenal," he said.
US prosecutors launched a criminal inquiry last week, with seven Fifa officials arrested in Switzerland, part of a group of 14 people indicted.
Two days after the arrests, Mr Blatter was re-elected president of Fifa.
However, he announced on Tuesday that he was stepping down, saying that it appeared the mandate he had been given "does not seem to be supported by everyone in the world".
According to US media reports, the 79-year-old is being investigated by US officials as part of their inquiry into corruption at Fifa.
Mr Boyce told BBC Northern Ireland on Wednesday: "I personally will be surprised if Sepp Blatter is guilty of corruption, but I welcome the full inquiry that is being made."
Mr Boyce, 71, said the inquiry related to matters before he took on the Fifa vice-presidency in 2010, and since taking on the role, he had no sense that anything underhand was going on within the organisation.
"If any of these people are found guilty of any form of dishonesty, they should be dealt with in the strongest possible manner," said the former Irish FA president.
Mr Boyce, who has known Mr Blatter for 22 years, said he had criticised him in private conversations for failing to deal in a timely manner with Fifa officials "who had been exposed as criminals".
"For example in 2006 at the World Cup in Germany, (former Fifa official) Jack Warner was caught red-handed selling tickets at very much above face-value on the black market," he said.
"He should've been shown the door in 2006 and I told him that."
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On the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, he said: "If there is undoubted proof that corruption was involved... there should be a re-vote for those World Cups now."
"It's going to be very difficult in the Russia situation when you think that the draw for the World Cup is going to be made in St Petersburg on 25 July," he said.
"Irrespective of that, if there is definite form of corruption and it's proven that there was corruption then I think FIFA have got to show leadership."
Mr Boyce said it was not fair that the "many good people" who work at Fifa were being "tarred with the same brush because of people who have acted wrongly".
Asked if he would consider standing as Fifa president, he said he had a "wonderful career" but it was time for him to retire.
Meanwhile, Irish FA chief executive Patrick Nelson has said Mr Blatter's resignation is good for football.
"We felt it was time for change last week, we feel it's time for change this week and the fact that Mr Blatter has actually seen that at last - I'm not quite sure why's it's happened this quickly - but the fact that it has happened this quickly, I think is a cause for us to think positively," he said.
Dame Sally Davies is worried that recent controversies over the use of medicines have damaged faith in the way research is carried out and presented.
The review will publish its findings by the end of the year.
A copy of her request was obtained by the BBC's File on 4 programme as part of an investigation into concerns about a clot-busting treatment for strokes.
The CMO told the Academy of Medical Sciences she was very concerned" about a view that doctors and scientists are "untrustworthy".
She set out her concerns in a letter, sent in February, to the president of the Academy, Prof Sir John Tooke.
In this, she cited recent debates over the use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs for people at low risk of developing heart disease, and the anti-viral treatment Tamiflu.
The letter reads: "There seems to be a view that doctors over-medicate so it is difficult to trust them, and that clinical scientists are all beset by conflicts of interest from industry funding and are therefore untrustworthy too."
She says this is not in the interests of patients or the public's health.
"I have, therefore, reluctantly come to the conclusion that we do need an authoritative independent report looking at how society should judge the safety and efficacy of drugs as an intervention."
The academy's review, which starts on Wednesday, will also consider the use of the clot-busting stroke treatment alteplase - a technique called thrombolysis.
Each year in the UK, there are more than 150,000 strokes. About 85% are caused by an obstruction blocking the flow of blood to the brain.
Patients with this type of stroke may be eligible for treatment with alteplase, subject to tests in hospital.
File on 4 visited the hyper-acute stroke unit at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust to see how staff assessed and administered alteplase.
Dr Jane Molloy, the clinical lead for stroke services, described how they explained the potential benefits to patients and their families.
Doctors would say that for every three people treated with this medication one will make some extra improvement, and one in seven will recover their independence who would not do so otherwise, she said.
They then set out the risks.
"We know that the risk of bleeding with thrombolysis is six in 100 and that will include minor bleeding but also might include major bleeding with the possibility that it could cause a fatal bleed in the brain."
Some doctors say the benefits have been exaggerated. Dr Roger Shinton, a former stroke physician at Birmingham's Heartlands Hospital, is sceptical.
He said: "I'm prepared to accept that there are some patients who could get some benefit, but overall it may be that on balance the number of people benefiting is actually quite small and does not justify the use given the significant harms that we know."
His concerns have won powerful backing from the former president of the Royal College of Physicians, Sir Richard Thompson.
"My worry is that the trials are not consistent, that the evidence is not strong enough to be giving, after all, a very expensive treatment," he said.
"Do we want to recommend a treatment with a marginal effect when we know we are - if you like - killing a few patients and saving others?"
Dr Shinton wants all the trial data on alteplase to be published. Until then, he argues, routine use of the drug for stroke should be suspended.
But Dr Dale Webb, from the Stroke Association, defended the treatment.
He said: "The evidence says that alteplase has made a big impact on the recovery of stroke survivors.
"We have to remember that the number of disabilities associated with stroke is greater than any other medical condition.
"A stroke really can turn your world upside down.
"What alteplase has done is to improve the long-term recovery outcomes for stroke patients."
In a statement, Boeringer Ingelheim - which holds the licence for alteplase in Europe - said its medicine played a vital role in the treatment of acute strokes.
"We are confident in our data, which is supported by the experience of clinicians who have been using our medicine to treat their patients for more than a decade," it said.
"We are incredibly proud of the contribution our medicine makes to patient care at this critical time."
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is carrying out a review into the safety and efficacy of alteplase.
It says it will publish the findings before the end of the year.
Zakuani, 31, was offered a contract by the Cobblers "subject to an agreement being reached on his international commitments", but left the club in May.
The DR Congo international, who made 25 appearances for Northampton, has agreed a one-year contract with Gillingham.
He is their third signing since the end of last season, after deals for defenders Luke O'Neil and Alex Lacey.
"We needed a talker and we needed a leader, and Gabriel's been identified as that," director of football Peter Taylor told BBC Radio Kent.
"He's still captain of his country, he still enjoys that, so there will be a couple of times we won't have him, but not many.
"We've made a good agreement with him that he's only going to be available for his country on certain games, and I think he's making that agreement with Congo."
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Police said one of the men arguing was disabled, and Kevin O'Connell intervened to help someone he thought was being victimised.
One of the two men ran away, so Mr O'Connell chased him.
He was then hit by a car in Burton Road, Derby, at about 12:55 BST on Saturday.
The 33-year-old later died from his injuries. His children are assisting police with their investigation.
Sgt Darren Muggleton said: "It's a tragic incident which was witnessed by Kevin's three children.
"He died a hero trying to help a member of the public he thought was being victimised."
Police believe Mr O'Connell initially saw part of the altercation as he was leaving a chip shop with his children.
Sgt Muggleton said: "He must have found a sense of duty and he decided to drive down the street and intervene in what was happening.
"We believe that there has been some heated discussion, other things have occurred, and as a result one of the males has run off from the scene and he was pursued by Mr O'Connell.
"At some point Mr O'Connell has somehow stumbled into the path of an unconnected passing car, causing him his fatal injuries."
Police said the altercation was on the footpath at the side of the road, near Car Parts Direct.
Two men, aged 27 and 34, were arrested on suspicion of assault and bailed.
Spokesman Col Mohammed Samir said the court should have sentenced a 16-year-old with a similar name instead.
Ahmed Mansour Qurani Ali was convicted along with 115 others in connection with riots by Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Fayoum province in 2014.
His lawyer had submitted documents proving that he was one at the time.
In a post on Facebook (in Arabic), Col Samir said Ahmed Mansour Qurani Sharara, 16, should have been sentenced and not Ahmed Mansour Qurani Ali.
It not clear what will now happen to the four year old.
The child's lawyer said his name had been added to the list of suspects by mistake - and that court officials had not passed his birth certificate to the judge to prove his age at the time of the offence.
He was subsequently convicted of four counts of murder, eight counts of attempted murder and vandalising government property.
Egypt's judicial system has come under repeated criticism since the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi in 2013, following mass protests.
Since then, more than 1,000 people have been killed and 40,000 are believed to have been jailed in a sweeping crackdown on dissent.
Most of them have been supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, but secular activists have also been prosecuted for breaking an anti-protest law.
In 2014, the UN warned that Egypt had "a judicial system where international fair trial guarantees appear to be increasingly trampled upon" after more than 1,200 people were sentenced to death in two mass trials "rife with procedural irregularities".
West Bromwich Albion striker Salomon Rondon tapped in the only goal as Venezuela reached the quarter-finals.
The defeat was the second in as many group games for Uruguay, with Mexico's 2-0 victory over Jamaica in Pasadena confirming their exit.
"We didn't play like a team that needed to get a good result," said Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez.
Striker Luis Suarez, who injured a hamstring in Barcelona's Copa del Rey final win over Sevilla last month, did not feature for the second successive game for Uruguay, who top their World Cup qualifying group and are the most successful team in Copa America history.
"The player is not fit to play," said Tabarez. "I will not select a player who is not 100%. Was he angry? I am not aware. He told me nothing."
Venezuela, meanwhile, secured successive wins in the tournament for the first time.
Rondon became the first Venezuela player to score in three Copa Americas as he rolled home the 36th-minute winner when a long-range shot from Alejandro Guerra came back off the crossbar.
Mexico's victory was their 10th in succession since Juan Carlos Osorio took over as coach last year, with former Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez heading their opening goal.
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The hoard was buried near Watlington around the end of the 870s, in the time of the "Last Kingdom".
Under the Treasure Act 1996 finds declared treasure may be acquired by museums for public benefit.
Oxford's Ashmolean Museum hopes to acquire the items, with help from Oxfordshire Museum Service and the British Museum.
The British Museum said the partnership would "ensure the academic and scientific study of the hoard and will enable the hoard to be displayed in museums across Oxfordshire for the benefit of the widest possible public".
The hoard consists of seven items of jewellery, 15 ingots and about 200 coins - including rarities from the reign of King Alfred "the Great" of Wessex, who reigned from 871 to 899, and King Ceolwulf II, who reigned in Mercia from 874 to 879.
During this period, King Alfred achieved a decisive victory over the Vikings at the famous Battle of Edington in 878, prompting them to move north of the Thames and travel to East Anglia through the kingdom of Mercia.
Archaeologists have described the hoard, which was discovered in October by metal detectorist James Mather, as a "nationally significant find".
The hoard was lifted in a block of soil and taken to the British Museum, where it was excavated and studied by experts from the British Museum in London and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
A selection of objects from the hoard are currently on display in the British Museum's Citi Money Gallery in London.
The Art Council's announcement is described as a "fundamental shift" in the organisation's approach.
Each body it funds will have to demonstrate how they have promoted diversity within their leadership, workforce, programming and audiences.
"Our work should reflect and engage with all our talent and communities," said chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette.
The implementation of the new plans is due to start in April 2015.
Sir Peter revealed the plans in a speech at Sadlers Wells, which he described as one of the most important he has made in his role.
"Britain has got many, many talents. And our work should reflect and engage with all our talent and communities. That's how we will ensure work of true ambition and enduring quality," he said.
He admitted that in the past the the Arts Council had tried to promote diversity "without grasping how complex it is" and said they "can and must do better".
Sir Peter pointed out that some national organisations and museums were making good progress but they had been "shouldering this responsibility alone for too long".
All groups that they fund will be asked to shape their artistic programme to better reflect the communities they serve and they will be held to "account" on their progress when it comes to their next round of funding in 2018.
Sir Peter did not go into further details of how that would be imposed.
He told The Guardian he saw this as encouragement rather than a threat.
"I call it a carrot because it is a is a way of making it work better - I don't call it a stick."
He also announced their Creative People and Places programme will fund a further £25 million to areas with low engagement in the arts, while their strategic touring fund will target the needs of specific audiences.
In his speech, Bazalgette said he hoped the plan would produce major changes.
"For things to change, long-term, they need to become more uncomfortable at the top. We have to open up access to power and to resources.
"Looking up, too many see the white cliff-face of the arts establishment and feel they just cannot climb it.
"We can't give people creative talent. But we can and must give those with talent creative opportunities. The arts are a mirror for society; and if we sort this, the arts won't have to make the case for diversity. The arts will simply be the case."
The plans were welcomed by entertainment union Bectu.
Janice Turner, Bectu's diversity officer, said: "Welcome is Peter Bazalgette's acknowledgement that the focus, until now, has been almost entirely on black, Asian and minority ethnic-led companies, which let the rest of the industry off the hook."
Actress Meera Syal, meanwhile, is the latest star to call for more diversity in theatre.
She told The Stage that theatres should cater more for Asian audiences and take advantage of the 'brown pound'.
"There's a very gregarious, moneyed, new generation [of Asian audiences] coming up, who spend an awful lot of money on entertainment and culture. And I think the theatres are missing a trick if they're not putting on stuff that might appeal to those audiences," she said.
Syal is currently starring in Behind the Beautiful Forevers at the National Theatre.
She said Asian audiences are "extra supportive and extra excited when they see stories that reflect their experiences or a diverse cast of people that they might know."
The Modern Family actress took to social media after suggestions she looked anorexic in a recent photo.
Hyland underwent a kidney transplant in 2012 after battling kidney dysplasia her whole life.
"I'm not in control of what my body looks like," the actress said in a post on Twitter.
"I strive to be as healthy as possible, as everyone should."
Kidney dysplasia is a condition which can eventually cause the organ to malfunction.
Hyland made the comments after some fans suggested she looked anorexic in a recent Instagram post.
"No, that's not Photoshop, those are my legs, those are my arms," she said. "I write this because I've been accused of promoting anorexia, in, ironically enough, an anti-bullying post. And I want young girls to know that's not my intention."
Hyland has previously said: "I was born with so many health issues that doctors told my mother I would never have a normal life."
It's unclear what other health problems she has - but her father donated one of his kidneys for her transplant in 2012.
"This year has brought a lot of changes, and with that, physical changes," Hyland said. "I've been told that I can't work out. Which, for me is very upsetting."
"Being strong has gotten me where I am, both mentally and physically. I am not a fan of 'being skinny' which many of you have told me I'm too much of."
Speaking about her recent health problems, the actress said: "I've basically been on bed rest for the last few months, I've lost a lot of muscle mass.
She concluded: "I've been down before and I'll probably be down again in my lifetime but I'm steadfast and solid and will conquer my obstacles."
"I'm a 26-year-old woman who goes through more than you could ever imagine on a daily basis."
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Host David Walliams arrived on stage as James Bond, complete with jet pack.
Girls Aloud, One Direction, 2012 Britain's Got Talent winners Ashleigh Butler and dog Pudsey, and Sir Bruce Forsyth were among the British artists.
Kylie Minogue, Alicia Keys, Neil Diamond and Andrea Bocelli were among the international stars.
The performance of song, comedy and skits began with mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins singing the National Anthem. She also later performed with classical superstar Placido Domingo.
Jenkins, appearing at her fourth Royal Variety Performance, said: "It's an honour. It does make you nervous when the Queen is watching you. You want to do your best."
Girls Aloud sang The Promise, while One Direction sang number one single Little Things.
Reminders of past Royal Variety Performances were shown, with comedian Jimmy Tarbuck introducing comedy clips of himself, Peter Kay and the cast of Only Fools and Horses entertaining in previous years.
Tarbuck first appeared at the Royal Variety Performance in 1964.
"It's a great honour to be asked," he said during rehearsals. "You're appearing with your peers and people you admire. It's such a good bill."
Britain's Got Talent winners Ashleigh and Pudsey performed a James Bond-inspired dance routine, in honour of 50 years of the spy films.
Past stars of the ITV1 talent contest also performed, including dance troupe Diversity and comedy dancing duo Stavros Flatley.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, who celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary on Tuesday, shook the hands of the performers on stage at the end of the evening, while backstage Walliams declared the evening "awesome".
The sold-out performance is due to be broadcast on ITV1 on 3 December at 19:30 GMT. All proceeds are donated to The Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund (EABF), which cares for entertainers throughout the UK who need help.
The performance was first held in 1912.
Party officials told the electoral office they have been contacted by 18 people whose votes had been "stolen".
The Chief Electoral Officer said she is investigating 12 allegations of electoral fraud in the Foyle constituency.
Former SDLP leader Mark Durkan lost the seat by 169 votes to former city lord mayor Elisha McCallion of Sinn Féin.
The police have said they are investigating a small number of reports of electoral fraud, following an Electoral Office referral.
Chief Electoral Officer Virginia McVeigh said: "The investigation is at a very early stage. We have made a number of calls for other people to come forward."
The SDLP said about a dozen incidents of voter fraud had also been reported in South Down and has called for tighter controls on voter identification.
SDLP veteran Margaret Ritchie was defeated in South Down by Sinn Fein's Chris Hazzard by 2,446 votes.
SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan said he had been contacted by people who were told they had already voted when they arrived at polling stations.
"It's difficult to gauge how widespread it may be," said Mr Durkan, the nephew of the defeated Foyle MP.
"It is horrifying to think that in this day and age that voting fraud is going on.
"It is vitally important to all parties that we have an electoral system that people can have faith and confidence in."
BBC News NI political correspondent Enda McClafferty said: "While allegations of voter fraud are not new, the SDLP claims it is more of a problem now - especially in constituencies like Foyle where only 169 votes separated the winner and loser."
No accusations have been made against any one party but in response to the SDLP claims, Sinn Féin said there was always an effort by political opponents to explain away their rejection by the electorate.
Police have asked anyone with concerns about electoral fraud to contact the Electoral Office.
Ch Supt Karen Baxter said: "We work closely with the Electoral Office and where information becomes available in relation to criminal activity, we take action."
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The 29-year-old admits he had the chance to speak to a couple of clubs in England but described Celtic as "the complete package".
"Of course it's going to be hard," Hayes said of breaking into the team.
He could make his competitive Celtic debut in the second qualifying round of the Champions League next month.
The Scottish champions are likely to meet Northern Ireland's Linfield, who have been paired with San Marino's SP La Fiorita in the first round.
"It's going to be a tough," Hayes told BBC Scotland. "There's no easy games in Europe.
"I have a bit of experience playing with Aberdeen there a couple of times where we took our foot off the gas a little bit and got punished. But every game is tough regardless of who we play or where we play.
"Everyone will look forward to playing against Celtic and will raise their game.
"I'm just happy playing in a game where I just finally get a chance to pull this top on. I can't wait to get started."
Republic of Ireland international Hayes has agreed a three-year deal with Celtic following five years with Aberdeen.
Hayes, who has also played for Leicester and Inverness Caledonian Thistle, began his career at Reading, with Rodgers briefly in charge during his time at the club.
"I was sitting at home waiting all day for the phone call," Hayes explained. "I think it was about six or seven at night when he rang and, honestly, I don't even think I spoke a word for about 30 seconds other than hello and I was sold.
"He's infectious. He's fantastic to work for. It's a long time since I have and I'm looking forward to it but I'd be lying if I didn't say there was a lot of other major factors in wanting to come here. The size of the club, the chance to play out there every week in front of 50-odd thousand, Champions League nights, so many things, when you put together it is the complete package.
"I have full confidence in the manager, I think he can only improve me as a player
"I know I will need to improve and try to hold down a regular place in this team. I'm delighted to finally be here and get the chance to play for this club; it's a challenge I welcome."
Hayes is also hoping his move to a "bigger stage" will aid his international ambitions and revealed that he had spoken to former Celtic manager Martin O'Neill about moving to Parkhead when he was involved with the Republic of Ireland squad recently.
"He asked me every day what was happening, if I was gong to Celtic," he said. "He had a glint in his eye when he was asking me if I was going to go."
Both sides looked out of sorts as passes repeatedly went astray in the opening exchanges.
Pompey eventually had the first effort on goal, Eoin Doyle heading wide from eight yards, while Curtis Weston met Mauro Vilhete's cross just after the half-hour mark to force David Forde into a sharp save at the other end.
Portsmouth boss Paul Cook brought on Chaplin and Danny Rose at the break but the Bees almost went ahead after an hour as Ruben Bover's free-kick clipped the side-netting.
The Spaniard had gone off when Barnet won another set-piece in a similar position but Vilhete deputised brilliantly, bending the ball over the wall to give the Bees an 82nd-minute lead.
However, the home side could not hang on as Chaplin fired a dramatic equaliser into the top corner from 20 yards in the 89th minute.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Barnet 1, Portsmouth 1.
Second Half ends, Barnet 1, Portsmouth 1.
Attempt missed. Justin Amaluzor (Barnet) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Dan Sweeney (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Carl Baker (Portsmouth).
Goal! Barnet 1, Portsmouth 1. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Amine Linganzi.
Michael Nelson (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Clarke (Portsmouth).
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Elliot Johnson.
Foul by John Akinde (Barnet).
Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Barnet 1, Portsmouth 0. Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Justin Amaluzor (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Christian Burgess (Portsmouth).
Substitution, Portsmouth. Carl Baker replaces Gary Roberts.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Elliot Johnson.
Substitution, Barnet. Justin Amaluzor replaces Simeon Akinola.
Tom Champion (Barnet) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Enda Stevens (Portsmouth).
Foul by John Akinde (Barnet).
Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Barnet. Dan Sweeney replaces Ruben Bover.
Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Foul by John Akinde (Barnet).
Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
John Akinde (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gareth Evans (Portsmouth).
Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth).
Tom Champion (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Ricardo Santos (Barnet) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Tom Champion (Barnet) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Amine Linganzi (Portsmouth).
Foul by Tom Champion (Barnet).
Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Gary Roberts.
"These are brigadeiros, a traditional sweet in Brazil," she explains.
The 34-year-old sells the delicacies through her business, My Sweet Brigadeiro. She launched it in 2011, a few months after moving to the Big Apple from Rio de Janeiro.
At the other end of the long, steel table from Ms Barbosa's brigadeiros is a completely different type of food preparation. Three women, led by Isabel Gunther, are tossing vegetables in with stringy, white rice noodles in large bowls.
These will be packaged for healthy school meals, part of Ms Gunther's business, Little Green Gourmets.
Both firms are renting space and facilities at a kitchen incubator called Hot Bread Kitchen (HBK), based in the East Harlem neighbourhood of Manhattan.
In a food-obsessed city, where alternative commercial space is expensive, such incubators are continuing to play a vital role in helping culinary start-ups get off the ground.
Since opening its doors in 2011, HBK has now assisted 100 small firms, who can also take advantage of business support.
Ms Barbosa sells most of her chocolates online, and in a few select food markets.
She was at one of those markets in 2011 when her brigadeiros got a favourable review from the New York Times. As a result, orders came flooding in.
"It was crazy - we were a fad and we weren't ready," says Ms Barbosa. "We didn't even have a credit card machine and we were saying 'yes' to everybody. So we decided to rent kitchen space and do this the proper way."
Today, she says orders remain strong. Her bestseller is a box of 30 brigadeiros, which retails for $52 (£34).
HBK is also a business in its own right, founded by Jessamyn Rodriguez. It employs 50 people working across a bakery business and the incubator section. Its breads are sold at Whole Foods and other retailers and markets in New York.
"We run a thriving, growing, 24-hour bakery business out of the same space," says Ms Rodriguez.
"And that's inspiring for entrepreneurs, to see this constant production and delivery schedule. They get the message that if all goes well, they could end up like this."
The HBK incubator charges a $500 annual fee for members, who can then rent kitchen space for $17 per hour, and access business counselling services on topics such as pricing structure and internet sales.
Entrepreneurs also get to network, which creates a collaborative community, says Ms Rodriguez.
Grace Moore, HBK's communications manager, adds that the incubator has a specific criteria for which food start-ups it accepts.
"We take in businesses with a proven idea, ready to grow," she says. "When they've been producing and selling for a year, and their kitchen at home is bursting at the seams, that's when we come in."
Michael Schwartz runs the Organic Food Incubator (OFI), based in Long Island City, in the New York borough of Queens.
He launched the centre in 2011 to provide food start-ups with the facilities and advice he struggled to find when he launched his own business, BAO Food and Drink.
"When we started BAO in 2009 we had endless trouble," says Mr Schwartz. "There was no-one to tell us how to get the product into a store, for example. The small food scene was very different [to how] it is now."
He adds that the OFI offers "everything from recipe development to making sure your label is legal".
The centre now incubates 60 companies, with prices starting from $220 for five days.
Like any traditional business incubator, it has its share of successful graduates - entrepreneurs who have developed their start-up successfully and left the incubator to expand further.
Ariel Glazer's drinks company Kombrewcha spent its first two years at the OFI before recently moving production to a facility in New Hampshire.
The business makes a fermented tea with an alcohol level of 2%.
He credits the incubator with giving him the time and space to get the product right before its commercial release.
"When you start a business you don't know what you're getting into, and if you need lots more time to develop the product it can kill your business," says Mr Glazer. "By doing it through an incubator, you don't need to put up initial capital."
To be able to meet ever growing demand, both Mr Schwartz and Ms Rodriguez plan to expand their incubator facilities. Meanwhile, other food incubators are popping up all over the city.
Mr Schwartz credits the growing popularity of the local food movement - people wanting to buy food that is grown and produced locally.
Ms Rodriguez says the fact that New York's food lovers are always on the lookout for the next big thing also makes a difference.
"There are a lot of hungry mouths here who are trend-driven and looking for the newest thing coming to the market," she says.
In New York, small food start-ups are big business.
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Some Maasai communities still believe that FGM - when parts of a girl's genitals are removed - should be continued as some see it as a cultural rite of passage marking when a girl becomes a woman and can marry.
Maasai Cricket Warriors captain Sonyanga Ole Ngais tells the BBC how he and his team-mates are trying to discourage the custom by refusing to marry girls who have undergone the brutal procedure.
It comes after Pakistan's high commissioner in Delhi consulted Kashmiri separatist leaders ahead of the talks, which were agreed in May.
The two countries' foreign secretaries were to meet next week in Islamabad to discuss the resumption of formal dialogue.
Pakistan described the Indian decision as a "setback".
"It is a longstanding practice that, prior to Pakistan-India talks, meetings with Kashmiri leaders are held to facilitate meaningful discussions on the issue of Kashmir," a statement from the Pakistani foreign ministry said.
Relations seemed to be on the up when new Indian PM Narendra Modi invited his Pakistani counterpart to his swearing-in ceremony.
But, say correspondents, the cancellation is an indication of the tough new approach adopted by his government towards Pakistan.
Last week Mr Modi accused Pakistan of waging a proxy war against India in Kashmir.
Pakistan's High Commissioner Abdul Basit announced plans to meet Kashmiri separatists in Delhi last week.
On Monday, Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh warned Mr Basit against it, saying he could either have a dialogue with India or talk with the separatists.
India reacted with fury when it became clear the Pakistani envoy had gone ahead with the consultation.
India's Foreign Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said Delhi told Mr Basit "that Pakistan's continued efforts to interfere in India's internal affairs were unacceptable".
He added that the action "raises questions about Pakistan's sincerity and undermines the constructive diplomatic efforts" initiated by India.
"No useful purpose" would be served by the foreign secretary's visit to Islamabad, the spokesman said.
Reports said Mr Basit was scheduled to meet more Kashmiri separatist leaders on Tuesday.
The US has described the cancellation of talks as "unfortunate". A State Department spokesman said it was "important that both sides still continue take steps to improve relations".
India has long accused Pakistan of sponsoring militants in the disputed region - though despite a recent spike, overall the violence has declined since the early 2000s.
Relations plunged again over the deadly 2008 Mumbai attack.
Claimed by both countries in its entirety, Kashmir has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years. The South Asian rivals have fought two wars and a limited conflict over the region.
Overnight, it was hotter in parts of the UK than it was in Istanbul during the day.
The mercury hit 24C (75C) at midnight at London City Airport - hotter than in the Turkish city where temperatures stayed below 21C (70F).
Temperatures had reached 30.2C (86.36F) in south-west London at the weekend.
Monday's top temperature was recorded at RAF Northolt in west London.
Forecasters have anticipated highs of 33C (91.4F) during the days to come.
In the West Midlands, working dogs at Stourbridge fire station needed to cool down.
Firefighters tweeted pictures of the dogs jumping for water from hosepipes and wrote: "@WestMidsFire even the fire dogs feeling the heat @Stourbridgefire white Watch"
In Lancashire, roads were seen melting in the high temperatures.
The Hesketh Bank and Tarleton Community Group wrote on Facebook: "If your [sic] thinking of avoiding Hesketh Lane I would think twice about using Taylors Meanygate unless you want tar all over your car. The road has melted."
Surrey Police said there had also been an incident of a road melting in Guildford, where spilt oil had "melted into the tarmac due to the heat".
BBC Weather Watchers captured the skies at sunset on Sunday, and as Worcestershire woke to glorious blue skies on Monday.
The high temperatures have been attributed to warm air originating from the tropical Atlantic.
In some spots, the strength of the UV has been recorded as being as high as that in Cyprus and Gibraltar.
And BBC Sussex took its Big Bus Tour to seaside resort Bognor Regis.
The Met Office said the first half of the week would see temperatures in the high 20s or low 30s for many across England and Wales, but there was some cloud and drizzle to the far north of Scotland.
Temperatures are expected to return nearer to average over eastern parts of the UK on Tuesday, but the fine, very warm and sometimes humid conditions in the south will continue until Thursday.
The Met Office has issued a level three amber heatwave warning from Monday to Thursday, "meaning there is a 90% probability of heatwave conditions", according to its website.
It means health and social workers should ensure high risk groups, including the elderly, children and those with medical conditions, are kept cool and hydrated.
Public Health England has also issued hot weather advice, with people urged to keep an eye on older people and young children as well as those at risk with heart and lung conditions.
Tips include to:
People are also urged not to leave anyone in a closed, parked vehicle, particularly young children and animals.
Six-year-old Rikki Neave's naked body was found in woods near Peterborough's Welland Estate on 29 November 1994. He had been strangled.
His mother, Ruth Neave, was cleared of his murder at a trial. She later admitted child neglect and cruelty and was jailed for seven years.
The inquiry is being "started afresh", Cambridgeshire Police said.
Rikki was last seen leaving his home in Redmile Walk, Welland, for school at around 09:00 GMT on Monday, 28 November, 1994.
He is believed to have been wearing grey trousers, a white shirt, black shoes and a blue coat.
The following day Rikki's body was found in a wooded area off Eye Road, close to Willoughby Court, about five minutes' walk from his house.
The investigation has been reopened by the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit.
Det Supt Paul Fullwood, leading the inquiry, said: "All murder is tragic but when a young child is involved it is truly devastating.
"We owe it to Rikki and his family to find whoever was responsible for his murder and ensure they are brought to justice."
The cold case investigation had been "subject to a detailed review" and new forensics and DNA techniques, together with laser imaging would be used in the new investigation, he said.
"I strongly believe there are people out there who have significant information about Rikki's death and for a valid reason didn't speak to police at the time.
"Now is their opportunity to do the right thing and share that secret they have had to keep for more than 20 years."
A mobile police station has been set up in the Welland area of the city, near to where Rikki's body was discovered.
The hosts went ahead in just the second minute when Steve Morison crossed to Taylor, who finished from close range.
Billy Sharp could have levelled when he linked on to Matt Done's cross but keeper Jordan Archer caught his header.
Paul Coutts forced Archer into a low near-post save after the break but Millwall held on to win.
That win keeps the Lions fifth in League One, six points off second-placed Wigan while Sheffield United slip a place to 12th.
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Millwall manager Neil Harris told BBC Radio London: "We weren't brilliant at times. We played well and should have been out of sight by half-time.
"At this stage of the season it's about getting points on the board. We defended our box really well. I thought the centre-halves were outstanding."
As before, anyone watching or recording TV programmes as they are broadcast must have a licence.
Here are the answers to some common questions about the legal changes.
Previously, only viewers who were watching shows live (as they were being broadcast) needed a licence.
That meant it was legal to watch content after broadcast via iPlayer without paying the annual licence fee.
From Thursday, people need a TV licence to download or watch almost all on-demand and catch-up programmes on iPlayer.
The rules only apply to iPlayer, so you do not need a TV licence if you only ever watch on-demand or catch-up programmes through other service providers - as long as they don't use iPlayer.
This means that - for example - you can watch on-demand and catch-up BBC programmes on third-party services such as Netflix without needing a TV licence, but you wouldn't be able to watch any on-demand and catch-up BBC programmes on iPlayer through services like Now TV, Sky, Virgin, Amazon Fire TV and Chromecast without a TV licence.
If you only watch on-demand and catch-up television, and you only ever watch it using services from other providers, such as the ITV Hub or All 4, then you also wouldn't need a TV licence.
If you only use iPlayer to listen to the radio, watch S4C TV on demand, or watch films or TV shows you have bought from the BBC Store, then you do not need a TV licence.
In certain circumstances, students may be covered by their parents' TV licence. TV Licensing says four conditions need to apply:
So if you plug your device in to charge it while you are watching live TV, or catch-up or on-demand programmes on iPlayer, then you need a TV licence.
Students can find out more by visiting the TV Licensing student information webpage or by calling 0300 790 6113.
TV Licensing details on its website the ways in which it can check whether you have a licence, including a database of more than 31 million addresses, and home visits.
A fleet of detector vans can "detect the use of TV receiving equipment at specifically targeted addresses within minutes", it says.
In a statement, a TV Licensing spokesman said it would not use mass surveillance techniques nor ask internet providers for IP addresses.
"We will simply use existing enforcement processes and techniques which we believe to be adequate and appropriate. Our current procedures enable us to catch those watching on devices other than televisions," he added.
A government White Paper did ask the BBC to consider the cost and feasibility of a verification or sign-in system for iPlayer, and it is understood that TV Licensing will consider the costs and benefits of such a system in the future.
At present, no major changes to the ways that iPlayer asks you about your TV licence are expected.
A BBC spokesperson said: "Previously, a pop-up window appeared asking viewers to confirm they've got a TV licence when they click to play live BBC content on iPlayer, and from Thursday, that will update to include on-demand BBC programmes on iPlayer."
If you need a licence and do not have one, you are breaking the law and risk being prosecuted.
You could be fined up to £1,000 (the maximum fine is £2,000 in Guernsey and £500 in Jersey) - excluding any legal costs or compensation you may be ordered to pay.
TV Licences are available online from the TV Licensing website.
You can also purchase one by post or telephone, or at one of more than 28,000 PayPoint outlets across the UK.
A colour TV licence costs £145.50 per year, while a black-and-white TV licence costs £49.
There are some concessions for the blind and for care home residents, and there is no charge for people over the age of 75.
The cost to businesses varies.
The Chairboys won for only the third time in the league this campaign to move up to 19th in the table.
"We've had some tough times lately. We're at the wrong end of the table, I know that," said Ainsworth.
"I'll be doing everything I possibly can to build on this. One result doesn't make a season."
Sam Wood and Paris Cowan-Hall found the net for the first time this campaign to put Wycombe two ahead against the Alex before on-loan Southampton midfielder Dominic Gape scored his first professional goal to make it 3-0 before half-time.
Scott Kashket then added a brace on his home debut to make it 5-0 before a late Crewe consolation.
"I'm just really pleased we've got a win," Ainsworth told BBC Three Counties Radio.
"But I won't get carried away. I didn't get too down when we got beat 4-1 (by Luton), I'm not going too get carried away when we win 5-1.
"I want to get ready for Exeter now and back this up. The fans were great, hopefully we've put a few more on the gate for Saturday and this club can start moving up the table.
"The second half of the season, I'm expecting to be stronger."
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After that time, during which Venezuelans will be able to deposit them into their account or exchange them for different notes or coins, the banknotes will no longer be legal tender.
While people will be given a 10-day grace period in which they can exchange the bills at the central bank, many fear that long queues and the sheer number of 100-bolivar notes in circulation - six billion - will make it impossible for everyone to do so.
Twitter user @RPolicial imagined what his trip to the bank would look like.
Many suggested alternative uses for the bills. One of the most popular ones was using the notes as toilet paper, which has been scarce amid the chronic shortages of basic goods Venezuela is experiencing.
Satirical website La Patilla joked that they could be used instead of candles on the Christmas tree and set alight.
Others suggested using the bills to play Monopoly.
Some compared the short time span people have been given to exchange the notes with the film Saw (Spanish title: Juegos Macabros, or Macabre Games) in which the two protagonists have been trapped by a sadistic serial killer and must complete a perverse puzzle to survive.
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The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is a monthly survey of a panel of firms, tracking indicators such as new orders, employment and exports.
It had shown a fall in activity in July, the first month after the Brexit vote, but has now bounced back.
The survey also points to accelerating inflationary pressures.
This is due to increased import prices because of the fall in value of sterling.
The PMI is produced by Ulster Bank and its chief economist, Richard Ramsey, said that while the headline shows a return to growth there are also "notable weaknesses.'
He said "the two growing concerns are the surge in inflationary pressures and stagnation within the local services sector."
The services sector is the dominant part of Northern Ireland's economy.
The survey showed it had its first fall in employment levels in 39 months and also experienced a drop in new orders.
Mr Ramsey said the full effect of growing inflationary pressure will depend in part on firms' ability and appetite to absorb higher import costs.
But he warned consumers: "Price rises and a squeeze on disposable incomes is already in the pipeline.
"This will hit consumer spending and economic growth in the months ahead."
Villa supporters, angry at the running of their club, halted the match briefly in the 74th minute by throwing beach balls on to the pitch.
Aleksandar Mitrovic headed wide two good second-half chances for Newcastle.
Sunderland, who beat Chelsea, would relegate Rafael Benitez's side with victory over Everton on Wednesday.
Relive Aston Villa v Newcastle as it happened
Saturday's Premier League drama and reaction
Newcastle's last relegation from the Premier League, seven years ago, was confirmed with a soporific final-day defeat at Aston Villa.
Against opponents in turmoil off the pitch, and without a Premier League point since 6 February on it, Newcastle once again paid a heavy price for lacking adventure at Villa Park.
Benitez's side managed just one shot on target in a dreadful first half, as Papiss Cisse mis-hit a volley into the ground from Vurnon Anita's cross.
They showed a little more urgency in the second half, with Jack Colback firing over a good chance seconds after the the restart, but still not enough to merit a victory.
Mitrovic's introduction as a substitute for the ineffective Cisse saw the visitors begin to create more chances.
Having lobbed over when put through by Cheick Tiote's hooked pass, the Serbia striker headed wide when well placed, before missing the target again from Chancel Mbemba's delivery, while Georginio Wijnaldum's shot was beaten away by keeper Mark Bunn.
The result did extend Newcastle's unbeaten run to five matches, but they now need help from elsewhere to stand any chance of survival.
Aston Villa fans have become increasingly enraged during an embarrassing season, which has featured a series of protests at recent games.
Supporters registered their frustration this time by bringing hundreds of beach balls into Villa Park, and throwing them on to the field to disrupt play.
One first-half Newcastle attack took place with a giant inflatable football inside the six-yard box, but the main protest took place in the 74th minute, a time picked by fans because Villa were founded in 1874.
Amid the chaos, Villa did at least manage to avoid a 12th successive league defeat, which would have beaten the club record set in 1963, and equalled at Watford last weekend.
That they earned a point was thanks in part to Villa defender Ciaran Clark, who threw himself in the way of a late Wijnaldum shot to block.
The Premier League relegation battle is set for a fascinating finale over the next eight days, with former Liverpool manager Benitez now needing a huge favour from Everton.
Roberto Martinez's side can keep alive Newcastle's survival hopes on Wednesday by avoiding defeat at Sunderland, who will relish the opportunity to relegate their great rivals.
Sam Allardyce's team came from a goal down twice to beat Chelsea 3-2 and climb out of the bottom three - and, like relegation rivals Norwich, they have a game in hand on Newcastle.
It leaves the prospect of Benitez, a manager who began this season in charge of Real Madrid, starting next season in the Championship.
Aston Villa caretaker-manager Eric Black: "Last week, the performance at Watford merited more, but we built on that, worked tirelessly all afternoon and the supporters came with us. I thought the reaction was brilliant. The Villa fans have got a big part to play in getting this club back to the Premier League.
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"It has been difficult to play in a relegation battle, but we have got some outstanding footballers and I thought we coped with them today."
Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez: "We are disappointed. Sunderland won, so all we can do now is wait for the score of their game on Wednesday and try to win our game.
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"We were a little bit anxious in the first half. We were not comfortable in possession. You have to take your chances and we didn't do that.
"We had to change things in the second half. We did that, but it was not enough.."
Newcastle end their season at home to Tottenham on 15 May, the same day that Villa bow out of the Premier League at Arsenal.
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Livermore, 27, joined Hull initially on loan in August 2013 and moves to the Baggies on a four-and-a-half year deal.
"Jake is a fantastic character and as a player is good enough on the ball but also possesses fantastic energy," said West Brom boss Tony Pulis.
West Brom have also enquired about Watford striker Odion Ighalo, 27.
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Talks are only exploratory at this stage but Ighalo has fallen out of favour at Vicarage Road and is a player long admired by Baggies boss Tony Pulis.
The Nigeria international scored 17 goals in 42 games last season as Watford finished 13th in the top flight and reached the FA Cup semi-final. However, he has managed just two goals in 19 appearances so far this season.
Former Tottenham player Livermore is Pulis' first signing of the January transfer window after the club missed out on Morgan Schneiderlin, who joined Everton from Manchester United.
"I watched him a lot when he was at Tottenham and thought he would go on to establish himself as a top-six player," added Pulis, 59.
"Maybe he has just drifted away a little from that - although having said that two promotions and a Cup final with Hull should not be forgotten. But I believe this lad is a very, very good player."
Pulis' side are eighth in the Premier League ahead of a trip to Sunderland on Saturday. Hull sit 18th after beating Bournemouth in a first league win since November and travel to Chelsea on Sunday.
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"This was always going to happen. Don't blame the umpires or the players... blame the ICC. It's an absolute disgrace. An absolute shambles. The final day of the Ashes has ended in a farce. Let's hope that finally those people in Dubai who run the game realise what a mess this is. It's NOT the umpires' fault."
Set a target of 227 by Michael Clarke's ambitious declaration, England needed 21 more from 24 balls with five wickets in hand when play was halted by the umpires at 7.36pm.
The Oval crowd, who had been treated to an incredible final day in which 447 runs were scored and 17 wickets fell, booed in disapproval before gathering to watch England captain Alastair Cook lift the Ashes urn following a 3-0 series win.
England, who have now won three Ashes series in a row for the first time since 1977-1981, celebrated with a lap of honour while fireworks blazed over the pavilion.
Cook said: "It would have been nice to finish with a win but the rules and regulations are there for a reason. The umpires have strict guidelines and, if it was day three, we would have gone off."
Such an absorbing and ultimately controversial conclusion to the series looked unlikely when England began the final day only four wickets down in their first innings.
1st Test: England won by 14 runs, Trent Bridge
2nd Test: England won by 347 runs, Lord's
3rd Test: Match drawn, Old Trafford
4th Test: England won by 74 runs, Chester-le-Street
5th Test: Match drawn, The Oval
But the hosts' aggressive approach on Sunday morning, and Australia's determination to give themselves a chance of a consolation victory, saw Clarke declare his side's second innings on 111-6 at tea and set England a tantalising target in 44 overs.
A partnership of 64 between Cook (34) and Jonathan Trott set England on course before a buccaneering 62 off 55 balls from Kevin Pietersen established the hosts as firm favourites.
After Trott (59) and Pietersen were dismissed in quick succession, Chris Woakes and Ian Bell kept up the pace, but with the light fading rapidly, Australia began to complain.
When Bell was run out by Mitchell Starc for 17, the umpires consulted their light meters, and took the unpopular decision to end the match, denying the full house the finale they desired.
Under International Cricket Council regulations, the umpires were obliged to take the players off once the light had faded to the same level it was when they had stopped play on Thursday evening.
The crowd subsequently jeered the umpires and Clarke during the post-match presentation before applauding Cook's triumphant team as they jogged around the floodlit outfield with flags draped around their shoulders.
Leading run-scorers
562 Ian Bell (Eng) - average 62.44
418 Shane Watson (Aus) - average 41.80
388 Kevin Pietersen (Eng) - average 38.80
381 Michael Clarke (Aus) - average 47.62
367 Chris Rogers (Aus) - average 40.77
Leading wicket-takers
26 Graeme Swann (Eng) - average 29.03
24 Ryan Harris (Aus) - average 19.58
22 Stuart Broad (Eng) - average 27.45
22 James Anderson (Eng) - average 29.59
17 Peter Siddle (Aus) - average 31.58
The victory margin was their biggest in the Ashes since they won 5-1 in 1978-79 and their best at home since their 3-0 win in 1977 - the last time Australia failed to win a single match against their fiercest rivals.
The result also means England move above India into second place in the ICC Test rankings, while Australia drop below Pakistan into fifth.
After widespread criticism of their obdurate batting on Friday, when they scored 215 runs in 98.3 overs, England set off in far more positive fashion as their final six wickets added 130 in 28.4.
Matt Prior made 47 - his highest score of the series - and Graeme Swann smashed 34 off 24 balls before he was the last man out to give debutant James Faulkner his fourth wicket.
If England's approach had been attacking, then Australia's was an all-out assault as they front-loaded their batting order with big-hitters and set out in pursuit of quick runs.
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The result was 111 runs and six wickets in 23 riotous overs, with Stuart Broad taking 4-43 before Clarke, who top-scored with 28 not out, took the decision to declare.
England could easily have batted conservatively to guarantee they finished the series undefeated but they were positive from the outset and would surely have completed a 4-0 victory had the match not been brought to a premature, and farcical conclusion.
"This morning our job was to try and make it as difficult as possible to stop Australia from pushing on for a win and to make our chances of victory easier," added Cook.
"The crowds have been fantastic for all five Tests and I'm privileged to captain this group of guys. Winning this series is the proudest moment of my life."
Set against the backdrop of the Drumlanrig Castle Estate near Thornhill, the multi-stage event takes place on Saturday.
The line-up showcases both emerging and established Scottish talent.
King Creosote headlines a bill which features more than 30 artists ranging from hip-hop outfit Hector Bizerk to nine-piece ska collective, Esperanza.
There's also a strong local contingent including Finding Albert, Barstow Bats, Cammy Black and What About Wolves.
Waving rainbow flags, hundreds took the short march through empty streets.
Authorities had cancelled the event every year since marchers were attacked in 2010 - nine years after Gay Pride was first held in Belgrade.
Serbia is keen to show increasing tolerance as it seeks to join the EU, the BBC's Guy De Launey says.
Keeping Brussels happy is undoubtedly the motivation for allowing the Gay Pride march to go ahead, our correspondent in Belgrade says.
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic had announced he would not attend the event due to prior engagements - but also made it clear he would not have gone even if he had been free.
Our correspondent says that reflects widespread feelings in Serbia.
The patriarch of the influential Orthodox Church has condemned the event.
Two-thirds of respondents to a survey four years ago said they viewed homosexuality as a disease.
But Sunday's march took place without incident, with marchers blowing whistles as a police helicopter flew over them.
Participants marched through the centre of the city to the National Assembly, where ambassadors from numerous European countries addressed the crowd.
"I feel phenomenal. Our efforts of the past three years have borne fruit," organiser Boban Stojanovic told Reuters news agency.
On Saturday evening, anti-gay rights campaigners demonstrated in the capital in anticipation of the Gay Pride march on Sunday.
But the influence of the far right has declined in recent years, our correspondent says, and several government ministers have spoken in favour of the march.
Earlier in September a German LGBT ( lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender) rights speaker was treated in hospital after being beaten in Belgrade.
In response to the attack, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said: "We will not allow this kind of thing to remain unpunished."
The march in 2010 was the only gay pride parade to go ahead in the Serbian capital since 2001.
Labour says ministers are showing a "dangerous misunderstanding" of issues facing schools in England.
We spoke to parents and ex-pupils with strong opinions on both sides of the debate.
David Noble, 42, East Finchley, London
"I am a Conservative Party activist and married to a primary school teacher. I have two kids going to a new free school. I am very against opening new grammar schools.
"Education is paid for by the taxpayer and so should therefore be uniformly excellent in all state schools. With technology this may one day be achievable.
"Would anybody want a two-tier health service, police force or fire brigade? The answer is no. We should not have this in state education.
"Grammar schools benefit the middle and wealthy classes as those are the people who can pay for tutoring. This is a fact and it outrages me that some in the Conservative Party ignore this.
"I speak to some people who are massively pro-grammar schools purely from the perspective that they see it as saving £15,000 a year on private school education. They would throw the kitchen sink at their kids - by tutoring them - to get them to pass the 11-plus.
"The wealthy and middle classes already have private schools and a postcode lottery that works in their favour, so why give them a third option?
"A better model is streaming or a competitive environment in state comprehensive schools."
Scott Greenwood, 50, Greenwich, London
"The standard of non-grammars is not high enough. I agree that all schools should improve - but how long will that take? Should my son's education suffer whilst they try to sort out the problems?
"My son is 11 and has just started at a grammar school. He was lucky, he was able to take the 11-plus for a school in Kent as there aren't any in Greenwich.
"We did pay for extra tuition, but we also found the time to give him home tuition and installed a real work ethic into him. All the hard work he put in has paid off.
"And he was very keen to go to a grammar school even though most of his friends were going to a different school up the road.
"When we took him to see various schools, he could see the extra subjects and opportunities available at the grammar.
"If he went to a non-grammar he would be so far ahead of most of the other kids that the teachers wouldn't be able to give him the push he needs.
"If we educate all our children to mediocre standards then who will become a doctor, lawyer or a politician? They will only be fit to do menial jobs and not have the skills to become leaders or scientists and push the boundaries."
Maggie Craig, 60, Croydon, Surrey
"I am the middle child, my elder brother and younger sister passed their 11-plus. I failed and went to the comprehensive school.
"After that I felt like a failure. I felt like I was the stupid one in the family. At the time, the view in society was that if you didn't go to a grammar school you had to do the more menial jobs.
"When I left school I felt I had less options and of course I wasn't able to take the same exams as my siblings, doing CSEs instead of O-levels.
"I still had a good time at school and was top of my classes there. But my brother and sister had more chances to go abroad on school trips. I felt I was missing out.
"Later, after I was married and had children I did evening classes to better myself. I had been working in catering for many years but I wanted to get better work. After the classes I got a job in administration.
"It would be stupid to bring grammar schools back and make so many children feel like failures. You shouldn't have to take a test at the age of 11."
Denise Taylor, 72, Merseyside
"I attended a grammar school, I went to university, I became a teacher and then head teacher of a secondary school.
"My parents were very working class, we lived in a council house and we were poor - but they valued education and encouraged me to do well at school.
"At the grammar school there was a strong ethos of achievement and a work ethic which was not disturbed by poor behaviour and disruption of learning in lessons.
"This is the strength of grammar schools. Quite simply the children want to learn, they want work and they do achieve.
"Removal of this from poor working class children with ability has considerably reduced their chances of a good education.
"However, the downside of this for the children who do not secure a place - or who do not have the ability to do so - is unacceptable. Any increase in selection should be accompanied by appropriate support for the education of these children.
"The most important thing for a successful education is the support of parents for the school and the provision of classes with good behaviour and good teaching. This is what grammar schools provide."
Pauline Messenger, 67, Norfolk
"Living in Buckinghamshire, as I did then, my own daughter had access to the grammar school system.
"She attended a highly-respected local grammar, where she gained an excellent education, leading to further education opportunities at university.
"I attended a grammar school in Islington, London and my past experiences there recommended the whole grammar school ethos to me.
"Born into a poor locality, living in a council flat, my grammar school provided me with the opportunity to 'better' myself and have access to a better, greatly improved way of life and better career.
"I very much feel other children from similar backgrounds should have those opportunities.
"For those children with high ability, it is good for them to be in a class along with others possessing equal learning ability because everyone then moves along at the same pace and no-one is held back."
Nathan Williams, BBC UGC and Social News team
But George Nobbs, Labour leader of Norfolk County Council, leading the campaign, has admitted that the proposals are "flawed".
The mayor would look after transport, strategic planning and skills training in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
MPs and other councils in the three counties have criticised plans.
Mr Nobbs said: "There are lots of things to be said for this scheme, and lots of things to be said against it."
Liberal Democrat Group leader Marie Strong questioned the need for a directly-elected mayor.
"We were told the role of mayor was optional; when did it become compulsory?" she asked.
Mr Nobbs replied: "We were told by ministers it's that or nothing."
Conservative group leader Cliff Jordan said the plans so far had generated "a lot of confusion".
The plan is for the mayor to be chosen by voters in the three counties in May next year. He or she will have the power to increase business rates to fund infrastructure projects.
The mayor will be answerable to a cabinet made up of nominees from the 23 local councils.
Some Conservative MPs from the region have said the idea of an elected mayor is not popular with many people, while others said the money on offer - £1bn over 30 years - is "not much".
The Department for Communities and Local Government said: "We are committed to the deal and will continue to work with all the councils. Councils in East Anglia have until June to decide if they want to take part in this historic opportunity."
The 70-7 vote in favour of proceeding with negotiations over devolution masks the fact that nearly every councillor who spoke expressed serious reservations about the plans for a combined authority and directly-elected mayor for Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
"I don't believe an elected mayor is good for Norfolk; I don't believe it's what people want," said Conservative councillor Bill Borrett.
"We were told that the Mayor was optional; when did it become compulsory," asked Marie Strong, the leader of the Liberal Democrat group.
"Why can't we have a referendum, why can't the people of Norfolk vote if they want a mayor or not?" asked UKIP councillor Colin Aldred.
Labour's George Nobbs replied that ministers had made it clear, it was a mayor or no deal.
Mr Nobbs admitted he was doing his best "to sell a pig's ear". "These plans are flawed and they are far from perfect," he said.
He believes that with the extra money and powers on offer, it is worth continuing with the negotiations.
The only councillor in favour was Labour's Mick Castle who said people in London had been suspicious of a mayor but had come round to the idea.
Norfolk joins Cambridgeshire County Council in making it very clear that it is not happy with the deal currently on offer. The negotiations will continue but with the government wanting this to be agreed by all 23 councils by the end of June, there is not very long to go.
East Anglian devolution looks far from certain.
The country was declared free of the virus on 7 November, and the region as a whole was cleared when Liberia was pronounced Ebola-free on Thursday.
Tests on a person who died in northern Sierra Leone proved positive, an Ebola test centre spokesman told the BBC.
The WHO has warned, however, that more flare-ups are expected.
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The Sierra Leone death occurred earlier this week.
Ebola test centre spokesman Sidi Yahya Tunis told the BBC that the patient had died in the Tonkolili district. He had travelled there from Kambia, close to the border with Guinea.
The tests were conducted by British health experts. The BBC's Umaru Fofana in the capital Freetown said health officials were now urgently seeking those who had come into contact with the victim.
Close to 4,000 people have died of Ebola in Sierra Leone, and 11,000 people across the region, since December 2013.
Liberia was the last country to see the end of active transmission of Ebola. But it had been declared clear twice before, only for the infection to re-emerge.
A country is considered free of human-to-human transmission once two 21-day incubation periods have passed since the last known case tested negative for a second time.
11,315
Deaths - probable, confirmed and suspected
(Includes one in the US and six in Mali)
4,809 Liberia
3,955 Sierra Leone
2,536 Guinea
8 Nigeria
Organisers want more police presence in Levenshulme, Manchester, following the attack on the 31-year-old at Cringle Park shortly before midday on Monday.
The march followed a similar event in the area after a 12-year-old girl was raped in a nearby park in September.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said it had "increased patrols in the area" and was "doing everything in our power" to find Monday's attacker.
However Pauline Johnston, from the Love Levenshulme community group, said: "I don't think what they've done has been sufficient at all."
"We want patrols to be stepped up day in and day out, not just reactively."
One marcher said: "We work really hard to make it a beautiful place for everybody to share and we won't have people frightened out of it."
Another participant commented: "I don't think anyone should be scared to walk through their own park, especially in broad daylight."
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Zakaria Bulhan, of south-west London, has been charged with the murder of Darlene Horton, 64, and the attempted murder of five other people.
Two women and three men were injured in the attack on Wednesday.
Mr Bulhan - a Norwegian national of Somali origin - appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
He appeared without legal representation and sat hunched throughout the short hearing with his hand over his mouth.
As the names of the victims were read out in court he held his face in his hands.
When asked if he understood the charges, he nodded giving the judge a thumbs-up gesture.
Mrs Horton had been visiting London with her husband Richard Wagner, who was teaching summer classes.
Florida State University said the couple had planned to return to their home in Tallahassee on Thursday - the day after the attack.
The university's president, John Thrasher, said "there are no words to express our heartache".
A British man who suffered a stab wound to his stomach in the attack remains in hospital in a "serious but stable" condition.
An American man, an Australian man, an Australian woman and an Israeli woman were all discharged from hospital on Thursday, following treatment for their injuries.
Mr Bulhan was remanded in custody until 9 August.
Lock Iain Henderson and winger Craig Gilroy scored the tries for the win which effectively ends any hope Leinster had of making the play-offs.
Leinster had made a superb start with a Ben Te'o try helping them go 10-0 up in the seventh minute.
But they did not score again and Ulster went on to beat their Irish rivals for the first time in four attempts.
The result puts Ulster at the top of the table, at least overnight, and means Leinster's season is effectively over.
It had all started so well for Leinster as they pushed deep into Ulster territory and benefitted from an early penalty strike from Jimmy Gopperth.
After six minutes, things got even better for the visitors as they sought to rescue their already fragile-looking play-off hopes, when Te'o smashed through some weak tackling to score. Gopperth added the extras and Leinster were 10-0 up and looking comfortable.
Ulster needed to respond and they got over the line with Henderson. Ruan Pienaar converted his 12th-minute effort and then added a penalty shortly afterwards to tie the scores.
There then followed a moment of controversy after Henderson was tip-tackled by Sean O'Brien with referee John Lacey and the television match official opting for a yellow card for the Ireland flanker instead of the red one the home crowed were baying for.
Ulster, though, failed to score during O'Brien's absence, but did take the lead just before half-time through another Pienaar penalty.
Midway through the second half, Rob Kearney was sin-binned, giving Pienaar a 63rd-minute penalty which he duly slotted to stretch the lead to 16-10.
Three minutes later the South African nailed a monster effort from just inside Leinster's half and the home side now had a nine-point lead.
Leinster's dismal night was completed with eight minutes remaining when a huge Ulster power play off a scrum on Leinster's line ultimately saw Gilroy dance through for his 11th Pro12 try of the season.
Pienaar converted to make it 26-10 and the game ended with 14-man Ulster - replacement prop Andy Warwick had been binned - defending their line as if their lives depended on it.
Ulster: L Ludik; T Bowe, J Payne, D Cave, C Gilroy; P Jackson, R Pienaar; C Black, R Best (capt), W Herbst, D Tuohy, F Van der Merwe, I Henderson, C Henry, R Wilson.
Replacements: McCloskey for D. Cave (51), Warwick for Black (70), B. Ross for Herbst (70), Diack for Tuohy (65).
Not used: Herring, C. Ross, P. Marshall, Humphreys.
Sin bin: Warwick (78).
Leinster: R Kearney; Z Kirchner, B Te'o, G D'Arcy, L Fitzgerald; J Gopperth, I Boss; C Healy, R Strauss, M Ross, D Toner, M McCarthy, S O'Brien, D Ryan, J Heaslip (capt).
Replacements: Madigan for D'Arcy (63), Reddan for Boss (67), J. McGrath for Healy (58), Cronin for Strauss (58), Furlong for Ross (63), J. Murphy for Ryan (51).
Not used: Marshall, Fanning.
Sin bin: O'Brien (21), R. Kearney (64).
Att: 17,097
Ref: John Lacey (Ireland).
Jeanette Manfra of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) refused to identify the states during her testimony before a Senate panel, citing confidentiality agreements.
But she added there was no evidence to suggest actual vote ballots were altered in the election hack.
US intelligence agencies believe Moscow interfered to help Donald Trump win.
Ms Manfra, the department's acting deputy undersecretary of cyber security, testified on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence committee, which is investigating Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election.
"As of right now, we have evidence that election-related systems in 21 states were targeted," she told the panel.
She said DHS still had confidence in the US voting system because they are "fundamentally resilient".
The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any involvement in election cyber hacks while Mr Trump has dismissed allegations that his campaign colluded with Russia as "fake news".
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday refused to say whether Mr Trump believes Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
"I have not sat down and talked to him about that specific thing," Mr Spicer said during a daily news briefing.
"Obviously we've been dealing with a lot of other issues today. I'd be glad to touch base."
Senator Mark Warner, a top Democrat on the panel, argued on Wednesday the country was "not any safer" in concealing which states were hit in the hack.
Both Arizona and Illinois last year confirmed that their voter registration systems had been attacked by hackers.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio also expressed concern, adding that as the investigation continues "it is important Americans understand how our voting systems work and communicate that in real time".
Ms Manfra's comments echoed earlier testimony by Samuel Liles, acting director of the DHS cyber division.
Mr Liles told Congress DHS detected hacking activities last spring and summer and later received reports of cyber probing of election systems.
But he added: "None of these systems were involved in vote tallying."
Mr Liles also said "a small number of networks were exploited - they made it through the door."
Supporters heading towards the Etihad Stadium before Manchester City's Premier League game against Tottenham on Saturday were heard chanting the abuse on a tram.
The chants were apparently directed at Spurs supporters.
Officers said they were treating the chanting, footage of which has been widely shared online, as a hate crime.
Among the chants, a group of men are heard singing about gas chambers in a reference to the Holocaust.
Supt Steve Howard said: "Greater Manchester Police have been made aware of a video showing people chanting anti-Semitic songs.
"This has yet to be formally reported to police, however we have now launched an investigation and we are treating this as a hate crime.
"We would like to speak to anyone who witnessed the incident or has video footage to contact police as soon as possible.
"There is no place in society for such abhorrent behaviour."
Most Tottenham fans are not Jewish, but the club has a historical association with London's Jewish community.
The Equalities Act would also be reformed to tackle discrimination against people with mental health problems, the party has pledged.
The party is also promising 10,000 more staff working in NHS mental health treatment by 2020.
Labour said the Tories appeared to be offering no extra funding.
The Conservatives say the plans are motivated by the concern that "vulnerable people are being subject to detention, including in police cells, unnecessarily" as numbers of people detained or "sectioned" under the Mental Health Act have risen.
The charity Mind has previously called for a review of the Act, which allows people with mental health problems to be detained for treatment against their will.
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People detained under section two of the Act cannot refuse hospital treatment - although some forms of treatment can be given only with a patient's consent - and can be held for up to 28 days.
Paul Farmer, Mind's chief executive said: "One in four of us will experience a mental health problem each year, so every parliamentary candidate from every party needs to accept and embrace mental health as a key issue for their constituency."
The charity said a rising number of detentions under the Act could be sign of growing pressure on mental health services.
Labour accused the Tory government of failing mental health patients.
Shadow mental health minister Barbara Keeley said: "The Tories have not delivered on their promise to give mental health the same priority as physical health.
"They appear to be offering no extra funding and have consistently raided mental health budgets over the last seven years.
"Warm words from the Tories will not help to tackle the injustice of unequal treatment in mental health."
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Prime Minister Theresa May said: "On my first day in Downing Street last July, I described shortfalls in mental health services as one of the burning injustices in our country.
"Today I am pledging to rip up the 1983 Act and introduce in its place a new law which finally confronts the discrimination and unnecessary detention that takes place too often."
The plans would also see all primary and secondary schools in England and Wales provided with mental health first aid training for staff.
Large organisations would be required to have mental health first aid-trained staff on hand, in addition to the current requirement for physical health first aid training.
Liberal Democrat health spokesman, and former health minister, Norman Lamb said: "I proposed reforms to the Mental Health Act in a Green Paper in March 2015.
"It was designed to give new rights to people. The Conservatives have sat on it for two years, so forgive me if I have little faith in their desire to reform."
He added: "The Conservatives have set themselves against any tax rise so the promise to employ 10,000 additional staff is based on thin air."
The Conservative Party said "funding for mental health services is currently at record levels - and up by £1.4 billion in real terms by 2020."
The two talked on their arrival in Monaco on Wednesday ahead of Sunday's race and Hamilton said the incident was in the past.
"It's fine," said Hamilton. "In the past, there would have been tension but there was just pure respect.
"I said, 'I still have all the respect for you,' and he said the same."
Hamilton added: "It doesn't change anything about how we approach racing."
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That is a change from the aftermath of previous incidents between the two, after which there has been lingering bad feeling.
Asked why it was different now, Hamilton said: "It is always good to discuss things. As a team we did, in Barcelona and then at the factory I guess individually, and then Nico and I spoke just now.
"But I didn't feel we had to, because there is no issue. we just move on, there is nothing you can do about the past."
He added: "We didn't talk through the incident. We don't need to. We know what happened. We experienced it. We know how we felt about it before.
"We are not like the more emotional beings on the planet who talk about things, we don't do that.
"We arrived very cool and chilled and spoke. All we need to know is the respect is still there and we are going to keep racing. And that's all we had to say.
"We have a long career left with racing with another. You have to assume there is going to be more but we are competitors and we're racing.
"There are going to be lots of close encounters and we are just going to try our best that affects our results. Every scenario is different. This is the one we are faced with now. We are getting past it in a positive manner."
In contrast, Rosberg refused to say whether he and Hamilton had discussed the incident and its aftermath.
"If we have spoken or not, that needs to be kept internal," he said. "But it is a thing of the past now.
"I am going to take the same approach as always and do what's necessary to try to win this grand prix, which is what I have come here to do."
Hamilton is 43 points behind Rosberg heading into the Monaco weekend after a difficult start to the season, and has not won a race since he clinched the title at the US Grand Prix last October.
He said: "If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, there will be many more opportunities. There are opportunities still there.
"There are still 16 races and you have to look at that. The glass, rather than it being half full is 10% full. And there is still the rest of that to fill up."
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Kim Davis has said that her Christian faith should exempt her from signing the licenses.
The US Supreme Court declared gay marriage legal in June.
After interviewing her fellow clerks, the judge said Ms Davis could go free if she allowed her deputies to grant the licences, but Davis refused.
Ms Davis, an elected official in Rowan County, has said the Supreme Court's ruling conflicts with her beliefs as a born-again Christian.
"You can't be separated from something that's in your heart in your soul," Ms Davis said. "I promised to love Him with all my heart, mind and soul because I wanted to make heaven my home."
US District Judge David Bunning said he had "no alternative" but to jail her, because issuing fines would not change her mind.
"Her good faith belief is simply not a viable defence," said Mr Bunning. "Mrs Davis took an oath. Oaths mean things."
He added that letting one person's beliefs supersede the authority of the court would be a dangerous example to set.
Ms Davis' lawyer, Mat Staver, said: "The judge said that he's going to bring her back out in another week and see if she's changed her mind. But knowing Kim Davis, she's a woman of strong conviction and conscience and I don't see her changing her mind."
Ms Davis' lawyer had claimed that her deputy clerks could only issues licenses under Davis' authority, but the judge overruled that objection.
Five deputy clerks told the judge on Thursday they would comply with the court order. A sixth deputy clerk, Ms Davis' son, Nathan, refused.
The judge decided not to hold Nathan Davis in contempt of court.
Hundreds of protesters lined up outside of the federal courthouse on Thursday, chanting and waving signs both of support and opposition.
Local reporters tweeted photos of the two different camps in close quarters outside of the courthouse.
Protesters screamed "Love won! Love won!" outside of the courthouse after learning of the decision.
Ms Davis stopped issuing marriage licenses to all couples in June after the legalisation of gay marriage, turning couples away repeatedly.
The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected the argument that her faith prevented her from carrying out her duty.
"I have no animosity toward anyone and harbour no ill will. To me this has never been a gay or lesbian issue. It is about marriage and God's word," she said in a statement.
She can only be removed from her position if the Kentucky legislature impeaches her because she is an elected official.
Various 2016 Republican presidential candidates, like Mike Huckabee, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Marco Rubio, have come out in support of Ms Davis' decisions.
Others like Carly Fiorina, Senator Lindsey Graham and Ohio Governor John Kasich have said she must do her job and comply with the law.
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The CCTV film, taken from the train near Downhill Strand, shows a beach lifeguard waving to the train to warn the driver about the two pedestrians.
The footage shows the pair running from the train. They were not hit and only received some scratches in the incident.
Translink, which operates buses and trains in Northern Ireland, released the July 2015 footage as part of a campaign to raise awareness over the risk of trespassing onto rail tracks.
It said there were other near misses in September, including one involving a young person near Jordanstown, County Antrim.
The company said there were 304 incidents of trespassing on tracks between April and the end of August this year.
Hotspots included areas near Whiteabbey, Antrim and Finaghy.
It said one incident involved three young people "playing chicken on the tracks" at Dunmurry, near Belfast.
"Our trains travel at speeds of up to 90mph and if a driver has to apply the emergency brakes, it will take two-thirds of a mile for the train to stop," said Mark Atkinson, Translink's chief engineer.
"In other words, not even the fastest athlete on the planet could outrun a train."
Walters, 32, sat out training on Wednesday having limped out of Monday's opening draw against Sweden as his recent Achilles problem returned.
The Republic face Belgium in their next Group E game in Bordeaux on Saturday and play Italy in Lille on 22 June.
"He thinks he is going to be able to make the Italian game," O'Neill said.
Walters, the current Republic player of the year, was the only absentee from Wednesday morning's session at the squad's training base in Versailles.
When asked afterwards if Walters had a chance of playing against Belgium, O'Neill admitted: "he is going to be struggling".
"If the game was tomorrow, he wouldn't make it.
"There would have to be a lot of improvement for him to make it.
"We can play without Jon.
"He's been influential in our games, he has probably been our talisman, but if he's not fit we've got a number of players who can step in and do really well for us."
Walters was replaced by James McClean in the 63rd minute, who would be the obvious choice to come into the starting line-up in Bordeaux, if the Stoke City man is ruled out.
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O'Neill was upbeat about the team's prospects against Belgium, ranked number two in the world, in the wake of an encouraging performance against Sweden in the Stade de France.
Wes Hoolahan's opener for the Irish was cancelled out by a Ciaran Clark own goal but the manager has taken the positives from the 1-1 draw.
"If that performance doesn't lift you, nothing will.
"We will have to show the same attitude again, go and compete and be strong on the ball."
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The shooting happened at about 22:00 GMT on the Tullymore Road.
The victim was taken to hospital for treatment.
His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
The Swiss, 35, won 6-2 6-3 to follow up his Australian Open final victory over the Spaniard two months ago, when Federer won his 18th Grand Slam title.
He will next face Australia's Nick Kyrgios, who upset world number two Novak Djokovic 6-4 7-6 (7-3).
Svetlana Kuznetsova was the first player into the women's semis.
The eighth seed saw off fellow Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3 6-2 and will meet Czech third seed Karolina Pliskova, after she beat Spain's French Open champion Garbine Muguruza 7-6 7-6.
In the pair's 36th meeting - and first before the quarter-finals of a tournament since their initial meeting in Miami 13 years ago - Federer notched his 13th victory and third in a row.
Nadal, 30, had built his success against Federer over the years on attacking the Swiss player's backhand, but Federer turned his weaker wing into a weapon in the Australian Open final, and if anything was even more aggressive in Indian Wells.
Federer crunched six backhand winners to none from Nadal as he played a flawless opening set, taking it in a little over half an hour.
Nadal might have hoped to profit from a surface markedly slower than that in Melbourne but it did nothing to curb Federer's aggressive intent.
Another early break in the second set had Federer within sight of the finish line and he raced through with four breaks of serve to none to win in 68 minutes.
"I did very well today, I'm so pleased I'm able to step into the court and play super aggressive," said Federer. "Coming over the backhand has been part of that."
"It's a nice feeling to win the last three. I can tell you that," added the four-time Indian Wells champion. "But most importantly, I won Australia. That was big for me.
"For me, it was all about coming out and trying to play the way I did in Australia. I didn't think it was going to be that possible, to be quite honest, because the court is more jumpy here so it's hard to put the ball away."
Kyrgios, 21, gave further evidence that he is now a force to be reckoned with as he blunted the Djokovic return game with another magnificent serving performance.
Djokovic, 29, was on a 19-match wining streak in the Californian desert, and bidding for a fourth consecutive title, but Kyrgios took their personal head-to-head to 2-0 as he repeated his victory in their first meeting in Acapulco 12 days ago.
Just as he had in Mexico earlier this month, Kyrgios gave the Serb nothing to work with as he powered through without facing a break point in nearly two hours.
The Australian grabbed the only service break of the match in the opening game, which proved enough to take the first set, and clinched the second after racing into a 3-0 tie-break lead.
"I am serving really well, that is creating chances for me to put pressure on their service games," said the 15th seed.
"My mentality is improving and I am trying really hard to fight for every point and just compete."
Djokovic praised the Australian's serve, adding: "Nick, again, as he did in Acapulco, served so well. I just wasn't managing to get a lot of balls back on his serve, first and second, as well. That's what made a difference."
Japan's fourth seed Kei Nishikori swept past American Donald Young 6-2 6-4, while on the other side of the draw Spanish 21st seed Pablo Carreno Busta and Argentine 27th seed Pablo Cuevas progressed to the quarters.
American 17th seed Jack Sock battled past Malek Jaziri of Tunisia 4-6 7-6 (7-1) 7-5.
Austrian eighth seed Dominic Thiem eased past France's Gael Monfils 6-3 6-2. Thiem will play Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka, after the three-time grand slam champion, laboured for two hours and 13 minutes to get past world number 70 Yoshihito Nishioka, winning in three sets 3-6 6-3 7-6.
Fourth seeds Jamie Murray and Brazilian Bruno Soares made it through to the doubles semi-finals with a 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 win over Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer and Romania's Horia Tecau.
And despite his absence following a shock early exit, Andy Murray saw his position at the top of the rankings enhanced after Djokovic's defeat.
The Serb lost 990 points as he fell well short of defending his title, while Murray's relatively modest record in Indian Wells meant his early loss only cost him 20 points.
Djokovic will also be defending a title later this month in Miami - another tournament where Murray lost early in 2016.
The people of Iraq are justifiably proud of this ancient heritage and its innovations and impact on the world.
The reported destruction by Islamic State militants at Nimrud, following similar destruction at the site of Nineveh and the Mosul Museum, is an attack on the people of Iraq as well as a tragedy for the world's cultural heritage.
Nimrud was the capital of what many scholars consider the world's first empire, the Neo-Assyrian Empire of the 1st millennium BC.
Lying 35km (22 miles) south of the modern city of Mosul in north Iraq, Nimrud covers some 3.5 sq km (1.35 sq miles), with a prominent "citadel" mound within the city walls, on which are clustered the main administrative and religious buildings.
These buildings include the enormous palaces of several Assyrian kings and the temples of Ninurta, the god of war, and of Nabu, the god of writing.
The site was first established by the 6th millennium BC but was expanded and developed into the ancient imperial city of Kalhu by King Ashurnasirpal II from about 880 BC.
It remained the Assyrian imperial capital until about 700 BC and continued to be an important city until 612 BC and the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
The Palace of Ashurnasirpal, also known as the North-West Palace, was first excavated by the British explorer Austen Henry Layard in the 1840s. His excavations are the source of the winged bull gatekeeper statues currently displayed in the British Museum.
Layard also recovered large numbers of stone panels that lined the walls of rooms and courtyards within the palace. These panels are of a local limestone, carved in low relief with beautifully detailed scenes of the king seated at state banquets, hunting lions, or engaged in warfare and religious ritual.
Extended excavations at Nimrud were next carried out in the 1950s-60s by Max Mallowan, the husband of crime writer Agatha Christie.
Mallowan and his team reconstructed the complex plans of the palace, temples and citadel, and his excavations recovered rich finds of carved ivory furniture, stone jars and metalwork, as well as hundreds of additional wall reliefs and wall paintings.
Near the entrance to the palace's throne room, Mallowan also discovered a free-standing stone slab, which depicted the king in a pose of worship and included a long text in Assyrian cuneiform that described the construction of the palace and its surrounding gardens.
The text's details of precious metal door fittings, cedar roof beams, and hundreds of artisans at work hint at the unique reach and power of the Assyrian empire.
This text also described a luxurious banquet for almost 70,000 guests that took place at the palace's dedication, involving hundreds of animals and birds, fruit, and flowing beer and wine.
Other rooms of the palaces and temples contained archives of the imperial administration.
Large parts of Ashurnasirpal's palace were reconstructed by Iraq's antiquities board during the 1970s and 1980s, including the restoration and re-installation of carved stone reliefs lining the walls of many rooms.
The winged bull statues that guard the entrances to the most important rooms and courtyards were re-erected.
These winged bulls are among the most dramatic and easily recognised symbols of the Assyrian world.
They combine the most highly valued attributes of figures from nature into a complex hybrid form: a human head for wisdom, the body of a wild bull for physical power, and the wings of an eagle for the ability to soar high and far and to see and prevent evil.
The Iraqi restoration project also led to the dramatic discovery of several tombs of the queens of the Assyrian empire. These tombs contained astonishingly rich finds of delicate gold jewellery and crowns, enamel ornaments, bronze and gold bowls, and ivory vessels.
The technical skill and aesthetic sense of the artisans responsible are unrivalled in the ancient world.
Nimrud was for a long time a popular site for family picnics and local school group visits, and the reconstruction of the palace provided a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the buildings' scale and beauty in a way that is impossible to find in a museum context.
Nimrud is unique and its buildings and artworks are irreplaceable.
This destruction is a huge loss for archaeologists, for Iraqis, and for the world.
The centre-right mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, surprised observers by securing almost as many votes as Daniel Scioli, the chosen candidate of the current president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
Mr Scioli's focus would be protecting jobs and welfare programmes, he said.
Mr Macri said he would address state spending "abuses" and high inflation.
The candidate in third place, Sergio Massa, has not said who will get his backing in the second round.
President Fernandez was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.
Electoral first
With 97% of the votes counted, Mr Scioli was ahead with 36.9% of the vote, while Mr Macri had 34.3%.
The result means Mr Scioli, governor of Buenos Aires province and a former world powerboat champion, will have to enter a run-off with Mr Macri on 22 November.
It is the first time an Argentine election will be decided by a second round.
"Today starts a new election campaign that will decide the future of Argentina," Mr Scioli told reporters.
He said the choice was between protecting industry, employment and social welfare, and what he called Mr Macri's proposal "to liberalise the market and take on debt".
Mr Macri, a former president of top football club Boca Juniors, said he would try to win over voters who did not choose him on Sunday.
"We will correct the abuses and the fraud of inflation,'' he said, referring to his campaign pledges to cut state spending and rein in the inflation rate, which officially stands at 14.5%.
Observers say a key role in the run-off campaign could be played by Sergio Massa, who came a distant third with 21.3% of the vote.
Mr Massa, a former ally turned rival of President Fernandez, has not said who will get his backing in the second round.
Argentina elections: All to play for
14.5%
Official, but disputed, inflation level
28.2% the inflation level in 2014, according to the World Bank
0.7% amount IMF predicts the economy will shrink in 2016
Whoever wins the presidency faces significant economic challenges.
While the country gained strength after a financial crisis in 2002, its economy, the third-largest in Latin America, has slowed in recent years, with GDP growing by only 0.5% last year.
The government is also locked in a battle against American hedge funds who disagree with how it wants to restructure $100bn (??65bn) of debt on which it defaulted in 2001.
While the firms successfully sued Argentina for repayment, Ms Fernandez refused to pay.
Amid a high turnout they have won more than 300 seats - about a quarter - reports say, although pro-Beijing groups will still have a big majority.
Critics say the results show the undemocratic nature of the system.
Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang has resigned his post, reportedly to run for the leadership in March.
Mr Tsang is regarded as a more moderate alternative to current leader Leung Chun-ying, who has said he will not seek re-election.
Known as "Uncle Pringles" for a moustache similar to one worn by a character on a potato crisp brand's packaging, Mr Tsang is a US-educated fencing and martial arts enthusiast who has been the finance minister since July 2007.
Candidates running for chief executive have to be nominated by the 1,200-strong Election Committee - and need a majority of votes from the committee to win.
The committee's members are made up of delegates from special interest groups.
Analysts say the pro-Beijing majority ensures the battle will be between figures favourable to the mainland government. Although none have yet declared, Mr Tsang, former security secretary Regina Ip and chief secretary Carrie Lam could face off.
The BBC's Helier Cheung, in Hong Kong, says pan-democrats will argue that their strong performance is a reflection of dissatisfaction with the current government, and the slow pace of democratic reform.
In 2014, tens of thousands of people demonstrated for weeks to demand a one-person, one-vote election for chief executive, but they failed to win any concessions from Beijing.
Initially only available in the US, YouTube Red will cost $9.99 (£6.50) a month and have no adverts.
PewDiePie, Rooster Teeth and Lilly Singh are among the well-known names involved.
Analysts suggested it could be difficult to turn millions of fans who expect free access to pay up.
"It's great to see YouTube offer an alternative to an ad-only model," said Brian Blau, an analyst with Gartner. "Consumers want choice and options."
"But pay walls haven't always done well and uptake depends on how users balance the attractiveness of the exclusive content and the pain of sitting through lots of ads."
Ian Maude from Enders Analysis was also sceptical about the size of the audience it would attract.
"You are not going to see 50% buying this," he said. "It's going to be relatively small numbers."
"But," he added. "they might be able to hoover up some more money and from Google's perspective it gets them into the high-quality, high-production value game."
He said that YouTube, like other video-streaming sites, was seeking to become a platform that showed original content it bankrolled not just programmes made by other organisations.
"Google has deep pockets and a lot of money and it's a space it needs to be in so it makes sense to me that they would want to be there," said Mr Maude.
YouTube will offer US-based users a month's free trial of Red from 28 October. International pricing and launches will be announced soon.
"For years, YouTube's fans have been telling us they want more," the company wrote in a blog post.
"More choice when watching their favourite content, more ways to support their favourite creators and, above all, the option to watch their favourite videos uninterrupted."
YouTube Red original shows will include:
Scare PewDiePie - a reality adventure series as Felix reacts to situations inspired by his favourite games.
Sing it! - A comedy that satirises talent competitions
Lazer Team - A movie featuring four losers who find an alien ship carrying an strange cargo
A Trip to Unicorn Island - An in-depth look at the life of Lilly Singh as she embarks on a 26 city tour.
Single by 30 - a romantic drama about two high school friends who pledge to marry each other if they are still unwed at 30
Fight of the Living Dead - a reality show that puts popular YouTubers in a frightening zombie apocalypse to see how they cope
I Am Tobuscus - a comedy about a self-involved YouTube creator trying to be a big star
The roster also includes some as yet untitled items such as a show based around the science of video games that will be filmed for VR headsets, a reality series that puts YouTube stars into a murder mystery setting and an anthology looking at the absurdity of internet culture.
YouTube content will be able to be downloaded and watched offline, a contrasting approach to Netflix - its chief product officer last month said offline viewing wasn't something users wanted.
The subscription will include access to YouTube Gaming and a new YouTube Music app, also announced on Wednesday. Google's streaming music service, Google Play Music, will also be included.
This package deal of sorts could present a threat to Apple Music and Spotify whose services, which are solely audio, are roughly the same price.
While the free, ad-supported version of YouTube will remain as-is, the move represents the first time that YouTube will limit some material to paying customers only.
Those members will get productions featuring YouTube stars who regularly command audiences bigger than global broadcast giants, working with high-end production houses on the original content.
The first of these shows will be rolled out early next year.
Arguably the most well-known, PewDiePie - real name Felix Kjellberg - will be working with the executive producers behind blockbuster zombie series The Walking Dead on a "reality adventure series".
The show will include "thrills, chills and laughter as PewDiePie encounters terrifying situations inspired by his favourite video games".
Another show "takes popular YouTube talent and traps them in a frighteningly realistic zombie apocalypse. They must use their instincts and gaming skills to survive as they battle the elements for the ultimate prize of survival".
In all, the company announced 10 original projects, including one project that will be shot in 360 degrees and designed to be enjoyed using a virtual reality headset.
The move represents YouTube's gradual shift from being the first giant of the new media age to something resembling a more traditional media company, with executives deciding what content is made and promoted - albeit heavily influenced by online trends and viewing data.
Moving to a paywall model could be appealing to creators who could receive higher revenues from paying YouTube customers than they currently do from advertising revenue shared with YouTube.
However, that relies on YouTube's ability to get an audience not used to paying for content to commit to a monthly subscription. Or, tougher still, YouTube has to convince the parents of those fans to start paying instead.
And breathing down YouTube's neck is Facebook. After rolling out auto-playing videos to its news feed, the site recently started creating dedicated video areas, much like YouTube Channels.
Behind the scenes YouTube has been busy trying to convince advertisers that its viewers are comparatively more engaged than Facebook users in what they are watching - and that YouTube has stricter criteria over what exactly constitutes a "view".
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The money from the Constitutional Research Council was spent on pro-Brexit advertising throughout the UK.
The group of pro-union business people is led by a Conservative party member.
About £425,000 of the funding was spent mainly on advertising in Britain. The rest went to DUP party funds.
Speaking at an anti-Brexit rally in west Belfast on Saturday, Mr Adams said the DUP needed to provide more answers.
"The DUP acted as a funnel for £425,000 coming from a Scottish Tory, which had an impact on the outcome.
"They need to explain how they got themselves into that position."
Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme on Friday, DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. stressed it was "not a Northern Ireland referendum, but a UK-wide referendum".
The details of the donation came as the spending returns of the Stronger In and Vote Leave campaigns in last year's EU referendum are under investigation, the Electoral Commission has announced.
Customers were warned not to cook, drink or wash with tap water following concerns over its taste and smell.
The Drinking Water Quality Regulator has been investigating the problem which closed nine schools in June 2015.
The affected properties were in parts of Carfin, Newarthill, Chapelhall, New Stevenston and Dalziel Park.
Restrctions were lifted two days after customers first complained of an "oily based substance" with a strong odour in their water.
In her annual report, Sue Petch, drinking water quality regulator for Scotland, said: "One major incident affecting drinking water quality occurred during June 2015 when over 6,000 properties in North Lanarkshire suffered restrictions on the use of their water for two days after contamination of the supply.
"We have investigated this event thoroughly and submitted a report to the procurator fiscal."
A spokesman for Scottish Water said: "Providing safe, wholesome drinking water to our five million customers is Scottish Water's top priority."
The report showed drinking water standards reached a record high in 2015.
Out of 308,356 samples of water taken from consumers' taps, 99.92% met the required standards.
Of the 35 incidents that were investigated, only the case in North Lanarkshire was classified as major.
Ms Petch said: "Consumers in Scotland are generally more satisfied with the taste and appearance of their tap water.
"Last year, only 0.2% of consumers reported concerns with the quality of their supply, almost half that of numbers reported six years ago.
"When concerns are reported, they are thoroughly investigated and, where necessary, action is taken to resolve the situation.
"It is vital that the progress that has been made is maintained and further built upon.
"Scottish Water must ensure their assets and procedures are resilient and able to cope with a wide range of challenges."
He cited newspaper claims that Irish police were more concerned about "ISIL" (or so-called Islamic State) cells in Dublin than dissident republicans.
He said he hoped the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) would be given more money to tackle the threat.
The MLA for Strangford was speaking at UKIP's regional party conference.
Mr McNarry asked: "Are we here in Northern Ireland, who treat dissident activity extremely seriously, missing a trick by not knowing if there is a threat to our communities, as is apparent down south from ISIL supporters?
"Because, be in no doubt - all the connotations of migration will take pole position in this [European Union] referendum debate - a debate we welcome but which no-one will welcome with the ISIS gun held to our heads.
"And listen up - we cannot live with other people's terrorists in our midst," he said.
"Nor should we be either asked or expected to provide work for other people's unemployed, when local workers are losing their jobs or provide homes when young couples languish on housing waiting lists for years.
"Nor should we rush to send money by pledging £200m to Africa when we must get our own needy sorted first."
Asked later by the BBC to clarify his remarks about the threat from ISIL in Northern Ireland, Mr McNarry said: "If they are in Dublin why wouldn't they be here?
"That's what I'm saying. It's a hundred miles down the road, why wouldn't they operate here?
"We are worried about them in every other city in the United Kingdom. The chancellor of the exchequer has just given millions more money to the police.
"Im hoping our [PSNI] chief constable is going to get a lot more money too, to chase down and run down ISIL terrorists, if they are here."
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A 19-year-old man charged with the murder of a US tourist in a knife attack in London's Russell Square has been remanded in custody.
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A video in which football fans can be heard singing anti-Semitic insults is being investigated by police.
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The 1983 Mental Health Act would be scrapped and replaced with new laws governing treatment, under Conservative plans for England and Wales.
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Republic of Ireland manager Martin O'Neill insists injured striker Jonathan Walters could still feature during their Euro 2016 campaign.
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Cipriani kicked all of Sale's points - four penalties and a drop-goal - as they beat Wasps 15-9 on Saturday.
The 28 year old missed out to Saracens' Owen Farrell and Bath's George Ford for a place at last year's World Cup.
"He's playing really well. I think he's pushing himself into that potential England squad," said Diamond.
"Certainly with Bath in the doldrums, you learn more playing for a club like Sale when it doesn't always go well and you have to learn how to develop as a player.
"Danny's done that over the past two or three years, hence why he said last week that he wants to stay around for the next couple of years."
Ford, who started the World Cup as England's first choice fly-half, is part of a Bath side that sit eighth in the Premiership, while Farrell's Saracens are unbeaten so far this season.
Cipriani, who signed a new two-year contract at Sale last February, will hope to be included in new England head coach Eddie Jones' first squad.
"He understands what he's got to do," added Diamond. "He's had a rough time goal-kicking and he's put the hours in.
"We virtually open the stadium here every day for him to practice.
"It's just been his maturity as a player. As a bloke, he's grown out of all of his shenanigans when he came, and we're three or four years down the line now."
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Sale fly-half Danny Cipriani's form this season is edging him into England's Six Nations squad, says Sharks director of rugby Steve Diamond.
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The churning of glaciers spews many space rocks out on to the surface in Antarctica, but compared to elsewhere on Earth, few of them are made of iron.
Based on modelling and lab experiments, scientists say the missing metallic rocks might be burying themselves, by melting the ice as sunlight heats them.
To prove their idea, the team now wants to look for the rocks themselves.
"The study is proposing a hypothesis - these samples should be there. We just have to go and locate them," said Dr Katherine Joy from the University of Manchester, a co-author of the paper published in Nature Communications.
Antarctica is known by meteorite specialists as a fruitful hunting ground, because the rocks are collected from their landing sites by glacial flows and transported to concentrated dumping-grounds.
"The great thing about Antarctica is they fall on the ice, and then the ice progressively moves away from the plateau. And where it hits these barriers, along the Transantarctic Mountains, the ice gets moved up," Dr Joy told the BBC.
"So this continuous conveyor belt has delivered meteorites from the interior fall sites to the 'meteorite stranding zones' for the past couple of million years or so."
Among this Antarctic haul, however, researchers have noticed that iron-rich meteorites - whether partly or wholly made of the metal - are surprisingly scarce, compared to the percentage collected in other places around the world.
Dr Joy and her colleagues think they may have discovered why.
They froze two small meteorites of similar size and shape, one made of iron and the other rocky and non-metallic, inside blocks of ice. A special lamp was trained on the ice from above, to mimic the rays of the Sun.
Both meteorites, on repeated trials, melted their way downward through the ice block. But because the metal conducts heat more efficiently, the iron meteorite sank further, faster.
The researchers then expanded that observation using a mathematical simulation. Their model showed that this Sun-driven burrowing would be enough to cause iron-rich rocks to sink so much during the long summer days that, over the course of the year, it would account fairly precisely for the lack of iron space rocks welling their way to the surface of the Antarctic "stranding zones".
"The idea is, they never make it to the surface. They're forever trapped, 50-100cm or so below the ice," Dr Joy explained.
That means, if the team's findings are to be believed, that the hunt is on.
As Dr Joy's Manchester colleague Geoffrey Evatt put it: "The challenge is now set - to be the first team to locate this reserve of meteorites and retrieve samples from it."
Of all the meteorites gathered from Antarctica, only a handful - so far - have been pulled out from beneath the ice. This is mostly for practical reasons, Dr Joy said.
"When it's very cold... picking up the sample in a controlled way is difficult enough with things sitting on the surface. To access ones that are subsurface - nobody's really tried to do that so far."
So it will not be easy, but the team hopes that radar and metal detectors might help target the search. And the potential rewards are high.
"Every meteorite we find tells us something new about the Solar System," Dr Joy said.
Some are carbon-rich or rocky remnants from long before any planet clumped together; others - like iron and rocky-iron meteorites - offer clues from a more intermediate stage, when baby planets with cores, mantles and crusts were trying to form.
"The iron group represents meteorites that were once the cores and the internal structures of different planetesimals.
"We think there were probably hundreds of these early planets, that formed in the solar system but never really got big enough and were broken up in collision events."
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They say dozens of people are still missing since the landslide on Saturday night at the Koshe landfill. A resident said 150 people were there at the time.
A number of makeshift houses are now buried under tonnes of waste.
The area has been a dumping ground for Addis Ababa's rubbish for more than five decades.
A city spokeswoman told AP news agency that many children were among the dead.
There are fears the death toll could rise further.
Local resident Musa Suleiman Abdulah told AFP he heard "a big sound" and saw "something like a tornado... rushing to us" when the landslide occurred.
Tebeju Asres said that the family's house had been swallowed by the landslide.
"My mother and three of my sisters were there when the landslide happened. Now I don't know the fate of all of them," he told AP.
Hundreds of people attempt to make a living by scavenging at the landfill site, sifting through the rubbish for items they can sell, the BBC's Emmanuel Igunza in Addis Ababa reports.
Some people even resided at the rubbish dump permanently.
The authorities have been building Africa's first waste-to-energy plant near the landfill.
They plan to burn rubbish generated by the capital's estimated four million people and convert it into electricity.
The 37-year-old American took her second match point on teenager Kuzmova's serve to win 6-3 3-6 6-2.
Williams has seven Grand Slam singles titles, while Kuzmova was making her main-draw debut at tour level.
"I didn't do a lot wrong, she just just stepped it up," said Williams, who is aiming for her first major since 2008.
Williams, who has not won the title at Flushing Meadows since 2001, reached her first Slam final since 2009 when she lost to Garbine Muguruza at Wimbledon earlier this year.
Victory would make her the oldest female Grand Slam champion in the Open era, and could see her return to top of the world rankings for the first time since July 2002.
Williams is one of seven women left in the draw who could reach top spot, with British number one Johanna Konta's chance disappearing when she suffered a shock defeat by Serbia's Aleksandra Krunic.
"I just want to win, and if you win you get the ranking. Winning is all I want to do," added Williams.
That's what the rhetoric is suggesting. But details of the ground-breaking announcements on health and social care in Greater Manchester are still patchy.
The jury will be out for a while, but opinion formers in the health world are favourably disposed at this stage.
News of such significance is often trailed in a controlled way with a few outlines released in advanced followed by the full package at a pre-planned press conference.
It was nothing of the sort this time.
The announcement was a genuine surprise - there had been no nudges and winks in preceding weeks.
It was leaked by over-eager councillors in the Manchester area briefing BBC Radio Manchester and the Manchester Evening News. Well done to them on a fine scoop.
I gather NHS England chiefs were livid that their thunder had been stolen by local authority sources in Manchester.
They had planned to unveil the plan in the city today once the memorandum of understanding had been signed.
The merger of health and social care for 2.7m people will be one of the most significant developments on Simon Stevens' watch.
Understandably he wanted to be in control of the announcement.
The Chancellor George Osborne, unsurprisingly, was smiling as he delivered a brief TV clip after the story broke.
It fits in well with his Northern powerhouse agenda and the devolution of power and money from Whitehall to Manchester which he set in train last autumn.
Cynics might think it all looks rather convenient with the election barely two months away.
But I am told that his contacts amongst Greater Manchester councillors were important in facilitating an agreement.
A Chancellor of the Exchequer has the clout across national and regional government to make things happen.
So with the Chancellor and Simon Stevens of NHS England unveiling the plan in Manchester today, what have we learned?
The first thing which has been made clear is that this is a joint initiative involving local authorities and the GPs who head the local health commissioning groups.
The idea that £6 billion was being handed to local councillors was always wrong.
A new strategic health and social care partnership board will have representatives from the councils, hospitals and other providers, clinical commissioning groups and local NHS England management.
It has been emphasised that the deal does not amount to another reorganisation of the NHS.
The new structure in Manchester will have to work to standards on care and patient rights and meet statutory duties set out in the NHS Constitution.
Even so Simon Stevens described it as the greatest integration and devolution of care since the creation of the NHS in 1948.
The £6 billion annual budget which has been much talked about includes a mix of money already provided to the local health economy and funds devolved from the centre by NHS England.
About £1.5 billion currently spent by NHS England will be handed to the new Greater Manchester body.
This includes money spent on specialised commissioning, for example treatments of rare diseases, and on GP services. The £6 billion pooled budget will also include funding for public health and social care at present held in town halls.
There is no doubt of the excitement amongst health and civic leaders in Greater Manchester, with "defining moment" and "unprecedented agreement" spicing up the press releases.
There is a genuine conviction that the new arrangements will help move the region from one with some of the worst health outcomes to the best.
Joined up thinking and spending, its argued, will promote prevention and care outside hospitals which can only improve the lives of residents.
And yet.....it will be a huge undertaking.
The structure, we are told, will be in place by April 2016 and fully functional a year later.
Remember, this has never before been tried in England. It will be on a bigger scale than the integrated health and social care system in Northern Ireland which has been operational since the 1970s.
There are suspicions in the health world that local councillors will distort priorities for the NHS.
A former clinical director of an NHS drug and alcohol service warned in The Guardian today that devolving this service to a local authority had resulted in it being outsourced because of local government competitive tendering rules.
Few doubt that the prize of genuine health and social care integration is well worth striving for. But delivering it is a big ask.
There will be unintended consequences and continued questions about whether this is the beginning of a fragmentation of the NHS in England.
Perhaps the old cliche is applicable here - only time will tell.
Police sealed off Cimla Road, Neath, on Thursday morning following its discovery at the bottom of Cimla Hill.
Although it was only 1.5ft (0.5m) wide on the surface, the council said the void below was 20ft (6m) wide and deep.
The road was due to reopen to cars at about 18:00 GMT on Sunday, after the hole was filled with 64 tonnes of concrete and stone.
Local councillor John Warman praised the authority's highways teams for "pulling out all the stops" to get the road repaired.
He described it as one of the busiest roads in the area - feeding 24 junctions, with refuse collections also hit by the closure.
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M&S chief executive Steve Rowe is also expected to announce a shake-up of its international operations.
Mr Rowe will provide an update on the retailer's latest trading performance on Tuesday.
Smaller M&S branches in weaker High Streets are forecast to bear the brunt of the cuts.
According to Sky News, the closures would number in the "low dozens" while other shops will reallocate space away from clothing to its more successful food operations.
M&S has over 300 full-range sites and nearly 600 Simply Food shops.
Mr Rowe, who took over the top job in April, said that improving clothing and homeware sales was his number one priority.
He outlined the first part of his strategy in May, including price cuts and promotions to help win shoppers back that were expected to dent profits in the short term.
In July, the group posted its worst quarterly sales figures for a decade.
His focus will now turn to the size of the retailer's UK store portfolio, and the international division where profits slumped last year.
Like many other retailers, M&S is grappling with changing shopping habits as increasing numbers of purchases are made online.
It is already trying to simplify its business by cutting hundreds of jobs at its head office in London.
A spokesman for M&S declined to comment.
The Bluebirds become the fourth Championship club currently under a transfer embargo, joining Bolton, Fulham and Nottingham Forest.
The embargo will be in place for the rest of the January transfer window.
Cardiff say they "have complied with the FFP requirements for season 2014-15 - contrary to the League's position."
A Bluebirds statement added: "As such, further advice will be sought, prior to a decision being made internally as to whether or not an appeal will be lodged."
Last season's Championship clubs had to submit their FFP returns by 1 December and a maximum loss of £6m was allowed, subject to certain deductions.
But BBC Wales Sport understands Cardiff exceeded the limit as owner Vincent Tan turned £13m of debt to equity, as well as investing a further £3m.
Cardiff's accounts are to be published in March and chairman Mehmet Dalman says they will show a profit for the year to June 2014.
The club's statement added: "Whilst extremely disappointed that the Football League has decided to take this action, we will remain co-operative and compliant with the League's position in respect of FFP.
"Cardiff City Football Club again expects to trade within the set FFP limits for 2015/16 and therefore anticipates full participation in the summer 2016 transfer window."
It is the second time in six years that Cardiff have had such a sanction imposed upon them.
Asked why the club were being hit with a transfer embargo, Dalman replied: "It's a very technical answer to that question; we have actually been in dialogue with the Football Association for the past ten days to two weeks.
"Unfortunately in a meeting where different interpretations were applied, they (the Football Association) have come up with the conclusion we haven't complied (with FFP).
"We are disappointed. We will look into it and will consider and take advice on an appeal, but within the spirit of the rules the League have put to us."
Cardiff, owned by Malaysian businessman Tan, lie ninth in the table.
Health officials said the 36-year-old man tested positive last Saturday and has been quarantined near Manila.
In February, a Filipino nurse who returned home after working in the Middle East was found with the virus, but later recovered.
Mers, which has no known cure, has killed nearly 500 people worldwide.
Asian countries have been on alert for cases of the flu-like virus since an outbreak in May in South Korea, where 33 people have now died.
South Korea has had 186 confirmed Mers cases, with 907 people under quarantine as of Monday, according to tYonhap news agency.
China, Malaysia and Thailand also have confirmed Mers cases, although these have been relatively more isolated. Last week, Thailand said a man who was its only Mers case so far had made a full recovery.
Philippine health officials said in a televised press conference on Monday that the infected man was quarantined at the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine in Muntinlupa city, about 30km (18 miles) south of the capital, Manila.
He flew to Manila on a flight from Dubai, after making a stopover in Saudi Arabia. Officials declined to state the date of his arrival and his nationality, but said he was originally from the Middle East, reported GMA News.
He began showing symptoms last Thursday, and on Saturday he was admitted to the research facility where he tested positive.
Health Secretary Janette Garin said there were indications that the patient was already recovering, as he had low levels of the virus.
Authorities are now tracing 200 people who came into contact with the patient, and at least one person showing symptoms has already been quarantined.
Last week a man who was Thailand's first confirmed case of Mers was declared free of the virus and discharged from hospital.
The World Health Organization says that since September 2012, it has been notified of 1,365 confirmed cases of Mers worldwide, including Mers-related 487 related deaths.
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Sgt Louise Lucas, 41, a mother-of-three, was airlifted to hospital but later died. Her eight-year-old daughter suffered minor injuries in the incident on The Kingsway on Tuesday.
Swansea council has said it is taking action to improve safety on the road.
Temporary barriers are to be installed along the central reservation.
Cllr Mark Thomas, Swansea Council's cabinet member for environment and transportation, said: "We are now taking immediate steps to further improve safety for pedestrians by introducing temporary barriers along the central reservation on The Kingsway.
"We will also be holding urgent discussions with the police and bus operators to consider further safety measures which, subject to their agreement, may include re-routing buses and potentially changing the direction in which they travel on The Kingsway."
Swansea council dropped the speed limit to 20mph last year as an initial response to calls for improved safety on The Kingsway.
Sgt Lucas' son Grant, 21, paid tribute to his mother with a post on Facebook.
It read: "On behalf of the family, we would like to thank all friends for their support.
"I am absolutely well and truly gutted. It's mad how my mum and I became much closer over the last couple of weeks and had it all planned out!
"Mum was the best there is and was simply amazing. I love you with all my heart and WILL make you so so proud RIP Mum."
Colleagues from South Wales Police also took to social media to pay tribute to Sgt Lucas, who was based at Llanishen police station in Cardiff where she ran neighbourhood policing teams.
South Wales Police east division tweeted that the "communities of Llanishen, Rhiwbina, and Thornhill lost a police officer who really cared".
The sentiment was echoed by Alun Michael, Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales, who tweeted she was a great loss to her family, the force and the community.
Richard Jones, a special chief officer at Gwent Police, described her as an "exceptional lady", adding that he had worked with her several times.
Richard Lewis, a senior officer for territorial policing at South Wales Police, said her death was "incredibly sad".
Steve Trigg, chair of the South Wales Police Federation who had known her for a number of years, said: "She was really well respected.
"It is just a huge loss to her family, her friends and to South Wales Police."
In a statement, Chief Constable Peter Vaughan said: "Louise was a great police officer who was universally respected and was dedicated to her role of serving the communities of South Wales.
"The many tributes which have been paid to Louise are a reflection of how highly she was regarded not only by her colleagues in the police service but by the wider community."
Sgt Lucas's husband Gavin played rugby for Newport, Pontypool and Cardiff. He is also head coach at Llandaff North RFC, who have cancelled all their Easter fixtures.
A spokesman for Llandaff North RFC said: "We at the club send Gavin, the children and all Louise's friends and family our deepest condolences and warmest thoughts at this most difficult and painful of times.
"The North family stands beside you. As a mark of respect all matches scheduled for this weekend have been postponed."
Nearly 3,000 people have signed a petition calling for changes, including a return to a traditional two-way system on the road.
The current system has two lanes of traffic travelling in the same direction on one side of the road, but two lanes of traffic going in opposite directions on the other.
Tuesday's incident has been highlighted by an online petition calling for more road changes, saying: "Too many people have been injured and now a young lady has lost her life."
There have been a number of accidents on the road over the last few years and in September 2013, Daniel Foss, 37, from Reynoldston, Gower, died after being struck by a National Express bus.
First Cymru Bus said staff were "working with the police to establish exactly what happened" in the incident with a X11 bus on Tuesday shortly before 11:25 BST.
South Wales Police are continuing to investigate and witnesses are asked to call 101.
Sir Declan Morgan said the cuts to the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service would impact on "access to justice".
Mr Ford was briefing the justice committee on his department's budget for 2015-16.
He said the matter would be raised at his next meeting with Sir Declan.
Alban Maginness of the SDLP asked the minister how a justice system could be run with the number of courthouses cut from 22 to 10, "a reduction of 45% since 2013".
Mr Ford said it was not a matter of the number of courthouses but "the capacity of the courthouse" and accessibility.
He said the Lord Chief Justice was approaching the matter from his own perspective and that of the judiciary, but Mr Ford had to deal with a very difficult budget settlement.
The minister briefed members on proposed changes to the legal aid budget, which he said was "the key risk to the department living within its budget".
He said legal aid reforms had already reduced costs by £22m.
"The demand for legal aid has consistently exceeded the available budget," Mr Ford said.
He listed some of the areas where he proposed to introduce measures "reducing the scope of legal aid".
Turning to the public service voluntary redundancy scheme, the minister said a total of 195 staff from his department and associated bodies would be required to leave.
He said there were associated dangers if the target for leavers was not achieved.
Ulster Unionist Tom Elliott asked whether any part of the policing budget was ring-fenced.
The minister said the police received "£28.5m specifically from the Treasury for security funding".
Mr Ford and department of justice officials then briefed the committee on proposals to change the arrangements for appointing members to the policing board.
He said the nine independent members of the board were appointed to the board for four years, and this had led to a considerable loss of experience and skills at the end of this period.
The minister was proposing a staggered appointments system, which would make for "a more gradual and phased approach".
Mr Ford said he also believed the rates of remuneration for policing board members were "very significantly in excess of those of any public body across Northern Ireland" and that this was "unsustainable" in the current financial climate.
He proposed that the remuneration for ordinary members be reduced from £19,400 to £12,000 pa.
The warning by independent experts funded by the Cabinet Office came after they looked at deaths before 75 in 2011-12 in more than 200 local areas.
In each area, the premature mortality rate was higher among those with mental health problems.
But in 51 areas, it was judged to be "particularly worrying".
It is well known that people with mental health problems die earlier. But this is the first time death rates have been analysed down to a local level.
Overall, the premature death rate among those with mental health problems was 2.4 times higher than that of the general population.
The review- by the Open Public Services Network, part of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce - said the physical health needs of people with mental health problems were not being addressed.
The findings mirror a recent report by the Nuffield Trust think tank and come as NHS England is preparing to unveil its new strategy for mental health services.
Report author Charlotte Alldritt said with one in six people suffering from a mental health problem each year it was vital the NHS improved services.
"We need to narrow this gap across the board," she said.
"Everywhere can do better, but the areas that are doing even worse than you would expect are particularly worrying.
"What our research showed was that some of this is relatively easy to prevent.
"It is about making sure they get basic checks for things such as diabetes and high cholesterol."
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The report found that while suicide was undoubtedly a "significant" factor in the high number of early deaths, poor physical health was likely to be responsible for about two-thirds of it.
Researchers looked at 200 different sources of data as part of their review and found those with mental illness were:
Those identified with the very worst performance on premature deaths were the places where rates were above average and where there was the biggest difference between mortality in the general population and those with mental health problems.
Many of these areas have high levels of deprivation, as would be expected, but a number of relatively affluent places were also flagged up.
For example, Bath and North East Somerset, Wokingham and the London borough of Kingston all had premature death rates in the general population below the national average but high rates among those with mental illness.
Paul Farmer, of the mental health charity Mind, said the report should act as a "wake-up call".
"It is shocking that people with severe mental health problems die much younger than the general population, often from preventable conditions which ought be picked up through routine testing and screening," he added.
Mental Health Minister Alistair Burt said the issues highlighted by the report were "really important" and needed addressing.
The mass of fat and wet-wipes has built up and hardened, causing the sewer under Hollybush Row to collapse.
Anthony Crawford from Thames Water said: "Wet-wipes cling to the fat, fat clings to the wipes and pretty soon your fatberg is out of control."
The firm said the road would be closed for two weeks from 7 April.
Mr Crawford said: "We're really sorry to anyone inconvenienced by our work.
"However, it is vital we clear this blockage before people suffer the misery of sewer flooding."
Last year, Thames Water removed a 15-tonne "bus-sized lump" of food fat mixed with wet-wipes from underneath Kingston-upon-Thames.
Sadiq Khan called the targets "crude" and said allowing local areas control of where they prioritise work would "restore real neighbourhood policing".
The draft plan also proposes that each ward will have two dedicated police officers and suggests measures to cut knife crime and improve victim support.
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said the plan would enable "the best police service".
The "MOPAC 7" targets were introduced by Boris Johnson and aimed to reduce crimes by at least 20% in seven categories: burglary, vandalism/criminal damage, theft from motor vehicles, theft of motor vehicles, violence with injury, robbery, and theft from the person.
But the policy was recently criticised by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary who said police efforts were too focussed on these crimes resulting in children being "put at risk".
Mr Khan said his police plan would "make sure local priorities reflect local concerns" and "build trust and confidence in policing".
Other proposals include:
Sir Bernard, the Met commissioner, said the force would "need to change the way it recruits, operates, and evolves".
"These changes will touch every element of our organisation, making us more diverse [and] more efficient," he said.
A public consultation will take place until 23 February with the final plan published by the end of March 2017.
Cockroft, who won three wheelchair track golds at the Rio Games and two at London 2012, believes American support for the Paralympics would be most beneficial for the movement.
"If America can fall in love with us, then I feel like the rest of the world will follow," said the 24-year-old.
Paris and Budapest are also candidates.
The Paralympics currently gets little mainstream media coverage in the United States but Cockroft hopes staging the event there will change that and raise the profile of athletes.
Cockroft, a guest editor at BBC Sport on Friday, said: "America is a country which hasn't really embraced the Paralympic movement as yet, whereas because London 2012 did such a good job, Europe has already done that.
"At the moment, the coverage of Paralympic athletes [in America] is quite poor and it would nice to be able to change that."
As for her own chances of competing in 2024, Cockroft, who has won Paralympic gold in events from 100m up to 800m, added: "Let's just concentrate on Tokyo in 2020 first."
Harry Reid accused FBI director James Comey of violating an act which bars officials from influencing an election.
News of the FBI inquiry comes less than two weeks before the US election.
The bureau has meanwhile obtained a warrant to search a cache of emails belonging to a top Clinton aide.
Emails from Huma Abedin are believed to have been found on the laptop of her estranged husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner.
There are reportedly 650,000 emails to search through on the laptop, making it unlikely investigators can give a verdict on them before election day.
Mr Reid also accused Mr Comey of withholding "explosive information about close ties between [Republican candidate] Donald Trump, his top advisers, and the Russian government".
"The public has a right to know about this information. I wrote to you months ago calling for this information to be released to the public," Mr Reid said.
The FBI believes the emails might be "pertinent" to its previous inquiry into Mrs Clinton's use of a private server when she was secretary of state in the Obama administration.
The case was closed in July without any charges being brought against Mrs Clinton.
Mr Weiner is subject to a separate investigation on suspicion of sending sexually explicit messages to an underage girl.
In a letter, Mr Reid accused Mr Comey of practising double standards with the intention of helping one political party over another.
He said Mr Comey may have violated the Hatch Act, which bars officials from using their position to influence an election.
"Through your partisan actions, you may have broken the law," he said.
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Richard Painter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and the chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, revealed on Sunday he had filed a complaint against the FBI with the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates Hatch Act violations.
Writing in the New York Times he said: "I never thought that the FBI could be dragged into a political circus surrounding one of its investigations. Until this week."
The act, passed in 1939, prevents federal employees from using their positions to benefit a particular political party. It also applies to some state, Washington DC and local government employees.
The legislation was named after Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico, who campaigned against federal employees' political activities during elections. It was amended in 1993 to clarify that most federal staff can work on partisan campaigns in their own time.
With little more than a week to go before the 8 November election, opinion polls suggested that Mrs Clinton's lead against Mr Trump was tightening even before the email controversy surfaced again.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll published on Sunday put Mrs Clinton just one percentage point ahead.
Mrs Clinton has described Mr Comey's actions as "unprecedented" and "deeply troubling".
But Mr Trump has praised the FBI's decision, accusing the justice department of protecting Mrs Clinton in a "rigged system".
"The department of justice is trying their hardest to protect the criminal activity of Hillary Clinton," Mr Trump told a rally in Nevada.
It emerged on Sunday that the department had urged the FBI not to inform Congress of the new inquiry so close to the election.
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The BBC can reveal the report, to be released next week, will argue that Brexit would create a series of economic shocks which would have an impact on housing, employment and wages.
Mortgage rates would also rise, it claims.
George Osborne told me that in the event of Britain leaving the EU there would be an "immediate shock" to the economy, increased uncertainty and financial market turmoil.
That could lead to "people being poorer" and a fall in house prices.
"Next week the Treasury is going to publish an analysis of what the immediate impact will be and one consequence of leaving the European Union is that there would be a hit to the value of people's homes of at least 10% and up to 18%," he said, speaking at the G7 summit of finance ministers in Sendai, north Japan.
"At the same time mortgages will get more expensive, and mortgage rates will go up."
Many economists dispute that, saying the Bank of England may actually reduce interest rates to provide an economic stimulus in the event of a Brexit.
That could lead to lower mortgage rates, although the Treasury argues that if financial conditions deteriorated more generally, borrowing costs could increase for banks and that may lead to higher costs for homeowners.
Supporters of Britain leaving the EU argue that taking the "froth" off house prices would be good for people struggling to get on the housing ladder, and lower levels of immigration over the longer term would reduce demand, making house buying easier.
I asked the Chancellor if lower house prices could actually be seen as a positive thing, particularly for first time buyers.
"You don't get affordable homes by wrecking the economy," he told me.
The average house price in the UK is just under £300,000.
That is expected to rise between 8% and 10% over the next two years, meaning that under the Treasury Brexit scenario, house prices could actually fall in absolute terms.
Many who say buying a home in the UK is far too expensive may welcome that.
Mr Osborne also said that any negotiations with the other 27 states of the EU if Britain were to leave would be costly.
There is expected to be a bill attached to that in the Treasury analysis.
"It is absolutely clear if you speak to finance ministers here, from France, from Germany, from other European countries, that if Britain left the EU and wanted access to the single market - the access we need for jobs and investment at home - then we would have to pay into the EU budget and we would have to accept free movement of people," he said.
That position was backed up by Michel Sapin, the French finance minister, who told me that it was wrong to believe that the UK would gain access to the single market without the "free circulation of people".
Although he said negotiations would be "friendly", there would be a bill for the UK to pay.
"It is an illusion to think that by having a free trade negotiation you will have more than what you have right now," he said.
Backers of Britain leaving the EU say that Britain would fare better outside the constraints of the present single market, and would be able to agree free trade agreements similar to those signed by countries such as South Korea.
It is also pointed out that America and China, which do not have separate deals with the EU, also have strong trading relationships with the single market.
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Barnes, 29, was level with his 20-year-old opponent after two rounds but Carmona, ranked 26 in the world, took the verdict in the final three minutes.
Belfast man Barnes was hoping to win a third Olympic medal having secured bronze at Beijing and London.
"It was so hard making the weight," said Barnes after his defeat.
"I just made the weight this morning. About six weeks ago, I was 58 kilos and now I'm down to 49. Halfway through the first round, I felt so tired.
"This weight category is not for me. I need to move up," added Barnes, Ireland's flag bearer at Friday's opening ceremony.
"The fight could have gone either way but I'm actually glad he got it because there is no way I could have had the energy to fight another fight at this weight."
The Chinese judge gave the verdict to Barnes 29-28, but the Canadian and Uzbek judges scored it 29-28 to his opponent.
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The surprise defeat of their captain is a further blow for the Irish boxing team after another member of the team failed a drugs test.
Barnes said he was "devastated" by Monday's loss after going into the event as one of the favourites to win gold.
"I really truly believed I would come away with the gold medal and for it to be taken away at the first hurdle is heartbreaking," he added.
Barnes has hinted he intends to turn professional after the Games and acknowledged his Olympic career is now almost certainly over.
"I don't know about another Olympics but you will still see Paddy Barnes in the ring," he said.
Kazimierz Radloff, 64, from Dudley, was found dead on 6 July last year.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said that two days before he was found relatives warned he indicated he intended to kill himself.
There was no indication earlier police intervention would have altered the outcome, the IPCC said.
West Midlands Police have now decided three police constables and an acting inspector will have to answer a case for misconduct.
They would be "subject to management action including words of advice," the IPCC said.
The investigation found police initially treated Mr Radloff as someone in breach of bail conditions rather than as a vulnerable missing person, it said.
Evidence indicated a lack of intelligence checks and information sharing meant opportunities were missed to escalate the search, the watchdog said.
The IPCC also said it recommended to the force that all officers should receive guidance on working with interpreters.
Mr Radloff committed suicide his inquest in August last year found.
FanDuel said it would launch a new fantasy football platform in early August after striking a partnership deal with sports data provider Opta.
Under the deal, Opta will provide live performance statistics for FanDuel, which was set up in Edinburgh in 2009.
Details of the new platform have yet to be unveiled but FanDuel said it would focus on the English Premier League.
It marks FanDuel's first foray outside the North American market.
The company has offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow but moved its headquarters to New York several years ago.
It became one of the two giants of the fantasy sports sector, along with US-based Draft Kings.
FanDuel now lays claim to six million registered users across the US and Canada.
Its technology platform has allowed fans of the four main American sports to pick fantasy teams from real players, and follow their performances.
However, fantasy sports companies in the US have faced legal challenges from state regulators and legislators, who have argued that the online games are based on chance rather than skill.
In a statement, FanDuel said it was ready to take "the first step in international expansion plans" by launching in the UK in early August.
Karol Corcoran, director of international marketing at FanDuel, said: "We are thrilled to be working with Opta, they're a world-leader in their field.
"Their expertise and data will add to the excitement of our live game experience, letting users watch their fantasy team rack up points as the real games play out on the pitch.
"Opta's stats also play a critical role in our unique scoring system, which considers the contribution of every player on the pitch, not just those who score goals - ensuring a more realistic and compelling reflection of the on-field action."
He added: "Our team has spent a lot of time on developing the right product for the UK's football fans and we've already had a lot of positive feedback from users during our beta contest phase, which was rolled out during the 2016 Euros.
"We can't wait to bring the full product to market."
A Coastguard helicopter, an RNLI lifeboat crew and police were called to sea cliffs near Thurso at about 13:20.
Police Scotland said the woman's next of kin had been informed and that the incident did not appear to be suspicious.
Police added that officers' inquiries were continuing.
Coleman, 27, is said to have suffered minor injuries after members of the public broke into the changing room.
Nottinghamshire Police are investigating the incident which occurred after the day's last race.
Two men and one woman were arrested on suspicion of assault and damage, and another woman for obstructing police.
Meanwhile, a Southwell stewards' report stated that Irishman Coleman, fellow jockeys Adam Pogson and Tom Scudamore, and officials had been interviewed. The information gathered will be forwarded to the British Horseracing Authority.
Coleman told the Racing Post: "Two of them burst into the changing room and when they were asked to leave it all kicked off.
"I think they had drunk that much they didn't know what they were doing."
Coleman, who has won 54 races in Britain this season, partnered Mon Mome in the Grand National on three occasions, but passed up the ride in 2009 when the 100-1 outsider won the race.
He is due to ride at Chepstow on Wednesday.
The move is part of attempts to fight workplace discrimination.
The UK has a gender pay gap of 18.1% for all workers, or 9.4% for full-time employees.
Public, private and voluntary sector firms will all be required to publish the figures by this time next year, disclosing average pay for men and women, including any bonuses.
About half of the UK workforce will be affected by the new reporting rules, which encompass 9,000 employers and more than 15 million employees.
Firms must publish a snapshot of their employee pay as at 5 April 2017 if they are a private business or charity, or 31 March 2017 for those in the public sector.
A few companies including Virgin Money and Deloitte have already published their figures. All the data will eventually be available on a central government database.
If employers fail to comply by the April 2018 deadline, they will be contacted by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.
Companies that discover they do have a gender pay gap will be encouraged to publish an action plan alongside the figures detailing the steps they plan to take to address the problem.
Other countries are also working to eradicate the gender pay gap. Iceland is debating a bill that would require companies with more than 25 employees to prove they do not discriminate between male and female workers.
The country has the smallest gap, according to the World Economic Forum's Gender Pay Gap Index, while the UK is in 20th place.
By April 2018, large and mid-sized companies in the UK must:
•Publish their median gender pay gap figures, which compare the pay of the man and woman who are at the mid-point of the company payroll.
•Publish their mean gender pay gap figures - produced by dividing the total payroll by the number of workers.
•Publish the proportion of men and women in each quarter of the pay structure.
•Publish the gender pay gaps for bonuses
The gender pay gap and equal pay are two different things. The former is the difference in average earnings between men and woman. Equal pay, or paying men and woman the same amount to do the same job, has been a legal requirement for more than 40 years.
"Today sees a big step forward in the journey to achieve gender parity in the UK," said Emma Codd from Deloitte UK, which already publishes figures on its gender pay gap.
"For the first time people will be able to see the gender pay gap of large employers at one fixed point in time, with this gap measured and reported in a consistent way."
But Sam Bowman from the Adam Smith Institute, described the new measure as "counterproductive".
"It reinforces the idea that the gender wage gap is caused by discrimination by firms against women," he said.
"In fact, it's more to do with the fact that women are expected to take quite a lot of time out of their jobs after they have children, which interrupts their career progression, and many switch to part-time work when they do return to work.
"We have more of a motherhood pay gap than a gender pay gap. That gap can be closed by encouraging men to handle a more equal share of child-rearing time and by consumers preferring firms that take the lead in giving flexibility to working mothers."
The latest stranding took place on Marazion Beach near Penzance, in front of St Michael's Mount.
A carpet of sardines and other fish appeared on the beach on Saturday evening and many remained there on Monday.
Experts believe it may be because fishing boats have had to release part of their catch.
The bulk of the fish appear to be sardines, with some mackerel and herring also washed up.
Witness Katrina Slack said: "I've never seen anything like it. It was like the waves were made of fish."
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Earlier this month there was a stranding at Pentewan Beach near St Austell, about 40 miles from Marazion.
Fishing industry representatives say the most likely reason was down to "ring netters".
The boats work by encircling shoals, or part of shoals, with a large net before closing it up into a circle on the surface.
When they catch too many fish there is a danger of the boat being pulled under.
To prevent this some of the fish can be released from the bottom of the net, but they usually die.
There are about fifteen of the boats operating along the south Cornish coast between Plymouth and Mounts Bay, and they have been busy in recent weeks.
Simon Cadman from the Cornwall Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority said "the numbers of fish have been exceptionally high."
He said: "We can't be 100% sure, but there's a strong likelihood this is to do with ring netters.
"This is not good in any respect and fishermen, like anybody else, don't want to see this amount of fish ending up as seagull fodder.
"We are talking to them about what has gone wrong to try and stop it happening again."
Debbie Crockard from the Marine Conservation Society said: "This is not illegal but it's not something we want to see happening.
"It needs to be looked at as fishermen don't want it either. The safety of fishermen is important, but we should find a way to avoid getting into the situation in the first place."
Paul Trebilcock from the Cornish Fish Producers' Organisation said he did not think fishermen were intentionally throwing away their catch.
He said: "Sometimes they simply catch too many fish for the ring netters to handle and they escape or need to be released.
"This has nothing to do with quotas, but simply too many fish in the sea in this case."
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He told the Commons liaison committee he could not give a "cast iron guarantee" the target would be met.
But he rejected calls from MPs for it to be dropped.
Net migration - the number coming to the UK for at least a year, minus the numbers leaving - rose 58,000 to 212,000 in the year to September 2013.
Mr Cameron conceded he had no control over some of the key factors feeding into the net migration figure, such as the number of people emigrating from the UK, but he said: "My commitment is to do everything I can to make progress towards that target and that's what we should do."
He said the difference between people leaving to work in other EU countries and coming to the UK had been "in broad balance" over time "so the way you get net migration down is by reducing migration from outside the EU" which he said was down by a third since the coalition came to power.
The first official figures on the number of migrants to have arrived from Bulgaria and Romania since restrictions were lifted on 1 January are due to be released on Wednesday.
Home Affairs Committee chairman Keith Vaz told Mr Cameron said the figures would show that 30,000 people had arrived in the UK from those countries.
Mr Cameron said he did not want to comment ahead of the figures, but said it was "remarkable" how many EU migrants had come from countries like Spain and Italy, rather than new EU states in Eastern Europe.
Quizzed by Mr Vaz about the difference between his stance on EU migration and that of UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who wants to end free movement into the UK and reintroduce a work permit system, he said: "I'm not entirely sure what his view is.
"It's sort of just 'put the barricades up and pretend that these organisations don't work'."
In March, Conservative MP Mark Field called for the Conservative Party to drop its net migration target, saying it was "impractical", harmed Britain's global competitiveness and was clearly not going to be met.
Lib Dem business secretary Vince Cable has also disowned the target, stressing that it was a Conservative and not a coalition government policy.
Mr Cameron also agreed to look at a proposal by Bernard Jenkin, Tory chairman of the public administration committee, to improve the system for estimating net migration.
At the moment it is based on a survey of passengers carried out at airports and ports. Plans to count all migrants in and out through an e-borders scheme have been "downgraded".
Mr Cameron conceded that the existing system has got "inadequacies because it is a survey" but experts, including the Office for National Statistics, had said it was the best way of measuring migration.
He said people were increasingly being counted out as they went through passport control and full exit checks would be in place by next year - but he would examine Mr Jenkins' call for an extra £15m to improve the collection of migration figures.
Labour's Shadow Immigration Minister David Hanson said Mr Cameron's comments showed the Conservatives were "failing" on immigration.
"No amount of bluster from David Cameron will change the fact that he promised categorically to get net migration down to the tens of thousands but it is actually rising, not falling."
In September, blue paint was used on a sample of privately-owned Dartmoor ponies to test its durability.
Conservationists said it had remained on the animals, and reflective beads that create an "alien glow" had since been added.
They said 74 animals have been killed so far this year on Dartmoor's roads.
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Karla McKechnie, livestock protection officer for the Dartmoor Livestock Protection Society (DLPS), said: "The reflective element is very bright and despite the horrendous weather it's very visible.
"We'll now monitor how long it remains on the animals, and the company behind the paint is trying to see whether it can create an even brighter and more durable version."
Ms McKechnie said following the success, the plan was to paint moorland livestock ahead of Dartmoor's annual pony round-up and sale, known as the drift, which is held each autumn.
"She told BBC News: "In the coming months we might try the reflective paint on privately-owned cattle too.
"The moor is a working landscape and the animals are the priority," she added.
Rob Steemson, Dartmoor National Park's head ranger, said: "The authority is pleased to hear the trial is progressing well and we continue to fully support the project to reduce the number of road deaths in conjunction with educational messages for motorists using Dartmoor's roads."
Source: Dartmoor National Park Authority/BBC News
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It's the first country in the world to hold a vote on the issue.
Up until now two men or two women were not allowed to marry each other but now that's changed.
Almost two million people voted, with 62% voting yes.
But lots of people disagreed, including the Catholic Church.
Those against it say marriage has been between a man and a woman for hundreds of years and shouldn't be altered.
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Attitudes towards gay people vary across the world.
Currently 20 countries allow same sex marriage.
But in some others it is illegal just to be openly gay - more than 70 countries have laws against same-sex couples including Iran and Nigeria.
In India being gay was decriminalised in 2009 but changed back to a crime again in 2013.
In 2012 Russia banned gay pride events for 100 years.
In the UK, gay marriage is allowed in Scotland, and England and Wales, but there are no plans to bring a law to allow it in Northern Ireland.
It says 17 officials from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) have been investigated for corruption since 2012.
A sweeping anti-corruption drive has been a defining feature of Xi Jinping's presidency.
More than a million officials have been punished so far, says the government.
The CCDI has been front and centre in Mr Xi's anti-corruption drive, directing the investigations into, and punishment of, officials across the country.
But the powerful watchdog has admitted that it is not immune.
It revealed this in surprising fashion last week - through a television show, co-produced with national broadcaster CCTV, featuring the confessions of senior inspectors who have since been jailed.
The China Daily newspaper reported at the weekend that a total of 7,900 disciplinary CCDI officials had been punished for some form of violation over the past four years. Among them were the 17 anti-corruption officials investigated for corruption.
Televised confessions have become de rigeur for Chinese authorities seeking to make an example of people.
The CCDI made a similar show last October featuring corrupt officials from other agencies, but the latest show focused squarely on the CCDI itself.
Titled "Forging Steel Requires Strength in One's Body", it was unabashedly billed as a demonstration of resolve.
It was the most public admission to date of corruption within the CCDI ranks.
The three-part show featured CCDI inspectors penitently detailing how they pressured other officials, including higher-ranked ones, for bribes in return for granting them favours.
One official admitted taking 141m yuan ($20.4m; £16.7m) in bribes, along with more than 1,000 bottles of alcohol.
Xinhua news agency said the arrests of high-level CCDI inspectors "were a wake-up call: trust in any party cadre cannot replace supervision".
But in a separate article, the news agency reported that 93% of Chinese people were satisfied with the government's anti-corruption efforts.
State-linked newspaper Global Times said the TV programme showed "the party's determination to combat corruption and deter the officials".
The CCDI held its annual meeting at the weekend, where the agency put in place the new rule.
Its official statement did not contain much detail, but said it would involve "close supervision of work processes", including the "clear and accurate" handling of investigations, tip-offs, and money and materials in corruption cases.
It would also regulate procedures for interrogations and collection of evidence.
Anti-corruption agents have sweeping powers, including the authority to arrest people off the streets and interrogate them in secret, without the need for a lawyer.
The new rule, the statement proclaimed, would ensure "CCDI's self-supervision is combined with supervision from the Party and society".
"Trust cannot replace supervision," it said. "We must make sure the power granted by the Party and the people is not abused."
He said it should look at "all the different facets at what makes for a diverse and resilient research system that optimises all the talents available in the country".
The body's new chief executive said it would support "the brightest minds, while recognising that the brightest minds come in many diverse forms".
Sir Mark Walport and Mr Johnson were speaking at a launch event for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in London.
Commenting on the issue of diversity in science, Prof Ottoline Leyser of the University of Cambridge said diversity was essential for a creative and innovative research system.
"This requires an inclusive research culture, which in turn depends on diverse assessment criteria for researchers, diverse funding types and diverse routes for researchers into and out of the research base," she said.
"The creation of UKRI is an opportunity to embed diversity in all aspects of the research system."
UKRI will incorporate the seven existing research councils, as well as Innovate UK and Research England (the research arm of the Higher Education Funding Council for England).
"Research is a global activity," said Sir Mark.
"We practise in an international landscape, we are internationally diverse, and much of the science that's done today is international in nature, both through the instruments that are needed, which can't be funded by any one nation alone, and also by the desire of researchers to work with the best counterparts, wherever they are."
He said the world of science and research is changing, driven by big data, interdisciplinary research and global collaborations. The world of business and industry is also in flux, driven by factors such as data and the need to re-use resources.
Faced with all of those changes, it made sense "to look at our research and innovation landscape in a much more integrated fashion," said Sir Mark.
He said UKRI's vision was "to be the best research and innovation agency in the world" through:
At the event, Mr Johnson also confirmed an investment of £100 million to attract global talent to the UK through its new Ernest Rutherford Fund.
The fund will provide fellowships for early-career and senior researchers, from the developed world and countries such as India, China, Brazil and Mexico.
"Rutherford and his immense contributions to science exemplify our vision of a Britain that is open to the best minds and ideas in the world, and stands at the forefront of global collective endeavours to understand, and to improve, the world in which we live," said Mr Johnson.
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The figures come from the Department of Agriculture in response to a question from DUP MLA Lord Morrow.
He said the statistics were "shocking", and criticised the recovery rate of 1.7% - or 57 animals - as "appallingly low".
The statistics show that 3,251 cattle have been stolen or reported missing since 2013.
So far this year, 611 cattle have been taken.
In 2013, it was 1,431 while in the following year, 1,209 animals disappeared.
Lord Morrow, who now intends to ask for figures for the whole of Northern Ireland, said he expected cattle theft to be a particular problem in the "hotspots" of the border counties.
The DUP assembly member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone believes that beef herds are being targeted.
He said he feared that the animals were being sold into "illegal slaughterhouses" from where they could make their way into the human food chain.
Statistics show that there are 1.6 million cattle in Northern Ireland.
A spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) said: "The minister (Michelle O'Neill) is aware of the real concerns that the levels of crime are causing amongst the farming community, including the number of livestock thefts from farms.
"She has met with the PSNI chief constable and minister of justice on a number of occasions to discuss rural crime."
The spokesperson said that responsibility for tackling rural crime "lies primarily with the PSNI", but department officials worked closely with police on both sides of the Irish border, "particularly in relation to the detection, tracing and recovery of stolen livestock.
"This multi-agency approach has resulted in the recovery of stolen animals and in arrests and convictions in the north and in ongoing prosecutions the south," the spokesperson said.
Anyone who had information "which might help us combat this threat to rural businesses" should report their suspicions to the authorities, the DARD spokesperson added.
The two hives at the Ebbw Vale offices of the Gwent Wildlife Trust were tipped over and smashed with large stones and logs.
Around two thirds of the bees died after being exposed to the rain and cold, while all their larvae perished.
Early April is a key time for bees, as they start producing young and looking for food.
The beehives were installed in the environmental resource centre by Blaenau Gwent council as part of a Welsh Government scheme to encourage pollinating insects.
Veronika Brannovic, Gwent Wildlife Trust manager, said the attack over the weekend was "very upsetting".
"Spring weather has been unpredictable but our colonies had started to produce larvae within the hives," she said.
"Luckily, we think the queen in each hive has survived. That means they could possibly recover - but they only have a limited number of eggs."
The centre was opened in 2010 as part of the redevelopment of the former steel works site, and has become a haven for wildlife.
According to the Barnes Foundation, they were uncovered during conservation work on two Cezanne paintings depicting the landscape of southern France.
Officials say the sketches have not been seen since the early 20th Century.
They will be on view in double-sided frames at the Foundation's Philadelphia base from 10 April until 18 May.
One of the sketches is in graphite, while the other was done using watercolours.
Following the display of both views to the public, the watercolours are to be returned to their original locations on the walls of the Barnes.
Impressionist painter Cezanne, who died in 1906 at the age of 61, is regarded as a major influence on 20th Century artists like Matisse and Picasso.
Huong Hoang, who goes by the stage name Junie Hoang, alleged that offers dried up after the database revealed her age.
IMDb argued it had the right to publish accurate data and that Hoang, 41, could not prove she lost out because of it.
According to the website, her credits include the 2011 title Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver.
The site, which was launched in the early 1990s and purchased by Amazon in 1998, continues to post Ms Hoang's date of birth on her profile page.
In court documents filed anonymously in 2011, Amazon and its movie database subsidiary were accused of breach of contract, fraud, violation of privacy and consumer protection laws.
Parent company Amazon was dismissed as a defendant before the two-day trial, which concluded on Thursday.
The database's stance drew criticism in 2011 from two acting unions, who accused the site of "facilitating age discrimination".
During the trial, though, the site's attorneys said IMDb was not responsible for the actions taken by people who read their profiles.
Ms Hoang, who had been seeking $1m (£650,000) in damages, had initially provided the site with a false birth year that reduced her stated age by seven years.
When she asked for that information to be removed, the site used a public records search to discover her true date of birth and published it against her objections.
Speaking after the trial, Ms Hoang said she had hoped to make the database change its policy.
"I knew it was a problem not just for me but for anyone else who had their age on their profile," she told the Associated Press.
Research conducted by Recycle for Wales shows 43% of 18-24-year-olds and 34% of 25-34-year-olds put leftover food in the rubbish bin.
In contrast, 95% of over-65s claim to recycle their food waste.
The group, which is funded by the Welsh Government, said the most common reason for not recycling food was that it was "too messy or smelly".
Around 350,000 tonnes of food waste from Wales ends up in landfill annually.
The research also reveals that single people in Wales are the most likely to put food in the waste bin - with 18% of single households admitting they rarely recycle food, compared to 7% of couples.
Angela Spiteri, from Recycle for Wales, said: "People who are put off food recycling because they think it may smell don't realise that recycling it rather than putting it in the bin can create less smells.
"Food waste gets collected weekly and in-home food caddies are recommended to be emptied more often than regular bins."
Football's world governing body has suspended its president Sepp Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini for 90 days amid corruption allegations.
Fifa's executive committee meets on Tuesday to discuss whether to postpone February's presidential election.
"I come without baggage and I have substantial experience from both football and in finance," Vega said.
The former Switzerland international, who also played for Celtic and Watford, has worked in finance since retiring from football in 2004.
Ex-Spurs team-mate David Ginola failed to secure the necessary backing to stand in May's Fifa presidential election, which was won by Blatter days before he announced he would stand down.
Vega told BBC Sport he will decide over the next three to five days if he is to stand.
Uefa president Platini and Prince Ali bin al-Hussein have already announced their candidacy, with Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain also expected to do so before the 26 October deadline.
Former Trinidad and Tobago midfielder David Nakhid launched his campaign to be president on Sunday.
Nakhid said he had successfully secured the five nominations from national associations needed to become a candidate and had submitted his paperwork to Fifa's election committee.
Fifa's executives will discuss Platini's candidacy when they meet in Zurich on Tuesday in the wake of his suspension.
The governing body's ethics committee began its investigation after the Swiss attorney general opened criminal proceedings against Blatter in September.
He is accused of signing a contract "unfavourable" to Fifa and making a "disloyal payment" to Platini.
The ethics committee also opened an inquiry into Platini over the 2m euros (£1.35m) payment, which was made nine years after the former France footballer carried out consultation work for Blatter.
General secretary Jerome Valcke is also suspended. All three deny any wrongdoing.
Given Platini's legal position, it is believed there are a number of European associations keen to explore a 'plan b' candidate.
Uefa says it is continuing to support Platini but with his appeal against the suspension ongoing - and a potential visit to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to follow - there has been a a degree of confusion over the Frenchman's eligibility to take part in the election.
BBC Sport understands the executive committee meeting will discuss the issue and will hear from the head of Fifa's electoral committee, Domenico Scala.
Fifa are not planning to hold a news conference but an update on Platini's position is expected to be communicated in a post-meeting statement.
Meanwhile, Franz Beckenbauer, who led Germany's successful bid to host the 2006 World Cup, issued a statement denying allegations of a secret fund to secure votes to stage the event.
Jamie Vardy struck straight at Jack Butland early on before Leicester's Danny Drinkwater lashed in from the edge of the area close to half time.
Vardy rounded Butland and slotted into an open net as Leonardo Ulloa added a third from close range late on.
Stoke struggled throughout - their best chance falling to Joselu, whose header was pushed away by Kasper Schmeichel.
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Leicester had won just one of their last five league games going into this fixture and there were question marks about whether they could stay in the hunt for the Premier League title.
But they answered the critics with a thumping win over Stoke - full of energy and industry, and have now conceded just one goal in their last five games.
The Foxes are patrolled at the back by a strong centre-back pairing of Wes Morgan, who made seven clearances, and partner Robert Huth. In front of them, N'Golo Kante's vigour epitomised the team's performance.
Drinkwater's effort was their first from outside the box this season, while Vardy netted his first goal in six league games, before Ulloa struck after sublime skills from Riyad Mahrez.
Leicester's record of one defeat in their last 16 league games will be firmly put to the test in their next three matches against Liverpool, title rivals Arsenal and Manchester City - games which will define whether they are title pretenders.
Stoke's problems lie in front of goal, having not scored in nine of their 23 league games this season. Striker Bojan was kept on the bench, perhaps with their League Cup semi-final second leg against Liverpool on Tuesday in mind.
They managed just two shots on target against the Foxes, with neither effort testing goalkeeper Schmeichel, who had an easy afternoon.
Playmaker Xherdan Shaqiri was kept quiet and things were made worse when skipper Ryan Shawcross hobbled off with an injury in the first half.
Without their leader at the back, Stoke's hopes of finishing in a European spot were dented as they drop to ninth in the table.
Leicester City boss Claudio Ranieri: "Nobody can believe it. Our fans are dreaming and I want them to continue to dream. I don't know if we are a contender at this moment. February is a big month and after that month I can say something more realistic."
Stoke boss Mark Hughes: "We played poorly today. We didn't get our game going at any point. At no point did we look like we were going to come back after conceding. We disappointed ourselves today and our supporters."
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Stoke face Liverpool at Anfield in the League Cup semi-final on Tuesday 26 January, looking to overturn a 1-0 first leg deficit, while Leicester host the same opposition in the Premier League on Tuesday 2 February.
Match ends, Leicester City 3, Stoke City 0.
Second Half ends, Leicester City 3, Stoke City 0.
Foul by Erik Pieters (Stoke City).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Philipp Wollscheid (Stoke City).
Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Erik Pieters (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City).
Foul by Erik Pieters (Stoke City).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Leicester City. Demarai Gray replaces Marc Albrighton.
Goal! Leicester City 3, Stoke City 0. Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.
Attempt missed. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jamie Vardy.
Foul by Ibrahim Afellay (Stoke City).
N'Golo Kanté (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Robert Huth (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Foul by Peter Odemwingie (Stoke City).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Philipp Wollscheid.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté with a through ball.
Substitution, Stoke City. Peter Crouch replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.
Ibrahim Afellay (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City).
Offside, Leicester City. Wes Morgan tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.
Foul by Peter Odemwingie (Stoke City).
Robert Huth (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Stoke City. Peter Odemwingie replaces Mame Biram Diouf.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Danny Simpson.
Attempt saved. Ibrahim Afellay (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Glenn Whelan (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jonathan Walters (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danny Simpson (Leicester City).
Goal! Leicester City 2, Stoke City 0. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daniel Drinkwater with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Daniel Drinkwater with a headed pass.
Marc Wilson (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Vardy (Leicester City).
Substitution, Leicester City. Leonardo Ulloa replaces Shinji Okazaki because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Shinji Okazaki (Leicester City) because of an injury.
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Former Arsenal midfielder Vicky Losada collected Andrea Pereira's pass to score the opener for Spain.
Spain doubled their lead just before half-time when Amanda Sampedro was left unmarked in the box to head home.
Losada almost grabbed a third goal late on, but her curling effort was pushed over by Portugal goalkeeper Patricia Morais.
Portugal failed to get a shot on target in the match, seeing their opponents have 76% possession in the match.
In the group's other game England beat Scotland 6-0.
Match ends, Spain Women 2, Portugal Women 0.
Second Half ends, Spain Women 2, Portugal Women 0.
Attempt saved. Bárbara (Spain Women) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Vicky Losada.
Substitution, Spain Women. Mapi León replaces Leila Ouahabi.
Offside, Spain Women. Vicky Losada tries a through ball, but Amanda Sampedro is caught offside.
Substitution, Portugal Women. Laura Luís replaces Diana Silva.
Corner, Spain Women. Conceded by Dolores Silva.
Attempt blocked. Mariona (Spain Women) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Mari Paz Vilas (Spain Women) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Amanda Sampedro.
Foul by Mari Paz Vilas (Spain Women).
Ana Borges (Portugal Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Spain Women. Bárbara replaces Alexia Putellas.
Attempt missed. Mari Paz Vilas (Spain Women) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Amanda Sampedro.
Foul by Irene Paredes (Spain Women).
Ana Borges (Portugal Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Silvia Meseguer (Spain Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Spain Women. Conceded by Patricia Morais.
Corner, Spain Women. Conceded by Patricia Morais.
Attempt saved. Vicky Losada (Spain Women) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Alexia Putellas.
Substitution, Portugal Women. Mélissa Antunes replaces Suzane Pires.
Attempt missed. Alexia Putellas (Spain Women) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Hand ball by Tatiana Pinto (Portugal Women).
Attempt missed. Silvia Meseguer (Spain Women) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Mariona following a set piece situation.
Marta Torrejón (Spain Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Cláudia Neto (Portugal Women).
Substitution, Spain Women. Mari Paz Vilas replaces Jenni Hermoso.
Foul by Leila Ouahabi (Spain Women).
Cláudia Neto (Portugal Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Jenni Hermoso (Spain Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Jenni Hermoso (Spain Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Suzane Pires (Portugal Women).
Substitution, Portugal Women. Carolina Mendes replaces Ana Leite.
Attempt missed. Cláudia Neto (Portugal Women) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Diana Silva.
Silvia Meseguer (Spain Women) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cláudia Neto (Portugal Women).
Foul by Amanda Sampedro (Spain Women).
Cláudia Neto (Portugal Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Mariona (Spain Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Dolores Silva (Portugal Women).
Second Half begins Spain Women 2, Portugal Women 0.
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The proposal to pay benefits as a loan would give them "an additional incentive to find work rather than allow the debt to build up".
The idea is included in a new book setting out a "radical" free market agenda for the Conservative government.
Author Kwasi Kwarteng is seen as a rising star on the right of the party.
The Conservative MP and junior ministerial aide argues that free enterprise - rather than government interference - is the answer to the problems facing Britain.
Chancellor George Osborne is understood to be considering reducing tax credits for millions of working families in his July Budget, as part of the government's efforts to "make work pay", although critics accuse him of making the poor pay for the mistakes of bankers.
Mr Kwarteng's book argues for a more radical shrinking of the welfare state to return it to the contributory principle envisioned by its founder Sir William Beveridge - that you only get out what you have paid in.
It says: "Strains on the welfare state are often blamed on benefits being too generous, but the truth is that welfare is so expensive - over £90bn for working-age benefits alone - because too many people are eligible.
"In fact, JSA - the main out-of-work benefit - is fairly stingy for those who have contributed to the tax system for years and find themselves out of work for the first time."
The book says the government should "look at other ways to encourage work - while making sure that the system is not cruel to those who have simply been unlucky".
"Young individuals who have not yet paid national insurance contributions for a certain period, five years say, could receive their unemployment benefit in the form of a repayable loan.
"An unemployed teenager would still receive the same amount of cash as now, for example, but they would be expected to repay the value once in work.
"Turning an entitlement into a loan would mean that people would still be supported while out of work, but would have an additional incentive to find work rather than allow the debt to build up."
Even if someone was out of work for the entire seven years between 18 and 25, "the total sum repayable would be £20,475 - considerably less than the tuition fees loan repayable by many of his or her peers".
At the same time, those who have paid into the system for many years should get a "fairer deal" if they unexpectedly lose their job later in life.
Other ideas in the book include scrapping maternity and paternity pay to ease the burden on business. Instead, new parents would get a flat rate "baby bonus" paid directly by central government.
It also calls for the scrapping of some government departments, tax raising powers for local authorities, a regional minimum wage, allowing free schools to generate a profit, encouraging banks to use a common IT system allowing "portable" bank accounts and scrapping the BBC licence fee.
The book pulls together policy ideas from the Free Enterprise Group of Conservative MPs, set up by Environment Secretary Liz Truss and other members of the 2010 intake of Conservative MPs to promote a leaner state and boost entrepreneurship. It is backed by the Institute for Economic Affairs think tank.
Writing in the foreword to a Time for Choosing: Free Enterprise in Twenty-First Century Britain, published by Palgrave Macmillan, Mr Kwarteng says: "The capacity of individuals, companies and other groups to generate prosperity and well-being, when left to their own devices, is too often overlooked.
"We should allow a competitive and free economic environment to flourish in Britain, to challenge monopolies and oligopolies, and to allow individuals to create, innovate and take risks."
The issue arose on Friday and work is ongoing to try to resolve it.
A short statement from Dumfries and Galloway Council confirmed the problem had occurred at the end of last week.
It said it was working with the software supplier to identify the problem and repair it as soon as possible.
No date has yet been set for the return to operation of the library management system or the public access computers.
There is no access to e-books and limited access to online resources but books can still be returned or loaned.
There are more than 20 libraries situated throughout the region.
An apology has been issued for any inconvenience caused by the "unforeseen" computer shutdown.
United Utilities said that such people were likely to travel along a route regularly so were ideally placed to spot a suspicious puddle.
The water company has asked people to tweet or call so engineers can respond as quickly as possible.
Across the North West it deals with about 450 leaks a week, rising to about 750 during cold snaps.
The proposal being looked at as part of the project would see it transfer the birds from the Highlands in 2017.
Over 500 pairs of eagles were recorded in the country in the latest RSPB survey, a 15% rise since 2003.
But it is believed that no more than four of these pairs reside in the south of Scotland.
A Scottish Natural Heritage spokesman said: "Plans to translocate golden eagles from the north of the country are currently being discussed as part of the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project, but as yet nothing has been confirmed.
"Timings will depend on grant funding and a translocation licence application."
"Chicks will be identified from eyries which contain two chicks in late spring, they will be collected between five and eight weeks of age.
"At this stage the eaglets will be partially feathered, they can thermo-regulate and can feed themselves."
Scotland is now thought to be home to the UK's entire population of golden eagles.
The South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project has secured more than £1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund and has Scottish government backing.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said the fox was shown running on a railway line at Clapton.
A few moments after the fox runs on the tracks hounds are then shown appearing but are called back by huntsmen.
A Countryside Alliance spokeswoman, speaking on behalf of the Seavington Hunt, said an investigation would take place into the incident.
Hunting foxes with dogs has been illegal since 2005 but they can chase a scent and flush out foxes who are then shot.
Avon and Somerset Police said its hunt liaison officer was investigating whether any illegal hunting had occurred while British Transport Police said no trespass offence had been committed as no people had gone on to the line.
The IFAW member who filmed the incident, who wished to remain anonymous, said it was "completely irresponsible".
"I've seen a lot of things over the years I've been filming," he said.
"This is a main line railway, I don't know what would have happened if they'd have hit the hounds on that line."
Alison Hawes, from the Countryside Alliance, which represents hunts, said an investigation would take place into how the hounds ended up on the track.
She said: "They were on there for less than two minutes and the hunt acted very professionally in calling them off the line as quickly as possible."
Andrew Hudd, from the train drivers' union Aslef, said footage of the incident was "shocking".
"I estimate around a dozen [dogs were on the line] at one point which is a considerable threat to a train," he said.
Network Rail has asked to see the footage.
The Labour leader said Whitehall and councils could obtain new opportunities to use their "incredible" purchasing power to support UK businesses and boost local economies.
Labour also wants firms bidding for public contracts to have to recognise unions and curb "boardroom excess".
On a visit to Doncaster, Mr Corbyn said Brexit presented "many challenges".
But the Labour leader, who campaigned to remain in the EU, added that severing ties with Brussels could also "give us more powers to encourage best practices and support new and existing businesses and industries in Britain".
Labour said that because EU rules meant certain public contracts currently had to be opened to competition from elsewhere in Europe, Brexit could "allow public bodies to use local pounds on local jobs and businesses".
It said this would "therefore create scope for additional flexibility" for public bodies to "require the use of local or regional suppliers after Brexit", meaning cash could be directed "back into local economies".
Mr Corbyn added: "While the Conservatives seem intent on using Brexit to turn us into a low-wage tax haven, Labour will use every power possible to upgrade our economy so we can all lead richer lives."
The UK is set to leave the EU in March 2019.
Labour also said the UK should assess the impact on local councils of its membership of a World Trade Organization procurement agreement - which the UK is part of as an EU member - requiring contracts above certain thresholds to be opened up to foreign competition.
Labour has previously said that firms bidding for contracts would need to comply with collective bargaining agreements, pay suppliers within 30 days, maintain high environmental standards, provide training and apprenticeship opportunities, comply fully with tax requirements and adopt "best practices" in equal opportunities.
All of this is possible within existing EU rules, it said.
Conservative Party chairman Patrick McLoughlin attacked Labour's bid to force companies bidding for government contracts to recognise trade unions.
"This cynical attempt by the Labour Party to give more power to their union paymasters would force up council procurement costs, causing council tax to soar," he said.
The man and woman, aged in their 60s, suffered severe scalding during the raid in Halstead, Kent, on 26 April.
Daniel Wallace, 32, of no fixed abode, is charged with two counts of grievous bodily harm, two counts of false imprisonment and aggravated burglary.
He is due to appear before magistrates in Medway later.
Kent Police said he was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Tuesday.
A 33-year-old man, from Ilford, in east London, and a 29-year-old man, of no fixed address, have also been arrested in connection with the offence.
They have been bailed, pending further inquiries, until 15 September.
Borrowing, excluding state-owned banks, was £1.8bn, down from £4.6bn a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics said.
In the financial year-to-date, borrowing has fallen by £19.9bn from last year to £47.8bn.
Analysts said the figures meant the government was on track to meet revised borrowing targets.
In the Budget, the Office for Budget Responsibility revised its end-of-year borrowing forecast to £51.7bn, down from its earlier forecast of £68.2bn.
The ONS said corporation tax receipts had risen by 21.3% in the first 11 months of the financial year to just over £50bn, while income from tax and National Insurance contributions rose by 6.5% to £280bn.
Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Markit, said Chancellor Philip Hammond was "clearly keen to keep fiscal ammunition up his sleeve - due to the major uncertainties and downside risks that the economy faces as it navigates its way out of the EU".
"Despite the resilience of the economy so far since last June's Brexit vote, the chancellor is very well aware that a challenging road lies ahead," he said.
"Furthermore, an appreciable budget deficit is still seen existing in 2021-22 so there is still work to be done then on getting the public finances back to full health."
Rainwater has leaked into a number of attic rooms, with repairs now needed to replace 35 tonnes of Welsh slate covering the house's north west wing.
This year alone, National Trust staff have removed more than 52 gallons of water.
The attraction, one of the UK's foremost Restoration houses, is also home to a priceless art collection.
Contractors arrive on site on 19 September, with scaffolding going up shortly after - but the attraction will remain open throughout the work.
The project will make the roof watertight and rooms worst hit by the leaks will be redecorated. Other plans include the development of the house's laundry building.
Property manager Linda Wigley said: "So much work has already been done behind the scenes to get us to this point and we are delighted to be able to finally share our plans with the public.
"We have drawn on more than 120 years of conservation expertise in the National Trust to transform Tredegar House and its surrounding parkland into the exceptional visitor attraction we know it has the potential to be."
Newport council leader Councillor Debbie Wilcox called the house one the city's "great treasures".
She added: "This work is crucial to protect the many features of this beautiful building."
Tredegar House was previously managed by Newport council, and has been run by the National Trust since 2012.
Leaders and reigning champions Celtic completed the double capture of Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay-Steven from Dundee United.
And second-place Aberdeen signed Kenny McLean from St Mirren.
Other Scottish clubs left it late to complete their squads for the rest of the season, including Rangers taking five Newcastle players on loan.
St Mirren have compensated for the loss of McLean by bringing in Emmanuel Sonupe on loan from Tottenham Hotspur, while United have signed Robbie Muirhead from Kilmarnock following the departures of Armstrong and Mackay-Steven.
Dundee signed up striker Paul Heffernan after he left Hibernian.
And Edinburgh clubs Hearts and Hibs also recruited, with Kenny Anderson joining the former and Fraser Fyvie moving to Easter Road.
The window closed at 00:00 GMT.
Ola Adeyemo [Dundee United - East Fife] Loan
Kenny Anderson [RKC Waalwijk - Hearts] Nominal
Tony Andreu [Hamilton Accies - Norwich City] Undisclosed
Stuart Armstrong [Dundee Utd - Celtic] Undisclosed
Gael Bigirimana [Newcastle Utd - Rangers] Loan
Dylan Carreiro [Dundee - Arbroath] Loan
Lukas Culjak [Borussia Dortmund - Aberdeen] Free
Michael Daly [Clyde - Petershill] Loan
Paul Dixon [Huddersfield Town - Dundee United]
Michael Duffy [Derry City - Celtic]
Shane Ferguson [Newcastle Utd - Rangers] Loan
Fraser Fyvie [Wigan Athletic - Hibernian] Free
Joe Hamill [Airdrieonians - Bonnyrigg Rose] Free
Paul Heffernan [Hibernian - Dundee] Free
Marvin Johnson [Kidderminster Harriers - Motherwell] Undisclosed
George Long [Sheffield Utd - Motherwell] Loan
Darren Maatsen [Ross County - Den Bosch] Free
Gary Mackay-Steven [Dundee Utd - Celtic] Undisclosed
Kevin Mbabu [Newcastle Utd - Rangers] Loan
Marc McCallum [Dundee Utd - Arbroath] Loan
Stephen McGinn [Sheffield Utd - Dundee] Free
Scott McLaughlin [Ayr Utd - Clyde] Free
Kenny McLean [St Mirren - Aberdeen] £300,000
Jordan Moore [Dundee Utd - Queen's Park] Loan
Robbie Muirhead [Kilmarnock - Dundee Utd] £150,000
Keigan Parker [Airdrieonians - Clyde] Free
Scott Pittman [Bo'ness Utd - Livingston] Free
Jordan Preston [Blackburn Rovers - Ayr United] Loan
Ben Priest [Wolves - Dundee] Loan
Jamie Reid [Dundee - Elgin City] Loan
Phil Roberts [Dundee - Alloa Athletic] Loan
Greg Rutherford [Dover Athletic - Alloa Athletic] Free
Emmanuel Sonupe [Tottenham Hotspur - St Mirren] Loan
Remie Streete [Newcastle Utd - Rangers] Loan
Nico Sumsky [Dukla Bystrica - Hamilton Accies] Free
Danny Swanson [Coventry City - St Johnstone] Loan
Lyle Taylor [Scunthorpe Utd - Partick Thistle] Loan
Lewis Toshney [Ross County - Cowdenbeath] Free
Nathan Thomas [Plymouth Argyle - Motherwell] Free
Filip Twardzik [Celtic - Bolton Wanderers] Undisclosed
Haris Vuckic [Newcastle Utd - Rangers] Loan
Kevin Watt [Clyde - Kirkintilloch Rob Roy] Loan
Payne sustained the injury during the first half of Saturday's 27-24 victory over Australia in Dublin.
The 31-year-old will miss the Six Nations matches against Scotland, Italy and France.
Fellow Ulster player Andrew Trimble is out for a fortnight after picking up a foot injury against the Wallabies.
The wing suffered a "tendon issue" and was forced off after 30 minutes at the Aviva Stadium.
In a statement, the Ireland team management added that full-back Rob Kearney was "removed" from the pitch as a precaution.
Kearney was a doubt for the game because of concussion and he sustained a blow to the head before being taken off.
Payne was replaced at the interval and now faces a lengthy lay-off, with his absence a major blow to both Ireland and Ulster.
He could return for Ireland's final two Six Nations fixtures, away to Wales on 10 March and then a Dublin game against England eight days later.
The build of the model started in 2013, with visitors and members of the public adding the bricks.
The 200,000th piece of Lego was bought by a student from South Korea on a visit to Durham Cathedral.
The university group, who are on a visit to the UK, had no idea they would be able to add the 200,000th brick.
Once completed, the model will be 3.84m long, 1.53m wide and 1.7m high.
Each piece of Lego costs £1 to buy and the money goes towards exhibitions and improving the historic cathedral.
The model replica needs another 100,000 bricks until it is complete.
Being unfit at the age of 40 is linked with a smaller brain volume at 60, according to a US study.
Fitness in middle age may be particularly important for people with early signs of heart disease, say researchers at Boston University.
The study adds to growing evidence that heart health can affect brain health in later life.
The study, published in the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, followed 1,583 people with an average age of 40.
The participants, who did not have dementia or heart disease, took a treadmill test, followed by another two decades later, along with MRI brain scans.
"We found a direct correlation in our study between poor fitness and brain volume decades later, which indicates accelerated brain ageing," said lead researcher Dr Nicole Spartano, of the Boston University School of Medicine.
"While not yet studied on a large scale, these results suggest that fitness in middle age may be particularly important for the many millions of people around the world who already have evidence of heart disease," she added.
Dr Laura Phipps, of Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "While it's hard to conclude from these kinds of studies whether one factor definitely caused the other, the findings add to a growing body of evidence that poor cardiovascular health throughout life could have a negative effect on the brain.
"Current evidence suggests the best way to maintain a healthy brain is to keep physically and mentally active, eat a balanced diet, not smoke, drink only within recommended limits and keep diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol in check."
A 52-year-old man was injured near a bus stop in Ferry Road at about 22:30 on Friday.
Police issued a further appeal for witnesses and were keen to hear from passengers on the number 21 Lothian Bus which was in the area at the time.
A 57-year-old man was due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday.
Det Inspector Alan O'Brien said: "A man received serious injuries in this incident and he remains in a serious condition in hospital.
"I am still keen to hear from anyone who may have witnessed the incident and who can help us piece together the events leading up to it."
Environment Minister John Griffiths is launching a new strategy aimed at managing and reducing the risks and fall out of flooding and erosion.
It aims to raise awareness, improve responses and prioritise investment in the areas most at risk.
One expert says people must accept saving all the coastline is too costly.
The Welsh government estimates one in six properties in Wales is at risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
Mr Griffiths is launching a new national strategy at Borth in Ceredigion where £12m is being spent on a coastal flood defence scheme to protect 422 homes and businesses.
He referred to the "significant flooding" in 1990, which saw around 2,800 properties flooded and thousands evacuated when defences were breached in Towyn and Kinmel Bay areas in north Wales.
Mr Griffiths said this month's rock fall at the Porthkerry, near Barry, which left 15 caravans teetering on a cliff edge had been a stark reminder of the dangers faced.
"The evidence suggests that in future we may see more events like these, with higher sea levels, increases in the intensity of rainfall and more frequent flooding," he said.
"The consequence of that flooding will include greater risks to life, the economy and the environment.
"Coastal erosion will increase, with more coastal communities facing the loss of land, properties and resources."
But he said with proper planning the risks could be managed and the consequences reduced.
He said the Welsh government would continue to invest in flood and coast protection and a successful bid for £50m of European money had offset any reduction in the government's budget.
Prof Mike Phillips, head of the school of built and natural environment at Swansea Metropolitan University, said there were already a lot of good partnerships in Wales but the work needed to be built on.
"What is changing now and where I think we are starting to make great advances is in realising some times it's too expensive to defend the coastline," he explained.
He said areas of high economic importance would continue to be protected but in other parts a "managed retreat" was a better option.
And he said experts were now much better at predicting areas that may be at risk.
"Modelling is a lot better and the predictions are a lot better."
He said there had been a lot of work recently in understanding the different factors at work around the beaches at Tenby in Pembrokeshire.
And he welcomed the fact every local authority would have to produce its own strategy based on the national one.
"We have to make sure that where we are developing near the shore line we get people who understand the coastal processes in that area to respond," he added.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) manages a database with the records of over 180 landslides around Wales and says they can be hard to predict.
Dr Helen Reeves, a senior engineering geologist with the BGS said: "It's a natural process and it's very difficult to stop but there are ways we can mitigate against it and there are certain engineering solutions that you can put in place."
NFL side, the Dallas Cowboys, are top with $4bn (£3.03bn), the first time a non-association football team has headed the business magazine's list since it began in 2011.
United, who topped the list in 2011 and 2012, are valued at $3.32bn (£2.52bn).
Real Madrid are second with $3.65bn (£2.77bn) and Barcelona third with $3.55bn (£2.69bn).
United - the only English club in the top 20 - saw a 7% increase in their value despite missing out on the Champions League after signing a £750m Adidas kit deal. However, the club have the highest debt load of anyone in the top 25.
Arsenal (23), Manchester City (28), Chelsea (36) and Liverpool (41) are the remaining English clubs to make the list.
The Cowboys, who made a record $270m (£205m) operating profit last season, are one of 27 NFL franchises in the list, while the Formula 1 team Ferrari have dropped out of the top 50 completely.
The Potters' 51 points was their second-highest return since they got promoted to the Premier League for the 2008-09 campaign.
"It was a really positive season for them," Delap, 39, told BBC Radio Stoke.
"It's given them more experience and next season, hopefully, they can finish it off."
Stoke, who also reached the semi-finals of the League Cup last season, sealed another top-10 finish thanks to a last-day victory over West Ham - a result that ended a six-game winless run.
And without that spell of poor form, Delap is sure things could have been even better.
"They could've possibly finished sixth or seventh - it's got to be seen as progress, they've given themselves a chance," Delap said.
"When I was there, we'd have five good results and then five horrendous ones and we couldn't break that - everyone would be high for a month and then on the floor for a month - it was so inconsistent.
"But, apart from that little period at the end, they've shown consistency - they just had some injuries."
The Potters' success has been helped by significant financial investment with the likes of Switzerland winger Xherdan Shaqiri and record signing Giannelli Imbula arriving at the Britannia Stadium.
Netherlands winger Ibrahim Afellay was one of four former Barcelona players to sign, while Austria forward Marko Arnautovic had his most productive season with 12 goals.
Delap is impressed with the recruitment at his old club and thinks manager Mark Hughes has a squad that can get even better.
"He (Hughes) has a good mix there with some of the old heads like Ryan [Shawcross], Glenn [Whelan] and Walts (Jon Walters) and some of the players he's brought in," Delap added.
"The new faces are ones that no-one thought they'd see playing at the Britannia.
"One or two more signings in the summer will really help."
Mr Besigye was the main challenger to President Yoweri Museveni in the country's recent general election, which Mr Museveni won by a landslide.
He insists he was the rightful winner of the polls, but Uganda's top court upheld the official result.
"We have been informed by police today that Besigye appeared in court in Moroto and was charged with treason," said his lawyer Erias Lukwago.
Mr Besigye was arrested on Wednesday in downtown Kampala and flown to Moroto, where he has been in custody ever since.
It follows a series of arrests of the opposition leader during the election campaign.
Meanwhile, Mr Museveni was sworn in on Thursday for his fifth elective term, extending his 30-year rule of Uganda.
Foreign observers said the poll had been marred by fear and intimidation.
In a BBC interview, Mr Museveni rejected allegations of vote rigging, and accused Mr Besigye of planning to incite violence.
Responding to criticism from European Union observers that the electoral commission "lacked independence and transparency", Mr Museveni told the BBC's Zuhura Yunus that "those Europeans are not serious".
"Transparency is what we've been voting for," he added.
Mr Museveni, a key ally of the West in the campaign against militant Islamists in the region, seized power in 1986 and is credited with restoring stability to Uganda.
However, critics say he has become increasingly authoritarian.
On Friday, the US said Mr Museveni should "rein in" his security forces after they briefly arrested Mr Besigye, and fired tear gas to disperse his supporters in Kampala.
He was speaking in Indiana, where he took credit for saving 1,000 jobs at the air-conditioning company Carrier Corp, which planned to move to Mexico.
Mr Trump is now in Ohio to begin a "USA Thank You Tour 2016" for his supporters.
During a rally in Cincinnati, he announced he had chosen retired general James Mattis as his defence secretary.
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Mr Trump hailed his negotiations with Carrier Corp as a model for how he would work with other US businesses thinking of moving their jobs abroad.
"We are going to have a situation where they are going to know, number one, we're going to treat them well and, number two, there will be consequences," he said.
"They will be taxed very heavily at the border if they want to leave."
He also reiterated his promise to cut business taxes and regulations in the US.
Carrier Corp has been promised a $7m (£5.5m) package of tax breaks over 10 years in exchange for reportedly saving 800 union workers whose jobs would have been outsourced to Mexico and an additional 300 research and headquarters positions.
An estimated 1,300 jobs will still move south of the border. The $7m tax incentive is contingent "upon factors including employment, job retention and capital investment", according to a Carrier statement.
In addition to the tax break, Carrier and its parent company, United Technologies, have agreed to invest $16m to keep the plant updated, Mr Trump confirmed.
Mr Trump had vowed on the campaign trail to stop American jobs from moving overseas, but said he did not realise he had made the promise to Carrier workers until he watched an interview with one of the company employees on a news programme.
The employee said Mr Trump had pledged to keep jobs from moving to Mexico, which prompted the president-elect to contact the company.
Earlier on Thursday, former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders criticised the Carrier deal as a reversal on Mr Trump's campaign promise to save all the jobs.
The Vermont Senator penned a Washington Post op-ed, saying Mr Trump had endangered jobs by signalling "to every corporation in America that they can threaten to offshore jobs in exchange for business-friendly tax benefits and incentives".
The president-elect was speaking at a rally at US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio - the first of several stops on his victory lap.
It is the same venue where Mr Trump drew crowds of 15,000 people at a raucous rally on the campaign trail in late October.
He is expected to hold similar events in key battleground states like Iowa, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina and Michigan in the coming weeks.
Mr Trump said the woman he will face in November's election was a "world class liar" who had "perfected the politics of profit" while secretary of state.
"She gets rich making you poor," he said in a broad speech in New York which also cast her as a destabilising force in the Middle East.
Mrs Clinton said the speech was "more hypocritical lies".
"Economists on the left, right and centre all agree his dangerous economic policies would throw us back into recession," said her spokesman.
Mr Trump is trailing in the polls and has had a tough couple of weeks, with much criticism within his own party for his response to the Orlando nightclub shooting.
But on Wednesday the businessman hit his Democratic rival with full force, saying she does not have the "temperament or judgement to be president" and she refuses to recognise the threat of radical Islamic terrorism.
"Her decisions spread death, destruction and terrorism... one deadly foreign policy decision after another," he said of Mrs Clinton's tenure at the State Department.
He said she wants to let Muslims into the country that want to "enslave women" and "put gays to death".
Donald Trump promised a bare-knuckles speech with sweeping attacks on Hillary Clinton, and on Wednesday he delivered it.
He accused the Democratic presumptive nominee of criminal corruption. He called her a "world-class liar". He offered a bullet-point summation of an anti-Clinton book written by a conservative commentator.
And he read a letter from the widow of a police officer killed by an undocumented immigrant who said the former secretary of state had the "blood of so many on her hands" and should "go to prison to pay for the crimes she has already committed against this country".
Guided by his tele-prompter, Mr Trump offered a more focused, methodical attack on Mrs Clinton than he has normally produced in his stump speeches, but it wasn't any less inflammatory - or prone to occasional exaggerations and misrepresentations.
If Mr Trump will be a more polished candidate with the change of campaign leadership announced this week, it seems clear he will be no less the brash, braggadocious candidate that stormed through the Republican primary season.
He attacked her on trade and said her support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership would cost the US thousands of jobs. She should be "scorned" for the trade deficit, he said.
"She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund, exchanging favours for straight-up cash."
He said he would put American workers first and that his talent for creating jobs would help the US economy.
His speech comes a day after Mrs Clinton gave a blistering speech of her own on how Mr Trump would be "reckless" with the US economy.
"Every day we see how reckless and careless Trump is," she said at a campaign event in Columbus. "Well that's his choice. Except when he's asking to be our president. Then it's our choice."
She has surpassed him in fundraising, starting June with $42m (£28m) in the bank; for Mr Trump it was $1.3m.
His campaign is transitioning as he pivots to the general election.
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Timothy Holman, 42, from Ilfracombe, pleaded guilty to making an explosive substance at Exeter Crown Court.
Police were called to Osborne Road on 9 December 2016 after his mental health worker raised concerns.
Holman built a pipe bomb in his bedroom and was making three other devices when police discovered his array of weapons.
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Officers found a machete, a knife, a baseball bat and BB guns as well as some copper pipes.
Part of the residential street where Mr Holman lived was evacuated for two nights and his home was searched following a short siege.
In passing the sentence of a hospital order for an indefinite period, Judge Geoffrey Mercer told Mr Holman: "These events were inextricably linked to your long standing mental illness."
His defence barrister Richard Crabb told the court: "There is no evidence that he was motivated by political or terrorist beliefs.
"It was due to a mistaken belief, as a result of his mental illness, that he was under some sort of threat."
The order means he will be treated at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish and cannot be released without the agreement of the Ministry of Justice.
The organic foods retailer, which is seeking to shake off a reputation for high prices, said it would axe around 1,500 jobs over the next eight weeks.
The cuts are aimed at reducing costs as it seeks to compete in a "rapidly changing marketplace".
A spokesperson told the BBC the cuts would not affect its nine UK stores.
Walter Robb, co-chief executive of Whole Foods Market, said: "This is a very difficult decision, and we are committed to treating affected team members in a caring and respectful manner."
He said staff would be offered transition pay, severance, or the chance to apply for other jobs.
Whole Foods said it anticipated some staff would find new jobs through existing vacancies, and in 100 new stores.
Some of those stores will be part of a new chain of smaller, more value-focused shops due to be launched next year.
Whole Foods shares dropped 0.7% in early trading in New York to $30.88.
Its shares have fallen 18% in the past year as it faces increasing competition in the US natural foods market.
More than 90,000 are employed by Whole Foods in its 420 stores in the US, Canada and UK.
It has seven shops in London, one in Cheltenham and one in Glasgow.
A rescue operation is ongoing. At least 13 people are known to have died and several more of those on board were injured.
The Associated Airlines plane was bound for Akure, which lies about 140 miles (225km) north-east of Lagos.
The plane's engine appeared to fail and the aircraft plunged to the ground and burst into flames, officials said.
• Seven major air crashes since 1992
• Security in the sector was revamped in 2007
• All airlines had to re-capitalise or be grounded, in an effort to ensure better safety
• In August 2010, the US gave Nigeria its top safety rating, allowing its domestic carriers to fly directly to America
• Lagos's Murtala Muhammed Airport is a major transport hub for West Africa, with 2.3 million passengers passing through it in 2009
• Nigeria's government says it now has full radar coverage of the entire country
The charter flight took off at about 09:30 local time (08:30 GMT) from the domestic terminal at Lagos's Murtala Mohammed International Airport.
Officials said the plane crashed on to open land within the airport complex, close to a fuel storage depot.
It is not yet clear whether the fuel caught fire.
Eyewitness Ahmad Safian told the BBC: "I heard a loud bang and then there was lots of black smoke. The security forces rushed straight to the scene. I saw three bodies removed from the wreckage."
Mr Safian said the road to the airport was blocked for a short time but operations were continuing as normal at the airport.
Yakubu Dati from the Nigerian airports authority said that 20 people had been on board the plane.
Akure is the capital of Ondo state. Local media reported that the plane was carrying the body of the former state governor, Olusegun Agagu, who was to have been buried this weekend.
Although Nigeria's air safety record has improved in recent years, the country has a history of major passenger plane crashes.
In June 2012, more than 150 people were killed after a dual engine failure caused a plane to crash in Lagos.
Lagos airport is a major hub for West Africa and saw 2.3 million passengers pass through it in 2009, according to the most recent statistics provided by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria.
O'Sullivan's first book, it explores the range of debilitating illnesses that are medically unexplained.
The £30,000 annual prize celebrates books that engage with some aspect of medicine, health or illness.
The winner was announced at a ceremony on Monday evening at the Wellcome Collection's Reading Room in London.
"It is a truly impressive book, chosen for its many virtues," said Joan Bakewell, chair of this year's judges.
She said O'Sullivan's first-hand accounts of diagnosing her patients offered "new insights into the relationship between the body and the mind".
"The fact that society divides them into two medical disciplines - the physical and the mental - is being increasingly challenged," Baroness Bakewell added.
O'Sullivan has been a consultant in neurology since 2004 and currently works at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. She also works for a specialist unit based at the Epilepsy Society.
James Peto, head of public programmes at Wellcome Collection, said: "O'Sullivan's book is a thoughtful, humane and heartfelt plea for a deeper and more widespread understanding of the intensely debilitating conditions she describes.
"An honest and revealing exploration of an area of healthcare where there is still much that is not yet known, this book reminds us forcibly of the complexities of the relationship between mind and body and that the practice of medicine necessarily remains an art as well as a science."
Last year's prize was awarded to Marion Coutts for her memoir, The Iceberg.
The claim: Regional governments in Belgium have held up the EU's trade deal with Canada and would be likely to do the same to the UK.
Reality check verdict: Not all EU trade deals need to be approved by individual member states, but bigger ones do. If the UK were to agree a wide-ranging deal, including provisions on things like services, transport or investor protection, it would need to be ratified by every member state. In the case of Belgium, that would mean any of the five local parliaments could scupper it.
A Brussels signing ceremony was scheduled for Thursday, with Canadian ministers invited to attend. Now it looks unlikely.
The hitch is that Ceta requires ratification by all the 28 member states' national parliaments and 10 regional parliaments.
Under Belgian rules, the national government cannot sign the deal unless all five local governments agree to it.
The parliament of Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium, rejected the deal, as did the Brussels city parliament and that of the wider French-speaking community. The federal government and those representing the German community and Dutch-speaking Flanders approved the deal.
As a result, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has said the Belgian government cannot sign the deal off. Walloon leaders have asked for more time to study Ceta, suggesting a possible compromise may be found further down the line.
So what does this tell us about the Brexit negotiations?
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said: "If we can't make it with Canada, I don't think we can make it with the UK."
Not all EU agreements need to be ratified by all member states. If agreements only cover areas that are the responsibility of the EU, such as tariffs, then they do not need to be ratified in this way.
Senior EU politicians have suggested that setting out the terms of the UK's withdrawal and a new trade relationship between the UK and the EU would require two separate agreements.
The first agreement, the divorce settlement under Article 50, could well be done without needing ratification by all the individual member states.
That's because they would be agreed by qualified majority voting, which means having the support of 20 out of 27 countries representing at least 65% of the EU's population.
But the second deal, covering the UK's future trade relationship with the EU, would be more difficult to conclude without the approval of all the members.
The more complex the trade deal is, the more likely it is that it would be a "mixed" trade deal.
A "mixed deal" is an EU deal that includes areas that the individual EU states take decisions on, for example services, transport or investor protection. The list of areas that the member states themselves have a say on can be found here.
"Far from having taken back control, we will have left ourselves at the whim of the internal politics of 27 other countries," said Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesperson Tom Brake.
Ceta is a mixed deal, as was the EU's deal with South Korea. The customs union with Turkey was not a mixed deal, so did not need to be ratified by all member states.
It is important to stress that we know very little so far about what the UK's deal or deals to leave the EU will look like. We do not know what the UK's or the EU's starting positions are, let alone what the two sides would eventually agree on.
And if the trade deal is conducted outside the legal framework of Article 50, which envisages a two-year deadline, extendable only by a unanimous agreement of the other 27 EU countries, then we will not know any details of the deal for many years to come.
A spokesman for the Central Reserve Paramilitary Force (CRPF) said four armed suicide attackers had tried to enter the camp in the Bandipora region.
All of them were killed before they could enter the camp, he added.
Police said the militants did not "appear to be locals", hinting that they were from Pakistan.
India and Pakistan both claim disputed Kashmir in its entirety, but only control parts of it.
Delhi accuses Islamabad of fuelling militancy in the disputed region, a claim the latter denies.
The attack comes amid fresh tension in the region which has seen a new outbreak of violence after a prominent militant was killed by Indian armed forces.
The train beat the 590km/h speed it had set last week in another test.
Maglev trains use electrically charged magnets to lift and move carriages above the rail tracks.
Central Japan Railway (JR Central), which owns the trains, wants to introduce the service between Tokyo and the central city of Nagoya by 2027.
The 280km journey would take only about 40 minutes, less than half the current time.
However, passengers will not get to experience the maglev's record-breaking speeds because the company said its trains will operate at a maximum of 505km/h. In comparison, the fastest operating speed of a Japanese shinkansen, or "bullet train" is is 320km/h.
Construction costs are estimated at nearly $100bn (£67bn) just for the stretch to Nagoya, with more than 80% of the route expected to go through costly tunnels, AFP news agency reports.
By 2045, maglev trains are expected to link Tokyo and Osaka in just one hour, slashing the journey time in half.
About 200 train enthusiasts gathered along the route to witness Tuesday's test run. "It gave me chills. I really want to ride on the train... It's like I witnessed a new page in history," one woman told public broadcaster NHK.
"The faster the train runs, the more stable it becomes - I think the quality of the train ride has improved," said JR Central's head of research Yasukazu Endo.
Japan is known for its shinkansen that run on steel rails, but has been investing in maglev technology which it is hoping to sell overseas.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is visiting the US on Sunday where he is expected to pitch for a role in building a new high-speed rail line between New York and Washington.
More than 300,000 homes have been affected in the county after a parasite was discovered at a treatment works.
United Utilities said payments would range from £50 to £60 depending on when the advice to boil water was lifted. The move will cost them more than £15m.
Conservative MP for Fylde Mark Menzies said the size of the payment was a "disgrace" and "woefully inadequate".
"I think the figure of £50 or £60... in no way reflects the inconvenience people have been put through over the last month without drinking water," he added.
"I am disappointed because when I met with United Utilities last week they said they were consulting on how much they should be giving consumers and were unable to even speculate on the figure."
Mr Menzies said for a company that made "almost £700m in profit last year, to offer this paltry sum is a disgrace."
United Utilities said that while it was offering the same payment to business customers, they would deal with claims for additional expenses on a case-by-case basis.
Paul Maynard, Conservative MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys, warned United Utilities: "I would be very disappointed if [customers] receive a cheque for this amount only for their bills to go up by the same amount next year."
And he urged anyone who believes their compensation to be inadequate to contact him or the Consumer Council for Water.
Gary Dixon, customer services director for United Utilities, said the level of compensation had been set following discussions with the Consumer Council for Water.
"We recognise that our customers have been significantly inconvenienced over the last few weeks and they rightly deserve to be compensated.
"The payment reflects that inconvenience and takes into account the additional cost for boiling the water and a refund for water services over the period.
"We are grateful for our customers' co-operation and patience over the last few weeks."
United Utilities said residents and businesses would start to receive cheques in the post from Friday, but said some would not receive them until the end of the month.
Warnings to boil water were issued after the microbial parasite cryptosporidium was found at Franklaw water treatment works near Preston on 6 August.
Restrictions have been lifted in some areas, with more than two-thirds of homes back to normal.
Water has been treated with ultraviolet (UV) light to kill the parasite, which can cause diarrhoea and cramps.
The water firm said it hoped to lift restrictions for most of its remaining customers by the end of the week.
Customers can check which areas have had restrictions lifted by visiting the United Utilities website or calling 0800 912 7241.
Anthony Kwan Hok-chun was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport when boarding a flight to Hong Kong on Sunday. The items were found in his luggage.
Thai law prohibits possession of military equipment without a licence.
He may face a charge of carrying an illegal weapon, and could be jailed for up to five years if found guilty.
Journalists regularly use body armour and helmets when reporting from dangerous locations.
Mr Kwan told the BBC that he is still being investigated and police have yet to formally charge him.
His employer, Hong Kong news outlet Initium Media, said in a statement (in Chinese) that it has engaged a lawyer to help Mr Kwan.
"The legal process has started on this matter, it is thus inconvenient to comment on this matter, but we will closely monitor the developments in this situation and we support journalists' necessary rights to safety," it said.
The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) said in a statement that it is urging authorities not to press charges against Mr Kwan.
It added that the legitimate use of body armour should be decriminalised.
"Body armour and helmets used by journalists are not offensive weapons and should not be treated as such," it said, adding that large media organisations make it mandatory that journalists wear armour in potentially risky environments.
It pointed out that Thai authorities had not taken action against Bangkok-based journalists who had openly worn body armour in the past.
The bomb blast on 17 August killed 20 people and injured scores more. Police are still hunting for the main suspect.
The Mancunian institution is celebrating 200 years of treatment and research which has taken it from the most basic of conditions to a centre of scientific innovation.
Founder William James Wilson, from Leeds, set up in the spare rooms of a house "near the top of King Street", rented for £25 per year.
Formally inaugurated as the Manchester Institution for Curing Diseases of the Eye, Wilson was the only surgeon for the first few months.
But as demand quickly grew he expanded his team, servicing patients without fees and relying on donations and subscriptions.
The patient experience during the Victorian period was a far cry from today.
In 1838, patients had to queue in the rain in the back yard of number 3 South Parade, although funds were finally found to erect a shed.
From here the hospital moved to St John Street and in 1865 Queen Victoria gave approval for it to become the Royal Eye Hospital.
As the hospital grew it then moved to the grade II listed building on Oxford Road, which opened in 1885.
In this era treatments included leeching, and records list ailments with unfamiliar names such as eversion, strumulous inflammation and lippitudo, as well as "wounds of the eyeball".
The hospital helped out in both World Wars.
It came under strain during World War One, losing staff to war service and losing 50 beds to the care of the wounded.
Records show that during this period staff still managed to treat 39,000 outpatients and over 2,000 inpatients in 1917.
The hospital was bombed on 23 December 1940, killing two staff members and causing substantial damage.
But today it is one of the largest teaching eye hospitals in Europe and one of only two dedicated eye hospitals in the country.
Run by the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust it treats over 250,000 patients a year.
Following a £500m redevelopment, the Queen opened the new site on Oxford Road in 2012.
The hospital opened its doors to the public to celebrate its bicentenary, giving behind-the-scenes tours of the operating theatres and showcasing its equipment.
Manchester-based artist Lucy Burscough also exhibited her paintings at the open day as part of the Manchester Science Festival.
Nicholas Jones, a consultant ophthalmologist who has worked at the hospital for over 30 years, has also written a history of the hospital to celebrate the bicentenary.
Mr Jones said: "MREH is having a great birthday, and we're delighted to see so many people coming in to join in the fun.
"We are showing cutting edge technology and the high standards of care that we can now offer 200 years after the hospital was created."
21 October 1814: William James Wilson, from Leeds, sets up the Manchester Eye Institution, now known as Manchester Royal Eye Hospital.
23 December 1940: The hospital is bombed, killing two staff members and causing substantial damage to the Nelson Street building.
23 March 2012: The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh officially open the new Manchester Royal Eye Hospital as part of the Diamond Jubilee tour.
20 November 2013: Manchester Eye Bank reaches 20,000 eye donors, equating to almost 40,000 corneas processed and stored in the bank.
21 October 2014: Manchester Royal Eye Hospital celebrates it bicentenary.
The show's second season, which revolves around two separate murder cases linked by Tennant's character Detective Inspector Alec Hardy, reached its finale last night.
An average audience of 7.8 million watched the broadcast on ITV.
Writer Chris Chibnall said he was "overwhelmed" that so many people had stuck with the many "twists and turns".
"This third chapter has been a glint in my eye for a long time and I'm thrilled to be writing these characters once again," said Chibnall.
There is no news yet on who else will return for future instalments.
Tennant recently defended the drama after what he called "inevitable" criticism, from both fans and the media, that the second series had lost its way.
"I think we're a victim of our success to be honest," said the actor at last weekend's Whatsonstage Awards.
"The first series was such an extraordinary thing. We never allow lightning to strike twice in this country, we just don't let that happen.
"So, inevitably there was going to be a certain amount of 'it's not as good as the first time'. I think it is. I think it's a wonderful series that I'm very proud to be part of."
ITV has not yet confirmed when he and Colman, who plays DS Ellie Miller, will start filming the third series.
"Chris Chibnall knows exactly how to keep viewers guessing and I'm delighted that he is going to take the story on to the next stage," said ITV's director of drama Steve November.
Around nine million people have watched both series of the drama, however ratings did suffer a slight drop between the two.
The first broadcast of each episode averaged 9.37 million for series one (March - April 2013), and 9.21 million for series two.
The opening episode of series two was seen by 10.86 million, while 5.97 million saw last week's episode on 16 February.
The monarch said she was "deeply saddened" to learn of his death.
A vigil was attended by hundreds outside Trafalgar Square's South Africa House, after David Cameron earlier visited to offer his condolences.
Meanwhile, books of condolence have been opened across the country, and flags are flying at half-mast.
The Queen said the former South African president "worked tirelessly" for the good of his country, adding that his legacy is "the peaceful South Africa we see today".
A statement from Buckingham Palace said: "Her Majesty remembers with great warmth her meetings with Mr Mandela".
By Philippa ThomasBBC News
Among the flowers and flickering candles at the entrance to South Africa House, the message that stands out is "Thank you Madiba".
Hundreds gathered for a vigil on Friday night, holding signs and a long moment of silence, and then singing. But organiser Xolani Xala, head of the ANC in Europe, said: "We didn't make this happen. He did."
The long line to sign the book of condolence has been closed - but it will open again at 09:30 GMT on Saturday.
I've met people of many nationalities and colours here today - from long-time anti-apartheid activists to those who were toddlers when Mandela was freed.
Lela Kogbara joined the protests here decades ago. She told me that when Mandela first came to London in 1996 as president to Buckingham Palace, she was in a group of five or six campaigners invited to meet him there for breakfast. "I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. I didn't know what to say. And he teased me - 'are you on a diet?', she said."
And I met two young student friends from Pretoria - Mandisa Mbele and Rosemary Blersch, now at City and Roehampton universities - who told me that when they heard the news, "we had to be together and we had to be here".
Writing in a book of condolence at South Africa House, the prime minister said of Mr Mandela: "Your cause of fighting for freedom and against discrimination, your struggle for justice, your triumph against adversity - these things will inspire generations to come.
"And through all of this, your generosity, compassion and profound sense of forgiveness have given us all lessons to learn and live by."
He ended his message with a quote from Matthew 5:9 in the Bible: "Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God".
The central London site was once the scene of freedom vigils for Mr Mandela, who led South Africa's transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s after serving 27 years in prison for his political activities.
Members of the public queued to sign the book as flowers, candles and other tributes gathered outside the South African High Commission.
One tribute on a card read: "Thank you for the sacrifices you made for all of us."
Another read: "May God shine light on your homecoming in heaven. Rest in Peace Mr Mandela."
A book of condolence has opened for members of the public to sign at St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey. Further books will open at Coventry Cathedral, the city of peace and reconciliation, and at Leeds Civic Hall, after Mr Mandela was made a Freeman of Leeds in 2001.
St Paul's Cathedral is to hold an evensong service in memory of Mr Mandela at 17:00 GMT on Thursday.
A national service of thanksgiving for the life of Mr Mandela is to be held at Westminster Abbey in the new year. The state funeral in South Africa is due to take place on Sunday, 15 December.
The Foreign Office said it has requested that all UK national flags across the country be flown at half-mast until 20:00 GMT on Thursday. It also appealed for any foreign flags usually flown on the same stand as the Union Flag to be removed.
Mr Mandela made his first state visit to the UK in 1996, two years after he became South Africa's first black president.
The Prince of Wales said Mr Mandela was the "embodiment of courage and reconciliation".
The prince added: "He was also a man of great humour and had a real zest for life.
"With his passing, there will be an immense void not only in his family's lives, but also in those of all South Africans and the many others whose lives have been changed through his fight for peace, justice and freedom.
"The world has lost an inspired leader and a great man. My family and I are profoundly saddened and our thoughts and prayers are with his family. "On Thursday night, Prince William said the death of Mandela was "extremely sad and tragic".
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were attending the premiere of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, a film about the former South African president, when news of Mr Mandela's death broke.
Speaking after the film, Prince William said: "We were just reminded of what an extraordinary and inspiring man Nelson Mandela was and my thoughts and prayers are with him and his family right now."
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, was among others in the UK to pay tribute to Mr Mandela.
He said: "South Africa has lost its greatest citizen and its father. Nelson Mandela, fighting to the end, is freed to be with his God in joy and reward for his great service and sacrifice."
Among others in the UK to pay tribute to Mr Mandela:
Mr Mandela, 95, had been receiving intense home-based medical care for a lung infection after three months in hospital.
His death was announced on South African national TV by the country's president Jacob Zuma.
England struggled against their 10-man hosts before Adam Lallana secured victory seconds from the final whistle.
Captain Rooney, winning his 116th cap, played largely in a deep midfield role.
"Wayne played wherever he wanted to," said Allardyce. "He did play a little deeper than I thought he'd play, but I was pleased with his performance."
Rooney is now his country's most capped male outfield player, ahead of David Beckham, and is just nine games away from equalling goalkeeper Peter Shilton's record of 125 caps.
But his role has been a hot topic for both club and country, with the 30-year-old forward featuring in a number of positions for Manchester United and England.
Allardyce, who took over from Roy Hodgson in July, says he "can't stop" Rooney from dropping into midfield, adding the player has a "lot more experience at international football" than he does.
"It's not for me to say where he's going to play," said the former Sunderland, West Ham, Newcastle and Bolton boss, 61. "It's up to me to ask whether he's doing well in that position and contributing."
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Allardyce was critical of England's finishing in Trnava and admitted he was getting "very concerned" before Lallana's goal gave his side victory after Martin Skrtel had been sent off for the hosts.
"Slovakia just parked the bus," added Allardyce. "In fact, they parked a double decker, but we are going to have to be more clinical."
England's next Group F qualifier is at Wembley on 8 October against Malta, who were beaten 5-1 at home by Scotland on Sunday.
The claims were made in a Police Ombudsman's report.
Eugene Dalton, 54, and Sheila Lewis, 68, were killed in the explosion at a house in Londonderry.
A third victim, 57-year-old Gerard Curran, died months after being pulled from the rubble.
Proceedings were issued over an ombudsman probe into the booby-trap bombing in August 1988.
The report concluded there had been a failure by the police to protect the victims of the attack in the Creggan area of the city.
The Northern Ireland Retired Police Officers Association claims there was no legal power to make findings, which it claims contain inaccuracies.
Leave to seek a judicial review was granted on the basis that an arguable case has been established.
The attack became known as the "Good Samaritan bomb" because the three friends had gone to check on the whereabouts of a neighbour kidnapped earlier by the IRA.
The IRA later apologised, admitting it planted the booby trap device in a bid to kill soldiers.
Nearly two decades later, members of Mr Dalton's family lodged a complaint with the Police Ombudsman's Office that the RUC had been negligent and failed in its duty to uphold their father's right to life under Article Two of the European Convention on Human Rights.
In July last year, the Police Ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, published his findings that police officers had information about an IRA booby trap bomb in a house in the Creggan estate, but did nothing to warn residents of the possible danger.
He identified a failure in the police obligation to protect the lives of the public.
The report provoked a furious reaction within the association and a threatened boycott of ombudsman investigations into historical cases of alleged human rights breaches.
A legal challenge has now been initiated in a bid to have the findings quashed.
Papers lodged in the High Court claim the report contains a number of inaccuracies, failed to take into account relevant issues on intelligence at the time and denied the retired officers a chance to comment.
Lawyers for the association also contend that the ombudsman had legally overstepped the mark.
According to their case, he had no power to make findings in relation to Article Two of the European Convention on Human Rights.
A High Court judge granted leave to seek a judicial review on Wednesday after no contrary arguments were advanced at this stage.
The case will now proceed to a full two-day hearing in May when the ombudsman's legal representatives will defend the allegations.
Outside the court the association's solicitor, Dorcas Crawford, set out why the case was brought.
She said: "It's important to establish their rights as retired officers because they are being implicated and criticised without the right to reply."
Mr Immelt will leave on 31 December and will be replaced by John Flannery.
In keeping with the company's tradition, Mr Flannery has been promoted from within GE where he was most recently in charge of healthcare.
Speculation about Mr Immelt's future had grown recently following reports of a clash with a major investor.
Trian Fund Management had raised concerns with GE about the company missing financial targets over a number of quarters.
GE has agreed to cut $2bn worth of costs and to align executive bonuses with cuts and profit goals.
Documents filed earlier this year showed that Mr Immelt's remuneration had fallen as a result of missing targets.
He was paid a total $27.5m for 2015, down 35% from the previous year's total of $32.9m.
Mr Flannery, 55, who described Mr Immelt as "one of the greatest business leaders of our time", has been with GE since 1987 and has worked all over the world including India and Argentina.
GE said the leadership announcements were the result of a succession plan that has been run by the GE board of directors since 2011.
In addition, chief financial officer Jeff Bornstein has been promoted to vice chairman of GE.
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The organisation said severe weather and low temperatures had affected grass growth.
This meant that cows have been unable to graze and are losing weight as a result.
It is feared the situation may also affect the animals breeding.
The SCF said that weather conditions had affected crofters' income due to a fall in tourism, with many being unable to afford extra supplies of hay, feed and straw.
The organisation has written to Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead to explain the situation and ask for emergency payments to be made.
SCF director Joyce Wilkinson said: "Everywhere I go I see and hear of near-crisis conditions.
"We brought it up with government officials and were told that the CAP 'rebate' was to be paid this week and that could be considered an emergency payment to help with the crisis.
"But the rebate is based on a percentage of the producer's claim, excluding the first £2,000 - which of course means some small producers will receive very low payments, if any.
"SCF are convinced that a real emergency payment needs to be made as soon as possible to avoid catastrophe for many small producers, who are the source of calves for the Scottish beef system, which in turn will face problems if something is not done now."
A spokesman for the Scottish government said: "We understand the recent weather has been particularly challenging for crofters and farmers and we will continue to look at what we can do to assist famers and crofters at this time.
"Support is already available for farmers and crofters through Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the CAP and £12m in top-up payments distributed at the beginning of June should provide some interim help.
"In the future the new island rates for Beef Voluntary Coupled Support will also help farmers and crofters deal with the impact of external events, such as challenges presented by weather."
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Crofters in the Highlands and Islands are facing a crisis due to lack of grazing for their livestock, according to the Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF).
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The Latvian also broke his collarbone in the crash on stage two and narrowly avoided being hit by the peloton as he staggered across the road.
The Cannondale-Drapac rider tried to continue but was pulled out of the race by his team and taken to hospital.
The team say Skujins is now following their internal concussion protocol and will be "monitored closely".
Skujins added that he was "feeling all right" and "healthy". He also tweeted a picture of himself in hospital with the message: "I would never suggest getting in a fight with tarmac because you will lose."
Cannondale-Drapac sport director Tom Southam said: "Toms' crash obviously had a huge impact on us. It was a high-speed crash and unfortunately it happened at a time when the race was fragmented, which delays information and makes these situations extremely hard.
"Toms instinctively continued riding but it was clear that he couldn't go on. It's a blow for the team and for his own ambitions but that was a serious fall, and racing can take a back seat while he heals."
Jonathan Vaughters, the chief executive of Slipstream Sports, who own Cannondale-Drapac, said: "Concussion recovery varies from person to person and from day to day.
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The seven-day race continues on Tuesday with stage three from Pismo Beach to Morro Bay - a 119.6-mile ride that includes 6,375 feet of elevation gain.
Polish Bora-Hansgrohe rider Rafal Majka leads after stage two, just two seconds ahead of New Zealand's George Bennett of LottoNL-Jumbo.
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Toms Skujins will sit out the rest of the Tour of California after suffering concussion in a heavy fall on Monday.
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The 28-year-old denied repeatedly hitting Mr Zaluska on the head at Ashton Lane and Byres Road on 20 October, 2014.
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It's a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions - from peacemaker to George Bush's ally in the most disastrous war in Britain's recent history.
The report is a coruscating indictment of the way in which intelligence was used by Tony Blair and his inner circle to justify the invasion, given the alleged threat from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
The government and MI6, despite serious doubts in some quarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, persisted with most of the sources on which the intelligence was based until the outbreak of war.
"Policy was made on the basis of flawed intelligence assessments," Chilcot concludes.
"They were not challenged and should have been."
The critical moment when those challenges were not made was when the government's dossier of September 2002 was being prepared six months before the invasion.
And the greatest deception turned out to be from a source whose claims about working as a chemical engineer at military facility outside Baghdad were taken seriously by both Britain and the US.
The dossier was based on intelligence provided to the prime minister by the Joint Intelligence Committee. It was taken from reports it had received over the preceding months from MI6 and other agencies.
The problem was the JIC assessments were qualified - the original reports said that intelligence was "sporadic and patchy" and "remains limited" and that "there was very little intelligence relating to Iraq's chemical warfare programme."
None of these qualifications however was included in the dossier. To have done so would have undermined its purpose to leave the public in no doubt.
Chilcot points out that the JIC assessments contained "careful language to ensure that no more weight is put on the evidence than it can bear."
He goes on to say that the dossier was "grounded in what Mr Blair believed rather than in the judgement which the JIC had actually reached… Iraq's capabilities were presented with a certainty that was not justified."
As Chilcot acknowledges, the UK had no sources of human intelligence with reliable first-hand knowledge of Iraq's WMD capabilities.
While MI6 did have several sources, most proved to be embarrassingly unreliable.
But around the time of the government's September dossier, MI6 received word of a possible intelligence crown jewel, later referred to as "the new source on trial".
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On 11 September - almost two weeks before the dossier was published - Sir Richard Dearlove, the Chief of MI6, telephoned Sir John Scarlett, the head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, and said, "SIS is on the edge of a significant breakthrough."
According to Chilcot, Sir Richard told Scarlett it was "phenomenal access" that could be "the key to unlock Iraq's biological and chemical weapons programme".
The source was saying that Iraq had accelerated its chemical and biological production and had built further facilities throughout Iraq.
Sir Richard did qualify this by saying the case was "developmental" and remained "unproven".
The MI6 chief then drove to Downing Street to personally brief the prime minister.
Chilcot says this "personal intervention and its urgency gave added weight to a report that had not been properly evaluated and would have coloured the perception of ministers and senior officials".
No information from "the new source on trial" was included in the September dossier.
But the high expectations raised were dashed.
In February 2003, the month before the invasion, it was revealed that the source had been lying.
This was only one of a series of sorry stories.
When the dossier was published one of the headlines was that Iraq could launch a chemical attack in 45 minutes using a missile that could reach as far as Cyprus.
This too was subsequently rubbished.
The case highlighted the way in which intelligence sometimes reached MI6 as the result of a chain of individuals going back to the original source.
Chilcot concluded there were concerns that "the source had coached the sub source, that the sub source had fabricated reports and that the source might not have accurately reported the information from the sub source".
In 2004, a senior SIS officer wrote to Foreign Secretary Jack Straw warning of a "snag" with the 45-minute intelligence.
The foreign secretary described it as "a very major understatement" that "seemed to drive a coach and horses through the veracity of the 45-minute claim".
But the most astonishing case of deception concerns a source codenamed "Curveball" - an American baseball term approximating to a "googly" in cricket.
His real name was Rafed al Janabi, an Iraqi asylum seeker who ended up in a German refugee camp near Nuremberg.
German intelligence became seriously interested in him because he said he was a chemical engineer who had worked in a military facility outside Baghdad.
The words "chemical" and "military" were magnets.
Curveball told his interrogators that he had seen mobile trucks and trailers with biological fermenters in the warehouses at the plant where he worked - and even sketched rough diagrams of them.
He also spoke of a chemical explosion in which 12 technicians had died. There was never any such explosion.
The Germans were not completely convinced of his reliability but there were some parts of his story that seemed to stand up in particular where his chemical knowledge was concerned.
Equally there were large parts that did not. Satellite imagery showed that it was impossible for such trucks to manoeuvre out of the warehouse - in addition to which there was a 6ft (1.8m) wall in the way.
The Germans sent around 100 reports on Curveball to their American counterparts and shared the intelligence with MI6. Both asked the Germans to give them access to Curveball but the Germans refused.
Chilcot says that when Tony Blair was told about Curveball he said this was "an additional and new factor" and featured it in the September dossier.
The Americans too used Curveball to maximum effect, culminating in a presentation US Secretary of State Colin Powell made to the UN Security Council just before the invasion.
He even showed sophisticated full-colour graphics of the mobile biological trucks that Curveball had only roughly sketched.
Powell used what Curveball had told the Germans as fact, although the Germans had cautioned the Americans to use the intelligence with care.
Embarrassingly, none of what Curveball said turned out to be true. Powell was furious when he later learned that his key witness was a fake.
In 2004 MI6 and the CIA were finally given access to Curveball.
The Americans dismissed him as a fabricator and the British, noting "irreconcilable inconsistencies", formally dismissed him as an intelligence source who was "seriously flawed".
By then it was too late. Saddam had been toppled.
I remember interviewing Curveball in 2013. I'll never forget his answer to my final remark.
"We went to war on a lie and the person who told that lie was you," I said.
He replied "yes" with a chillingly sly smile.
The image would not be out of place of the front cover of the Chilcot report.
The 24-year-old will join up with Gareth Southgate's squad for Sunday's 2018 World Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley.
The centre-back has been drafted in following an injury to Chris Smalling.
The Manchester United player has returned to Old Trafford while Chelsea's Gary Cahill, who is suspended for the game, has also left the camp.
Gibson will join the squad on Friday afternoon and take part in a training session on Saturday.
England were beaten 1-0 by Germany in a friendly in Dortmund on Wednesday in Southgate's first game as permanent England manager.
They go into Sunday's game unbeaten in qualifying and are top of Group F on 10 points.
"I wouldn't have thought so," says Simon Hughes, the coalition minister responsible for freedom of information policy.
But it's perhaps just another issue where he's not in line with all his government colleagues.
"Cabinet committees are known, membership of cabinet committees and sub-committees is known, and the fact they have met is clearly often known," he argues. "There are some that never meet or barely ever meet."
In contrast, however, the Cabinet Office has spent more than two years fighting a BBC FOI request asking how many times the Reducing Regulation sub-committee has met. This was set up in 2010 to oversee the scrapping of unnecessary bureaucratic "red tape".
Earlier this month the Upper Tribunal heard the latest stage in this long-running battle, the Cabinet Office's appeal against a Lower Tribunal ruling last year that releasing this fact would be in the public interest. The Upper Tribunal has yet to announce its decision.
Mr Hughes wasn't aware of this case when I interviewed him and posed the general question. After I explained it, he added:
"I've given you my instinct, it shouldn't be a problem. Clearly the Cabinet Office have some concerns, which is why they are batting it away. I would hope that we can arrive at a transparent place on that."
Simon Hughes has been the Liberal Democrat junior minister in the Ministry of Justice for nine months, having joined the government last December when he replaced Lord McNally.
He explains his first priority in the FOI field was to ensure the law was extended to Network Rail, and now he is moving on to the next items in his agenda.
His remarks follow the government announcement earlier this month that Network Rail, which runs Britain's rail infrastructure and has been re-classified as a public sector body, will be brought under FOI. This has been a pending issue for several years. Mr Hughes says there were concerns "further up the scale" within government, including inside 10 Downing Street, but they were overcome.
Applying FOI to Network Rail will require new regulations. Mr Hughes is determined that the change will take effect before April 2015 and - importantly - that it will be retrospective. In other words, it will be possible to make FOI requests for past information which pre-dates these regulations but is still held by Network Rail. This would be in line with other bodies subject to FOI.
This is despite murmurings among some officials that the government as a whole may not agree that FOI should retrospectively affect the company. However, a spokesman for Network Rail itself says: "We're entirely comfortable with retrospective application of FOI."
Mr Hughes states he is planning three further steps on FOI before the May 2015 general election.
The first is pressing ahead with plans to extend FOI to cover several other regulatory and complaints handling bodies, such as the Housing Ombudsman, the Advertising Standards Authority, the Panel on Takeover and Mergers, and the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
He says he hopes this move will not be controversial. It will be a limited group compared with the much longer list of bodies the government previously indicated in 2011 as under consideration for broadening the reach of FOI.
The second is issuing an updated government code of practice which gives guidance on how public authorities should implement FOI. This would contain stricter advice, promised by the MoJ in 2012, on the amount of time taken for assessing if releasing information is in the public interest and also for reviews of FOI decisions.
The third step is a more far-reaching consultation exercise, which will cover both wider principles of potential FOI coverage and administrative processes for its current operation.
Mr Hughes would like to increase the scrutiny of those private companies which have "effective monopolies" providing certain public services, such as National Grid, water supply companies and, in some places, housing associations.
"The FOI process would be hugely helpful to lots of people who want to know how water companies regulate their affairs," he says.
Implementing any such measures would require legislation that would not be feasible within this parliament before the May 2015 election.
But Mr Hughes wants the consultation to happen before then "so that we have heard the support, we have heard the objections, and we have everything teed up for whoever is in the right place after May to be able to go forwards".
His aspirations also extend to some large corporations which are not monopolistic in this way, notably the Big 6 energy firms. However he says that for most private companies that provide public services, he wants to use the advisory code of practice rather than legislation to encourage transparency.
The consultation document will also deal with potential amendments to FOI regulations about what costs public authorities can take into account when deciding if enquiries are too expensive to answer.
This follows pressure from some public authorities who have complained about the "administrative burden" of FOI and want greater scope to reject requests.
"There are perfectly reasonable concerns out there that it can be burdensome if you have a huge amount of redacting to do," says Mr Hughes. "If public authorities are helpful, and there are practical things we can do to respond to practical concerns, we will do that."
But he says a final decision has yet to be made on what possible proposals to consult about. "We've seen the bids to consider them, but clearly we need to get the message correct, which is that we're extending freedom of information, not restricting it."
He maintains he sees no need to alter the current provisions on when requests can be dismissed as "vexatious", which he regards as sufficient.
He reveals that it was put to him by departmental officials that there should be two separate consultation exercises - one about possible extensions, the other on the processes - but that he has insisted on consulting on everything at the same time.
"We've got to be seen to be continuing with the spirit of FOI and not amending the processes other than where there are very practical changes that might need to be made."
Mr Hughes maintains that his views on FOI haven't altered since he became a minister and thus found himself on the receiving end of requests.
"My attitude hasn't changed, but I'm conscious of the workload," he says.
He admits that the Ministry needs to improve its own record on processing FOI applications. According to the latest available quarterly statistics, the MoJ does badly on responding to FOI requests within the time limits compared to most other government departments.
"We are still trying to do better. We are not as good as we should be at turning round requests, and it is a subject I have raised specifically in the ministerial team."
In the longer term he proclaims his aspiration to streamline and speed up the processes for both freedom of information and data protection.
"All these things have to be seen from the point of view of the citizen. I haven't changed my view being a minister. Our job is to the make the response of the public service to the citizen better and more open."
That is the view of the sport's performance director Jan Bartu, who on Friday saw saw GB's Samantha Murray claim the women's title.
Jamie Cooke, who recently returned to the sport after a break to complete his studies, came 20th.
"He [Choong] handled the pressure superbly," Bartu told BBC Sport.
"He produced his first clean round in the show jumping and that's a dream result for him."
Although pleased with the overall result, Choong admitted he was frustrated that he could not score more points during the opening fencing event - when he placed 27th out of 36 athletes.
"I was getting evens all of the way around, winning one and then losing another and it was just silly mistakes," Choong told BBC Sport.
"I know I'm young but it does annoy me that with five or six more hits I could have finished near the top - but apart from that I'm chuffed."
Cooke, 23, a World Cup winner in 2013, is the current holder of the modern pentathlon 200m freestyle world record of one minute 49.59 seconds.
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However, after taking nearly two months away from the British programme to complete his business communications degree at Bath Spa University, he was far from his best.
"Today was a bit of a disappointment," said Cooke.
"It has been a difficult year finishing university, but that's all out of the way now and I have two years to knuckle down ahead of the Rio Olympics."
The final day of the World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Poland will see Britain's Kate French and Joe Evans compete in the mixed relay event.
Joshua, 27, will defend his IBF title for the third time, with the WBA belt vacated by Tyson Fury also on the line.
Klitschko, 40, lost for the first time in 11 years against Fury in 2015 - losing the IBF, WBO and WBA titles.
"I think it's perfect timing," Lewis told BBC Sport. "After a loss, there's a notch on Klitschko's armour."
Lewis, who retired in 2004 with 41 wins from 44 fights, believes unbeaten Joshua is "focused" and remains keen to prove himself after winning his title from American Charles Martin inside two rounds in April 2016.
"He got a belt given to him," Lewis added. "He didn't really earn it. So this is his time to earn that belt from the champion who had it."
Klitschko, who has only lost four times in 68 bouts, has been trained by Johnathon Banks since the death of his legendary trainer Emanuel Steward in 2012.
Steward trained 43 world champions in all, including Lewis for a decade from 1994.
"If Manny was still here, Klitschko would still be the champion, and he would be a better fighter," said Lewis, 51.
"I would have made him the favourite to beat Joshua if Manny Steward was here.
"It really depends if Klitschko's listening to Banks. In his last fight when he lost, he wasn't listening, but Banks was telling him the right things."
Authorities have given permission for 90,000 people to attend the Wembley bout, which will match the British record set by Len Harvey and Jock McAvoy at White City Stadium in 1939.
Caroline Hope, who is from Clydebank, was diagnosed with cancer in January while working as an English teacher.
She was initially successfully treated for colon cancer but has since become gravely ill after contracting E.coli.
Current guidelines strictly limit the repatriation of UK citizens for medical reasons.
Ms Hope, who is 37, moved to Turkey four years ago to teach at an international school in the country.
Her employer had taken out insurance to cover Ms Hope's stay at the Medical Park Hospital in Izmir. However, that insurance is due to expire at the end of July.
Her mother, Catherine Hope, told the BBC that the family did not have the money to pay for a private medical evacuation back to the UK.
She said: "It's £29,000 to get her home. We thought the diplomatic service would help us, but they haven't."
Mrs Hope, who is flying to Turkey on Wednesday, said her son Scott had broken the news to her at the weekend about her daughter's condition.
She said: "Scott said to me on Saturday 'mum, Caroline is dying'.
"He said 'we've got to get her out of there. I've phoned the British Consulate and they said they can't repatriate as they don't have an arrangement with Turkey'".
Mrs Hope added: "I was hoping that she would stay where she was until she was well enough and then I would go out and bring her back with me and get her admitted to a hospital or nursing home and then find out what they can do for her."
Mrs Hope's local MP, Martin Docherty, has written to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to raise the case.
Scott Hope said the family were desperate to move his sister back to Scotland, where she could be cared for by them.
He said: "I'm basically trying everything possible that a brother would do for a sister and I'm sure that anybody would do for a member of their family.
"When all options are basically down, the only option is to draw attention to our situation and basically beg on compassionate grounds that somebody is going to turn around from the Scottish government or from the UK government and say 'you know what, we're going to get this girl home'".
Mr Hope said his sister's condition had deteriorated significantly in recent days. He said: "They've got a crash team in her room and they're very worried in terms of her blood pressure and her condition and what it is just now.
"We've got a limited time and a limited amount of funds to stay in Turkey and the thing that would probably kill me the most is my time running out and having to still leave her in that hospital."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "This is a difficult time for the Hope family, and in these circumstances, we would expect the Turkish health authorities to contact the receiving NHS Scotland Board to discuss what healthcare support might be necessary on her return to Scotland.
"We are happy to bring this case to the attention of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the British Consul, so the appropriate services can be offered by them."
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office said they were aware of the case but refused to comment further.
The capital side, who move up to fourth in the table, led 2-0 within 10 minutes thanks to Ciro Immobile's double.
Keita Balde Diao then scored a hat-trick between the 21st and 26th minutes to complete the first-half scoring.
Andrea Rispoli scored twice after the break for Palermo before Luca Crecco's last-minute sixth goal for Lazio.
The only other team to score five goals as quickly in an Italian top-flight match were Juventus, who scored all theirs in 21 minutes in a 5-2 win over Fiorentina 79 years ago.
Match ends, Lazio 6, Palermo 2.
Second Half ends, Lazio 6, Palermo 2.
Goal! Lazio 6, Palermo 2. Luca Crecco (Lazio) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal following a corner.
Corner, Lazio. Conceded by Michel Morganella.
Foul by Cristiano Lombardi (Lazio).
Michel Morganella (Palermo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Felipe Anderson (Lazio).
Andrea Rispoli (Palermo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Felipe Anderson (Lazio) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bruno Henrique (Palermo).
Substitution, Lazio. Cristiano Lombardi replaces Keita.
Attempt blocked. Giancarlo Gonzalez (Palermo) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Wallace (Lazio).
Aleksandar Trajkovski (Palermo) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Wallace (Lazio).
Ivaylo Chochev (Palermo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Wesley Hoedt (Lazio) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ilija Nestorovski (Palermo).
Wesley Hoedt (Lazio) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ilija Nestorovski (Palermo).
Attempt blocked. Lucas Biglia (Lazio) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Luca Crecco (Lazio) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Felipe Anderson with a cross.
Substitution, Palermo. Aleksandar Trajkovski replaces Simone Lo Faso.
Offside, Lazio. Stefan de Vrij tries a through ball, but Jordan Lukaku is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Keita (Lazio) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Lazio. Luca Crecco replaces Sergej Milinkovic-Savic.
Substitution, Palermo. Ivaylo Chochev replaces Mato Jajalo.
Attempt missed. Ciro Immobile (Lazio) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Lucas Biglia.
Offside, Lazio. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic tries a through ball, but Wesley Hoedt is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Alessandro Gazzi (Palermo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lucas Biglia (Lazio) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alessandro Gazzi (Palermo).
Attempt blocked. Wesley Hoedt (Lazio) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Ciro Immobile (Lazio) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Edoardo Goldaniga (Palermo).
Attempt blocked. Senad Lulic (Lazio) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Biglia.
Lucas Biglia (Lazio) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simone Lo Faso (Palermo).
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio) is shown the yellow card.
It is a bright, moonlit night, pregnant with the promise of a frosty winter. The landscape is etched with silhouettes of hills and trees. Now more than a dozen men, looking like ghostly apparitions, complete the picture.
"Any information about vehicles in the neighbourhood?" barks Nawal Kishore Sharma, who is inspecting this stakeout in a hamlet in Rajasthan.
The men shake their heads.
"Nothing so far," says one of them. "It's all very quiet tonight."
The bike-borne Mr Sharma is a rakish man of sorts. He has shiny oiled hair and a neat beard. He is clad in fraying blue denim, a pale blue shirt and khaki sneakers. He has, by his own admission, two wives and five children.
By day, Mr Sharma makes marble figurines of deities for a living. By night, he's a fire-spewing leader of a thriving group of radical Hindu vigilantes belonging to a cow protection group in Ramgarh, a cluster of some 70 villages.
Several nights a week Mr Sharma marshals his "patrolling soldiers", as he calls them, to keep a watch on what they say are smugglers illegally transporting cows to sell for slaughter.
Groups like his are thriving thanks to the rising hysteria and sporadic violence over slaughter of cows and consumption of beef in India. Ruling BJP governments in states have tightened laws on both. The cow, venerated by India's majority Hindu people, has re-emerged as India's most polarising animal.
Mr Sharma's "soldiers" are a rag-tag, but committed bunch of vigilantes who are mostly members of militant Hindu groups like Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) and Shiv Sena. All of them attend local camps held by the right-wing Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteers' Organisation), which has umbilical ties with the ruling BJP.
Some of them are as young as 15. They are a motley crew of farmers, shop owners, teachers, students, masons, doctors and the jobless. On the night I went out with a group, I met a TV repairman, a Sanskrit teacher, and a TV journalist, who were looking to catch cow smugglers. There were two polytechnic students.
They are mainly vegetarian and many say they drink cow urine for a "healthy life". Many of them, including Mr Sharma himself, believe that the Muslim man who was lynched by a Hindu mob over rumours of storing and consuming beef deserved his fate, and "when fights happen, people do get killed".
All of them believe that "mother cow" is endangered, and conflate saving the cow with saving Hinduism. "The cow will become extinct within 20 years if we don't save them now," says Suraj Bhan Gujjar, a farmer. Although there are rising concerns over cattle smuggling in border areas, India has more than 100 million cows and buffaloes, and it's one of the top milk producing countries in the world.
So night after night, spurred by myth and fervour, they stake out at village crossroads, looking to waylay vehicles and looking for the quarry they are trying to save. They say cows are smuggled in pick-up trucks, SUVs, even ambulances and buses, and are taken to abattoirs in neighbouring states.
The vigilantes are armed with sturdy batons, baseball bats, sticks, stones, machetes and sickles mounted on sticks. They use beds of nails on wooden slabs as road blocks to stop vehicles. When the going gets tough, they chase the smugglers on their bikes.
The battle to save the cow appears to be a bit asymmetrical: the smugglers often fire in the dark to ward them off and the two sides often end up in high speed chases. "We are experts in dodging bullets. We jump into the fields when the smugglers open fire," says Babulal Prajapati, the TV repairman.
There is no such dramatic action tonight.
There is a false alarm at one stakeout - somebody spots a speck of light in the distance, and the vigilantes dive into the fields. The light flickers out. It is not from a vehicle.
Another patrol stops a truck trundling down a dirt track. Excitement mounts, and the vigilantes clamber up the vehicle. More disappointment: it is stuffed with pigs bound for markets in Delhi.
The driver is Zakir Hussain. You are a Muslim, and you are carrying pigs? asks a bemused vigilante. "I transport everything for a living," says Mr Husain wryly.
As the futile search for the holy cow wears on, camels dragging carts suddenly loom in the moonlit darkness on a narrow dirt track. The vigilantes gasp and make way. The night is full of slight surprises.
The group claims to have rescued 18,000 cows and sent them to shelters since it began work in 1992. It says most of the smugglers escape under the cover of darkness. The "rescued" cows are sent to two cow shelters in the district.
Records at the local police station show only half a dozen registered cases of cow smuggling and four smugglers arrested so far this year; last year, there were seven such cases. A dozen smugglers' vehicles, seized by the police, are rotting near the police station. "We take complaints of cow smuggling very seriously. And the protection groups helps us catch then," says policeman Dhruv Singh.
Things are getting better with a friendly ruling government though.
"We are working harder these days. Our efforts are getting support. The local BJP lawmaker, party leaders are all helping us in our mission. The police take us more seriously, the authorities are listening to us," says Mr Sharma.
In the neighbouring Alwar town, the local BJP lawmaker Gyan Dev Ahuja makes no bones about his support for the vigilantes.
"I give them money, I give them support, I hold classes on the virtues of cow," he tells me.
A sample of his lessons: California is entirely electrified by cow dung fuel or biogas, cow milk contains traces of gold; and foreign experts say killing cows in India will "lead to volcanoes, earthquakes and drought".
"Still," he sighs, "the cow is not being given enough importance in India."
"That is why I support the vigilantes. They have a mission. It's about saving India's soul. It's about Hindutva (Hinduness)."
Mr Jones, 71, represented Conwy in the assembly's first election in 1999, but lost his seat by 72 votes in 2003.
A former headmaster, he returned to the Senedd when he won the redrawn constituency of Aberconwy in 2007.
The chair of the enterprise and learning scrutiny committee said it had been a "huge privilege and a rare honour" to represent his electors.
Mr Jones, who was awarded the OBE in 1991 for services to education, said he was "eternally grateful to the people for giving me that opportunity".
He had been head of Ysgol John Bright in Llandudno, Conwy, and an independent educational consultant before the 1999 election.
He became Plaid education spokesman and chaired the assembly education committee.
After his 2003 defeat he became leader of the Plaid group on Conwy council before returning to the assembly.
"Early on in my professional career as a teacher I never imagined that I would be in this position, nor that Wales would have a semblance of self-government, but I've enjoyed it immensely and will miss it greatly," he said.
"I hope I've been able to contribute something to our fledgling democracy here in Wales.
"I also hope that the next fourth assembly will see someone elected who shares my passion both for this constituency and for this nation and someone who will finally have the right tools to get on with the job of representing the people of Aberconwy in a proper parliament for Wales."
Voters will go to the polls next May, and Mr Jones will stand down when the assembly is dissolved at the end of March.
Pathologists are examining the body of Birna Brjansdottir, found washed up on a beach on Sunday, a week after she spent a night out with friends.
The case has shocked the tiny Arctic nation of just 330,000. Sparsely populated Greenland is in mourning too.
Iceland has fewer than two murders a year - hardly ever involving strangers.
The woman's disappearance sparked the biggest search and rescue operation in Iceland's history. More than 725 volunteers took part.
Spots of Brjansdottir's blood were found inside a hire car linked to two crewmen from a Greenland trawler, the Polar Nanoq. Icelandic special forces flew out to sea on Sunday to bring it back to port and arrest them.
One of her shoes was found near where their vessel was docked, at Hafnarfjordur, south of the capital Reykjavik.
It has always ended like that, wherever he has been.
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But if England have failed in their attempts to manage him, then so has everyone else.
At least the decision not to pick him again was unanimous and made by those at the England and Wales Cricket Board who know what really went on.
It has been made by people within the dressing room, not by journalists or supporters.
Players have said various things off the record about Pietersen and his behaviour, but when a camera or dictaphone is put in front of them they will tell you what a great lad he is.
On the field of play, he may have been England's leading run scorer in the 5-0 Ashes whitewash in Australia, but he dug deep and fought only once, when he scored 71 and 49 at Melbourne.
If he had averaged 40 and been caught behind every time, then he may have survived. However, the way he got out in the first three Tests in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth will have played a big part in the decision taken by the ECB.
Pietersen has always batted however he feels on a particular day, but if he could not get his head down and play for the team when they were up against it, could he ever do so?
His international career could easily have ended 18 months ago when he sent text messages to the South Africa dressing room, undermining then captain Andrew Strauss. That was shameful - and Pietersen knew it.
The ECB did all it could to bring him back on board, but when you have been so completely and utterly dismantled, as England have been this winter, you have to draw a line.
Nov 2004: Makes England one-day debut, scoring 27 not out against Zimbabwe
Jan/Feb 2005: Scores three hundreds in one-day series in South Africa
July 2005: Makes Test debut in opening Ashes Test, scoring 57 & 64 not out
Sept 2005: Scores 158 on the final day of the Ashes series as England win urn for first time in 18 years
Aug 2008: Named England Test and one-day captain
Jan 2009: Resigns as England captain following a rift with coach Peter Moores, who is sacked
May 2010: Scores 248 runs and is named player of the tournament as England win the World T20 in West Indies
Jan 2011: Part of England team that wins a Test series in Australia for first time since 1987
May 2012: Announces retirement from international limited-overs cricket
Aug 2012: Reverses his retirement decision
Aug 2012: Dropped for third Test against South Africa for sending "provocative texts" to opposition players, days after scoring a brilliant century at Headingley
Oct 2012: Agrees to be "reintegrated" into England team after signing new ECB contract. Recalled for India tour and scores 186 in Mumbai in 2-1 series win
Sept 2013: Helps England to 3-0 Ashes series victory over Australia
Jan 2014: Part of England team that suffers 5-0 whitewash in Australia
Feb 2014: Told he is no longer in the ECB's plans
England's new managing director, Paul Downton, says he wants to "rebuild not only the team, but also the team ethic and philosophy". And he is exactly right.
Teams sometimes get too settled, get stuck in their ways and lose sight of what they are there to do.
It is not about being the greatest team in the world ever, it is about fighting for every run and wicket. That is what you have to get back to.
England need players like Durham's Ben Stokes, who is young, hungry and ambitious. They must work really hard to build up a team again, especially after team director Andy Flower's resignation last week.
Only those close to the team can decide whether Pietersen would have bought into that - and they clearly thought he would not.
The England management could have told him he would not feature in the limited-overs tour of the West Indies and the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh that follows, but that if he got his head down and scored some runs in county cricket then the route back was possible. That would have placed the emphasis on him.
If he wanted to reach that 10,000-Test run landmark that he talked about and if he wanted to work under a new coach, that would have been in his power. That was the option I thought the ECB would take.
I will remember Pietersen as possibly the most entertaining, brilliant and unorthodox batsman I have ever seen.
Some of the shots he played were things that not even West Indies great Viv Richards - my idol growing up - would have played.
It is very easy to say that Pietersen has not fulfilled his potential - he averaged less than 50 in Test cricket and missed out on the 10,000 Test runs he should have scored - but much of the disappointment that people feel towards him is similar to the way people felt about David Gower.
People would complain about Gower playing another loose shot outside off stump, but often that was because they had wanted to watch him at the crease for a little longer.
It is a shame we will never see Pietersen in England colours again.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Mike Henson.
Diame opened the scoring when he ran from the halfway line, played a neat one-two with Isaac Hayden and slid the ball in from inside the area.
Atsu made the game safe nine minutes after coming off the bench when he scored from Yoann Gouffran's cross.
The Magpies had allowed Wigan back into it in the second half as Will Grigg went close with a header from a corner.
Newcastle came into the match knowing that a win would see them reclaim top spot by one point from Brighton, who won 3-2 at Blackburn on Tuesday night.
They made the breakthrough midway through the first half when Diame's powerful run took him to the edge of the Wigan area, where Hayden helped the former Latics player open the scoring.
The Magpies failed to capitalise on the lead however and let Wigan play their way back into the match.
However, the struggling hosts failed to really test Karl Darlow so the Newcastle goalkeeper kept himself busy by setting up the crucial second goal.
His clearance to the left wing found Gouffran and his cross eluded the entire Wigan defence, allowing Atsu the time to take a touch with his right foot before powering a fierce left-foot shot into the net.
The result leaves the Latics 23rd in the table, four points from safety.
Wigan midfielder David Perkins told BBC Radio Manchester:
"I thought we started a bit nervous, a bit anxious and then going 1-0 down the gaffer said at half-time we were going to go after them.
"We huffed and puffed a bit after the break and pretty much threw everything we had at them, but in the end the second goal kills us a bit.
"We've not been outplayed in many games here, but we find ourselves in the position we are, so we can't keep saying that week-in, week-out.
"It's just the win that's the most important thing we're under pressure for. The crowd were great tonight and were right behind us."
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez told BBC Newcastle:
"I'm really pleased as it was a difficult game and we knew we were playing against a team towards the bottom of the table, but at the same time, a team that was playing well.
"So, we needed to stay compact and work very hard in defence in order to be sure we could regain possession and play counter-attack.
"We did that more or less in the first half and in the second half, they pushed and made it more difficult.
"But, the changes we made gave us more pace and the second goal was perfect timing as we were suffering under pressure."
Match ends, Wigan Athletic 0, Newcastle United 2.
Second Half ends, Wigan Athletic 0, Newcastle United 2.
Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by William Grigg.
Attempt saved. Christian Atsu (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Vurnon Anita.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Andy Kellett.
Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Max Power (Wigan Athletic).
Substitution, Newcastle United. Ayoze Pérez replaces Dwight Gayle.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Craig Davies replaces Shaun MacDonald.
Foul by Christian Atsu (Newcastle United).
Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Wigan Athletic 0, Newcastle United 2. Christian Atsu (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Yoan Gouffran.
Christian Atsu (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Perkins (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Yanic Wildschut.
Foul by Paul Dummett (Newcastle United).
Andy Kellett (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic).
Substitution, Newcastle United. Christian Atsu replaces Matt Ritchie.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Dan Burn replaces Craig Morgan because of an injury.
Delay in match Craig Morgan (Wigan Athletic) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Jake Buxton (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Andy Kellett with a cross.
Attempt missed. Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Michael Jacobs with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Karl Darlow.
Attempt saved. Andy Kellett (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Yoan Gouffran (Newcastle United).
Andy Kellett (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).
Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Michael Jacobs with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Jamaal Lascelles.
Attempt saved. Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Yoan Gouffran.
Attempt missed. William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Michael Jacobs with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Yoan Gouffran (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Diamé.
Attempt missed. Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Michael Jacobs with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Isaac Hayden.
Resuming on 116-0, a lead of 321, Kent lost Daniel Bell-Drummond (90) and Sean Dickson (74) in the first session.
But Joe Denly made an unbeaten 71 off 49 balls as Kent raced to a declaration on 298-2, a lead of 503 runs.
Matt Coles took two wickets as Sussex slumped to 8-3, while Denly also accounted for two dismissals to leave the visitors on 182-6 at stumps.
Stiaan van Zyl made 78 from 134 balls and added 82 for the fifth wicket alongside Michael Burgess (42 not out), but his dismissal off the bowling of Denly ended any realistic hopes Sussex may have had of salvaging a draw.
They quote judicial sources as saying that Paris appeals court will now study a request by Mr Sarkozy for the case to be dismissed.
Mr Sarkozy, 59, is still facing several other judicial investigations.
Last week he said he would seek the leadership of the opposition UMP party - the move widely seen as a first step towards a presidential bid in 2017.
His announcement ended months of speculation about the intentions of the conservative former president, who vowed to give up politics after he failed to be re-elected in 2012.
The UMP party elections are due to be held in November.
Although Mr Sarkozy has kept a low profile since leaving office, he has faced a series of investigations that involve him in some capacity.
The suspended case relates to an alleged attempt to influence judges who were looking into his affairs.
The suspension could last several months, according to AFP news agency.
Other inquiries include one into his links with late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and another into illegal campaign funding in 2012.
Mr Sarkozy denies wrongdoing.
The high court in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand said this would help in the "preservation and conservation" of the highly polluted rivers.
It added that the "legal status" ensures that polluting the rivers would now amount to harming a human being.
Both rivers are considered sacred in India and are considered goddesses by the majority Hindu population.
The ruling comes a week after the Whanganui River in New Zealand became the first in the world to be granted the same legal rights as a person.
The court said in its ruling that Hindus had "deep faith" in the two rivers and they "collectively connect with them".
"The rivers are central to the existence of half of the Indian population and their health and well being. They have provided both physical and spiritual sustenance to all of us from time immemorial," it added.
It went on to add that both rivers had become heavily polluted due to industrialisation and rapid urbanisation.
Two top state officials have been appointed as the "legal guardians" of the rivers and will represent their rights.
Activists say the order is likely to fast track efforts to clean the rivers.
The Financial Times's Martin Wolf said there is evidence that these measures could help tackle UK inequalities.
But he warned it was important that any development bank was a public-private partnership to avoid it becoming "heavily politicised".
The Welsh government is expected to decide soon whether to set up a bank.
Mr Wolf was speaking to the BBC's Wales at Work programme during a visit to the Hay Festival to promote his book, The Shifts and the Shocks, which looks at the failure to learn lessons from the financial crash.
He was appointed by the UK government to the Vickers' Commission on banking which recommended major reform including the separation of high street and investment banks to reduce the risk of a future crisis.
Mr Wolf believes that the changes introduced have not gone far enough to prevent another shock to a financial system that's inherently "unstable".
The creation of national and regional development banks is "the most important area of financial innovation," according to Mr Wolf.
"Our financial system has never been good at long-term investment in real businesses.
"It's pretty conservative and stodgy… and it's very monopolised. It increasingly focuses on property lending, which is not unimportant but it's not going to make us rich."
"So I would like to look at institutions that are prepared to take a risk, take a long-term view and accept they're going to make losses."
Following a series of independent reports by Prof Dylan Jones-Evans that have called for the creation of a development bank, Economy Minister Edwina Hart is expected to decide on the proposal in the next few months.
It is not an uncontroversial one with many supporters of the current arms-length business support body, Finance Wales, believing a new organisation is unnecessary and could lead to greater political interference.
But Mr Wolf said these organisations are known to work.
The decline of the heavy industries that Wales historically relied on, such as steel and coal, has led to significant levels of inequalities between different parts in the UK.
Meanwhile, the growth in the service sector, particularly in finance, has been particularly pronounced in London and the south east of England.
Rebalancing of the economy means the UK being less dependent on sectors like services but also that different nations and regions are able to experience growth and job creation to ensure wealth is more evenly spread.
Yet his name came up time and time again during the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (Usada) investigation into Lance Armstrong and the US Postal team.
So Travis Tygart, Usada's crusading chief executive, knew he needed to track Mercier down and talk to him.
"I got this call, out of the blue, and thought it must be a joke," remembers Mercier, now a financial adviser living in Grand Junction, Colorado.
"Travis said 'I want to thank you. And I want to find out why you were able to do what no-one else could'."
Because Mercier, 44, was the US Postal rider who resisted the pressure to dope.
To do so, he had to turn down the offer of a new contract with the team and quit the sport he loved.
He can still clearly remember the day he made up his mind, in May 1997, at the age of 28, after a conversation with the team's doctor, Pedro Celaya.
"Pedro called each member of the team into his hotel room, one by one. When my turn came, he handed me a bag containing a bottle of green pills and several vials of clear liquid.
"I was also given a 17-day training schedule and each day had either a dot or a star. A dot represented a pill and a star was an injection.
"He said 'they're steroids, you go strong like bull'. Then he said 'put it in your pocket, if you get stopped at customs say it's B vitamins'.
"That was when I decided I didn't want to be a pro cyclist any more. I got home and decided 'no thank you'.
"I love cycling, it's a beautiful sport, but it would have been very challenging for me to look someone in the eye and say I was clean when I knew I wasn't.
"People talk about the health aspects, but to be totally honest I wasn't so concerned about that.
"For me, it was the lying and the hypocrisy."
Several other former US Postal riders detailed Celaya's involvement in doping during the Usada investigation and he was charged with "possession, trafficking and the administration of doping materials and methods".
Celaya, now the team doctor with Radioshack, has contested the charges and his case is due to go before the Court of Arbitration for Sport later this year. He also strongly disputed Mercier's claims when contacted by BBC Sport.
Mercier said this was the first time he was given drugs, although it had been obvious that his team, and indeed many of the others, were doping.
There was the refrigerator in the team truck which they nicknamed "the special lunchbox", because it was filled with EPO. "You could hear the glass vials shaking together when you moved it," he recalls.
His wife remembers him talking about the steroids they found in team-mate George Hincapie's shoebox. And Celaya had talked about him needing to take "extra B vitamins" to boost his haematocrit levels, which he clearly took as meaning he should take EPO.
Mercier had tried doing the training programme without using drugs, but found it impossible. "I could do the first two days, but by about the fifth hour on the third day I couldn't do the efforts, I was getting fatigue and had to take a recovery day."
He also found he couldn't keep up with riders he had beaten easily a few months earlier on tours in North America and Asia. There was no test for EPO at the time, so it was essentially open season for riders who wanted to take it.
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"You get frustrated when your peers are beating your head into the gutter," he says, the frustration still in his voice. "When you're at an Amstel Gold Race and you can barely hold the wheel of the guy in 80th place.
"That same guy, you smoked three months previously. And you're thinking 'I've been training. I've lost two, three kilos. How is this guy suddenly so much better than me?'"
He remembers asking Hincapie, his team-mate, friend and flat-mate, about doping over a coffee in Girona, Spain, one day in March 1997.
"He didn't give me a yes or a no, he just said 'you'll have to make your own decision'. I took that to mean that yes, there is a fair amount and if you want to be a pro you'll have to do it."
On Wednesday, Hincapie expressed his regret at having doped throughout his career.
After leaving the sport, Mercier moved to Hawaii to run a restaurant with his father. He then settled in Colorado and became a financial adviser. He is married and has a son and daughter, but admits he has spent some of the last 14 years wondering what might have been.
"I would see the likes of Tyler Hamilton and George Hincapie having great success in the Tour and wonder 'where would I have ended up?'
"It was difficult for me because I knew what they were doing. They were walking around with this air of superiority, which really grated me.
"Clearly I would have made more money. Those guys were making seven figures and I haven't made anywhere close to that, but life works."
Mercier's world was far removed from that of professional cycling until a few months ago, when Usada began to investigate Armstrong and US Postal.
"It certainly gives me some validation for the decision I made," he says. "It wasn't that I wasn't good enough, it was just that I made different choices. They talk about winning at all costs, but are you willing to push well beyond the limits?
"I'm not, I think there's more to life than that. Sport should be a level playing field and it wasn't. It was who had the best team and resources and the best medicine and that wasn't the game I wanted to play."
After Usada's full findings came out on Wednesday, Mercier's wife called him. "She said 'imagine you're sitting down with your son and daughter, explaining hey, daddy's a liar and a cheat'. I don't have to do that."
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And what does he think of Armstrong, who joined US Postal the season after he left?
The duo were on the same team at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and had sporadic contact in the years after that.
"He was a brash young man back then, but clearly had drive and talent," Mercier says.
"To come back from the illness he had was truly astounding, no-one can take that away from him.
"But the methods he used to achieve his success were fraudulent. His story is the greatest in sport but it's also the biggest fraud."
Celaya was sacked by US Postal in 1999 and replaced by Dr Luis Garcia Del Moral. The reason, according to another US Postal rider, Jonathan Vaughters in his evidence to Usada, was that "Armstrong did not feel that Celaya was aggressive enough in running the 'program'."
Mercier now thinks there should be an anonymous telephone number that whistleblowers can call to report their suspicions of doping, and that sanctions should be strengthened so that teams as well as individual riders can be banned.
He also believes the current leadership of the UCI must be replaced because they are "part of the problem, not the solution".
Above all, he hopes no rider ever again has to leave the sport they love because they want to ride clean.
The 22-year-old suffered anterior cruciate ligament damage in a tackle by Castleford's Rangi Chase as the Warriors lost 36-22 on Friday.
Manfredi had been a regular for Wigan, who are third in the table, this season, scoring 15 tries in 25 games.
"I'm really gutted for him, he's a great player," said coach Shaun Wane.
"It's really sad but we've got a great medical department here and I'm sure he will bounce back stronger from it.
"The players are really motivated to get something from the season for him."
"Low levels" of a microbial parasite remain in the supply, United Utilities said.
There was one clear test overnight, but further tests are required before the boil notice can be lifted, the firm said.
Samples are said to have "improved" but not returned to normal.
The alert affects Blackpool, Chorley, Fylde, Preston, South Ribble, Wyre and the Mellor area of Blackburn.
Investigations continue into how traces of cryptosporidium, which can cause stomach upsets, got into Franklaw water treatment works outside Preston.
Over the weekend, leaflets were distributed to many of the affected homes and businesses offering advice.
Jo Harrison, from United Utilities, said: "Our teams are continuing to investigate the problems, it's very complex as you can image.
"We are hoping that we will get some better news by the middle of the week but we need to make sure the system is absolutely safe before we allow people to drink the water again.
"We want to make sure that we get a complete series of clear samples for a good period of time before we change our advice."
Compensation for affected businesses will be considered after the water issue has been resolved, the water company said.
Cryptosporidium exists in the environment in a form called an oocyst, which is less than a tenth of the thickness of a human hair.
Infection with the parasite can cause diarrhoea and abdominal cramps.
People with weak immune systems are likely to be more seriously affected.
Kate Brierley, deputy director for Public Health England in Cumbria and Lancashire, said: "We are recommending people to boil the water before they drink it or brush their teeth.
"Most people would just get a mild tummy upset which might last for a few days or a little bit longer.
"If somebody's immune system is upset for some reason - either because they have an illness or because of treatment like chemotherapy - they are more vulnerable than the general public."
Several supermarkets in the county have increased deliveries of bottled water to avoid running low.
Source: United Utilities
Source: Patient.info
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Donna Williamson, 44, died at a home in Somertrees Avenue, Lee, on Friday evening.
A post-mortem examination found she died from stab injuries. Next of kin have been informed.
A 37-year-old man was charged with her murder on Saturday evening. He will appear before Bromley Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Vicky Davidson, who represents Selkirkshire, has tabled a motion to the council on the issue.
She said the Borders was a safe place and that carrying side arms was not appropriate or desirable in the region.
She called for the routine deployment of armed officers to be stopped immediately and only restarted after full consultation in each council area.
Strathclyde Police, Tayside Police and Northern Constabulary allowed specialist officers to carry guns routinely before the creation of the new single force.
Police Scotland adopted the approach across the country following its launch in April last year.
In May this year, independent MSP and former Northern Constabulary officer John Finnie raised concerns about the move.
Highland councillors have also raised concerns about the deployment of officers visibly carrying handguns in routine incidents in a region with low levels of violent crime.
At least 75,000 demonstrators had convened in the capital as the upper house of parliament debated changes to employment laws.
One of the city's best-known attractions, the Eiffel Tower, was closed due to strike action by staff.
The labour reform makes it easier for employers to hire and fire workers.
It would also relax the limit on working hours. The government forced the changes through the National Assembly last month without a vote.
Police said the clashes in Paris involved "several hundred masked people", who threw chunks of paving, set bins ablaze and smashed some shop windows. Police responded with tear gas and water cannon.
In the evening two "Autolib" electric cars were set ablaze, as were four other vehicles elsewhere in Paris, police said.
Students and several unions organised protests across the country, part of weeks of industrial action.
The CGT union said 1.3 million people demonstrated, but the police estimate was much lower - about 125,000.
Rail workers and taxi drivers are also on strike, disrupting transport.
The crowd marched from south-east Paris to the Invalides, a monument complex and magnet for tourists.
The unrest coincided with the Euro 2016 football championship - a major challenge for French police, marred already by violence among fans.
In a separate protest, Air France pilots went on strike to demand better working conditions.
An estimated 20% of all Air France flights were cancelled as a result, the company said.
French labour reform bill - key points:
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he could "no longer bear the attacks against the police".
He called on protesters "to find within themselves a little humanity, tolerance and respect".
Demonstrations against the reform bill began on 9 March and led to a massive demonstration on 31 March, when nearly 400,000 people came out in protest across France.
The Marches Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), which secured the funding, said the agreement would also release £20m in private investment.
The money is expected to help create thousands of jobs across the counties.
It will also see funding for transport and road projects, which are expected to encourage more house building.
Graham Wynn, Chairman of the LEP, said investment in transport schemes would help "unlock development sites" and "drive economic growth in the region".
Initially, £12.8m is expected to be invested in Hereford and Telford over the 2015-16 financial year.
Kuldip Sahota, leader of the Labour-controlled Telford and Wrekin council, said it was a "good deal" for the town.
Other schemes over the next five years include transport projects in Shrewsbury and plans to improve skills across the Marches area, as well as access to broadband.
The former chief constable of Merseyside was appointed to the position this afternoon by the Queen.
He beat three others to the job after interviews with the home secretary and mayor of London.
Speaking briefly at Scotland Yard, the new commissioner said he wanted to lead a force that criminals fear and the public trust.
The post became vacant after Sir Paul Stephenson quit amid the phone-hacking scandal and claims about links between Scotland Yard and News International.
Mr Hogan-Howe will be in charge of more than 50,000 staff, including 32,000 officers. The force, the biggest in the UK, includes more than a fifth of all police in England and Wales.
The commissioner's job combines policing London and responsibility for national security issues such as combating terrorism.
Mr Hogan-Howe, who has served in the Metropolitan Police before, went on to lead Merseyside before becoming one of Her Majesty's chief inspectors of constabulary in 2009.
He returned to Scotland Yard after Sir Paul's resignation to stand in as acting deputy commissioner while the post holder, Tim Godwin, stepped up to the top job.
His appointment as commissioner was formally made by the Queen on the recommendation of the Home Secretary Theresa May.
The candidates went through a series of interviews, including a final session with both Mrs May and London's Mayor Boris Johnson.
Mrs May said: "I am delighted to announce Bernard Hogan-Howe as the new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
"As you would expect for such a prestigious position, we had an exceptional field of candidates, but Bernard Hogan-Howe impressed us all with his vision for the Metropolitan Police, his commitment to cutting crime and the important work he has done for the public.
"I made my recommendation following representations from the Metropolitan Police Authority and discussions with the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson."
She went on: "The government's reforms are transforming the police in this country and Bernard Hogan-Howe has the skills and experience needed to ensure the nation's biggest force is at the forefront of this change.
"London is a great city and will next year host the biggest sporting event in this nation's history. I am confident he will lead the fight against crime with determination and vigour."
Tough competition
The other candidates were Sir Hugh Orde, former Chief Constable of Northern Ireland; Stephen House, the Chief Constable of Strathclyde; and Tim Godwin, the Acting Commissioner.
Boris Johnson said that of all the candidates he believed that Mr Hogan-Howe provided a "firm, strategic lead".
"Londoners deserve strong and dynamic leadership at the helm of the country's largest and most industrious police force.
"Public confidence is paramount for any police force and Bernard Hogan-Howe has the impressive track record to restore confidence and crack down on violent crime and disorder.
"Over recent weeks London has faced immense policing challenges and I truly believe that Bernard Hogan-Howe has the sound expertise to handle critical issues and keep our streets safe.
"It's no secret that I desired someone who has a clear strategy for tackling gang violence and youth crime and restoring pride in our great city.
"Bernard Hogan-Howe has made it clear that this will be a new more transparent era for the Met, making the police more accountable to the public, and strengthening police and public relationships."
Sir Hugh Orde, who remains the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said: "Bernard Hogan-Howe is to be congratulated for his appointment as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service.
"He brings a wealth of experience and professionalism to the job of policing our capital, protecting Londoners and leading the Met.
"Chief officers look forward to working closely with Bernard and the chief officer team at the Met as the service gets on with its work to cut crime, deliver a safe and secure Olympics and meet the challenges of reform."
Martin Hamilton was released from prison on licence in September 2014 and is now wanted in relation to a Revocation of Licence Warrant.
The 53-year-old is described as white and has short cropped fair hair.
Police Scotland said he may be dangerous and urged members of the public not to approach Hamilton and to contact officers if they saw him.
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Graveney, who was a lower order batsmen and right-arm swing bowler, passed away at his home in Texas on Sunday.
In 1949 he took 59 wickets, including 10-66 against Derbyshire, the second-best innings analysis in the county's history before retiring in 1964.
"Everyone at the club extends their sincere condolences to the Graveney Family," said a club statement.
After his retirement, Graveney remained active behind the scenes at the club, serving as chairman of the general committee.
His brother Tom and his son David both had long cricket careers with Gloucestershire, and also both captained the county.
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The study is the first to analyse death rates among twins in the region.
The report suggests improvements in survival for twins is lagging far behind other children.
The death rate among single-born children aged under-five halved between 1995 and 2014. For twins, the rate came down by a third.
Giving birth to twins is riskier than delivering just one baby - no matter which country a mother delivers in.
There is an increased risk of early delivery, low birth weight and mothers suffering severe blood loss.
But researchers say these risks are "compounded" by higher overall birth rates and poor maternal and newborn care in sub-Saharan Africa, where many mothers give birth at home.
In Finland for example - which has some of the best maternity care in the world - researchers say for every 1,000 twins born, 11 die before their first birthday.
According to the study, the equivalent figure for sub-Saharan Africa is 137 per 1,000 twins who die before they turn one.
And 213 in 1,000 die before their fifth birthday.
Sub-Saharan Africa: 18 per 1,000 pregnancies
East Asia and Latin America: six to nine per 1,000 pregnancies
Europe, North America and the Middle East : eight to 16 per 1,000 pregnancies
Source: Lancet
Researchers are calling for better health services to help these more vulnerable women and children.
Co-author, Prof Christiaan Monden from Oxford University, said: "So far, the poor fate of twins has gone largely unnoticed."
He said twin pregnancies needed to be detected earlier and mothers should give birth in a hospital with staff trained in twin deliveries.
This should be followed by continued monitoring in the first few days and even months of their lives.
But this is a big ask in some of the poorest countries with some of the weakest health systems in the world.
Families, particularly those living in remote areas, often do not have hospitals anywhere near where they live.
Many cannot afford the transport to get to the nearest maternity facility, let alone pay for the care they need.
Even if they could, facilities such as specialist twin delivery care are few-and-far-between in many developing countries.
Prof Monden added: "It is very easy to say mothers should just give birth in a nice hospital, but that is not a realistic option for many.
"What surprised us when we found the higher death rate among twins is we thought this must be well-known by big UN organisations and that they pay special attention to twins - but this is not the case."
Co-author, Dr Jeroen Smits, from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, said: "Without special attention to this vulnerable group it will be very difficult to achieve the UN's sustainable development goal target of fewer than 12 per 1,000 neonatal deaths and fewer than 25 per 1,000 under-five deaths by 2030."
The report used data from 1.69 million children born in 30 sub-Saharan African countries between 1995 and 2014
It included more than 56,000 twins.
16,399 twins died before their fifth birthday.
Sir Leonard Fenwick joined what later became Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 1977, and has been on extended leave since January.
A disciplinary panel dismissed him after an investigation into claims of bullying and abusive behaviour.
Sir Leonard described it as "an orchestrated witch hunt", but the trust denied this.
The trust has referred "a number of concerns" arising from the investigation to the NHS counter fraud team, known as NHS Protect.
Sir Leonard said this team had "yet to approach" him.
See more on this and other stories from across the North East.
He said there had been pressure on him to leave and claimed ageism was at play.
"A catalogue of opportunity to undermine" him had been collected because he was "seen as yesterday, rather than tomorrow", he said.
In response to accusations of bullying, he accepted he had a reputation for "being a little strident".
"I do not apologise for that; I run a tight ship," he said.
"I'm not a bully but I can show some measure of intolerance on occasions.
"There are those who may feel a little timid or a little anxious but I do look at outcomes and quality."
He said it was "absolute nonsense" that he could swear and shout if angry and "certainly not in public setting".
"In a private team meeting, in my close team, where, yes, I can see things drifting, I may have some strong words - but that's management," he said.
An investigation was carried out by an HR specialist outside the trust into "a number of issues raised by different sources".
This led to a two-day disciplinary hearing, which found "allegations relating to inappropriate behaviour, use of resources and a range of governance issues were proven".
The trust said the decision to dismiss Sir Leonard "was not taken lightly, but made after very careful, lengthy and detailed consideration of the investigation report and Sir Leonard's response to the allegations".
The trust's latest annual report revealed Sir Leonard was paid between £245,000 and £250,000 a year, but his pension sums were no longer shown as they had been drawn and taken in a previous year.
Earlier this year there were a number of reports claiming Sir Leonard forced the resignations of two consultants caught having sex with junior members of staff on hospital premises, with the suggestion the action alienated some staff.
The trust said it denied any suggestion the extended leave was connected to the handling of any internal disciplinary matter.
Niko Kranjcar's free-kick cancelled out Valere Germain's opener for the visitors at Ibrox on Saturday.
Bruno Alves and Graham Dorrans were among the summer signings that featured for the Ibrox outfit.
"I really liked the team, especially in the first half or the first hour of the game," Caixinha told Rangers TV.
"They were really compact and controlled the game, and understood how to face a team like that.
"The only thing we were missing, like all the games we have played so far, was the definition. We created a lot of chances but we could not score."
Rangers' season started with an aggregate defeat to Luxembourg side Progres Niederkorn in the Europa League qualifiers.
As such, they will not play competitively again until their Premiership opener against Motherwell at Fir Park on 6 August, with Scotland's European representatives not playing in the ongoing Scottish League Cup first round and instead entering in the second round.
Experienced defender Alves did not feature against Progres as he was on international duty with Portugal and Scotland midfielder Dorrans joined the Ibrox side after the first qualifying round defeat.
Fellow summer captures Fabio Cardoso, Ryan Jack, Daniel Candeias and Eduardo Herrera also started while Alfredo Morelos and Carlos Pena came off the bench.
"We are pleased the way boys got minutes on the pitch and I really feel we can build some very good things from here," added Caixinha.
Richard Huckle, 30, from Ashford in Kent, admitted the offences against victims aged between six months and 12 years, from 2006 to 2014.
It is believed Huckle abused up to 200 children.
His sentencing hearing began at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, and is expected to conclude on Friday.
The 91 charges related to 23 children from mainly poor Christian communities in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
He admitted 71 of the charges, and the prosecutor asked that the other counts "lie on the file".
Huckle, a freelance photographer, was arrested at Gatwick Airport by National Crime Agency officials in December 2014.
Details of the abuse can only now be reported because investigators had previously sought a court order to ensure the victims were safe from other online sexual predators.
Huckle, a practising Christian, first visited Malaysia on a teaching gap year when he was 18 or 19. He then went on to groom children while doing voluntary work.
Investigators uncovered numerous indecent pictures and videos Huckle took of himself abusing girls and boys. More than 20,000 indecent images were found on his computer.
Huckle wrote a paedophile manual called "Paedophiles And Poverty: Child Lover Guide", as well as a series of notes in which he detailed rapes and various sex acts.
The encrypted manual was on Huckle's laptop ready for publication on the "dark web". At his first plea hearing at the Old Bailey, it took more than an hour to read out all the charges.
According to one charge, Huckle had said: "I'd hit the jackpot, a 3yo girl as loyal to me as my dog and nobody seemed to care."
At an earlier hearing, Judge Peter Rook QC told Huckle the charges amounted to "sexual offending of the utmost gravity" and said he was "considering life sentences in your case".
By Angus Crawford, BBC News
One word and a freckle indirectly led to Richard Huckle's arrest.
Police in Australia and Europe were aware of a paedophile site called the Love Zone hidden in the so-called dark web. It was protected by passwords, encryption and specialist software. Users were totally anonymous.
The images and videos there were particularly disturbing - showing the abuse of babies and very young children.
Members had to post increasingly graphic material to remain on the site. There were tens of thousands of accounts.
Officers with Task Force Argos in Australia knew the creator of the site used an unusual greeting - the word "hiyas".
After exhaustively trawling chatrooms and forums in the open internet, they found a Facebook page of a man who used the same greeting.
Although the Facebook page was fake, they identified a picture of a vehicle and that led them to a man called Shannon McCoole - a child care worker in Adelaide.
When officers went through his door, he was actually online running the site.
They took detailed photographs of McCoole's hands. This is where the freckle comes in - one on his finger matched exactly one seen in many of the images of abuse.
In an unprecedented move, Task Force Argos assumed McCoole's identity and took over the running of the site.
Last year he was given a 35-year prison sentence.
One user who stood out was Huckle - given the number of children he had access to and his aggressive attitude.
Using data gleaned from the site and information Huckle had posted on social media and other open internet sites, they identified who he was and where he lived.
Realising he was coming back to the UK for the Christmas holidays in 2014, they tipped off Britain's National Crime Agency.
As he landed at Gatwick airport he was met by officers from the NCA's Child Exploitation and Online Protection command.
On his computer and encrypted drives they found tens of thousands of obscene images and videos.
It said "strong evidence" implicated government forces in the killing of four men near rebel-held Donetsk.
When the bodies were discovered Russian media spoke of "mass graves" there.
Meanwhile a huge blast has rocked part of Donetsk, as clashes continue despite a truce agreed on 5 September.
The shockwave from a powerful explosion damaged the Donbass Arena stadium on Monday. It was a venue for Euro 2012 football matches.
Reports say it happened near a munitions factory on the outskirts, in the same area as the airport, where fierce fighting has raged in recent weeks. No casualties have been reported.
A dramatic video on YouTube showed the shockwave disrupting a rebel press conference. The pro-Russian separatists allege it was caused by a "Tochka-U" missile.
"There is no doubt that summary killings and atrocities are being committed by both pro-Russian separatists and pro-Kyiv [Kiev] forces in eastern Ukraine, but it is difficult to get an accurate sense of the scale of these abuses," said Amnesty's Europe and Central Asia director John Dalhuisen.
In a new report, Amnesty urged both sides to investigate such killings and other abuses thoroughly, because some had been "deliberately misrecorded".
"Some of the more shocking cases that have been reported, particularly by Russian media, have been hugely exaggerated," Mr Dalhuisen said.
The pro-Russian rebellion began in Donetsk and Luhansk in April, inspired by Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in March.
The separatists in the predominantly Russian-speaking east were enraged by the overthrow of elected pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Amnesty compiled its report based on research conducted widely in eastern Ukraine in August-September.
An Amnesty delegation visited the village of Nyzhnya Krynka, near Donetsk, on 26 September where four bodies - believed to be local residents - were found.
Amnesty says there is no doubt that Ukrainian government troops and volunteers were in control there when the victims went missing.
There is also evidence of summary executions by pro-Russian separatists in the region, Amnesty says, including the killing of two captives in Severodonetsk in July.
Two bodies found in April near the town of Raigorodok, in rebel-held territory, bore signs of torture, Amnesty says.
"Victims have included pro-Ukrainian activists and suspected sympathisers, local criminals and detained combatants," an Amnesty press release said.
A rebel commander quoted by Russia's RIA Novosti news agency says the separatists are now attacking Ukrainian positions near Schastye, a town in Luhansk region.
Battalion commander Alexander Bednov said the rebels had surrounded about 200 Ukrainian troops there.
Russia accuses Ukrainian forces of indiscriminately firing at civilian areas, while Kiev calls the Russian-backed rebels "terrorists" who are committing human rights abuses.
Van Gerwen came out on top 11-10 in an exciting final to follow up his Grand Slam of Darts success in Wolverhampton seven days earlier with another tournament victory.
"I played well when I had to," said the 26-year-old Dutchman.
"I think I deserved to win the trophy and I'm really glad I did."
Van Gerwen went 4-0 ahead in the best-of-21-legs final, but Suffolk-based Wright, 45, won the next five legs to take the lead - a run that was halted by a 170 checkout from Van Gerwen.
At 9-9, two missed darts at double 14 looked to have proved costly for Van Gerwen as Wright moved to within one leg of his first major televised title.
But Van Gerwen, the PDC world champion in 2014, produced a stunning 129 checkout to take the match into a deciding leg and he clinched victory with an 11-darter.
"Peter is a fantastic player and sooner or later he will win a big tournament," he added.
Sen Graham also told CNN that he believed "the Russians" hacked into the Democratic National Committee, and accused them of trying to "destabilise democracy all over the world".
Officials in Russia have repeatedly denied hacking accusations.
President-elect Donald Trump rejected a CIA report that Russian hackers tried to sway the election in his favour.
In a separate development, NBC News reported that US intelligence officials now believe with "a high level of confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in a covert Russian campaign to interfere in November's presidential election.
The attack targeted emails of the Democratic Party and of John Podesta, a key aide to presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. The contents, passed to Wikileaks and posted online, were embarrassing to the Democrats and shook up the presidential campaign.
The NBC report, quoting two unnamed senior officials, says that new intelligence shows how the hacked material was leaked and used.
It added that the operation began as a "vendetta" against Mrs Clinton before becoming "an effort to show corruption in American politics and split off key American allies".
Mr Putin is said to have been furious when Mrs Clinton, as secretary of state, questioned the integrity of 2011 parliamentary elections in Russia. He publicly accused her of encouraging street protests.
The BBC has not been able to confirm the report.
Sen Graham, a member of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, said on CNN that "we were told by the FBI in August that we were hacked in June".
"I do believe the Russians hacked into the [DNC]. I do believe they hacked into [John] Podesta's email account. They hacked into my campaign account," he said.
He also said that he believed that "all the information released publicly hurt Clinton and didn't hurt Trump."
But he stressed that the outcome of the election was not in doubt.
"I think Hillary Clinton lost because she wasn't an agent of change and she tried to disqualify Trump and she wasn't able to do it."
However, Sen Graham added that this was not "a Republican or Democratic issue" and must be tackled on a bipartisan basis.
He accused Russia of attempting to destabilise democracy.
"We should tell the Russians that on no uncertain terms, you interfere in our elections, we don't care why, we're going to hit you and hit you hard, we're going to introduce sanctions."
Gardaí (Irish police) were called to a property on South Circular Road at about 15:45 local time on Tuesday.
They found an injured man in his 20s outside on the pavement and when they entered the flat found the body of a man.
The wounded man was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Police said they were now looking for a third man.
He is described as being in his 20s and was wearing a black top which may have had bloodstains on it.
Govan-born union leader Mr Reid attracted international recognition for leading a "work-in" of thousands of Clyde shipbuilders in the 1970s.
The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' (UCS) forced the government to rethink closing the yards.
Mr Corbyn will give the lecture in October in Govan Old Parish Church.
Left wing think tank The Jimmy Reid Foundation has held an annual memorial lecture since Mr Reid's death in 2010 and speakers have included Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon and Len McCluskey.
Mr Corbyn will give this year's address on the topic of industrial strategy and credited Mr Reid for saving Scotland's shipbuilding industry.
He said: "Jimmy Reid was one of the most outstanding trade unionists and socialist fighters that Scotland has ever produced. He led the UCS work-in whose legacy is that we still have shipbuilding on the Clyde today."
When the lecture takes place on 6 October, the battle between Owen Smith and Mr Corbyn for the leadership of the Labour Party will have been decided.
Swedish police say the large gang distributed leaflets inciting people to assault refugees.
Witnesses said the men physically attacked people they believed were foreigners. However, police have not confirmed these reports.
It comes amid heightened tension in Sweden over the migrant crisis.
Some 163,000 migrants applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, the highest per capita number in Europe.
According to Aftonbladet newspaper, the men in Stockholm were distributing leaflets on Friday evening with the slogan "It's enough now!",
The material threatened to give "the North African street children who are roaming around" the "punishment they deserve."
The newspaper published a video showing the gang clashing with police at Stockholm's central station.
Stockholm police said in a statement (in Swedish) that the group was handing out leaflets with the intention to incite people to carry out crimes.
One man was arrested after punching an officer in the face. Several others were detained on public order offences and another was found with brass knuckledusters, police said. All had been released by the following morning.
Spokeswoman Towe Haegg told Swedish radio police had not received any reports of violence against people from migrant backgrounds.
However, Aftonbladet interviewed one 16-year-old who said he had been hit in the face near Stockholm's central station. The newspaper also quoted another witness who said he had seen men beating up people who appeared to have a foreign background in the middle of the city's Sergelstorg square.
The men were wearing arm bands of various colours and have been reportedly linked to football hooligan gangs.
There were scuffles on Saturday between pro and anti-migrant demonstrators, during which witnesses say foreigners were assaulted.
Tensions have increased after a 22-year-old employee was stabbed to death at a centre for young asylum seekers earlier this week. A 15-year-old asylum seeker was arrested in Molndal, near Gothenburg, over the murder.
Along with Germany, Sweden is a prime destination for refugees and other migrants entering the EU illegally.
More than one million refugees and migrants travelled to Europe last year, most fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The numbers arriving in Sweden have fallen significantly since it imposed tighter border controls this year.
On Thursday, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said the country would prepare to deport up to 80,000 migrants whose asylum applications were rejected.
Prince William and Catherine's second baby will become fourth in line to the throne, behind older brother Prince George, who was born in July 2013.
Photographs during the duchess's official engagements over the past few months have captured the course of her pregnancy, as seen in the images below.
Wilton Lodge Park stretches across 107 acres on the western edge of Hawick and is currently undergoing a £3.64m facelift.
It is also home to the historic museum and, as part of the regeneration, the Park Gallery has been created in the building.
The new space will now house the permanent exhibition about the park.
It traces how the grounds of Wilton Lodge moved from private to public hands, becoming the well-used park it is today.
The display also recalls historic events which have taken place in the park, it looks at local wildlife and at how people have enjoyed the space in the past.
The Park Gallery will be formally opened by councillor Vicky Davidson on Sunday. It follows the official unveiling of a new park bandstand last month.
Ms Davidson said: "There is a great deal of local pride invested in Wilton Lodge Park and the new gallery is designed to reflect this and encourage this same pride in future generations.
"The Park Gallery is the second element in the Wilton Lodge Park regeneration project to be completed, following the opening of the new bandstand.
"It is designed to strengthen the connection between the museum and park and encourage visitors to extend their stay and explore the park."
14 December 2016 Last updated at 16:34 GMT
Sometimes they might have a guitar and a microphone, and of course there's people dancing.
They might be busting some moves to the latest Rihanna or Little Mix, but this particular street performer has gone for a slightly less well-known song.
He chose the theme tune from the BBC News.
One thing is for sure, it is certainly an original choice.
Energy officials say existing electric heaters - or geysers - will be phased out over the next five years.
They hope to save up to 400 megawatts of electricity - equivalent to the output of an electrical power plant.
Blackouts have dogged Zimbabwe, despite the fact that 60% of the population have no access to electricity.
This has also hampered investment in what is an already fragile economy, the BBC's Karen Allen reports.
Officials from the state-owned Zimbabwe Electricity Distribution and Transmission Company say the government is expected to publish new regulations by the end of the year.
It is estimated that there are up to 300,000 geysers across the country, with water heating accounting for some 40% of households' electricity bills.
"The country may achieve a power saving in the range of 300 megawatts to 400 megawatts, which in itself is a virtual power plant," Energy Minister Samuel Undenge was quoted as saying by Reuters.
"Solar water heaters (will) become mandatory at every new house before connection to the grid," he added.
Zimbabwe's power generation is currently less than 50% of its peak demand, forcing local businesses to use costly generators.
The government has blamed the shortages on low water levels at the Kariba Dam, bordering Zambia, which generates hydroelectric power, the BBC's southern Africa correspondent Karen Allen reports from Johannesburg.
But officials also concede that a massive lack of investment in the energy sector over the decades is now taking its toll.
Emergency crews were called to the Mighty Deerstalker event in the Scottish Borders after the woman became unwell just before 18:00 on Saturday.
The 48-year-old was taken to Borders General Hospital in Melrose but did not survive.
The 10-mile (16km) event, billed as the UK's biggest night race, was being held at Innerleithen in Tweeddale.
Two thousand people took part in Saturday's event, which began at 17:30.
A spokesman for organisers Rat Race Adventure Sports, said: "We are extremely saddened to confirm that a participant in our Mighty Deerstalker event passed away yesterday.
"The participant became unwell at 17:56, approximately one mile into the event, close to our event control station and at the location of one of our safety marshals.
"A member of our medical team was on the scene within three minutes as we implemented our response protocols.
"They were assisted by an off-duty paramedic until the arrival of the Scottish Ambulance Service."
The spokesman said the company would offer its "full assistance" to the authorities.
He added: "Our heartfelt thoughts and condolences are with the family and friends of the deceased."
The event, now in its 11th year, sees hundreds of participants tackle off-road terrain while wearing head torches.
On its website, the organisers state: "The Mighty Deerstalker is as tough as it gets: hills, mud, swamp, darkness, rivers, obstacles and always devilishly vague on the true distance, this event never disappoints but it often hurts."
Race competitors set off in stages before following a waymarked course.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Police in the Scottish Borders responded to a report of a woman having taken unwell during a sporting event near to Traquair House, Innerleithen at 18.15 on Saturday 11 March.
"The 48-year-old was treated by the Scottish Ambulance Service and was taken to Borders General Hospital. However, she passed away while en route.
"Inquiries are continuing, however there appear to be no suspicious circumstances surrounding this death and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal."
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Maddie Hinch was the hero, saving three penalties and making a number of other brilliant stops during the game.
Caia van Maasakker struck twice to put the world and Olympic champions in control at the Olympic Park.
But England netted twice in the final quarter through Sophie Bray and Lily Owsley to force the shootout.
The hosts struggled in the first half and were grateful to Hinch, who was named goalkeeper of the tournament at the World League semi-finals earlier this year.
Great Britain won that competition too, but England rode their luck at times on Sunday - the Netherlands having 22 shots on goal to England's seven, a reward for their dominance of possession (65%).
However, their fightback from 2-0 down was extraordinary - both Bray and Owsley scoring from close range at the end of well-worked penalty corners to deny the Dutch.
That seized the initiative for Danny Kerry's side, who scored three of their four penalties while the Dutch only beat Hinch once.
Holcombe keeper Hinch, 26, checked her hand-written notes on the pitch before facing the Dutch penalty-takers - and it paid dividends.
"I am renowned as a being a bit of a geek on penalties but as soon as it was the shootout it was my turn to step up," she said. "This team has had so many highs and lows but we deserve this."
Meanwhile, captain Kate Richardson-Walsh, 35, said it was a dream to lift the trophy.
"My whole career I have wanted to stand on top of the podium," the Mancunian said. "I wanted to stay in my kit the whole night and now I can do it.
"I was thinking 'don't be another Commonwealths (silver), another European Championships (silver)' but this team is learning.
"It was not pretty and we made it hard but we did it. With 15 minutes left we just had to keep believing. It was our day, things that normally sneak past went in."
To complete a memorable afternoon, England forward Alex Danson picked up the player of the tournament award.
It followed the death of a 52-year-old woman in a property in the town in Feburary this year.
The Police Investigation and Review Commissioner looked at the initial police response in the hours leading up to the incident.
The findings have now been submitted to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) for consideration.
"I shudder to think what it would have been like without music," says Sasha Baldwin, mother to three teenage sons who are all dyslexic.
Luke, 17, plays the violin and guitar. Patrick, 15, plays the piano, organ and trumpet while Robert, 14, is a gifted French horn player. They all sing too.
Yet at primary school they struggled from early on as dyslexia manifested itself in different ways in each of them.
"Luke had difficulties learning how to read, Patrick had problems with short-term memory and couldn't remember instructions from school or telephone numbers and Robert had real problems with personal organisation and retaining information, as well as reading," Sasha says.
The North Yorkshire school they attended recognised their learning difficulties and enlisted the help of educational psychologists to support them.
But Sasha, who now lives in Perthshire, realised that music could provide a valuable outlet for their development and she encouraged the boys to start learning the piano aged five.
Although they were enthusiastic, they all had issues with reading music.
"Robert had to give up the piano after a year as he couldn't read two lines of music simultaneously and became very frustrated," Sasha says.
So he took up the horn instead, an unusual instrument for a five-year-old, but it suited him because he only had to read one line of music.
Robert is gifted, his mother says, and music has played a huge role in helping him to achieve.
His two brothers have won places as choristers at the choir of St John's College, Cambridge and all three have been invited to play with the National Schools Symphony Orchestra.
Aged 10, their school report said the boys were going to struggle to cope with exams - but they are now predicted to get A* in GCSEs.
Dr John Rack, a psychologist and head of research, development and policy at the charity Dyslexia Action, says that people with dyslexia can often do well at creative subjects.
"But we don't know if dyslexia gives you a special advantage or whether dyslexic people go in a different direction and develop alternative talents."
Dyslexia doesn't automatically mean you'll be creative or successful, he warns.
"You shouldn't feel bad if you're not creative."
Teresa Bliss, an educational psychologist who works to help children and young people who are experiencing problems in school, says she is convinced that music can have an impact on children with dyslexia.
"Children and young people with dyslexia are often easily distracted and lacking in concentration.
"Music offers training in many of the areas where dyslexics typically experience difficulties such as understanding rhythm, sequencing, organisation, motor co-ordination, memory and concentration."
Dr Rack believes music has a more logical structure than language which means it can appeal to people with dyslexia.
"Dyslexics find it easier to learn to respond through action than through speaking or words. They can struggle to remember names, for example, but give them a task and they can make associations very well.
"Their fingers know how to play the notes, but can't always say what they are."
The key thing, dyslexics are told, is to find something you are good at and put lots of effort into it.
Reading and writing can be difficult but dyslexia affects children in many different ways, none of which are related to their level of intelligence.
However, it is the most common learning difficulty in schools, with some children needing long-term support.
Dr Rack says being dyslexic is not something to get stressed and worried about.
"It only becomes a problem if people deny it or if there's a failure to recognise the effects of it.
"Just say you're different, not faulty."
Sasha Baldwin says that music has been a great discipline for her three dyslexic sons.
"They have all improved massively. The oldest one is flying now. He reads very fast and doesn't need any extra time in exams.
"It's been a great lesson in life to practise their instrument. They would not have got this far academically without music," she says.
Campaigners want to turn the building, in Clifton, Bristol, into a one-stop shop for a host of everyday items.
The Friends of Clifton Centre and Library (FOCCAL) told the Bristol Post the project would benefit people with limited space at home.
They hope turning the service into a "library of things" will protect it from future cost-cutting measures.
Clifton library - which recently had its hours cut - also hosts craft sessions and relaxation classes.
Councillor Paula O'Rourke said people had told her they wanted to keep the library open but they realised it had to move with the times.
"In the 1930s libraries used to lend out pictures so people that couldn't afford them could put them up on their walls," the Green councillor for Clifton said.
"Then they started loaning books, videos, CDs and DVDs so now we thought in the future we could look at a library of things.
"People don't always have the space for garden tools, power washers, hammers or travel cots in small flats," she added.
Ms O'Rourke said she also hoped people would volunteer to help run writing workshops, craft classes or just organise board game sessions for the elderly or lonely with cheap tea and coffee for sale.
FOCCAL was set up in response to previous plans to shut seven of the city's libraries in an attempt to save £1.1m.
But after public consultation the plans were revisited and a compromise reached with reduced opening hours.
And in truth, Celtic and Ajax could be forgiven for thinking they were looking in a mirror when doing so given the nature of their respective seasons.
Where they have prospered domestically - both top their tables with just one defeat - they have floundered in Europe as they await a first Europa League win of the season.
It is an issue both managers need to address urgently if they are not to be afflicted with an early exit.
During the dark times after back-to-back defeats to Molde, Celtic manager Ronny Deila will have searched for chinks of light.
And shining brighter than anything will be that they will meet a Dutch side they should have beaten first time round.
Lasse Schone returned to haunt Celtic with a late leveller, almost two years after scoring a winner against them in a Champions League tie.
Emilio Izaguirre's sending off that night didn't help, but two points were carelessly whipped away from under the nose of Deila.
Ajax's continental form hasn't exactly been inspiring in recent times either, they have failed to win away from home in Europe since a 3-0 hammering of Legia Warsaw in last season's last 32.
Both of these former European Cup winners want to be scrapping for a more substantial prize than second place in a Europa League group and, like Deila, Frank de Boer craves progress.
However, unlike Deila, De Boer is not under as much duress to qualify according to his former Netherlands international team-mate Andy van der Meyde.
"They want to win the game but I don't think he's under pressure," van der Meyde told BBC Scotland.
"He's done a good job at Ajax, he's won a lot of championships and has a lot of respect from the supporters. They have trust in him.
"We all know that it's difficult now to play in Europe, but the club are back at the top of the Dutch league now and if they keep this young team together they will get back to the Champions League."
Former Everton winger Van der Meyde - who played in Ajax's Champions League qualifying defeat to Celtic in 2001 - admits he is surprised by the fact the two clubs occupy the basement spots in Group A.
"I didn't expect that," he added. "I thought when I first saw the group that they both had to go through."
Celtic's cause is not helped by the revelation that captain Scott Brown is out for months, something that added to Deila's original midfield headache with Nir Bitton and Stefan Johansen suspended.
However, Ajax arrived in Scotland with injury problems of their own.
The talented Anwar El Ghazi will be missing along with his Dutch Under-21 colleague Daley Sinkgraven - both of whom started in September's 2-2 draw with the Scottish champions.
Surprise group leaders Molde have already qualified with Fenerbache in pole-position for second spot.
And both know that a win for the Turks would mean elimination for any losers at Celtic Park or indeed both with a draw.
With that in mind, Van der Meyde believes the inexperienced visitors will come to attack and ensure they take it into the last week.
He was also generous in his comparison with his side that featured the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Rafael van der Vaart and Wesley Sneijder.
"Ajax always has to play for the three points and I expect them to go there and play for the win," he said.
"This is a young team but you can see they are hungry. As a player of Ajax you have to win but you also have to play good football.
"They miss a little bit of experience although they have some with [Johnny] Heitinga and [Joel] Veltman, who is still young.
"I think this is a team like we had when I was playing for Ajax, a young team with a lot of talent.
"It will be difficult because I also played one time against Celtic and it's a lovely stadium with lovely supporters and it's difficult to play there."
The hit-and-run happened as the 41-year-old woman was walking with her adult son in Mossland Road, near Atholl Avenue, at about 17:35 on Tuesday.
A burgundy Vauxhall Astra went out of control, mounted the pavement and hit a road sign before hitting the woman.
She is in a stable condition in hospital. Her son was not injured.
Police said the woman is being treated for her injuries at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Insp Lorraine Lorimer said: "At this time, officers are checking CCTV in the area to identify those responsible and would appeal for anyone who either witnessed the crash or who has any information that will assist officers with their enquiries to get in touch."
The 55-year-old Montana Republican will oversee more than 20% of US federal land, including national parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite.
Mr Zinke, a first-term lawmaker, was an early Trump supporter who endorsed the New York property mogul in May.
"America is the most beautiful country in the world and he is going to help keep it that way," Mr Trump said.
"As a former Navy SEAL, he has incredible leadership skills and an attitude of doing whatever it takes to win", Mr Trump continued.
He added that "he has built one of the strongest track records on championing regulatory relief, forest management, responsible energy development and public land issues".
Mr Zinke is the fourth military veteran to receive a post in Mr Trump's cabinet. He spent 23 years in the Navy where he served in Kosovo, Iraq and elsewhere.
Retired US Army three-star Lt Gen Michael Flynn is national security adviser, retired General James Mattis has been picked to lead the Defence Department and John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, was selected to run Homeland Security.
In a statement released by the Trump transition team, Mr Zinke said: "As someone who grew up in a logging and rail town and hiking in Glacier National Park, I am honored and humbled to be asked to serve Montana and America as Secretary of Interior.
"I look forward to making the Department of Interior and America great again. May God bless Montana, God bless America and God bless the troops who defend her."
As a member of the House of Representatives subcommittee on natural resources, Mr Zinke voted for legislation that would soften environmental protections on public land.
It is unclear if he supports opening up federal lands to more drilling and mining, which Mr Trump has pledged to do in his administration.
But Mr Zinke has bucked his party on the issue of privatisation or transfer of public lands to states, which he believes should remain under federal control.
He resigned as a delegate to the Republican nominating convention in July after the party platform called for giving states control over federal lands.
Public land makes up more than 30% of the state of Montana, according to the Montana Wilderness Association.
Mr Zinke shares that sentiment with the president-elect, who also said he thinks the government should retain ownership of public lands.
The Sierra Club, an environmental advocacy group, slammed the nomination, saying "in nominating Representative Zinke, President-elect Trump has once again chosen someone unsuited for the job at hand".
"Zinke is firmly in the past, clinging to plans to mine, drill and log public lands to benefit corporate polluters, supporting dangerous and dirty projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, and opposing efforts to clean up our air," the group wrote, urging senators to oppose the nomination.
The Department of the Interior, which employs more than 70,000 people, also manages the Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal policy.
The department assisted in President Barack Obama's push to tackle climate change by curbing fossil fuel development in some areas.
The toddler had been taken to hospital after the crash, in a side road between the venue and the Ice House Apartments shortly after 08:00 BST on Saturday.
Nottinghamshire Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
It is thought the girl had been on her way to a religious convention at the arena with her family.
A birdie on the last gave Fichardt the tournament, reduced to three rounds because of bad weather.
Waring, 32, shared the lead with Fichardt going into Sunday and shot a three-under-par 69 to the victor's 68.
Waring and 38-year-old Manley, both seeking a maiden European Tour victory, qualify for July's Open Championship.
Previously, scientists had identified a huge impact crater in the Gulf of Mexico as the event that spelled doom for the dinosaurs.
Now evidence for a second impact in Ukraine has been uncovered.
This raises the possibility that the Earth may have been bombarded by a whole shower of space rocks.
The new findings are published in the journal Geology by a team lead by Professor David Jolley of Aberdeen University, UK.
When first proposed in 1980, the idea that an asteroid or comet impact had killed off the dinosaurs proved hugely controversial. Later, the discovery of the Chicxulub Crater in the Gulf of Mexico was hailed as "the smoking gun" that confirmed the theory.
Double trouble
The discovery of a second impact crater suggests that the dinosaurs were driven to extinction by a "double whammy" rather than a single strike.
The Boltysh Crater in Ukraine was first reported in 2002. However, until now it was uncertain exactly how the timing of this event related to the Chicxulub impact.
In the current study, scientists examined the "pollen and spores" of fossil plants in the layers of mud that infilled the crater. They found that immediately after the impact, ferns quickly colonised the devastated landscape.
Ferns have an amazing ability to bounce back after catastrophe. Layers full of fern spores - dubbed "fern spikes" - are considered to be a good "markers" of past impact events.
However, there was an unexpected discovery in store for the scientists.
They located a second "fern spike" in a layer one metre above the first, suggesting another later impact event.
Professor Simon Kelley of the Open University, UK, who was co-author on the study, said: "We interpret this second layer as the aftermath of the Chicxulub impact."
This shows that the Boltysh and Chicxulub impacts did not happen at exactly the same time. They struck several thousand years apart, the length of time between the two "fern spikes".
Uncertain cause
Professor Kelley continued: "It is quite possible that in the future we will find evidence for more impact events."
Rather than being wiped out by a single hit, the researchers think that dinosaurs may have fallen victim to a shower of space rocks raining down over thousands of years.
What might have caused this bombardment is highly uncertain.
Professor Monica Grady, a meteorite expert at the Open University who was not involved in the current study, said: "One possibility might be the collison of Near Earth Objects."
Recently, Nasa launched a program dubbed "Spaceguard". It aims to monitor such Near Earth Objects as an early warning system of possible future collisons.
"I have hemorrhaged [sic] my vocal cord again," she wrote on Instagram.
"I will need to cancel the remainder of my tour and get surgery to finally fix this once and for all."
The All About That Bass star, who had been due to round off her MTrain tour with a string of dates in August and September, told her fans she was "devastated, scared and so sorry".
She added: "I am determined to do what it takes to get better and come back around stronger than ever."
She is not the only singer to have suffered voice problems in recent months. Sam Smith and Jess Glynne are among other recording stars to have had vocal cord issues.
The Barcelona defender's running verbal battle with most of the Real Madrid squad continued in Japan on Wednesday as he refused to back down after igniting yet another row, this time with Bernabeu duo Alvaro Arbeloa and Sergio Ramos.
We all know there's little love lost between Barca and Madrid, but no figure on the pitch seems to embody the rivalry more closely than Pique.
Right now, he's almost 6,500 miles away in Yokohama, where Barca enter the Club World Cup at the semi-final stage on Thursday, but Real are seemingly very much on his mind.
He has been booed by Spain supporters angry at his anti-Madrid stance, he's been told to grow up and to show more respect. But will Pique change his ways? Here's the story so far.
Picture the scene. You're celebrating winning the league title, an occasion to savour. But for Pique, this is an opportunity to score points against your bitter rivals.
"We are the best team in the world! Thanks to all and thanks to Kevin Roldan... everything started with you," he told the club's buoyant fans.
Don't get the reference? Back in February, Colombian pop star Roldan performed at Cristiano Ronaldo's 30th birthday party - and posted some pictures on social media.
So far, so normal perhaps. But the big problems started when the press pointed out Real had been beaten 4-0 by city rivals Atletico just hours before...
Over the months that followed, there was meltdown in the Spanish capital - and Barcelona went on to win the league, Copa del Rey and Champions League.
The Roldan comments didn't exactly endear Pique to the Madrid fans around Spain. And there are quite a lot of them.
So many in fact that when Pique next turned out for the national team in a friendly against Costa Rica in June, sections of the home crowd jeered and whistled him.
After Spain supporters repeated the trick in September, Pique was sticking to his guns. "I don't regret anything that I have said and I would repeat it a thousand times and more," he said.
"I am like that. I feel very good, on both a personal and sporting level. Yesterday I went mushroom picking. I am a happy man."
Football, eh? Sometimes you just have no idea what to expect. Who could have said Real Madrid would be thrown out of this season's Spanish cup for fielding an ineligible player?
Rafael Benitez's side picked the suspended Denis Cheryshev for the first leg of their last-32 tie with Cadiz and - despite appeals - they are out of a competition they have won 19 times.
You can probably guess who saw the funny side.
Pique's tweet in reaction - shown above - didn't have a single word. Instead, he let the emojis do the talking.
For Arbeloa, this was the final straw. The Madrid full-back hit back at Pique, claiming he was "obsessed" with the club from the capital.
Pique's reaction? Raising the stakes to word play.
"Arbeloa insulting me? He said he is my friend, but he's not, he's just someone I know," Pique replied.
And so to the latest episode in this bubbling saga. Speaking in a news conference on Wednesday, Pique had more questions to answer.
Two more Real Madrid figures had added their voices to those calling on the 28-year-old to show more respect.
"Forget about your complexes and respect your elders," former Real and QPR midfielder Esteban Granero, now at Real Sociedad, told Pique.
Real captain Ramos also jumped to Arbeloa's defence with this pearl of wisdom: "Lack of respect for one's peers is an enemy which works against good atmosphere. Pique should have a bit of respect for Real Madrid."
The reply? Pique seemed to hold his tongue and go on a bit of a charm offensive.
"The role of Sergio Ramos is normal for a captain. He is the Real Madrid captain and a great captain. He came out to defend his team-mate and I honestly admire him for that," he said.
Maybe, then, there are signs of this row being put to bed. Until the next time that is.
Real and Barca meet again on 3 April at the Nou Camp. So there's lots of time for there to be plenty more fireworks before then.
The clash comes after four soldiers and four policemen were gunned down by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) militants over the past two days.
Those attacks took place in the city of Quetta, Balochistan, an area plagued by infighting between Sunnis and Shias.
Pakistan's military is engaged in a long-running battle against the group.
Khan Wasey, a spokesman for the Pakistani paramilitary Frontier Corps, said: "Three terrorists belonging to LeJ have been killed in an armed clash with Frontier Corps and intelligence personnel."
Balochistan chief minister Sananullah Zehri condemned the killings by the LeJ saying "strict actions" would be launched against terrorists and their supporters.
The LeJ is a Sunni Muslim extremist group originating from the Punjab province. They are supported by the Taliban and carry out attacks throughout Balochistan and along the Afghan border.
Balochistan is Pakistan's poorest and least developed province, and the military there has been accused of torture, kidnapping, and extrajudicial killing of separatists.
Ethnic Baluch activists say the military has also greatly restricted freedom of movement.
Sales volumes jumped 2.3% in April from the month before, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, and were 4% higher than a year earlier.
April's rebound contrasted with March, when sales saw the biggest fall in seven years.
"Anecdotal evidence from retailers suggests that good weather contributed to growth," the ONS said.
The stronger-than-expected rise in sales pushed the value of the pound above $1.30 to its highest level since September last year.
David Cheetham, chief markets analyst at XTB, said the figures would "go some way to allay the fears of a slowdown in consumer spending following last month's sharp drop".
Due to recent rises in inflation, the amount spent in shops and online was 6.2% higher in the three months to April compared with a year ago - the biggest rise in 15 years.
The ONS did not say whether inflation pressures would continues to affect sales during the rest of the year. "We need a longer series to properly determine a pattern," it said.
The retail sales figures come a day after separate ONS figures indicated that wages were rising slower than inflation for first time since mid-2014.
Keith Richardson, managing director retail sector at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said the retail figures were "welcome news, but it's too early to think that the tide is turning after a dismal first quarter".
Alex Marsh, managing director of Close Brothers Retail Finance, said its data indicated "a particular increase in sales in the furniture sector, which was driven by [Easter] Bank Holiday Monday shopping".
However, he added that inflationary pressures meant shoppers could struggle to buy big ticket items, such as white goods, without stores offering more credit.
Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, also urged caution, noting that the underlying three-month trend showed sales were up by just 0.3%.
"With the exception of the first three months of this year, that's the weakest trend rate since the third quarter of 2014," he said.
April delivered a boost for retail. We've already had the British Retail Consortium's survey, which saw the strongest sales numbers for years. But the industry body put much of that rise down to the timing of Easter, which was later this year than last.
Shops tend to sell more stuff during the Easter break. The ONS's figures are seasonally adjusted, which means that the timing of Easter shouldn't have been a factor in its own survey this morning. It said warm weather helped deliver growth. The big question is whether this pace of spending can continue.
The squeeze on consumers is now on, with average real wages falling. And it's not getting any easier for retailers either as they deal with the consequences of the fall in the pound and how much of the associated extra costs they'll have to pass on to consumers.
The London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist finished third in Sunday's 10m individual platform, with China's Aisen Chen and Qiu Bo first and second.
Daley, 21, and Dan Goodfellow, 19, took silver in Saturday's 10m synchronised behind China's Lin Yue and Chen Aisen.
Tonia Couch and Lois Toulson won their third medal of 2016 with bronze in the women's 10m synchronised.
The central government has already approved the reef dumping plan, which is linked to a major port expansion.
But the decision has proved hugely controversial, prompting stringent criticism from environmentalists.
The Queensland government said its plan to dispose of the sediment on land would "create a win-win situation".
"It will protect the unique values of the Great Barrier Reef and allow for the staged development of the important port of Abbot Point," State Premier Campbell Newman said in a statement.
Several companies want to use the Abbot Point port to export coal reserves from the Galilee Basin area in central Queensland. Late last year, the government approved an application for the coal terminal to be expanded.
Dredging is needed to allow bigger ships into the port, and earlier this year a plan to dump three million cubic metres of dredged sediment in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park area was approved.
But scientists have warned the sediment could smother or poison coral, further damaging a reef already hit by climate change and other factors. The plan was also facing a legal challenge from a Queensland environmental group.
The Queensland government said that under its proposal, the dredged material could be dumped onshore at an existing site within the Abbot Point State Development Area.
The state government would now apply to the federal government for permission to dispose of the dredged material on land, it said.
"We will now ask Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt to fast-track approval of our strategy under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 to ensure dredging for the expansion of Abbot Point can begin on schedule," Minister for State Development and Planning Jeff Seeney said.
Dredging is due to begin in 2015.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral structure, rich in marine life.
It is a Unesco-listed World Heritage Site, but in recent years the UN body has warned that it could be put on its World Heritage in Danger list because of its worsening condition.
In August, a five-yearly report by the marine park authority said that the outlook for the reef was poor despite conservation efforts, with further deterioration expected in coming years.
Climate change remained the biggest threat to the site, the report said, but poor water quality from land-based run-off, coastal development and fishing also posed challenges.
London-born David Ezekiel, 60, moved to South Africa 35 years ago, but went missing last week.
The grandfather-of-two, who lived alone and has brothers in Hertfordshire, had been the subject of a social media campaign to try and find out what had happened to him.
Family sources have now said his body has been found.
A former chef, Mr Ezekiel more recently ran a handyman business.
It is thought he drove out of his gated community in Johannesburg, in a convoy with two other vehicles, to try to do a car deal.
Katherine Soper won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting with Wish List, about young carers dealing with benefit cuts.
She will receive a £16,000 cheque and a residency at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, where the Bruntwood Prize ceremony took place on Tuesday.
All 1,938 of this year's entries were submitted anonymously.
Soper, 24, said: "It is a huge vote of confidence. Anyone who knows me and knows that I write will know that I suffer a lot of confidence issues with my work."
Her winning script tells the story of Tasmin, who cares for her housebound brother Dean and takes on a zero-hours factory contract after his benefits are cut.
She also meets a young man who "seems to offer her a different option", Soper said.
"Wish List is about work and our attitudes to work and our attitudes to the unemployed," she said.
"There are fleeting moments of hope in the play as well, and it's about love in lots of ways. It's about human kindness and how deep that can go, even in the most inhumane of systems."
Former National Theatre artistic director Sir Nicholas Hytner chaired the judging panel and described Wish List as a "really important play".
"It's a big play, beautifully written about small lives, which because of the skill of the playwright become magnificent lives," he said.
"Katherine is very young and at the beginning of her career, and if this is the quality she's able to deliver at this stage in her career I expect her to have a long, distinguished and exciting career."
Soper wrote Wish List as her dissertation play at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
She will be back at work at Penhaligon's perfumers on Regent Street, where she has worked for two years, on Wednesday. "I do that part time, and the rest of the time I try and write," she said.
Writers of all levels of experience were invited to submit new and unperformed scripts for the prize.
Four further judges' awards were given to:
The Bruntwood Prize is handed out every two years and this marks its 10th anniversary.
Previous winners and runners-up include Anna Jordan, whose play Yen was staged at the Royal Exchange earlier this year; and Alistair McDowall, whose Pomona is currently playing there.
The Scottish Police Authority and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland will, in parallel, scrutinise different areas.
The HMICS' review will include an examination of how the firearms officers are deployed on regular patrols and tasks.
The appearance of armed officers on routine tasks has sparked a row.
Some politicians have criticised the deployment of specialist firearms officers on regular patrols, particularly in the Highlands and Islands, an area with a low crime rate.
Highland Council has also raised concerns after officers carrying handguns were seen on routine patrols in Inverness.
Police Scotland and the Scottish government said the deployment of firearms officers offered better protection to the public.
Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said the force welcomed the reviews.
The HMICS will hold what it calls an assurance review to independently assess the current practices for the issue and carrying of firearms by armed response vehicle crews.
It aims to provide assurance that Police Scotland's approach is compliant with guidance, procedures and recognised best practice.
Following discussions with the SPA, the inspectorate said it had agreed to broaden the terms of the review to include consideration of how armed officers are deployed on regular patrols and tasks.
The HMICS will also look at what impact this has on communities.
The SPA has announced that it is setting up a scrutiny inquiry to consider the public impact of Police Scotland's decision around firearms deployment.
The scrutiny inquiry team will be chaired by SPA member Iain Whyte.
Derek Penman, HM Inspector of Constabulary in Scotland, said: "This assurance role was requested by Police Scotland, but this will be an independent review with the remit and scope that we have assessed is necessary to fulfil our objective to add value and strengthen public confidence in policing.
"Engagement with the SPA has informed the scope of our work, and I am confident that our review will support the SPA in its wider scrutiny of armed policing."
Mr Penman added: "I believe this is a positive example of how different parts of the governance and scrutiny landscape in Scottish policing can work together in a complementary way with Police Scotland to improve outcomes for the public."
Mr Whyte said: "SPA has acknowledged that the issue of armed policing is a contentious one, and that we would keep this issue under review.
"One of the principles of good governance is that the public voice is appropriately heard within decision-making."
Senior officer Mr Livingstone said only trained officers were allowed to carry a sidearm and a Taser.
He said: "We welcome confirmation of the review by HMICS and the Scottish Police Authority following our request to the inspectorate for an independent assessment of the standing authority decision process.
"As part of this, HMICS will attend the next firearms monitoring group in September where the standing firearms authority will be reviewed."
He added: "Following this review and if a decision is made that the authority should remain in place, we will commission further work to consider alternative options for the carrying of weapons by armed officers.
"Police Scotland will also review the operational guidance provided to officers regarding the functions they perform when not engaged in firearms duties and consider how we may improve our engagement with communities."
Green MSP Patrick Harvie said the reviews were "a welcome response to the growing public and political pressure".
He added: "The police do need to deploy firearms in response to serious incidents, but the sight of armed police on our streets while carrying out routine duties has alarmed many Scots and we deserve to know why it happened and why our communities were not consulted."
The Scottish Liberal Democrats Alison McInnes said the decision was "a victory for local communities".
But Scottish Labour's Graeme Pearson the scrutiny had come "very late in the day".
The man was taken to hospital with chest injuries after falling during a performance of the Windsor theme park's Pirates of Skeleton Bay show on Wednesday.
The Sun newspaper reported he had fallen several metres to the ground.
Legoland Windsor Resort said it was in touch with the man's family who said he was "recovering well".
South Central Ambulance Service confirmed it was called at 13:24 BST after a man in his 20s had fallen and suffered chest injuries.
Thames Valley air ambulance, an ambulance and an emergency response vehicle were sent to the attraction and the man was taken to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital.
An investigation is underway, a Legoland spokeswoman said.
The artwork is planned for the Corn Exchange entertainment venue where Barrett, who died in 2006 aged 60, played his last live show in 1972.
Cambridge City Council is expected to approve the £10,000 funding.
Cambridge Live, which runs the venue, said the design - to be decided - would reflect Barrett's "genius".
Neil Jones, operations director for Cambridge Live, said: "Our starting point would be not to have a plaque or a bust, but something that would befit the creative genius of Syd Barrett and we are still working on the full form it would take."
Roger Keith Barrett, known as Syd, was Pink Floyd's main songwriter during their first flush of success in 1967, but he parted company with the band in 1968 at the time of their second album A Saucerful of Secrets.
He issued two solo albums and formed a short-lived band called Stars, which appeared at the Corn Exchange in 1972, before withdrawing from public life and living in Cambridge until his death.
Barrett had been an student at Camberwell School of Art in London prior to forming Pink Floyd.
His sister, Rosemary Breen, said: "We welcome this opportunity to commemorate Roger.
"He was bright, funny, quirky and witty and was an artist - not just in terms of music or paintings - but in a much wider sense.
"We look forward to working with Cambridge Live to create a lasting memory of an inspiring man."
The city council is due to fund the project using Section 106 money provided by developers for community facilities.
It is hoped the installation will be unveiled in sometime next year.
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When any fracking application is discussed attention focuses on the environmental arguments, but what could fracking in North Yorkshire mean for the regional economy?
"Our region has the chance to be at the centre of Europe's new fracking industry," according to Paul Glover, the chair of Petrophysics at the University of Leeds.
"Its all about first mover advantage. Look at what happened in Scotland. When they found oil under the North Sea they had a choice to base the new industry in either Aberdeen and Dundee. Aberdeen was chosen and history shows us that it's done very well."
For two days the often spirited arguments that were laid out at County Hall in Northallerton centred on the potential environmental impact of the development at Kirby Misperton by Third Energy.
In contrast, business and economic opinion about the plans to frack for shale gas has been more understated.
"The issue of fracking hasn't come up as a business issue. Our members haven't told us if they're excited or concerned about the process," says Sandy Needham, the chief executive of the West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce.
North Yorkshire has been at the centre of a number of recent controversial planning applications. Not only has fracking attracted protesters from across the UK but last year the North Yorkshire Moors Park Authority gave approval for a £1.7m potash mine to be built within the National Park.
The developers of both proposals have promised that the respective projects would bring substantial economic benefits to the wider area.
"Potash did generate a lot of interest because businesses could see tangible benefits; with fracking it's still an unknown," added Mr Needham.
"Manufacturing is not as visible as the tourism industry is within the region."
With York at its centre and two national parks, the county is perceived as being geared up to cater for tourists primarily. Perhaps unexpectedly though, North Yorkshire has a manufacturing base ready to take advantage of any new economic opportunities fracking may bring.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 11% of the local workforce in North Yorkshire are involved in manufacturing. That's higher than the UK average of 8.5%.
Ken Cronin, chief executive of UK Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG), the body that represents the industry, says the whole of Yorkshire would benefit from an economic windfall.
"There is quite evidently a supply chain that will do well from the shale gas industry and its not only North Yorkshire that would benefit," he said.
"You have Teesside to the north, an area that has a huge amount of expertise, and a manufacturing base in West Yorkshire that will also do well."
But what could this mean in the way of potential jobs and new investment?
Perversely, the site at Kirby Misperton will hardly generate any new jobs. Third Energy has already been extracting gas from the area using conventional methods.
The recent planning application related to the method of extraction of gas from the ground and therefore won't require the building of a lot of new infrastructure.
Prof Glover from Leeds University says the potential value to the local economy from the industry would come further down the line.
"Its really speculative to try and put a precise figure on the numbers of local jobs that could be created," he says.
"Only when companies start building new wells will we see jobs created, but those will be well paid and highly skilled.
"Every year universities like mine turn out graduates with all the right skills to work in the fracking industry and if there is a new supply of local jobs that will bring benefits to the whole Yorkshire economy."
Accountancy firm EY predicts that, if the fracking industry was to take off, about 4,000 wells across the country could be supporting an additional 64,500 jobs by 2032.
There are others though who sound a more cautionary note.
"We still don't know if the gas under the ground is commercially viable," says Craig Stevens, a senior oil and gas manager at the accountancy firm PwC.
"We know that's there's a lot of it but until someone gets the permission to extract it we're not really sure if this industry is as viable as the fracking industry in the United States has been."
The fracking industry has transformed the US energy market. The latest estimates suggest that amount of shale gas and oil now being pumped from wells across the States has allowed the US to become energy-independent, meaning it no longer has to import gas and oil to meet its energy needs.
However, a global slump in energy prices has caused the US industry to contract in the past year, with shale companies closing wells because of the falling wholesale price of gas and oil.
Mr Stevens says at this stage it's too soon to compare the potential of the UK industry with the realities of the US fracking business.
"The debate about the UK shale industry is more about emotion and winning hearts and minds rather than pure economics," he says. "In the short term we're only going to be guessing as to what the potential economic benefits of the industry may be."
And when it comes to arguments about the longer-term economic impact of fracking, opponents point out there is a risk of causing irreversible damage to the county's most important industry of tourism.
Flamingo Land, a major local attraction, has said it fears tourism in the area would be "negatively affected permanently" if fracking were to go ahead.
North Yorkshire has already been the legal and environmental testing ground for whether the physical extraction of shale gas within the UK can be achieved.
The county now faces the prospect of becoming an economic testing ground as well.
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, also known as Her Majesty the Queen, has been on the throne for 63 years.
She has now overtaken her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, as the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
Newsround has taken a look at some of the things you might not know about Her Majesty.
The Queen trained as a mechanic and military truck driver during World War II.
Her Majesty served in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service during the conflict.
She remains the only female member of the royal family to have entered the armed forces and is the only living head of state who served in World War II.
Queen Elizabeth has tweeted, the Royal Family have their own website, and she has even joined Facebook, but Queen Elizabeth was way ahead of everyone when she sent her first email back in 1976.
She became the first monarch in the world to ever send an email during a visit to an army base.
The soldiers working there were keen to show the Queen this latest form of technology.
The armed forces used electronic mail regularly to communicate, decades before it was used in day to day life.
When the Queen travels abroad she does not need to use a passport.
This is because passports have a special message inside which reads:
"Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary."
So, because they are written in her name, she does not need to use one herself.
All other members of the Royal Family, including The Duke of Edinburgh and The Prince of Wales, have passports.
Her actual birthday is April 21st but the Queen also celebrates an 'official' Birthday in the month of June.
On her official birthday, Her Majesty is joined by other members of the Royal Family at the Trooping the Colour parade.
The reason why she has a second birthday during the Summer is to try and guarantee good weather for that ceremony.
She celebrates her actual birthday in private with her family.
Its main character Link has much greater scope to interact with his open-world environment than in the previous 18 games in the series.
There is also a focus on technology rather than magic.
The title was originally due to have gone on sale in 2015, but was delayed to launch alongside a new console.
However, the online clips - and demos, which are available to play at the E3 games expo - only show footage from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Wii U release, rather than from the forthcoming NX version.
Nintendo fell short of its own earnings forecast when, in April, it posted a 16.5bn yen ($155.7m; £110.4m) net profit for its last financial year. That marked a 61% fall on the previous year's figure.
"This is a vital game for Nintendo," said Chris Dring, editor of the games industry news site MCV.
"The firm has millions of die-hard fans, but many of them didn't buy a Wii U, and that's entirely down to a lack of games at its start and then the massive gap between titles.
"Zelda isn't the firm's most successful game, but it is a massive seller to the core fan base.
"So, the fact that it is going to be there right at the start of the NX gives the console a step up already over what happened at the launch of the previous two machines Nintendo released."
Unlike Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo did not hold a press conference at this year's E3 event in Los Angeles.
Instead, it released a video showing the new Zelda title alongside other future releases, including new Pokemon games.
This was followed by a live stream featuring further gameplay footage featuring Link.
The material revealed that the character begins the game waking from a 100-year-long sleep in what appears to be a cryogenic chamber.
Exploration of the kingdom of Hyrule reveals the player has greater choice in deciding where to roam and more ways to use objects around them - boulders can be pushed, cliffs climbed, and food foraged and cooked.
Breath of the Wild also introduces a limit on how many items can be carried, and adds the ability to craft weapons.
"This is a mechanically very new Zelda," Mr Dring told the BBC after playing a demo.
"A lot of these components - such as scavenging and cooking - is similar to other RPGs. But it's very different to Zelda.
"The ability to go anywhere and complete things in any order is something that's not been done in a big 3D Zelda, either.
"It's still distinctive of the franchise, with its focus on exploration and adventure, but it's been finally updated and could easily appeal to the modern RPG fan, and not just Nintendo's core fanbase."
The publisher has, however, denied rumours that gamers would be able to choose to play as a female version of Link.
More than 75 million copies of previous Zelda games have been sold since the series made its debut three decades ago.
As has become usual in recent years, Nintendo kept things low-key at the start of E3, at least compared to the extravagant launch events we saw from Microsoft and Sony.
With its Wii U console suffering from poor sales and now reaching the end of its life, the firm is treading water until it is ready to reveal its next-generation device.
But the company's draw has always been its big name exclusives, and there was plenty to excite Nintendo loyalists, with a more detailed look at the new Pokemon as well as the Legend of Zelda game.
Both franchises are some of the bestselling of all time, and should tide fans over until Nintendo has decided its next steps.
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Opinion polls have suggested the party faces a strong challenge for second place from the Conservatives in May's election.
The party's general secretary, Brian Roy, said the election would "not be a traditional key seat campaign".
He was speaking at Scottish Labour's conference in Glasgow.
Of the 129 MSPs who will be elected on 5 May, 73 will represent constituencies across Scotland, with the remaining 56 selected from party regional lists.
Mr Roy told the conference that the party's "limited resources" meant it had to be "smarter about how we campaign and who we target".
He added: "We have learned the mistake of the past when we did not place enough importance on the regional list votes and did not organise effectively on that basis.
"So we have established strong regional campaign structures to allow organising, messaging and resources to be deployed more efficiently and more effectively.
"We have appointed eight regional campaign chairs to oversee the campaign in their areas. If we are to maximise our number of MSPs we need to redress the gradual decline in our regional vote share compared to that of our constituency."
Despite Labour's fall in support in recent years, Mr Roy insisted it was the only party that could "stop the SNP having it all their own way", with the nationalists seemingly on course to win another majority in the Scottish Parliament.
He hit out at the SNP, who have been in power at Holyrood since 2007, saying that after "nearly a decade in power, they haven't delivered the kind of change that Scotland needs".
Mr Roy claimed: "They are, frankly, making the same kind of mistakes Labour used to make, taking voters for Scotland in granted."
Later, the party's deputy leader used his speech to the conference to say the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith must lead to the ending of "attacks" on disabled people.
Alex Rowley referred to the resignation of the work and pensions secretary as he criticised Conservative economic policies.
Mr Duncan Smith resigned on Friday night after saying the latest planned cuts to disability benefits were "not defensible" in a budget that benefited higher-earning taxpayers.
He has been replaced by Stephen Crabb, who had been the secretary of state for Wales.
Mr Rowley told delegates that the chancellor had not only done nothing to address inequality in his budget, but had "created even more unfairness by delivering tax cuts for the better off and spending cuts for everyone else".
The Cowdenbeath MSP added: "If you don't believe me, then ask Iain Duncan Smith. Duncan Smith has gone, but the attacks on the disabled must go - and indeed the Tories themselves must go. That must be our message."
Mr Rowley admitted that Labour had "a great deal of work to do" in order to persuade people to vote for the party.
But he said the divide between the political parties in Scotland had "never been clearer", with the SNP "doing nothing for the poor, while the Conservatives make the position of the poor worse".
He insisted it was Labour that was looking to fulfil its "historic mission" to eradicate poverty and unemployment, with the party spelling out how it would use the new taxation powers being devolved to Holyrood to achieve a "better, more fairer Scotland".
And he urged delegates to "hold your heads high", adding: "The Tories will fight against the poor - we will fight against poverty. The SNP will do nothing for the unemployed - we will fight unemployment."
Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary also told delegates that he was not buying the notion that Mr Duncan Smith had "discovered a conscience" and questioned whether Mr Crabb would deliver for disabled people.
They were speaking ahead of a keynote address by Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, who was due to unveil proposals to boost funding for primary health care.
She will also pledge that everyone in Scotland would be entitled to a GP appointment within 48 hours if her party forms the next Scottish government.
The Minster Chapter dismissed its bell-ringers in October because of "safeguarding issues".
The bells were rung for the first time in more than 10 weeks on Thursday, for the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols.
It is thought Sunday's silence was the first Christmas Day the bells had not been rung since the 14th Century.
Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu and dean of York Minster Vivienne Faull, who both attended the Christmas Day service, supported the decision.
The dismissal of the bell-ringing team came after they refused to accept the Minster Chapter's decision not to reinstate a team member suspended following an investigation into allegations of sex offending against children.
The allegation never led to a charge.
However, the Chapter decided, after a risk assessment, the bell-ringer concerned "presented an ongoing risk" and could not be reinstated.
The bell-ringing on Thursday was carried out by a team of volunteers from across Yorkshire.
The Chapter has previously said that attempts to recruit replacement ringers had been hampered by "intimidation" - but York Minster Society of Change Ringers (YMSCR) denied this.
YMSCR's statement also said its members were willing to ring the bells for all Christmas services if asked to do so.
Moonlight Movies Ltd applied to convert a field at Crossgates into a drive-in cinema, featuring a screen and projection tower, for up to 200 cars.
The company has been operating a temporary cinema at the site using an inflatable screen.
Councillors were recommended to refuse consent due to concerns about noise.
Planning officials told the council the applicant could use the site as a drive-in cinema for up to 28 days a year without requiring planning permission.
A council report said more than 50 letters of objection had been received, mostly concerned about noise from the site.
The company told the council that sound would be provided through car radios, not external speakers.
It planned one nightly showing which would finish at around 23:30 BST in the summer and 22:30 GMT in the winter.
Tourism officials were supportive of the plans, saying it would offer a unique attraction that visitors could attend, and 25 individuals wrote in support of the application.
Speaking after the meeting, the chair of the planning committee, councillor Jane Mortimer, said the cinema was a "brilliant idea but in the wrong place".
Ben Stonehouse, of Moonlight Movies, said he was "very disappointed" with the decision and was unsure of the future of the cinema.
He said: "We would have liked to keep the business in Scarborough but the council seems set against us.
"It has been a really good tourist attraction for the town. We've had people coming from as far as Sheffield."
PepsiCo will be the official food and drinks partner of the NBA, the Women's National Basketball Association, NBA Development League, and USA Basketball.
The deal, which starts next season, covers North America, and also China, where NBA is growing in popularity.
Financial terms of the sponsorship were not disclosed.
"The NBA has established itself as one of the most exciting and innovative sports leagues in the world," PepsiCo chief executive Indra Nooyi said.
"We look forward to working together to redefine the meaning of sports marketing partnership."
The new deal will involve the Pepsi range, as well as the company's Aquafina and Lipton Brisk drinks, and Doritos and Ruffles crisp brands. Mountain Dew will become the NBA's lead soft drink brand.
Coca-Cola said it had "made the decision not to renew our global contract" with the NBA, but would continue sponsoring individual teams and players.
Meanwhile, Coca-Cola said it had signed a multi-year agreement with the US Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer, and that it would be the beverage sponsor for the US football and the Mexican national teams' US tours.
PepsiCo has had sponsorship agreements with Major League Soccer since its inaugural 1996 season.
The Northern Irishman carded a three-under-par 69 on Friday to lie in a tie for eighth position on five under par, along with Padraig Harrington.
Former champion McDowell posted two birdies and a bogey on his outward nine and followed that up with birdies at the 12th and 13th holes.
Belfast's Michael Hoey shot a level-par 72 to make the cut on two over par.
Swede Noren recorded a fantastic 66 to end the second day on eight under, one ahead of New Zealander Danny Lee and England's Eddie Pepperell.
McDowell, who won the tournament at Loch Lomond in 2008, has slipped to 78th in the world rankings and missed the cut at the recent French Open.
The 2010 US Open champion played two practice rounds at Royal Troon last weekend in preparation for next week's Open Championship.
Among those who failed to make the final two days were Irish trio Paul Dunne (+4), Shane Lowry (+6) and Paul McGinley (+9).
While they've all been greeted with smiles, handshakes and warm introductions from their biggest supporters, some have fared much better than others. Here's a quick look at how some of them have performed under the spotlight.
During his presidential campaign, Mr Trump condemned what he saw as a wealthy cabal of globalist bankers running the world at the expense of the American working class. On Thursday, a member of that Wall Street elite stood before a Senate confirmation committee as the president-elect's designated top economic adviser.
If there was a bit of dissonance surrounding this scene, it didn't appear to have too much effect on how the hearings unfolded. Democrats went on the attack, questioning Mnuchin's lengthy business record. They slammed his role as head of a bank that aggressively foreclosed on delinquent homeowners after the 2008 financial collapse and questioned his decision to create an offshore home for his hedge fund to help pension funds, non-profit groups and foreign entities invest without paying federal taxes.
Mnuchin responded by claiming federal rules tied his hands with foreclosures and he'd much rather have helped distressed homeowners modify their loans. As for the Cayman Islands subsidiary - which he did not include on his original financial disclosure forms - he insisted it was done to help clients and did not affect his own tax exposure.
"You have to question whether or not that is the essence of what we view as leadership," New Jersey Democrat Menendez said in a heated exchange. "What you did may have been legal, but it certainly was to allow people to avoid taxes."
Republicans - with the exception of Nevada Senator Dean Heller, who represents one of the states hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis - showered the nominee with praise.
When talk did turn to policy, Mnuchin said he would be the point person on the Trump administration's tax-reform efforts, which should make the system simpler and more effective.
He embraced a strong dollar and said Mr Trump's talk of a 35% border tax was meant to be targeted at companies that tried to move jobs abroad and not an across-the-board measure. While he didn't call for a sweeping repeal of Obama-era financial regulations, he said some would have to be reconsidered.
Notable quote: "I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardships in order to earn a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth."
Grade: B. Mnuchin's exchanges with Democrats were heated at times, with the nominee insisting that his critics were misrepresenting or misunderstanding complicated financial situations. He didn't help his cause by failing to initially provide accurate representations of his business holdings.
Treasury pick ran 'foreclosure machine'
Thursday's New York Times article alleging that Rick Perry had little knowledge of what the Department of Energy does before accepting Mr Trump's offer to lead it - an assertion that is now hotly contested - did a fabulous job of lowering expectations for the former Texas governor heading into his confirmation hearing.
While Mr Perry didn't address the article, he did try to move past another past embarrassment - when he forgot the name of the Energy Department while listing Cabinet-level positions he would eliminate as president during a 2011 Republican primary debate.
"After being briefed on so many of the vital functions of the Department of Energy, I regret recommending its elimination," he said.
While the Trump team may not have the entire department in its crosshairs, there are recent indications that it could face sweeping cuts. On that matter, Mr Perry quipped: "Maybe they'll have the same experience I had and forget they said that."
Otherwise Mr Perry's appearance was rather uneventful. When pressed on global warming, he echoed previous Trump nominees in acknowledging that climate change was real and that it was due, in part, to human actions - and then included what is now a recurring caveat.
"The question is how do we address it in a thoughtful way that doesn't compromise economic growth, the affordability of energy or American jobs," he said.
Notable quote: "I am committed to modernising our nuclear stockpile, promoting and developing American energy in all forms, advancing the department's critical science and technology mission and carefully disposing of nuclear waste."
Grade: A-minus. While career politician Mr Perry lacks the experiences of the scientists and academics who have preceded him most recently in the energy job, he avoided any "oops" moments that could have derailed his nomination.
Tom Price - Secretary of Health and Human Services
It was billed as a "courtesy call", but there was nothing courteous about the way Congressman Tom Price was received by Democrats on the Senate health committee on Wednesday. Although Mr Price's formal confirmation hearing is scheduled before a different Senate committee on Tuesday, the grilling he received is a sign that he may be in for a bumpy ride.
Ethics concerns have swirled around Mr Price for several weeks, and he was asked to explain why he invested more than $300,000 in healthcare companies, some of which later profited from decisions he made as a high-ranking member of Congress - a possible violation of House ethics rules.
He said most of those decisions were made independently by his broker, but confirmed that he was personally involved in purchasing stock of Australian biomedical company Innate Immunotherapeutics on the advice of a fellow Republican congressman. A federal law prohibits members of Congress from making stock trades based on private information acquired through their official duties.
Mr Price was also pressed on whether he agreed with the president-elect's views on health policy that sometimes run counter to conservative orthodoxy. He wouldn't commit to promising no cuts to the government insurance programmes Medicare and Medicaid, insisting dollars spent isn't the best way to measure success.
He also attempted to redefine Mr Trump's promise of an Obamacare replacement plan that would provide "insurance for everybody" as a pledge to provide affordable access to medical care for all Americans.
Notable quote: "I believe it's important we work together to put forward a system that allows every single American to have the opportunity to purchase the coverage they think is best for themselves and their families."
Grade: B-minus. Mr Price was cautious in his answers about healthcare policy, as he had to reconcile his past aggressive reform proposals with Mr Trump's sweeping promises of improved coverage and lower costs. His admission that he was directly involved in investments in Innate Immunotherapeutics could prompt more calls for a thorough investigation into possible ethics misdeeds.
Mr Trump's choice of the Oklahoma attorney general to head the EPA, a federal agency his state has sued 18 times, generated a storm of criticism from environmentalists and liberal groups. Given that the president-elect has often appeared dismissive of environmental issues, Mr Pruitt seemed destined for tough questioning at his confirmation hearings.
During his testimony, Mr Pruitt appeared to back away from controversy and confrontation whenever possible. He said the EPA has a role in the Trump administration, "but it needs to have a more modest role" and that environmental regulations could spur economic growth. He did not agree with Mr Trump's stated belief that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese, although he said that the issue did not require an aggressive response.
One possible stumbling point was when he was asked whether there could be a safe level of lead in drinking water, and he conceded that he had "not looked at the scientific research on that", although it was an issue he was "very concerned" about.
Notable quote: "Science tells us that the climate is changing and human activity in some manner impacts that change. The ability to measure and pursue the degree and the extent of that impact and what to do about it are subject to continuing debate and dialogue."
Grade: B-plus. Mr Pruitt's opponents slammed him for his ties to energy firms, but the nominee did little to add fuel to the fire.
The governor of South Carolina has little in the way of foreign policy credentials, but that didn't stop Mr Trump from tapping his onetime critic to be his ambassador to the UN. During her confirmation hearings, Ms Haley didn't hesitate to draw contrasts between her views and those of the president-elect.
She said she didn't support any sort of government-run Muslim registry and, in contrast to Rex Tillerson, Mr Trump's choice for secretary of state, she described the Russian bombing of Aleppo in Syria as a war crime. She said Russia was "trying to show their muscle" and that she didn't think the US could trust them.
Ms Haley also sharply criticised the Obama administration's decision to abstain from a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in occupied land.
Obama fears two-state solution fading
Notable quote: ""That's how an administration works. You surround yourself with people who don't just say 'yes' to what you think."
Grade: A. Ms Haley was under pressure to put forward a solid performance given the negative reaction to Tillerson's confirmation hearings, and she did. She'll likely win Democratic votes when her nomination reaches the Senate floor.
The position of commerce secretary usually isn't "sought after or appreciated", Florida Democratic Senator Bill Nelson said during Wilbur Ross's confirmation hearings on Wednesday. "But I have the feeling that's about to change in a big way."
During his testimony, Mr Ross was questioned repeatedly on whether he agreed with Mr Trump's sharp attacks on current US trade policy during his presidential campaign. For the most part he stood by the president-elect. He often echoed Mr Trump's criticism of China, saying the nation talks about free trade but doesn't practice it.
"We should not put up with malicious trading activities, state-owned enterprises or subsidised production," Mr Ross said.
He also said he was ready to follow-through on Mr Trump's promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, adding that "all aspects" of the trade deal were up for review.
Notable quote: "I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade, not trade that is detrimental to the American worker and to the domestic manufacturing base."
Grade: B-plus. The man who developed a reputation "the king of bankruptcy" for his acquisition of struggling companies avoided being painted by Senate Democrats as an unacceptable Wall Street insider. Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin, who has yet to face Senate questions, may not be so lucky.
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Betsy DeVos's confirmation hearing was scheduled for last week, but it had to be pushed back because she hadn't completed her government ethics review. After her performance on Tuesday, the Trump team may have wished the nominee's appearance could have been delayed even further.
The billionaire education-reform activist who has donated hundreds of millions to Republican causes made news for all the wrong reasons. She seemed uninformed about an ongoing debate about how to measure student performance and unfamiliar with the Individuals With Disabilities in Education Act, a federal law that requires public schools to make accommodations for disabled students. She illustrated a point about states deciding whether to allow firearms in schools by noting that Wyoming classrooms may need guns to defend against bears.
Notable quote: "I share president-elect Trump's view that it's time to shift the debate from what the system thinks is best for kids to what moms and dads want, expect and deserve."
Grade: C-minus. "I respect, think highly of Betsy DeVos," tweeted conservative commentator Ana Navarro. "But clips of her confirmation hearing made me want to cover my eyes."
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Her father, Michael - the vicar of St Mary's, Ealing - and her boyfriend were beaten with cricket bats by the men, who demanded money and jewellery.
It was a sexual attack that shocked the nation, became headline news and was subsequently labelled the "Ealing vicarage rape".
The media coverage of the case and the sentencing of the men who attacked Ms Saward - who later became Jill Drake - led to a public outcry about how rape victims were treated.
Ringleader Robert Horscroft, then 34, who did not take part in the rape, was sentenced to 14 years in jail for his part in the burglary.
Martin McCall, then 22, was given five years for rape and a further five for burglary, while Christopher Byrne, who was also 22, was given three years for his part in the sexual assault and five for the burglary.
During sentencing, Old Bailey Judge Robert Leonard said the trauma suffered by Ms Saward was "not so very great".
Ms Saward's case affected the way rape victims were treated and is still being felt 30 years later.
The public backlash against the media coverage and subsequent sentencing helped bring about changes to the way sexual assault cases were viewed.
In particular, there was uproar at how one of the defendants had been given a longer sentence for the burglary than the attack.
Several MPs, including Neil Kinnock, criticised the prison terms handed down - saying they were too lenient.
The then-Labour leader said during a Commons debate in 1987: "While it is necessary for judges to remain detached in the name of the law, sometimes they show an insensitivity to the suffering of victims which is difficult to comprehend."
And Margaret Thatcher, who was prime minister at the time, expressed her "deep concern" over the crime of rape following concerns about the case.
Ms Saward's case also sparked fierce criticisms about press coverage of rape cases after Ms Saward's ordeal became front page news.
While newspapers did not name Ms Saward as the victim, several of them published details which led her to be easily identifiable.
The Sun newspaper printed the location of the attack and a photograph of Ms Saward with her eyes blacked out in the days following the rape.
When investigated, the publication relied on the defence that media identification of a victim was only banned after a defendant was charged, which was the case at the time.
Speaking in 1987 Ms Saward, who was an identical twin, demanded a change in the law to prevent this from happening.
According to the Guardian, she said: "Unless this is done, others may find themselves identifiable by a process of deduction from third parties known to be involved as victims of a crime as I was.
"This was very distressing both to myself and my family, and the manner in which some newspapers conveyed this information was highly insensitive and offensive."
The law was changed a year later to allow for the right to appeal against lenient sentences and to close a loophole which allowed media identification of a rape victim before a defendant was charged.
The Press Council also published guidelines on how rape cases were reported to prevent victims' anonymity being breached through jigsaw identification.
The notorious case put the laws on rape under the spotlight and led to calls by women's groups and politicians to call for changes to the way the crimes were viewed.
These included making rape within marriage a criminal offence, making oral and anal intercourse classified as rape and tougher sentencing for rapists - all of which have been achieved.
In 1990, Ms Saward broke new ground when she became the first rape victim in the UK to waive her right to anonymity.
She co-wrote a book, Rape: My Story, which explored her ordeal and she went on to become a fierce campaigner for the rights of sexual assault victims.
Her decision to speak publicly was driven by a desire to change attitudes towards victims and strengthen the support they receive.
Ms Saward launched a help group for those who had experienced sex crimes and regularly appeared in the media to highlight issues faced by victims.
Her commitment to the cause also saw her become a sexual assault case worker and she subsequently provided training to police forces across the country.
Over the years, further changes have been made to the way sexual assault cases are handled - taking into account the way victims were treated.
These include a ban on allowing an alleged rapist to cross-examine victims while representing themselves in court and restrictions on what evidence can be heard about a victim's sexual behaviour.
New guidelines were published on the sentencing of sex offenders in England and Wales in 2013 which gave a greater emphasis on the impact on the victim - something Ms Saward had long campaigned for.
Speaking to the BBC, she said: "So long we've felt left out of the system or surplus to requirement, so to actually see victims' needs and what's happened to victims being put at the forefront of this is really, really good."
Ms Saward never gave up on her fight for victims' rights, and in 2015 she spoke out against calls to give those accused of sex crimes anonymity.
In 1998, she came face-to-face with a member of the gang who devastated her life, but did not rape her, and told him: "You don't need to say sorry."
But she also spoke about forgiveness and said in a BBC interview: "I believe forgiveness gives you freedom. Freedom to move on without being held back by the past."
Ms Michaels did not invent the term, but is credited with rescuing it from obscurity after she saw it used in an address, thinking it was a typo.
"Ms" did not convey a woman's marital status, unlike the traditional options "Mrs" or "Miss".
"I had never seen it before: It was kind of arcane knowledge," she said.
Speaking to the New York Times in an interview last year for her own obituary, she said the honorific resonated with her, both as a feminist and as the child of unmarried parents.
"[I] was looking for a title for a woman who did not 'belong' to a man. There was no place for me," she told The Guardian newspaper in 2007.
"I didn't belong to my father and I didn't want to belong to a husband - someone who could tell me what to do."
Born in St Louis, Missouri, Ms Michaels spent some of her childhood in New York City. She was a lifelong feminist activist, biblical scholar, and collected oral histories of the civil rights movement later in life.
In her professional life, she worked as a ghostwriter, editor, and even ran a Japanese restaurant - but her obituary in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes her favourite job was being a New York City taxi driver.
The term Ms dates back to at least 1901, but its obscurity meant that Ms Michaels first thought it was a typo, intended to be Mrs, on a housemate's delivery of a Marxist magazine in the early 1960s.
Years later, she brought it up casually, during a lull in conversation on broadcast radio - where it was heard by others, and began to attract attention.
That broadcast would lead the first editors of Ms Magazine to adopt the honorific as its title in 1972 "after prompting from Sheila Michaels, who had been pushing the women's movement to adopt its usage," the magazine wrote last month.
"'Ms' is how you address a woman as a whole person. In a culture where women were identified on the basis of their marital status... [it was a] way to define ourselves as individuals, not subordinates or partners."
And while the new honorific was in the public sphere and a subject of debate, it was not adopted by the New York Times until 1984 - seen as a landmark for its usage by a traditional stylistic conservative.
Now, the newspaper has published an extensive obituary based on interviews with Ms Michaels herself.
"Ms Michaels leaves a legacy both minute and momentous: two consonants and a small dot - three characters that forever changed English discourse," the Times wrote.
Advice from the BBC's style editors is simple: "Try to find out what the person herself uses, and stick to that."
"Are you at home, son?"
"Yes."
"They carried out an operation. Their homes are being searched now… take everything in the house out."
"There is your money in the safe."
"That's what I'm saying."
It was a recording that changed the course, no less, of modern Turkey.
Those who posted it a year ago say it revealed the then Prime Minister, now President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan instructing his son to hide stashes of cash after police raided other ministers' homes.
It formed part of the biggest corruption scandal in this country's recent history, Mr Erdogan and his inner circle implicated, it seemed, in massive embezzlement.
Stories swirled of the general manager of a state bank hiding €4.5m (£3.5m) in shoe boxes.
An Iranian businessman was accused of laundering €87bn with the help of the authorities by circumventing sanctions against Iran.
For many, 17 December 2013 will be remembered here for generations to come.
Mr Erdogan hit back. The recordings, he said, were lies and full of "montage".
He spoke of dark forces at work, a so-called "parallel state" seeking to topple the elected government.
The man behind it, he said, was cleric Fethullah Gulen, once a close ally, now a fierce opponent, living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania.
Over these 12 months, the "Gulenists" have become public enemy number one.
Declared a national security threat, the government has waged war on the "parallel state", firing thousands of police officers, prosecutors and judges who it says were working for Mr Gulen.
It meant a second wave of arrests, due on 25 December, was never carried out by the new police leadership.
Yasin Topcu was deputy chief of the financial crimes unit; a senior figure in the investigation. On 18 December, he was removed from his position.
"In a coup, you hide what you're doing from parliament but we gave all our evidence and reports to parliament to investigate," he says.
"Turkey has bad memories of coups so the government played on that because it didn't want people to know what was really happening."
Will the facts ever be found out, I ask.
"In the short-term, people might be fooled by these lies and manipulation," he replies, "but after a while they'll see the truth and react."
Stage two of the government clampdown was on the media it deemed a threat.
YouTube and Twitter were blocked, a decree later overturned by the constitutional court.
Mr Erdogan spread his version of events in a press that he's ensured is heavily pro-government.
And, last weekend, Gulenist media were raided, over 20 journalists and production staff arrested from the opposition paper Zaman and Samanyolu TV.
It prompted the ire of the EU, which called it "against European standards and values".
Mr Erdogan lashed out, telling Brussels to mind its own business.
"The allegations were so serious that the government took an authoritarian direction to confront them," says political commentator Cengiz Candar.
"If they had been treated as they should in a democratic country, the government would not have survived. It shows Turkey is not yet a consolidated, functioning democracy."
Turkey now ranks just 154th of 180 countries in the press freedom index of the watchdog Reporters without Borders.
And concerns have grown that free expression is under assault as the government closes ranks, relying on loyalists.
Criticism from human rights groups, international media or Western governments is framed as a baseless attack on Turkey, a conspiracy to undermine a country that won't tow the western line.
The pliant media environment has allowed a gagging order to be imposed by the government, banning reporting on the corruption enquiry set up by parliament, due to wrap up later this month.
Just a few papers said they would not obey.
Cihan news agency is one of the remaining critical media - but it fears it could be targeted next by the wave of arrests.
Its head, Abdulhamit Bilici, tells me Cihan's reporters have been prevented by the government from covering the presidency or prime ministry for the past few months and that pressure has been put on advertisers to cancel their contracts with the agency.
"In a normal democracy, freedom of expression should be encouraged - it should not be a life and death issue," he says.
"The label "parallel state" is a claim to silence people with different opinions.
"I am doing my job; if there are wrongdoings by anyone, I must report it. The accusation is baseless."
But despite the turmoil of the past twelve months, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won two elections since December 17: local and presidential.
He's arguably the most powerful leader since the Turkish Republic's founding father, Ataturk.
And everything he does and says is geared directly towards the more conservative half of the country that supports him; if the other side doesn't, in his view, it's their loss.
His success is based on two key issues: huge economic growth under his leadership - Turkey rising from the financial crisis of 2001 to the 17th biggest economy - and his staunchly pro-Muslim rhetoric, encouraging girls to wear the headscarf at schools and universities, where they were previously banned.
He has built up such a loyal following that many of his supporters have never doubted his narrative of what happened last December.
"Turkey has one of the most free media in the world" insists Ibrahim Yildirim, a businessman who believes last year's allegations against the government were invented.
"This country has always had corruption - but after he came to power, it's decreased. There is a group within the police getting orders from somewhere else - and I don't like it."
I ask what Mr Erdogan means to him.
"He's my hero. Look at the economy: we have stable growth. If his party stays in power, we'll have a bigger, richer country."
For student Zeynep Ilham, the president is "just a person - he makes mistakes like everyone but he's under a lot of stress".
"He and his party have a certain sensitivity towards Islam - and that's why the majority of Muslims in Turkey vote for him," she says.
But the events of 17 December will leave a lasting impact.
They stunned a seemingly omnipotent leader, creating a new "enemy within" here.
They radically changed the image of Turkey's leadership abroad. And they further deepened divisions in an already profoundly polarised Turkey.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is this country's great political survivor.
But he has also created an extraordinary chasm at the heart of Turkish society.
And for his critics, that will be his legacy.
Buying a wide man was one of Blues boss Gianfranco Zola's main priorities.
He had also been in the market for Derby County's Johnny Russell, as well as Robin Quaison, from Italian Serie A side Palermo.
But Birmingham have now agreed an undisclosed fee with the Turkish side, reportedly close to £2.2m.
Austria-born Frei, 23, who has won five international caps for Turkey, after representing Switzerland, where he was raised, from Under-15 through to Under-21 level.
He has a Moroccan mother, but chose to commit his international future to Turkey, the home country of his father.
Frei has been with Besiktas, since joining the Turkish side from Fulham, where he spent three seasons.
His arrival follows the completion of striker Lukas Jutkiewicz's move from Burnley, and the signings of West Bromwich Albion midfielder Craig Gardner and full-backs Emilio Nsue and Cheick Keita from Middlesbrough and Italian side Virtus Entella respectively.
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Soros Fund Management now holds just 60,000 shares worth $4.88m, according to a regulatory filing.
That is down from $370m worth of shares at the end of March.
Alibaba listed in New York last September. Its shares hit record highs in November but since then have fallen by 37%.
Last week, the company disappointed analysts on Wall Street with its latest quarterly results, reporting its slowest quarterly revenue growth in three years, up 28% to $3.2bn.
Mr Soros's firm also sold shares in the Chinese online search engine Baidu, but bought shares in Time Warner and Facebook.
Mr Soros, an investor and philanthropist, came a joint second on Forbes' list of highest-earning hedge fund managers this year - bringing in $1.2bn in 2014.
He is famous for speculating against the pound in 1992, contributing to its collapse and exit from the EU exchange rate mechanism (ERM), the forerunner of the euro.
Amid economic uncertainty over Britain's relations with the EU, the country's tourist industry could be one of the sectors to see a boost to business following the referendum result.
"I think that a weaker currency, particularly the pound versus the euro, is good news for tourism in this country," says Nick Varney.
He's chairman of the British Hospitality Association and chief executive of Merlin Entertainments, which runs the Legoland theme park, and Madame Tussauds in London.
"Historically it's been the case that when we see the pound reach 1.4 euros, we see a falling off in the number of foreign visitors," he says.
When the pound falls, the reverse is true and the UK becomes cheaper and more attractive to overseas tourists.
"Things need to settle down, but if sterling does stabilise at a more competitive rate - that will be good for an industry which is vital for the UK," he says.
And his view that with sterling now worth less, UK tourism could be one of the clear winners from Brexit is echoed by others in the industry.
"A big percentage of our overseas visitors come from EU countries, so it will be cheaper for them," says Barbara Clark, of Scotland's tourist agency, Visit Scotland.
Belgian business entrepreneur Peter Schellinck told the BBC he was planning more visits to the UK thanks to the weaker pound. "This makes it much more attractive to me to come to Britain."
Tourism is one of the country's biggest earners, worth £121.1bn a year
Jim Forward, chief executive of HF Holidays, the walking and outdoor leisure specialist which runs holidays in the UK and abroad, says it is the longer-term value of sterling which is key.
"In previous years currency fluctuations have created a slight movement in the number of inbound or outbound passengers depending which way the currency has moved.
"In a book-in-advance travel business where our guests book up to a year in advance, we are affected less by sudden currency movement but more through long-term change," he says.
"Like all tour operators we will be watching the long-term currency forecast to plan and adapt our holidays."
Yet, not everybody is convinced that Brexit will prove to be that relevant to them.
Center Parcs UK, which runs five holiday villages in Britain, says it regularly has significant over-demand, and "our villages are full all year round".
And while some of us may be changing our plans for the summer - especially if we've yet to book - those who have already paid for their overseas trips are unlikely to alter things just because their spending money will not now go as far.
There is also a question mark over just how much the UK's domestic tourism industry will be hit by a fall in business travellers - always more important for many hotels than leisure visitors.
"Hotels need almost twice as many new leisure visitors to make up for business travellers who've cancelled," says Stephen Broome, lead hotel consultant at PwC.
"That's because hotels earn a lot more from corporate guests than they do leisure travellers."
The weakening pound will help draw in new business, he says, but it is not going to be enough to replace the corporate travellers who're no longer coming to the UK as the political uncertainty sees businesses putting plans on hold.
"UK hotels face a slow down, not a meltdown. Since last year demand for hotel rooms has been slowing - particularly in London - due to nervousness on the part of business travellers."
But while this may be bad news for hotels, there's a silver lining if you're looking for a cheaper hotel room.
"If you take London, we've seen above-average supply growth in the past couple of years.
"This new supply [of hotel rooms] is now coming on stream," says Mr Broome, just at a time when demand is slowing.
"It could be a good time to get a bargain."
Nigerian rescue workers now say at least 70 bodies have been pulled from the rubble.
It is the deadliest incident involving South Africans abroad "in our recent history", Mr Zuma said.
Mr Joshua, one of Nigeria's best-known evangelists, is popular across Africa.
Nigerian authorities are often reluctant to release death tolls.
The multi-story building served as a guesthouse on the campus of the televangelist's Synagogue, Church of All Nations.
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It was housing visitors from elsewhere in Nigeria and other countries.
Mr Joshua had said a small plane had been circling over the building before it collapsed on Friday afternoon, and suggested it was an attempt on his life.
On Tuesday, however, a rescue official said the likeliest cause of the building's collapse was the construction of additional storeys without reinforcing the foundations.
At least 130 people, including many foreigners, were pulled out of the rubble.
Officials says members of the church at first prevented emergency workers from participating in the rescue.
"For the first three days of the incident, the church people were very hostile and prevented rescue officials' access to the site," a spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Authority (Nema), Ibrahim Farinloyeh, told the AFP news agency.
OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg is crowded with people awaiting the return of their loved ones from Nigeria. So far one plane has returned.
It is understood that about 300 people, not all South African, travelled from South Africa last week to Lagos for one of Mr Joshua's healing gatherings.
The lack of information from Nigeria has not helped anxious relatives. The South African government has now set up a phone number for people to call for assistance, because some had been contacting the Pretoria embassy and phoning into local radio stations with the names of family members who had travelled to Nigeria.
Charismatic churches are hugely popular in South Africa, with Nigerian Pentecostals striking a particular chord. Thousands of TB Joshua's followers wait in queues, sometimes overnight, to catch a glimpse of the "Prophet" when he visits. He packs out stadiums on his tours.
It is believed that at least five South African church tour groups were visiting the church at the time of the collapse.
"This is a particularly difficult time for South Africa. Not in the recent history of our country have we had this large number of our people die in one incident outside the country," Mr Zuma said in a statement.
"Our thoughts are with the families, friends and colleagues that have lost their loved ones in this heart-breaking tragedy. The whole nation shares the pain of the mothers, fathers, daughters and sons who have lost their loved ones. We are all in grief."
Following the collapse, Mr Joshua has continued to post scriptures on social networking sites to his hundreds of thousands of followers.
Known as the "Prophet", he regularly preaches to large crowds at a mega-church in Lagos's Ikotun district.
His followers in Nigeria and abroad believe he has the gifts of healing and prophecy.
In a joint submission to the Treasury ahead of November's Spending Review, 20 organisations said the care sector was facing a "deepening crisis".
They have called for funding to councils to be protected, as is happening with the NHS.
Ministers said investment in health would also benefit the care sector.
The government pointed out that plans were being put in place to ensure greater joint working between the two sectors that would relieve some of the pressures.
However, the signatories of the submission, who include leaders of councils, the NHS, care providers and charities, said that they still feared for the future.
The document said that the market was "fragile" with councils forced to freeze fees and providers exiting the sector.
The submission said this was driving up prices for those who fund themselves and leading to fewer people getting state-funded support.
While the government has pledged an extra £8bn a year for the NHS by 2020, social care has received no such assurances.
Ray James, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, one of the signatories to the submission, said: "It is vitally important that this year's Spending Review understands the importance of our services to vulnerable people.
"The near-certainty is that without adequate and sustained finances our ability to carry out our will be in jeopardy."
Frank Ursell, of the Care Providers Alliance, which was also involved in the submission, added that the challenges were on an "unprecedented scale".
"Collectively, we deliver essential care to some of the most vulnerable people in society.
"Doing nothing is simply not an option if this country is to honour its obligations to older people and adults of all ages with mental health problems and disabilities."
Meanwhile, Rob Webster, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health service managers, said: "Having a shiny NHS cog will be no good in a broken health and care machine.
"All these services are interconnected and all need greater financial certainty."
But a Department of Health spokesman said the care sector would be benefitting from the extra investment in the NHS, adding "we are already getting NHS and councils working together to keep people well and living independently".
In April the government launched the £5.3bn Better Care Fund, which is largely funded by the NHS, and is aimed at joint working between councils and the NHS.
Kvitova, 27, only returned to full-time practice at the start of May after being stabbed in December.
The Czech - a two-time Wimbledon champion - suffered career-threatening injuries to her left hand.
She rallied from 3-1 down to take the second set to a tie-break but lost to the American on a double fault.
Kvitova, who said she "was lucky to be alive" after the stabbing, was not expected to play in Paris at all but won her first match back in Sunday's first round.
She first picked up a racquet again in March, 12 weeks after the attack, and will now focus on playing at Wimbledon, where she won in 2011 and 2014.
The news comes after confirmation on Wednesday closing Paignton Hospital was "an option" being discussed.
Now the BBC has learned that the future of Ashburton, Bovey Tracey and Dartmouth community hospitals is also being looked at.
Torbay and South Devon CCG said a broader statement would be issued on Friday.
A spokesman said the initial announcement about Paignton had been made via Facebook after details of discussions were leaked.
"We thought it was best to get the facts out there," he said.
Conservative MP for Torbay, Kevin Foster, expressed his concerns about the proposals.
"The Paignton Hospital itself may be an older building, but the needs it serves to the local community are very modern, and I'd be very concerned at the idea that the services will be removed from Paignton rather than replaced in Paignton."
Chief clinical officer for the CCG Dr Nick Roberts, has now confirmed to the BBC that three other community hospitals were also being considered for closure.
Bank of America, based in Charlotte, has joined dozens of major firms publicly objecting to the law.
It also means transgender people must use bathrooms according to the gender on their birth certificates.
Republican Governor Pat McCrory said the law was protecting privacy and based on common sense.
New York, Vermont, Washington, San Francisco and Seattle have banned travel by public employees to the state as a form of protest.
Signed last Wednesday, the law HB2 provides a new anti-discrimination policy that excludes protections for gay, lesbian and transgender people.
What spurred legislators into action was a new ruling in Charlotte that allowed transgender people to use public toilets for the gender they identify with.
Mr McCrory defended his decision on Tuesday, saying his state has been the victim of a "vicious, nationwide smear campaign".
"Some have called our state an embarrassment," he said in a video released by his press office. "The real embarrassment is politicians not publicly respecting each other's positions on complex issues."
The law, called HB2, protects men, women and children when they use a public toilet or shower, he said.
Bank of America added its name to an open letter written to Mr McCrory compiled by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an anti-discrimination group, urging the governor to repeal the law.
"We believe that HB2 will make it far more challenging for businesses across the state to recruit and retain the nation's best and brightest workers and attract the most talented students from across the nation," the letter reads.
The company joins more than 80 chief executives who signed onto the letter, including Timothy Cook of Apple and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.
HB2 does not reflect the values of "our companies, of our country, or even the overwhelming majority of North Carolinians," the letter reads.
The HRC has said the law is an attack on gay and transgender people that is morally wrong.
This week, the governor of Georgia vetoed a "religious liberty" bill that would have allowed faith-based organisations to refuse service to gay and transgender people after being pressured by business interests.
After the US Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage last year, many conservative states drew up laws in an attempt to protect the religious community.
The Yorkshire batsman, 25, has replaced Alastair Cook in the 15-man squad, who has been dropped as captain in favour of Eoin Morgan.
James Anderson and Stuart Broad return from injury and replace Ben Stokes and Harry Gurney.
England have also named Jonathan Trott as captain of the Lions' four-day squad for next month's tour to South Africa.
This winter's trip will be Trott's first since returning early from last winter's Ashes tour with a stress-related illness.
The senior one-day squad leave for Australia on 6 January for a tri-series also including India as a warm-up for the World Cup, which starts in February.
Ballance has not played one-day cricket for England since the end of last summer, but hit 64 to help beat Sri Lanka at The Oval in May.
Durham all-rounder Stokes and Nottinghamshire left-arm seamer Gurney both struggled to establish themselves on the Sri Lanka tour and make way for the more experienced pair of Anderson and Broad.
National selector James Whitaker said: "We have had to make some difficult decisions to get to our final squad but firmly believe that the 15 players selected offer the very best chance of success at the World Cup.
"There have been a number of promising performances from players in recent series and it is important that this squad continues to develop their one-day skills quickly and players start to show the sort of consistency needed to succeed regularly on the world stage."
Stokes and Gurney have been included in the Lions' one-day squad, although England are yet to announce a captain for the limited overs section in South Africa.
England squad: Eoin Morgan (Middlesex), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), James Anderson (Lancashire), Gary Ballance (Yorkshire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Ravi Bopara (Essex), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Chris Jordan (Sussex), Joe Root (Yorkshire), James Taylor (Nottinghamshire), James Tredwell (Kent), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire).
England Lions four-day squad: Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire), Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire), Sam Billings (Kent), Jack Brooks (Yorkshire), Matthew Dunn (Surrey), Alex Lees (Yorkshire), Adam Lyth (Yorkshire), Craig Overton (Somerset), Liam Plunkett (Yorkshire), Boyd Rankin (Warwickshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Adam Riley (Kent), Sam Robson (Middlesex), James Vince (Hampshire), Mark Wood (Durham).
England Lions one-day squad: Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire), Sam Billings (Kent), Jack Brooks (Yorkshire), Harry Gurney (Nottinghamshire), Alex Lees (Yorkshire), Adam Lyth (Yorkshire), Craig Overton (Somerset), Stephen Parry (Lancashire), Samit Patel (Nottinghamshire), Liam Plunkett (Yorkshire), Boyd Rankin (Warwickshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), Ben Stokes (Durham), James Vince (Hampshire).
However, they missed out on promotion after South Korea beat the hosts in the tournament's final game to hand Poland top spot on goals scored.
Cheryl Smith's side won four of their five matches but a 1-0 defeat to South Korea ultimately proved costly.
Smith, said: "We are all very proud of the squad this week.
"We are building something here and the future is very bright."
UK users shared one link from automated bot accounts promoting "junk" information for every four links to professionally produced news, according to the Oxford Internet Institute.
It said the amount of misinformation being spread was "concerning".
The study found content about the Labour Party dominated traffic.
The research was based on an analysis of political news links shared by UK users in the first week of May.
Of those shared, 53% linked to professional news and information sources, while 13% linked to junk news - stories that are misleading or conflate opinion and fact.
The rest of the sample included links to content created by politicians, experts and blogs.
The study found users shared marginally worse quality news and information sources than German and French users, but far better than those in the US.
"It's concerning and shows that social media isn't the best source of political news", Monica Kaminska, one of the report's authors said.
"We still have junk news, bots that are active, misinformation that is being spread.
"[But] it seems to be the case that people are [still] sharing good quality news."
On Twitter, bots are accounts that are run remotely by someone who automates the messages they send and activities they carry out.
By Amol Rajan, BBC media editor
After the dramatic and close campaigns that led to Brexit and President Trump's election, there have been concerns about social media eroding democracy.
In particular, there have been allegations about how wealthy individuals or foreign powers buying advert space on social media, or using bots - automated software that mimics human behaviour - to influence how people vote.
But this examination of the quality of news people in Britain can find on Twitter, which admittedly reaches fewer people than Facebook, is reassuring.
It is too soon to state conclusively why a higher calibre of news - that is, more truthful and transparent information - circulates online in Britain, but reasons may include the vastly greater sums spent on campaigning in the US, and the fact that broadcast news isn't regulated as tightly.
Juan Echeverria, a computer scientist at UCL, believes junk news is potentially more influential than overtly fake news.
"If [stories] seem like they are true they can spread more effectively than clearly fake news that people can dismiss immediately.
"The more you read of something even if you're just following a hashtag tweeted by bots, the more influence it has on you.
"Even just scrolling through the same information over and over again can make it seem more credible."
The Oxford Internet Institute report found content about the Labour Party tended to dominate traffic on Twitter.
Bots associated with the Labour Party were more prolific than other political parties, generating a higher overall number of tweets for a similar number of automated accounts.
"It's difficult to say even whether the conversation is positive or negative about Labour", said Miss Kaminska.
"[From] the hashtags that we've selected, I would lean towards saying the conversation is positive.
"[But] in comparison to the American election [bots] are less active.
"We're concerned whether any automated accounts have been involved in propagating junk news and if this could increase."
The research also found that a much smaller percentage of Russian news sources were shared by UK users of Twitter than France and Germany.
Twitter declined to comment on the study.
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I interviewed Nick 13 months ago at his home in Wimbledon in south London and it was obvious he came from a successful, wealthy family who had opted to give him a private education.
A day after Nick started counting his millions, an email dropped in my inbox about another teenaged developer.
Schoolboy Tom Humphrey has launched an app designed to help language learning by combining dictionary definitions with digital translation tools. He also happens to go to Eton College.
Meanwhile teenager Nina Dewani, who was interviewed by the BBC last month after designing a password-prompting app, attends a private school in St Albans.
It could be a coincidence, but these young people join a long line of tech entrepreneurs who attended private schools and found fame for their creations.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee went to an independent school, as did Bill Gates (although he later dropped out of Harvard to set up a software company), while child prodigy Mark Zuckerberg had a tutor who helped him start writing software.
It is from public schools such as Eton that the current prime minister and many leaders of industry have emerged so it should perhaps come as no great surprise that the entrepreneurs of the future are also learning there.
Tom thinks his winning app design was down to him as an individual rather than the famous school he goes to but he acknowledged that it played a part.
"The school didn't push me to enter the competition but once I had entered they helped me. There are brilliant facilities here," he said.
"If you show interest in something, there are people that are going to help you. The school gave me the freedom to develop the app," he added.
Mark McGinn, who organised the O2 Think Big AppSkool competition that Tom won, thinks the 17-year-old succeeded on his own merits but recognises that school can play an important role.
"There is no doubt that private schools offer the opportunity to touch success and inspire a certain mindset and a willingness to take risks," he said.
"The horizon at these schools is just bigger. If you are fortunate enough to be in a classroom where some of the parents are heads of industry you are going to be inspired," he added.
It is an issue that Dr Tony Sewell, founder of Generating Genius, is determined to tackle.
He set up the charity with the specific intention of getting children from disadvantaged backgrounds into universities to study the Stem subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.
"Public schoolboys dominate sports, arts and the technology section," Dr Sewell told the BBC.
"Private schools have a culture of independent thinking, they give students a sense that they are knowledgeable and confident. In comprehensives it is the reverse - to be ignorant is to be the star," he added.
The fact that few children from disadvantaged backgrounds take up Stem subjects at university is something that needs urgent focus.
"It is something that state schools need to address. We are losing talent."
Partly the issue is a cultural one, he thinks.
While a child perceived as a "geek" at a state comprehensive may be bullied, he says, in a private school that child is more likely to be nurtured and encouraged.
"The culture of competition is at the heart of the public school as are clubs and societies," said Dr Sewell.
"At 15:30 when the bell goes in a state school, the kids are out of the door. Very few are staying behind doing innovative things," he says.
At a recent competition for schools to come up with clever uses for the Raspberry Pi - the ultra-cheap micro-controller - there was a dearth of entries from state schools.
It was something that worried the judges, including the BBC's own technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones.
"One theory offered as to why was that the constraints of the curriculum meant teachers were too cautious about committing to time-consuming projects which might not contribute directly to exam results," he said.
Prof Stephen Heppell, an education expert determined to transform the curriculum, agrees.
"Schools need to get away from half-hour lesson blocks especially with computer science," he said.
"No sooner have you got started than it is time to stop. To write a good program you need a good block of time, half a day at least."
He is convinced there is no shortage of talent in the state sector and, if most of the app developers making the headlines at the moment come from fee-paying schools, it might just be down to their parents.
"They may have the money to spend on getting the app to market or getting marketing for it," he said.
The nature of entrepreneurship is such that someone with a good idea and enough determination can become successful whatever their background.
And with tools such as the Raspberry Pi available to all, technology is certainly not the preserve of schools such as Eton.
Programming too has become easier, meaning the teenage app developer is here to stay, says Prof Heppell.
"What is scarce now isn't so much programming skills but good ideas and kids are awash with good ideas."
And he says some of the best are likely to come from children at state schools: "They have better ideas because they have a better sense of what the world needs."
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Teenager Nick D'Aloisio hit the headlines last month when an app he had developed was bought by Yahoo for millions of pounds.
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During the course of the 9-week trial, the 35-year-old trader was portrayed by the prosecution as the "ringmaster" in a global conspiracy, but by the defence as a minor player who was "thrown under a bus" by his bank employers.
In the end the jury believed the prosecution counsel. So who is the man, nicknamed "the Rainman" by his colleagues, now convicted with conspiracy to manipulate one of the world's most important financial benchmark rates?
Mr Hayes said he never had any great ambitions to go into the world of high finance.
Having spent his university summer holidays working in a restaurant kitchen, he decided that once he graduated he wanted to earn a bit more money than he earned cleaning out deep fat fryers and de-boning chicken.
Hayes gained a degree in maths and engineering from Nottingham University - just two years before Kweko Adeboli, the UBS trader jailed for unauthorised trades which cost the bank £1.4bn.
My managers knew, my manager's manager knew. In some cases the CEO [chief executive] was aware of it
Hayes' natural ability with numbers was enough to impress the recruiters at RBS, who offered him a place on their graduate trainee scheme in 2001.
There he had his first introduction to the workings of the financial markets, before moving on to Royal Bank of Canada and then to UBS in September 2006.
It was at the UBS office in Tokyo that he started trading a financial product based on the Libor rate.
Libor: What is it and why does it matter?
Mr Hayes didn't deny that while at UBS, and subsequently at Citibank, he attempted to manipulate the Libor rate. Or that the conversations in online chatrooms and the bank's internal messaging system, that were used in evidence, were genuine.
But when the court heard that he was colluding to set the Libor rate to his own advantage, his response was that manipulating Libor was common practice at the banks where he worked and that his superiors were aware of what he was doing. He argued he was being made the scapegoat for wrongdoing when in reality many others had been involved long before he started in the industry.
None of that contradicts the prosecution's claims that he was an "extremely intelligent man" who used his gift for numbers to make huge profits for his employers- and in return received considerable remuneration.
Mr Hayes was paid £1.3m for just over three years' work at UBS, but he became frustrated believing the bank was reneging on a deal on his pay. He left to take up a similar position at Citi where he was then paid £3.5m for the nine months he worked there, before being sacked in September 2010 over allegations of manipulating the Libor rate.
Mr Hayes then returned to the UK and handed himself into the Serious Fraud Office.
He told the court that he was "frozen with fear" at the possibility he would be charged by the US authorities, saying he thought he could be jailed for decades. He ended up giving over 80 hours of recorded interviews to the SFO in which he admitted to his part in trying to manipulate the Libor rate.
"I mean I probably deserve to be sitting here because, you know, I made concerted efforts to influence Libor," Mr Hayes told the SFO.
"Although I was operating within a system or participating within a system in which it was commonplace, you know, ultimately I was someone who was a serial offender."
Having made the confession he subsequently pulled out of the SFO process and decided to fight the legal proceedings against him. He told the court that he felt more confident having his fate decided by 12 jurors than in what he called a 'politically driven process' brought by the SFO.
Hayes has had to fight against a huge weight of evidence showing Bloomberg instant messaging chats and other online exchanges which appeared to incriminate him.
In one chat he told an RBS trader: "Three-month Libor is too high, 'cos I've kept it artificially high". He explained he was able to do this by being 'mates' with traders at another bank.
In a phone call played to the court he offered 'a humungous deal' of $50,000 to $100,000 if his contact kept his Libor submission at a particular rate. But another time he suggested a mars bar was enough to persuade other traders to help fix the rate.
The judge told the jury that Mr Hayes had been diagnosed with a "mild" form of Asperger's syndrome, which meant that he saw issues in black and white rather than shades of grey.
During his evidence Hayes insisted he did not know or think he was doing anything dishonest as the activities were so common within the industry.
Mr Hayes told the court that he did not always fit in with his bank colleagues who nicknamed him "Tommy chocolate" due to his enthusiasm for drinking hot chocolate while others drank beer at social events.
He also said that his colleagues would mock him for keeping a childhood superhero duvet cover well into his adult life.
While on the stand Mr Hayes was keen to portray himself as part of wider system of wrongdoing in the banking system.
"I acted with complete transparency to my employers. My managers knew, my manager's manager knew. In some cases the CEO [chief executive] was aware of it," Mr Hayes told the court.
He denied that what he was doing was "clandestine" and said that he made no attempts to "cover his tracks", even posting on Facebook about his Libor related trades.
During the trial, Mr Hayes talked about how hard the legal process had been for his wife and young child.
He told the jury that he had found it hard not being able to work in the financial services sector since his arrest and that although he had studied for an MBA, he did not think he had been very good at it.
While the court case has put him firmly in the spotlight, there are other Libor trials to follow.
The SFO has charged 11 others over Libor rigging, having received special funding from the Treasury to pursue prosecutions.
For now Tom Hayes is the only individual to take the rap for his part in one of the most shameful episodes in financial history.
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Tom Hayes is the first individual to be convicted in the Libor fixing scandal and has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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Naweed Ali, 29, Khobaib Hussain, 25, both of Sparkhill, Birmingham, and Mohibur Rahman, 33, of Stoke-on-Trent, had planned a "mass casualty attack".
Tahir Aziz, 38, also from Stoke, was given a life term for the same crime.
Old Bailey judge Mr Justice Globe said the men were gripped by a "long-standing, radical, violent ideology".
When police arrested the four men in August last year they found weapons including a meat cleaver and a partially constructed pipe bomb.
Ali, Hussain and Rahman - who called themselves the Three Musketeers in group messages - were each sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison. All three refused to attend court.
They have all previously served prison sentences for terrorism offences.
Aziz, who joined the group days before the arrests. was sentenced to a minimum term of 15 years in prison.
Mr Justice Globe said he was satisfied it was only because of the work of undercover police and the security services that a terrorist attack "involving a considerable loss of life" was stopped.
The purpose of the planned attack was "to kill or injure and cause terror" and "to promote an anti-Western ideology," he said.
Police say the men, who had pleaded not guilty, had been inspired by so-called Islamic State, also known as Daesh.
The four men were arrested on 26 August last year after counter-terrorism officers set up a fake courier firm, called Hero Couriers, where Hussain and Ali were offered driving shifts.
When Ali arrived for his first shift at the fake Birmingham depot MI5 officers secretly searched his Seat Leon car.
Inside they found a JD Sports bag containing the partially-constructed pipe bomb and meat cleaver with the word "kafir" - meaning non-believer - scratched on it.
An imitation gun, cartridges, a 9mm bullet, latex gloves and industrial tape were also recovered, while a samurai-style sword was found in Aziz's car.
Police said the men had looked at violent material online, joined extremist social media groups and bought new mobile phones to help them further their plans.
They used a Three Musketeers image from the Disney cartoon as a logo on encrypted Telegram messages sent between them.
The court heard how neighbours Ali and Hussain had previously been jailed for terrorism offences.
They had attempted to join an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan in 2011. However, when they arrived back in the UK they were arrested and the following year both pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.
The pair first met Rahman - who had been convicted of possessing an al-Qaeda magazine - while in prison.
During the four-and-a-half-month trial, the defence claimed incriminating evidence had been planted by an undercover officer, known as "Vincent", who posed as the boss of the fake courier firm.
In a statement issued after sentencing, a solicitor representing Ali and Hussain raised questions about whether officers had kept their police notebooks up to date, saying she was concerned the jury had "got it wrong."
Gareth Peirce said there was a "clear distortion of the normal criminal justice process" in the case, which was partly held in secret and saw some officers give evidence anonymously.
She drew parallels with the Birmingham Six, in which a group of Irish men were wrongly convicted of bombing two pubs in 1974.
However, the jury rejected the defence's claim that Vincent had planted the cleaver and the pipe bomb in Ali's car.
Sentencing the men, Judge Globe rejected the claims as "totally unfounded".
He said there had been "a root and branch attack on the credibility of just about every prosecution witness in the case".
Detective Chief Superintendent Matt Ward, head of the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, said the sentences reflected "the level of danger that these four men represented to the public".
"They were committed to carrying out an attack which would have undoubtedly resulted in loss of life," he said.
"This is the second time three of these individuals have been convicted of terrorism offences after planning an attack.
"Although much work is being done in prisons and following the release of individuals it is clear that more needs to be done."
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Three would-be jihadists who dubbed themselves the Three Musketeers have been jailed for life for plotting an attack on a police or military target.
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The visually impaired sprinter, 27, won gold medals in the 100m T11 and 200m T11 events at last year's Rio Paralympic Games.
She had previously competed in T12 events at World Championships.
"Really sad to announce that, due to injury, I won't be competing at the World Championships in London," Clegg said on Twitter.
Due to her deteriorating eye condition and consequent reclassification from T12 to T11, Clegg wore a blindfold while competing in Rio, where Chris Clarke was her guide.
She has a gold, a bronze and three silver medals from T12 events in World Championships and also took 100m T12 gold for Scotland at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
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Scottish Paralympic runner Libby Clegg will miss July's World ParaAthletics Championships in London.
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Titchard, 48, spent eight years at Old Trafford before moving to Derbyshire in 1999 and is currently Lancashire's performance manager.
The Red Rose have also named former bowler Gary Keedy, who retired last season, as spin coach.
Former Derbyshire player and coach Karl Krikken is wicketkeeping coach.
Leading the operation as general manager is Bobby Cross, the brother of England and LCB Thunder seamer Kate Cross, while women and girls' cricket development officer Jenny Barden will work as assistant coach.
The tournament, consisting of six teams, will be played in a Twenty20 format this season, before adding a 50-over competition in the future.
The group stage of the 2016 competition will run from 30 July to 14 August, with the top four teams qualifying for a finals day.
General manager: Bobby Cross
Head coach: Stephen Titchard
Assistant coach: Jenny Barden
Spin bowling coach: Gary Keedy
Fielding coach: Chris Chambers
Wicketkeeping coach: Karl Krikken
Strength & conditioning coach: Cristina Carr
Performance analyst: Chris Highton
Their floral fur-pile blankets are spread out over cardboard boxes on the cold, hard pavement. The women are on one side, the men on the other.
But these are are not homeless people.
Some are security guards, traders, and even an accountant and a psychologist and this is a bank queue.
"We are forced to sleep here because if you don't, you wont get any money. I have tried coming at 4am but it's a waste of time," says a woman who chose not to give her name. Next to her, her seven-year-old daughter is fast asleep.
"Only those that are first in this line will get money. Banks are limiting the number of people they pay out. "
She holds out a green piece of paper with the number 10 written on it - her place in the queue.
A group of unemployed young men are distributing numbers. By midnight they have already given out 200.
One called Muchekadzafa confesses they keep some numbers back and sell them to those who don't want to sleep in the queues for $1 each.
"It's an opportunity to survive, because we don't have jobs," he says.
Zimbabweans are going to extraordinary lengths to withdraw their savings. Often, it's an agonising wait with no guarantees.
Banks are open 08:00-15:00 on weekdays and 08:00-11:30 on Saturdays.
The previous day the first 165 people received money at this bank. The others came back the following night and they withdrew $50 (£40) each. They are back again.
Banks have gradually slashed withdrawal amounts over the past year, from $2,000 a day to $100.
But most people are lucky to get anything at all.
Seven years ago the southern African country abandoned its local currency, which had been made worthless by inflation rates that reached 231 million per cent, and adopted a basket of currencies, mainly the US dollar.
The policy change wiped out the Zimbabwe dollar savings overnight, but helped stabilise the economy.
Now industries are failing to produce enough goods, imports are outpacing exports and the country is running out of money, again.
The central bank has announced plans to introduce a new surrogate currency within the next month but no date has been announced.
"Maybe bonds will end queues, if it means we can sleep in our beds again, it might be the only solution. It doesn't matter that they don't [have] value outside the country."
The government says the so-called bond note will be pegged in value to the US dollar.
But the reaction has been violent, as many people fear it will suffer the same fate as the Zimbabwe dollar.
Opposition supporters and members of public have shut down the city centre and blockaded roads with burnt objects in the most violent demonstrations in recent years.
They have called for President Robert Mugabe to step down for failing to stem the economic crisis.
The announcement of a new currency has also sparked old fears of hyperinflation and fuelled panic withdrawals, especially among the tens of thousands of traders who need foreign currency to buy goods in South Africa for sale locally.
"There is a lot of uncertainty. We are afraid of bond notes because we don't have confidence in it," says Stanley Kufandirove as he waits in the queue.
"If its going to help us it's fine, but the issue is confidence - unless we believe in this bond note, it won't work."
An elderly woman who works as a cleaner is more hopeful: "Maybe bonds will end queues, if it means we can sleep in our beds again, it might be the only solution. It doesn't matter that they don't [have] value outside the country."
Zimbabwe's central bank has produced media jingles and plans to embark on a road show to ally public fears.
It denies that the bond notes are a way of reintroducing the Zimbabwe dollar through the back door.
Rather they will be paid out as an incentive to mineral and agricultural exporters at a rate of 5% for every dollar earned.
The bank's governor John Mangudya says they will not overprint the note, which is backed by a US $200m facility.
Mr Mangudya has told the public: "If you don't want the bond notes, use plastic money."
But the mistrust continues.
An elderly man who didn't want to be identified says he still has trillions of worthless notes stuffed in boxes at home. "Why should we expect more? It's all the same fake money."
Themba Dube is resigned: "They are giving us bond tissues, worthless money, but where are they putting the hard currency?
"We are our on knees as a people, we have no choice and it might help to end queues.
"Even if they decide to give us leaves we will accept them. But before the bond notes come, I want to withdraw my cash and leave the account empty."
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The sheep fell from the cliff at Seven Sisters on Saturday.
Sussex Police said they believe the woman is the dog's owner and she was with two or three men at the time, who all appeared to be in their mid-20s.
The incident is being investigated as an offence under the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953. Police have appealed for witnesses.
Bernadette Peters-Shorter, from Sussex Police, said: "We believe the woman is the dog owner and that she was with two or three men at the top of the cliffs.
"We're keen to speak to them as well as a group of other people who were on the clifftops at the time the sheep fell and who may have seen the dog running around loose.
"If you know who the woman or the men are or where they could be, please contact us."
Caerphilly MP Wayne David made the comment in a BBC Radio Wales programme from the town on Thursday following the vote to leave the European Union.
He had been responding to a question about immigration, saying it was not an issue locally "in terms of numbers".
Mr David has apologised via Twitter, saying: "Ethnic minorities play a vitally important role in our society".
During the programme, he was asked: "In terms of hard figures, how much of an issue is immigration in Caerphilly?"
The MP replied: "Well, in terms of numbers it's not an issue.
"I mean, I think the only people who have coloured skin, if you like, are people who run takeaways".
Apologising for the gaffe, Mr David said on Twitter: "Ethnic minorities play a vitally important role in our society.
"Now more than ever, it is vitally important to combat racism in Caerphilly Borough and elsewhere."
A majority in Wales voted for Brexit, with Caerphilly recording one of the highest votes in favour of leaving the EU, by 58% to 42%.
On Monday, Mr David was one of several dozen MPs to resign from Labour's front bench in protest at the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn during the referendum campaign.
Trystan Williams was sacked by Springfield Academy in Calne, Wiltshire, after a pupil was seriously injured with a knife in 2013.
Parents have described the school's response as "disproportionate".
Governors said their investigation was "incredibly thorough" and carried out by an independent person.
Mr Williams was investigated by police for 12 months, and bailed 11 times, but was not charged with any offence.
The school's own case was heard by a panel of three governors, with Mr Williams allowed to call and question witnesses.
During a meeting on Wednesday, chair of governors Nina Gibson told parents she understood their "concern and anger" but the case had been properly investigated.
Mr Williams has not taught at the school since October 2013.
The decision to dismiss him was based on a failure to submit written reports about the incident.
Parents at the school have said Mr Williams has "worked wonders" with their children, with many telling the BBC of their anger and astonishment over the sacking.
One said: "I have to believe that justice will be done, I've seen the evidence, I've seen the documentation and the reasoning behind his sacking.
"Even a child from the school would read that documentation and say something isn't right here."
Conservative MP for North Wiltshire James Gray has written to the education secretary and described the sacking as a potentially "significant miscarriage of justice" or "at the very least a disproportionate response to a minor misdemeanour ".
A Wiltshire Council spokesman said it was satisfied the appropriate procedures have been followed.
Firefighters began tackling the blaze on the ground and first floors of the building in Dock Street shortly before 12:30.
The incident led to the closure of one eastbound lane, resulting in traffic backing up the entire length of the Tay Road Bridge's northbound carriageway.
The fire has been extinguished but crews remained at the scene.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue spokeswoman said a structural engineer has assessed the building as unsafe.
Barca beat PSG 6-1 on Wednesday to win 6-5 on aggregate, scoring three goals in the final seven minutes.
"After a huge effort like on Wednesday, with all the adrenaline and excitement, it's tougher to compete," said Pique.
"We weren't able to play our game the way we like."
Barcelona, who were knocked off top by Real Madrid's 2-1 win at Real Betis, were disappointing against struggling Deportivo.
Joselu gave Depor the lead, with Luis Suarez equalising before Alex Bergantinos' headed winner.
"It's tough to take because it was important to stay on the winning path, but it wasn't to be," said boss Luis Enrique.
"It wasn't hard to come back to reality. Us professionals know how hard it is to attain each victory.
"We thought it would be a tough game because of everything that's gone on. The last game can always play a role."
The broadcaster, who recently turned 90, lived on the campus of the former University College Leicester with his family, in the 1940s.
The letters by his father, the college's principal, speak of his son's ambitions and show how he withheld consent for him joining the Home Guard.
The University of Leicester have shared the documents for the first time.
Dr Simon Dixon from the university's special collections department said: "We don't know very much about David and [his brother] Richard back then as no-one knew what they would go on to do.
"But what's nice about these letters is they tell you about David's ambitions and interest in geology and the way his father supported his career, trying to find opportunities for him."
In one letter sent to Professor Henry Swinnerton of University College, Nottingham, in 1944, Frederick Attenborough speaks of Sir David's love of botany and zoology.
Another of Frederick Attenborough's letters reveals how he withheld consent for his son to to enrol in the AA Battery of the Home Guard during World War Two.
He said: "He is to take the Higher Schools Certificate Examination shortly and his future plans are uncertain."
Sir David and his brother, the director and actor Richard Attenborough, used the campus as their playground and stories abound about what they go up to.
Dr Dixon said Richard once locked his younger brother in a padded cell of a former Victorian asylum which was on the campus, and there is also a story about Sir David selling newts to the zoology department for three pence each.
The firm set aside the amount on Monday as it announced three separate recalls affecting nearly 1.5 million vehicles.
That follows the 1.6 million vehicles it called back last month over faulty ignition switches.
GM is facing an investigation over its handling of the recall over the faulty switches which can disable airbags.
"I asked our team to redouble our efforts on our pending product reviews, bring them forward and resolve them quickly," said Mary Barra, chief executive of the firm, in a statement.
The recall announced on Monday affects the following models:
GM is under pressure over its handling of a recall earlier this year that involved faulty ignition switches which could turn off the engine and disable airbags.
The carmaker issued that recall in February, but has admitted that employees knew about the problem as early as 2004.
Two US congressional committees have said they will investigate the handling of the issue.
GM has also launched an internal enquiry into the matter.
"We are conducting an intense review of our internal processes and will have more developments to announce as we move forward," Ms Barra said on Monday.
There is a also a dispute over the number of deaths that have been linked to the issue.
GM has said the problem has been linked to 12 casualties.
However, last week a report commissioned by the Center for Auto Safety linked faulty airbags in two of the six models affected by the recall to 303 deaths.
It claimed it had got the number by reviewing US federal crash data for the said models.
But GM has disputed the number in the report, saying it only looked at raw data and did not evaluate the reasons.
The two men, who were wearing lifejackets, were thrown into the water in the incident between Fortrose and Avoch.
Kessock Lifeboat was launched at 12:30 and reached the pair seven minutes later.
The men were taken aboard the lifeboat before being airlifted to hospital.
It was thought the men may have been in the water for about 35 minutes before the alarm was raised.
The North Kessock-based lifeboat crew found the men had managed to climb back into their water-swamped boat. They were suffering from the effects of hypothermia.
A coastguard rescue helicopter and Inverness Coastguard Team were also involved in the rescue.
Volunteer helmsman Stan MacRae said "The dingy started taking on water because of the conditions.
"The two men found they couldn't bail it out fast enough, which led to the capsize.
"When we assessed their condition it was obvious they needed further medical attention and the best thing to do was to get them winched into the helicopter and away to hospital as fast as possible."
The men were aboard the helicopter by 12:56 and flown to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
Kessock Lifeboat crew were able to save the sailing boat and tow it to Fortrose.
One of London's key roads was closed, but others in the area were open and teeming with traffic. This meant stern-looking policemen stood around, scolding press and public alike as they directed pedestrians.
"Oi! It'll be hazardous to your health if you get squashed by a lorry," barked one officer, as he motioned with some exasperation for people to get out of the way of traffic.
People stood on the pavement, beneath Winston Churchill's statue, craning their necks and watching the every movement of two figures across the street, so well covered by their loose-fitting crime scene suits that only their eyes were visible.
One press cameraman finally broke cover and ran across the road, when the passing cars were on a breather, to the edge of the fluttering police cordon tape. He was followed by plenty of others, photographers and tourists.
Together we watched the painstaking routine of the forensics officers. Measurement markers indicating scale were put around objects on the ground.
Some of those objects looked like knives, others scraps of paper, all of them photographed from different angles before being put into a box or a bag.
Each time this happened, a cricket-like chorus burst into life from the photographers training their lenses towards the evidence gathering.
This was repeated again and again, officers removing their green plastic gloves for a new pair each time they handled an object.
A brown rucksack, discarded on the ground, was also examined before it too was transferred into a large paper bag.
The tourists got bored, frozen in the biting cold around Westminster, and some went while others came to see what was going on.
Journalists did pieces to camera in front of the scene, but had to raise their voices over the incessant noise of a helicopter hovering overhead.
All this happened yards from Westminster Bridge, the scene of a terror attack weeks ago.
But all around Parliament Square, tourists continued to take selfies and pictures of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. And life went on.
The eight-week course, designed by the Action for Happiness organisation, claims to be scientifically proven to increase life satisfaction, mental wellbeing, compassion and social trust.
Entitled Exploring What Matters, the classes will be free - although organisers do ask for a donation to cover costs. Hundreds of people have already volunteered to host the course in locations across the UK.
Launching the course on World Peace Day, the Dalai Lama said he was delighted to see the "work being done to create a happier and more caring society".
"I wholeheartedly support the Exploring What Matters course and hope that many thousands of people will benefit from it and be inspired to take their own action to help create a happier world," he said.
During the course, local groups explore a series of questions including "What really matters in life?", "What really makes us happy?" and "How can we create a happier world?"
The approach is similar to the successful Christian Alpha course, started in London in the 1970s and now run in more than 150 countries around the world. Alpha describes itself as an opportunity to explore the meaning of life.
Action for Happiness stresses that Exploring What Matters is a secular project based on science rather than faith.
Over the past few decades, the study of human wellbeing and happiness has become an established scientific discipline. In the UK, the Office for National Statistics is developing measures of wellbeing so government policies can, in its words, "be tailored to the things that matter". New ONS wellbeing data is due to be published on Wednesday.
The organisers of the new happiness course claim that analysis of pilot courses has proved it leaves people happier and more likely to help others. Some participants say the classes have been life-changing.
"I wouldn't be where I am now without the course," says Jasmine Hodge-Lake, who took part in one of the pilot classes having suffered for over decade from chronic pain which left her unable to work.
"I found there were things I could do that would make a big difference and started to feel hopeful about the future," she says. "I still have bad days and life certainly isn't perfect, but it has really helped me so much."
A class begins with a session of mindfulness, an ancient Buddhist practice during which participants deliberately focus their attention on the present moment, becoming aware of sensations and thoughts. It is an approach now used by the NHS and some schools to improve mental wellbeing.
"Starting each session by tuning in with short mindfulness and gratitude exercises creates a calm and positive atmosphere and encourages friendly connections," says Mark Williamson, Director of Action for Happiness.
"In the modern world we are bombarded with false messages about what makes for a happy life," he says. "Real success has much less to do with what we earn or consume - and much more to do with our inner attitudes, our relationships with others and our contribution to society."
Each class includes information on the science that underpins the topic, including video talks from some of the world's top experts on happiness and wellbeing.
"A good society is one where as many people as possible are able to live happy, fulfilling lives," says Lord Layard, co-founder of Action for Happiness and author of Happiness: Lessons from a New Science.
"We want to see this course happening in thousands of local communities to help like-minded people support each other in taking practical actions which are not only good for their own wellbeing but also contribute to the happiness of others around them too."
Action for Happiness says it hopes to see courses run in thousands of local communities. As the old song goes, the aim is to "spread a little happiness as you go by".
Mr Brokenshire was giving his first address to a party conference as Northern Ireland secretary of state.
He also said tackling paramilitary groups "remains a key part" of the government's agenda.
The conference also hosted talks between First Minister Arlene Foster and the prime minister.
The two, along with DUP MP Nigel Dodds, met for 30 minutes and discussed Brexit, the border and parliamentary matters.
Mrs Foster said Theresa May was "engaged" on the issue of the Irish border post-Brexit.
"I am really encouraged by the fact that she has, in every major speech that she has made this far, talked about the United Kingdom and the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom.
"So, those people who say she is not interested in Northern Ireland and we are only bit part players could not be further from the truth."
Meanwhile, the first minister said she was "not at all" embarrassed after a DUP champagne reception event at conference attracted social media attention.
Mrs Foster said something was "lost in translation" when the event was booked and a drinks reception was billed as a champagne reception.
She told the BBC that the coverage was "all good PR".
On Tuesday, Mrs Foster and representatives from Sinn Féin, the UUP, the Conservative Party and business community attended the conference's tradition Ulster Fry event.
The event was also attended by members of the police federation and Dan Mulhall, the Irish ambassador to the UK.
Sinn Féin MP Francie Molloy said it was important to set up an All-Ireland forum to discuss Brexit.
"I think it is very important that the forum is in place, because not all the views of unionism is represented here at the table today or at the conference."
UUP MP Danny Kinahan said the executive needed a plan to deal with Brexit.
"I just think we have no direction on where we're going," he said.
"We don't know what we are arguing over, what we are fighting for and how we are going to keep the jobs, industry and business working."
Earlier, Mr Brokenshire had said the government would "stand faithfully by" the agreements that had secured political stability in NI, he added.
Speaking about Brexit, Mr Brokenshire said: "Building a Northern Ireland that works for everyone, also means making a success of the UK's democratic decision to leave the European union.
"And I am in no doubt that we can and will.
"We will work to ensure that Northern Ireland's unique interests are protected and advanced."
Mr Brokenshire added that no-one wanted to see a return to the borders of the past and that the Common Travel Area had served the UK and Ireland well for decades.
He said Northern Ireland's future would only be determined by democracy and consent, never by violence.
The Conservative Party conference ends on Wednesday with a speech from the Prime Minister Theresa May.
In what they call a "worrying" trend, many of them expect house prices to continue rising over the next year.
Members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said demand for flats and houses was currently outweighing supply.
A net balance of 21% of surveyors reported prices up in March.
In other words, those recording prices increases outnumbered those recording falls by nearly a quarter.
The surveyors were even more confident that prices will rise over the next year.
Simon Rubinsohn, Rics' chief economist, said activity in the housing market was falling back.
"Even more worrying are the tentative signs that price momentum could be set to pick up once again, as the supply of stock to the market continues to fall," he said.
"It is significant that price expectations nationally are accelerating both at the three and twelve-month time horizons, and at the latter, they are at their highest level since the spring of last year."
In its most recent report, the Halifax said that prices in the UK rose by 0.4% in March, after falling by 0.3% in February.
Former Liverpool and England defender Jamie Carragher made the accusation after Tottenham teenager Dele Alli was brought into the squad for the final two Euro 2016 qualifiers against Estonia and Lithuania after only three Premier League starts.
Alli made a two-minute international debut as a substitute in Friday's 2-0 win against Estonia at Wembley and will seek a second cap as England attempt to make it a perfect 10 wins from 10 in qualifying against Lithuania in Vilnius on Monday.
England manager Hodgson, who has used 31 players in qualifying, said: "With Dele Alli, you have to bear in mind the number of injuries we've had. When I thought of the group in June, and what it was going to be like in October when we play our final two matches, there would have been six or seven who would have been with us."
Arsenal's Jack Wilshere, Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson and Manchester City midfielder Fabian Delph all started in the 3-2 win in Slovenia in June but were out of contention for this squad because of injury - opening the door for Alli.
Liverpool's James Milner has stayed behind to rest after playing against Estonia while Manchester United's Michael Carrick pulled out of the squad with injury.
Hodgson said: "People like Dele come in because an opportunity has opened up for them with others moved aside."
Carragher, writing in his column in the Daily Mail, said: "It has never been easier to win an England call-up. If anyone doubted that, Roy Hodgson's latest squad proved how quickly a young player can be elevated. Dele Alli's inclusion in the group for the games against Lithuania and Estonia caused eyebrows to be raised."
Hodgson added: "I think you have to be careful with those sorts of comments because I don't think it's a situation where the moment you kick the ball correctly from A to B you'll get in the England team. It's not like that at all.
"But if you do come in and make an impact as a young player and there are a lot of injuries in the first team, there may be opportunities."
Hodgson, however, has warned the gifted Alli that while he has moved into the full England set-up, he must not regard himself as a permanent senior player.
"I said to him that I'm pleased to have him here, he's here on merit and he can handle the pressures," said Hodgson. "But I did say to him that there's a good chance he will be with the under-21s next time. I said: 'Don't think you're a senior player. You're an England player but that could be in the seniors or in the Under-21s.'
"But if he turns out to be one of the best players in the Premier League for the rest of the season, you'll be wanting him."
Phil Jagielka will take over the captaincy, with Wayne Rooney injured and Gary Cahill left out as a precaution against a back problem - the first Everton player to be handed the honour from the start of an England game.
Stoke City's Jack Butland will get an opportunity in goal as Joe Hart is rested while Swansea City's Jonjo Shelvey gets another chance in midfield. Leicester City's in-form striker Jamie Vardy is expected to figure at some stage.
In a speech on Thursday, Mr Carney said rates were set to rise over the next three years.
The pound, which had hit its highest rate against the euro since 2007 on Thursday, rose again on Friday, pushing through the €1.44 level.
On the stock market, the FTSE 100 index closed down 0.3% at 6,775.08.
Shares in Marks and Spencer fell 1.2% after it said the head of its clothing business was quitting.
John Dixon is leaving after 26 years at the retailer having been given a chance to become a chief executive elsewhere.
Mr Dixon led the general merchandise division, covering clothing and homewares, which M&S has been struggling to turn around.
The biggest faller on the FTSE 100 was Royal Mail, which dropped 3.5% after regulator Ofcom issued a discussion document regarding the company's efficiency.
Shares in gambling firm 888 Holdings rose 8.6% after it announced it had agreed to buy rival Bwin.party in a deal valued at £898m.
Restaurant Group, the company which owns brands such as Frankie & Benny's, Chiquito and Garfunkel's, saw its shares drop 3.3% after Nomura cut its rating on the company to "neutral" from "buy".
Nomura cited the impact of the new living wage announced last week in the Budget, saying it would affect margins for the next five years.
Suzette Jordan, a single mother of two girls, was picked up from the busy Park Street as she came out of a night club.
She died in March this year from a deadly form of meningitis.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had called her a liar.
Ms Banerjee's comments that Jordan was trying to make the government look bad had outraged both Kolkata residents and the media.
The three men have the right to appeal the sentence in a higher court.
Two other accused are still on the run, though Interpol red corner notices have been issued for them, writes BBC Bengali's Amitabha Bhattasali in Kolkata.
Jordan was picked up on 6 February by the rapists who offered her a lift home as she came out of a night club.
For the next several hours, she was gang-raped inside the moving car and was thrown out during the early hours of the morning.
The case is widely known as the Park Street rape case.
Initially, the police were reluctant to accept the complaint, but when the media started reporting the incident, an inquiry was initiated.
Though India's laws prohibit the disclosure of the identity of a rape victim and those guilty of doing so can be sent to prison for up to two years and fined, Jordan came out in the open a year after the incident.
"I am a victim, I have been raped. Why should I hide my face? The rapists should hide their face instead," she told the BBC in an interview..
She also counselled other sexual harassment victims and later took up a project to sensitise school children, parents and teachers about sexual harassment.
Numerous patients refused to have Antonella Indrizzi look after them due to her "extremely poor" language skills, a committee heard.
She worked as a healthcare assistant at King's Mill Hospital in Nottinghamshire but was a registered nurse.
The hospital has been asked to comment.
Ms Indrizzi's case went before the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) conduct and competence committee, which found that her fitness to practise as a nurse was "impaired".
"The panel has concluded that her lack of knowledge is such that she has in the past put patients at unwarranted risk of harm," the committee said, adding that "a striking-off order is the only appropriate order that would be sufficient to protect the public interest."
Ms Indrizzi was employed by the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on 16 February 2015 following an overseas recruitment campaign in Italy.
One colleague told the committee that Ms Indrizzi would look at her like she did not understand what she saying.
It led to the colleague having to point with her hands and mime, while explaining verbally.
Ms Indrizzi also misinterpreted medical terms on the ward where she worked and did not communicate effectively with patients.
She told one upset patient to "be quiet" because she was unable to find the words to reassure her, a ward leader said.
In May 2016 she was directed by an NMC registrar to undertake an English language assessment, but failed to do so.
The committee panel said she had been given chances to improve her English but did not take any steps towards this.
"As a consequence, the panel cannot be satisfied that her knowledge of English has reached or will reach the necessary standard," the panel said.
Ferrari, with Sebastian Vettel 0.242 seconds slower than Raikkonen, turned the tables on Mercedes after Hamilton set the pace in both Friday sessions.
Hamilton was 0.381 seconds slower than Raikkonen, with Bottas a further 0.273secs off after engine problems.
The Finn missed three-quarters of the session as Mercedes changed his engine.
The team discovered a water leak in the new engine that had been allocated for Bottas this weekend and needed to replace it with the one he used in the first four races. Bottas got out at the end of the session for one run.
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Vettel also ran into engine problems at the end of the session - the German, who is leading the championship by 13 points, stopped in the pit lane when heading out for a final run and had to be pushed back to the garage.
Ferrari said there was "no real engine issue, but we are replacing some parts precautionally" before qualifying, which starts at 13:00 BST.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen was fifth quickest from team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, the Dutchman who won this race last year just 0.157secs off Bottas and 0.654secs slower than Raikkonen, apparently confirming that the team have made a significant step towards the pace with an upgrade for this race.
But Mercedes have the most dramatic-looking modifications, with a series of new aerodynamic parts in the front half of the car.
The silver cars dominated Friday running, fastest on both one lap and with an even more of an advantage on the long runs, on which teams simulate race pace.
Renault's Nico Hulkenberg took seventh, 0.645secs off the Red Bulls and ahead of Williams' Felipe Massa, Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz and McLaren's Fernando Alonso.
The Spaniard was just 1.879secs off the pace, a much better start to the day for McLaren and engine partner Honda than on Friday, when Alonso suffered a massive engine failure on his very first lap out of the pits.
Afterwards, the Spaniard brushed off an attempt by Honda F1 boss Yusuke Hasegawa to talk to him, as his frustrations with Honda's under-performance mount.
County chairman Stephen Taylor revealed that they took their decision following a vote by the club's board.
Each county is guaranteed revenue of £1.3m from the competition, which is planned to get under way in 2020.
The only two counties who have so far not backed the ECB proposal are Essex and Middlesex.
"The new competition will provide much-needed revenue to all clubs," said Taylor. "With significant additional investment in recreational cricket - something we are very keen to develop.
"The preservation of all formats of cricket at New Road is fundamentally important. This will go a long way to protecting the four-day game, 50-over competition's and the T20 Blast."
The changes require the support of 31 out of 41 of the ECB's voting members, which comprise the 18 first-class counties, 21 recreational boards, the Minor Counties Cricket Association, and the MCC - owners of Lord's and Middlesex's landlord.
A number of counties have come out in support of the proposals for the new tournament.
Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Somerset, Sussex, Yorkshire and Durham have all announced that they will back the ECB rule change, while Kent have abstaned.
Others, including Glamorgan, Hampshire and Warwickshire - the only county who already play their T20 cricket under a city banner as Birmingham Bears - have been vocal in their support for a city-based competition, while Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart has expressed concern over the details of the new event.
Taoiseach (prime minister) Enda Kenny said it was time to "intensify our engagement" after Theresa May indicated she would trigger the mechanism for leaving the EU next March.
The Irish government said the island's main political parties will be invited, as well as trade unions and NGOs.
But Northern Ireland's First Minister said there was "no need" for the forum.
Arlene Foster told an event at the Conservative Party conference that such a summit would lead to "grandstanding".
The Irish government first proposed an all-island forum in the wake of June's EU referendum result.
Sinn Féin supported the idea, but the DUP have said that existing cross-border bodies could be used to work out the implications of Brexit on the island of Ireland.
In a statement, the Irish government said a "broad range of civic society groups, trade unions, business groups and non-governmental organisations", as well as political parties, would be invited to the first meeting of the "all-island civic dialogue" on 2 November.
The meeting will be hosted in Dublin by Mr Kenny and Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan.
Speaking after the announcement on Tuesday, Mr Kenny said: "Ireland faces unique challenges from Brexit, not least given the all-island issues that arise."
The Irish government said the priority of the forum would be the Irish economy and trade with the UK; the peace process and Northern Ireland; and the Common Travel Area (CTA) between Ireland and the UK.
Even though the UK voted overall to leave the EU, a 56% majority in Northern Ireland wanted to remain.
The question of what will happen to the Irish border in the wake of Brexit has been the subject of much debate since the referendum.
Last week, the prime minister denied making a U-turn over the Irish border after she said she wants to maintain free movement.
Mrs May said in June, when she was home secretary, that it was "inconceivable" that there will not be any changes to border arrangements between Northern Ireland and the Republic.
James Evans, 19, appeared in private at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Thursday following an incident on Balnagask Wynd, Torry, on Tuesday.
Police said a male pedestrian was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after being hit by a car at about 15:45.
Mr Evans, from Manchester, was also charged with dangerous driving and three drug related charges.
He is further alleged to have driven while disqualified and without car insurance.
He made no plea and declaration and was remanded in custody.
John Belfield, 21, also appeared at the court in connection with the alleged drug offences.
Prosecutors claim he was involved in the supply of drugs and that he failed to give police information that could identify the driver of a car believed to be involved in an offence.
Mr Belfield, also from Manchester, made no plea or declaration and was released on bail.
Another man was also subject to a police report but did not appear in court.
Mr Evans is expected to appear in court again within the next eight days.
Many of those arriving at Glasgow Airport had opted to end their break early and take the specially-chartered Thomson flight, which arrived at 06:10.
Jim and Ann McQuire, from Cumbernauld, are thought to be among those who died in Friday's attack.
Another couple - Billy and Lisa Graham, from Perth - are still missing.
None of those killed by a gunman with links to Islamic State extremists on a beach near Sousse has been formally identified.
But there have been warnings that more than 30 of the 38 fatalities are British.
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that a national minute's silence will be held to remember the victims.
The silence will take place on Friday at 12:00, a week after the shooting.
The congregation at Abronhill Parish Church in Cumbernauld was told on Sunday that the authorities were "99.9% sure" that Mr and Mrs McQuire had died in the shooting.
The couple had been heavily involved with the church, with Mr McQuire being a captain with the Boys Brigade.
Minister Joyce Keyes said: "I don't think I can make any sense of it at all. My feeling is of numbness.
"They were regular holiday goers since their retirement and were really looking forward to it."
Meanwhile, Holly Graham has said she is desperately worried after not hearing from her parents Billy and Lisa since the attack.
She said she had struggled to find out what was happening from tour operator Thomson or the Foreign Office.
Flights have been arriving back at Glasgow Airport from Tunisia.
Waiting relatives said police had boarded one of the planes and were speaking to passengers.
Among those arriving at Glasgow Airport earlier was Aamer Saeed, 37, from Glasgow's west end, who had been due to be on holiday with his children, aged eight and 12, for another week.
He said: "The kids were really scared and they didn't want to stay any longer. There was nothing you could do anyway, you just had to stay in.
"I feel sorry for the people there, it's not their fault. But it was frightening. We just stayed in the hotel, everything was cancelled."
Natalie Martin, a mother from Falkirk, said: "It was quite scary, we are just glad to be back home.
"The guys in the hotel tried to keep it upbeat for the families there but it was hard. Most of the hotel came back early."
She said she felt "a bit let down" by the support offered to tourists, adding: "We had to keep going to the rep all the time, asking if we were safe. We had to keep going to them."
Rick Martin, 52, from Peterhead, was staying two hotels along the coast and was on a day trip away when the massacre happened.
He said: "We found out on Friday afternoon, we got phone calls from the UK. It's very sad."
Asked about the support provided to holidaymakers, he said: "A young lassie, 21 years old, did her best. She told us what she knew."
One female traveller, who did not want to be named, said: "The support has been great. I just feel for the local people, because it's their livelihood."
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon chaired a further Scottish government resilience (SGORR) meeting on Monday afternoon - the third since the attack. Flags in Scottish government buildings are being flown at half-mast as a mark of respect.
Ms Sturgeon said: "While we have not yet received official confirmation that any of the dead come from Scotland, it now seems certain that there will be Scottish victims."
She said understood and sympathised with people who were concerned for loved ones and wanted immediate answers.
But she added: "The situation in Sousse is highly complex due to the scale of the attack, the number of people killed and the fact that the victims come from different countries.
"I would ask people to be reassured that the UK government, Scottish government and all agencies involved are working as fast as possible to identify victims, keep families informed and help people travel back as quickly and safely as possible."
The prime minister has paid tribute to Mr and Mrs McQuire.
He was speaking in the Commons following a minute's silence held by MPs in memory of those killed.
Mr Cameron added his condolences during an exchange with the couple's MP Stuart McDonald, who described the pair as "extremely kind and considerate."
Politically, Turkey has been dominated by the Justice and Development Party of the President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for more than a decade.
The party, often known by its Turkish language acronym, the AKP, is likely to put in a strong performance again this time, but it faces significant challenges to its dominance.
One factor, among several, is the flagging performance of the country's economy.
Since the party came to power, following an election in late 2002, the economy has expanded by 68%, equivalent to an average annual growth rate of 4.5%, despite two bad years (2008-09) at the height of the global financial crisis.
That's well short of China's growth performance, but as Turkey is a more advanced emerging economy you wouldn't expect it to grow as fast.
Perhaps a more appropriate comparison would be that Turkey's growth was stronger than South Africa or Brazil managed in the same period. It's about the same as Chile, often seen as something of a poster child for managing an emerging economy.
It's worth recalling the circumstances in which the AKP came to power. It was in the aftermath of Turkey's own financial crisis, which led to an IMF bailout.
Inflation has also been a very different story when set against Turkey's previous history. For most of the AKP's time it has been in high single figures. Any western central bank today presiding over that sort of performance would be considered a failure. But in the case of Turkey the contrast with the immediate past is stark. There were years in the 1990s when it was over 100% - that is to say, prices doubled in a year.
Less than two years ago, the President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, said: "Turkey's economic achievements are an inspiration for many other developing countries."
Last year, however, the Turkish economy slowed. It grew 2.9%. The IMF's forecast for this year is only slightly better.
Unemployment has increased. It dipped below 8% three years ago. Now it's more than 10%.
Probably yes.
Turkey has a substantial deficit in its international trade. The most widely used measure is the current account, which covers trade in goods and services and some financial transfers.
In Turkey that was in the red to the extent of 5.7% of annual national income, or GDP, last year, down from close to 8% the year before.
It's an issue because it has to be financed by funds from abroad. As long as foreign investors are prepared to lend to Turkish borrowers and buy their financial assets that kind of current account deficit is bearable.
But if foreign investors take fright, or simply feel they can make better returns elsewhere, the situation can turn ugly.
That was one of the features of the wave of emerging market financial crises that erupted in Thailand 1997 and which later hit Turkey, leading to the IMF bailout two years later.
In an assessment of the Turkish economy in late 2014 the IMF said "capital flow reversal remains the main risk". The report continued: "A sharp decrease in inflows would… lead to a recession."
We have already had a taster in an episode known as the "taper tantrum". That was in 2013 when the US Fed started talking about winding down its programme of buying financial assets to stimulate the American economy.
Investors started thinking that US assets would yield better returns than they had previously. We may well experience a similar reassessment later this year if, as expected, the Fed starts to raise interest rates from their current lows. It might lead to more investment heading out of emerging markets back to the US.
During the taper tantrum, Turkey was identified as one of a group known as the "fragile five".
Some say it is still vulnerable to the same kind of shock.
The London consultancy Capital Economics says: "Turkish banks' external debt has risen in recent years, making both the banking sector and the real economy vulnerable to an external shock." There is though some comfort, the firm says, because "the vast majority of loans are still denominated in local currencies".
That is helpful because if debts are in foreign currency they become more expensive to repay if the home currency falls sharply - which is exactly what tends to happen if investors pull their money out.
Some argue that Turkey's politics make it vulnerable. Viktor Szabo of Aberdeen Asset Management describes recent developments in Turkey as a "drift towards an autocratic state". He writes: "The president's mere attempt to seek more power for himself is alarming investors who were already spooked by his government's persistent failings."
President Erdogan has certainly expressed some unorthodox views on economic policy. He has suggested that higher interest rates cause higher inflation. He has also described the defence of higher rates as treason.
That has not gone down well with international investors. The inflation theory is the reverse of what they all believe and they became very wary about what they see as political pressure on the central bank to cut rates. Viktor Szabo says President Erdogan has launched "several brazen and bizarre attacks on the central bank".
He describes the president's agenda as an attempt to "effectively 'Putinise' Turkey by giving himself and his party more power. [It] is as dangerous economically as it is democratically."
The body of 46-year-old Sharon Greenop was found by police in her home in the town on 10 November, after neighbours reportedly complained of a bad smell.
Earlier this week, following a post-mortem examination, police said they were treating her death as "suspicious".
The women were due to appear at Ayr Sheriff Court on Monday.
They were detained in police custody.
Dr Zoe Fritz, who oversaw the project, said the current "ad hoc" arrangement often led to an "undignified death".
She wants nationwide guidelines, based on what was trialled, covering Do Not Attempt to Resuscitate Orders (DNAR).
"We found that doctors found it easier to have decisions and most importantly patients got better care," she said.
Legally, doctors do not need patient consent to issue a DNAR, but they must have consulted the patient beforehand.
Dr Fritz, a consultant physician who has studied DNARs at Addenbrooke's in Cambridge and at the West Suffolk Hospital, said: "Different doctors have different ways of deciding when someone should be for resuscitation.
"The worst case is you start [to resuscitate] and someone who has had a peaceful death then wakes up briefly to find all these people around them, tubes in them, blood everywhere and then dies.
"And unfortunately I've seen that on more than one occasion."
The number of DNAR hospital complaints in the East of England has risen from seven in 2012 to 45 in 2014.
A year ago, a Hertfordshire family took their DNAR complaint to the Court of Appeal.
In a landmark judgement, the court ruled that the human rights of Janet Tracey were violated when she was placed under a DNAR order at Addenbrooke's without consultation.
The judgment said doctors had a legal duty to consult with and inform patients if they wanted to place a DNAR order on medical notes.
Merry Varney, the family's solicitor, said: "The message about ensuring that patients and family have the information in advance about when these decisions are necessary and why they are made... is simply not being translated into practice everywhere."
Dr Fritz, who said her studies showed that people with a DNAR "were getting worse care", believes a new approach is required, and hopes a new end of life treatment form will be adopted nationwide.
"Instead of having a piece of paper in front of the notes, which was how resuscitate decisions were documented, saying Do Not Resuscitate, we had a form that said what you are going to do.
"We said we're going to focus on what treatment should be given and we're always going to contextualise resuscitation with an overall goal of care.
"Turning it on its head and saying what are we going to do for this patient made it much easier for doctors and patients to think about what's best for them."
The universal treatment form will form a key part of a much wider review of end of life care now being carried nationally.
Isabelle Sanders was stabbed 37 times by Paul McManus during a robbery at her home in Glasgow last year.
The 20-year-old was told he must serve a minimum of 26 years in prison before he can apply for parole
Holyrood's petitions committee said it will ask the Scottish government to consider the issue.
McManus forced his way into Ms Sanders' home in Crookston on 9 April 2014, attacking the 51-year-old and her partner Norman Busby, 86.
He was jailed for a minimum of 21 years for murder and 14 years for the attempted murder and two other robbery-related stabbings.
During the trial it emerged McManus had a "significant" criminal record, which included convictions for theft, assault and robbery and the use of weapons, and had been released from serving a previous sentence five weeks before the murder.
At the moment, the charge of murder is required by law to carry a mandatory life sentence, made up of a minimum jail term and an indeterminate period during which the prisoner remains in custody if necessary for the protection of the public.
James Dougall, Ms Sanders' brother, told the committee statistics show about 5% of life prisoners who are released by the parole board go on to reoffend.
He said: "The offender received a minimum sentence of 26 years. He was 19 when the offence occurred and will be released when he's 45 - assuming that he gets through the parole board - the same age as me. In fact, six years younger than Isabelle when she was murdered in her own home.
"This individual has already been given the opportunity to reform, how can you be sure, if we do release him, that he won't offend again? How can we be sure that he is not one of the 5%?"
Mr Dougall suggested Scotland follows the English sentencing model which allows judges to impose whole life sentences, and provides guidelines when this may be appropriate.
Scots law already allows the minimum period of custody set by a judge to exceed the prisoner's life expectancy, but this must be specified in years and months.
Mr Dougall told MSPs the only case he could find where this had been applied was that of Angus Sinclair, who was convicted of the 1977 World's End murders of teenagers Christine Eadie and Helen Scott in 2014.
Sentenced to a minimum prison term of 37 years, Sinclair would be 106 years old before being eligible for parole.
MSPs agreed to write to the Scottish government to ask if the issue could be considered by the new Scottish Sentencing Council.
The council is due to be established by October this year to provide clear sentencing guidelines for Scotland.
They also said they would write to Justice Secretary Michael Matheson to establish how often a sentence which was manifestly longer than the offender's life expectancy had been imposed by judges.
Speaking after the evidence session, Mr Dougall said the family's campaign has public backing, with almost 1,000 signatures supporting the petition, and support from social media.
A Scottish government spokesperson said: "Scottish courts have the power to impose the equivalent of a whole life tariff in any given case.
"The independence of Scotland's judiciary is a fundamental part of the Scottish legal system. As such, sentencing is a matter for judges who operate independently of Scottish ministers and it is for our courts to decide what sentence to impose in each case before them.
"The Scottish government has previously announced the creation of a specific Scottish Sentencing Council which will promote consistency and transparency around sentencing and encourage better understanding of sentences across Scotland, as well as producing sentencing guidelines for the judiciary."
But there are conflicting reports as to who controls the whole district.
The Helmand governor and police dismissed Taliban reports that it now controlled it as "totally false".
Sangin district has fallen to Taliban control several times and the fighting has caused significant casualties among Afghan and international forces.
In the east, a Taliban attack near Bagram on Monday killed six US soldiers. It was one of the deadliest attacks on foreign forces in Afghanistan this year.
Three rockets were also fired into Kabul overnight on Monday.
Why Sangin matters
Who are the Taliban?
Some 12,000 foreign soldiers are deployed in the country as part of the Nato-led Resolute Support international coalition, which is meant to underpin Afghan security forces.
Britain has announced that a small number of UK personnel have been deployed to Camp Shorabak in Helmand province in an advisory role. The BBC understands there are 10 such personnel.
"These personnel are part of a larger Nato team, which is providing advice to the Afghan National Army. They are not deployed in a combat role and will not deploy outside the camp," a Ministry of Defence spokesman said.
Resolute Support replaced the 13-year Operation Enduring Freedom, which saw more than 900 international coalition deaths in Helmand province. More than 100 of them were British soldiers.
The head of Helmand's provincial council, Muhammad Kareem Atal, said 2,000 Afghan security forces personnel had been killed in the province this year.
Police officers and soldiers inside the Sangin police headquarters appeared to be still holding out on Tuesday morning.
The district police commander, Mohammad Dawood, earlier told the BBC the Taliban had completely cut the facility off from the rest of the province, and food and weapons supplies were running low.
Mr Dawood said that over the past month, security forces in the district had sustained 365 casualties, both dead and injured.
It is unclear whether the authorities or the Taliban are in control of Sangin.
Helmand Governor Merza Khan Rahimi said Afghan forces "are in Sangin district and there are some clashes, but the district is in our control".
An Afghan army officer however told the BBC there was still fighting going on in Sangin and that the Taliban now controlled most of the district.
"At the moment we are controlling the police headquarters, the Army National Army Battalion base and the district governor's headquarters," he said.
The Taliban said they controlled most of Sangin town and the main administrative building had been abandoned.
Sangin was once the centre of operations for international forces in Afghanistan.
Regaining full control of it would increase the Taliban's mobility in parts of northern Helmand and cut a key supply line for Afghan forces with Lashkar Gah. Sangin is also a rich opium production centre - meaning potential tax revenue for the Taliban from the drugs trade.
Keeping control of the centre of Sangin will not be easy for the Taliban, but resentment of government troops is high following military operations which locals say wrought unwarranted destruction.
If the government wants to control the area, it should look to win hearts and minds - a strategy once trumpeted by the foreign forces here.
Separately, reports say the Taliban are also close to overrunning the neighbouring district of Gereshk.
Mr Atal was quoted by AP as saying that "around 65%" of Helmand was now under Taliban control.
In September, the Taliban briefly overran the northern city of Kunduz in one of their biggest victories in 14 years of war.
There is no question that it has had some major successes: it has ensured that millions of children worldwide are free from the danger of polio, the crippling virus is now endemic in just three countries.
It runs huge programmes aimed at combating HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis, and its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is ensuring that countries are banning smoking in public places and clamping down on tobacco advertising.
But when it comes to a sudden new health threat, or a danger in an unexpected region, many say the WHO does not really deliver.
The 2009 swine flu pandemic is, it is claimed, a case in point.
When the first cases of a new flu virus were reported in Mexico City, the WHO had already been preparing for a global influenza pandemic with many experts suggesting it could be as devastating as the post-World War One Spanish flu.
There were reasons for the fears. Medical historians knew that a serious flu pandemic could be expected once in a generation.
Furthermore the H1N1 "bird flu" virus did have a high mortality rate, although it had not shown much ability to spread from human to human.
So by 2009 the WHO had a huge "pandemic preparedness" plan, and when swine flu appeared, it swung into action.
A global pandemic was declared and pharmaceutical companies fast-tracked billions of doses of a new vaccine.
Many countries diverted their public health budgets in order to buy a dose for every single member of the population.
The problem was, swine flu was not the major global health threat the WHO had been preparing for.
"What we experienced in Mexico City was a very mild flu which did not kill more than usual," said German epidemiologist Wolfgang Wodarg in 2010.
"(It) even killed less people than usual, it was suddenly used... as a pandemic and I asked myself why does WHO do such a nonsense?"
But the voices raising doubts went largely unheard. The WHO's pandemic preparedness had been long in the planning and, once up and running, seemed unstoppable.
And the very planning that went into preparing for an influenza pandemic seems have to worked against the WHO during West Africa's Ebola outbreak.
Although a flu pandemic was expected, Ebola was most definitely not expected in Liberia, Guinea or Sierra Leone. The virus had never been seen in West Africa before.
So when the first cases were reported in March there was no big WHO machine ready to roll. As it turns out, West Africa's Ebola outbreak actually began in Guinea last December and seems to have gone almost unnoticed for three months.
"Nobody knew that this disease called Ebola would be possible in such parts of Africa," said Dr Isabelle Nuttall, the WHO's Director of Global Capacities, Alert and Response.
"The speed of reaction was initially determined by the fact that the disease was not known to occur in this part of Africa."
But even if the WHO did not expect Ebola in West Africa, it did receive information, and warnings, from medical experts on the ground.
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on 31 March that Guinea was facing "an epidemic of a magnitude never before seen in terms of the distribution of cases in the country".
The organisation warned that the geographic spread of the cases indicated the epidemic would be very difficult to contain.
But just one day later, on 1 April, the WHO's senior communications officer, Gregory Hartl, suggested that MSF was scaremongering.
"We need to be very careful about how we characterise something which is up until now an outbreak with sporadic cases," he said.
"What we are dealing with is an outbreak of limited geographic area and only a few chains of transmission."
For the following three months, the WHO continued with that interpretation. Meanwhile media attempting to report the obviously spreading epidemic faced major hurdles.
The WHO's regional headquarters in Africa issued irregular online statements as to new cases and death tolls, which were often not confirmed by WHO headquarters in Geneva for several days.
Calls to communications officers went unanswered, their voicemail boxes were full.
Only in June did the WHO call a meeting of its Global Outbreak Alert committee, and only then, it seems, did WHO Director General Margaret Chan take a long hard look at the situation, telling Bloomberg's news agency last week that she was "very unhappy" at what she had discovered.
Despite her dissatisfaction, it still took the WHO until August to declare Ebola to be a health emergency.
Today, although Nigeria has just been declared Ebola free, the epidemic is still raging in Guinea, where it began, and in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The WHO admits there is no sign it is even close to being brought under control and almost 10 months after it first began this outbreak has claimed at least 4,500 lives - more than three times the death toll from all previous outbreaks put together.
An embarrassing internal WHO document, leaked to the Associated Press last week, indicates senior WHO officials know mistakes have been made, suggesting "nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall".
The WHO has refused to comment on the document, but some suggest the financial cutbacks that the WHO, like all United Nations agencies, is facing, may be part of the problem.
However, others argue that money shortages should not cause a failure to listen to clear warnings and should not have caused months of delay in recognising the extent of the Ebola epidemic.
The WHO says it will investigate its handling of the crisis but not until the outbreak is over.
What is clear is that the organisation's structure, designed decades ago to support carefully planned, long-term public health campaigns, will need a major re-examination and there will be calls for more flexibility and transparency when facing the next sudden health crisis.
To look at the stats you wouldn't think so: Apple has two million of them in its App Store and Google Play has a few hundred thousand more than that. Total app downloads have passed the 150 billion mark.
But some are wondering whether apps are about to be replaced by something smaller, smarter and faster.
Bots.
These programs, thanks to AI [artificial intelligence] software in the cloud, can chat to humans via text, extract the meaning and then act on it.
They are little digital helpers.
Any time you see a live chat box open up on a retailer's website, or order a taxi or flowers through chat platforms such as WeChat and Facebook Messenger, you're most likely talking to a bot.
Despite the vast choice of apps open to us, the average number we use is 27, according to research by Nielsen. This hasn't changed for years.
And the problem with apps - and their seemingly endless updates - is that they eat up our smartphone storage capacity alarmingly quickly.
Developers often get a raw deal as well. One estimate suggests that 94% of the cash generated by apps in Apple's App Store goes to just 1% of publishers, and those firms also get 70% of all downloads.
"One of the worst things about the App Store is the App Store itself, because it's such a walled garden," says Ted Nash of Tapdaq, who was a veteran app developer while still a teenager.
Apple's oversight of all apps slows down development and forces programmers to include specific chunks of code that look after adverts, usage statistics and other metrics, he says.
Add to this the trouble of making apps work across lots of different devices and keeping up with changes to Apple software, and it's no wonder some people are disillusioned, he says.
So is app fatigue setting in?
"Apps used to be the big thing," says Kriti Sharma, head of mobile development at accounting software firm Sage. "But many more people are messaging than are posting on social media these days."
This is why she thinks bots are the natural successors to apps - the interface is instantly familiar to customers.
Ms Sharma started her coding career at Barclays, where she co-created its Pingit banking app and oversaw its mobile portfolio.
For companies or brands that want meaningful interaction with customers, a conversation mediated by a bot could work well, she believes.
Sage is developing a bot called Pegg that acts as a smart business assistant. It will help small business owners keep track of outgoings and expenses, making tracking cashflow easier.
"Bots don't have to be super-complicated," says Ms Sharma. "But over time they must add a lot more value for a customer."
Bots are more credible because good progress has been made in writing artificially intelligent software, she says. And also because many companies now have huge amounts of data they can use to fine-tune bot responses.
Another advantage bots have over apps is the speed with which they can be developed, deployed and updated, she argues.
This growing interest is being inflated by work at Facebook, Microsoft and Google, as well as by newer firms such as Slack and HipChat. And start-ups such as Begin, Growbot, Butter, Wisdom and Operator are also helping to take bots mainstream.
One catalyst for the interest was Facebook's announcement earlier this year of a bot framework that streamlines the bot-creation process.
One report suggests that this massive amount of interest has unleashed a $4bn (£3bn) flood of venture capital funding into big and small bot developers.
"Bots are the new black," says Jon Moore, chief product officer at rail ticket booking service, The Trainline.
Although most people now use The Trainline via a smartphone and many regular users have installed its app, the company is keen to investigate what bots can do, Mr Moore says.
For booking train tickets, a website or an app is profoundly better than using a bot, he maintains, but there are times when an app falls short and a conversation handled by a bot may be better.
"We're just at the point of saying it's another interesting piece of technology," he tells the BBC. "We expect that they are going to be useful to us, though it won't work for every context and circumstance."
Tapdaq's Ted Nash warns that though bots might look straightforward, they're not necessarily an easier option.
"A bot is a much more simple technology from a customer perspective, but the AI that powers it is immensely complicated to do," he says.
That difficulty often means that bots are pretty crude.
"A lot of them now have pre-defined inputs and responses," says Mr Nash. "The only way they are going to become truly ubiquitous is when they can respond as a human would."
But even before they do that, says Nick Lane, chief analyst at consultancy MobileSquared, bots are likely to be useful for smoothing out the interactions between customers and companies.
"We'll see bots helping out with customer engagement, queries and product enquiries," he says.
But there is danger in relying too much on a technology still in the early stages of development, he warns.
"Some companies are wondering if they can put their business and reputation in the hands of a computer program."
There is another reason why technology firms are keen to use text-based chatbots, says Mr Lane.
"It could be that they see this interaction as another form of data mining," he says. "People should ask how that information and conversation is going to be used.
"One way or another there is a model evolving around that communication that will see it being monetised."
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The 22-year-old has made 32 appearances for the Saints since coming through the club's youth system and has become the Canaries' fifth signing of the summer.
"From the outside, it's a massive club pushing to get back to the Premier League," Reed told the club website.
"The philosophy here suits me down to the ground, so I'm really excited and very happy it's done."
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Championship side Norwich City have signed Southampton midfielder Harrison Reed on a season-long loan deal.
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Sales at the so-called Detroit big three - that's Ford, General Motors and Chrysler (now owned by the Italian firm Fiat) - have rebounded as the US economy has recovered, and 2015 looks to be even better.
"There is an exuberance back in the industry - happy days are here again," says industry analyst Michelle Krebs, director of automotive relations at the AutoTrader Group.
But with opportunity has once more come, if not hubris, than at least the possibility of it.
Plunging oil prices have made US car buyers flock once more to large trucks and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) - and away from the hybrid and electrical vehicles that car makers from General Motors to Toyota have peddled in recent years as economical alternatives.
"Looking at history, you see that when gas prices have gone up historically that's really hurt the car industry, particularly the American car industry," says University of Michigan professor Don Grimes.
"[The big three] have all suffered disproportionately during high prices and have benefitted disproportionately from lower gas prices."
So the question for carmakers in 2015 is, to borrow a sports term, whether to go big once again - or face the possibility of going home.
Sometimes cliches exist for a reason, and this is one of the more powerfully true ones - Americans like big cars.
Sure, while petrol prices were high, they could be reluctantly convinced into buying energy-efficient small cars and hybrids.
But as oil prices have plunged over the past few months, pick-up trucks and SUV sales have grabbed greater market share once more.
This shift has created a strange situation here on the floor of the Cobo Center, where Volkswagen unveiled its latest SUV - the company's first to be made in the US - just as General Motors was preparing to show off its rumoured Chevrolet Bolt, a compact electrical car that can go 200 miles on a single charge.
Nowhere was this split more apparent than on Sunday night at a glitzy Mercedes event at a hotel nearby.
The German car maker unveiled its latest C-350 plug-in hybrid, as well as the 2015 GLE Coupe - one of a slew of so-called "CUVs" (crossover utility vehicles), which are built on a car platform but combine elements of SUVs, and have been particularly popular in the US market.
"The timing couldn't be better - the market for SUVs is only getting stronger," said Mercedes boss Dieter Zetsche, when introducing the vehicles.
GM's Mary Barra best articulated the paradox when she touted the company's commitment to fuel-efficient vehicles, only to acknowledge a few minutes later in response to a BBC question that GM was hoping to boost sales by peddling its midsize pick-up truck to younger buyers.
"The new midsize truck has great value and frankly there's a lot of feedback we're getting that it's pretty darn cool," she said.
So is it feast or famine? A little bit of both, say experts.
"They're responding to political and advertising needs to say that they're going towards fuel-efficient vehicles," explains Prof Grimes.
"They'll sell these cars at an enormous loss and then they'll have their fingers crossed behind their backs and hope to sell a lot of big trucks because they know that's where they get their profits."
As easy as it may be to mock the efforts of US car makers - and, of course, their European counterparts - to have their cake and eat it too, the industry does seem to have genuinely learned from the mistakes of the past.
Nowhere is this more evident than at the Walter P Chrysler Museum, a short drive north of Detroit in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
Brant Rosenbusch, a third-generation Chrysler employee, and the museum's chief curator, met the BBC in the museum's eerily deserted parking lot.
He occupies a strange role, presiding over a vast space that houses more than 300 classic Chrysler cars, but that is no longer open to the public, having been forced to close in the wake of Chrysler's bankruptcy filing and eventual sale to Fiat.
He says that the inability of US car makers to respond to oil shocks, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, "was a harder lesson here than anywhere".
Chrysler was brought to the brink of bankruptcy in 1979, and was forced to ask for loan guarantees from the US government.
Gesturing to the so-called "K cars" made in the wake of that decision - practical, but boxy and certainly not sexy like the Dodge Challenger muscle car that came before it - Mr Rosenbusch says that US car firms have learned not to move too quickly to indulge in US tastes.
"In the 1950s and the 1960s there was an arrogance that 'we'll tell the public what they want'," he says.
"The industry globally has levelled out more and we are a global company, which really helps - we're on the same playing field as everybody else."
And even if the good-time feeling is once more permeating Detroit, the US government is keen to ensure that hubris will not be able to lead the industry to the brink of destruction once more.
"In the US, automakers have to meet new, more stringent fuel economy standards in 2016 and then even more stringent ones in 2025," points out AutoTrader Group's Ms Krebs.
"That will keep them on course."
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The US car industry is booming once more, and here in Detroit, the gloom - and then brittle optimism - that once permeated North America's biggest car show has faded into a more relaxed confidence.
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The Christmas and New Year festivities are little more than a hazy memory of turkey, port and Star Wars Lego sets.
For many, it's another week till payday and the overdraft limit is rapidly heading into view. Work is relentless, the weather is lousy, and it's ages until the summer.
But it doesn't have to be this way - here are some reasons to be cheerful.
With Celtic Connections under way in Glasgow, Scotland's winter festival season is in full swing.
Thousands of artists and musicians from around the world are taking part in the annual celebration of traditional music.
Further south, the Big Burns Supper kicks off in Dumfries on Friday.
As well as gigs by the Bay City Rollers and Eddi Reader in a specially-erected Spiegeltent, hundreds of people are expected to take to the streets for a colourful Burns Night carnival on Sunday.
If that's not enough, the sight of burly torch-carrying Shetlanders burning a galley can't fail to raise a smile. Up Helly Aa takes place in Lerwick next Tuesday.
After a wet and mild start to winter, Scotland's ski season is well under way.
Last Wednesday, all five resorts were open for business for the first time this year, and the Met Office's long range forecast looks favourable for the rest of the month.
Even at Scotland's most southerly snowsports hub, the Lowther Hill Ski Club, families and novices have been enjoying the nursery slope in the village of Leadhills.
Remember Scotland's heart-breaking World Cup quarter-final against Australia last summer? Try not to - it's too depressing.
Instead, look forward - Scotland kick-off their RBS Six Nations campaign on 6 February with a mouth-watering fixture against England at Murrayfield.
Despite walking away from last year's tournament with the wooden spoon, after their gutsy World Cup performance, there is cause for hope.
It might not be a great time for One Direction fans (ICYMI: they're 'on a break'), but there are hundreds of other exciting live acts due to play in Scotland this year.
Newly-reunited The Libertines are lined up to play at the Hydro in Glasgow on Thursday, where they will be supported by The View and Reverend and the Makers.
This year's hottest gig tickets are likely to be for Adele, who is due to perform at the same venue in March.
But she could have run for her money if The Spice Girls reunite for their 20th anniversary. Zig-a-zig-ah!
Don't fancy getting off the couch? This one's for you.
Among the TV highlights to look forward to this year is the reunion of six impossibly beautiful Manhattan residents who became a firm favourite of viewers in the 1990s.
In the 12 years since Friends ended, its endless repeats have ensured it remains staple viewing in living rooms around the world.
It is with some relief therefore that US broadcaster NBC has announced that the cast are to reunite - maybe they were just "on a break".
Telly fans can also look forward to a new series of Cold Feet, 13 years after the comedy drama ended. Filming is due to start in February.
And in March Kevin Spacey will return as the ruthless Francis Underwood in the highly-anticipated new Netflix series of House of Cards.
If all else fails, remember - it's just 10 weeks until Easter.
What are your reasons to be cheerful? Email them to us at [email protected] or Tweet us @BBCScotlandnews
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The 38-year-old woman was found dead with a serious head injury at Gainslea Court in Derby Road on Friday evening.
Police have named the woman as Hayley Dean but formal identification is yet to take place.
James D'Arcy, 50, from Bournemouth, has been charged with murder and is due before the town's magistrates on Monday.
A post-mortem examination on Saturday found that Ms Dean died as a result of "blunt force trauma" to her head.
A cordon remains in place at the flat while crime scene investigators continue to examine the scene.
Det Insp Neil Phillips, of Dorset Police's major crime investigation team, said: "Family liaison officers have updated Hayley's family with this development and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.
He added: "I would like to hear from anyone who heard anything suspicious in or around Gainslea Court between 14:00 on Thursday 15 September and 18:30 BST on Friday 16 September.
"I am particularly keen to speak with any members of the public who saw or spoke with Hayley Dean or James D'Arcy between these times."
William Burns, 56, threw sulphuric acid into Russell Findlay's face after turning up at his door disguised as a postman on 23 December 2015.
He denied the charge but was found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow.
The attack took place months after Burns had been freed early from a 15-year jail term for shooting a woman during a post office robbery in 2001.
The court was told about his extensive criminal record, including convictions for assault, firearms and carrying offensive weapons.
Burns, from Paisley, was convicted of assaulting Mr Findlay, 44, to the danger of his life by throwing sulphuric acid in his face.
He was remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced next month.
A not proven verdict was returned on Burns' co-accused Alexander Porter, 48, who had faced the same charge.
During the trial, Burns said he had only turned up at Mr Findlay's door to "beat up" the journalist, who was investigative editor of the Scottish Sun at the time.
Burns claimed Mr Findlay had threatened to show his wife a photo of him with a young blonde woman.
He went on to suggest the journalist - who has also written books on gangland crime - must have thrown a corrosive substance in his own face.
Prosecutor Richard Goddard described Burns' evidence as "improbable, bizarre and absurd".
A jury had heard how Mr Findlay had answered his door and was told he had to sign for a parcel.
He was handed a card to sign, then acid was thrown in his face.
The journalist said: "I felt liquid on my face. Something very wrong had happened. He came at me in the hall. I knew I was being attacked."
He wrestled Burns out of the house, held on to him and yelled for help.
After the verdict, Mr Findlay described Burns as a coward and said the verdict was "long overdue".
He said Burns was "paid a significant sum of money" to go to his home.
"He threw sulphuric acid in my face and attempted to stab me on the orders of a major organised criminal who is in prison for another matter," he said.
"This man should be held to account."
Det Sgt Craig Warren, who led the investigation, said Burns had been known to have links to serious organised crime in Glasgow.
He said: "William Burns is a career criminal and he does not care about anyone other than himself and his activities."
Burns and Mr Porter, also of Paisley, had also been accused of attempting to murder Ross Sherlock in a shooting near St Helen's primary school in Bishopbriggs in September 2015.
They were cleared of that charge after Judge Lord Matthews ruled there was "insufficient evidence".
Officers were called to Sainsbury's on Darwen Road at about 10:25 BST on Friday after a "significant" amount of money was stolen.
Two men attacked the pair with a crowbar and a sledgehammer, Greater Manchester Police said.
They escaped in an Audi A3 car driven by a third man. It was found burnt out in a nearby backstreet.
One of the victims has a broken arm and the other was knocked unconscious and has a suspected broken jaw. The men continued to assault the drivers even after taking the money, police added.
Det Insp Matthew Bailey-Smith said: "This was a planned and extremely nasty attack which has culminated in a sustained, armed assault on two men.
"Both were taken to hospital after a terrifying and traumatic ordeal which has also resulted in a significant amount of cash being stolen."
Sergei Fedorovtsev tested positive for Trimetazidine in a routine test by Russia's Anti-Doping Agency on 17 May, the World Rowing Federation (WRF) said.
Fedorovtsev, 36, competed a week later at Olympic qualifying in Lucerne, where Russia finished first to qualify.
New Zealand, who were third, will now take Russia's sculls place in Rio.
Following the positive test, the WRF announced "the results of all competitions in which the rower participated after 17 May 2016 are therefore automatically disqualified".
The WRF said the rower's 'A' and 'B' samples both contained the substance, which is a banned metabolic modulator.
The International Olympic Committee last week announced prospective Olympians from Russia in track and field disciplines would have to pass individual anti-doping assessments before being considered eligible for competition.
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Its London-based version urged readers to back the Conservatives and "stop the SNP running the country".
By contrast, the Scottish Sun said the Tories did not understand Scotland and praised SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, as "a phenomenon who inspires people".
It comes as one opinion poll suggested the SNP could be on track to win all of Scotland's 59 seats.
The newspapers are the two biggest selling dailies north and south of the border.
They are both part of the newspaper group News UK, formerly called News International, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
The Scottish Sun - which also supported the SNP in the Scottish parliament elections in 2011 - said Ms Sturgeon had been the "star" of the campaign.
Its front page, inspired by Star Wars, pictured Ms Sturgeon as Princess Leia and encouraged voters to back her as a "new hope" for Scotland.
The Sun meanwhile portrayed David Cameron as a newborn baby, and said after a "long painful delivery" the newspaper had decided to back the Conservatives.
It described the SNP as "wreckers" and said the Tories were the "best bet for millions of ordinary people".
It warned of what it called a Labour/SNP "nightmare".
The Sun -Conservatives
Scottish Sun - SNP
Mirror - Labour
Express - owner Richard Desmond has given £1m to UKIP
Financial Times - has called for tactical voting to produce another coalition between the Conservatives and Lib Dems
Daily Mail - backed the Conservatives in 2010 - as did the Mail on Sunday
Telegraph - both daily and Sunday editions backed the Conservatives in 2010
The Guardian - backed the Liberal Democrats in 2010
Observer - backed the Liberal Democrats in 2010
The Times - backed the Conservatives in 2010
Independent on Sunday - said it is not advising readers how to vote in 2015
Andrew Nicoll, political editor of the Scottish Sun, said the newspapers' split reflected "two distinct editorial positions from two distinct, editorially-diverse newspapers".
"We are a Scottish newspaper, run in Scotland, printed in Scotland, produced in Scotland by Scots, and it's not a surprise to anybody - least of all Rupert Murdoch - that these two papers have a diversion of view tonight," he said.
He denied that it was a cynical move to block Labour leader Ed Miliband from power, or a commercially-driven decision.
"In the time that I've worked at the Sun we've supported the Labour Party, the SNP, the Tories. We've fought vigorously against the SNP, we've supported the SNP.
"Sometimes that support has gone the way the vote has gone, sometimes it hasn't.
"The people of Scotland seem to have chosen the SNP, and we're going with them."
A spokesman for the Sun said: "The Sun is written first and foremost for its readers, and the UK edition and Scottish edition have two very distinct audiences.
"If Scotland and England were playing each other at football, no one would expect the Scottish Sun to support the English national team."
The BBC's Scotland correspondent Colin Blane said what the two Murdoch titles had in common was a front page comment attacking Labour.
Both editions of the newspaper have changed their allegiance to political parties over the years.
In the late 1980s, the Sun and the Scottish Sun came out in support of the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher.
By 1992, the Scottish paper proclaimed its support for independence with the memorable headline: "Rise Now And Be A Nation Again."
However, while it backed independence, it did not formally endorse the SNP.
In 1997, both editions of the newspaper backed Labour and Tony Blair.
Then, in 2007, the Scottish Sun's front page on the Scottish parliament elections proved controversial. It featured a hangman's noose in the shape of an SNP logo with the message "Vote SNP today and you put Scotland's head in the noose".
The Sun turned away from the Labour Party and supported the Conservatives before the last general election.
During the Scottish independence referendum, neither newspaper stated its position.
The Economist has also backed the Conservatives ahead of polling day on 7 May - or at least a government led by David Cameron.
The magazine's Britain editor, Joel Budd, told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: "We think again that a government at least led by David Cameron - if not necessarily a Conservative majority - is the best outcome.
"It is fantastically hard to cut state spending in the way that this coalition government has done without either driving the economy into a ditch or wrecking the functioning of the state.
"They have managed to do that and that is a really extraordinary accomplishment."
He added that Labour under Ed Miliband had become "worryingly interventionist" and "extremely statist".
The Financial Times has also backed a Tory-led government, but has called for tactical voting for the Liberal Democrats in some constituencies to produce a continuation of the 2010 coalition.
It argues that the Conservatives' "instincts on the economy, business and reform of the public sector are broadly right" but cautions that the party is preoccupied with Europe.
The FT feels that Labour leader Ed Miliband has "stepped too far away from the New Labour position" and was "preoccupied with inequality".
It follows backing for Labour from the New Statesman, which said that the coalition had choked economic recovery in 2010 and argued neither the Conservatives nor Lib Dems deserved to be returned to power.
However, the magazine claimed that Ed Miliband's "narrow rhetorical and ideological focus on political economy has left him unable to reach the aspirational voters required to build a broad electoral coalition".
The region is still coming to terms with the consequences of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 which tipped the chessboard of Middle Eastern power politics upside down.
Most of those consequences are unwelcome to the oil-rich Gulf Arab states.
In Iraq, the despotic Sunni regime of President Saddam Hussein has been replaced by a Shia-led government seen by many here as a proxy of Iran.
The subsequent marginalisation of Iraq's Sunni population in recent years helped give rise to the violent jihadist group calling itself Islamic State (IS).
Today, the region's leaders are looking nervously at a range of threats, both within their borders and beyond.
Using the Arabic term 'Daesh' for the so-called Islamic State, Saudi Arabia's urbane Foreign Minister, Adel Jubeir, said the organisation that has seized large parts of Iraq and Syria under its black banner was not a religious movement but a cult.
Thousands of Saudis have joined its ranks, drawn by the similarities to some of their own country's strict, ascetic interpretations of Islam.
This year Saudi Arabia has suffered several deadly attacks by IS suicide bombers, mostly targeting mosques, both Sunni and Shia, as the militant group attempts to provoke a sectarian conflict in the Gulf.
Bahrain announced that it had identified 70 of its nationals fighting for IS and a further 24 individuals have been charged with trying to form a branch of IS in Bahrain. Sixteen of these suspects remain at large.
The Saudi foreign minister categorised those would-be jihadists who go off to join IS in three ways.
Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond gave a keynote speech to the conference in which he admitted that the UK had been "too slow in the past to recognise the links between non-violent extremism and violent extremism."
He added: "For decades we have clung to a false distinction between the two.. With hindsight, we've been too tolerant of intolerance."
Britain, he said, would shortly be introducing legislation to ban the most dangerous extremist organisations.
There is a fair degree of nervousness here about how Iran will spend the soon-to-be-released billions of dollars in unfrozen funds as a result of the UN-backed nuclear deal.
Many of the Gulf Arab states see Iran as a strategic threat even without its nuclear programme, which Iran says is purely for peaceful purposes.
Both Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have accused Iran of interfering in their countries and exporting terrorism. On a visit to London last month a senior Iranian official strongly denied this.
"We want to have the best possible relations with Iran," said Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir without a hint of irony, (Iran and Saudi Arabia are regional rivals with a history of mutual distrust).
"But the reason they are not good is because of Iran's interventions in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen and its attempts to destabilise Bahrain".
Mr Jubeir said Saudi Arabia welcomed the Iran deal but that Iran had huge infrastructure challenges and the region did not yet know whether it would spend the proceeds from the deal on developing its infrastructure at home - or on funding what he called "aggressive policies" abroad.
Bahrain recently expelled the Iranian ambassador after blaming it for supplying a major arms cache to insurgents. There were no Iranian officials at this year's Manama Dialogue.
But Nazenin Ansari, a London-based Iranian journalist for Kayhan newspaper, attending the conference, told me that "there are different (power) centres with different agendas in Iran.
"The Foreign Ministry would like to have a more civilised and a more cordial relationship with the outside world and to be able to reintegrate Iran into the outside world.. But there are those in Iran who see this as a death knell for their power structures within Iran and they will use every means at their disposal to put a stop to that."
In a side room of the conference Bahrain's Chief of Police, Maj-Gen Tariq Al-Hassan showed delegates round a chilling display of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), claymore mines, machine guns and grenades discovered by security forces here over the last four years.
Bahrain has been wracked by more than four years of intermittent protests that have cost the lives of 22 people, 11 of them policemen.
The police chief said a total of 445 IEDs had been uncovered, all exported by Iran. The US Navy, whose powerful 5th Fleet is headquartered in Bahrain, has been providing the Bahrainis with intelligence tip-offs.
Although the violence has subsided considerably from its peak in 2011, human rights organisations still accuse the Bahraini authorities of abuses.
Opposition activists and journalists have previously accused the government of exaggerating the threat from terrorism but a senior British military officer present said the finds on display were all genuine.
The conflict raging in Syria has dominated this year's Manama Dialogue. The Saudi foreign minister, just back from the talks in Vienna, sounded pessimistic about the chances of any imminent breakthrough.
Although there had been agreement on some more minor points there remained two serious sticking points dividing those supporting and opposing Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad. These were:
The US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken found himself on the defensive over US policy on Syria. He announced a further $100m in aid for the Syrian opposition and insisted that progress was being made against IS in Iraq.
As a country on the extreme southwest tip of the Arabian Peninsula, what happens in Yemen concerns all six Gulf Arab states and there was much discussion of the seven-month war there that has cost more than 4,000 lives.
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain reiterated their view that blame lay with the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who took over much of the country last year.
But international concern over civilian casualties has been mounting, especially those caused by Saudi-led air strikes.
The Saudi foreign minister said he believed the war had now entered its final phase and that a deal based on a UN Security Council resolution was possible.
Embarrassingly for the conference organisers however, two respected Yemeni delegates were expelled from Bahrain at the request of Yemen's acting Foreign Minister, Riyadh Yasseen, claiming incorrectly that they were Houthis.
One was even had to leave midway through a conference workshop session. The move has been widely criticised as being completely contrary to the spirit of "a dialogue" and has painted both the Bahraini authorities and Yemen's exiled government in a poor light.
The Torquay United fan will be replaced by comedian Lloyd Griffith and former footballer Jimmy Bullard.
The news was shared by Soccer AM in a tweet which read: "Farewell and thank you to Mrs Soccer AM. This place won't be the same without you."
Chamberlain joined the Sky Sports show in 1995 and presented alongside Tim Lovejoy until he left in 2007.
She most recently co-hosted with John Fendley who will continue to present the show alongside its new hosts.
He paid tribute to his former colleague on Twitter, saying: "There's only one @HellsBellsy."
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Griffith said his new role was a "dream come true" while Bullard said: "Saturday mornings won't be the same again."
The former Hull and Fulham footballer also paid tribute to Chamberlain, writing: "In my excitement forgot to mention @HellsBellsy - impossible to step into her shoes.
"Amazing presenter & always be grateful to her."
Some fans tweeted their disappointment at Chamberlain's departure with several saying the show would not be the same without her.
Deb H wrote: "Can't believe that @HellsBellsy isn't going to be on anymore, can't see it lasting much longer now."
John O Hare said: "It's thank you and good luck from this viewer. It's a shame that there is not enough female pundits to replace her."
Tommy Crison said: "You held it together most weeks and the only reason I tuned in. Will miss you as part of my match day routine... farewell."
This entitles her to access to health care, education and other welfare services which she had been denied.
As her parents have been out of Cuba for some time, the girl had been unable to claim Cuban citizenship and she had been effectively left "stateless".
This test case will affect other children in such legal limbo.
The case has been going through the South African courts for several years, and the Supreme Court of Appeal's decision came after the government challenged a ruling brought by a lower court.
The BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg says the home affairs ministry had argued that granting the girl a South African birth certificate would open the floodgates to new applications.
The court's judgement is a reaffirmation of existing laws in South Africa which give citizenship to stateless children.
The Supreme Court of Appeal gave the government 18 months to get its house in order and put in place a mechanism for processing similar claims.
Lawyers say the implementation of this ruling would bring South Africa into line with many other countries.
It could also help many of the thousands of stateless youngsters born in South Africa, who are now being put up for adoption and whose birth parents were foreign migrants or refugees, our reporter says.
A spokesman for South Africa's Department of Home affairs said it welcomed the chance to re-evaluate its position.
South Africa is home to many African migrants who have moved to the country for better economic fortunes in one of the continent's largest economies or to seek political refuge.
It says the national initiative - involving 44 local plans - has lost credibility and needs reviewing.
Under proposals put forward A&E, maternity and stroke units could be scaled back in many parts of England.
NHS bosses - supported by ministers - have launched the programme to modernise the NHS and allow more investment in community services.
But Labour said the process - known as sustainability and transformation plans (STP) - was causing confusion and risked being driven by money rather than what was best for patients.
Earlier this year an investigation by the BBC found hospital services in nearly two thirds of the 44 areas were under threat with widespread concern the infrastructure was not in place in the community to cope.
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said a "moratorium" was now needed so each of the plans could be properly reviewed.
"These decisions have been decided behind closed doors with no genuine involvement of local people.
"It's a disgrace. The public deserves better."
But the Conservatives dismissed the idea and said funding was in place to pay for the changes.
It is Labour's second election announcement on the NHS, following last week's promise to increase pay for NHS staff.
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The STP proposals have been drawn up as part of NHS England's five-year strategy to release £22bn of efficiency savings by 2020.
Reviews were set up in early 2016 in 44 different areas led by local managers.
Each area was asked to submit plans to NHS England, which all have done, and public consultations are due to take place later this year where major changes are being proposed.
NHS England has said the programme is not about cutting services, but delivering them in more efficient and appropriate ways.
It believes patients will benefit from more care in the community and say the programme will lead to a range of benefits, including:
Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb was also critical of the STP process.
He said they were "based on the fantasy that there is enough money".
"The Conservatives are re-organising the deck-chairs while the good ship NHS is sinking because they are starving it of funds," he added.
But Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "These local plans are developed by local doctors and communities, backed by the top doctors and nurses of the NHS, and will improve patient care."
He said they were "underpinned" by extra funding the health service was receiving up to 2020 and that only the Conservatives could "lock in the economic progress we have made and keep improving the NHS".
This is not the first time political parties have tried to make the idea of hospital cuts an issue in an election.
In the run up to the 2010 general election, Tory shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said he wanted to see a moratorium on hospital closures being proposed.
Some of the changes that were being proposed back then are part of the STP process.
The truth is closing hospital services has been a political "hot potato" for decades.
While there is widespread agreement the NHS is too based around hospitals - over half of the budget is spent on them - changing the status quo has proved difficult.
NHS England has argued shifting care into the community will save money and also benefit patients by providing care in the community and closer to their home.
In theory, that will help them get care at an earlier stage before their condition worsens. Some have estimated that could help save a third of the £22bn efficiency target.
If this is not to happen, Labour needs to set out how it will make savings or whether it will increase the NHS budget by more than is currently planned - and how that will be paid for.
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Colston Hall bosses had previously maintained that the Bristol attraction was named after the street it is on, rather than Edward Colston.
Much of the Bristol-born MP and merchant's wealth came from the slave trade.
The change, which will not come into effect until 2020, follows a campaign to urge Colston Hall to alter its name.
Louise Mitchell, chief executive of the Bristol Music Trust charity that runs Colston Hall, said it was the "right thing to do" for artists, the public and the "diverse workforce" at the venue, which recently announced plans for a refurbishment costing nearly £50m.
She said: "The name Colston does not reflect the trust's values as a progressive, forward-thinking and open arts organisation.
"We want to look to the future and ensure the whole city is proud of its transformed concert hall and so when we open the new hall, it will be with a new name."
She acknowledged there would be a "backlash" over the change, but admitted the trust had "needed to resolve" the issue ahead of talks with potential sponsors.
"Effectively, I've been selling a toxic brand up to now," she said.
"We need to move forward on this. It's not actually about commerce, it's about doing the right thing."
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Over the years, some of the world's biggest music stars have performed at Colston Hall, including The Beatles, David Bowie, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Bob Dylan.
The legendary Bristol band Massive Attack have always refused to play at Colston Hall, and the city's mayor Marvin Rees has said he is "not a fan" of the name. A petition launched in February calling for a change gathered more than 2,000 signatories.
Edward Colston (1636-1721)
Source: BBC History/Nigel Pocock
However, the majority of those who have taken to BBC Radio Bristol's Facebook page to express their opinions have not welcomed the move.
Chris Goldsworthy said it was "political correctness gone mad", while Nick Davies said it was a mistake as the "past should not be airbrushed out".
Kate Gillam said "changing the name won't change what happened. It's part of our heritage".
The music venue is not the only place in Bristol with links to Colston that has come under fire. Bristol Cathedral is reportedly considering removing a large stained-glass window dedicated to the merchant, following criticism from anti-racism campaigners.
Fox-Pitt, 47, has entered the Burnham Market trials with four horses.
"It is all systems go here and everything is on target," he said. "I hope to be competing soon."
The three-time Olympic medallist was placed in an induced coma after falling at the World Young Horse Championships in Lion-D'Angers on 17 October.
Fox-Pitt revealed in December he had started riding again.
Among the horses he hopes to make his comeback on at Burnham Market - which takes place from 1-3 April - is 2015 Badminton winner Chilli Morning.
Fox-Pitt is Britain's most successful rider, with 20 major championship medals.
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People living in Llandudno made the 1,500 tarts needed for Friday's event.
Alice Liddell, the little girl who was Lewis Carroll's inspiration for Alice, spent her family holidays in Llandudno.
The record attempt took place at 12:00 BST and will be confirmed at a later date if they have succeded.
The woman, who is in her 30s, was driving on the Pembroke Loop Road in the west of the city at about 07:00 GMT on Sunday morning.
A man ran out in front of her car, forcing her to stop.
Another man approached the vehicle and opened the driver's door before forcing the woman out of the car.
The two men got into the black Citroen C5 estate, along with a third man, before driving off.
The car has not yet been recovered.
Valero submitted plans for a Pembroke power generation unit last year, and employs 1,200 people locally,
However, it said it is vital "it is a swift process", describing it as "a development of national significance".
The Welsh Government agreed but said that the planning process worked the same for everyone.
Texas-based Valero bought Pembroke refinery in 2011 in a £447m deal.
It announced the £100m development to create a combined heat and power generation unit last November, saying this would secure future jobs and maintain the viability of the plant.
While plans are still at an early stage and a decision will not be made until next year, the company's Stephen Thornton said the company would re-evaluate if the process is not quick.
"The onus is on the Welsh Government to ensure we reach our schedule," he said.
"This is a development of national significance."
Concerns about the competitiveness of the area have also been raised by the Port of Milford Haven - which is the UK's third biggest and its largest energy port.
Chief executive Alec Don warned that they are competing in a global market, citing the closure of Murco Oil Refinery that shut in 2014, with 400 job losses.
"That refinery plant is being dismantled, and being sold to Pakistan, where it will be exported and rebuilt to continue refining in another country that's half-way around the globe," he said.
"So that's the challenge we had as a country, it's not a little local affair, it's a global market place and we've got to be competitive.
"So unless we're mindful of the competitive position, we're going to continue losing these businesses."
Mr Don also believes the Welsh Government has "a very strong part to play".
While ports are not devolved, it has control over areas like the economy, planning and the environment.
Minister Lesley Griffiths, who is the cabinet secretary responsible for planning issues, said she agreed that Valero's application needed to be dealt with swiftly.
"That's why we've brought forward the Planning Act in 2014. I am now implementing various parts of that," she said.
"But it is really important that this is a speed that works for them. However, planning is for everyone, it's there for the development and use of our land."
The 7.8-magnitude quake struck more than a week ago and has claimed more than 5,000 lives.
Shaun Moody is one of six South Wales Fire and Rescue Service officers who are out there working in a UK team of 67 rescuers.
He told BBC Radio Wales some areas have suffered "total devastation".
The rescuers have been working on securing the roof of an 800-bed hospital in the capital, Kathmandu.
He added: "It is a lot worse out of the city, where 100% of properties have been destroyed in some areas.
"But the people are very resourceful and when the rescuers are getting to them, the first thing they are doing is offering them food. It is very humbling."
Ninety-six fans were killed as a result of the crush at the football ground in Sheffield in April 1989.
Images of potential witnesses at the stadium's Leppings Lane end have been released as part of Operation Resolve.
Senior investigating officer Neil Malkin stressed the men pictured "had done nothing wrong".
Det Ch Supt Malkin said the men seen near Exit Gate C when it opened at about 14:50 were in the "right place at the right time" and may be able to identify others.
"Together with evidence already gathered, it would mean we can provide a complete picture of events to the Crown Prosecution Service," he said.
"We just want to focus on them to try and conclude what happened. The potential evidence could help shape our understanding of what happened at Gate C."
In April an inquest jury concluded the 96 who died at Hillsborough were unlawfully killed.
It found a number of errors by South Yorkshire Police and South Yorkshire Ambulance Service, as well as stadium defects, contributed to the deaths.
Hillsborough inquests: The 96 who died
Operation Resolve is one of two criminal investigations ordered following the publication of the Hillsborough Independent Panel's report in 2012.
A separate criminal investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission is examining police conduct.
Some relatives of those who died have expressed concerns over the new appeal for witnesses near Gate C.
Lou Brookes, who lost her brother Andrew at Hillsborough, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme earlier she was "absolutely disgusted".
She said: "I have serious concerns for their motives and objectives for pursuing this issue."
Lawyer Elkan Abrahamson, who is representing a number of Hillsborough families, said: "Operation Resolve in the course of the inquest came up with an absurd theory that Gate C was opened before [police match commander] David Duckenfield gave the order to open it.
"When we corrected this they then abandoned that theory and they seemed then to be pursuing another theory that even if it was opened after the order was given, it wasn't opened because of the order."
"If that is the theory that they are still pursuing I just can't see the point in it."
An Operation Resolve spokesperson said comments made by some families had been raised and considered."
They added: "Our job is to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation particularly around the opening of gate C.
"We are keen to identify and interview the 19 people in our witness appeal as we believe that they could hold vital information."
Operation Resolve has taken more than 1,200 statements from fans who approached from the Leppings Lane end on the day of the disaster.
A video reconstruction of the ground as it was in 1989 has been created to help jog people's memories.
Det Ch Supt Malkin said: "We are hoping with the context people will recognise themselves or friends and family. These people may recognise each other.
"We want to hear their experience of entering through Gate C, how they came to be there at that time, what they saw, what they heard."
The detective urged people to come forward and to inform police if any of the 19 have since died so they can be eliminated from the investigation.
A file is expected to be passed to the Crown Prosecution Service at the end of the year.
Around ten miles of trails have been published online after an environment group borrowed a special camera from technology company Google.
Using the backpack camera, volunteers walked the paths recording imagery which took almost a year to stitch together.
People can now view the paths in 360 degree detail, using the information to plan a day out.
The Belfast Hills Partnership hopes it will encourage more people to use the trails. the special backpack contained 15 cameras each taking 24 images a minute.
GPS technology logged location information. Four volunteers were used to do the work last summer.
The result is now available through Google Maps' Street View function.
There are also links on the Belfast Hills website http://belfasthills.org/.
Jim Bradley was one of those who lugged the equipment around the hills.
"It weighed about three stone, or nineteen kgs and by the time I got to the top of Cave Hill, it felt even heavier," he said.
People do not always react well when they spot the Google Street View car recording imagery and can sometimes make inappropriate gestures.
Mr Bradley said he did not think there had been such a reaction from the people whom they had met in the hills.
"But I haven't checked all the footage yet," he said.
In a recording obtained by the paper, a voice similar to Mr Trump's purporting to be a media representative advocates for the billionaire businessman.
Reporters would hear from the "spokesman", John Miller or John Baron, when asking to interview Mr Trump.
Mr Trump denied the story to the Today Show on Friday.
"No, I don't know anything about it. You're telling me about it for the first time and it doesn't sound like my voice at all," he said.
"I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice and you can imagine that. This sounds like one of these scams, one of the many scams. It doesn't sound like me.
"It was not me on the phone. And it doesn't sound like me on the phone, I will tell you that. It was not me on the phone."
Donald Trump is an unusual man who often behaves, shall we say, unconventionally. There's plenty of evidence for this, whether or not he made calls 25 years ago pretending to be his own publicist.
Many New York reporters are convinced that this is a bona fide recording of the billionaire, and the fact that he's (allegedly) boasting about his dating prowess and celebrity socialising probably isn't the kind of story Mr Trump wants circulating as he tries to present himself as a more serious general election candidate.
This is just the start, however. While Mr Trump has been in the public eye for decades, and New York tabloid scrutiny can be daunting, nothing compares to the glare of the presidential spotlight. Given that this is Mr Trump's first foray into public office, his past will receive extra scrutiny - with more revelations to come. The Washington Post, for instance, has assigned a team of 20 reporters to sift through Mr Trump's background, from his business dealings to oddball stories.
This latest episode definitely falls into the latter category.
However, in 1990, Mr Trump admitted in court he and one of his employees used the name "John Baron" in business dealings during a case about undocumented Polish workers constructing Trump Tower.
A lawyer for the workers said he received a call from someone named "Mr Baron" who threatened to sue if he did not drop a lawsuit over withheld pay for the workers, the New York Times reported.
A reporter for People magazine contacted Mr Trump's office in 1991 to interview him about the end of his marriage to Ivana Trump and his relationship with model Marla Maples.
The "media spokesman" called the reporter, Sue Carswell, back and began telling her about why Mr Trump broke up with Ms Maples for Italian model Carla Bruni.
"He really didn't want to make a commitment," said the man claiming to be John Miller. "He's coming out of a marriage, and he's starting to do tremendously well financially."
Once, Mr Miller slipped out of talking about Mr Trump in the third person in a conversation with Ms Carswell, but quickly corrected himself.
Mr Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee after pushing out more than a dozen Republican rivals in the race for the White House.
Traditional Republicans are warming to him to unify the party and beat likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
The divisive candidate, who in the past has been a registered Democrat, has no prior political experience. He has made controversial calls to build a border wall with Mexico, deport undocumented immigrants from the country and ban Muslims from the US.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has still not officially backed him but the two recently met in Washington and had a "productive meeting".
"It was an epiphany," Harry says of the first time he set eyes on John Lennon at college.
"I remember the particular moment exactly as it happened. I was sitting in the canteen, suddenly I looked up and this guy was striding by and he was like a teddy boy. He was quite striking.
"I saw all the other art students in the canteen and virtually every one of them was in a duffle coat and turtle-neck sweater. I thought blimey, they're supposed to be non-conformists and yet they all look the same. That guy is the one who looks different, he's the rebel, he's the one I'd like to meet.
"So I got to know him and took him to our local pub and introduced him to Stuart Sutcliffe and Rod Murray.
"He was a Jekyll and Hyde character. With me, Stuart and Rod, the four of us called ourselves The Dissenters. We used to talk about art and literature and read books by the San Francisco poets and the Olympia press in Paris.
"Then on the other hand, John went with this other bunch from the art college and used to get drunk and steal and get up to all sorts of mischief. With them he'd be rough, aggressive, wild, and with us he was talking about creative ideas and inspiration.
"When The Dissenters got together, we made a vow to make Liverpool famous. John would do it with his music, Stuart and Rod with their painting and I'd do it with my writing. That was the aim. But we didn't know how big things would get.
"There was great creativity, particularly in the Liverpool 8 area where we lived. We had the Mersey poets, country music groups, folk groups, sculptors, comedians, and we knew them. We used to drink together. We felt we were right in the middle of something that was mushrooming. We really made an effort to change things and create things.
"I booked The Beatles for the art college dances. We used to do dances on a Saturday night. Paul and George were next door to us in the Institute [The Liverpool Institute High School for Boys] and they used to come into the canteen.
"I was there when John and Stuart came up with the name Beatles. I just called them the college band because they weren't using The Quarrymen any more and couldn't seem to think of a decent name.
"They were sitting talking in Gambier Terrace [where Lennon and Sutcliffe shared a flat] trying to think of a decent name - they'd come up with silly names like The Moondogs.
"Stuart was saying 'We play a lot of Buddy Holly numbers, how about a name like Buddy Holly's backing band The Crickets?' And John said 'Yeah, let's think of insects'. So they tried The Beetles. It was in August 1960 that they finally decided on The Beatles.
"When I took the first edition of Mersey Beat to all the music shops, I went into [Brian Epstein's shop] Nems and asked to see the manager. Brian came down, I told him about the paper and he took a dozen. In the afternoon, he phoned me and couldn't believe that the dozen had sold straight away. For issue two, he ordered 12 dozen copies.
"The entire front cover was 'The Beatles record in Germany' with a photo of the leather-clad Beatles. He called me into his office and asked if he could be my record reviewer. I said OK, so his reviews appeared in issue three.
"He took me to lunch twice to ask about The Beatles and then asked if I could arrange for him to go down to the Cavern. He didn't want to stand in a queue with kids. So I phoned and Brian went down with his assistant and that's how it happened.
"It was with Love Me Do when they realised it was going to take off - they suddenly felt, this is it, we've made it. That was the turning point."
Bill Harry's new e-book titled Love Me Do, about the story of the song, is out now.
The 25-year-old joined County in September after overcoming injury problems following his release from Dundee United after their relegation.
Dow has made 23 appearances this season for the club, who have almost secured their top-flight status.
He follows County striker Craig Curran, who recently extended his own contract by a further year.
Ilvarasan and Vinothan Rajenthiram groomed nine girls before plying them with alcohol and assaulting them.
Ilvarasan, 26 of Wallasey Village, Wirral, was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison, while Vinothan, 27 of Wigan, received 18 and a half years.
They were found guilty of a total of 30 charges spanning more than five years.
Sentencing them at Liverpool Crown Court, Judge Norman Wright said "both abused their position in the shops to target teenage girls".
The grooming happened at convenience stores the brothers worked in at Birkenhead, Walton and Garston between 2010 and January 2016.
Judge Wright said they gave the 14 and 15-year-old girls free sweets and mobile phone top-ups, as well as serving them cigarettes, "to win their trust and confidence".
The pair, known to victims as Ara and Vino, then invited them to go for drives, listen to music and "chill out".
"The final step was to take them back to unoccupied flats and ply them with alcohol," the judge said.
Judge Wright added that it was all about the brothers' "sexual gratification".
Det Supt Dave Brunskill described the pair as "calculating sexual predators who went to extraordinary lengths to groom their victims".
He said: "In most cases, they gained the trust of the young girls then took the relationship further by coercing the girls to take part in sexual activity after plying them with alcohol.
"Victims mistakenly believed that these men genuinely had feelings for them and they didn't realise that they were being groomed and sexually exploited."
In a statement to court, one of the victims said the experience had "ruined my life".
She said she "trusted him to be a good person" and thought they had "something special".
"I had not done anything wrong," she said. "I was just a vulnerable, naive child who should have been safe in his company."
The mother of another victim said their sentences "will never justify the damage they have caused my daughter and all the others involved".
"The fact that those men pleaded not guilty sickened me and proves that they feel no guilt, shame or remorse. They have no conscience in my eyes," she added.
Ilvarasan was found guilty of 15 counts of sexual activity with a child, three counts of sexual assault and two counts of perverting the course of justice.
Vinothan was convicted of four counts of sexual assault, one rape, four counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of perverting the course of justice.
The pair were ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life.
The 32-year-old constable died in a gun and grenade attack alongside colleague PC Nicola Hughes, 23, in Mottram, Greater Manchester, last month.
Hundreds of police officers and members of the public lined the streets of Manchester as the cortege went past.
Crowds had turned out to pay their respects for the funeral of PC Hughes on Wednesday.
PC Bone's cortege had passed through the city centre from the junction of Deansgate and Quay Street to Manchester Cathedral.
By Nick RavenscroftBBC North of England correspondent
It was the gesture of an elderly lady which caught my eye while the service was going on inside the cathedral.
The Chief Constable was citing the words of the founder of the modern police service, Sir Robert Peel "the police are the public and the public are the police".
Outside officers were lined up waiting to form a guard of honour as the funeral cortege departed.
As she was walking past, the elderly woman stopped next to a particularly burly, but particularly gloomy looking policeman.
She went up to him and patted his forearm, saying a few words.
He was clearly touched and put his hand over hers as she turned to go.
Officers and the public all bowed their heads as the cortege passed and ripples of applause broke out along the route.
It was led by six horses from Greater Manchester Police's mounted unit followed by the hearse, bearing the coffin, which was shrouded in black cloth.
On top of the coffin was PC Bone's hat and gloves.
PC Bone's family were led into the cathedral by her partner's five-year-old daughter as a piper played the bagpipes.
Addressing the service, Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy paid tribute to PC Bone saying "she set high standards for herself and others".
He said: "Helping people and building community spirit was at the heart of everything she did."
Sir Peter said what stood out about her was "warmth, maturity and humanity" and ended his tribute saying "we will never forget her sacrifice".
He added that PC Bone had received a chief superintendent's commendation in 2009 for her outstanding contribution in an investigation into a series of burglaries and robberies which secured convictions.
He said: "Fiona treated everyone with dignity, compassion and respect whatever their background."
Like PC Hughes, Sir Peter said her "great sacrifice" would not be forgotten.
During the service Bible readings were given by PC Bone's colleagues Insp Jane Brown and PC Tracey Miskell.
Sgt Stephen Miskell told the congregation that PC Bone was "a perfect police officer".
He said: "Fiona was wonderful. She was wonderful at keeping colleagues' spirits high with her bubbly nature. She was wonderful about caring for others.
"Fiona represented the best that humanity has to offer the world but that makes her loss even greater."
The Greater Manchester force had said it wanted anyone touched by the deaths of the two officers to line the streets in a show of support.
The service was relayed by loudspeakers to people outside and was to be followed by a private funeral.
Opening the service, Greater Manchester Police chaplain the Reverend Charles Nevin said: "The depth of sorrow and grief we all feel, touches all our hearts" adding that everyone had come together to "acknowledge the great gift of Fiona's life".
When the hour-long service came to a close, police officers again formed a guard of honour as PC Bone's coffin was carried outside, with her hat, black leather gloves and Queen's Diamond Jubilee medal on top.
Again a piper played a lament - PC Bone, though born in England, had strong connections north of the border and regarded herself as Scottish.
As the hearse pulled away, followed by the other cars in the cortege, officers stood to attention and bowed their heads. The silence was broken by applause from members of the public who had come to pay their respects.
PC Bone will have a private burial in Scotland, attended only by close family and friends.
PC Bone had served with Greater Manchester Police for five years, starting out as a special constable.
She lived in Sale with her partner Clare and her daughter and had been planning a civil partnership.
The unarmed police constables had been sent to Abbey Gardens in Mottram to investigate what appeared to be a routine burglary report on 18 September when they were attacked with a gun and grenade.
Dale Cregan, 29, is in custody charged with the officers' murders, along with those of two other men.
The Police Federation has begun selling wristbands in honour of the officers, with all money raised to be donated to their families.
The survey of 5,847 Jewish people said 66% of those who responded considered anti-Semitism to be a problem.
Three out of four respondents, 76%, believed anti-Semitism had increased over the past five years.
The survey was carried out in 2012 in eight countries which are home to about 90% of the EU's Jewish population.
Respondents in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Sweden and the United Kingdom were asked to give "their opinions and perceptions on anti-Semitic trends and anti-Semitism as a problem in everyday".
They were also asked about their personal experiences and worries about their own safety and that of family members.
There was particular concern about anti-Semitism online. About three-quarters of respondents considered that to be a problem which is getting worse.
A British woman in her 50s, quoted in the survey, said she had "experienced more anti-Semitic comments" since going on Facebook "than I ever have done throughout my whole life".
She added: "This is very dispiriting. The speed at which hostile comments and misinformation can be passed around is frightening and leads to a sense of deep unease, which may not connect with the day-to-day reality of being Jewish in a diverse society."
The survey found 29% of those surveyed had considered emigrating because of concerns about safety, with particularly high figures recorded in Hungary (48%), France (46%) and Belgium (40%).
It found one in five respondents had personally experienced at least one anti-Semitic verbal insult and/or a physical attack in the year before the survey.
Perpetrators of the most serious incidents were described as "being perceived as someone with Muslim extremist views, 27%, left-wing political views, 22%, or with right-wing views, 19%".
Respondents said the most frequent comments made by non-Jewish people in the UK were: "Israelis behave 'like Nazis' towards the Palestinians" and "Jews exploit Holocaust victimhood for their own purposes" (both 35%).
In France 52% of the Jewish people surveyed described anti-Semitism as a "very big problem" in their country, in Hungary the figure was 49%, while in the UK it was much less - 11%.
The survey showed significant differences between Western and Eastern European countries.
In Latvia, only 8% said the Israeli-Arab conflict had had a large impact on how safe they felt, but the figure rose to 28% for Germany and was as high as 73% in France.
FRA Director Morten Kjaerum said this reflected differing histories, as well as recent patterns of immigration.
"I think that there is across Europe... a traditional form of anti-Semitism that goes back in history for a long time," he said.
"But then we also see a particular sort of anti-Semitism reported by the respondents, namely the anti-Semitism which comes out of the conflict in the Middle East. And this is where you have to be careful: when do you have a legitimate critique of whatever your position may be in terms of that particular conflict and when would it be an anti-Semitic statement?"
The FRA said EU countries should work "urgently" to find effective ways to combat online anti-Semitism. It called on public figures to condemn anti-Semitic statements.
The President of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, welcomed the survey, but said "the fact that a quarter of Jews are not able to express their Jewishness because of fear should be a watershed moment for the continent of Europe and the European Union."
"The Jewish reality in Europe is of great concern and the authorities need to deal with incidents of hate and intolerance in a holistic manner, to really combat these manifestations before it is too late.
"We would like to see concrete steps being taken, including creating legislation to specifically deal with anti-Semitism and racism, bolstering law enforcement agencies and ensure a zero-tolerance approach to anti-Semitism, even, and perhaps specifically, when opinion-shapers and decision-makers engage in these forms of hate," he said.
The Premiership leaders welcome Rangers to the east end of Glasgow on Saturday at 12:00 BST.
"It was one of the first fixtures I looked for," said Rodgers, who took charge in May. "It's another game but it's a special game.
"There's a uniqueness to each derby and this is one that is iconic throughout the world."
Celtic lead second-placed Rangers by one point at the top of the table with a game in hand.
Although the sides have met in the Scottish FA Cup and League Cup in the past two seasons, they have not played each other in the Premiership since 2012.
Rodgers, who has never attended an Old Firm derby, said: "I don't think anything will prepare you from watching it on the telly to actually being there.
"This being the first time in a number of years there's been a Celtic-Rangers game at Celtic Park, that will add that little bit of spice to it. The atmosphere will be incredible."
Former Liverpool and Swansea boss Rodgers added: "Every derby is different. The Merseyside derby was a fantastic game, the South Wales derby being different in its own way - great games to be involved in. And Liverpool against Manchester United is a real inter-city rivalry.
"But this again is a special game. I'm really looking forward to it and I know the team are.
"From where they were a few months ago it's a different team and a different identity within it. I've got huge confidence in the team."
Rangers beat Celtic 5-4 on penalties the last time the sides met, in the Scottish FA Cup semi-final last season.
But Rodgers, named Premiership manager of the month in August, accepts Celtic's tag as favourites.
"When you are Celtic and when you play a game at home that is what's expected of you," he said.
"We're not running away from it to say we don't want to be the favourite for the game, because whether we were playing Rangers, Aberdeen, St Johnstone or Hearts - whoever we play at home - our objective is to win.
"There was disappointment the last time Celtic played Rangers in the cup so this will be a good measure to see what level the team is at. But it'll be a tough game."
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BBC Wales economics editor Sarah Dickins joined an economist at a funfair in Rhyl, one of Wales' most deprived communities.
Professor Karel Williams, of Manchester Business School, says devolution has been "something of a non-event" in economic terms with Welsh ministers relying on growth from a trickle down from a booming south east of England.
He believes rather than powers Wales has been lacking in imaginative policy ideas.
"Some risk is justified because the mainstream orthodoxy of the last 30 years isn't working, it's time for a bit of boldness and imagination," he said.
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Dancers and performers, including "the singing jeweller" put on a show in Rochdale for visitors to the newly revealed crossing over the River Roch.
Built in the 14th Century and concreted over in 1904 when the tram network expanded, the historic bridge has re-opened to pedestrians after a £5m project.
Whiley, 23, lost the first set on a tie-break but won the next two to complete a 6-7 (1-7) 6-4 6-3 triumph over the Dutch second seed.
She will play her doubles partner Yui Kamiji in Sunday's final.
Japan's Kamiji beat the top-ranked Dutch player Jiske Griffioen 7-5 3-6 6-4 in her semi-final.
Andy Lapthorne's defence of his men's singles quad title ended with a second defeat in the round robin stage.
A quick search will turn up forums and sites where stolen goods, credit cards and data are openly traded.
But a glance into those places may not give you much idea about what is going on.
"Everyone can join as long as you speak Russian," said Anton, a malware researcher at security firm Sentinel One, who has inhabited this underground world for more than 20 years.
"By Russian I mean the USSR, so there is Ukrainians, there is Kazakhstan, there is Belarus. The Romanians are doing all the dirty work like spam and maintenance so they are not really involved in developing malware," he said. "But, today, is it mainly Russian? Yes."
Those vibrant underground marketplaces have a long history and Anton adds that he tracks the malware makers to gain insights into what they might do next.
"I was there from the very early stages," Anton told the BBC. "I guess I started at about the age of 12, when there was not much online community.
"Instead it was many channels where hackers exchanged information and exploits and kind of stuff like that," he said.
In those early days few wanted to break the law, he said.
"Back then there was not much money involved at all," he said. "It was only about sharing knowledge, sharing information, sharing various scripts or downloading warez - which is pirated content."
"It gives us an insight into the directions these communities are taking.
"We have to monitor these to understand what they are doing, the success they are having and what they are about to do next.
"You have to be prepared rather than just sit back and wait for it to happen to you. It's essential for us to have this kind of contact because without it we are blind."
"There's a lot of criminality going on on the open web, particularly when you get into the Russian federation. They do not need to be on the dark web. Some are quite brazen and quite public whereas others have a much higher level of operational security.
"If we are tracking a criminal location and we find chatter about our clients that can be of value," he said. "In the longer term it's what's coming over the horizon. What are they dialling up next?
"It's not trivial to do something like that, it's definitely not easy to do although I think there's definitely value in working out what they are doing."
The underground changed after the millennium turned and e-commerce took off. Forums popped up that talked about how to cash in via spam, phishing, malware and web attacks.
There was another big shift in 2007-08, said Anton, as the criminals sought a way to fleece people that gave better returns than the cruder techniques. The first wave, which started the modern era of cybercrime, used fake anti-virus software.
"They installed some really, really poorly written software on your machine," he said, explaining the scam. "It looked like anti-virus but it actually does nothing.
"It tells you: 'We just scanned your PC and we have found many problems. You need to fix it now, you need to buy this software. It only costs $35-40 (£28-32)'," he said.
This worked better than earlier scams, said Anton, but it took a lot of effort to catch people out and get them to pay.
Often, he said, when people paid via a credit card they reversed the transaction once they found out they had been tricked. Conversion rates, meaning the number of victims who handed over cash, stayed low.
"This meant they must do something better, something more scary."
Frightened people pay up, said Anton, adding that this drove the next evolution: lockers.
"What they do is they attack your browser and put up a big page on your main desktop, saying you were found with illegal child pornography or something very, very scary," he said.
"People got afraid saying 'OK, maybe one of my kids did it, maybe, I'm not sure, I'll pay',".
The one-page attacks asked for more money, up to $200 (£160), and proved so successful that many police forces issued warnings that urged people not to pay.
The success, and also the publicity, forced the next stage of crimeware - ransomware, Anton explained.
"I call it an evolution because the same people that did the fake anti-virus before are doing ransomware now. And they were doing the fake police page in the years between 2010 and 2013," he said.
Ransomware has the best conversion rate, he said, because victims cannot ignore its effects.
"It's real damage so that you can see that your files are no longer working. And that's the best proof for the user that he must pay," he said.
Its rise has also been helped by the advent of virtual currency Bitcoin, because it has few of the drawbacks of credit cards or other payment systems.
"Today you cannot talk about ransomware without mentioning Bitcoin because that's what made this evolution come," said Anton.
The damage is not just limited to the amount people pay. Estimates from the FBI suggest that the 992 cases of ransomware carrier Cryptowall reported during a 14-month period cost victims $18m (£14.4m). Some of the cost was in the ransom, up to $10,000 (£8,000), but this was multiplied by lost productivity, legal fees and work done to remove the infections.
It is popular, he said, because of another shift in the way that the underground is organised. In the past the groups writing the malware sent the spam, analysed the results and fleeced the victims.
Not any more, he said. Now, many groups writing ransomware run it as a service.
"They will give you the software with your affiliate ID so if you spread it they will know that it's from you and you will get a payout," he said. "You will get 70% and they will get the 30% out of each payment."
Competition among ransomware writers means some other groups give better returns.
But, he said, those groups may be producing poorly-written malware that struggles to get past the digital defences people and businesses use.
The evolution of the underground has hit a peak with ransomware and Bitcoin, said Anton, and their combined success has kicked off a gold rush.
"It's getting more and more people attracted to it, like from the criminal side. More and more people are starting to spread it."
They will not stop, either, he said. "I think if you get easy money and it just keeps coming, why not continue it, right? It's obvious."
Twenty-two people died and scores were injured in the suspected suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena.
Belfast City Council has opened a book of condolence for the victims in the reception of Belfast City Hall.
The taoiseach (Irish prime minister) and the Irish president both sent their sympathies to the people of the UK.
The explosion in Manchester happened at 22:35 BST on Monday at the end of a pop concert by the US singer Ariana Grande.
All events at the SSE Arena in Belfast are currently proceeding as planned, although those due to attend Tuesday's show with Prof Brian Cox have been advised to leave extra time for "additional security measures".
SSE Arena officials have held talks with the PSNI and Harbour Police and said they were taking steps to minimise any security risk at the venue.
Greater Manchester Police said officers are treating the Manchester bombing "as a terrorist incident".
Police believe the attack was carried out by one man, who was carrying an improvised explosive device which he detonated.
Leaders of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Sinn Féin, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Alliance have all expressed shock and sympathy to those affected.
DUP leader Arlene Foster said: "Whilst terrorists can bring pain and grief, the kindness and generosity displayed by the people of Manchester has already shown that they will not win."
Sinn Féin's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill said: "For something like that to happen while young people are out enjoying themselves is unthinkable."
Ulster Unionist leader Robin Swann said the "barbaric attack... was an attempt to destroy our way of life and will not succeed".
The party has postponed its manifesto launch, which had been due this Thursday, until Thursday of next week.
Suspending the SDLP's campaign, including its manifesto launch which was due to take place on Tuesday, party leader Colum Eastwood, said: "Today is a day for unity of purpose, not party political difference."
Alliance leader Naomi Long said: "Those behind these attacks cannot be allowed to win. They try to threaten our very way of life but in doing so, inspire people to show the best of humanity by presenting generosity and compassion.
"That is proof good will triumph over evil."
Northern Ireland Secretary of State James Brokenshire said it was shocking that so many bright, young lives had been cut short in Manchester.
He tweeted: "Prayers for all those affected by this appalling attack #WeStandTogether".
A Conservative Party spokesman for Northern Ireland said in a statement: "This is a time for leadership in the UK that stands strongly and unequivocally against terrorism of any kind."
The Northern Ireland Conservatives, whose manifesto was due to be launched tomorrow have postponed it until a date yet to be decided.
Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan said he was "not at this time aware of any Irish citizens affected" by the bombing.
But he said the Irish government would "stand by our nearest neighbour, the UK, especially due to the strong links between our country and the city of Manchester".
The outgoing Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Enda Kenny said he was "heartbroken" for all those killed and injured.
"The city of Manchester has exceptionally close ties with our country and I extend the solidarity of the Irish government and all our people to those affected across the UK," Mr Kenny added.
Irish President Michael D Higgins said: "Manchester has been home to the Irish and so many nationalities for centuries.
"Our thoughts in Ireland are with all of the people of Manchester and our neighbours throughout the United Kingdom at this time."
Mr Higgins added he was writing a formal letter to Queen Elizabeth to convey the sympathy of the Irish people.
Police in Manchester have set up an emergency telephone number in response to the attack. It is: 0161 856 9400.
The Irish government said any Irish citizens with concerns for family and friends can contact its Department of Foreign Affairs: 00 353 1 408 2000.
About 28,000 people took part in the event, run by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), on Sunday.
Police said the man crashed into a telegraph pole near Reigate, Surrey, at about 07:25 BST. At about 10:00, the woman crashed near Redhill.
The BHF said an investigation would be carried out in conjunction with police.
Officers said the man, who is in his 30s and from London, was taken to St George's Hospital in south London where he remains in a serious condition.
The woman, also in her 30s, was airlifted to St George's with head and eye injuries. Police said her condition was stable.
Louise Parkes, director of fundraising at the BHF, said: "We are saddened to hear that two cyclists have been injured while taking part in today's British Heart Foundation London to Brighton Bike Ride.
"An investigation will be carried out in conjunction with the police, ride managers and other agencies.
"As soon as we're in a position to comment further we will do so. Our thoughts are with those involved and their families."
Some people have raised questions about the safety of the 54-mile ride on social media.
One tweeted: "@TheBHF very well organised event , but you need to address rider safety .#toomanyaccidents"
The BHF wrote back that it was always trying to improve safety and would be looking at issues for next year's bike ride.
Another cyclist wrote: "Pleased with my achievement today. An hour off my PB, but can't get the injured man's face out of my head. Update? @TheBHF @LDNtoBrighton"
Those who took part in Sunday's bike ride included Masterchef presenter and chef John Torode, Olympic gold-medal winning rowers Mark Hunter and Tom James and TV presenter Aggie Mackenzie.
Zheng Churan says "feminists around the world are watching" Mr Trump for signs of "straight man cancer".
The Chinese term refers to sexual discrimination and male chauvinism.
She was among five women dubbed the "Feminist Five", who were detained by Chinese authorities last year for their activism.
Ms Zheng said she wanted to point out Mr Trump's "sexual discrimination" in her open letter as she found that in China "the general opinion from society is that they don't think it's a big deal".
Ms Zheng believes there has not been enough outrage in China about aspects of Mr Trump's behaviour towards women.
"They say Trump is a crazy man, but he is better than Hillary Clinton who is a cheater," she told the BBC.
"(They think) feminism and gender equality should make a concession for a country's development. I think it is very horrible, and it is wrong."
Ms Zheng said she was worried Mr Trump would crack down on US women's rights activists, mirroring the clampdown she herself has faced in recent years in China.
"My real goal is to make people who support Trump's behaviour to realise that even feminists in... China are all concerned about it, and we aspire to fight back instead of just sitting there."
In her letter, which she posted to Mr Trump on Monday as well as posted online (in Chinese), Ms Zheng says: "We are far away in China, but we have seen reports of your sexist behaviour.
"Gender equality is a global issue and the feminist movement will not stop just because of 'straight man cancer'.
"If those with 'straight man cancer' carelessly insult, discriminate, or are violent towards women, they will be made to pay a price for their actions and words.
"We hope you know that feminists around the world are watching you."
Ms Zheng also encloses a list of top "straight man cancer" types of behaviour, culled from a poll she conducted online with more than 10,000 respondents.
They include "using double standards" to judge women and "underestimating women's creativity and scientific knowledge".
The 27-year-old is known for her vocal activism on a range of women's rights issues in China.
One of the BBC's 100 Women this year, one of her latest campaigns is for companies to offer every woman menstrual leave.
She and four other women activists were detained in the run-up to International Women's Day in China last year.
They were eventually let go several weeks later after calls for their release by the UK's Foreign Office, the EU and the US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power.
The local authority has said it could increase Council Tax by 2.5% - adding an extra £28.50 to a Band 'D' property - to generate £3m.
The council's funding is being reduced by 4.54%, compared with a national average reduction of 4.8%.
The council said it "may result in a reduction in employee numbers".
The authority has said it hoped to delay recruitment to currently vacant posts and help avoid compulsory redundancies.
Councillors will meet to set their budget on Thursday 9 February.
It comes after the council said it had received the third lowest funding settlement from the Scottish government, which was £7.4m less than in 2016.
Aberdeenshire has been allocated £394m in revenue and £30.7m towards capital expenditure.
It said that together with income from Council Tax, non-domestic rates and other charges, the council was expected to set a budget to deliver local services worth £540m and continue its ambitious capital programme of building new schools, leisure centres and roads projects.
Among the savings being considered alongside a council tax rise are a review of the school transport network, streamlining waste collection routes and less frequent cleaning of bus shelters.
Led by a reissue of The Stone Roses' debut album, vinyl sales grew by more than 62% compared to 2013, with 12-inch single sales growing by 15.4% alone.
However, 7-inch vinyl sales fell by 28%, partly because fewer records were released in the format.
The figures are in keeping with the US, where week-on-week sales grew by 91%.
Nielsen Entertainment called it "the most successful Record Store Day ever for vinyl", with LP sales up 58% over the same week last year.
Record Store Day was created in the US in 2007. Now in its seventh year, it champions independently-owned record stores in the UK and US, and celebrates vinyl recordings.
In the UK, the Stone Roses' eponymous album was the biggest-selling vinyl album of the week, in a chart populated with classic bands such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the Ramones - both of whom also featured in the US chart.
"The vinyl format, whilst still popular with baby-boomers that grew up with it and nurtured in recent years by events such as Record Store Day, increasingly also appeals to an engaged audience of younger artists and consumers alike, who appreciate its iconic heritage as part of Rock and Pop culture," said Gennaro Castaldo, spokesman for the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
"LP sales doubled in volume last year to 780,000 units - the highest annual total in over 15 years, and with sales up again this year, we're close to seeing the greatest demand for vinyl recordings in nearly two decades."
Officers believe the children took the drug after it was mixed in a bottle of soft drink.
Greater Manchester Police said a man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of being in possession of a controlled substance.
They are being held in custody for questioning.
It is thought the girls are among the youngest people in the UK to have fallen ill after taking the drug.
Officers were called to Salford Precinct on Saturday night amid reports a girl was overdosing and later found her two friends.
The force is investigating how they got hold of the tablets.
Last month, a 17-year-old girl died in Greater Manchester after suffering an adverse reaction to ecstasy. Two people arrested in connection with her death are on bail.
Police were called by North West Ambulance Service at about 22:00 BST while paramedics treated one of the girls, who they suspected of having overdosed.
They found one of the girls at the precinct, one in Belvedere Road, Salford, and the third girl was found about an hour later in Trafford Road. The girl at the precinct told police about her two friends.
Det Ch Insp Chris Walker said he hopes they will make "a full recovery".
"Sadly, three more young people, who are only 12-years-old, have taken ecstasy and ended up in hospital," he said.
"I am really concerned that children are now coming into contact with controlled drugs and they are now taking them on the streets of Salford."
He added: "It is imperative young people understand the implications and avoid taking drugs, to stop any more young people ending up in hospital."
The detective said three other young people had needed hospital treatment in recent months after taking a variation of ecstasy.
Mr Erdogan denied allegations by Republican People's Party chief, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, that he used taxpayers' money to decorate his bathroom.
He said he would resign if his opponent found a golden toilet seat in his home.
"I invite him to please come and take a tour," Mr Erdogan told state TV.
"If he finds one, I will resign from the presidency. If he can't find them - will he resign from the CHP (Republican People's Party)?
"I challenge him come to the palace to prove it," he added.
The interview with broadcaster TRT was conducted at the palace in a room filled with gold-coloured furniture, according to the Associated Press.
Mr Kilicdaroglu did not immediately respond to the invitation.
He has repeatedly criticised Mr Erdogan's lavish lifestyle in speeches ahead of a general election on Sunday.
He told supporters at a rally in Izmir: "Gentlemen in Ankara, palaces have been built for you, planes bought, Mercedes cars purchased... golden seats have been bought, that's how you use the toilet."
Mr Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade, built the 1,000-room palace in the capital Ankara at a cost of almost £400m ($615m) and moved in after he became president in in August 2014.
Bigger than either the White House or the Kremlin, it had already cost more than twice the original estimates of treasury officials.
It comes after five Welsh supporters and four English ones were arrested after "disorder" on a train from Calais on Wednesday.
The atmosphere between supporters was said to be "good-natured" following Wales' 2-1 loss to England on Thursday.
Paul Corkery of Fan Embassy Wales said what was thought to be a "high risk" match had "a fantastic atmosphere".
It followed clashes in nearby Lille on Wednesday, where many have been staying.
Mr Corkery said: "[Following trouble involving Russia supporters Marseille] They decided safety in numbers and joined up together and all got on - there was some banter after the match, that was fun and games. With regards to violence, there wasn't any, that's fantastic."
Assistant Chief Constable Mark Roberts, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for football policing, said the 12pm alcohol curfew and use of plastic bottles had been "helpful tools in preventing an escalation of violent behaviour".
"More UK officers are now in France and we are working with the French police should there be any further disturbances," he added.
"A reminder to fans to enjoy the rest of the tournament, keep yourselves safe and behave responsibly - do not retaliate to provocation and seek help from police if you are harassed or attacked."
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.
Wales face Russia in their final Group B game on Monday night and can still qualify for the last 16 stage of the tournament.
The 19 year-old added 85 for the first wicket with Paul Horton (41) before Glamorgan claimed three quick wickets, two to teenager Lukas Carey.
Dearden then dominated a stand of 90 with Mark Pettini (63 not out) before being bowled by spinner Andrew Salter.
Pettini steered the Foxes to a second batting point underneath the lights.
Dearden, who was dropped on one, survived a couple of run-out chances in his lengthy vigil of 211 balls.
But it was a gritty performance from the home team after being put in to bat, in a battle of two teams who had lost their opening two fixtures by large margins.
Salter claimed a second wicket, bowling Cameron Delport for 20, before Pettini and Lewis Hill accelerated against the new ball in a stand of 73.
Leicestershire batsman Harry Dearden told BBC Radio Leicester:
"I was very proud to get a career-best, I would have loved to have got to three figures but still very proud, it's been a really good day for us.
"It was doing a bit early on, nipping around and swinging, you've just got to take as many balls as you can to get in and it was a good battle up top.
"I just tried to knuckle down and be as disciplined as I could. It's good batting with Horts (Paul Horton), he's an experienced head and calms you down, and it's really good batting with Mark (Pettini), he keeps you level."
Glamorgan spinner Andrew Salter told BBC Wales Sport:
"I am happy to take those two wickets, though it won't come as a surprise that they didn't turn that much- one through the gate and one a bit fuller that hit a bit of rough.
"It was more about trying to control the run-rate and I felt that if I built enough pressure there'd be some reward at the end of it, so hopefully I won't be needed too much more in the first innings.
"For the majority of the day we bowled really well as a group, Lukas (Carey) bowled amazingly up top, the run-rate was 2.6 for most of the day and it wasn't until the end that they got away from us."
Entropic produces chips for set-top boxes for cable and satellite TV providers.
The company is undertaking a restructuring that will see 40% of its global workforce lose their jobs.
The Belfast operation, which has its offices on Malone Road, acts as its European design and sales centre.
The company has been in the city since 2012 when it acquired the Belfast operation as part of a takeover of Trident Microsystems.
The council's chief executive Dr Gwynne Jones said there had been "a great deal of misinformation" about plans.
Orthios hopes to create more than 1,700 jobs with a combined biomass plant and eco park at the former Anglesey Aluminium site near Holyhead.
It will give a charity a small part of a building rent free to house modern slavery victims.
Orthios Eco Park's chief executive Sean McCormick gave an update to members of Anglesey county and Holyhead town councils - saying work on the site will begin in the summer.
He said the company would act as landlord to the north Wales anti-human trafficking project as part of its aim to be a socially responsible community partner.
The site will be used to house a small number of modern slavery victims for a couple of days before they are moved elsewhere.
However, he stressed the new centre would not be used as a secure area to house refugees.
Anglesey council granted permission for the former medical building to be used by the north Wales anti-human trafficking project.
It said since October 2015, 12 victims of human trafficking have entered the national referral scheme from north Wales - seven from Anglesey and Gwynedd.
Dr Jones said: "There has certainly been a great deal of misinformation locally and in hindsight both Orthios and the county council should have engaged with the local community and residents before the planning application for change of use of the building was submitted.
"I'm pleased that the company has now met with local representatives and explained its plans in more detail."
The company posted an 8.4% drop in underlying annual profit on Thursday £275.2m.
But reassurance from the company that it would not go private and that it may buy back shares bolstered its share price, traders said.
Its shares were up by about 6%, having risen 13% earlier in the session.
This put it among the top gainers on Britain's FTSE 250 index of mid-cap companies.
The retailer was harshly criticised for the way it treated its staff, including paying salaries below the minimum wage.
This resulted in boss Mike Ashley appearing before MPs to answer their concerns.
Sports Direct said current political uncertainty after the UK voted to leave the EU last month was likely to act as a drag on consumer confidence.
Shares in the group had fallen 28% since Britain voted to leave the European Union on 23 June.
Sports Direct warned on the day after the EU referendum that the fall in the value of sterling against the dollar was likely to have an effect on stock purchases for which it was not hedged this financial year and beyond.
The pound has fallen to below $1.30 against the dollar since the referendum, from just below $1.50 before the vote.
The retailer said lower traffic on the High Street and the weaker pound made the outlook for next year hard to predict.
"When combined with the structural difficulties for UK retailers, including High Street footfall, and our exposure to the weakness of the pound against the U.S. dollar, these factors make the current outlook for [2017] somewhat uncertain and therefore hard to predict," it said in a statement.
Sports Direct reported pre-tax profit for the year to 24 April of £361.8m ($469m), while revenue was up 2.5% at £2.9bn.
Analysts said that investors feared that results would be even worse, which in part explains the share price rise.
"Disappointing they might have been, but many analysts had feared even worse and so the numbers were greeted with relief by the market," broker Hargreaves Lansdown said in a note.
Andrew Houston, 48, denies driving carelessly on the A9 between Newtonmore and Kingussie on 9 July 2013.
His wife Abigail, daughter Mia and GP Dr Mohammed Ali Hayajneh died in the crash near Ralia.
Mr Houston's 10-year-old daughter and her sister were seriously injured.
Mr Houston, who lived in Trinity with his family, went on trial at Inverness Sheriff Court on Monday.
Ursula Hayajneh, a German tourist, told the court of the split second decision she had to make before the car crash, which killed her husband.
Ursula Hayajneh, 59, a housewife from Duisburg, said she had the choice of hitting a small Peugeot car in front of her or try and avoid the oncoming Audi.
Both cars hit head on and were propelled into the air.
"Maybe if I had gone left and hit the small car, my husband would be alive today." Mrs Hayajneh said.
Mr Houston denies driving carelessly by crossing on to the opposite carriageway, into the path of a car driven by a Polish tourist, Zbigniew Suski, who had to take evasive action.
The charge states Mr Houston's car then hit Mrs Hayajneh's vehicle, causing the three deaths.
In agreed evidence between prosecutor Roderick Urquhart and Mr Houston's QC, Frances McMenamin, the jury heard Mr Houston was not on a mobile phone at the time.
Mr Houston is a senior partner at McSporrans defence Solicitors in Edinburgh.
The trial, which is expected to conclude on Thursday, continues.
Defender Simon Francis committed his future to the Premier League club by signing a new three-and-a-half year deal on Wednesday.
Howe wants more to follow Francis' lead in the months ahead as the Cherries press for top flight survival.
"I've always said one of the biggest challenges is to keep hold of the squad we have," Howe told BBC Radio Solent.
"I'm delighted Simon is the first to commit to the club and hopefully more will follow.
"We've a really good mentality in the squad. That's down to the players being good characters and being moulded to what we do.
"That's crucial to our long-term success and once we add players, it's easier for them to adjust to the mindset that's already here in the main core of the group."
Following the departure of striker Yann Kermorgant to Reading and the release of defender Elliott Ward to Blackburn, Howe denied more players would leave before the end of the January transfer window.
"I'm not trying to push people out," he replied. "But, you do have to readdress the balance slightly when you bring players in.
"If there's not a route for someone to get in the team, it may be better for them to move elsewhere."
Parent company Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) said both sides had secured a "recommended deal" after "constructive talks".
Mick Whelan, General Secretary of Aslef, said union members would now be balloted on the proposals.
The result of the vote will be announced on 3 April.
Mr Whelan said the new terms "offer solutions to our concerns, as well as restoring the confidence of all parties, and the travelling public".
GTR director Andy Bindon said he was pleased with the deal and hoped it would end "an extraordinarily difficult period for passengers, staff and the regional economy".
Aslef has been in dispute with GTR over driver-only operated (DOO) trains, and the firm's decision to turn guards into on-board supervisors and give responsibility for opening and closing carriage doors to drivers.
The union's members have taken six days of strike action in recent months which have crippled Southern services.
It also banned overtime which caused huge disruption to Southern's 300,000 passengers.
In February, Aslef members rejected a deal with Southern by a majority of 54.1% in a similar ballot. It came after 11 days of talks between the rail operator and the union.
Just days before, talks between the Rail Maritime and Transport Workers union (RMT) and Southern rail broke down without any deal agreement.
Mick Cash, leader of the RMT, which has also been taking strike action against Southern, said: "RMT has not seen the detail of the proposed outline agreement between GTR and Aslef and we are of course requesting a full copy as it goes to the heart of our disputes with the company.
"In the meantime RMT is pressing yet again for urgent talks with the company in our guards and drivers' disputes."
This is not a done deal - yet. Last month, drivers unexpectedly rejected a deal brokered by their own union.
The margin wasn't large - 55% against - and the two sides have been talking ever since to find a way of bringing a majority of the members back on board.
We've not been told the details of the revised agreement.
But it's likely to include further improvements to CCTV monitoring systems drivers use when closing the train doors.
Passengers will be crossing their fingers that this time the deal will be strong enough to stick.
But the separate dispute involving train guards is not part of this deal, and the year-long action by the RMT union continues.
The horse, trained in Australia by John O'Shea, will bid to give Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin team their first win in the "race that stops a nation".
Big Orange, for Michael Bell, seeks to become the first British-trained victor in the contest's 156th running.
More than 100,000 fans are expected at the track on what is a public holiday in the state of Victoria.
Hartnell only finished 15th last year but won the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington last month before finishing runner-up in the Cox Plate.
Godolphin have four other runners trained in Britain - Saeed bin Suroor's Secret Number and Beautiful Romance and Charlie Appleby's pair of Oceanographer and Qewy - with prize money of AUS $6.2m (£3.86m) up for grabs.
"It's a race that every owner would love to win. We want to win it, His Highness wants to win it," Appleby said. "It'd be a huge feather in anyone's cap."
They are among nine international hopefuls, with Bondi Beach, Wicklow Brave and Heartbreak City travelling over from Ireland, while Japan will be represented by Curren Mirotic.
Jameka is the only Australian-bred runner in the two-mile race, which saw history made a year ago when Michelle Payne, on Prince Of Penzance, became the first female jockey to triumph.
Payne did not get a mount in the 2016 edition after sustaining injuries in a race fall in May that limited her preparation.
The mezzo soprano was due to perform at Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod and is said to be "absolutely gutted" after taking medical advice.
She said it was an opportunity to perform her "dream role" of Carmen and was "devastated" at the timing.
American mezzo soprano Kate Aldrich has been lined up to replace her.
The concert version of Bizet's opera will be performed at the festival's opening night ‪on Tuesday, 5 July.
Festival chairman Dr Rhys Davies said: "I have real sympathy for Katherine because I know how much this role meant to her. We are really sorry about this but Katherine is unable to perform Carmen.
"On the other hand, we have been unbelievably lucky to be able to sign up a truly world class opera singer in her place."
Staff told police that beef items on their menu were buffalo, not cow, meat.
Police said they only went to Kerala House as a "preventive measure", not to investigate the complaint or take meat samples.
An angry Kerala government has complained to the police.
Kerala is one of the few Indian states in which cow slaughter is legal.
Most states, including Delhi, most states, including Delhi, ban the slaughter of cows, because the cow is considered sacred by India's majority Hindus.
Indian media report that Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the police of overstepping their authority.
"I would like to inform you that the Kerala House staff canteen serves authentic vegetarian and non-vegetarian Kerala cuisine and the items in the menu are entirely within law," the letter is reported to have said.
The confusion likely stemmed from the fact that in India, buffalo meat is often called "beef", the BBC's South Asia Editor Charles Haviland reports.
After the police action, the institution removed the buffalo meat from its kitchens - but has since, defiantly, restored it, our correspondent says.
Following Monday evening's incident, the police picked up the caller from the Hindu Sena group for further questioning.
"We dealt with the matter with necessary alertness and took our position. The objective was to ensure that law and order is not disrupted," Jatin Narwal, a senior police officer, told the NDTV news site.
However, Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy condemned the police for visiting Kerala House at all.
"The Delhi police should have shown restraint and consulted officials concerned before checking the premises for beef dishes," Mr Chandy told Indian television channels.
The incident has led to outrage on both social and mainstream media.
"Kerala's famed beef curry has been an annoying bone that got stuck in the throat of the Sangh parivar [Hindu hardline group], especially because many Hindus in the state relish the dish," an editorial in the Telegraph newspaper said.
Arun Shourie, who was a minister in the former BJP government, also criticised the government, saying its policies were identical to those of the previous Congress government - except for its preoccupation with cows.
"People have started recalling the days of [former prime minister] Manmohan Singh. The way to characterise the policies of the government is - Congress plus a cow. The policies are the same," he said at a function in Delhi.
"Kerala House" was one of the top trends on Twitter India, with many criticising the government as well as what they saw as overzealous police action.
The issue of beef consumption has become highly political since a 50-year-old Muslim man was lynched in north India over allegations that he had consumed beef.
Government ministers from the Hindu nationalist BJP said the incident was a "spontaneous expression of anger", while the chief minister of the northern state of Haryana said the cow "is an article of faith" in India.
The beef ban has provoked outrage, with many questioning the government's right to decide what is on their plate.
It has also been criticised by many as beef is cheaper than chicken and fish and is a staple for the poorer Muslim, tribal and Dalit (formerly untouchable) communities.
The 23-year-old has enjoyed a terrific start to the campaign, taking 18 wickets in the opening two County Championship matches.
"I put in a lot of hard work over the winter and it's coming good for me," he told BBC Look North.
"I never thought I'd have this kind of start to the season."
Coad added: "I'm not setting any targets but hopefully I can keep this momentum going for as long as possible and I'll see where it takes me.
"The last two weeks have been surreal."
There was little for the supporters to get excited about in the first period. Will Hatfield found space but shot wide for the visitors, and Craig Braham-Barrett fired just over for Braintree.
Jerome Okimo helped to break the deadlock early in the second half, coming up from the back to head in a set-piece, getting the Braintree faithful dreaming of salvation in two weeks' time.
Michael Cheek added a second from close range on 71 minutes to put matters beyond Adam Lockwood's men.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Braintree Town 2, Guiseley 0.
Second Half ends, Braintree Town 2, Guiseley 0.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Kyron Farrell replaces Sam Corne.
Substitution, Guiseley. Alex Purver replaces Simon Walton.
Substitution, Guiseley. Michael Rankine replaces Adam Boyes.
Goal! Braintree Town 2, Guiseley 0. Michael Cheek (Braintree Town).
Substitution, Braintree Town. Kristopher Twardek replaces Craig Braham-Barrett.
Substitution, Guiseley. Derek Asamoah replaces Jordan Preston.
Goal! Braintree Town 1, Guiseley 0. Jerome Okimo (Braintree Town).
Second Half begins Braintree Town 0, Guiseley 0.
First Half ends, Braintree Town 0, Guiseley 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The 76-year-old man, who has not been named, died 75 days after the operation in Paris.
The bioprosthetic device, made by French company Carmat, is designed to replace the real heart for up to five years.
It is intended to help patients who are in the advanced stages of heart failure.
At this late stage of the disease, the damaged organ can no longer pump enough blood for the body to function normally.
When the device was fitted, the patient was said to have only a few weeks, or even days to live.
It's not known whether his death was due to any malfunction of the artificial heart or the patient's severe ill-health.
Three more patients in France with terminal heart failure are scheduled to be fitted with the artificial heart.
The clinical trial will be considered a success if they survive for at least a month.
A further trial of another 20 patients will examine to what extent the device improves their quality of life.
Eventually the company hopes to get a European licence for the prototype heart, which is expected to cost around £150,000.
The Carmat device weighs nearly 1kg, three times that of a human heart. It is powered by an external lithium battery pack, which the patient wears on a belt.
It is made from a combination of synthetic materials, surrounded by a plastic shell.
Inside the heart, some of the surfaces which come into contact with blood are made from cow heart tissue, which are less likely to cause clots to form.
The patient trials follow many years of laboratory research and extensive animal studies.
The Carmat heart is designed to work for five years.
Artificial hearts have been used for decades, but usually as a means of helping a failing heart to pump blood around the body.
Several companies are working on devices which entirely take over from the damaged organ until a donor heart becomes available.
In 2011 Matthew Green became the first patient in Britain to have his heart completely replaced by an artificial organ.
The 40-year-old was suffering from a severe heart condition, which meant he could have died at any time.
Mr Green said the artificial heart, made by the US firm SynCardia, had 'revolutionised' his life, allowing him to go out for walks and to the local pub.
Last summer surgeons at Papworth hospital in Cambridgeshire replaced his plastic device with a donor organ.
Mr Green told the BBC the artificial heart had 'done the job very well for two years' allowing him to survive while waiting for a suitable heart.
The need for artificial hearts is driven by the shortage of donor organs.
It is common for patients to wait well over a year for a suitable heart and it is estimated that three people a day die while waiting for an organ transplant.
However latest figures show a record number of people in the UK donated organs after their death in 2013.
1,323 people became organ donors last year compared to 1,164 in 2012, a 13.7% increase.
As a result nearly 3,500 patients received organ transplants.
Despite the increase, nearly four in 10 families approached in the UK still refuse to allow a relative's organs to be used.
This refusal rate drops to just one in 20 when the patient is on the organ donor register and has previously discussed their wishes.
Wales will become the first UK country to adopt an opt out organ donation system in 2015.
Individuals will be presumed to have consented for their organs to be donated unless they opt out.
Elaine McKay, 58, worked at the Clacton Coastal Academy when the offences happened, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.
Ms McKay, of Clacton, denies two counts of sexual activity sex with the 15-year-old boy.
She told the jury: "I've never had sex with him."
Ms Mckay is accused of starting a sexual relationship with the teenager while working at the 1,700-pupil school.
She wept as she admitted sending explicit pictures to the schoolboy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, for about a year.
She confessed to performing "graphic sexual acts" on herself as he watched on Skype.
Maria Dineen, defending, said: "You accept that there were messages and pictures sent by you and activity on Skype that was of a sexual nature."
McKay, a mother-of-two and grandmother-of-two, replied through tears: "Yes. Sorry, yes."
Taking a sip of water to compose herself, the teaching assistant - who has been suspended from her job - insisted it was the schoolboy who started it by asking for a picture of her.
She said he sent her a picture of his privates and she responded by sending him images.
She told jurors: "He kept pestering and asking me 'please, just one picture, just one picture, even if it's just a pair of knickers'."
Ms McKay, of Banister Close, said the first explicit picture she sent him was a "silly" picture of her shower which had her underwear hanging in the background.
Asked why she sent the pictures, Ms McKay said: "I have no idea whatsoever. This is my regret. I don't know, I don't know the reason."
The court previously heard how the relationship began after Ms McKay visited the pupil's home to drop off a cake.
The schoolboy claims the pair had sex afterwards.
His relatives were not in and the teenager said he went and had a shower. He claims that on his return Ms McKay was waiting in his bedroom, ripped off his towel and had sex with him.
But she vehemently denied having sex with the schoolboy and insisted she had never been alone in a room with him.
The trial continues.
A national service was held at the Welsh National War Memorial in Cardiff with others at Llandudno, Wrexham, Aberystwyth, Swansea and elsewhere.
But a parade in Newport was cancelled because organisers could not afford the £700 public liability insurance.
Organiser Henry West said it was the first time in 50 years Caerleon's Royal British Legion had cancelled a service.
In the capital, Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb and First Minister Carwyn Jones joined others laying wreaths at the Wales National War Memorial in Alexandra Gardens, Cathays Park.
"The Welsh national service of remembrance gives us an opportunity to pay our respects to those who lost their lives in conflict," Mr Jones said ahead of the service.
"This year we commemorated the 70th anniversary of VE Day and VJ Day and it's important we continue to pay tribute to those armed forces personnel who have given their lives for the freedoms we enjoy today."
Mr Crabb said those who died in battle made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
"We also reflect on current conflicts around the world, and the daily sacrifices made by those who continue to defend our values and way of life," he added.
"We are all indebted to their bravery, courage and selflessness serving in the line of duty at home and overseas."
Fallen soldiers were also remembered at other services across Wales, including at the war memorial in Llandudno, Conwy, and another at Wrexham's cenotaph.
Both red and white poppy wreaths were laid in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, by the British Legion and the town's Peace and Justice Network.
Tributes were also paid at Brecon Cathedral, Powys, and at Swansea's memorial in the city's Castle Square.
Australia were more competitive than in the 42-8 defeat in Sydney last weekend, but were 15-9 down at half-time with Israel Dagg scoring a brace of tries.
Julian Savea and Sam Cane then added further scores to make it two wins from two in the 2016 Rugby Championship.
In Saturday's other game, Argentina beat South Africa 26-24 after a late Santiago Gonzalez Iglesias penalty.
In a sometimes fractious match, Australia lock Adam Coleman was yellow-carded for a shoulder charge on Ben Smith, while All Blacks prop Owen Franks put his hand into the face of Australia second row Kane Douglas at a maul, drawing accusations of eye gouging.
"We saw it [the Franks incident] at the time," said Australia coach Michael Cheika. "I'm sure the match review will pick that up. It was pretty open, it would be pretty hard for the match review guy to miss."
Australia were heavily criticised after their hammering at home last weekend and New Zealand coach Steve Hansen said that as a result "they were going to come and bring whatever they had to bring".
All Blacks captain Kieran Read said: "There was quite a bit of niggle out there - perhaps we let it get to us a little bit in the first half."
Argentina, who lost to South Africa 30-23 last week, went into half-time with a 13-3 lead in Salta after Joaquin Tuculet's try.
A Bryan Habana try brought the Springboks level only for Argentina to open up a 10-point lead after Juan Manuel Leguizamon crossed and Juan Martin Hernandez kicked the conversion and a penalty
Morne Steyn kicked two penalties either side of a Pieter-Steph du Toit try to put South Africa ahead in the final 10 minutes.
However, Iglesias' kick, with three minutes left, ensured Argentina achieved their second win in 24 meetings with the Springboks.
The All Blacks next face Argentina on 10 September, with the Wallabies hosting South Africa later on the same day.
The Rugby Championship is contested home and away between the four southern hemisphere sides, while the Bledisloe Cup - which is a best-of-three Test series - has been played between New Zealand and Australia since 1932.
The third and final match of the 2016 Bledisloe Cup, which is not part of the Rugby Championship, takes place on 22 October in Auckland.
Keiran McKandie, 16, from Elgin, died at the scene of the crash involving a white Volkswagen Golf on the B9010 Forres to Kellas Road on Sunday.
Relatives said in a statement: "Our darling, beautiful son was the love of our lives and the reason for living.
"Keiran lived, breathed, slept and dreamt downhill mountain biking - it was his world."
The statement added: "He was our only child, a devoted grandson, nephew, cousin and friend to many. Always forever in our hearts and he will never leave us.
"Even while he was eating his breakfast, he would be searching for biking videos on the internet.
"He loved all his biking buddies and shredding the tracks, and he was at his happiest when he was biking.
"Keiran was hard-working, genuine, caring, kind, loving, had a witty sense of humour and was ill tricked. He touched the hearts of everyone that was lucky to know him.
"Keiran will be forever missed by all his family, and his friends at Elgin Academy and the biking community. He had been looking forward to going on holiday with eight of his friends in the school holidays."
They added: "As a family we would like to thank the emergency services and all that attended and tried their very best to save him. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to them at this horrific time."
Esther and Richard Shapiro are working on a prequel about Blake Carrington finding out he is heir to the family's oil empire.
"It was my daughter Florie's notion to do a prequel, and that sounded very good to us," Richard Shapiro said.
The original series starred Joan Collins and the late John Forsythe and ran from 1981 to 1989.
"We've given thought to the movie before and we've been approached by a lot of companies," Shapiro told the E! Online website.
"But no one seemed to have a proper fix on it. Then suddenly we said, 'Let's do it [ourselves]!' - and we're the ones to do it."
The movie version will be set in the 1960s and will feature Blake's love affair with Collins' character Alexis.
Catfights, glamour and giant shoulder pads became synonymous with the show, which also starred Linda Evans and the late Christopher Cazenove.
Derek Serpell-Morris, who has played sets at Glastonbury under the name DJ Derek, was reported missing by his family on 23 July.
He was seen leaving the Criterion public house on July 11 and is believed to have caught a bus to Thornbury.
The BBC understands a river search has started in the area and will continue on Wednesday.
House to house enquiries will also be carried out.
DJ Derek's great niece, Jennifer Griffiths, previously said she was losing hope of finding him alive.
He is described as a white male, of slim build and average height, with grey hair. He also wears glasses.
DJ Derek is known to thousands of people and has played hundreds of sets at local clubs and pubs, as well as at the Glastonbury festival.
The former accountant, a resident of St Pauls in Bristol since 1978, has played across the UK and appeared at the Big Chill.
He also released his own compilation album, worked with Massive Attack and appeared in a Dizzee Rascal video.
FC Bayern Worldwide says it will not enter the Emirates for the first five minutes of next week's match because of the "excessive" £64 ticket price.
It comes as the BBC released the Price of Football study, which analyses costs at 227 clubs across Britain and Europe.
In response, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger said it is "his job to provide value".
The BBC's study found the Gunners have the most expensive match-day ticket in the Premier League at £97, while their away tickets in the league are priced between £26 and £64.
Bayern Munich's cheapest season ticket in the Bundesliga is £140.
"There's a concerted effort at board meetings to block increases and in seven of the last 10 years there haven't been increases in ticket prices," added Wenger, who was speaking before his side's Premier League game with Watford on Saturday.
"There is a will to make tickets affordable.
"Is football more expensive? Yes, but on a Saturday or Sunday if you want to go to rugby you will see the tickets are expensive there as well. It is maybe part of professionalism and a modern society."
In a statement on Facebook, FC Bayern Worldwide claimed the cost of an away ticket, for the Group F game on 20 October, would rise to more than 100 euros (£74) once fees and postage were added.
An Arsenal spokesman confirmed that fans will not be prevented from voicing their opinions, but added: "We would like to point out that 50% of our general admission tickets throughout the season are priced £40 or below. Also, we would like to stress that German football receives significant government funding, which is not the case in England."
Earlier this month, the Football Supporters' Federation co-ordinated protests at all 20 Premier League clubs and 10 Championship teams, to call for a £20 cap on away ticket prices.
The Middle Eastern state of Qatar said that it was optimistic about the future of the British economy.
It made it clear that the UK leaving the European Union had little bearing on its decision.
Qatar has already invested £40bn in the UK - it owns Harrods and a 95% stake in the Shard in London.
It also has a stake in Canary Wharf in the capital's Docklands, as well as an interest in the Milford Haven liquefied natural gas terminal in South Wales.
It also bought the Olympic Village following the London 2012 Olympics.
"Currently the UK is our first investment destination and it is the largest investment destination for Qatari investors, both public and private," Ali Shareef al Emadi, the country's finance minister, told the BBC.
"We have more than £35bn to £40bn of investments already in the UK.
"We're announcing an additional £5bn of investment in the next three to five years.
"Mainly this investment will focus on infrastructure sectors, technology, energy and real estate."
Mr Al Emadi will join International Trade Secretary Liam Fox in Birmingham on Tuesday where UK firms will showcase projects, including in sport, cyber-security and healthcare.
The government relies on foreign investment to support infrastructure projects such as the new high speed rail link between London, Birmingham and Manchester - HS2.
Although no final decisions have been taken on the Qatari investments, Mr Al Emadi did not rule out putting money into HS2.
"We will look at those deals; we will look at electricity, roads, bridges, railways," he said.
The announcement of the Qatari investment is likely to be welcomed by Number 10.
It comes two days before the triggering of Article 50, the official process for leaving the European Union.
Theresa May has made it clear she believes the British economy remains a positive place to invest and the Qatari announcement follows UK-focused investment decisions by Sir James Dyson, Google and Nissan.
The decline in the value of sterling has made UK assets more attractive to overseas investors - though many economists argue that leaving the EU will damage trade with Britain's largest market and therefore damage growth.
"We always like the UK market, it has always been a good market," Mr Al Emadi told me.
"The way we look at our investment in any market, and especially in the UK, it is a very long term investment, so we don't look at any cycles up or down
"So if you are talking about Brexit, I can go back to the financial crisis and tell you the same stories.
"We will do what we think is good for us, it is commercially viable, it has a good vision and a good impact."
I asked him whether the UK economy outside the EU was likely to be stronger or weaker.
"It is a lot to do with the policy the UK will take, but I think, knowing the UK market, I am very confident they will have a good future," Mr Al Emadi answered, saying that it was important that Britain was welcoming to high skilled foreign workers and students from Qatar and elsewhere.
Qatar has faced controversy over a fundraising for Barclays Bank at the time of the financial crisis and - more recently - allegations that poor labour conditions have marred the preparations for the 2022 World Cup which is being held in the country.
Mr Al Emadi said that Qatar had supported job creation in the UK.
"If you look at what we have done here, it has always been a win-win situation, whatever investment we do in the UK," he said.
"When you talk about labour in Qatar, I think a lot of these things have been taken out of proportion and [are] inaccurate news."
16 December 2016 Last updated at 11:31 GMT
She was born on 11 September and spent the beginning of her life in the den with her mother.
Malayan tigers are critically endangered and there are only around 250 of them left in the wild.
The cub and her mother are part of the zoo's Species Survival Plan, which hopes breeding programmes in captivity will help save the the population from extinction in the wild.
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A State Department spokesman said the election process was flawed and could not be seen as free and fair.
He said the Ortega government had side-lined opposition candidates and limited monitoring of the polls.
Daniel Ortega won 72.5% of the vote with 99.8% of the ballots counted.
His closest rival, centre-right candidate Maximino Rodriguez, only received 14.2% of the vote.
The State Department's Mark Toner said the Ortega government had not invited international election observers, which he said, "further degraded the legitimacy of the election".
"We continue to press the Nicaraguan government to uphold democratic practices, including press freedom and respect for universal human rights in Nicaragua," he added.
Mr Ortega had been widely expected to win both due to the popularity of his social programmes and because he faced no obvious political challenger.
A former left-wing rebel, Mr Ortega has led Nicaragua through a period of economic stability which has made him popular with the country's business sector and foreign investors.
Supporters of Mr Ortega took to the streets to celebrate his victory.
But even before the first results were announced, members of the opposition coalition Broad Front for Democracy (FAD) called the elections a "farce".
The FAD, which had urged voters to boycott the election, alleged that more than 70% had abstained from voting.
They were contradicted by the electoral authorities which put voter participation at 65.8%.
Mr Ortega's running mate was his wife, Rosario Murillo, who now looks set to become vice-president.
Analysts say that Ms Murillo already shares decision-making with Mr Ortega and could become president if her 70-year-old husband were to bow out.
Nicaragua's economy has grown at double the Latin American average, but the country still needs to attract more foreign investment.
A $50bn (£40bn) plan to build an interoceanic canal across Nicaragua with Chinese investment has gained international attention, but there are serious doubts over whether it will ever be built.
The country has been able to avoid the sky-high murder rates of some of its Central American neighbours but it also faces the ever pervasive threat of drug-trafficking.
Impeccably dressed and coiffed, she is one of Singapore's success stories, having started her career in banking more than two decades ago.
She now runs the wealth management and consumer banking team at DBS, one of Singapore's most valuable firms.
But she admits she couldn't do this without help.
"When I got pregnant I moved very close to my parents," she told me. "They were literally a stone's throw away so they were always there for me or my children.
"I also had a [domestic] helper, which is possible in Singapore because it's relatively affordable, and I had very supportive bosses at work who allowed me to juggle my time and my flexibility."
Ms Tan is one of a small but powerful group of women helping to run some of the biggest companies in Singapore.
At telecom giant Singtel, female employees make up one third of the senior management positions - including the group chief executive, and investment, technology and operating heads.
Over the last decade Singapore has outperformed its Asian peers in closing the gender workplace and pay gap - but still very few women end up joining what is essentially a men's club in the business world here.
When it comes to gender equality in the workplace, the city-state still has a long way to go.
Experts say women are still being held back because the corporate culture in Singapore penalises them if they decide to spend a few years out of the workforce.
"Some women do take time off for their own family issues and then the companies would say - oh you took two years off so you're not getting as much exposure as the man who didn't take the time off," says Prof Annie Koh of Singapore Management University (SMU), who has been working on the issue of gender equality for years.
As a mother of two herself, she says women often feel they deserve less than men, because of their family commitments.
"Women aren't good at asking. We keep telling ourselves that our bosses will tell us when we deserve more, that perhaps because we came back after giving birth we shouldn't be paid as much as men," she says.
"Women shouldn't be penalised for stepping out of the workforce."
Singapore regularly ranks as one of Asia's worst countries in terms of work life balance, and experts say that's why it's suffering from a declining birth rate.
"Some women end up having the 'either/or' mentality", Prof Koh said, "choosing either the life of a professional or the life of a mother".
"But it doesn't have to be like that. The government is encouraging companies to bring women into the workforce, because it's good for business, and for the economy."
But by some accounts, the workplace is only getting more competitive in an already highly stressful Singapore.
Vithiya Gajandran is a 24 year-old postgraduate student. Ambitious and keen to succeed, she is the epitome of the Singaporean millennial.
But while she does plan to have a family some day, she says it's much harder to have kids and a career in Singapore now than it used to be.
"I remember how my mum would go to work and look after us and she was always able to do both" she said as we sat in her lecture theatre waiting for class to begin.
"I don't think it's so easy to do these days. It's getting more competitive, bosses are requiring more of you and want you to produce more, you are required to put in extra hours, its no longer the 9 to 5 workplace. It's definitely getting tougher."
As a nation, Singapore has always depended on its highly educated workforce to get ahead and stay competitive.
And increasingly women here are setting their sights on success - but many are still struggling to find the right balance between work and family.
Militants who declared allegiance to the so-called Islamic State took over parts of Marawi on the island of Mindanao more than three weeks ago.
Most residents have fled but several hundred are thought to be trapped.
A Philippine military spokesman said he could not give a timeframe for freeing the southern city from militants.
Early on Tuesday, the group of 10 people - five police officers and five construction workers who had been hiding for 22 days - ran 2km (1.25 miles) under fire to safety.
The policemen, all Muslims, told local media they refused to leave the workers - who were Christians - behind.
One of them, officer Lumna Lidasan, said: "We could have escaped and disguised ourselves because we are Muslims".
"But I thought that we could not leave them because they could not speak the local dialect. I know that they will be killed."
One of the construction workers said he was wounded by cement splinters caused by sniper bullets. "We crawled because snipers were shooting at us," Reuters quoted Mateo Velasquez as saying.
In a separate incident, a presidential spokesman said five civilians were killed when militants discovered their hiding place.
"They were going to the river but the militants ran after them and indiscriminately fired at them, killing five and taking the remaining eight as hostages," Ernesto Abella said.
The government had set a deadline of Monday to retake the city.
But asked when fighting would end, military spokesman Brig Gen Restituto Padilla said he could not give "a very accurate estimate because of compounding developments faced by ground commanders".
He said the urban terrain and the risk of militants using civilians as human shields were hampering troops.
The militants claim they are holding two-thirds of the city but the military deny this, saying it is likely to be around 20%, Reuters news agency reports.
According to the government, at least 26 civilians, 58 police or soldiers and 202 militants have been killed since the fighting began.
The city was home to 200,000 residents. Most have fled but those who are trapped are facing violence and a lack of food and water.
The Red Cross said it had been trying unsuccessfully to get the two sides to create a corridor through which civilians could leave, AFP news agency reported.
The violence in Marawi began when the army failed in its attempt to capture Isnilon Hapilon, believed to be the main IS leader in the Philippines and linked to the local Maute group, who have declared allegiance to IS.
In response the Maute group attacked parts of the city, taking hostages. President Rodrigo Duterte then declared martial law on Mindanao.
The celebrity - known in court as PJS - is appealing against an appeal court ruling lifting a ban on him being named in the media in England and Wales.
The Supreme Court said the hearing was over and it would reserve judgement.
An injunction granted by the Court of Appeal remained in force, it added.
Earlier this year, the Sun on Sunday wanted to publish an account of the man's alleged extra-marital activities, but he argued that he had a right to privacy and took legal action.
On Monday, three Court of Appeal judges ruled that the injunction should be lifted.
Lawyers for News Group Newspapers, publishers of the tabloid, had successfully argued that the ban should go because the man has been named in articles abroad and his identity could be found on the internet.
Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger announced at the conclusion of Thursday's legal argument that the court would "take time to consider this matter".
The panel of five justices would give their decision "as soon as we can", he added.
The 22-year-old German was hurt in a crash with Jenson Button in Monaco on Sunday, his car ending up on its side against the barriers with Wehrlein trapped inside.
He injured his back but has now had medical tests and is allowed to race.
"Checks all done, see you in Montreal," he tweeted.
"Great news! Medical checks done - ready for the #Canadian GP," added his team.
Button, the 2009 world champion, was making a one-off return to Formula 1 as a replacement for Fernando Alonso, who was taking part in the Indianapolis 500 race in the United States.
Manager Mick McCarthy has said he will not make major changes for the game, though Dean Gerken will be in goal for just the second time this season.
Lincoln midfielder Elliott Whitehouse could return after a one-match ban.
Full-back Sean Long is expected to make his debut after joining on loan from Reading on Thursday.
National League side Lincoln reached the third round by beating League One club Oldham 3-2 at Sincil Bank.
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Lincoln manager Danny Cowley told BBC Radio Lincolnshire:
"They've got players that will be able to run faster than ours, jump higher than ours, be technically more efficient than ours - that doesn't make them better people.
"We've got to make sure that we're as resilient and determined as we've been all year, as together as we've been all year, because we're going to need all three of those qualities if we're going to get to where we want to go.
"For us, success will be, regardless of the score, to have made those Lincoln City supporters proud come full-time on Saturday afternoon."
North Wales Police officers are on the lookout for the 4ft (1.2m) reptile after it slithered out of its owner's home in Gwersyllt, Wrexham.
The green and black royal python has not been seen since 15:00 BST on Tuesday.
Royal pythons are not venomous and the police said it is likely it will try to avoid people.
William Kerr, 53, absconded from a bail hostel in Hull in March and was wanted on emergency recall to prison.
North Yorkshire Police arrested him in the Waterloo area of London on Friday, following an appeal on BBC Crimewatch.
Kerr was jailed for life in June 1998 for the murder of Maureen Comfort in Leeds. Her body was found in a bedroom cupboard and she had been strangled.
He was released on license earlier this year.
Asylum seekers in Middlesbrough told The Times eggs and stones had been thrown at their houses because the doors made them easy to identify.
The immigration minister said he was "deeply concerned" about the issue.
G4S said there was no policy to house asylum seekers behind red doors but its subcontractor would be repainting them.
The Times visited 168 houses in Middlesbrough owned by Jomast, a sub contractor for the global security firm G4S, and found 155 had red doors.
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BBC correspondent Andy Moore said it was thought the door colour may have been a convenient way for the company to identify its properties.
Former local councillor Suzanne Fletcher told the BBC's Today programme she had raised the issue with G4S as far back as 2012 but was told the company would not ask Jomast to repaint the doors.
She went on to submit evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Public Accounts Committee and National Audit Office.
She said: "Over four years ago when I was working with groups of asylum seekers, they were worried it marked them out and were worried about attacks."
The charity Refugee Council said it "has long held concerns about the quality and security of asylum accommodation".
It added: "The government must not tolerate its contractors taking a lax attitude towards housing these vulnerable people. Such an approach is clearly jeopardising their safety."
G4S said Jomast had no policy to house asylum seekers behind red doors but accepted the majority of doors, both for private and asylum accommodation, were painted red.
Immigration minister James Brokenshire said he had commissioned an urgent Home Office audit of asylum seeker housing in the North East.
He said: "I expect the highest standards from our contractors. If we find any evidence of discrimination against asylum seekers it will be dealt with immediately as any such behaviour will not be tolerated."
G4S said in a statement: "Although we have received no complaints or requests on this issue from asylum seekers we house, in light of the concerns raised Jomast has agreed to address the issue by repainting front doors in the area so that there is no predominant colour.
"Our asylum accommodation is inspected frequently by the Home Office and has been found to meet the required standards."
Welfare reforms by the UK government include benefit cuts for people deemed to have more rooms than they need.
The Scottish government compensates tenants who lose money, and AMs want Welsh ministers to consider it too.
The Welsh government said it was providing help but could not "plug all the gaps" caused by austerity measures.
A report by the assembly's public accounts committee on Tuesday called on the Welsh government to take more of a leading role in helping tenants, landlords, local authorities and charities handle the impact of welfare reform.
Committee chairman Darren Millar said: "Regardless of whether changes to the welfare system are supported by Welsh public bodies or not, they still have a responsibility to adapt to those changes."
However, Labour AM Jenny Rathbone criticised the Tory AM for a "partisan" foreword which failed to "reinforce just how devastating the bedroom tax has been for tenants in Wales".
The report noted that the Welsh government had estimated the cost of meeting tenants' losses through benefit cuts at £22m a year, and preferred to spend money building smaller houses and supporting advice services.
The Scottish government has spent £35m a year on discretionary housing payments.
In January, spending watchdog the Wales Audit Office warned that many tenants were being penalised by housing benefit cuts because of a lack of smaller houses for them to move into.
A Welsh government spokesman said it would do what it could to protect people from the "devastating impact" of the UK government's welfare reforms, but claimed it would be "impossible to plug all the gaps caused by the sweeping and unnecessary austerity measures".
It said since the 2011 assembly election it had invested over £40m to build nearly 800 smaller homes for rent, more than £5m in free advice services, £22m to help tenants pay council tax, and £1.3m in discretionary housing payments.
Of these Muslims 47% are UK born, 68% are ethnically Asian and 33% are aged 15 and under; these are some of the headline findings of a new report by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) that has analysed census data in a bid to provide a fuller and more nuanced picture of Muslim Britain.
The report aims to be a "frank snapshot" of the state of British Muslim life and brings together statistics from the 2011 census of England and Wales to explore the demography of British Muslims, inequality, education, health and the role of women among other issues.
It shows that the Muslim population is relatively young - 33% were aged 15 or under in 2011, compared to 19% of the population as a whole. Of school age children, 8.1% are Muslim.
"We had this data but no one really analysed it," says Dr Sundas Ali, lead analyst on the report. She says that a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the British Muslim population was really lacking.
"The issue of Muslims is so topical," she said. "Everyone wants to know more about the community, what they do, how they live, what their aspirations are, and this data provided that opportunity."
The report shows that while 47% of Muslims in England and Wales were born in the UK, 73% state their only national identity is British, and only 6% of Muslims say they are struggling to speak English.
Support for the research was provided by the race equality think tank the Runnymede foundation, whose director Omar Khan argues the report is important in making it clear to the public that Muslims do not have a problem with "British values" or identifying with Britain.
"It nails some significant myths about Muslims," said Mr Khan, "The number of Muslims - which is often exaggerated, how proud Muslims are to be British, how well they fit in and the narrative around British values. They're proud to call themselves British, don't have allegiances to other countries in any major way and they don't have any confusion around where their identity lies."
The report also found that 26 parliamentary constituencies have a Muslim population of 20% or more - a statistic that is "something to note" according to report authors in the upcoming election. Authors say they want the report to be as much a resource for the Muslim community as for politicians and academics.
"It asks the Muslim community to reflect within itself," argues Dr Ali, "We do tell Muslim mosques and charities, that 'these are the problems, these are the social realities and you need to do something about it'. It's not a document complaining to the government just about what they need to do, it's targeting a number of people including Muslim civil society."
Dr Ali said there were many positives from the report "but also many challenges". 46% of the Muslim population lives in the 10% most deprived local authority districts in England and this has increased since the 2001 census.
In terms of education, Muslim communities in 2011 are doing comparatively better than in 2001 but lag behind Sikhs and Hindus. Looking at Muslims over the age of 16, 24% have qualifications of Level Four and above (degree level). For the general population this is 27%, for Hindus 45% and Sikhs 30%.
There are 329,694 Muslim full-time students - 43% of them female and 57% male.
One of the areas of concern the report highlights is how well these qualifications turn into employment, particularly for females. 29% of Muslim women between the ages of 16 and 24 are in employment, compared to approximately half the general population. For the ages group 25 - 49 the numbers show 57% of Muslim women in employment compared with 80% of women overall.
This raises a number of questions that were posed at the report's launch as areas that need extra exploration - why are educated Muslim woman not carrying on into employment? Possible reasons cited being cultural influences encouraging them to have a family and stay at home, racism and prejudice in the workplace and/or their qualifications not being from institutions of a high enough standard to appeal to employers. The report notes that Muslim students are less likely to attend Russell Group universities.
"This addresses many of the social issues that are always in the media and being discussed," added Dr Sundas Ali. "Now we have the hard facts, let's do something about it."
27 November 2016 Last updated at 10:56 GMT
Some members of the audience rushed onto the stage just after Honey G had finished her first performance of the night.
Security were quick to act, and ITV have said five men were removed from the studio and were later spoken to by police.
The men are thought to be professional pranksters.
On Saturday night the remaining five acts each performed two songs, ahead of another elimination on Sunday evening.
Those incidents, in Barrow and Peterborough, were among 159,831 investigated in England and Wales in 2014, compared with 153,770 in 2013.
In another case a rabbit died after being microwaved in Gloucestershire.
However, the number of people convicted for cruelty fell to 1,029 from 1,371.
Greater London was the area with the highest number of complaints at 12,202, followed by West Yorkshire with 8,440 and Greater Manchester with 8,069.
The charity said a total of 20,258 cases involved allegations of deliberate and often violent cruelty.
RSPCA chief veterinary officer James Yeates said: "Most of the complaints we receive involve animals being neglected or not receiving the right care and often we can put that right by offering welfare advice.
"However, it is shocking that people are still being deliberately cruel in what can be disturbingly inventive ways."
There were five prosecutions relating to the "Neknomination" online craze in which people took part in "dares" involving swallowing live fish, frogs and even a lizard.
In April 2014, a 22-year-old man from Tyne and Wear was the first person to be prosecuted by the RSPCA for swallowing a goldfish and posting the footage online.
Overall, West Yorkshire saw the highest number of people convicted at 93, followed by County Durham with 83 and the West Midlands with 64.
Figures obtained by the BBC show there are now 2,101 full time firefighters serving west, north and south Yorkshire, compared to 2,658 in 2010.
In total, the budget for the fire services has been axed by £21.9m over the past five years with a further £15.2m due to be slashed by 2020.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said cuts had put crews in a "moral dilemma".
Pete Smith, FBU Yorkshire secretary, said: "We just don't have the man power anymore when we turn up on a job and ultimately, as harsh as it sounds, that will lead to deaths.
"It's putting firefighters in a moral dilemma because the instinct will always be to run into a burning building.
"It's time that fire chiefs started holding the government to account."
Reduced public funding has led to firefighter cuts and a government push for emergency services to work more closely together.
Dave Walton, deputy chief fire officer for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: "We've seen austerity starting to bite.
"In West Yorkshire, we've taken the approach of tackling it head on. We've accepted it as an economic and political reality."
As well as fewer full time firefighters there are fewer retained firefighters as well as control room and support staff.
Mike Penning, minister for policing, fire, criminal justice and victims, said over the past five years fire services had delivered significant savings while improving outcomes for the public.
"Since 2010, fire deaths have fallen by 21% and fire injuries requiring hospital treatment have fallen by 26%."
He said fire services could continue to deliver savings by working with other emergency services as well as reducing back office functions.
18 July 2017 Last updated at 07:43 BST
Well, they're not going to crawl out of your screen but a recent study found that if you use a smartphone or a tablet you are twice as likely to get head lice than those who don't.
Huddling around a screen watching videos or taking selfies with friends means your heads are touching more often and increases your chances of getting them.
Do you think head lice only like dirty hair? What is the difference between head lice and nits? Ricky has been taking a look and debunking a couple of myths.
Dominic Cole OBE said he aimed to create "more natural habitats and settings" for the Leicestershire zoo's animals and visitors.
The zoo is renowned for its primates and supplied chimps for the PG Tips television adverts for about 30 years.
Mr Cole has been commissioned as part of a £55m project to transform the zoo over the next 20 years.
He said he would be helping the team to "realise their vision of changing the feel of the zoo, from looking at animals in artificial environments, to creating more natural habitats and settings that feel right for animals and visitors".
The landscaping work will be done piece by piece over the next decade, so the huge 88-acre site can remain open during the work.
Claire Oldham, director of discovery and learning at Twycross Zoo, said she would like to see "really dense planting that surrounds the visitors".
"At the moment we are quite an open, flat site," she said.
"What we are trying to do is bring some height and some different typographies into the site that means it's going to feel much more like a journey of discovery for our visitors if they walk around our animal habitats."
Czech Cerny, 31, is recovering from a foot complaint.
Stuckmann, 35, has played for Preston North End and Doncaster Rovers and made over 250 club appearances in his homeland.
He will go straight into Thistle's squad for Saturday's Scottish Premiership trip to Kilmarnock.
As the rush hour reaches its peak, traffic grinds to a halt and a chorus of car horns rises from the increasingly irate drivers.
"This is the soundtrack of Cairo," says Tino Waked, general manager of Uber in Egypt, above the din.
He is standing outside Uber's Cairo office, which opened a little over two years ago.
Along the pavement dozens of local men, mostly young and dressed in leather jackets and jeans, are waiting to sign on as Uber drivers.
The ride-sharing giant may have been born thousands of miles away in San Francisco, but it's in fast-growing cities like Cairo that it is now booming.
Egypt is currently one of Uber's fastest growing markets in the world.
There are more than 40,000 Egyptian drivers working on the platform every month, the company says, and new drivers are joining up at the rate of 2,000 a week.
Among them is Mohamed, a man in his twenties waiting patiently in the queue.
He says he used to be employed as a driver at a local tour company. But with the collapse in the tourism industry following the Arab Spring, he's now looking for a new source of income.
He has heard good things about the company from friends who are already drivers, he says, and hopes he can "make a million pounds, God willing".
Tino Waked says it is this urgent need for jobs that's helping make Uber such a success in Egypt.
"What's very different in Egypt compared to anywhere else is the economic opportunity that Uber provides to drivers," he says.
"Forty per cent of our drivers were unemployed before joining Uber. So it's an additional source of income, especially given the difficult period the country is going through."
Egypt's economy has been in the doldrums since the economic shock of the revolution in 2011 and the political instability that followed.
The youth unemployment rate stands at more than 30%. Foreign investment and earnings from tourism have dried up.
Egypt's already-large population is expanding rapidly, and economic growth is not keeping pace.
Things got even worse for many Egyptians last year when the government floated the currency as part of a package of economic reforms, meaning the prices of many basic goods doubled overnight.
In this difficult economic climate, gig economy employers like Uber have been seen as a welcome provider of quick and accessible jobs.
Uber's expansion into developing markets comes as it faces a string of controversies elsewhere.
In February, chief executive Travis Kalanick was filmed arguing with one Uber driver over the company's fare structure, while it has faced a string of court cases over its workers' rights.
There have been allegations of sexual harassment, and accidents in testing its self-driving cars. A campaign last year urged customers to delete their Uber app after the company appeared to take advantage of a New York cab drivers' strike.
But Uber's rapid roll-out in Egypt and the huge influx of new drivers has not been without problems either.
As in other markets in Africa and Asia, the company has been forced to accept cash payments in Egypt to accommodate the majority without access to a credit or debit card.
Just 35% of Egyptians have access to a credit card, according to Mastercard, and more than 90% of all financial transactions are in cash.
Another problem is that many Egyptian drivers are unfamiliar with the technology that has made Uber so successful elsewhere.
Customers have complained that drivers don't know how to read online maps.
One Cairo resident complained that an Uber driver who was asked to take her to the airport had no idea where it was or how to get there.
"One of the biggest differences is that we spend a lot of time educating the drivers on how to use the app, how to use the technology," admits Tino Waked. "A lot of people have not used a smartphone before."
Meanwhile, traditional taxi drivers who have not migrated to Uber or successful rival ride-sharing apps like regional competitor Careem have been up in arms, staging protests in Cairo's streets over Uber's subsidised fares, and accusing the company of stealing their livelihoods in tough economic times.
But Tino Waked is optimistic that Uber's success in Egypt and other markets will continue for as long as there is a demand for jobs and an alternative to braving the notorious Cairo traffic.
"I hate driving, specifically in Cairo," he says. "I sold my car six months ago, and I have no regrets."
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The main criticism was that 120bn rupees(£1.72bn; $1.89bn) project was also the world's biggest biometric exercise.
Not surprisingly Mr Nilekani, info-tech whizz turned head of the Unique Identification Authority of India, faced tough questions over access and misuse of personal information, surveillance, profiling, securing of confidential information by the government and threats of budget cuts. A parliamentary panel even trashed the idea, saying it would be "misused".
Four years on, Mr Nilekani - the famous co-founder of Infosys, the $7bn Indian info-tech behemoth - believes he has been able to allay such fears.
Since the project began in 2009, some 500 million Indians have enrolled at 25,000 centres across the country to get a 12-digit unique identification number - called Aadhaar or foundation. Some 400 million people have been already issued an ID. The goal is to enrol 100 million more people by 2014.
Mr Nilekani says 10 of India's 28 states are already using the ID to transfer government pensions, scholarships, wages for a landmark jobs for work scheme, and subsides for cooking fuel to targeted recipients. Some states are using the number to distribute cheap food to the poor, plugging distribution leakages and checking for corruption.
This, Mr Nilekani believes, is transformative in a country where only 58% of children are registered at birth and 40% of people in villages do not have bank accounts.
"A lot of attention has been made to design the ID so that it doesn't become a massive data collector. It's a simple ID system that protects the residents," Mr Nilekani says.
It's been a long, strange trip for him.
When he became a part of a team to fix governance systems in the city of Bangalore a decade ago, he pointedly avoided talking about info-tech as a means to solve complex public problems.
It was Mr Nilekani's first foray into the "public sphere" and as the famous co-founder of Infosys, he was sheepish about flaunting his credentials.
"I was wary of being labelled a 'computer boy' who saw every problem as something that could be solved by writing a piece of code.
"After all, what do computers and software have to do with clearing garbage or provide soft drinking water?" Mr Nilekani wrote in Imagining India, his well-received 2008 book on how to "drive change" and shape a renewed idea of India.
How times change.
Sitting in his office, Mr Nilekani speaks about the need for an ID to change India with a brisk, evangelical flair.
"In the West, IDs are taken for granted. In India, things are different. You have millions of people who have no ID and no acknowledgement of their existence. They can't open a bank account, they can't have a mobile phone connection. It's an identity divide," says Mr Nilekani.
So how does the 58-year-old Bangalore-born info-tech billionaire - worth $1.3bn according to the Forbes rich list, making him one of the wealthiest Indians - work in the government, where the pace of change is usually glacial, and change itself can easily get embroiled in partisan politics?
For one, with its sleepy-looking offices peopled by taciturn bureaucrats and their armies of attendants, the government of India is a world far removed from the gleaming and energetic Infosys campus, Mr Nilekani's former workplace.
Mr Nilekani's office is a cosy, functional place with a cramped bookshelf, a big screen TV, a laptop, and papers and magazines strewn around. A blazing blue-flame "fly trapper" on the floor helps to keep the pests away.
A computer-generated paper warning in the men's toilet on the same floor is a sobering reminder of curious challenges. "Do not spit tobacco in wash basins/urine pots", it says.
But, more seriously, says Mr Nilekani, his four years in government has taught him patience and the art of consensus building.
"In the private sector, business takes a decision, you discuss it with your management team, get the approval of the board, go to shareholders, convince your analysts and so on. That's about it," he says,
"In the public sector, it an entirely different ball game - you deal with the government, parliament, bureaucracy, judiciary, activists, journalists. Then there's the federal structure - central government, state governments, local bodies. You negotiate all this and still get something done."
Working with the government and facing flak from opponents made Mr Nilekani also realise the "metric" of success in government is vastly different from that in business.
"In business, you are measured by revenue, cost control, profitability, new products, earnings per share, growth. The language of performance is identical no matter what the product is," he says.
"In the government, what is success?
"Somebody who believes in the ID programme will say I am successful if I can get it done. But somebody who does not believe in it will say no matter what I do I am not successful. The success in government is linked to the ideology of how you see the world."
Starting young
In many ways, that has been the story of Mr Nilekani's life.
When he was 12, his father, a textile mill manager in Bangalore, sent him away to stay with his uncle in the small town of Dharwad. He says he grew up fast, living independently from his parents at an early age. At home, he listened to his father and uncle, both intensely political creatures, sparring on public issues. It was, he says, a lesson in public engagement.
He went to India's top and fiercely competitive engineering school, got on to its quiz team, led the students' group and became, he says, "a well-rounded person, developed lots of social skills, became street smart and learnt to negotiate".
All this, Mr Nilekani believes, helped in his three decades with Infosys. He met global customers from a variety of industries, and constantly studied customers to see how he could "make a difference using technology". At Infosys, he led a group that designed banking software which is used all over the world now.
When he left the company in 2009 it had grown 50% and made him infinitely richer, "a genial billionaire", as the New Yorker magazine called him once.
"You know," he says, "I flourished not so much in technology for technology's sake, but in its application and use in solving large, complex problems for public good." That's what, he says, he wants to keep doing after his work with the ID project ends next year.
At work, he jokes that he would not be entirely displeased to be compared with Michael Bloomberg, New York mayor and business magnate. At home, he says, he is reminded of his limitations.
"My wife says I am a very poor electrical engineer," he says with a wry smile. "I can't even change a light bulb."
Lots of readers asked us the origins of phrases which use people's names like Gordon Bennett and Bob's Your Uncle.
You also asked where Shropshire greetings such as "Owd lad, Owd gal, Mon, Monner and Bow" came from.
We were asked about road works in Hereford and a Stoke-on-Trent delicacy called lobby. Here's how we got on with answering your questions:
Some of the most famous English phrases use people's names to convey a meaning, from the Bob of "Bob's your uncle" to the Gordon Bennett we call upon when we must not swear. But are these expressions, and others like them, based on real people? And if so, how did they become household names?
We spoke to Stuart Davies, known on Twitter as @shroppiemon, who runs the Memories of Shropshire Facebook page.
He explained Mon and Monner are friendly greetings that could be traced back to the work of Shropshire priest-turned-poet John Audelay, who used the line "No mon this book he take away" in 1426.
Mr Davies also said Owd Lad and Owd Nick originally referred to the devil, but are now used in the same way as Mon.
"I think Salopians of all ages use them, possibly with a nod to the past," he said.
The origins of the phrases themselves is less clear and it has been suggested there are similarities in these phrases to the local dialect of Staffordshire and the Black Country.
Lobby is a Staffordshire dish that traditionally uses left over meat, boiled in a pot with some animal bones and vegetables - because potters were paid very little and so they could not afford to waste food.
It looks like the exact origin has been lost in the mists of time - we have not been able to find a historian with an exact answer.
But we have two theories, partly suggested by people on the BBC Radio Stoke Facebook page - the first one is that the name comes from people having to "'lob whatever they had in the pantry" into the dish.
The second theory, suggested by local historian Mervyn Edwards, is that Lobby comes from the same source as Liverpool's Scouse in that they both derive from lobscouse, a stew commonly eaten by sailors throughout Northern Europe.
The new road is part of the Hereford 2020 project, which involves city centre refurbishment, an urban village, revamped walking and cycling facilities and southern link road.
Herefordshire Council says the new road is designed to "relieve some of the traffic from the centre of Hereford, particularly on Commercial Road and Blueschool Street".
It will also make it "easier and more enjoyable to walk around Hereford city", the council says.
You can find more on the plans here, along with photos of the work being carried out.
"The City Link Road, which is due for completion at the end of 2017, will include crossing provision for pedestrians at all of the junctions along the new road - at Edgar Street, Widemarsh Street, Station Approach and Commercial Road," the council said.
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It is developing “silent speech” software to allow people to type at a rate of 100 words per minute, it says.
The project, in its early stages, will require new technology to detect brainwaves without needing invasive surgery.
"We are not talking about decoding your random thoughts,” assured Facebook's Regina Dugan.
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"You have many thoughts, you choose to share some of them.
"We’re talking about decoding those words. A silent speech interface - one with all the speed and flexibility of voice."
Ms Dugan is the company’s head of Building 8, the firm’s hardware research lab. The company said it intends to build both the hardware and software to achieve its goal, and has enlisted a team of more than 60 scientists and academics to work on the project.
On his Facebook page, Mark Zuckerberg added: "Our brains produce enough data to stream four HD movies every second.
"The problem is that the best way we have to get information out into the world - speech - can only transmit about the same amount of data as a 1980s modem.
"We're working on a system that will let you type straight from your brain about five times faster than you can type on your phone today.
"Eventually, we want to turn it into a wearable technology that can be manufactured at scale. Even a simple yes/no 'brain click' would help make things like augmented reality feel much more natural.
"Technology is going to have to get a lot more advanced before we can share a pure thought or feeling, but this is a first step."
Other ideas detailed at the company’s developers conference in San Jose included work to allow people to “hear” through skin. The system, comparable to Braille, uses pressure points on the skin to relay information.
“One day, not so far away, it may be possible for me to think in Mandarin, and you to feel it instantly in Spanish,” Ms Dugan said.
With these announcements, Facebook is envisioning technology that is far in advance of anything currently possible. To achieve sophisticated brain control with today's technology requires the implanting of a computer chip into the brain, something Ms Dugan joked "simply won't scale".
There are already external brain-control technologies on the market, but these are simplistic in comparison. Electroencephalogram tech - known as EEG - can monitor electric impulses in the brain, but only for very basic, structured output - such as moving a dot up or down a computer screen.
"We'll need new, non-invasive sensors that can measure brain activity hundreds of times per second," Facebook said in a statement.
"From locations precise to millimetres and without signal distortions. Today there is no non-invasive imaging method that can do this."
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So it was today at Holyrood when the First Minister offered her views on the question of who might be subjected to police stop and search, together with the related issues of when and why.
My esteemed colleagues Lucy Adams and Marc Ellison had disclosed that youngsters under 12 were still facing "consensual" searches, despite promises to put a stop to that.
Consensual? Where there is no statutory, evidential basis for the examination but it proceeds with the obtained agreement of the subject.
At Holyrood today, this disclosure stimulated protests from Conservative leader Ruth Davidson and from her Liberal Democrat counterpart Willie Rennie.
Did Nicola Sturgeon storm and rage, complaining that senior officers had misled parliament? Did she condemn police behaviour? Gentle reader, she did not.
However, she did note that the Scottish Police Authority had asked for a full explanation, to be delivered at their public meeting later this month.
She noted further that the Chief Constable (these days, post reform, there is but one) would be consulting on the appropriate way of ending consensual, non-statutory searches altogether - and not just for those aged under 12. He, apparently, had contacted her to set out his thoughts.
Which brings us to the caveats....
So where are we? By senior officer direction, consensual - or what we might call random - searches are due to end, following consultation as to the most effective manner of achieving this. Ms Sturgeon said that would be a speedier method of action than the alternative - which was Holyrood legislation.
But the power to stop and search will remain, where just cause exists. Ms Sturgeon noted, for example, that youngsters might be used by others to conceal weapons or contraband.
For now, an explanation of current practice - as opposed to stated policy - will be given by the Chief Constable to the Scottish Police Authority. It had better, noted Mr Rennie, be a good one.
Earlier, Ms Sturgeon had been subjected to an iterative onslaught from Labour's Kezia Dugdale on the subject of hospital waiting times.
The FM said she was happy to address this topic once again. In truth, she looked about as happy as a GP who is about to hear the tale of Jimmy's bunions for the fifty seventh time.
Ms Dugdale asked for figures on the numbers waiting twelve hours to be seen, then eight hours, then four, by contrast with the situation when the SNP came to power.
The statistics, as you will have guessed, do not make uniformly cheerful reading. Ms Dugdale's strategy, though repetitive, was effective. Perhaps one can envisage the same GP asking Jimmy: "Does it hurt here? Here? How about…..?" Eventually, he finds the mark.
But Ms Sturgeon sought to turn things round. Firstly, she described prevailing circumstances. More old folk, more patients turning up at A&E, more serious ailments, more admissions required.
Secondly, she set out an alternative contrast. Her government's record, she said, was better than Labour's when in past power in Scotland - or present power in Wales.
Ms Dugdale preferred to suggest that the SNP's record was worse than that of David Cameron. In response, Ms Sturgeon borrowed a phrase from a previous Scottish Labour leader.
If, she said, Labour wanted to trade stats on health care at the forthcoming UK General Election, then they should "Bring It On!". (Capitals somehow seem obligatory.) Ms Dugdale, all passion but, more importantly, all questions spent, simply nodded in assent.
Two other executives of the US's third largest airline also resigned.
According to US media reports, federal authorities are investigating whether Mr Smisek sanctioned a money-losing flight to benefit the head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
United said that it was cooperating with investigators.
At the time the route operated from Newark, New Jersey, to Columbia, South Carolina, United Airlines was lobbying for improvements at Newark Liberty International Airport, which the Port Authority owns.
Former Port Authority Chairman David Samson owned a vacation home in Columbia at the time.
United launched the twice weekly, direct flight route shortly after Mr Samson was appointed and cancelled it after Mr Samson left the Port Authority.
Oscar Munoz, the chief operating officer CSX Corp, was named Mr Smisek's replacement as CEO.
The charity says delays between being referred to an autism specialist and diagnosis are "unacceptably long" and putting "families into crisis".
A report by Public Health England has shown there is a huge disparity in waiting times across England.
NHS England says it is committed to reducing waiting times.
The NAS says it can take on average over two years for children and adults to get a diagnosis, if the time it can take to get a referral from a GP is considered.
Jane Harris, director of external affairs at the NAS, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme the situation had to change.
"At the moment people are waiting months - if not years - for a first appointment. If they're adults that might mean losing their job, if they're children they might be excluded from school. It can be really difficult.
"You can know that there's something wrong but not what. At least when you know, there's then a coping mechanism to deal with it, people know where to get support."
The Public Health England report, published last month, showed that some people in the South West of England were waiting as long as 95 weeks between a referral to an autism specialist and a diagnosis.
The wait was as long as 90 weeks in South East and 84 weeks in Yorkshire and Humber.
The median wait across England was 13 weeks. The national guidelines from NICE say the wait between referral and diagnosis should not exceed three months.
The NAS says an increase in autism awareness has led to more referrals, meaning there are huge delays in the system.
But it says the real issue stems from a lack of monitoring. The reasons for the delays could differ in each region and without monitoring of waiting times, it is hard to know why there are backlogs, and what is needed to fix the problem.
Ms Harris added: "The NHS needs to look at autism in the way it looks at other treatments - there's a waiting time for conditions from depression to hip operations."
An NHS England spokesman said: "Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders should of course happen as soon as possible, but is often complex and involves many different professionals and agencies.
"This is an issue we take very seriously and we have committed to working with local areas to identify and overcome the reasons behind long waiting times. We'll continue to work with NAS and others to make sure people with autism can get the help they need, when they need it".
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "The guidelines on autism make it crystal clear that families should wait no more than three months to start diagnosis. Every bit of the NHS should be adhering to these guidelines and NHS England is working with local areas to make sure these waiting times are cut."
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:15 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.
A Coastguard helicopter and Fraserburgh lifeboat were called out to assist the Fraserburgh-registered Welfare, about four miles out to sea.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said other nearby vessels had also responded to the incident which was reported at about 10:10.
The Welfare was towed back to shore in an operation lasting several hours.
O'Shea, 28, spent four years with Chesterfield, scoring 36 goals in 173 appearances after joining from MK Dons.
He joined Sheffield United on loan in January and scored three goals in 10 appearances, helping them finish top of League One.
"It's been a long time coming and it's meant some hard work, but it's been worth it," Bury manager Lee Clark said.
"He's had a lot of interest from other clubs after having a fantastic end to the season with League One champions Sheffield United."
O'Shea is Bury's eighth summer signing, following the arrivals of Jermaine Beckford, Phil Edwards, Stephen Dawson, Callum Reilly, Joe Skarz, Adam Thompson and Eoghan O'Connell.
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It says an internal system error resulted in extra payments being taken from bank accounts.
The customers affected have what are known as Flexi loans, which have to be paid off in three instalments over three months.
Wonga has promised that extra costs and charges incurred will be refunded.
One customer told BBC News that the mistake resulted in an additional £574 being taken from his bank account.
His mortgage payment was bounced and over the weekend he was unable to buy a season ticket, or groceries, or fill up his car.
He was on hold to Wonga for six hours at the weekend and again for three hours this morning.
The short-term lender said that the rogue payments were refunded later on Friday, but may not yet have reached some customers' bank accounts.
"We experienced an internal system error on Friday morning which resulted in Flexi Loan payments being debited twice from some customers," the firm said.
"We notified all those affected and took action to credit the right amounts back to customers on Friday. We apologise for the inconvenience caused."
As in the previous bailouts, Greece's EU partners set tough conditions, demanding more austerity.
But there is political uncertainty again, after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called a snap election, because MPs rebelled inside his Syriza party. Twenty-five members broke away to form a new left-wing party, Popular Unity, opposed to the bailout.
The lenders are anxious to ensure there is no backtracking on the reforms that Greece must fulfil under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) - the official name for the bailout.
Syriza was elected in January on an anti-austerity platform. But Mr Tsipras agreed to the lenders' demands as the price for keeping Greece in the euro.
What are the immediate priorities?
The MoU demands "prior actions" which Greek MPs must make law immediately.
The prior actions are aimed at boosting budget revenue and call on the government to:
What are the key economic targets?
The bailout aims to: put privatisation back on track, modernise and slim down the state administration, tackle tax evasion and fraud, open up regulated professions to competition, and cut pension costs to make the welfare system sustainable.
It is a three-year bailout programme (2015-2018), to be provided in instalments by the EU's main bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). It is based on an outline agreement reached at a special EU summit on 13 July.
The wide-ranging MoU sets deadlines for the many economic reforms required. At every stage the Greek government will have to consult closely with the lenders.
The MoU recognises "the need for social justice", so that "the burden of adjustment is borne by all parts of society". However, it does not offer debt relief - despite Syriza's argument that Greece's crippling debts are unsustainable.
There will be no discussion of debt relief until after the lenders' first review in October.
The Greek government is required to achieve a primary budget surplus (a surplus minus interest payments) of 3.5% of GDP by 2018. The targets to reach that are: a 0.25% deficit this year, 0.5% surplus in 2016 and 1.75% surplus in 2017.
Those targets are tough - but not as tough as originally envisaged, because the Greek economy is expected to shrink by 2.3% this year. It has spent most of the past seven years in recession.
Greek economy returns to growth
What about the banks?
Greece's banks remain in a fragile state - they depend on emergency ECB funding and cannot borrow in capital markets.
Strict capital controls remain in force - Greeks are limited to withdrawing €420 a week from their accounts.
The banks were closed for three weeks in June-July, to prevent a bank run by anxious customers, who feared economic meltdown and "Grexit" - exit from the euro. The controls put a severe brake on economic activity.
Under the new bailout terms, Greek banks are getting €10bn, aimed at recapitalising them by the end of the year.
Santino Balaz, who was 14 months old, died on 1 January at Birmingham Children's Hospital, following a 999 call from his home in Brighton Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham.
Tereza Lackova, 19, and her partner Marek Holub, 27, of Brighton Road, are charged with his murder.
Santino's mother returned to her homeland in September.
An inquest has been opened and adjourned.
The army, ruling party and people should be prepared to act as "human shields" for the son and successor of Kim Jong-il, the message released by state media said.
The message also said the "burning issue" of food shortages was one the nation's leaders must work to solve.
Kim Jong-il, who had ruled since 1994, died on 17 December.
His son, Kim Jong-un, took over after his death and has in recent days quickly consolidated his power in the country.
On Friday, he was appointed supreme commander of the country's 1.2 million-strong armed forces, according to state media.
"Glorify this year 2012 as a year of proud victory, a year when an era of prosperity is unfolding," the message released by the official Korean Central News Agency said.
"The whole Party, the entire army and all the people should possess a firm conviction that they will become human bulwarks and human shields in defending Kim Jong-un unto death."
The message also said US troops should be removed from South Korea, describing them as the main obstacle to peace.
North Korea has consistently stipulated that the US must abandon its hostile policy for there to be any improvement in ties with Washington.
The message said members of the ruling Workers' Party should "implement to the letter the party's policy of agricultural revolution" in order to solve the issue of food shortages.
The United Nations believes nearly three million of North Korea's 24 million population will need food assistance in 2012.
The traditional first state editorial of the year in Pyongyang is scrutinised by officials and analysts in the region as it sheds light on the country's New Year's policy goals, says the BBC's Kevin Kim in South Korea.
Analysts note that this year there was no mention of the country's nuclear weapons programme, an issue which has featured heavily in previous New Year's Day editorials.
The coming year will be seen as an auspicious one by North Koreans as it marks the centennial of the birth of Kim Jong-un's grandfather and national founder, Kim Il-sung, who ruled for nearly 50 years.
Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack, aged 69, state media has said.
On Wednesday, a huge funeral procession was staged for the late leader in the snowy streets of the capital, Pyongyang.
A Japanese newspaper has reported that Kim Jong-il's eldest son, who lives in Macau, secretly visited Pyongyang to pay his last respects.
Yomiuri Shimbun, quoting an unnamed source in North Korea, said Kim Jong-nam had flown home "for a few days" but was now back in Macau.
He has lived abroad for several years after reportedly falling out of favour with his father for trying to enter Japan on a false passport in 2001 to visit Tokyo Disneyland.
The Labour leader said conditions in the Grande-Synthe camp near Dunkirk would be a "disgrace anywhere", and Britain should be "part of bringing European support to people".
He said the long-term solution was to deal with the conflicts causing the migration crisis.
On Friday France's PM said the crisis was putting the EU at grave risk.
Mr Corbyn was given a tour of the Grande-Synthe camp, meeting migrants and aid workers.
"What I'm trying to achieve here is to understand the nature of the refugee crisis that's facing the whole of Europe," he said.
"Ultimately we deal with the situation by dealing with the problem at its source, which are the wars and conflicts.
"Also, there are the human needs of people. We have got people here who have been here for months, if not longer than that, with no proper education, no access to doctors, no access to dentists, limited access to food - in very cold, very wet conditions."
He added: "We as human beings have to reach out to fellow human beings."
Aid workers said tents at the camp were surrounded by puddles of water and food, which had attracted rats.
The population of the camp has risen steadily in recent weeks to about 2,500, including about 250 children, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres‎. It says most are Kurds from Iran, Syria and Iraq who hope to reach the UK.
Speaking about the migration crisis, Mr Corbyn said: "Germany has done an enormous amount, other countries have done varying amounts and I think we should be part of bringing European support to people."
In September Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain would accept 20,000 refugees from Syria over five years.
Volunteers from several countries, including the UK, continue to help migrants living in camps in northern France. Aid gathered by a Glasgow Muslim society arrived at a camp in Calais shortly before Mr Corbyn's Dunkirk visit.
London's Paddington and Waterloo stations and Birmingham New Street are stations that could be put up for sale.
Speaking to the Financial Times, Network Rail chief executive Mark Carne said £1.8bn could be raised through the sale of 7,500 other properties.
These include freight yards, car parks, arches, depots and spare land.
A spokesman for Network Rail confirmed that financial advisers had been appointed to consult on possible options.
In a statement, Network Rail said: "We are looking to generate some £1.8bn of funds from our property assets by 2019, enabling us to invest in building a bigger, better railway.
"We're taking a long hard look at which assets, ensuring we keep what we need to grow and expand the railway, but then looking at ways we can realise best value from the rest to reinvest."
It comes ahead of a planned meeting with President Bashar al-Assad.
Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, who held talks with Mr Brahimi on his arrival, said he backed the mission.
Meanwhile, in an interview with the BBC, former envoy Kofi Annan warned there could be no "military solution" to the conflict.
Thousands of people have been killed in Syria since the unrest began in 2011.
On Thursday, Syrian government forces carried out air strikes on Syria's commercial capital, Aleppo, activists said.
Clashes have been reported in the western and southern parts of the city, as well as in several parts of Damascus.
The reports have not been independently verified.
After his arrival in Damascus on Thursday, Mr Brahimi said: "There is a crisis, no-one denies it... It is a crisis which is deteriorating, and no-one disagrees with the need to stop the bloodshed and restore harmony."
According to Syrian state media, Mr Muallem stressed that any initiative should "focus on the Syrian people's interest".
The UN-Arab League envoy also met Mohammed Reza Shibani, the Iranian ambassador to Syria. Tehran has been and remains a staunch supporter of Mr Assad.
Pro-Assad Addounia TV channel said Mr Brahimi would meet the president on Saturday, and not Friday as had previously been reported.
The envoy is due to meet a delegation from the opposition National Co-ordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCCDC), an umbrella group of leftist, Kurdish and independent political activists, with calls for dialogue with the government.
When he took over the post, Mr Brahimi said bringing peace to Syria would be "nearly impossible". He has described the bloodshed there as "staggering" and the destruction as "catastrophic".
He was appointed to the role in August after the resignation of Kofi Annan, who quit after his peace plan for Syria failed to affect the crisis.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Annan said the world community must get its act together to resolve the Syrian conflict, describing the failure to do so as "shameful".
He also urged regional players to exert pressure both on President Assad and the rebels to settle the crisis peacefully.
"Left on their own, they will not go and talk," Mr Annan warned.
The 25-year-old, who began his career at West Ham before spells at Oxford, Aldershot Town and Woking, has signed a two-year deal with the Reds.
"Josh is a combative, energetic midfielder," head coach Dermot Drummy told the club website.
"I know how keen he is to embrace a new challenge back in the Football League here at Crawley."
Payne is the League Two club's fourth signing of the summer, following the arrivals of Jason Banton, Enzio Boldewijn and Glenn Morris.
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There is little reason to believe putative migrants from sub-Saharan Africa will be deterred by the reports of mass drownings.
Many departing West African migrants I have spoken to in the past few weeks make it clear that crossing the Sahara, then the Mediterranean, is a life-and-death decision.
It is also, for them, a no-brainer: stay behind and suffer the indignity of living off your elders, with no prospect of being able to marry or support a family?
Or leave and maybe strike it rich like so-and-so, who built a concrete house for his ageing mother and sunk a borehole in the village.
"Their attitude is: Better die for something than live for nothing," said Papa Oumar Ba, a trafficker turned Red Cross worker in Gao, northeastern Mali.
Many others are naive and ill-informed. They have only the traffickers' lies to go on.
"What's the desert?" asked one Gambian I spoke to shortly before he boarded a truck for a potentially deadly five or six day open-top drive across the Sahara.
Papa Oumar Ba said: "In Gao, the traffickers call the Mediterranean 'the river'. It works on those who have never seen the sea."
Hundreds of African migrants are still arriving in Zintan, western Libya. It is just another stop on their long journey to Europe.
Dozens of them gather in the main roundabouts, hoping to earn a day's wage, as they need to collect the $1,000 (£670; €930) to pay the smugglers to cross the Mediterranean to Italy.
They are aware of the risks, but simply want to end this chapter in their life and start a new one.
"The only way to get there [Europe] is to cross that water," says John, from Ghana. "I know it's very risky but I'm putting everything in God's hands."
The city of Zintan may be over a hundred kilometres from the sea, but officials here say they are struggling to document all the migrants.
So far they have not received any help.
Zintan's local authorities admit that as Libya remains locked in a crisis between two rival governments, it will be impossible to curb the activities of the migrant-smuggling mafia.
The first survivors to step off the Gregoretti coastguard ship that rescued them on Sunday looked exhausted and in shock. They did not show much emotion and stood quite still on the boat before walking onto the quay.
One migrant was carried off the ship in a wheelchair. A Save the Children spokesperson said it looked like he had a bandaged leg.
One migrant shook hands with the mayor of Catania Enzo Bianco who came on board the Gregoretti with a group of officials. The survivor put his hand to his chest to thank him.
An ambulance also left the scene but we cannot confirm who was on board. There were dozens of Italian officials on the quay - many from the police, port authority, NGOs, the Italian Red Cross.
"They are completely shocked, they keep repeating themselves, saying they are the only survivors," said Francesco Rocca, president of the Italian Red Cross who met the migrants.
"Some of them want to speak, some of them want to stay silent. You can imagine they are under a lot of pressure. It's the first time I see such a high level of shock. It's clear from their eyes."
Later we did see some smiles on the faces of the survivors, and there were moments when the migrants and the coast guards appeared to share a joke.
A group of women carrying flowers joined the officials gathered on the dock to welcome the migrants.
Activists from Catania also staged a protest to denounce the EU's immigration policy. They chanted slogans in Italian: "No more shipwrecks, no more deportations."
One protester, Alessio Grancagnol, said: "We think that the politicians are hypocrites. They have never done anything to solve this problem. Europe could act."
Another protester, Ivana Ioppolo, said: "We are speaking about life, about people who are trying to escape war and poverty. We have to help them."
On the Italian side, there was quite a well-organised media operation to focus the attention on their efforts to deal with the influx of migrants. And there was a wall of cameras to film them.
"Almost no-one inside or outside government thinks they will survive."
Before last month's general election, the position of tuition fees in England looked unassailable.
The government had rammed through legislation at the last minute, increasing fees to £9,250 per year.
And the proposal by Labour to scrap tuition fees had been met by university leaders with a polite shrug.
But there seems to have been a huge sea-change in attitudes.
So what has made such a difference?
"The straw that broke the camel's back," says Lord Adonis, has been "indefensible" interest rates of 6.1%.
This has focused attention on the scale of debt from higher fees and interest rates - spinning upwards to £50,000 so far for an average graduate, with fees set to increase every year with inflation.
"It's about as bad a political gambit as you could imagine," says Lord Adonis.
"Can you seriously see the Conservatives going in to the next election with fees at £10,000, interest rates at 7% and debts at £60,000?"
He argues that a reformed version of the fee system could have survived with cross-party support, but now it has become irredeemably toxic.
Even if fees were "cut drastically", he says, it would still not be enough for young people, who will want them to be completely scrapped.
And a partial reduction would still mean a financial black hole, with "lots of political pain for not much gain".
The inescapable outcome, says Lord Adonis, is that an entirely different approach will be needed to fund universities.
The sense of political doom hanging over fees, he says, reminds him of the poll tax.
Lord Adonis is the type of reforming Labour politician the Conservatives like to applaud.
With a minority government hanging by a parliamentary thread, any cross-party push on reforming fees would cause ministers deep problems.
And concerns about fees are emerging.
Conservative MP Nick Boles, writing in the Guardian, said charging high interest before students had even finished their courses was "simply unacceptable".
The meter on interest charges starts running as soon as courses begin, with the Institute for Fiscal Studies saying students would owe £5,800 in interest charges before they even graduated.
"It is unutterably depressing for hard-working students to see the amount they owe spiralling upwards, before they have even started paying it off," Mr Boles wrote.
The election saw huge swings to Labour in university seats - and any Conservative MP defending a narrow majority might want to review a system that will see tuition fees rising every year.
This is also a very middle-England issue. More than half a million young people start university each year.
According to the IFS, middle earners could end up paying £40,000 in interest charges, on top of what they have borrowed.
Prof David Green, vice-chancellor of the University of Worcester, says the current fee arrangements have "lost credibility" when they become a long-term pay cut for people such as nurses.
For nurses and midwives, he says, it will mean "their debt never diminishes in real terms until it is eventually written off after 30 years".
"Instead, they will simply receive a take-home pay cut of 4.7% and a shackle of a growing £50,000 debt.
"This makes absolutely no sense when there is a significant and growing national shortage throughout England of both nurses and midwives."
The way interest is levied is also under scrutiny.
Estelle Clarke, a former City lawyer on the advisory board of the Intergenerational Foundation think tank, says student loans have less consumer finance protection than a basic product such as a credit card.
She says if they were properly regulated, they would be unlikely to apply the monthly compound interest used for student loans.
And if inflation goes up further - as is entirely possible - interest charges for students will also rise, adding to student loan debts that have already passed £100bn.
This could become even more complicated, as the government is planning to sell off students' debts to private investors.
So what will happen next?
Any rowing back would mean taking a political hit and accusations of a U-turn.
But sticking to the current plans would mean committing to a long upward curve in fees, which would be even more controversial by the next election.
The Education Secretary Justine Greening says there needs to be a more honest debate about the cost of scrapping fees - both in financial terms to the public finances and in removing the funding for extra places.
"I'm someone who was the first person in my family to be able to go to university, and that matters to me a huge amount," says Ms Greening.
"I think the debate has revolved around what's the best way to enable access to our universities.
"We've seen a debate about whether that's no fees or no cap.
"When you bring a cap in, that means fewer students have a chance to go to university.
"We know that when there are fewer places at university, who gets them?
"We know that it's students who are doing better in our school system - and that tends to be students from better-off families.
"I really do feel that the Labour party should come clean to young people about the consequences of its no-fees policy.
"They should be frank with people that what they've said in the run-up to the election about effectively writing off student debt was a false promise."
DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian made international headlines in 2012 when a nurse who fell for their prank later killed herself.
The High Court overturned a previous decision which cleared 2Day FM.
The station could now be fined or see its licence suspended or revoked.
2Day FM said Wednesday's decision "means that there is a serious defect in Australian broadcasting law".
The High Court ruling upheld an earlier finding by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) that the station broke the law by not obtaining consent to air the call from either of the hospital staff featured.
Ms Greig and Mr Christian called King Edward VII's Hospital in London on December 2012 pretending to be the Queen and Prince Phillip.
Nurse Jacintha Saldanha, 46, answered the call and transferred it to a colleague, who gave details of the duchess's condition. Following widespread media coverage Mrs Saldanha was found hanged three days later.
ACMA had ruled in November 2013, nearly a year after the prank took place, that the radio station had broken the law by broadcasting the call.
But the station successfully sued the ACMA in the Federal Court, arguing that the media watchdog did not have the authority to decide whether a criminal offence had been committed and overturned its decision.
Wednesday's High Court ruling reverses that Federal Court decision, finding that the ACMA does have that power. The authority can now decide whether to issue a penalty to the station of a fine or suspension of licence.
In February 2013, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service said there was no evidence to support a charge of manslaughter against the two DJs.
At an inquest into Mrs Saldana's death, Coroner Fiona Wilcox concluded that the hoax call had been "clearly pressing on her mind" but that she had had "appropriate" support from the hospital.
But after a quasi-civilian government took over in 2011, many curbs were lifted and a rigid censorship regime abolished.
Journalists were among masses of political prisoners released, and media outlets mushroomed to serve a highly literate population that had been starved of independent news.
When the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Laureate kept under house arrest for years because of her democratic activism, won historic elections in 2015, many expected more media freedom would follow.
But journalists and press freedom advocates are alarmed by what they say is an increasingly heavy-handed approach, especially on matters of sensitivity to the military, which retains significant power.
The latest case involves three journalists arrested by the military on 26 June after watching the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), a rebel group, burn drugs in north-eastern Shan State.
Aye Nai, 53, and Pyae Phone Naing, 24, report for the Democratic Voice of Burma broadcaster, while Lawi Weng, 38, works for The Irrawaddy news magazine and website. Both outlets were run by exiles who fled during the junta era to report on abuses in the then pariah state, and who returned home after reforms in 2012.
The trio were handed to police and charged under the colonial-era Unlawful Associations Act for having alleged contact with the TNLA, which the army has recently been clashing with and describes as a "terrorist" group. They could face up to three years in prison, and a close aide of Ms Suu Kyi has defended the charges.
"It's true that they broke the law by going to meet ethnic groups," Win Htein, a former political prisoner, said.
Yet the case has caused uproar because many journalists have met TNLA rebels without facing prosecution, and the group came into direct contact with reporters and officials when it attended peace talks in May in the capital, Naypyitaw.
Lawi Weng is well-respected for his reporting on ethnic armed groups around Myanmar.
His fiancée, Loa Htaw, told Reuters news agency that he was well aware that he could be jailed for reporting on such issues, and criticising both the military and government.
But "he needs to report for the voiceless and the powerless", she said.
Aung Zaw, editor of The Irrawaddy, said his reporter had been planning to investigate reports of abuses by the army and local militias in the area.
He said he had been unlawfully arrested, and that journalists were legally allowed to gather news in conflict zones. "Our work is under threat," he told the BBC.
In an opinion piece, he wrote: "The return of a climate of fear is very disturbing, particularly after the National League for Democracy won a landslide victory in the 2015 election.
"I can't help but recall Lawi's optimism on Election Day. No, he was not thinking that he would eventually be locked up under this government".
The arrests come weeks after two journalists from The Voice newspaper were sued by the military over a satirical article.
Editor Kyaw Min Swe remains in custody and has been charged with defamation under a controversial section of the telecommunications law that human rights groups say is being used to silence criticism of the military and government online.
Activists say at least 71 people have been charged under Section 66(d) since the law came into force in 2013 - the vast majority after Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD took power.
One man was sentenced to six months for posting a poem on Facebook about having a tattoo of former President Thein Sein on his penis.
Aung San Suu Kyi has come under sustained criticism internationally for what many perceive as her failure to speak out about grave human rights abuses allegedly committed by the military against the Muslim minority Rohingya community, and civilians from other ethnic minorities in conflict-affected areas.
The treatment of journalists under her government has also come under scrutiny.
Some Myanmar watchers say that not all the criticism is warranted, however. The military retains significant power throughout the country, and controls the defence, home and border affairs ministries and holds 25% of the seats in Parliament.
As a tenuous democratic transition continues, Ms Suu Kyi's room to manoeuvre is tight and she is choosing her priorities carefully, some argue.
In April, she told the BBC that she was "just a politician" and "no Mother Theresa".
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Still, with a parliamentary majority the NLD government "has the power to amend or abolish many repressive laws" that are used to target journalists, the Democratic Voice of Burma's editor-in-chief Aye Chan Naing told the BBC.
He adds that the arrest of two of his journalists for doing their "normal job" is "shocking ".
"It's very disappointing the way the government [has reacted] on this case," he says.
"We can understand the way the military is acting but it's really shocking to see [the government], instead of helping and siding with the independent journalists, is kind of giving the green light to the military to go ahead."
But Win Htein, the aide to Ms Suu Kyi, has said that getting a peace deal is a bigger priority than amending the Unlawful Associations Act.
Mratt Kyaw Thu, a senior reporter with the magazine Frontier Myanmar, says he doesn't believe journalists will stop reporting from conflict zones and on ethnic armed groups.
But he does admit that the recent series of cases has sparked fresh debate among reporters about how far they can go in criticising the military.
He says journalists approached Aung San Suu Kyi on 28 June to ask about press freedom in the wake of the arrests, "but she never listens about that".
This is the full statement to the inquests from his sister, Theresa Arrowsmith:
Martin Kevin Traynor was known to his family as Kevin or Kev. He was born in May 1972. Kevin was the youngest of the five children of James and Joan Traynor.
Kevin attended St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, St Werburgh's Middle School, Bishop Challinor Secondary and then St Benedict's Secondary.
Kevin was a prefect in St Benedict's and took care of the younger children who started at the school, which is commonly now known as a mentor. Kevin was well thought of by the staff at all his schools.
He was a resourceful boy and he once organised the end of year school trip to Blackpool for his own class, which the school knew nothing about, using his own initiative. He was a born leader who also listened to other people's wants and needs and tried to help them where he could.
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Kevin loved to play football with his three older brothers. He also played for an amateur football club, Parkside FC, alongside former Liverpool player Jason McAteer.
He had a sense of adventure that developed as he grew older. He was very much a person who loved his sport, whether it was indoor or outdoor sport and whatever the weather.
He liked to keep fit and took great pride in his appearance. He was a member of the Shaftsbury Boys Club from the age of seven, often going on camping trips as well as other adventures with his three older brothers, two of whom were Shaftsbury Boys Club 'old boys' at the time.
Kevin also had a love of boxing and was a member of the Willaston Boxing Association. Kevin was a light heavyweight boxer for his age but never got to have his first fight which was scheduled to take place after 15 April.
Following his death, the Boxing Association dedicated a trophy in Kevin's honour, which is still to this day awarded yearly to the most up and coming improved young boxer.
Mr Terence Finlay, secretary for the Wallasey Amateur Boxing Association, recently wrote to the family to say that Kevin was a 'very caring and selfless person, well liked by his club mates with his cheerful personality.
He was very keen to participate in boxing, but he was overweight. Such was his determination and dedication to compete that he persevered for years until he lost the weight and attained the standard to compete at club level. Only for the consequence of Hillsborough ... he would have had a future in the sport.'
Growing up, Kevin would often be found in the local woods building tree houses and playing with his school friends, family members and extended family members such as his brother-in-law's nieces and nephews.
He often visited me when I was away as an army wife. He came every school holiday, wherever I was, and family were in the world, and we lived in Litchfield, Poulton Le Fylde, Ireland, Gibraltar, Colchester and Germany, but Kevin would always be there.
I remember when he visited my husband and I in Gibraltar at the age of 10; he wanted to go to sea for an adventure all of his own in a dinghy. His sense of adventure never left him. It was on one of his trips to see me that he was introduced to fishing by my late husband. Kevin continued that sport after his brother-in-law died in the Christmas of 1986.
He was hard working and had lots of drive and ambition. Even from a young school age, he took a local paper round, delivering the papers to his neighbours and friends.
Upon leaving school in 1988, he decided to follow in his brother's footsteps by undertaking a youth training scheme at Monks Ferry, Birkenhead, as a trainee joiner. After his second placement, he was offered a full apprenticeship as they were very pleased with the development and attitude he exhibited for such a young man.
Like his older siblings, Kevin had a love of music which ranged from The Jam, The Beatles, The Christians to Madness. He loved films and his favourite film was 'Raging Bull', which he would watch over and over again.
He was a brave boy and in 1988 Kevin was stabbed over the eye whilst attempting to stop the burglary of a neighbour's house after the neighbour called for help. This incident left him with a scar above his eye.
It was one of the many incidents that Kevin's courage showed in adversity.
He had actually chased the burglar barefoot and had cut all his feet in the process over broken glass, which the burglar had thrown down in an attempt to avert his capture.
In another incident, Kevin and our brother Paul averted another burglary at my home when I lived across the road from my parents. These events encouraged Kevin to become a member of the local Neighbourhood Watch.
Such was his caring nature that when the burglary took place at my house, shortly after he stayed in my house with me and my two younger children.
After I had finished renovating the interior of the house, Kevin was assisting to put some items in the loft when suddenly we heard a bang upstairs. On closer inspection, we discovered Kevin's foot and his leg through my bedroom ceiling. He looked so sheepish, it was hard to be cross with him. My aunty, who was present at the time, was more upset than we were.
Kevin thought family was important. My daughter Clare was six when he died. She still remembers him and my brother Christopher running across the road with wolf masks on to scare her and her brother Carl. Kevin used to pick them up from school and take them on his paper round.
He couldn't wait to start taking driving lessons so he could have a car of his own, and become more independent. Growing up, he always wanted to own a yellow Lamborghini. The events which unfolded on 15 April, 1989 stopped this from happening. He would have turned 17 in May, 1989.
Kevin always had a passion for Liverpool Football Club and if you could read his diaries you would see just how much he loved his football. He used to write down every transfer which took place.
On 9 April, 1988, Kevin attended the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest and was in the Leppings Lane End. He voiced his concerns then about the safety of the stadium and the crushing that took place that year and, upon his finding that the 1989 FA Cup semi-final was going to take place there again, his words to his family were, 'Oh, no, not that stadium again.'
As events unfolded, I was out shopping with my brother, Paul, for the finishing touches to our house. We had just purchased an outdoor table and four chairs when we heard the news of what was unfolding.
At this point, we had only moved the table and two chairs to the car. We left immediately and never went back for the other two chairs.
I still have that said same patio set with those two chairs missing. Whenever I look at them, it reminds me that there will always be two missing chairs at the Traynor family households for the two family members who never came back. I paint them every year in time for the anniversary.
Their absence is felt by the entire family; Kevin can never be replaced. At 17, he went too soon.
It is not about the amount of breaths that you take in life, but the amount of breathtaking events that you are part of. Unlike us here today, Kevin's name will live on, albeit for the wrong reasons.
I know what long-term suffering our maternal grandfather felt all his life after the loss of his brother, Ambrose, when he lost his life in the Lusitania disaster. My Mum lived on knowing that she had an uncle she would never know apart from the fact he was part of history.
My nephews, Joe and Nick, like their Nan, are growing up in the shadow of their uncles that they will never know, hug or go to a game with. They will just be a part of history. They will know the pain as they grow older of not having cousins to share their lives with.
Their uncles will be photographs on the sideboard, who lost their lives in a football tragedy, and for that reason their names will live on in history, albeit for the wrong reasons.
Jamie Whiteman, 20, pleaded guilty to 16 offences, including sexual activity with a child under 13, making indecent images and voyeurism.
Whiteman, of Woodhead Drive, Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire, was sentenced at Hull Crown Court.
He admitted the offences at a hearing last month.
Whitehead competed for the Great Britain team at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Milan in 2013.
He also won a silver medal at the 2013 British Figure Skating Championships.
The damage was discovered at Dovecote Lane Recreation Ground in Beeston on Saturday morning.
Nottinghamshire Police has asked anyone with information to contact them.
Jillian Rickly, who was walking her dog when she spotted the broken trees, said: "It's really unfortunate that someone, or a group of people, would cause so much damage."
"When I see things like this, I just think, 'this is why we can't have nice things'," she added.
Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC has instructed Prof Lorna Dawson, a soil expert from the Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, to help in the search.
Moira, 11, was last seen on a bus driven by child abuser Alexander Gartshore. He died in 2006.
Prosecutors believe he murdered Moira, whose body has never been found.
A Crown Office spokesman said: "Given the public concern about the disappearance of Moira Anderson the Lord Advocate last year took the unprecedented step of naming Alexander Gartshore as the person who would have been indicted for her murder had he been alive today.
"The Lord Advocate also instructed the investigation remain open in the hope that one day her body may be found and her family be given the closure they deserve.
"The Lord Advocate is delighted that Prof Lorna Dawson of the Hutton Institute has agreed to help in the search for Moira's remains."
The spokesman said that the search for Moira's remains was likely to be "difficult and painstaking" given that 57 years had passed since she disappeared.
He added: "The case will remain open until her remains are found."
It happened near the village of Johnswell on Thursday afternoon.
A Garda (Irish police) spokesman said officers were called to the farm at 15:20 local time but the boy had died at the scene.
It is understood the boy was struck by a farm vehicle and the Irish Health and Safety Authority is investigating.
The club is hundreds of years old, and this is the first time in its history that women have been accepted.
Until now, female golfers were only allowed on the course as visitors, rather than full members.
Last year, members voted about the rule, but they said they still didn't want to let women in.
Some people thought that was unfair and old fashioned, so the course lost the right to hold a big competition called The British Open.
This time, 80.2% voted in favour of letting women in.
The club captain said "We look forward to welcoming women as members who will enjoy, and benefit from, the great traditions and friendly spirit of this remarkable club."
Now that the rule has changed, Muirfield will be allowed to host The Open again.
Of 589 MPs, 122 employ a relative, according to the latest Register of Members' Financial Interests.
They include Gregory Campbell, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Ian Paisley, who employ their spouses in their offices.
Their DUP colleague, East Belfast MP Gavin Robinson, employs his father as an office manager.
None of the 61 new MPs who secured their seats at the general election on 8 June are allowed to employ a family member.
Campaigners say there needs to be a clear end date for all MPs to stop the practice.
Announcing the ban in March, the parliamentary watchdog, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, said employing family members was "out of step" with modern employment practices.
However, MPs who served in the previous Parliament were allowed to continue their existing employment arrangements with relatives.
Its shares rose as much as 16% to 105.7 rupees on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Its business has been hit after the state introduced strict rules two years ago to curb alleged harassment of clients by microlenders.
India's biggest microlender said it had written off 11.2bn rupees ($210m; £130m) of its loans in the state.
"Closing down branches and reducing headcount are extremely painful decisions for us, but these have become urgent in view of the present financial situation," said MR Rao, chief executive of SKS.
"Our business in Andhra Pradesh has come to a standstill."
Microlenders provide loans as small as $20 to small business owners and farmers, and is a key way in which people living in rural areas can get access to credit.
India has a large rural population, making microlending an attractive business option in the country.
SKS, which launched in 1998, has had success tapping into this vast potential.
It attracted investment from the likes of George Soros when it listed on the stock market in 2010.
However, its fortunes have dwindled in recent times, and its share price has fallen more than 90% since August 2010.
It made a loss of 13.61bn rupees for the year ending March 2012, compared with a profit of 1.12bn rupees in the previous year.
It has also witnessed a boardroom battle that saw its founder and chairman, Vikram Akula, resign in November last year.
Eric Locke, of St John's Park, Clondalkin, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Sonia Blount on 16 February 2014.
The jury delivered a unanimous guilty verdict after deliberating for more than 90 minutes.
Locke will be sentenced on Friday 2 June.
He faces a mandatory life sentence for the murder.
The court had heard that he had assumed a false identity in order to meet his former partner in a hotel room, where he strangled her.
The court was also told that Locke wanted to frighten her but did not intend to kill her.
Ms Blount began a brief relationship with Locke in 2013.
The court heard that Locke was upset at the ending of the relationship and continued to contact Ms Blount on social media until she blocked him.
In February 2014, she was contacted on Facebook by a man called Shane Cully. She talked to him and agreed to meet him at the Plaza Hotel in Tallaght.
When she arrived, she discovered that 'Shane Cully' was Locke. He arrived at the meeting with cable ties, masking tape and an airgun.
He tied Ms Blount up and then strangled her with his hands and a phone cable.
The jury rejected the defence that Locke was suffering from a mental health disorder at the time of the murder.
Officials say that another 78 people were wounded in the mid-afternoon blast in the north-western Shula district.
Angry mourners attacked police who rushed to the scene, accusing them of failing to provide protection.
The funeral attack comes after a series of bombings killed dozens of Shia pilgrims during their annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala last week.
A spate of bombings in the past month against pilgrims, police recruits and security forces across Iraq has killed more than 170 people.
The recent rise in violence comes as the US military prepares to withdraw from the country at the end of the year.
It poses a major challenge to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his fragile coalition government, formed only last month.
The car that exploded at about 1400 local time (1100 GMT) on Thursday was parked near the funeral in the Shula area.
Ali Kamil, a 22-year-old college student who lives nearby, told the AP news agency that he rushed to the scene and saw a fire still raging. Several cars in the area were damaged, he said.
He said young men were throwing stones at the Iraqi security forces, angry that they had failed to protect them.
Other witnesses said police fired into the air to disperse the angry crowd, but then came under attack from gunmen and returned fire. It is unclear if anyone was hurt in the shooting.
Finally, the military was sent in to restore order, they said.
In other parts of the capital on Thursday, five people were killed and 21 wounded by roadside bomb attacks, while another bomb planted inside a minibus killed two people and wounded seven in the Jihad neighbourhood.
Violence has declined sharply in Iraq since the height of the sectarian killings of 2006-2007, but near daily attacks continue.
Leeds withstood heavy Cardiff pressure before taking the lead as Souleymane Doukara scored with a deflected shot.
Despite having Fabio sent off after an hour, the hosts continued to dominate as Lex Immers hit the post and Kenneth Zohore headed against the bar.
But Leeds' Mirco Antenucci struck on the break in added time as the Bluebirds stayed seventh in the table.
Leeds, meanwhile, move up to 15th after securing a first league double over Cardiff since 1984.
The loss is a setback for Cardiff who, buoyed by their first back-to-back wins since September, had started the match with their sights on the play-off places.
But a first defeat in 14 home matches leaves them two points behind the top six.
Peter Whittingham's whipped free-kick and Tom Lawrence's stinging low effort were both saved by Marco Silvestri as the hosts made a confident start.
But it was Leeds who struck first, taking the lead against the run of play.
Antenucci led the visitors' counter attack, scampering clear and squaring the ball to Doukara, whose shot hit Fabio on its way in.
Cardiff continued to press with chances for Immers and Anthony Pilkington, but Silvestri preserved the visitors' lead at the interval.
Leeds could have doubled their lead early in the second half, but Antenucci had a shot blocked on the line by Bruno Ecuele Manga and two others saved by David Marshall in quick succession.
From that point onwards, it was sustained Cardiff pressure once more as Immers had one effort saved while another hit a post.
Their attempts to salvage a point were undermined by Fabio's dismissal for two yellow cards in seven minutes, but still they created chances, with Zohore heading one against the bar and another narrowly over.
Cardiff City boss Russell Slade: "Sometimes the game is cruel. We were knocking on the door all evening and even dominated with 10 men.
"I'm disappointed with the two goals, especially the first which we should have dealt with comfortably had we been more aware.
"But apart from those two lapses in concentration, the attitude was first class. Their goalkeeper was inspired and we didn't have that ruthlessness to score and get the victory we deserved.
"We had a stonewall penalty (for an alleged handball by Giuseppe Bellusci). The player's arms were out and if that's not a penalty then I don't know what the rules are. We gave a performance but didn't get the result."
Leeds united manager Steve Evans: "The players deserve all the credit for that win. We learned some harsh lessons in the defeat to Brighton but I feel we've been in a good place since then.
"Cardiff's goalkeeper [David Marshall] could have been named man of the match in the first half with some fine saves before half-time and had we got that second goal then we would have won comfortably.
"But people will forget those saves because of Silvestri pulled so many out of the bag in the second half.
"It helps when you have two centre-backs playing so well and the defence working together like that, while you have two strikers who just ran all night."
Match ends, Cardiff City 0, Leeds United 2.
Second Half ends, Cardiff City 0, Leeds United 2.
Offside, Cardiff City. Joe Ralls tries a through ball, but Anthony Pilkington is caught offside.
Goal! Cardiff City 0, Leeds United 2. Mirco Antenucci (Leeds United) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Stuart Dallas.
Attempt blocked. Craig Noone (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Craig Noone (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stuart Dallas (Leeds United).
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Marco Silvestri.
Attempt saved. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Craig Noone with a cross.
Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) hits the bar with a left footed shot from very close range. Assisted by Craig Noone with a cross.
Craig Noone (Cardiff City) hits the right post with a left footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.
Craig Noone (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Toumani Diagouraga (Leeds United).
Substitution, Leeds United. Lee Erwin replaces Souleymane Doukara.
Attempt missed. Scott Malone (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Charlie Taylor.
Attempt missed. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Joe Ralls with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Kenneth Zohore replaces Stuart O'Keefe.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Sol Bamba.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Stuart O'Keefe.
Attempt missed. Bruno Ecuele Manga (Cardiff City) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Stuart O'Keefe with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Charlie Taylor.
Foul by Stuart O'Keefe (Cardiff City).
Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Craig Noone (Cardiff City) left footed shot from long range on the right is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Matthew Connolly.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Sammy Ameobi replaces Tom Lawrence.
Substitution, Leeds United. Stuart Dallas replaces Alex Mowatt.
Attempt missed. Gaetano Berardi (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Lewis Cook.
Attempt blocked. Alex Mowatt (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lewis Cook.
Attempt saved. Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Tom Lawrence (Cardiff City).
Mirco Antenucci (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Leeds United. Toumani Diagouraga replaces Liam Bridcutt.
Foul by Stuart O'Keefe (Cardiff City).
Luke Murphy (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lex Immers (Cardiff City) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Joe Ralls.
Tom Lawrence (Cardiff City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Liam Bridcutt (Leeds United).
Attempt saved. Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lex Immers with a cross.
Former Newport County academy coach James Rowberry is also being promoted to an assistant role.
The Wales national squad's head of performance Ryland Morgans joins the Bluebirds as performance director.
Former first-team coach Scott Young becomes academy defence coach and club ambassador.
Morgans has previously worked for Liverpool - with ex-manager Brendan Rodgers - and Fulham and has been part of the Wales coaching set-up with Trollope.
Lawrence returns to the Bluebirds for a second stint, having originally joined as a consultant in 2002. He worked with Trollope previously at Bristol Rovers.
The 68-year old then succeeded Alan Cork as Cardiff boss and led them to promotion in his first season, winning the Football League second division play-off in 2003 against QPR.
Goalkeeping coach Martyn Margetson has also agreed a new contract to stay at the Cardiff City Stadium.
"We are delighted to bring people with the experience Dr Ryland and Lennie have to the club and hope that they can play an important role in helping us achieve our ambition of promotion back to the Premier League," chief executive Ken Choo said.
"We have put together a strong backroom coaching team this summer which we believe will help maximise the potential within our playing staff."
Head coach Paul Trollope added: "I am delighted to finalise my backroom staff ahead of the forthcoming season.
"We've worked very hard over the past month to secure their services and I feel it's a highly experienced, driven and ambitious staff."
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The British crew led a fierce contest from start to finish, with the German Olympic and European champions overhauling New Zealand to win silver.
The victory in the closing race on Lake Aiguebelette, France, secured Britain's 15th medal of the regatta.
It also also confirmed the eight's place at next summer's Olympics in Rio.
The top men's crew, which comprised last year's World Championships four winners Moe Sbihi, Alex Gregory and George Nash, as well as Matt Gotrel, Will Satch, Pete Reed, Paul Bennett, Constantine Louloudis and cox Phelan Hill, started as favourites and fulfilled that expectation despite a late push from the New Zealanders and the Germans.
"I am speechless," said Reed. "That was tough. It felt like a full-out sprint."
It was enough to ensure Britain end the World Championships at the top of the medals table despite failing to secure any further podium places on the final day.
Furthermore, it meant the team surpassed their 2014 tally of four golds, having already bettered last year's mark of 10 podium places.
In the women's double, Katherine Grainger and Vicky Thornley faded in the closing stages to finish sixth and last.
The European bronze medallists - who had already qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympics - were ranked as the slowest boat going into the final but went out strongly and were in contention for a medal until they were overhauled as they approached the finish line.
"I think we raced well," said Thornley. "In the last 150m, I don't know, it felt like we ran out of steam."
The women's eight were also in the frame for an unlikely medal but could not quite overhaul third-placed Canada in the final few metres.
Consolation came for Katie Greves, Louise Reeve, Jessica Eddie, Donna Etiebet, Victoria Meyer-Laker, Olivia Carnegie-Brown, Rosamund Bradbury, Zoe Lee and cox Zoe de Toledo in the shape of qualification for next summer's Olympics.
"That was our primary goal," said De Toledo. "But we are disappointed on missing out on the medal by so little."
They will be joined in Rio by the men's double, single and lightweight four, who all secured spots in Rio after finishing second, second and third respectively in their 'B' races earlier on Sunday.
That means the British team have fulfilled their pre-championship target of earning qualification in 12 of the 14 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.
Four engines were called out to the incident in the Crossmichael area shortly after 09:00.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it was dealing with what it described as a "well-developed" fire.
All the occupants of the building had left the property by the time crews arrived on the scene and there have been no injuries reported.
Karl Rose admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply.
He must forfeit £25,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act after Warwickshire Justice Centre rejected his claims the majority of the cash was from the show hosted by Noel Edmunds.
The 29-year-old, from Coventry, won £20,000 on the Channel 4 programme in May 2009, West Midlands Police said.
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Rose, of Bruce Road, Radford, was arrested in September 2014 when almost half a kilo of cannabis was found in a car owned by an accomplice, police said.
Officers searched his home and found cannabis, worth almost £5,000, and £25,480 in cash.
Det Con Greg Ashfield said: "We found plenty of evidence showing that Rose was actively dealing drugs and that the cash we found in a holdall was money derived from selling cannabis.
"Incredibly, he asked us and the courts to believe he kept game show winnings from five years earlier just lying around his house."
Rose and three other men were handed 12-month prison sentences, suspended for 18 months, after they all admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply in November.
They were ordered to carry out 150 hours of voluntary community work.
The dairy farmer from South Petherwin played 13 seasons at Polson Bridge and has been helping coach the club's colts section for the past few years.
Tucker's appointment comes a day after Mike Lewis stepped down from the job after being offered a different role.
Lewis, who took over in the summer after Neil Bayliss left due to budget cuts, led Launceston to eight defeats from eight games in National Two South.
"I'm kind of thinking what the heck have I let myself in for, but I shall be very proud when I lead the team out for the first time. I'm determined to 're-Launceston-ise' Launceston Rugby Club," Tucker told the club website.
"I want the boys to put some pride back into their shirts and do themselves justice and try to draw back some excitement from the town and the rugby community. I want to bring back some old spirit - but let's call it new spirit.
"As a player I was up for any challenge. My mind doesn't work around the word 'relegation'. As a coach I'm taking that challenge on. If we can avoid going down a league that would be a supreme achievement. That's not a challenge given to me by the club, that's a challenge I have set myself."
Alankrita Shrivastava was recently informed in a letter - badly-worded and full of spelling mistakes - that her film was being denied a censor certificate for being too "lady-oriended [oriented]" with "contanious [continuous] sexual scenes".
The Central Board of Film Certification also complained that the film "has abusive words, audio pornography [meaning phone sex], and a bit sensitive touch about one particular section of society [implying it could hurt Muslim religious sentiments]".
This effectively means that the film, which stars talented actresses like Konkona Sen Sharma and Ratna Pathak Shah, cannot be screened in Indian cinemas.
The film about four women from small town India had its world premiere in Tokyo a few months ago and since then has won several awards at film festivals globally.
Earlier this week, it had two showings at the Glasgow Film Festival. Both were sold out and the film won the Audience Award, the only prize handed out.
It's also been shown in Stockholm, Cairo and Estonia and in coming weeks will travel to festivals in Miami, Amsterdam, Paris and London.
So why has the censor board got its knickers in a twist over it?
"Because the censors are not comfortable with the alternate point of view, they are afraid of the female point of view," Ms Shrivastava told me on the phone from Glasgow.
"They are used to viewing life from a male point of view, the popular gaze is male, stalking is love, Eve-teasing is courtship.
"My film is from the point of view of four women, their dreams and fears."
The film's trailer is delightful and gives a glimpse into the worlds of its women protagonists: A burka-clad college student who wants to be Britney Spears, a beautician who loves being photographed so much that she takes selfies even while having sex, a mother of three who yearns to be treated like an individual and not just a baby-producing machine, and a widow in her fifties who saucily fantasises about a much younger man.
"The women live in a small town, with their small dreams, they have very suffocating and restricted lives and the film is about how they fulfil their dreams," Ms Shrivastava says.
The title uses the idea of lipstick hidden under a burka as a metaphor for hidden dreams and a pulsating desire to break free even when restricted.
Film censorship in India has always been quite erratic but the censor board has faced increasing criticism in recent years from the film industry, which accuses it of being irrational, making decisions on an ad hoc basis and being in conflict with India's changing society.
The board is often in the news for demanding that filmmakers edit out scenes involving sex and violence, swear words or even a kiss.
Ms Shrivastava says the censor board is trying to "silence her voice".
"The Central Board of Film Certification is outdated and illogical. Its members have no idea about gender issues and gender politics," she says.
"Are you saying only the male point of view is relevant? It's 2017, why should women be silenced?"
She says she is now "determined" to fight the censors.
"India is a robust and vibrant democracy. I'm going to appeal against the censor decision. I'm a very hopeful, optimistic person, so I'm sure the film will be released in India soon."
Chief Executive Ian Narev will retire after six years at the helm of Australia's biggest mortgage lender.
It comes amid pressure from regulators over 53,700 alleged breaches of anti-money laundering laws.
The board said it brought forward details of its succession plans to end speculation over his tenure.
Mr Narev had faced calls to step down after the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (Austrac) launched a civil action against the bank over what it described as "serious and systemic" breaches of anti-money laundering laws.
The bank's chairman Catherine Livingstone said in a statement on Monday that Mr Narev would leave the bank by the end of the 2018 financial year.
The bank's board also recently scrapped short-term bonuses for all senior executives this year in response to the allegations.
Most of the alleged breaches related to the bank's deposit machines, which could accept up to $20,000 Australian dollars (£12,160; $15,820) in cash at a time, anonymously if the person depositing was not a Commonwealth customer.
The bank failed to meet deadlines for reporting transactions over the legal threshold of A$10,000, according to Austrac.
Commonwealth Bank said the breaches were due to a coding error, which meant the machines failed to automatically report the transactions.
Last week, Australia's corporate regulator said it would open a separate investigation into the bank's handling of money laundering suspicions.
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission said it would look at whether the bank's board complied with its obligations to tell shareholders about all potential liabilities.
Despite its ongoing legal tussles, last week the bank beat forecasts to report profits of A$9.88bn (£6bn; $7.8bn)
The figure was 4.6% higher than last year's results and the eighth straight year of record profits for the bank.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is expected to take over the inquiry into the Vyapam scandal from state police.
Vyapam is the Hindi acronym for an office that conducts examinations for government jobs and medical school admissions in the state.
The scandal involves thousands of arrests and many mysterious deaths.
Opposition parties have accused the BJP-ruled government in Madhya Pradesh of influencing the investigation and have been demanding a federal inquiry.
While ordering the inquiry, the Supreme Court judges criticised the Madhya Pradesh high court for refusing to take a decision on whether there should be a federal investigation into the scandal.
"Instead of taking a decision, the Madhya Pradesh high court washed its hands off [the case] and put the ball in our court," the judges were quoted as saying by the NDTV news channel.
The scandal involved leaking question papers, rigging answer sheets and hiring bright students as impersonators to sit for candidates, as well as selling medical school seats to the highest bidder. Anything between 1m rupees ($15,764; £10,168) and 7m rupees was paid for a seat, correspondents say.
Some 2,530 people have been accused in connection with the scandal since 2012.
Police have arrested about 1,980 people and 550 people are still being sought. Twenty courts in Madhya Pradesh are looking into 55 cases registered in connection with the scandal.
In a mysterious twist, some 33 people - mostly accused in connection with the scam - have died in the past two years, raising suspicions of foul play. It is not clear how many deaths are linked to the scandal.
The University of Sheffield's digital archive features information about more than 350 statues of players, managers and fans from 56 different countries.
The Sporting Statues database also details the sculptor, when the artwork was unveiled and a location map.
The most frequently portrayed person, with six statues, is Brazilian footballer, Pelé.
Dr Chris Stride led the three-year project which went live earlier.
He said: "The earliest footballer statue identified, an anonymous player, can be found in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was sculpted in 1903.
"However, almost 95% of football statues have been created since 1990, and over half in the last decade, showing it to be a largely modern phenomenon.
"Statues are also being erected by towns, cities and commercial organisations, who are seeking reflected glory and identity from their local sporting heritage."
In addition to showcasing the known faces of sport, the database also indentifies 125 statues of anonymous players.
The results were the first since the company acquired blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1bn (£723m) in June.
Profits were $331m, up 46% from the same time last year. The rise was due mostly to the company's investment in Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba.
Display advertising revenue fell 13% in the quarter, while search revenue was down 9%.
Chief executive Marissa Mayer, who celebrated one year at the company on Tuesday, chose to ignore the continued revenue slide. Instead, she hailed the company's relentless release of new mobile offerings.
"We reached a pace of launching a new product almost every week," said Ms Mayer during a webcast to discuss the company's earnings.
"As you can tell, we've been busy."
Reaction on Wall Street was muted, with shares falling 1.7% on the news.
Although the company's stock has risen more than 70% since Ms Mayer took over, fundamental issues of revenue generation remain.
While digital ad sales are expected to grow overall this year, it is unclear whether Yahoo will be able to get in on the game.
According to research firm eMarketer, Yahoo's share of global digital ad spending is expected to decline to 3.1% in 2013 from 3.37% last year.
In the US, eMarketer estimates that Yahoo's share of US digital ad revenues will decline to 8% from 8.6% in 2012.
But Yahoo's turnaround is expected to take longer than one year and Yahoo's board is said to have promised Ms Mayer several years to help revamp the company's fortunes.
She herself has said that her focus at the company would be on its mobile offerings. The earnings release proclaimed the many mobile revamps to its products, such as photo-sharing site Flickr and Yahoo News, conducted under her tenure.
Yahoo has also bought nine technology start-ups in the past quarter, including Tumblr and Summly, bringing the total to 17 acquisitions under her watch.
Yahoo hopes this will diversify its base, attract engineering talent and boost company morale.
Ms Mayer touted the improved environment at the company, noting that in the second quarter, the rate of employees leaving the company declined by 59%.
She also noted that more than 12% of new hires in the past year were boomerangs - that is, people who left Yahoo only to come back.
An algorithm processes data captured by 2D and 3D scanners and sensors positioned at the front of a van.
It identifies signs of "ravelling" - damage to the asphalt that leads to cracks and potholes.
Drivers claimed more than £3m compensation for pothole damage in the UK last year, according to the RAC.
The scanner system can distinguish ravelling from other textural differences on the road, such as oil spills, tyre marks and previous pothole repairs.
In a test, the device correctly identified 900 potential sites. It took 0.65 seconds to process the data, the researchers say.
While the technology would be adopted by paving specialists Dynatest, who collaborated on the research project, it would also be open-source, said Dr Senthan Mathavan, lead researcher and visiting fellow at Nottingham Trent University.
The sensors used on the device were the same as those developed to help robots perceive their environment, he said.
"These sensors are common to us and to civil engineers," he said.
"The technology is established, but we're using the data to look for much smaller defects."
Fellow researcher Dr Mujib Rahman added: "Dealing with road-surface damage like potholes in the early stages is cheaper in the long-term than reacting to potholes when they occur.
"This technology will also allow councils to plan ahead better and be more efficient with any programme of repairs.
"If councils know that there's likely to be a pothole in a certain part of a road in say three years' time, they can plan the repair before it gets to the point that an emergency repair is needed."
The research has been published in the journal Transportation Research Record.
The 23-year-old lightweight, who won Commonwealth bronze last year, beat Georgia's Otar Eranosyan on points.
Victory assured him a place at October's World Championship in Doha, where the top three in each weight category will qualify for the Olympics.
"This gold medal shows I'm heading in the right direction," he said.
"I've been to a few major championships now. I was quite young before and didn't have the confidence.
"But after the Commonwealth Games I started believing in myself."
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Among Cordina's five victims on his way to gold in Bulgaria was former world champion number one seed Domenico Valentino, beaten by technical knockout in round one.
The final against Eranosyan was an altogether tougher encounter, where Cordina's superior movement allowed him to evade his opponent's close-quarters tactics to claim Great Britain's only gold.
"The first two rounds were very tough, but I thought I started to bring it back," said the Cardiff boxer.
"The third round I thought I got the better of him because I felt he wasn't landing clean shots on me. I thought I was landing the cleaner shots.
"I'm glad I got the win and I thought I fully deserved it.
"Obviously the worlds is a very hard tournament and I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully I can get in the last three and qualify for the Olympics.
"The target was gold here and that's what it is in Doha too. I'll have a two-week break now and then come back recharged and then bring back a world medal."
Britain's other finalist in Bulgaria - Harvey Horn, Muhammad Ali, Qais Ashfaq and Pat McCormack - all had to settle for silver after losing in the final.
The final tally of six medals was made-up by a bronze for Joshua Buatsi in the light-heavyweight division.
"Danny will add value to the squad. He's a really experienced player," said Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson.
"He's a winner and brings a lot of ability to the squad."
The 28-year-old was on loan from Coventry City at St Johnstone for four months last season. He won the Scottish Cup with Dundee United and left there to join Peterborough in June 2012.
Swanson joined Coventry two years later on a free transfer and made 18 appearances for the Sky Blues.
"He's impressed in training but I also knew him from Dundee United, when I was a player there," added the Tynecastle head coach.
"I know what he brings to the team. I know he's got great technique and ability and he'll be a good addition to the squad.
"He predominantly plays in a more central area of the pitch now. He gives great through balls and passes in that area, which is where we're a little bit light at the moment."
The Break Free singer will play on 1 June at London's O2 before shows in Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham.
The shows are part of the European leg of the 21-year-old's tour promoting her second album My Everything.
The singer has had two UK number one singles; Bang Bang with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj as well as Problem featuring Iggy Azalea.
Ariana Grande, who performed at this year's Radio 1 Teen Awards, is also set to perform alongside the likes of Maroon 5 and Pharrell at the launch event of the 2015 Grammy Awards, A Very Grammy Christmas, on 5 December.
It was also recently announced that Ariana will be presented with the rising star award at the Billboard Women in Music Awards on 12 December.
The UK dates for Ariana Grande's Honeymoon tour are as follows:
The O2, London - 1 (June)
Manchester Arena - 4
The SSE Hydro Arena, Glasgow - 8
Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham - 9
Tickets for the dates go on sale on Friday 21 November.
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The Education Policy Institute modelled the impact of government plans to expand selective schools by looking at how 32,844 districts would be affected.
The think tank applied the government's conditions for allowing new schools.
The government called the study a crude attempt to second-guess the results of its consultation on new schools.
The researchers began by constructing a set of tests mirroring the conditions for new grammars set out in the government's White Paper, Schools that Work for Everyone.
These were that they:
They found that broader education levels would be harmed if new selective schools were created in areas where more than half of highly attaining pupils could access grammar school places.
This "no detriment" principle knocked out just under 30% of areas.
They then excluded any area that did not have at least 150 pupils with high prior attainment who lived within a reasonable travelling distance.
This disqualified a further 1% of areas.
The researchers then excluded areas which already had high-performing non-selective schools, whose fortunes could be harmed by the introduction of new grammar schools.
This left just under a fifth of areas.
When these areas were cross-referenced with the 37 local authority areas which expressed strong support for new grammars in a recent YouGov poll, just six areas remained.
These were Solihull, Essex, North Yorkshire, Dorset, Northamptonshire and North Somerset, all of which have fewer disadvantaged pupils than the national average.
The study added that expansion principles would be met only in parts of each local authority area.
"We therefore conclude that it will be difficult for the government to identify areas for grammar school expansion that will avoid damage to pupils who do not access the new selective places, where there is public demand for new selective places and high disadvantage," the researchers said.
The EPI's chairman, David Laws, said his organisation's analysis showed that the provision of additional grammar school places in England would be unlikely to be an effective strategy to boost social mobility.
"The additional analysis that we have now published highlights further significant challenges which face the government if ministers decide to press on with these proposals."
Labour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said the report "joins the mountains of evidence that proves a return to grammar schools will not improve education for all, but will actively make things worse".
Ms Rayner said the grammar proposals were "a distraction" to cover up problems created over the past six years: "a teacher shortage crisis, thousands of children in super-sized classes, school budget cuts and not enough good school places".
The National Union of Teachers called the plans "a complete mess".
"It is simply not possible to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils while also increasing the number of selective schools," said NUT general secretary Kevin Courtney.
The Association of School and College Leaders also believes that expanding grammars will damage rather than improve poor children's prospects.
"The attainment gap between poor children and other pupils is one of the biggest challenges we face in the education system, but more selection is simply not the solution," said ASCL's interim general secretary, Malcolm Trobe.
And in a letter to Education Secretary Justine Greening, 33 head teachers from Kent call for the county's selective education system to be abandoned.
The heads, all from non-selective schools, say selection "serves to erode self-confidence, to limit aspirations and develop a culture of 'second best' that good leaders in non-selective schools then spend time undoing so that they can unlock the students' true potential".
Kent has one of the widest gaps between the achievement of disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students, say the heads.
"The very existence of a two-tier selective system is the biggest cause of this inequality," they add.
But a spokeswoman for the DfE dismissed the findings, noting that its own consultation on removing the ban from grammar schools closes on Monday.
She said: "This report is a crude attempt to second-guess what that consultation will conclude.
"Independent organisations have recognised the transformative impact grammar schools can have on the lives of disadvantaged young people.
"Our consultation closes on 12 December and we look forward to considering all the responses."
Barnsley Council in South Yorkshire announced term dates for academic year 2017-18 with a shorter summer break.
There will be a longer school holiday at October half-term.
Nick Bowen, principal of Horizon College, said the cut would "lead to difficulties in recruitment and retention of really good staff".
Councillor Tim Cheetham said: "The main differences to this year's dates from previous years will support educational outcomes for pupils by reducing the long summer break which can lead to learning loss.
"It also means that holiday weeks are distributed more evenly throughout the school year"
The 2018 summer holiday is to run from 31 July.
In 2017, schools are to break up almost a week earlier on 26 July.
This year the final day of term is to be 20 July, according to the council website.
Barnsley has 78 primary schools, 31 of which are academies, for children between the ages of five and 11. There are 10 advanced learning centres, four of which are academies, for 11-18-year-olds, said the council.
Mr Bowen said: "Half of Barnsley will be operating under this new system the other half, the academies, many of them are saying they're not going to do it."
Simon Murch, of the National Union of Teachers, said: "It seems a very poorly-thought-out idea.
"Anything that changes the system we've got at the moment that works really needs to be thought out."
The council said it had consulted teachers and parents on the changes.
Mr Murch said the union thought the consultation was continuing and no decision had been reached.
Parents have also commented the move on BBC Look North's Facebook page.
Colleen Bell said: 'I love the long summer break with my kids. Plus what a nightmare for parents with children in different schools or colleges that aren't doing this."
Sue Walker said: "Keep your thieving hands off my time with my kids. I'm already being told when I can and cannot go on my holidays with them, and now you want to cut short my holidays."
Claire Sutton supported the move, she said: "I think limiting the summer to four or even five weeks would be a good idea. An extra week or two somewhere else gives parents flexibility with regards to holidays and childcare."
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William Miller, 62, from Balfron, Stirling, was last seen in Jamestown, Alexandria at about 00:20.
Police are investigating two unconfirmed sightings in the Bonhill and Balloch areas but do not believe there is any criminality involved.
His niece, Eva McGregor, 30, told a news conference on Monday her family wanted "Uncle Billy" to get in touch.
The news conference at Dumbarton Police Office was attended by Ms McGregor and her parents, Eva, 61, who is Mr Miller's sister, and her 62-year-old husband James.
In a statement, Ms McGregor said: "It is very out of character for him not to return home and for us not to have heard from him for this length of time.
"We are asking for anyone who has any information or thinks they have seen him to get in touch with the police by phoning 101.
"We also ask you to share the Argyll and West Dunbartonshire Police Facebook posts to try to raise further awareness on social media. Please help us find my Uncle Billy."
In an appeal directly to Mr Miller, Ms McGregor said: "Uncle Billy, if you see this, we need you to know that me, my mum and dad, nana, Logan, and Ben all love and miss you, we need to know that you are safe and we want you to come home. Thank you."
Mr Miller's family said he grew up in Alexandria and has friends in the area but had not made contact with anyone.
They said he was "a keen and active walker and enjoys country and forestry trails", adding it may be "possible that he may have tried to walk home to Balfron".
Police said that the last confirmed sighting of Mr Miller had been at the BP Garage in Main Street, Jamestown, Alexandria, at about 00:20 hours on Thursday 7 January.
He had spent most of the evening in Fenton's Bar, which is located on the same road.
Earlier on 6 January, Mr Miller was spotted on CCTV within Tesco in Milngavie at about 13:15.
During the new conference, Ch Insp Graeme MacDiarmid revealed that officers had received two further unconfirmed sightings of Mr Miller in the Bonhill and Balloch areas.
The Balloch sighting was on the evening of 8 January in the Balloch Road area.
The Bonhill sighting was around lunchtime on the Sunday 10 January by a dog walker at the back of Bonhill, near to Knoblestone Wood.
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He was carrying a distinctive small black rucksack with light blue panels.
Mr Miller usually wears a white-faced analogue watch with a brown leather strap.
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Caixinha told McInnes not to come into his office following the Dons' midweek 2-1 victory at Ibrox, after the Portuguese felt slighted at Pittodrie.
However, Caxinha says the situation has been resolved between both managers.
"With a fantastic glass of Portuguese wine, everything stays clear, that's what matters," he said.
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The Rangers boss had said McInnes did not join him for a post-match drink when the teams met at Pittodrie last month.
McInnes, however, insists the Portuguese was "mistaken", adding "every manager is welcome in my office".
Speaking on Friday, Caixinha indicated that the issue between the pair had been resolved and that their relationship was respectful.
"We had a very good glass of fantastic Portuguese wine," he said. "One glass of wine clarifies everything. It's done and everything stays in my office. What's private is private."
Aberdeen's victory at Ibrox was their first at the stadium since 1991, with Graeme Shinnie and Ryan Christie scoring before Martyn Waghorn's reply for the hosts.
McInnes was, on Friday, reluctant to discuss the situation with Caixinha.
"I don't want to comment any further other than really a couple of things have been said that disappoints me," he said. "I think it's a wee bit of a sideshow.
"But other than that I just want to focus on the performance and result of the team, which were excellent."
When asked whether he had had a glass of wine with his Rangers counterpart, McInnes said: "Like I say, I will just concentrate on the result."
He was speaking to MSPs after a deal was reached on the fiscal framework underlying increased devolution.
Mr Mundell said there was "no impediment" to the early transfer of powers subject to the passing of the Scotland Bill.
He is expected to give more details of the fiscal agreement to MPs later.
The Scottish Secretary told Holyrood's devolution committee he expected control over income tax to pass to MSPs by April 2017, in time for the next budget of the new Scottish Parliament.
The time-scale for the transfer of new powers over welfare remains to be agreed by the two governments through the joint ministerial group on welfare, he said.
But he added: "My envisaged timetable is that, subject obviously to parliament bringing forward its legislative consent motion and the Bill proceeding to Royal Assent ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections, a number of the powers will be in place almost immediately after the Scottish Parliament elections.
"One of the other tax powers for example, Air Passenger Duty, can be transferred at the point that the Scottish government has its model ready for that transfer.
"If the arrangements are available shortly after the Scottish Parliament election we would be able to transfer them.
"In relation to the wider powers and the wider tax, we place no impediment in relation to the transfer of those powers."
His comments followed a last-minute agreement on the fiscal framework - the detailed financial arrangements underlying the transfer of more powers from Westminster to Holyrood.
The talks, which began in March 2015, had stalled over different interpretations of a key line of the Smith Commission agreement, which said there should be "no detriment" to either the UK or Scottish budgets as a result of the changes.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the deal, reached after 10 rounds of negotiations, meant "not a single penny of detriment to the Scottish government's budget" for six years, followed by a review of future arrangements.
Chancellor George Osborne said the agreements were "fair to Scotland and fair to taxpayers in the rest of the UK".
Lord Smith of Kelvin, who chaired the cross-party Smith Commission set up after the "No" vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, said the deal on new powers for Holyrood could now be "delivered in full".
He said: "The next term of Scottish parliamentarians will be debating and taking decisions over large parts of Scotland's tax and welfare policy. I believe this will be transformational for our parliament.
"There should be no doubt that this was a highly complex package of measures to agree. It is difficult to imagine a bigger test of inter-governmental relationships and while it was obviously a very tough negotiation, what matters is that an agreement was reached.
"This provides an excellent basis for constructive engagement between the governments long into the future.
"When the Smith Agreement was passed to the prime minister and first minister, both gave their word that they would deliver it into law - they have met that promise in full."
About 20 pupils were affected at Flash Ley Community Primary School and Nursery in Stafford on Friday.
The county council said the school would be shut until "all issues have been addressed". Arrangements are in place for children to go elsewhere.
Long-lasting health problems were unlikely following the "strong odour," the council said.
Formaldehyde is a toxic compound often used as a disinfectant and for embalming.
It can irritate the skin and cause breathing and digestive problems.
Ben Adams, council cabinet member for education and skills, said: "Symptoms of sore eyes, sore throats, runny noses, tightness of the chest, nausea and vomiting could be related to exposure to formaldehyde in the air, but for some children there could be other causes."
The council said testing revealed "high levels of formaldehyde, a common substance that is used extensively in buildings, internal furnishings and household products".
It said it was working closely with Public Health England and the Health and Safety Executive to investigate the cause of the incident, which was believed to be linked to work carried out on floors during the summer.
Public Health England said it was "satisfied that children and staff are not at risk of ongoing exposure".
Arrangements to educate children at the nearby Chetwynd Centre, Tillington Manor and Stafford Manor High were put in place, the council said.
Head teacher Simon Barker said offering alternative school provision was to allow for "more tests to be conducted within the school and to ensure all the issues have been addressed".
A helpline has been set up for parents.
Responses from 120 universities across the UK revealed that total academic appeals and complaints were 10% higher in 2012-13 than in 2010-11.
Universities Minister David Willetts welcomed the finding.
He said it showed that students were demanding more for the £9,000-per-year fee.
The BBC sent Freedom of Information requests to 142 universities across the UK, asking how many complaints and appeals they had received since 2010. A total of 120 responded. The results showed universities were upholding more student complaints than ever before.
The amount paid out in compensation had also risen. The total paid since 2010 was more than £2m.
Mr Willetts said it appeared that since tuition fees rose to £9,000, students were more likely to hold their universities to account when things went wrong.
"If there are more complaints because students are more aware of what they should expect of funding and are more demanding, then I think that's a good thing," said Mr Willetts.
"When there's a fee of £9,000, the university is obliged to show what they're doing and provide a decent service."
The independent adjudicator for higher education, Rob Behrens, deals with university complaints which cannot be resolved internally.
He said he had also seen a rise in the smaller number of complaints which come to his office each year. In 2012, he received 2,000 complaints.
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"In the last five years, we've seen a continual year-on-year increase in the numbers of complaints, often to the tune of between 20% and 25%. Very recently that has tailed off, which is encouraging," says Mr Behrens.
"I think the decision to raise the fees has had an impact on student thinking. Students do see themselves more as consumers than they used to. They want the best possible degree they can get."
A large proportion of the total appeals and complaints relate to cases where students appeal against their grades. But in other cases, students complain because they are unhappy with the content or structure of their courses.
The largest number of appeals and complaints in one full year was at Anglia Ruskin University, where the total in 2012-13 was 992.
Among those who have complained about the university recently were a group of law students, who have just completed a three-year law degree at the university's Chelmsford campus.
Several of them signed up to take a Legal Practice Course in order to become trainee solicitors. But after they paid a deposit, they were told the course would not run at Chelmsford next year and they would have to travel 45 miles to Cambridge.
They will have two days' face-to-face teaching and will have to watch the remaining lectures online rather than attending them live.
One of the students, Rachel, said: "I was in complete shock, it was just we'd always been led to believe we could just carry on and there was never any doubt, there was never any warning that this could happen.
"I don't think it's fair - we have to pay the same in tuition fees when we're receiving less for our money."
The university has rejected the students' complaint, and they are considering whether to take it further. Anglia Ruskin did not comment on the case but told the BBC it allowed larger numbers of students to appeal than some universities.
"If anything, our process has been overly generous. With a student population of more than 31,000, our numbers are not particularly surprising," said a spokesman.
The new Competition and Markets Authority is investigating whether universities are fulfilling their responsibilities under consumer protection legislation, following a report by its predecessor body, the Office of Fair Trading.
The team leader responsible for the work, Carmen Suarez, said: "We found some evidence of practices that may actually breach the consumer protection legislation. Examples include geography students that needed to complete a field trip in order to be able to graduate and were not told the cost in advance."
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Approximately 1.1 million sport utility vehicles (SUVs) sold in North America are being recalled because they could suffer a loss of power steering.
An additional 200,000 Taurus sedans built between 2010 and 2014 could be prone to a corrosion issue.
The recent spate of similar incidents could mean carmakers will soon break the record for most recalls in a year.
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Most of those recalls have come in the wake of a safety scandal at Ford rival General Motors (GM).
GM is accused of failing to report safety defects in some of its cars that could cause the engine to suddenly switch off.
The fault has been linked to at least 13 deaths, although US regulators believe that figure could grow.
In the wake of the disclosures, both carmakers and US regulators have stepped up efforts to recall vehicles once defects are discovered.
They were launched on a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana after a day's delay due to unfavourable winds at the Sinnamary spaceport.
The satellites' deployment marks the first phase in O3b's construction of a novel telecommunications network.
It plans to put a constellation in the sky to handle voice and data traffic for mobile phone, internet and other service providers.
O3b is targeting parts of the world that currently have poor fibre-optic infrastructure.
With support from blue chip companies such as Google, it believes its network can change the broadband experience for millions of people by providing an alternative "fibre in the sky" to backhaul traffic.
"When you pull out your mobile phone and type google.com on it, it sends a signal from your phone to a tower nearby. From that tower it has to reach Google's servers. That's the backhaul part. And most of the world does not have access to backhaul," explained O3b founder Greg Wyler.
"In most of the world, you could put up a tower somewhere and reach it from your cell phone, but then you couldn't reach the server in California to get the information. That's where we come in."
The Soyuz carrying the four satellites lifted clear of the Sinnamary launch gantry at 16:27 local time (19:27 GMT). It took more than two hours and several burns from the rocket's Fregat upper-stage to get the spacecraft into their correct 8,000km-high orbit.
Confirmation of separation from the Fregat and a successful mission came shortly before 22:00 GMT.
The altitude is a critical part of the O3b design.
By flying in this "medium-Earth orbit", the satellites will be a quarter of the distance from Earth than is the case with traditional geostationary (GEO) telecommunications spacecraft, which sit some 36,000km above the planet.
This should reduce substantially the delay, or latency, of the signal as the voice or data traffic is routed via space.
For standard satellites, the latency can be 600 milliseconds or more. O3b is promising its customers a round-trip transmission time of a little more than 100 milliseconds.
The satellites will operate in the high-frequency Ka-band and have the capability to deliver 10 beams, at 1.2Gbps per beam, to each of O3b's seven operational regions. These are spread around the equator and reach latitudes of about 45 degrees North and South.
The company expects to start services at the end of the year, once it gets eight spacecraft in orbit, but the intention is to put up perhaps as many as 20 eventually.
"The architecture is very scalable," CEO Steve Collar told BBC News. "We can keep launching satellites into that same arc and building the capacity we can deliver to our customers - and driving down the cost, importantly.
"With all telecommunications, customers want more and more data for the same amount of money, and we have to continually drive those cost benefits into our network."
The first place to benefit from the new system will be the Cook Islands in the Pacific. It has no connection to the global fibre-optic network.
It has taken about six years to put the O3b project together. Key backers include not only Google but SES, one of the big players in the traditional satellite communications business.
O3b was born from Mr Wyler's frustration with the difficulty of connecting a modern teleco in Rwanda to the global fibre-optic network, and the constraints that placed on performance.
O3b actually stands for "other three billion" - the number of people whose poor communications experience is expected to improve over the coming decade. O3b sees itself as an important agent of that change.
The Jersey, Channel Islands-based outfit has raised more than $1bn to build its space and ground infrastructure.
O3b's largest debt facility, over $0.5bn, is provided by HSBC, ING, CA-CIB and Dexia, and is underwritten by the French export credit agency, Coface. The agency has been extremely active in supporting the new space constellations involving Thales Alenia Space (TAS), one of Europe's major satellite manufacturers.
TAS has all but finished the second batch of four spacecraft for O3b, and has started work on units 9-12 which it hopes to deliver early next year.
"We also have responsibility for LEOP (Launch and early orbit phase) activities," Philippe Nabet, the TAS programme manager on the O3b project, told BBC News prior to Tuesday's lift-off.
"We will make sure that the satellites have the correct spacing. This is done at our control centre in Cannes. We also do the in-orbit testing of the platform and its payload. We should hand the satellites over to O3b in roughly one month."
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Mr Farage had promised to quit if he failed to win a seat at the general election, but had his resignation rejected by his party.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "I would look forward to a by-election in a Labour seat very much indeed."
He also said he had sat in a "darkened room" before deciding to continue.
Mr Farage failed to be elected in South Thanet, losing out to the Conservative candidate. He had said he would be "for the chop" if he lost out.
Speaking to the BBC at the European Parliament in Brussels, he said he had kept his word but was "persuaded to change his mind" by "overwhelming support" from UKIP's National Executive Committee.
"I resigned. I said I'd resign. I turned up to the NEC meeting with letter in hand fully intending to carry that through," he said.
"They unanimously said they didn't want me to do that, they presented me with petitions, signatures, statements from candidates saying it would be a bad thing for UKIP.
"So I left the meeting, went and sat in darkened room to think about what to do, and decided for the interest of the party I would accept their kind offer for me to stay and tear up the letter."
Mr Farage also said UKIP's "greatest potential" was among Labour voters in the Midlands and the north of England.
Its northern leader, Michelle O'Neill, said the urgency was increased by the prospect of Brexit, which would be "a disaster for the people of Ireland".
She was speaking shortly after Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was to seek a second referendum on independence.
Mrs O'Neill said this was "a matter for the Scottish people".
Referring to Irish unity, the Sinn Féin MLA said it was now "over to the people to have their say in relation to the future".
She was speaking during a break from talks at Stormont aimed at restoring the power-sharing executive.
MLAs have been attending a ceremony at Parliament Buildings to sign the roll of membership.
They were due to elect a new speaker, but this has been postponed for two weeks.
The Northern Ireland Secretary, James Brokenshire, has cancelled a planned trip to the United States this week to concentrate on the Stormont talks.
Mr Brokenshire had been due to travel to Washington on Wednesday for two days.
He was due to meet President Trump as part of St Patrick's Day celebrations.
Talks at Stormont are a "critical stage" and his focus is with them, a senior government source told the Press Association.
"He is just focused on getting the right result and getting an agreement by 27 March," said the source.
"The deadline is looming. He will have no other option by law but to call another election if there is no agreement by then."
On Thursday, Mr Brokenshire warned there could be "significant consequences" if the discussions to try to restore power sharing end in deadlock.
If Northern Ireland's parties fail to reach a deal by 27 March, voters face the prospect of going back to the polls for a second snap election within months.
The assembly election on 2 March was the second in 10 months and was called after the collapse of a coalition led by Arlene Foster's DUP and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness.
Mr McGuinness resigned over Mrs Foster's refusal to step aside as first minister pending an inquiry into the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme, which was set up under her watch as Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment and could cost the Northern Ireland tax payer £490m.
The election saw an end to the unionist majority at Stormont, with Sinn Féin now holding just one seat fewer than the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
If no executive is formed, another election can be called, and ultimately power could return to the UK parliament at Westminster for the first time in a decade.
Horsemeat has also been found in cottage pies supplied to 47 schools in Lancashire - they have been withdrawn.
But the Food Standards Agency says that after 2,501 fresh tests no new products have been identified as containing more than 1% horsemeat.
It said the 29 positive results were on seven previously withdrawn products.
FSA chief executive Catherine Brown said she remained "confident" that the testing was the right way to address the issue.
"It is industry's responsibility to get this right - not the government's - and we consider that a comprehensive testing programme at all points of the supply chain and in all sectors is an essential step in addressing this issue.
"And as this programme of testing and publishing results continues, and as action is taken to tackle this issue in supply chains across Europe, we will reach the point where we can say with confidence that horse meat is no longer illegally entering the UK food chain."
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Compass Group, one of the biggest school food providers in the UK, says its tests have found between 5% and 30% horse DNA in burgers it sold in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
It says the burgers were supplied by Rangeland Foods in County Monaghan, which previously withdrew more than 9,000 burgers made for the UK market after some were found to contain horsemeat.
Compass said the Rangeland burgers had been supplied to 13 sites in the Irish Republic and 27 in Northern Ireland, mostly offices but including two unnamed secondary schools.
It described the situation as "totally unacceptable" and said all affected sites had been given "unreserved apologies".
And Whitbread, which owns Premier Inn, Beefeater Grill and Brewers Fayre, says it found horse DNA in two products - burgers supplied by food supplier Paragon Quality Foods and lasagne from Brakes Brothers.
Creative Foods, owned by Brakes Brothers, and which caters for schools and hospitals in the UK, had used frozen beef mince for lasagne from Hampshire-based supplier Pinnacle Foods, some of which has now been found to contain horse DNA.
Creative says it has now stopped using Pinnacle Foods as a supplier, and Brakes is also recalling one of its own-brand lasagne products as a precaution.
Pinnacle's managing director Graham Reed said this development was "a complete surprise and shock to us".
He added: "We are devastated by the news, and working very hard to trace back where the offending material may have come from.
"We have never ever knowingly had equine material on our premises or indeed ever dealt in horsemeat. We will be working very closely with FSA and customers alike to get to the bottom of it."
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson told the BBC he expected the food industry to have completed their horsemeat tests by the end of next week.
He said it was for the industry to "get out there and reassure the public".
Asked about the retailers' response to the crisis, he said that was "for the food businesses themselves to decide, they are responsible for the quality and integrity of what they present to the public", before adding that it was not for him to "micro-manage" food businesses.
But Labour's Mary Creagh said the public would be "shocked and dismayed that horsemeat has now been found in schools and hospitals" and called for the prime minister to order the FSA to speed up its testing.
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A group of 11 food suppliers, including Tesco and Asda, issued a letter on Friday stating they shared shoppers' "anger and outrage" and rejecting government criticism they "remained silent" over the crisis.
The letter was signed by chief executive of Tesco, Philip Clarke, Asda Stores boss, Andy Clarke, the chief executive of J Sainsbury, Justin King, and Dalton Philips, chief executive of Wm Morrison Supermarkets, among others. Several also released the results of their tests.
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Iceland said that all of its own brand beef products have been found to be free from horsemeat.
The Co-Operative Group said 59 of its 102 own-brand minced beef products have been tested so far, with all found to be clear of horsemeat. And Morrisons says 68 test results on its products have not found horsemeat, with more results still to come.
Tesco says tests on 149 of its products are clear, and Sainsbury's say their tests show no horse adulteration. Waitrose says it has conducted about 40 tests, none of which showed the presence of horsemeat.
Last month, Irish food inspectors said they had found horsemeat in beefburgers made by firms in the Irish Republic and the UK, and sold by a number of UK supermarket chains, including Tesco, Iceland, Aldi and Lidl.
Since then, a growing number of UK retailers have recalled processed beef products found to contain horse DNA.
Some shops have already recalled products found to be adulterated, including Asda, which withdrew a beef Bolognese sauce on Thursday - the first fresh beef product to be involved.
Aldi, Tesco and Findus have also withdrawn some beef-based ready meals.
They have studied a world known as GJ 1132b, which is 1.4-times the size of our planet and lies 39 light years away.
Their observations suggest that the "super-Earth" is cloaked in a thick layer of gasses that are either water or methane or a mixture of both.
The study is published in the Astronomical Journal.
Discovering an atmosphere, and characterising it, is an important step forward in the hunt for life beyond our Solar System.
But it is highly unlikely that this world is habitable: it has a surface temperature of 370C.
Dr John Southworth, the lead researcher from Keele University, said: "To my knowledge the hottest temperature that life has been able to survive on Earth is 120C and that's far cooler than this planet."
Chemical signatures
The discovery of planet GJ 1132b was first announced in 2015. It lies in the Vela constellation in the southern hemisphere.
While it is a similar size to Earth, the star it orbits is much smaller, cooler and dimmer than our Sun.
Using a telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the researchers were able to study the planet by watching how it blocked some of the light of its host star as it passed in front of it.
"It makes the star look a little bit fainter - and it's actually a very good way of finding transiting planets - it's how this one was found," said Dr Southworth.
But different molecules in a planet's atmosphere - if it has one - absorb light in different ways, allowing scientists to look for their chemical signatures when the world transits its star.
The observations of planet GJ 1132b suggest that it has a thick atmosphere containing either steam and/or methane.
"One possibility is that it is a 'water world' with an atmosphere of hot steam," said Dr Southworth.
The researchers say while it is unlikely that any life-forms could survive on this world, the discovery of an atmosphere is encouraging in the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
Dr Southworth said: "What we have shown is that planets around low mass stars can have atmospheres and because there are so many of those in the Universe, it makes it that much more likely that one might have life."
Commenting on the research Marek Kukula, the public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said: "This is a nice proof of concept.
"If the technology can detect an atmosphere today, then it bodes well for being able to detect and study the atmospheres of even more Earth-like planets in the not-too-distant future."
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The director of the Virgen de Asunción shelter has also been charged.
The three suspects were sacked by President Jimmy Morales after the deadly fire on 8 March.
Months before the tragedy, prosecutors had recommended the shelter be closed over allegations of abuse.
Former social welfare minister Carlos Rodas, his deputy, Anahi Keller, and the ex-director of the shelter, Santos Torres, have been charged with negligent homicide, abuse of power, mistreatment of minors and failure to fulfil their duties.
Prosecutors argued the three lacked the necessary experience to run the shelter which housed as many as 700 children.
Defence lawyers will be making their case later on Wednesday.
In court, prosecutors described the events leading up to the fire.
They said that the night before dozens of girls tried to escaped from the facility, which was infamous for its overcrowding and allegations of mistreatment.
Those who managed to get away were caught by police and returned to the shelter in San José Pinula.
As a punishment, 56 of them were locked in a room measuring 6.8m by 7m (22ft by 23 ft).
"There was no bathroom nor any drinking water, they were locked up and their treatment was disgraceful," prosecutor Edwin Marroquín said.
One of the girls set a mattress alight in protest at their treatment, he said.
The fire quickly spread and within nine minutes the temperature reached 300C, Mr Marroquín said.
Seventeen girls were killed at the scene and another 24 died in hospital in the following weeks.
According to the prosecutors, fire fighters were not called in time and were originally told there was a riot, not a fire.
The tragedy caused outrage in Guatemala, especially after it emerged that there had been concerns about human rights violations in the home as early as 2013.
In November 2016, a court order was filed, calling for precautionary measures to be taken but the social welfare ministry rejected the accusations and appealed.
Their powers include seizing and crushing illegal dumpers' vehicles, says the Local Government Association.
Clearing illegally-dumped waste costs local authorities almost £50 million each year to clear up.
The LGA also wants to close a legal loophole requiring seven days' notice before raiding suspects' homes.
According to the LGA, there were 900,000 incidents of fly-tipping in 2014-15 - a 6% rise from the previous year.
The LGA's environment spokesman Martin Tett said: "Litter and fly-tipping is environmental vandalism - it's unpleasant, unnecessary and unacceptable.
"Not only does fly-tipping create an eyesore for residents; it is also a serious public health risk, creating pollution and attracting rats and other vermin.
"At a time when councils face difficult choices about services in light of reducing budgets, they are having to spend a vast amount each year on tackling litter and fly-tipping.
"This is money that would be better spent on vital services such as filling potholes and caring for the elderly."
Mr Tett welcomed powers which came into force in May allowing councils to issue £400 on-the-spot fines to people caught in the act.
"Councils also need a faster and more effective legal system which means fly-tippers are given hard-hitting fines for more serious offences," he added.
"Local authorities should also be able to recoup all prosecution costs, rather than be left out of pocket."
Councillor Peter Fleming, deputy chairman of the LGA, wants changes so councils can deal better with the "man with the van" phenomenon.
He told the BBC: "We are seeing a massive increase in commercial fly-tipping, people going door-to-door saying 'We will take this for cash in hand.' Then we are finding that stuff dumped on a commercial scale, in our countryside, down back alleys. It is a huge problem costing lots and lots of money.
"After we have gathered evidence we would like to be able to take people's vehicles that have been used for fly-tipping, particularly commercial fly-tipping, and crush those vehicles.
"At the moment we have to give notice and often then the vehicle is no longer there. We see getting rid of these vans off the roads that are used to fly-tip will serve as a deterrent to others who are plying this trade".
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At the same time, he has been meeting some of the artists that have featured on his 1xtra show, Destination Africa.
In Botswana he met DJ Gouveia, the author of the country's most popular dance track in recent months, Ambuye - meaning God - and started by asking him about his DJing career.
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Kyran Peet was targeted after the 23-year-old befriended him on Facebook and claimed he was also a teenager.
The man was welcomed into Kyran's family home in Chorley, Lancashire, before the abuse began and the teenager eventually reported him to police.
His abuser was jailed indefinitely in 2012 before the sentence was reduced to six years and three months on appeal.
Kyran, now aged 19, has waived his legal right to anonymity to talk about his experience in a bid to support other victims.
He said: "It was obviously a horrific ordeal. Being that young it was not something my brain could comprehend. It moved very quickly, and when you're young you obviously think you're older than you are.
"I had just come out as gay so I was like, I'm ready. Thinking I was more mature.
"Everyone thought we were just friends but I thought I was in love with this guy.
"But there were suspicions. [My family] found it suspicious. There were rumours going around about him."
Kyran said the "turning point" was when he found a message from the abuser's father, revealing his true age.
"I thought if he's lying about his age he must've lied about everything."
Police became involved and his abuser eventually admitted sexual activity with a child at Preston Crown Court.
Kyran said: "It wasn't just sexual abuse but psychological abuse too, because he would make me feel like I was crazy when I raised any doubts.
"But I had family and friends around me. That hurt that I'm feeling now, I want to make sure that doesn't happen to anyone else."
Kyran was supported by The Children's Society and has since become an ambassador for the charity,
He is currently trying to raise £2,800 via a charity trek through South America to "give something back".
"The abuse had a big impact on me mentally and emotionally and I was lucky I had a project worker who was there to listen to me and support me," he said.
"It affected me for a while, negatively, but when I started wondering what I wanted to do with my life, one of those things was trying to change other people's lives and trying to provide them with information.
"You don't have to let it destroy your life. You don't have to be scared or ashamed of what's happened to you. You can share your story, you can fundraise."
Lisa Young has taken on the task of conserving the iconic suit worn for his Apollo 11 Moon landing mission.
She has become an expert in conserving museum objects after graduating from Cardiff University.
A crowd-funding project has raised more than £320,000 ($500,000) for the three-year spacesuit conservation project.
Ms Young helps to protect historic items for the Smithsonian, a collection of museums in the United States.
The spacesuit will eventually go on display at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington DC for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission in July 2019.
For the past two decades Ms Young has been studying the technology, engineering and materials related to the aerospace collections at the NASM.
She said: "I am honoured to be able to contribute the skills gained through conservation training at the university and am pleased that the funding was awarded to take the next steps to preserve this national icon.
"It means a lot to the museum, the public and the world and we feel really strongly that we wanted to have the spacesuit back on display for the 50th anniversary in 2019 for everyone to see."
Lily Owsley gave GB an early lead, but Maria Granatto drew the scores level at the end of the first quarter.
Agustina Habif then struck the winner in the third period.
In Pool A, world and Olympic champions the Netherlands looked in ominous form, thrashing Germany 5-1, while New Zealand beat South Korea 3-1.
Olympian Helen Richardson-Walsh collected her 100th GB cap in Britain's defeat.
"I'm joining an illustrious group of women and that's something I'm really proud of," she told BBC Sport.
"We've lost today which is really disappointing because it was a really big challenge for us, but we've won other big matches and we have the strength to come back."
Buoyed by the partisan crowd, Argentina began the stronger, but crafty wing play by Susannah Townsend allowed Owsley to poke home the opener with her first touch of the tournament.
Britain occasionally threatened to extend their lead, but the hosts maintained control for much of the match.
Argentina's second penalty corner brought the scores level and while GB were able to thwart four further efforts, a seventh proved too far with Habif firing in a rebound for the winner.
Australia share the lead of Pool B with the hosts after the opening round of fixtures, beating China 1-0 earlier in the day. GB will take on China on Sunday (21:45 GMT).
All four nations in the pool will make the quarter-finals, with group-stage results used to determine seedings in the first knock-out phase.
Police were called to Newmarket Street at about 03:15 and found the 34-year-old victim.
The man was initially treated at the Forth Valley Royal Hospital before being transferred to the Western General in Edinburgh for treatment to a head injury.
Police are looking for a man who made off in a silver taxi shortly after the incident.
The suspect is described as white, 5ft 6ins tall, of stocky build, with a shaven head. He was wearing a bright red short-sleeved t-shirt.
Det Insp Jim Thomson of Falkirk CID said: "We're continuing to conduct inquiries in the area and want to thank the local community and businesses for their patience at this time.
"We'd urge anyone who may have witnessed this incident, or who recognises the man's description, to get in touch as soon as possible."
Only 5% of scams are reported, owing to victims' embarrassment and innocence, according to the Local Government Association (LGA).
But it pointed to the conviction of rogue lettings agent Martin Marcus as evidence of a fightback.
Victims of Marcus have told the BBC of sleepless nights after being defrauded.
Teacher Hannah Casey, 27, lost hundreds of pounds after paying a deposit with a friend for two rooms in a three-bedroom flat, only to discover seven people were already living in the property.
She confronted Marcus and, in a conversation that she recorded, he promised "on his children's life" that he would return the money. She has never received it.
"I was devastated. I could not sleep and feel sick," Miss Casey said.
"He was preying on people who he thought were vulnerable, like us - two young women. But we work too hard for someone to take money like that and steal it."
Following a four-year investigation by Barnet Council Trading Standards, Marcus, 52, of Ashfield Avenue, in Bushey, was jailed for four and a half years after admitting five counts of fraud at Harrow Crown Court. Confiscation proceedings, attempting to retrieve some of the victims' lost money, have begun.
The LGA estimates that £9.7bn is lost to UK residents through fraud each year. More than five million people were victims last year, but only 5% of cases are estimated to have been reported.
Cases have included a bogus faith healer who was jailed after defrauding women with a story about using their fees to pay for potions and to sacrifice crocodiles. Another rogue trader was jailed after targeting churches, schools and charities in a car park line-painting scam.
"Trading Standards teams see at first hand the devastation but victims should not suffer in silence or feel embarrassed," said the LGA's Simon Blackburn.
"By reporting a scam, people can help someone else avoid being a victim."
Victims have often spoken about the difficulty of getting the authorities to take on their case, and Hannah Casey said she struggled for assistance in her dispute until she contacted her local MP.
Miss Casey, a music teacher, was among tenants and landlords who were scammed out of a total of £220,000 in rents and deposits by Marcus, according to Barnet Council.
She and a friend responded to an advert on an internet portal offering two rooms in a flat. They were shown around by an agent, agreed to move in, paid an £800 deposit and £150 administration fee, and handed in their notice with their landlord at that time.
Alarm bells started to ring when Miss Casey discovered that the money had not been placed in a deposit protection scheme.
Worse was to come when they decided to go back to the flat without the agent.
"We decided to meet our new housemate, knocked on the door and explained that we were moving in," she said.
"From behind the door they said, 'No, you won't.' There were two couples living in one room saying they had been scammed too."
Only after she had paid did she read warnings about Marcus on internet message boards. "When I Googled him, I nearly had a heart attack," she said.
During numerous attempts to have her deposit returned, she confronted Marcus who arrived "tipsy" at his office, and at one stage she was given a cheque which bounced.
Eventually she returned to the agency office only to find it was shut, with a bailiff's notice on the window.
A court heard that Marcus was responsible for "an elaborate con trick" that included offering properties to tenants that he had no right to let out, and using a variety of methods and excuses for holding on to thousands of pounds in deposits and rent.
At one stage he even tried to let out the house he, himself, was in the process of being evicted from, having not paid the rent.
Landlords and tenants were told that their money was held in ringfenced clients' accounts, but investigators discovered payments from these accounts were made to Marcus's son, to an airline and a gym, and withdrawals were made at cash machines in Spain.
Over the course of six years, Marcus used aliases including Jeffrey Lewis, Martin Champ and Robert Martin, as well as a number of company names including JMG Residential Ltd, Interlocate, Corporate Relocation, and Churchill Residential.
He was in financial trouble himself. Analysis of bank accounts showed that he had taken out numerous payday loans, and victims such as Miss Casey are concerned that little will come in terms of refunds or compensation.
Doreen Wright, of Sevenoaks in Kent, was among the landlords who lost money to Marcus. She had agreed to use the agent for a property she was letting out in north London.
Having been promised that a corporate client had been found, a young couple emerged as the tenants and Mrs Wright told the BBC News website that she never saw the initial three months of rent that they had paid.
"It was harrowing and very worrying," she said of the whole experience.
"The upshot is that I will never trust my own judgement now."
Barnet Trading Standards said that it received a high level of complaints about lettings agents. Figures from Action Fraud show that reports of rental fraud in England and Wales rose from 2,216 in 2014 to 3,193 last year.
Problems are particularly acute in London, where there is significant demand from potential tenants. Cases have included ghost-brokers, as revealed by a BBC investigation earlier this year, who try to rent out properties that they have no access to.
The trade body for lettings agents believes "frequent" reports of fraud mean there should be a compulsory accreditation scheme for agents.
David Cox, managing director of the Association of Residential Lettings Agents (Arla), said his association had lobbied for rules that required agents to have professional qualifications.
"Solicitors, accountants and doctors must all have qualifications so why not lettings agents? It is not acceptable in the modern world," he said.
Agents held £2.7bn of tenants' and landlords' money in rents and deposits at any one time, he said. This money, Arla argues, should be protected under a compulsory scheme but, at present, Arla members and members of other trade bodies are signed up to such protection on a voluntary basis, for which they pay a levy.
The government is not planning to introduce such a scheme, which would see money refunded to customers were an agent to go bust or fail to pass on payments.
However, discussions with professional and consumer groups lobbying for its introduction are expected to start in a few weeks.
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Following a hearing last week, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) found him in breach of two rules, one of fixing and one of misusing inside information.
It will decide on a sanction against the Irishman at a later date, likely to be next month.
There is no suggestion Burnett was involved in any wrongdoing.
Sutton is not a member of the WPBSA and does not hold a World Snooker tour card.
He accepted an invitation to play, and was beaten by Burnett, in an International Championships qualifier in Barnsley in September 2014.
Suspicious betting patterns on the game were reported.
Married father-of-four Sutton is a business development manager who practises between five and 10 hours a week.
He told World Snooker last year that his strengths are his "temperament and never-know-when-I'm-beaten attitude" but that his weakness is "consistency".
"I'm good one day and awful the next," he said, adding his idols are Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry "due to their commitment and dedication to the game".
England have a 100% record in qualifying going into their first visit to Scotland since a Euro 2000 play-off in 1999.
"It will be a massive test, huge. If the England team and supporters think this is going to be comfortable, a nice quiet friendly, they have got another thing coming," Butcher told BBC Sport.
"I think that this will be, without a shadow of a doubt, the most hostile environment England will face before they get to Euro 2016."
England have been handed a comfortable draw in their European qualifying campaign and have already won away in Switzerland and Estonia, as well as beating San Marino and Slovenia at Wembley. They still have to face Lithuania in Group E.
Scotland face a more difficult passage to France but enhanced their prospects of qualifying from Group D with a 1-0 win over the Republic of Ireland in Glasgow on Friday.
And the mettle of Hodgson's players will face a fierce examination against the Scots, according to Butcher, who was a pillar of England's defence for the best part of a decade as well and won three Scottish titles and two League Cups with Rangers, before managing Motherwell, Inverness Caledonian Thistle and latterly Hibernian.
He also had a spell as assistant to erstwhile Scotland manager George Burley.
Butcher said: "There are not going to be any games like this in England's Euro 2016 qualifiers for atmosphere. This is a friendly but England and Scotland don't do friendlies in any sport at any level.
"It is going to be an unbelievably hostile night. Celtic Park will be bouncing with the Tartan Army buoyant on the back of a Scotland team they are very optimistic about.
"Roy Hodgson may throw a line out that he may rest some players but he will need all his most experienced players in this one. It won't be for the faint-hearted."
Butcher believes the experience of facing a fired-up Tartan Army and a rejuvenated Scotland side determined to beat the 'Auld Enemy' on their return to Glasgow will provide perfect preparation for tests ahead.
"It will be excellent for the younger players in the England squad who play week in, week out in the Premier League. They won't really have a hostile environment like they will have in Scotland on Tuesday," he added.
The complex tests and scans required for diagnosis mean the current UK government target is 31 days.
University Hospital of South Manchester (UHSM) NHS Foundation Trust said it had the equipment and expertise on-site to reduce that to seven days.
The 15-month pilot aims to cut waiting times for treatment and reduce deaths.
Lung cancer is the biggest cause of cancer deaths in the UK.
Suspected sufferers will undergo all the necessary tests at the hospital over 36 hours. Patients are then expected to begin treatment within two weeks of being referred by their GP.
The government target for lung cancer patients to receive treatment is currently 62 days.
Dr Matthew Evison, lead lung cancer clinician at UHSM, said: "We will aim to see people the day after they have been referred by their GP so we can fast-track them through the diagnostic process.
"It's not about any kind of revolutionary technology or procedures; it's simply about ensuring the right people and the right technology are in the right place at the right time."
Quick diagnosis means quick treatment, he added.
The pilot could involve about 600 patients during 2016/17.
Dr Evison said: "Changing outcomes in lung cancer is one of the biggest challenges facing the NHS.
"Our view is that rapid pathways for diagnosis is an important part of the overall solution, alongside screening and prevention."
He said he hoped the pilot would be rolled out elsewhere across the UK.
But the Jamaican failed to secure a gold or silver medal, coming third.
The Olympic champion was the slowest out of the starting blocks and was left chasing for the entire race.
Christian Coleman and team mate Justin Gatlin made it an American one-two, with Coleman securing silver and Gatlin taking the gold.
Usain had been struggling for fitness in his final racing season but many still had him as favourite to win what would have been his 20th gold medal.
Bolt gave some explanation for his unusually poor performance, saying that he "tightened up at the end and that is something you should never do. I didn't execute when it mattered."
Gold medal winner Justin Gatlin, who has had difficulties in the past when he tested positive for performance enhancing drugs cried when he won.
Some people in the stadium booed him because of his past.
Gatlin said after his win that "It is Bolt's last race. It is an amazing occasion. We are rivals on the track but in the warm-down area, we joke and have a good time. The first thing he did was congratulate me and say that I didn't deserve the boos. He is an inspiration."
Fans using Windsor Park's west stand had to pick their way past big puddles of dirty water after heavy rain flooded the access road towards Boucher Road.
Gary McAllister of the Amalgamation of Northern Ireland Supporters Clubs said the water was "ankle deep" in parts.
He said this caused a "bottleneck" as fans tried to leave the stadium.
Construction work is currently ongoing along the access route, as part of Belfast City Council's redevelopment of its nearby Olympia leisure centre.
Fans who cheered on the Northern Ireland team to their 4-nil victory over Azerbaijan reported long delays leaving the ground.
Some of them complained on social media, posting photos of the difficulties they faced.
Keith Anderson tweeted: "Getting out of the national stadium tonight was an absolute joke."
He told BBC News NI he faced delays of up to 30 minutes and witnessed children and elderly people having to step on temporary fencing that was lying on the ground.
"I would hate to think of what would have happened if we had to get out quickly in an emergency," Mr Anderson said.
Another fan tweeted that it was "horrendous" watching wheelchair users "struggle through" the water.
He claimed the situation made a "mockery" of the redeveloped stadium's official opening.
Mr McAllister raised fans' complaints with the Irish Football Association (IFA), which then issued an apology on its Twitter account.
"Huge apologies to anyone who had difficulty getting in and out of the ground tonight. We are working with relevant bodies to sort asap," the IFA tweeted.
The IFA added: "The walkway between the Boucher Road entrance and the national football stadium at Windsor Park is owned by Belfast City Council and is part of the new Olympia leisure centre being built behind the west stand.
"The Irish Football Association will be in contact with the council and the relevant contractors to ensure that suitable improvements are made to the walkway ahead of Tuesday night's game between Northern Ireland and Croatia."
In a statement to BBC News NI, a spokeswoman for Belfast City Council said: "We are actively investigating the matter and will work with contractors and the IFA to resolve the issue."
Those who do "should be charged with gross mis-selling", says Angus Hanton, co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation (IF) lobby group.
Having to pay back student debts will wipe out any graduate premium for most professions, claims the IF in a report.
The government says higher education boosts employability and earnings.
The report focuses on tuition fee rises in England - currently capped at £9,000 a year - pointing out how successive governments have used the graduate "pay premium" to justify them.
The premium is the amount of extra money it is estimated a degree can help graduates to earn over the course of a lifetime.
The report says that in 2002, ministers put it at £400,000, but recent estimates have been more modest at about £100,000.
There are wide variations between the sexes and between subjects and institutions, it adds.
It argues that, while for somebody who gets an Oxbridge first, the premium figure of £400,000 "may still hold true", it is much lower for non-Oxbridge graduates.
"The increasing number of graduates... is further undermining the value of a degree," it adds, with some previously low-to-median paid posts now requiring degrees.
"Our research proves that the current £100,000 graduate earnings premium so often touted equates to an 'annual bonus' of just £2,222 over 45 years of work and is wiped out once National Insurance and income tax are taken into account.
"Furthermore, the premium is simply not enough to cover the interest accruing on the average loan.
"The current system is fuelling a self-perpetuating debt-generating machine which short-changes young people," argues Mr Hanton.
The authors say a graduate who borrowed the maximum for tuition fees and maintenance would, with interest, owe £53,000 after three years.
If unpaid for the full 30 years before being written off and if bank rates follow the pattern of the previous 30 years, the debt would reach £282,420, they calculate.
In addition, unlike most ordinary loan agreements, the terms and conditions of student loans can be changed "at any moment without debate and without notice", they add.
They point out that the government has already broken a promise that the income threshold for repayments would increase with average earnings from April 2017.
Instead, it will be frozen at £21,000 for five years, then Chancellor George Osborne announced in November 2015.
The report questions whether lower paid graduates will continue to consider a degree worthwhile.
"Paying off these huge, unquantifiable and relatively unregulated debts will wipe out any graduate premium in all but the highest-paid professions," say the authors.
And graduates could find themselves effectively "indentured to an as-yet-unknown private banking entity" if the government were to sell their student debts to the private sector, they add.
Martin Lewis, from the MoneySavingExpert website, who has hired lawyers to test the legality of the threshold change, called the research "interesting" but said he was "somewhat worried it will be interpreted that someone who earns more won't take home more".
"Most students won't pay off the debt in full within the 30 years. So you have to consider this more as an extra income tax, rather than as a loan.
"If you earn more, you effectively pay 9% more in tax on earnings over £21,000 - but you still earn more," said Mr Lewis.
He said the report's emphasis on debt risked deterring people from non-traditional backgrounds from university "for the wrong reasons".
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills said: "All of our reports, based on independent data, have shown that a degree continues to give graduates a big earnings boost."
A spokesman said this boost amounted to an average of about £170,000 for men and £250,000 for women over a working life, after student loans, tax and national insurance had been taken into account.
The government is reforming the system and introducing a "teaching excellence framework" to ensure universities provide "the skills students and employers need", he added.
Scotland does not charge fees for Scottish undergraduates aged under 25. Fees in Wales are £9,000. Northern Irish students studying in Northern Ireland pay £3,925 a year.
The photograph in question was taken on US President Donald Trump's first day in the Oval Office on Monday, when he signed a ban on federal money going to international groups that perform or provide information on abortions.
"Men making decisions about women's bodies" was a much-repeated phrase on Twitter, as it was shared hundreds of thousands of times, including by author JK Rowling.
The concern over lack of women at the table comes as Mr Trump's cabinet attracts attention for the high proportion of white, male nominations.
And while some people welcomed the move on abortion, others on social media expressed alarm and confusion over what its impact could be.
Viral images and headlines do not always tell the whole story. So here is an at-a-glance look at what President Trump's executive order means.
Not in itself. This particular executive order is relevant outside of US borders.
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".
This particularly worries women's rights campaigners in developing countries, where funds or facilities are already limited.
Although this policy does not directly affect services in the US, Mr Trump has said he supports an abortion ban at home.
His signing of this order as one of his first executive actions indicates he still sees the issue as a priority.
Republicans and Democrats have been involved in a political tug-of-war over the issue for decades.
Republican President Ronald Reagan first created the Mexico City Policy in 1984, stopping funding for international groups which perform or provide information on abortions.
But Democrats later rescinded it under the Clinton administration.
It was reinstated when President George W Bush took over in 2001 and overturned again by President Barack Obama in 2009. And now it is back.
The order's official name is the Mexico City Policy because President Reagan first implemented it at a United Nations population conference in Mexico City.
Critics of the policy say organisations working around the world feel censored by it because they cannot offer women full advice on family planning.
If they flout the rules, they lose funding which, in some cases, could threaten certain projects or the whole organisation.
However, pro-life groups have welcomed the new administration's swift move.
"President Trump's immediate action to promote respect for all human life, including vulnerable unborn children abroad, as well as conscience rights, sends a strong signal about his administration's pro-life priorities," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of US pro-life organisation Susan Anthony List.
No. Like many governmental decisions, the rules on abortion are often determined by male officials.
Many on social media were quick to point out that the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling - seen as a landmark case for abortion rights in the US - was delivered by an all-male Supreme Court.
The Roe v Wade decision says abortion is legal until a foetus is viable, typically between 22 and 24 weeks.
The new US president has previously changed his mind on the issue. He has gone from being pro-choice in 1999 to being against abortion today, although he says he would allow exceptions such as in the case of rape or incest.
On the presidential campaign trail, he said he believed "some form of punishment" should be in place for women who have abortions, if the practice is banned.
But, after strong criticism, he released a statement saying that only the doctor or practitioner should be punished, not the woman.
In an interview with CBS News, Mr Trump said: "The laws are set. And I think we have to leave it that way."
He refused to say whether he believed abortion was murder, but he later conceded that he could not disagree with the statement.
They said soldiers who may have witnessed the students' disappearance last September could only be questioned via a written questionnaire.
The team from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights chose not to do this.
It also said security videos containing evidence may have been destroyed.
Mexico's interior ministry declined to comment on the accusation. It said in a statement that Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio and IACHR members had met the victims' families on Friday.
The students - trainee teachers - were arrested by police in the southern city of Iguala and the government says they were then handed over to a drug lord who had them killed and their bodies incinerated.
The remains of only one of the students have been identified.
Investigators from the IACHR want to question soldiers from the battalion in Iguala that responded to events at the time the students clashed with police.
Relatives believe the soldiers may have failed to act as the police opened fire on the students and later bundled them onto a bus.
The IACHR has been investigating the case at the request of the victims' families, with the agreement of the government.
A final report from the commission is due in September.
HP acquired the WebOS operating system when it bought veteran gadget maker Palm in 2011 for $1.2bn (£789m).
Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed but HP is not thought to have recouped much of the money it paid for Palm.
LG said the WebOS code would be used to power its next-generation smart TV technology.
The WebOS was created to run smartphones, tablets and other devices developed by Palm that, in its early days, pioneered the handheld gadget industry. However, Palm's influence has diminished as Apple, Google's Android and RIM's Blackberry have come to dominate the smartphone and tablet markets.
In the deal, LG gets WebOS source code, engineers working on it, documentation and the websites that promote it. HP is holding on to patents underlying WebOS as well as technology that helps it connect to web-based services.
HP did launch products running WebOS, such as the TouchPad tablet, but poor sales led it to seek other ways to boost interest in the software. One way it chose was to open up the code to any developer to work on. LG was one of the first firms to take up this chance and the acquisition grew out of this relationship.
Using WebOS in TV sets made "sense" for LG, said Ovum analyst Tony Cripps, adding that it could herald a return to the software's smartphone roots.
WebOS's use of core web technology left it well placed for the next generation of mobile apps that were likely to be based around the same code, he said.
The acquisition was probably driven by LG's recognition that it needed to make gadgets of all types easier to use, added Mr Cripps.
"Device manufacturers are recognising the need to differentiate through software-based innovation in user experience," he said.
The deal with LG was announced as HP took the wraps off its first Android-powered tablet, called the HP Slate 7, at the 2013 Mobile World Congress currently under way in Barcelona.
Harry Benson has captured some of the most significant moments in America's social, political and cultural history over the last 50 years.
The Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Martin Luther King are among the most famous subjects of the 86-year-old Glasgow-born photographer.
A collection of some of his memorable images will go on display in August.
Harry Benson: Seeing America will include a photograph of President Regan dancing with his wife, Nancy, which featured on the cover of Vanity Fair.
It will also feature images which document the civil rights movement and tensions in 1960s America, the Watergate journalists Carl and Bob Woodward, and Richard Nixon's resignation speech.
Entertainers including Sinatra, James Brown, Jack Nicholson, Dolly Parton, Kevin Spacey and Brad Pitt will also feature.
Mr Benson said: "Growing up in Glasgow, one year at the end of term when I had narrowly passed my qualifying exam to the next level, my teacher, Miss MacKenzie, stopped me as I shuffled out of the classroom and said, 'Benson, I don't worry about you one bit.'
"It was the nicest thing anyone had ever said to me. I wish I could have gone back years later to thank her.
"To have my retrospective, my American journey, at parliament is an incredible privilege. My wife, Gigi, and my daughters, Wendy and Tessa, join me in thanking the Scottish Parliament for this truly remarkable honour."
Mr Benson arrived in the US at about the same time as The Beatles, when he covered America for the Daily Express. By 1968, he was fulfilling his ambition of working for Life magazine.
He has photographed every US President since Dwight D Eisenhower.
The Scottish Parliament's Presiding Officer, Tricia Marwick said: "Harry Benson's work is admired across the world and he is undoubtedly one of Scotland's greatest exports.
"This new exhibition is Harry's unique take on America over the last 50 years and will feature some of his most iconic photographs.
"As the debate on the forthcoming US Presidential election intensifies, this exhibition shines a light on some of the defining moments of America's past.
"This exhibition is a 'must see' for anyone with an interest in American history, politics and culture."
The photographs will be on display from 12 August until 3 December.
Three fire engines and a pump were at the Brynmenyn Industrial Estate, with officers damping down.
At its height, 65 firefighters tackled the blaze at a mattress recycling unit that broke out at 09:00 BST on Friday.
Cooling jets were also being used on gas cylinders, which weigh up to 47kg (104lb) each, on the site.
Roads on the estate have reopened, except for Aneurin Bevan Avenue which remains closed.
An investigation into the fire is expected to start on Monday.
South Korea and US officials said the missile, launched on Saturday night, flew east towards the Sea of Japan for about 500km (300 miles).
South Korea's defence ministry called it an armed provocation to test the response of US President Donald Trump.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, standing next to Mr Trump on a visit to the United States, said the test was "absolutely intolerable".
United Nations resolutions forbid North Korea from carrying out missile tests - part of wider efforts to prevent it becoming a fully nuclear-armed power.
South Korea's foreign ministry said that "North Korea's repeated provocations show the Kim Jong-un regime's nature of irrationality, maniacally obsessed in its nuclear and missile development".
Nato also condemned the missile test, with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg urging North Korea "not to raise tensions further and to re-engage in a credible and meaningful dialogue with the international community".
The European Union joined the criticism, declaring in a statement that North Korea's "repeated disregard of its international obligations is provocative and unacceptable".
As for the US, Mr Trump said on Saturday: "America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100%."
Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News Sunday: "The message is that we are going to reinforce and strengthen our vital alliances in the Pacific region as part of our strategy to deter and prevent the increasing hostility that we've seen in recent years from the North Korean regime."
China, North Korea's closest ally, has yet to comment. Beijing has joined in international efforts to press Kim Jong-un to reign in his nuclear ambitions.
North Korea itself has yet to confirm the test.
Sunday's launch took place at 07:55 local time (22:55 GMT Saturday) from the Banghyon air base in North Pyongan province on the west side of the Korean peninsula.
Much of the detail has come from South Korea officials.
The Musudan intermediate-range missile reached an altitude of about 550km (350 miles), the South Korean military said. This type is thought capable of flying a distance of 4,000km and reaching the US territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.
However, experts suggest the tests are programmed for shorter distances to avoid a missile landing on Japan. This was the latest in a series of tests in the past year, including North Korea's fifth of a nuclear device.
In January, Kim Jong-un warned that his military was close to testing long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads to the United States mainland, but experts doubt the technology has progressed that far.
At the time, Mr Trump derided the claim in a tweet, saying: "It won't happen."
On a visit to South Korea last week, US Defence Secretary James Mattis said that any use of nuclear weapons by North Korea would be met with an "effective and overwhelming" response.
He also reconfirmed plans to deploy a US missile defence system in South Korea later this year.
MSPs will vote at 17:30 on the motion allowing the Scottish government to open negotiations with Westminster on the timing of a fresh poll.
Ms Sturgeon wants the referendum held between autumn 2018 and spring 2019.
Prime Minister Theresa May said last week that now was not the time to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence.
She argued the focus should be on getting the best Brexit deal for the whole of the UK.
However, Ms Sturgeon said it was right to hold a vote within her timescale in order for the people of Scotland to be offered a choice between a "hard Brexit" and becoming an independent country.
On Tuesday members of the Scottish Parliament began a two-day debate calling for a Section 30 order from Westminster.
The order would be needed to allow a fresh legally-binding referendum on independence to be held.
The government is expected to win the vote with the support of the pro-independence supporting Scottish Greens - despite opposition from the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats.
On the first day of the debate Ms Sturgeon insisted that Scotland's future should be decided by the people who live there rather than being "imposed upon us".
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson claimed voters were "sick to death of the SNP's games" over independence as the pro-UK opposition parties argued that there was no appetite for another referendum just two and a half years after the first one.
In September 2014, voters in Scotland backed staying a part of the UK by 55% to 45%.
"That the parliament acknowledges the sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine the form of government best suited to their needs and therefore mandates the Scottish government to take forward discussions with the UK government on the details of an order under section 30 of the Scotland Act 1998 to ensure that the Scottish Parliament can legislate for a referendum to be held that will give the people of Scotland a choice over the future direction and governance of their country at a time - and with a question and franchise - determined by the Scottish Parliament, which would most appropriately be between the autumn of 2018, when there is clarity over the outcome of the Brexit negotiations, and around the point at which the UK leaves the EU in spring 2019."
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The Football League wants to create an extra division with 20 teams in each from 2019-20, increasing the number of clubs from 92 to 100.
Both the Football Association and Premier League back the proposal "in principle".
"The National League is very concerned about the potential consequences of any potential adoption," said Barwick.
"We strongly feel its attempt to re-shape the existing professional game structure has failed to take into consideration the effects of any change on football played below its proposed five divisions.
"We seriously believe it could be very damaging to the National League and its member clubs and will be determined to make that point very clear when we meet up with Football League officials to discuss their proposals.
"The National League is an ambitious and forward-thinking organisation as well as a well-established and well-loved competition and we will do everything possible to protect both its integrity and its commercial value."
BBC Sport has contacted the 18 clubs that were neither promoted nor relegated from the top-tier of English non-league football this season about the idea, with the responses ranging from "simply awful" to "long overdue".
However, many of the clubs want to know more before making a decision.
Here are the responses:
Aldershot: Yet to respond.
Barrow: "Simply awful. This is clearly the proposal of someone completely out of touch with grassroots English football and in thrall of the elite clubs. A reduction of potential revenue through less games, a further diminution of the FA Cup to a midweek competition, and absolutely no perceived benefit to any club below the top half of the Championship. I had to check it wasn't 1 April,", said chairman Paul Casson.
Braintree Town: "It introduces another tier between the Premier League and non-league football, effectively relegating all but the eight clubs that are invited to join the re-organised Football League. A better structure would be a reorganised Football League with the existing Championship and League One tiers fed by a League Two North and League Two South," said chairman Lee Harding.
Boreham Wood: No-one available for comment.
Bromley: Yet to respond.
Chester: "Until it is clear how the change in the structure of the Football League will impact upon the ability to generate revenue, i.e. reduced number of home games, potential lack of FA Cup replay revenue, introduction of Premier League B teams, it is not possible to make a decision one way or the other," said chairman Simon Olorenshaw.
Dover Athletic: "It needs careful consideration. We foresee some issues but the devil will be in the detail," said chairman Jim Parmenter.
Eastleigh: No-one available for comment.
Forest Green: "The proposal sounds like a good idea - 20 teams per league, ending Tuesday night games. It makes perfect sense that the top eight teams from our league should be incorporated into the Football League if this goes ahead. In fact, given that below the National League all competitions become regional, the Football League should really think about adopting the National League now. They should also standardise the number of teams that are promoted and relegated between divisions," said chairman Dale Vince.
Gateshead: "Every National League club aspires to be in the Football League, and secondly, football needs to change and it's a good time for us. Everybody needs to understand the detail a bit more, but in principle it's a good idea," said chairman Richard Bennett.
Guiseley: "We need a lot more information about the involvement of Scottish or Premier League clubs in the proposals," said chairman Phil Rogerson.
Lincoln: "From our perspective, we feel it's a positive move by the Football League and is an exciting opportunity for clubs at our level," said manager Danny Cowley.
Macclesfield: Yet to respond.
Southport: "There's been no consultation with the National League board from the Football League. There's a lack of understanding of how the pyramid system will change - what happens to the others when the eight clubs go up?," said a club spokesperson.
Tranmere: No comment to make at this time.
Torquay United: "I believe the lower leagues should be regionalised. Travelling the length of the country, like to Gateshead in front of paltry crowds is farcical," said chairman Dave Phillips.
Woking: "I personally think it is a fantastic proposal and long overdue, I am definitely in favour. The National League standards have been improving year on year, one only has to ask the relegated clubs from League Two how difficult it is to get back where they came from. Furthermore there is, in my opinion, little difference between the two leagues," said Woking football director Geoff Chapple.
Wrexham: No-one available for comment.
The 23-year-old Belgium international's injury is "not serious" though.
Lukaku, who has scored 17 goals this season, is expected to be fit for Everton's next Premier League match on 25 February at home to Sunderland.
He is one goal away from equalling Duncan Ferguson's club record of 60 goals in the Premier League.
Earlier this month, an online petition asking the government to stop taxing a "bodily function" attracted about 90,000 signatures.
Unlike products such as condoms and sunscreen, pads and tampons attract the 10% Goods and Services tax (GST).
Mr Hockey said he would lobby state and territory governments to exempt them.
However Prime Minister Tony Abbott later downplayed Mr Hockey's pledge.
He said he understood why many people wanted to see an end to the tax, but that it was "certainly not something that this government has a plan to do".
Mr Abbott said it was up to states to decide.
In May this year, ahead of a national tax review, Sydney university student Subeta Vimalarajah started an online petition calling for an end to the tax on a "bodily function".
The petition questions the validity of taxing something most women are forced to buy every few weeks but which the government does not consider "necessary" enough to be GST-free.
"On the other hand, condoms, lubricants, sunscreen and nicotine patches are all tax-free because they are classed as important health goods," noted the petition.
"But isn't the reproductive health and hygiene of 10 million Australians important too?" it said.
Ms Vimalarajah has estimated the government raises A$25m ($20m; £13m) a year from the tax on sanitary products.
"The reason this has not been addressed already and why sanitary products were originally not exempt is either because politicians are too awkward to confront the reality of periods or they just want us to literally pay for them. Either way, it's sexist," she wrote on her blog.
During a post-budget discussion on ABC TV on Monday night, Ms Vimalarajah asked Mr Hockey if he thought sanitary products were an essential health product for half the population.
"Do I think sanitary products are essential? I think so, I think so," he replied, and said the tax "probably should" be taken off.
Mr Hockey said he would raise the issue with state treasurers at their next meeting in July.
Any changes to how GST is applied and how the revenue it raises is distributed must be supported by state and territory governments.
The tax was introduced by John Howard's conservative government in 2000, replacing various federal and state taxes.
After heated negotiation with the opposition and minor parties, most basic food items were exempted along with some education courses and medical products.
But calls for an exemption for tampons were dismissed by Mr Howard on the grounds that it would lead to too many other exemptions.
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The 24-year-old was charged with committing "an act of simulation" to earn his side a penalty in Sunday's 2-2 draw with Celtic.
The fixed suspension was two games and Ross County have chosen not to challenge the decision.
Schalk will miss the Premiership games against Inverness CT and Motherwell.
In August, Hearts' Jamie Walker was also charged with breaching disciplinary rule 201 for diving in a game against Celtic and his appeal against the two-game suspension was dismissed.
Former SFA compliance officer Vincent Lunny does not regard simulation as a common feature of the Scottish game.
"It was one of the rarest matters reported, one or two a year," he told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"I think one of the years in my three years, there were no cases, which was quite pleasing.
"It's obviously a talking point. It brings up a lot of discussion, it causes a lot of angst but it is thankfully relatively rare."
Schalk's indiscretion came in the 88th minute at Dingwall, with Celtic leading 2-1, and Liam Boyce scored from the spot to earn County a draw.
The visitors' captain, Scott Brown, was later dismissed for a foul on Boyce, which Celtic have appealed against.
The hearing for that will be held on Thursday 27 April, allowing Brown to take part in Sunday's Old Firm Scottish Cup semi-final.
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An Army bomb disposal unit was called to the scene on Wednesday after police found the weapons at the home in Windmill Avenue, St Albans.
Police officers were still searching the property on Thursday morning.
A 48-year-old man arrested on suspicion of stealing items from "protected sites" has been released on bail.
He is also accused of possession of explosives, firearms and ammunition.
The Army removed items including hand grenades, rifles, mortar shells and guns from the property.
Experts took them to a farmer's field on the edge of the city where they were made safe in a controlled explosion.
Police said further explosions may be carried out on Thursday.
Residents evacuated from nearby homes on Wednesday have since been able to return.
Hertfordshire Police said "a museum for World War One and World War Two relics" had been found in the garage at the address.
It is alleged the arrested man obtained "heritage artefacts" and wartime munitions from protected sites through illegal metal detecting, which is a heritage crime.
A police spokesman said: "It is a criminal offence to retrieve artefacts from the ground through using a metal detector if the land is a protected site or without permission of the landowner."
Mark Harrison, policing advisor for English Heritage, said this was the first time a partnership between the military, police, finds experts, archaeologists and prosecutors had been used to tackle this type of criminal activity.
In a statement, the coastguard said one of its vessels had fired warning shots at the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010 as it headed for international waters.
The coastguard said it had first tried to raise a response by radio. All 32 crew members were rescued, it said.
China has expressed "serious concern" over the sinking.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in a statement that Beijing had "made urgent representations" to Argentina, demanding a thorough investigation.
Illegal fishing is a common problem in the South Atlantic.
"The vessel was hailed over radio (in Spanish and English) and both visual and audio signals were sent to make contact. However, the vessel turned off its fishing lights and proceeded to flee towards international waters without responding to repeated calls over various frequencies," the coastguard statement said (in Spanish).
"On several occasions, the offending ship performed manoeuvres designed to force a collision with the coastguard, putting at risk not only its own crew but coastguard personnel, who were then ordered to shoot parts of the vessel."
China is the world's largest market for seafood and has the biggest long-distance fishing fleet, currently numbering more than 2,000 vessels, reports say.
In 2012 Argentina captured two Chinese vessels it said had been fishing illegally for squid in its exclusive economic zone. Warning shots were fired.
The latest incident comes despite Argentina's relations with China growing closer in recent years.
Champion cyclist Simon Richardson's spine was broken after he was hit by a van on the A48 while riding near Bridgend in 2011.
He later said he was "struggling" with being virtually confined to his Vale of Glamorgan home.
Mr Richardson, 48, said donations, which allowed him to buy the £900 chair, have been "humbling".
A fundraising campaign, arranged by his family and friends, prompted donations from businesses and people from across the UK.
"It's very humbling that people are willing to send £5 because that's all they can afford," he said.
Mr Richardson said the excess money that has been raised will be used to buy training equipment and adapt a patio to improve access to his Llanmaes home.
Speaking on Tuesday, the father-of-two said the chair has made "quite a difference".
He added: "This afternoon we have a christening to go to - and we will be able to go to with the wheelchair with my wife walking beside me, rather than having to push it from behind."
Mr Richardson became a Paralympic competitor after suffering leg and back injuries in a previous road accident involving his bicycle and a car in 2001.
He won two gold and one silver medal at the 2008 Beijing games and received an MBE in 2009.
Stephen McMillan, 26, admitted making and distributing the images.
The Metropolitan Police officer, of Viridian Square, Aylesbury, filmed a teenage girl performing a sex act on him and sent it to three friends.
He was sentenced at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years.
Adam, 26, who joined the Reds in a £9m move from Blackpool in July 2011, is thought to have cost £4m.
The Scotland international, who has also played for Rangers, has signed a four-year deal.
Frenchman Nzonzi, 23, also signed a four-year deal for an initial £3.5m that could eventually rise to £5m.
He had not featured for Blackburn this season after making it clear he wanted to leave the club following their relegation.
Nzonzi joined Rovers from French side Amiens in 2009 and made 97 appearances for the Ewood Park club, scoring three goals.
Stoke manager Tony Pulis believes the addition of Adam will make a significant improvement to his team's attacking options.
He said: "It's no secret that we've been looking to bring more goals to the squad and Charlie is a fantastic signing in that respect.
"Not only will his creativity and his eye for delivering a pass be a great asset to us, he scored 12 goals for Blackpool in the Premier League two seasons ago."
Adam added: "This club's on the up and it's great to be a part of it. I can do this club proud and I'm looking forward to the chance of playing in front of their passionate supporters."
His rival, fellow Republican Alain Juppe, has urged him to "clarify his position" on abortion.
Meanwhile, a party colleague restated claims he denied her a ministerial post because she was pregnant.
Supporters will choose between Mr Fillon and Mr Juppe on Sunday.
It is the first time the centre right in France has used a US-style primary contest to select a candidate, ahead of the presidential election in April and May.
Juppe v Fillon: Battle of France's conservatives
Press review: France's 'Mr Nobody' Francois Fillon
In the first round of voting for the Republican nomination on Sunday, Mr Fillon took a clear lead with 44.1% while Bordeaux Mayor Mr Juppe received 28.5%. Five other contestants were knocked out.
As the campaign for the second round gathered pace on Tuesday, the candidates exchanged barbs over Mr Fillon's stance on abortion.
Mr Juppe claimed his rival had gone back on a previous statement affirming that abortion was a "fundamental human right".
Mr Fillon, who is personally opposed to abortion but against revisiting its legal status, reacted with fury, saying: "I would never have thought my friend could stoop so low."
Another former colleague and defeated primary contestant Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet - who now backs Mr Juppe - has also renewed claims that Mr Fillon denied her a ministerial post because she was pregnant.
Ms Kosciusko-Morizet's remarks were first reported in 2013 in a profile by US network NBC, when she said she had twice been turned down for ministerial posts when she was pregnant. During her second pregnancy, in September 2009, Mr Fillon was prime minister.
"It's true," Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet told Franceinfo TV. But she said it was a matter from the past, for which Mr Fillon had since expressed regret and which many woman would recognise as a wider problem in French society.
Several French commentators have also made the point that Ms Kosciusko-Morizet was not prevented from taking up a succession of posts in Mr Fillon's government:
Despite repeated attempts, Mr Fillon's team could not be reached for comment.
Mr Fillon was also criticised by centrist leader Francois Bayrou for his proposed liberal economic reforms, which include cutting half a million public sector jobs and scrapping the 35-hour work week.
Mr Bayrou called them "dangerous".
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said Mr Putin had "rather good relations" with Mr Fillon, and that Moscow was closely watching the outcome of the primary.
The incident took place in Tudor Street at about 19:00 BST, where two men suffered "significant injuries" and were taken to hospital.
South Wales Police said the armed officers were deployed "to ensure the safety of the public and police officers at the scene".
Investigation are continuing.
Some argue it is one of the most open tournaments ever, while others see world number one Michael van Gerwen as the overwhelming favourite.
The 26-year-old Dutchman has won all four of the major televised events leading into the event and is undoubtedly the player to beat.
Gary Anderson overcame Phil Taylor to win his first world title in January and is again among the main contenders at Alexandra Palace.
Despite that defeat, 16-time world champion Taylor should not be discounted either - and nor should Adrian Lewis, Robert Thornton and Peter Wright, who have all featured in major finals during 2015.
But can anyone stop an in-form Van Gerwen as he bids for a second world title?
PDC World Championship schedule in full
The World Cup apart, Van Gerwen has appeared in every single televised final at a PDC major tournament since losing to Anderson in the World Championship semi-final 12 months ago.
Victories at the Masters, UK Open, World Matchplay, European Championship, Grand Slam, World Series and - most recently - the Players Championship have cemented his place as the world's best at present.
"I want to keep putting on great performances," the 2014 world champion told BBC Sport. "I know if I play well, I can beat everyone.
"The World Championship is the biggest tournament of the year and you always want to play well. I'm going to perform well."
Either Thailand's Thanawat Gaweenuntawong or Rene Eidams of Germany will be Van Gerwen's first-round opponent.
"No game is easy," he added. "You always need to play well to win. No player is in the tournament for nothing. I just want to show everyone what I'm capable of."
Anderson achieved his lifetime's ambition when he overcame Taylor, the sport's greatest ever player, in a deciding set a year ago to win the world title for the first time.
"It's one thing I've wanted to do in all the years I've played," said the 44-year-old Scot, who is based in Burnham-on-Sea. "My name's on the trophy, so if I never win another thing, I'll go to my box a happy man."
Anderson quickly followed up that success with a second Premier League title in May, beating Van Gerwen in the final in London after 15 weeks of competition.
Has being a world champion changed his life? "I've had less sleep," he joked. "But I'm still the same boring old Gary. I just want to get home after a weekend at the darts."
Read more about Gary Anderson's year as world champion
Until Van Gerwen's emergence, many challengers had tried - and failed - to end Taylor's dominance in the PDC.
Already twice a world champion at Lakeside before the sport split into two rival bodies in 1993, Taylor has added another 14 world titles in 22 years playing on the PDC circuit and came close to raising his tally to 17 in January, losing narrowly to Anderson in the final.
The 55-year-old from Stoke-on-Trent is without a major televised title in 2015, leading some pundits to question - yet again - whether his form is in decline.
But write 'The Power' off at your peril.
Taylor, himself, said at the European Championship in October that he is playing "better than ever".
And Lewis, with whom Taylor won the World Cup with England in June, believes the standard is being raised elsewhere.
"Everybody's saying Phil's finished and all that rubbish - what's happened is that everyone's reaching Phil's level," said Lewis, the PDC world champion in 2011 and 2012.
"Phil set a bar of 105 and 106 averages, and people are matching that now. He'll probably agree with that.
"It isn't that he's come off the boil - yes he's missing the odd double because he's under pressure because people are keeping up with his scores - but when it comes down to it, it's nip and tuck."
The PDC World Championship has a habit of throwing up a few shocks. Remember qualifier Kirk Shepherd reaching the final in 2008? Or Michael Smith upsetting Taylor six years later?
Wright's appearance in the 2014 final was something of a surprise at the time, although his form since has proved that was not a one-off.
Ranked fourth in the PDC's Order of Merit and frequently competing in the latter stages of big events since reaching the World Championship final in 2014, the popular Suffolk-based Scot is yet to win a PDC major.
But he is getting closer, as Van Gerwen can testify - he needed a deciding leg to defeat Wright in the final of the World Series in November.
Stoke-on-Trent's Lewis, the world number five, is hopeful that regular practice sessions with fellow top-10 player Ian White will boost his chances of winning a third world title.
And there are dangerous players throughout the 72-man field - from Grand Prix winner Thornton, to perennial contenders such as James Wade and Raymond van Barneveld, to emerging talent such as Smith and Benito van de Pas.
Asked about the depth of talent in the sport, Anderson said: "The class of player now is getting harder and harder. You've just got to go with the flow and if you're good enough on the day, you win.
"They've got no fear now. These youngsters want to beat Lewis, Anderson, Taylor - they don't care. That's what's great about it.
"It keeps us old boys on their toes. We want to keep our place in darts and just say it's not ready for them to take over just yet."
The motion, brought by the SDLP, was defeated by a single vote with 46 MLAs supporting it and 47 against.
The SDLP had argued for NI to be given legal recognition of its unique status, as part of the UK's plans to leave the EU.
The party's leader, Colum Eastwood, said the leaders of the Northern Ireland Executive should be "kicking down the door" at Downing Street in order to make their case.
Mr Eastwood also called on unionists to reconsider their refusal to attend the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Enda Kenny's 'Civic Dialogue on Brexit', which is due to convene early next month.
However the DUP opposed the motion. South Belfast MLA, Christopher Stalford, told the Assembly that it made as much sense for London or County Antrim to be treated differently from the rest of the UK as it did for Northern Ireland to be exempt from Brexit.
The Ulster Unionists, whose leadership campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU, also said they did not regard special status for Northern Ireland as the best way forward.
Alexandru Visinescu, 88, ran the notorious Ramnicu Sarat prison from 1956 to 1963, where inmates were allegedly tortured and starved.
At least 12 people are said to have died as a result of the abuse.
Mr Visinescu is the first of 35 men whom the Romanian state plans to try for similar offences.
He has denied the charges, saying he has been made a scapegoat.
From his apartment in the capital Bucharest, he told AFP news agency: "I wasn't responsible for the rules in the prison. I followed my superiors' orders."
"If I really made mistakes, why did they keep me there for eight years?" he added.
The trial has now been adjourned and will resume next month.
Prosecutors say Mr Visinescu oversaw an "extermination regime" at the prison camp in the east of the country.
Nicknamed "the prison of silence" because detainees were held in solitary confinement, the facility housed intellectuals, dissidents, priests and others deemed enemies of the Communist Party.
According to the BBC's Nick Thorpe, Romania's state-run Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes has been gathering evidence against those responsible since 2006 - exhuming graves and looking for surviving victims from a number of prisons.
Other former prison commanders, aged between 81 and 99, are also set to go on trial, he says.
About 500,000 Romanians became political prisoners in the 1950s as the country's Communist government sought to crush dissent.
Michael Treichl, 69, who owned Parnham House in Beaminster, Dorset, died "having suffered severe depression", a spokesman, on behalf of his family, said.
The blaze at the family home happened in the early hours of 15 April.
No-one was inside the property at the time, police previously said.
A 68-year-old man, from Beaminster, was arrested on 19 April on suspicion of arson.
Other media reports, including in the Dorset Echo, said the arrested man was Mr Treichl, but police have refused to confirm this.
A spokesman said: "Dorset Police is aware of recent media reports about a death abroad in relation to Parnham House.
"We are awaiting formal confirmation of the details which may take some time.
"Once this has been received, officers will look into whether the investigation will be affected."
The family spokesman said Mr Treichl "enjoyed a long and distinguished career in finance" and added his wife Emma, their two children and his two step-children were "devastated" by his death.
Parnham House was described as "architecturally brilliant" in a 2009 Dorset Life article.
It was home to the Strode family, prominent aristocrats, for about 200 years.
It was later used as a country club and nursing home. In 2001 it was refurbished by a private owner.
Much of the current design was created in 1810 by John Nash, an architect who worked on the 19th Century enlargement of Buckingham Palace.
He said: "I have been at EastEnders for nine years and I feel the time is right to give Max a break".
But he added: "It won't be for too long as I shall be back next year to see Max face another chapter of drama."
Last year, the 42-year-old reached the semi-final of Strictly Come Dancing under the tutelage of his professional partner Janette Manrara.
EastEnders' executive producer, Dominic Treadwell-Collins, said: "Both Jake and I agreed that Max has been through so much over the past nine years that we would give both him and Jake a break when the opportunity arose.
"That opportunity has come and it is the perfect time to send Max Branning out with a bang that will send ripples through the Square for the rest of the year until Jake returns."
There has been no word yet on how Max will depart the soap.
Prior to EastEnders, Wood starred in shows including Only Fools and Horses, London's Burning and Red Dwarf.
Rusada was ruled non-compliant in 2015, with Wada stating it needs to meet four demands, including the removal of the two-time Olympic pole vault champion.
Isinbayeva was critical of the IAAF decision to ban Russian athletes.
An independent Wada report found Russia had conducted state-sponsored doping.
Their athletes were subsequently banned from taking part in the athletics competition at Rio 2016, although Darya Klishina was allowed to compete in the long jump.
Other changes being demanded by Wada include drug testers being allowed access to closed cities, where athletes continue to find sanctuary from testing; access to athlete biological passports and the implementation of a conflict of interest policy.
It also announced the creation of a new independent testing body that would operate under Swiss jurisdiction. It would be operational in time for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The 19-year-old returns to the Tyneside club, where he had a brief loan spell last season.
He managed to make just one appearance for Gateshead, however, after breaking his foot on his debut.
Green, who made his Hartlepool debut at the age of 17, made five first-team appearances for the club since 2014.
The retrospective is the first of its kind in the UK and is expected to be one of 2013's exhibition highlights.
More than 50 paintings spanning Manet's career have been collected from around the world, from both public collections and private owners.
They include famous images such as The Railway and Mademoiselle Claus.
Manet: Portraying Life will feature the 19th-Century French painter's "great works" alongside lesser known pieces.
The show's curator, MaryAnne Stevens, has also promised "quite a lot of surprises" when the show opens in January.
Stevens said that Manet's portraits have "not been studied in either exhibition or book form" before, despite the artist's "unswerving commitment to the genre of portraiture throughout his career".
Throughout his life Manet surrounded himself with a wide circle of friends and admirers, including leading figures from the artistic, literary and musical communities.
The latter often served as sitters for his portraits, along with his family.
The Manet paintings we all own
The exhibition will examine the relationship between Manet's portrait painting and his scenes of modern life, with different sections focusing on elements such as family, artist friends and "status portraits" of such figures as the politicians Henri Rochefort and Antonin Proust.
Other highlights include The Luncheon, on loan from the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, which depicts Leon, the son of Manet's wife.
Manet's professional career as an artist lasted less than three decades and was cut short by his premature death in 1883 at the age of 51.
The Royal Academy will stage the exhibition - a collaboration with the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio - from 26 January to 14 April.
James Reilly, 66, from Balmullo in Fife, embezzled the money from the Tayforth Veterans Project between 24 February 2012 and 29 October 2013.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard that Reilly told police he was "up to my ears" in debt.
Following the case, a former volunteer at the charity described Reilly as "a pathological liar".
Reilly set up the charity in 2011, with television presenter Lorraine Kelly appearing at the launch in Dundee.
The charity had the aim of supporting former service personnel with mental health, housing, employment, training and benefits issues.
Depute fiscal Joanne Smith told the court that donations to the charity were deposited into an account that only Reilly had access to.
The prosecutor said that the charity's trustees seemed "unaware of their roles and responsibilities" and only held meetings annually.
Ms Smith said Reilly would get blank cheques signed by a trustee and "this raised suspicions".
She said: "He was often getting work done at home despite having no income."
Ms Smith said an investigation showed loan repayments were being made from the account, which Reilly was not entitled to carry out.
Following his arrest, Reilly told police he had done nothing wrong and blamed the state of the accounts on the former trustees.
Asked if he was in debt, Reilly replied: "I'm up to my ears in it."
Billy Boyle, defending, said: "There is an audit trail here, showing how stupid he was.
"There are no hidden vices here, like drinking or gambling.
"He has brought a great deal of shame and remorse on his family.
"This is a cataclysmic event and he is aware of your lordship's sentencing options.
"As a bomb disposal man he has been through worse than this and if it is a prison sentence, he will put his head down and get on with it."
Sheriff Alastair Brown said: "The sense of betrayal to your former comrades is evident looking at the public benches.
"The only appropriate sentence is one of imprisonment. Those betrayed would want it to be a long sentence
"That is a legitimate, but emotional reaction."
Speaking outside the court, Les Mason, a former volunteer at the charity said: "The man's a pathological liar.
"By pleading guilty, he kept the witnesses from going in the witness box and letting the judge know exactly what type of person he is, with no regard whatsoever for veterans."
This was the year when 5,650 farmers killed themselves in the country.
So the number of suicides by housewives was about four times those by farmers. They also comprised 47% of the total female victims.
Yet the high number of homemakers killing themselves doesn't make front page news in the way farmer suicides do, year after year.
In fact, more than 20,000 housewives have been killing themselves in India every year since 1997, the earliest year for which we have information compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau based on occupation of the victim. In 2009, the grim statistic peaked at 25,092 deaths.
Forget raw numbers.
The rate of housewives taking their lives - more than 11 per 100,000 people - has been consistently higher than India's overall suicide rate since 1997. It dropped to 9.3 in 2014, yet suicide rate for housewives was more than twice those for farmers that year.
Suicide rates of housewives vary from state to state.
In 2011, for example, their rates - more than 20 per 100,000 people - were higher in states like Maharashtra, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, West Bengal and Gujarat. Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar showed lower suicide rates.
Peter Mayer, who teaches politics at the University of Adelaide and has spent much time studying the sociology of suicide in India, wonders why suicide rates of housewives in India is so high, and why it gets so little attention in the media.
After all, as Mr Mayer says, research in western societies suggests that "marriage confers protection from suicide to married women".
Therefore, married people are less likely to kill themselves - studies have found suicide rates for married people in the US and Australia, for example, are lower than others in the same age group.
India, clearly, is an outlier.
Nearly 70% of people who took their lives in 2001, for example, were married - 70.6% of the men and 67% of the women.
A study published in the medical journal The Lancet in 2012 found that the suicide rate in Indian women aged 15 years or older is more than two and a half times greater than it is in women of the same age in high-income countries, and nearly as high as in China.
Married women are part of the cohort. Mr Mayer, author of Suicide and Society in India, and co-researcher Della Steen, found that the "risk of suicide is, on the whole, highest in what are probably the first or second decades of marriage, that is, for those aged between 30 and 45".
"We found that female literacy, the level of exposure to the media and smaller family size, all perhaps indicators of female empowerment, were correlated with higher suicide rates for women in these age groups."
Also, the researchers say that suicide rates among housewives are lowest in the most "traditional" states, where family sizes are big and extended families are common. Rates are higher in states where households are closer to nuclear families - Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. (Dowry-related deaths are treated as murders.)
Mr Mayer told me that he believed the high rate of housewife suicides was linked to the "nature of the social transformation in the nature of the family, which is occurring in India".
"I suggest that a central explanatory factor is the importance of changing expectations concerning social roles, especially in marriage," he says.
There are conflicts with spouses and parents, and "relations between poorly educated mothers-in-law and better-educated, insubordinate daughters-in-law" are a source of tension.
An educated daughter-in-law was more likely to "forge a strong alliance with her husband and persuade him to break off from his parents and set up a nuclear family on their own", according to one study by Joanne Moller.
Dr Vikram Patel, a leading Goa-based psychiatrist and professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who co-authored the Lancet study, tells me that the high rate of housewife suicides in India can be attributed to a double whammy of "gender and discrimination".
"Many women face arranged marriages by force. They have dreams and aspirations, but they often do not get supportive spouses. Sometimes their parents don't support them either. They are trapped in a difficult system and social milieu," he says.
"The resulting lack of romantic, trusting and affectionate relationship with your spouse can lead to such tragedies."
Making things worse is the lack of counsellors and medical facilities for patients of depression. Then there's the social stigma associated with "mental illness".
Next big question: why does the media ignore the rising rate of suicides among married women, when, say, farmer suicides, rightly, gets a lot of attention?
Mr Mayer says on the "relatively rare occasion when the Indian media do cover the suicides of married women it is almost always framed in terms of mistreatment by in-laws and harassment for dowry". That is clearly only a part of the story.
Kalpana Sharma, a researcher and journalist, says the lack of coverage has to largely do with the "invisibility of gender" in the Indian media.
"This, in some ways, is worse than misogyny. There is a lack of engagement with issues relating to women, and the media is not even aware of the problem," she says.
The story of India's "desperate housewives", as Mr Mayer describes them, needs to be urgently researched and told.
The Estonia captain, 30, has 112 caps for his country and made more than 100 times for Augsburg after arriving from Dutch club AZ in 2012.
He is the Reds' fifth summer signing.
"It's been a dream of mine for 22 years to come to the Premier League and be a part of this amazing club," he told the Liverpool's official website.
"The Premier League is the most attractive league in the world and you always have amazing players here. This is the home of football."
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp had wanted to strengthen his central defensive options after Kolo Toure was released and Martin Skrtel sold to Fenerbahce.
Frenchman Mamadou Sakho is also expected to miss the start of the season with an Achilles tendon injury.
Klopp has already signed Mainz goalkeeper Loris Karius, Schalke centre-back Joel Matip, Red Star Belgrade midfielder Marko Grujic and Southampton forward Sadio Mane this summer.
The sports are to receive no investment for the four-year cycle leading into the Tokyo Games.
Badminton was the biggest loser, with £5.7m of funding withdrawn.
Others hit are Olympic sports table tennis, weightlifting, archery and fencing, plus goalball and wheelchair rugby on the Paralympic programme.
Badminton was hit despite exceeding UK Sport's performance target at the 2016 Rio Olympics and being the only one of the seven sports to win a medal there - bronze for Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis.
Powerlifting is also challenging UK Sport over the decision to allocate its £1.3m of funding for its Paralympic athletes to the English Institute of Sport (EIS) to manage, rather than British Weightlifting's own programme.
UK Sport says it must prioritise sports with the strongest medal potential for Tokyo.
The appeal process is essentially a second opportunity for officials to demonstrate why they deserve funding for the four-year cycle leading into the Tokyo Games.
The findings will be revealed by the end of the month, with those still unhappy with any verdict able to make a formal appeal to the arbitration service Sport Resolutions UK.
Archery, badminton, weightlifting and powerlifting appeals will be heard on Monday, 6 February, with fencing, goalball, table tennis and wheelchair rugby putting their cases forward on Tuesday.
The writing was found on the walls of a room containing the remains of a Jewish ritual bath, or mikveh, believed to be about 2,000 years old.
Experts are now trying to decipher words and symbols including a boat and palm trees.
They say the markings may be graffiti or have some religious significance.
One of the symbols could be a menorah - the seven-branched candelabrum which stood in the two Biblical Jewish Temples in Jerusalem - and some of the inscriptions might indicate names, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).
The find was made when antiquity officials inspected the site slated for a nursery in the Arnona district.
On its walls were letters in Aramaic - the common language spoken in the time of Jesus - written in Hebrew script, and a series of symbols either smeared on with mud, or cut into the plaster.
"There is no doubt that this is a very significant discovery," said excavation directors Royee Greenwald and Alexander Wiegmann.
"Such a concentration of inscriptions and symbols from the Second Temple period at one archaeological site, and in such a state of preservation, is rare and unique and most intriguing."
The paintings and inscriptions have now been removed from the mikveh and transferred to conservation laboratories.
The Israel Antiquities Authority says it plans to display the inscriptions to the general public.
In an Instagram post, Mr Navalny said "sadly, I've been told I will only recover my sight in several months".
A photo he posted shows his right eye looking bloodshot, and skin damage.
Last month green antiseptic was thrown at Mr Navalny, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He is recovering at an eye clinic in Barcelona, a city he described as "a European centre for ophthalmology".
Commenting on his vision now, he said that his right eye could only make out the largest letters on the optician's test card.
But he said he was happy to dispense with "pirate accessories" like an eye patch.
He said the liquid had contained a caustic substance that caused him to lose 85% of his sight in that eye.
He had also been attacked in March with the dye called zelyonka ("brilliant green" in English).
Presidential ambitions
He intends to challenge Mr Putin in next year's presidential elections. He campaigns against what he calls systematic government corruption, vowing to rid Russia of its powerful "thieves".
This month a Russian court upheld a five-year suspended sentence imposed on Mr Navalny.
The ruling by a court in Kirov related to his conviction for embezzlement in a timber deal. He was convicted again in February after a retrial.
He condemned the case as political, designed to prevent him standing in next year's presidential election.
He was signed by Barcelona in 2013 for a reported €57m ($65m; £41m) and helped the club to success in this season's Champions League and La Liga.
But the courts believe the real price paid by Barcelona was far higher.
A Brazilian investment firm which owned 40% of his transfer rights argues it was defrauded out of millions of euros.
Barcelona's president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, his predecessor, Sandro Rosell, as well as Neymar's father and his former club Santos have been named in the complaint by the company, DIS.
Investigators allege that Barcelona paid €83.3m for Neymar, but declared only €57.1m.
A judge ruled last month that the initial case, which centres on allegations that the club tried to mislead tax authorities, should be heard by a court in Barcelona rather than in the National Court in Madrid.
That case is already being challenged by the club, its president and former president.
As part of the latest investigation, the court said several European clubs had been asked for details of bids they had made for Neymar between 2009 and 2013, while he was at Santos. The clubs named included Manchester City, Chelsea, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
The allegations surrounding Neymar's move to Barcelona prompted Sandro Rosell to resign as president in January last year.
A report from the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee says the property tax is no longer fit for purpose, and calls for a "wholesale review".
The committee's views echo those of several leading business figures.
Last week, former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy described it as an "ancient tax" that "has not worked for years".
Business rates are charged to retailers based on the value of their shop or other commercial property.
In its report, the Business Committee said there should be an examination of whether retail taxes should instead be based on the value of sales.
This could mean lower rates for smaller High Street shops.
It also suggests a separate system of business taxation for the retail sector.
"Among the many challenges they face, business rates are the single biggest threat to the survival of retail businesses on the High Street," said committee chairman Adrian Bailey.
"Since the system was created the retail environment has changed beyond all recognition. A system of business taxation based on physical property is simply no longer appropriate in an increasingly online retail world."
The British Retail Consortium, which represents UK retailers, welcomed the report.
"This report must be the final nail in the coffin of the question: do business rates need to be reformed?" said director general Helen Dickinson.
"They do. Business thinks so. A committee of Parliament thinks so. We very much hope the government will think so too."
But Adam Marshall, director of policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, pointed out that business rates affect all types of businesses, not just retail, and reform across all sectors was needed.
"We need thriving High Streets, but business rates are also the reasons many manufacturers and services companies put off investment and hiring decision because their rates bills are just too high," he said.
And Mark Rigby, chief executive of CVS and chairman of London Wasps told the BBC's Wake up to Money programme, that the current system isn't all bad, and that any alternative would need to be fair to all businesses, not just the retail sector.
"The reason it's based on property is because it works. You have to accept that business rates is a zero sum game. The government is looking to collect £25bn. If retail reduces the amount it pays, someone else will be paying more."
A government spokesperson said it was currently reviewing business rates administration "which will look at longer-term reforms to make the system more transparent, efficient and responsive to economic circumstances".
"We're actually in the studio in the moment cutting new stuff," Keith Richards told BBC 6 Music.
Guitarist Ronnie Wood added that the band recently "cut 11 songs in two days. Just 'bang' - like that."
"It was a surprise to us. We didn't intend doing it," he told Matt Everitt. "I wish I could play them to you now. I'm so excited about them."
The Rolling Stones haven't released a studio album since 2005's A Bigger Bang, although they wrote two new songs for the 2012 compilation record Grrrr!
The sessions have included new material and a series of blues covers, including songs by Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf.
"They sound so authentic it's frightening," said Wood.
"We didn't spend any time rehearsing them or anything. We just picked a song that suited Mick's harmonica or a guitar riff... and they worked out pretty good.
"It was like, 'this is what the Stones do, we play blues.'"
"It's sounding really good," added Mick Jagger. "We did one session before Christmas. We'll probably do more."
"It's very easy and free," said drummer Charlie Watts. "Keith plays the same now as he ever did. He sits there and plays a song and if something comes to him, he'll put that into it."
Wood said the new music would be released "sometime this year", while Jagger said the band would be announcing more shows in the coming months.
"We'll come back to the UK, indeed," he said. "It doesn't feel very long since we played [here] but actually it's ages ago now."
"I think our main thing is playing live these days," Richards added. "Within the band, we always feel like the next show is going to be better.
"For a bunch of reprobates we have an incredible dedication to our job."
The band were speaking at the launch of Exhibitionism, a career retrospective at London's Saatchi Gallery.
Billed as the largest exhibition of Stones memorabilia ever mounted, it includes a recreation of the studio where they recorded Sympathy For The Devil, and the band's filthy first flat in Edith Grove, Chelsea.
It also includes key instruments, album art, diary entries, tour posters and the band's flamboyant outfits.
But, as Richards told 6 Music: "I don't remember wearing any of it."
Mick Hermanis was one of 26,000 men and women who were sent from the UK to defend the Falkland Islands in 1982.
The British defeated the Argentines in just three and a half weeks and returned home victorious.
But the trauma of fighting a war continues to affect them decades later.
BBC Panorama followed a group of former Welsh Guards, who have remained friends, as they flew 8,000 miles back to the Falklands to confront their demons for the first time in 35 years.
Now in their 50s, as teenagers these men knew little of what they were getting themselves into. Yet their lives have been shaped by their Falklands experience.
Mick Hermanis survived the attack on the Sir Galahad landing ship - where the Welsh Guards suffered their heaviest losses, and where many of his friends died.
This, combined with the fact that he never fired a bullet during the war, has left him with a strong feeling of survivor guilt.
On his return home from war, he says: "All the neighbours in the street were out and [I had] a bloody big hero's welcome".
He says it "broke my heart" to be given such a welcome when some of his mates would never return.
Mick was extremely nervous and apprehensive about returning to the Falklands. He had planned to go back in 2008 but bottled it at the last minute.
He says: "Not a single day that goes by when you don't think about it... think about the boys… friends that we lost... some bloody fantastic boys."
Mick has had low moments, suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and anger issues.
Nigel O'Keefe was 18 when he served in the infantry in the Falklands. At first, he says he "blanked" his experiences, "but as I grew older it started eating away at me".
Nigel's defining memory was when his platoon found itself in one of the many minefields laid by the Argentines.
He told Panorama: "We were advancing, it was pitch black, there was tracer flying everywhere and a guy from the SAS came running out the single fire line and told everyone to stop - he said we're in a minefield.
"And as soon as he's told us that I could hear this screaming, high-pitched, really, really high-pitched screaming and I said: 'What the hell are women and kids doing out here?', like.
"I found out then it was two Royal Marines who'd stepped on anti-personnel mines.
"I've never heard a grown man scream so high-pitched like that."
Having never really addressed his PTSD and depression, he still suffers from terrible nightmares, and he masks his problems with alcohol.
It has caused him to lose both his job and his family; he is divorced and his four children rarely come to visit.
Nigel saw his trip back to the Falklands as his last chance to get his life back on track - since the trip he has given up alcohol and is working on repairing his relationship with his children.
Will Kevans rarely talks about the Falklands, unless he's had a few drinks. He was 19 when he went to war and his memories still haunt him.
"I remember walking up and seeing something in the road and it was the body of a dead Argentine soldier and, for reasons I still don't understand today, I put my hand down and wanted to look at the guy's face.
"I picked his head up and it had no face. No face at all and it was just a cross section of his skull.
"All of his teeth were all over the place, bone fragments and blood all over the place and it was something that has haunted me for a very long time.
"Some of the lads were looking through his possessions and they found photographs of his family and it just made me think immediately that this man could have been me."
After the war Will stayed in the Army for a couple of years as a parachutist, but then went on to become a singer-songwriter and successful cartoonist. He has drawn Dennis the Menace and worked for the Telegraph newspaper.
He says: "I think a lot of the pain that I suffered from the Falklands, I've kind of alleviated it by being able to do art connected with it… so I'm lucky I have that safety valve".
Paul Bromwell has suffered from bouts of aggression and severe insomnia. He says the Falklands "marked me for the rest of my life".
He spent the war in the recce platoon, meaning he was always the first one into battle. He saw a lot of action and was involved in the fighting at Goose Green and Mount Harriet.
He told Panorama: "I'd been through hell, and when I went home it just seemed nothing had changed - everybody was carrying on with their life and yet inside I was hurting a lot, so much, I'd lost too many good friends".
Almost immediately he began to suffer from PTSD and a severe feeling of not belonging in society.
He drank his way through it and completed a treatment programme, but he remains very affected by the conflict.
"It's a devil really, because you can't see the injury, everyone thinks you're all right but underneath you're screaming," he says.
Today, he runs veteran self-help groups and takes care of mistreated horses which often exhibit similar signs of anxiety and stress.
Watch BBC Panorama - Back to the Falklands: Brothers In Arms on Monday 5 June at 20:30 BST on BBC One and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.
Gwendoline Goring said she was catching her breath when she stopped in a children's play area while walking Mylo off French's Avenue, Dunstable.
Soon afterwards a warden handed her a fine for disobeying signs stating that dogs were not allowed in the park.
The council said there was "clear support" for the dog ban.
Ms Goring said the incident happened on Tuesday lunchtime as she was walking with her friend in the park.
She said: "I can't walk very far and I hadn't been out because I've had an operation on my arm.
"I seemed to be getting out of breath and I didn't feel well, and there are no benches at all in that park, except for the two that are in the play area.
"And I know you're not supposed to take a dog in there, but there was nobody in the whole park except for us, so I just sat down.
Mrs Goring was told the fine would be reduced to £50 if paid within 14 days, but she said she would not pay it as the amount represented half of her weekly pension money.
"Why should I pay it? I know I'm in the wrong but even just giving me a little leeway... I think it's disgraceful," she said.
Central Bedfordshire Council said: "There is signage clearly stating this is not allowed.
"There was clear support for banning dogs from enclosed children's play areas when we consulted the public before introducing the dog control orders last year."
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In a dour first half, Louis Moult gave the home side the advantage from the penalty spot.
If the visiting fans expected a second-half response they were to be disappointed, with Moult doubling Motherwell's lead.
Marvin Johnson made sure of the points, with Callum Booth's late strike Thistle's only consolation.
It might have been a different story had either David Amoo or Mathias Pogba scored in the immediate aftermath of Booth's goal, but neither was able to finish and Motherwell were able to see out their second win in three matches.
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The result, their first win at home in 2016, lifts them four points clear of the relegation play-off spot.
They looked the hungrier side throughout and even in a first period that lacked many goalscoring opportunities, they possessed greater attacking threat.
Moult had the ball in the net after Scott McDonald had set him up on the rebound from Johnson's shot, only for the assistant's flag to frustrate the home fans.
But the striker did break the deadlock, sending Tomas Cerny the wrong way after Keith Lasley was fouled in the penalty area by Aidan Nesbitt.
As important as that goal was, Moult's second represented the first moment of real class in the match.
McDonald played a superb reverse pass into his path and he shot powerfully on the turn past Cerny.
Johnson's third was another impressive effort, as he cut in from the right to flash a ferocious drive into the back of the net.
Motherwell were untroubled until Booth seemed to catch Connor Ripley by surprise with a long-range effort.
The keeper was only able to push the ball into his own goal, perhaps taken aback at finally having some involvement in the match.
He was not punished further, though, as Motherwell comfortably saw out the closing stages to send their supporters home happy.
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The singer announced the concerts in an Instagram video, where she sang football anthem Three Lions as well as the Match of the Day theme song.
Dubbed "The Finale", the performances will see her play to more than 150,000 fans on 29 June and 1 July 2017.
Tickets go on sale to members of her fan club on 30 November, followed by a general sale on 2 December.
Wembley Stadium has not announced any other events planned for that week, raising the prospect that Adele may add further concerts if demand is high enough.
Launching in Belfast on Leap Day, Adele's first world tour has incorporated 107 dates across Europe and North America, with more dates to come in Australia next year.
Alongside flawless renditions of hits like Hello, Skyfall and Someone Like You, the star's unfiltered, uncensored on-stage chatter has often made headlines.
In Belfast, she confessed to having "severe bowel movements" as opening night nerves kicked in. She announced her Glastonbury headline slot from the stage of London's O2, and allowed a couple in Toronto to get engaged during her show.
"You got a Tiffany ring! Nice work, nice work," she told the bride-to-be.
After Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced the end of their marriage in September, the star jokingly dedicated her show to them, calling it "the end of an era".
And just last week, she had an encounter with a bat during a show in Mexico.
"There's a bat there and it landed by your head!" she said, pointing at an audience member. "It landed right by your head! Welcome to Mexico! I'm happy to be here, but a bat? Jesus Christ!"
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Graham Coombes, 41, from Abbey Road, Bovey Tracy, Devon, was also disqualified from owning dogs for life.
The dog killed the fox after the two animals fought in a tiny cage, Plymouth magistrates heard.
Eleven men have been sentenced after admitting or being found guilty of a total of 27 offences.
Referring to photographs of a dog with its mouth and neck ripped open by a badger, District Judge Diana Baker said to Coombes: "You are the ringleader of organised animal hunting and killing and you had no regard to the welfare of these animals.
"You were videoing it and you were clearly excited by what was happening."
The court heard how dogs were also set on badgers, on deer and in one case, a pig.
It also heard dogs had been mistreated or not cared for when injured.
Magistrates were shown mobile phone footage of the attacks, including the one in which the fox and the dog fought in a cage.
Several members of the gang covered faces with their hands as it was shown.
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Data produced for 2015 shows that poachers are still killing more elephants than are born every year.
The report also highlighted a rising trend in poaching in South Africa's Kruger National Park, considered one of the safest havens.
But there was positive news from Eastern Africa where elephant number have outpaced poachers for the fourth year in a row.
The Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) compiles an authoritative set of figures on the annual trends in elephant numbers.
Called MIKE (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants), the latest data indicate that the rise in the numbers of elephant deaths, witnessed since 2006, peaked in 2011.
Since then the numbers have stabilised but the level remains "unacceptably high overall".
In 2015, the programme recorded the deaths of 14,606.
The researchers estimate that half of these were illegally killed putting the population well above the sustainability threshold, where deaths outweigh births.
"African elephant populations continue to face an immediate threat to their survival from unacceptably high levels of poaching for their ivory, especially in Central and West Africa where high levels of poaching are still evident," said John Scanlon, CITES Secretary General.
"There are some encouraging signs, including in certain parts of Eastern Africa, such as in Kenya, where the overall poaching trends have declined, showing us all what is possible through a sustained and collective effort with strong political support."
The mixed picture for the iconic species continued in Southern Africa. The overall levels of poaching remained below the sustainability threshold, but an upward trend in killing was seen in Kruger National Park for the first time.
CITES have demanded that the 19 countries most heavily involved in the killing of elephants or the consumption of ivory produce national ivory action plans to show how they plan to tackle the issue.
In January the trade body said that China, Kenya, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, all countries of primary concern, have "substantially achieved" the goals outlined in their plans.
Several other countries including Angola, Cambodia and the Lao People's Democratic Republic were told to improve their efforts and report to the CITES governing body, the Conference of the Parties, taking place in South Africa in September this year.
"The momentum generated over the past few years is translating into deeper and stronger efforts to fight these crimes on the front line, where it is needed most - from the rangers in the field, to police and customs at ports of entry and exit and across illicit markets," said John Scanlon.
"Governments must continue to strengthen these front line efforts, whilst the UN, other intergovernmental bodies and civil society must further enhance their much needed support, if we are to move from stabilising to reversing the devastating poaching trends of the past decade."
The September meeting will likely see intense debate between those who want to see some limited sales of ivory stockpiles and those in favour of closing all markets.
The latest figures on the numbers of elephants killed have been released on the UN's world wildlife day in New York, an event that this year will have special focus on the future of elephants.
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Carlos Saura's French- and Spanish-language movie begins filming in summer 2013, according to Variety.
Banderas told Spanish newspaper El Pais that Picasso "deserves a lot of respect... I was born four blocks from where he was born".
33 Days refers to the time Picasso spent on the Guernica mural.
The famous painting captured the artist's response to the destruction of the Basque town of Guernica in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.
In his El Pais interview, Banderas said Picasso was "a character that has pursued me for a long time".
Variety reports the film will also focus on Picasso's relationship with his lover, French artist Dora Maar.
Banderas is no stranger to art biopics, having appeared in a film about the life of Frida Kahlo in 2002 opposite Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina.
Picasso was previously portrayed on screen by Sir Anthony Hopkins in 1996, by Omid Djalili in 2004's Modigliani and by Marcial Di Fonzo Bo in last year's Midnight in paris.
Andrew McMenigall and Toby Wallace were killed near Newquay in July 2013 by lorry driver Robert Palmer.
Traffic Commissioner Sarah Bell said Fry's Logistics disregarded rules on when drivers should take breaks.
The firm was disqualified from holding an operator's licence for 10 years.
Company director Mark Fry showed a "reprehensible approach to road safety", Ms Bell said.
Palmer, 32, from Grimscott near Bude in Cornwall, was jailed for eight and a half years in September 2014 after pleading guilty at Truro Crown Court to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
At a hearing in Bristol on Monday, Ms Bell said Fry's Logistics breached drivers' hours rules consistently.
In a written judgment she said Mr Fry was "knowingly sending his driver out to drive when he had not had sufficient rest".
Felicity Hine, solicitor for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, told the hearing: "It would appear that the importance of profit for the company supersedes issues of compliance and road safety."
Fry's Logistics and Mr Fry are disqualified from holding an operator's licence for 10 years and Mr Fry is disqualified from acting as a transport manager for 10 years.
He did not attend the hearing but said his company would be appealing against the ruling.
The national cycling charity CTC questioned why it had taken 28 months to revoke the licence.
Duncan Dollimore from CTC said Fry's Logistics have "been able to carry on trading, putting road users at risk while the enforcement process has progressed at a snail's pace".
The Owls spurned numerous fine chances before the break, but scored twice after half-time through guided headers from Tom Lees and Steven Fletcher.
Jonjo Shelvey, who had earlier hit the bar from inside his own half, smashed home to set up a nervy finish.
But the sixth-placed Owls held on to ensure Newcastle remain second.
The Magpies are two points behind leaders Brighton & Hove Albion, who leapfrogged Rafael Benitez's side with victory over Queens Park Rangers on Friday.
But, most crucially, Newcastle still hold a 10-point gap to third-placed Huddersfield after defeats for the Terriers and Reading on Saturday - meaning three wins from their final five games will guarantee an instant return to the top flight.
Newcastle, who along with Brighton have occupied a top-two spot since October, were never at their best against Wednesday, with Gary Hooper and Fletcher both missing gilt-edged chances early on.
Top goalscorer Gayle hobbled off injured soon after, although Shelvey's audacious first-time strike from inside his own half almost put the visitors ahead against the run of play.
But Lees' header back across goal and Fletcher's superbly steered effort from a long throw-in put Wednesday in command after the interval, and they held on to complete a league double over Newcastle, despite Shelvey's late consolation.
Sheffield Wednesday boss Carlos Carvalhal told BBC Radio Sheffield:
"We had a fantastic day as we're playing against the best team in the competition with a high standard.
"I think we completely deserved the victory.
"We didn't feel any kind of pressure, zero, as we look at us. Even if we didn't win today we depend on us.
"We never talk about the teams near us, we are talking all the time to try and win the next game."
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez:
"It is very disappointing, we didn't do what we had to today, we made too many mistakes.
"We gave them chances at the beginning. After we started the second half much better we had chances and were on top of them, then we gave a silly foul and gave a goal away from it.
"We didn't manage the situation the way we have to. We had some chances at the end and their keeper was making saves.
"We have to wake up and be ready for the next game. We have five games to play and we are in a good position."
Match ends, Sheffield Wednesday 2, Newcastle United 1.
Second Half ends, Sheffield Wednesday 2, Newcastle United 1.
Attempt blocked. Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Daniel Pudil (Sheffield Wednesday).
Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a cross.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Daniel Pudil.
Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 2, Newcastle United 1. Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Vurnon Anita.
Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United).
Attempt missed. Paul Dummett (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Vincent Sasso.
Foul by David Jones (Sheffield Wednesday).
Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Jordan Rhodes (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Steven Fletcher.
Attempt missed. Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Adam Reach with a cross.
Keiren Westwood (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Keiren Westwood (Sheffield Wednesday) because of an injury.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Aleksandar Mitrovic replaces Matt Ritchie.
Attempt saved. Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez.
Josè Semedo (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vurnon Anita (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Josè Semedo replaces Ross Wallace.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Christian Atsu replaces Mohamed Diamé.
Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United).
Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 2, Newcastle United 0. Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Daniel Pudil.
Jordan Rhodes (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yoan Gouffran (Newcastle United).
Attempt missed. Yoan Gouffran (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Daryl Murphy (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Vincent Sasso.
Offside, Newcastle United. Matt Ritchie tries a through ball, but Daryl Murphy is caught offside.
Goal! Sheffield Wednesday 1, Newcastle United 0. Tom Lees (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ross Wallace with a cross following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Jordan Rhodes replaces Gary Hooper.
Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Mark Sands, 50, from Eastbourne, is accused of sending an "offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message" on Facebook.
Sussex Police said the alleged message was against Eastbourne and Willingdon's Conservative MP Caroline Ansell.
Mr Sands, of Upperton Gardens, is due to appear before magistrates in Hastings on 15 March.
Francis Burns was making his wedding speech in County Donegal on Saturday when he was interrupted by pager alarms all around the room.
At first, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) volunteer thought his crew was playing a joke on him.
But when about a dozen of his guests left their dinner, he knew duty called.
"I was nervous enough doing my speech but when the pagers sounded, my heart started to pound and the adrenaline was pumping through me," Mr Burns told BBC News NI.
About 12 RNLI volunteers, based at Lough Swilly in County Donegal, had to leave the reception and rush out to rescue a stranded boatman.
On this occasion, the groom was allowed to stay at his wedding while his friends answered the call.
The all-weather lifeboat berth was visible from the hotel so the wedding party had a good view of the rescue operation, while Mr Burns made sure some dinner was kept warm for the crew.
However, the 27-year-old newly-wed said there have been plenty of times during their courtship when he had to abandon his new wife, Helen McFarland.
"Many a time I've left Helen sitting on her own in a restaurant," Mr Burns said.
He has been an unpaid volunteer with the RNLI since he was 19 and said that in his experience, distress calls never comes when he is finishing his meal, but usually when he is sitting down to his starter.
According to fellow crewman, Joe Joyce, the groom was just in the middle of thanking his new wife for all she has put up with over the years when the alarm was raised.
"He thought it was a wind up", Mr Joyce said.
He added that a crew member would never be expected to leave their wedding, joking that otherwise "it could have been divorce".
However, Mr Burns said that in all aspects of their lives, RNLI volunteers have to be "ready to rock".
Francis said before he goes to bed, he ensures his clothes are by his bed, and that his socks are in his shoes in case he is called out to a rescue in the middle of the night.
"You're waking out of a deep sleep," he added. "You can't be rummaging through drawers for underwear."
Mr Joyce said crew members carry their pagers everywhere and get a "shot of adrenaline" when they are triggered.
"You get up and you run," he added.
The crew that had to leave the wedding unexpectedly were able to return to the reception, after the rescue, and finish their meal.
There was also a 'happy ever after' ending for the stranded boatman, who was safely brought back to shore.
He will promise investment in jobs and industry at a rally in Bangor, after meeting community groups in Llandudno.
Labour came within 92 votes of taking Arfon from Plaid Cymru and cut the Tory majority in Aberconwy to 635.
The Welsh Conservatives said his plans would lead to "bankrupt public finances".
Ahead of Saturday's visit, Mr Corbyn said the next Labour government would "transform" the economy, building on the new Development Bank of Wales.
"We will develop the jobs, skills, infrastructure and industries of the future through an investment-led approach, supported by our National Transformation Fund and a Welsh development bank, building on the Welsh Labour Government's Development Bank of Wales," Mr Corbyn said.
"People in Wales need a government in Westminster that is on their side," he added, pledging a £10 minimum wage, an end to the public sector pay cap, and action on energy prices and rail fares.
Labour gained three seats from the Conservatives in Wales in June's election, as Theresa May lost her majority at Westminster.
Conservative Guto Bebb and Plaid's Hywel Williams were both re-elected for Aberconwy and Arfon respectively but both saw majorities of almost 4,000 over second-place Labour drastically cut.
Targeting voters in the two seats, Mr Corbyn said: "We can win here and form the next government that will work for the many not the few."
The Welsh Conservatives said Mr Corbyn's plans would lead to "bankrupt public finances" and "broken public services".
The party's leader Andrew RT Davies said: "In Wales we've endured a Labour-led government for the past 18 years with take-home pay still the lowest in the UK and communities left behind by empty rhetoric and broken promises.
"Today, hardworking people across north Wales have the opportunity to shine a spotlight on the failures of the Labour Party over the past two decades and will rightly be excused for pressing Jeremy Corbyn on the shortcomings of his colleague Carwyn Jones in Cardiff Bay."
NHS trusts in Merseyside and Cheshire face a funding gap of nearly £1bn by 2021, the health service has confirmed.
A report leaked to the Liverpool Echo included the proposal to merge the Royal Liverpool, Broadgreen, Aintree and Liverpool Women's hospitals.
Louise Shepherd, leading work on the plan, said it was in the "early days" and the public would be consulted.
All local health and care providers in England have come together into geographic areas called 'footprints' for which they must create a five-year sustainability and transformation plan (STP).
The Merseyside and Cheshire STP suggests merging the four hospitals to help meet a predicted £999m financial shortfall.
"It's a big challenge... We anticipate that we will have a £999m cumulative gap in our finances by 2021 if we do nothing", Ms Shepherd said in a statement.
The Merseyside and Cheshire STP is "the second largest in the country" with "32% of people living in the most deprived areas and more over 75s than elsewhere," she said.
"We need to close these gaps to provide the standard of care we believe the public deserves".
She said an "initial document has been pulled together" and public consultations would be undertaken "once some further work has been done".
Paul Summers, from public service union Unison, said people were "astonished and astounded" at the scale of savings needed as they had "not been anticipating such a shortfall in funding for the NHS".
"They're really worried about it, the NHS staff that I've spoken to today are concerned - they don't know what's coming.
"They understand that they operate in services that have to make cuts as they're going along - and they have done since 2010 - but after today's leaked report, they're really worried and shocked at the scale for these demands for savings," he said.
The Merseyside and Cheshire STP area covers 12 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs):
Yet there is another way - open learning, where the majority of the students interact online with the face-to-face course being taught in a more traditional manner. With this comes a chance to share in the knowledge being offered by a wide range of tutors, photographers and others in the industry.
One such course at Coventry University is #phonar (photography and narrative). Run by Jonathan Worth and Matt Johnston, it can attract as many as 35,000 students as it progresses.
Every Wednesday morning in a room at the back of an old cinema, people gather to discuss what a 21st Century photographer is. Most aren't actually in the room, they join instead via the internet. But people do make the journey regularly from London, with others from as far and wide as San Francisco, Portland in Oregon, and even Otago in New Zealand.
"We have four hours a week and we have to stop teaching by 1pm or we get into trouble," says Worth. "But it is something that we feel very passionately about and so the project is something we throw all our spare time into. It has that back-bedroom feel about it, but it's turned out to be a strength not a weakness."
Worth has been a professional photographer since 1998, having lived and worked both in New York and London and currently works part-time for Coventry University heading up their Open Programme. "I was a successful editorial photographer, but like many I had a failing business model," he says. When asked to write some classes, he agreed so long as it wrestled with the problems crippling his business.
"I'd had to rethink what my product was as a photographer - I'd grown up thinking it was my images, but digital cameras meant everyone was a potential image maker. So I had to think why it was that I'd been successful in the past and I found a number of strands which proved very fruitful. That's the stuff we talk about in class."
Having not told the university that he'd given his first class away for free online, Worth was prepared for the worst. But it turned out to be just what Coventry University was looking for.
"The VC came to us and asked how we were going to raise the course profile, improve the experience for the students, grow their international opportunities and save money. Well, I was able to show how we'd been very successful attracting large numbers to #phonar and that we've had people go on to assist Annie Leibovitz, Trent Park, Steve Pyke, Elinor Carucci. It's now the hardest course in the uni to get onto, and by using existing social media environments it all came at no extra cost."
He uses Creative Commons licenses (CC) for his classes. "I'd always been an avid All Rights Reserved user but it just stopped making sense. The open classes can only work with a CC license, which was a big deal for the university because it turns out education establishment are avid All Rights Reserved users too. Much like me thinking I was just an image maker, the uni thought its product was 'knowledge' and their old business model relied on keeping a tight grip on that.
"Well, I knew it wasn't my product as a teacher. My product is the learning experience and opening the doors online meant that I turned that product into an outward-facing asset.
"In a world where everyone with a smartphone is a potential supplier of image content, I had to work out what I did that was different, and it turns out there's a whole bunch of stuff both as an artisan and as a mediator and publisher.
"On a personal level I also found out that this stuff has applications in other areas too - education being a case in point, where I realised the real thing of value was not the knowledge but the learning experience. The message of that experience is amplified by opening it up - hence the success of the open classes."
Worth's classes live on blogs and on Twitter (hashtag #phonar), and are proving a popular resource amongst photography enthusiasts and professionals alike. Their accessible nature is appealing and the list of contributors impressive. What's more you can book one-on-ones with guest tutors such as photographer Chris Floyd, artist Robbie Cooper and author Timothy O'Grady.
The open approach to education is something that can only grow as online learning becomes widely accepted.
Anyone who throws themselves in will be well-rewarded as the interactive side of the class is key. Worth can see comments from students both in the room and online via Twitter or Facebook in real time, as well as allowing others to drop in, or suggest links to relevant material. It's a fluid learning experience, well suited to those who will be working in an industry that, like many others, is undergoing radical change.
Here, two students who found it suited to their needs share their thoughts on the open learning experience:
My time on the photography course made me see my world and understand the way I learn, and perhaps how much of the population learns. It also taught me to believe in myself. I am dyslexic, and through my time in education it has been a battle. At Coventry University they helped me understand that dyslexia can be a positive attribute in this multimedia world that is being created by us around us.
I learnt that reading and writing weren't the only way to communicate and that visual language, audio and limited writing can for many people be an even better way of communicating. They taught me how to use images, sounds and video to tell a story.
I might not be able to write a sentence or even read it, but I can communicate powerfully through the visual language. I have used sound, images and videos to document issues of personal interest to me and to help others understand better. My most recent work was to publish a piece of work that gave voice to students in education with dyslexia.
Through my work with #phonar I have learnt the world is filled with lots of different people and we all think and learn differently. Coventry University has shown me it doesn't matter what disability you have, anything is possible. I truly believe if it was not for the great staff I wouldn't be standing here today with a degree, they believed in me. I will carry on my storytelling work on issues that are important to me and hopefully make them proud.
You can see Larissa Grace's work on her website.
The photography course at Coventry University and especially the open classes have totally changed how I operate as a photographer. It's made me think about how I define myself as a 21st Century practitioner and helped me understand the importance of networking in order to find or tell a story.
It's opened up my eyes to the quantity of online platforms which can benefit me professionally, and has really kept me reflecting on myself in the role of author and storyteller.
As well as focusing on such online and digital tools, it has also promoted to me the idea of the importance of the physical artefact, something which has made a big impact on me and what I produce.
The skills I have learned and developed from the open classes have given me the confidence in my work to distribute it and enter it into national and international competitions. From this I won an honourable mention in the non-professional photo essay and feature story category of the International Photography Awards and was also was selected to exhibit at the recent Brighton Photo Fringe.
From this came coverage by other photo platforms like Foto8 which ran my work as a feature story in October.
You can see Sean Carroll's work on his website and keep up to date with his ongoing series Does not suggest that death within 6 months is likely to occur on his blog.
You can learn more about #phonar on the course website or via Twitter.
The 21-year-old England international asked to leave on Tuesday after the Toffees refused three bids from Chelsea, the last for £30m.
"John is not for sale," said Everton chairman Bill Kenwright.
It is understood Chelsea feel they have gone as far as they can and do not currently intend to make another offer for the central defender.
Stones played the full 120 minutes of Everton's 5-3 extra-time victory over Barnsley in the League Cup second round on Wednesday.
After the game, manager Roberto Martinez said Everton would turn down any bids for the player.
"Sometimes money can't buy everything and that is going to be a very strong statement at Everton," said Martinez.
Stones, who arrived from Barnsley for £3m in February 2013, has four years left on his contract after signing an extension in August 2014.
He was seen as a possible replacement for Chelsea captain John Terry, who was substituted at half-time during his side's 3-0 defeat by Manchester City and then sent off against West Brom on Sunday.
A dedicated team of officers from the Met's sexual offences, exploitation and child abuse command will work alongside Operation Hydrant.
Hundreds of people have reported abuse to UK police so far, the National Police Chief's Council said.
The Met is not discussing the number of allegations or the clubs involved.
Det Ch Supt Ivan Balhatchet from the Met said the force takes allegations seriously and they "will be dealt with sensitively".
"Anyone who has been a victim of sexual abuse, whatever the circumstances, or has any relevant information, should contact their local police or the NSPCC," he added.
Football clubs across the UK have been implicated in a growing number of child sex abuse allegations.
Child sex abuse claims - story so far
The Met's announcement comes as the Football Association has been criticised for "dismissing" concerns about sexual abuse in football when they emerged in the 1990s.
A dedicated football abuse hotline set up by the NSPCC, and supported by the FA, received more than 860 calls in the first week after it was launched on 23 November.
The phone line is available 24 hours a day on 0800 023 2642.
Police forces investigating allegations:
Kent Police said it has received reports of "non-recent child abuse within the football community" in Kent, which it is "currently reviewing".
Armed officers were stationed at several counts across England, including Sunderland.
In some areas, including Kendal Leisure Centre, where the ballot papers for the Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency are being counted, armed officers were there before counting began.
BBC reporter Marian McNamee, who is at the Rugby count in Warwickshire, tweeted: "No dancing policemen @BENNHallRugby but they are allowed a brew #GE2107 #BBCElection."
In London, Buster the spaniel was helping with security at one count.
Tower Hamlets Council tweeted: "Taking a very brief time out of his shift to pose for a pic. Thanks for helping keep us safe Buster. #GE2017"
Leicester's Aylestone Leisure Centre was plunged into darkness soon after polls closed, but people counting the ballots continued regardless.
The lighting was restored soon after.
Despite their valiant efforts, runners at Sunderland were pipped to being the first constituency to declare by North East rivals Newcastle.
Newcastle returned its result nine minutes faster at 23:01 BST.
Some of England's more unusual candidates have arrived at counts, including independent candidate Paul Ellis - also known as Mr Fish Finger - who was standing in the Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency.
Lord Buckethead, who is challenging Prime Minister Theresa May for the Maidenhead seat, has turned up at the count too.
His policies include bringing back Ceefax and nationalising Adele.
And while many people were tucking into sugary snacks to get them through election night, the count at Enfield put on an impressively healthy-looking buffet.
Other people came well prepared too.
Tory candidate Jacob Rees-Mogg arrived at the North East Somerset count with sandwiches for all his team.
BBC political reporter Emma Vardy tweeted from Barrow-in-Furness: "One has to maintain standards" says Barrow UKIP treasurer with picnic hamper & china tea set at count #BBCelection
Alistair Patrick Llewelyn made a brief appearance at a magistrate's court in central Kenya after handing himself in at a police station on Tuesday.
The film of the alleged assault has been widely shared on social media.
Mr Llewelyn had been transporting Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto shortly before the incident happened.
In a packed court in Engineer town, the pilot appeared calm as he denied the charges of assault and creating a disturbance, the BBC's Robert Kiptoo reports.
He has now been remanded in custody and will make his next court appearance on Monday.
The deputy president had been flown by Mr Llewelyn to Nyunyu Njeru in Nyandarua county, in central Kenya, on Sunday, where he attended a church service.
The pilot was filmed approaching a policewoman and shouting at her that she is not doing her job by failing to control a crowd that was milling around the helicopter.
The policewoman's response is not audible.
The pilot then grabs her baton, swears at her and moments later shoves her.
Mr Ruto described the incident as "unacceptable and regrettable".
The deputy president had been flown by Mr Llewelyn to Nyunyu Njeru in Nyandarua county, in central Kenya, on Sunday, where he attended a church service.
7 December 2016 Last updated at 18:13 GMT
Betsy, 3, who has Down's syndrome and impaired hearing and vision, was on the Weardale Polar Express when he approached and struck up a conversation in Makaton.
Her mother, Kay Scott, from Halifax in West Yorkshire, posted the footage on Facebook and it gained about 50,000 views.
Kay said: "Immediately she was put at ease, because she understood - it just made her first experience of Santa magical."
Bob Thompson, Father Christmas on the train, from St John's Chapel in County Durham, learned sign language during his time as a social worker.
He said: "It gave Betsy an opportunity to ask Santa what she wanted for Christmas, it empowered her to talk on her own outside a school or home environment.
"She asked me for a teddy bear to put under her Christmas tree, because she had been a very good girl."
The ceremony honours independent movies and is Hollywood's last big pre-Oscars ritual before Sunday's main event.
Silver Linings Playbook, up for eight Oscars, won Independent Spirit Awards for best film, director, screenplay and actress for Jennifer Lawrence.
John Hawkes took best actor for the part of the late disabled journalist and poet Mark O'Brien in The Sessions.
Hawkes said he hoped the film would help change perceptions of disability.
"Mark O'Brien said as a disabled man he felt invisible to people. I hope this film can change that a little bit and we all see each other a little more," he told the audience in his acceptance speech.
His co-star Helen Hunt - who plays a sex therapist in the film, based on an article written by O'Brien in 1990 - won best supporting actress.
Up for the same award at the Oscars, Hunt said backstage: "I'm proud of the movie, I can't believe we got it made."
Matthew McConaughey, who was also nominated for best actor for Killer Joe, picked up the best supporting actor prize for Magic Mike, in which he stars alongside his mother.
He praised the process of making independent films. "The vitality you get from not having enough money and not having enough time… that's what I love about independent films," he said.
The prize for best foreign film went to Oscar favourite Amour, directed by Michael Haneke.
"I feel wonderful, it comes as a complete surprise," he said, after collecting his award. "No-one would think a film dealing with ageing and death [would do so well]."
Best documentary went to The Invisible War, which addresses rape and sexual abuse in the US military.
Producer Amy Ziering made an emotional speech, saying: "This award says to our service members - you are heard, you are not alone and you are no longer invisible."
Like Silver Linings, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom was up for five awards - but it went away empty-handed.
Accepting the best screenplay award for Silver Linings, writer and director David O Russell said: "The last time I held one of these was 19 years ago for best screenplay and best first feature [for Spanking the Monkey] and my son was one year old.
"Matthew's here today and he gave me this movie."
Russell's son has bipolar disorder and was the inspiration for the film, which features Bradley Cooper's character dealing with the same illness.
Speaking backstage of his Oscar chances, Russell said: "I'm very superstitious so I'm just very happy to be there."
Beasts of the Southern Wild picked up one award out of a possible four, for British cinematographer Ben Richardson.
He said nine-year-old Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis was the reason he took on the job. "It was incredibly eye-opening, I could just see what she was going to do. Her performance is just incredible," he said.
The best first feature prize went to Perks of Being a Wallflower, starring Emma Watson.
Presenters included Daniel Radcliffe, Salma Hayek and Jeremy Renner.
The first service set out on Saturday from the the capital Phnom Penh for the tourist areas of the south-west coast.
The service, which will run only on weekends, had a VIP on board - the veteran Prime Minister, Hun Sen.
"The train and railway were almost totally destroyed by war more than 40 years ago," he wrote on Facebook.
"Because our country is now at peace, we have the opportunity to rebuild our transport infrastructure."
The journey from Phnom Penh costs around $7 (£4.80) and takes eight hours. It will run to and from the coast once a day from Fridays to Sundays.
The country has hundreds of kilometres of track, but very little is open, after decades of neglect.
Cargo services restarted three years ago, along small stretches of track.
It is understood Lindsey Turner was reversing the vehicle when she hit her son Liam in Adland Road, Watton.
He was injured in the accident on Sunday afternoon but died later at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
The boy's father is understood to have got him from underneath the vehicle and driven towards the hospital before flagging down an ambulance.
Liam was then airlifted to hospital. Police are treating what happened as a tragic accident.
The family has issued a tribute to the boy through the police.
The statement said: "We are devastated by the loss of our darling little man.
"Liam was a happy, content little boy who was always smiling and laughing.
"He had a wonderful sense of humour and brought joy to the lives of everyone who knew him. He was deeply loved.
"Life will not be the same without him.
"We ask for space to come to terms with our grief."
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The local rivals will compete in the showpiece event with both having points to prove.
Wolves have been one of the most consistent performers in England over the past decade but have never clinched the top prize, while the Warriors will be looking to avoid a third straight loss at the final hurdle.
BBC Sport takes a look at some of the sub-plots to look out for.
Terraces have long rejoiced in Warrington's wait for a title, mockingly taunting with the "it's always our year" chant, but the 2016 team has as good a chance as any to finally end the jeers.
You have to go back to 1955 for the last Wire team to be champions, when Ces Mountford's side beat Oldham 7-3 in the play-off.
Tony Smith's team have already won the League Leaders' Shield, pipping Hull FC in the final game of the Super 8s to avenge their Challenge Cup final defeat.
However, two finals against Wigan at Old Trafford have both ended in defeat - in the first Premiership final at the home of Manchester United in 1986-87 and then again in the 2013 Grand Final.
When it comes to injuries this season, Wigan are a club that can feel hard done by.
Influential hooker Michael McIlorum was ruled out for the entire season after their third game, with Tony Clubb, Lee Mossop, Dom Manfredi, Joel Tomkins and Sam Tomkins also facing long spells out, and captain Sean O'Loughlin a doubt for the final.
"It's been a test this year, it's been the most unenjoyable year," said head coach Shaun Wane.
"Every week we've not had players training, losing players for games, it has been a real slog every single week. Every day I have had the physio pulling players out of training and it has been tough.
"If we can get the win on Saturday it will be the most enjoyable win I have ever had."
When Josh Charnley takes to the field at Old Trafford for the Grand Final, he, more than most, will be trying to take in every second of the day.
The winger will be representing his hometown club for the last time before his cross-code switch to Premiership rugby union side Sale Sharks.
Super League's top try scorer in 2012 and 2013, he has crossed 164 times in 173 appearances for the Cherry and Whites.
"Last week (the semi-final win over Hull FC) was my last game at the DW Stadium, which was a sad week for me and my family," he told BBC Sport.
"It's been a big part of my life and it was emotional but I took it in and to get the win and finish on a good note there was what I was dreaming of.
"I've not thought about the move too much as I've had a job here to do. When I said I was leaving, I wanted some silverware to finish on and I've got that chance now - I'm in a final on the biggest stage.
"It's on the backburner and I'm keeping an eye on what Sale are doing. I watched them at the weekend and it is good to see what the team has got."
Whereas Wigan's Charnley might be a veteran of four Grand Finals, Warrington's 34-year-old Australian Kurt Gidley will be making his first appearance.
The half-back has settled into life in his first season in England with some ease, and is currently the third-highest points scorer in Super League with 206.
So what does the prospect of playing at the home of Manchester United feel like? "It probably means more to the Australian guys, that is my opinion as we're so far away in Australia," he told BBC Radio Merseyside.
"Some of the world's best sportsmen have played here, so to be an Australian playing a Grand Final at Old Trafford is a pretty amazing achievement.
"But I just don't want to be an athlete who's played here, I want to be a Grand Final winner. A lot of my friends have texted me this week and they're almost as excited as me."
As well as winning the World Cup in rugby union, being a cross-code international and playing for the Lions, Jason Robinson first made his name in rugby league and scored the winning try in the first Grand Final as Wigan beat Leeds 10-4 in 1998.
His son, 21-year-old full-back Lewis Tierney, is expected to play for the Warriors in his first Grand Final on Saturday.
Asked if he will speak to his father, Tierney said: "We've got a tight bubble here so I'll keep my questions to my coach. Whatever they tell me goes and hopefully we'll get it done at the weekend."
BBC rugby league commentator Dave Woods: "Wigan have impressed this season with the way they've succeeded through adversity. No O'Loughlin, Sam and Joel Tomkins, McIlorum, Clubb, Manfredi - yet their will to win remains very much intact.
"Warrington are highly entertaining, and in the mood can blaze a trail through any defence. If self-belief is flowing, they'll be hard to stop."
BBC Radio 5 live's George Riley: "Warrington are one of the most watchable teams in the game with ball in hand. When they get on a roll they play the ball so quickly, and Daryl Clark, Kurt Gidley and Stefan Ratchford can run riot. They will win a Grand Final, whether they win it this time or not.
"Wigan never know when they are beaten. Winger Josh Charnley tells me they are 'unique' in that they're a team of players playing in unfamiliar positions yet look completely at home. That they have reached Old Trafford without Sean O'Loughlin and Sam Tomkins is a huge credit to Shaun Wane and his team's spirit."
BBC Radio Merseyside's Ray French: "Wigan's rough, rugged pack, strong running half-backs, and powerful finishers in the three-quarter line versus Warrington's pacy, ball-handling set of six, tricky, exciting halves and creative footballers behind - a contrast of talents. What a contest in prospect. But one so difficult from which to predict a winner."
BBC Radio Manchester's Jack Dearden: "Winning the Super League Grand Final will be as easy as ADC - Attack. Defence. Composure.
"Warrington have Super League's best attack so arguably that's their strength, while Wigan's coach Shaun Wane frequently refers to his team's 'D' - defence. The Warriors will have to get that right if they're to win. Staying composed and being able to evaluate everything a Grand Final can throw at you is another key component to success. Whichever team does it best will set themselves up for victory."
Additional reporting by BBC Sport's Matt Newsum.
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The 18-year-old is due in Glasgow for a medical over the weekend.
The England under-19 international made the move from Fulham to City in the summer for a fee thought to be in the region of £12m.
"He is a very good player and I am sure that Patrick will be a very important player here in the future," said City boss Manuel Pellegrini.
"I thought it was important that he trained with our first team for the first half of the season.
"But to play more games for him at Celtic will be better than to stay here and just play some games. It will be a very important option for him."
Roberts has made three appearances as a substitute for City this season, having played 22 first-team games for Fulham.
Celtic took striker John Guidetti and defender Jason Denayer on loan from Manchester City last season and signed Dedryck Boyata from them this summer.
The champions, who beat Clermont Auvergne to win the title in May, will host Bath in Pool Five on 14 November.
Premiership winners Saracens start their campaign the same day at home to four-time champions Toulouse.
Pro12 winners Glasgow Warriors travel to Racing 92 while Wasps take on Leinster and Ospreys host Exeter.
The competition kicks off on Friday, 13 November when Leicester Tigers host French Top 14 champions Stade Francais.
Oyonnax will play their first game in Europe's top competition at home to Ulster at the Stade Charles Mathon.
Gloucester open against Zebre, Northampton welcome Scarlets to Franklin's Gardens and Wasps travel to Dublin to face Leinster.
The final will take place at Lyon's new Grand Stade de Lyon, which is due to open later this year, on 14 May 2016.
Now these companies are raising jousting skyscrapers into the Silicon Valley skyline.
Facebook has just this month moved into new headquarters designed by Frank Gehry, designer of Spain's Guggenheim Museum.
Its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, describes it as the largest open-floor plan in the world. Atop it lies a nine-acre rooftop park.
Google, Amazon, and Apple are also creating their own new colossal headquarters.
Google, searching for more space, will move shortly into its new "Googleplex".
Apple's "spaceship", a vast watchstrap fashioned like a flying saucer, has already attracted the moniker of 'death star' from the unkind.
And Amazon's Seattle glass-dome biospheres, planned to open in 2016 and 2017, play none-too-subtly on its name.
Each is a stab at capturing an imaginative futuristic high ground - and employees - from competitors.
But they also hark back to vaunted tech structures like Bell Labs' buildings and MIT's Building 20, hastily erected in 1943, but flexible and forcing people working on very different projects to meet.
Tech has grown out of the garage.
The audacious scale of these spaces is a bid at bettering the odds of the serendipitous encounters - bumps in Silicon Valley vernacular - which helped Building 20's occupants share ideas across specialisms.
Shiny new workplaces are springing up from San Francisco to Shoreditch and Shenzhen.
It 's not just technology behemoths who have embraced this way of working. The BBC's new Broadcasting House, for example, encourages hot desking, with 460 workstations in its open-plan newsroom alone.
But this brave new world of work has critics.
For some, open plan spaces suggest managers on the room's sidelines, watching workers huddled in the middle like prey on the African savannah.
Seattle architecture firm NBBJ is behind the Google and Amazon buildings, as well as the new Guangdong headquarters for Chinese internet titan Tencent.
Offices are moving away from the idea that time at a desk is a measure of how productive you are, says Ryan Mullenix, an NBBJ design partner, and the chief designer of the new Google building.
And more broadly, away from ideals of industrial efficiency associated with early twentieth-century American mechanical engineer Franklin Taylor.
Sometimes a longer walk to get coffee may be better than a shorter one.
"It's who you see on the way to coffee, and movement which charges your brain, which is really valuable and part of work," says Mr Mullenix.
The social side of work may soon be the only reason we have office buildings, says Scott Wyatt, NBBJ's chairman.
"Getting together with people in teams is where innovation happens, and makes us happy," he says. "You're not going to be happy holed up at home doing all your work."
"The company which gives the employees the choice at any given moment to optimise their effectiveness is going to win," says Mr Wyatt.
And a recent all-night hackathon, where ideas are developed, sponsored by NBBJ produced an app to let employees find available working spaces nearby, arranged by variables such as light, ambient noise, and the number of people around.
Crucial in all this is the new mobility which stems from more portable devices and cloud computing.
"If you sit at your desk for more than twenty minutes, you start getting stupider," says the chairman.
His architecture firm posts maps next to lift doors, suggesting outdoor walking routes for meetings of various lengths.
Technology, media, and telecommunications firms set trends in the future design of the office, because they are the first sectors with members of Generation X - those born from the early sixties to the early eighties - in the boardroom, says architect Nicola Gillen.
She specialises in performance and the built environment at the firm AECOM.
She says many of the newest ideas about the office trace their origin to British architect Dr Frank Duffy CBE, who in the 1960s brought Northern European ideas of flexible office landscaping (or Bürolandschaft) into the English-speaking world.
Influenced by Scandinavian egalitarianism, these theories encouraged different levels of staff to work together in non-hierarchical environments in an open floor.
They appealed to many in postwar Europe. They also seem to appeal to the youngest graduates of today.
Millennials "are used to different ways of working, sharing, and collaborating, even from an early age," says Elaine Rossall, head of London market research for property consultants Cushman & Wakefield.
She thinks there has been a retreat from the last decade's enthusiasm for working from home, and points to growing so-called "worktivity" amenities, from running tracks to social, play, and eating areas, "to kind of keep people in the building".
The youngest workers also are digital natives, who come into the workplace expecting to have the latest type of tech, says Paul Phillips, head of consultancy services at the workplace consultancy Assurity Consulting, based in West Sussex.
He thinks wearable technology will soon lead to new ways of presenting information about a building to its users.
And increasingly globalised businesses and markets will spur new development in telepresence and teleconferencing, to cut costs and help the environment, he says.
With acute skill shortages in certain areas of the tech sector, to attract and retain young graduates it is increasingly important for employers to adapt to their habits, Mrs Rossall says.
And also to where they are.
Millennials have gravitated to grittier urban areas with lower housing costs, like East London.
This in turn opens up new areas of London to employers, who can draw their workforce from a different catchment.
Companies like Amazon, with its Seattle office, are moving away from suburban business parks, and back into cities.
"It's where their young and hip employees want to live, of course, but walkable urban campuses are also much more environmentally sustainable than suburban office parks," says Seattle-based Scott Bonjukian, who writes a blog called the Northwest Urbanist.
At the same time, he is worried this move will lead to rapidly rising rents, and lessen the very diversity of our neighbourhoods, places, and people which makes urban environments attractive.
Another challenge for designers of the future office is catering for workers from four generations, Millennials, Generations X and Y, and Baby Boomers in senior management.
Open-plan offices can be cheaper for companies to set up, by up to 20%, according to Dr Vinesh Oommen, at the Queensland University of Technology.
But despite the efforts of some architects, they can easily be done badly.
90% of studies found open-plan offices were associated with higher levels of stress and elevated blood pressure, Dr Oommen found.
And older generations might particularly relish having a room of their own.
Mr Mullenix says whether the open office is good or bad is "probably the wrong question".
It is the ability to create different areas within a campus and building, catering for different working styles that is important, he says.
Architectural and design innovations quickly radiate from buildings like Google's to shape the office of the future.
And tellingly, the tech sector has made Office a byword for software as much as bricks-and-mortar hardware.
So don't be surprised if in the future you soon find yourself working in a wifi biosphere, a deathstar, or a bean-bag.
The 20-year-old had one year left on his Scarlets contract but was unable to agree fresh terms.
North has scored nine tries in 10 RaboDirect Pro12 matches this season.
We are obviously massively disappointed to be losing a player of George's world-class quality and ability
And he took his tally of Wales caps to 31 by featuring in all of his country's games on the way to this year's Six Nations title.
"We made George the very best offer we could," said Scarlets chief executive Mark Davies.
"However, we have to fully understand and appreciate that George's quite unique value in the rugby marketplace, possibly inside Wales, but certainly outside Wales, is considerably greater than the Scarlets as an independent business can reach.
"We are obviously massively disappointed to be losing a player of George's world-class quality and ability from Parc y Scarlets, however we appreciate the reality that the profile and success he has achieved in such a short space of time attracts huge attention and makes him a prized player for any club in Europe."
Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder added: "George is an outstanding talent and we're looking forward to him being a part of our squad for at least the next three years.
"Despite still being at the start of his career he has shown repeatedly that he has the ability and temperament to succeed at the highest level of the game, and we believe that he will play a big role as we look to take the next steps in our development."
The Llanelli-based region have previously said they sought a buyer for North after he rejected a new three-year deal.
But the Welsh Rugby Union accused the region of offering North to French clubs before the start of the year.
The accusation triggered a stinging response from Scarlets, who were supported by the other three regions in condemning the WRU for discussing North's contract situation in public.
As a result, the issue of central contracts for Welsh Test players has resurfaced, with the WRU inviting the regions to a meeting to explore all options.
Scarlets (debut in September 2010)
Appearances: 38
Points: 70 (14 tries)
Wales (debut in November 2010)
Appearances: 31
Points: 60 (12 tries)
*Correct at 9 April, 2013
Such a model is designed to ensure all the best Welsh players remain in Wales.
By leaving Scarlets, North will join France-bound centre Jamie Roberts and Dan Lydiate in exiting a Welsh region at the end of the current season.
Wales prop Gethin Jenkins has bucked the trend by opting to return to Cardiff Blues from Toulon ahead of the 2013-14 season.
And North's fellow Wales wing at this stage of his career.
Likewise, Ospreys have until the end of the 2015-2016 season.
However, Mike Phillips (Bayonne), James Hook (Perpignan) and Luke Charteris (Perpignan) are just three of many Wales internationals who have been tempted to leave by the offer of higher wages.
Welsh speaker North, who was born in the English town of King's Lynn, made his Test debut as an 18-year-old against South Africa in 2010.
He scored two tries on that occasion and went on to play a starring role as Wales reached the 2011 World Cup semi-finals, before helping them secure the 2012 and 2013 Six Nations titles.
Since making his debut for the region in September 2010, North has made 38 competitive appearances for the Scarlets - seven more than he has made for Wales.
At this inaugural event, Glasgow will host the European Championships of six major sports - aquatics, cycling, gymnastics, rowing, triathlon and golf - from 2-12 August 2018, while Berlin hosts the European athletics from 7-12 August.
Applications for volunteering in Glasgow began on Monday, 27 March and will remain open until 31 July, 2017.
Volunteers (aged over 16) will fulfil numerous duties, from assisting with media operations, spectator and sport services, to cultural liaison, travel and transport.
The volunteer programme was officially launched at Kelvin Hall on 27 March, with guests from the Scottish government and Glasgow City Council - who are jointly funding the event - alongside members of the volunteering community.
Many of the venues used at the 2014 Commonwealth Games will host the 2018 event and Sanjeev Kohli - Glasgow-based comedian and volunteer ambassador - said he was looking forward to a rekindling of the spirit of 2014, both through athletes and volunteers.
"There is a real selflessness to the people in Glasgow and we never see anybody lost or in trouble without offering help," he said. "I have no doubt those values will be reflected in our volunteers.
"I've been lucky enough to perform in front of Glasgow crowds and I can tell you the athletes are in for a treat. But just as important are the people behind the scenes welcoming visitors and making sure everything runs to plan."
The recruitment campaign also leans on those with previous experience - 'Volunteer Champions' - who are helping to promote volunteering to those who may not have considered it before.
Izzy Conway from Parkhead, for example, began as a gamesmaker at the London 2012 Olympics, at Hampden Park's football matches, and has since taken part at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2015 European Games in Azerbaijan and Glasgow's Homeless World Cup last year.
"It's an exhilarating and humbling experience," she says. "That's the joy of volunteering - networking and the opening of doors to exciting new opportunities. Who knows what's around the corner?"
Volunteer champion Aaron Fernandez is looking forward to sampling the hype leading up to the Championships.
"When people become excited about a big event in Glasgow it makes you feel proud of your home," said Fernandez, who has volunteered all over the city.
"I love the student life in Glasgow. Due to the close proximity between the University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Caledonian University and the City of Glasgow College, the city is abuzz with life and you will never run out of interesting people to talk to."
The Glasgow/Berlin 2018 European Championships will be shown live on the BBC, with additional coverage on the BBC Sport website.
The body of a 43-year-old man was found by emergency services at a property on Cross Street, Balby at 04:30 GMT on Friday.
South Yorkshire Police said the man, who has not been formally identified, died from multiple injuries.
Officers said the 41-year-old woman had been arrested on Saturday evening and remained in custody.
The families complained the letter - about a friend of the girls who went to Syria in 2014 - was given to the pupils instead of being sent directly to them.
It is feared Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, left for Syria to join Islamic State.
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe told MPs he was sorry the letter "didn't get through".
However, he said there was nothing more police could have done to prevent the girls leaving for Syria.
"In hindsight, we now know that these girls were planning to go and neither the family, the police, the school nor anyone else realised that," he told the Home Affairs Select Committee.
The families of the schoolgirls told the committee they would have done more to monitor the girls if they had known one of their friends had already gone to Syria.
All four teenagers were friends and pupils at Bethnal Green Academy, in east London.
The committee heard the police letter about the first teenager's disappearance had been given to the three girls, and had not been passed on to parents.
Sahima Begum - sister of Shamima - told the committee her family was "never given the opportunity" to question Shamima as they did not receive the letter.
She said her family only found the letter after Shamima had gone missing.
Ms Begum said her family "did what they could" to monitor her sister's activities, but would have done more had they known the first girl had gone to Syria.
The three girls paid more than £1,000 in cash to a travel agent for their flights to Istanbul in Turkey - from where they travelled to Syria - the committee also heard.
Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley - the national police lead for counter-terrorism - told the committee officers believed the girls funded the tickets by taking jewellery from a family member.
There was "no evidence" the girls had been involved in terrorism and if they returned to the UK they would not be arrested, he added.
However, he said Aqsa Mahmood - a Scottish woman who travelled to Syria and is suspected of helping to recruit the three schoolgirls online - would be prosecuted if she ever returns to the UK.
The 20-year-old is reported to have been in touch with one of the three schoolgirls.
It comes as Scotland Yard revealed two women, aged 20 and 21, were arrested on 19 February as part of a police investigation into the disappearance of the girls.
The women were arrested on suspicion of an offence under the Child Abduction Act 1984 and were bailed until April, the Met said.
Two addresses in north London were also searched.
The families had earlier called for the Met Police to apologise after the letter was given to the girls, rather than to the families directly.
Solicitor Tasnime Akunjee, representing the families, told the committee that had the parents received the letter they would have been "on notice" for issues like radicalisation and foreign travel.
Police had "put a cap" on the amount of information passed to other families about the first girl, he said.
It comes as Prime Minister David Cameron said parents and schools must also help prevent young Britons travelling to Syria.
In an interview with LBC radio, he said that no institution should be made a "scapegoat" for the girls' disappearance.
The three schoolgirls travelled from east London to Turkey last month, before crossing into an area of Syria controlled by Islamic State militants.
Mr Cameron said "everyone has a role to play" in stopping Britons joining IS, including politicians, parents, communities and schools.
"When you have got educated British schoolgirls at an outstanding school in Greenwich finding it somehow attractive to get on a plane to travel to Syria to go and live in a country where gay people are being thrown off buildings and British citizens are being beheaded, and appalling brutality is being meted out, we have a problem," he said.
He added: "Let's not pretend this is simply a problem that can be dealt with by policing."
Labour politician Simon Danczuk reported her to Greater Manchester's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), claiming she had incited racial hatred.
Ms Hopkins began a series of tweets after he took part in celebrations in the town for Pakistan's National Day.
Greater Manchester Police said it was reviewing the contents of the tweets.
Ms Hopkins, 40, posted the messages to her account after Mr Danczuk tweeted a picture of himself helping raise the Pakistan flag at Rochdale town hall on 23 March. At the time, Mr Danczuk was the MP for Rochdale.
The Sun columnist wrote: "Raising a Pakistani flag in Rochdale is not helping community cohesion. it is inflammatory. @SimonDanczuk you & your party disgust me."
She later sent a picture of eight men convicted of child sex exploitation offences in Greater Manchester, asking Mr Danczuk if they were his friends too.
Mr Danczuk, 48, said Rochdale has faced up to the "heinous crime" of child grooming "in a way that's managed to keep our communities together".
"To equate the Pakistan flag with child abuse, as she has done on social media over the last week, is absurd and it creates a dangerous environment where extreme intolerance becomes acceptable," he said.
"I'm not prepared to allow people like Hopkins, who know nothing about our town, stir up tensions in such a dangerously provocative way that could lead to innocent people being attacked by extremists."
He claimed he has been threatened by extremists and groups have pledged to march in Rochdale as a result of Hopkins' tweets.
Ms Hopkins, who has appeared on a number of reality TV shows, has yet to comment.
However, she posted on her Twitter account: "Thanks for the kind messages of support. Police request: please can you only contact them when you're NOT offended."
A GMP spokesman confirmed it had received a complaint via Greater Manchester PCC and said: "It has been passed onto the Rochdale division and will be reviewed."
26 April 2017 Last updated at 11:37 BST
Each spring, millions of red, yellow and black land crabs march for days to get from the forests on the Caribbean island down to the sea.
They get everywhere!
They climb up walls, sneak into houses and shops and they cover the roads, making it hard for cars to drive around them.
But why are so many crabs heading for the sea?
Well, the adult crabs lay loads of eggs in the waves before the babies hatch at sea and then return to their parents in the forest.
Not so creepy after all!
The visas allowed non-EU students to remain in the UK for at least two years after graduating from a British university or college.
But the UK government scrapped the scheme in 2012, citing "widespread abuse".
All five parties at Holyrood have since backed the reintroduction of the visas in Scotland.
A report by a cross-party group set up in the Scottish Parliament to examine the issue has now published a report which makes ten recommendations covering who should qualify for the visas and the conditions they should meet.
The group said the recommendations set out a "clear and practical path to allow talented graduates to remain in Scotland", and called on the UK government to "consider them seriously".
The Home Office has previously told BBC Scotland there were "no plans" to reintroduce the visa system, which it said had "undermined the UK's work migration routes and damaged the reputation of our education system".
It has also said that the UK has "excellent" post-study work opportunities for students who wish to stay and work after graduating, and that graduates can stay if they get a graduate-level job, an internship or become a graduate entrepreneur.
Under the current rules, students from outside the EU are allowed to stay in Britain for four months at the end of their courses, and if they get graduate jobs they can switch from student visas to work visas.
But Scottish Secretary David Mundell said in January that the UK government had not shut the door on the possible reintroduction of post-study work visas in Scotland, and that it was "open to reasonable suggestions" over the issue.
In its report, the steering group, which contains MSPs from all of the main political parties as well as business and education representatives, said it remained convinced that a "flexible post-study work route would benefit Scotland".
Its recommendations included:
The report also stated that people on post-study work visas "will already have excellent English language skills" in order to have completed their qualification, so no additional English language requirement would be needed.
And it recommended that the new visa scheme should be evaluated and changed if improvements can be made.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Minister for Europe and International Development Humza Yousaf said there was "overwhelming" support for the visas in Scotland.
He added: "Our recommendations introduce a reasonable degree of flexibility, while maintaining rigorous checks and balances.
"Scotland's immigration needs are different to those of the rest of the UK and the return of the post study work visa would be an important economic lever of great benefit to Scotland.
"Allowing talented students to remain in Scotland after graduation will help us grow our working age population and support and strengthen our economy."
The Scottish government has also been campaigning for a return of the visa, which allowed international students from outside the EU to remain in Scotland and work after graduation.
And the Smith Commission, which was set up to look at more powers for Scotland following the independence referendum, said the Scottish and UK governments should explore the possibility of introducing "formal schemes to allow international higher education students graduating from Scottish further and higher education institutions to remain in Scotland".
The Journey, by renowned local sculptor Fenwick Lawson, was erected in 2008 to depict how monks brought the body of St Cuthbert to the city.
But the charity which paid for the artwork said its Millennium Place location had resulted in it becoming the target of late-night revellers.
It will now be moved to the grounds of nearby Durham Cathedral.
Trustees of The Journey charity, which will fund the move, called for the sculpture to be relocated after complaining it was being used as a "public urinal" by some who frequent nearby bars.
Canon Rosalind Brown, of Durham Cathedral, said: "It will have a new home in front of the cathedral on a widened path and our architects are working now on exactly how and when this will be done."
The sculpture pays tribute to the story of St Cuthbert's coffin.
The coffin was taken from Lindisfarne after monks fled from a Danish invasion. They transported it to different locations, ending at Durham Cathedral at the end of the 10th Century.
A council report calls for "a very significant reduction in the level of long-term care commissioned from independent sector providers".
Figures project a reduction of care home residents from 1,450 to 955 by 2020.
The authority would move services in house and encourage independent living.
An extra 39 workers would be hired to implement the changes.
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The report discusses changing the culture of adult social care in the city from "doing things for people and creating dependence" to "a focus on enabling people to do things for themselves, promoting independence".
Figures show that in 2015 Hull had higher than average number of people in the social care system than other local authorities, with 57% compared with an average of 44%. The report adds that the figures indicate that Hull "requires a more robust triaging at the front door".
It also calls for an "active recovery" policy to try and reduce the number of people needing support.
The report will be discussed by the council's cabinet committee next week and, if approved, the changes could be implement by early next year.
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The 27-year-old has played in two Tests, 48 one-day internationals and 18 Twenty20 matches for Pakistan.
Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif have been suspended from the Pakistan Super League as part of the investigation.
Meanwhile, the National Crime Agency said two men were arrested in the UK on Monday in connection with the probe.
The men in their 30s have been bailed until April pending further inquiries in connection with the probe.
The PCB previously said it was investigating "an international syndicate which is believed to be attempting to corrupt the PSL".
The latest strikes will begin on Sunday 5 February.
BA cabin crew have so far staged two stoppages, resulting in the cancellation of flights.
Unite also criticised BA for spending money on chartering aircraft to cover for striking cabin crew rather than resolving the problem.
In a letter, sent to British Airways on Wednesday, Unite representatives urged BA to take a different route, saying: "Your reluctance to offer a reasonable pay deal to our members, yet spend what we believe is now reaching millions of pounds in trying to quash strike action, suggests money is available and this is a question of ideology."
The proposed strike will begin on 5 February and run until Saturday 11 February but will exclude Wednesday.
BA said in a statement: "We have flown all customers to their destinations during the previous strikes by Mixed Fleet Unite and we will ensure this happens again.
"We will publish more details on Tuesday [31 January] once we have finalised our contingency plans in relation to the strikes called for 5-7 February. On Thursday we will publish more details in relation to the second strike period, 9-11 February.
"Our pay offer for mixed fleet crew is consistent with deals agreed with Unite for other British Airways colleagues. It also reflects pay awards given by other companies in the UK and will ensure that rewards for mixed fleet remain in line with those for cabin crew at our airline competitors."
The claims relate to alleged use of European parliamentary funds for party political purposes, such as election campaigning.
The matter has been referred to North Wales Police after being reviewed by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau.
Police have not contacted Mr Gill. He said he was not aware of the claims and would not comment at this stage.
A UKIP spokesman said: "These allegations are news to both UKIP and Mr Gill.
"He has not been spoken to by the police. It is impossible to make any comment when no facts are known."
UKIP's assembly group leader Neil Hamilton said: "We cannot know at this stage whether there is any truth in these allegations.
"The easiest way for Nathan Gill to put an end to speculation is for him to publish all details of his MEP emoluments and expenses claims since May 2014, together with full supporting documentation.
"All AMs' expenses claims are published in full when they are made. This is taxpayers' money. We have a right to know how it is spent."
A spokesman for North Wales Police said: "North Wales Police confirm they have recently received (11/8/2016) correspondence from Action Fraud [the UK's national fraud and cyber crime reporting centre] concerning allegations of fraud against an Anglesey man.
"That matter is now under investigation and therefore at this stage we are unable to add anything further."
A spokeswoman for City of London Police said: "Action Fraud received a complaint on 15 July 2016.
"The matter was reviewed by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau and referred to North Wales Police on 11 August 2016."
She was hit by a car on Rogers Quay shortly after 17:00 BST on Tuesday.
Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the accident to contact them.
The group held hands in a line for five minutes when Big Ben chimed at 16:00 BST.
Many of the women wore head scarves at the tribute and said they were wearing blue to represent hope.
Khalid Masood, 52, killed four people when he drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a police officer on Wednesday.
Fariha Khan, a GP from Surbiton who was at Sunday's event, said: "The feeling of what happened here on Wednesday was really strong.
"We thought of the ordinary people who were here and were mown down, standing here like this, it was very overwhelming."
The event was organised by Women's March On London group which took part in an international campaign to highlight women's rights on the first full day of Donald Trump's US presidency.
Another woman who was there, Sarah Waseem, said the Islam faith "totally condemns violence of any sort".
She said: "When an attack happens in London, it is an attack on me. It is an attack on all of us.
"This is abhorrent to us."
Londoner Mary Bennett, who is a retired healthcare worker, said she was there to make a "small gesture".
She said: "I am here to show that in a quiet way we continue to go where we like and do what we like in London.
"This is my city. It's a very small gesture but life is made up of small gestures."
On Facebook and Twitter, Women's March On London posted an image titled We Stand Together and outlined reasons for people coming together after the attack on Wednesday.
The post invited people to unite in grief for those who died, to support the injured, to defy what the group called "forces of fear and division", and to show solidarity for equality, justice and peace.
The group said: "It is important that we come together at this time when tensions intensify in our communities."
Women's rights activist, Akeela Ahmed, who helped organise Sunday's event said it had been "powerful and sent a clear message".
She said there had been no speeches and that those attending had been advised to stay for the five minutes then disperse because the group had wanted it to be low key and not disruptive.
Organisers urged people to talk about the event using the hashtag #WeStandTogether.
One Twitter user, Natasha Gooding, wrote: "United Kingdom we are, united we stand. Unity and love will always be more powerful than your hate."
Another, Eleanor Goodman, said it was "such a beautiful tribute". She tweeted: "It embodies peace, love and unity."
Roshana Mehdian wrote: "Darkness cannot defeat darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot defeat hate. Only love can do that."
Catriona Robertson called it "silent resistance against fear and division".
The Sun quotes anonymous sources, one of whom claims to have witnessed a "bust-up" between the Queen and pro-EU former Deputy PM Nick Clegg in 2011.
The palace insisted the Queen was "politically neutral" while Mr Clegg called the story "nonsense".
But the Sun said it stood by its story and would defend itself "vigorously".
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Under the headline, "Queen backs Brexit", the Sun said the Queen's exchange with Mr Clegg at a lunch in 2011 left "no room for doubt about her passionate feelings over Europe".
It said her "reprimand" of Mr Clegg "went on for some time and stunned other guests".
The paper says the Queen also revealed her feelings about Europe during a separate conversation with MPs at Buckingham Palace "a few years ago".
It claims the Queen told them: "I don't understand Europe" - words an unnamed parliamentary source says she spoke with "venom and emotion".
Following the complaint the newspaper said: "The Sun stands by its story, which was based upon two impeccable sources and presented in a robust, accessible fashion.
"The Sun will defend this complaint vigorously."
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It is unusual for the Queen to take action against a newspaper.
It is a sign of the depth of regal displeasure.
It is the Sun headline, "Queen Backs Brexit" which is both toxic and very troubling to an institution which prides itself on remaining above the political fray.
But the course of action the palace has now embarked upon brings with it risks. It's a far cry from the "never complain, never explain" mantra once deployed by officials in the past.
The letter to the press watchdog ensures that the Sun story continues to be debated.
And there continues to be a focus on what the Queen chose very deliberately to do four days before the Scottish referendum.
When she told a well-wisher in 2014 "I hope people will think very carefully about the future", it was interpreted as support for Scotland remaining within the UK.
It was a planned remark the Queen and her senior advisers may come to regret.
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A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: "We can confirm that we have this morning written to the chairman of the Independent Press Standards Organisation to register a complaint about the front page story in today's Sun newspaper.
"The complaint relates to Clause One of the Editors' Code of Practice."
The Editors' Code of Practice is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Clause One refers to accuracy, saying "the Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information or images, including headlines not supported by the text".
It also states "while free to editorialise and campaign, the Press must distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact".
The Sun's political editor Tom Newton Dunn wrote that the paper would not have reported the Queen's remarks "had they not come from two different and impeccably placed sources".
He says the Queen must remain "above the fray" of political issues, but added: "If she has a view on Brexit, don't voters have a right to know what it is?"
Professor Vernon Bogdanor, constitutional expert at Kings College London, told the Press Association it was "absurd" that the Queen would break from her tradition of political impartiality after decades as monarch.
"I'm very dubious. The Queen speaks and acts on the advice of ministers," Prof Bogdanor said. "What she said on the Scottish referendum was that people should think carefully before they vote - and that's a very sensible comment, I would have thought."
Former SNP leader, Alex Salmond, said his party had secured time on Thursday to question the government over issues raised by a Royal naval submariner.
William McNeilly went on the run after alleging the missile programme was a "disaster waiting to happen". He later handed himself in to police.
Mr Salmond said the Ministry of Defence must provide detailed answers.
An official investigation was launched after Able Seaman Mr McNeilly, 25, from Belfast, raised his safety concerns in an internet post.
His 18-page report, called The Secret Nuclear Threat, claimed to detail "serious security and safety breaches".
The Navy said the fleet, which is based at Faslane on the Clyde, operated "under the most stringent safety regime".
The MoD said Mr McNeilly was "apprehended" by Royal Navy Police at Edinburgh Airport on Monday night and was being held at a military establishment in Scotland.
The SNP's adjournment debate - called "Safety at HM Naval Base Clyde" - will take place next Thursday.
Mr Salmond, the party's foreign affairs spokesman at Westminster, said: "The SNP will continue to keep the pressure on the government until we are satisfied that not only have they have investigated Mr. McNeilly's claims thoroughly and have acted on the findings but that those findings are put into the public domain.
"Trident is a key issue for people in Scotland.
"It is bad enough that Scotland is forced to house these weapons of mass destruction but these alleged breaches of security are deeply worrying - there must be absolutely no complacency."
Earlier this week a Navy spokesman said: "The naval service operates its submarine fleet under the most stringent safety regime and submarines do not go to sea unless they are completely safe to do so."
He said the Navy "completely disagreed" with Mr McNeilly's report, claiming that it "contains a number of subjective and unsubstantiated personal views, made by a very junior sailor".
However, the spokesman added that it was "right" that the contents of the document were considered in detail.
It is difficult to imagine a more significant moment in the whole debate about the provision of health care in Britain.
A spokesman for Circle - the company running Hinchingbrooke - told me that it was difficult to see how any private operation looking for a commercial return could run an acute services hospital under the present model.
For those who object to private companies operating in the NHS, a response to the announcement this morning might well be "good riddance".
It is worth, though, considering why the previous Labour government decided to offer the contract to run Hinchingbrooke to private operators.
There is an argument that private companies bring a discipline to health service provision which can lead to better patient services, and staff relations, for lower costs.
Any returns the company makes can then be shared with the NHS. In Circle's case, if it had made profits above £2m, anything above that would be split with the public sector.
The NHS has, of course, always been a mixture of public, private and voluntary provision. GPs are not state employees, for example, but independent contractors to the NHS.
That mix is one many believe works when it comes to relatively predictable services such as elective operations.
But Hinchingbrooke is different and became a test for the public/private model at the most visible level - the running of an entire hospital.
It was certainly high risk.
Before Circle took over the contract, Hinchingbrooke was a struggling hospital. It was labouring under £40m of debts and in 2009 the then Labour government decided to launch a process to bring in private providers.
Circle, which is partly owned by its employees, won that bidding process. The fact it took three years (Circle did not take over Hinchingbrooke until 2012) reveals just how complicated the agreement was.
And the more complicated a contract, the greater the risks attached.
Circle pledged to increase levels of care offered to local people, turn around the hospital's finances and create better staff relations.
To an extent, and certainly at the beginning of the contract, there was some success. Waiting time targets were hit, patient feedback improved and efficiencies were made.
The hospital's deficit fell from £10m in February 2012 to £3.5m in March 2013 to £1.5m in March last year.
And Circle claims it saved the NHS £23m.
But healthcare does not operate by the usual laws of supply and demand.
Demand, as we have seen recently in accident and emergency services, can suddenly spike.
And that can happen at the same time as supply - payments for each patient treated - falls.
Circle said its payments had been cut by 10%.
The result? Losses for Circle which have now reached £5m, the trigger point at which it can say it no longer wants to run the hospital.
The business is also expected to be criticised by an imminent Care Quality Commission (CQC) report on its standards of health care.
Circle may dispute the findings, but the CQC report would almost certainly have led to increased costs as new service levels were agreed.
Today's announcement has revealed that under the present model, many believe there is a pretty simple answer to the question can a private business run an acute hospital.
And it's no.
The study found that in the year after losing a spouse to a heart attack, partners were three times more likely to start taking anti-depressants.
Even if their partner survived, the use of anti-depressants still increased by 17%, compared with the year before.
The use of anxiety drugs also went up, the European Heart Journal reports.
There are about 340 heart attacks in the UK every day - approximately 13% are fatal.
Maureen Talbot, senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said: "A heart attack can impact the whole family, and this study emphasises the importance of caring for the partners of heart attack sufferers.
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"We know that people can feel anxious or helpless when a loved one has a heart attack. It is essential they receive the emotional and practical support they need during this often traumatic time."
This is the first study to look at the health of spouses after their partner survives a heart attack.
It also found men were more susceptible to the effect than women.
Report author Dr Emil Fosbol, from Duke University Medical Center, said: "This is a major public health issue for which there seems to be very little awareness among doctors and policy makers.
"The most important finding of this study is that the system needs to consider the care needs for the spouses too, not only when a patient dies from a [sudden heart attack], but also when the patient is 'just admitted' to hospital [after a sudden heart attack] and survives."
Using Danish registries, including the National Civil Status Registry that shows whether people are married or not, researchers studied 16,506 spouses of people who died from a sudden heart attack between 1997 and 2008 and 44,566 spouses of patients who survived a sudden heart attack.
They also looked at the use of anti-depressants and drugs to treat anxiety before and up to a year after the event, and medical records for depression and suicide.
The scientists also compared this data with the health of 49,518 people whose partners died from causes unrelated to a sudden heart attack, and 131, 563 spouses of people admitted to hospital for a non-fatal condition unrelated to a sudden heart attack.
If the partner had a heart attack, the spouse's health was more seriously affected than those whose partners died from or survived other medical conditions.
The researchers speculate that it is the sudden and unexpected nature of a sudden heart attack that causes the more extreme impact on the spouse.
Dr Fosbol said: "If your partner dies suddenly from a heart attack, you have no time to prepare psychologically for the death, whereas if someone is ill with, for example, cancer, there is more time to grow used to the idea.
"The larger psychological impact of a sudden loss is similar to post-traumatic stress disorder."
The girl, identified as Diana Kadribasic, died on Sunday after she was hit by an R train at the 63rd Drive-Rego Park station.
Police said the train came into the station as the girl was trying to climb back on to the platform.
She was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where she died, police said.
Commuter Stephen Topete told ABC New York that people were crying on the platform after the incident.
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She had ignored barriers and warning signs of the oncoming train.
The train driver applied the emergency brakes when he saw the woman - she then stepped back, narrowly avoiding being hit.
Richard Schofield, who's in charge of the train line where this happened, said: "This is one of the closest incidents of near miss we've seen.
"The person using the crossing not only didn't hear the train but ignored the warning lights and barriers, putting her life, the lives of passengers and the train driver in danger."
Jay Thompson, Head of Safety at the train company Greater Anglia said: "It is really important that everyone follows the safety instructions at level crossings."
The Glasgow club hope to appoint a successor to Ronny Deila, who stood down after winning a second successive title, before the end of May.
Northern Irishman Rodgers, 43, has been without a club since he was sacked by Liverpool in October 2015.
Scotsman Mackay, 44, had been sacked by Wigan Athletic six months earlier.
Mackay, who recently admitted his interest in the Celtic job, and Rodgers both started their managerial careers with Watford.
Former Celtic and Scotland defender Mackay also had a spell in charge of Cardiff City, while Rodgers was manager with Reading and Swansea City.
Four other former Celtic players - David Moyes, Roy Keane, Paul Lambert and Neil Lennon - and Steve Clarke have also all been strongly linked with Celtic job.
Former Everton and Manchester United boss Moyes, who left Real Sociedad in November, has spoken of his admiration for the Glasgow club but also recently admitted an interest in the vacancy at Aston Villa.
He has also been linked with a return to Goodison Park after Everton parted company with Roberto Martinez.
Former Sunderland and Ipswich Town boss Keane turned down the Celtic job two years ago and is presently preparing for the Euro 2016 finals as assistant to Martin O'Neill with Republic of Ireland.
Clarke, who started his managerial career with West Bromwich Albion and was sacked by Reading in December, and former Celtic boss Lennon, who recently left Bolton Wanderers, have also spoken of their desire to talk to the Scottish champions.
Fellow former Scotland international Lambert, who previously managed Livingston, Wycombe Wanderers, Colchester United, Norwich City and Aston Villa, activated a release clause with Blackburn Rovers last month.
Deila announced he would be leaving Celtic at the end of the season after admitting that his side had failed to make progress this season.
Although they secured a fifth Scottish title in a row, they failed to win the two domestic cup competitions and had disappointing campaigns in the Champions League and Europa League.
The displays of light aimed to show support and raise funds for people in the city, which has been ravaged by civil war.
Communities along the coast lit torches at 17:00 on Sunday.
Their message will be spread around the world by social media, using the hashtag #alightforaleppo.
Edinburgh University chaplaincy has organised the scheme, which aims to raise funds for the charities Oxfam and Medicins Sans Frontieres, who are working in the region.
Members of the public were invited to attend an event, to organise an event of their own, or to light a candle in their home to show support.
Rev Dr Harriet Harris, Edinburgh University chaplain, said: "Every day, the people of Aleppo have less food and fewer medical supplies, and aid is not getting through.
"We want them to know that they are not forgotten - the people of the world are watching and are upholding their humanity.
"We are helpless to deliver food, medicine or peace, but we will light beacons to send a message of solidarity and hope to stem despair and renew resolve."
The charge is in connection with an alleged match-fixing conspiracy in the 2013 Bangladesh Premier League.
"I have not been involved in any corrupt activity and have not been charged with any," said Stevens.
"I am co-operating with the ICC in their investigation and prosecution of the corruption charges."
The 37-year-old added: "I am totally against any corruption in cricket and would never do anything other than perform to the best of my ability in any game."
The ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit charged nine individuals on Tuesday in relation to "an alleged conspiracy within the Dhaka Gladiators franchise to engage in match-fixing and spot-fixing activity".
Stevens, who played 12 matches for the Dhaka Gladiators in the BPL earlier this year as the side won the tournament, has not been suspended by the ICC and remains eligible to play in all forms of cricket.
"I remain willing and able to play for Kent in all fixtures if selected," Stevens added.
"As the charge against me is now the subject of disciplinary proceedings I can make no further comment with regard to them at this stage."
Stevens must now indicate whether he wishes to plead guilty to the charge or to defend himself in a full hearing, which would take place before an anti-corruption tribunal, convened in accordance with the Bangladesh Cricket Board's anti-corruption code.
Under the BCB's code, an individual who pleads guilty or is later found guilty by tribunal of failing to report a corrupt approach faces sanction, which could include a global suspension of between one to five years.
Voges, 37, has again been signed as an overseas player, having featured for Middlesex in three of the past four seasons, including their 2016 County Championship title-winning campaign.
His contribution included an unbeaten 160 against Hampshire in May.
Voges will be available for 13 Championship matches and all eight Royal London One-Day Cup group games.
He was named captain last season but missed the final four matches because of a hamstring problem.
James Franklin, who took over as skipper, signed a new contract on Wednesday.
"Inviting Adam back was a simple decision," said Middlesex managing director Angus Fraser.
"On each of the occasions he has been with Middlesex, he has been outstanding in every way and he is just the sort of character I want playing for our club.
"In the past two seasons, selection for Australia has reduced the amount of time he has spent with us but this season we expect to see far more of him."
The 11 charges relate to the period when ex-Supt Andrew Carr, 47, worked for the 7th Swindon Scouts and Orchid Vale PTA.
Funds were not paid into bank accounts, cheques were written out in another name and documents were falsified.
Carr, from Swindon, will be sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on 21 July.
He was dismissed from Wiltshire Police in May following a hearing held in private "to ensure it did not prejudice his criminal trial".
Carr was charged with four counts of fraud relating to the scouts and PTA where the proceeds of various fundraising events were not paid into bank accounts as required.
Two counts of theft relate to falsifying documents for accounting purposes and five counts of forgery relate to writing out cheques in another person's name.
Speaking after the case, Ch Con Mike Veale expressed his "dismay and disappointment" that Carr's behaviour fell below what was expected of a police officer.
"This is a stark reminder of the important role that police officers and staff have in our society in relation to the requirement to demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour," he said.
"I expect them to act with the utmost integrity at all times including conduct whilst on and off duty."
Miguel Arias Canete said the EU had already calculated that the UK was not on track to meet legally binding goals.
Asked by BBC News if the wind decision would make the task harder he replied: "Of course".
His officials have expressed bemusement at the decision to end subsidies for onshore wind energy a year early.
They said onshore wind was by far the cheapest way to hit the target of 15% of all energy from renewables from 2020.
The SNP estimate the change will cost bill payers up to three billion pounds.
After a media briefing on climate policy at the European Commission, one official told the BBC the decision was "mind-boggling in an economy that's supposedly price sensitive."
The official said the EU would not interfere in the UK's energy choices, but expressed doubt whether it would achieve renewables targets without more onshore wind, and whether future energy subsidy auctions in the UK would breach EU state aid rules if nuclear was included and onshore wind barred.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change said the UK was making good progress towards the EU 2020 target on renewables.
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A spokesman said the UK had come a long way already; in 2005 1.4% of energy was from renewable sources, for 2013 the renewable share was 5.1% of energy.
On the question of breaching state aid rules on future subsidy auctions a DECC. spokesman told the BBC: "We have the tools available to implement the government's manifesto commitments on onshore wind and will set out how we will do so when announcing plans in relation to further CfD (subsidy) allocations."
The government promised before the election to end new subsidies for onshore wind following pressure from UKIP to halt the spread of wind farms across rural Britain.
Last week, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd announced that she would cut short the subsidy period for the relatively mature technology of onshore wind and shift cash into forms of energy that needed support more.
There is no news yet as to which technologies will benefit, or how the same amount of energy will be obtained without spending extra money on a much more expensive option like offshore wind.
The government's decision was welcomed by UKIP, the Taxpayers' Alliance and community pressure groups which said wind farms were ruining the countryside.
It was condemned by most energy academics, environmentalists and by the CBI which said it would undermine investor confidence in the UK.
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General Sir Richard Shirreff, the outgoing Nato deputy supreme commander, told the Sunday Times cuts to the British military had "hollowed out" the Royal Navy.
But Mr Hammond told the BBC: "We are a capable and credible ally."
Shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker said "serious questions" remain about the planned cuts.
Sir Richard said the Royal Navy had been cut "to the bone" and left unable to take part in Nato maritime operations.
Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hammond said the criticism was unfounded, however.
"Nobody should be in any doubt of our resolve to live up to our commitments under the Nato treaty," he added.
The Army is undergoing a 20% reduction in regular troop numbers, from 102,000 in 2010 to 82,000 in 2020. This is to be accompanied by a rise in the number of reservists, from 24,000 to 30,000.
Over the same period, the Royal Navy and the RAF are each preparing to lose 5,000 regulars and gain 500 reservists.
Sir Richard's comments follow recent warnings about the impact of the cuts from former US Defence Secretary Robert Gates and former head of the Army Lord Dannatt.
Sir Richard warned that cutting the number of full-time troops and recruiting more reservists was "one hell of a risk".
"The point at which a risk becomes a gamble is a subjective view," he said. "I think the jury is out still."
In light of the situation in Crimea, it was necessary for Britain to "prioritise defence", he said, telling the newspaper: "A hollowed-out navy means you can't project power."
Sir Richard, who stepped down from his post last week, added it was "very noticeable" that the Royal Navy was "never participating in Nato maritime operations".
But Mr Hammond said of the criticism: "Of course I'm listening and much of what I'm hearing is nonsense.
"We still have the fourth-largest defence budget in the world.
"I was in the Pentagon just this week past. I heard my US counterpart talk about Britain as a credible, capable and reliable ally and that's what we intend to remain."
Mr Hammond stressed that savings had to be made.
"Of course we've had to take some very tough decisions," he said. "But we are working with the military chiefs to make sure that we prioritise our very large defence budget, invest it in the areas that are going to matter in the future.
"I recognise that sometimes that has meant we've had to take decisions that have upset some people about legacy capabilities but we're looking to the future, not the past."
Mr Hammond said the Navy did take part in Nato exercises and insisted it was also "busy around the world" on other operations.
These included taking part in counter-piracy missions, tackling drug traffickers and also helping in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
"We'd like to have more assets but we are very effective at using the assets we've got to deliver the effect we need to do," he added.
Mr Coaker said: "While I agree with the rationale behind the Army 2020 proposals, serious questions remain about their deliverability.
"General Shirreff's comments signal yet another senior military voice adding to the chorus of concern over the government's defence reforms.
"The defence secretary has been too quick to dismiss these concerns and those of our allies. He has pursued his policy with little regard for the implications of its practical application."
In a statement, the Ministry of Defence said: "With a restructured, more flexible and agile army and with £160 billion planned on new equipment over the next decade, we will ensure our Armed Forces retain their formidable range of cutting-edge capabilities and ability to project power across the globe."
Yet decades on, what that freedom has delivered measures up poorly for many.
For India's business elites eager to compete with China, for the middle classes fed up with corruption, for radical intellectuals, for desperate citizens who have taken up arms against the state - democracy in India is a story of unravelling illusions.
Democratic politics itself has come to be seen as impeding the decisive action needed to expand economic possibilities.
In a society of swiftly inflating expectations, where old deference crumbles before youthful impatience, frustration with democracy is perhaps not surprising.
The citizenry's ire expresses perhaps instinctively something that India's government, caught in inertial routines, is in danger of missing. Societies are at their most vulnerable when things are improving - not when they are stagnant.
Yet the gathering pace of history in India has made political judgement more, not less, important.
An India on the move cannot avoid choices.
The policy choices India will need to make over the coming decade - about education, about environmental resources, about social and fiscal responsibility, about foreign relations - will propel it down tracks that will become difficult to renounce or even revise.
These choices will determine how India handles the daunting tasks it faces.
These include managing the largest-ever rural-to-urban transition under democratic conditions, and working to develop the human capital and sustain the ecological and energy resources needed for participatory economic growth.
They will also determine how ably India can contend with powerful competitor states, contain a volatile neighbourhood, and navigate a fluid international arena where capital is fly, and where new, unforeseen threats and risks are facts of life.
It's an agenda that would test any society at the best of times.
But in India's case, these tasks will have to be achieved under severe time and resource constraints.
India will have only a sliver of time, a matter of years, in which to seize its chances.
Whether it is able to do so will depend less on India's entrepreneurial brilliance or technological prowess or the cheapness of its labour, and above all on politics.
Yet, at this historical moment when emergent possibilities and new problems are crowding in, the transformative momentum of India's politics seems to have dissipated.
It's a troubling irony: political imagination, judgement and action - the capacities that first brought India into existence - seem to have deserted it.
Democracy, the distinctive source of modern India's legitimacy has, to many, become an agent of the country's ills - and drives some to put their hope in technocratic fixes.
Today, in many parts of the country, the identity wars that engulfed India during the 1990s - when religion and caste advanced as the basis of claims to special privileges - seem to have played themselves out.
The conventional view is that India's economic surge has stilled those fights. And although there is some truth in that explanation, it's too partial. It doesn't address, for instance, why one of India's most-developed and fast-growing states, the calendar girl of big business - Gujarat - is also the purveyor of India's most chauvinistic and poisonous politics.
In fact, what has - at least for an interval - calmed such conflicts has been the workings, however rickety, of democratic politics.
It's the capacity of India's representative democracy to articulate - and even to incite - India's diversity, to give voice to differing interests and ideas of self, rather than merely to aggregate common identities, that has saved India from the civil conflict and auto-destruction typical of so many other states.
Consider for a start the ragged history of India's regional neighbourhood: though populated by smaller and more homogenous states, their desire to impose a common identity has broken them down.
What has protected India from such a fate is not any innate Indian virtue or cultural uniqueness.
Rather, it is the outcome of a political invention, the intricate architecture of constitutional democracy established by India's founders. Democracy's singular, rather astonishing achievement has been to keep India united as a political space.
And now that space has become a vast market whose strength lies in its internal diversity and dynamism.
It is that immense market, of considerable attraction to international capital, which is now India's greatest comparative advantage - and one that makes it a potential engine of the global economy.
In the years ahead, whether the old identity battles of the 1990s stay becalmed will to a large extent depend on the capacity of India's political system to sustain and spread the country's new growth.
Rising disparities - in income, wealth and opportunity - are a global fact, but they can be particularly acute in growing economies.
For 21st century India, as economic growth spreads unevenly over the landscape, the big questions will turn on the disequalising effects of economic transformation.
This is not a question that any society - democratic or despotic - has been able to solve, let alone any rapidly growing society.
The search for alternatives to market capitalism inspired the great revolutionary and reformist movements of modern history.
Those movements haven't fared too well: but the living conditions that gave rise to them remain as intense and painful as ever, not least in the world's two major growth economies, China and India.
Part of what it must mean, therefore, for states like India and China to take their place as major world powers, rests on their ability to invent better alternative models of market capitalism.
For India, developing such options is a priority in coming years.
It's imperative for India's economic future that the global disaffection with market capitalism doesn't take wider hold in the country. Most people in India remain hopeful that their turn will come. Yet, as events of recent weeks have reminded us, tolerance for disparities, for inequality, can shift very suddenly.
In India's case, just as six decades and more of democracy have broken down age-old structures of deference and released a new defiant energy, so too years of rapid but uneven growth may quite abruptly dismantle the intricate self-deceptions that have so far kept India's grotesque disparities protected from mass protest.
As the Indian political classes exercise their populist instincts, corporate India, heady with new opulence, lately comports itself like a well-plumed sitting duck.
Without renewed political imagination and judgement, the disaffection and alienation of those who are being left out or actively dispossessed by rapid growth could change the course of India's history.
Sunil Khilnani is Avantha Professor and Director, India Institute, King's College London, and is the author of The Idea of India, which will be published with a new introduction as a Popular Penguin in January 2012.
Mr Davutoglu said the incident was unfortunate but that Turkey had a right and duty to protect its airspace.
The body of a pilot killed in the incident is being flown home.
Also on Monday, a Russian military spokesman said Russia has armed its Su-34 fighter jets over Syria with air-to-air missiles for the first time.
While he did not mention which particular threat the missiles were meant to counter, it comes six days after the Russian plane was shot down by Turkey.
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, appearing with Mr Davutoglu in Brussels, said the alliance fully supported the right of member nation Turkey to defend its airspace.
He said there was concern about increased Russian presence in the region, but that the focus was on calming the situation.
Turkish forces shot down the Su-24 plane on 24 November, saying it had violated Turkish airspace, which Russia denies.
Mr Davutoglu urged Russia to reconsider the economic sanctions that Moscow has announced.
The row between the two countries shows no sign of abating, with Russia saying President Vladimir Putin would not meet his Turkish counterpart at the current climate summit in Paris.
Russia said on Monday it would ban mainly imports of agricultural products, vegetables and fruits from Turkey, although it may delay the restrictions for several weeks to "ease inflationary pressure".
Turkish industrial goods would not be banned for now but future expansion of the sanctions was not ruled out, officials said.
Turkey and Russia have important economic links. Russia is Turkey's second-largest trading partner, while more than three million Russian tourists visited Turkey last year.
Meanwhile, the coffin of Lt Col Oleg Peshkov left Ankara's Esenboga International Airport on Monday after a military ceremony.
The Turkish military issued a press release saying a Turkish garrison commander and a Russian delegation observed a military and religious ceremony before the body of Lt Col Peshkov left on a plane for Russia.
Lt Col Peshkov's body had been flown to the capital from southern Turkey on Sunday.
Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu earlier said that the pilot's body had been treated in accordance with Orthodox Christian tradition.
It was reportedly handed over to Turkish authorities by rebels from Syria's ethnic Turkmen community in the Hatay region in the early hours of Sunday.
The exact circumstances of his death remain unclear but Turkmen rebels said they opened fire on Lt Col Peshkov and his co-pilot as they tried to parachute into Syrian government-held territory last Tuesday.
The other pilot, Capt Konstantin Murakhtin, survived and was rescued from rebel-held territory in Syria in a special forces operation that left another Russian dead.
Russia says it has been carrying out air strikes on Islamic State (IS) militants inside Syria, although Nato members have said it is also hitting rebel groups who are fighting both IS and Russia's ally, President Bashar al-Assad.
The Kasumigaseki Country Club does not allow women to become full members or play on Sundays.
"I respect it's a private club but our position is clear. We will only go to a club that has non-discrimination," said IOC vice-president John Coates.
"At some point there has to be a cut-off."
However, Coates added that he did not expect to have to find another host for the event.
"It's possible to go elsewhere but I think this is going to work out," he added.
"My understanding is as recently as this week there have been more discussions with the club, that it's heading in the right direction for them to have a non-discriminatory membership.
"It would appear that we should be able to have this resolved by the end of June."
In February, club chairman Kiichi Kimura described the controversy as "annoying" after initial internal discussions had not resulted in any decision on Kasumigaseki's membership policy.
"We are baffled," he said.
"We agreed to host at their request, but we never made a bid."
World number one and Rio 2016 silver medallist Lydia Ko has said that she wants to see the bar to women at the club lifted, while the Japan Golf Council - a group aimed at modernising the game - has sent the IOC a letter recommending an alternative course.
Rio 2016 was the first time golf event had been part of the Olympic programme since 1904. South Korea's Inbee Park won the women's title, with Great Britain's Justin Rose securing the men's.
Bovington in Dorset became the home of the Heavy Section Machine Gun Corps in 1916, shortly after tanks first appeared at the Battle of the Somme.
An event on Saturday will include the first public appearance of the Army's latest armoured fighting vehicle, Ajax.
The Tank Museum will also drop 250,000 poppies over a battle re-enactment.
The event is one of several commemorations marking the first use of tanks on 15 September 1916 in World War One.
Tanks first arrived at Bovington in October, moving from a smaller training camp in Suffolk.
Author and broadcaster Kate Adie said they arrived in secrecy, with local people being ordered to "pull down their blinds and sit in the back room" while the vehicles went by.
Writing in 'Fighting On the Home Front', she said: "One local shepherd, name of Patience, was reported to have refused to abandon his sheep, grazing in an adjacent field.
"Soldiers therefore built a fence of hurdles so that the secret weapon might pass unseen."
But historian Chris Copson said the secret was apparently short-lived.
"The story is that the tank did what tanks do best and broke down in the middle of Bovington High Street," he said.
As part of Saturday's commemorations, the Army will publicly unveil its Ajax armoured reconnaissance vehicle for the first time.
The head of the Army, General Sir Nick Carter, has said the 589 Ajax vehicles will be at the core of the Land Joint Strike concept, a tactic for use in difficult terrain and in densely-populated urban areas.
Former Great Britain rower Emily Taylor called coach Paul Thompson a "massive bully" in June, prompting the review.
His handling of double sculls crew of Vicky Thornley and Katherine Grainger was also questioned.
After Taylor complained, Thompson said he did not consider himself a bully and that his "recollection of the situation" differed from hers.
The internal review stated that more care needed to be taken of athletes' well-being.
It also recommended creating a "more inclusive environment" with "greater focus on the effects of stress on performance and well-being".
"There is a need to address the perception of balance between the different squads on the High Performance Programme," the review stated.
"The leadership must understand and define the limits on what is an acceptable sub-culture."
Taylor was selected in the original squad for the London 2012 Olympics but was left out of the women's eight and retired after the Games.
Thompson was criticised by Thornley's boyfriend Rick Egington, who won Olympic medals in the men's eight in both 2008 and 2012.
Egington said that Thompson had "mismanaged" Thornley and Grainger's partnership in the run-up to the Rio Games, as they attempted to win places in the women's eight following disappointing early-season form in 2016.
That plan to win those places was scrapped after they failed to meet the required standard. After reforming as a double sculls pair, Thornley and Grainger won a surprise silver medal in Rio.
Athletes and coaches from both the current and previous set-up were able to give evidence confidentially on their dealings with Thompson, who joined British Rowing in 2001.
His women and lightweight crews won a gold and two silver medals at Rio, having won three golds and a silver at London four years earlier.
It comes three months after ministers rejected banning them after a report said it could not be justified, but use would be discouraged.
Natural Resources Minister Alun Davies has written to councils encouraging them to introduce the restrictions.
There are worries the lanterns pose a fire risk and endanger livestock.
Two environmental groups and the Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW) have called for an outright ban.
Conwy council has already stopped people releasing sky lanterns and helium balloons on its land.
Mr Davies warned of the danger and stress that sky lanterns could pose to animals and highlighted the fire risks.
"Sky lanterns and helium balloons pose a real danger to livestock, other animals and buildings," Mr Davies said.
"A recent independent report has found that the fire risk associated with the use of sky lanterns is significant, while we also know that the ingestion of debris from lanterns can kill or seriously harm an animal.
"We want to make people aware of the risks and that is why I have written to local authorities across Wales to encourage them to introduce a voluntary ban on the release of sky lanterns and helium balloons.
"We are also supporting the UK government's efforts to work with retailers and manufacturers to ensure that clear warnings about the risk of helium balloons and sky lanterns are placed on packaging."
Farming unions have previously highlighted the risk the lanterns pose to animals and farm buildings, while fire service bosses have also warned of the dangers.
FUW parliamentary committee chairman Gavin Williams welcomed Mr Davies's intervention, saying the UK government had "failed to act" on the issue.
He said: "The risk of livestock ingesting parts of sky lanterns and the fire risk they represent are a huge concern, and we have asked members to continue to report incidents to their county branches so that evidence of their effects can continue to be collected."
The Marine Conservation Society and Keep Wales Tidy have called for an outright ban.
He said he doesn't like the idea that Apple does not pay tax at the same rate he does personally.
Apple, Google and Amazon have been criticised for not paying enough in tax and the firm is currently the subject of a European Commission tax inquiry.
Mr Wozniak, who left Apple in 1985, was also ambivalent at the prospect of the UK leaving the European Union.
Mr Wozniak - widely known as Woz - founded Apple along with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne 40 years ago. It has grown to become one of the most valuable businesses in the world, worth around $600bn.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "I don't like the idea that Apple might be unfair - not paying taxes the way I do as a person.
"I do a lot of work, I do a lot of travel and I pay over 50% of anything I make in taxes and I believe that's part of life and you should do it."
When asked if Apple should pay that amount, he replied: "Every company in the world should."
He said he was never interested in money, unlike his former partner Steve Jobs. "Steve Jobs started Apple Computers for money, that was his big thing and that was extremely important and critical and good."
Apple channels much of its business in Europe through a subsidiary in the Republic of Ireland, which has a corporation tax rate of 12.5% compared to the UK's 20%.
In the US it's 35%, but three years ago the company admitted two of its Irish subsidiaries pay a rate of 2%. It has built up offshore cash reserves of around $200bn - beyond the reach of US tax officials.
Tax avoidance has been brought back into focus by the recent Panama Papers revelations.
Mr Wozniak said: "We didn't think we'd be figuring out how to go off to the Bahamas and have special accounts like people do to try to hide their money.
"But you know, on the other hand I look back any company that is a public company, its shareholders are going to force it to be as profitable as possible and that means financial people studying all the laws of the world and figuring out all the schemes that work that are technically legal. They're technically legal and it bothers me and I would not live my life that way."
The UK should be free to exit the European Union, Mr Wozniak added.
"I don't care. I think that all the states of Europe - it's better if you have very easy transportation - like movement from one to another to another", he said.
"Like we drive in the US from 50 individual states that all have their own laws and customs and typical types of people - you just drive through, and there are no customs hang-ups or anything...
"I'm not against secession. If a state wants to leave the union let them leave. I don't think we should have even fought our civil war, we should have let the states leave."
Mr Wozniak, who was speaking at the Business Rocks technology summit in Manchester, backed Apple over its recent tangle with US authorities over access to data: "Apple has been the good guy.
"There are politicians who do not have a clue as to what cyber security is all about trying to pass laws saying that Apple has to make a product less secure.
"Why? That's a crime. That is just so horrible. I just cry! Why would Apple do it for such a weak case where the government were not going to get any valuable information at all - it's impossible."
It is an eclectic offering, which includes the likes of Hello Kitty, Jesus Christ and Che Guevara.
But according to Mr Giraldo, stickers boasting the image of Colombia's infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar are by far the most popular.
"The best seller is Pablito," Mr Giraldo says of the crime boss, who was shot dead in Medellin while trying to escape from police 20 years ago.
Mr Giraldo is by no means the only one cashing in on the image of the man many consider the greatest outlaw of the 20th Century.
At the height of his power, Pablo Escobar was said to be the seventh richest man in the world, with his Medellin drugs cartel thought to be behind up to 80% of all the cocaine shipped to the United States.
His cartel not only trafficked drugs, it terrorised Colombia in the 1980s and early 1990s, bribing, kidnapping or killing all those who stood in its way.
Such was his ruthlessness he is widely held responsible for some 4,000 deaths. Others say the real number is closer to 5,000.
And yet, here in Medellin, some people still affectionately refer to Escobar as Pablito, and in the commercial district of Junin T-shirts and wristwatches emblazoned with his face as well as books and DVDs telling his story are on display.
Last year, Colombian TV network Caracol released a 63-episode series called Escobar: The Boss of Evil.
The series has already been sold to 66 countries, including North Korea.
Pirated copies of the series are immensely popular in Medellin's markets even as Caracol airs the series for a second time.
David Bustamante is one of those selling the DVDs. He says he has no qualms about making money out of the drug lord's story.
"I don't mind selling it. Maybe because his was a war that didn't affect me," says Mr Bustamante, who was just a baby when Escobar was killed.
Caracol has not released figures of the profits it has made on the series, but it seems to be on its way to becoming one of the biggest commercial successes in the history of Colombian television.
But not everybody in Colombia is happy about the commercial success of all things Escobar.
"In a way it is an example of the triumph of culture embodied by Pablo Escobar, in which profit, making three bucks, is more important than anything else," says Rodrigo Lara Restrepo, whose father, Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was shot dead on Escobar's orders in 1984.
Federica Arellano agrees with Mr Lara. He lost his father in the 1989 bombing of a commercial plane ordered by Escobar in an attempt to kill presidential candidate Cesar Gaviria.
Mr Gaviria was not on board the plane - having cancelled his plans for security reasons - but all 107 passengers and crew, and three people on the ground, died in the attack.
"Personally, coming back home and seeing his [Escobar's] face on the TV screen is an insult, a slap in the face," Mr Arellano says.
"It is also sending quite a damaging message. It is saying: 'Go and become a criminal, because that way you can make money fast and lift your family out of poverty,'" Mr Arellano, who chairs a foundation for Escobar's victims, argues.
"Thankfully there are still some sensible people who rejected the idea of having the Pablo Escobar trademark registered," he adds, referring to a recent move by the drug baron's family to cash in on his continued popularity.
Escobar's son, Santiago Marroquin, recently launched a clothing range with images of his father.
Mr Marroquin, who lives in Argentina, says he does not sell the garments in Colombia out of respect for his father's victims.
But, at least in Medellin, it is not difficult to find T-shirts bearing Escobar's face, or Colombians who still see the founder of the Medellin cartel as a sort of hero willing to buy them.
"People really like them because it's like wearing a [picture] of a Saint you have faith in," explains Jenny Zapata, who sells Escobar-themed T-shirts at Pasaje Junin in Medellin.
"The thing is, some people see Pablo Escobar as a bad guy and others see him as a hero, as someone who was able to do the things that no-one else was able to do here in Medellin. And a good example is the barrio [neighbourhood] he built," she adds.
The neighbourhood, nicknamed by its inhabitants Pablo Escobar, sits atop one of the many hills that surround Medellin's city centre.
It is one of the many "gifts" Escobar gave to the city's poorest inhabitants in an attempt to secure their loyalty.
It is this sort of generosity which explains why, two decades after his death, he remains a cult figure among some.
A big flag with the drug baron's face clearly marks the neighbourhood's entrance.
"We respect the pain of his victims, but we ask people to understand our joy and gratitude, what it means to move out from a garbage dump to a decent house," Ubernez Zavala, a local community leader, tells the BBC.
According to Mr Zavala, Barrio Pablo Escobar has become a popular stop for tourists, with several companies in town offering Escobar-themed tours.
He says residents do not mind the commercialisation of Escobar's image, but he acknowledges that there is unlikely to be any agreement between those who see Escobar as a monster and those who still worship him as a saint.
"The only consensus is that Pablo Escobar is part of our history," he concludes.
The hosts were 28-6 up at half-time as forward Oliver Roberts twice went over.
Ryan Brierley, Ukuma Ta'ia and Kyle Wood all crossed twice and Gene Ormsby, Michael Lawrence and Ryan Hinchcliffe once each to complete the rout.
John Davies, Luke Briscoe and Ian Hardman touched down for the visitors, who have now lost both their matches.
The last four years have been dedicated to winning gold - and over the course of the next four days, each of them will find out whether it was worth all the hard work.
Britain have an impressive Olympic record when it comes to rowing, winning 24 gold, 20 silver and 10 bronze medals since the Games began.
It is also the only sport in which Britain have won gold at every Olympics since 1984 - a run of seven Games - with a certain Sir Steve Redgrave chipping in with five.
BBC Sport asks four British Olympic champions to rate GB's medal chances at London 2012:
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Who are they? Reserves two years ago, Heather Stanning and Helen Glover have transformed themselves into a world-beating crew. They are unbeaten in 2012, having won gold in all three World Cups before setting an Olympic best in the first heat to qualify for Wednesday's final.
Four-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Matthew Pinsent: "You'd have to say they're favourites for the event. They have been solid all season and they've got one race left. Their improvement in the last couple of years has been staggering and I think that's made them more fearless. They haven't been fazed by anything."
Olympic gold and bronze medallist Martin Cross: "These two are a nailed on gold medal. World champions New Zealand haven't got it together and it's hard to see the Australians getting close either. It might be the first British female rowing gold medal and maybe even the first British gold of these Games."
Watch them in the final on Wednesday 1 August at 11.50 BST.
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Who are they? Three-time Olympic silver medallist Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins are unbeaten since they paired up in 2010 - a run of 22 victories. They smashed the Olympic record by nearly five seconds in the heats to confirm their tag as favourites.
Five-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Steve Redgrave: "They seemed so relaxed last week when I saw them and the heats were probably the best I've seen them scull. Everyone talks about three silvers with Katherine but the reality is the first was a surprise, the second was where they should have finished and the third was disappointing as they were joint favourites. Now they're big favourites and a class about everyone else."
Cross: "The heats were a dream start to their Olympic campaign. With Australian rival Kim Crow taking on the single as well, it's hard to see how that extra burden will do anything other than help the British. It looks like the gold Katherine has been waiting for is really on the cards."
Watch them in the final on Friday 3 August at 10:30 BST.
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Who are they? Richard and Peter Chambers are bidding to become the first British brothers to win gold since the Searles triumphed in 1992. Together with Rob Williams and Chris Bartley, they won gold at the last World Cup in Munich and looked impressive on their way to the final in London.
Redgrave: "This is one of the boats which I would put down as favourites for gold. They put the Australian to bed in the heats in impressive fashion. They've still got work to do, but they've shown they have the potential to win big here."
Pinsent: "They are there or thereabouts. If I could sell them a second, that would be invaluable to them because this event is an absolute battle from start to finish. They have looked impressive so far in the regatta and that will give them confidence going forward."
Watch them in the final on Thursday 2 August at 10:00 BST.
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Who are they? Constantine Louloudis returned to the boat which includes James Foad, Ric Egington, Matt Langridge, Alex Partridge, Tom Ransley, Mo Sbihi, Greg Searle and cox Phelan Hill - just before the Olympic regatta having recovered from a back injury. They have improved race by race but Germany remain favourites.
Redgrave: "The eight will have great confidence after winning the repechage. Louloudis raced twice this season and that's been in this regatta. The Germans have won every race in last four years, but won't have it all their own way. I think our guys can spring a surprise."
Cross: "They have made a real step on and are in the silver medal zone. The need to do something that I haven't seen from them at all this season to win gold. It's a big ask, but it's not impossible. It would be one of the most sensational performances if they do beat the Germans for gold."
Watch them in the final on Wednesday 1 August at 12:30 BST.
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Who are they? The boat made famous by Redgrave, Pinsent, James Cracknell and Tim Foster won gold in the last three Olympics. Pete Reed, Andy Triggs Hodge, Tom James and Alex Gregory have only raced in this formation since June but they are neck-and-neck with Australia in the battle for gold.
Pinsent: "Watching them in the heats, it was the best I've seen them row. The Australians look good so it sets it up nicely for a clash between those two crews in the final. Coming into the regatta, I would have put the Australians as favourites, but after the heats I'd put us marginally ahead."
Two-time Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell: "We all knew both Britain and Australia would win their respective heats, but it was about who got out of the blocks best and I think that was us. I thought we had a grumbling V8 engine beneath our boat compared to an over-revving Japanese one which the Aussies had."
Watch them in the semi-finals on Thursday 2 August at 10:10 BST.
Liam McMeechan and David Allan assaulted Tahir Ahmed at his A&A newsagents in South Trinity Road on 12 August 2016 and tried to steal cash.
McMeechan, 23, pleaded guilty to assault to severe injury, permanent disfigurement and attempted robbery.
Allan, 50, pleaded guilty to assault and attempted robbery at the High Court in Edinburgh.
The court heard Mr Ahmed, 54, fought off machete-wielding McMeechan before the pair fled.
The shopkeeper was treated in hospital for a fractured skull and various lacerations to his head.
Mr Ahmed had 14 staples put into wounds to his forehead and temple and was kept in hospital for 48 hours.
He was left with permanent scarring following the attack.
Police who arrived at the shop found items on the floor along with spatters of blood. The abandoned weapon was also recovered along with a scarf.
The scarf was found to have DNA from the mother of McMeechan, who was the former partner of Allan.
Mr McGuire said CCTV footage placed the two accused together in Edinburgh that day and analysis of McMeechan's phone showed it had been in the vicinity of the crime scene at the time of the offence.
Lord Boyd of Duncansby called for background reports ahead of sentencing next month and remanded the men in custody.
Guernsey's Watson, 23, came within two points of beating Serena Williams in the third round of Wimbledon last year.
Caroline Wozniacki, Victoria Azarenka and Madison Keys have also committed to playing the event, which ends a fortnight before Wimbledon.
"I had some incredible moments on grass last year and want to do even better in 2016," Watson said.
"I was sorry to have to miss the event last year and I'm looking forward to starting my grass-court season there," added the world number 56, who was unable to play last year's tournament through injury.
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Police were called to Cwmcarn High school, Caerphilly county, on Thursday after concerns were raised about the behaviour of two children.
A 15-year-old girl from Newbridge and a 14-year-old girl from Risca were arrested and bailed.
The teacher, Alison Cray, 46, said she had been working as normal since.
"It was all handled before it got to me," said the maths teacher.
"I know very little about it. It all happened elsewhere and I wasn't directly involved at all.
"I've very lucky that I'm at Cwmcarn and that they have handled it so well. I've been working as normal and I'm fine."
Ms Cray has been at the school for more than 10 years.
Gwent Police officers were called just before lunchtime on Thursday but there was no physical confrontation when officers arrived.
Nobody was harmed as a result of the incident and the matter was resolved peacefully.
Police said the 15-year-old pupil was arrested on suspicion of threats to kill, possession of a bladed article on school premises and conspiracy to commit murder.
The second girl was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
Both have been released on bail while the police continue their investigation.
A statement on the school's website from head teacher Jacqui Peplinski following the arrests said: "Please be assured that the concerns were dealt with swiftly.
"There was no risk to any staff or learner and the relevant support services were contacted as a precautionary measure.
"Cwmcarn High is a caring and safe environment and we are committed to everyone's safety. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any concerns."
A spokesman for Caerphilly council and the school said support had been put in place for pupils and staff.
"We would like to assure parents that all appropriate steps were taken to respond effectively to the situation. We are now helping the police with their inquiries," the statement added.
The prime minister will attempt to persuade the Dutch, French, Polish and German premiers to back his changes to the UK's EU membership.
The EU Referendum Bill will confirm the question to be put to voters: "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?"
The vote will take place by 2017.
The referendum bill was announced as part of a packed legislative programme in the Queen's Speech, which also included an increase in free childcare, an income tax freeze and the right-to-buy for housing association tenants.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the EU debate was "where the prime minister's focus is", adding that the answer to the referendum question "will decide whether this Queen's Speech is still being talked about in 100 years' time".
Downing Street said the draft law's first reading in the Commons was a "concrete step towards settling the debate about the UK's membership of the EU".
Mr Cameron has pledged to renegotiate the UK's relationship with the EU before holding the referendum, and has vowed to visit all 27 other member states ahead of a summit in June.
First up are Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and French President Francois Hollande, followed by Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopa and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mr Cameron has called for changes to EU migrants' welfare entitlement, while some Conservatives also want the primacy of British law to be reaffirmed.
The PM has hinted he could vote to leave the EU if his requests are not granted, saying he "rules nothing out".
Downing Street said the choice put to voters "should not be on the basis of the status quo but on a reformed relationship with the EU that the PM is determined to deliver".
But some member states have questioned the need for any change to EU treaties, and ruled out any watering down of the key principle of freedom of movement.
David Cameron is starting renegotiation of the terms of Britain's EU membership ahead of a referendum. Here is some further reading on what it all means:
The UK and the EU: Better off in or out?
What Britain wants from Europe
Q&A: The UK's planned EU referendum
Timeline: EU referendum debate
Why Germany is David Cameron's new best friend
Responding to the Queen's Speech, Labour's acting leader Harriet Harman said her party would back the referendum bill.
Outgoing Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg warned against complacency and called for Mr Cameron to lead the bid for Britain to stay in the EU with conviction.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the wording of the referendum question was "simple, straightforward" and "unambiguous".
He added: "However, that Cameron is opting to give the pro-EU side the positive 'Yes' suggests strongly that his negotiations are so much fudge.
"He has already decided which way he wants the answer to be given, without a single power repatriated."
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It is a fiction. All that has happened is that the front lines have remained static. There are no big offensives going on - for the moment.
In light of the evident failure of the ceasefire, talks are today scheduled to take place between military representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the rebels to discuss a new peace deal in the Donetsk region.
Despite an apparent truce called at Donetsk Airport on Monday night, fighting there is continuing.
In a separate announcement, the rebels of the neighbouring Luhansk region said they had agreed with the Ukrainian military to cease fire on 5 December "in principle".
But all the morbid facts of war - the killing, maiming, terrorising - go on every day and night in the east.
On the fringes of Donetsk airport the rebels and Ukrainian forces exchange artillery fire. Rifles and machine guns rattle away in the freezing mist.
Artillery spotters on both sides watch for movement and call in strikes from the guns and multiple rocket launchers. As we crouched in a trench, shells whistled over and exploded to our rear.
We could not tell where they landed. Loud enough to shake the ground and make us hug the earth but far enough away not to shower us with shrapnel.
Earlier rounds had shredded trees in the small wood where we were now taking cover. Mud had been thrown onto the road by the detonations.
Civilians are frequently killed by artillery strikes. While we were in Donetsk a 12-year-old boy was decapitated and a 55-year-old woman killed in a rocket barrage.
Locals blamed the Ukrainian army for that attack. Both sides have caused civilian casualties. The war is being fought mainly in urban areas like Donetsk or the other rebel capital, Luhansk.
In Donetsk we saw rebel armour parked next to a basement that was sheltering around 20 elderly people.
Among most people we met there was a fervent desire for an end to all fighting.
Lyubov Vasilievna was with her two grandchildren when they were caught in an artillery strike on the first day of the ceasefire last September.
They lived in the village of Lebedinskoye between the government lines at Mariupol on the Sea of Azov and the rebel positions further east.
The children - Nikita, 12, and Karolina, 6, - were killed. Lyubov, who was trying to hurry them to safety, was wounded herself.
I met her in hospital on the day of the tragedy. Back then she was still struggling to believe what had happened. Now she is deeply traumatised.
"It is difficult. It is very difficult. Because every day and night, I see the image in front of my eyes as though it were yesterday," she says.
"And I go to bed at night and I think maybe it could have ended differently because it is really, really difficult. Every day I remember it."
She remembered how in the mornings when the children woke they would call out to her. Nikita, who was severely disabled, was her "little sunshine" and Karolina would ask her for a hug.
"My soul aches because I'll never see them again. They'll never say again that they love me. I miss my grandchildren."
Her daughter, Tatiana, aged 29, was the children's mother. She lives a few yards from where the shell killed Nikita and Karolina.
She stares into the distance as she talks, a young woman lost and shuffling through the days, wrapped in disbelief.
"I don't believe it even now. People in the village have said that there is something wrong with my mind because I still don't believe that they are gone…I keep on thinking they will come home soon, that they are in a hospital or in a nursery."
Nobody has investigated the deaths of Nikita and Karolina. There has been no accounting for what was done to them at a time when a ceasefire was supposed to be in operation.
Of course nobody will formally declare the ceasefire over. For different political reasons the rebels, the Kiev government, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the West have decided to live with the fiction.
The government struggles with a collapsing economy, constant political crisis and an army that is still too weak to take on the might of Russian-backed rebels. That army is also bolstered in the east by far right militias accused of serious human rights abuses.
The rebels are faction-ridden and depend on Russia for their survival. They faced defeat at the government's hands last autumn until Moscow made a decisive intervention.
For now they have the firepower to sustain the stalemate, but their two republics - in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions - are illegal under international law and fertile ground for warlords and criminals.
The European Union - still divided over its policy - and the White House place their hopes in sanctions against Russia.
But it is a theoretical hope.
There is no realistic expectation that President Putin will stop providing the rebels with their military strength.
For now sanctions are a price he is willing to pay to impose his will on Ukraine and confront the West expansion to Russia's borders.
Sanctions may limit the possibility of an escalation in fighting or an overt Russian invasion of the east.
But nobody can be absolutely sure of that. The last nine months have been defined by Vladimir Putin's refusal to play by the West's idea of logic.
Having encouraged Kiev to embrace the idea of EU and Nato membership, the Europeans and Americans were utterly unprepared for President Putin's counter-strikes - first in Crimea and then eastern Ukraine.
There was a complacent assumption that Vladimir Putin would confine himself to rhetorical opposition to western expansion to his borders, and that he would rely on diplomacy to respond to the ousting of Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Moscow president in Kiev.
The fallacy of that belief is exposed in the airport suburbs of Donetsk and in the hospitals where the wounded and dying are taken.
This European war is no longer in the daily headlines but it grinds on, dangerous and unpredictable, a testament to a toxic combination of political failure and ruthlessness.
Powerhouse Fitness, which has nine stores across the UK, was acquired by Germany-based Sport-Tiedje Group for an undisclosed sum.
Sport-Tiedje currently runs 30 home fitness equipment stores in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark.
The company said it would retain the Powerhouse brand name and staff.
Powerhouse Fitness, which is the trading name of Laidir Leisure Ltd, was founded by David Webster in 1980 and opened its first store in Glasgow in 1987.
It now has outlets in London, Glasgow, Nottingham, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Leeds.
In the financial year to June, the company had a turnover of £22m.
Sport-Tiedje chief executive Christian Grau said: "Our company philosophy is to offer our customers the best product for them with the best service and at the best price-performance ratio and we will continue to do this in the UK."
Stokes, 25, was injured while bowling in England's 330-run series-levelling win at Old Trafford in the second Test.
The all-rounder was replaced by Steven Finn for the third Test at Edgbaston, which started on Wednesday.
Stokes is hoping to be fit for the one-day series against Pakistan, which begins on 24 August.
He told BBC Test Match Special: "There was a possibility of being fit for the last Test but rather than risk more damage we decided to take it easy.
"I came back from South Africa and the first Test match back I did my knee. Now I've done my calf. It's been frustrating but I haven't written my summer off yet."
Stokes scored 34 in the first innings of the second Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford and had match figures of 2-60 before leaving the field injured on day four.
This is Stokes' third notable injury in the past nine months. He damaged his shoulder in the third Test against Pakistan last October, and consequently missed the four-match one-day series and three Twenty20.
He then injured his knee in the first Test against Sri Lanka in May, which resulted in a month on the sidelines.
Stokes made his competitive return in the T20 Blast for Durham on 24 June and played five T20s and two first-class games, but was left out of England's squad for the first Test against Pakistan, which the visitors won by 75 runs.
The blast happened on Thursday afternoon in the al-Qa'tour district of the port city of Latakia.
Syrian state news agency Sana said a motorcycle bomb was responsible.
Syrian state TV channel Ikhbariya said it happened as people were leaving prayers. It was not immediately clear how many casualties there were from the bomb, or who carried it out.
Latakia lies in a coastal region that is home to President Bashar al-Assad's extended clan. Until recently, it had been largely spared the violence that has engulfed much of Syria during the civil war.
But dozens of people were killed in nearby cities last month in bombing and other attacks which were carried out by the so-called Islamic State group (IS).
One officer has been charged with rape, and three more with assault.
Hundreds marched in Aulnay-sous-Bois on Monday in support of the man who has been identified only as Theo.
The 22-year-old said he left his house and found himself in the middle of a police identity check, targeting drug dealers, by chance last Thursday.
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Theo said he was sodomised with a truncheon, as well as racially abused, spat at and beaten around his genitals.
He has undergone emergency surgery for severe anal injuries, and has been declared unfit for work for 60 days. He remains in hospital, where he spoke to his lawyer.
He said the police operation quickly turned violent and he was set upon by four officers. He struggled to make sure he was in the view of CCTV cameras, and asked the officers why they were doing this to him.
He said one officer proceeded to pull his trousers down and rape him with a truncheon.
"I fell on to my stomach, I had no strength left," he said.
He was then sprayed with tear gas around the head and in the mouth and hit over the head, he said.
Theo was then taken to a police station where he said a "much friendlier" police officer saw his condition and sent him to hospital.
Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux suspended the officers and said the facts of the case must be established with "no ambiguity".
A lawyer for the officer facing the rape charge said any injury inflicted during the operation was accidental and his client had "never wished at any time to cause any injury to the victim".
A police union chief, Yves Lefebvre, told AP the rape charge was lodged "to calm or to stop a violent outburst".
Unrest was reported in the neighbourhood over the weekend and continued on Monday evening. Reports said a dozen cars were set on fire, rubbish bins burned and arson attempts made on two restaurants. Twenty-four arrests were made.
"The feeling of humiliation is felt by people," Abdallah Benjana, a former deputy mayor who lives in the neighbourhood, told Associated Press news agency.
"What are [the police officers] seeking? To provoke a spark? Isn't there enough gunpowder in those neighbourhoods?
"Unemployment, insecurity, high rents... no perspectives for future. They do that to a young man, it can only explode."
The tensions have revived memories of the 2005 riots around the French capital, when Aulnay-sous-Bois was one of the worst-affected areas.
Gavin McKenna was one of about 1,000 people at a BBC Radio 4 debate at Birmingham Town Hall on Monday night to discuss the causes of the riots.
He said it would be simple to blame gangs but university students and athletes were also among those looting.
Hundreds of officers tackled two nights of disorder in the West Midlands in August during which three men died.
Former gang leader Gavin McKenna said: "I don't agree with everything that happened and I don't say it's right.
"I don't condone it but it's not just gangs you know, it's the easy thing to say it is. It's easy to label everyone as a gang member or as a gang or a thug.
"There was university students there, there was positive athletes stealing and robbing stuff too."
West Midlands Police Chief Constable Chris Sims said riot police had been issued with plastic bullets to deal with looters.
He said it was standard practice to use plastic bullets when officers were at risk of being targeted.
The force has been criticised by some community leaders for dealing too slowly with riots on the evenings of the 8 and 9.
Mr Sims said no shots were fired at looters by police.
Speaking after the debate, he said: "As part of the reflections that we all need to have, as these events sort of settle in our minds, is to understand that policing needs to be left to police and that the consequences of being on the street can be dangerous to the wider community."
During the disorder the force closed off the main routes into Birmingham city centre at night and urged people to keep off the streets and stay at home.
Five people have been charged with murder in connection with the deaths of three men who were hit by a car during rioting in Birmingham in early hours of 10 August.
Haroon Jahan, 21, and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, died while protecting property from looters in Dudley Road, Winson Green.
Figures for January show it affected more than 3,000 people.
It comes as the number of people being seen at A&E across Wales within four hours improved slightly last month.
The figure of 82.3% is up from 81% in December, but is still well below the 95% Welsh government target.
In total, 73,199 people attended emergency departments last month.
The statistics refer to time taken until admission, transfer or discharge, not just the time it took for someone to be seen for the first time.
A Welsh government spokesman said emergency units are seeing increasingly more patients.
"Despite these increases in demand, the latest statistics for January show that eight out of 10 patients spent less than four hours in A&E units from arrival until admission, transfer or discharge," he said.
"However, the number of patients waiting over 12 hours is unacceptable. We expect health boards to work with local authorities and other partners to ensure that patients can be treated, admitted and discharged appropriately and receive safe and effective care."
Helen Birtwhistle, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, said emergency units were under increasing pressure and a "system-wide change" in treatment is needed.
The Dons were ahead with only nine minutes gone, Kieran Agard nodding home a loose ball after Nicky Maynard's stunning strike crashed off the crossbar.
And it was to get better for Dons, a second goal coming after 26 minutes when a defensive mix-up saw the ball fall kindly to Chuks Aneke. He picked out Agard who made no mistake in doubling his tally from close range.
Swindon pulled a goal back nine minutes later after a deep cross into the box found Luke Norris who squeezed the ball in.
But Samir Carruthers' neat through-ball saw Maynard extend the advantage once more, beating the offside trap to slot home his 100th career goal.
Swindon never gave up, setting up a nervy finale as Raphael Rossi Branco headed home with 25 minutes remaining, only to fall short and suffer a third defeat in four league outings.
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Match ends, MK Dons 3, Swindon Town 2.
Second Half ends, MK Dons 3, Swindon Town 2.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Luke Norris (Swindon Town).
Foul by Joe Walsh (MK Dons).
Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sean Murray (Swindon Town).
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by David Martin.
Attempt saved. John Goddard (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, MK Dons. Kabongo Tshimanga replaces Nicky Maynard because of an injury.
Ben Reeves (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lloyd Jones (Swindon Town).
James Brophy (Swindon Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ryan Colclough (MK Dons).
Attempt blocked. Daniel Powell (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Powell (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Luke Norris (Swindon Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Dean Lewington (MK Dons).
Darnell Furlong (Swindon Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, MK Dons. Ryan Colclough replaces Kieran Agard.
George B Williams (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jermaine Hylton (Swindon Town).
Attempt saved. Nicky Maynard (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Joe Walsh.
Attempt blocked. Luke Norris (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Nicky Maynard (MK Dons) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Foul by Daniel Powell (MK Dons).
Darnell Furlong (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, MK Dons. Daniel Powell replaces Chuks Aneke.
Goal! MK Dons 3, Swindon Town 2. Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by James Brophy following a corner.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by David Martin.
Attempt saved. Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by George B Williams.
Tom Smith (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chuks Aneke (MK Dons).
Attempt saved. Lloyd Jones (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Chuks Aneke.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by George B Williams.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Paul Downing.
The 51-year-old took charge of Boro for the first time after Aitor Karanka's sacking as they lost 3-1 to Manchester United at the Riverside on Sunday.
Boro owner Steve Gibson said before the Premier League match that Agnew could be "the glue to unify us completely".
Asked if staying in charge was what he wanted, Agnew said: "Of course. It's a club I have a big affection for."
Speaking to BT Sport, he added: "It's a pleasure to be in charge of the team and see them respond.
"I know we'll take that fighting spirit for the rest of the season."
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Karanka was sacked on Thursday after three and a half years at the club, with Boro in the relegation zone and without a win in 10 Premier League matches.
They fell 2-0 behind on Sunday to goals from Marouane Fellaini and Jesse Lingard, before substitute Rudy Gestede pulled one back with Boro's first league goal for 509 minutes.
But Victor Valdes' late slip allowed Antonio Valencia to tap in late on and seal United's victory.
"I think the second goal is what set us back a little bit," said Agnew. "I couldn't be more proud of the players, the fighting spirit they showed, and the crowd was top-class.
"If we show that commitment and that sort of intensity until the end of the season then we have a real chance of staying in this league."
Agnew said it was "a relief" to see the team end their Premier League goal drought.
"When we got that goal, we had Manchester United defending in the box for their lives," he added.
"We didn't quite get the bounce of the ball to get the equaliser, which on the balance of play I thought we deserved."
Speaking before the game, Gibson had hinted Agnew could be Karanka's long-term successor as manager.
He told the club's website: "I hope he's here this time next year or the year after.
"He is a very good coach, a deep thinker, has loads of experience, knows this club, is a man of integrity and the players trust and like him.
"I've known him a long, long time and he's a smashing lad. I think he can be the glue to unify us completely."
Gibson, who believes the Boro squad is good enough to stay up, also paid tribute to Karanka, who guided the club back into the top flight at the end of last season.
"He's a great guy and he's part of our history," said Gibson. "He achieved something very difficult.
"We are better because of him and I hope he is better because of the experience. We wish him all the very best. He deserves a good future in the game."
Batsman Joyce, 34, took over the captaincy at the end of July after Michael Yardy stood down from the role.
Sussex cricket manager Mark Robinson said: "Ed stepped in to Michael's shoes seamlessly last season and formed a strong alliance with Nashy.
"They both bring a wealth of experience and knowledge and I am excited at working with them."
Ireland international Joyce, who led the Hove outfit in four County Championship and five CB40 games last season, said it was "a great honour and privilege" to continue leading the side in 2013.
"I hugely enjoyed doing the job for the last few months of the season and I feel very strongly we can bring some silverware back to Hove next year," he said.
"With Murray Goodwin moving on and Rory Hamilton-Brown re-signing, the team will be slightly in transition next year.
"But it should also be a very exciting time for the club with a younger side and perhaps some more opportunities for the younger members of the squad to show what they can do.
"We will all be working as hard as possible to try and bring as much success as Yards has had in his time as captain."
The 27-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene after her Peugeot 208 crashed on the A689 at Crosby at about 13:00 GMT on Sunday.
A man and two children were flown to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.
The Great North Air Ambulance said the man suffered "multiple injuries" while the children had minor injuries.
Amir, 23, was playing for Pakistan for the first time since his suspension for spot-fixing ended.
Pakistan beat their hosts by 16 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series, with Mohammad Hafeez scoring 61 as they reached 171-8.
Amir opened the bowling, taking 1-31 from four overs, but did not bat.
The left-arm fast bowler was convicted for spot-fixing in a Lord's Test in 2010 and was one of three Pakistan players jailed in November 2011 for his part in a conspiracy to bowl deliberate no-balls against England.
He served three months in prison.
Amir's suspension originally covered all forms of the game but, in January last year, he was cleared to play domestic cricket in Pakistan.
Earlier this month, he was named in Pakistan's squad to tour New Zealand for three Twenty20 and three one-day internationals.
Despite a valiant 70 from Black Caps skipper Kane Williamson, it was Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi who stood out at Eden Park, scoring 23, taking 2-26, and claiming three catches and a run-out.
In a frustrating day for Amir, Williamson was dropped off his bowling in the fourth over.
He had another catch spilled toward the end of the match before taking the wicket of Matt Henry in the penultimate over.
The two teams will play the second of their three T20 internationals in Hamilton on Sunday.
Matthew Hoggard says Amir will take "a bit of flak" from the Barmy Army if selected for Pakistan's tour of England this summer.
"He will be tested by the English fans," the former England bowler told BBC World's Stumped programme.
"He will have to be strong enough to say: 'Yes, I did do it in the past, but that's behind me.'
"He's going to have to take a bit of flak and get the trust from his team-mates and the public again.
"He's now got to prove beyond doubt that he's whiter than white."
England bowler Mark Wood told BBC Radio 5 live's Friday Sports Panel: "The spot fixing thing caused a big disruption in cricket and the sport took a while to recover. It was shocking.
"Even now if someone bowls a wide or a no ball in certain games you question it and that's because of what happened that day.
"If it was an English player you'd feel certainly let down that you were giving your all for your country and knowing that they blatantly cheated or tried to affect the result in any way.
"It really would leave a bitter taste in my mouth and I would find it difficult to have any sort of sympathy for them if they came back in the team."
The King Abdullah Economic City, (KAEC, pronounced "cake") is one of four new cities upon which the late monarch pinned his hopes for the future of his realm once the oil runs out.
Peppered with cranes, the city - or building site to be more accurate - lies one-and-a-half hour's drive north of Jeddah between the Red Sea and scrubby desert.
Its future depends on balancing the complex and evolving transport, health, education, housing and employment requirements of the city's projected two million residents.
According to Fahd Al-Rasheed, the managing director of Emaar Economic City, the publicly traded Saudi company that runs the entire KAEC project, the new generation of Saudis expect a city that matches the modern lifestyle they have grown used to while studying abroad.
"We're building with the 65% of the population who are under 30 in mind," he explains. "And we have almost 200,000 Saudis studying abroad. Inevitably they are going to change things when they come back."
These statistics are compounded by the fact that more women than men graduate from university. These changing demographics are bringing with them new social demands that will likely revolutionise how the country develops.
At 70 sq miles KAEC will eventually be a metropolis slightly larger than Washington DC and at a cost of $100bn (£67bn), mostly from private funding, the King Abdullah Economic City is second to none in the grandeur of its vision.
"We aim to create one of the world's largest ports," says Rayan Bukhari, a young manager at the King Abdullah port.
"We're not competing with Jeddah's Islamic port - but we are going to take business away from Jebel Ali in Dubai. That's because of our quicker, more automated offloading and customs procedure."
According to Mr Bukhari, King Abdullah was determined to involve the private sector in the economic development of the country; casting aside tribal and regional rivalries in the interests of creating a modern business economy.
"Freight arriving at the port will be taken directly to the capital via the new land bridge," he explains, "At the moment lots of products destined for Riyadh are shipped to Dubai, but that will change. They'll be shipped here as it is cheaper - and can be delivered more quickly within the Kingdom."
Speed is integral to KAEC's vision for future. With Mecca and Medina on the high speed train network that links KAEC with the two holy cities, well-heeled Umrah (pilgrimage to Mecca) pilgrims are expected to visit the city as they travel from the place where the Prophet was born to the place where he is buried.
"The Haramain station is due to open by the end of the year," says Fahd Al-Rasheed, "That train service will alter a lot of things for us."
The station is designed by British architect Norman Foster, famed for London's "Gherkin" skyscraper and the Reichstag Dome in Berlin.
It is expected to reduce the journey time from Jeddah to 30 minutes and bring religious tourists to the city on extended pilgrim visas.
And as Jeddah becomes ever more clogged with cars, KAEC claim's it will limit fuel emissions by providing electric cars for use within the city free of charge.
It has, however, not been entirely plain sailing for the country's newest city.
Even though KAEC is developed and managed by the private sector and is listed on the Saudi stock exchange (Tadawul), economic realities in the Gulf have hit home and necessitated a government loan amid the current fall in oil prices and the more widespread economic downturn.
The speed of social change in the kingdom is also making itself felt for what has become a fluid master plan.
"We've altered our plan four times already," confirms Head of Strategic Planning Tareq Salaita, "We may well need to have another rethink."
Creating a massive new city that is able to encourage enterprise in a practical way has up-ended the usual rigmarole of applying for permissions.
The government has set up an Economic Cities Authority overseeing all four megacities and dealing with every licence, construction permit and approval needed from different ministries. This time-saving move should help the hundred companies that are setting up in KAEC avoid costly delays.
So far only 15% of the city has been developed - industrial estates, residential districts and public facilities are currently under construction.
Ninety kilometres of roads are already in use but what about the thorny question of women driving? In 20 years when KAEC is due to be completed, will females be behind the wheel?
According to Dania Beidas, who lives and works in the city during the week, in two decades the question may well be irrelevant.
"I hope that we will be allowed to drive here eventually," she says. "But with driverless cars in the pipeline, it may not matter any more."
Their early work with Tony Hancock pioneered what became known as situation comedy.
They went on to create Steptoe and Son, which became the most watched comedy on TV over its 12-year run.
But, although they continued to write, they failed to replicate the success of their early work.
Alan Simpson was born in Brixton, London on 27 November 1929.
After leaving school, he obtained a job as a shipping clerk before contracting tuberculosis. He became so ill that he was not expected to live and was given the last rites.
However, he survived, and while a patient in a sanatorium in Surrey he found himself alongside another teenage TB sufferer named Ray Galton.
Galton never forgot his first sight of his future partner, 6ft 4in tall with a build to match. "He was the biggest bloke I'd ever seen."
They discovered a shared love of American humorists such as Damon Runyon and had both listened to the BBC radio comedy programmes Take It From Here and The Goon Shows.
Their first work together was for hospital radio. Have You Ever Wondered was based on their experiences in the sanatorium, which was played out in 1949.
When Simpson left hospital he was asked by a local church concert party to write a show and he roped in Ray Galton to help. They also began sending one-liners to the BBC, which secured them a job writing for a struggling radio show called Happy-Go-Lucky.
The pair also linked up with several other promising new comedy writers and performers of the time, notably Eric Sykes, Peter Sellers, Frankie Howerd and Tony Hancock.
They were quickly tiring of the format of radio comedy shows of the time which included music, sketches and one-liners, and hankered after something with more depth.
They came up with the idea of comedy where all the humour came from the situations in which characters find themselves. Tony Hancock liked the idea and Hancock's Half Hour was born.
It is often credited as the first true radio sitcom, although two other shows of the time, A Life of Bliss and Life with the Lyons, were already using the format in 1954 when Hancock first aired.
Over the following five years the writers developed the format, often taking cues from a new generation of playwrights such as John Osborne and Harold Pinter.
The pace of each show became slow and more measured, in direct contrast to the speedy wise-cracking delivery of contemporary radio comedians such as Ted Ray.
Simpson himself appeared in early episodes as the unknown man who had to suffer Hancock's interminable monologues.
In 1956 the series transferred to TV and ran until 1961. The final series was just entitled Hancock and it was that run which featured the best-known shows including The Blood Donor ("It was either that or join the Young Conservatives") and The Radio Ham, in which Hancock proves completely incapable of responding to a distress signal from a sinking yachtsman.
Hancock, who was becoming increasingly self-critical and drinking heavily, sacked his writers in 1961. Unwilling to lose them, the BBC commissioned them to write scripts for Comedy Playhouse, a series of one-off sitcoms.
One play, entitled, The Offer, spawned Steptoe and Son, the tale of two rag-and-bone merchants, a father and son, living in Oil Drum Lane, Shepherd's Bush.
The script relied on the clash between the two characters; Albert, the grasping father with none too hygienic personal habits and Harold, his aspirational son who yearns for a better life but never achieves it. The show was unusual in that the two performers, Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett, were actors rather than comedians.
The original four series ran between 1962 and 1965 and the show was revived between 1970 and 1974, during which time two feature film versions were also released.
It proved to be the high point for the duo. There was further work with Frankie Howerd and, in 1977, Yorkshire TV attempted to replicate the success of Comedy Playhouse with Galton & Simpson's Playhouse, although none of the episodes produced a series.
Simpson quit writing in 1978 to pursue his other business interests although he and Galton remained close friends. In 1996 they reunited to update some of their best-known scripts for the comedian Paul Merton.
Simpson blamed their later lack of popularity on the fact that shows were commissioned by armies of managers rather than producers.
"Fifty years ago," he said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph, "if you had an idea, it could be going out in three weeks; the time it took to build the sets. Now it has to go through committees and the process takes years."
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He told me when Mr Hammond was shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, the MP for Runnymede and Weybridge did "a lot of the heavy lifting" when it came to working out the Conservative plan for tackling the UK's economic challenges.
Cut the deficit and shrink public sector expenditure was the route alighted upon.
At the time a fiscal hawk of the George Osborne variety - and a big fan of the European Union single market to boot - Mr Hammond is going to have to find a new tone.
Theresa May has signalled a looser approach to borrowing to mitigate any effects of a post-Brexit economic downturn.
And membership of the single market versus a clampdown on free movement of people will be the defining battle of Britain's departure from the EU.
Mr Hammond will be a pivotal player.
As he will on whether Heathrow or Gatwick - or anywhere - gets the go-ahead for a new runway.
Or if the planned new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point continues to receive the government's support.
All eyes will be on his first big Parliamentary outing - the Autumn Statement later in the year.
By then he will have seen the first forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility on the state of the public finances post the referendum.
What will his approach be to tax and spending given many economists believe the next few months will be challenging?
And how will the former Foreign Secretary signal that he is not Mr Osborne Mark II?
Mrs May clearly wants some fresh thinking.
The device, the only one if its kind in the UK, is the centrepiece of a new centre for designer quantum materials.
It will help create the next generation of electronic devices, one layer of atoms at a time.
There is no doubt that it looks fantastic.
It fills an entire laboratory. Its stainless steel tubes gleam. Its lights flash.
Its valves open and close and its computer monitors flicker.
Despite appearances it is science fact, not science fiction.
But what is it exactly? The answer trips off Dr Peter Wahl's tongue.
"This is a reactive oxide molecular beam epitaxy system," he says.
Happily for the rest of us he can also explain what that means.
"It is an instrument which allows us to build materials a single atomic layer at a time.
"So we can combine different materials, stacking them on top of each other, and basically changing the material with each individual layer."
To make these custom-engineered "supermaterials" the system uses high vacuums and temperatures.
Talk of the quantum world may bring to mind ideas like Schrodinger's Cat, which was supposedly alive and dead at the same time.
Creating quantum materials is a less intimidating concept.
It means manipulating things at their most basic level - in this case, atom by atom.
Dr Wahl, a reader in the school of physics and astronomy, makes it sound even less intimidating by invoking children's plastic bricks.
It is, he says, like playing Lego with atoms: putting two seemingly boring materials together as extremely thin films to make new stuff that's very interesting indeed.
"One relatively large field of potential applications for these materials is in what's called spintronics, where the spin of the electron suddenly becomes important and one can exploit it for new device functionalities."
Other potential applications include super-efficient energy distribution and high performance sensors.
It could lead to electronic devices that are a single atom thick.
Building exotic, designer, quantum materials does not come cheap.
The new centre represents an investment of £2m by the university, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA).
That's on top of previous investments of more than £4m by SUPA, the Scottish Funding Council and the university.
In return, St Andrews has created a facility that is unique in these islands to create materials that have never been seen before.
The stadium and training facilities would be built at Kingsford, close to the Aberdeen bypass, near Westhill.
The Yes to Kingsford Stadium group believes the 20,000-seat venue would be a vital step forward, however there has been opposition.
An exhibition will be held at Pittodrie on Thursday from 15:00 to 21:00, at the AAM Suite in the Richard Donald Stand.
George Yule, executive vice chairman of AFC, said: "The glories of our past and solid footing of our present cannot sustain the club in the future and that is why we embarked on a new journey some four years ago - a journey that will take us to long-term success and sustainability, on and off the pitch.
"We will be providing a stadium that supports our ambition and meets the expectations of our fans alongside outstanding community sports facilities."
Mauricio Pochettino, meanwhile, refuses to blame nerves as his title-chasing Tottenham side lose 1-0 at West Ham.
And Manchester City's Manuel Pellegrini says he is not thinking about the title after watching his side crash to a 3-0 defeat against Liverpool at Anfield.
It all means Leicester remain top of the table, with just 10 games left.
The Foxes have 57 points, extending their lead in the latest round of games thanks to Tuesday's 2-2 draw at West Brom.
Position: Third Played: 28 Points: 51.
Defeat at home by Swansea means Arsenal have lost three games in a row for the first time since 2010.
After Ashley Williams scored a late winner for the Welsh side, Wenger said his side's loss of form "looks a bit" like a confidence issue.
"I am worrying about our results," he said. "We don't dream. We have to be realistic and come back to what we do well... the basics.
"The players are very down but we have to respond. We have to focus on our job and remind ourselves that we have some quality as well."
Alan Shearer's view:
The Match of the Day pundit says Arsenal's problems are nothing new.
"There is a lack of fight, lack of leadership," he said. "The same questions are hanging over them. Arsenal's issues have been repeated over and over."
Position: Second Played: 28 Points: 54
Spurs had the chance to top the table in the month of March for the first time since 1964 but looked a shadow of the side who had won six successive league games.
"Was it nerves? No," said Pochettino. "I think we made some mistakes that we normally don't make.
"We started badly, conceded a goal and West Ham played better than us. We were poor. But the way the players fought in the second half was fantastic.
"We are very disappointed. The Premier League is very competitive, with no easy games. You need to be 100% mentally and physically."
Alan Shearer's view:
The Match of the Day pundit says the Hammers deserved their victory.
"Spurs lacked energy, they had no spark, their passing was poor," he said. "West Ham were dominant all game. They overpowered Spurs."
Position: Fourth Played: 27 Points: 47
Three days after their League Cup final win over Liverpool, City managed just four shots and ran 106km compared to the Reds' 115km.
"I could see the team was not recovered from the last week," says Pellegrini. "We played in the Champions League and League Cup final.
"The Premier League continues exactly the same all season. Not one team makes the difference,
"I said always the team that wins title will be less than 80 points. I am not thinking about the title but to recover our performance."
Danny Murphy's view:
The Match of the Day pundit says he was shocked City were defeated so convincingly.
"City were sloppy, they did look tired," he said. "Fernando was the only player who kept going. The others gave up far too easily."
Position: Fifth Played: 28 Points: 47
Arsenal, Spurs and Man City may have lost, but it was a good night for Manchester United and their manager, Louis van Gaal.
United are now level on points with fourth-placed Manchester City after a 1-0 home win over Watford.
"I have to give big compliments to our players because when it is physical and you can win at an important moment, when all our competitors are losing, it's very important," said Van Gaal.
"That's the Premier League, the difference between clubs is so small. You can lose against every opponent, I think.
"We lost against Sunderland and there was a lot of criticism but now you see we are closer to the fourth position, so now we are fighting for it."
Danny Murphy's view:
The Match of the Day pundit says he is amazed United are level on points with City after all the issues they have had.
"Watford caused them all sorts of problems and they could have been in big trouble," he said. "None of us can predict what's going to happen."
The Cavan woman ended the tournament on two under while fellow Irish competitor Stephanie Meadow was two over.
Meadow, from Jordanstown, fired a 72 and she finished in joint 31st.
South Korea's Inbee Park won the gold medal on 16 under, five clear of world number one Lydia Ko of New Zealand while China's Shanshan Feng won bronze.
Great Britain's Charley Hull shot a 68 to finish tied for seventh on eight under as women's golf returned to the Games for the first time since 1900.
Maguire finished top amateur at the recent British Open when she shared 25th place.
Meadow, 24, came third in the US Women's Open in her first season as a professional in 2014 but has struggled over the last 18 months.
The death of her father from cancer last year was a devastating blow for the Ulsterwoman and she has dropped to 473rd in the world rankings.
Meadow was a late inclusion in the Olympic field after the Dutch pair Anne Van Dam and Christel Boeljon were withdrawn from the 60-strong field for not meeting their country's qualifying criteria of being in the world's top 100.
Pembrokeshire discus thrower James Tomlinson threw 60.11m to also take silver.
Earlier 14-year-old swimmer Medi Harris won silver in the 50m backstroke, while Swansea's Lewis Fraser won bronze in the 50m butterfly.
Team Wales has taken its medal count up to four after three days' competition.
Peter MacKay, 63, from Maidenwells, died in the crash involving a grey Mitsubishi Shogun on the B4319 Pembroke to Maidenwells road on 2 July.
Mr MacKay was an urgent care worker for Wales Ambulance Service.
In a written tribute his family said his death had left a "massive void" in their lives.
The statement read: "Devoted husband, loving father, proud grandfather, loyal friend.
"It is impossible to sum up a fitting tribute to you Pete, dad, there is not enough space in this paper, nor the words in the dictionary to even begin to come close to describing the man that you were.
"The massive void that has been left in our lives will never be filled, but... the fond memories will always be there for us to call upon when the wicket becomes a little sticky.
"His life touched the hearts of so many... this has become apparent from the messages and support that has been given to our family."
Dyson said last week that it had issued proceedings against its competitor, alleging that they had misled consumers in "behaviour akin to the Volkswagen scandal".
BSH Home Appliances, owned by Bosch, denied the allegations and on Wednesday announced it was initiating its own legal steps.
It called Dyson's claims "unfounded and untrue".
BSH chief executive Karsten Ottenberg said: "We have long since been aware that James Dyson has a history of taking a very aggressive approach against his competitors and has a desire to be in the public eye."
The company said all its vacuum cleaners were tested in accordance with the EU Energy Label and Ecodesign Directive for vacuum cleaners and met the standards in full.
Dyson has said independent testing had shown that machines made by Bosch and marketed under the Bosch and Siemens brands, could draw more than 1600 watts of power when used in the home despite having a rating of 750 watts.
Dyson said the machines work at a lower power setting when there is no dust, as is the case in testing situations.
Sir James Dyson's firm claimed the Siemens Q8.0 and Bosch GL80/In'Genius ProPerform models use a sensor which sends signals to the motor to increase its power as the machine sucks up dust.
But what about the hard-up players selling them?
With earnings of up to £35,000 per week you wouldn't think any Premier League star would need to auction off their memorabilia.
But some do. As items owned by ex-England goalkeeper David James are up for sale we look at footballers who've played, earned and lost.
He declared himself bankrupt in May 2014 despite earning an estimated £20m from his footballing career, owning several properties and having a lucrative modelling contract.
Six months on and the man appointed by the courts to oversee his bankruptcy has been instructed to sell off a whole host of David's sports memorabilia and other personal items including exercise machines, DJ equipment and even a Vauxhall Astra van.
He has more than 50 caps for England and also made more than 800 senior appearances at prestigious clubs such as Liverpool, Manchester City, Aston Villa, West Ham, Portsmouth, Watford, Bournemouth and Bristol City, winning the League and FA Cup.
Aged 44 (which is considered old to play football) he's currently player-manager at Kerala Blasters FC in the Indian Super League.
He earned £30,000-plus a week at the height of his career, playing much of it for Aston Villa and earning a cap for England.
But in January 2012 facing spiralling debts and repossessions he was declared bankrupt after twice trying to take his own life.
"If I was to say I wasted my money gambling or that I just didn't care about my money, that wouldn't be true," said Hendrie in an interview with BBC Radio 4's You and Yours.
"My intentions were to look after my family and put my money into investments.
"But along the way I had a divorce which hit me hard in the pocket and then I bought houses which turned out to be bad investments and I couldn't sell them."
He's now the director of Footie Bugs, a football-based activity programme for children aged from three to nine years. He's also an ambassador for Young Minds.
When he started his career Keith Gillespie rubbed shoulders with the likes of Ryan Giggs, David Beckham and Paul Scholes, and was part of Manchester United's "golden generation" which won the Youth Cup in 1992.
He went on to help Newcastle United reach the Champions League and he's also one of Northern Ireland's most celebrated players with more than 80 caps for his country.
At the age of 35 in 2010 he was declared bankrupt.
He calculated he lost £7,215,875 during his professional career. How? "I lost an awful lot of money through gambling over the years, but I also lost money on property and got involved in a film scheme like a lot of footballers did," he told The Guardian.
Unlike David James he hasn't got much memorabilia to sell off though. He says he's probably only got two shirts left because he gave them away to charity.
But he has got his story and he's turned that into a book. How Not to be a Football Millionaire was published in May.
Another player who called the likes of Giggs and Scholes his teammates, Eric Djemba-Djemba was signed by Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford in 2003.
The Cameroon international was declared bankrupt just four years later after his move to Aston Villa.
He doesn't seem to have tried to auction off anything, but a quick look on eBay and there's a Djemba-Djemba Manchester United away shirt for £99.
After a brief stint with St Mirren earlier this year the 32-year-old is now playing in the Indian Super League for Chennaiyin FC.
There's no doubt playing in the Premier League is an extremely lucrative job, but it's short-lived.
While a chosen few stay in the game, in a coaching or management capacity, the vast majority of players will probably have to earn their living elsewhere.
The Professional Footballers' Association runs a series of education and qualification courses.
On its website Pat Lally, head of PFA education, says: "It's a fact that the playing career of a professional footballer is on average eight years, which makes it all the more important for players of all ages to weigh up their options and consider an alternative career path."
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The sale of Yahoo's core internet assets to Verizon, delayed after Yahoo suffered two data security breaches, is expected to go through later this year.
Thomas McInerney will lead what remains of the business after the sale.
This could trigger Ms Mayer's severance payment, which consists of $3m in cash and the rest in stock.
Ms Mayer is entitled to the "golden parachute" payment if she is fired without cause by Yahoo.
When the takeover deal was announced last year, she said: "For me personally, I'm planning to stay.
"It's important for me to see Yahoo into its next chapter."
Mr McInerney will lead the financial holding company that remains, which has the provisional name of Altaba.
The price of the sale of the internet assets was reduced by $350m (£288m) to $4.48bn (£3.7bn) last month as a result of the cyber-attacks suffered by Yahoo.
The company still faces lawsuits relating to the breach.
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Epilepsy affects about 50 million people around the world and is the most common serious brain disorder, according to the World Health Organization.
Diagnosis isn't easy.
A seizure has to be recorded while a patient is hooked up to an electroencephalography (EEG) machine.
"Epileptic symptoms vary widely and... many different types of epileptic disorders exist that react differently to various medical treatments," says Dr Vincent Navarro, a neurologist at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris.
"Moreover, seizures happen at an irregular rate. It is therefore rare to record a seizure while doing a standard EEG recording of 20 minutes to one hour.
"Finally, non-epileptic events are in nearly 20% of cases wrongly considered to be linked with epilepsy when they could be of a completely different origin, for instance loss of consciousness that can be cardiac or psychiatric."
The hospital is working with a start-up on something it hopes will make diagnosis easier and faster.
Instead of being hooked up to a machine via an array of cabling, patients wear a t-shirt and optional cap at home, and biometric sensors feed information to a smartphone app.
"Instead of using desktop computers that force patients to remain in bed, we can use smartphones and use a wireless connection," says Pierre Frouin, the chief executive of Bioserenity, which makes the Wemu system.
"You need to record the brain's electronic activity, an electroencephalogram. That signal is actually very, very hard to catch - it's a signal that's a microvolt, as opposed to an electrocardiogram which is a millivolt, so it's a thousand times smaller."
"The smartphone will do the first level of intelligence, and the internet connection will send that information to a cloud system [to be analysed]."
A firm diagnosis can be reached in a matter of days or weeks instead of potentially years - giving access to appropriate treatment.
"Epilepsy is not simply a one-off diagnosis. It can severely disable people in terms of their capacity to live meaningful, independent lives," says Carol Ireland of Epilepsy Action Australia, who are backing the project.
Developing technology like this means navigating complex regulatory frameworks.
Working with clothing also brings particular challenges. "The limitation would be on the sensors, how durable they are," says Paul Sonnier, publisher of the Digital Health Post.
"When you integrate electronics into clothing, you've got to think about the use case, is it alright washing? And how do you have it in the clothing so you can use it all the time?"
Complex technology also takes time.
A bra to detect breast cancer has been debated in various quarters over the past 20 years.
Then a company called First Warning Systems announced a prototype in 2012 that claims to use thermal dynamic measurement - which records differences in body temperature that are then analysed using a predictive algorithm - to find tumours.
Despite some initial scepticism from some in the field, the company remains confident the technology is sound, and has continued to develop the bra further. This includes using a removable insert for the version intended for use in healthcare institutions rather than embedded sensors, and further refinements of the algorithm that reads the data.
"Our technology [during clinical trials] was able to detect cancers in cases where mammography missed the diagnosis in tumours which were smaller than mammography would normally detect, or in those cases where the patient was listed as 'technically difficult to image', or those patients with dense tissue," says company president Rob Royea.
A fourth round of clinical trials is planned for October, and the company is in the process of applying for a CE mark (product approval) in the EU, and for FDA clearance for the current iteration of the product in the US.
Another problem can be persuading the medical profession of the merits of this type of technology, according to Paul Sonnier.
"The big challenge is doctors didn't want to look at that stuff in the past because... they didn't trust the data."
OMsignal manufactures a range of smart exercise clothing with biometric sensors that measure performance and gives you an electrocardiogram (ECG) reading.
The data is collected by a separate device, which communicates with an app on a smartphone, which then connects with the cloud where it can be analysed by a series of complex algorithms.
The company has carefully placed sensors with patented technology in the fabric. It claims that as the sensors will read vital signs when both wet and dry, it is more accurate than a wristband, for example.
"We need to wear clothes and so we figured that that's the best place to put these sort of sensors," says Dr Jesse Slade Shantz, OMsignal's chief medical officer.
"It is right in the clothes that you wear on a day to day basis."
Dr Slade Shantz was originally tasked with exploring whether the technology could replace the Holter monitor - a wearable heart tracker.
"The idea was that there's such a huge market there for us. It's something you would think that's like a golden goose right?" he says.
"But I know what doctors are like because I am one. And to get a doctor to accept that sort of technology, to replace something they're already using that fits into their daily routine is very difficult.
"Not to mention the fact that, particularly in the US, which is one of the major markets for these technologies, the physicians actually make money putting Holter monitors on people. They won't make money unless we somehow cut them in.
"So we had to be realistic and figure out what would make a sustainable business and then bridge into that."
Shipments of smart wearables are expected to grow from 9.7 million in 2013 to 135 million in 2018, according to CCS Insight.
As we get better at embedding technology into our clothing, and arguably become more comfortable with the idea that our knickers could know where we're going and what we're doing, smart clothing might just prove to be the most accessible and familiar way to sell wearable tech to the man in the street.
Wemu's Pierre Frouin is banking on it. Diagnosis is just the beginning - he wants the technology to tell the people around an epileptic what to do during a seizure.
"The final step is to get it to a point where it can predict when a seizure is likely to happen. This would revolutionise the life of patients and what those patients are allowed to do," he says.
Epilepsy Action Australia's Carol Ireland agrees.
"In many countries there is still misunderstanding and even stigma surrounding the condition," she says.
"Many people who have epilepsy are confronted by the dilemma of whether to 'go public' and risk the negative reaction of others in the community. Depression and even suicide is more common in those with a diagnosis of epilepsy than for the general public.
"Accurate diagnosis of epilepsy and seizure syndrome and effective management of the condition is core to patients achieving the best possible life quality and outcomes."
The Premiership leaders are unbeaten in 27 domestic games, eclipsing the 1966-67 opening from the European Cup-winning Lisbon Lions side.
"It is a huge achievement considering the great history of this club," manager Rodgers told BBC Scotland.
"We are very proud and it was an outstanding performance."
Midfielder Callum McGregor, who only started because Stuart Armstrong pulled up with a tight hamstring in the warm-up, fired Celtic in front after 29 minutes.
Scott Sinclair, who began the game at centre-forward as Moussa Dembele and Leigh Griffiths missed out through injuries, netted a double - the second from a late penalty, while Patrick Roberts was also on target in a one-sided contest.
"It is an incredible run and every accolade they get they deserve because of their focus, the spirit within the team and the quality of the football they are producing," added Rodgers, who has won all but one of his 22 league matches since taking over in the summer.
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"We have set the challenge going forward.
"We have to keep winning and that comes from our work, our concentration and making sure we take care of all the background noise that goes around them and just focus on the job. The players were magnificent.
"I can see what [head coach] Ian Cathro is trying to do and, given time, he should improve Hearts, but we wore them down.
"Great credit to the players. We tried something, playing one of our wingers as a striker.
"After the first 20 minutes, it wasn't working and we put Scott Sinclair back into his natural position and we put Pat Roberts in there and his movement was better.
"It shows how well the players work together, the different ideas which they can take on board."
The UN recommended that the UK "put an end to corporal punishment in all settings" and encourage non-violent forms of discipline instead.
A government spokeswoman said they did not wish to "criminalise parents for issuing a mild smack".
The report also urged the UK to review counter-terrorism powers and raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10.
They were among the recommendations issued by the UN Human Rights Committee, which has published an assessment of legal and cultural issues in the UK.
The report said the government "should take practical steps" including "legislative measures where appropriate" to end corporal punishment.
It suggested the government should "conduct public information campaigns to raise awareness about its harmful effects".
Under current laws "reasonable chastisement" to control a child's behaviour is allowed, but parents can be prosecuted if their actions result in injuries such as bruises, cuts or scratches.
The report also suggested a review of counter-terrorism legislation because of concerns about measures introduced to combat the threat of violent extremism.
Powers to temporarily seize passports of those suspected of planning to travel abroad to engage in terrorism and relocate terror suspects were among those singled out.
The report said the government should consider reducing the maximum period that a terrorism suspect can be detained before charge, which stands at 14 days.
It said there should be an end to the "blanket denial of bail" to those arrested under terrorism legislation.
Another recommendation urged the UK to review the regime regulating the interception of personal communications and the retention of communications data.
The report called for current investigatory powers laws to be revised so access to communications data is "limited to the extent strictly necessary for the prosecution of the most serious crimes".
A Home Office spokeswoman said: "We believe the UK's counter-terrorism legislation strikes the right balance between privacy and security and has, where appropriate, been upheld by the ECHR [European Court of Human Rights].
"At a time of very significant threat, it is vital police have the powers they need to protect the British public."
She said legislative proposals are being drawn up on investigatory powers.
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France remains under a state of emergency after last November's attacks on Paris, when 130 people were killed.
More than 90,000 police, soldiers and private guards will be deployed at the tournament, with seven million fans expected to visit the 10 host venues.
The US and British governments have both warned fans they could be at risk.
But organisers Uefa and French authorities insist they have done everything possible to keep the 2.5 million spectators expected at the 51 matches safe.
Paris alone will have a security force of at least 13,000 to patrol two zones and two stadiums, with the country's state of emergency allowing police extra powers to conduct searches and put people under house arrest.
France coach Didier Deschamps, whose side were playing Germany in an international friendly when the Stade de France was targeted by suicide bombers, says November's attacks evoked "very strong emotions".
"We lived through some tragic moments," he said. "So it will remain with us, even if with time we can think about it a little less.
"Today to have zero risk doesn't exist, sadly, but we have to go forward and these Euros have to be a festival of football and the festival has to be as beautiful as possible."
Richard Walton, the Metropolitan Police's former head of counter-terrorism, said the threat to Euro 2016 is "more acute than for any other international sporting event in history".
With a reported 500,000 British fans among the seven million supporters in France, the British Foreign Office has warned that stadiums, fan zones and transport hubs are possible targets for attack.
Two English football fans were arrested after police used tear gas to disperse a brawl outside a pub in Marseille shortly before midnight on Thursday.
Police said one of the fans was arrested for assaulting a barman and the other for violent disorder, with one England supporter suffering a head injury after being hit across the face with a wooden chair.
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England goalkeeper Joe Hart says players will adhere to the advice of security officials at the 24-team championship.
"We're a team of footballers, but we're a group," he said. "We work together with the security and press officers. Everyone's got their various jobs and I'm very confident on everyone completing them."
France's junior minister for sports, Thierry Braillard, said official fan zones are the only outdoor public spaces where screens will be installed, with bar and restaurant owners told not to host large outdoor TV broadcasts.
He added: "We can't accept unorganised gatherings because police forces don't have the means to secure them."
Paris is one of 10 host venues, with games also taking place in Bordeaux, Lens, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Saint-Denis, Saint-Etienne and Toulouse.
Jean-Christophe Bouvier, defence secretary for the Lille region, says 200 security staff will be inside the city's fan zone, with 3,400 police and military forces working each day and hundreds extra on call if needed.
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President of the Lille region, Damien Castelain, said: "It's a very secure place in the fan zone.
"It's easier to secure one place like this one than have people going to several places where it would have been impossible to make people safe."
Mat Bastard, Lille's Euro 2016 ambassador, added: "If France win, it'll be so, so good, but my first victory is everything is well and everyone has fun."
Alongside the terror threat, French authorities have also been forced to deal with extreme weather conditions and protests over labour law reforms.
Strikes in Paris could cause problems for supporters heading to the 80,000-capacity national stadium on Friday.
The national SNCF rail company said that one of the two main overland train lines linking the Stade de France in the capital's northern suburbs to the city centre had two-thirds of its services wiped out because of strikes on Thursday, while six out of 10 were not running on the other.
The company is working on a fallback plan, while an underground Metro line to the stadium will have extra trains running.
President Francois Hollande said he would take "all necessary measures" to make sure transport strikes, due to roll into a 10th day on Friday, would not disrupt the tournament.
"Rest assured that public services will be provided and that the state will assume its full responsibilities," he said.
Strikes are planned from Saturday on the national air carrier, Air France, while piles of rubbish have also gone uncollected.
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France captain Hugo Lloris said: "I hope it won't spoil the party because we have to show a great image of our country."
France's opener against Romania should avoid the bad weather that saw the River Seine burst its banks and rise to its highest level in more than 30 years.
England and Wales begin their campaigns further south on Saturday are also expected to avoid the worst of the thunderstorms.
Uefa says all 24 teams are in France, with Portugal - travelling in a plane bearing the name of legendary striker Eusebio - the last to arrive on Thursday.
Spain are hoping for a third successive title, but Germany are world champions and France were winners when they hosted the tournament in 1984.
Current national coach Deschamps captained Les Bleus to World Cup glory on home soil in 1998.
England are eyeing a first success at the ninth attempt, while Wales, Northern Ireland, Albania, Iceland and Slovakia all make their championship debut.
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Solskjaer made his name as a deadly substitute striker at Manchester United and he introduced Noone and Campbell in the second half to earn Cardiff a place in the fourth round for the first time in four seasons.
Papiss Cisse followed up Moussa Sissoko's effort to score in the 61st minute after Hatem Ben Arfa had hit the woodwork either side of half-time.
But Cardiff were transformed by their replacements as Campbell hit the post before Noone fired in from long range a minute after coming on.
And Solskjaer's former Manchester United team-mate and ex-Sunderland striker Campbell ended a four-game winless run for the Bluebirds with a header 10 minutes from time.
It is the first time that Cardiff have beaten the Magpies in the FA Cup and the result will give the club a huge boost after a difficult period following the sacking of former boss Malky Mackay on 27 December.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer won the FA Cup with Manchester United in 1999 and 2004. The 40-year-old's last taste of the competition prior to this game was the 2007 FA Cup final when Chelsea beat United at Wembley.
It is too soon to say whether replacing Mackay with two-time FA Cup winner Solskjaer was the right decision by owner Vincent Tan because Cardiff, sitting just a point above the bottom three in 17th position, face a tough task to lift their Premier League relegation worries.
But there were plenty of signs in this game that he can build on a positive approach with funds promised to him by Tan in the January transfer window.
The visitors looked like they were heading for defeat before Solskjaer's substitutions as the hosts cranked up on the pressure on David Marshall's goal.
However, in front of a crowd of 31,166, Alan Pardew's much-changed team could not add to Cisse's goal and they have now lost their last three games.
Solskjaer, who was appointed on 2 January, made five changes to the side that lost to Arsenal on New Year's Day and they showed controlled possession and had several chances to take the lead early on.
However, in keeping with being the joint lowest scorers away from home in the Premier League, they failed to profit as Don Cowie, Kevin McNaughton and Kim Bo-Kyung wasted good opportunities.
Mark Hudson did find the back of the net from a corner, but his header was ruled out for pushing in the box.
Ben Arfa was one of seven Newcastle changes and his influence grew through the first half, culminating with the French winger cutting in from the right to hit a firm shot against the post from 20 yards.
When: Sunday, 5 January 2014
Where: Wembley Stadium
Time: 1400 GMT
Who: Cousins Martin and Paul Allen, who both played for West Ham, will make the draw after the Hammers face Nottingham Forest.
Fourth round dates: Ties to be played over the weekend of 25 and 26 January 2014
That sparked a better period for the hosts, as Cardiff became sloppy with their passing, and Ben Arfa again hit the woodwork early in the second half when his right-footed shot looped onto the top of the crossbar via a Marshall save.
Solskjaer attempted to wrestle control of the game by introducing Campbell.
But his side went behind within a minute as Sissoko latched onto Yoan Gouffran's through ball and although his shot was blocked, Cisse followed in for his third goal of the season.
Campbell did have an impact as he hit the post after 70 minutes, but it was eclipsed by the contribution of Noone, who collected the ball with his first touch before lashing in from 30 yards.
Campbell was not to be denied, though, as he headed in Peter Whittingham's corner 10 minutes from time.
Although Ben Arfa again went close, it was a smiling Solskjaer who celebrated with his team in front of the travelling fans at the final whistle.
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So imagine what it's like living in a remote village whose only electricity comes from solar power. What do you do when the sun doesn't shine?
Not only might your phone die, you might not have enough stored electricity to keep the lights on for more than a few hours. You have to light candles or a smelly kerosene lamp to see what you're doing at night.
But one solar power firm, Azuri, reckons it has an answer to this problem.
Its HomeStart system learns your electricity usage patterns and monitors climatic conditions to make sure the stored solar power is used in the most efficient way.
This can involve dimming lights to use less power and generally eking out the stored energy on less sunny days.
"Standalone solar home systems run until the power stored from sunshine during the day is exhausted, and then switch off," says Simon Bransfield-Garth, Azuri's chief executive.
"In poor weather, this may mean lighting time is reduced to just a few hours, forcing customers to revert to traditional means, such as harmful kerosene."
The firm believes this is the first time machine learning has been applied to rural domestic solar power systems, and is an example of how innovation in the solar sector is helping "off-grid" households power up more efficiently across the continent.
New products are coming on to the market, including solar-powered fans, TVs and fridges.
One firm, Aleutia, provides a "solar classroom in a box", including solar panels, 10 rugged computers, a server, LED projector, and 3G and satellite networking equipment. It costs about $9,500 (£7,100).
Aleutia has provided 137 schools in Uganda with computers and education software.
The company has also launched SolarEnabler, a "plug-and-play" box that provides everything you need for solar power in a wall-mounted box with constant 2G connectivity.
"Our computers are unique in their incredibly low energy consumption, which makes solar affordable," says Michael Rosenberg, Aleutia's chief executive.
It is making a big difference in rural primary health centres, he says.
"A single computer can register 800 patients a month, and record their symptoms and conditions. It is solar-powered hardware that provides transformative big data for health ministries."
Innovation in financing has also been key to the growing adoption of solar energy.
"Pay-as-you-go" and "rent-to-buy" schemes, pioneered by the likes of M-Kopa Solar and Azuri, are helping households pay off the cost of the solar kit over a manageable period.
Customers use mobile money services like M-Pesa to credit or top up their solar accounts.
"Over the course of typically 18 months, the purchase of top-up pays off the cost of the solar home system," says Mr Bransfield-Garth.
"After this, the customer fully owns the system and can use it to access clean, renewable energy with no further cost."
Azuri, which launched in Kenya and has since expanded to other countries, has sold about 80,000 solar home systems so far.
Its entry level solar panel is a five-watt unit which, with plenty of sun beating down, provides users with about eight hours of lighting for two rooms and mobile phone charging.
It costs about 220 Kenyan Shillings a week (£1.62; $2.17).
"Azuri's objective is to deliver clean and affordable power to enable rural Africans to realise their aspirations; lighting and mobile phone charging are just the starting point," says Mr Bransfield-Garth.
PEG Ghana, another solar power firm, has connected almost 15,000 homes in the West African country via a pay-as-you-go model. Customers receive a kit made up of two lamps, a radio, a torch, and a mobile phone charger, licensed from M-Kopa Solar.
"We enable customers to replace their perpetual spending on poor-quality polluting fuels, such as kerosene, with solar energy that quickly becomes an asset the customer owns," says Nate Heller, chief operating officer of PEG Ghana.
And the firm now offers customers who have paid off their solar units loans for other items, such as smartphones.
"Before you buy our product, you have a challenge to get anything on credit. You live in the middle of nowhere, you have no credit history, and no collateral," Mr Heller says.
"After you've paid off our system we have one year's worth of data on how you paid off the loan. Now we can give you loans for things like smartphones - you are a safe credit risk," he says.
But about 585 million people still lack access to electricity in Africa, according to the International Energy Agency, with only 14.2% of people in rural areas able to power their homes.
Even those with access to regular grid power can find it unreliable.
This leaves millions having to rely on kerosene, candles, battery torches or other fossil-fuel powered technologies.
Across Africa and Asia, the 1.2 billion people who have no access to electricity spend about $27bn (£20.4bn) annually on these alternatives, says the BNEF Global Solar Market Trends Report 2016.
Solar power could save them a lot of money.
So the case for taking solar power into poorer communities is not just a social policy issue, says Xolani Mncedane, senior research analyst at the consultancy Frost & Sullivan Africa.
There is now a "compelling business case", he says. "The market is more affordable and more appealing.
"Solar home systems and solar-diesel hybrid systems are becoming economical, thereby presenting new opportunities, new business approaches and new financing models," concludes Mr Mncedane.
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Eggs from black-headed and Mediterranean gulls in most of the 9,000 nests on the harbour's remote islands were taken in May 2016.
Charity Birds of Poole Harbour said the eggs - considered a delicacy - were likely to used by restaurants.
The nesting gulls are being monitored by Dorset Police's marine unit.
The force said the birds would be checked day and night by officers through the breeding season.
Joel Brooks, of the force, said: "The collection of birds eggs is illegal unless licensed and no one is licensed to collect in Dorset.
"We have wildlife officers from the Metropolitan Police in London making enquiries and checks on the establishments likely to be buying and selling the eggs."
Birds of Poole Harbour said there are around 20 "pickers", operating under licenses issued by Natural England, which allows black-headed gull eggs to be collected legally at five sites in England.
Restaurants or pubs have to be shown a valid licence before buying eggs to prepare in meals.
Paul Morton, who runs the charity, said: "It's been proven black-headed gull eggs are safe to eat - but there has never been a test done by Defra on Mediterranean gull eggs to confirm these are safe for human consumption."
The charity said it planned to survey the islands again later in the spring to see what effect last year's thefts has had on the population of the two species of gulls.
The call follows a UN Human Rights Council resolution urging more spending on state education and regulation of low-cost for-profit schools.
A report to the UN last year warned that rapid increases in private schools could erode national education systems.
The UK government said it aimed to ensure the best possible education for children who would otherwise miss out.
Concerns about privatisation in education were highlighted in a 2015 report to the UN by its special rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh.
Mr Singh warned of a rapid increase in the number of private educational providers in many developing countries over the past decade, with many unregistered schools and "scant control by public authorities".
His report said that education as a fundamental human right and a core obligation of states risked being "eroded by market-driven approaches".
Privatisation "breeds exclusion and marginalisation", said the report, with the poorest unable to access top fee-paying schools that depended on being able to pay.
It also warned against low-fee private schools, saying there was no evidence they were more effective than state schools and some were worse, with poorly qualified staff.
Instead of allowing more low-fee private schools, governments should restore education as their essential public-service function and impose a strong regulatory framework, urged the report.
The resolution, adopted last week by the UNHRC in Geneva, calls on countries to invest in state education and address any negative effects of for-profit schools.
Education providers should be regulated, including those operating independently of governments, it says.
The resolution says countries should:
It also urges all states to expand educational opportunities for all "without discrimination" and to boost financing for education both from domestic and external sources.
Campaigners called the new resolution a breakthrough.
Sylvain Aubry, from the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, said: "In some countries, in particular in the global South, private schooling has multiplied, sometimes by a factor of 10, in the last decade, with commercial chains of for-profit schools targeting poor people burgeoning in Kenya, Ghana, the Philippines and other countries."
Carole Coupez, from Solidarite Laique, which also campaigns against commercialisation in education, said: "Donors such as the World Bank and the United Kingdom, which have been funding commercial education providers in poor countries, must listen to the Human Rights Council and stop these detrimental practices."
In the UK, National Union of Teachers acting general secretary Kevin Courtney echoed calls for the Department for International Development to immediately cease funding low-cost private schools in developing countries.
But a DfID spokeswoman said the UK government took a "pragmatic and evidence-based stance" on how services should be delivered to the poorest people.
"Our priority is to ensure children get the education they deserve, and in the vast majority of cases this means investing in the state sector," she said.
"However, where state provision is weak or non-existent it is absolutely right we work with appropriately regulated paid-for schools to provide an education to children who would otherwise get none.
"We do not accept that this in any way undermines the right to education in the developing countries in which we operate."
A spokesman for Pearson, which is a minority investor in a small number of private school groups, said it supported calls for better regulation and was "entirely in favour of better funding and better quality state education around the world".
"We also believe low-fee private schools provide one legitimate approach to improving access and quality for the hundreds of millions of children around the world who are not enrolled in school," said the spokesman.
"Schools should be judged on the outcomes they deliver for students."
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge pushed the princess in a pram the Queen used for two of her own children.
Several thousand well wishers greeted the royals, while Prince George delighted the crowds on foot.
The royal couple announced ahead of the christening that they had chosen five godparents for the princess.
The christening was held at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, and attended by guests including the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.
Other attendees included Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, Catherine's parents Michael and Carole Middleton and her two siblings, Pippa and James.
The baptism, conducted by Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Reverend Justin Welby, was held in private.
Princess Charlotte has two fewer godparents than her brother George, and none from within royal circles.
The five include Catherine's cousin Adam Middleton, William's cousin Lady Laura Fellowes and Thomas van Straubenzee, a friend of the duke's.
The final two are the duke's friend James Meade - who read the lesson during the service - and the duchess's friend Sophie Carter.
Mr van Straubenzee, whom William met at Ludgrove Prep School, and Mr Meade, a friend from Eton, were both ushers at the duke and duchess's wedding and gave speeches at the reception.
Lady Laura Fellowes is the daughter of Baroness Jane Fellowes - a sister of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Commentary: BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt
This was a christening with echoes of the past and some distinctly Cambridge touches.
The baptismal font and the replica christening gown have served other baby royals well in the past. Even the pram was a hand-me-down from the Queen.
But when it came to godparents there wasn't a monarch, or a knight or a dowager in sight.
Once such people provided infant Windsors with their spiritual guidance. Now, William and Kate have turned to their close friends and their close family to fulfil this role.
William's mother, Diana, may have been absent, but she wasn't forgotten. One of her relatives is a godmother and the chosen church was where she too was baptised.
This was the first time William, Kate, George and Charlotte have been seen together. Such sightings won't become commonplace. The Cambridges are keen to limit their children's public appearances as they grow up.
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Like her brother, Charlotte was christened in a replica of the lace and satin christening gown made for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Victoria, the princess royal, in 1841.
The original was worn by all royal babies until the christening of Prince Edward's son James, Viscount Severn, in 2008.
Charlotte was christened using the ornate silver gilt Lily Font which is usually on show as part of the crown jewels at the Tower of London.
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Among those gathered to catch a glimpse of the princess was 80-year-old royal enthusiast Terry Hutt, who camped overnight to get a good spot.
Wearing a union jack suit and hat, he said: "This is such a happy occasion and I just wanted to be part of it."
Laurie Spencer, 52, from Florida, gave up a $1,200 (£770) ticket to the British Grand Prix to attend.
"When I found out the christening was happening while we were here I knew I just had to be there, but there was no way my husband was," she said.
"We were having dinner last night and somebody on the next table heard us talking and asked if he could have my ticket instead, so they have gone to the Grand Prix and I have come here."
Anyone bringing flowers was asked to give them to representatives of East Anglia's Children's Hospices, where Catherine is a patron, who will then take them to hospices in the region.
Prince Harry was among those missing from the ceremony. He is currently spending three months in Africa.
St Mary Magdalene is the church used by the Queen when she is resident on her private estate.
Archbishop Welby gave an address. He was supported by The Reverend Canon Jonathan Riviere, the Rector of the Sandringham group of parishes.
Lambeth Palace released the text of the homily given by the archbishop, which included the words: "It seems that different forms of ambition are hard wired into almost all of us. At a baptism our ambitions are rightly turned into hopes and prayers for the child, today for Princess Charlotte.
"Everyone wants something for their children. At our best we seek beauty, not necessarily of form, but of life."
Among the pieces of music chosen for the event was Vaughan Williams' Prelude on Rhosymedre - a piece the duke and duchess used as processional organ music at their wedding.
Mario Testino has been asked by William and Catherine to take the official photographs after the service.
Following the service, the duke and duchess hosted a tea at Sandringham House where guests were served slices of christening cake, which is a tier from their wedding cake.
More than 50 House Democrats are refusing to watch as Mr Trump is sworn in as the 45th US president amidst a feud between the newly elected president and the civil rights activist and congressman, John Lewis.
Mr Lewis, a revered veteran of the 1960s struggle, sparked controversy on Friday when he called Mr Trump's victory illegitimate because of Russia's alleged interference in the election.
The president-elect hit back on Twitter, attacking the Georgia lawmaker as "all talk, talk, talk - no action or results", which prompted a wave of outrage from people saying if anyone embodied action, it was the 76-year-old.
Dozens of members of Congress have announced they will skip the event.
"I will not celebrate a man who preaches a politics of division and hate," Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota tweeted following the row.
"Skipping Inauguration. @RepJohnLewis a civil rights hero. Enormous responsibility to be POTUS. I respect the office, can't tolerate disrespect," Maryland Representative Anthony G Brown also tweeted.
The number grew to more than 40 over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend, but that did not stop Mr Trump from continuing to rail against the civil rights icon on Tuesday.
The president-elect tweeted that Mr Lewis had falsely claimed this would be the first inauguration he has missed since joining Congress in 1987.
"WRONG (or lie)!" Mr Trump tweeted, saying Mr Lewis had skipped George W Bush's inauguration in 2001.
Mr Lewis' office confirmed that he did miss Mr Bush's ceremony.
"His absence at that time was also a form of dissent," said spokeswoman Brenda Jones.
"He did not believe the outcome of that election, including the controversies around the results in Florida and the unprecedented intervention of the US Supreme Court, reflected a free, fair and open democratic process."
Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington
Although everything connected with President Donald Trump seems unprecedented, this isn't the first time an opposition party has boycotted a presidential inauguration in sizable numbers.
According to Arizona State University historian Brooks Simpson, 80 lawmakers missed Richard Nixon's 1973 swearing-in ceremony.
Representative John Lewis, a vocal Trump critic who plans to stay at home on Friday, also sat out George W Bush's 2001 event, along with some other members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Nothing quite compares to the harsh glare of today's media spotlight, however, and coverage of today's protesting politicians is only being amplified by Mr Trump's Twitter broadsides against his critics.
As with any such partisan show of defiance, there's a risk the move will cause wavering Republicans to rally around their embattled president.
At this point - with conservatives holding sway in Washington, DC - party unity is perhaps the most important factor in whether Republicans can successfully enact their policy agenda.
While making a show of sitting out the inauguration might be a feel-good moment for liberals with few arrows in their political quiver, going forward their success will depend on finding ways to fracture Republican ranks, not steel their opponents' resolve.
Mr Trump's team has welcomed the congress members' empty seats, saying that they will be given back out "to the people".
"As far as other people not going, that's OK, because we need seats so badly," Mr Trump said in a Fox News interview on Wednesday.
Trump's transition team have reportedly been unable to attract A-list celebrities to the event, but Mr Trump said they were "never invited".
"I don't want the celebrities, I want the people, and we have the biggest celebrities in the world there," he said.
Trump's team have been running adverts on Facebook and Twitter "personally inviting" people to come visit Washington for the inauguration and featuring a video of Mr Trump promising that the concert will be "really fantastic".
An estimated 800,000 to 900,000 people are expected to flood the nation's capital on Friday for the inauguration, but it is unclear whether they will be there in celebration or protest, officials said.
President Barack Obama drew an estimated 1.8 million people to Washington when he took office eight years ago.
The "level of enthusiasm" and demand for hotel rooms has not reached that of previous inaugurations, according to Elliott Ferguson, president of Destination DC, the city's convention and tourism bureau.
In fact, some hotels have reduced the minimum-night stay from four nights to two.
Other hotels are only 50% full, but higher-end hotels appeared to have more bookings, he added.
"It's been much, much slower than anyone would have anticipated for a first-term president," Mr Ferguson said.
Mr Trump's swearing-in comes at a time when the nation appears deeply divided after the contested election.
Though Mr Trump swept the electoral college, his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by almost 2.9 million more votes.
Some Clinton supporters have said they are leaving the city.
Robert York, a 48-year-old charity specialist who lives in the Washington suburbs, has booked a cruise because he says he cannot stay and support a president who attacks a hero like Lewis. He says the majority of his friends are also leaving.
"The mass exodus of DC residents is simple - people are fearful of this incoming administration, and we have a president-elect who has shown he is not ready to lead this great nation."
Recent polls have also suggested historically low marks for any presidential transition.
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll found just 40% of Americans view Mr Trump favourably compared with the 79% President Obama received in 2009.
A CNN/ORC survey released on Tuesday also indicated that Mr Trump had a 40% approval rating compared with the 84% Mr Obama had in 2009.
A Gallup poll conducted two weeks before the inauguration found 51% of respondents disapproved of how he is handling the presidential transition compared with 44% who approved.
But the president-elect on Tuesday dismissed the polls as "phony" and "rigged", insisting that "people are pouring into Washington in record numbers".
An estimated 200,000 people are also expected to convene in Washington a day later for the Women's March on Washington.
Nearly 200 activist groups and organisations have signed on to support the grassroots march.
It sets out to demonstrate for racial and gender equality, affordable healthcare, abortion rights and voting rights - issues perceived to be under threat from a Trump presidency.
The 28-year-old was at the Word Up club in Dalrymple Street, Greenock, at about 00:50 on Sunday when he became involved in a row with another man.
Emergency services were called and he was taken to Inverclyde Royal Infirmary with injuries to his face and neck.
The victim was said to be in a stable condition in hospital.
Det Insp Suzie Chow said: "This was a violent attack which has left the victim with serious injuries and enquiries are ongoing to establish the exact circumstances.
"There would have been approximately 900 people in the nightclub around the time of the incident and we would like to speak to any eyewitnesses who saw what happened."
President Nicolas Maduro says the "mafia" operating in border areas is causing huge damage to the economy.
Many items subsidised by Venezuela's socialist government, including diesel and petrol, are sold at a huge profit over the border in Colombia.
On Sunday, he announced that the country's highest denomination bank note would be taken out of circulation.
President Maduro said the move would stop gangs hoarding the currency.
"Let's destroy the mafia before the mafias destroy our country and our economy," he said on national television.
"This measure was inevitable, it was necessary," he added. "The mafias will go bust."
Venezuela last closed most border crossings with Colombia in August 2015. The border was partially reopened a year later.
In 2015, the Colombian government complained that it had not been consulted or informed.
But both sides eventually reached an agreement to cooperate on tackling crime and smuggling along the 2,200km (1,370 miles) border.
The measure caused huge disruption for the people who live and work in border cities.
This time, Mr Maduro said the border would be reopened after 72 hours, once the 100-bolivar notes ceased to be valid.
Central bank data suggests there are more than six billion 100-bolivar notes in circulation, making up almost half of all currency.
Venezuelans will then have 10 days to exchange the notes for coins and new, higher-value bills, but only at the Central Bank.
In India, a similar move scrapping high-value bank notes last month has caused major disruption.
Mr Maduro said the gangs held more than 300bn bolivares worth of currency, most of it in 100-bolivar notes.
President Maduro said there were "entire warehouses full of 100-bolivar notes in the [Colombian cities of] Cucuta, Cartagena, Maicao and Buaramanga".
"I have given the orders to close all land, maritime and air possibilities so those bills taken out can't be returned and they're stuck with their fraud abroad," he said on Sunday.
Critics of Mr Maduro have predicted chaos and doubt that the facilities will be in place for people to exchange all their 100-bolivar notes.
"When ineptitude governs! Who would possibly think of doing something like this in December amid all our problems?" opposition leader Henrique Capriles wrote on Twitter (in Spanish).
Fewer people are taking claims to an employment tribunal because of fees of up to £1,200, the TUC said.
It found that the number of workers filing such cases had fallen from 16,000 a month to 7,000 since the fees were introduced in 2013.
This included a large reduction in cases on sexism, racism and disability.
TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady is calling on the government to scrap the tribunal fees because, she said, "people are being priced out of justice".
However, the Ministry of Justice said it was "right that those who use our tribunals should contribute to the £71m cost of running the service".
Analysing government figures, the TUC found unfair dismissal claims have fallen by 73% since 2012-13, the year before the introduction of the fees.
Discrimination cases on grounds of sex have dropped by 71%, race by 58% and disability by 54%, it found.
Frances O'Grady said: "These figures show a huge drop in workers seeking justice when they've been unfairly treated.
"The evidence is there for all to see. These fees - of up to £1,200, even if you're on the minimum wage - are pricing out thousands each month from pursuing cases."
Workers on the minimum wage have to pay the fee if a member of their family has savings of £3,000.
One woman who worked for a large media company says she was discriminated against when she was pregnant, but "by the time we felt confident that I could have won a tribunal we didn't have the money for the initial fee", she told the BBC.
The government launched the Help with Fees scheme last year, which waives or reduces the charges for the most vulnerable workers.
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said it was also keen to promote alternative ways of resolving disputes where possible.
The TUC says the introduction of fees three years ago, for those taking tribunal claims, has priced people out of justice.
So ahead of the Autumn Statement, it's piling pressure on the government to scrap them.
Speaking on the BBC, Frances O'Grady had this challenge for the prime minister.
"We heard from Theresa May that she wanted to govern for the many, not the few," she said. "Here's one of the first real practical tests, scrap those fees and ensure that all workers have access to justice."
Others have concerns about the fees too. In June the Justice Select Committee warned that major changes were urgently needed to restore an acceptable level of access to the employment tribunals system.
The TUC is also calling on the Ministry of Justice to urgently publish a review on the impact of fees which was due by the end of last year.
The department says the review will be published in due course.
The People's Bank of China fixed the daily midpoint for the currency down 1.6% to 6.3306 against the dollar.
The Shanghai Composite share index closed down 1.1% at 3,886.32 while markets in the rest of the region fell even more sharply.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index ended 2.4% lower at 23,916.02.
China's central bank tried to calm market concerns on Wednesday, saying that there was no basis for a sustained depreciation of the yuan given global and domestic economic conditions.
Overnight, US stocks had fallen sharply in reaction to Beijing's surprise decision, leading to a negative start to morning trading across Asia.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 index, closed down 1.6% at 20,392.77.
South Korea's benchmark Kospi index ended the day down 0.6% at 1,975.47.
However, Korean carmakers bucked the downward trend. Strong sales figures for Kia and Hyundai helped shares in both of their companies rose by more than 5%.
Also, feeling the aftershocks of China's surprise move, the Australian S&P/ASX 200 index finished 1.7% lower at 5,382.10.
Shares in the country's biggest bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, were halted from trading as the lender announced a A$5bn capital-raising in order to meet stricter regulatory requirements.
The animals are grazing at Fairmile Bottom, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Fontwell.
More than 10 different kinds of orchid have been found in the area, as well as grizzled skipper and white admiral butterflies, bats and various birds.
The county council, which manages the land, said dung attracted insects and the birds and bats that feed on them.
The spokesman said the authority hoped the herd's presence would encourage plants such as bee and fragrant orchids to grow while promoting the arrival of butterflies, grasshoppers, mice and shrews.
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But apart from being super cute, the tiger cubs are important to make sure the species survives in the future.
Sumatran tigers are one of the most endangered species of big cat, with fewer than 400 left in the wild.
They can only be found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, but the jungle where they live is increasingly being destroyed and they are at risk of poaching.
Ayshah's got more on this story.
Richard Garvie, 30, who is standing for Wellingborough and Rushden, was found guilty of buying about £900 worth of train tickets using a bank account he knew contained insufficient funds.
He had denied the offence and told the BBC he "did not set out to defraud East Midlands Trains".
His name will stay on ballot papers as it is too late for it to be removed.
Garvie, from Corby, Northamptonshire, was convicted at Wellingborough Magistrates' Court on Thursday and will be sentenced at a later date.
He said he ran up a debt in his own name in 2012 because he had been "desperate to see the people he cared about" in Berkshire.
"I didn't know I'd get into trouble. I intentionally went overdrawn on my account, that account was then sent to a debt collection agency and the debt was paid off," he said.
"What happened since is East Midlands Trains have brought the prosecution.
"I didn't confide in anybody. I genuinely believed I hadn't done anything wrong."
The former candidate, who intends to appeal against his conviction, said he was "devastated, not just for [himself] but for the constituency" and is still considering his political options.
"It was an act of stupidity three years ago. I've apologised and hope it doesn't have any impact on the party," he said.
"If people still want to vote Labour, then vote for me on the ballot paper.
"If Labour were to win the election, I think there would be a question mark for me as to whether it would be right for me to continue as an MP."
The Labour Party has not yet offered any guidance on what its voters should do if they want to vote for them next Thursday.
The Wellingborough seat was held by Conservative Peter Bone who won by a majority of 11,787 votes in 2010.
Mr Bone is standing again, against Chris Nelson for the Liberal Democrats, Marion Turner-Hawes of the Green Party and UKIP's Jonathan Munday.
The 26-year-old wicketkeeper, who came through the academy at Chelmsford, joined Hampshire in 2013.
He is the county's leading first-class run scorer in 2016, with 850 runs, two centuries and career-best 204 not out against Warwickshire in July.
Meanwhile all-rounder Ashar Zaidi, 35, has signed a new two-year contract with the Division Two club.
Wheater has only missed one County Championship game for Hampshire this season as they battle to avoid relegation from Division One.
"It is good to have one of our own coming back to the club," said Essex head coach Chris Silverwood.
"Adam has a proven record with the bat and gloves at Division One level so he will be a valuable asset to us as the season reaches its climax."
Zaidi enjoyed a fine season in the T20 Blast, hitting 23 sixes and 59 from 24 balls against Middlesex to help Essex qualify for the quarter-final.
"I am delighted the club have shown trust in me and given me further opportunities to show my capabilities," Zaidi told the club website.
"There is a great bunch of people throughout the club working hard to deliver success. Hopefully we can continue to be in contention for silverware throughout my time with the club."
Lewis Skelton, 31, has been identified by his family as the man Tasered and shot on Francis Street on Tuesday.
He later died in hospital. Officers had fired more than one shot at him, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said.
Mr Skelton's sister Laura Skelton said "my heart is breaking right now for my brother".
"He was a kind and caring person. What happened was out character. We are all heartbroken," she said.
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Neighbours described Mr Skelton as "mild mannered and polite".
Paul Mitten, who lived in the flat above Mr Skelton on Durham Street, said: "When I found out I just started crying because it just hit me for six knowing that what's happened over there was the lad who lived under me. He was quiet, placid, looked after his animals.
"I can't believe it. I can't get over it. I've not been able to sleep.
"He's always been polite to people, he's always said 'hi' when he's walked past... can't say a bad word about him."
The IPCC is investigating the shooting and said it was searching a flat in Durham Street as part of its inquiry.
Humberside Police said armed officers had been sent to the Holderness Road area at about 09:20 GMT following reports of a man carrying an axe.
The force said it had been responding to calls from members of the public.
Floral tributes have been left at the scene with one reading: "Fly high with the angels... we love you."
Another read: "Such a loss. What a lovely person he was. Words can't express the sadness we all feel, you didn't deserve this."
The 24-year-old South Africa-born batsman was a winter target for the Bears, who paid the price for failing to get him as Jennings helped to post a total of 313-5 from just 39 overs.
In a rain-reduced game, Jonathan Trott made 92 for Warwickshire.
But the hosts still fell well short, bowled out for 241 to lose by 72 runs.
Durham started this summer's competition on -2 points, as a result of their across-the-board winter punishments handed out by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
They were rained off in their first group game at home to Derbyshire on Thursday, but they are now into positive figures on one point, up into sixth in the North Group.
Warwickshire's first group defeat, after opting to put Durham in, followed their opening win in another rain-affected game against Northants.
Durham captain Jennings hit 19 fours and two sixes as he beat his previous one-day best of 70 against Surrey in 2014, sharing two century stands,.
He added 129 in 19.1 overs with fellow opener Stephen Cook, who made 60, before putting on 123 in 13.4 overs with Michael Richardson (49).
He finally fell to a catch to long-leg off 19-year-old Aaron Thomason (4-64), the only Warwickshire bowler to take more than one wicket, in only his third senior one-day game.
But Durham's James Weighell, a 23-year-old seamer playing only his second one-day game, outdid him, taking 5-57 as the Bears batsmen began holing out under pressure from the escalating run-rate.
Warwickshire batsman Jonathan Trott told BBC WM:
"Durham played really well. We perhaps didn't hit our straps early on and allowed them to get ahead of us. They didn't get too many in the last 10 overs but over 300 in 39 overs was always going to be a tough ask.
"They had a big opening partnership and we just couldn't get something going. You need a base to go on and chase a big score like that.
"Keaton Jennings and Mark Wood played very well. They are stand-out players and that's what international players need to do - show the standards and their class."
Durham captain Keaton Jennings told BBC Newcastle:
"I don't think I have played better in one-day cricket. Scoring runs against Warwickshire, with the quality of bowlers they have, is quite special.
"I was pleased with the way I started. Generally, in the past, I have got my tempo wrong up front. But Cookie took quite a lot of pressure off me, playing the way he did.
"I am really enjoying the captaincy, 100 per cent. We have got some really good people within the changing room."
Walter Barasa is suspected of offering bribes to prosecution witnesses in the trial of Deputy President William Ruto.
Mr Barasa, who denies the allegations, had sought to challenge the arrest warrant issued by the ICC last year.
Mr Ruto's trial is ongoing and he denies charges of being behind ethnic violence surrounding polls in 2007.
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Some 1,200 people died and 600,000 were forced from their homes following the presidential election on 27 December 2007.
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta is also due to stand trial on similar charges - he too denies the allegations.
His trial, which was to start last month, has been delayed after a witness withdrew and another admitted giving false evidence.
Last year, charges were dropped against Kenya's former civil service head Francis Muthaura, a co-accused of Mr Kenyatta, as some witnesses were too frightened to testify and another witness had recanted his testimony, the ICC said at the time.
The High Court in the capital, Nairobi, made its ruling after Mr Barasa's lawyer, who wanted an adjournment, failed to appear at the hearing on Wednesday.
Correspondents say it is now up to Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku to deal with the ICC's request for Mr Barasa's arrest and transfer to The Hague.
In court papers made public last October, ICC prosecutors said Mr Barasa had offered bribes amounting to $16,200 (£10,000).
If found guilty he could face up to five years in jail.
Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto were on opposite sides in the 2007 election, but formed an alliance to win power in elections a year ago.
They said their alliance showed that Kenyans had resolved their differences, and the ICC was meddling in the country's affairs by pressing ahead with their trials.
PSG's 2-0 defeat at Toulouse on Friday was their second in seven Ligue 1 games - as many as the champions suffered throughout the whole of last season.
"Each season it's tough - this year even more so than previously," France midfielder Matuidi said.
"We mustn't worry, and just get back to work."
Emery led Sevilla to three successive Europa League titles - beating Liverpool in last season's final - before leaving to replace Laurent Blanc at the Parc des Princes in June.
He arrived at a club who won all four major domestic trophies last season, including the French league championship for the fourth year in a row.
But Friday's defeat left PSG third in Ligue 1, behind Toulouse and early leaders Nice, and they are likely to slip down the table as the rest of the weekend's fixtures are played.
Emery suggested the match turned on the second-half sending off of defender Serge Aurier for conceding the penalty from which Yann Bodger gave Toulouse the lead.
"The referee has not been good to us," Emery said. "The action of expulsion, the penalty is the action that changes the game.
"After, with one player less on our side, the team needed patience and calm in the minutes that followed to score a goal.
"But with the mistakes we have made, the match was over. It must be analysed to work on managing the emotions of players when the game gets a little more difficult."
PSG's next match is away to Bulgarian side Ludogorets Razgrad in the Champions League on Wednesday.
The tweets were made after a picture of the forward's child, Sofia, was posted on his Twitter page.
Vardy, who has scored 19 league goals for the Premier League leaders this season, called the posts "shocking and vile".
Leicestershire Police said they are liaising with the club over the tweets.
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A number of tweeters reacted angrily to the threats after Vardy took screenshots of the tweets and, on Sunday, posted them to his 240,000 followers.
The 29-year-old's fiancée, Rebekah Nicholson, who originally tweeted the shots of her daughter wearing a Foxes shirt, said the social media users in question needed "locking up".
Former Leicester and Blackpool striker Gary Taylor-Fletcher called those responsible "disgraceful and sick", while another tweeter labelled them "pigs".
A spokesman for Leicestershire Police said: "Leicestershire Police is investigating a report of a malicious communication being sent via social media.
"A report was made today [4 April] of an abusive message being received yesterday evening [3 April] by a woman on Twitter. Enquiries remain ongoing."
A Leicester City Football Club spokesman said: "We have offered our full support to Jamie and his family in dealing with this shocking abuse and referred the matter to the police."
The typhoon landed in Guangdong province on Sunday but moved later to neighbouring Guanxi. Deaths and injuries were reported in both areas.
Officials said the typhoon, as well as the tornadoes that came with it, were to blame for widespread power outages.
Mujigae also swept through Taiwan and the Philippines on Saturday.
The typhoon, whose name means "rainbow" in Korean, had prompted the evacuations of thousands of people in southern China prior to its arrival.
It landed in Zhanjiang on Sunday afternoon with winds of 180 km/h (112 mph) at its centre and rain.
It caused widespread blackouts and a cut-off in water supply in some areas in Zhanjiang, according to Xinhua.
It grounded flights and prompted suspensions of rail service in some cities along China's southern coast, including places popular with tourists such as Hainan and Sanya.
Another tourist spot, Fangji Island, also saw more than 500 tourists stranded during the typhoon.
The Guangxi civil affairs department said the typhoon had affected more than 1.44 million people by early afternoon Monday.
Mujigae landed amid China's week-long National Day holiday, disrupting plans for many holidaymakers.
England captain Steph Houghton joined ex-stars Powell and Marieanne Spacey in an 'All Star XI', managed by Smith.
Former World Cup final referee Howard Webb officiated the game, won 4-2 by the current Gunners side.
A crowd of 2,351 watched the match at Boreham Wood FC.
Smith, who scored 46 international goals in 117 appearances for England, did not play in the game, having recently announced she is pregnant.
But England's record goalscorer did add another to her tally, coming on to net a late penalty.
Powell, who was Smith's England boss at six major tournaments, told BBC Sport: "I enjoyed the warm-up more than the game! My body isn't used to it anymore, but it was a good run-out.
"It was a really good turnout for Kelly and that is fantastic. She was a bit emotional, which was understandable.
"It was a lot of fun, with banter in the changing rooms and, for her, a really special day."
Mr Biden warned of "further attempts by Russia to meddle in the democratic process" during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The US vice-president said Washington must work with Europe to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr Biden's warning comes two days before Donald Trump's inauguration.
President-elect Trump has indicated he would take a more conciliatory tone with Vladimir Putin, and has predicted the disintegration of the European Union while publicly backing the UK's exit.
Mr Biden's speech - while not mentioning Mr Trump by name - appeared to take aim at the incoming president, noting "dangerous willingness to revert to political small-mindedness".
However, it was Mr Putin who was Mr Biden's clear target.
"Under President Putin, Russia is working with every tool available to them to whittle away at the edges of the European project, test the fault lines of Western nations and return to a politics defined by spheres of influence," Mr Biden told the assembled leaders, CEOs and bankers on Wednesday.
"We see it in their aggression against their neighbours... we see it in their worldwide use of propaganda and false information campaigns.
"With many countries in Europe slated to hold elections this year, we should expect further attempts by Russia to meddle in the democratic process. It will occur again, I promise you.
"And again the purpose is clear: to collapse the liberal international order."
On Tuesday, China's President Xi Jinping said there was "no point" in blaming economic globalisation for the world's problems, saying financial crises were caused by the excessive pursuit of profits.
His comments were read as a rebuke to Mr Trump, who has promised a protectionist approach.
First Minister Alex Salmond confirmed the move after an ill-tempered Scottish Cup replay at Celtic Park on Wednesday was described as "shameful".
Three Rangers players were sent off during the tie, which also saw several touch-line and tunnel confrontations and 34 arrests inside the stadium.
The Scottish Football Association (SFA) is to investigate events at the match.
By Chick YoungBBC football pundit
The Lennon/McCoist clash is one isolated incident in a night of, I have to say, shame for Scottish football.
This whole "crime scene" needs to be investigated and analysed from start to finish.
The behaviour of El-Hadji Diouf [Rangers player] was absolutely scandalous.
In the end here is a player who throws his top, and indeed his skins, to the fans as if he were some kind of hero when he had hardly kicked a ball for Rangers.
There was much wrong about the game, it was unbelievable.
In 40 years of covering Old Firm matches, this one is up there with one of the most scandalous I have ever seen.
I can't believe the behaviour of the people on the park and time after time I have said this is something that has a ripple effect which is felt deep into the night.
In the run up to the game, the Scottish Police Federation (SPF) - the police officers union - called for a ban on Old Firm games in Glasgow, saying they led to too much violence.
Strathclyde Police - the country's largest force - also warned it would crack down on drink-fuelled violence linked to the fixture after trouble flared in the wake of the previous match.
More than 229 people were arrested in the Strathclyde force area for offences the last time Rangers and Celtic met on 20 February in the league.
At that game 16 people were arrested within the grounds of Celtic Park for alleged offences of a sectarian nature.
Wednesday's game proved to be a heated affair on and off the pitch, with the referee dismissing three Rangers players and issuing a total of 13 yellow cards.
Rangers' forward, El-Hadji Diouf, who was the last player to be sent off after the final whistle for dissent, was involved in a touch-line spat with the Celtic coaching team in the first half.
Seconds after the final whistle, Rangers assistant manager Ally McCoist and Celtic manager Neil Lennon were involved in angry scenes.
Police also made 34 arrests inside the stadium for a variety of sectarian, racial and breach of the peace offences.
The fallout from the game prompted Strathclyde Police Chief Constable Stephen House to call Mr Salmond and write to the Scottish government asking for a summit to address disorder issues surrounding the fixture.
Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie also raised the issue during First Minister's Questions at Holyrood.
In his reply, Mr Salmond said a summit would be held next week "to chart a way forward in Old Firm encounters" and that Celtic, Rangers and the SFA had agreed to attend.
He also told MSPs that he was prepared to meet with the other main party leaders to discuss the issues.
Mr Salmond said football fans were "representatives of their clubs" and that players, and especially managers, were in position of trust and "absolutely must behave responsibly".
He noted that both clubs had significant community programmes and had shown mutual solidarity on a number of occasions.
However, the first minister added that "the disgraceful scenes last night cannot be ignored".
Mr Salmond said: "I think the initiative by Strathclyde Police is a welcome one.
"The government will be happy to convene that summit to chart a way forward and to make sure that all parties involved - the government, the SFA and the clubs - are mindful of their obligations and wider role in Scottish society."
In a statement, Strathclyde Police confirmed that Chief Constable House had sought government intervention over disorder issues surrounding the Old Firm fixture.
The statement said: "The chief constable has this morning spoken to the first minister (Alex Salmond) regarding the events that have surrounded the Old Firm games this season.
"There can be no doubt that the levels of drunken violence that have blighted our communities and the number of people who have been arrested due to their sectarian behaviour is simply unacceptable. Something has to be done.
"We have today written to the Scottish government urging them to bring all the parties together as soon as possible so that we can discuss these problems frankly and openly."
The call for action was backed by the SPF, whose chairman Les Gray branded the scenes at Celtic Park as "disgraceful".
He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: "What happens on the pitch is replicated throughout the streets, the pubs and the clubs and the houses within Scotland.
"The behaviour of all those involved last night was nothing short of disgraceful.
"Something needs to happen, I'm realistic enough to know that they'll probably never stop it but we need to have a serious look at it.
"It may well be that they'll have to look at playing the game behind closed doors for two or three times just to see how it goes. People may say it's a great advert for football, a great advert for Scottish football - that wasn't much of an advert last night."
The SFA has announced that it will conduct its own investigation into the events at Wednesday night's ill-tempered cup replay.
Chief executive Stewart Regan said: "The Scottish FA categorically condemns the inflammatory and irresponsible behaviour throughout last night's Scottish Cup replay between Celtic and Rangers at Celtic Park.
"I was both saddened and deeply embarrassed to witness the scenes that unfolded during what is supposed to be Scottish football's flagship fixture.
"These images were broadcast around the world and shows our game in a poor light. I acknowledge the pressures of expectation on both clubs but last night's behaviour crossed the boundaries of acceptable conduct at a football match."
Thames Valley Police said she was walking in High Woods, Woodley, between 14:00 and 14:10 BST on Friday.
A man walked up behind her, touched her inappropriately and fled in the direction of Kingfisher Drive. The woman shouted at him to stop.
The suspect is white, slim, between 5ft 3in and 6ft, with dark hair around the side of his head and bald on top.
He was wearing a royal blue polo shirt with a mustard-coloured line around the collar.
PC Zoe Eele said it was "a very distressing incident for the victim".
The number is 50 times more deaths than reported now, the study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal said.
Heat waves would cause 99% of all weather-related deaths, it added, with southern Europe being worst affected.
Experts said the journal's findings were worrying.
If nothing is done to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to improve policies to reduce the impact against extreme weather events, the study by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre says:
The research analysed the effects of the seven most dangerous types of weather-related events - heat waves, cold snaps, wildfires, droughts, river and coastal floods and windstorms - in the 28 EU countries as well as Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.
The team looked at disaster records from 1981 to 2010 to estimate population vulnerability, and combined this information with predictions of how climate change might progress and how populations might increase and migrate.
"Climate change is one of the biggest global threats to human health of the 21st century, and its peril to society will be increasingly connected to weather-driven hazards," said Giovanni Forzieri, one of the authors of the study.
"Unless global warming is curbed as a matter of urgency and appropriate measures are taken, about 350 million Europeans could be exposed to harmful climate extremes on an annual basis by the end of the century."
Paul Wilkinson, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who was not involved in the study, said the findings were "yet another reminder of the exposures to extreme weather and possible human impacts that might occur if emissions of greenhouse gases continue unabated.
"It adds further weight to the powerful argument for accelerating mitigation actions to protect population health."
Mr Blair, who campaigned for a vote to stay in the EU, said such an outcome was unlikely but that "the debate continues" despite June's Leave vote.
He told French radio station Europe 1: "Who made the rule that we have to stop the debate now?"
PM Theresa May has said the UK will not stay in the EU "by the back door".
On Thursday her cabinet agreed to "push ahead" with triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which begins the formal two-year process for leaving the EU.
Speaking in French, Mr Blair said Mrs May - who also backed a Remain vote - had to make her "Brexit means Brexit" statement to unite her party and appease the right-wing press in the aftermath of the referendum.
"For the rest of us, we are free to have a debate," he said.
There was currently "confusion" over the way forward because "we do not know the terms of Brexit", said Mr Blair.
"We have done something rather bizarre with Brexit," said the former Labour leader.
"It's like moving house without having seen the new house. We have made an agreement to exchange, but we don't yet know the terms of Brexit, we don't know the costs and the consequences."
He added: "There will come a moment when we have had the negotiations and we can see the terms we are being offered by the rest of Europe and we will be able to say that it is a good idea or perhaps that it is a bad idea with major consequences."
Asked whether it was possible the decision could be reversed with the UK staying in the EU, Mr Blair said at the moment, this was unlikely.
"But the debate continues, and I think it is possible, yes."
The vote to leave, Mr Blair said, had been a reaction against austerity, globalisation and immigration.
Mr Blair's comments come after former civil service chief Lord O'Donnell suggested Britain could remain in a "more loosely aligned" European Union if public opinion changed.
Brexit campaigners have called on Mrs May to invoke Article 50 immediately, but the PM has indicated this will not happen until the start of 2017 at the earliest.
In an hour-long special I am presenting with Stephen Nolan, almost 200 18-year-olds will voice their opinions and put the parties on the spot about their policies.
We spoke to politics students at Belfast Met who were born in 1998, and they said they appreciate the significance of the year in which they were born.
It was a year that saw fundamental change in Northern Ireland with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
Student Stuart English said the the agreement is "better than the alternative... if it means we live in peace".
"I didn't experience the Troubles but my father did, and I might hear a bit about it from him," he said.
"But personally, I don't know what it would be like.
"We hear about it but we don't know what it must have been like day to day."
Courtney Girvin, a product of integrated education, agrees.
"I'm pro-Good Friday Agreement and I have a lot of friends who say it's useless and it hasn't done anything," she said.
"It can be improved, yes, but it's so important because we live in relative peace."
Hannah Kennedy said she will be voting and believes it is important that others do too.
"We've come through the Good Friday Agreement and I think we've different opinions from the older generation," she said.
"So if enough young people don't vote then there won't be the opportunity for this new era of politics to come about."
Stephen Nolan said he wants the young people to "pull no punches" when they face the political parties.
"Politics isn't boring - it's incredibly important if you want to shape the country you live in," he said.
"So let's make this an exciting night where we hear new voices telling out politicians what they want their Northern Ireland to be."
On the night, young people from schools, colleges and those not in education or training will be putting these questions to representatives political parties fighting the election.
Kathleen Carragher, the head of BBC News NI, said the programme is an "exciting opportunity" to find out what Northern Ireland's young people want to ask politicians.
"It will be a chance to hear about the issues that matter to today's young voters and potentially the policy makers and politicians of the future.
"This is just one part of BBC News NI's extensive election coverage in which we are bringing all the passion, the drama and the debate to our audiences, across radio, television and news online."
Election 2016: The Good Friday Agreement Generation will air at 21:00 BST on Wednesday 20 April on BBC One Northern Ireland and on the BBC News Channel.
Earlier, Australia called on Indonesia to delay executing two convicted Australian drug traffickers until corruption claims were investigated.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were convicted in 2006.
The two, along six other foreigners and an Indonesian, have been formally told of their execution. A French trafficker is appealing against his conviction.
Under Indonesian law, convicts must be given 72 hours' notice of execution. This means the executions by the firing squad could be carried out as early as Tuesday.
"France and Australia share the same attachment to human rights and condemn the death penalty in all places and all circumstances," the French presidency said in a statement after a meeting between French President Francois Hollande and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Paris.
French convict Serge Atlaoui still has an appeal before the courts. France has warned of "consequences" if the execution goes ahead.
Meanwhile, Philippine President Benigno Aquino appealed to Indonesian President Joko Widodo for "humanitarian consideration" in connection with the case of a Filipina woman, Mary Jane Veloso, who is also on death row for drug-trafficking offences.
Mr Widodo's spokesman said he was "sympathetic" and was consulting the attorney general on legal issues.
Australia made last-minute pleas on behalf of the two Australian men to delay their execution until a corruption investigation into their case was complete.
But on Monday evening, Indonesia's attorney general confirmed that the nine death row convicts would be executed as planned, without giving an indication of when the executions would be likely to take place.
Attorney General HM Prasetyo told the BBC a judicial review "could not amend [a] previous court ruling" and that "foreigners do not have any legal standing for a judicial review on the Constitutional Court".
At the scene: Alice Budisatrijo, BBC News, Jakarta
The Indonesian government is determined to carry out the execution because it believes the country is facing a national emergency - it says more than 30 people die from drug abuse every day. It doesn't seem to matter to President Joko Widodo that the statistics he based that assessment on have been called into question.
And then there is domestic politics. President Jokowi, as he is known, was elected with popular support but his approval ratings have plummeted in just six months in office.
While Indonesia's death penalty has been widely criticised abroad, most Indonesians don't have a problem with the government executing drug convicts and murderers, as the law currently allows. Many people are even calling for an expansion of the law, to allow death sentences for corruption convictions.
At this point there doesn't seem to be any political will to do that, but if the government calls off the execution of drug traffickers, particularly foreigners, it will have serious political consequences in Indonesia.
Who are the 10 facing execution?
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the two Australians should not be executed while legal issues remained.
"I should point out that Mr Chan and Mr Sukumaran's lawyers are pursuing action before the Constitutional Court in Indonesia," she told Australia's ABC News.
Ms Bishop also said she was "profoundly dismayed" by the 72-hour execution notice.
Claims that the Indonesian judges in the trial had asked for bribes for lighter sentences first surfaced earlier this year.
One of the judges involved in the case denied there had been political interference or negotiations about bribes.
"I can assure you there was none," the judge told Fairfax Media. "We protected ourselves from everybody. It was purely our decision."
Chan and Sukumaran, along with seven other Australians, were arrested in Bali in 2005 for trying to smuggle more than 18lb (8.3kg) of heroin from Indonesia to Australia.
The pair were later found to be the ringleaders of the group and sentenced to death.
Australia's top politicians have been actively campaigning for clemency for the two.
The other seven members of the "Bali Nine" are currently serving either life or 20 years in prison.
Indonesia has some of the toughest drug laws in the world and ended a four-year moratorium on executions in 2013.
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Since January, there have been over 500 complaints about the smell from the tip in Cormongers Lane, Redhill.
Operator Biffa has blamed heavy rainfall, with surface water causing hydrogen sulphide gas emissions.
A series of targets was put in place but now the Environment Agency is installing a monitoring station.
It will take samples every five minutes, 24 hours a day for three months and check for levels of around a dozen gasses including nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide.
The agency said an interim health risk assessment of the air quality which had been issued by Public Health England (PHE) found the levels of the gas were not high enough to be of concern to public health.
In February, Biffa said it was working with the agency on an action plan.
Chris Hazelton, from the Environment Agency, said: "Biffa are making good progress in line with the enforcement notice we issued earlier this year.
"The infrastructure and gas management work they have carried out has led to a significant reduction in the number of odour complaints we have received."
In a statement, Biffa said: "Our off-site hydrogen sulphide monitoring continues on a daily basis with the results shared with the Environment Agency. The results are highlighting fewer incidents of elevated hydrogen sulphide."
Campaigner Katie Pruszynsky, said: "It is certainly a positive step in terms of the future and hopefully it will become a permanent feature so they can monitor the smell, particularly through the summer months."
Traffic data firm Inrix said junction 25 to junction 26 on the M4 is the UK's fourth most-congested stretch and in the Europe's top 50.
Jams average 57 minutes and four miles (6.4km) long, costing drivers £31m a year in lost time, it says.
The Welsh Government wants to build a £1bn M4 relief road to ease congestion.
A public inquiry into building a six-lane motorway to the south of Newport has heard from a government barrister who said the current M4 at Newport was "not fit for purpose".
The Welsh Government's appointed traffic consultant told the inquiry the tunnels were "at or reaching capacity".
Dr Graham Cookson, chief economist for Inrix, said: "Our data shows Brynglas tunnels to be one of the worst traffic hotspots in the UK, with congestion here costing drivers £31m in lost time annually.
"Congestion costs the Welsh economy billions, hampers business efficiency, and wastes drivers' time and money."
"Despite these issues, congestion is in fact a good problem to have as it's a strong indicator of prosperity and economic growth.
"However, in order to resolve these issues we must find a solution before the negative effects of traffic detract from the positive causes."
The tunnels opened 50 years ago on Friday and were originally built for just 30,000 vehicles a day.
Currently, 78,919 vehicles a day on average use that stretch of road and there have been 1,477 traffic jams around the tunnels in the past 12 months, about four jams a day on average.
Inrix said the longest distance traffic jam at the tunnels in the last year was over 14 miles on the eastbound stretch in October where tailbacks reached Magor in Monmouthshire.
Statistics also showed the longest duration of a queue was eight hours as an eight mile congestion clogged the tunnels and the M4 corridor in October.
The honour was given for the work he has done for both the UK's video game and computer industries.
Mr Braben got started in video games as a teenager as one half of the duo that created the hugely successful Elite space trading game.
More recently he was instrumental in helping to get the Raspberry Pi bare-bones computer project up and running.
He helped to set up the Foundation that did the development work on the £25 credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer.
The tiny computer was developed in a bid to get young people interested in computer science and coding but has proved a bigger hit with older people who have put the device to all kinds of uses.
"Yes, it is a great honour, and much appreciated. I have a great team behind me, and I consider the award is for all of us," Mr Braben told the BBC.
Mr Braben got his start in the computer world during the early 1980s when the first cheap home computers became available. He wrote the Elite video game with friend Ian Bell which gave players the chance to pilot a spaceship around an open-ended galaxy trading and fighting off pirates.
In late 2012, Mr Braben ran a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to develop Elite: Dangerous - a modern-day update of the game. The campaign raised £1.5m and the game is due to be released towards the end of 2014.
Mr Braben was one of several technology entrepreneurs and innovators who received awards in the honours.
Dr Paul Hawkins was made an OBE for his work to create the "Hawk Eye" ball-tracking system used at major sporting events such as Wimbledon.
Also honoured were Belinda Parmar, founder of Lady Geek, who was appointed OBE for services to women in technology; Dr David Gow becomes a CBE for creating the prosthetic I-Limb Hand that has helped people with upper limb injuries and Alastair Lukies, founder of Monitise, was appointed a CBE for his entrepreneurial work.
It has emerged that almost one million drink-driving tests recorded by police in the Republic of Ireland did not actually take place.
Senior officers have admitted many of them were likely made up.
In addition, they have admitted a separate error that caused almost 15,000 wrongful traffic convictions.
Speaking on Irish broadcaster RTÉ's This Week, Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin said his party cannot express confidence in Commissioner O'Sullivan, but did not want to embroil the Dáil (parliament) in the controversy.
Mr Martin said he wants a clear statement from the commissioner to explain why the Policing Authority was not told about the controversy until recently.
"We can no longer articulate confidence in the Garda commissioner or indeed at this particular point in time in the administration of justice, until we get absolute clarity in plain language as to what happened here," Mr Martin said.
He added that there needed to be a "radical change in terms of how policing is managed in this country" as the credibility of the Garda had been "seriously undermined by these revelations".
Earlier, Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed said there is nothing to suggest the commissioner is implicated in the latest revelations about the force.
Speaking on RTÉ's The Week in Politics, the minister said the commissioner deserves support and nothing would be served by delivering a head on a plate.
On Saturday, the commissioner said the revelations were "totally unacceptable and not in keeping with the standards of a modern and professional police service".
Commissioner O'Sullivan was already facing questions over her leadership because of allegations of a smear campaign against a whistleblower, Sgt Maurice McCabe.
Sgt McCabe was one of two officers who raised concerns years ago about the alleged deletion of penalty points from the driving licences of well-connected offenders.
The Frenchman is due to sign a contract next week, when further details will also be made public.
Lechantre is set to replace his compatriot Claude LeRoy, who stepped down in November.
The 65-year-old has coached Cameroon and Mali in the past and his most recent job was with Libyan club Al Ittihad Tripoli.
Congo are currently top of their group for 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying, ahead of Zambia on goal difference after two matches.
Lechantre's first competitive games in charge will be back-to-back Nations Cup qualifiers against Zambia in March.
Kenya and Guinea Bissau are the other two teams in Group E.
The Red Devils are also in June's draw for the final round of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.
Martin McCarthy, of Broughton Road, Leicester, was detained after the victim was injured in Pickering Close, Leicester at about midday on Sunday.
The injured man is due to have leg surgery later this week.
Mr McCarthy has also been accused of dangerous diving, driving while over the prescribed alcohol limit and driving without insurance.
He was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court later.
Leicestershire Police would like to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time to contact them.
Derek Mitchell, 35, from East Kilbride, was previously found guilty of three assaults on the former Radio Clyde DJ between May and December 2011.
Paisley Sheriff Court heard how the 45-year-old had tried to take her own life in a bid to escape a "life of terror" at the hands of her husband.
Mitchell was ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work as punishment.
He must also go for alcohol counselling and conform to a non-harassment order for the next six months, not to approach or contact or attempt to approach or contact Ms McGuire.
Passing sentence, Sheriff Susan Sinclair told Mitchell: "You now accept you have a serious issue with the abuse of alcohol and have started taking steps to deal with it.
"Nevertheless, your conduct during 2011, in particular May 20 2011, was reprehensible.
"Your actions were those of a spoiled, jealous, possessive man with a serious alcohol problem and a predilection for violence."
The sheriff added: "You have been convicted of a serious assault in the presence of two small children and two further minor assaults on the complainer, all during 2011."
At a previous hearing, accountant Mitchell was convicted of three assault charges in 2011 and of a breach of the peace in November 2009.
The first assault charge related to an attack in May 2011 after the Eaglesham Fair.
Mitchell drunkenly pulled his wife's wedding finger back - breaking it, in front of her terrified daughters.
The second attack happened in September 2011 at a military event that Ms McGuire was hosting.
The court heard how Mitchell grabbed his wife and pulled her away.
Former Pop Idol winner and singer Michelle McManus told the jury that she and the DJ had their pictures taken with people at the function.
She said: "I kind of stepped aside to make a phone call or send a text message myself. At that point I noticed Derek coming towards where we had been standing and he looked angry.
"He grabbed Suzie by the arm and said 'You're really embarrassing me'."
The third assault took place in December 2011, after a Cash for Kids event at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow.
Ms McGuire and Mitchell went to 29 at Royal Exchange Square in the city centre for an after party.
The court was told that drunken Mitchell flew into a rage when his wife was cuddled by businessman Mike Ashley.
Ms McGuire told the court: "Derek lost it, really really turned very vicious and very nasty at that point. He slapped me across the face and bit me on the shoulder in front of company, in front of quite a lot of people."
She added: "Mike Ashley was standing right beside me - Derek actually tried to hit him."
Ms McGuire also told the court about an attempt to take her own life in March last year after she had been left "broken" by the abuse.
She said: "I don't recognise that person now because I would have left my children with no mum."
During her evidence, she told defence lawyer Billy Lavelle: "I was actually a woman pushed to the limit.
"Beaten up, berated daily, I had nothing left to give."
She added: "I was absolutely hanging by a thread and that thread was gone."
After their relationship came to an end in July 2013, Ms McGuire went to the police and reported her ordeal.
During the trial, Mitchell lodged a special defence of self-defence in relation to the broken finger, claiming he was trying to stop his wife attacking him, but the jury rejected this version of events.
Kalonzo Musyoka said they had evidence the results had been doctored and called for vote-counting to be stopped.
The election chief has rejected the claims, as has Mr Kenyatta's party.
The International Criminal Court has postponed the trial of Mr Kenyatta, due on charges for crimes against humanity.
His trial was due to begin next month. He is accused of organising attacks on members of ethnic groups seen as supporters of Mr Odinga during post-election violence in 2007-2008. He denies the charges.
More than 1,000 people were killed in the violence which broke out after Mr Odinga claimed he had been cheated of victory by supporters of President Mwai Kibaki. Mr Kibaki is stepping down after two terms in office.
(Based on votes counted from 141 constituencies at 1515 GMT (1815 Nairobi time) on Thursday
The judges agreed to postpone the trial of Mr Kenyatta and the former head of civil service, Francis Kirimi Muthaura, and set a new start date of 9 July 2013.
Meanwhile, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Ahmed Issack Hassan has denied the allegations that the election results had been tampered.
"There is no room to doctor results whatsoever," he said.
He said that the ongoing counting of the presidential election results would not be stopped, as it was a legal process.
Earlier, the IEBC's Liliane Mahiri Zaja, told the BBC that no written complaint had so far been received about the way the votes were being counted.
The IEBC has been holding closed-door meetings with diplomats, reports BBC Swahili's Idris Situma.
Counting has been severely delayed after the electronic system crashed.
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Mr Musyoka said the failure of the electronic results system earlier this week had allowed the vote to be rigged.
"We as a coalition take the position the national vote-tallying process lacks integrity and has to be stopped and re-started using primary documents from the polling stations," he said on Thursday.
But Mr Musyoka also called on Kenyans to remain calm, saying, "We are committed as a coalition to the principle of the rule of law."
Senior members of Mr Odinga's coalition have given the BBC further details about their allegations, saying that the number of ballots counted exceeded that of votes cast at some polling stations.
Mr Kenyatta's Jubilee coalition has rejected the accusations.
"It's unfortunate that Odinga feels the need to try and halt the count," a coalition spokesman said.
"We believe the people of Kenya have waited patiently for the results of this general election. We urge international observers - if they hold sway with Mr Odinga - to encourage him to allow the process of democracy to take its course".
The long delays and these new accusations are increasing the tension, the BBC's James Copnall reports from the capital, Nairobi.
However, until they see comprehensive evidence, many Kenyans will remain sceptical, our correspondent says.
On Wednesday, the head of the EU observer mission, Alojz Peterle, said Kenya had so far demonstrated "an impressive commitment to democratic elections".
But the African Union Election Observation Mission expressed concern over the high level of rejected ballots, which may have resulted from "inadequate voter education" in the run-up to the elections.
Following glitches with hi-tech voting and counting systems, the vote-tallying process was started again from scratch, and by hand, on Wednesday.
Results were only being announced after the ballots had been physically delivered to election headquarters in Nairobi, rather than being filed electronically.
Latest figures show Mr Kenyatta has maintained his lead over Mr Odinga.
With about six million votes tallied at 1515 GMT (1815 Nairobi time), Mr Kenyatta had some 3.1 million votes (53%) compared to Mr Odinga's 2.6 million (43%).
But, as turnout was estimated at more than 70% of the country's 14.3 million voters, there is still some way to go.
The number of rejected ballots, which have become a major bone of contention, currently stands at 58,644.
The Jubilee coalition has rejected calls for some of these ballots to be included, as requested by Mr Odinga's allies.
Counting the rejected votes would greatly add to the number needed for a candidate to break the 50% threshold for a first-round win and increase the prospect of a runoff due within a month.
The push for these ballots to be included was motivated by a "sinister and suspect logic", said Charity Ngilu, a senior member of Mr Kenyatta's coalition.
Jubilee accused the British High Commissioner in Kenya of "canvassing to have rejected votes tallied", an accusation the UK Foreign Office described as "entirely false and misleading''.
The winning candidate must get more than 50% of the total votes cast and at least 25% of votes in half of the 47 counties. The latter was a requirement introduced in the new constitution to make sure the new president wins with wide support, rather than only with the backing of voters in his regional and ethnic strongholds.
If there is no clear winner, a second round of voting will take place, probably on 11 April.
Andy Carroll's 50th Premier League goal put West Ham into a deserved lead at the break, but strikes by Andrew Robertson and Andrea Ranocchia turned the game in the second half.
Hull move on to 27 points, level with fourth-bottom Swansea City who are in action on Sunday against fellow strugglers Middlesbrough.
Marco Silva's side face Middlesbrough themselves on Wednesday night, when another three points could see them climb out of the bottom three.
Defeat for West Ham, meanwhile, continues a disappointing run of form that has now seen them lose four league games in a row.
Slaven Bilic's side are winless in six in the Premier League - a run stretching back to 4 February - and have dropped to 14th place, six points above the drop zone.
If Hull are to maintain their Premier League status come May, it is days like this that they will point to as key moments.
Their home form has been superb since the appointment of Silva in January, with 13 points won from a possible 15 - a run that has taken in wins against Bournemouth, Liverpool, Swansea and now West Ham.
Silva is now personally unbeaten in 39 home league matches including jobs before he came to England, and the Portuguese appreciates the importance of the statistic.
"These are really good numbers," said Silva. "They give confidence to me and to the players."
This latest win came despite an abject opening period by the hosts, who failed to put any pressure on an out-of-sorts West Ham missing the likes of Winston Reid and Michail Antonio.
Carroll's opening goal was a gift from Hull's Curtis Davies, who badly misjudged the flight of Aaron Cresswell's lofted pass to allow the big striker an easy finish from eight yards.
But a half-time change from a three-man defence to a flat back four improved the Tigers' performance.
Kamil Grosicki, introduced from the bench for Davies, was involved in the equaliser, receiving the ball after great work by Lazar Markovic and laying into the path of Robertson who advanced to fire home his first Premier League goal.
Alfred N'Diaye hit the post for the home team a short while later but West Ham appeared to have done enough to take away a point only for Ranocchia to rise unmarked to head the winner from Grosicki's corner five minutes from full-time.
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For much of this game West Ham looked far and away the better side, with Manuel Lanzini impressive in midfield and Carroll bossing the forward line.
With Mark Noble dropped to the bench, Carroll was captain for the day and responded with a typically bullish and influential performance, winning headers in his own area and giving Hull's back three a generally torrid time in the first period.
He took his goal very well, bringing the ball down on his chest and firing unerringly beyond Eldin Jakupovic. He ended the half with a clattering challenge on Ranocchia, dazing the Italian and underlining his menace.
Yet Hull's switch to a four-man defence completely altered the contest. More cover on the wings strangled the supply line to Carroll, who only had one chance of note in the second half with a header straight at Jakupovic.
Hull's equaliser was as well worked as it was well deserved, after which there only looked like being one winner, particularly when N'Diaye thumped against the post and Grosicki fired just wide on the rebound.
Ranocchia duly delivered the killer punch late on, but in truth it was a self-inflicted wound for the Hammers, who allowed the Italian too much space at the near post as the visitors' set-piece weaknesses were exposed again.
Hull head coach Marco Silva: "We changed some things [at half-time], the system. I think we changed our confidence as well.
"In the first half we were too slow, in the second half we played with more confidence. We had a great 25 minutes at the start of the second half. We scored one goal and could have had more. One off the post. I think we deserve this victory.
"It was really important. In our stadium with our fans we are stronger. All the games now are important. We showed again this afternoon how strong we are when we play at home."
On the fight against relegation: "It's our goal. Since we came we have said that. It's difficult. It's important we had a good performance this afternoon but we need to fight until the end of the season for sure.
"This result gives confidence but this game is finished and Middlesbrough is another game."
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West Ham boss Slaven Bilic: "I was very satisfied [at half-time]. We were winning, they didn't have have a shot on target, we neutralised them.
"It was all good until they equalised. They had five minutes of a good spell but then we came back again. To concede a set-piece again, it is very hard to take. We conceded two against Leicester, one against Bournemouth, it's no good.
"Ranocchia was basically in that position alone, and we didn't mark him."
On the shrinking gap to the bottom three: "They are making up ground. It's very open and they are closing the gap. With a point we are keeping them nine points behind us, but now it's six."
On his future: "I'm doing my job. I'm motivated. But if we are doing so many mistakes then you will pay the price."
A massive midweek encounter is next up for Hull as they play host to second-bottom Middlesbrough on Wednesday night (19:45 BST). West Ham are in action at the same time, making the trip across London to play Arsenal at Emirates Stadium.
Investors were also digesting a wave of results from major US banks.
The Dow Jones index lost 138.61 points, or 0.67%, to 20,453.25 while the S&P 500 shed 15.98 points, or 0.68%, to 2,328.95.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 31.01 points or 0.53% to 5,805.15.
The Afghan attack followed days of mounting concerns about US relations with Russia and North Korea.
JJ Kinahan, a market strategist at TD Ameritrade, told AFP: "People are saying, 'Let's take some risk off the table.' With what's going on in geopolitics, who knows what can happen."
Shares in JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup fell 1.17% and 0.8% respectively, despite both lenders reporting a 17% hike in quarterly profits.
And Wells Fargo shares fell 3.3% after the bank reported a drop in mortgage banking revenue.
Oil-linked shares also slipped as investors appeared to cash in gains made earlier in the week.
ExxonMobil and Chevron lost 1.5% and 2.6% respectively, while Halliburton slid 1.9%.
Rowland, 24, graduated from the Renault academy and his development role will involve significant simulator time as well as track opportunities.
The Sheffield-born driver will also contest the Formula 2 Championship, having recently signed for Dams.
"I would love to be in F1 next year, that has to be the target," he said.
"I will work as hard as I can to achieve that.
"I am really pleased with today's announcement, and it is another step in the right direction, but you have got to carry on the momentum."
Rowland completed his first full season of GP2, recently rebranded the Formula 2 championship, last year and led after five rounds before finishing ninth.
Lewis Hamilton and Jolyon Palmer, both of whom won Formula One's feeder series, are Great Britain's only representatives on the current F1 grid.
"I understand that if I don't win the F2 championship than I probably won't get a chance in F1. But in my head it is quite clear," added Rowland.
"I want to go out and win and dominate the series."
The party said none of its officials would be involved except as witnesses and that crossbench peer Lord Pannick would review the investigation.
It follows criticism of the original internal inquiry overseen by a lawyer.
Claims of bullying have centred around former youth campaign organiser Mark Clarke, who denies any wrongdoing.
Minister Grant Shapps resigned at the weekend and there appears to be growing pressure on the position of party chairman Lord Feldman.
Some Conservative MPs have told the BBC the peer, partly responsible for having given Mr Clarke a formal role in campaigning, must now stand down.
By Ross Hawkins, BBC political correspondent
Lord Feldman was one of four officials who agreed to give Mark Clarke a formal role in the Conservative election campaign. One of the four - Grant Shapps - has resigned. Among those not calling for Lord Feldman to quit immediately, there is limited sympathy.
While some believe he has been unfairly targeted, the Tory's chairman's decades-long friendship with his tennis partner and Oxford college May Ball committee colleague David Cameron is a double-edged sword.
Close friends of the PM's are not necessarily bosom buddies of the Parliamentary party. Well-connected MPs say the PM's man won't have much support among Tory colleagues as things hot up.
Lord Feldman: The key questions
The party released a statement after a board meeting, saying it was "determined to establish the truth" in relation to events surrounding the death of 21-year-old Elliott Johnson and the activities of Mr Clarke, who ran a campaigning initiative called RoadTrip which bussed young volunteers around the country.
It said that from Tuesday, the investigation would be carried out "in its entirety" by Clifford Chance.
The law firm will review all the interviews already carried out by Conservative officials, it said, and give people the option to be reinterviewed.
On Sunday the party said more than 40 written statements had been taken.
Lord Feldman chairs the party board of the most senior figures in the Conservative hierarchy which will discuss the allegations.
But the Conservatives say he will not feature in the board meeting that considers the Clifford Chance report.
Mr Shapps resigned as international development minister over allegations that, while party co-chairman, he failed to act on claims of bullying.
Mr Clarke had been struck off a list of approved Tory election candidates after complaints were made about his behaviour in 2010 and in his letter, Mr Shapps acknowledged having given him a "second chance" by appointing him to run the party's RoadTrip campaign which took young activists around the country during the election.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Paul Goodman, the former Tory MP who edits the influential ConservativeHome website, said Lord Feldman's position was "not tenable".
Mr Goodman said it was "simply not persuasive that the buck stops with [Grant] Shapps" because the decision to appoint Mr Clarke was signed off by the party's senior management team - which included Lord Feldman as the "senior chairman".
Chancellor George Osborne said Lord Feldman was an "outstanding party chairman and a person of real integrity".
Speaking on a visit to Crewe, Mr Osborne said an inquiry was taking place because "we're going to get to the bottom of what happened to this poor person Elliott Johnson".
Before his death in September, Mr Johnson had complained to Conservative Central Office that Mr Clarke had threatened to destroy his career. He also named Mr Clarke in a letter found by his parents after his death.
Mr Clarke has rejected allegations of bullying, sexual assault and intimidation. He has since been expelled from the party.
The problem came to light when seven-year-old Murphy became sick while eating a bone.
His owner, David Larson, of Jarrow, took him to a vets in Newcastle where staff took X-rays and spotted mystery objects in his stomach.
Vet Mandy Ball immediately operated on him, removing the balls. Murphy has since made a full recovery.
Mr Larson said: "There were some foreign bodies inside his stomach but the vets couldn't identify what they were, so [they] operated at their hospital and saved his life.
"I've only had him for 18 months and he has never come into contact with golf balls during that time, so they must have been lodged inside him for a long time. I've noticed since the operation he is much brighter and much more playful."
Passengers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will have their temperatures taken and have to answer questions.
The new measures at O'Hare in Chicago, JFK and Newark in the New York area, Washington's Dulles, and Atlanta's airport will begin in the coming days.
The Ebola outbreak has already killed more than 3,000 people and infected more than 7,200, mostly in West Africa.
The increase in passenger testing comes after the first person diagnosed with Ebola on US soil died in Dallas on Wednesday.
Thomas Duncan travelled to the US from Liberia, and was only diagnosed with the disease once he arrived in Texas.
A police officer who visited Mr Duncan's home is now reported to have Ebola-like symptoms and has been taken to hospital as a precaution.
Frisco Mayor Maher Maso described the risk as "minimal", but officials were taking "an abundance of caution"
Test results were expected back within about 48 hours, Mr Maso said.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will dispatch staff to these five airports, which account for 90% of travellers to the US. As many as 160 people enter the US from those countries each day.
Travellers will be given a questionnaire, and if they answer yes to any questions or are running a fever, a representative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will intervene and provide a public health assessment.
Factsheets will be distributed to travellers with information on symptoms of Ebola and instructions to call a doctor if they become ill within three weeks.
"We expect to see some patients with fever and that will cause some obvious and understandable concern," said CDC director Dr Tom Frieden. But those cases will most likely be malaria, which is widespread in West Africa, he said.
If a patient does display a fever, he or she may be handed over to local health workers for further oversight.
The changes are currently set to begin at JFK on Saturday and the other four airports some time next week.
"We're always looking for ways we can better protect Americans," Dr Frieden added. But, given the ongoing nature of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, "we can't get the risk to zero in this country".
Earlier, President Barack Obama said the new security measures would "give us the ability to isolate, evaluate and monitor travellers as needed, and we'll be able to collect any contact information that's necessary".
"If we don't follow protocols and procedures that are put in place, then we're putting folks in our communities at risk," he added. "We don't have a lot of margin for error."
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson described the measures as "an additional layer of protection to help ensure the risk of Ebola in the United States is minimised."
More than 3,400 people have already died in West Africa, and on Monday, Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan became the first person to die of the disease in the US. He was also the first person diagnosed with the disease outside of Africa.
The first case of contagion outside that continent was also confirmed in Spain on Monday, where a nurse who treated an Ebola victim in Madrid contracted the virus herself.
Passengers leaving affected countries already have their temperatures checked, but people do not become infectious until they display symptoms.
Mr Duncan was screened for symptoms when he left Liberia but appeared healthy. He did not develop symptoms of Ebola until four days later, when he was in the US.
Forty-eight people who came into contact with him, not counting the quarantined Dallas County deputy, are being monitored by health officials.
The CDC chief has ruled out banning flights to the US from the affected countries, arguing the isolation would only worsen the outbreak within Africa and would deny those countries crucial aid.
In pictures: Moneygall gets ready for Obama
Moneygall in County Offaly is awash with paint, as the rural village prepares to welcome the most powerful man in the world in May.
President Obama's great, great, great grandfather came from Moneygall and the president plans to set foot in his ancestral home during his two-day visit to Ireland.
To ensure the presidential feet are made as comfortable as possible, the pavements are being dug up, re-laid and smoothed over. It is just one of many improvements being made.
Houses on the main street are being cleaned with power-hoses. Gardens are being tidied, new flowers are being planted.
The air in Moneygall is filled with the smell of paint. It seems like every spare brush in County Offaly is being used.
Every house is being made to look its best, in preparation for the visit, which is likely to take place on Monday 23 May.
The decision by one family to paint their house with the colours of the American flag has not gone down well with some of their neighbours.
"It looks a bit tacky," said one woman, as she watched the street turn red, white and blue.
But, overall, the small rural community has pulled together.
The parish rector, Canon Stephen Neill, said: "This has brought joy and excitement to the whole area. It's something to celebrate in what have been very dark times in our country economically."
Moneygall has already received an economic boost - 3,500 litres of free paint from Dulux to help with the make-over.
The village has no bank, no cash point, no coffee shop and a population of less than 300 people.
However, it does have two pubs, including Ollie Hayes's bar in the middle of the main street.
The pub is full of Obama memorabilia, including a life-size bust which has pride of place on the bar. Now, the man himself is likely to call in next month.
"It's something I never dreamt would happen in a small village like this," said Mr Hayes, as he served a group of American tourists.
"We're going to enjoy every minute of this."
Moneygall is in the heart of Ireland, about 90 minutes from Dublin, on the road to Limerick.
On St Patrick's Day in Washington, President Obama announced that not only would he be visiting Ireland in May but travelling to Moneygall to re-trace his Irish roots.
One of the villagers, Henry Healy, is the eighth cousin of Obama.
He said: "At first it felt almost surreal but now it's becoming very real. He's coming to Moneygall, he's coming to my home town and I'm hopeful reality will really kick in if I'm privileged to meet the man and shake his hand.
"You have to pinch yourself. I got a bit taken aback when I saw the CIA here two weeks ago.
"I can only imagine what my reaction will be when the man himself actually lands here in the village."
A welcome song has been written already.
The chorus goes: "O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara, there's no-one as Irish as Barack Obama. From the old Blarney stone, to the green hills of Tara, there's no-one as Irish as Barack Obama."
In Ollie Hayes's pub, there is a fictitious picture of Obama in Moneygall listening to traditional Irish music and holding a pint of the black stuff.
Fiction is about to become reality. The only thing that can go wrong is if they run out of paint.
As finance secretary, Mr Swinney's role encompasses the constitution and government strategy.
He also monitors the economy, fiscal policy, the Scottish budget, spending, taxation and public pay.
He said there was "undoubtedly an argument" for a chancellor-type role in Scotland.
Speaking at a Scottish Parliamentary Journalists' Association event in Edinburgh, Mr Swinney said: "There is an argument for there purely being a ministerial role that looks solely at the issues of tax and public expenditure control.
"There are other responsibilities of course. The responsibilities in this respect will be growing very dramatically in the course of the next few years."
He added: "What has changed, and what I thought was quite evident in the Budget process in the last couple of years, was the growing proportion of time and Budget preparation that is now taken on tax-related issues.
"It opens up a very significant new set of issues and the deployment of responsibilities within government must be considered within that backdrop into the bargain."
He said a Scottish chancellor was "an interesting prospect worthy of further consideration given the nature of how our responsibilities are changing".
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Victor Navarro, also known as "Megateo", died in bombing attacks on the mountain jungle region of Catatumbo.
The US had offered a $5m reward for his capture.
Navarro was also the leader of a remnant faction of the leftist guerrilla group the EPL.
The EPL disbanded 16 years ago but Navarro is believed to have pushed the band into cocaine trafficking so that they could procure weapons.
In a magazine interview more than a year ago, he denied he was a drug trafficker but he admitted that he had collected "a tax on cocaine" so as to "finance the war".
Navarro was also known for his fondness for garish weapons-themed jewellery and the branding of underage young lovers with a tattoo of his face.
His brash behaviour had drawn comparisons to an earlier generation of drug traffickers in Colombia such as Pablo Escobar, who had kept a zoo of wild animals including lions and hippos in his rural estate.
The result leaves Arsenal behind in the race for a top-four league spot, which gets a team in to next season's Champions League competition.
Palace led through Andros Townsend's close-range finish, doubling their lead when Yohan Cabaye's shot looped in.
Luka Milivojevic clinched victory with a penalty as Palace moved six points clear of the relegation zone.
Sixth-placed Arsenal did not manage a shot on target in a poor second half.
Some travelling Arsenal fans again called for manager Wenger, who has led Arsenal to top-four finishes in each of his previous 20 seasons as boss, to leave the club.
The Frenchman's side are seven points behind fourth-placed Manchester City with eight games remaining.
The president of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, presented the Hollywood star with the Outstanding Contribution to Cinema award.
Neeson received tributes from famed directors Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg at the event on Saturday.
His 30-year career includes high-profile roles in films such as Schindler's List and Michael Collins.
In 1976, Neeson joined the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast, where he spent two years with the company, playing roles in productions including Henry VI Part One and Brian Friel's Philadelphia Here I Come.
His next move was to Dublin's Abbey Theatre where he was spotted performing in Of Mice and Men by movie director John Boorman, who would hand him his first major film role in Excalibur.
In 1980 he joined Field Day, the touring Irish company set up by the actor Stephen Rea and the playwright Brian Friel.
He moved to London where he began picking up television work and minor film roles, notably alongside Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro in The Mission, where "I only had a few lines, but I had a good death".
A role in the hit US television show Miami Vice convinced Neeson to take a chance on a Hollywood career, and in 1986 he moved to the US where he landed a leading role in Suspect, playing a homeless deaf-mute opposite Cher.
Neeson told RTÉ he was "very honoured" to receive the award.
"Because it's from my peer groups, it's very humbling," he said. "A little bit embarrassing, but I'll get over it."
He also called on the Irish Film Board to be given more funding.
"We have to nurture this talent," he said. "It doesn't happen by accident."
Rock star and humanitarian Bob Geldolf was a guest presenter at the awards ceremony, joining Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer, Moone Boy writer Chris O'Dowd, and Threesome actress Amy Huberman.
Londonderry actress Roma Downey, best known for her role in hit TV series Touched by an Angel, was also honoured during the ceremony.
The actress and producer received the Irish Diaspora Award.
The big winner of the night was drama Room, which picked up seven awards including Best Film and Best Director for Lenny Abrahamson.
The event was hosted by actress and comedian Deirdre O'Kane.
Cardiff's multi-millionaire Malaysian owner Tan Sri Vincent Tan Chee Yioun has formed a "unique" club and country partnership that connects the Cardiff City Stadium and Kuala Lumpur.
But not only is Malaysia's ninth richest entrepreneur using some of his estimated £800m fortune to bolster Cardiff's Premier League promotion bid, he is also personally kick-starting grassroots football in his homeland using the Cardiff City brand.
Vincent Tan and chairman Dato Chan Tien Ghee have invested "substantially" in a Malaysian youth structure and youth league in Cardiff City's name.
The long-term goal of Cardiff's hierarchy is to supplement the Malaysia national team and significantly improve their Fifa world ranking of 150.
Such is Vincent Tan's financial commitment and desire to raise standards in Malaysian football that football-loving Malaysians have bought into his Cardiff City vision, so expect many to be supporting Malky Mackay's underdogs this weekend.
Cardiff's powerbrokers, in turn, hope the profile enhancement in this relatively untapped market could prove profitable.
"If you go to South East Asia, the impact of football is huge," Cardiff chief executive Alan Whiteley told BBC Sport Wales.
"Cardiff probably wouldn't have registered on the scale two years but, on the investment of two significant Malaysian businessmen and their link with Cardiff, the club has become significant in Malaysia and is growing all of the time.
"You even see a few Cardiff city shirts over there now - not as many as Manchester United and Liverpool, though.
"I'm sure our new fans in Malaysia will be watching Sunday's game with interest - especially against a massive club like Liverpool.
"There is huge interest within the Malaysian media as about 30 of them are flying in to report on our progress in the final."
Cardiff were taken over by their Malaysian investors just after their last visit to Wembley, the Championship play-off final defeat to Blackpool in May 2010.
Former Cardiff winger Kevin Cooper has relocated to Malaysia to manage Cardiff's 1MCC - One Malaysia Cardiff City - a concept Whiteley believes could reach 100,000 children throughout Malaysia over the next three to five years.
The first Cardiff City Malaysian youth league will begin in April as the Welsh club broaden their horizons to the land of their property magnate owner.
"Clearly one of the attractions for Vincent Tan and Dato Chan Tien Ghee is using the link with Cardiff to develop grassroots football in Malaysia through the medium of education," said Whiteley.
"The potential is incredible. Grassroots football in Malaysia is not wonderful, hence their world rankings, so our owners are seeing this as a way of improving the standards very quickly and spreading the Cardiff City brand.
"I'm not aware of any similar partnership so I guess there is an element of uniqueness.
"It is slightly different from the norm, where you have oversees investors come in but they are only really concerned about their profile and the profile of the club they are investing in.
"The primary aim for our owners is to achieve success for Cardiff City but also to use that as a method to promote Malaysian football.
"The ultimate long-term success is to have Cardiff in the Premier League and Malaysia significantly improved in the world ranking.
"It shows the fans their commitment. The message [the owners] have given us is that they are here for the long-term. That's why the manager has a long-term deal at Cardiff as they have long-term plans for the club."
Former Cardiff captain Scott Young, the hero of their famous FA Cup third-round win over then Premier League leaders Leeds United in 2002, is the figurehead of Cardiff's community scheme, which employs 50 staff and coaches 50,000 children annually.
Cooper and community officer Matt Holland are in Malaysia to coach Malaysian football coaches to train local youngsters who dream of being the first Malaysian football star.
"They are mimicking our Cardiff community programme in Malaysia," said Whiteley.
"Our coaches will go into the community and schools to use football to bring children together and providing an education framework around it.
"Over the next 12 years, the aim is to use our coaches to train indigenous Malaysian coaches so they can coach on behalf of Cardiff City.
"The question we always get asked when we're in Malaysia is when can we have Malaysian players playing in the Premier League? Their ambition is so high.
"They probably watch more football then we do in Britain. They watch football from all over the world 24/7, especially the Premier League.
"It is a massive market and it is exposure the brand needs. The only way to tap into it fully is to take the team to Malaysia and let the locals see us play against the Malaysian national team in front of a crowd of 50,000 screaming Malaysians.
"If we were to get to the promised land, our profile would go through the roof in Malaysia, as well as around the world, as the revenue opportunities and brand exposure in the Premier League are second to none.
"Given we are owned by high-profile Malaysian businessmen and given what they are doing at grassroots levels in Malaysia, that would have massively positive implications for Cardiff City.
"When teams like Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United play in these places, there's a massive retail frenzy, so it will open up a whole new market for us and it will be a significant revenue driver."
Mr Cavusoglu earlier said he would visit Rotterdam on Saturday, despite a ban on him to address a rally there.
He warned Turkey would impose heavy sanctions if his visit were blocked.
Citing security concerns, Rotterdam's mayor had said Mr Cavusoglu could not campaign there to win support among expatriates for April's referendum.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in a statement that the Turkish threat of sanctions made "the search for a reasonable solution impossible".
Therefore the Netherlands announced it would withdraw landing rights, he said.
Similar meetings in Austria, Germany and Switzerland have also been banned.
The cancellations in Germany led Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to accuse Berlin of "Nazi practices".
That comment drew a sharp response from German leaders, with Chancellor Angela Merkel describing the comparison as "unacceptable".
Mr Erdogan is seeking to extend his powers in the 16 April vote.
He is targeting millions of expatriate voters eligible to cast a ballot in the referendum - including 1.4 million in Germany.
Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said earlier this week that the owner of the hall scheduled to hold Mr Cavusoglu's event in the city on Saturday had withdrawn authorisation, but the foreign minister could still visit.
"He has diplomatic immunity and everything so we will treat him with respect, but we have other instruments to prohibit things happening in public spaces," Mr Aboutaleb said, quoted by Reuters news agency.
There was also uncertainty about whether an event he was due to attend in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sunday would go ahead after one venue refused to hold it.
Another event in Zurich scheduled for Friday and featuring a senior official was cancelled, as were rallies in the Austrian towns of Hoerbranz, Linz and Herzogenburg.
The Dutch and Austrian governments have also criticised the Turkish government's drive to take its referendum campaign to Turks based in EU countries.
Relations between Turkey and European countries have deteriorated since last July's attempted coup in Turkey. Germany has been critical of the mass arrests and purges that followed - with nearly 100,000 civil servants removed from their posts.
Many European nations have expressed deep disquiet about Turkey's response to the coup attempt and its perceived slide towards authoritarianism under President Erdogan.
Turkey is a key partner in an arrangement attempting to limit the movement of migrants into the EU, but has threatened to "open the gates" if the EU reneges on commitments to provide aid, visa-free travel for its nationals and accelerated membership talks.
Chris Martin - from a statuesque figure of derision to a defiant, goal-scoring hero.
From being compared to a plank only a few days before in a game against Canada to parallels with footballing icons in this business of the booing. "Not a bad club to be in," said Gordon Strachan of Martin, the life-saver.
Truly this was Scottish football at its bonkers best.
This was a different Scotland - aggressive, driven, clever, mentally strong to the last kick. They created and they missed and they came again.
After all those opportunities in the opening half - one disallowed, one fizzing past a post, two off the woodwork and one off the line - there was a lull in their play in the second spell, an uncomfortable lowering of their intensity and their threat. At the time, it was easy to believe that their confidence had dipped also.
When you keep banging on the door and it doesn't open for you, there's a frustration and a vulnerability that comes with that. Most of the time, but not all of the time.
They had one chance for Ikechi Anya and it went the way of that other glaring moment that fell to Leigh Griffiths earlier in the game. An opportunity missed.
That was the sixth. Six chances in one match and no goal? Given the black comedy that Scottish football can be you half-expected the night to end with a breakaway for Slovenia and a sucker punch.
For all their negativity, their time-wasting, their play-acting, we have all been down this road before. Scottish dominance followed by Scottish heartbreak. This was a pleasing break from a depressing narrative.
Scotland lifted themselves out of that second half rut where passes went astray, fluency was lost and hope faded.
Strachan brought on Martin and you felt for the guy as he was greeted with jeers, a human symbol of the manager's stubbornness that everybody thought was going to end in stalemate and the extinguishing of the flickering flame of a place in the play-offs.
Martin was the unlikeliest Scottish hero since John Smeaton did his stuff at Glasgow Airport.
More predictably, Stuart Armstrong helped create the goal with a coolness and a quality amid the maelstrom. He took responsibility, found his man and put the cherry on top of what was an outstanding debut, a performance that made you marvel at the massive strides he has made under Brendan Rodgers' tutelage.
Armstrong didn't just play extremely well, he looked like he was loving every minute of it. There was a burden of expectation upon him but it was a load he carried as if it were a feather.
Andy Robertson was just as good. Kieran Tierney was strong though playing out of position. Griffiths, even when missing a sitter, was a pest to Slovenia. In 45 minutes he put three attempts on goal. The temptation is to focus on the one he blew, but Griffiths was a nuisance to the visitors all the same.
This Scottish performance was dug out from a very dark place. They knew that there was no World Cup beyond Sunday night if it all went wrong, so they had an edge and a hunger from the first whistle and all the while you wondered where on earth this kind of performance had been for the last two-and-half years.
Throw this at Georgia and Scotland probably win that game and maybe the Euro qualifiers turn out differently. Throw it at Lithuania and they probably win that one, too. You don't get nailed 3-0 by Slovakia if you have this kind of desire.
Sunday night was a lift, a reminder that these Scottish players may not be anything special but they're capable of a damn sight more than they have delivered for the longest time.
Is it too little, too late? Almost certainly.
Last week in this space we projected some figures based on what was required to make the play-offs in the last four major championships. We took as our guide the nation that squeezed into the play-offs as eighth seed - the Republic of Ireland in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers, Turkey in Euro 2012, Croatia in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers and Slovenia in Euro 2016.
Updating those numbers after Sunday and applying them to Scotland, Strachan's team still have mountains to climb, still have a way to go to prove that they can repeat and improve upon on the win against Slovenia. That's what they need to do.
Removing the fodder points against the Maltas and the San Marinos - all points won against the bottom side in each group will be taken away to determine who makes the play-offs - the Republic made it on 12 points.
Not counting the game against Malta at home, in order to match that total Scotland would need two more wins and two more draws from two home games, against England and Slovakia, and two away games, against Lithuania and Slovenia.
To match Turkey and Croatia from the 2012 Euro qualifiers and the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, they would need two wins and a draw from those four fixtures.
Given that third-placed teams made the play-offs for Euro 2016, using that qualifying campaign as an indication of what Scotland now need is far from perfect, but even still, based on Slovenia, the eighth seed in the play-offs, Scotland would need two wins or one win and three draws from those five pivotal games.
The probability is that Scotland need a minimum of seven points from the four games outside of the Malta gimme, possibly need eight points and might even need nine points.
This performance brought some hope, but they're a team that broke out of jail with two minutes to go on Sunday only to find that they were back inside on Monday morning with even greater feats of escapology required to do it all over again.
The 29-year-old Turkey international is a replacement for Nadir Ciftci, who has been loaned out to Eskisehirspor until the end of the season.
Celtic earlier confirmed the signing of Manchester City winger Patrick Roberts on an 18-month loan deal.
The 18-year-old, who has played for England Under-19s, joined City in the summer from Fulham.
Kazim-Richards has scored over 50 goals in more than 350 club appearances across spells in England, Turkey, France, Greece and the Netherlands.
The London-born forward, who played for Bury, Brighton and Sheffield United early in his career before heading abroad, said he felt "privileged, thankful and ecstatic" after accepting Celtic's offer.
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"To tell you the truth, I never wanted to come back to Britain," he said. "But once this opportunity came, it was an obvious decision.
"I have played at big clubs but this is one of the biggest. The fans can expect someone who will give 125% every day, not just on match-day. I'm really honoured to have this opportunity to come and show my abilities."
Roberts, meanwhile, is looking forward to some first-team action after being restricted to three appearances as a substitute for City this season.
"Manchester City know I need to be playing football and they were happy for me to come up here," said Roberts, who was sold to City for around £12m.
"Celtic are huge in Scotland and huge in Europe and this is what I want. I'm here for a long time and I want to develop. I want to do well for Celtic, win trophies and get into Europe.
"I'm very direct and quick. I like to get the fans off their seats, which I hope to do many times, and I like to score goals."
Ciftci, 23, joined the Scottish champions from Dundee United on a four-year deal in July but has found it hard to break into Ronny Deila's first team.
The Turkish striker will stay with Süper Lig side Eskisehirspor in his native country until the end of the current campaign.
Deila has already signed Denmark defender Erik Sviatchenko, who featured in Celtic's Scottish League Cup semi-final defeat by Ross County on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Celtic have sent teenage forward Aidan Nesbitt on loan to Premiership rivals Partick Thistle for the rest of the season.
Paul Wilmott, 63, died in the blast at a detached house in Springwood, Haxby, near York on 19 February.
A report by police and health and safety investigators said the explosion was caused by a gas pipe that fractured after floor slabs shifted, possibly because of the recent wet weather.
It ruled out health and safety breaches and found no evidence of criminality.
The copper pipe had been installed when the property was built in the early 1970s, in accordance with the standards of the day.
It had corroded over a long period of time and fractured at the point where two concrete floor slabs met.
This resulted in an uncontrolled gas escape which ignited, causing the explosion.
The report by North Yorkshire Police and the Health and Safety Executive said, due to wet weather before the explosion, the ground around the property had become waterlogged. This could have caused the floor slabs to move, breaking the pipe.
The Gas Safe Register said it was a "very unusual" type of failure but residents in the area who were still concerned might wish to contact a registered gas engineer to undertake a safety check of the their gas pipework and appliances.
Det Ch Insp Allan Harder, of North Yorkshire Police, said: "It was a very unusual set of circumstances that led to this tragic incident.
"It is important that residents know what caused the explosion and that they can make an informed decision about what to do next, based on the advice from Gas Safe Register."
A report is to be passed to the coroner for the future inquest into Mr Wilmott's death.
It is the first service in the UK to benefit from a fund set up in memory of the late broadcaster, David Frost.
It is estimated more than 17,000 people in Northern Ireland are living with a faulty gene putting them at high risk of sudden death or heart attack.
The cash will provide an extra nurse for a specialised unit at the hospital.
Mr Frost's son, Miles Frost, died from a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) aged just 31.
Although Sir David did not die from HCM, his post mortem found the disease was present.
Miles and his brothers, Wilf and George, were not tested for HCM before his death.
Dr Alison Muir, consultant cardiologist at Belfast City Hospital, said: "In Northern Ireland, HCM affects approximately 1 in 500 individuals, but if you imagine that we have to see their parents, siblings and children, that's a lot of people.
"Our new nurse will help us see a lot more patients each year.
"When someone dies from an inherited heart condition not only will their family be faced with the devastating loss of a loved one, they will also face the possibility that they or another family member could be affected with the condition.
"It is important they are referred to the service so we can carry out this cascade testing.
"It can be a frightening prospect so the care of a specialist inherited cardiac conditions nurse is vital to support them through the process."
They were among 149 children abducted in the raid by members of the Murle community who took them across the border to South Sudan, along with livestock they stole.
Ms Nyardhan's youngest, 11-year-old Jany, has recently been rescued, but her other two sons and her daughter are still being held captive.
"I didn't believe that I would see him ever again," she says, feeding him by hand.
"I am really happy to have one of my children back. It is a blessing and it is thanks to the on-going rescue mission.
"I have been worrying day and night about my children, that I might never ever see them again. I am still waiting for the others."
At least 53 children, the youngest being three months old, have so far been rescued in the Ethiopian army's on-going mission inside South Sudan.
They are from the Nuer community which has a history of ethnic clashes with the Murle - often linked to cattle vendettas.
Jany told his mother how he was locked alone inside a hut, surrounded by heavily armed men, and given only milk to drink during his captivity.
Like many other rescued children, he is now at the guest house of the region's president where they are receiving food and medical attention.
"We have established that these children would have been sold or exchanged for heads of cattle inside South Sudan," says Gatluak Tut Khot, Gambella region president.
"But we are not going to rest until we get them all back home," he adds.
Outside the guest house a group of women are sitting under a tree singing and clapping.
In front of them five boys are going round and round in circles dancing to a popular tune sung by the Nuer of Gambella.
Among them is 27-year-old Nyamak Oukuch, with 18-month-old twins on her lap - her niece and nephew.
Two other children are playing by her side - they are also the children of her elder sister who was killed in the attack on 15 April.
"I don't know where the eldest is. He was also taken and is probably with the Murle," she says.
Many of the freed children are severely malnourished and need urgent medical attention.
Officials from the UN children's agency and government are jointly providing medical help, counselling and basic necessities for the children, their families and caretakers.
"Whenever children undergo hard conditions like this - separated from their families especially violently, and they are staying with complete strangers for something like three or four weeks - they feel completely let down and some of these experiences last for a lifetime," says Mike Charley, a Unicef child protection specialist in Ethiopia.
Lare was one of dozens of villages attacked by the Murle and is about 70km (43 miles) from Gambella town.
A strong smell of cow dung hits you on arrival.
We were told there used to be thousands of cattle in the area but nearly all of them were stolen in the raid; only a few calves and goats now roam about.
There are several houses in the settlement but nearly all are now abandoned.
Some families have come back to rebuild their lives but most have decided to leave.
At least 22,000 people have fled their homes and residents say the unprecedented brutality of last month's attack has left them fearful.
"I can never return to my home again. My husband was killed that day and my two children taken," says Nyakuich Both.
"I have nothing left. Why should I go back there?"
On her forehead she has tied a strand of grass which she says is a sign of mourning for her husband, children and home.
"I have heard that one of my children was rescued and is now in Gambella town, but I have not seen him, the other is still in South Sudan. I don't think I will ever see him again," she says.
Like her, thousands of other villagers have now taken refuge in temporary shacks near the main road where they think it is safer.
Others have moved in with neighbours and relatives in nearby villages.
Two UN human rights experts, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio and Christof Heyns, have said communities on both sides of the border receive little protection from their governments and reported that increasing flows of smalls arms was making raids more deadly.
They said there was an "urgent need for an effective and well-resourced permanent presence at the border in order to monitor the area and prevent incursions".
Mr Gatluak has assured Gambella residents that "they are now safe".
"After we get our children and cattle back, we will seriously work on our border relationships," the regional president says.
"We must teach the Murle that there is a better way of life than cattle rustling and stealing children."
The ice streams were broadly stable up until 2009, since when they have been losing on the order of 56 billion tonnes of ice a year to the ocean.
Warm waters from the deep sea may be driving the changes, the UK-based team says.
The details of the satellite research are published in Science Magazine.
They include more than 10 years of space observations of a broad swathe of coastline roughly 750km in length, on the south-western sector of the peninsula.
Here there is a multitude of glaciers slipping down mountainous terrain and terminating in the Bellingshausen Sea.
"Around 2009/2010, the surface in this part of the southern Antarctic Peninsula started to lower at a really quite dramatic rate, of 4m per year in some places. That's a pretty big signal," said Bristol's Prof Jonathan Bamber.
"The total loss of ice per year is about 60 cubic km. Just to put that into some kind of context: 4 cubic km is roughly equivalent to the domestic water supply of the UK every year."
Antarctica's contribution to sea level rise from melting ice, although growing, is still less than 0.5mm per year. The reported behaviour, however, would mean the south-western peninsula sector now has the second biggest input to that contribution behind the large glaciers that drain into the Amundsen Sea even further to the south and west.
One of the key elements of the new study was the use of the European Space Agency's Cryosat platform, which circles the Earth at a height of over 700km.
This satellite has a remarkable radar altimeter that measures the shape of the ice surface below, and this instrument can be tuned to see rugged regions like the peninsula with a previously unobtainable resolution.
For a check on its work, the Bristol team also used a completely different type of measurement from the US space agency's Grace satellites. This pair of platforms senses the Earth's gravity field and can, in a coarse way, calculate how much ice mass has been lost from a particular region of the continent. These observations are said to be in good agreement with the altimetry data.
The scientists say the Antarctic climate models indicate no significant changes in snowfall or air temperature over the study period, which leads them to think the rapid ice loss is the result of warmer ocean waters.
"The westerly winds flowing around Antarctica have increased in strength in recent decades, probably as a result of global warming and changes in the ozone hole," explained lead author Dr Bert Wouters.
"Now, because these winds have become much stronger, they are pushing more water from the deep ocean on to the continental shelf of Antarctica. This water is relatively warm. It's not warm like in Majorca, for example, but it has a temperature of 1-2 degrees centigrade, which is above the freezing temperature of ice, so it carries enough heat to melt the glaciers and their ice shelves from below."
Some other glaciologists who have seen the Science paper are concerned the numbers reported by Wouters and colleagues may be too high. Certainly, they are out of step with recent studies that could find losses that were only a third to a half as big.
Last year, Veit Helm and colleagues reported annual losses of about 35 cubic km from the entire peninsula. Malcolm McMillan and colleagues, also in 2014, calculated the deficit to be about 25 cubic km per annum, again from the whole peninsula.
Cryosat's principal scientific adviser, Prof Andy Shepherd, said: "Cryosat first spotted this pattern of thinning last year, and although the basic measurements in this new study do seem to be consistent with the older estimates, I think the extremely high rates of ice loss that have been computed are incredible.
"For this much ice to have been lost so quickly, the glaciers would need to have speeded up dramatically, but all the evidence suggests that just hasn't happened. So I will treat these huge ice losses with caution for the time being," the Leeds University researcher told BBC News.
At issue will be the models that describe snow conditions on the ice. The top snow is much less dense than the underlying ice, and if the elevation changes observed by the satellites are attributed to the wrong fraction then the calculation of any mass loss will go awry.
But the Bristol team is adamant that it has captured the situation properly.
"We've done a very thorough and careful analysis of all the various processes, to separate out the impact of each of those processes - and the dynamic signal is so strong it's pretty unequivocal," said Prof Bamber.
"The other thing to say about the other papers is that they were looking at the whole continent whereas we really drilled down into this area."
The way the south-western sector of the peninsula behaves is being closely monitored.
Much of the coastal ice actually sits below sea level, with the bedrock under the glaciers sloping back towards the land interior.
It is a geometry that the theorists say is potentially unstable, and makes the region's ice streams particularly sensitive to any changes in the temperature of ocean water.
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The 30-year-old former Tottenham youth player was assistant to Ian Allinson before the ex-Arsenal winger's resignation as Wood manager on Monday.
Garrard joined Wood as a player in 2010, helping them win promotion to the Conference South in that year and into non-league's top flight last season.
He takes over a side currently 20th in the National League table.
Allinson had been in charge of Boreham Wood since May 2008 and took them to the National League last season with a Conference South play-off final victory over Whitehawk.
"The club is and has been a huge part of my life," said Garrard, who will continue to work alongside alongside first-team coach Junior Lewis.
"I've worked alongside Ian for just over three seasons as his assistant manager and I have learnt a lot in that time.
"I owe Ian a huge thank you but it's now my turn to make the tough decisions, it's now my head that's on the block and hopefully I will get the big decisions more right than wrong."
Figures published by the interior ministry showed 61% of those whose ballots had been counted voting "No", against 39% voting "Yes".
Greece's governing Syriza party had campaigned for a "No", saying the bailout terms were humiliating.
Their opponents warned that this could see Greece ejected from the eurozone.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said late on Sunday that Greeks had voted for a "Europe of solidarity and democracy".
"As of tomorrow, Greece will go back to the negotiating table and our primary priority is to reinstate the financial stability of the country," he said in a televised address.
"This time, the debt will be on the negotiating table," he added, saying that an International Monetary Fund assessment published this week "confirms Greek views that restructuring the debt is necessary".
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But some European officials had said that a "No" would be seen as an outright rejection of talks with creditors.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the eurozone's group of finance ministers, said the referendum result was "very regrettable for the future of Greece".
Germany's Deputy Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, said renewed negotiations with Greece were "difficult to imagine".
Mr Tsipras and his government were taking the country down a path of "bitter abandonment and hopelessness", he told the Tagesspiegel daily.
The partying by the "No" camp will go well into the night here and the government will be popping open the ouzo. Alexis Tsipras has called the eurozone's bluff - and it appears to have gone his way.
But the triumphalism won't last. There is still a sizeable chunk of the Greek nation deeply unhappy with what has happened. And the government will have to unite a divided country.
More than that, a deal with the eurozone has to be struck fast.
Greek banks are running critically low and will need another injection of emergency funds from the European Central Bank.
Given the bad blood of the past two weeks - Greece's Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, calling the eurozone's strategy "terrorism" - it will be hard to get back around the negotiating table. And with the banking crisis and tax revenues plummeting amidst the instability, Greece's economy has weakened again, making a deal even harder to reach.
The eurozone's tough rhetoric will continue. But Greece's government will have its answer prepared: we put your demands to a democratic test - and they were rejected.
Greece had been locked in negotiations with its creditors for months when the Greek government unexpectedly called a referendum on the terms it was being offered.
Banks have been shut and capital controls in place since last Monday, after the European Central Bank declined to give Greece more emergency funding.
Withdrawals at cash machines have been limited to €60 per day. Greece's latest bailout expired on Tuesday and Greece missed a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) payment to the IMF.
Greek banks are desperately in need of a lender of last resort to save them, and the Greek economy.
And sad to say no banker or central banker to whom I have spoken believes the European Central Bank (ECB) can fulfil that function - because it is struggling to prove to itself that Greek banks have adequate assets to pledge to it as security for new loans.
There are only two options. The Bank of Greece could make unsecured loans to Greek banks without the ECB's permission - which would provoke a furious reaction from Eurozone leaders and would be seen by most of them as tantamount to leaving the euro.
Or it can explicitly create a new currency, a new drachma, which it could then use to provide vital finance to Greek banks and the Greek economy.
Greece on verge of euro exit
Greek government officials have insisted that rejecting bailout terms would strengthen their hand, and that they could rapidly strike a deal for fresh funding in resumed negotiations.
Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has said that with a "No" vote, Greek banks would reopen on Tuesday.
He was due to meet senior Greek bankers late on Sunday. State Minister Nikos Pappas, a close ally of Mr Tsipras, said it was "absolutely necessary" to restore liquidity to the banks now the referendum was over.
Some European officials sounded conciliatory.
Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni tweeted: "Now it is right to start trying for an agreement again. But there is no escape from the Greek labyrinth with a Europe that's weak and isn't growing."
Belgium's finance minister said the door remained open to restart talks with Greece "literally, within hours".
Eurozone finance ministers could again discuss measures "that can put the Greek economy back on track and give the Greeks a perspective for the future," he told the VRT network.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he was consulting the leaders of eurozone member states, and would have a conference call with key EU officials and the ECB on Monday morning.
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are scheduled to meet in Paris on Monday. A summit of eurozone heads of state has been called for Tuesday.
The European Commission - one of the "troika" of creditors along with the IMF and the ECB - wanted Athens to raise taxes and slash welfare spending to meet its debt obligations.
Greece's Syriza-led government, which was elected in January on an anti-austerity platform, said creditors had presented it with an "ultimatum", using fear to put pressure on Greeks.
The Greek government's opponents and some Greek voters had complained that the question in Sunday's referendum was unclear. EU officials said it applied to the terms of an offer that was no longer on the table.
The projected turnout in Sunday's referendum was about 62%.
As the result became clear, former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who had campaigned for a "Yes" vote in the referendum, resigned as leader of the centre-right New Democracy party.
Hansen's contract runs out at the end of 2017 - but he says his future will be decided by August.
Asked if he was more likely to stay than go he told BBC Sport: "New Zealand Rugby have got to say they're keen too.
"I'm sure if we can sit down, something positive will come."
Hansen said being coach of the All Blacks "is the best job from a New Zealanders' point of view".
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live he added: "But there's four things I've looked at. One is the family… is it right for them? Is it right for the team? Is it right for the [New Zealand] Rugby Union and can I still get up in the morning and motivate myself and the team to improve?
"So if I can't do all those things, I won't do it. If I still think I can do it and the players are keen on me to do it then I'll think about it."
Asked if he still had the hunger to drive the team forward, he said: "That's one thing I find out during the latest series [a 3-0 win over Wales] that it's still there and I love winning and I love that team.
"That combination of questions has been answered for me but there's one or two I've just got to ask myself yet and we'll make a decision before the Rugby Championship."
Hansen, who guided the All Blacks to World Cup success in England in 2015, will lead his side in three Tests against the British & Irish Lions in 2017 before his current deal expires.
He believes Wales' New Zealand-born coach Warren Gatland should lead the touring party and expects a difficult series.
Hansen said: "Gatland should be the frontrunner. He's taken the Lions away before and been successful with them but who knows?
"Rugby politics is just about as bad as the real deal, so who would know what would happen over here.
"If you get it right then you've got something special. So they'll be tough if they get it right."
Former Ireland captain and Lions hooker Keith Wood wants new England coach Eddie Jones to be involved on the 2017 tour, but Hansen said: "Eddie's got a single-minded focus at the moment and that's on England and that's why he's not available.
"If he's going to go as an advisor he may as well be the head coach and I can't see it working, no."
Hansen has been impressed with the way Jones has turned England's form around, culminating in their 3-0 series whitewash in Australia.
The New Zealander said: "I think he's given them a lot of self-belief. He's given them a work ethic.
"They've gone down to Australia and I think they've said 'right we're going to play a really physical hard-nose game'.
"They're going to be a very good side if he continues to grow them.
"It's great for world rugby to see England back and being really competitive."
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Rebecca May Cressey thought they were just going diving for her birthday, but Steven Purdiew had enlisted Skegness Aquarium staff to help him propose.
Miss Cressey saw a board asking "Will you marry me?" then put her thumbs up to say she would.
The couple, from Somercotes in Derbyshire, now plan to get married in a year or two.
Miss Cressey, who turned 23 on Monday, said: "I suspected something when I saw that my mum and dad were there because I knew they weren't supposed to be there and then I saw them through the glass window.
"I just wanted to cry but I thought I'd best not cry because I was concentrating too much on breathing you see, it's quite difficult."
Mr Purdiew, 30, thanked the aquarium staff for helping him propose on Saturday.
"The staff had a board made for us with a question on it because obviously you can't talk very well under the water," he said.
"I thought Rebecca would have said yes because I think she's been hinting for a long enough time."
Neither had scuba dived before, although Mr Purdiew previously rescued a 15-year-old boy from the River Derwent in Derby when he was 18.
Stacy Adams from Skegness Aquarium said: "We were all very excited for them and wish them 'best fishes' for the future."
Live coverage of eight games on TV includes the climax of the tournament when England face France on 19 March.
There will be minute-by-minute coverage of all the home nations' games on BBC Radio 5 live and 5 live sports extra, and across the BBC's digital platforms.
Seven matches will be on ITV.
Fans can sign up for match alerts on the BBC Sport app, and for first time can also subscribe to news alerts for Six Nations headlines and highlights. Meanwhile the app's MySport service means you can go straight to the Sport that matters to you.
This is the first year of a new six-year deal between the BBC and ITV to share the broadcast rights to the Six Nations.
A new Sunday highlights programme Six Nations Rugby Special will also have the best of the action.
There will also be weekly round-ups of the Women's Six Nations Championship and all of the action can be followed on the BBC Sport website.
The BBC's broadcasting team will include expert analysis from some of the biggest names in the sport, including Jeremy Guscott, Matt Dawson, Jonathan Davies, Keith Wood and Gavin Hastings.
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About a third reported unfair treatment by employers upon returning to work.
The online survey of 906 women formed part of the commission's first detailed investigation into the issue.
Chief executive Dr Evelyn Collins said the results were "shocking" and discriminating against pregnant women and new mothers was "unacceptable".
"Over one third of the women (36%) who talked to the commission said they had been treated unfairly or disadvantaged because of their pregnancy or because they took maternity leave," she said.
"They believe this affected their finances, their career opportunities, their status at work and their health. This is not acceptable, 40 years after the introduction of legislation in Northern Ireland to provide protection from sex discrimination in employment."
In addition to the survey, the investigation also held focus groups with 57 women across Northern Ireland and spoke to 58 employers.
The type of unfair treatment included being made redundant, overlooked for promotion, unwanted role change, loss of bonuses and negative attitudes.
Issues during pregnancy included problems getting off for doctors' appointments and no health and safety risk assessment.
The women involved in the investigation had a good level of awareness of employment rights but there was a reluctance to take formal action either within the organisation or to an employment tribunal.
The reasons given included too stressful, too costly and possibly career damaging.
However, Dr Collins said it was encouraging that almost half of respondents thought they were treated fairly during their pregnancy and on their return to work.
The majority of firms had policies in place, such as flexible working arrangements, childcare vouchers and return to work incentives, such as phased return and bonus payments.
But some, particularly smaller firms, highlighted the challenges including accommodating flexible working requests and covering absences.
A small number indicated that they subscribe to common negative stereotypes, such as believing pregnant employees and working mothers to be less able or less committed.
The report contains a number of recommendations, including improving access to advice and information for employers and employees, and promoting good practice and policies.
The report - Expecting Equality: a Formal Investigation under the Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 - will be launched on Tuesday at a conference in Belfast.
The majority of survey respondents were employed in the public sector while the majority of focus group participants were private sector employees, but similar experiences were reported.
They joined Merthyr and Swansea in confirming their rise to Welsh rugby's second tier with a 17-8 win over Pontypool.
There is no relegation from the Premiership this season.
Pontypool hope to be among the four teams going up to a division from which there will be no relegation for the next three seasons.
Murray was beaten 6-3 6-3 by Coric, ranked 59th in the world, on Thursday.
The Briton has endured a tough season on clay, suffering a shock defeat in the last 16 of the Monte Carlo Masters last month and also losing in the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open.
"I definitely think I need to be concerned about today," Murray said.
"It's not always the worst thing losing a match, but it's sometimes the manner of how you lose the match which can be concerning or disappointing."
Coric, 20, only gained a place at the tournament after Richard Gasquet withdrew - becoming the first lucky loser to reach the quarter-finals in the Madrid tournament's 16-year history.
The Croat broke his Scottish opponent three times in the opening set, and a further break in the second was enough to secure victory in one hour and 25 minutes.
Top seed Murray hit 14 winners to his 28 unforced errors, but insisted his poor performance was not down to a lack of confidence.
"I was just making lots of mistakes early in the rallies and trying to end points very quickly at the beginning, and the errors just kept piling up." the 29-year-old told BBC Sport.
"I didn't feel that was down to confidence - I just wasn't focusing as well as I needed to on each point.
"I made a lot of unforced errors and I also didn't find any way to make it a more competitive match, so that's the most disappointing thing for me.
"You can lose matches sometimes, but the manner of today's loss was disappointing."
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:
This result will come as a shock to Murray's system.
He had seemingly been growing in confidence, and rediscovering his rhythm little by little as he made his way from Monte Carlo to Barcelona, but now has just one week in Rome to find the form and belief which would make him a genuine contender for the French Open.
His first serve, which has been hindered by an elbow injury, was not to blame against Coric, who played aggressively and fluently and took full advantage of Murray's error-strewn performance.
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The 22-year-old delivery driver was left with a shattered kneecap and broken ankle after she was struck in Sunningvale Avenue in Biggin Hill, south east London.
She had left the key in the ignition as she made a delivery at around 13.40 GMT on 21 January.
The thief jumped into the driver's seat and ran her over before driving away.
Police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.
Mr Neves won 33.5% of the votes in the first round to 41.5% for President Dilma Rousseff, who is running for a second four-year term.
Ms Silva failed to qualify for the 26 October run-off, with 21.3%.
She cited Mr Neves's "commitments" as the reason for supporting him.
On Saturday, he announced in an open letter to the nation that he would include in his manifesto issues such as land reform, the demarcation of indigenous lands, the rights of rural communities and environmental concerns.
Those issues formed a key part of Ms Silva's campaign.
When in a similar position four years ago, Marina Silva chose not to endorse any of the remaining two candidates and took a back seat as Dilma Rousseff went on to win the election, succeeding President Lula.
And while Marina is unlikely to play a prominent, visible role in Aecio Neves's campaign, her endorsement is a big boost to his bid for the presidency and will add to the perception that, after 12 years of unbroken PT [Workers Party] rule, the rest of Brazil is ready for change.
Marina Silva posed such a threat to Dilma Rousseff in the early part of the campaign that the incumbent's tactic was to attack her opponent's policies and her character. It was an offensive which Marina was unable to turn on its head and was partly the reason why she fell away so badly before the first round of voting.
So although Dilma and Marina should, theoretically, be ideologically close having served as ministers in Lula's government, their personal animosity meant that Marina's support for Aecio was almost a "given".
Brazil's opinion polls will probably reflect this news with an even bigger lead for the PSDB candidate over President Rousseff, but the polls are notoriously volatile and should not be taken as any indicator how the voting will go on 26 October.
"I prefer to be criticised for my actions while fighting for what I believe in and for what is best for Brazil," she said.
Ms Silva, who grew up in a poor family of rubber tappers in the Amazon, is a former environment minister.
She fell out with the Workers Party government now led by Ms Rousseff and eventually founded her own political movement, Rede Sustentabilidade (Sustainability Network).
Ms Rousseff said Ms Silva's endorsement of Mr Neves, who is seen as a pro-business candidate, was "understandable".
"She is closer to the economic programme of Aecio [Neves] than to the social programme of my government," said Ms Rousseff.
Mr Neves, who is running for the Social Democratic Party, received the news "with much emotion and responsibility," he said.
"We are now one body, in one common project to help Brazil and all Brazilians."
Ms Silva stood as the Socialist Party candidate after presidential contender, Eduardo Campos, died in a plane crash in August.
Once she entered the race, she overtook Mr Neves in opinion polls, but her popularity dropped in the final weeks of the campaign.
Many of her supporters blame Ms Rousseff's attacks against Ms Silva's policies and record in the run-up to the vote for the result.
Ms Silva, a former Workers' Party member, had been seen as ideologically closer to Ms Rousseff.
But she indicated over the past week which way her support was likely to go.
"The results show that most Brazilian want a change," she said.
The Workers Party came to power nearly 12 years ago with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president.
Its policies are credited with lifting at least 30 million people out of poverty.
But the government has faced allegations of corruption and of overspending in preparations for this year's football World Cup.
In the next two weeks, Ms Rousseff will be defending her record on social programmes and the economy against those who say it is time for change in Brazil, says the BBC's Wyre Davis in Rio de Janeiro.
Ray Wong, 22, co-founded the group Hong Kong Indigenous which advocates for more autonomy for Hong Kong from China.
Scores of people have been arrested in connection with the violence.
On 8 February, police tried to clear illegal food stalls sparking a backlash from those who see them as integral to Chinese New Year celebrations.
Mr Wong, who is due to appear in court later on Tuesday, was arrested on Sunday in a public housing flat along with a 28-year-old man.
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Local media say more than 70 people have been arrested in connection with the Mong Kok clashes, which saw protesters throwing bricks and bottles while police used batons and pepper spray.
More than 90 people were injured.
The unrest was the largest of its kind since massive pro-democracy street protests were held in 2014.
Hong Kong Indigenous is one of several groups in the city's so-called "localist" movement which stands against what it perceives as Beijing's growing influence over Hong Kong.
The other co-founder of the group, Edward Leung, had earlier also been charged with rioting.
James Morrison's predatory strike, seizing on Steven Fletcher's flick, had seemed set to give Scotland their first Group A victory.
But when Bale was clipped by Shaun Maloney in the area he picked himself up to coolly convert the penalty.
Then with three minutes remaining the Tottenham winger unleashed a brilliant 25-yard left-foot shot that curled into the top corner.
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It was a dramatic ending and the result eases the pressure on Wales boss Chris Coleman but leaves his Scottish counterpart Craig Levein facing an uncertain future.
Levein had attracted criticism after Scotland opened with two home draws against Serbia and Macedonia while Wales had started with a defeat to Belgium in Cardiff and a 6-1 thumping in Serbia.
But after Coleman avoided becoming the first Wales manager to lose five successive games at the start of his tenure he can now face Croatia on Tuesday with renewed heart.
The Scots, who had not won in Cardiff since 1983, were boosted by the return of two Fletchers to the side.
Manchester United midfielder Darren had been out for 11 months with a chronic bowel complaint but returned to captain Scotland, while striker Steven - in hot scoring form for Sunderland - was back having buried the hatchet with Levein after a two-year exile.
The two players were to the fore as Scotland took an early grip on the game, Darren Fletcher sitting just in front of his defence and spreading the ball wisely, while his striking namesake lurked on the shoulders of the Welsh defenders.
A series of short free-kicks, with Gary Caldwell heavily involved, gave Wales some nervous early moments, but when they broke clear Bale flashed a volley a couple of feet above Allan McGregor's goal.
The Tottenham winger had started on the right and moments later Bale went even closer after being picked out by Chris Gunter's lofted pass down the flank.
Bale cut back inside Daniel Fox and unleashed a curling left-foot shot that went just wide of the far post.
Scotland's best chance of the opening quarter fell to Alan Hutton, but the full-back's speculative shot caused Lewis Price no discomfort as it sailed high over his bar.
The adventure from Scotland's full-backs - Hutton and Fox - did leave spaces for Wales to counter into though.
Aaron Ramsey, stripped of the Wales captaincy in favour of Ashley Williams, surged upfield before playing in Joe Allen on the left.
The Liverpool midfielder brought the ball on to his right foot and only a fine sliding charge from Caldwell stopped the goal-bound shot.
Bale continued to threaten and outpaced Fox to curl a cross into Morison on the back post.
The Norwich striker had space and time to pick his spot but sent his header back across goal past the outside of the post.
As several Wales players shook their heads in disbelief, McGregor thumped the ball long and high downfield where Steven Fletcher was alive to the opportunity.
The Sunderland striker outmuscled his marker to flick the ball into Morrison's path and the West Brom man accepted the invitation to bury the ball low past Price.
Scotland could have doubled their lead when the in-form Steven Fletcher scuffed his shot into the chest of a grateful Lewis with the goal at his mercy.
In a breathless last five minutes of the half, both sides should have added goals.
First Allen blazed over after Bale had produced another barn-storming run down the right, then at the other end Morrison could not keep his shot down after being picked out by Hutton.
Levein sent on Charlie Adam in midfield for Scott Brown after the break, while opposite number Coleman stayed his hand.
Darcy Blake had been given a torrid time by Steven Fletcher in the first half, but Coleman had no other specialist centre-backs in his injury-hit squad.
The Wales boss was also without the suspended James Collins and will also be without Ramsey for Tuesday's trip to Croatia, after the Arsenal midfielder was booked for a clumsy lunge on Hutton.
Morison had got little change out of Caldwell and Christophe Berra, so Barnsley's Craig Davies came on for his first Wales appearance in almost five years.
While Davies added some extra muscle, Scotland continued to threaten and only a fine reaction save from Price denied Morrison his second after a deflection fell kindly.
Ramsey then wasted another gilt-edged Wales chance after racing on to Ben Davies' clearance, shooting wide when through on McGregor.
Steven Fletcher thought he had doubled Scotland's advantage but an eagle-eyed referee's assistant ruled the ball had just gone out before the striker bundled home.
The brilliant Bale then earned Wales a lifeline, driving into the area before being clipped by Maloney.
The Spurs wide man grabbed the ball and sent McGregor the wrong way to level the scores.
Then with time running out Bale was allowed to run at the defence and, while falling back, unleashed an unstoppable left-foot curler that sailed into the far top corner.
Full Time The referee signals the end of the game.
The ball is delivered by Gary Caldwell, Darcy Blake makes a clearance.
A cross is delivered by Charlie Adam, Kenny Miller takes a shot. Comfortable save by Lewis Price.
Joe Allen gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Charlie Adam. Direct free kick taken by Gary Caldwell.
Unfair challenge on Darren Fletcher by Aaron Ramsey results in a free kick. Free kick taken by Allan McGregor.
Assist by David Vaughan.
Goal! - Gareth Bale - Wales 2 - 1 Scotland Goal scored by Gareth Bale from just outside the box to the top right corner of the goal. Wales 2-1 Scotland.
Charlie Adam challenges Gareth Bale unfairly and gives away a free kick. David Vaughan restarts play with the free kick.
Jamie Mackie fouled by Ben Davies, the ref awards a free kick. Free kick crossed left-footed by Charlie Adam.
Effort on goal by Alan Hutton from inside the area goes harmlessly over the bar.
Centre by Jamie Mackie.
Lewis Price takes the free kick.
Substitution James Morrison leaves the field to be replaced by Kenny Miller.
Substitution Jamie Mackie is brought on as a substitute for Kris Commons.
Corner taken left-footed by Kris Commons from the right by-line, Charlie Adam challenges Lewis Price unfairly and gives away a free kick.
Free kick awarded for a foul by James Morrison on Joe Allen. Free kick taken by Joe Allen.
The assistant referee flags for offside against Steven Fletcher. Darcy Blake restarts play with the free kick.
Goal! - Gareth Bale - Wales 1 - 1 Scotland Placed penalty scored by Gareth Bale. Wales 1-1 Scotland.
Foul by Shaun Maloney on Gareth Bale, Penalty awarded.
Corner taken by Aaron Ramsey, clearance made by Christophe Berra.
Aaron Ramsey takes a inswinging corner from the left by-line played to the near post. Gareth Bale takes a shot. Blocked by Gary Caldwell.
The referee penalises Craig Davies for handball. Allan McGregor restarts play with the free kick.
Joe Allen crosses the ball, save made by Allan McGregor.
Centre by Charlie Adam. The assistant referee signals for offside against Steven Fletcher. Indirect free kick taken by Lewis Price.
A cross is delivered by Shaun Maloney, clearance made by Darcy Blake.
Alan Hutton produces a cross, Joe Allen makes a clearance.
Free kick taken by Charlie Adam.
Booking Joe Allen is cautioned.
Joe Allen gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on James Morrison.
Free kick awarded for a foul by James Morrison on David Vaughan. David Vaughan takes the direct free kick.
Steven Fletcher takes a shot. Ashley Williams gets a block in.
Foul by Alan Hutton on Hal Robson-Kanu, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Ben Davies.
Substitution Hal Robson-Kanu joins the action as a substitute, replacing Joe Ledley.
Shot by Gareth Bale from deep inside the penalty area misses to the left of the goal.
Close range effort by Aaron Ramsey misses to the left of the goal.
Corner taken right-footed by Shaun Maloney from the left by-line to the near post, clearance by Craig Davies.
The ball is crossed by Daniel Fox, clearance by Darcy Blake.
The ball is swung over by Alan Hutton.
Shot by James Morrison. Save by Lewis Price.
Aaron Ramsey crosses the ball, Allan McGregor makes a save.
Substitution Craig Davies joins the action as a substitute, replacing Steve Morison.
Gary Caldwell takes the free kick.
Booking Aaron Ramsey is cautioned.
Aaron Ramsey gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Alan Hutton.
Alan Hutton crosses the ball, clearance made by Darcy Blake.
Outswinging corner taken by Aaron Ramsey.
Booking Gareth Bale is shown a yellow card for dissent.
Aaron Ramsey takes a outswinging corner from the right by-line played to the near post.
Ben Davies challenges Charlie Adam unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick taken by Allan McGregor.
A cross is delivered by Gareth Bale, clearance made by Christophe Berra.
Darren Fletcher delivers the ball. Steven Fletcher is penalised for handball and concedes a free kick. Free kick taken by Lewis Price.
Inswinging corner taken by Shaun Maloney from the left by-line, clearance made by Ashley Williams.
The ball is crossed by Alan Hutton, save made by Lewis Price.
The referee blows for offside against Steve Morison. Free kick taken by Allan McGregor.
Gareth Bale fouled by Daniel Fox, the ref awards a free kick. The free kick is delivered left-footed by Gareth Bale from right wing, Darren Fletcher manages to make a clearance.
The referee blows his whistle to start the second half.
Half Time The players leave the pitch at half time.
Corner taken by Kris Commons.
Centre by Alan Hutton, Ben Davies gets a block in.
Substitution Charlie Adam on for Scott Brown.
Centre by Aaron Ramsey, clearance made by Daniel Fox.
Alan Hutton sends in a cross. James Morrison produces a right-footed shot from inside the area that clears the crossbar.
Gareth Bale delivers the ball, Shot from deep inside the area by Aaron Ramsey clears the bar.
Ben Davies produces a cross, blocked by Kris Commons.
Joe Allen fouled by Kris Commons, the ref awards a free kick. David Vaughan takes the direct free kick.
Foul by Steven Fletcher on Darcy Blake, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Darcy Blake.
Ben Davies has an effort at goal from outside the box which goes wide left of the target.
The ball is sent over by Gareth Bale, Alan Hutton makes a clearance.
A cross is delivered by Daniel Fox, Steven Fletcher takes a shot. Save by Lewis Price.
Shot from just outside the box by Joe Allen misses to the right of the goal.
Direct effort from the free kick comes in from Gareth Bale.
Booking The referee cautions Gary Caldwell for unsporting behaviour.
Gary Caldwell challenges Joe Ledley unfairly and gives away a free kick.
Joe Allen sends in a cross, clearance by Darren Fletcher.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Kris Commons by David Vaughan. Daniel Fox takes the free kick.
Kris Commons produces a cross.
Assist on the goal came from Steven Fletcher.
Goal! - James Morrison - Wales 0 - 1 Scotland James Morrison gets on the score sheet with a goal from inside the box to the bottom right corner of the goal. Wales 0-1 Scotland.
Centre by Gareth Bale, Close range headed effort by Steve Morison misses to the right of the goal.
The ball is crossed by Daniel Fox.
Chris Gunter challenges Shaun Maloney unfairly and gives away a free kick. Shaun Maloney takes the direct free kick.
Aaron Ramsey fouled by Scott Brown, the ref awards a free kick. Aaron Ramsey takes the free kick.
Joe Allen takes a shot. Blocked by Gary Caldwell.
Shot by Alan Hutton from just outside the area goes over the net.
The offside flag is raised against Gary Caldwell. Free kick taken by Lewis Price.
Joe Ledley challenges Kris Commons unfairly and gives away a free kick. The free kick is swung in left-footed by Kris Commons.
Unfair challenge on Gareth Bale by Daniel Fox results in a free kick. Chris Gunter takes the free kick.
Darren Fletcher concedes a free kick for a foul on Gareth Bale. Free kick taken by Aaron Ramsey.
Ben Davies challenges Kris Commons unfairly and gives away a free kick. Darren Fletcher takes the free kick.
Gareth Bale concedes a free kick for a foul on Shaun Maloney. Direct free kick taken by James Morrison.
Steven Fletcher concedes a free kick for a foul on Darcy Blake. David Vaughan takes the direct free kick.
Gareth Bale has an effort from just inside the box that misses to the left of the goal.
Aaron Ramsey fouled by Darren Fletcher, the ref awards a free kick. David Vaughan restarts play with the free kick.
Centre by James Morrison.
Effort on goal by Gareth Bale from outside the box goes harmlessly over the bar.
Kris Commons challenges Joe Ledley unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick taken by Lewis Price.
Scott Brown concedes a free kick for a foul on Chris Gunter. Lewis Price takes the free kick.
Corner taken by Shaun Maloney, Aaron Ramsey makes a clearance.
Foul by Aaron Ramsey on Kris Commons, free kick awarded. James Morrison restarts play with the free kick. The ball is sent over by Alan Hutton, clearance made by Steve Morison.
David Vaughan challenges Scott Brown unfairly and gives away a free kick. Direct free kick taken by Kris Commons.
The ball is delivered by Shaun Maloney, clearance by Darcy Blake.
Steve Morison is caught offside. Gary Caldwell takes the indirect free kick.
Steven Fletcher is flagged offside by the assistant referee. Free kick taken by Lewis Price.
The referee gets the game started.
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Mr Bolam, of Hartleyburn Avenue, Hebburn, died after being hit by a car in Victoria Road West on Saturday.
The driver is thought to have been in a Silver Mercedes C-Class, which had left the Lakeside pub at about 12:08 BST.
A 39-year-old local man arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been released on bail.
Some of the products contained enough harmful chemicals to cause organ damage, officials said.
The businesses were fined £168,579 for selling unsafe cosmetics, the majority of them skin lightening products.
They contained dangerous and prohibited levels of hydroquinone, mercury or corticosteroids.
London Trading Standards said officers found and seized "hundreds of thousands" of the products in a coordinated campaign.
They said prolonged use of the products could have resulted in health problems ranging from skin thinning and discoloration, to organ damage and cancer in the long term.
One of the products, called Grace Duo, contained 18% of the bleaching agent hydroquinone, which Trading Standards said was thought to be the highest amount ever found.
Another soap product called Faiza Beauty Cream contained 0.54% of toxic mercury.
Five London boroughs have prosecuted 17 company directors and their 15 companies, with an average fine of £11,239.
Trading Standards said it had identified at least 15 online sellers using eBay to offer prohibited skin lightening products, with efforts currently under way to locate them.
Officers in Waltham Forest recently seized more than 3,000 products from one such seller.
Company bosses who sell banned cosmetic products can be fined up to £20,000 per offence and sent to prison for up to one year.
The Department of Health had appealed against an FOI ruling that the transition risk register, requested by Labour MP John Healey, be published.
But it lost, despite civil servants' warnings that to publish confidential advice could have a "chilling effect".
Mr Healey said the ruling gave "strong legal support to a full and open debate" about NHS plans for England.
"The judgement backs the public's right to know about the risks the government is taking with its NHS plans," he said - accusing the government of having "dragged out" the process for 15 months.
The government still has the option of a further appeal to the "upper tribunal".
Meanwhile the controversial Health and Social Care Bill, which introduces an overhaul of the way the NHS is run in England, is in the final stages of its passage through Parliament.
The government had used the "section 35" defence under the Freedom of Information Act, which exempts information used in policy formulation and development from having to be released.
But it must be weighed against the balance of public interest - and in an earlier ruling the information commissioner had said in this case, that was "very strong".
A two-day hearing in central London this week heard evidence from Labour MP and former shadow health secretary Mr Healey, Una O'Brien - the top civil servant at the Department of Health - and Lord O'Donnell, who until recently was the UK's top civil servant before retiring as cabinet secretary.
Ms O'Brien told the tribunal that civil servants, who compile the risk register, needed a "safe space" to be able to advise ministers on controversial policies in "frank" language.
She argued that publishing the information would ultimately have an "insidious" effect as people would hold back in what they were prepared to write down.
Lord O'Donnell argued that the document itself was unbalanced - focusing more on the negatives than positive outcomes - and predicted the way they would be compiled in future would change, if they were published.
But the Information Commissioner's QC told the tribunal that there was "no real evidence" that previous FOI rulings on internal government documents had had a similar effect.
And he said this case was exceptional - because of the scale of changes being made, the controversy around them and the inherent risks in the nature of the reforms.
A spokesman for the Information Commissioner's office welcomed the tribunal's ruling and said they would "consider the full details of the tribunal's decision once it has been made available".
And it was welcomed by the Royal College of Nursing - which is among medical professionals' groups calling for the Health and Social Care Bill to be withdrawn.
Crossbench peer Lord Owen said Lib Dem peers should not now "go along with any attempt by the coalition government to continue with the third reading of this bill" in the Lords, until they have had time to consider the risk register.
The government's appeal against the broader "strategic risk register" requested by Evening Standard journalist Nicholas Cecil - was upheld by the committee.
The government has accused Labour of "rank opportunism" - because shadow health secretary Andy Burnham blocked the publication of a strategic risk register. But Mr Burnham argues there are "crucial differences" between the two documents.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "We are still awaiting the detailed reasoning behind this decision.
"Once we have been able to examine the judgement we will work with colleagues across government and decide next steps."
It is believed Jason McGovern of Tydavnet, Monaghan, was punched at a pub on John Street, Omagh, at midnight on Sunday.
He was hit again two hours later at the Cunningham Terrace car park.
He then made his way to a friend's house in Mullan village near Emyvale where he was found dead on Monday.
The investigation will be led by the PSNI and supported by Gardai.
A post mortem examination showed the teenager's death had been due to a head injury he suffered during the initial assault.
Police said Jason travelled by taxi with a group of friends to Omagh, and was in two public houses during the evening.
They said the group became separated during the night but shortly before 2am, Jason and a friend were outside the Terrace Bar when they encountered a group of about five men and a verbal exchange took place.
"After this, punches were thrown and Mr McGovern was struck several times in the head and upper body," police said.
"He and his friend then moved away down Kevlin Road towards the taxi that was waiting for them at another public house, the Weigh Inn.
"They were followed by at least three of the original group of five males."
At the Cunningham Terrace car park, Mr McGovern was confronted by a man from the initial group of five men and was struck once more in the face and collapsed to the ground.
"He was assisted into the taxi by two men who had not been part of either fracas, but may have witnessed the incident," police said.
"The Monaghan party made their way home and Mr McGovern went to bed and was discovered dead at about noon on New Year's Eve."
Det Ch Insp Richard Harkness appealed for information from taxi drivers and motorists at the Cunningham Terrace car park, Omagh, and especially the two middle-aged men who helped Jason into his taxi with his friend after the assault to contact police.
He stressed that they had nothing to do with the assault.
A priest who knew the teenager described him as a "very caring and affable young man".
Canon Macartan McQuaid said his family were struggling to cope with his death.
Support for Ms Rousseff has fallen to single-digit figures in recent polls.
Many voters have accused her of failing to stamp out corruption and blame her for the economy's worst slump in 25 years.
Marchers took over Copacabana beach in Rio and also demonstrated outside congress in the capital Brasilia.
Many wore the yellow shirts of the Brazilian football team, and sang the national anthem, carrying banners saying "Dilma Out".
About 350,000 people took part in protests in Sao Paulo, police say.
Another 25,000 people took part in a demonstration in the capital, Brasilia.
The national day of action is the third major protest against Ms Rousseff and her left-wing Workers' Party this year. Hundreds of thousands took part in demonstrations in March and April.
"We want things to change and if the people don't go in the street that's impossible," said retired engineer Elino Alves de Moraes, who joined the march in Brasilia.
Ms Rousseff is less than a year into her second term as president.
There have also been demonstrations in recent months showing support for the embattled leader, with many claiming calls for her impeachment amount to a coup attempt.
People took to the streets to demand the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, even though the perceived mood across the country in recent days has been one of reconciliation. There's been an acceptance that to remove a democratically elected president might do more harm than good.
Overwhelmingly white and middle class, the protesters in Sao Paulo were having none of that argument. In generally jovial mood, they condemned the ruling Workers Party for its role in the corruption scandal surrounding Petrobras.
Ms Rousseff may have more to worry about further down the line, if Brazil's economy continues to decline after a decade of growth.
If inflation creeps above 10% and the economy goes into recession, that could alienate not only the privileged protesters of Sao Paulo, but her own working class base.
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Anti-government protesters say Ms Rouseff must have known about a corruption scandal in the state oil firm, Petrobras, as alleged bribery took place when she was head of the company.
She was exonerated in an investigation by the attorney general and denies involvement. However, several senior members of her government have been implicated.
Government austerity measures are also hugely unpopular with the electorate, correspondents say, as are rising unemployment and inflation rates.
A survey by the Brazilian company Datafolha showed support for Ms Rousseff's impeachment was strongest in the poorest areas, which backed her in the last election.
The 27-year-old surpassed Belarus' Vadzim Straltsou (395kg) with two attempts left, but failed to break the 233kg clean and jerk world record - finishing with 221kg.
Aurimas Didzbalis of Lithuania took bronze, lifting a combined 392kg.
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Sonny Webster, Britain's only male weightlifter at Rio, finished sixth in his group, lifting a combined 333kg.
"That was the most amazing experience of my life," said Webster.
"You only get six minutes up there so I wanted to make sure I looked around and took it all in."
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The Dow Jones was down at 20,659.32, a fall of 42.18 points or 0.20%.
The S&P 500 gained 2.56 points or 0.11% to hit 2,361.13 while the Nasdaq put on 22.41 points or 0.38% to 5,897.55.
Market watchers said sentiment was influenced by uncertainty over government tax reforms, the pace of US interest rate rises and the formal start of the UK's Brexit process.
On the currency markets the dollar was up by 0.04% against the pound at £0.8038 and it was up by 0.40% against the euro at 0.9288 euros.
The dollar was helped by remarks about interest rate rises made by some Federal Reserve officials.
The US central bank or Federal Reserve System is made up of 12 Federal Reserve Banks around the country.
Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said he wants to see further interest rate hikes this year, while Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren said the Fed should raise rates three more times in 2017.
But while currency markets appeared to welcome the prospect of rate rises, investors in stocks and shares were apparently unmoved.
"The market seems to be unfazed by the fact that the Fed is looking to be somewhat aggressive in raising rates," said Paul Nolte, portfolio manager at Kingsview Asset Management in Chicago.
Oil was also higher. Brent Crude was 1.9% ahead at $52.30 while West Texas Intermediate was up by 2.2% at $49.42.
Prices rose after US gasoline stockpiles dropped sharply last week, while crude oil inventories grew less than anticipated.
Rosberg was 0.156 seconds quicker than Vettel, with Hamilton 0.045secs adrift.
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The times suggest a major step forward for Ferrari after Mercedes dominated throughout Friday practice.
Williams's Valtteri Bottas was fourth ahead of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo. McLaren's Jenson Button was 10th.
The Englishman's team-mate Fernando Alonso was only 13th, 0.3secs behind Button after making a mistake at the final chicane on his fastest lap.
But McLaren appear to have made further progress as they and new engine supplier Honda attempt to recover after a poor start to their relationship.
Williams's Felipe Massa was seventh, ahead of Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen, Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat and Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz.
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The relative pace of Mercedes and Ferrari suggests a close battle for pole position when qualifying starts at 13:00 BST.
Hamilton, who had a dramatic spin on the exit of the 150mph Turn Three without hitting anything, is going for his fifth pole in a row this season, and leads the championship by 27 points from Rosberg after four wins and a second place in the first five races of the season.
Rosberg knows he has to out-qualify Hamilton to start the process of catching his team-mate.
The Barcelona track is one of the hardest on which to overtake all season, and has the highest percentage of wins from pole position of any track on the calendar.
Vettel - a point adrift of Rosberg in the title race - will be trying to at least split the Mercedes, while Raikkonen will be hoping for better after a mix-up in final practice, which put the car on the wrong settings for his fastest lap, left him 0.8secs off Vettel.
Police investigating the Grenfell Tower fire have said the building's cladding and insulation failed safety tests.
Welsh ministers said they wanted the same cladding tests conducted in Wales as have been announced for England.
At least 79 people are thought to have died in last week's London blaze with manslaughter charges being considered.
There are 36 blocks of flats of seven or more storeys used for social housing in Wales.
Tests on 600 high rises across England are continuing .
A Welsh Government spokesperson said: "We are in regular contact with all residential social landlords in Wales and are urging them to have samples from relevant tower blocks tested - using the same process and facility described by the prime minister in her statement."
A spokesperson later added the government was "taking steps to encourage landlords of all high rise buildings regardless of their tenure to carry out fire safety checks and where necessary have samples of cladding tested".
The Metropolitan Police confirmed on Friday that the Grenfell Tower fire had started in a fridge freezer.
On Tuesday, Welsh Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant told AMs no high-rise blocks used for social housing in Wales appeared to have Grenfell Tower type cladding.
Campbell, 23, joined on a one-year deal in February 2016 but missed much of the season with injury.
She returned for the 2017 Spring Series and City's FA Cup win, scoring once and contributing four assists.
"This club is like a family. I'm really grateful to the players and staff for putting their trust in me," said the Republic of Ireland international.
Campaigners had argued St Luke's at the Leicester Royal Infirmary was an important part of the city's heritage.
But the city council's planning committee voted in favour of demolition on Wednesday.
Consultant Dr Mark Ardron said he was "pleased" the £48m plans for the hospital had moved forward but "a bit sad" at the loss of the chapel.
A new chapel will feature "as many artefacts and fittings" from the original building as possible, he said.
"We are very pleased and relieved and just a bit sad that the historic building's got to go."
He added: "But we are very pleased we can go ahead and expand our A&E department and provide better facilities and healthcare for the people of Leicestershire."
He said the work on the new A&E department should be complete in two years.
St Luke's was built in 1887, designed by local architect William Beaumont Smith, and contains memorials to the work of doctors and nursing staff.
City councillor Adam Clarke, who stepped down from the planning department over conservation issues, said not enough thought had gone into the plans and saving the chapel.
"It was built 60 years before the NHS was founded. Nurses, patients and hospital staff have gone there to grieve, to mourn, to pray and to hope," he said.
The first half was tight as the promotion chasers met their match against Luke Garrard's hosts.
Early in the second half, Angelo Balanta opened the scoring for the Wood with a sweet curling shot that beat Tim Erlandsson.
Byron Harrison battled hard to add to his 16 goals this season, but was denied by a firm Grant Smith save. He put that right 15 minutes from time, scoring from the penalty spot.
Jordan Williams was sent off for a second booking late on, but it did not seem to affect Barrow.
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Match ends, Boreham Wood 1, Barrow 1.
Second Half ends, Boreham Wood 1, Barrow 1.
Substitution, Barrow. Paul Turnbull replaces Byron Harrison.
Second yellow card to Jordan Williams (Barrow) for a bad foul.
Substitution, Boreham Wood. Rhys Murrell-Williamson replaces Bruno Andrade.
Femi Ilesanmi (Boreham Wood) is shown the yellow card.
Akil Wright (Barrow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matt Paine (Boreham Wood) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Boreham Wood 1, Barrow 1. Byron Harrison (Barrow) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, Barrow. Lindon Meikle replaces Ryan Yates.
Kenny Davis (Boreham Wood) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Boreham Wood 1, Barrow 0. Angelo Balanta (Boreham Wood).
Second Half begins Boreham Wood 0, Barrow 0.
First Half ends, Boreham Wood 0, Barrow 0.
Jordan Williams (Barrow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Yates (Barrow) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The survey, carried out by Ipsos Mori for the Law Society of Scotland, found 81% of lawyers had a "very" or "fairly" positive view about the impact of technology on their business.
But 42% believed that maintaining cyber security was a key issue.
Just over a third said they would benefit from training.
The survey of more than 670 solicitors showed that 92% used the internet on a daily basis for business, with 59% also using their smartphones to access the internet for business purposes.
A total of 34% agreed that the use of artificial intelligence systems was reducing costs within the sector.
But 32% of respondents said that keeping up with developments could be difficult.
The vast majority took steps to protect themselves online, such as not clicking on suspect links and using passport protection on their devices.
But 35% of those who had experienced a cyber-security issue said they did not report it to anyone.
The findings are being unveiled at the Law Society's Technology and Cybercrime Conference in Glasgow.
HBJ Gateley partner Helena Brown, who is chairing the event, said: "This is the first survey the Law Society has carried out about solicitors' views on and use of technology.
"The findings highlight the positive view most have of increased use of technology and how it can benefit their businesses and the wider justice system, but also draw attention to some of the issues the profession faces in terms of keeping up to date with developments and how to ensure that their data is safe."
A number of high profile speakers are set to address delegates at the conference on issues ranging from cloud technology and cyber attacks to data protection and whistleblowing.
Ms Brown added: "Today's event is all about raising awareness of cybercrime risks and providing the best possible guidance to help solicitors safeguard their businesses, allowing them to reassure their clients that their data and funds are secure."
Ex-England captain Michael Vaughan had criticised some of the low crowds in Cardiff during the tournament.
England captain Eoin Morgan said his side had no home advantage from the pitch in the semi-final defeat to Pakistan.
Elworthy said: "I think they have done an exceptional job, so we are happy."
Cardiff hosted three group games and England's semi-final defeat, as Wales staged matches in the Champions Trophy for a second time.
"We always have had a wonderful relationship with Glamorgan," said Elworthy.
"They hosted the 2013 edition of the tournament and it was hugely successful then and we have built on that.
"Hugh Morris (Glamorgan chief executive) runs a fantastic ship and they have a wonderful team who deliver the tournament for us."
Pitch not perfect?
Questions were raised about the semi-final wicket in Cardiff when England were bowled out for 211, but Pakistan chased down their target with only two wickets lost.
It was a used wicket which Morris had stated was the International Cricket Council's decision, but Elworthy insisted tournament bosses had taken advice on the decision not to have a fresh strip for the semi-final.
"There is no real policy towards the pitch," said Elworthy.
"We are guided by the groundsmen at the venues and the ICC pitch consultant who goes around the ground.
"For example, at Edgbaston we played three matches on one pitch.
"It's an old cliché but you can only see how a pitch performs until both teams have batted on it.
"Pakistan produced an incredible performance on the day.
"There is no set guide and when we spoke to the groundsmen about the game playing from the semi-final perspective, he said he was going to produce a good one-day wicket.
"That's all we are after. We have seen some of that during the tournament and the guys at all three venues have done a fantastic job.
"So I think they are fine and no issues at all."
Crowd control
Vaughan made his comments about the Cardiff crowds following the three group games involving England, New Zealand, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
"We have learned a little bit but we have had had some great results down there in Cardiff," said Elworthy.
"Everybody is entitled to their opinion and you have to take the good with the bad.
"There are going to be people who don't see it as well as you do, that's just the way it is.
"Both the England game against New Zealand and the semi-final were sell-outs.
"We were affected in that England-New Zealand game by some bad weather and had a few no-shows.
"It's difficult to know why people haven't come but we have that data and will be speaking to them why they didn't pitch up on the day."
Vaughan also stated he believes Trent Bridge should have been used, but Elworthy believes Cardiff complemented the Oval and Edgbaston.
"It works well because they are very much in a triangle and close proximity so the logistics work well," said Elworthy
"Those three venues have worked incredibly well in the past and have done again."
Elworthy believes these lessons can be learned ahead of the World Cup in 2019, with Cardiff set to host four matches.
"We will work with Glamorgan towards 2019 to see how we can mitigate that down there," said Elworthy.
"We have 11 venues pencilled in at the moment for the World Cup 2019 and Cardiff is one of those."
'Spectacular tournament'
Elworthy is satisfied with the 2017 tournament as India and Pakistan face each other in the final at The Oval on Sunday.
"It has been spectacular and another great tournament," said Elworthy.
"We had a few matches at the beginning that were rain affected and some side were on the wrong end of those results.
"I have always judged a tournament by the attendances.
"In 2013 we had 83 per cent capacity and this tournament so far we have had over 90 per cent, so we have grown.
"I am happy with where we are at."
Figures show exports are growing at the fastest rate in six years.
Demand for high-tech memory chips helped boost exports by 24% in April compared with a year earlier, the sixth month in a row that exports have risen.
Exports to the US rose by a relatively modest 3.9% over the past 12 months, but to the European Union by a soaring 64.9%.
South Koreans are going to the polls next week, following the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye over a corruption scandal last year.
The 65-year-old former president, who remains in custody, was formally charged last month.
Tension has also escalated in the region over North Korea's nuclear programme, with US sending warships to the region.
But South Korea's export performance has continued to improve, boosting its trade surplus with the rest of the world to $13.25bn.
US President Trump has warned that he is reviewing the US's free trade deal with South Korea.
However the trade data may ease the pressure on Seoul, as exports to the US rose only 3.9% in April, leaving South Korea's trade surplus with the US lower in April than a year ago.
As well as semi-conductors, South Korea's exports were boosted by oil products, machinery and household electronics.
Due to the nature of the industry, shipbuilding, which rose 103% in April, tends to provide an uneven impact on exports. However even without that spike, other exports rose nearly 17%.
Nie Shubin was killed by firing squad in 1995 at the age of 20 after being found guilty of killing a woman in Shijiazhuang, in Hebei province.
The supreme court ruled that the facts used in Mr Nie's trial were "unclear and the evidence insufficient".
Mr Nie's family, who have been campaigning for two decades to clear his name, have thanked his supporters.
Eleven years ago another man also said he had carried out the crime but the claim was rejected.
Chinese courts have a conviction rate of more than 99%. The official number of executions are a state secret, but is believed to be in the thousands every year.
Rights groups allege that confessions used in court are forced or extracted under torture.
It is highly unusual for convictions to be overturned.
In 2014, a teenager from Inner Mongolia was cleared of rape and murder, 18 years after his execution.
His parents were given 30,000 yuan ($4,850; £3,080) in compensation while 27 officials involved in his trial were later punished.
The BBC's John Sudworth in Beijing says Mr Nie's case is well-known in China.
Rather than a sign of the justice system's ability to right wrongs, many will see his exoneration as exposing continuing flaws and weaknesses in the justice system, he adds.
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Chelsea's WSL 1 hopes are in their own hands after Gilly Flaherty, Fran Kirby, Ji So-yun, Maren Mjelde, Karen Carney, Erin Cuthbert and Drew Spence's goals.
That came while City lost a league game for the first time since April 2015.
England midfielder Jordan Nobbs' fine second-half free-kick won that match to boost the fourth-placed Gunners' hopes.
Elsewhere, 10-player Reading recovered from having England's Jo Potter sent off just before half-time to earn a 1-1 draw against Birmingham City, with Lauren Bruton's penalty cancelling out Charlie Welling's first-minute opener.
And Yeovil suffered a seventh loss in seven games since promotion, losing 2-1 at home to Sunderland, with Lucy Staniforth and Stephanie Bannon netting for the Lady Black Cats either side of Wales' Angharad James's second-half equaliser for Yeovil.
Liverpool have one match left and lead the table, but they have played a game more than the rest of the top four and second-placed Chelsea have a vastly superior goal difference.
City's rare loss saw them slip to third, level on points with Chelsea and one above Arsenal, with just two points separating first and fourth.
Chelsea's huge win was their final league game at their Wheatsheaf Park home - before their move to AFC Wimbledon's Kingsmeadow ground for September - and they will be crowned Spring Series champions if they win their remaining matches at Bristol City and Birmingham, barring a big swing in goal difference.
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Like-for-like sales of general merchandising - which is largely clothing - fell 0.4% in the 13 weeks to 27 June, a period that M&S described as "challenging".
That compares with growth of 0.7% in the previous quarter, which had been M&S's best performance for nearly four years.
Like-for-like sales of food rose 0.3%.
Chief executive Marc Bolland said: "We continue to make progress against our key priorities. Our food business did very well in a difficult market."
Sales through M&S's website grew 38.7% from a year earlier, after a sharp slump in online sales at the beginning of last year immediately after the site was re-launched.
The drop in general merchandise sales was better than the 1% slide forecast by analysts, but has dashed hopes that last quarter's growth - which marked the division's first expansion after 14 consecutive quarters of decline - would continue.
Since Mr Bolland took over the helm in 2010, he has invested millions in trying to turn around its clothing division, hiring well known models such as Rosie Huntington Whiteley and David Gandy.
And last year, it took on Hong Kong-based brothers Neal and Mark Lindsey - who helped rival Next improve the way it buys clothing - to help improve its supply chain.
Analysts said the latest figures were disappointing and put pressure on Mr Bolland to speed up the division's transformation.
"Pressure is mounting for Bolland to come good on his promises and focus more on increasing margins through supply-chain savings and shift away from heavy discounting," said Julie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor.
Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, said general merchandise was "the elephant in the changing room".
"Whether M&S can ever return to former glories by enticing clothes shoppers back to its stores is arguably its largest challenge, even though the more recent experience implies at least a stabilisation of previously dropping numbers," he added.
M&S shares, which have risen 25% over the past year, rose 0.6% to 550p after the trading update.
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Mr Trump's doppelganger replaces Barack Obama's waxwork in the set and joins various other world leaders at the attraction, including Vladimir Putin and Nelson Mandela.
Mr Trump will be sworn in as the 45th US president on Friday.
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Sullivan finished second to McIlroy at the European Tour's season-closing World Tour Championship, to collect the biggest pay cheque of his career.
And the 28-year-old from Nuneaton is now third on the European points list.
"I know one of his goals next year is to make the Ryder Cup team and he'd be a huge asset to Europe," said McIlroy.
"Andy is some player. I said at the start of the year when we played together in Dubai how fantastic he was. He's got all the shots."
Sullivan now has only McIlroy and former Walker Cup player Matthew Fitzpatrick ahead of him on the points list to make Europe's team at Hazeltine, Minnesota, after more than doubling his previous best pay day at last month's victory at the Portugal Masters, by collecting 820,552 euros (£575,000).
Paul McGinley, Europe's Ryder Cup-winning captain at Gleneagles in 2014, said: "His game is solid, his attitude is superb and I love his tenacious spirit.
"Along with the likes of Danny Willett and Matthew Fitzpatrick, we've got a few exciting new Ryder Cup contenders."
Paired with Sullivan on the final day in Dubai, McIlroy needed a monster putt after going into the water on 17 to see off his rival by a single shot.
"He kept on making putts. I had to dig very deep. I have to give a lot of credit to him," added the former world number one, now third in the official world rankings after an injury-curtailed year.
"I gave it everything on that front nine," added Sullivan. "I birdied a lot of holes but he just kept coming.
"When he went in the water at 17, I thought I'm back in the game, but I gave him a good teach on my line and, after my putt, I expected him to hole his and he did.
"Cometh the hour, that's what world-class players do."
His recent win in Portugal was Sullivan's third in 10 months and he finished the season eighth in the European order of merit.
"I think I've done myself proud. Portugal was a big turning point for me. I learnt a hell of lot about myself there and the qualities I possess when I go in front," he added.
"It's now just a question of doing it on a bit more consistent basis and giving myself the chance to get up on at the final tee with Rory a little bit more often."
The two-vehicle collision happened on the Garryduff Road at about 07:30 BST on Monday.
The man's name has not yet been released.
Police have appealed for anyone who witnesses the crash to get in contact with them.
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Mr Cameron answered their questions on topics such as immigration, what it's like to be PM, and how much it now costs to go to university.
Ayshah also quizzed him on the noisy behaviour of MPs in Prime Minister's Questions - which many Newsround viewers have commented on in the past.
But one girl asked a question that left Mr Cameron stumped: if you could pick one politician apart from yourself, to win - who would it be, and why?
Le Jardin, or The Garden, was taken from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm during a robbery in the early hours of 11 May, 1987.
According to reports at the time, attempts were made to sell it back to the museum for exorbitant sums.
The recovery came after an art dealer in Essex was offered the painting by a Polish collector just before Christmas.
Before handling the work, Charles Roberts, of Charles Fine Art, made a search of the Art Loss Register (ALR), a database of stolen, missing and looted artwork.
Once the match was confirmed, the recovery was handed to ALR director Christopher Marinello, who successfully negotiated the return of the painting, after convincing the individual concerned to release it to the UK.
"No payments were made, no arms were broken," Mr Marinello told the BBC.
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The French Impressionist painting is now being held in a safe. It will be handed to the Swedish Ministry of Culture for its return to Stockholm in the coming weeks.
Matisse's work was the only one taken in the audacious 1987 raid. Burglars broke through the museum's front entrance with a sledgehammer, and unscrewed it from the wall.
They escaped before private guards arrived, 10 minutes after an alarm was triggered, and the whereabouts of the painting have been a mystery ever since.
At the time of the theft, a spokesman for the museum said the painting was too "well-known" to "sell on the open market".
Mr Marinello agreed with the sentiment, adding: "I commend the museum for not giving in to ransom demands a quarter century ago.
"Stolen artwork has no real value in the legitimate marketplace and will eventually resurface... it's just a matter of waiting it out."
He said the ALR would normally receive a small fee from insurers for recovering a stolen painting. However, the Matisse was government-owned and uninsured.
"Let's just say this was a Christmas present for the people of Sweden," said Mr Marinello.
BBC Cymru Wales director Rhodri Talfan Davies and BBC director of strategy and digital James Purnell gave evidence to the Commons' Welsh Affairs Committee.
They were responding to MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport committee.
It had recommended there should be no "specific" representative from Wales on a proposed BBC unitary board.
Mr Purnell said it was "absolutely right to have nations' representatives on the unitary board".
Mr Talfan Davies added that previous governors and trustees since the 1950s had a "track record" of contributing a "huge amount" to the BBC's governance.
In a wide-ranging evidence session before the Welsh MPs' inquiry into broadcasting, the BBC bosses were asked about the relationship between the broadcaster and S4C.
Since 2013 S4C has received the majority of its income, around £75m, from the BBC licence fee.
Mr Talfan Davies said that while there had been "legitimate concerns" when the previous UK government introduced the new relationship between the BBC and S4C, he said both broadcasters "went out of our way" to establish a "sensible working relationship".
He said that the new agreement with S4C had delivered "something greater than what had been achieved previously", and that he doubted that the successful bilingual TV series Hinterland would have been delivered before the operating agreement between S4C and the BBC came into force.
Pushed on the amount the BBC spends on its biggest stars - by committee chairman David TC Davies - Mr Purnell said it had "significantly reduced" the salaries of its top talent, but resisted a suggestion that the costs of on-screen presenters should be published as the BBC had to operate within a commercial market.
The proposal for an English-language television bulletin encompassing news from Wales, the UK and the world - dubbed the Wales Six - was put to Mr Talfan Davies, who said the idea had to be considered in terms of whether it would have a significant impact on audiences.
He cited recent research by the BBC which found that audiences still struggled to understand the political differences that existed between Wales and the UK since devolution, and argued that changes to existing services should be considered alongside proposals for new programmes.
Emergency services were called to the Glenamuck Road in Carrickmines, County Dublin, at about 04:00 local time on Saturday.
Among those who died were a husband, wife and their five children. The children were all under 10 years old.
Police said one child who died was a six-month-old baby girl.
One of the children died in hospital.
It is understood that most, if not all, of the victims were members of two families.
Two adults injured in the blaze are being treated in hospital for the effects of breathing in smoke.
Dublin Fire Brigade said early indications suggest the blaze broke out at a pre-fabricated building and quickly spread.
Six fire appliances from several areas had been sent to the scene.
The fire service said paramedics had risked their lives to rescue children from the fire.
Police said there was nothing to suggest arson at this stage, but the area has been sealed off for a forensic examination.
One travellers' rights group said it was concerned that overcrowding at the site may have been a factor in the incident.
Another organisation, the Southside Traveller Action Group, said the families had been living on the site for about eight years.
In a statement, it said: "The traveller community in south Dublin [is] in a state of shock at the devastating loss of lives."
It is understood three generations of one family were living on the site.
Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister, said he gave sympathies on behalf of the Irish people to the friends and relatives of those who died.
"It's such an unspeakable tragedy to have an entire family wiped out in a horrific inferno," he added.
Irish President Michael D Higgins said the deaths in the blaze had been "a most dreadful tragedy".
"My thoughts at this time are with the families and friends of those who have lost their lives and those who have been injured," he added.
Independent parliamentarian Shane Ross, who lives close to where the fire happened, said there was a "numbness and silence" at the scene.
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said the deaths had been "horrific news to wake to".
In early trade, the FTSE 100 was down 54.63 points, or 0.8%, at 6,786.12.
Shares in oil giants Royal Dutch Shell and BP were both down by about 1.5% as the price of oil remained under pressure ahead of a meeting of the Opec oil producers this week.
Oil prices had fallen 3% on Friday, and they slid again on Monday before recovering.
Opec is meeting on Wednesday, but it remains uncertain as to whether the group will agree cuts to oil output in order to rein in global oversupply.
Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland fell 1.7% while Barclays dropped 1.5%. The results of the latest bank stress tests will be published by the Bank of England on Wednesday.
In the FTSE 250, shares in JD Sports rose 3.3% after the retailer said it had bought the 58-store Go Outdoors chain for £112.3m.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.3% against the dollar to $1.2511, but fell 0.4% against the euro to €1.1728.
It follows raids at 20 properties across Northern Ireland - more than half of which were in Derry - that involved about 400 officers.
The charges relate to assets worth more than £1m that include property, cash, drugs and high value jewellery - including valuable Rolex watches.
These were seized by the PSNI over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday.
Three of the accused appeared at Londonderry Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
Mark Anthony Kelly, 41, a tyre exhaust fitter from the city, faces one charge of conspiracy to supply herbal cannabis and nine other various money-laundering offences.
A couple also appeared before the court on a total of 26 charges.
Patrick Pierce O'Connor, who was described by police as a principal member of the crime gang, is from Stoneypath in the city.
The 47-year-old faces 17 charges, relating to money-laundering, concealing criminal property and converting criminal property.
Four charges relate to Rolex watches worth £456,000,
He faces a further charge of possessing criminal property include a diamond ring and other high value items.
He also faces two offences of conspiracy to supply cannabis and cocaine.
The man's 35-year-old wife, Misha O'Connor, faces nine charges including acquiring and possessing criminal property, and money-laundering.
Mrs O'Connor was released on bail with strict conditions imposed.
Patrick O'Connor and Mark Kelly were remanded in custody until 20 July.
Appearing later in the day at Strabane Magistrates' Court was father-of-two Barry Fox from Dunavon Park in Dungannon.
The 36-year-old was charged with conspiracy to supply a Class B drug, entering an arrangement to acquire criminal property, converting criminal property, and possession of a Class B drug.
Mr Fox was remanded on bail to appear at Bishop Street Courthouse in Derry on 3 July.
A fifth person arrested in connection with the operation is due to appear at Belfast Magistrates' Court next month.
The Galaxy S6 Edge uses the feature to provide a quick way to stay in touch with select contacts, and to alert owners to important information.
It will be sold for a higher price than the standard S6, which otherwise has the same specifications.
Samsung lost market share to Apple and others after the S5 sold fewer copies than its predecessor in many countries.
Its replacements were unveiled in Barcelona, ahead of the start of Mobile World Congress. They go on sale on 10 April in 20 countries, including the UK.
The South Korean firm said it had set out to address past "missteps", and had codenamed the devices "project zero" to reflect the need for a rethink.
Changes include making the TouchWiz user interface simpler to use by cutting the number of pop-up messages and introducing a metal frame and glass back instead of the plastic styling of earlier models.
The redesign has, however, meant some features have had to be jettisoned: the phones are not water-resistant, they do not have a microSD slot for extra storage and their backs cannot be removed to change their batteries.
Even so, one expert praised the company's choices.
"Samsung has clearly listened to feedback - not just for the Galaxy S5, which just missed the mark last year costing the company greatly - but also the S4, which was a product that tried to cram in every piece of technology it could find," said Ben Wood, head of research at the CCS Insight tech consultancy.
"The software has been made into a much more crisp and clear experience, the design of the product has clean lines and looks very nice, and the marketing campaign is expected to only pinpoint three things - and that's certainly something that had been missing from Samsung's products for quite some time."
Others were more critical. Rob Kerr, from the price comparison site uswitch.com, declared: "The dual-curved display just seems too gimmicky, too niche, to really be a crowd pleaser."
The three topics Samsung is focusing on are:
The S6 Edge uses its curves to provide a couple of services.
The first is called People Edge, which provides a quick way to bring up calls, texts and other messages from five acquaintances of the owner's choosing. Each person is assigned a different colour, which the phone's edge flashes when it rings, providing a hint of the caller's identity even if the device is face down.
The second is Information Stream, which displays the time, weather and selected notifications on the curved part.
It appears Samsung has deliberately kept the functionality more basic than on its Galaxy Note Edge - a larger handset whose screen curves only around one of its sides. The older phone uses the extra space to both run apps of its its own and to add controls to other apps.
The S6 phone's front camera has been upgraded to five megapixels, while the rear one stays at 16MP.
Both gain from a wider aperture, which should improve their ability to take photos and videos in low light conditions.
Samsung has also taken steps to make the camera quicker to use, saying it now takes less than a second to double tap the home key and snap a shot.
The firm is claiming a "world first" by embedding support for both the PMA and WPC's Qi wireless charging standards.
The Android-powered handsets are also faster to recharge, and should return to 50% battery strength within half an hour of being plugged in.
Samsung said that this was half the time it would take to charge an iPhone 6.
Other improvements over the S5 include:
The firm also revealed it had developed a new version of its Gear VR virtual reality kit that uses the S6 models as a screen.
A lot is resting on the phones' appeal.
Samsung's head of mobile design was moved from his role in May after criticism of the Galaxy S5's styling, and last week Samsung Electronics announced it would freeze its workers' wages for the first time in six years following a drop in its annual profits.
Samsung is still the best-selling smartphone maker.
But it barely saw its total smartphone shipments grow in 2014. By contrast, Apple's decision to make its iPhone 6 models larger and the continued rise of China's Xiaomi, Lenovo and Huawei saw those firms report much bigger gains.
As a result, Samsung's market share slipped from 31% in 2013 to 24.5% last year, according to research firm IDC.
The price of the new handsets has yet to be announced, but Mr Wood thought the S6 Edge in particular could mark a turning point.
"In a sea of sameness where nearly every smartphone is a rectangular touchscreen with a camera in the back, this will stand out," he said.
"It may be outside many people's budgets, but it will still act as a signature product that attracts people to the rest of Samsung's range."
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Samsung’s first Android-powered phone ran version 1.5 (Cupcake) of Google’s mobile operating system.
It had a 3.2in (8.1cm) screen and was the first Android phone to include a 3.5mm headphone jack, allowing normal headphones to be easily connected.
The first of Samsung’s S-branded series had a 4in (10.2cm) screen, ran Android 2.1 (Eclair) and could shoot video in 720p high definition.
A 4G variant of the device attracted the ire of Apple’s lawyers, and became part of a high-profile patent case fought by the two rivals.
The S2 was marketed as the world’s thinnest smartphone, measuring less than 8.5mm (0.33in) thick.
It had a 4.3in (10.9cm) screen and was powered by Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).
Samsung promoted the “zero lag” shutter speed of its main camera as being suitable for snapping fast-moving objects.
The S3 used eye-tracking software to detect when it was being looked at, keeping its screen bright until its owner turned away.
It had a 4.8in (12.cm) screen and ran Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
The phone also introduced S-Beam, a way to send files and contacts between Samsung handsets.
The S4 bordered on “phablet” status with a 5in (12.7cm) touchscreen, which could be used while wearing gloves.
Running Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) it introduced a dual-video capture mode, allowing users to record footage from both cameras simultaneously.
The S5 added dust and water resistance, promising to work after being submerged 3ft (0.9m) deep.
It came pre-installed with Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) and introduced a fingerprint scanner and heart rate monitor.
Samsung promoted its “ultra power saving mode”, which let the device eke out a day of life when its battery fell below 10%.
Samsung launched two models of its flagship phone – the Edge version had a screen that curved round its sides and was more expensive.
The phones had brighter, more detailed screens than before, and supported the firm’s new smart wallet service Samsung Pay.
However, their metal frames and glass-backed designs led to some of the S5’s features being jettisoned, including water resistance and the microSD slot.
It charges faster than the new iPhone. It has better cameras than the iPhone. The video quality is higher than the new iPhone.
And it doesn't bend.
That's the takeaway from Samsung's latest Unpacked event where it unveiled the next Galaxy phone, the S6.
Sleek and powerful, certainly - but it was a fairly bitter presentation. The firm took more than a few snipes at Apple, rather than leaving it to reviewers and users to draw their own conclusions about the Galaxy's many innovations .
The demonstrations of like-for-like pictures and video appeared to put the S6 streets ahead of the iPhone 6, but I imagine Apple would dispute the conditions.
Tellingly, there was no mention of China's Xiaomi - a company whose Android handsets have proved wildly popular in Asia, and which potentially presents a far bigger threat to Samsung's future.
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The event at Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Thursday was advertised as having "no bangers or loud noises".
A spokesman said he had been told by the company staging the event that illuminations would give off "a minimal amount of sound, with many being deemed as silent".
He said it would "not be staging this event with this provider again".
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James Wheeler, botanical gardens chief executive, offered "a sincere apology for any distress caused" to younger visitors.
He said: "This is the first time that the gardens has staged this event... We are sorry they were not as advertised.
"We have refunded event admission to those who have been in contact and provided proof of their attendance."
Parents sent messages to the attraction's Twitter account claiming the noise left children distressed.
Joanne Evenson, 36, from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, who has a three-year-old son and an 18-month-old daughter, said: "The only silent [things] about that display were our mouths. We were speechless.
"We weren't going to go to one.... because of loud bangs. About 10 past 5 all of a sudden......the loudest fireworks you could ever hear in the sky.
"All the children were sort of fleeing with their parents and my friend took her little ones inside."
A Birmingham Botanical Gardens spokesman said: "From what I know silent fireworks are nowhere near as spectacular as the big ones.
"They are smaller in size in terms of visually compared to larger displays and they should be totally silent, including setting them off."
Writing in Democracy in America, which set out to explain why the American Revolution had succeeded while the French Revolution had failed, Alexis de Tocqueville observed Americans were "quite exceptional", by which he meant different rather than better.
Over the centuries, however, the idea has taken hold here that America is liberty's staunchest defender, democracy's greatest exemplar and home to the usually brave - a country like no other.
That America has emerged as the leader of the free world is not regarded as some cosmic fluke.
Its global role and mission, a responsibility to spread American values around the world, was divinely sanctified and historically preordained, thanks to the genius of its founding fathers.
Jefferson's "empire of liberty", Roosevelt's "arsenal of democracy", and Reagan's "shining city upon a hill" are variants on the same theme of American pre-eminence, a country that sought to colonise the planet with its ideas.
Early in his presidency, Barack Obama looked set to retire the rhetoric of exceptionalism, even though many in America and around the world regarded his election, after the shocks of 9/11 and the Great Recession, as proof of its salience.
"I believe in American exceptionalism," he told a journalist in 2009 during a visit to Strasbourg, "just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."
Now, though, his speeches are essays in exceptionalist thinking, even if qualified with reminders about the constraints of US power and his personal preference for multilateral co-operation.
The problem, globally, is that American exceptionalism has increasingly come to have negative connotations.
The hitch, domestically, is that Americans seem to be losing faith in the American system and American dream, hence the rise of populists like Bernie Sanders on the left and Donald Trump on the right.
Consider the face that America has recently presented to the rest of the world.
The frontrunner in the race for the Republican nomination has called for almost a quarter of the world's population to be barred temporarily from entering the country, a nativist cry that has boosted Donald Trump's popularity.
America's Grand Old Party has been in a state of open civil war.
The idea of a Clinton restoration has failed to generate much enthusiasm - to many it smacks of a country going backward not forward, despite its promise of a female first.
The campaign, rather than being a beacon of democracy, has often been a viral joke.
Then, look beyond the campaign trail.
Flint, Michigan, a city poisoned by its drinking water, is a story one would ordinarily expect to cover in the developing world in a failed state.
The Netflix global sensation Making a Murderer has put the US criminal justice system in the dock.
The Oregon militia stand-off has echoes of the lawless Wild West.
Before the monster blizzard closed much of the north-eastern US, Washington was brought to a standstill by an inch of snow.
Days later, the federal government remained shut down.
The Big Short, a movie about the collapse of the subprime mortgage market and the avarice of the major US investment banks, is a reminder of the excesses of Wall Street, and the fact just one person was prosecuted following the 2008 financial collapse.
Even Hollywood's great shop window, the Academy Awards, has been mired in controversy over its "whites-only" nominations.
American exceptionalism itself has something of a Sunset Boulevard feel to it, a black comedy where a faded silent movie star believes she is still the most luminous presence on the screen.
Nor is this merely a recent phenomenon.
In the run-up to the Iraq war, American exceptionalism smacked of imperial hubris.
In the chaotic aftermath, it was more a case of decline and fall.
The National Security Agency scandal has undercut America's claim to have a clarion voice in international diplomacy.
Post-9/11, the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay has become as much a symbol of America to many in the world as the Statue of Liberty.
After the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, and the epidemic of mass shootings elsewhere, American exceptionalism came to be equated with unchecked gun violence.
Ferguson, and a spate of other police shootings of unarmed black men, has raised questions about the fairness of policing, a problem that seems especially pronounced here.
America also has the world's highest incarceration rate, with 4.4% of the global population but 22% of its prisoners.
Putting so many people behind bars again seems uniquely American.
Even Nasa's space programme no longer engenders the same worldwide awe as it did in its early days, when planting the Stars and Strips in the Sea of Tranquillity offered proof of exceptionalism, even as American GIs were mired in the quagmire of Vietnam.
Many of the problems are systemic, arising from flaws in the democratic model that was supposed to offer a prototype.
Much of the gridlock in Washington stems from checks and balances that have come to be used as partisan weapons.
The constitution, an extraordinary document reflecting the brilliance of its authors, looks, to many, out of date.
In this age of mass shootings, laws are still based on a document drafted in the era of the single-shot musket.
The oddities of Campaign 2016 stem, as I argued last month, partly from the quirks and oddities of the electoral process.
As for spreading American values around the world, many people here simply don't think it is worth the expenditure of blood and treasure, especially after draining wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wanting America to be great again, the slogan of Donald Trump that often sparks chants of "USA, USA, USA", is not the same as embracing exceptionalism, an implicitly interventionist creed.
The mood is more Fortress America, a bunker mentality.
Besides, there have always been Americans, especially on the left, who roll their eyes at the mere mention of exceptionalism.
For them it sounds arrogant, bullying, embarrassing.
Plainly, America can still boast pre-eminence in many realms.
It is militarily, culturally and financially dominant.
Impressive still are its powerhouse universities, its tech hubs and elite hospitals.
However, just as striking are the symbols of regression: its decrepit schools, creaking bridges and antique airports.
Travelling around the country, perhaps the most striking difference from when I lived in America 10 years ago is the lack of national self-belief - a sureness, a braggadocio, that gave American exceptionalism real resonance at home.
With middle-class incomes stagnant, and with so much wealth concentrated in the hands of the much-derided "One Per Cent", the American dream just no longer seems to ring true for many families.
Certainly, it is harder these days to find parents who believe, with absolute conviction, their children will enjoy lives of greater abundance.
Once, that truth was held to be self-evident.
To many American readers, I know, this will all reek of the kind of European condescension that has doubled as commentary since the founding days of the Republic - Americans are not the only people with a sense of their superiority.
All I would say is I write as a long-time admirer: someone who at various stages of my life - as a schoolboy, as a student here, and as a young correspondent - has acted out my own version of the American Dream, at times with unblinking eyes.
While still seductive, while still thrilling, these days, I find the United States harder, as an outsider, to love.
For these are times when "Only in America" is increasingly used as a term of derision, and "American exceptionalism" sounds like an empty boast.
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At 5ft 9ins, the 26-year-old is relatively diminutive in the sport, but he threw 92.72m - a Commonwealth record - to win the competition by nearly four metres.
"I had a serious injury and thought I won't compete in Beijing," he said.
"Very few athletes have done what I have done."
The 85kg Commonwealth champion, who initially hoped to join the ranks of famous Kenyan runners, has improved his technique after watching videos of Jan Zelezny of the Czech Republic and Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen, who both won Olympic and world titles.
"There will not be another YouTube athlete coming through," he added. "I want to go back and watch my throw, it was almost perfect."
Earlier in the day, it was announced his team-mates Joyce Zakary and Koki Manunga had tested positive for doping at the championships. Thirteen Kenyan athletes are currently serving suspensions for doping offences.
Yego said: "I can't dwell on that, it's a shame. I always believe you can win clean. In sport you win clean."
According to his IAAF profile, Yego is the fourth born in a family of seven and hails from the Kenyan region of Nandi South County.
Yego had initially been recruited by the police near Nairobi, with the head coach of the national force, Nicholas Kilisio, claiming he influenced his career from an early age.
"We saw the talent in him and decided to take him. He had a small frame but we have bulked him up," said Kilisio.
After winning national junior titles, Yego was selected to represent Kenya at the 2010 African Championships, where he won bronze.
His career then took off when he met Finnish javelin coach Petteri Piironen, who also looks after world silver medallist Ihab El Sayed of Egypt.
The Kenyan travelled to Finland on an IAAF scholarship, initially for two weeks in the winter of 2011-12 - where temperatures fell to about -30C.
"He had been throwing 78m, so I knew if he could throw that without a coach he must be talented," said Piironen in 2013.
"He was quite explosive, had a good upper body, but he was quite weak in the legs and I had to change some technical things."
He was selected as Kenya's only field athlete in a team of 44 at London 2012. Despite finishing 12th, he set a new national record of 81.81m.
Improvement was seen at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, where Yego narrowly missed out on bronze after throwing 85.40m.
But a year later, he did win his first major title when he threw 83.87m to win the Commonwealth gold in Glasgow - the first Kenyan to win a field event at the Games.
Allison Curbishley on BBC Radio 5 live:
"Julius Yego is on billboards everywhere in Kenya. If he was a legend already in Kenya he's now elevated himself to a global icon.
"He will enjoy every moment of this. Another medal for Kenya - they are taking over the world."
Denise Lewis on BBC Sport:
"This was fantastic for his country. It's quality when you see so much power go through a singular point in the javelin.
"It's a great story of determination and eagerness to learn."
Kenya are top of the medal table with six golds and 11 medals in total - here are the country's other title winners:
Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi - women's 3,000m steeplechase
David Rudisha - men's 800m
Nicholas Bett - men's 400m
Ezekiel Kemboi - men's 3,000m steeplechase
Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot - women's 10,000m
Glen More, 24, Thomas Carling, 19, and Joshua Colman, 22, were part of a large group who clashed with officers attempting to break up the event at Twyford Wood, near Bourne, on 23 June.
The men, who admitted violent disorder, appealed against their jail terms but the application was rejected.
Mr Justice Males said the judge was "entitled" to pass deterrent sentences.
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More than 20 officers and a police dog were injured during the incident.
Colman, of Narborough, Norfolk, was jailed for 18 months and Carling, of Corsham, Wiltshire, was jailed for 12 months at a hearing in July.
More, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, was jailed for 12 months in October.
Mr Justice Males said: "It's a matter of great regret when a person of good character takes part in criminal activity that is out of character and quickly regrets.
"That activity and the punishment that follows may cast a blight over the lives of those who are essentially, apart from this occasion, decent young people.
"We recognise the severe consequences for each of the three appellants. A single night of mindless violence may have long-term consequences.
"The fact this was mindless and carried out under the influence of alcohol or drugs was no excuse."
The jacket dates back to the Fab Four's stay in Hamburg in 1960.
Other top-selling items from the Harrison family collection included a guitar and his boots, a spokesman for auction house Bonhams said.
Harrison, who lived in Henley, Oxfordshire, died of cancer in 2001.
The boots, dating back to circa 1964, were sold for £61,250 and an orange Western-style shirt identical to the one worn by Harrison during the 1971 Concert For Bangladesh sold for £23,750.
A guitar used by Sir Paul McCartney in the 1950s, before the Beatles formed, sold for £43,250.
Other lots included rock memorabilia relating to Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Queen, T. Rex and U2.
Natalia, who is 17, describes her parents as "typical" Polish migrants - her father works as a builder, her mother as a nanny. They moved here when she was a baby.
They have had to teach themselves English and haven't settled into British culture as thoroughly as she has, entirely educated in Britain.
Now, with reports of hate crimes against Poles, they worry about her and they are talking about going "home".
They have warned her not to speak Polish in public places and they are concerned if she goes out alone wearing her distinctive Polish scout uniform.
Natalia's not worried. "I've been here my whole life," she told me. "I feel at home here, I feel perfectly happy and fine, I've never had any problems in school before or after the Brexit vote."
Natalia and her friends Zuzanna and Monika, also 17, are all teaching assistants at the Polish school in Wimbledon, named after Marie Curie, where they used to be pupils.
Every Saturday, more than 500 children, aged from three to 17, spend the whole morning studying Polish language and literature, history and geography.
These supplementary schools were mostly set up after World War Two by servicemen and women of the Free Polish forces, determined to keep their culture alive in exile.
Now, they're packed with children of the later migrant wave, who want their children to be able to talk to their grandparents at home. For some, it is also to avoid becoming entirely British, to have choices in future.
The schools are busier than they've ever been. A new one has just been established in the name of the Polish 303 squadron that fought in the Battle of Britain, yet only a quarter of Polish children in the UK attend them.
Natalia, Monika and Zuzanna all plan to go on to further education in the UK. For now, they see their futures here.
But Zuzanna was stunned by the Brexit vote, that people didn't seem to recall the EU was founded to keep the peace after World War Two.
"It's a huge shock that people don't remember the past," she said, "that we Polish people actually helped England in the past, fighting against Germany, and we were ourselves the most vulnerable ones, taken away from the map, and people still target us."
None of the girls had been "targeted", in terms of abuse or worse, though Zuzanna said that just after the referendum, in the street, someone had stared very pointedly at her "Skola Polska" badge. She was uncomfortable.
None of the girls had changed their behaviour since the Brexit referendum, though.
All three are members of the Polish scouts: their uniform is recognisably Polish, they sometimes carry Polish flags.
Monika came to the UK at the age of six. "Honestly I've started wearing my uniform more," she said. "I think those people need to be silenced, their views need to be challenged and the only way to do that is if we actively challenge it."
Monika wants to go to medical school, and work in the NHS, which she admires.
Like some of the other teenagers I talked to, she is worried that it would be harder for her now to get into the university of her choice, that Poles may face discrimination, although she has applied for UK nationality.
No-one I met at the school was planning to return to Poland, though some had friends who had left.
One mother said: "When I came into work after the referendum, my colleagues said, 'Have you packed yet?' But it was a joke."
She said her family were settled - she had a good job, a mortgage, she was not worried about the falling pound.
But Izabella, a parent volunteer who has been in the UK for 13 years, said many people did not feel secure.
She thought the prime minister should make it clear Poles here were not at risk.
"I worry about my children," she said.
Those comments echo what the Polish Ambassador Arkady Rzegocki told the House of Lords this week.
"The post-Brexit status of European Union nationals, including Poles, living in the UK is far from clear," he said.
"These citizens need to know how and if their rights are protected to understand fully the implications of Brexit."
He noted concerns over a rise in reported "xenophobic" incidents and told the House of Lords committee that there were at least a million Poles in Britain, higher than the Office of National Statistics estimate of 830,000.
Police Scotland said this was because of a three-year time bar on the offences that were committed in the Conon Bridge area.
The birds were killed by pesticides banned under UK-wide legislation.
Police Scotland and bird conservation charity RSPB Scotland said they were disappointed no-one had been charged.
The deaths of so many birds of prey was condemned by wildlife charities, the police and politicians at the time.
Offences under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 must be prosecuted within three years of a report of a crime being made.
Divisional Commander Ch Supt Philip Macrae said: "Every line of inquiry has been explored as part of our investigation into the deaths of these birds of prey, including large scale searches and a detailed investigation by CID and wildlife officers.
"We liaised closely with a number of partners including the National Farmers Union, RSPB and the Scottish SPCA as well as the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
"The inquiry has been regularly reviewed for any new lines of inquiry and it is therefore very disappointing that there has been insufficient evidence to progress this case any further."
Det Insp Scott Macdonald, who led the inquiry, said: "I remain convinced, based on the advice of partners involved in the investigation, that the bait was laid for illegal pest control and not specifically to target the birds of prey, however they became the unfortunate victims of this illegal act.
"Using illegal pesticides is wholly unacceptable; it poses an indiscriminate danger to humans and wildlife alike."
The officer said that although the case was no longer active, Police Scotland continued to take the use of illegal pesticides seriously.
Duncan Orr-Ewing, head of species and land management for RSPB Scotland, said: "This appalling incident should act as a warning to anybody contemplating using illegal poisons in the countryside as to the possible risks to red kites and other vulnerable wildlife."
Shortly after the discovery of the dead birds, a reward of £10,000 was offered for information on the poisonings.
Public Health Wales' (PHW) report said 60% of those surveyed had suffered due to someone else who had been drinking.
One in five had felt physically threatened, 11% had their property damaged and 5% had been assaulted.
Andrew Misell of Alcohol Concern Cymru said it was "time to ask whether we want alcohol to play such a prominent part in so many areas of life".
The Alcohol's Harms to Others report, carried out by PHW in conjunction with Liverpool John Moores University, surveyed 1,071 people aged 18 or over across Wales.
Prof Mark Bellis of PHW said: "Some of these harms are due to drunken violence but others result from accidents, threats or even financial problems when too much household income goes on one person's drinking."
According to the report, the majority of problems caused by others were drinkers known to the victim, with friends, family or partners accounting for almost 60% of cases.
Some of the harm suffered by people in the survey included having to call the police, having a serious argument or personally drinking to cope.
Dr Zara Quigg, reader in behavioural epidemiology at the Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, said: "Identifying the broad impact that alcohol use can have on individuals, those around them and wider society is important to informing the development, implementation and targeting of interventions to reduce and prevent alcohol-related harms."
Last year an accounting scandal led to the resignation of Toshiba's chief executive Hisao Tanaka.
Back then Toshiba admitted to overstating its profits by 151.8bn yen ($1.22bn, £780m) over six years.
Mr Tsunakawa was not involved in the scandal and is credited with increasing earnings at the healthcare unit.
The company also named a new chairman, Shigenori Shiga who is currently serving as senior executive vice president.
The appointments need the approval of shareholders at a meeting in late June.
Last year, Toshiba was found to have overstated its operating profit by a total of 151.8bn yen (£780m) over the course of six years.
The revelation led to a record £40m fine for the company from regulators.
When the scandal hit, chairman Masashi Muromachi temporarily took over as chief executive.
Mr Muromachi will now become a special adviser.
Toshiba has also reported it expects to make a £4.1bn annual loss for 2015. The company also said it will cut 14,000 jobs as part of a restructuring programme.
Part of that programme saw the recent sale of Toshiba's healthcare unit to Canon for £4bn.
Last month, Toshiba also took a ($2.3bn) £1.6bn writedown on its US nuclear unit Westinghouse in a move to address any lingering doubts over its accounting practices.
Toshiba, which was founded in 1875 and launched the world's first mass-market laptop in 1985, currently employs almost 200,000 people.
Labour overturned an SNP majority of almost 10,000 to narrowly win Rutherglen and Hamilton West.
And the Conservatives won Angus from the SNP - where Mike Weir has been defending a majority of 11,230.
But the SNP's Mhairi Black narrowly held Paisley and Renfrewshire despite a big drop in her share of the vote.
Ms Black, the youngest MP at Westminster in the last parliament, had her majority over Labour cut from about 6,000 to about 2,500.
The SNP's Stewart Hosie held Dundee East - which had been the safest seat in Scotland - with Alan Brown also re-elected in Kilmarnock and Loudoun seat, and the party's Martin Docherty holding West Dunbartonshire.
The Conservatives have seen big increases in their in the early Scottish results, with the SNP vote dropping sharply.
An exit poll has predicted that the SNP will lose 22 of the 56 seats it won in the last election.
The poll, which was taken at polling stations across the UK, also suggests the Conservatives will fall short of an overall majority at Westminster.
It predicts the Conservatives will finish with 314 MPs, with Labour on 266, the Lib Dems 14 and the SNP 34.
In Scotland, the Tories had been predicted to win seven seats, the Lib Dems five and Labour two.
A number of seats across the country are said to be too close to call.
Former SNP leader Alex Salmond, the party's current Westminster leader, Angus Robertson among those said to be facing fights to keep their seats.
However, politicians from all parties have reacted to the exit poll with an element of caution, with SNP sources saying they do not believe they will lose as many as 22 seats.
And early results from seats in England showed the Tories outperforming their exit poll prediction.
A full seat-by-seat forecast based on the exit poll is available here.
Political scientist Prof Nicola McEwan told BBC Scotland: "The exit poll and projections are based on probability so it's not just that they've sampled people coming out of the polling stations but they have compared it with the vote shares last time round.
"Some of the seats are more likely to go than others. Within Scotland they're confident - 90%, 80% confident - that the SNP will lose 11 seats.
"The other 11 comes more in terms of the balance of probabilities, perhaps in that 'too close to call' category, including the two Paisley seats, where it's possible Labour might pick up the seats again but they're less confident about it."
The first results in Scotland are due shortly, with the final result of the election expected by lunchtime.
Sources from all parties are, for now, playing down the idea the SNP could lose 22 seats in Scotland, as our exit poll suggests.
But they are trying to work to figure out where the SNP could be vulnerable.
Senior Scottish Tories think early tallies are looking good for them based on their original targets. Scottish Secretary David Mundell thinks his party are within reach of winning all three seats in the south of Scotland.
In Perth and North Perthshire party sources say things are looking good for them. A victory there would be huge for the party - they though they had little chance when the election was called.
Sources in Moray say the race between Tory Douglas Ross and the SNP's deputy leader Angus Robertson is close.
Scottish Labour are playing down the idea they could make significant gains in Scotland, despite suggestions of an increase in the party's vote.
They are confident in Edinburgh South and optimistic in East Lothian. They've also suggested they are doing better in Rutherglen and Hamilton West. But more widely the party things SNP majorities may be too big.
The Lib Dems are positive about Edinburgh West and East Dunbartonshire, two of their three targets in Scotland. North East Fife, where the party thinks it is in with a chance of unseating the SNP's Stephen Gethins, is close, source say.
But with all this, it's early in the night. A long way to go....
Tommy Sheppard, the SNP candidate for Edinburgh East, told BBC Scotland that if the exit poll was "anything like true", it would be a "catastrophic night" for the Conservative party across the UK and could cost the prime minister her job.
On the projections for the SNP's final tally, he said: "Had it not been for the absolutely remarkable result of two years ago, people would have said it was a historic achievement for the SNP.
"Let's try and put it into some sort of perspective. One thing's for sure, the SNP is winning and will win this general election in Scotland and the Conservatives have failed to get a mandate in Scotland."
But Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser told the broadcaster it would be an "astonishing decline" from the unprecedented success the SNP enjoyed two years ago.
Mr Fraser also claimed that a second independence referendum would be "off the table" if the poll proves to be correct.
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Prime Minister Theresa May took "a high risk strategy" by calling the election.
She added that Mrs May's catchphrase had been "strong and stable leadership", but she may well end the night diminished if the exit poll turns out to be correct.
Scotland's 4,710 polling places opened their doors at 07:00 BST on Thursday, with voting ending at 22:00.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was "feeling good" as she arrived to vote at Broomhouse Community Hall in the east end of Glasgow amid heavy rain.
The SNP leader gave a thumbs-up to about a dozen waiting photographers before going inside the hall with her husband Peter Murrell.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale cast her ballot in Edinburgh, as did Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson.
There were 3,988,420 people registered to vote in the general election in Scotland.
A Scottish Parliament by-election was held in the constituency of Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire.
Police had stepped up security around the election, with more than twice as many armed officers on duty as on a normal day following the terror attacks in Manchester and London, but there were no reports of any major incidents.
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Whiplash claims have risen by 50% over the past decade, costing insurance companies about £1bn a year.
The government said insurers have pledged to pass on the savings, worth about £40 a year.
Following a promise made last year, ministers are looking at scrapping the right to compensation or capping it.
In its consultation, the Ministry of Justice suggests that such payments - which are separate from medical bills or loss of earnings - could be banned.
Another option is capping them at a maximum of £425. By contrast the current average payout is £1,850.
The government pointed out that while the number of road accidents in the UK has been falling, the number of whiplash claims has been increasing.
"For too long some have exploited a rampant compensation culture and seen whiplash claims an easy payday, driving up costs for millions of law-abiding motorists," said Justice Secretary Liz Truss.
"These reforms will crack down on minor, exaggerated and fraudulent claims."
Other proposed measures include:
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) welcomed the consultation, saying the proposals would "give honest motorists a better deal".
The insurance industry has been complaining about the issue of whiplash claims for at least eight years.
Andrew Morris, operations director at UK insurance company Aviva, said that while the number of accidents on UK roads had fallen by almost 40% since 2000, the number of injury claims had risen by 90% over the same period.
"All of that suggests that actually there is something fundamentally wrong with our compensation system," he told the BBC. "In the UK, almost 80% of every injury claim that we see relates to whiplash. Now in France, by comparison, is it just 3%."
In 2015 alone, motor fraud accounted for 60% of all claims fraud detected by Aviva, Mr Morris said.
Aviva said the measures might also help to discourage nuisance calls and texts from claims management companies.
Lisa Eallett, 46, from Totton in Southampton, describes her experience as "horrendous" and does not believe the government's proposals will work in genuine cases of motor injury.
Mrs Eallett, whose car was rear-ended by a Land Rover in February 2014, said: "My GP sent me for physio which helped. But I was sent for assessment by the other driver's insurance to no fewer than three specialists.
"I was made to feel a fraud and it was an upsetting experience."
Mrs Eallett said: "I will suffer from tinnitus and the hearing loss now for the rest of my life and no amount of money can compensate for that."
"At the time I was a working single mother and the whole experience was horrendous."
Following a minor accident almost three years ago, Phil Ainsworth, 51, from St Albans, is still receiving nuisance calls encouraging him to make a claim.
Mr Ainsworth said he and the driver exchanged details before he phoned his insurer. "There was no damage and that seemed to be the end of it."
But he said: "Then the calls started to come and I've been getting them ever since."
Mr Ainsworth said he has received in excess of 50 phone calls and text messages from various claim management companies using "different tactics" to entice him into making a whiplash claim.
"They say money's waiting for you or that they're just trying to clear the file and that you don't have to be injured or see a doctor. It's all very persuasive language they use."
He said: "I have held firm and not claimed, but sometimes wish I had claimed if only to stop all the calls."
The government has tried to crack down on fraudulent injury claims before.
Under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, so-called "no win, no fee" legal actions were curtailed, and referral fees were banned.
Following that law, whiplash claims fell by 19%, but it remains to be seen how effective any further measures might be.
Amanda Blanc, the chief executive of insurer AXA UK, also called for the government to push ahead with the reforms.
"We have been here before and still not yet managed to beat the whiplash epidemic," she said.
"This is a golden opportunity for the government to tackle the compensation culture once and for all."
The RAC motoring group's insurance director, Mark Godfrey, said the plan was "broadly welcome", but added: "It is crucial that motorists that have genuine claims are not disadvantaged, which is why we now look forward to seeing the finer detail of the government's proposals."
Any changes will require an act of Parliament, so are likely to be many months away.
Arthur Murphy was a passenger in a van driven by Harry Thornton as they passed a police station in August 1971.
A member of the Parachute Regiment, known in court as "Soldier A", fired two shots that hit Mr Thornton in the head and killed him instantly.
Mr Murphy said he agreed with his original statements about the shooting.
Earlier this week, another soldier, referred to as "Soldier C" told the inquest he thought Mr Murphy had opened fire on him and Springfield Road police station.
It has always been understood that the vehicle had merely backfired.
Mr Murphy told the inquest that Harry Thornton, a father of six, decided to drive their 1955 work van from their accommodation less than a mile away.
He drove a short distance along the Springfield Road, the court heard, and it backfired twice as it passed the police station, close to the Falls Road junction.
A police officer later tested the vehicle and found that it was liable to backfire before the engine had warmed up.
Mr Murphy described how they had stopped at traffic lights.
"I heard a bang, I looked over, and Harry was shot," he said.
"I was taken into the barracks and I was beaten up."
He described the injuries he sustained to his head, and bruising all over his body as two men in the barracks assaulted him and shouted: "Where's the stuff?"
No weapon was ever found in or around the van, and neither Mr Thornton nor Mr Murphy had ever been involved with any paramilitary organisation.
During cross examination it emerged that two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers were later charged with assaulting Mr Murphy, but were acquitted at a trial in 1972.
Mr Murphy added that nine years after the shooting, he was awarded compensation for the injuries he received in the barracks.
Counsel for the Thornton family asked Mr Murphy about Soldier C's testimony.
The soldier had said that the van was driven erratically, and that Mr Murphy had bobbed down and leant over behind Mr Thornton, poking a "tubular instrument" out of the van, before two shots were fired at the police station.
"That's lies," Mr Murphy told the court repeatedly. "That's pure lies".
"We had no weapons, we'd nothing. We were just working men."
There was sustained rioting in west Belfast after Mr Thornton's death.
About two days later, 10 people were shot dead by the army.
That incident later became known by the victims' families as the Ballymurphy massacre.
In 2012, the government wrote a letter of apology to Mr Thornton's widow Mary confirming that her husband had been an "innocent man".
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But she's unhappy with new changes to the way that England's women are funded.
She's gone to meet players to find out what they think.
Parliament raised no objections to the Paris deal; after the government signed the deal on Thursday, it is now just awaiting deposition at the UN.
The government is set to announce tomorrow that ratification is complete.
It comes in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, who has described climate change as a hoax.
The US President-elect promised to re-instate the coal industry in the US and withdraw from the Paris deal which the US has already ratified.
A government spokesman told BBC News earlier this week that the change in power in the US would not divert the UK from its climate change targets.
The Paris Agreement commits countries to taking action to hold temperature rises to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels - and to try to stabilise emissions at a level which would see a temperature rise of no more than 1.5C
It was put before Parliament for the required 21-day period for scrutiny. That expired with no objections raised by the House of Commons or Lords.
The long-standing climate change sceptic MP Peter Lilley told BBC News that he did not object to the Paris Agreement in Parliament because he didn't notice it.
He said: "If I had noticed it, I might have made an attempt to draw together a group of people to object to it. I suspect we would have had more names than last time (the Climate Change Act was passed with five objections) - but it probably would have been a rather ineffective gesture."
More than 100 countries have already officially signed up to the deal, which came into force earlier this month.
Barry Gardiner, shadow minister for international climate change, said: "This strong signal of the UK's commitment to international co-operation on climate change is even more important following the US election.
"The UK Government must now show their commitment through climate action on the ground.
"We face a 47% shortfall to meet our 2030 climate target."
No minister was available for comment today, but the government insists that targets will be met.
Some 20,000 participants are currently attending UN climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco, where negotiators will be discussing the agreement's detail.
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The benchmark Nikkei 225 ended 3.1% lower at 16,174 - higher than its lowpoint for the trading session, but still the lowest close since 12 April.
Shares of Japanese carmaker Toyota closed down 3.8%, Nissan Motor dropped 5% and Honda Motor shed 4%.
The yen shot up after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) decided not to launch fresh economic stimulus last week.
On Friday the yen was at about 108 yen against the dollar. It strengthened a little on Monday to around 106.31 yen.
In South Korea the Kospi ended Monday's session lower, by 0.8% at 1,978.15 points. And that is also a three-week low.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P ASX 200 finished lower by 0.18% at 5,243 points.
Shares in Australia's third largest lender, Westpac, closed down 3.54% on the Sydney stock market, after having lost as much as 5.7% earlier in the session.
It reported a 3% rise in profits for the six months to March.
Earnings rose to A$3.9bn ($2.96bn; £2.02bn), however industry analysts were expecting the figure to come in just above A$4bn.
Westpac has attributed the shortfall to higher debt charges.
Also in Australia, the country's Treasurer Scott Morrison will deliver the federal budget for 2016-2017 on Tuesday evening. According to local media, there will be tax cuts for business in the budget.
But ahead of the budget, the country's central bank - The Reserve Bank of Australia - will hold its annual meeting on interest rates. The key lending rate in Australia is at a record low of 2%.
Figures from the weekend showed that there could be some stability in China, the world's second biggest economy.
The official purchasing managers' index (PMI) on Sunday showed a reading of 50.1 for April, compared to 50.2 in March.
A figure above 50 indicates an expansion. The PMI tracks activities in factories and workshops.
Markets in China and Hong Kong are shut on Monday for the Labour Day holiday.
The Liberal MP, who died in 2010, was held during a 1980s probe into alleged sex parties with teenage boys in south London, a source told the programme.
The source said Smith was released from a police station within hours.
The Met is looking into the handling of historical child sex abuse cases.
The force would not comment on the details of the allegations about Smith put to them by Newsnight.
A spokesman said it was "investigating allegations that police officers acted inappropriately in relation to non-recent child abuse investigations" however, and asked for anyone with information to come forward.
An independent, panel-led inquiry has also been set up by Home Secretary Theresa May to consider whether public bodies and other institutions failed in their duty to protect children.
Information has been passed to Newsnight by a former officer, who is familiar with the original investigation and its closure.
The order to scrap the inquiry, made after Smith and others had been arrested, came from a senior officer whom the undercover team had never met before, the source said.
Officers were then ordered to hand over all their evidence - including notebooks and video footage - and were warned to keep quiet about the investigation or face prosecution under the Official Secrets Act, the source claims.
He said the intelligence-led operation started in 1981 involving a team of undercover regional crime squad officers, including some from Yorkshire who were based in London for the secret inquiry.
The detectives were stationed at Gilmour House, a large police headquarters building in Kennington, south London.
The source said the team targeted six or more addresses in the south of the capital. One focus was a flat in Coronation Buildings, Lambeth - a run-down tenement block less than a mile from the House of Commons.
During a three-month inquiry, officers working in shifts gathered a substantial amount of evidence of men abusing boys aged about 14, the source said.
That evidence included pictures and video taken from inside the flat, as a hidden camera had been installed with the help of a caretaker.
Smith is said to have been one of those caught on camera, another being a senior member of Britain's intelligence agencies.
According to the source, Smith was later seized at a property in Streatham, south London, where he had reportedly been taking part in a sex party with teenage boys.
He said Smith was taken to the former Canon Row police station - which is opposite the House of Commons.
But he was released that night and a duty sergeant who wanted to keep him in custody was reprimanded, the source says.
The BBC has been told that as well as Smith and the member of the intelligence agencies, the undercover team also had evidence on two senior police officers.
The squad believed that boys from care homes were being provided "to order" for sex parties, but the inquiry was abruptly shelved, the source said.
The team was called together at Gilmour House and told by a senior officer - whom they had never met before - to hand over their notebooks, photographs and video footage.
They were read passages from the Official Secrets Act to deter them from speaking out, according to the source.
There was a row at the police building but the inquiry was closed and officers were assured Smith "would not be playing a role in public life any more". In fact, he continued as MP for Rochdale until 1992.
Newsnight's source spoke to the programme through an intermediary and is fearful of repercussions because of the scale of the alleged cover-up.
The BBC first approached the Met about the claims in January, but the force has refused to be drawn into providing details on any live inquiry.
Roy Ramm, Commander of Specialist Operations at Scotland Yard told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was understandable that officers involved had not come forward before.
"Don't underestimate the weight of a threat to your career and to your livelihood if someone says to you 'If you speak about this, you will lose you job'," he said.
He said the publicity may now bring other officers forward but added that the threat of the Official Secrets Act "must be removed" in order to get more information.
Labour MP Simon Danczuk, who has worked to expose Cyril Smith as a prolific paedophile, said police sources were scared to come forward.
He tweeted that officers needed a "cast-iron guarantee they can give evidence without fear."
He said: "It is my view that Smith was being protected and being protected by some fairly powerful people.
"He was protected because he knew of other paedophiles in the networks in which he operated and had he been prosecuted, then I think those other people would have been named by Smith and that's why they ensured that he was never put before the courts."
Newsnight asked former Scotland Yard detective Clive Driscoll, who investigated claims of child abuse in Lambeth in the 1980s and 1990s, to examine the allegations.
"I looked at them as I probably would have done when I was a police officer and, on the balance of probabilities, you would have to say they appear very credible," said Mr Driscoll, the officer whose inquiry led to the conviction of Stephen Lawrence's killers.
"Certainly the timing and the type of allegations that are made are ones that the Met would take very, very seriously."
He described the claims as "very credible and very frightening".
"If you take all of the information that appears to be out there together it does look like collusion with police officers and other agencies to prevent what is a straightforward criminal case," he added.
Watch Nick Hopkins's report on Newsnight or on BBC iPlayer.
For years he has been a popular campaigner in the party, and during the years of coalition he wasn't shy of having a swipe at his colleagues who had gone into government.
But it was his first big set piece speech as the party's leader and after the Lib Dems' appalling loss at the general election, his task was not really to punch through to the general public. Let's be realistic, with the party so diminished, most voters won't be paying that much attention.
Instead it was to persuade his party that all is not lost.
On that, a passionate and well-delivered speech, peppered with anecdotes from his own childhood, hit the right notes. He tried, and in the most part succeeded, to combine his brand of Northern charm, with the heft of a serious politician.
What was harder for him was to be convincing on the second goal he wants to achieve - to present his party as the true opposition to the government, occupying the political space Labour is in the middle of abandoning under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.
This was trickier, not least because his members and colleagues know that Farron's true personal political centre is on the left of the Liberal Democrats.
No surprise then that the most passionate parts of the speech, that earned him standing ovations, were his strong criticisms of the government's position on housing, and the handling of the refugee crisis.
Both were heartfelt, strong pleas, that will prove popular with his members. But they betrayed perhaps what he'll find hard - branding himself and his party as rooted in the sensible centre, when that's several degrees to the right of his own beliefs.
And while the speech will have pleased those in the hall, there is no escaping the electoral facts. With only eight MPs left in the House of Commons, Farron faces a monumental challenge not just to get back to anything remotely approximating power, but to get a regular slice of political action.
It was not so much, "go back to your constituencies and prepare for government", David Steel's ill-fated and premature command to his party in 1981. But more like, "go back to your constituencies and prepare to put this party back together piece by piece, ward by ward, council by council".
Tim Farron has given his party the energy to start that fight, but don't be under any illusion that it will be a long, hard slog.
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The 21-time Grand Slam champion has withdrawn from the China Open, which starts on Saturday, and the season-ending Women's Tennis Association finals in Singapore.
Williams, 34, missed the chance to seal a calendar Grand Slam when she lost in the US Open semi-finals in September.
"It's no secret I've played injured most of the year," said the American.
"Whether it was my elbow, my knee, or, in the final moments after a certain match in Flushing (Meadows), my heart."
She added: "I am taking a proactive step and withdrawing from tournaments in Beijing and Singapore to properly address my health and take the time to heal."
The WTA confirmed it has been told of Williams' decision.
She won the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon in 2015 but has not played since her US Open defeat by Italian Roberta Vinci.
Her coach Patrick Mouratoglou questioned whether Williams would play again this year due to a "lack of motivation" after the US Open.
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Flowers, 63, was arrested last November after newspaper allegations he had been involved in a drug deal.
The suspended Methodist minister had stepped down from the Co-op six months earlier over concerns about expenses.
He was fined £400 and ordered to pay £125 in costs after pleading guilty to charges of possessing cocaine, methamphetamine and ketamine.
He had earlier apologised for "stupid and wrong" behaviour, saying he had been under pressure because of problems at the bank and the recent death of his mother.
During the 10-minute hearing on Wednesday, prosecutors said Flowers had been filmed handing over £300 for drugs in a car in Leeds last November.
The footage was subsequently sold to the Mail on Sunday newspaper, the judge was told.
Flowers admitted the offence to police and said he had taken cocaine for about 18 months to "keep himself going" while he was suffering stress and caring for his then terminally ill mother.
Flowers' barrister, Richard Wright QC, said his client had a current income of £510 a month from pensions and unspecified assets inherited from his mother.
Outside court, Flowers said only: "Don't ask me any questions because I won't give any answers."
His appearance in court came on the day a review of the Co-op Group by former board member Lord Myners said the organisation should adopt a much smaller board and focus on being profitable in order to survive.
Lord Myners said the group's current board was "manifestly dysfunctional" and needed more members with business experience.
Flowers, who oversaw the near-collapse of the group's banking arm, previously served as a Labour councillor in Bradford and on an informal board advising Labour leader Ed Miliband on banking.
He was suspended by the Labour Party and the Methodist Church following the drug allegations and faces a disciplinary procedure by the Church.
His appointment as Co-op Bank chairman in April 2010 was widely criticised because of his inexperience in banking.
In May last year, the Co-op Bank was found to have a £1.5bn black hole in its finances.
Flowers stepped down the following month.
In November, Flowers was called to appear before Parliament's Treasury Select Committee to discuss his management of the bank.
After his appearance, the committee's chairman Andrew Tyrie said Flowers was "manifestly unsuitable" to be chairman of a bank.
The bank has since agreed a refinancing deal which saw the Co-op Group's stake fall to 30%.
US institutions now hold the other 70%.
Flowers is also a former trustee of the drugs charity Lifeline, from which he resigned in 2004 after allegedly filing false expenses claims.
More than 1,800 cases are waiting to be processed by police, data collated by 5 Live Investigates has shown.
The most serious example, in Wiltshire, saw at least one case being delayed by more than 21 months.
Home Office minister Karen Bradley said the government had "prioritised child sexual abuse as a national threat".
Hi-tech crime units deal with the retrieval and examination of data from computers, mobile phones and other media devices, such as illegal images or details of inappropriate conversations with minors.
The evidence can be crucial in securing convictions against those who groom and abuse young people online.
More than half of the 40 UK police forces that responded to a Freedom of Information request from the programme reported delays of at least three months. Cases were "waiting to be allocated" to a member of staff in the hi-tech crime unit for analysis.
Five forces held devices that had not been examined after more than a year of the case being reported.
In Scotland, the oldest unallocated case dated back 10 months, in Wales, seven months, and in Northern Ireland, 18 months.
Louise began speaking online to a 35-year-old man when she was 13. He began to groom her and attempted to persuade her to visit him in person.
When her mother Amy alerted the police, she was astonished to be told it would take six months before forensic examination of her daughter's laptop and phone could begin.
"I was horrified, because what could they be doing in the six months?" she said.
The family eventually waited 10 months for police to examine the evidence, but the case was dropped after they said Louise's phone no longer worked.
"How they can't get the phone to work in today's day and age I don't know. God forbid [the abuser] has done something to anyone else," Amy added.
Both names have been changed to protect their identity.
In July, a report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) found delays of 12 months were "not uncommon", after examining 124 cases at random in six police forces.
It concluded such delays "increase the risk to children", with suspected offenders released on bail for prolonged periods of time while evidence was analysed.
Families of children who had been abused online said the failure by police to launch a full and immediate investigation into every case had left paedophiles free to continue their abuse.
Det Supt Guy Collins, of Lincolnshire Police, told the programme it was struggling to cope with the demand for hi-tech investigations into child sexual exploitation. It had a backlog of 10 months.
"We have to prioritise, that's the sad reality of life. We can't do everything straightaway," he explained.
He added that incidents involving high-risk suspects were always dealt with more swiftly than others, but admitted this meant other cases could be pushed back in the queue.
"It is a matter of absolute regret that we can't do all of those [cases] as quickly as we'd like to, but we do work very hard to protect children," he said.
Lincolnshire Police, like a number of forces, is now allocating additional resources to its hi-tech crime unit.
Karen Bradley, minister for preventing abuse and exploitation, said the government was "committed to ensuring police have the resources they need, and have prioritised child sexual abuse as a national threat".
She said the Child Abuse Image Database, launched in December 2014, "will reduce the time taken to identify illegal images".
5 live Investigates is broadcast on BBC Radio 5 live, Sunday 8 November at 11:00. Listen online or download the programme podcast.
Conservative energy minister Matt Hancock praised the government's record on reducing carbon emissions.
But Ed Davey claimed the Lib Dems had to "fight every day" with its coalition partners for renewable forms of energy.
Shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint refused to rule out fuel duty rising under a Labour government.
The Green Party's Andrew Cooper told the debate on BBC2's Daily Politics that action on climate change had been "feeble".
Fracking
UKIP's Roger Helmer said: "I do not believe that the changes in climate are substantially caused by human activity."
He also insisted that it was not something voters were particularly interested in.
"How many people on the doorstep have raised the issue of climate change?" he said.
"It doesn't mean it isn't true but it's a speculative proposition. There's been no further global warming for 18 years."
But Mr Hancock said changes in the climate were "highly likely to be manmade".
He said he would be open to fracking in his own constituency, adding: "I would be open to have shale gas in any part of the country so long as it was explored for in a way that was careful and cautious.
"It's important we do this."
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Mr Hancock said he thought the expansion of solar energy was superb, but warned that other forms of renewable energy risked destroying the environment.
"Environmental policy is about the beauty of our green and pleasant land. Putting onshore turbines in the wrong places where they are not wanted is not acceptable to local communities and we need to tackle that while supporting other renewables and low carbon," he said.
But Mr Davey compared Mr Hancock's support for renewables but not for onshore wind to "saying you like the Rolling Stones and not liking Mick Jagger".
Ms Flint said Labour would continue to support the development of renewable forms of energy.
"There are costs to this, but let's remember on our bills the green levy only amounts to £60 of an average bill of £1,300," she said.
"But it's about recognising what are the costs if we don't move to cleaner energy. It's important to get this balance right."
Mr Cooper said: "We need to invest in insulating over nine million new homes. We need Greens in Parliament to push for real commitment on climate change."
Jamie Bellows, 28, and Xavier Whyte, 29, struck after the money was collected from Sainsbury's in Bitterne precinct, Southampton, on 29 December 2015.
Bellows was jailed at Southampton Crown Court on Tuesday for seven and a half years and Whyte for six-and-a-half.
The pair, from Southampton, admitted conspiring to commit robbery in June. The money has never been traced.
The court heard Bellows ambushed the driver near the store at about 10:00 GMT, while Whyte waited in a stolen getaway car.
The victim was left traumatised but uninjured, police said.
The empty cash box was later recovered near to Bellows' home in Chafen Road.
Bellows was arrested in February 2016 and Whyte, of Wilton Road, was detained in March, but both remained silent in police interviews.
Detectives said evidence from CCTV footage and mobile phone analysis eventually led to the men being charged in October.
Palaeobiologist Matt Friedman told the BBC that the fish provided crucial evidence about the evolutionary development of jawed vertebrates.
As a remote relative of humans, it provides important evolutionary clues.
"It is the deepest branch of our family tree that bears the kinds of jaw bones found in humans," Dr Friedman said.
The fossil was found at China's Xiaoxiang Reservoir, and was reported by the journal Nature on Thursday.
Scientists say that the heavily armoured fish, Entelognathus primordialis, is a previously unknown member of jawed vertebrates also known as gnathostomes. It has a complex small skull and jaw-bone structure.
"This is an unexpected discovery that inverts schoolbook teaching on the evolution of bony skulls," Dr Friedman told the BBC.
"Up until now it had been thought that the anatomical peculiarities of bony fishes - the group that would eventually give rise to human beings - are specialisations that arose later in vertebrate evolutionary history in our own bony fish lineage."
"But now that narrative has been turned on its head."
Dr Friedman said that the fish's jaw was much more like that of a modern bony fish - which is why its discovery may offer a new perspective on the early evolution of these creatures.
His review of the significance of the fossil find also appears in the latest edition of Nature.
Scientists say that the evolution of jaws is one of the key episodes in the evolution of vertebrates, but the gap between jawed and jawless vertebrates is so large that it is hard to work out the individual evolutionary steps in the transition.
"While this fossil does not tell us anything about the origin of jawed fishes from jawless ones, it does tell us about subsequent modifications to jaw structure that we thought were unique to bony fishes," Dr Friedman said.
It is thought that modern jawed vertebrates, such as sharks and bony fishes, emerged from a collection of jawed, armoured fishes known as placoderms.
Entelognathus primordialis has jaw-bone features previously restricted to bony fishes (osteichthyans) as well as full body armour seen in placoderms, and it would have been around 20cm (7.8in) long.
Dr Friedman says that the fossil adds weight to the theory that many classic bony fish features were evolved "very deep in our family tree, before bony fish split from sharks".
"This means that we - as in bony fishes - are the ones who have held on to more ancient structures, while it is the sharks that have gone off and done something new and interesting in an evolutionary sense.
"They are the ones that have most radically modified this pattern, which we now understand is probably primitive to all modern jawed vertebrates."
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told a press conference that there had been a lot of "concrete progress but some differences remain".
Baroness Ashton said talks would resume on 20 November.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he was not disappointed with the outcome in Geneva, and that the talks were "something we can build on".
He said all parties were "on the same wavelength" and "there was the impetus to reach an agreement".
US Secretary of State John Kerry said: "There is no question in my mind that we are closer now than we were before."
By James ReynoldsBBC News, Geneva
It was striking to see the respective chief negotiators Mohmamad Javad Zarif and Lady Ashton walk in together to deliver a joint final statement. They appeared to be relaxed in each other's company.
But it's also clear that they have not reached a deal. Serious differences clearly remain. The two negotiators wouldn't reveal what those differences were. Instead they agreed to meet again.
These three days of talks were the most intensive negotiations about Iran's nuclear programme for many years. It's worth noting in particular the fact that the US Secretary of State John Kerry took part in more than eight hours of direct talks with his Iranian counterpart.
This marked the most extensive high-level contact between the US and Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution. That, in itself, counts as something of a breakthrough.
The international powers are concerned that Tehran is trying to build a nuclear weapon - but Iran says its programme is peaceful.
A proposal that was floated would require Iran to freeze expansion of nuclear activity in return for limited relief from economic sanctions.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that his country would not abandon its "nuclear rights", which included uranium enrichment.
"The rights of the Iranian nation and our national interests are a red line. So are nuclear rights under the framework of international regulations, which include enrichment on Iranian soil," he told parliament in remarks quoted by the Isna news agency.
Delegates had earlier suggested there was "good progress".
But diplomatic sources said France had wanted tougher terms for Iran.
Before the late-night press conference, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the three days of negotiations had ended without a deal.
"The meetings in Geneva have made it possible to move forward," he said.
"But we have not yet managed to conclude, because there are still some questions remaining to be dealt with."
Meanwhile, Mr Kerry told reporters: "We have not only narrowed differences and clarified those that remain but we made significant progress in working through the approaches to this question of how one reins in a programme and guarantees its peaceful nature."
He added that the window for diplomacy would not stay open indefinitely.
The Geneva talks involve Iran and the P5+1 - the US, Russia, Britain, France and China as permanent UN Security Council members, plus Germany.
The brother of accused David Naylor attributed the remark to him in a statement read to the trial jury.
Fisherman's Friends vocalist Trevor Grills, 54, and Paul McMullen, 44, died after a steel door collapsed at G Live in Guildford on 9 February 2013.
Mr Naylor, 57, denies two charges of manslaughter by gross negligence.
In a character witness statement read out at Guildford Crown Court, his brother Jonathan said on hearing of the tragedy Mr Naylor, director of Express Hi-Fold Doors Ltd, had tears in his eyes.
Mr Naylor's barrister Adrian Darbishire read five statements in support of his client.
The trial continues.
Warren, who promoted some of Tyson's fights in Britain, said the American would have been in "serious breach" of contract if the claims were true.
I don't know whether I believe it or not, or whether it's one of those things that sells books
The 61-year-old promoter also said he was "disgusted" with the revelations, made in Tyson's new autobiography, although he conceded they may have been included to boost sales of the book.
In 1987, aged 20, Tyson became the youngest boxer to hold the WBA, WBC and IBF world titles and the first heavyweight to unify them.
Five years later, he was sentenced to six years in prison for rape.
Although he won back the WBC belt by beating Britain's Frank Bruno in 1996 and added the WBA version the same year, the Brooklyn-born fighter's career went into further decline and he eventually retired in 2006 with a record of 50 wins and six losses.
He says in his new book, 'Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography', that he took cocaine and marijuana throughout his career, evading detection by using a fake penis filled with someone else's urine.
According to Tyson, that included the 38-second win over fellow American Lou Saverese in Glasgow in 2000, which Warren promoted, and the 2004 loss to Britain's Danny Williams in Louisville.
Warren was also promoter for Tyson's defeat of another Briton, Julius Francis, in Manchester in January 2000.
The promoter told BBC Radio 5 live: "I don't know whether cocaine, or whatever he was taking, is a performance-enhancing drug, but it's a banned substance.
"Boxing is a dangerous sport and to be taking something that may cause your performance to be enhanced is a serious danger to your opponent.
"I haven't seen the book yet. All I've done is heard about some of the extracts. When I've seen the book, I'll make my decision then.
"But I'm sure the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) will have something to say about it as well."
Warren added: "I'm pretty disgusted. When he fought here, he was tested by UK Sport, who do all of the drug testing on boxers and nothing came up to say that any drugs were in his system.
"But the claim that he used a prosthetic penis... I don't know whether I believe it or not, or whether it's one of those things that sells books."
Scott has been chosen in a 12-strong squad for Rio 2016, the first time the sport has been part of the Games.
"At my local club I had to play in the boy's team because there was no women's rugby team," Scott, 24, told BBC Essex.
"That we are actually going to an Olympics is something I couldn't have dreamed of."
Scott hopes that the exposure women's rugby will enjoy in Brazil will inspire future generations of players.
"I used to sit at home on my sofa with my mum and dad and we'd watch the Olympics. Being a rugby player I never dreamed that could be me," she said.
"Hopefully now it's something aspiring young women rugby players can look to achieve."
Scott, who was out of action for five months last year after breaking her leg in a game against Saracens, is joined in the squad by Thurrock Women's team-mate Heather Fisher.
The Essex side are part of Women's Championship South One and finished second last season.
"I wouldn't have been able to achieve what I have without their support and everything they've allowed me to go and do over the past few years," said Scott.
"I absolutely love it there. It is absolutely fantastic to be part of the club."
Organisers announced the restrictions with "profound regret", saying they had been reminded of new rules by police in the wealthy city state.
Previously only locals were allowed to actively "demonstrate" by holding up placards, but foreigners could nonetheless attend, Pink Dot says.
Gay sex is illegal in Singapore.
The Pink Dot rally has been held annually since 2009 in the country's Speakers' Corner, where demonstrations are allowed without a police permit. About 30% of Singapore's population are neither citizens nor permanent residents.
In a statement on Sunday, Pink Dot said that recent changes to Singapore's Public Order Act meant that "the law no longer distinguishes between participants and observers, and regards anyone who turns up to the Speakers' Corner in support of an event to be part of an assembly".
The organisers said they would thus have to check identity cards at this year's event on 1 July. Organisers said 28,000 people attended in 2015.
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On Saturday, Singapore police warned that only Singaporean citizens and permanent residents could participate in assemblies at Speakers' Corner that do not have a permit.
In a statement, the LGBT event's organisers said they had "been honoured by the strong support from friends from around the world who have unfailingly attended our events over the years, observing as their Singaporean friends make a stand for inclusion, diversity and the freedom to love".
They acknowledged the new restrictions could separate couples, friends and families, adding they were "just as upset by this".
Pink Dot warned that if non-Singaporeans or non-permanent residents insisted on attending the event, both they and the organisers could be charged and prosecuted. The BBC has contacted Singapore's police for comment.
Last month, Singapore's Home Affairs and Law Minister, K Shanmugram, made a statement about the government's tightening rules on foreigners participating in public assemblies deemed political in nature.
"It has been the government's longstanding position that foreigners and foreign entities should not import foreign politics into Singapore; nor should they interfere in our domestic issues, especially those of a political or controversial nature," Mr Shanmugam was quoted as saying by Channel News Asia.
Human rights group Amnesty International said it was concerned that new powers would be used to "further curtail freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in a country where government critics and activists are already heavily controlled".
The new rules are the latest setback for Pink Dot, after the government last year barred foreign firms from sponsoring events at Speakers' Corner without a permit.
Google, Twitter and Facebook had been among foreign multinationals that had previously supported the event. Local companies have since stepped in as sponsors.
"The cars are going to take them to their physical limits," said Rosberg, who retired after his world title win.
"We might even see drivers losing race wins because of just being physically knackered, and that is the direction the sport should be in."
He added: "These cars are absolute monsters. It is such an awesome hype."
F1 has introduced new rules this season aimed at making the cars faster, more demanding and more dramatic-looking.
In addition, supplier Pirelli has been charged with making tyres on which drivers can push flat out for many laps at a time, which has not been the case for the past six years.
Rosberg said he had no regrets about his decision to stop racing.
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On a visit to the first pre-season test at Spain's Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Rosberg said: "There was not one moment when I thought it should be me sitting in that car. It was interesting to realise that. And perfect."
Rosberg spent time chatting to his replacement at Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas, before the Finn set the fastest time of the test so far on the third morning of four days.
Asked whether it was realistic for Bottas, who joined Mercedes from Williams, to challenge Hamilton in his first season at the team, Rosberg said: "He is a good driver so you'd expect him to be challenging Lewis. It is difficult to predict exactly how they compare.
"We all know that Lewis is a massive benchmark, so it is not going to be easy. I'd assume that sure there is going to be a good battle."
The woman had her handbag taken as she waited at a bus stop on Cromwell Road shortly before 06:00 BST on Saturday.
A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: "As a result of the attack the woman has lost her baby."
It is understood the woman was about six weeks pregnant. A youth, 17, has appeared before Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court accused of robbery.
The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was remanded into youth detention accommodation until his trial which has been set for 16 April at Manchester Crown Court.
A second youth, also 17, has been arrested on suspicion of robbery.
Claire Parrot, defending, applied for bail for the defendant but was refused by District Judge Paul Carr.
Officers have released CCTV images of another youth they want to trace "imperatively" in relation to the attack.
He is described by police as white, aged between 16 and 20 and was wearing a black hooded top with white stripes down the arms, a black body warmer and dark tracksuit bottoms.
Det Sgt Roger Smethurst described the incident as a "sickening attack".
He said: "This is a shocking and tragic case and one that will undoubtedly have a lasting psychological impact upon the poor victim.
The 86 people arrived at Inverness on Monday's 10:25 flight from Schiphol Airport but were unable to leave the terminal until about midday.
It is understood a UK Border Force officer was brought in from another airport to resolve the problem.
No other flights to or from Inverness were affected.
A Home Office spokesman said: "We apologise to anyone inconvenienced at Inverness Airport.
"Border Force sets high standards for its performance and we are conducting an investigation into what happened today."
"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 overcame nodular sclerosing Hodgkin lymphoma in 2014, while at Tranmere, after a six-month course of chemotherapy.
He returned to Rochdale, where he began his career in their youth system, from Carlisle at the start of the season.
"I will fight this life hurdle with the same belief, courage and desire as my previous battle," said Thompson.
"The support shown to me since I discovered my illness has returned has been immense.
"I came back from a goal down before, not only to equalise, but to take the lead. This illness may have found an equaliser, but the quest for me to get the winner starts today and I can assure you I will get the most important win of all time."
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Rochdale-born Thompson made over 100 appearances for his hometown club at the start of his career, and has also had spells at Bury and Southport.
"We will support Joe through this difficult time and will be with him every step of the way," added chairman Chris Dunphy.
"He has the full support of everyone at the club and we will do everything we can to help him beat this horrible disease for a second time."
The dig is taking place this week during a planned phase of replanting in Carpet Gardens, in Eastbourne, East Sussex, to ensure minimum disturbance.
Based on material recovered in the 19th Century, archaeologists have likened the site to Fishbourne Roman Palace and Pulborough's Roman Villa.
Evidence of a large Roman building was found nearby more than 200 years ago.
The "ghost roundabout" - a cobbled brick circle - straddles the road and pavement along Tenison Road, Cambridge.
It has been installed over seven months as part of £500,000 worth of traffic calming measures.
It has been described as a "UFO landing pad" and an "urban crop circle". The council said it was designed to slow down traffic by confusing drivers.
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A Cambridgeshire County Council spokesman said: "It is just a feature on the road that was agreed by residents, councillors and Cambridge Cycling Campaign.
"Residents wanted to make the road less like a rat-run, so it has a different feel to slow drivers down a bit.
"Residents saw all the designs and agreed them. It's gone through considerable consultation through the years."
On BBC Look East's Facebook page, it has been met with confusion and blasted as a "waste of money".
Comments included suggestions it appeared like "the world's smallest velodrome", "an entry for the Turner Prize" and an April's Fool joke.
But people living nearby have said it "adds to the street scene".
Richard Owen, who sits on a national road safety panel, said it was a "reasonably unique" feature and described it as an "urban crop circle".
"But the behavioural science which sits behind it is quite good," he said.
"It's about making drivers feel much more uncertain about the road environment and that's the way you slow cars down without using vertical humps."
The road, near the railway station in Cambridge, closed in March for the traffic calming works and reopened on Friday.
The Geneva-based tech investor has bought a stake in Zuora - a firm that sets up and runs billing services.
Zuora's software helps its clients offer flexible subscriptions. Customers gain greater choice over the length and substance of the service taken out.
For example, a magazine could offer a digital delivery of its sports section every other month of the year.
Zuora's current clients include newspapers, cloud-based service providers and business information publishers.
However, Index believes the model is applicable to a much wider range of sectors.
"We don't see an end or a limit in sight," Index Ventures partner Michelangelo Volpi told the BBC.
"On the consumer side there isn't a big large up-front outlay of cash which is favourable to the consumer, and on the business side there is an ongoing long-term relationship... which can potentially be more lucrative.
"It wouldn't be crazy to think that more than half the things we consume are going to be some kind of a subscription-based relationship."
Index has not disclosed the size of its investment beyond the fact it was the lead investor in a $36m (£23m) deal.
Zuora is the brainchild of Tien Tzuo, a California-based veteran of the business software subscription service Salesforce.
He set up the company four years ago and has since attracted customers including the Financial Times, News International, Hewlett Packard, Dell, Thomson Reuters and US internet radio provider Pandora.
Mr Tzuo believes that within the next three years, Europe will account for 50% of his firm's revenue.
"The world is moving away from a manufacturing economy to a services or subscription economy," Mr Tzuo told the BBC.
"[So] flexibility in how you package, price and figure out what the customer really wants becomes really critical."
Zuora offers clients the ability to offer adaptable subscription plans - whether that means renting a car for irregular periods of time or selling certain sections of a newspaper rather than the whole publication.
It then automates the collection of payments and, if the client permits, allows customers to make changes to their subscription package when they want.
Businesses have access to their subscribers' details, aiding marketing and advertising sales.
This is popular with publishers who are unhappy that Apple has refused to share information on users signed up via its Newsstand and app store subscription services. The iPad maker only makes an exception if customers give it permission to pass on their data.
Zuora's clients takes on the responsibility for storing customers' credit card details. Its clients therefore avoid the risk of an embarrassing hacking attack or theft by a corrupt employee.
"The credit cards never touch their systems, they never touch their servers, they never touch their disc drive, they never even have to touch their network," Mr Tzuo said.
"So we handle it all, and we invest a ton on security on our side".
Zuora is targeting companies of all sizes. One of its smaller customers is the London start-up Social Go, a social network software designer.
Chief executive Alex Halliday said he had had teething problems with Zuora's service and had to work to make their systems compatible. However, he said it was still the best subscription platform on the market.
"We were looking for a platform that would let us avoid having to build our own, and would scale as our business grew, allowing us to solve a variety of complex billing problems that we were facing," he said.
"There were simpler offerings that would have done what we needed today, but probably wouldn't have done what we needed tomorrow."
Index Ventures needs others to follow Social Go's lead if it is to cash in a profit after its typical four-to-six year investment timetable.
The firm's previous success stories include the online gambling website Betfair, the movie rental service Lovefilm and the webchat provider Skype.
It also took a recent stake in Dropbox - an online storage rental company - with the same 500m euro ($674m, £428m) fund it used to invest in Zuora.
Ecclestone has also stated that women would "not be taken seriously" in F1.
"My belief is that a woman can be successful in Formula 1," said Wolff.
"A woman can be physically fit enough to drive a Formula 1 car. I did the race distance in Barcelona so I have proved that it is possible."
Wolff has founded Dare to be Different, an initiative which aims to increase the number of women in motorsport.
The 33-year-old revealed she had spoken to F1 boss Ecclestone on Wednesday regarding his controversial comments, made at the Advertising Week Europe conference in London.
Ecclestone's remarks provoked a fierce backlash. American Leilani Munter, who races stock cars in the ARCA Racing Series, has described Ecclestone as "an embarrassment" and "just a sad, pathetic, sexist old man with pre-historic views of women".
Wolff told BBC World Service: "Like anybody else, when I heard the comments at first I thought 'wow, how could he have said that?' But when I looked into it, the comments are taken completely out of context.
"There was a much wider interview around the topic and actually his comments weren't as bad as they sounded.
"I'm not on the defensive for Bernie here. We agreed on some topics and I can only be completely honest that every step of the way in my quest to make it on to the Formula 1 starting grid he's been supportive.
"I don't think it's fair to say that's he's against woman being in Formula 1 and he also did say in the interview that it would be the best thing for F1 on the commercial side to have a successful female driver."
Wolff started working with Williams in 2012, after racing for seven years in the German Touring Car Championship, before retiring last year.
She spent three years involved in test and development work and drove in four practice sessions over the 2014 and 2015 seasons - becoming the first woman to take part in a grand prix weekend for more than 20 years.
"One of the whole reasons for starting my initiative, Dare to be Different, is about getting more girls interested in motorsport and that's everywhere, not just driving on track but creating a network where they have the support around them," added Wolff.
"In a situation where they may feel negative after reading such a thing [as Ecclestone's comments] they can tap online into the community they've joined and get support from lots of other woman who are successful in the sport.
"I think we are seeing developments, possibly not as much on track as off track but it's happening organically,
"I would like to think we are much closer to a female F1 driver but I could never give you a timeframe."
Mr Trump told reporters on Air Force One that a "brand new order" could be issued as early as Monday or Tuesday.
It comes after an appeals court in San Francisco upheld a court ruling to suspend his original order.
It barred entry from citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries.
It is unclear what a new US immigration order might look like.
Mr Trump said that it would change "very little", but he did not provide details of any new ban under consideration.
Despite his suggestion on Friday, Mr Trump's administration may still pursue its case in the courts over the original order, which was halted a week ago by a Seattle judge.
"We'll win that battle," Mr Trump told reporters, adding: "The unfortunate part is it takes time. We'll win that battle. But we also have a lot of other options, including just filing a brand new order."
A unnamed judge from the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which on Thursday upheld the stay on the original order, has called on all 25 judges of that court to vote on whether to hear the appeal again.
Technically known as an en banc review, a second hearing of the case would involve an 11-judge panel, rather than the three who initially heard the appeal.
Mr Trump's travel ban, which was hastily unveiled at the end of his first week in office, caused chaos at US airports and sparked protests across the country.
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On Thursday, the appeals court said the administration failed to offer "any evidence" to justify the ban, which the president said was necessary to keep the US safe from terror attacks.
However Mr Trump insisted that the executive order was crucial for national security and promised to take action "very rapidly" to introduce "additional security" steps in the wake of the court's decision.
He spoke as Virginia state lawyers argued in court that his policy "resulted from animus toward Muslims".
Their challenge focuses on the travel restrictions imposed by the ban, rather than the four-month suspension of refugee admissions.
But lawyers for the US government in Virginia wrote that "judicial second-guessing" amounted to "an impermissible intrusion" on Mr Trump's constitutional authority.
The appeals court ruling means that visa holders from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen can continue to enter the US, and refugees from around the world, who were also subject to a temporary ban, are no longer blocked either.
But the ruling does not affect one part of Mr Trump's controversial executive order: a cap of 50,000 refugees to be admitted in the current fiscal year, down from the ceiling of 110,000 established under his predecessor, Barack Obama.
Vanessa Marcotte was discovered in a wooded area less than one mile from her mother's house during a visit home from New York in August 2016.
Angelo Colon Ortiz, 31, has been charged for aggravated assault and assault with intent to rape.
Police say they have DNA evidence that proves that he killed Marcotte.
Mr Ortiz, who was given the aid of a translator during court proceedings, entered a plea of not guilty on Tuesday after hearing the charges against him.
Prosecutors say they are likely to charge him with murder at a later date.
Marcotte was found on 7 August 2016 with "crushing injuries to the structures surrounding her throat" state police wrote in a report, according to the Boston Globe, and her body had been partially burned.
Defense lawyer Edward Ryan told the court that his client moved to Worchester, Massachusetts, with his wife and three children "a short while ago".
"There is no question he is a US citizen," he said, adding that his client is "shaken" by the allegations against him.
According to prosecutors, Mr Ortiz is a FedEx employee that regularly passed by the area of Princeton, Massachusetts, where the murder occurred.
Worcester Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey Travers said that mobile phone data shows that Mr Ortiz had been in that area on the date of the murder, and that he had not been working at the time.
Marcotte's death came only five days after the daytime murder of another woman running in Queens, New York, the two tragedies sending shockwaves through the jogging community when police feared a link.
Shortly after police discovered Marcotte's body, a motorist came forward to say that he had driven past a black SUV with an open bonnet that appeared to be disabled at the time, "near to where the site where Vanessa's body was later recovered".
Mr Ortiz was connected to the crime when an officer spotted a man fitting his description driving a black SUV, and later went to his house to ask for a voluntary cheek swab.
He was arrested last Friday after his DNA was linked to DNA found on Marcotte's hands that is believed to have belonged to her attacker.
A judge at the Leominster District Court ordered that Mr Ortiz, who has no criminal history in Massachusetts, be held on a $10m (£7.8m) bail.
Prosecutors had asked for the high bail on the basis that Mr Ortiz had not lived in the area for very long, having only recently arrived from Puerto Rico.
They have asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security to look into his background.
The media watchdog will not now investigate further.
"We assessed 11 complaints that an interview with Marine Le Pen should not have featured in this programme on Remembrance Sunday," it said.
"The interview included appropriate challenges to Marine Le Pen's views and was justified by the context."
Introducing the interview for BBC One's Andrew Marr Show on 13 November, the host said: "I know this morning some people are offended and upset that I have been to interview Marine Le Pen and that we are showing this interview on Remembrance Sunday.
"I understand that, but I would say this. Le Pen could under some circumstances become the next French president in the spring.
"This week in the immediate aftermath of the Trump victory, she has declared that the whole world has changed and that her brand of politics is on the march.
"What does that mean? In the end we are a news programme and I don't think that the best way to honour the fallen is to fail to report on the next big challenge to Western security."
Meanwhile, Ofcom found another BBC programme not in breach of its broadcasting guidelines.
The decision relates to two complaints about The Late Show with Ian Timms on BBC Radio Cumbria, broadcast on 9 August.
Timms made comments about the results of a fictional sailing event in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
He announced which countries had "taken" gold and silver medals, and then said: "Somalia have taken a middle-aged couple who were sailing round the world.
"Indeed, the Somali Olympic coach has had to apologise to officials on behalf of the team, after realising that shooting and sailing were in fact different events."
An Ofcom spokesperson said: "We found the presenter's comments were in keeping with his well-established style, and consistent with audience expectations for this programme.
"However, we have warned the broadcaster about airing material that inappropriately relies on national stereotypes."
Another Ofcom investigation found Frank Skinner's Absolute Radio Saturday morning show in breach for broadcasting the track Narwhal by the band Xylaroo, which featured two expletives.
The broadcast fell foul of Ofcom's code, which states: "The most offensive language must not be broadcast… when children are particularly likely to be listening." The song was played at 09:30 BST on 1 October.
Absolute Radio said "we regrettably agree" the incident was a breach of the code and apologised for what it described as "a genuine mistake from a team with an unblemished record in this area".
It said it had processes in place to address the issue of offensive language in content broadcast on Absolute Radio and that these had "worked well up to this point".
The station said it had now added "a further layer of monitoring" by a senior member of staff.
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Protesters in the capital, Podgorica, chanted "Milo, thief!" and demanded fair elections organised by a transitional government.
Some threw flares and fireworks at police guarding parliament.
Fifteen policemen were injured and 24 protesters sought treatment after being teargassed, the interior minister said.
An leader of the Democratic Front opposition group, Andrija Mandic, was been questioned by police after the rally, along with another protest leader, Slaven Radunovic.
Mr Djukanovic has been in power for much of the past two decades, after holding prominent positions in the republic from the early 1990s when it was part of the former Yugoslavia.
In 2012, he won elections and became prime minister for the third time since Montenegro became independent after splitting from neighbouring Serbia in 2006.
"More than 25 years in power would be too much even if he was Mahatma Gandhi and not this thief," Raso, a 30-year old protester, told the AFP news agency.
Montenegro's government hopes to be invited to join the Nato in December, but many Montenegrins with historic ties to Russia are opposed to this.
Elections are scheduled for early 2016.
Tenby-born Tasker, 29, who competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, has been named a lead pilot in the 12-strong squad.
Brakeman Simons, 29, is a former sprinter who was previously Welsh 60m champion.
Welsh sprinter Moores has been included in the women's squad.
The 23-year-old represented Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and will continue her athletics career in the summer.
Laura Deas, from Wrexham, has been included in the Skeleton World Cup squad.
The 28-year-old won her maiden World Cup race in the opening race of the 2015-16 season in Altenberg, Germany.
The first Skeleton and Bobsleigh World Cup event of the season takes place in Whistler, Canada, from 2-3 December.
The World Championships are set to take place in Sochi, Russia, from 16-25 February, 2017.
Gordon Wilson said the move would allow the campaign group to help bring support for independence up to 60%.
But he said he was "sceptical of the chances of victory in a premature second attempt".
Nicola Sturgeon believed a second vote on independence was "highly likely" in the wake of the Brexit vote.
The first minister said on Sunday she would consider calling a referendum if the UK government triggered formal Brexit negotiations without a satisfactory UK-wide approach being established, but insisted she believed it was possible for Scotland to be a member of both the UK and EU.
Ms Sturgeon has instructed Scottish government officials to draft legislation for Holyrood in preparation for a second vote, while the SNP is to undertake a new drive for independence this summer.
Brexit Secretary David Davis has suggested Article 50 - which fires the starting gun on the two-year negotiating period to leave the EU - would be triggered "early next year".
But the UK's new prime minister, Theresa May, said she wanted the Scottish government to be "fully involved" in the Brexit discussions, and that the article would not be triggered until "we have a UK approach and objectives for negotiation".
Yes Scotland was the official pro-independence campaign ahead of the independence referendum in 2014, which saw Scotland vote in favour of remaining in the UK by 55% to 45%.
Mr Wilson, who led the SNP from 1979 until 1990, called on the party to consult with the various Yes groups "with a view to reviving a Yes Scotland campaigning organisation."
He said Yes Scotland would then "mastermind the steps to bring support for independence up to 60% and to coerce the new London government to concede a fresh independence referendum as a last resort should the negotiations to deliver access to the European single market break down".
Mr Wilson added: "The formation of Yes Scotland will remove a large part of the burden from the SNP government and permit it to concentrate on the negotiations.
"It will also demonstrate to London that a second referendum is on the cards if it proves obdurate and puts barriers in the way of Scotland securing access to the single market."
Mr Wilson said the pro-independence movement needed a "stronger readiness base" than it had ahead of the first referendum campaign.
He said: "It is no secret that I am sceptical of the chances of victory in a premature second attempt. But the position is incredibly dynamic.
"Support for independence in the aftermath of the EU referendum has risen to 55% with many former unionists switching to independence to safeguard our country's position in the European Union.
"While still not at the critical level of 60% that would guarantee victory, independence could be within reach."
An SNP spokeswoman said many people who voted against independence in 2014 were now reconsidering their position in light of the EU vote, which saw Scotland vote to remain while the UK as a whole voted to leave.
She added: "The SNP government is currently exploring every possible option to protect Scotland's EU relationship - but if it becomes clear that the only way to do that is by becoming an independent member, then that option must be on the table.
"That is why the necessary legislation is being prepared to enable a referendum to take place if and when parliament so decides."
The nomination came just a day after Gen Reverol was indicted by a US court on charges of abetting cocaine trafficking.
He served as interior minister once before, under the late President Hugo Chavez, and more recently headed the National Guard.
Mr Maduro dismissed the charges against Gen Reverol as a "US conspiracy".
The president said Gen Reverol "broke the world record for capturing traffickers" when he was the head of Venezuela's anti-narcotics agency.
Prosecutors in New York announced on Monday that Gen Reverol and his former deputy at the anti-narcotics agency, Gen Edilberto Jose Molina, are suspected of receiving payments from drug traffickers in exchange for information about raids.
The prosecutors also alleged that the two men allowed shipments of narcotics to leave the country and let suspects go free.
Any assets they have in the US will now be seized.
Gen Molina, 53, is currently serving as Venezuela's military attache in Germany.
The outgoing Interior and Justice Minister Gen Gustavo Gonzalez will continue to head Venezuela's intelligence service.
Gen Gonzalez's relationship with the US was little better than that of Gen Reverol.
He was one of seven Venezuelan officials who in March 2015 was banned from entering the US as part of a US executive decree which also declared Venezuela "an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States".
Relations between the United States and Venezuela have been tense for years with Venezuelan officials regularly accusing the US government of trying to topple President Maduro and the US criticising Venezuela for its human rights record.
Vasilijs Apilats, 61, of Edleston Road, Crewe, stole The Raising of Lazarus painting from Chester Cathedral in 2014 and left a cheap Christmas toy angel in its place, the court heard.
Apilats denied theft and told Chester Crown Court he bought the icon for £135 from two men he believed were cathedral officials.
But he was found guilty and will be sentenced in January.
The painting is estimated to be worth £2,000 and was probably made between 1870 and 1880, the jury was told.
It was taken from the altar of the cathedral's Chapel of Saint Anselm and recovered from Mr Apilats' home a month later.
Mr Apilats, who is originally from Latvia and spoke to the court through an interpreter, claimed a man who approached him in the cathedral sold him the icon and a second man "approved the sale".
He denied placing the toy in the chapel.
Caroline Harris, prosecuting, earlier called his explanation "elaborate, fanciful and far-fetched"
Adam Bent, of Abbey Lane, was fatally attacked in Braunstone Gate in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Cameron Fields, 20, of Gresley Close, Leicester, has been charged with murder and is due before Leicester Magistrates' Court later.
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with assisting an offender and will appear at Leicester Youth Court.
The family of Mr Bent said they were "absolutely heartbroken at the loss of our wonderful son, brother and uncle".
Another man and teenage girl, who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, have been released on bail pending further enquiries, Leicestershire Police said.
This week, ministers indicated the timetable for electrifying the line to Bristol Parkway by 2016 and Swansea by 2018 may be pushed back.
Lib Dem Baroness Randerson asked if the government had committed enough money.
Transport minister Lord Ahmad said there had been unexpected planning delays, but it remained a "priority".
"The government is committed to delivering electrification from Paddington to Swansea," the Conservative peer said.
"There are challenges which have arisen from electrification and construction and planning consents have taken longer than expected."
He said Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin had asked Network Rail chairman Sir Peter Hendy to report back on "issues of deliverability and affordability" by the autumn.
In June the government said it would delay or cut back a number of modernisation projects planned for Network Rail but said the Great Western line was a top priority.
Network Rail's £50m programme aims to cut journey times on the route between London Paddington to Swansea.
But on Monday, Mr McLoughlin told the Commons Transport Committee electrification was "providing some very big engineering problems".
Asked whether the line to Oxford, Chippenham and Bristol Parkway would be electrified by December 2016, as planned, he said: "I can't give you a yes or no answer."
Earlier this week, Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb could not confirm the electrification of the line to Swansea would be done by 2018, as planned.
The Independent Police Complains Commission (IPCC) said it would examine the use of force by Kent Police officers who arrested Denby Collins.
Mr Collins, 38, was held as a suspected burglar by police called to a house in Gillingham on 15 December.
The IPCC said he was unresponsive and was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital.
He was being restrained by at least one resident of the house when officers arrived.
Mr Collins' parents instructed lawyers earlier this year because they were unhappy with the information they received from police about what happened to their son.
"Our investigation will examine the use of force, including handcuffs, by the officers who attended the scene, the intelligence and information provided to the two initial attending officers and whether the arrest of Mr Collins was justifiable," said IPCC commissioner Mary Cunneen.
"We will also look at the first aid provided by the officers prior to the arrival of the ambulance service."
The family fear police failed to investigate adequately what happened between when they last spoke to their son at 20:00 GMT on 14 December and the early hours of the next day, when he was arrested.
The IPCC said complaints about the alleged failures of police to investigate the injuries Mr Collins had sustained, the information they provided after the arrest and their actions after he was taken to hospital were being investigated by Kent Police themselves.
Mr Collins was transferred to the Royal Hospital for neuro-disability in Putney last month, where he remains in a hypoxic coma.
His parents have said he has little chance of recovery.
He was photographed by Laura Martin, 22, who was a passenger in her father's van when they pulled up next to the learner vehicle near Norwich City's Carrow Road stadium.
The self-employed instructor was in a 5Day car when he was seen snoozing.
The firm said in a statement his behaviour was "unacceptable" and he had been "immediately dismissed".
It said it contracted work to self-employed instructors who provided their own vehicles and were also able to carry out their own private lessons.
"We cannot be 100% certain this particular instructor was working for us at the time the picture was taken. However, we expect high standards of tuition from all our contractors," said 5Day.
"We found this behaviour unacceptable and the individual in question was immediately dismissed and will no longer receive any work from our company.
"We have many instructors working for us weekly around the UK and this is the first instance of this type of behaviour."
Miss Martin said: "The instructor was asleep for the entire time [we were next to him]. The only thing that woke him up was my dad revving the van very loudly to see if that would wake him up.
"As for the pupil he was teaching, he looked extremely flustered."
She posted the photo on her Facebook page and it has attracted a string of comments.
"Not so funny if the poor boy had caused an accident and killed himself or someone else," said one person.
Norfolk Police confirmed it had received a complaint from a member of the public about the unnamed instructor.
Ch Insp Chris Spinks, head of road policing in Norfolk and Suffolk, said: "There is no specific offence that covers an individual supervising a learner driver being asleep as there is with them being drunk or using a mobile phone.
"However, a supervisor or instructor can be seen as being in charge of that vehicle so should be in a position to intervene if required.
"Failure to adhere to this responsibility could therefore make the supervisor liable to an offence in the event of a collision or other incident."
John and Alison Doherty, from Elderslie, Renfrewshire, discovered their numbers had come up the day before they were due to go to Florida.
Rather than take their winning ticket away with them, they hid it inside a lantern until they returned from their two-week break.
They admitted that they spent the fortnight in a "daze".
Mrs Doherty, 50, said she realised she had won after checking her numbers for the 2 July draw on her tablet.
"When I realised I had all six numbers I couldn't believe it," she said.
"I was screaming, lying on the floor, shaking like a leaf - just in complete shock".
Their first post-win purchase was a designer label handbag, which cost $400 (about £300).
Mrs Doherty said: "I love handbags but this was $400. I walked around the store for about an hour before I worked up the courage to go to the cash desk.
"I also saw someone pull up to our hotel in a beautiful Jaguar so I'm tempted to make that our new car.
"We love Formula 1 and have never been to a Grand Prix and that is definitely on our wish list along with a new house."
The holiday to Florida was a treat to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.
They may also have to fork out for a new car for their son, Ryan, 20, who wants a new Ford Fiesta.
But daughter, Laura, 11, might be easier to please. She wants a new goldfish.
They told a press conference that they decided to go public with their win because they're "rubbish at keeping secrets".
Mrs Doherty, a former classroom assistant at Dumbarton Primary, said: "We want our family to share in it. We want this to be nice thing."
Mr Doherty, 52, who runs JDPS Plumbers, said he was not planning to give up work yet.
He said: "I enjoy my work, I've done it for 33 years and I've got a lot of customers that I'm loyal to.
"I was out working yesterday and I'll be out working tomorrow. It's quite hard to give up."
Bowden, 30, who plays at inside centre or fly-half, has played only six league games for Bath since joining them in January 2016.
He joined Bath from Super Rugby side Blues in his native Auckland, following spells at fellow Premiership clubs Leicester and London Irish.
Meanwhile, winger Jack Wilson, 27, has extended his contract until 2019.
The former Saracens man joined from Otago in October, on a deal until the end of the season, and has scored three tries in eight appearances.
On Bowden, director of rugby Todd Blackadder said: "He's a great professional.
"We'd like to thank Dan for the commitment he has shown during his time at the club."
Torquing Group released a statement to backers of the project, saying it had decided to pursue a "creditors' voluntary liquidation".
The project was known to be in trouble, despite having raised over £2m.
Creditors will be contacted by an insolvency practitioner, according to a message sent to them by Torquing.
"Having explored all options known to us, and after seeking professional advice, we have made the difficult decision to pursue a creditors' voluntary liquidation," the message states.
"We are greatly disappointed with the outcome of the Zano project, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported us during this difficult period, especially our loyal employees, whose commitment has exceeded all expectations."
Thousands of people who invested in the project via Kickstarter will not now receive the device they had paid to support.
Torquing chief executive Ivan Reedman resigned last week due to "personal health issues and irreconcilable differences", according to a comment he left on a Zano forum.
It followed another hiccup in June, when Torquing missed a deadline to distribute drones to backers waiting to receive the product.
Zano drones were already in production and were designed to be controllable via a smartphone app.
The device would also have been able to follow users as they moved around outdoors, though the function was not working fully when the BBC visited Torquing in August.
One of the backers told the BBC he had invested £164 in Zano in November 2014.
"Even up until a few weeks ago, we were getting emails saying the first 7,000 Zanos were nearly ready to be dispatched," he said.
"It's unfortunate to see Europe's most successful Kickstarter campaign... implode quite so spectacularly, particularly so close to them finally shipping."
Another, Sandro Ruch, said he had invested a couple of hundred dollars and was particularly disappointed with how Torquing had communicated with backers of the project in recent months.
"That was the main thing, the main point that upsets me today because it's a question of investor expectation management," he told the BBC.
The news has already been met with consternation by backers on social networks.
"I want my money back!" wrote one, on the Zano Facebook page.
A user on the Kickstarter page for the project added: "Being furious is an understatement!!! It was supposed to arrive in June, and now it is nearly six months later with this decision?!?!?"
"No more Kickstarter for me. Willing to pay more after the product hits the shelves," wrote another.
In a statement, Kickstarter said, "Creators on Kickstarter have a remarkable track record, but there are no guarantees that a project will work out.
"If a creator can't complete a project as promised, their contract with backers requires them to bring the project to the best possible conclusion, as detailed in our Terms of Use."
Torquing did not respond to a request for comment.
The versatile 21-year old has spent the past two seasons with Dundee, but will now join the Elite League champions.
"He's a guy that is going to challenge himself every day to get better and better," said Devils coach Andrew Lord.
"Craig is comfortable playing forward and defence and I think he is going to come in and challenge some of the older guys for more minutes and I also think he is going to be a real vocal guy."
Cardiff Crown Court heard Vincent Hamlyn was seen "jostling for pole position" in a "form of race" before the crash.
Kevin Morgan, 60, died after colliding with Dr Hamlyn's BMW Z4 on the A449 in Newport on 21 June, 2014.
Dr Hamlyn, 33, an anaesthetist from Chepstow, Monmouthshire, denies causing death by dangerous driving.
The court heard Dr Hamlyn told police in an interview: "There was no intention to race anyone."
He added: "I would not say I headed towards the carriageway aggressively, but it was swiftly, I headed off as I normally would toward an open 70 mph road."
Mr Morgan, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, died from "catastrophic" head injuries, the court heard.
The prosecution claims both men had been "gunning" their engines at traffic lights, before speeding off in a race.
The trial continues.
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Clayton Donaldson's goal in first-half injury time gave City the lead as he slotted home after Michael Morrison had charged down a Tom Lees clearance.
But Hooper smashed home the equaliser off the crossbar following neat play between Atdhe Nuhiu and Barry Bannan.
The striker got the winner soon after as he finished from close range from Fernando Forestieri's pass.
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The win, which saw Wednesday move back into the Championship play-off places, came at a big cost to Carlos Carvalhal's side as they lost three players to injury.
Kieron Lee was hurt in the warm-up and replaced by Vincent Sasso before Keiren Westwood and Sam Hutchinson clashed with one another as the Wednesday defence blocked an eighth-minute City attack.
Westwood was stretchered off after receiving lengthy treatment on the pitch with a suspected concussion, while Hutchinson's knee injury meant he could not continue despite staying on for a few minutes after play was eventually restarted.
Birmingham manager Gary Rowett:
"To go in 1-0 up at half time I was really pleased but felt we should have done a little more to stop the game becoming too open at times.
"When you have the attacking players Sheffield possess you know they only need one chance.
"In the second half we had another great chance when Donaldson missed from close range."
Sheffield Wednesday coach Lee Bullen:
"Hooper's first goal was fantastic. Some of the one-touch play on a difficult pitch was sublime.
"To go and get the second goal a few minutes later made us ecstatic.
"We were hindered losing two players so early in the game but we have a very good squad."
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An official from China's National Earthquake Network told the BBC that scientists were "alarmed" at the scale of the explosions. The official confirmed that:
The force of the blast was felt many kilometres away from the warehouse where the explosion took place in the port city and residents registered their horror at the scale of the explosions.
"The impact alone woke me and my sister up last night, we were so scared. We hid under our blankets and were wondering if it was an earthquake or atomic bomb. My thoughts and prayers go out to all the deceased," one Weibo user said.
"I was sleeping when our windows and doors suddenly shook as we heard explosions outside. I first thought it was an earthquake," Reuters news agency quoted one resident Guan Xiang, who lives 7km (four miles) away from the explosion site, told the Reuters news agency.
According to the China Earthquake Administration's official account on Weibo, the first explosion was registered at a magnitude of 2.3 and the second at 2.9.
Even the United States Geological Survey registered the explosions as seismic events. The Guardian newspaper quotes USGS geophysicist John Bellini as saying that it is rare to detect seismological activity from events such as the Tianjin explosion.
Reporting by Heather Chen.
Rutherford, who has been training in the United States, improved Chris Tomlinson's previous best of 8.18m recorded in Stuttgart in February 2008.
The 29-year-old set the record with his second jump after opening with 7.96m. He fouled his third attempt and sat out the rest of the competition.
"SMASH! SMASH BOOM!" he tweeted.
"Another record down. Chuffed to have taken the British indoor LJ record tonight in New Mexico."
Rutherford, who is also world, European and Commonwealth champion, is expected to compete at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix on 20 February, the fourth and last stop of the IAAF World Indoor Tour.
He will defend his Olympic title in Rio this summer.
Italian seven-time champion Rossi, who led the standings before the race, was in second place before he crashed on the last lap as he battled Vinales.
French rookie Johann Zarco took his first podium finish with second place for the Tech 3 Yamaha team.
Honda's Dani Pedrosa was third.
The Spaniard's compatriot, team-mate and reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez, crashed on lap 18, while Britain's Cal Crutchlow was fifth.
1. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Yamaha 43 minutes 29.793 seconds
2. Johann Zarco (Fra) Yamaha +3.134
3. Dani Pedrosa (Spa) Honda +7.717
4. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati +11.223
5. Cal Crutchlow (GB) Honda +13.519
6. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Ducati +24.002
7. Jonas Folger (Ger) Yamaha +25.733
8. Jack Miller (Aus) Honda +32.603
9. Loris Baz (Fra) Ducati +45.784
10. Andrea Iannone (Ita) Suzuki +48.332
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3. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 62
4. Marc Marquez (Spa) Honda 58
5. Johann Zarco (Fra) Yamaha 55
6. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati 54
7. Cal Crutchlow (GB) Honda 40
8. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Ducati 38
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The case of Daniel M, a Swiss man arrested by the Germans on charges of spying, has focused attention in Switzerland on the activities of the Swiss intelligence services, the banks and the often awkward relationship between Switzerland and Germany.
Daniel M, now detained in Mannheim in south-west Germany, was once a police officer in Zurich, then a security specialist for Swiss banking giant UBS and finally, it is alleged, a spy for the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (FIS).
During the years of Daniel M's multifaceted career, Germany watched with growing irritation as its citizens squirreled their savings away in Swiss banks, in effect - thanks to Switzerland's famed banking secrecy laws - hiding their money from the German tax authorities.
At the same time, the Swiss government, faced with globalisation, and Switzerland's need to have good trading relations with the European Union, began to realise that banking secrecy was no longer the economic advantage it may once have been.
Methodically but very, very slowly, the Swiss government began to dismantle banking secrecy. New laws on money laundering - among the world's strictest - were approved and tax disclosure agreements were discussed with European neighbours.
All the while the Swiss banks delayed and objected and Germany ratcheted up the pressure.
In 2009, Peer Steinbrück, the then German finance minister, warned that if the Swiss did not behave, Germany might have to "send in the cavalry".
Nothing could have been calculated to more infuriate the neutral Swiss, who insisted they would not be cowed by threats from what the Swiss sometimes call "the big canton to the north".
Germany's ambassador to Berne was swiftly summoned for a dressing-down.
But the process of killing off banking secrecy continued, helped by massive losses for big banks UBS and Credit Suisse in the 2008-2009 sub-prime mortgage crisis.
There were also suggestions that those same banks were still aiding and abetting tax evasion, advising clients to invest in artwork or precious stones to disguise cash and even suggesting they hide diamonds in tubes of toothpaste.
Meanwhile, Germany, impatient for its lost tax revenue, began to buy client information which had been stolen from Swiss banks.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone has spent millions of euros on at least 11 CDs containing information on German citizens with Swiss bank accounts.
Again, this infuriated the Swiss. Government ministers painstakingly shepherding banking reform through parliament were angry that Germany - instead of waiting for the promised agreement on sharing banking information - had, in effect, walked in and helped itself.
For some, it looked as if Mr Steinbrück's cavalry had actually charged.
At some point, Switzerland's intelligence chiefs seem to have concluded that the Germans had gone far enough and decided to investigate the theft of data from Swiss banks.
Who had stolen it, who was selling it and who was buying it on behalf of Germany?
The intelligence service turned to Daniel M, now no longer working for UBS, because - and here is the bizarre twist - he was suspected of dealing with the Germans in stolen banking data.
Long before his arrest in Frankfurt, Daniel M had already been arrested in Zurich as part of an investigation into the theft of bank data.
What happened during that arrest? Was Daniel M "turned" by the Swiss authorities?
The details are murky, but the Germans allege that, between at least 2012 and 2015, Daniel M - armed with 90,000 euros (£76,000) in cash and a prepaid mobile phone - was spying in Germany, hoping to bribe German officials for information, and even trying to plant a mole in North Rhine-Westphalia's finance ministry.
Ironically, it appears the Swiss attorney general's office - which had not closed its case on Daniel M - actually gave Germany the information which led to his arrest in Frankfurt on 28 April.
Meanwhile, FIS, the agency which is supposed to know everything, knew nothing until the arrest became public.
Now it was Germany's turn to be outraged, and Switzerland's ambassador to Berlin's turn to face criticism.
Swiss government ministers were once again squirming with frustration and embarrassment. While FIS chief Markus Seiler refused to confirm or deny Daniel M was an agent, Switzerland's defence minister Guy Parmelin told Swiss media there had been no contact between Daniel M and the intelligence service "since 2014".
Now the case will end up in the courts. Daniel M has hired a high-profile Zurich lawyer, who has demanded that FIS contribute to his client's legal costs.
FIS has not responded, leaving the lawyer to threaten that if Daniel M is "hung out to dry" by his former bosses in the intelligence service, he may use his court appearance to sing like a canary.
Much more intrigue and drama is predicted, and relations between Germany and Switzerland, always a trifle sensitive, are on tenterhooks.
But meanwhile the everyday business between the two neighbours continues.
Switzerland and Germany actually signed that tax disclosure agreement back in 2015: there is no longer any point in stealing banking data, or spying on those who might buy it.
The Swiss foreign minister Didier Burkhalter has suggested the spy scandal is an "old story" that should be forgotten. "No way, minister!" responded mass circulation Blick newspaper in a furious editorial.
The Swiss want answers.
Some ask whether their intelligence services were just bumblingly incompetent, or whether they could have been serving the interests of the banks even as elected officials strove to regulate them.
Others, remembering that the Tunisian extremist responsible for Berlin's Christmas market attack in which 12 people died, had both a gun bought in Switzerland and a Swiss mobile, are asking why FIS does not concentrate on the more important matter of combating terrorism.
The whole affair is now likely to be the subject of a parliamentary inquiry.
United's third-place finish meant an extra play-off round against Morton, which they won 5-1 on aggregate.
"Having two games under our belt is good," goalkeeper Bell said ahead of Tuesday's semi-final first leg.
"A lot of boys hadn't been in the play-offs before so for them to get a feel for it means we're well prepared."
The Tannadice outfit won 2-1 at Morton in the quarter-final first-leg and 3-0 in Friday's return.
And Bell believes the experience of those high-pressure matches will prove crucial.
"People say finishing second is better but you've got to manage the time off then, and we've just been playing," he told BBC Scotland.
"We know what the play-offs are all about as we've already had two games. We're prepared and there will be no surprises for us."
Bell reckons his side are finding form at just the right time as they look to return to the Premiership after one season in the second-tier.
From 24 September to 24 December, United won 10 and drew two of their 12 Championship matches, a run that included victories over eventual league winners Hibernian, and Falkirk.
Then came a run in which they won just one in 10, losing six of those matches. The Tannadice men have bounced back in recent months, however, losing just one of their final eight league matches.
"We've got a lot of players hitting form at the moment," Bell added. "We had our dip after Christmas for a couple of months - but towards the end of the season we've picked up and have been in good form.
"We feel fresh and the boys are looking forward to the game on Tuesday. It's two huge matches for both clubs but I feel as if the team are ready for it and are in the best form we've been in for the last three of four months to be honest."
Bell, who was in the Rangers side that lost 6-1 on aggregate in the play-off final against Motherwell two season ago, knows his side's record against the Bairns this term does not make for happy reading.
Of the four meetings, Falkirk won two, United one and one match finished a draw.
"For me it's a completely separate thing," the 30-year-old added. "You can look at the previous games and obviously we know the players in each side now so you've got experience from that, but it's different.
"There's huge pressure in these games and you've got to manage the fact it's over two legs. You can't win it in one night but you need to make sure you're still in the tie for the second leg."
And in Tony Andreu, who has hit 19 goals this term, Bell believes United have a player who can make the difference.
"He's got that quality that he can score a goal out of nothing and can control a game for us as well," Bell said. "He's a vital part of what's happening and is a good player to have. He'll be vital for us for the rest of the play-offs."
Sarah Hunter, who led the side to the Six Nations Grand Slam in March, will again captain the side as locks Emily Braund and Abbie Scott return.
The squad contains 15 of England's 2014 World Cup-winners, with no uncapped names in the squad.
England play Australia on 9 June, Canada on 13 June and New Zealand on 17 June.
All three matches will take place in New Zealand, and the final game in Rotorua will be a curtain-raiser for the British and Irish Lions' game against the Maori All Blacks.
Head coach Simon Middleton his players would have "an excellent opportunity to test themselves against some the leading teams in the world" before the World Cup in August.
"The tight turnaround of games replicates the World Cup schedule and we expect to encounter a great atmosphere which will provide players with the best possible preparation for Ireland," he said.
"The squad have been training together for the last six weeks and I am looking forward to seeing them translate their hard work into first-class performances on the pitch."
Forwards:
Sarah Bern (Bristol), Emily Braund (Lichfield), Rochelle Clark (Worcester Valkyries), Amy Cokayne (Lichfield), Vickii Cornborough (Aylesford Bulls), Vicky Fleetwood (Saracens), Sarah Hunter (Bristol), Heather Kerr (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Justine Lucas (Lichfield), Alex Matthews (Richmond), Harriet Millar-Mills (Lichfield), Izzy Noel-Smith (Bristol), Marlie Packer (Bristol), Abbie Scott (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Tamara Taylor (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks)
Backs:
Rachael Burford (Aylesford Bulls), Natasha Hunt (Lichfield), Megan Jones (Bristol), La Toya Mason (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Sarah McKenna (Saracens), Katy Mclean (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Amber Reed (Bristol), Leanne Riley (Aylesford Bulls), Emily Scarratt (Lichfield), Emily Scott (Saracens), Lydia Thompson (Worcester Valkyries), Danielle Waterman (Bristol), Kay Wilson (Richmond)
Leaders of the Ka'apor tribe accused the Brazilian authorities of failing to protect them.
They tied up the loggers and set fire to their trucks and chainsaws, before forcing them out, reported the Reuters news agency.
The logs found at the indigenous territory in the north-eastern state of Maranhao were also destroyed.
The incident happened on 7 August but has only just been reported by Reuters.
The Brazilian indigenous agency, Funai, says it has requested tighter security in the Alto Turiacu Indian Territory to prevent violent clashes.
Four-time runner-up Murray is attempting to reach his fifth final in Melbourne, where Novak Djokovic awaits.
Big-serving Raonic, the 13th seed, is chasing a spot in his first Grand Slam final having seen off Frenchman Gael Monfils in the quarter-finals.
Murray, 28, and Raonic, 25, have played each other eight times on Tour, with honours even.
Full commentary on the match is available on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra from 08:30 GMT, with television highlights following on BBC Two at 14:00 GMT.
By his own admission, Murray has struggled to keep his mind on the job in Melbourne, despite advancing to the last four of the season's first major.
The world number two's father-in-law, Nigel Sears, collapsed earlier in the tournament, while his wife Kim is heavily pregnant back home in Britain.
Murray shrugged off the distractions to beat tough Spaniard David Ferrer in four sets in the quarter-finals but Raonic, who is in the form of his career, could pose a bigger threat.
Raonic, who reached the last four at Wimbledon in 2014, has long been tipped as the next big thing and under new coach Carlos Moya, he might be about to deliver on his promise.
The 6ft 5in Canadian was once written off as one-dimensional. However, he beat 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka in five sets in the fourth round using aggressive serve-and-volley tactics.
Roger Federer, who lost to Djokovic in their semi-final on Thursday, was certainly impressed by Raonic's improvement after losing to him in the final of the Brisbane International earlier this month.
"For a big guy he moves well," said 17-time major winner Federer. "He's improved his fitness the last few years. Also, tactically he's better now than he's ever been."
Murray versus Raonic promises to be an intriguing clash of styles, with power player Raonic pitted against one of the game's best returners and defenders.
Also one of the game's finest passers, Murray will be keen to test Raonic's commitment to coming into the net early in the match.
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
Murray's experience could count for a great deal, but Raonic has given notice this month that a maiden Grand Slam final may not be that far away.
He beat Roger Federer to win the title in Brisbane, and has knocked out the 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka en route to the last four in Melbourne.
His serve has found a pleasing groove and his net play is hugely advanced, having decided to dedicate much more time in practice to it.
But Murray played very well in the final two sets of his quarter-final victory over Ferrer and has won four of his five previous Australian Open semi-finals.
James Ward, 58, had been in a critical condition in Bristol's Frenchay Hospital since the incident which took place at Morris, Goddard & Ward Solicitors on 2 July.
The father-of-three lived in Westbury and was known to friends as Jim.
Michael Chudley, 62, of no fixed address, has been charged with the attempted murder of Mr Ward.
Mr Chudley, originally from Rowde in Wiltshire, is also charged with threats to kill and firearms offences.
He will next appear at Winchester Crown Court on 24 September, with a possible trial date set for 17 December.
Mr Ward, who was the principal solicitor of the legal firm in St John's Street, Devizes, had been working at his desk when he was shot.
Wiltshire Police said he died in hospital on Sunday afternoon with his family by his side.
Det Ch Insp Ian Saunders said: "Our thoughts are with Jim's family and friends at this time. Jim was a popular and well respected man."
A post-mortem examination is taking place later at Flax Bourton Mortuary in Somerset.
The piece of shale measures 31mm by 35mm and features a series of lines engraved on its surface.
The Yorkshire Museum, in York, claimed it was "the earliest known Mesolithic art in Britain."
The pendant was discovered during an archaeological dig at Star Carr, near Scarborough, in 2015.
It was studied by research teams from the Universities of York, Manchester and Chester.
Professor Nicky Milner, of the Department of Archaeology at York University, said it was possible the pendant was used for "spiritual personal protection".
"It was incredibly exciting to discover such a rare object. It is unlike anything we have found in Britain from this period," she said.
"We can only imagine who owned it, how they wore it and what the engravings actually meant to them.
"One possibility is that the pendant belonged to a shaman. Headdresses made out of red deer antlers found nearby in earlier excavations are thought to have been worn by shamans."
The exhibition runs until 5 May and will also feature other Star Carr finds including flints, a barbed point used for hunting or fishing and 11,000-year-old fire lighters.
Mr Swinney had been Scotland's finance secretary for the past nine years, as well as the country's deputy first minister - a role he will keep.
Former Transport Secretary Derek Mackay was promoted to finance secretary, with Keith Brown becoming economy secretary.
Both roles had previously been filled by Mr Swinney, but have now been separated.
Ms Sturgeon said the appointment of her most experienced minister to the role of education secretary demonstrated how important education was to her government.
The SNP has faced criticism over the attainment gap between Scotland's wealthiest and most deprived pupils, with the country's education system also falling in international league tables.
The first minister has pledged to create a "world class" education system in Scotland, with every child given the opportunity to fulfil their potential, regardless of their background.
She said: "John's record is exemplary, overseeing a succession of balanced budgets as well as delivering the recent fiscal framework deal that will underpin the new powers being devolved to the Scottish parliament.
"His appointment to this crucial role demonstrates how important education is to my government."
Scotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, welcomed Mr Swinney's appointment, and said it looked forward to working with him on the "significant issues" facing Scottish education.
Meanwhile, Mr Mackay will have responsibility for the Scottish budget and the new tax powers that are due to be devolved to the Scottish Parliament, in a role that has been described as being similar to the UK Chancellor.
Mr Brown - who had been the infrastructure secretary - will be tasked with infrastructure projects, securing investment and supporting people into work, similar to the UK government's business secretary.
The first minister had previously said that splitting the two roles was not a reflection on how they had been carried out in the past, but rather a "reflection of the challenges and opportunities we face in the future".
Figures released earlier on Wednesday showed that unemployment has risen in Scotland for the third consecutive month and now stands at 6.2%, compared with 5.1% for the UK as a whole.
Elsewhere in the reshuffle:
Two long-standing ministers - Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead and Social Justice Minister Alex Neil - announced ahead of the reshuffle that they were stepping down from the cabinet.
Ms Sturgeon unveiled her new cabinet after being formally sworn in as first minister in a ceremony at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
She is to lead a minority SNP government, after the party won 63 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament election on 5 May.
Ms Sturgeon has also announced the government's junior ministers, which include Mark McDonald as the new minister for childcare and early years and Shirley-Anne Somerville as the minister for further education, higher education and science.
Humza Yousaf will take up the responsibilities of minister for transport and the islands, and Paul Wheelhouse has been appointed as minister for business, innovation and energy.
Maureen Watt is the new minister for mental health, and Jeane Freeman the Scottish government's first dedicated minister for social security.
Responding to the reshuffle, Scottish Labour said it would hold ministers to account on their record, and called on them to "be bold and use the powers of the Scottish Parliament to stop the cuts and invest in the future".
Patrick Harvie, co-convener of the Scottish Greens, welcomed Fergus Ewing - who was widely regarded as being supportive of fracking - being moved away from the energy brief.
Mr Harvie said: "His successor, Keith Brown, can expect further pressure from Greens and others to turn the temporary moratorium into a permanent ban to protect our communities".
Mr Brown expressed "serious concerns" about fracking during his failed bid for election as SNP deputy leader but backed the moratorium "until we can get a clearer picture of the situation".
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, who defied a party conference vote in favour of fracking to advocate a ban in his 2016 manifesto, said: "Shifting Fergus Ewing away from fracking just exposes the fault lines in the SNP on the environment."
He was responding to concerns local knowledge has been lost following the closure of fire control rooms in Inverness and Aberdeen.
Highland Council and Shetland MSP Tavish Scott have been among those raising the concerns.
Mr Hay said there were "checks and balances" to ensure the right response.
Earlier this week, Highland Council's ruling administration renewed its call for the region to have a dedicated fire control room service.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) shut its operations control room in Inverness last month and its site in Aberdeen in November.
Calls that were handled by those control rooms are now dealt with in Dundee.
But Mr Hay said: "I want to give strong reassurances that at no point did we not dispatch the right resources across the north of Scotland.
"We have a number of checks and balances that make sure we send the right resources to the right incident as quickly as we can."
He said the fire service would also continue to improve systems, processes and operations to provide "the best possible and most robust service" to communities.
He also suggested Syria may have received the first shipment of an advanced Russian air defence system.
Russia vowed earlier this week to go ahead with sending S-300 missiles.
Meanwhile, the main opposition outside Syria said it would not take part in peace talks while massacres continued.
Speaking in Istanbul where the Syrian National Coalition is meeting, its interim head, George Sabra, said talk of diplomatic conferences was farcical while Syrian government forces backed by the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah were carrying out heinous crimes.
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The delivery of S-300 missiles and their associated radars to Syria - if confirmed - is seen by experts as a potential game-changer: not just in terms of the country's air defence capabilities but also in terms of the signal it sends about Moscow's willingness to back the Syrian regime.
The S-300 is a highly capable Russian-built anti-aircraft system that is also able to shoot down in-coming ballistic missiles. In many ways it is an equivalent to the US Patriot system that Nato has deployed to Turkey to protect its airspace.
It takes some time for crews to become proficient in operating this kind of weapon and it might take further time to integrate it into Syria's wider air defence system.
But its presence would significantly complicate Israel's ability to operate in Syrian airspace and make the US and other Western air forces more cautious should there be renewed talk about establishing "no-fly" zones over Syria.
Last week, a spokesman for the National Coalition had said it would attend, but only if Mr Assad agreed to step down.
In his interview, Mr Assad said Syria would "in principle" attend the talks if there were not unacceptable preconditions.
However, he said it would not be surprising if the conference failed, and if it did, it would not make much difference on the ground, because what he called the "terrorism" of the rebels would continue.
President Assad's interview with Hezbollah-linked al-Manar TV was broadcast on Thursday.
He said he was "very confident" about the victory of his forces, and said Russia had fulfilled some of its weapons contracts.
However, he did not specify whether this included the S-300 missiles - a highly capable surface-to-air missile system that, as well as targeting aircraft, also has the capacity to engage ballistic missiles.
Mr Assad said there was "popular pressure" to open a military front against Israel on the Golan Heights, and said Syria would respond directly if there were any further Israeli air strikes.
Israel has warned it would regard the Russian missiles as a serious threat to its security.
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On Thursday, Israeli Energy Minister Silvan Shalom told public radio that Israel did not want to "escalate" the situation with Syria, but would not allow the transfer of strategic weapons to Hezbollah.
Earlier, a rebel leader accused Hezbollah of "invading" Syria.
Gen Selim Idriss, the military chief of the main umbrella group of Syrian rebels, the Free Syrian Army, claimed that more than 7,000 fighters of the Lebanese Shia movement were taking part in attacks on the rebel-held town of Qusair.
He made an emotional appeal to Western powers on the BBC World Service's Newshour programme, saying: "We are dying. Please come and help us."
More than 50,000 residents were trapped in the town and a "massacre" would occur if it fell, he added.
Opposition groups and humanitarian organisations say conditions for the civilians and the wounded in Qusair are dire, with doctors saying oxygen and other medical supplies have run out.
Syrian government officials say a corridor has been established to allow civilians to escape, and fighters who put down their arms are free to leave too.
Government and Hezbollah forces are reported to have retaken from rebels a disused military airfield north of Qusair.
Councils are heavily dependent on the Scottish government for their money - to say no at this stage, with no prospect of a significantly better offer, would plunge them into crisis.
But this year's budget offer has strained relations badly between non-SNP councils and the Scottish government.
The immediate concern is straightforward. Many councils argue they will receive less than they had anticipated so are now contemplating bigger cuts and savings than they had forecast.
The government offer, as ever, includes money to compensate councils for not putting up the council tax.
The government points to research which demonstrates that, if anything, councils have been over-compensated for freezing the council tax which last went up in 2007.
However, this is only one portion of a complex equation. What really matters to councils is the overall amount they get from the government and how much control they have over their finances.
Councils say they will get less in absolute terms in the coming year - Cosla talks of £350m of cuts - and many say the reduction is worse than anticipated.
One council, Moray, proposed an 18% rise in council tax. It said the rise needed to be that big to balance out the loss of the government money to compensate them for the council tax freeze and balance out the impact of other cuts.
A few other councils, including Highland and Fife, seriously explored the possibility of raising council tax.
In 2011 the SNP promised to freeze the council tax until this year - they argue the freeze has been a popular policy and believe it has been a real help to family budgets.
Sceptics have always noted that the biggest savings - in absolute terms - were made by people who live in large houses who may not make much use personally of council services. The government's own poverty adviser recently acknowledged this debate.
Faced with the realistic possibility of a few increases, the government toughened up its carrot and stick approach - a rise would have left councils losing some other government money too. Moray took its proposed rise off the table.
A number of councils will decide how they actually spend their money a little later than usual this year, to give themselves more time to find possible options for cuts and savings.
As ever, one question is over how many of these options will mean cuts which are immediately obvious to the public. Or, will there be more so-called stealth cuts which may only be felt by staff and anyone immediately affected?
There are, of course, also genuine arguments over potential efficiency savings and some may even wonder whether there are services currently provided by some councils which could actually be better left to the private sector.
However, these are long term, underlying issues - the need to balance budgets is an immediate one.
In the coming Scottish election, local services and how councils are funded is likely to become a major issue.
Labour has proposed raising income tax to balance out the cuts councils are now facing.
The underlying question though is about how much control of their finances councils should have and whether the council tax should be reformed or replaced.
Proposals from all the main parties are expected in the coming weeks.
Some in local government would be very disappointed if the proposals only looked at whether the small portion of their finances which comes from the council tax could be raised in a different way and if the parties did not address the question of whether councils should also have more financial freedom.
A report produced for Cosla in 2014 argued that to strengthen local democracy, communities had to be in a position to determine what kind of services they wanted and how much they were prepared to pay for them.
While the council tax freeze will almost certainly continue this year, the Scottish government's critics will argue it has been at a high cost - both to council services and the relationship between some councils and the Scottish government.
The Scottish government will argue it has tried to do its best for councils in difficult circumstances and protected them from the worst of what it calls Westminster cuts.
The Fostering Network said there was "a particular need" for carers for teenagers and sibling groups.
The charity's latest figures - released as part of Foster Care Fortnight (8-22 May) - show 7,180 families are needed across the UK.
It made a call "across Wales for people to come forward".
The charity said its latest figures showed at least 440 families were needed across Wales, with an additional survey suggesting 97% of UK fostering services have a particular need for foster carers for teenagers and 6% for sibling groups.
"Without more foster families in Wales coming forward during 2017, and especially people who could foster teenagers and sibling groups, some children will find themselves living a long way from family," Colin Turner, director of The Fostering Network in Wales, said.
He added it would result in children being split up from siblings and friends and being placed with a foster carer who "might not have the specific skills and experience to meet that particular child's needs".
There are three types of providers of foster care in Wales - local authorities, the charity sector and the the private sector.
Lynda and her husband Ian are foster carers for teenagers in Wales.
They said: "It has changed our life totally, we eat and drink fostering. It keeps us young and tests us every day.
"Of course, teenagers can be challenging, but we are so grateful to the teenager we cared for long-term as we learnt so much so quickly. He was fabulous company and was brilliant with other fostered children we had.
"Others should consider fostering teenagers because when you make a difference it is massive. Getting a teenager to eat vegetables rather than fast food is like winning the lottery."
TACT, one of the biggest not-for-profit fostering agencies in the UK, said the latest figures were "slightly better" than in 2011, when there was a shortage of about 550 suitable foster families.
Scott Ruddock, TACT's executive director of social services for Wales and the west, said a shortage had been talked about for the 16 years he has been in the industry.
"There's a lot more publicity and information out there about it, but when I talk to people in general the myths are also still out there," he said.
"People still think they can't foster if they're single or don't own their own home, if they don't have children or if they do have children of their own."
He said there were also myths about the kinds of children who come into care.
"[They] think they're particularly challenging or have criminal behaviour," he said.
"For the vast majority that's just not the case. Young people we foster in Wales are going on to university and achieving really well."
Mr Ruddock said 54% of the affected children in Wales were older than 10, with most of them teenagers.
Official figures show the number of children in care has gone up considerably in the last five years - 24% in Wales, Mr Ruddock said.
"My own view is local authorities are far better now at identifying children that need to come into care and are intervening quicker and sooner as a result of improved practice.
"But recruitment of foster carers is having to keep up with the increase."
TACT said there were 3,300 foster care households in Wales, with the average foster carer aged 55.
"It will become more of a challenge over the next 10 years because we anticipate large numbers of carers retiring," Mr Ruddock added.
"That's a challenge, trying to recruit younger people who don't think they can foster."
William Lethan, 50, from the city's Springburn area, was last seen leaving Glasgow Royal Infirmary at about 17:30 on 21 December.
Police Scotland said his body was recovered from Bowling Harbour, in West Dunbartonshire, on Wednesday.
The force said there were no suspicious circumstances. A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.
The university has been given permission to build its new business school at its Oxstalls site.
The business school is being moved from Cheltenham to Gloucester. It is due to open in September 2018.
Consent was granted for new halls of residence at the Blackfriars site which will accommodate the extra students at the business school.
Writer Barbara Henderson's debut novel, Fir for Luck, is set during the Highland Clearances.
It tells of a 12-year-old girl who takes a stand against the threatened clearance of her village in 1841.
Henderson was inspired by real events in Strathnaver in Sutherland which saw women and children resist an attempt to clear their community.
Starting in the late 18th Century and running into the 19th Century, the Highland Clearances saw townships occupied by generations of families cleared to make way for large-scale sheep farming and the rearing of deer.
Landowners were seeking to "improve" their estates at the time of the industrial revolution. Their hope was to make more capital from the land by running shooting estates, or starting industrial-scale livestock farming.
In some cases people who had lived on the land for generations left voluntarily, while others were forcibly evicted and their homes burned and demolished.
The clearances have been tackled in fiction and factual books before, as well as in music and in film, including Slow West starring Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee and directed by Scottish musician John Maclean.
Henderson said one of the reasons for writing her novel was to offer a modern telling of the clearances for young readers.
She told BBC Radio Scotland: "While on holiday up at Strathnaver and the Sutherland coast with my family I looked for a suitable book for my children to read about the subject.
"I found The Desperate Journey, which is by Kathleen Fidler and is a book schools are still studying, but it was published in 1964.
"While I rate the book and I think it is a good book and it is well-written it maybe has a slightly dated feel to it.
"I was hoping, maybe, I would write something that is more appropriate for a modern reader."
Henderson drew on the real-life events that happened in Strathnaver for her story.
She was fascinated by the actions of women and children to resist a sheriff officer sent to evict the families while the men in the community were away.
Launches for the new book are being held in Inverness where Henderson lived for 12 years.
Thiago is closing in on his fourth Bundesliga title since joining Bayern from Barcelona for £21.6m in 2013.
The 26-year-old's previous contract was due to expire in two years.
"My family and I feel at home in Munich. Everything's going well and I want to win a lot of trophies with Bayern in the future," said Thiago.
The two-time Champions League winner with Barcelona has featured in 25 of Bayern's 30 league games this season.
Carlo Ancelotti's side are eight points clear at the top of the table with four match left.
Bayern will clinch a fifth successive Bundesliga title on Saturday if nearest rivals RB Leipzig fail to beat struggling Ingolstadt at home (14:30 BST) and the leaders win at Wolfsburg (17:30 BST).
The charity Antibiotic Research UK, which compiled the data for the BBC, said the surge could not be explained by extra bacterial infections.
It said it was probably due to doctors handing out pills for colds and flu.
Experts said an acceptable prescribing level was still unclear.
There is a noticeable winter cold and flu season, when the viruses find it easier to spread.
Some bacterial infections are also more common in the winter - such as pneumonia, partly as a result of secondary infections in people whose lungs have been damaged by viral infections.
But others, such as urinary tract infections, are actually more common in summer.
Prof Colin Garner, of Antibiotic Research UK, told the BBC News website: "You would expect bacterial infections to possibly go up in winter.
"But they don't go up as dramatically as the heat map shows - 50% more in December compared to August.
"So the map reflects, in all probability, an over-prescribing of antibiotics at that time of year."
Prof Garner said 97% of patients who asked for an antibiotic were given one.
But he said doctors were often "caught between a rock and hard place" as it could be safer to give antibiotics if it was not clear whether the patient had a viral or bacterial infection.
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has argued that 10 million antibiotic prescriptions are inappropriate each year.
The concern is that high levels of antibiotic use are leading to bacteria developing resistance to the drugs and becoming untreatable.
Prof Mike Sharland, a Department of Health adviser on antibiotics, said the summer-winter difference was "recognised as a global problem".
However, he said it was impossible to say at the moment how many of those winter prescriptions were genuinely inappropriate.
He told the BBC: "Obviously this is important, interesting data, but what we now need to do is identify more clearly what is appropriate and what is less appropriate seasonal variation."
Meanwhile, Antibiotic Research UK in collaboration with the data analysis company Exasol has also published maps showing a stark regional variation in antibiotic prescribing so far this year.
It shows that 21% fewer antibiotics are prescribed in London than in the north of England.
Deprived coastal towns, such as Skegness in Lincolnshire, also have high levels of antibiotic prescription.
Prof Garner added: "It's a problem because if we don't tackle it then medicine as we currently practise it will not be practised as we're so reliant on antibiotics."
Cancer therapy, surgery and organ transplants are all reliant on antibiotics.
Meanwhile a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that few people understand antibiotic resistance despite its clear threat to global health.
It polled 10,000 people across 12 countries - Barbados, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, the Russian Federation, Serbia, South Africa, Sudan and Vietnam.
Most wrongly thought it was people rather than bacteria that develop resistance to antibiotics.
Nearly half of people surveyed thought resistance was only a problem for people taking antibiotics regularly while in fact anyone can contract an antibiotic-resistant infection.
Dr Keiji Fukuda, from the WHO, said: "The findings of this survey point to the urgent need to improve understanding around antibiotic resistance.
"One of the biggest health challenges of the 21st Century will require global behaviour change by individuals and societies."
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Parker won 18 England caps between 2003 and 2013, captaining the Three Lions in a friendly against Holland in 2012.
The 36-year-old started his career at Charlton, before moving to Chelsea for £10m in January 2004.
He made more than 450 league appearances in a career which also included spells with Newcastle, West Ham and Tottenham before he joined Fulham in 2013.
Parker's contract at Craven Cottage was set to expire on 30 June, but he had been in talks with the Championship club over an extension.
"I believe now is the right time to move on to the next chapter in my life and career," he said in a statement.
"I feel incredibly honoured and proud to have enjoyed the career that I have and I've loved every moment of it."
Data produced for 2015 shows that poachers are still killing more elephants than are born every year.
The report also highlighted a rising trend in poaching in South Africa's Kruger National Park, considered one of the safest havens.
But there was positive news from Eastern Africa where elephant number have outpaced poachers for the fourth year in a row.
The Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) compiles an authoritative set of figures on the annual trends in elephant numbers.
Called MIKE (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants), the latest data indicate that the rise in the numbers of elephant deaths, witnessed since 2006, peaked in 2011.
Since then the numbers have stabilised but the level remains "unacceptably high overall".
In 2015, the programme recorded the deaths of 14,606.
The researchers estimate that half of these were illegally killed putting the population well above the sustainability threshold, where deaths outweigh births.
"African elephant populations continue to face an immediate threat to their survival from unacceptably high levels of poaching for their ivory, especially in Central and West Africa where high levels of poaching are still evident," said John Scanlon, CITES Secretary General.
"There are some encouraging signs, including in certain parts of Eastern Africa, such as in Kenya, where the overall poaching trends have declined, showing us all what is possible through a sustained and collective effort with strong political support."
The mixed picture for the iconic species continued in Southern Africa. The overall levels of poaching remained below the sustainability threshold, but an upward trend in killing was seen in Kruger National Park for the first time.
CITES have demanded that the 19 countries most heavily involved in the killing of elephants or the consumption of ivory produce national ivory action plans to show how they plan to tackle the issue.
In January the trade body said that China, Kenya, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, all countries of primary concern, have "substantially achieved" the goals outlined in their plans.
Several other countries including Angola, Cambodia and the Lao People's Democratic Republic were told to improve their efforts and report to the CITES governing body, the Conference of the Parties, taking place in South Africa in September this year.
"The momentum generated over the past few years is translating into deeper and stronger efforts to fight these crimes on the front line, where it is needed most - from the rangers in the field, to police and customs at ports of entry and exit and across illicit markets," said John Scanlon.
"Governments must continue to strengthen these front line efforts, whilst the UN, other intergovernmental bodies and civil society must further enhance their much needed support, if we are to move from stabilising to reversing the devastating poaching trends of the past decade."
The September meeting will likely see intense debate between those who want to see some limited sales of ivory stockpiles and those in favour of closing all markets.
The latest figures on the numbers of elephants killed have been released on the UN's world wildlife day in New York, an event that this year will have special focus on the future of elephants.
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The 24-year-old has agreed a three-year contract with the Ashton Gate club after passing a medical
He made 69 appearances for Forest, scoring 14 goals, but spent much of last season on loan at Huddersfield.
"He's a talented player that I've always admired. I tracked him since his Walsall days," Robins boss Lee Johnson told the club website.
Paterson can play on the wing or in central positions, and his arrival could compensate for the expected departure of striker Jonathan Kodjia, who is reported to be on the verge of joining Derby County.
Kodjia was left out of the squad for Saturday's match against Aston Villa.
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The 67-year-old had a heart attack in Turkey in June, leading doctors to tell him to rest for the rest of the year.
Band manager Simon Porter said the guitarist "died" for several minutes after an attack that left him with "mild cognitive impairments".
Parfitt was "recovering well", but was "far from being fit enough to undertake the rigours of Quo's touring schedule".
The band will continue to use guest musicians until the end of 2016, among them Irish guitarist Richie Malone.
Freddie Edwards, son of the band's bass player John "Rhino" Edwards, also stepped in for Parfitt during the band's summer concerts.
Porter said of Parfitt that he is receiving neuropsychological support, adding: "His medical team continue to be confident of a full recovery, but Rick's absolute priorities for the foreseeable future are for his health and well-being."
The band manager conceded that Parfitt "may well have performed his last show with Quo" but said that no final decision would be made until next year.
Parfitt will use his recovery period to compose songs for a solo album which he plans to record early next year, his statement continued.
Status Quo are scheduled to kick off their Last Night of the Electrics tour in Vienna, Austria, on 12 October.
The tour, which runs until Christmas, comes to the UK later that month with a date at the SSE Arena in Belfast on 28 October.
Status Quo have had more than 60 chart hits in the UK, including Rockin' All Over the World, Whatever You Want and In the Army Now.
In 1991 they received a Brit Award for their outstanding contribution to music.
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The Robins beat Bradford 6-0 to win promotion on Tuesday, but Coventry edged the first half at Ashton Gate, with Frank Fielding denying John Fleck.
At the other end, Kieran Agard had a penalty appeal turned down after Reda Johnson's challenge.
Luke Freeman wasted Bristol City's best chance after the break, but a draw was enough to confirm them as champions.
In sealing the League One title, the Robins became just the second team to win both the third-tier championship and Football League Trophy in the same season, following Birmingham City's success 20 years ago.
The Robins failed to replicate the impressive attacking display they produced at Valley Parade, with Frank Nouble and Grant Ward both going close to putting Coventry ahead.
In the second half, goalkeeper Fielding produced a brilliant save to keep Nick Proschwitz's chip out as the Sky Blues, who are now five points clear of the relegation zone in 16th, pressed for a winner.
But, with second-placed Preston North End having been held to a draw by Port Vale on Friday, a point was all Bristol City needed to be crowned champions.
Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray told BBC Coventry And Warwickshire:
"It was a great team effort from everybody. We've been pretty good away from home over the past few weeks so it should be no surprise.
"The lads are a bit disappointed that we didn't nick the game, but we're happy with a point away at the best team in the league."
A van drove into crowds of people in the centre of the city, in a tourist area called Las Ramblas.
Thirteen people have died and dozens were injured.
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Witnesses say the van was deliberately driven into people in Barcelona's popular Las Ramblas area.
The emergency services got to the location very quickly and tried to help as many people as they could.
They are now looking for the missing driver.
Spanish police said they have stopped another van attack in a small town called Cambrils near Barcelona.
The police managed to stop the attackers before they reached a crowded area.
One woman died and the five suspected attackers were killed by police.
Police think this attack was linked to the one that happened earlier in Barcelona.
Four people have been arrested.
The police are still looking for the missing driver who ran away from the van.
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has described it as a terrorist attack.
The extremist group that calls itself Islamic State says it is responsible.
The city's famous football club, FC Barcelona, has said it was "deeply saddened" by the attack.
Lionel Messi added: "There are many more of us who want to live in a world in peace, without hate."
Several famous building all over the world have lit up to show their support for the people of Spain.
New York City's One World Trade centre was lit up in the colours of Spain's flag, red and yellow.
The Eiffel Tower turned off its lights in support of Barcelona.
Up to 300 soldiers will be mobilised in Brussels, Antwerp and elsewhere.
Belgium's interior minister told the BBC that his country had to make use of all the forces at its disposal.
Europe is on high alert after Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in Paris. More than 20 people have been arrested in Belgium, France and Germany.
Uniformed soldiers could be seen outside Jewish schools and government buildings in Belgium on Saturday.
Defence ministry officials said 150 police were already in place, a number that they expected to double over the course of the coming week.
The security threat level would remain raised at three - the second highest level - for at least week, they said.
Belgium launched a series of raids on Thursday evening on a group of suspected jihadists. Verviers was the site of one of the raids, where a shootout left two suspects dead.
Guns, munitions and explosives, as well as police uniforms and a large amount of money, were all seized by police during the operation. Prosecutors said the group had planned to kill police officers.
Thirteen people were arrested in total, and five people were charged on Friday with "participating in the activities of a terrorist group", prosecutors said.
"It was a possible terrorist attack, but we don't know if there were more, if this is really a network of terrorist cells in Belgium and if they're going to attack now, in the next days. Now we have to use all the forces that we have to protect us," Belgian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Jan Jambon told the BBC World Service.
"We've been investigating the data that we found in the houses that we searched, and we're investigating the suspects... and we're looking for other possible targets."
The Belgian government has also announced new measures to deal with terrorist suspects.
They include making travelling abroad for terrorist activities a crime and expanding the cases where Belgian citizenship can be revoked for dual nationals who are thought to pose a terror risk.
There are particular concerns about the return of young Europeans who have gone to fight in Iraq and Syria.
Belgium officials say up to 350 of their citizens have gone to fight in Syria and Iraq, the highest number per capita in Europe. About 100 have returned, and are being monitored by the intelligence services, Mr Jambon said.
No link has been established between the terrorist plot in Belgium and last week's attacks in Paris on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, police and a kosher supermarket.
Twelve suspects are being held by police in the Paris region over last week's attacks, and France remains on its highest terrorism alert level.
Touring a market in Tulle, French President Francois Hollande said the nation had "come through the ordeal with a great deal of dignity and efficiency".
"We are of course aware that there are still threats," he said, "but life has to go on and we even need to emerge stronger".
"That's the best response we can give."
Almost 15,000 troops and police have been mobilised to provide additional security across France.
Meanwhile, one of the brothers who carried out the attack on Charlie Hebdo, Said Kouachi, has been buried in the city of Reims against the objections of city officials.
Other countries in Europe are also on high alert for potential terror threats.
Police in Germany have also arrested two men following raids on 11 properties on Friday, involving some 250 officers.
UK police have been warned to be on their guard for a terror attack against them.
In Washington on Friday, President Barack Obama and UK Prime Minister David Cameron agreed to share expertise on preventing radicalism and tackling domestic "violent extremism".
The crucial moment came in 34 minutes when Spence sped clear of the sluggish Raith back line to rattle in his third goal of the competition.
The win sees Alloa top Group D with a 100% record.
The League One side will now be seeded in Sunday's last 16 draw.
Alloa had already knocked holders Ross County out of the competition prior to kick off and this was another deserved win against higher league opponents. Jack Ross' men join Partick Thistle and Rangers as the only teams to win all four of their group matches
It was a battle between two new look sides as Rovers manager Gary Locke started five players he has brought in since replacing Ray McKinnon as manager in the summer.
Alloa Athletic counterpart Ross topped that by fielding eight of his additions to the squad after relegation to League One at the end of last season.
Despite those extensive changes it was the Wasps that carried more of a sting going forward, showing pace and variety down the flanks with Spence a hard working focal point up front.
The striker, who played in Raith's Challenge Cup final winning team against Rangers in 2014, did his old club no favours when he broke the deadlock in 34 minutes, exposing Jean-Yves M'Voto's lack of pace.
Jon Robertson slid the ball in behind the former Barnsley defender and Spence sprinted clear to blast the ball into the back of the net.
It took a desperate Kyle Benedictus tackle to prevent Iain Flannigan scoring a carbon copy goal just a few minutes later, while Rovers rarely caused Alloa goalkeeper Neil Parry any problems in the first half.
Hearts legend Rudi Skacel made his Raith debut in the second half after an impromtu striptease in the technical area due to a colour clash between his cycle shorts and the club's shorts.
Not that the 37-year-old striker was able to influence the outcome of the game as he was obviously short of match sharpness and got little service anyway.
The main reason for that was the hard work and organisation of an Alloa side who defended effectively with wily old Jim Goodwin controlling things from just in front of the back four.
The vast majority of the second half was played in the visitors half but Parry was so well protected that he did not have a serious save to make for all the Kirkcaldy club's possession.
Match ends, Raith Rovers 0, Alloa Athletic 1.
Second Half ends, Raith Rovers 0, Alloa Athletic 1.
Corner, Raith Rovers. Conceded by Scott Taggart.
Kevin Cawley (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ross Callachan (Raith Rovers).
Attempt missed. Declan McManus (Raith Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Kevin Cawley (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Joel Coustrain (Raith Rovers).
Attempt saved. Joel Coustrain (Raith Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Jason Marr (Alloa Athletic).
Declan McManus (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
(Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Declan McManus (Raith Rovers).
Calum Waters (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Declan McManus (Raith Rovers).
Corner, Raith Rovers. Conceded by Jon Robertson.
Attempt blocked. Declan McManus (Raith Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Scott Taggart (Alloa Athletic).
Joel Coustrain (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Raith Rovers. Conceded by Scott Taggart.
Graeme Holmes (Alloa Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Graeme Holmes (Alloa Athletic).
Jason Thomson (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Raith Rovers. Mark Stewart replaces Kevin McHattie.
Graeme Holmes (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rudi Skacel (Raith Rovers).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Alloa Athletic. Graeme Holmes replaces Jim Goodwin because of an injury.
Delay in match Jim Goodwin (Alloa Athletic) because of an injury.
Foul by Jim Goodwin (Alloa Athletic).
Joel Coustrain (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Greig Spence (Alloa Athletic).
Iain Davidson (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Alloa Athletic. Kevin Cawley replaces Jordan Kirkpatrick.
Iain Flannigan (Alloa Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Jon Robertson (Alloa Athletic).
Joel Coustrain (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Alloa Athletic. Isaac Layne replaces Jamie Longworth.
Jamie Longworth (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kevin McHattie (Raith Rovers).
It is the 15th consecutive monthly fall and the number now stands at 56,100.
The jobless figure has fallen by almost 9,000 over that 15 month period.
However, the percentage of the working age population claiming the benefit remains the highest in the UK. It is currently 6.2%.
The other measurement of unemployment, the Labour Force Survey, shows a quarterly rate of 7.2%, down by 0.1% on the previous quarter.
That remains above the UK average rate of 6.8% but is well below the Republic of Ireland rate of 11.9%.
The Labour Force Survey (LFS) questions a number of people every month on their employment status, and is the most widely used by labour market economists as it allows international comparisons.
The figures for April also point to a fall in long-term unemployment, down 13% over the year, and youth unemployment, down 2.5% over the year.
The economic inactivity rate, that is mainly people, who for a variety of reasons, are not looking for a job, stands at 26.8%.
It is unchanged over the quarter and down marginally over the year, remaining well above the UK average rate of 21.9%.
Last year, the Stormont Executive launched a strategy aimed at tackling the problem of economic inactivity.
It aims to get 30,000 more people into work over the next 10 years.
Part of the plan includes setting up a task force and incentive schemes for employers.
It marks the biggest cable audience for a non-sports programme in the US, according to television viewing figures tracking company Nielsen.
The post-apocalyptic horror, which stars British actor Andrew Lincoln, held the previous record of 16.1m for its fourth season debut last year.
The end of the series also set a new benchmark for a finale with 15.7m.
Sunday's return to the air also triumphed in the valuable 18-49 age range with 11 million viewers. Its nearest scripted rival was popular comedy The Big Bang Theory, which pulled in 6.9 million people in that key demographic.
The serial, which is shown on AMC in the US, is screened on Fox TV in the UK.
Variety reported that the show also reached record levels for the number of people obtaining the show illegally, with piracy tracking firm Excipio logging 1.27 million downloads in the first 24 hours after transmission.
But the level of piracy for TV series Game of Thrones pushes The Walking Dead into second place, with its fourth series premiere registering 1.86 million illicit downloads.
It added that Fox has rushed the show to some 125 markets around the world in a bid to thwart piracy.
The hit show tracks the fortunes of sheriff Rick Grimes - played by Andrew Lincoln - as he attempts to survive flesh-eating zombies.
It has also featured fellow British actor David Morrissey as The Governor, who wears a trademark eye-patch.
The latest episode "ripped up the TV rulebook", according to a review in The Guardian.
It was called a "humdinger of an opening episode", constituting a "mini-action movie".
The head of state and her husband, they argue, are entitled to the same privacy as any other individual.
The heavy colds that had delayed their departure from Buckingham Palace had clearly improved enough to allow the 90-year-old monarch and the 95-year-old duke to make the journey.
They can now take part in the royal ritual, which was started by Queen Victoria, of opening presents on Christmas Eve.
The nature of their recovery will be in evidence the next day when the dedicated tend to gather at Sandringham for a glimpse of the Windsors going to church.
The Queen is normally driven there on Christmas Day.
In the past, Prince Philip - even when recovering from serious ailments - has favoured walking the short distance from his wife's private Norfolk home.
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The Indian-owed manufacturer will replace the outgoing Trulli team for the 2016-17 season.
Formula E is currently in its second year, with Nelson Piquet Jr having won the inaugural 2014-15 championship.
Jaguar have not been involved in top-level motorsport since leaving Formula 1 at the end of 2004.
They are joined by Williams Advanced Racing as official technical partners, part of the group which includes the Williams Formula 1 team.
"Electric vehicles will absolutely play a role in Jaguar Land Rover's future product portfolio and Formula E will give us a unique opportunity to further our development of electrification technologies," said Nick Rogers, JLR's Group engineering director.
Indian conglomerate Tata bought the British-based Jaguar and Land Rover brands in 2008 from Ford, who had previously raced the Jaguar brand in F1 from 2000 to 2004.
After a failing to win a race, the team was sold to Red Bull, who went on to win four Formula 1 constructors' and drivers' championships in successive years.
Fly-half Carter returns from long-term injury to win his 102nd cap.
He was just one of 13 changes to the All Blacks side that defeated England last weekend.
"The guys who've been given their chance are pretty excited and I expect them to perform to a high standard," said captain McCaw.
"There's no doubt that guys who've been in the squad for a while and have not had a start, whenever they're given their chance, they want to nail it so they return whether it is for the World Cup or the next game.
"We've seen all year, when someone has been called upon, they've come in and done the job."
Flanker McCaw will also be in unfamiliar territory, moving to blindside, having never previously worn the number six jersey for the All Blacks. He admitted he is excited to be "having a crack" at the role.
He thinks that the All Blacks could also benefit from resting most of the players who "are a bit sore" following their match against England.
However, the All Blacks record cap winner suggested that no player would be more motivated than Carter, as the 32-year-old makes his first start after nearly a year out through injury.
"100 tests under your belt, once he gets out there, I'm sure that experience will help," said McCaw.
"I just see the excitement of him running around like it is his first start in the team and he can't wait to get out there and hopefully we can make it easy for him."
McCaw will be winning his 136th cap when he returns to his ancestral roots.
"I always love coming to Scotland," he said. "Both sides of my family come from these parts."
Scotland will be looking to build on their 41-31 win over Argentina last week but have yet to beat the All Blacks.
"It is going to be a good challenge for us," added McCaw. "From our point of view, you can't take anything for granted and have to work for everything you get.
"The times I've been here, regardless of what the scorelines have been, physically it's always been a tough old battle."
The 50-year-old, known only as C, had been at the centre of litigation at the Court of Protection and last month a judge ruled she could refuse dialysis.
A solicitor representing one of her daughters said C died on Saturday.
C had damaged her kidneys when taking a drug overdose in a suicide attempt but did not want to undergo dialysis.
The court, which considers cases relating to sick and vulnerable people, had to decide if she had the mental capacity to refuse treatment, in a case brought by the trust with responsibility for her care.
The hearing was told that C's life "had always revolved around her looks, men and material possessions".
In a statement, one of C's daughters told the court said: "'Recovery' to her does not just relate to her kidney function, but to regaining her 'sparkle' [her expensive, material and looks-oriented social life], which she believes she is too old to regain."
Last year, C had been diagnosed with breast cancer, but had refused treatment that would "make her fat".
A long-term relationship had broken down, she had been plunged into debt, and she had tried to kill herself, the court heard.
Her suicide attempt damaged her kidneys but with dialysis, her prognosis would have been positive.
King's College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in London, had wanted dialysis forced on C, claiming a "dysfunction of the mind" meant she could not decide for herself.
Mr Justice MacDonald dismissed the hospital trust's application, saying C was "sovereign" of her "own body and mind" and thus "entitled" to make such a decision.
But he said many people may be horrified by C's thinking and that the decision to refuse treatment could be described as "unwise", with some considering it "immoral".
His ruling was made on 13 November and it has emerged that she died 15 days later.
He said she could not be identified. Another judge has since ruled that she had to remain anonymous, even after her death.
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Neil Lennon, the Norwegian's predecessor, told BBC Scotland this week he would be keen to return when Deila leaves at the end of the season.
Now Mackay, sacked by Wigan Athletic a year ago, has declared his interest.
"If Celtic wanted to talk to me, I'd certainly be keen to do that," the 44-year-old told Sky Sports News.
Former Watford and Cardiff City boss Mackay was subject to a Football Association investigation after leaving the Welsh club, when it emerged that he sent text messages containing discriminatory language.
However, the FA confirmed last year that no disciplinary action would be taken, highlighting "serious concerns about the circumstances in which particular evidence had been given and the reliability and completeness of that evidence".
Mackay recently told BBC Scotland that he wished for a quick return to club management and that Celtic was a "huge, worldwide job".
"I think the next five-year period at Celtic is a crucial one," Mackay said. "I think a record 10 titles in a row is achievable and a strong focus should be there.
"But, for that to happen, I think there is a detailed and strategic plan needed going forward. I think I could help with that and bring a fresh approach.
"I've got an understanding of the club and an ability for that to happen."
Mackay was speaking after Deila announced last week that he would stand down in the summer.
David Moyes, the former Everton and Manchester United manager sacked by Real Sociedad in November, remains the bookmakers' favourite for the job.
But the 52-year-old former Celtic defender, who is also believed to be interested in the vacancy at Aston Villa, said last week that he would be keeping his options open before making a decision in the close season.
Steve Clarke, the former West Bromwich Albion boss who was sacked by Reading last December, has had his odds slashed by one major bookmaker, who now make him third favourite behind Moyes and Lennon.
Republic of Ireland assistant Roy Keane - who had a short spell as a player with the Glasgow club and turned down the job before Deila's appointment in 2014 - has admitted he would like to return to club management, albeit he refused to talk specifically about the Celtic job,
Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill also opted to shun questions about the summer vacancy.
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The Mercedes driver came under scrutiny over his behaviour at the same media event in Japan, during which he gave short answers and played on his phone.
He also said fans and not journalists should ask the questions and walked out of a post-qualifying Mercedes briefing.
Hamilton trails team-mate Nico Rosberg by 33 points with just four races left.
The 31-year-old was upset by criticism of his behaviour in the pre-Japan news conference by some in the media, and after qualifying on Saturday told a group of journalists that he was "not here to answer your questions".
He added: "I don't really plan on sitting here many more times for these kind of things." He has since blocked a number of F1 journalists on Twitter.
However, his resolve on this issue has been quickly challenged by governing body the FIA heading into the Austin weekend, as attendance at the six-driver Thursday news conference is mandatory under the sport's regulations.
Hamilton's Mercedes commitments also appear to be unchanged.
According to the media schedule released by the team, Hamilton is due to fulfil his written media obligations after qualifying and the race.
Hamilton finished third in Suzuka as Rosberg picked up his ninth win of the season.
Rosberg can now afford to finish second to Hamilton at the remaining races and still claim a maiden world title.
Output fell by 0.9% in June compared with May.
Between April and June it fell by 0.7% compared with the first three months of the year.
The release mainly covers the period in the run up to the referendum, which was held on 23 June.
An influential survey released last week, the Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index (PMI), indicated that activity in the construction industry also fell in July, confirming "a clear loss of momentum since the second quarter of 2016".
However it suggested that the Brexit vote was the main factor weighing on activity.
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"The downturn looks set to deepen in the third quarter," said Samuel Tombs from Pantheon Economics.
"Meanwhile, Brexit negotiations will be protracted, so businesses will hold off committing to major capital expenditure for a long time to come," he added.
"In addition, the public investment plans won't be reviewed until the Autumn Statement at the end of the year and few construction projects are genuinely 'shovel ready'.
"Accordingly, we continue to think that a slump in construction activity will play a key role in pushing the overall economy into recession over the coming quarters."
The Hatters, trailing 3-2 from the first leg, fell further behind when Nathan Delfouneso opened the scoring.
Kelvin Mellor's own goal, Scott Cuthbert's header and Danny Hylton's penalty then hauled Luton in front.
But Armand Gnanduillet made it 5-5 on aggregate, before Stuart Moore's own goal sent the visitors to Wembley.
Goalkeeper Moore's misfortunate capped an incredible night of League Two play-off action, as Exeter City beat Carlisle United in the other semi-final - also 6-5 on aggregate and also courtesy of a 95th-minute winner.
The Grecians had looked to be coasting towards the final on Sunday, 28 May before Carlisle scored two late goals to level the tie.
But Jack Stacey's spectacular long-range strike in stoppage time means Blackpool will face Exeter in the Wembley showpiece.
Having only confirmed their place in the play-offs on the final day of the regular season, the Tangerines' passage to the final appeared a straightforward one when Delfouneso put them 4-2 ahead on aggregate.
But Luton, roared on by a partisan home crowd, battled back and deservedly levelled the tie by half-time of the second leg through a Mellor own goal and Cuthbert's well-placed header.
They completed the turnaround early in the second half in controversial circumstances - striker Hylton appeared to dive to win the penalty with which he made it 5-4 on aggregate, a chipped Panenka effort that went in off the bar.
Blackpool were not to be outdone, however, and the impressive Gnanduillet headed in to level matters and send the last-four match towards extra time.
But, as at St James Park, there was more drama to come when Jordan Cook tried to clear Mellor's header off the line, but instead hit the back of Moore and the ball crept into the net to send Blackpool, who have dropped from the top tier to the fourth tier in the space of six years, into the final.
Luton Town manager Nathan Jones:
"I'm a bit shaken. We showed we are a good side but also that we are a naive side at times. We dominated and were excellent the way we played.
"I'm really proud of my team. We were in total control of the game and two little incidents cost us the game. Up until 75 minutes we were in total control."
Blackpool manager Gary Bowyer:
"We gifted them two goals. But the courage these boys had to come back was brilliant.
"We knew if we could get to 3-2 they'd be nervy - as all teams are - but it was amazing the bravery they had to play still.
"It's what you play football for, and you have to realise what these supporters have been through the last few years.
"We were 14th on 14 February and have gone on the run, we've come here to the favourites in the play-offs and won."
Match ends, Luton Town 3, Blackpool 3.
Second Half ends, Luton Town 3, Blackpool 3.
Own Goal by Stuart Moore, Luton Town. Luton Town 3, Blackpool 3.
Attempt blocked. Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ian Black with a cross.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Glen Rea.
Attempt blocked. Neil Danns (Blackpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kelvin Mellor.
Attempt saved. Armand Gnanduillet (Blackpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Brad Potts.
Attempt missed. Ian Black (Blackpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bright Samuel following a corner.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Stuart Moore.
Attempt missed. Bright Samuel (Blackpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Armand Gnanduillet.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Tom Aldred.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Dan Potts.
Attempt saved. Brad Potts (Blackpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bright Samuel.
Attempt missed. Mark Cullen (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Bright Samuel with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Mark Cullen (Blackpool) because of an injury.
Substitution, Luton Town. Jordan Cook replaces Olly Lee.
Attempt missed. Olly Lee (Luton Town) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Dan Potts with a cross.
Offside, Blackpool. Ian Black tries a through ball, but Mark Cullen is caught offside.
Olly Lee (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Olly Lee (Luton Town).
Brad Potts (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Bright Samuel (Blackpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Armand Gnanduillet.
Isaac Vassell (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Cullen (Blackpool).
Goal! Luton Town 3, Blackpool 2. Armand Gnanduillet (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Mark Cullen.
Substitution, Blackpool. Bright Samuel replaces Andy Taylor.
Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Neil Danns (Blackpool).
Attempt missed. Armand Gnanduillet (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Alan Sheehan.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by James Justin.
Foul by Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town).
Ian Black (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Danny Hylton (Luton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pelly Ruddock.
Attempt missed. Danny Hylton (Luton Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Olly Lee.
Attempt blocked. Glen Rea (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Alan Sheehan with a headed pass.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Kelvin Mellor.
Attempt saved. Clark Robertson (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ian Black with a cross.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Pelly Ruddock.
The road bridge over the River Wharfe at Tadcaster partially collapsed in December, with a temporary footbridge currently connecting the two sides.
Plans to widen the bridge were agreed at a council meeting, but in a letter the Samuel Smith's Brewery said the proposal contradicted planning policy.
The brewery did not wish to comment.
Repairs to the bridge are set to conclude in December, with paths widened to improve safety for pedestrians.
The seven-page letter said the proposal was "contrary to the provisions of the adopted Development Plan and national planning policy".
It said the move could impact "important nature conservation interests" and did not consider the effect it would have "on the behaviour of flood waters".
Chris Metcalfe, county councillor for Tadcaster at North Yorkshire County Council, said the brewery could apply for a judicial review on the move.
Speaking to BBC Radio York, the Conservative councillor said: "The brewery had every opportunity to lodge any objection within the statutory consultation period.
"It's absolutely mind-blowing to take this view, especially when aware of the public opinion in Tadcaster."
The government pledged £3m for repair work within days of the bridge collapse, and £1.4m was given by the region's Local Enterprise Partnership to widen and strengthen the bridge.
The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has announced an immediate inquiry.
Milan's Kevin-Prince Boateng sparked the walk-off by picking up the match-ball midway through the first half and kicking it into the crowd.
The Ghana international then removed his shirt and was followed by both sets of players and officials.
There had been appeals for the abuse to stop from the public address announcer.
I can only salute Milan's decision to leave the pitch. Also noted that the majority of the fans were completely supportive of the players
Former Portsmouth and Tottenham Hotspur player Boateng later tweeted: "Shame that these things still happen... #StopRacismforever."
FIGC president Giancarlo Abete branded the incident "unspeakable and intolerable".
In a statement on the FIGC website, Abete added: "We must react with force and without silence to isolate the few criminals that transformed a friendly match into an uproar that offends all of Italian football."
On his way from the pitch, Boateng applauded sections of the crowd, who then reacted angrily towards the corner of the ground from where the chants came.
It was quickly established that play would not restart and Milan's official website said other black players in their side - M'Baye Niang, Urby Emanuelson and Sulley Muntari - suffered abuse.
Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri told reporters: "We are disappointed and saddened by what has happened.
"Milan play for the right to respect all players. We need to stop these uncivilised gestures.
"We are sorry for all the other fans who came here for a beautiful day of sport. We promise to return, and we are sorry for the club and players of Pro Patria, but we could not make any other decision.
"I hope it can be an important signal."
Milan's organising director Umberto Gandini told BBC Sport: "It is so sad but we had to give a strong signal. Very proud of all Milan players for their decision."
Fellow players, including Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany, threw their support behind Boateng and his team-mates.
Kompany said: "I can only salute Milan's decision to leave the pitch. Also noted that the majority of the fans were completely supportive of the players."
However, not all players believe Boateng took the correct action. Former Milan star Clarence Seedorf told BBC Radio 5 live: "I don't feel it's such a fabulous thing. These people will feel empowered now. They should just be identified and kicked out of the stadium."
Piara Powar, executive director of Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE), called for the FIGC to take strong action.
"We salute Kevin-Prince Boateng for his actions and his team-mates for their support," said Powar.
"This is the not the first time a player has walked off in Italy - if the situation continues it may not be the last.
"Italy, as much as any country in Europe, has a serious problem of racism to deal with. Football infrastructure is in need of renewal and at serious odds with the changing nature of Italian society.
"We look forward to strong action by the FIGC."
In June, Uefa president Michel Platini said that any players who walked off the pitch at Euro 2012 because of racist abuse would be booked.
Signings confirmed in May and June can be found on previous transfer pages.
For all the latest rumours, check out the Gossip page and for all the manager ins and outs for July, see the current manager's list.
Transfers organised into Premier League, Football League and Scottish Premiership by the buying club, then listed in alphabetical order by the player's surname. Prominent global transfers will also be included.
Premier League
Rudy Gestede [Blackburn - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
Rickie Lambert [Liverpool - West Brom] Undisclosed
Jordan Veretout [Nantes - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
Football League
Sergio Aguza [Real Madrid - MK Dons] Free
Daniel Crowley [Arsenal - Barnsley] Loan
Liam Donnelly [Fulham - Crawley] Loan
Taron Hare [Scunthorpe - York] Free
Isaac Hayden [Arsenal - Hull] Loan
Lucas Joao [Nacional - Sheffield Wednesday] Undisclosed
Jonas Knudsen [Esbjerg - Ipswich] Undisclosed
James Perch [Wigan - QPR] Undisclosed
Jordan Pickford [Sunderland - Preston] Loan
Jack Stephens [Southampton - Middlesbrough] Loan
George Taft [Burton - Cambridge] Loan
Joe Thompson [Bury - Carlisle] Free
Scottish Premiership
Connor Ripley [Middlesbrough - Motherwell] Loan
Global
Stevan Jovetic [Manchester City - Inter Milan] Undisclosed
Football League
Jerome Binnom-Williams [Crystal Palace - Burton] Loan
Tendayi Darikwa [Chesterfield - Burnley] Undisclosed
David Dunn [Blackburn - Oldham] Free
Will Hoskins [Oxford - Exeter] Free
Jim McAlister [Dundee - Blackpool] Free
Dany N'Guessan [Port Vale - Doncaster] Free
Daniel Pinillos [Cordoba - Nottingham Forest] Free
Fabien Robert [Lorient - Swindon] Free
Jon Toral [Arsenal - Birmingham] Loan
Matthew Upson [Leicester - MK Dons] Free
Scottish Premiership
Andrea Mbuyi-Mutombo [Frejus St-Raphael - Inverness] Free
Global
Vlad Chiriches [Tottenham - Napoli] Undisclosed
Premier League
Robbie Brady [Hull - Norwich] £7m
Steven Caulker [QPR - Southampton] Loan
James Chester [Hull - West Brom] £8m
Andre Wisdom [Liverpool - Norwich] Loan
Football League
Dan Agyei [AFC Wimbledon - Burnley] Undisclosed
Sam Gallagher [Southampton - MK Dons] Loan
Zeli Ismail [Wolves - Burton] Loan
Callum Preston [Birmingham - Crawley] Free
Kwame Thomas [Derby - Blackpool] Loan
Freddie Woodman [Newcastle - Crawley] Loan
Global
Piotr Parzyszek [Charlton - Randers] Loan
Wojciech Szczesny [Arsenal - Roma] Loan
Premier League
Jose Angel Crespo [Cordoba - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
Football League
Iffy Allen [Barnet - Yeovil] Free
Adam Armstrong [Newcastle - Coventry] Loan
Lee Barnard [Southend - Crawley] Free
Nathan Clarke [Leyton Orient - Bradford] Free
Roarie Deacon [Stevenage - Crawley] Free
Gareth Evans [Fleetwood - Portsmouth] Free
Rob Hall [Bolton - MK Dons] Loan
Chris Long [Everton - Burnley] Undisclosed
Rod McDonald [AFC Telford - Northampton] Free
Kevin Osei [Unattached - Carlisle] Free
Dave Richards [Bristol City - Crewe] Free
Naby Sarr [Sporting Lisbon - Charlton] Undisclosed
Scottish Premiership
Daniel Bachmann [Stoke - Ross County] Loan
Jackson Irvine [Celtic - Ross County] Compensation
Global
Abou Diaby [Arsenal - Marseille] Free
Filipe Luis [Chelsea - Atletico Madrid] Undisclosed
Arturo Vidal [Juventus - Bayern Munich] Undisclosed
Premier League
Ibrahim Afellay [Barcelona - Stoke] Free
Jordan Ayew [Lorient - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
Steven Berghuis [AZ Alkmaar - Watford] £4.6m
Sergio Romero [Sampdoria - Manchester United] Free
Football League
Alex Cisak [Burnley - Leyton Orient] Undisclosed
Sam Clucas [Chesterfield - Hull City] £1.3m
Greg Cunningham [Bristol City - Preston] Undisclosed
Alan Dunne [Millwall - Leyton Orient] Free
Connor Essam [Dover - Leyton Orient] Undisclosed
Diego Fabbrini [Watford - Middlesbrough] Loan
Ryan Inniss [Crystal Palace - Port Vale] Loan
Michael Jacobs [Wolves - Wigan] Undisclosed
Maikel Kieftenbeld [Groningen - Birmingham] Undisclosed
Fraser Shaw [Dulwich Hamlet - Leyton Orient] Free
Ryan Taylor [Newcastle - Hull] Free
Global
Marko Dmitrovic [Charlton - AD Alcorcon] Loan
Didier Drogba [Chelsea - Montreal Impact] Free
Shaun Wright-Phillips [QPR - New York Red Bulls] Free
Premier League
Chancel Mbemba [Anderlecht - Newcastle] Undisclosed
Football League
Ryan Williams [Fulham - Barnsley] Undisclosed
Football League
Luke Garbutt [Everton - Fulham] Loan
Ben Hamer [Leicester - Nottingham Forest] Loan
Luke O'Nien [Watford - Wycombe] Free
Conor Sammon [Derby - Sheffield United] Loan
Billy Sharp [Leeds - Sheffield United] Undisclosed
Scottish Premiership
Rodney Sneijder [Almere City - Dundee United] Free
Football League
Mark Beck [Carlisle - Yeovil] Free
Jordan Blaise [Bordeaux - Cardiff] Free
Darius Henderson [Leyton Orient - Scunthorpe] Free
Ruben Lameiras [Unattached - Coventry]
Chris Maguire [Sheffield Wednesday - Rotherham] Free
Deji Oshilaja [Cardiff - Gillingham] Loan
Lasse Vibe [IFK Goteborg - Brentford] Undisclosed
Premier League
Alex McCarthy [QPR - Crystal Palace] Undisclosed
Danilo Pantic [Partizan Belgrade - Chelsea] Undisclosed
Football League
Zakarya Bergdich [Real Valladolid - Charlton] Undisclosed
Hiram Boateng [Crystal Palace - Plymouth] Loan
Cristian Ceballos [Tottenham - Charlton] Free
Jack Harper [Real Madrid - Brighton] Undisclosed
Philipp Hofmann [Kaiserslautern - Brentford] Undisclosed
Elliot Parish [Blackpool - Colchester] Free
Jason Shackell [Burnley - Derby] Undisclosed
Global
Danilo Pantic [Chelsea - Vitesse Arnhem] Loan
Premier League
Christian Benteke [Aston Villa - Liverpool] £32.5m
Miguel Britos [Napoli - Watford] Free
Jose Jurado [Spartak Moscow - Watford] Undisclosed
Manuel Lanzini [Al Jazira - West Ham] Loan
Football League
Martin Cranie [Barnsley - Huddersfield] Free
Lyle Della-Verde [Fulham - Fleetwood] Free
Bobby Grant [Blackpool - Fleetwood] Free
Vahid Hambo [FC Inter Turku - Brighton] Undisclosed
Alex Lacey [Luton - Yeovil] Free
Rowan Liburd [Billericay - Reading] Free
Jake Orrell [Gateshead - Chesterfield] Free
Scottish Premiership
Igor Rossi Branco [Maritimo - Hearts] Free
Premier League
Patrick Bamford [Chelsea - Crystal Palace] Loan
Aleksandar Mitrovic [Anderlecht - Newcastle] £13m
Football League
Ahmed Kashi [Metz - Charlton] Undisclosed
Bangaly-Fode Koita [Caen - Blackburn] Free
Reece James [Manchester United - Wigan] Undisclosed
Francisco Junior [Everton - Wigan] Loan
Jonjoe Kenny [Everton - Wigan] Loan
Sacha Petschi [CA Bastia - Blackburn] Free
Christian Walton [Brighton - Bury] Loan
Global
Raul Albentosa [Derby - Malaga] Loan
Kenneth Omeruo [Chelsea - Kasimpasa] Loan
Benjamin Stambouli [Tottenham - Paris St-Germain] £6m
Football League
Lee Angol [Luton - Peterborough] Undisclosed
Wesley Atkinson [West Brom - Notts County] Free
Tjaronn Chery [FC Groningen - QPR] Undisclosed
Souleymane Coulibaly [Unattached - Peterborough]
Andrew Fox [Unattached - Peterborough]
Jordan Houghton [Chelsea - Gillingham] Loan
Jonathan Kodjia [Angers SCO - Bristol City] £2.1m
AJ Leitch-Smith [Yeovil - Port Vale] Free
Kieran Sadlier [St Mirren - Peterborough] Free
Aaron Taylor-Sinclair [Wigan - Doncaster] Free
Scottish Premiership
Darko Bodul [SC Rheindorf Altach - Dundee United] Free
Gary Miller [St Johnstone - Partick Thistle] Free
Premier League
Patrick Roberts [Fulham - Manchester City] Undisclosed
Premier League
Jordan Amavi [Nice - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
Football League
Anthony O'Connor [Plymouth - Burton] Undisclosed
Ben Pearson [Manchester United - Barnsley] Loan
Joe Rothwell [Manchester United - Barnsley] Loan
Premier League
Fabian Delph [Aston Villa - Manchester City] £8m
Football League
Stanley Aborah [Unattached - Notts County] Free
Cristian Benavente [Real Madrid Castilla - MK Dons] Free
Wes Fogden [Portsmouth - Yeovil] Free
Fraser Franks [Luton - Stevenage] Free
Jordy Hiwula [Manchester City - Huddersfield] Undisclosed
Tomas Kalas [Chelsea - Middlesbrough] Loan
Conor Newton [Rotherham - Cambridge] Free
Global
Kiko Casilla [Espanyol - Real Madrid] £4.2m
Yaya Sanogo [Arsenal - Ajax] Loan
Premier League
Younes Kaboul [Tottenham - Sunderland] Undisclosed
Football League
Stewart Downing [West Ham - Middlesbrough] £5.5m
Milan Lalkovic [Barnsley - Walsall] Free
Matt McClure [Wycombe - Dagenham & Redbridge] Free
Lewis McGugan [Watford - Sheffield Wednesday] Undisclosed
Josh Passley [Fulham - Dagenham & Redbridge] Free
Scottish Premiership
Salva Chamorro [Lleida Esportiu - Hamilton] Free
Liam Craig [Hibernian - St Johnstone] Free
Owain Fon Williams [Tranmere - Inverness] Free
Kieran Kennedy [Leicester - Motherwell] Free
Global
Juanfran [Watford - Deportivo La Coruna] Loan
Robinho [Santos - Guangzhou Evergrande] Free
Santiago Vergini [Sunderland - Getafe] Loan
Premier League
Jordy Clasie [Feyenoord - Southampton] Region of £8m
Jeremain Lens [Dynamo Kiev - Sunderland] £8m
Moha El Ouriachi [Barcelona - Stoke] Undisclosed
Football League
Jeff Hughes [Fleetwood - Cambridge] Free
Scott Loach [Rotherham - Notts County] Free
Farrend Rawson [Derby - Rotherham] Loan
Kelle Roos [Derby - Rotherham] Loan
Ben Tollitt [Skelmersdale United - Portsmouth] Undisclosed
Ross Turnbull [Barnsley - Leeds] Free
Premier League
Carl Jenkinson [Arsenal - West Ham] Loan
Allan Nyom [Udinese - Watford] Undisclosed
Raheem Sterling [Liverpool - Manchester City [£44m (potentially rising to £49m)
Football League
Tom Adeyemi [Cardiff - Leeds] Loan
Ali Al-Habsi [Wigan - Reading] Free
Ryan Bird [Cambridge - Yeovil] Free
David Fox [Colchester - Crewe] Free
Will Grigg [Brentford - Wigan] Undisclosed
Mark Marshall [Port Vale - Bradford] Free
Lyle Taylor [Scunthorpe - AFC Wimbledon] Undisclosed
Martyn Woolford [Millwall - Sheffield United] Free
Global
Robin van Persie [Manchester United - Fenerbahce] Undisclosed
Premier League
Asmir Begovic [Stoke - Chelsea] £8m (reported)
Filippo Costa [Chievo - Bournemouth] Loan
Ollie McBurnie [Bradford - Swansea] Undisclosed
Morgan Schneiderlin [Southampton - Manchester United] £25m
Bastian Schweinsteiger [Bayern Munich - Manchester United] £14.4m (reported)
Football League
Scott Boden [Halifax - Newport] Free
Peter Denton [Rotherham - Hartlepool] Free
Uche Ikpeazu [Watford - Port Vale] Loan
Danny Pugh [Coventry - Bury] Free
Drissa Traore [Notts County - Swindon] Free
Grant Ward [Tottenham - Rotherham] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Coll Donaldson [QPR - Dundee United] Free
Antons Kurakins [Ventspils - Hamilton] Free
Gramoz Kurtaj [Banik Most - Hamilton] Free
Dani Lopez [La Roda - Inverness CT] Free
Carlton Morris [Norwich - Hamilton] Loan
Christian Nade [Raith Rovers - Hamilton] Free
Global
Aaron Hughes [Brighton - Melbourne City] Free
Premier League
Glen Johnson [Liverpool - Stoke] Free
Football League
Jon Ceberio [Real Sociedad - Bolton] Free
Jordan Lussey [Liverpool - Bolton] Free
Global
Iker Casillas [Real Madrid - Porto] Free
Premier League
Valon Behrami [Hamburg - Watford] Undisclosed
Matteo Darmian [Torino - Manchester United] £12.7m (reported)
Georginio Wijnaldum [PSV Eindhoven - Newcastle] £14.5m
Football League
Kevin Stewart [Liverpool - Swindon] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Lee McCulloch [Rangers - Kilmarnock] Free
Global
John Guidetti [Manchester City - Celta Vigo] Free
Premier League
Yohan Cabaye [Paris St-Germain - Crystal Palace] £10m
Shay Given [Aston Villa - Stoke] Free
Idrissa Gueye [Lille - Aston Villa] Undisclosed
Angelo Ogbonna [Juventus - West Ham] £10m (reported)
Marco van Ginkel [Chelsea - Stoke] Loan
Football League
Adam Bartlett [Gateshead - Hartlepool] Free
Tyler Blackwood [unattached - QPR]
David Cornell [Swansea - Oldham] Free
Kyle Dempsey [Carlisle - Huddersfield] Undisclosed
Michael Harriman [QPR - Wycombe] Loan
Luke James [Peterborough - Bradford] Loan
Lloyd Jones [Liverpool - Blackpool] Loan
Alex Lopez [Celta Vigo - Sheffield Wednesday] Loan
Josh McEachran [Chelsea - Brentford] £750,000
Jamie Ness [Stoke - Scunthorpe] Free
Krystian Pearce [Torquay - Mansfield] Free
Lewis Price [Crystal Palace - Sheffield Wednesday] Free
Jack Redshaw [Morecambe - Blackpool] Undisclosed
Ross Wallace [Burnley - Sheffield Wednesday] Free
Conor Wilkinson [Bolton - Barnsley] Loan
Jordan Williams [Liverpool - Swindon] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Dale Carrick [Hearts - Kilmarnock] Free
Stuart Findlay [Celtic - Kilmarnock] Loan
Premier League
Mark Bunn [Norwich - Aston Villa] Free
Football League
Shaun Batt [Leyton Orient - Barnet] Free
Marco Matias [Nacional - Sheffield Wednesday] Undisclosed
Liam McAlinden [Wolves - Shrewsbury] Loan
Mark O'Brien [Derby - Luton] Free
Joe Wright [Huddersfield - Accrington] Loan
Scottish Premiership
Nadir Ciftci [Dundee United - Celtic] £1.5m
Global
Steven Nzonzi [Stoke - Sevilla] £7m
Premier League
Toby Alderweireld [Atletico Madrid - Tottenham] Undisclosed
Football League
Jon Ashton [Stevenage - Crawley] Free
Graham Burke [Aston Villa - Notts County] Free
Eggert Jonsson [FC Vestsjaelland - Fleetwood] Free
Will Keane [Manchester United - Preston] Loan
Filip Valencic [Monza - Notts County] Free
Romain Vincelot [Leyton Orient - Coventry] Undisclosed
Scottish Premiership
Logan Bailly [OH Leuven - Celtic] Undisclosed
Premier League
Cuco Martina [FC Twente - Southampton] Undisclosed
Football League
Sammy Ameobi [Newcastle - Cardiff] Loan
Craig Davies [Bolton - Wigan] Free
Julian Jenner [Disogyor - Notts County] Free
Jamie O'Hara [Blackpool - Fulham] Free
Jayden Stockley [Bournemouth - Portsmouth] Loan
Jelle Vossen [Genk - Burnley] Undisclosed
Scottish Premiership
Jordan Roberts [Aldershot - Inverness] Free
Global
Bryan Ruiz [Fulham - Sporting Lisbon] Undisclosed
Premier League
Etienne Capoue [Tottenham - Watford] Undisclosed
Enes Unal [Bursaspor - Manchester City] Undisclosed
Football League
Alex Baptiste [Bolton - Middlesbrough] Undisclosed
Billy Bingham [Dagenham & Redbridge - Crewe] Free
Adam Campbell [Newcastle - Notts County] Free
Richard Chaplow [Millwall - Doncaster] Free
Kyle De Silva [Crystal Palace - Notts County] Free
Michael Doyle [Sheffield United - Portsmouth] Free
Joe Edwards [Yeovil - Colchester] Free
Greg Halford [Nottingham Forest - Rotherham] Free
Adam King [Swansea - Crewe] Loan
Niki Maenpaa [VVV-Venlo - Brighton] Free
Remi Matthews [Norwich - Burton] Loan
Eddie Nolan [Scunthorpe - York] Free
Sanmi Odelusi [Bolton - Wigan] Undisclosed
Derik Osede [Real Madrid - Bolton] Free
Kudus Oyenuga [Dundee United - Hartlepool] Free
Ollie Palmer [Mansfield - Leyton Orient] Undisclosed
Sam Ricketts [Wolves - Coventry] Free
Josh Simpson [Crawley - Plymouth] Free
Genaro Snijders [FC Oss - Notts County] Free
Matt Taylor [Cheltenham - Newport] Free
Scottish Premiership
None
Global
Nani [Manchester United - Fenerbahce] £4.25m
Andrea Pirlo [Juventus - New York City] Free
Arda Turan [Atletico Madrid - Barcelona] £24m
Premier League
None
Football League
Sam Beasant [Stevenage - Cambridge] Free
Jonathan Bond [Watford - Reading] Undisclosed
Tony Craig [Brentford - Millwall] Free
Danny Green [MK Dons - Luton] Free
Scottish Premiership
None
Global
Lukas Podolski [Arsenal - Galatasaray] £1.8m
Premier League
Radamel Falcao [Monaco - Chelsea] Loan
Football League
Mawouna Amevor [Go Ahead Eagles - Notts County] Free
Anthony Barry [Forest Green - Accrington] Free
Troy Brown [Cheltenham - Exeter] Free
Jamie Burrows [Rangers - Yeovil] Free
Graham Carey [Ross County - Plymouth] Free
Conor Coady [Huddersfield - Wolves] £2m
Danny Collins [Nottingham Forest - Rotherham] Free
Mark Duffy [Birmingham - Burton] Loan
George Elokobi [Oldham - Colchester] Free
Jack Hunt [Crystal Palace - Sheff Wednesday] Loan
Thomas Ince [Hull - Derby] £4.75m
Tony McMahon [Blackpool - Bradford] Free
Max Power [Tranmere - Wigan] Fee to be set by tribunal
Tom Thorpe [Manchester United - Rotherham] Free
Anthony Wordsworth [Ipswich - Southend] Free
Scottish Premiership
None
Global
Luiz Adriano [Shakhtar Donetsk - AC Milan] £5.7m
Mario Pasalic [Chelsea - Monaco] Loan
Premier League
Jose Holebas [Roma - Watford] £1.8m
Football League
Andreas Bjelland [FC Twente - Brentford] £2.1m
Gaetan Bong [Wigan - Brighton] Free
Ryan Clarke [Oxford - Northampton] Free
Max Ehmer [QPR - Gillingham] Free
Tom Elliott [Cambridge - AFC Wimbledon] Free
Neil Etheridge [Charlton - Walsall] Free
Emmanuel Ledesma [Middlesbrough - Rotherham] Free
Paul McShane [Hull - Reading] Free
Ainsley Maitland-Niles [Arsenal - Ipswich] Loan
Cristian Montano [Unattached - Bristol Rovers]
David Mooney [Leyton Orient - Southend] Free
Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill [Arsenal - Swindon] Free
Karleigh Osborne [Bristol City - AFC Wimbledon] Loan
Sebastian Polter [FSV Mainz - QPR] Undisclosed
Jazz Richards [Swansea - Fulham] Undisclosed
Jon Stead [Huddersfield - Notts County] Free
Jamie Ward [Derby - Nottingham Forest] Free
Luke Williams [Middlesbrough - Scunthorpe] Free
Scottish Premiership
Stevie Smith [Rangers - Kilmarnock] Free
Global
Carlos Bacca [Sevilla - AC Milan] £21m
Andy Delort [Wigan - Caen] Undisclosed
Premier League
Nathaniel Clyne [Southampton - Liverpool] £12.5m
Sebastian Coates [Liverpool - Sunderland] Undisclosed
Sylvain Distin [Everton - Bournemouth] Free
Eder [Sporting Braga - Swansea] Undisclosed
Matej Vydra [Udinese - Watford] Undisclosed
Football League
Ben Amos [Manchester United - Bolton] Free
Stephen Arthurworrey [Fulham - Yeovil] Loan
Andy Barcham [Portsmouth - AFC Wimbledon] Free
Jason Demetriou [Anorthosis Famagusta - Walsall] Free
Ryan Dickson [Crawley - Yeovil] Nominal
Konstantin Kerschbaumer [FC Admira Wacker Modling - Brentford] Undisclosed
Tomasz Kuszczak [Wolves - Birmingham] Free
Gary Madine [Sheffield Wednesday - Bolton] Free
Simon Makienok [Palermo - Charlton] Loan
Paddy McCourt [Brighton - Luton] Free
Matt Mills [Bolton - Nottingham Forest] Free
Jason Mooney [York - Accrington] Free
Josh Morris [Blackburn - Bradford] Free
Magnus Okuonghae [Colchester - Luton] Free
Chris Wood [Leicester - Leeds] Undisclosed
Scottish Premiership
David Amoo [Carlisle - Partick Thistle] Free
Saidy Janko [Manchester United - Celtic] Compensation
Global
Benoit Assou-Ekotto [Unattached - St Etienne]
Douglas Costa [Shakhtar Donetsk - Bayern Munich] £21m
Samuel Eto'o [Sampdoria - Antalyaspor] Undisclosed
Lewis Holtby [Tottenham - Hamburg] Undisclosed
Miranda [Atletico Madrid - Inter Milan] Undisclosed
The jets - due to be disbanded last March - are to be kept in service until "at least" March 2017 to continue air strikes, he said on a visit to Iraq.
Mr Fallon said the air campaign against the IS group was making progress.
UK jets had pushed militants out of key towns and would maintain "essential precision firepower," he said.
Tornados began carrying out missions in Iraq last September as part of US-led air strikes against IS, an extremist group which has seized control of parts of Iraq and Syria.
The squadron of Tornado GR4 fighter bombers - Number 12 Squadron - was due to be disbanded last year and replaced with a squadron of Typhoon air defence fighters.
But, following initial air strikes, Prime Minister David Cameron announced the Tornados would continue in their specialist ground-attack role until March 2016.
Mr Fallon said this second reprieve for the eight bombers - which are based in Cyprus - would ensure the RAF retained "the essential precision firepower, intelligence and surveillance" capabilities needed for operations against IS, also known as Isil.
He denied the extension had come about because there were no other RAF aircraft capable of flying the missions.
Tornados had "proved their worth" in Iraq, he told the BBC, adding they had completed about 30% of the coalition's surveillance missions, as well as carrying out air strikes.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner
The announcement on Britain's ageing but effective squadron of RAF Tornado bombers has been carefully planned.
Mr Fallon announced it in Baghdad, from where he is keen to give the message that slowly but surely Iraqi forces are starting to push back the jihadists and retake territory.
He denied that Britain's contribution - of under 5% of the coalition's air strikes - was making only a negligible difference. He said the Tornados' combination of precision-guided weapons and hi-tech surveillance pods made them vital.
The painful truth for the coalition though is that for more than a year now IS has been able to hold on to most of the huge areas it has occupied in Iraq and Syria, something al-Qaeda never achieved.
It is earning estimated oil revenues of $40m a month and replenishing its ranks of recruits faster than they are being killed off.
This, admitted the defence secretary, will be a long fight.
Jonathan Beale: The UK's gap between rhetoric and reality
Speaking earlier in Baghdad, where he met Iraqi officials, he said Iraq needed British help with air support, training and equipment, but not with ground troops.
"RAF Tornados have carried out hundreds of strikes, helping Iraqi forces push back Isil from the Kurdish region and out of key towns such as Tikrit and Bayji," he said.
"We want to ensure we maintain this crucial operational tempo and so we will extend the lifetime of Number 12 Squadron for a further year to March 2017."
Source: The RAF
The GR4s operating out of Cyprus are equipped with precision-guided Paveway bombs and Brimstone missiles.
They can also be fitted with Raptor reconnaissance pods for carrying out surveillance and intelligence-gathering missions.
Together with the RAF's unmanned Reaper drones they have flown more than 1,100 combat missions over Iraq and carried out more than 250 air strikes.
They have also carried out surveillance missions over Syria but Parliament has not approved air strikes there.
The revered 82-year-old emperor's comments came in only his second-ever televised address to the public.
Emperor Akihito did not explicitly say he wanted to abdicate as he is barred from making political statements.
PM Shinzo Abe said the government would take the remarks "seriously" and discuss what could be done.
"Upon reflecting how he handles his official duty and so on, his age and the current situation of how he works, I do respect the heavy responsibility the emperor must be feeling and I believe we need to think hard about what we can do," he said.
Akihito, who has had heart surgery and was treated for prostate cancer, has been on the throne in Japan since the death of his father, Hirohito, in 1989.
In his 10-minute pre-recorded message, he said he had "started to reflect" on his years as as emperor, and contemplate his position in the years to come.
Why can't the emperor abdicate? Abdication is not mentioned under Japan's existing laws, so they would need to be changed for the emperor to be able to stand down. The changes would also have to be approved by parliament.
What do the public think? Most support the emperor's desire to step down - a recent survey by the Kyodo news agency found more than 85% saying abdication should be legalised. But the move is opposed by some more conservative sections of Japanese society.
Is this the first time a revision of the law has been discussed? A debate about whether or not a woman would be able to ascend the throne was triggered in 2006 when the emperor had no grandsons, but was postponed after a boy was born to the imperial family.
What does the emperor do? The emperor has no political powers but has several official duties, such as greeting foreign dignitaries. Japan's monarchy is entwined in the Shinto religion and the emperor still performs religious ceremonies. He also plants and harvests a small rice paddy inside the palace while the empress raises silkworms.
If he were to abdicate, it would be the first time a Japanese emperor has stepped down since Emperor Kokaku in 1817.
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo says right wing nationalists who support Mr Abe's government do not want any change to the current law, which insists emperors must serve until they die.
Emperor Akihito said he hoped the duties of the emperor as a symbol of the state could continue steadily without any breaks.
He said one possibility when an emperor could not fulfil his duties because of age or illness was that a regency could be established.
But he suggested this was not the ideal outcome, saying: "I think it is not possible to continue reducing perpetually the emperor's acts in matters of state and his duties as the symbol of the state."
Akihito's eldest son, 56-year-old Crown Prince Naruhito is first in line to the Chrysanthemum throne, followed by his younger brother Prince Akishino.
Women are not allowed to inherit the throne and so Princess Aiko, the daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito, cannot succeed her father.
Kaiser Chiefs' Ricky Wilson, Cockney Rebel's Steve Harley and singer-songwriters KT Tunstall and David Gray are among those taking part.
They will be joined by a cross-party group of MPs and others for a special recording of The Rolling Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want.
Mrs Cox was killed outside her constituency surgery on 16 June.
Mrs Cox, 41, who was the Labour MP for Batley and Spen at the time, was shot and stabbed in Birstall, in front of her staff and residents.
Thomas Mair, 53, is currently on trial for her killing at the Old Bailey. He denies murder and other charges.
The song, released next year, will mark the launch of the Jo Cox Foundation, which will raise funds for causes close to the late MP.
A group of 20 MPs from across the political spectrum, members of parliamentary rock group MP4 and the Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus will also feature on the track.
Kevin Brennan, Labour MP for Cardiff West and organiser of the project, said he hoped the song would show "there's more that unites than divides us".
He said he felt the choice of song, first released in 1969, reflected the ethos of Mrs Cox.
He said: "Jo Cox was someone who really tried very hard until she got what was needed and that's a message within the song.
"She also said that people should work together - that we are stronger together, there's more that unites than divides us.
"So we wanted to do something that reflected that and would help raise awareness of the foundation."
KT Tunstall said her decision to take part in the project was a "complete no-brainer".
She told the Press Association: "There's too few of her in the world, so it's just incredibly sad that she has gone.
"At the same time I think she'd be really happy that we are doing something so joyful and so celebratory and fun in her honour - and to help raise money and awareness for her causes."
MPs gathered at the Backstage Centre in Thurrock, Essex, on Thursday to record their part on the track, conducted by Suzie Rigby, who has worked with The Rolling Stones.
Labour MP Tracy Brabin, who won the by-election in Batley and Spen following the death of Mrs Cox, said: "I think it's an amazing event because it's bringing people together cross-party.
"There's Conservatives, there's Labour and I think that's what Jo always loved, to be able to work - when the idea was big and important - across parties."
The former Coronation Street star said it was happening in "desperately sad circumstances" but Mrs Cox would have wanted to "bring people together in a joyous scenario where we can do something positive".
The discoveries suggests that at least three distinct species of humans co-existed in Africa.
The research adds to a growing body of evidence that runs counter to the popular perception that there was a linear evolution from early primates to modern humans.
The research has been published in the journal Nature.
Anthropologists have discovered three human fossils that are between 1.78 and 1.95 million years old. The specimens are of a face and two jawbones with teeth.
The finds back the view that a skull found in 1972 is of a separate species of human, known as Homo rudolfensis. The skull was markedly different to any others from that time. It had a relatively large brain and long flat face.
But for 40 years the skull was the only example of the creature and so it was impossible to say for sure whether the individual was an unusual specimen or a member of a new species.
With the discovery of the three new fossils researchers can say with more certainty that H.rudolfensis really was a separate type of human that existed around two million years ago alongside other species of humans.
For a long time the oldest known human ancestor was thought to be a primitive species, dating back 1.8 million years ago called Homo erectus. They had small heads, prominent brows and stood upright.
But 50 years ago, researchers discovered an even older and more primitive species of human called Homo habilis that may have coexisted with H. erectus. Now it seems H. rudolfensis was around too and raises the distinct possibility that many other species of human also existed at the time.
This find is the latest in a growing body of evidence that challenges the view that our species evolved in a smooth linear progression from our primate ancestors.
Instead, according to Dr Meave Leakey of the Turkana Basin Institute in Nairobi, who led the research the find shows that there was a diversity early on in the evolution of our species.
"Our past was a diverse past," she told BBC News, "our species was evolving in the same way that other species of animals evolved. There was nothing unique about us until we began to make sophisticated stone tools."
In other groups of animals many different species evolve, each with new traits, such as plumage, or webbed feet. If the new trait is better suited to the environment then the new species thrives, if not it becomes extinct.
According to Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, fossil evidence is increasingly suggesting that human evolution followed the same pattern.
"Humans seem to have been evolving in different ways in different regions. It was almost as if nature was developing different human prototypes with different attributes, only one of which, an ancestor of our species, was ultimately successful in evolutionary terms," he said.
According to Dr Leakey, the growing body of evidence to suggest that humans evolved in the same way as other animals shows that "evolution really does work".
"It leads to amazing adaptions and amazing species and we are one of them," she said.
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A leaked draft of the WTO ruling found that packaging constituted a legitimate public health measure, Bloomberg said.
The agency quoted two sources familiar with an interim report. The final report is expected to come in July.
If confirmed, the decision would be major blow to the tobacco industry.
It would effectively allow other nations to introduce plain packaging legislation without fear of violating trade laws.
British American Tobacco said it would wait for the final report before making detailed comment.
"However, as there is a high likelihood of an appeal by some or all of the parties, it is important to note that when the panel report is publicly released, it will not be the final word on whether plain packaging is consistent with international law," a company spokesperson said.
The WTO confirmed an "interim report" was circulated to those involved in the dispute, but said it remained confidential.
In 2012, the nation introduced world-first plain packaging with a uniform, drab colour across all brands except for health warnings.
Any brand names are in small, non-distinctive lettering.
The idea is that this lessens the attractiveness of smoking and experts, including from World Health Organisation, have said it is an effective measure to curb smoking rates.
Britain, France and Hungary have since announced plans to follow Australia's lead.
Around six million deaths each year are linked to smoking.
Four nations - Cuba, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Indonesia - argued to the WTO that the rules constituted an illegal barrier to trade.
The laws were also opposed by tobacco companies, who argued their trademarks were being violated.
Australia has complained its opponents are dragging out the WTO investigation.
On Friday, Nicola Roxon, the former health minister who introduced the laws, said she was "absolutely thrilled".
"It is consistent with what we have always known - that countries can take action in public health areas, especially battling tobacco, that help protect their citizens," she told the BBC in a statement.
"This decision will give a green light to other countries who... may have been frightened by threats of legal action and the WTO dispute that has dragged on for many years."
In addition to British American Tobacco's statement, other tobacco companies have been critical about the leaking of the report.
"Such breaches completely undermine the integrity of the process, which has not yet run its full course," a Japan Tobacco spokeswoman told Reuters.
Before the leak, Alison Cooper, the CEO of tobacco company Imperial Brands, she did not expect a "significant domino effect in terms of different markets adopting it".
Those involved in the dispute can submit comments on the document before the final report is handed down, most likely in July.
In addition to emboldening other nations to introduce similar laws on tobacco, the decision - if confirmed- could also have wider implications for alcohol and junk food.
A spokesman for Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt told the BBC that the government would not comment until the final report was handed down.
The 92-year-old told the BBC the apology had come from Met commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.
He said Sir Bernard had told him the force had been wrong to delay informing him no further action would be taken.
Lord Bramall was never arrested and had always denied the allegations.
Scotland Yard would not confirm an apology had been made.
Lord Bramall, a Normandy veteran who retired from the House of Lords in 2013, was accused in 2014 of child sexual abuse by a man known by the pseudonym Nick.
Within weeks, the Metropolitan Police launched a major investigation and the following year the home of the retired field marshal was raided by more than 20 officers. He was finally cleared in January this year, 10 months after the raid.
Lord Bramall told the BBC Sir Bernard had apologised in person for the time it took to give him the news of no action being taken, and for the raid. Sir Bernard had previously said he had no reason to make an apology.
Aspects of the Operation Midland investigation are expected to be strongly criticised in the next few weeks in an independent report commissioned by Sir Bernard from former High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques.
Operation Midland was a Met Police inquiry into claims a Westminster VIP paedophile ring abused children in the 1970s and 1980s. It closed in March without any charges being brought.
Lord Bramall said he was very pleased to have received the apology.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, he said: "Although police knew from very early on they had no case to answer they couldn't stop investigating because they didn't want to be accused of not investigating it properly.
"Sir Bernard told me, 'We couldn't take you out of it earlier,' because it would look like I had preferential treatment."
He also said he was unhappy that his wife, who was terminally ill at the time police raided their home, had died before he was told he would not face any charges.
"My wife died without me being cleared. It didn't come into their consideration that my wife was dying."
Lord Bramall did say he did "not want to be too hard on the police", and gave credit to Sir Bernard for setting up Sir Richard's inquiry "when he must have known that his officers were getting it all wrong".
"The trouble was after the apparent mistakes back in 2012 relating to revelations of very serious and serial child abuse, a mixture of public outrage and propaganda... put immense pressure through the home secretary, on the police."
This situation, Lord Bramall said, had produced a "witch-hunt culture in which child abuse, particularly historic child abuse, came to be dealt with entirely differently to other criminal offences".
Five households in Dawlish have complained of the "stench of fetid sewage" and debris being flung into gardens by passing traffic.
Roger Anderson said they were "fed-up" with the lack of action by South West Water, despite constant complaints.
South West Water said it was working to resolve the issues "urgently".
Resident Margaret Cloke said she arrived home to a pool of sewage in her garden and the smell made her feel "very nauseous".
She said: "We've had a lot of problems with sewerage. We've had sewage in the lane coming out of manholes, and people are walking through it and then obviously going back indoors, or going into the shops, and the stench is absolutely awful."
However, the company said there was no "quick fix" because the problems at Secmaton Lane and Secmaton Rise were complex and the site had seen "considerable new development".
The new tax bracket, the previous one was 41%, applies to annual incomes of more than 1.5m rand ($114,000, £91,000) and will hit around 100,000 people.
Mr Gordhan is battling weak tax receipts which, during the current financial year have been 30bn rand ($2.3bn, £1.8bn) less than expected.
He added that government debt had risen to 2.2 trillion rand ($168bn, £135bn).
The shortfall in tax revenue was the largest since 2009-10, with the biggest gap coming in personal income tax, which brought in 15.2 billion rand ($1.1bn, £929m) less than expected.
The problem was flagged in a mini-budget in October but grew by more than a third from the projected figure at the time.
To counter that, Mr Gordhan revealed a package which should produce a swing of 38 billion rand ($2.9bn, £2.3bn).
More than two-thirds will come from the tax increase, which also includes a rise in dividend withholding tax, with the rest from reduced spending.
The big question analysts will now ask is, has Pravin Gordhan done enough to stave off a downgrade from the ratings agencies?
The likes of Moody's and Standard & Poor's, which pronounce on South Africa's sovereign debt in April and June, were watching closely.
The finance minister said the economy would grow by 1.3% this year, which, by his own admission, is not good enough.
He said the deficit would be 3.1% of GDP, but that would fall in subsequent years. But the question remains...will the deficit fall fast enough and will economic growth pick up?
The future is, however, uncertain. With an increasingly combative political climate within the ruling ANC, analysts say that if he does lose his job in a widely-predicted cabinet reshuffle, this budget and some of its prudent measures, will completely unravel.
And that, it's thought, will seal the deal for a series of credit downgrades and the accompanying market turmoil.
Mr Gordhan also warned of "growing impatience and ferment" over post-apartheid inequality and said: "Economic growth is slow, unemployment is far too high and many businesses and families are under stress.
"The relationships between labour and capital, rich and poor, black and white still reflect the entrenched legacy of colonialism and apartheid."
Cuthbert scored the opening try in the 24-6 win over Tonga at Eden Park, but suffered a shoulder ligament injury.
The 27-year-old Cardiff Blues player is set to be sidelined for up to six weeks.
"Alex has been in excellent form leading into this tour, so it's a shame he's had to leave us at this juncture," says Wales coach Robin McBryde.
"He's also been a great influence off the field with the younger players in the squad. I know he'll work hard now to be back in action for Cardiff Blues' pre-season."
Cuthbert's withdrawal and the departure of Kristian Dacey, Tomas Francis, Cory Hill and Gareth Davies to join the British and Irish Lions squad leaves Wales short-handed.
But at this point Wales will be making no additional call-ups as they prepare to face Samoa in Apia.
McBryde's captain Jamie Roberts believes Wales can cope after seeing their squad depleted.
"We have a big squad. Some players missed out against Tonga and now others will get an opportunity," said the Harlequins centre.
"We have to develop our strength in depth across the senior playing group in Wales.
"We're doing that well at the moment with the young players in this squad and we have the artillery to come in."
Drop twigs over a bridge on the upstream side and then race over to the downstream side to see which bits of wood appear first.
Good fun, for sure, but the scientist in you may also learn something about stream behaviour.
This is essentially what Delft University of Technology's Thom Bogaard and Rolf Hut have been doing in Myanmar. Together with local students, they've been playing a kind of poohsticks on the Irrawaddy River... with coconuts.
Their aim has been to understand how this mighty watercourse moves, how it mixes, how it might disperse and dilute pollution if faced with such a problem.
In the West, scientists would resort to all sorts of fancy, high-end equipment that costs hundreds, even thousands, of dollars. "But this is Myanmar; they can't afford that," said Dr Bogaard. "They have no information on water quality at the moment. They know a bit about sediment, but that's it. So, we decided to use citizen science to see how far we could go to get basic data."
Start with 300 coconuts. Attach them to coloured balloons that also contain a small bicycle light for visibility at night; and then just throw them in the river.
The density of a coconut is almost one, which means it sits submerged at the surface of the water and is driven by the current alone, not the wind. It's the perfect, low-cost ("off the tree", even edible) scientific drifter.
Those dropped in the middle of the Irrawaddy will in all likelihood move the fastest; those near the bank will very probably move the slowest. "And what you do is position your student teams on bridges and watch them pass by,â€
Joint enterprise has become an effective way to prosecute murder, especially in cases involving gangs.
But it is controversial because in such cases, there is no need to prove a member of the group intended to kill.
Campaigners say up to 600 people are serving life for murder as a result of unjust joint enterprise convictions.
To be guilty of murder, the prosecution need only show that someone foresaw the person they were with "might" kill or inflict serious harm, said BBC legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman.
He said the "unprecedented" hearing will "scrutinise the contentious 'foresight' test at the heart of joint enterprise, and could change it".
Our correspondent said: "The test at the heart of joint enterprise is one of foresight and possibility, and many believe that lowers the burden on the prosecution and allows those who are simply too morally remote from the crime, bit-part players or not even players at all, to be swept up in a prosecution and convicted on the basis that they were all 'in it together'.
"If the test is passed and a person is convicted of murder, they will receive the mandatory life sentence."
Concern about the use of joint enterprise has also been raised in the past by former President of the Supreme Court Lord Phillips, who said it is "capable of producing injustice, undoubtedly".
In December 2014, the House of Commons Justice Committee called for an urgent review into its use to prevent overcharging. Its report noted that a large proportion of those convicted were young black and mixed race men.
The Supreme Court case involves defendant Ameen Jogee, who was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum 20-year term at Leicester Crown Court in 2012.
Paul Fyfe, 47, a former Leicestershire police officer, died from a single stab wound at his girlfriend's flat.
The court has to prove that Jogee, in "egging" on Mohammed Hirsi to harm Mr Fyfe, foresaw that it was "probable" rather than "possible" that his friend would then use a weapon to murder the man.
Hirsi, from Spinney Hill, was ordered to serve a minimum of 22 years for stabbing Mr Fyfe.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which hears final appeals from many current and former Commonwealth countries as well as UK overseas territories, is considering a case involving the murder of a taxi driver in Jamaica.
The judgments in both cases will be reserved and are expected to be published in the new year.
16 January 2015 Last updated at 13:12 GMT
In his native Kenya, he met the biggest band at the moment, Sauti Sol, hot from winning the MTV Best African Act award.
They are on a mission to reclaim the identity of East African music and dance after the dominance from West Africa, particularly Nigeria, in recent years.
DJ Edu and team would like to know the name of your favourite club and why you like it. Get in touch on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, using #ClubAfricaBBC. Make sure to include your location.
The report, compiled for the county's police and crime commissioner, found of the 105 gangs identified, 27 had links to firearms and 44 to drugs.
South Yorkshire Police said tackling firearms gangs was its priority.
Assistant Chief Constable Rachel Barber said the actual use of guns was "fairly limited" in South Yorkshire.
The ACC said the number of gangs was on par with the size of the county's population and not all were active.
"The reality is, most of the offending is against each other", she said.
The force is keen to find out how the guns, mostly reactivated firearms, enter the county, according to the report.
It also found gangs were involved in immigration and child sexual exploitation.
The force said it was working with local authorities to help children with family members in gangs "break the cycle" of criminal activity, ACC Barber said.
Craig Patterson, lecturer in criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, said many of the gangs would "be linked to lower-level criminality" and would have a "less visible threat" compared to other cities including Leeds, Manchester or Birmingham.
The report was produced for a Public Accountability Board meeting chaired by Dr Alan Billings, the South Yorkshire PCC.
Several people died and around 1,000 others were wounded when police and miners attacked demonstrators in Bucharest in June 1990.
Ion Iliescu, 85, was president from 1990 until 1996 and then returned for a second term from 2000 to 2004.
He was accused of murder in 2005.
However, those charges were dropped two years later and he has always rejected the allegations against him as absurd.
In September 2014, the European Court of Human Rights criticised Romania's failure to put on trial people responsible for "crimes against humanity committed against Romanian civilians in the tortuous transitional period to democracy".
The Romanian Supreme Court then re-opened the case in March 2015.
Mr Iliescu made no comment in court as he appeared with other former government officials, including ex-intelligence director Virgil Magureanu and ex-Defence Minister Victor Atanasie Stanculescu.
Months before he became president, Mr Iliescu helped bring down the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu.
However, when opposition protesters took to the streets to voice their anger against the new ex-Communist leadership, their demonstration was broken up by thousands of miners sent to Bucharest by Mr Iliescu to stage a counter-protest.
Romanian TV broadcast archive footage of Mr Iliescu on Wednesday, showing him thanking the miners for coming to the new government's help.
Former miners' leader Miron Cozma led the miners when they broke up the opposition protest in 1990 but led a miners' march on Bucharest the following year which helped bring down the government.
He was later jailed for his role in the 1991 miners' actions.
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Give them emotions.
That's the radical suggestion of Patrick Levy Rosenthal, founder and chief executive of Emoshape, a tech firm that has developed a computer chip that can synthesise 12 human emotions.
"It's logical to conclude that autonomous machines made of electricity and metal will eventually see us as their main competitors for those resources, and try to take control," he says.
This is the dystopian vision of artificial intelligence (AI) run amok that luminaries such as physicist Prof Stephen Hawking, and tech entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Elon Musk, worry about.
But Mr Rosenthal believes this nightmare scenario will be avoided if we create machines that can empathise.
"We can teach them to feel happiness when they perform well, solve problems and receive positive feedback from humans," he says. "This will reduce the threat, because they will always work to achieve human happiness."
Machines that can understand human emotion - and express their own emotions - will also be more effective colleagues and helpers, he believes.
By analysing our tone of voice, facial expressions and phrases, computers will become adept at reading our emotional states and this will help them better understand what we're asking them to do, argues Mr Rosenthal.
So why do some people think robots and self-learning programs are such a threat?
Even the tech optimists admit that many jobs involving menial or repetitive tasks will be automated. Machines can do a lot of what we do faster, more accurately, and at lower cost. And they don't go off sick, strike, or ask for pay rises.
It's the latest development of the industrial revolution, and could be just as disruptive.
Only recently, mobile phone components manufacturer Foxconn announced that it would replace 60,000 factory workers with robots.
Already some cars are made entirely by robots; warehouses full of goods hum in the darkness staffed by robots who do not need light to know where they are going; companies are increasingly using "chatbots" to deal with customers.
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And once these intelligent programs, with access to limitless data crunched by increasingly powerful computers, can learn from past mistakes and create new programs autonomously without any human intervention, we could lose control.
AI could become like Frankenstein's monster. That's the fear at least.
But tech evangelists are fond of pointing out that before the machine age, around two-thirds of all jobs were in agriculture. Now, with entire farms capable of being managed by automated robots, the sector accounts for just 2% of jobs.
The point being that we created new jobs - we adapted.
Jaap Zuiderveld, European vice-president for chip maker Nvidia, says: "Every new technology is an opportunity and a threat. But from my point of view, AI is only creating opportunities. Yes, it may replace many jobs, but it could also help humanity cure cancer."
And he reminds us that when it comes to the crucial decisions, we should always have the final say.
Frank Palermo, executive vice-president of global digital solutions for Virtusa Polaris, which numbers JPMorgan Chase, AIG and BT among its clients, thinks AI will be for "enabling workers and empowering them to make better decisions".
This benign or "weak AI", as he calls it, will "help workers navigate the working day", organising our calendars, booking meeting rooms, warning us about traffic congestion, and so on.
And we'll be chatting naturally to these supersmart assistants wherever we happen to be - in cars, offices, homes and via our smartphones.
We'll only need to type on a keyboard when we don't want people to hear what we're saying.
They will be capable of natural conversations but have huge computing power behind them, tapping in to supercomputers like IBM's Watson or Google's AI platforms, Mr Palermo believes.
The big tech companies - Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Samsung - are all convinced that this is the way we'll be interacting with service providers in the future.
And as menial tasks are automated it will leave us free to concentrate on more valuable activities, like developing better customer relationships or dreaming up new products and services, he argues.
Work will no longer be about sitting behind a desk and screen but "will be more of a natural discussion with your surroundings... much more of an interactive experience".
"I don't have a doom and gloom outlook," he says. "I think the man-plus-machine model will be the template for many years to come. I don't think machines will ever run things by themselves."
Emoshape's Mr Rosenthal agrees, saying: "By 2050, humans will talk more to AI than to other humans. It is like electricity was at the beginning of the 20th Century - soon AI will be everywhere."
And these chatty assistants will have personalities as well as emotional complexity, he believes, imbuing driverless cars, for example, with unique characteristics that we can fall in love with.
But if AI programs develop personalities, emotions and can generate new, improved versions of themselves, does this make them effectively "people" legally speaking? Could they be given rights and obligations?
"In the US, they've already decided that the 'driver' of a driverless car could be the AI, legally speaking. So who is liable if it has a crash?" says Andrew Joint, commercial technology partner at law firm Kemp Little.
At the moment car manufacturers accept the responsibility, but generations of self-learning driverless cars could eventually operate independently, some think. What then?
"And in the workplace, if an autonomous AI program takes discriminatory decisions against employees, you can see how some employers might try to duck their responsibilities and blame the AI," says Mr Joint.
This is another reason why firms will want to keep a tight rein on AI programs they employ, he believes.
Whether you believe AI programs will be chatty, helpful chums or power-mad dictators, one thing is clear: they're going to have a profound effect on the world of work.
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Christopher Griffiths, 35, of Southsea, Wrexham, was convicted of causing unnecessary suffering and carrying out a prohibited procedure.
Victor, a Staffordshire bull terrier-type dog, was mutilated using "a pliers-type implement," Wrexham Magistrates' Court heard.
RSPCA inspector Kia Thomas said: "It was so heartbreaking. It is awful to imagine what poor Victor went through."
On Wednesday, Griffiths was also disqualified from keeping dogs for 10 years and was given a 12-month probation order.
The RSPCA was contacted on 22 September 2015 by police after Victor was found with his ears chopped off.
He was taken to a vet who performed surgery on his ears and stitched up the wounds. During treatment, cocaine was found in Victor's system.
Insp Thomas added: "When I first saw Victor I was just so shocked as his ears were gaping open wounds. I had never seen anything quite like it before.
"Since Victor has been in our care he has been doing so well. He is an adorable dog with a lot of love to give.
"He loves nothing more than to be in your company and loves a cwtch on the sofa. He is now up for rehoming and we hope he will find his forever home soon."
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City scored two stoppage-time goals to get the win they needed to pip Manchester United on goal difference.
"We have beaten Unitedtwo times, we have scored more than them and conceded less so we deserve it," Mancini said.
"I never gave up. It was a crazy finish to the game and the season but the best team won the title."
Mancini publicly wrote off his side's chances when City trailed United by eight points on 8 April but says that privately he never lost hope.
"When I said the title was over a few weeks ago it was because I wanted to take the pressure off," Mancini explained.
"I was sure we would have another chance. We now need to improve and I am very happy because for an Italian to win the title here in England is fantastic for all Italian people."
While United faltered, Mancini's side won their last six games - including vital wins over their neighbours and Newcastle in the past fortnight - to draw level on points at the top of the table.
That left City knowing a a victory over QPR on Sunday would deliver a first league title since 1968.
City led 1-0 at half-time but QPR hit back with two second-half goals and, even after the visitors had Joey Barton sent off, the home side could find no way through against the 10 men.
Manchester City will hold an open-top bus tour in Manchester on Monday 14 May to celebrate their first Premier League title.
A bus carrying the team will departing from Albert Square at 18:30 BST before taking a 1.8 mile route through the city centre.
With time running out, and United beating Sunderland, Edin Dzeko levelled from a corner before Mario Balotelli set up Sergio Aguero for a 94th-minute winner that decided the outcome of the title race.
"It was just incredible but the result was right and we deserved to win this game," added Mancini, who wrapped himself in an Italian flag at the final whistle.
"I never gave up. I always hoped that Sunderland could score a goal but it was a crazy finish to the game and the season. I have never seen one like this.
"I have never known a moment like this when we scored those two goals and I am so proud of my players because they wanted to win this title so much. They wanted to win this title until the last minute of the season and they proved it here.
"To beat a strong team like United is fantastic. We have changed the history of this club and for that we should be proud. We deserved this and so do all our supporters.
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"It was good that Mario Balotelli was involved in the assist for Sergio's goal and it was right that Sergio should score the goal.
"This is an incredible moment. We wanted this title and we deserve to win this title. This is for all our supporters, the club, the chairman and the owner. This is the perfect finale for a crazy season."
City's assistant manager David Platt admitted his side made it as difficult as possible for themselves against Rangers but says they want to build on their title success.
Platt told BBC Radio 5 live: "In the space of 20 minutes in the second half we were staring down the abyss.
"But football has astonished me today. It's been absolutely bizarre. I can't put my emotions into words. We now have the experience of winning something, and we'll enjoy it now.
"For Roberto Mancini, he'll enjoy it tonight but tomorrow this will be gone. We go again."
854,572 (52.5%) voters in Wales chose to leave the EU, compared with 772,347 (47.5%) supporting Remain.
Welsh Conservative leader and Leave supporter Andrew RT Davies said Welsh politics had changed forever but Labour's Lord Hain said there would be "tragic" consequences.
David Cameron announced he would step down as prime minister by October.
First Minister Carwyn Jones has said he fears jobs will be lost in Wales following the vote outcome and called for party and public unity in Wales.
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In a statement in Downing Street he said he would attempt to "steady the ship" between now and then.
"We must now prepare for a negotiation with the European Union - this will need to involve the full engagement of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland governments to ensure that the interests of all parts of our United Kingdom are protected and advanced," Mr Cameron said.
The vast bulk of Wales' council areas, many of them Labour-supporting, voted for Leave with a majority in 17 backing Brexit.
Only five areas - Gwynedd, Cardiff, Ceredigion, the Vale of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire - voted for Remain.
Turnout was high at 71.7% for Wales.
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Neil Hamilton, UKIP's assembly group leader, said: "I am absolutely delighted and I have to admit even a little surprised myself, as I hardly dared believe we could achieve this."
UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill told BBC Radio's Good Morning Wales: "It is wonderful, we [all UK MEPs] will be given our P45s now.
"It is the 74 MEPs not the British people who are going to lose their jobs."
He said he was not surprised Wales voted to leave and said he had been predicting the outcome for a long time.
"Everywhere we have been for two to three years, our support has been galvanising," he said.
"People have been telling us they are fed up of the EU, saying it wasn't democratic, saying 'we want our freedom back' and that is what they are going to get."
Andrew RT Davies said: "It is clear that the fault lines of Welsh politics have now changed forever, and I am extremely proud to have been involved in this campaign."
He told Good Morning Wales that Wales will receive more investment outside the European Union.
He added: "I stood by my convictions [backing a leave vote] and stood by my beliefs. We have a great future ahead of us as we are a great trading nation."
As Leave campaigners celebrated their historic victory, leading figures from the Remain side lined up to warn of "very serious" and "dangerous" consequences from the decision.
Lord Hain said: "It is a tragic result for Wales which will have serious consequences for us."
Speaking to BBC Radio's Good Morning Wales, he said: "What leave voters will find is that they will be pleased in the short-term but in the long-term, the consequences are very serious. Those that voted leave are the ones that benefit most from EU funding."
He said the EU had become "the whipping boy", with "immigration becoming a toxic issue, even in areas where there has been no immigration".
With the potential for Scotland to call another independence referendum, he said: "We could have moved out of one union and lost another in the UK."
He said serious questions must be asked about whether the Welsh Government's planned M4 relief road and South Wales Metro project would now happen.
Simon Thomas, a Plaid Cymru AM whose party supported Remain, told BBC Wales he was extremely disappointed.
"I think its an absolute disaster from the point of view of building the Welsh economy over the next five to ten years," he said.
"This is very dangerous and disturbing territory that we're entering into."
His fellow Plaid AM Rhun ap Iorwerth called the Leave vote a "hammer blow to Wales economically" warning "the poorest will pay the price".
"We have woken up in a deep pit that we have dug ourselves with spades provided by a fear-driven campaign," he said.
Mark Williams, Welsh Liberal Democrat leader, said he was deeply disappointed, adding: "Now is not the time for more government infighting at the expense of the people of Wales."
Labour AM and ex-MEP Baroness Morgan said: "That crash in the market you hear is also the crashing of your pensions. This will impact on everyone."
Work and Pensions Secretary and former Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb said he was "not surprised" by the results in Wales and voters had not trusted the messages from the Remain campaign.
He said voters said they were "sorry we don't believe what the Labour party and the government are saying about the benefits of the European Union".
First Minister Carwyn Jones is due to give a press conference at 09:15 BST.
Political commentator Daran Hill said: "Wales' decision to Leave comes down to a failure of Labour and the Labour-inclined Stronger In campaign to connect with, motivate and mobilise their voters.
"The Welsh voters have done what they haven't done since 1979 - they have rejected the establishment."
Live coverage of the results and reaction continues on BBC One Wales, on BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru.
We have seen a very surprising pattern. We have seen working class Labour voters go fairly solidly "Vote Leave", far more strongly than we were expecting.
Leave won Bridgend - which is First Minister Carwyn Jones' territory - and they won Rhondda Cynon Taff, which is Leanne Wood's home territory.
So maybe it is not the individual politicians we should be looking at - it is actually a question of income and social class more than political affiliation or political leadership.
Are we looking at a situation where people who felt they have had nothing to lose voted to leave, whereas people who feel they have something to lose - Labour or Conservative - decided to vote remain?
It seems to me that there is an income and class distribution question far more than there is a political one.
David Cameron and George Osborne's big scare campaign did not work and there were issues over the timing of the referendum.
Because of the assembly election campaign, you only saw Carwyn Jones and Leanne Wood together three days before the vote took place.
That was far too late to turn their popularity into persuading people to vote to Remain.
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The minister's response came after the MP pressed both Mr Mundell and Prime Minister Theresa May about powers over agriculture and fisheries.
Mr Mundell said: "What I can give the right honourable gentleman is an absolute guarantee that after the UK leaves the EU the Scottish Parliament and Scottish ministers will have more powers than they have today."
Gardner, 29, has been with the Baggies since moving from Sunderland on a free transfer in the summer of 2014 and has made 81 appearances, scoring six goals.
His existing contract was set to expire at the end of the current campaign.
"I just want to keep playing Premier League football alongside some top players," Gardner said.
"This is a great family club and the lads are brilliant to play with."
Meanwhile 18-year-old midfielder Sam Field has also signed a four-year contract, having made his Premier League debut at the end of last season.
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It is buying €3bn (£2.3bn) of euro-denominated bonds and $2bn of dollar-denominated ones.
Rumours on Wednesday that it was about to buy the debt sent Deutsche Bank's shares soaring.
The confirmation on Friday gave the shares a bit of a boost, although they had already been up by about 10% earlier in the day.
Deutsche Bank said that it had the resources to make the purchases without changing its funding plans.
"The bank's strong liquidity position allows it to repurchase these securities without any corresponding change to its 2016 funding plan," it said.
The buyback has been taken as a signal of the bank's robustness.
On Friday, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble brushed aside concerns about the bank, whose shares fell to a 30-year low earlier in the week, saying Germany's largest lender was "strong".
"Deutsche Bank has enough capital," Mr Schaeuble said.
The shares fell 13% on Monday and Tuesday, despite assurances from the bank that its balance sheet was "rock solid".
After letting a two-goal lead slip in the first leg, debutant Manuel Lanzini put the much-changed Hammers ahead.
But two goals in four minutes from Astra skipper Constantin Budescu earned the Romanian side victory.
Defeat ends a stuttering campaign for Slaven Bilic's team, who qualified through the Fair Play League.
Modibo Maiga missed a late chance to take the game to extra time but with Astra also hitting the post twice, they created better chances at more regular intervals.
The result meant the Hammers, in their first European outing since the 2006-07 season, are eliminated from Europe before the start of their domestic season.
But with 11 changes made to the side from the first leg, with three players making their debuts, there was an obvious lack of experience on the field and an apparent lack of desperation to save the tie on a hot night in Romania.
With Sunday's Premier League opener against Arsenal in his mind, Bilic left a host of senior players at home while Kevin Nolan, Carl Jenkinson and Maiga were the only regular starters in the team.
The Croatian was further hindered after being sent off in the first leg at Upton Park, meaning he had to sit in the stands and leave assistant Julian Dicks to deliver tactical instructions.
Nolan and Jenkinson were influential in the game but Maiga remained on the fringes until his late chance and there was an inability to turn good spells into genuine opportunities.
Despite Bilic insisting prior to the match that Europe was "important" to West Ham, Hammers fans may now wonder whether their European adventure was worth it after a campaign which started on 2 July, took in six matches without facing any big-name European teams and ended before it even got interesting.
Hammers skipper Nolan said: "The gaffer has shown in his selection the main priority is the Premier League and this year the main thing is to make sure we go to the Olympic Stadium in the Premier League.
"The statistics show it's difficult trying to rotate between Thursday and Sunday and who knows it might be a blessing in disguise? But going out is not what we wanted."
Bilic, who led former club Beskitas to the last 16 in last season's Europa League, said of his team selection: "You can't be sorry. I said it was tempting but when you make a decision you stand by it and you know the consequences.
"I have to make decisions. It is me who is making them and then when you make it you stand behind that.
"I said [on Wednesday] that we had more chances to win with some of the players who stayed in London but I think the boys not only did everything, the effort was there, the quality was there as well - especially until they scored two goals.
"When the Premier League starts, we have a game and of course we are looking to get a positive result. Do I need to justify the result here? I told you it was my decision."
Argentine Lanzini wasted little time in making an impression on Bilic, who said beforehand that the match was an opportunity for his debutants to prove their value.
Lanzini is on a season-long loan from Abu Dhabi side Al Jazira Club and after impressing in West Ham's friendly against Werder Bremen on Sunday he was involved from the start, surging from midfield to win a free-kick, and scoring following a dangerously delivered corner.
But the 22-year-old showed his inexperience by giving the ball away in the build-up to Astra's equaliser, with fellow debutant Doneil Henry, a Canadian international, also backing away as Budescu struck the first of his two goals.
Partnered by Jenkinson in central defence, 22-year-old Henry had a steady game with Budescu continuing to cause problems. At right-back 18-year-old Kyle Knoyle made a significant bow after coming through the club's famous academy, which has produced players such as Michael Carrick, Rio Ferdinand and Frank Lampard.
While suffering defeat in his first game and failing to deliver several crosses, the experience will no doubt form an important milestone in his education.
Researchers trying to raise awareness of the issue claim that the spreadsheet software automatically converts the names of certain genes into dates.
Gene symbols like SEPT2 (Septin 2) were found to be altered to "September 2".
However, Microsoft, which released the first version of Excel in 1985, said the gene renaming errors can be overcome if users make alterations in the application settings.
"Excel is able to display data and text in many different ways. Default settings are intended to work in most day-to-day scenarios," a spokeswoman for the corporation told the BBC.
"Excel offers a wide range of options, which customers with specific needs can use to change the way their data is represented."
The study also claimed that the Excel conversion problem was present in other spreadsheet software, such as Apache OpenOffice Calc.
The systemic error was not, however, present in Google Sheets.
The researchers claimed the problem is present in "approximately one-fifth of papers" that collated data in Excel documents.
The trio, writing for the Melbourne-based academic institute Baker IDI, scanned 3,597 published scientific papers to conduct their study.
They found 704 of those papers contained gene name errors created by Excel.
Ewan Birney, director of the European Bioinformatics Institute, does not blame Excel and told the BBC: "What frustrates me is researchers are relying on Excel spreadsheets for clinical trials."
The Excel gene renaming issue has been known among the scientific community for more than a decade, Birney added.
He recommended that the program should only be considered for "lightweight scientific analysis".
One of the paper's three researchers, Assam El-Osta, said the errors were found specifically on the supplemental data sheets of academic studies.
He told the BBC that supplemental pages contained "important supporting data, rich with information," and added that resolving these errors was "time-consuming".
Excel's automatic renaming of certain genes was first cited by the scientific community back in 2004, the Baker IDI study claims. Since then the problem has "increased at an annual rate of 15%" over the past five years.
Prosecutors said suspects used fake passports to trick administrators into allowing people other than legitimate test takers to sit the exams.
The scheme took place between 2011 and 2015 mostly in western Pennsylvania, authorities said.
Those charged could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
The defendants, both male and female, range in age from 19 to 26, and are currently living in several cities - including Blacksburg, Virginia, and Boston, Massachusetts - where major universities are located, the Reuters news agency reported.
The counterfeit test takers sat for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) - a major university entrance exam in the US - as well as the Test of English as a Foreign Language (Toefl) and the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), the Justice Department said.
The scheme's beneficiaries "fraudulently obtained admissions to American institutions of higher education," said US Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania David Hickton.
The prosecutor said that the students also cheated student visa requirements by using counterfeit Chinese passports.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that 24-year-old Siyuan Zhao, who resides in Massachusetts, has been detained. Han Tong, 24, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who is considered the primary defendant, and 10 others will receive an order to appear in court.
The newspaper reports that three others are currently in China, and their names have been redacted from court documents.
Special Agent in Charge John Kelleghan for Homeland Security Investigations of Philadelphia said: "These students were not only cheating their way into the university, they were also cheating their way through our nation's immigration system".
The defendants could face up to 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 (£163,000) or both for each of the wire and mail fraud counts they face. Additionally, they face five years on top that for the conspiracy charges.
By now almost everybody has heard about the latest edict from His Excellency, The President, Sheikh, Professor, Dr, Alhaji Yahya Jammeh, the ruler of The Gambia.
He has decreed that the public sector should embark on a four-day week work regimen, with schools the exception.
In praise of the dead
According to him, a shorter working week will allow Gambians to devote more time to prayers, social activities and agriculture.
Government employees will still work a 40-hour week, made up of four 10-hour working days starting at 0800 and ending at 1800.
I have been wondering if this was something we could adopt in Ghana.
The truth is that over here, public sector workers have always found ways to have four-day weeks if they want.
It is not official but many people end up doing four-day weeks.
I probably need to point out that we in Ghana take funerals seriously and these are time-consuming ceremonies.
Most of us spend weekends attending funerals around various parts of the country; that is how internal tourism works here.
Funerals are not one-day events.
I shall not get into all the rituals and arrangements that have to be done from the moment of death.
Nor am I talking about keeping bodies in mortuaries for months on end.
I refer only to the time that has been agreed for the burial and funeral rites.
In many parts of the country, Fridays tend to be the days when bodies are taken home from the mortuary to be laid in state.
This is not something that can be done during the lunch-hour break.
If you have a funeral to attend, you need to have Friday off and you are deemed to have a funeral when the dead person is a parent, a sibling, a child, a spouse or partner, an in-law, a grand-parent, a cousin, an aunt, an uncle, a friend, a classmate, a nephew, a niece, a boss, someone you go to church with, a workmate, a neighbour and of course, a president.
In other words, you are likely to have a funeral every weekend.
Even though Fridays are official working days, we have all learnt to accept that if we have any business with anybody in the public sector it is not a good idea to try to go to the office on a Friday.
The unwritten rule is that business is conducted in the public sector from Monday to Thursday.
On Saturdays, we have services and bury the dead and have funeral rites and on Sundays we have thanksgiving services.
So, would it be a good idea to simply declare Fridays non-working days?
I can think of a really smart way of packaging the announcement to make it sound like we are the business-like people that we indeed are.
It would go something like this: As part of innovative efforts to brand Ghana and make us a leading funeral tourist destination, Fridays will be spent organising funerals.
But something tells me if Fridays are sanctioned officially as non-working days in Ghana, Thursdays will become the new Fridays.
We shall thank God it is Thursday instead of thanking God it is Friday.
The impossible traffic in town will move from Fridays to Thursdays and we will spend endless hours stuck in traffic on the roads and officialdom will find reasons to make Thursday afternoons inconvenient for meetings.
I have this horrible feeling that the weekends will end up as stressful as the working days.
Then there is the other little problem of Ghana not having the equivalent of anybody who can simply decree that we change from a five to a four-day working week for whatever reason.
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In the documents, HP accused two former Autonomy executives of artificially inflating the company's revenue before HP bought the firm.
HP paid $11bn (£7.2bn; €9.8bn) in 2011, but then was forced to write down most of the value of the firm.
In response, former Autonomy chief executive Mike Lynch accused HP of looking for a "scapegoat".
HP says in the court filing that just before it decided to acquire Autonomy, it believed that the firm was growing rapidly, on the basis of documents that HP now says showed artificially inflated revenue and profit figures.
According to HP, Autonomy's revenues were 25% lower that it reported in 2009, 38% lower in 2010, and 36% lower in 2011.
As a result of the inflated figures, HP says it overpaid for Autonomy by an estimated £3.2bn - the rough amount it is now seeking to recover from Mr Lynch and Autonomy's former chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, in one of the largest damages claims ever brought against an individual in the UK.
However, Mr Lynch said HP's claims were baseless.
In a statement, he said HP's suit was "a simple rehash of previous leaks and insinuations that add up to one long disagreement over accounting treatment".
He added that the effort was an attempt by HP's chief executive, Meg Whitman, to find a "scapegoat for [HP's] own errors and incompetence".
Earlier this year, the Serious Fraud Office closed its investigation into Autonomy's sale, saying that "on the information available to it, there is insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction".
It ceded legal jurisdiction to US authorities.
The team said the problem was leading to more illegally imported puppies in the UK and a heightened risk of rabies.
Pet passports were introduced nationally in 2012 and allow animals to travel freely between member countries.
Officer Paul Gretton said the problem of forgeries was almost non-existent three years ago.
"People are often tempted by cheaper pedigree dogs sold on the internet," he said. "Unfortunately they are often from a dubious source.
"Owners are then faced with the agonising decision that it could cost hundreds and in some cases thousands of pounds in quarantine and veterinary bills - or face having their pet destroyed."
Mr Gretton said dealers were forging passports and falsifying details to bring puppies into the UK when they were too young and without vaccinations. They are also often advertised online for half the price.
However BBC Scotland has learned a second external report will not be published.
It is thought to point the finger at some senior officials.
Aberdeen City Council was heavily criticised in Dame Elish Angiolini's report in June into the handling of ashes of cremated babies.
It described as "abhorrent" the routine practice of cremating babies bodies with unrelated adults.
The director responsible for the department which includes Hazlehead crematorium, Pete Leonard, was quoted by investigators referring to "slow cooking" babies for which he has since been heavily criticised.
A report to Aberdeen councillors reveals the chief executive is investigating senior lines of responsibility and will decide what action, if any, to take.
It will be discussed on Wednesday.
However a second report to the council, understood to be heavily critical of some of those in charge, will remain secret because it contains confidential details of the conduct of staff.
That report was commissioned in June this year by chief executive Angela Scott.
She said she was willing to meet families affected by what went on at Hazlehead crematorium.
The Crown Office is to examine the results of the probe.
Former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini prepared the 400-page national cremation investigation, which was commissioned by the Scottish government.
BBC Scotland revealed in 2013 that no ashes had been offered to the families of infants cremated in Aberdeen over a five-year period.
Baby and adult ashes were mixed together and given back to relatives of the adult, while the parents of infants were told there were no ashes.
The crematorium at Hazlehead in Aberdeen was among those investigated after it emerged staff at the Mortonhall crematorium in Edinburgh had been burying baby ashes in secret for decades.
Fabrizio Gianni photographed stars for some of the world's top fashion magazines and was Sergio Leone's assistant director on The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.
Having lived and worked in Milan, Paris, Tokyo and New York, Mr Gianni now lives in Falkirk with his wife.
The first ever exhibition of his work opens in the town on Friday.
Fantasia, the collection at the Falkirk Community Trust's Park Gallery, focuses on the Italian's work for fashion magazines such as Elle, Vogue, GQ and Harper's Bazaar, with star subjects including Anthony Hopkins, Sir Ben Kingsley and Keanu Reeves.
Mr Gianni told BBC Scotland that when he was asked to put the exhibition together, his collection of photographs had almost completely "disappeared" after being left in his cellar in Falkirk for 20 years.
He said: "The editor in chief of Vogue in France phoned me up and asked me to collaborate to do a book, and I said, OK, if I can find the photos. So I went down to the cellar and I found all this mould.
"All of my photos were in a cellar, all mouldy and ruined.
"Some of them were boxed when I moved from Milan, and remained boxed for 20 years.
"I basically lost 10 years of pictures. Only a few remained from the 1970s, most of what I have is from the 1980s and 1990s.
"I said to them, why don't we do a book of mouldy pictures? We could call it 'Saved from the Bin'."
Despite having worked at the top of the photographic trade, Mr Gianni insists that he is not an artist, but a good professional practicing his craft.
He said: "Gillian from the Falkirk Community Trust called me about doing the exhibition.
"I said, I accept, but you are never to portray me as an artist, because I was a good professional, that's all.
"You think, right away, what can I do to make those clothes become human, real? The designer doesn't think of this, they probably hate the women!
"Putting a normal woman into these so-called beautiful dresses - that's the difficult part.
"You take this girl - a young, beautiful girl, with skin like a peach - you put the clothes on them and put them in a beautiful location, in wonderful light at the moment of the day when the light is fantastic, and you do the photo.
"This is craft, not art."
Mr Gianni was assistant director on the classic "Spaghetti Western" film The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and is credited with styling Clint Eastwood's famously nameless character.
He said: "I was shooting a film in Munich as assistant director, and Sergio Leone came in and said to me that he wanted to do a Western. I thought, 'this guy is cuckoo, doing a Western in Italy?'
"It was an experience - he would go around terrorising people. It was a mix of being scared to not work with him any more, but being scared of the man himself.
"He was convinced he was an artist, he was convinced he was a genius. No-one could argue with that."
Admission to the exhibition at The Park Gallery at Callendar House in Falkirk is free between 10:00 and 17:00, Monday to Saturday.
Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr, convicted of crimes including breaking allegiance to the country's king, could be beheaded and his body displayed in public, Labour's leader said.
He called on the PM to scrap a UK bid to provide services to Saudi prisons.
The Foreign Office said it would raise the case "urgently".
Mr al-Nimr was accused of taking part in anti-government protests in the eastern part of the country in 2011, involving the country's Shia Muslim minority, and was arrested the following year.
State media later reported he was found guilty of a long list of crimes including sedition, breaking allegiance to the king, rioting, using petrol bombs against security patrols, robbing a pharmacy and more. He was 17 at the time of his arrest.
In a letter to Mr Cameron, Mr Crobyn wrote: "As you may be aware, Ali has now exhausted all his appeals and could be executed any day - in a particularly horrific manner, which involves beheading and the public display or "crucifixion" of the body."
The Labour leader said Mr al-Nimr's trial contained "numerous fair trial violations".
He urged Mr Cameron to raise the case "directly" with his Saudi counterparts and "request that they commute the unjust and horrific sentence... which violates any number of international laws".
Mr Corbyn also raised questions about a Ministry of Justice bid to provide services to Saudi prisons.
He referenced reports Justice Secretary Michael Gove wanted to withdraw the bid but was "blocked" by "other departments".
And he wrote: "Will you step in to terminate the Ministry of Justice's bid to provide services to the Saudi prisons system - the very body, I should stress, which will be responsible for carrying out Ali's execution?"
The Labour leader concluded: "Ali's case is especially urgent - the secrecy of the Saudi system means that he could face execution at any time, and even his family may only find out after the event. There is therefore no time to spare in taking this up with the Saudi authorities, if we are to prevent a grave injustice."
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We understand that Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr's legal process has finished and his final appeal has been denied. We will raise this case urgently with the Saudi authorities.
"The abolition of the death penalty is a human rights priority for the UK. The UK opposes the death penalty in all circumstances."
The failure to recognise the Democratic Union Party (PYD) as a terrorist group was creating a "sea of blood", he said.
Turkey says the PYD, on which the US relies to battle so-called Islamic State in Syria, is an offshoot of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Mr Erdogan's comments come as Turkey faces pressure to allow in 30,000 Syrian refugees stranded on its border.
The refugees have fled an offensive by Syrian government forces and Iranian-backed militias, supported by Russian air strikes, on rebel-held areas around the divided northern city of Aleppo.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said the humanitarian situation in the Aleppo area is deteriorating rapidly as supply routes used for bringing in aid have been cut.
There has been a shortage of fuel and electric power and lack of water is a particular concern, it said, estimating that 50,000 people have been displaced by the recent upsurge in fighting.
More than 500 people, including dozens of civilians, have been killed since the assault began 10 days ago, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group.
Medecins Sans Frontieres meanwhile warned that the fighting was placing extreme pressure on the already devastated healthcare system in the border town of Azaz.
MSF's head of mission for Syria, Muskilda Zancada, warned that displaced people, including young children and the elderly, could be stuck living in the open in freezing conditions, with severe effects on their health.
Turkey has already taken in more than 2.5 million Syrian refugees over the past five years and says it will continue to do so in a "controlled fashion".
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday that he considered the UN Security Council "two-faced" for telling Turkey to open its borders, accusing it of failing to stop the Russian air strikes that had caused people to flee Aleppo.
He also warned that by taking in the refugees, Turkey would be indirectly contributing to "ethnic cleansing" in northern Syria by the government.
Earlier, in some of some of his fiercest remarks so far against the US, Turkey's president asked in a speech: "Are you on our side or the side of the terrorist PYD and PKK organisation?"
"Is there a difference between the PKK and the PYD? Is there a difference with the YPG?" he added, referring to the PYD's militia, the Popular Protection Units.
"We have written proof! We tell the Americans: 'It's a terror group.' But the Americans stand up and say: 'No, we don't see them as terror groups.'"
Mr Erdogan said the failure to do so meant the region had "turned into a pool of blood".
While Turkey sees the PYD and YPG as offshoots of the banned PKK, the US does not and believes they are the only effective force against IS on the ground in Syria, reports the BBC's Mark Lowen in Istanbul.
But Ankara worries they will fan Kurdish separatism in Turkey and that arms given to the Syrian Kurds will seep over the border to the PKK, with which armed conflict has resumed, our correspondent says.
Mr Erdogan regularly hits out at the West over Syria, accusing it of complicity by not intervening to topple President Bashar al-Assad and calling "baseless" the criticism that jihadists have been allowed to cross Turkey's border, our correspondent adds.
France's outgoing Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, also questioned the commitment of the US to resolve the crisis in Syria on Wednesday, saying its "ambiguous" policy was contributing to the problem.
Mr Fabius said he did not expect President Barack Obama to change his strategy before leaving office, regardless of what Secretary of State John Kerry told Mr Assad's main backers.
"I'm not sure that the end of Mr Obama's mandate will push him to act as much as his minister declares [publicly]," he added. "There are words, but actions are different and obviously the Iranians and Russians feel that."
The commander of the rebels' joint operations room in Aleppo, Maj Yasser Abdul Rahim, told the BBC that they would "defend our lands to the last man".
But he warned: "We feel that we were sold to the Russians, and that the West has abandoned us."
The incident happened at about 19:30 on Wednesday when emergency services were called out to the riverbank at Carnsalloch Gardens near Kirkmahoe.
Scott Couper, 15, from Dumfries, was taken to the town's infirmary.
He had been out swimming with six friends when it is believed he suffered problems under water.
Police have urged parents to remind their children of the dangers involved with playing at, or near, water.
"Remember underwater currents may be stronger and the water may be deeper than you think," a statement said.
"There may also be thick undergrowth under the water that you are not aware of and could become entangled in."
Clare Cahill, 42, of Coytrahen, Bridgend, and Jade Pugh, 30, of North Cornelly, denied charges relating to alleged falsification of patient notes.
Both worked at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital.
At Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday, not guilty verdicts were given on 10 counts after a computer log of patient records was deemed unreliable.
Both women worked on the stroke ward and denied failing to carry out routine blood glucose checks on patients and fabricating their medical records.
On the day jurors were set to hear the case open, the prosecution offered no evidence and the judge ordered them to give the verdicts.
Ms Cahill was cleared of six counts of causing wilful neglect between April and December 2012 and Ms Pugh was found not guilty of four counts of the same charge between June and October 2012.
Judge Tom Crowther criticised the hospital's failure to have a dependable computer system in place.
He added: "Enormous expense has been incurred with trial preparation - hundreds of hours of time has been spent by experts... which has had a knock on effect of other cases waiting to be tried.
"It matters because two women have been facing a trial which should have been ready earlier. It matters because the families of the patients involved will have had their upset prolonged."
Three other nurses, who worked on the same hospital ward, have entered guilty pleas to similar charges.
After the case, a spokeswoman for Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board said: "Our thoughts are with the families of patients involved in these cases, as this must be a difficult time for them."
She said when issues surrounding blood glucometry tests arose, the health board informed and cooperated with police.
"We have not been able to complete our internal disciplinary proceedings until the criminal proceedings concluded. We are now in a position to move urgently with this," she added.
"We remain determined to do more, to continually improve, and continue to have a commitment to dealing with issues as they arise in an open and transparent way.
"The blood glucometry test and recording system we use is designed to facilitate good patient care. It is widely used by many other hospitals and internationally recognised. It is continually being improved and updated.
"We are not in a position to comment on how information generated for clinical purposes has been used to support a criminal prosecution, as this is not our area of expertise."
Weir, 37, missed the birth of his fourth child to compete in Rio and said on Twitter he had "let the country and my team-mates down".
Londoner Weir was unable to explain his loss of form, saying: "I don't know what has gone wrong out here."
The tweet, however, prompted a deluge of support from fans and well-wishers.
"I came out to Rio with every intention of getting a medal," he added. "My training was amazing, I felt fit and strong and was ready for Rio.
"Representing my country means everything to me and I always want to perform at my ultimate best but that's just not happened this Paralympics."
Weir had announced he was to retire from the track after Rio. He will still be competing in the marathon - including the one in Rio on Sunday - and said he may make himself available for the T53/54 4x400m relay team.
The 37-year-old finished sixth in the T54 800m - his final individual track race at Rio 2016 - after coming fifth in the 400m and fourth in the 1500m.
City Football Group (CFG) has sold the stake to CMC (China Media Capital) and investment company Citic Capital.
It comes after six months of talks and is aimed at expanding CFG's interests in the Chinese football industry.
New shares will be issued in CFG in addition to those held by its owner, Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG).
CFG is an investment and development company which is privately owned by Sheikh Mansour of the Abu Dhabi royal family. It also includes New York City FC, Melbourne City FC and Yokohama Marinos.
The move will offer the chance for Man City and the other group clubs to grow a fan base in East Asia, where there is huge competition between top clubs in Europe, and beyond, to build up supporter numbers.
The ultimate aim is to turn those football fans into customers of club products and services too.
The move follows a visit to Manchester in October by the President of China, Xi Jinping.
Ruigang Li, who founded and chairs both the Chinese firms, will represent their consortium by becoming the seventh CFG board member.
This deal is big news for Manchester City, but I am told it is absolutely not the start of an exit strategy from the current owners. China has long been viewed as having huge potential for growth commercially.
In China, an area where only Real Madrid of the established European heavyweights has a significant presence, CMC Holdings will provide contacts to open the right doors to the right opportunities.
If their Abu Dhabi ownership is any guide, City's presence in China will expand rapidly.
It is also worth noting that through this deal, including satellite clubs New York City FC, Melbourne City and Yokohama Marinos, City are now worth approximately 10 times more than Sheikh Mansour bought the club for in 2008.
"Football is the most loved, played and watched sport in the world and in China, the exponential growth pathway for the game is both unique and hugely exciting," said Khaldoon al-Mubarak, chairman of CFG.
"We have therefore worked hard to find the right partners and to create the right deal structure to leverage the incredible potential that exists in China, both for CFG and for football at large."
CMC owns a number of exclusive major sports media rights including the Chinese Super League, China Football Association national teams and the China University Football League. CMC is also involved in sports production and media operations.
Citic Capital manages $5bn of capital for international and Chinese institutional investors, with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo and New York.
Professor Chris Brady, director for Sports Business at the University of Salford, said it was not just Man City who would benefit, as the move would also help China in its goal of becoming a power in football, a sport where it has underperformed.
"It is no coincidence that the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, included a visit to the Etihad on his recent state visit," he added. "President Xi Jinping is a self confessed football fan and is known to be willing to prioritise football across China to build the domestic game there.
"Although the investment probably overvalued City it fits perfectly with the Chinese strategy. City already have New York and Melbourne outposts and it is not unreasonable to assume that a Shanghai City or Beijing City could be the next stops.
"This would, in turn, open up the opportunity to develop a China-wide academy system. There is already strong Chinese investment in Italy's Serie A and further European investment should be expected."
Antonio Lacayo, who served as cabinet chief from 1990 to 1997, was flying from the town of San Carlos to the capital, Managua, when the helicopter came down on Monday.
The pilot and two US businessman died in the crash, police confirmed.
Local people said there was poor visibility at the time of the accident.
Mr Lacayo played a key role in the government led by his mother-in-law, President Violeta Chamorro.
After leaving office he became chief executive of fruit company TicoFrut.
Deputy director of police Francisco Diaz said the bodies of the pilot and the other two passengers had been found.
They have been identified as Coca-Cola executive James S Horrisberger and Phil Wendell Tope, who worked for a Florida-based juice company.
Government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo said news of the crash was shocking and praised the role Mr Lacayo played both in politics and in business.
IS fighters began a surprise offensive in the area on Thursday and attacked Marea early on Saturday with tanks and car bombs, monitors said.
The UN fears for tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the fighting.
The area between the city of Aleppo and the Turkish border is split between IS, rebel and government-controlled zones.
A nationwide, but often violated ceasefire, between rebel and government forces, brokered by the US and Russia in February, does not include jihadist groups such as the self-styled Islamic State.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said heavy clashes had taken place inside the walls of Marea overnight between IS fighters and rebels.
Marea has long been a bastion for non-jihadist rebel forces who have been fighting President Bashar al-Assad in Syria's five-year conflict.
It lies within the so-called Azaz corridor - a key rebel lifeline of supplies that links Aleppo city with the Turkish border but which has previously been severed by government and Russian air strikes.
Azaz, 20km (13 miles) north of Aleppo, itself hosts tens of thousands of displaced civilians.
The IS militants' offensive initially captured six villages around Azaz and took them to within a few kilometres of the city, cutting off supplies to Marea to its south.
It is thought some 15,000 residents remain in Marea.
The UN's refugee agency said it was deeply concerned about the plight of more than 160,000 displaced people who are massed in the north of the country.
It said fleeing civilians were being caught in the crossfire of the IS offensive, and that they were struggling to get access to food, water and medical services.
The Marea fighting shows IS's ability to continue launching offensives, analysts say, despite losing ground in other parts of Syria and in Iraq.
Henrhyd Falls in the Brecon Beacons National Park was used as the cover for the Batcave in the film The Dark Knight Rises.
Fans previously had to clamber down a steep tree-lined hill and wade across a river to reach the falls.
Park chiefs have now built a path to the waterfall for easier access.
The 88ft (27m) wall of water was seen in the final film of the Christopher Nolan trilogy as the location where Robin discovers the Batcave after the apparent death of Batman.
The new trail and footbridge bring visitors out at the foot of the falls, and they can then walk behind the water and into the entrance of the Batcave.
Henrhyd Falls is the tallest waterfall in south Wales and is a site of special scientific interest due to the rare mosses, liverworts and lichen which grow in the damp, heavily wooded gorge, with its thin soils and steep rocky slopes.
Batman fan Jackie Davies, 24, from Bridgend, said: "I love Christian Bale in the Batman films and coming here you can feel like you're a part of that world.
"The waterfall is spectacular and I had to come with my costume for a picture. My boyfriend finds it embarrassing but I love it."
Judith Harvey, wardens manager for Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, said the falls were a popular walking destination in the Brecon Beacons.
"With work now complete, it means that people for many generations to come can really enjoy what Abercraf and the surrounding area has to offer, safe in the knowledge that they are not causing any damage."
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The northern hemisphere teams were unable to live with their fleet-footed rivals from the south. To some critics, the 2016 Six Nations has only served to further underline the size of that schism.
Boring, stale, conservative and stifling - they are just some of the accusations levelled at a tournament obsessed by the need to win.
Having won the World Cup with New Zealand in 2011 but also played in Europe with Nottingham and Toulon, former All Black Ali Williams offers a unique insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the Six Nations.
The Six Nations is not a flawed product, it is a fantastic tournament.
It is the product on the field that people are criticising - not the competition, not the crowd, not the commercial side.
I think the Six Nations is methodical rather than intuitive.
The thing I have got out of it living over here and being here for the Six Nations and experiencing the culture, is that the here and now is what people look at.
It is not the skill factor - that is all there, it's the mindset that is the pure difference between the two sides of the world.
If you are too nervous or too scared and fear doing something wrong then you are never going to push yourself.
You are never going to challenge yourself to get better or enhance a skill that doesn't come naturally.
That's what I feel here in the Six Nations. There is a restraint on trying new things. It is a matter of instilling confidence in players to play what you see rather than play how you are coached or play how you think you should play.
I am probably a prime example. I put on an All Black jersey and thought I could do anything because they instilled that confidence in me.
I was doing cross-field kicks from quick taps. I am a second rower. That is not what you should be doing in the manual of rugby but that is now what we do with the All Blacks.
The fitness debate between the two hemispheres is about match fitness.
The guys I have watched in the Six Nations are fit, don't ever doubt that.
What England coach Eddie Jones is trying to say about fitness is that in the northern hemisphere your game fitness is different because you are playing longer, more physical, slower, mental games rather than your Super Rugby-type of run, run, run, run and the opportunities will open up.
Eddie is saying is why can't we challenge these guys to be fit enough to play a more open expansive game?
Unfortunately you don't get that unless you are doing it that way every week.
France captain Guilhem Guirado played 60 minutes for his club five days before a Test match against Wales. That just wouldn't happen with the All Blacks.
It comes back to a collective success and for us, collective success is everyone playing well, All Blacks playing well, club teams playing well but also individuals playing well.
You are not going to have collective success if you have both got different angles and motivations.
By that I mean club v country. Until they find neutral ground and disagree on some things but yet commit on others, you are always going to have these obstacles.
Are players going to change it? They're not. They can't.
This is a commercial model that needs to look at itself and where they sacrifice some commercial upside but also get better longevity in players and a better product on the field and protect the international game.
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Warren Gatland is right when he says that as soon as there is a mistake then there is an advantage that could lead to a try.
It doesn't just have to generate off that however. Yes, that is one of the prime opportunities to score tries but the drive should also be when you have got the ball to not fear a mistake and get a try conceded against you, you should try and want to score.
France on Friday night were an example of that and an example of not having a collective understanding of how they want to play together.
Individual flair is one thing but you can't show individual flair if you don't have a collective pattern or understanding of where each other is going to be.
Individual flair is when you have the ball and you are trying to show something on your own; team flair is when you all know what you are doing.
For me that's the frustrating part. If you are saying you are only going to score off mistakes, what are they teaching them in the week?
I don't agree with the idea that the northern hemisphere needs to copy the southern hemisphere.
I agree with harnessing your own culture and harnessing your own mindset. What does England stand for? What is their mindset?
What does Wales stand for? What is their mindset? Once you have established that, then you play like your mindset.
That is where I think France are potentially going wrong. What does France stand for?
In their mind and their culture, what are they? They know that they have just got to show it on a rugby field. They can do it, we all know it and we all still talk about French flair.
They have got it, they are just going through a stage where they are not showing it to people.
Ali Williams was talking to BBC Sport's Tom Reynolds.
Shipments from Dulas, based in Machynlleth, Powys, are going to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
The fridges are used in countries where electricity supply is limited.
Guy Watson, of Dulas, said: "We are pleased that technology designed and developed in Wales is being used to support communities during a global crisis."
Wigan's Sean O'Loughlin, who led the side for last year's series win over New Zealand, is out through injury.
Burgess and Graham both play in Australia's National Rugby League.
Asked whether he had considered naming a Super League player as captain, Brisbane coach Bennett said: "My only criteria is the best man for the job."
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He added he would make his decision at the weekend, after speaking to Rugby Football League chief Nigel Wood.
Burgess, who plays for South Sydney Rabbitohs, is back in the England squad for the first time since he returned from rugby union.
The 27-year-old switched codes to play at last year's rugby union World Cup, and last played for England's rugby league side in the 2013 World Cup semi-final.
"It's great to have Sam back," said Bennett. "He's a huge player in our game. He is inspirational and everyone looks up to him."
Graham, 31, plays for Canterbury Bulldogs and is England's most-capped player, with 29.
England have never won the Four Nations, which this year also includes Australia, New Zealand and Scotland.
They play a one-off match against France in Avignon on 22 October, for which Burgess is suspended, before the Four Nations.
England then play New Zealand in Huddersfield on 29 October, Scotland in Coventry on 5 November and Australia at the Olympic Stadium on 13 November.
Flynn, 22, beat Englishman Lee Connelly in Glasgow on Sunday and hopes to make his TV debut in Manchester on 27 February.
Top of the bill will be Northern Ireland's Carl Frampton against England's Scott Quigg.
"We are in talks," Flynn told BBC Scotland. "That's a massive show."
He added: "Two world title belts in front of a massive crowd in Manchester and I would be on the undercard."
Frampton faces Quigg in a world bantamweight unification fight.
"That, for me, is an absolutely huge fight," said Flynn about the possibility of being on the same card.
Flynn stepped up to the professional game after winning gold at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last year.
He stressed that, despite beating Connolly, his management will not rush him into a title encounter so soon in his professional career.
"You are talking about three years for a British title fight - about 15-18 fights but maybe a Scottish title fight by the end of next year.
"I just turned 22 there and, for a pro, that's pretty young, so there's no rush."
"I know my management has massive confidence in me, but we're just taking it slow for now."
Flynn was delighted with his latest outing, despite being taken the distance by Connolly.
"It was a great fight," he said. "I started off good and the fight could have got stopped in the first round.
"I was landing some heavy shots and he was on the ropes for about a minute solid.
"He was taking a lot of shots and everybody thought the referee was going to step in.
"But he let it continue and, after the first couple of rounds, we decided to stick with the boxing and get the rounds in the bank instead of trying to go for the stoppage.
"Everything went according to plan and we won every round."
Also in Glasgow, featherweight Joe Ham stretched his winning featherweight record to six bouts with a second-round stoppage of Croat Mirsad Ahmeti.
The 24-year-old Scot had floored his opponent three times in the first round.
Elsewhere on the undercard, Lewis Paulin registered a win on points over fellow Scottish super-featherweight Jamie McGuire, while welterweight Stewart Burt had to settle for a draw in his bout against England's Fonz Alexander.
The Aberdeen-based company said the three-year deal had been signed with an unnamed blue-chip international oil company.
It added that more than 100 new jobs would be created as a result of the contract, with a further 20 posts retained.
The staff will be based at Wood Group's offices in Iraq and Dubai.
David Buchan, from Wood Group division WGPSN, said: "This major contract builds on our strong partnerships with clients in Iraq.
"Iraq is an area where we see significant growth opportunities for our broad service capabilities and building our presence in this region is a key objective for us.
"This is reflected in our creation of another office in Dubai, which adds to our presence in the Middle East and our commitment to developing local talent, creating job opportunities and building relationships with the supply chain in Iraq."
Last month Wood Group won a multi-million dollar subsea contract with BP, to provide engineering services in the Gulf of Mexico, UK and Norwegian continental shelves and offshore Azerbaijan.
It was the second major BP contract secured by the company this year.
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The party said the change to rates would raise £475m a year, which it would put towards Scottish education.
It would be spent on a "pupil premium" to fund children from more deprived backgrounds, early learning, childcare and college provision, and giving money to councils for schools.
Holyrood's other parties have also pledged to focus on education.
Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said his party had "an ambitious plan", adding: "Scottish education was once the envy of the world. It has fallen hard and fast.
"But we have the plan that will put it right back up there. One penny is a small price for a big boost to get the country fit for the future."
The policy was announced ahead of a Lib Dem debate at Holyrood focusing on their "pupil premium" proposal.
The SNP, Labour and the Conservatives each submitted amendments to the motion debated, with the parties changing it to relate to their own policies.
Labour's amendment replaced the text of the motion with words lauding its own policy of a "fair start fund".
The SNP's amendment replaced the wording with a statement praising its Attainment Scotland Fund, while the Conservative amendment praised the UK government's contribution to pupil premium plans.
Most of Scotland's parties have prioritised education ahead of May's elections, with Labour calling it a "top budget priority" and the SNP pledging to put it "front and centre".
The Scottish Conservatives have also focused on college education in the early stages of the campaign.
Scotland will gain new financial powers this year, although finance secretary John Swinney ruled out raising the income tax in his draft budget last year.
During the debate, SNP MSP and education committee convener Stewart Maxwell said he was "more than a little disappointed" to hear Mr Rennie describe Scottish education as being at a crisis point.
He highlighted a recent announcement by Nicola Sturgeon that £230m would be invested in building or refurbishing Scottish schools and said the number of school leavers going to a positive destination was at a record high.
Education secretary Angela Constance said the evidence on the pupil premium was "mixed at best", saying the Scottish government's attainment fund was delivering better results.
However, Labour's Iain Gray used his speech to attack the attainment fund as "inadequate", instead proposing a "fair start fund" which would allocate £1,000 to primary school pupils from deprived backgrounds.
The Scottish Conservatives accused the Lib Dems of "recycling discarded SNP policies".
MSP John Lamont said: "This announcement shows that the Lib Dems have decided to join forces with a chaotic Labour party in lurching to the left on tax.
"Working families who have had a difficult time over recent years need their pay packets protected."
The Women's Super League leaders will be the first English professional women's football club to stream a competitive game on the social network.
Man City Women's Facebook account currently has more than 4.5m 'likes'.
Wayne Rooney's testimonial on Wednesday was the first match involving Premier League teams shown live on the network.
By 16:00 BST on Thursday, Rooney's testimonial had received almost 2.4m views.
Worldwide, 1.7bn people use Faceboook.
Vikki Preston and Rhona Schofield were at a house on King Street, Higher Broughton, on 9 May 2005 when arguments broke out in a group, police said.
The two were then left alone in the property, described by officers as insecure and in "relative disrepair".
In the early hours of the next morning, fires were started on the ground floor.
Police said the two friends, who were asleep upstairs, were trapped and died from smoke inhalation. No-one has ever been charged.
Martin Bottomley, from Greater Manchester Police, said: "Almost certainly someone living in this community knows what happened and why that house was targeted.
"Ten years is a long time to carry the burden of that knowledge, so please, if you do know something, now is the time to give the family the answers they so desperately seek and come forward."
British actress Gwendoline Christie, who currently stars in Game of Thrones as warrior Brienne of Tarth, has also been cast in the production.
The news was announced on the Star Wars website, although it did not say what roles the actresses would play.
Star Wars: Episode VII is due in cinemas on 18 December 2015.
"I could not be more excited about Lupita and Gwendoline joining the cast of Episode VII," Lucasfilm president and producer Kathleen Kennedy said.
"It's thrilling to see this extraordinarily talented ensemble taking shape."
Nyong'o and Christie join the already announced cast of John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow.
They will join original stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.
Meanwhile, gossip website TMZ has posted a series of leaked pictures from the set of Episode VII, which began filming in Abu Dhabi last month.
The pictures appear to show a Tatooine-like marketplace and a new alien creature.
It hosts the 1,109-bed South Glasgow University Hospital for adults and 256-bed Royal Hospital for Sick Children.
The campus replaces the Royal Hospital for Sick Kids at Yorkhill, the Southern General Hospital, Western and Victoria Infirmaries and Mansionhouse Unit.
The campus was delivered under budget and ahead of schedule.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said the design was a move away from the traditional ward-based model.
The health board's chief executive, Robert Calderwood, said: "With the exception of critical care, all of the patient areas in the adult hospital are single en-suite rooms and all bedrooms have a full-length floor-to-ceiling windows on the outside wall to increase natural daylight but also to give the patient the opportunity to see out with the clinical environment.
"In the children's hospital 80% of the 256 beds are singe, en-suite, with parents' accommodation in the area."
The new campus is built on the site of the old Southern General in Govan in the south west of the city.
It will house a new 1,109-bed adult hospital and a 256-bed children's hospital.
There will also be a two major A&E departments - one for adults and one for children - a maternity hospital and state-of-the-art laboratory services.
Every patient in the general wards in the 14-floor hospital will have their own single room with an en-suite and views out across the campus.
Demolition of the old Southern General surgical block will begin in the summer and be completed by the middle of 2016.
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The new campus will bring major changes to the way healthcare is delivered across the west of Scotland - with maternity, children's and adult hospitals all on one site.
There will be space for 1,300 patients, mostly in single rooms, 29 operating theatres, and even a landing pad on the hospital roof, for rescue helicopters.
In addition to replacing adult hospitals in Glasgow, the new South Glasgow University Hospital will incorporate a new teaching and learning facility and the Centre for Stratified Medicine and clinical research facilities.
Up to 10,000 NHS staff will be based on the campus when it is fully operational.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "This is an exciting stage in the development of the new South Glasgow Hospital campus as we get ever closer towards completion of the project and welcoming patients into the facility.
"This development has been Scotland's biggest-ever hospital building project, so bringing this in ahead of time and under budget is a real achievement in itself.
"This major development will transform healthcare for patients and staff and I am very much looking forward to seeing the hospital campus up-and-running and welcoming patients in the summer."
Construction work on the hospital campus began in early 2011 and it has been the biggest building site in Scotland.
Building contractors, Brookfield Multiplex, have formally handed over control of the site to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
The typewritten note was signed by rock legend Bruce Springsteen.
Fifth-grader Michael Fenerty met the star at a "meet-and-greet" in the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Springsteen, known to his legions of fans as "The Boss", was in town signing copies of his new autobiography, Born to Run.
Michael's father, Mike Fenerty, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he wanted to follow school rules for his son's absence and was told that he would need Bruce Springsteen to sign an absence note.
So he typed out a letter to the principal that read: "Please excuse Michael Fenerty for being late or absent today. He came to the Free Library of Philadelphia to meet me and get a copy of my book."
When fifth-grader Michael met the singer, he asked him: "Bruce, would you sign my absence note?"
Mr Fenerty told the Inquirer: "[Springsteen] lit up. He said: 'I have to read it first, that's how I got in trouble with my first contract.'
"My son was very star-struck - it was a very cool experience."
Mr Fenerty said he had handed the school a photocopy of the note, keeping the original as a souvenir.
A sample from the Heart and Lung Centre at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton failed a test, the trust said.
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust said it was working with the fire service.
Samples that failed tests from five other providers were from buildings that did not house patients overnight, NHS Improvement said.
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All NHS trusts and foundation trusts were asked to carry out urgent fire safety checks after the Grenfell Tower fire.
NHS Improvements said six NHS organisations had submitted building material samples found to be aluminium composite material [ACM] and subsequently failed a combustibility test.
NHS Improvement said after discussions involving the fire service, it "has been decided it is safest and most appropriate to continue to treat patients" in the Wolverhampton unit.
It added measures being taken included 24/7 fire warden patrols, changes to some fire safety procedures, increased security and raising staff awareness.
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust chief executive David Loughton said after the sample failed the test, it had "since been inspected twice by local fire safety inspectors" who were "satisfied" with precautions the trust was taking.
He added: "There are high standards of general fire precautions in the Heart and Lung Centre, well trained staff available 24-hours-a-day and other security measures in place.
"We are also working with the fire service and NHS Improvement on additional measures, including enhanced fire warden patrols, keeping vehicles at least 6m away from the premises, increased security and staff awareness and a slight amendment to evacuation procedures."
NHS Improvement had previously announced samples from five NHS providers had failed ACM combustibility tests.
They were King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust and University College Hospitals London NHS Foundation Trust.
The US show is up for 12 prizes, including outstanding drama series, actor and actress.
Family comedy Black-ish came second in the TV nominations with 10, including outstanding comedy series.
The awards celebrate the accomplishments of people of colour in television, music, literature and film.
Empire centres on a hip-hop music and entertainment company and the drama among the family members that run it.
The show, which has been running since the beginning of year, will compete against Being Mary Jane, How to Get Away with Murder, Power and Scandal for the outstanding TV drama award.
In the TV acting categories, Empire's Terrence Howard is up for outstanding actor in a drama series with co-star Taraji P Henson up for outstanding actress.
The show also earned outstanding supporting actor in a TV drama nominations for Bryshere Y Gray and Jussie Smollett; and an outstanding supporting actress nod for Grace Gealey.
Empire creator Lee Daniels was also nominated in the TV directing category as well as the writing category, along with the show's co-creator and writer Danny Strong.
In the film category, Rocky sequel Creed received six nods, including one for outstanding film.
It will compete with Straight Outta Compton, Beasts of No Nation, Concussion and Dope for the title.
Overall, Straight Outta Compton earned five nominations while Beasts of No Nation - Netflix's first original feature film, starring Idris Elba - followed with four along with Amazon's first feature film, Chi-Raq, directed by Spike Lee.
In the music categories, Janet Jackson leads the contest with six nods, including outstanding female artist, while Pharrell Williams is competing for three awards including outstanding male artist.
The winners will be announced during a two-hour event on 5 February.
Rob Johnson, who was two when he was fostered, said some of his savings were wrongly used to pay for trips.
An investigation by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, Nick Bennett, found the council's monitoring amounted to maladministration.
The council said it took its role as corporate parents extremely seriously.
The ombudsman called on the council to provide an action plan for reviewing other cases amid concerns the failings could be "systemic" and affect other children in their care.
Mr Johnson, now aged 18 and referred to as 'Mr N' in the report, complained to the ombudsman about the money after his foster placement broke down in 2014.
He said the council had not managed his savings in accordance with its own policy and the amount of £270 he received in January 2015 was substantially less than he believed it should have been.
He said money used to pay for trips was taken from his savings without consultation and he should have received a special allowance for them instead.
"I just want people to have their money, to go on and do better things," he said.
"They've had rough years from whenever they've come into care. It's a time with that money, your savings, to move on and have your own life."
The investigation found the council's monitoring was "intermittent and inadequate" and amounted to maladministration.
It had failed to keep adequate records or retain his saving books at the end of his placement, meaning it was unclear why the amounts were as low as they were.
Mr Bennett emphasised there was no criticism of the foster carers in his report, which only dealt with the council's actions.
Bridgend council acknowledged its response to Mr Johnson's initial complaint may have appeared "dismissive or unsympathetic", and apologised, saying this had not been its intention.
Mr Bennett has shared his report with the Welsh Government, saying the case raised important issues over looked-after children and their savings at local and national level.
He recommended the council should pay Mr Johnson £3,310 - which has not yet happened.
Mr Bennett said: "I hope the issues my investigation has raised will lead to positive changes and the development of further national policy on long-term savings for looked-after children, reflecting the need for councils to secure the outcomes every good parent would want for their own children.
He added he was disappointed the council had not made the payment to Mr Johnson and would be "forced to issue a further special report" if it continued to fail to do so.
Bridgend council accepted all the recommendations in the report, apart from making the payment to reimburse the savings.
A statement from the authority said: "Our position is that [Mr Johnson] has not suffered injustice or hardship."
The council said there was no national policy or legal requirement in place regarding the savings of looked-after children and it had asked the National Fostering Framework to consider establishing one.
"We take our role as corporate parents for looked after children extremely seriously, and will be taking actions to address the other recommendations made by the ombudsman," it said.
The Welsh Government said it was considering the recommendations in the report.
The 69-year-old from New Zealand and a 58-year-old Irish nun became stuck on Friday at the Marist convent after an electrical power failure.
They cried out for help but there was no-one in the building over the weekend, Italian media said.
They were discovered on Monday by a cleaner who called police after ringing the doorbell and receiving no reply.
The police entered the building and called out if anyone was there and the nuns replied: "Yes, we are here, in the elevator", according to Il Messaggero.
The two women later said they had "prayed so much" while trapped, Il Messaggero reported.
They were taken to a nearby hospital where they were treated for dehydration.
The Marist Sister House host visitors to Rome from religious missions around the world.
Michaella McCollum was freed on parole in Peru this week after serving more than two years in jail in the country.
She said that if the cocaine she was trying to take to Europe had reached its intended destination she could have had "a lot of blood on my hands".
"I could have caused a lot of harm to people," the Dungannon woman added.
McCollum and Melissa Reid, from Lenzie, near Glasgow in Scotland, were caught with 11kg (24lb) of cocaine in their luggage at Lima airport in August 2013.
They were trying to board a flight to Madrid in Spain.
McCollum told Irish state broadcaster RTÉ she had been "very naive, so young and very insecure" when she attempted to smuggle the cocaine.
"A lot of times I didn't know how to say no to somebody," the 22-year-old said.
"I kind of just followed along with it and I guess a part of me kind of wanted to be something I'm not.
"But simply I made a decision in my moment of madness."
McCollum said she is "not a bad person" and wanted to demonstrate that by doing "something good".
She said she regretted the "harm that I've done and so much suffering" caused to her family.
And she acknowledged that had she managed to transport the drugs to Spain she could have "caused destruction to society".
She said: "In my time here, I thought: 'What if the drugs had got back [to Europe]? What would've happened?'
"I probably would've had a lot of blood on my hands, the amount of families that would've ruined.
"I could have potentially killed a lot of people, not directly but I could have caused a lot of harm to people."
McCollum and Reid initially claimed they had been kidnapped and forced to carry the drugs.
But the pair later admitted trying to smuggle cocaine worth £1.5m from Peru to Spain and were jailed for six years and eight months.
She said that during her time in prison she had "forgotten the things that everybody takes for granted".
"Seeing the sun, seeing the darkness, seeing the moon and the stars, things I haven't seen in almost three years," she said.
McCollum was released on parole on Thursday night and her solicitor is waiting to hear the terms of her release.
It is understood she will have to remain in the South American country for a considerable time under her parole conditions.
She was freed under new legislation on early prison release introduced in Peru last year, having served two years and three months.
Reid remains in a Peruvian prison.
She has been seeking to serve the remainder of her sentence closer to home in Scotland.
A transfer request for her was approved by the Scottish Prison Service in January 2015.
But it says any transfer would ultimately be for the Peruvian prison service to determine.
Mr Trump has accused Ms Yellen of keeping interest rates low to help the Democrats, leading to speculation that she might now resign.
However, Alan Greenspan told the BBC's Newsnight that the Federal Reserve should not react to politics.
Ms Yellen could only be removed from office if she was impeached, he said.
Mr Greenspan, who served as Fed chairman between 1987 and 2006, said his initial reaction to Mr Trump's victory had been "shock".
"I didn't vote for anybody for president. I'm a lifelong conservative Republican and it's the first time I didn't vote. I couldn't vote for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was not my candidate," he added.
During the course of his election campaign Mr Trump questioned the independence of the US central bank with his claims that Ms Yellen was keeping interest rates low at the behest of President Barack Obama and to help Mrs Clinton.
He said he would "most likely" replace Ms Yellen after her term as Federal Reserve chair ended in January 2018, comments which have led to the speculation that she might resign earlier than that.
On Newsnight Mr Greenspan was asked what he thought would happen to the relationship between the presidency and the Federal Reserve now.
'The Federal Reserve is an independent operator and should not be involved in politics nor react to politics," he said.
"So the fact that Trump dislikes Janet Yellen, thinks she's doing things incorrectly, I think it's up to Janet Yellen just to disregard it. The only way she can be taken out of office is by a very complex impeachment," he added.
Mr Trump's victory, like the Brexit vote in the UK, is being seen as a vote for change by people who feel that the economic system has failed them.
It was put to Mr Greenspan, a keen advocate of globalisation, that blue collar workers in particular had lost jobs and seen a cut in their wages and they were angry.
"I think they're justified," he said.
"The system has ground to a halt. In fact it's ground to a halt among all the OECD nations, or the large majority of them. The European Central Bank is not functioning, Britain is going through very peculiar stages of uncertainty, we obviously are in the same category and Brazil has been in very bad shape and a goodly part of Latin America is following suit so that the world is not doing well."
However, he said he did not think globalisation had gone too far.
"I think that globalisation is a very major source of forward motion."
When glider pilots look at the sky and see lenticular clouds, they know the flying will be good.
The stationary, lens-shaped clouds - often mistaken for UFOs - tend to provide very smooth and strong lift, enabling gliders to fly vast distances.
Skilled pilots can surf these "waves" in the sky for hours - until the lift or the light runs out.
On Wednesday, strong north-westerly winds set up a series of giant "ripples" across the skies of Scotland and two pilots managed to break through the 1,000km (621 miles) barrier.
John Williams, who lives near Scotlandwell in Perth and Kinross, said it was an "exceptionally good wave day" - the sort of day that only comes along every few years.
He took off from the Scottish Gliding Centre's Portmoak airfield in his Antares glider at 06:50 and remained in the air for 11 hours and 38 minutes.
He flew 1,684km - "which nicely puts it just over a thousand miles" - harnessing the power of the atmosphere alone.
"When you get a wind from the north-west blowing across the mountains of Scotland, you get big ripples in the air set up. That's when you see these long, white lenticular clouds," he told the BBC.
"You can fly right along the edge of these clouds, just like a surfer on a beach. It's great fun."
The 63-year-old flew up to Killin, by Loch Tay, and then on to Aberdeenshire. He repeated the Killin to Aberdeenshire leg three times before flipping around and returning to his home airfield.
"My first leg was a bit slower than I was hoping for, so I thought, I could do better than that, so I tried it again," he said.
"And then I tried it again which is a bit unusual."
His average speed on the middle run, which was the fastest, was 184km/h (114mph).
To an untrained eye, it might appear that glider pilots are randomly floating around, but they're actually engaged in a constant search for lift and the best line to take them further and faster.
It's something that becomes even more critical at the speeds Mr Williams was travelling.
The pilot said he finds it an "endlessly fascinating" mental challenge, and one which enables him to concentrate hard for long periods of time.
Mr Williams already holds the UK gliding distance record - 1,108km (688 miles) - which he set almost exactly 10 years ago.
He said Wednesday's feat will not count as an official UK record, as the rules state you cannot repeat legs during the flight.
But his achievement has still been noted as a "significant achievement" by members of the UK gliding community.
"John is an exceptional pilot," says Sant Cervantes, who holds four UK gliding records.
"He's set the bar for people like myself to follow."
Mr Cervantes, 66, set off from Portmoak in a much smaller glider on Wednesday. He spent less time in the air, but still managed to fly 1,009km (627 miles) and reached an altitude of 13,000ft (3,962m).
He followed a similar route to Mr Williams, who said it was the first time anyone had achieved such a distance in a glider that size.
Mr Cervantes, a retired airline pilot, said there were only a handful of days each year which delivered really good wave days.
But Scotland has more days like this than many countries and is generally recognised as having some of the best gliding conditions in Europe - which is why many committed gliders end up moving here.
Mr Cervantes came to Scotland in 1972 and Mr Williams in 1997. Both of them now live conveniently close to the Portmoak airfield and devote much of their time to the world of gliding.
"Your glider is extension of your personality," Mr Cervantes told the BBC.
"What you've got out there is an ocean of air and each day is different. It's a voyage of discovery - of the sky and yourself."
Each flight might be different, but days like Wednesday can live in a pilot's memory for a long time, the 66-year-old said.
"If you're competent then you get in the zone like an athlete. You've got the conditions, you've got the glider and you've got yourself.
"When you get it right you feel like you're in harmony with the environment. You're on a knife edge and you just shoot along. It's fantastic."
The Chelsea forward's 10-minute cameo during the 1-0 victory over Czech Republic is his only appearance of the competition so far.
Spain are through to the knockout stages, having beaten Turkey in their second game.
David Silva and Nolito have been preferred to the 28-year-old former Barcelona player.
Pedro told Spanish media that it was "difficult" for him to accept being second-choice as there was "no continuity" for him.
"If you don't see continuity, coming here to stay with the group is no longer worth it," he said.
The winger has 58 caps for Spain, scoring 17 goals since his debut in 2010.
Spain play their final group fixture against Croatia in Bordeaux at 20:00 BST on Tuesday.
Boudicca Scherazade, 47, was on trial at St Albans Magistrates' Court, where she had denied stalking furniture trader Laurence Roche for three years.
Earlier, she told the court she had sent him intimate pictures of herself.
Magistrates said they found the messages had been "one way traffic" from Scherazade to her victim.
Ms Scherazade, of Garrick Villa in Hampton, London, appeared in 2015 in the UK version of the American TV series Storage Hunters, in which she travelled the country with other dealers hoping to find a bargain.
She was found to sent hundreds of explicit emails, text messages and voicemails to Mr Roche between 2013 and May this year.
She told the court she became aware of Mr Roche in 2012 while working at a market in Wimbledon, describing him as a "larger than life character" who would stand at his stall bare-chested.
She said they spoke over the phone and exchanged text messages and emails with sexual contents.
Earlier, Mr Roche told the court he had never sent Ms Scherazade any emails and had made it clear he was not interested in her.
Chairman of the magistrates, Mr Alun Price-Davies, found him to be an "entirely creditable" witness.
Ms Scherazade admitted she had sent all the emails the court had been told about, including one that said: "Come over, make me yours. Own my soul. Say my name I will give everything I own, I love you Laurence Roche."
Sentencing was adjourned until next month and Ms Scherazade was granted bail with the conditions that she should not contact Mr Roche or his partner.
Celtic goalkeeper Megan Cunningham is also back in Anna Signeul's party for the friendly against Spain on 8 March at Falkirk Stadium.
The trio missed last month's 6-0 thrashing in Sweden.
Scotland are preparing for their Women's Euro 2017 qualifier against Slovenia at Paisley 2021 Stadium.
Signeul's side top Group 1 with a 100% record as they aim to reach next summer's finals in the Netherlands.
The match against Spain, which takes place on International Women's Day, is the first time the two sides have met since the play-offs for Euro 2013, which the Spanish progressed to after winning 4-3 on aggregate.
Former Arsenal players Beattie and Little had been on loan to Melbourne from Manchester City and Seattle Reign respectively.
Beattie opened the scoring and Little added the second in City's 4-1 win over Sydney in the W-League Grand Final having already topped the league table.
Glasgow City, who have won the Scottish title nine seasons in a row, have only three players in the current squad, outnumbered by Hibernian, last year's runners-up having four.
Goalkeepers: Megan Cunningham (Celtic), Gemma Fay (Glasgow City), Shannon Lynn (Vittsjo)
Defenders: Chloe Arthur (Bristol City), Jennifer Beattie (Manchester City), Frankie Brown (Bristol City), Rachel Corsie (Seattle Reign), Siobhan Hunter (Hibernian), Emma Mitchell (Arsenal), Joelle Murray (Hibernian), Kirsty Smith (Hibernian)
Midfielders: Leanne Crichton (Notts County), Kim Little (Seattle Reign), Joanne Love (Glasgow City), Christie Murray (unattached), Caroline Weir (Liverpool)
Forwards: Lizzie Arnot (Hibernian), Lana Clelland (Tavagnacco), Lisa Evans (Bayern Munich), Zoe Ness (Mallbackens), Jane Ross (Manchester City), Leanne Ross (Glasgow City)
William Flannigan was alleged to have sold properties at Lakeminster Park, Beverley, east Yorkshire, as permanent homes despite knowing they could only be used for holiday purposes.
However, Judge Paul Watson QC told Hull Crown Court there was no case to answer due to a lack of evidence.
Mr Flannigan, 51, of Wilmslow, Cheshire, had denied the charges.
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The judge instructed the jury to return not guilty verdicts on all the counts, marking the end of a nine-week trial.
Speaking outside court, Mr Flannigan said it "felt good" to have been cleared.
Prosecutors had alleged that he "made significant financial gains" after making a number of "untrue statements" over a number of years.
Barrister David Gordon told jurors Mr Flannigan "knew perfectly well" the park did not have the relevant planning permission.
Residents moved in to Lakeminster Park in 2008 but in 2011 were told they could not live there all year round as the site did not have the required planning permission.
An application for retrospective planning permission was refused in 2012 and, after a series of inquiries, homeowners were issued with eviction notices in September 2014.
During the trial, Mr Flannigan's barrister claimed he had been the victim of a plot to deflect scrutiny away from East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
A spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said it had considered there to be "sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction" but that it respected the judge's decision.
Residents of Fred Wigg Tower, Leytonstone, had taken legal action to stop the security measure, saying it would make them a terrorism target.
However on Tuesday the High Court ruled in favour of the Ministry of Defence (MOD), agreeing that a tower block was a suitable site for the missiles.
A Labour MP has tabled an early day motion against the choice of location.
Leyton and Wanstead MP John Cryer's
motion says:
"This House recognises the need to provide reasonable security for the Olympic Games but is concerned at the unprecedented decision of the Ministry of Defence, in peacetime and where no emergency has arisen, to station troops, armed police and ground-based air defence missile systems on top of Fred Wigg Tower."
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The Ministry of Defence has said it was a legitimate and proportionate part of the security measures taken for the Olympic Games.
The missiles, including Rapier and High Velocity systems, will be in place from mid-July, the MoD has confirmed.
The sites and types of systems set to be deployed are:
Plans also include the use of the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, which will be moored on the River Thames.
RAF Typhoon jets will be stationed at RAF Northolt, and Puma helicopters at a Territorial Army centre in Ilford, east London.
The European Clubs' Association (ECA) said it will work with Uefa on any "improvements" before 2018.
ECA boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has suggested "a tournament consisting of 20 teams from Italy, England, Spain, Germany and France".
Currently, 78 teams qualify from the 54 member leagues across Europe.
After preliminary qualifying rounds, 32 teams enter the group stage.
Following a meeting on Tuesday, Rummenigge said that "stagnation means regression" but promised to "find a good and balanced solution".
ECA senior vice-chairman Umberto Gandini said a review into the tournament's format would take six to nine months and would look to make the competition "more and more attractive".
Gandini said there was not yet an "understanding" that the Champions League would have to change but added: "We will listen to the main actors of the competition and Uefa itself and find out what is best.
"It may be just a slight change to the access list, it may be many aspects of the competition that can be reviewed and adjusted."
The ECA represents more than 200 clubs, including the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Manchester United and Chelsea.
There have been suggestions that these clubs should get direct entry into Europe's elite club football tournament, rather than through their domestic league position the previous season.
Rummenigge, who is chief executive of Bayern Munich, told a German newspaper last month: "A super league outside of the Champions League is being born. It will either be led by Uefa or by a separate entity, because there is a limit to how much money can be made."
Changes to European club competitions can only be made after three-year cycles, with the current one finishing after 2017-18.
The excursion train from Derby to Swanage ran on the new Swanage Railway heritage line between Wareham and the seaside resort.
Trial passenger services to reconnect Swanage with the Network Rail mainline at Wareham are due to start in June next year.
The original rail line was closed by British Rail and ripped up in 1972.
Volunteers originally rebuilt a 5.5-mile (8.8km) stretch from Swanage to Norden over 30 years and have been running it as a tourist attraction since the late 1990s.
About 1,500 sleepers have been replaced and an eroding embankment has been repaired during the restoration of the line from Norden to Wareham.
Mark Woolley, director of Swanage Railway Company, said the project to reconnect the heritage line with the mainline had been "a 40-year struggle".
"To actually get to the point where we can say we've nearly finished the job is just brilliant," he added.
Barry Light, who has been involved with Swanage Railway since 1987, said those involved with the reconnection works were "righting a wrong".
"The railway should never have got ripped up in the first place," he said.
The original 10-mile (16km) line from Swanage to Wareham was removed over seven weeks in 1972.
The excursion train, run by Pathfinder rail tours, also collected passengers in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Oxfordshire before arriving at Swanage.
Trials between Swanage and Wareham were originally expected to begin last year but were delayed due to upgrade works on two 1960s diesel trains.
They are now expected to run for at least 50 days next year, starting in June, and 90 days the following year.
The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The 23-year-old was arrested in Ardcarn Park for endangering aircraft. He has since been released on bail to appear for questioning at a later stage.
In a tweet, PSNI Air Support said the incident had happened while the helicopter was supporting police officers in the area.
Earlier this month, the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA), called for laser pointers to be classed as "offensive weapons" after a pilot was injured by a beam, shortly after taking off from Heathrow to New York.
Mr Marino has denied allegations he paid personal restaurant bills using official funds.
He offered to pay back €20,000 ($22,500) early on Thursday but later said he would stand down, when his Democratic Party withdrew its support.
Mr Marino was already under pressure over the dilapidated state of Italy's capital.
The mayor faced calls to resign last year for a series of unpaid parking tickets, and saw his popularity slump after a corruption scandal implicated several politicians, including his predecessor.
Mr Marino, who took office in 2013, was also criticised for not stopping an alleged mafia boss being given a glitzy funeral in the city.
He said his resignation should not be taken as an admission of guilt, but said "political conditions" had made it impossible to continue.
Sunday's Premier League fixture is only Mourinho's second trip to Stamford Bridge as an opposition boss.
He won there with Inter Milan in 2010, before his second spell with the Blues in which he added a third league title to his trophy haul in west London.
"I have the maturity to control the emotion," said Mourinho.
"If my team score a goal am I going to celebrate like a crazy kid? No.
"Am I going to have a negative reaction if the crowd has something negative with me? No."
Sunday will be Mourinho's first appearance at Stamford Bridge since he was sacked in December 2015, with the club 16th in the Premier League.
I think he deserves a good reception, because he wrote with the club, with his players, with the staff part of the story of this club
It is also the first time he has been back since Mourinho settled a discrimination claim with former Chelsea physio Eva Carneiro, following the Portuguese's furious reaction to her going on the pitch to treat Eden Hazard in a game against Swansea in August 2015.
"When some managers leave clubs, they like to 'wash the dirty clothes', to go back and speak and speak and speak about what happened.
"I leave clubs with a very good feeling. I gave everything to the club. I want to keep the good memories - and at Chelsea I had so many.
"The other things - I don't forget, I keep. But I keep it to myself."
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Twice Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich appointed Mourinho as his manager. On both occasions he was rewarded with Premier League titles.
Yet twice the mega-rich Russian sacked him.
The United boss says the pair were never close. "We always had the relationship of owner-manager," said Mourinho.
"It was a very respectful relationship but he was never my friend. We were never close to each other."
Mourinho, won three Premier League titles, an FA Cup and three League Cups during his two spells at Chelsea, says he is unconcerned about the reception from fans.
"I cannot say I care because I have a job to do and I will be more focused on the game," he said.
"What do I expect? I don't know. They could think about me, remember our great relationship and have a good reaction. They could look at me and say 'for 90 minutes he is Manchester United manager and he is playing against us, so he is not someone we like'.
"I will always respect them."
Mourinho's return apart, Sunday's game is important for two clubs seeking to re-establish their Champions League credentials.
Both clubs have won the title within the past four years, but neither made the top four last season and they are both outside it going into this weekend's game - Chelsea fifth and United two places further back.
They have each lost two of their eight games but know if results go their way, they could be in the top four by Sunday night.
Mourinho said: "I am not a gambler but if I was, I wouldn't bet a lot on the title or top four because there is a big risk of losing money.
"The distances are so short. A team that wins three in a row is immediately in the top three or four. And the team that has a bad run for just a couple of results goes immediately outside the top four.
"My feeling is it will be close and probably one team that you think is playing for the title in March, probably in May doesn't finish in the top four."
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte says his counterpart should be given a warm welcome when he arrives at Stamford Bridge.
The Italian was appointed Mourinho's permanent successor in April and began his job in July.
"I have great respect for him," said Conte.
"He won three championships and I think he was an important man for the club.
"I think he deserves a good reception, because he wrote with the club, with his players, with the staff part of the story of this club."
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Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he hoped the consultations in Geneva would "restore momentum towards a Yemeni-led political transition process".
But the foreign minister for the exiled government said it might not attend because it wanted more time to prepare.
A Saudi-led coalition resumed bombing Houthi rebels and their allies after a five-day ceasefire ended on Sunday.
Overnight, warplanes targeted army bases and weapons depots in the most sustained bombardment of the capital, Sanaa, in almost two months, residents said.
The UN says at least 1,850 people have been killed and more than 7,390 injured in air strikes, fighting on the ground and attacks by militants since 19 March.
More than 500,000 Yemenis have also been displaced from their homes, and millions have been affected by shortages of food, water, fuel and medicines.
Mr Ban urged all parties to the conflict to engage in the talks, which will begin on 28 May, "in good faith and without preconditions", his spokesman said.
"The only durable resolution to the crisis in Yemen is an inclusive, negotiated political settlement," Mr Ban warned.
The announcement follows extensive consultations by the UN's special envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, together with expressions of support by the UN Security Council.
The Security Council has called for the restoration of Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, who fled the country in March, and the resumption of the democratic transition begun in 2011 when former leader Ali Abdullah Saleh was forced to hand over power following mass protests.
Yemen's Foreign Minister Riad Yassin expressed surprise at Mr Ban's talks announcement.
"We didn't get an official invitation," he told the Reuters news agency. "It's very short notice. If it happens, it shouldn't be on 28 May."
Mr Yassin added that the Houthis should be required to disarm and leave the cities they have seized since September before being allowed to attend.
The government organised a three-day conference on Yemen's future that concluded in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
It was attended by hundreds of Yemeni politicians and tribal leaders, but the Houthis refused to participate. They rejected the main aim of the conference - the restoration of Mr Hadi - and the decision to hold it in a country leading the air campaign against them.
During the five-day ceasefire that ended on Sunday, international humanitarian organisations scrambled to get desperately-needed aid to the hardest-hit areas of the country.
On Wednesday, Iran's deputy foreign minister announced that an Iranian cargo ship carrying 2,500 tonnes of aid would now submit to inspections at the UN's hub in Djibouti before sailing on to Yemen's Red Sea port of Hudaydah.
Iran had refused to allow Saudi-led naval forces to carry out an inspection of the vessel to ensure it was not transporting arms supplies for the Houthis.
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It was a four day blaze, which swept through Britain's capital, destroying large parts of it.
To mark the anniversary, a model replica of London will be burned, and new stamps have been designed.
But what exactly happened and how did it change the city's history?
Jenny has been taking a look back.
The Swans were well beaten by Newcastle on Saturday and Guidolin has warned Swansea must avoid complacency.
"We can't take our foot off the pedal, we need some points for mathematical security to stay in the Premier League," he explained.
"It's not done yet, so we need points. I don't know how many."
"One, two three - but it's important not to relax.
"Football is particular and I have seen many surprises in my career, so it's important to be focussed and be aware."
Guidolin had previously stated that he felt Swansea were confident of securing their Premier League status.
"Yes, I think so. It is virtual safety. It's not real yet but now we can see forward, not behind," he said after their 1-0 win over Chelsea.
However, Guidolin felt Swansea's performance at the weekend showed there is work to be done at the Liberty Stadium, especially with a daunting trip to Premier League leaders Leicester next on the horizon.
He said: "Newcastle deserved to win, but the result is heavy for us because yes, Newcastle played better than us with more intensity, with focus.
"But in the second half, we had some situations, some possibilities to score and draw level, and maybe the match could have changed.
"But this is our job, it's my job. I know football.
"Maybe after three months of hard work to achieve where we are in the table, it's possible to have a bad day, and today for us was not a good day."
That means additional money as a result of a reallocation of funds from the Northern Ireland Executive.
It is a one-off payment with £5m of it going entirely on capital or building funds. So how will the money be spent?
At this stage there is little detail. However, from the health minister's statement it seems that the money will go directly to unscheduled care which includes emergency departments.
It will also be directed to those areas within hospitals which often experience bed blocking - when patients cannot be discharged as there is nowhere for them to be cared for in the community, including in their own homes.
Health Minister Michelle O'Neill said: "This funding will help address a range of front line pressures right across the health and social care sector, including unscheduled care, improving patient flow through our hospitals and additional social care provision to help meet increasing demands."
Alongside welcoming the funding, the minister took the opportunity to stress that she supports reform of the health and social care system.
Revealing that she met Prof Rafael Bengoa on Tuesday morning, who is leading the expert panel on the reform of health and social care in Northern Ireland, the minister said it is about changing how services are delivered.
"He made it clear that his report is not about closing hospitals, it is about changing the way services are provided," Ms O'Neill said.
"There needs to be a shift in focus from where services are currently designed around the people who deliver them and the places where they are delivered, to focus on the needs of the patient."
So the minister appears to be pressing ahead with plans started by her Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) predecessor Simon Hamilton to change how services are delivered or which buildings they are delivered from.
Mr Hamilton also triggered the idea that politics should be removed from health.
That theme continued when, announcing the funding, the Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said it was important that politics be taken out of health.
What is surprising is that none of this money will be used to tackle waiting lists.
A statement also refers to providing additional social care provision. That suggests extra money will perhaps be spent on providing home help or domiciliary care, so patients can be discharged from hospital quicker in order to be cared for at home.
Addressing the assembly last week, the health minister said she would do whatever was possible to help people who required operations and treatment.
"While this short-term financial boost is to be welcomed, it is only through longer-term structural reform that we will secure an efficient and effective health and social care service."
As part of the £72m investment, funding is also being provided for projects including providing support for the hearing screening programme for newborn babies.
According to the Department of Health, the funding will provide a robust, failsafe mechanism for recording the results of newborn hearing screening tests to ensure that the right treatment can be provided to babies.
Also money will be used towards funding the Ambulance Response System.
The aim is to replace the mobile data and Automated Vehicle Location System (AVLS) system for mobilisation of ambulance fleet and bidirectional communication between crews and ambulance control and ensure a reliable 999 response to patients.
Staff were told on Friday evening that the business has closed and their jobs are gone.
Clerys has been sold to real estate company Natrium Ltd for an undisclosed sum.
Dublin High Court has appointed joint provisional liquidators to the company operating the outlet.
A spokesperson for the liquidators said that Clerys ceased trading at 17:30 BST.
As well as the 130 people employed by the company, around 330 other people are employed by the 50 concession holders, who sold clothes and other goods in the store.
Clerys is one of Europe's oldest purpose-built department stores, and it first opened in 1853 under the name of "The Palatial Mart".
The victims were named as Exequiel Borbaran, 18, and Diego Guzman, 24. Both men were killed in the port city of Valparaiso, said Interior Minister Jorge Burgos.
Local media report that they had been spraying graffiti on a wall and were shot by the son of the owner of the property.
Students held protests across Chile on Thursday to demand education reform.
Chilean police said they had arrested a 22-year-old suspect over the killings.
"The government does not tolerate and will not tolerate these acts of violence," said Mr Burgos.
Reports say that an argument ensued after the two men were seen spraying graffiti on the wall of a residential building.
A man came out to try and stop them, threatening to kill them if they did not leave.
He went back inside to get his gun and shot them both.
Both victims were rushed to hospital but died of their injuries shortly afterwards.
Students said they would hold a candlelit vigil for the the victims later on Thursday.
The protest in Valparaiso, 130 km (80 miles) northwest of the capital Santiago, was one of several across the country.
Students have staged dozens of marches since 2011 in a bid to change Chile's education system.
The BBC's Gideon Long in Santiago says that many of these marches end in violence, with masked youths fighting with police who respond with tear gas and water cannon.
But until Thursday, only one person had been killed. A 14-year-old boy was hit by a police bullet during in 2011.
The Spain international had an operation last month but had hoped to play again this term.
However, United boss Jose Mourinho confirmed the 28-year-old, who joined from Chelsea in January 2014, would not be fit until the end of May.
Defenders Phil Jones and Chris Smalling will not return until mid-May, Mourinho added.
The Premier League season ends on 21 May.
Should United progress to the Europa League final, that match would be played in Stockholm on 24 May.
Hazard put Chelsea ahead with a low, angled shot, before Marcos Alonso added a second when he slotted through Maarten Stekelenburg's legs.
Diego Costa made it 3-0 just before half-time, and Hazard scored the pick of the goals after the break.
Pedro put the gloss on the result when he tapped into an empty net.
Everton spent the majority of the game penned in their own half and did not manage a shot on target in the entire 90 minutes as Chelsea produced a ruthless and dominant performance.
Many of the visiting supporters left Stamford Bridge well before the final whistle. Those that remained applauded Chelsea off the pitch, with the biggest ovation of all from the home fans reserved for Hazard, who capped a brilliant display with two superb goals.
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In an attempt to stifle the 3-4-3 system that had earned Antonio Conte's side four consecutive Premier League wins before this match, Everton manager Ronald Koeman reverted to three men at the back.
However, the tactical ploy proved ineffective as the Dutchman's side were outpassed and outclassed by Conte's men in a mesmerising first-half display.
Confidence has been high among Chelsea's players since their 4-0 demolition of Manchester United last month, and the swagger with which they dismantled Everton will only further fuel talk of a title challenge.
In the five games since the formation change, Conte's side have scored 16 goals and conceded none.
Chelsea look a completely different team from the sluggish outfit that struggled under Jose Mourinho last season, and this performance was a real statement of intent.
Everton striker Romelu Lukaku would have been desperate to impress against former club Chelsea, but the Belgium international was a subdued presence.
Luakaku, who joined Everton from Chelsea for a club record £28m in July 2014, was barely able to get on the ball in the final third as Chelsea dominated.
Despite being paired with Yannick Bolasie, he was deprived of service, and spent large parts of the game chasing lost causes.
The 23-year-old has now played five Premier League matches for the Toffees against his former club, but is yet to score.
If Lukaku endured a frustrating game, the opposite was true for compatriot Hazard, who has rediscovered his joie de vivre and scored for a fourth consecutive league game.
Chelsea striker Diego Costa may have had a hand in more goals than any other Premier League player, with nine goals and three assists, but it is Hazard who has supporters on their feet whenever he is on the ball.
The effortless manner with which he glided past the dazed yellow shirts of Everton's defence for his two goals was breathtaking.
Conte claimed the 25-year-old forward is on the right track to becoming one of the world's best players, and on this evidence that is no exaggeration.
BBC Match Of The Day pundit Ian Wright said: "Eden Hazard was world class against Everton. I think Ronald Koeman picked the wrong day to pick three at the back."
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte: "It was a great game, a good performance. It is important for confidence to be top of the league. We have to continue as Everton is now in the past.
"The players deserve this because they show me great commitment and I can tell they are working very hard. The team has more balance defensively, but we don't lose our offensive situation. We are creating more chances to score goals.
"Eden Hazard played an impressive game. We all know he is a talented player. I see he is working a lot for the team and his team-mates are very happy for this. He must continue - he is showing his talent in every game."
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Everton manager Ronald Koeman: "The difference was too big between Chelsea and Everton. The one positive thing is it is only three points.
"This system is very difficult to play against and really the Chelsea manager has brought a winning mentality to the players. They are hungry and they will fight for the title for sure.
"I expected more from my team. It was a big difference in every aspect. It was not about the system - the difference was the mentality to win the game. With five defenders we control it, after 2-0 it was over."
After the international break, Chelsea face Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium on Sunday, 20 November with a 16:00 GMT kick-off, while a day earlier Everton have a 15:00 GMT home fixture against struggling Swansea.
Match ends, Chelsea 5, Everton 0.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 5, Everton 0.
Foul by John Terry (Chelsea).
Romelu Lukaku (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Davies (Everton).
Offside, Chelsea. John Terry tries a through ball, but Diego Costa is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Victor Moses (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Diego Costa.
Foul by N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea).
Tom Davies (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Chelsea. John Terry replaces Gary Cahill.
Victor Moses (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kevin Mirallas (Everton).
Attempt blocked. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Diego Costa.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Maarten Stekelenburg.
Attempt saved. David Luiz (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Oscar with a cross.
Substitution, Chelsea. Michy Batshuayi replaces Eden Hazard.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Ashley Williams.
Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Oscar with a through ball.
Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ross Barkley (Everton).
Attempt missed. Kevin Mirallas (Everton) header from a difficult angle on the left is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ross Barkley with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Chelsea. Oscar replaces Pedro.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Victor Moses.
Substitution, Everton. Tom Davies replaces Gareth Barry.
Goal! Chelsea 5, Everton 0. Pedro (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Diego Costa.
Gareth Barry (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Pedro (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Attempt blocked. Pedro (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcos Alonso.
Attempt saved. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcos Alonso.
Substitution, Everton. Aaron Lennon replaces Yannick Bolasie.
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Goal! Chelsea 4, Everton 0. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Pedro.
Attempt blocked. Victor Moses (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.
David Luiz (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Criticism of the government and royal family and the questioning of Islamic tenets are not generally tolerated. Self-censorship is pervasive.
The state-run Broadcasting Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (BSKSA) operates almost all domestic broadcasting outlets. The minister of culture and information chairs the body which oversees radio and TV.
Private TVs cannot operate from Saudi soil, but the country is a major market for pan-Arab satellite and pay-TV. Saudi investors are behind UAE-based TV giants MBC and OSN.
Saudi tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns the Rotana media empire and in 2011 acquired a $300m stake in Twitter.
Newspapers are created by royal decree. There are more than a dozen dailies. Pan-Arab papers, subject to censorship, are available. On sensitive stories, newspapers tend to follow the editorial lead of the state news agency.
There were 20.8 million internet users by 2016 (Internetlivestats.com). The authorities openly acknowledge that widespread filtering takes place. It targets "pornographic", Islam-related, human rights and political sites.
The press law applies to all forms of electronic publishing.
Saudi Arabia is one of the largest social media markets in the Middle East. The popularity of social media has been boosted by the high rate of smartphone ownership.
With 2.4 million users, Saudi Arabia is home to more than 40% of all active Twitter users in the Arab region, says the Dubai School of Government (2014). Among the top Twitter users are clerics and members of the royal family.
The country accounts for 10 per cent of all Facebook users in the Arab region.
Saudi Arabia has the highest per-capita YouTube use of any country in the world.
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Balotelli made the exchange as his side trailed Real by three goals, and the striker was substituted at the break.
"It is not something I stand for," Rodgers said.
"If you want to do that, do it at the end of the game. It is something I will deal with on Thursday."
Rodgers, who was infuriated when defender Mamadou Sakho did the same with Samuel Eto'o at Chelsea last season, added: "We had an incident last year with a player and that was something we dealt with internally.
"It's something that doesn't happen here and shouldn't happen here."
It completed another miserable night for Balotelli, who disappointed in the 3-2 win against QPR in the Premier League at the weekend.
Rodgers also made a thinly veiled criticism of the Italian after Liverpool were completely outclassed by the Champions League holders, who opened the scoring through Cristiano Ronaldo's 70th Champions League goal.
Balotelli was replaced by Adam Lallana at half-time and Rodgers said: "It was purely tactical - I felt we needed a bit more movement centrally to occupy their centre-halves a bit more and I thought Raheem Sterling would do that.
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"Adam Lallana came on and was tireless in his work rate. That is the minimum here at Liverpool - you need to press, you need to work. Young Adam came on and did that very well."
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti was more laid back about the episode.
"I think it is normal in football to change the shirt at the end," he said.
"It is nothing new. Sometimes the players change their shirt at half-time with the opponent. I don't see a problem."
However, former England international and BBC Radio 5 live summariser Phil Neville said: "There are some things you don't do, when you are 3-0 down in the Champions League. You don't go swapping shirts in full view."
Balotelli was also replaced after 45 minutes while playing for Italy against Uruguay at the World Cup, after picking up a yellow card in the first half.
Italy lost 1-0 to Uruguay, confirming their exit from the tournament and Balotelli later responded to criticism of his performances in Brazil.
Meanwhile, Rodgers defended teenager Sterling, who was the subject of morning headlines after he was pictured at a nightclub the day after England's 1-0 win in Estonia - a match in which he featured only as a substitute after telling manager Roy Hodgson he was tired.
"It is unfortunate for him as a young kid of 19 that six days before a game and on a day off that he can't go out," said Rodgers. "It is obviously a story for some but I think many people will look at it and think there is not a story in it.
"I thought he was terrific against Real Madrid and he is very focused on his work as a young footballer."
Investors took their positive lead from Wall Street where stocks ended higher as they awaited key US jobs figures due later today.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed up 0.6% to 19,435.08 - gaining 0.8% for the week.
The dollar was down to 119.68 yen from 119.77 yen in New York.
Car giant Toyota's shares were up 0.6% after local reports that it is planning to open two new factories in Mexico and China at a cost of $1.25bn (£842m).
Markets in Australia and Hong Kong are closed for the public holiday.
In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite closed at a fresh seven-year high, gaining 1% to 3,863.93 points.
China's benchmark equity index has rallied 4.7% this week driven by expectations of more monetary easing.
China's securities regulator also approved 30 initial public offerings (IPOs) on Thursday, a move that could cool the stock market rally as investors look to move funds from existing stocks.
A private survey also showed that China's services sector expanded in March but growth in employment and new business fell to their lowest in eight months.
The HSBC/Markit China services purchasing managers' index (PMI) was up to 52.3, from February's 52. That's above the 50-point level that separates growth from a contraction in activity.
Despite the thin trade, South Korean shares hit their highest closing level in six and half months and climbed 1.3% for the week.
The benchmark Kospi index closed up 0.8% to 2,045.42 points - its highest finish since 19 September.
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Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrat and UKIP candidates said they believed the problems stem from the lack of a strategic plan.
Lib Dem Steve Webb wanted more locally-based jobs and Labour's Hadleigh Roberts said councils should have more say in transport routes and fares.
Tory Luke Hall wanted to see an M4 link road built while UKIP's Russ Martin wanted a transport referendum.
Four of the five candidates for the constituency took part in the BBC Radio Bristol election debate.
They all agreed congestion was a problem and called for a "more joined up approach".
But, Mr Webb claimed planners do not spend money from developments to address big transport issues and road upgrades are done "piecemeal".
This, he said, meant the "big picture" of congestion was not addressed.
Labour's Hadleigh Roberts said councils should have a "greater say" over the routes public transport firms follow.
Mr Hall said he wanted a new M4 link road built and to "work with First Bus to make sure the routes we already do have are reliable and clean".
Mr Martin said the transport infrastructure in urban and rural areas needed to link together.
"We need local referenda in the affected areas so people have their say - because they are not having their say at the moment," he said.
Green Party candidate Iain Hamilton did not take part in the programme but said private companies running public transport services "should be kept on a tighter rein".
He added services, such as buses, should be run for the benefit of the public.
Candidates in the Thornbury and Yate constituency:
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Frampton defends his crown against Leo Santa Cruz in Las Vegas on Saturday, while Selby's title defence against Jonathan Barros is on the undercard.
Selby has said he would like to face Frampton in Cardiff - but the Northern Irishman is eager for a homecoming.
"That's the dream, to fight at Windsor Park," Frampton told BBC Wales Sport.
"I can retire a happy man if I defend a title at Windsor Park.
"The Principality [Stadium, in Cardiff] is a great stadium but I want to fight in Belfast and I think I'll be in a position after this fight, after beating Leo Santa Cruz, I'll be the one calling the shots."
Frampton's eagerly-anticipated rematch with Santa Cruz tops the bill at Las Vegas' MGM Grand on Saturday.
The undefeated 29-year-old claimed his WBA title and inflicted a first career loss on his Mexican opponent in a thrilling contest in New York in July 2016.
Another Frampton triumph and victory for Selby over Argentine Barros could set up a potential unification bout between the two British fighters.
While Frampton's preference would be Windsor Park - the 18,000-capacity home of Northern Ireland's football team - Selby would rather Cardiff's Principality Stadium, which holds 74,500.
"It would sell better at the Principality Stadium," said the 29-year-old from Barry.
"He's talking about Windsor Park but I think it's a bigger fight than that - it could be 40,000 at the Principality."
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Regardless of the location, both Frampton and Selby are eager for the fight to happen.
The featherweight division is regarded as one of the most competitive at the moment, with the likes of Gary Russell Jr and Abner Mares among the high-profile contenders.
A third encounter between Frampton and Santa Cruz could be a possibility, but the Northern Irishman certainly wants to face Selby at some point.
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"If you look at the champions and the list of opponents, Selby would be the guy who would come to Belfast more than the other guys," Frampton added.
"I've got huge respect for Lee Selby and I think it's the same on his side as well.
"I would love that fight after Santa Cruz."
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The property in The Terrace, Barnes, south-west London, was reportedly undergoing a basement extension when it collapsed at about 11:53 GMT.
Aimee Duffy has been registered at the address for the past four years on the electoral roll, but local estate agents said she had sold it.
The front elevation remains in a precarious position, London Fire Brigade said. No-one has been hurt.
Three people are reported to have left the neighbouring home, the fire brigade said.
The detached Georgian property has six bedrooms, four bathrooms and three reception rooms and sold in May 2014 for £3.5m, according to property site Zoopla.
Duffy is a Welsh singer-song writer who shot to fame in 2008 with the single Mercy and her debut record Rockferry won a Grammy award.
Stephen Beard, who lives nearby, was walking his dog when he saw the building collapsing.
He said: "I was able to get my camera out and take a photograph, which shows the dust blowing up from the collapsed building.
"It was quite dramatic. I was going along for a peaceful walk and then this happens."
Val Sancourt, from the Richmond campaign group Safer Basements, told the BBC there had been a proliferation of basements in the area, many of which had "caused substantial damage."
The group said it was aware of windows being pushed out of alignment, doors jamming, large cracks in walls, a ceiling caving in, flooding and gas pipe leaks, apparently linked to basement extensions.
She said: "We're not saying no basements ever, anywhere. We're not anti-basement per se. We're saying before you put in a basement you need to have had proper hydrological investigations.
"If it can't be proved to be safe then applications should not be granted. It's got to the point in Barnes where everyone, as soon as a house is sold, is terrified."
Denis Betts' high-flying side were one of four top-flight teams to enter the competition at this stage.
Hull KR, who lost in last year's final to Leeds, are at home to Oldham, Wakefield host Sheffield Eagles while Salford Red Devils travel to Hunslet.
The ties will be played on 16 and 17 April.
The remaining eight Super League sides will enter the competition in the next round.
Fifth-round draw
Wakefield Trinity Wildcats v Sheffield Eagles
Hull KR v Oldham Roughyeds
Toulouse Olympique XIII v Leigh Centurions
Rochdale Hornets v Widnes Vikings
Hunslet Hawks v Salford Red Devils
Halifax RLFC v Lock Lane
Batley Bulldogs v Featherstone Rovers
Dewsbury Rams v York City Knights
The 23-year-old joined Tigers on trial in February before initially agreeing a deal for the rest of this term.
The former Leeds Rhinos and London Broncos man made his Castleford debut against Huddersfield Giants in May.
"I'm over the moon to sign here for another two years. It's a great place to be," he told Tigers' club website.
The double world champion had already been banned for doping by the IAAF, athletics' governing body, in April.
The 33-year old previously tested positive in 2007 and served a two-year ban that saw her miss the 2007 World Championships and 2008 Olympic Games.
Lysenko, who now competes under her married name Beloborodova, faces a lifetime suspension from the sport.
"Re-analysis resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance turinabol," a statement from the International Olympic Committee said.
Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk, the silver medallist at London 2012 and a nominee for female European athlete of the year, could now be promoted to gold, which she won at the Rio Olympics in August.
It was a difficult and at times dramatic week. The family of the woman, known as Ms Dhu - her real name is not being used at her family's request - believes she would still be alive had she been white.
Whether Ms Dhu would have died if her skin was a different colour is one of the key questions the inquest at Perth's Central Law Courts is seeking to answer.
But after a week of testimony, where doctors strongly denied accusations of racism, it was announced that cross-examination of police would only take place in March 2016.
A central allegation is that police officers downplayed the seriousness of the infection that killed the 23-year-old while she was in custody in August 2014.
But Coroner Ros Fogliani said the police witness testimonies couldn't take place until March 2016 because the inquest had fallen too far behind schedule.
For Ms Dhu's family, this was a "betrayal".
"It's an insult to the family. It's a massive insult after what they've done to Ms Dhu," her uncle and family spokesman Shaun Harris said.
"By March the police are going to be testifying that they 'don't recall'. We've already heard it all this week and it's been 14 months. Imagine four more months."
The police have made no public comment yet.
This week it was the medical professionals who treated her who presented evidence. All of them denied that race played a role in their decisions.
After being arrested on 2 August 2014 on a warrant for unpaid fines, Ms Dhu was taken into custody at South Hedland Police Station, just outside the remote mining town of Port Hedland.
She soon began to complain of rib pain from an old injury she had re-fractured days before. Notes taken by the attending doctor at South Hedland Health Campus, Dr Anne Lang, attributed the pain to "behavioural gain" in her notes. Ms Dhu was returned to police custody.
The next day Ms Dhu was taken to hospital for a second time, and was this time seen by Dr Vafa Naderi. Again she was returned to custody on the basis that her pain was due to "behavioural issues".
One day later she was dead.
The inquest was shown CCTV footage of police dragging her limp and handcuffed frame to the door of her cell before carrying her by the arms and legs to the back of the vehicle that would take her to hospital for a third time.
The cause of death was severe staphylococcal septicaemia and pneumonia resulting from a broken rib. Nurse Caroline Jones was one of the hospital staff present on the day she died. She told the inquest that she believed Ms Dhu had no pulse when she was wheeled in through the hospital waiting room.
Giving testimony, Dr Lang admitted her notes were "unacceptable". She told that inquest that Ms Dhu had been a difficult patient to get answers from, but at no point did she believe Ms Dhu was "drug-seeking" or "faking it". She did, however, believe that her patient may be exaggerating her symptoms in order to get pain relief.
"I found her gait to be a little bit artificial, perhaps to be a little bit attention-seeking. But that didn't mean that I didn't think she had pain in her chest wall," she told the inquest.
She told the court she was haunted by Ms Dhu's death, but while she often asked herself what she would have done differently, she did not think spending more time with Ms Dhu at the time would have changed her thinking,
The head of the South Hedland Health Campus, Dr Ganesan Sakarapani, denied allegations of institutional racism at his hospital when he appeared before the inquest on Thursday,
"I would categorically reject that," he said. "At the regional and local level, the leadership has cultivated awareness and respect for our indigenous patients.
"We do not have a culture of institutional racism at our hospital," he said, also defending Dr Lang and Dr Naderi.
Dr Sakarapani said it was easy to criticise his doctors with the benefit of hindsight, but stressed they made a decision in a busy emergency room on a long weekend with a patient he understood to be unco-operative.
He did acknowledge that were defects in hospital procedure, but emphasised these were in the process of being addressed.
But earlier in the week, Dr Sandra Thompson, an indigenous health expert, testified that were Ms Dhu "a white, middle class person", more of an effort would have been made to find the cause of her pain.
Ms Dhu's family has no doubt that her race played a role in her death.
"She was treated like a dog," her father said during his testimony on the first day. The family said they would stage a protest on Friday next week.
The inquest will continue from Tuesday next week with more testimony from medical professionals.
The Cardiff Blues player captained his country for the first time against the Barbarians in June and got the nod for the World Cup due to an injury to Matthew Rees.
Warburton will lead Wales against France in the World Cup semi-final in Auckland on Saturday.
"It was something I was concerned with at the start," he admitted.
"When I was asked to do against the Baa-Baas [in June], I couldn't turn it down because I thought it would be a one-off opportunity.
"Later on there was actually a real good chance that I could be captain for the World Cup.
"I did have a chat with Warren about it and Andy McCann the psychologist, who I'm pretty close with.
"I said to them my concerns and things I wasn't comfortable doing, small things like having a room on your own.
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"I'd just rather room with the boys so I could have a chat and it keeps me calm.
"They talked me around and after doing it a few times I've found it so much easier now.
"Being here in New Zealand away from home it's not like the goldfish bowl it is back in Wales. It feels like all the eyes are on the All Blacks.
"Since I've been here it's been pretty easy and all the players have backed me and supported me and it's been an easy transition to be honest.
"Matthew [Rees] did a great job beforehand so I haven't really changed much."
To us it's just Wales v France - it's not a World Cup semi-final. That's how we are going to approach it mentally
Warburton won his first senior cap as a replacement against the United States in 2009, a year after leading Wales Under-20s at the IRB Junior World Championship.
And while Warburton is among the squad's younger generation, the skipper has acknowledged the input of Wales' experienced players in New Zealand.
Seven of the players who will start against the French on Saturday - Shane Williams, James Hook, Mike Phillips, Gethin Jenkins, Huw Bennett, Adam Jones and Alun Wyn Jones - were members of Wales' Grand Slam-winning side in 2008, with two more - Ryan Jones and Stephen Jones - on the bench.
And Warburton says their experience will prove valuable against Marc Lievremont's side at Eden Park.
"There's still a lot of guys there who have got plenty of international experience which is why it's not too daunting," said the 23-year-old, Wales' youngest World Cup skipper.
"They've won Grand Slams, they've played in Heineken Cups and a lot of boys have experienced a high level of rugby already.
"As a captain, guys like Ryan Jones and other senior players do help out and it makes my job a hell of a lot easier."
Wales have only beaten France once during Warren Gatland's reign, a 29-12 win at the Millennium Stadium which secured the Grand Slam in 2008.
But Warburton believes past results will have no bearing on Saturday's game, which will be the 89th meeting between the countries.
"I've been involved in a squad to face France twice now and both times we lost," added Warburton.
"It's a World Cup and like the results have shown so far, I think anything can happen and that's why this game's wide open.
"I don't think history counts for anything when it gets to a semi-final stage of a World Cup.
"To us it's just Wales v France - it's not a World Cup semi final. That's how we are going to approach it mentally.
"Everyone's buzzing with confidence after last week's performance. We're looking forward to the game."
Wales: Leigh Halfpenny (Cardiff Blues); George North (Scarlets), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Jamie Roberts (Cardiff Blues), Shane Williams (Ospreys); James Hook (Perpignan), Mike Phillips (Bayonne); Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Huw Bennett (Ospreys), Adam Jones (Ospreys), Luke Charteris (Dragons), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Dan Lydiate (Dragons) Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues, capt), Toby Faletau (Dragons).
Replacements: Lloyd Burns (Dragons), Paul James (Ospreys), Bradley Davies (Cardiff Blues), Ryan Jones (Ospreys), Lloyd Williams (Cardiff Blues), Stephen Jones (Scarlets), Scott Williams (Scarlets).
France: Maxime Medard; Vincent Clerc, Aurelien Rougerie, Maxime Mermoz, Alexis Palisson; Morgan Parra, Dimitri Yachvili; Jean-Baptiste Poux, William Servat, Nicolas Mas, Pascal Pape, Lionel Nallet, Thierry Dusautoir (capt), Julien Bonnaire, Imanol Harinordoquy.
Replacements: Dimitri Szarzewski, Fabien Barcella, Julien Pierre, Fulgence Ouedraogo, Francois Trinh-Duc, Jean-Marc Doussain, Cedric Heymans.
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Makayah McDermott and Rozanne Cooper died after the car crashed in Penge, south-east London on Wednesday.
Sam Brown, the managing director of his acting agency, described Makayah as "an extremely talented young actor."
Friend Samantha Dobson called Ms Cooper "one of the kindest, most beautiful, caring people you would ever meet".
A 23-year-old man was arrested at the scene and remains in custody.
Three girls were also treated for non-life threatening injuries.
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The Met said the young girls, two aged 13 and one aged eight, were related to Makayah and his aunt, who was a 34-year-old hairdresser.
Post-mortem examinations are due to take place at Princess Royal Hospital.
Makayah had recently auditioned for a part in a television series.
Ms Brown, managing director of the Brown and Mills agency, said: "We are deeply saddened and in shock following the devastating news that Makayah McDermott has lost his life after yesterdays tragic events.
"Makayah was an extremely talented young actor and a joy to be around.
"He had recently auditioned for a role in a new TV series and had been seen for a number of TV commercials. Makayah was a bright young star who had a strong passion and talent for acting.
"We cannot express enough our sadness and our thoughts are with the family at this terrible time."
A victim support fund for those injured in the crash on the Gofundme website had raised more than £3,000 by Thursday afternoon.
Family friend Emma Cameron called the news "devastating" and said Ms Cooper was "a genuinely lovely girl".
"She never had a bad word to say about anybody she was the kindest friendliest warmest person. It's just awful," she added.
Ms Dobson placed a floral tribute to her friend and a card at the scene of the crash.
"Her life was her family and her daughter," she said. "Her unit was her mum, her sister and her nieces and nephews.
"It is just such a waste of life. It is just a case of being totally in the wrong place at the wrong time. It just seems such a waste."
One witness said the car was being chased by two police vehicles when the driver "lost control and ploughed into a family".
The car, which is suspected to have been stolen, struck the group at about 14:05 BST on Lennard Road. It had been pursued by police from nearby Birkbeck Road in Beckenham.
Venissa Vassell described about 20 people lifting the car to free the girls.
One girl, who was taken away by ambulance, was screaming "I can't feel my legs", Ms Vassell said.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating.
Over the past 10 years, 252 members of the public have died following road traffic incidents involving the police in England and Wales, according to the IPCC.
In London there were 498 crashes involving a pursuit by Met officers in 2015-16.
Former Metropolitan Police detective chief inspector Peter Kirkham told BBC Radio London the way to avoid such incidents was to introduce tougher penalties for evading the police.
Mr Kirkham said vehicle pursuits were often a "no win situation" for the police officers involved.
He said the main consideration of police offices involved in pursuits was public safety.
The "primary responsibility" for those hurt as a result of a police chase lay with the driver who had failed to stop, Mr Kirkham said.
The current penalty for failing to stop for police is an unlimited fine, according to the Sentencing Council, but the former police officer said most cases were treated "really leniently" by the courts.
"If we're going to say we don't want the police to pursue [suspects] then we're going to have to put the responsibility back on the driver and invent a new offence of engaging the police in a vehicle pursuit, with a minimum sentence of five years and a lifetime ban from the roads and a maximum sentence of life if they need it," he said.
Luis Suarez was also on target to take the combined tally for him, Messi and Neymar to 100 goals this season in all competitions.
Messi scored his 20th and 21st league goals of the season as Barcelona took their unbeaten run to 36 games.
Munir El Haddadi had opened the scoring early and Suarez got on the scoresheet in the closing stages.
Barcelona took just eight minutes to take the lead as Messi's fine, aerial pass freed Suarez and his cross was tapped home by El Haddadi, who was deputising for the suspended Neymar.
Eibar missed the chance to equalise when an unmarked Gonzalo Escalante volleyed wide from six yards out.
The hosts were punished three minutes before half-time when Messi produced an excellent, low finish to double Barcelona's lead.
They were awarded a penalty 15 minutes from full-time when Ivan Ramis was penalised for handling a Messi cross, and the Argentine sent the spot kick down the middle to make it 3-0.
Suarez added the fourth when he beat defender Ander Capa and scored with a low shot with six minutes to play.
Barcelona also managed their first clean sheet since early February as they closed out victory comfortably.
Second-placed Atletico Madrid are eight points back after beating Valencia 3-1 in the evening game.
Police said Joanne Rand was sitting on a bench in Frogmoor, High Wycombe, on the afternoon of 3 June when there was a fight between a group of men.
A bottle of liquid, thought to be an alkaline substance, was kicked and went over her.
Ms Rand, 47, of Marlow, was discharged from hospital but was readmitted last Friday and died on Wednesday. A murder investigation is under way.
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A post-mortem is yet to take place.
Police said the bottle of liquid had yet to be recovered.
Det Supt Paul Hayles said the bottle might have been discarded nearby in or with a "dark-coloured shoulder bag".
The bottle is described as white with an orange or red hazard label on the side.
Det Supt Hayles warned members of the public not to touch the bottle.
James Webb, from Macclesfield, Cheshire, was a civil engineering student at Plymouth University.
Officers pulled Mr Webb from the water at Sutton Harbour early on Sunday morning but he died shortly afterwards.
A police spokesman said officers were treating the death as "unexplained but not suspicious". The spokesman said Mr Webb's family had been informed.
Det Insp Ian Reid said: "This is a tragic incident and we would like to offer our condolences to the family.
"We are trying to establish the circumstances surrounding James' death."
Dr Maureen Powers, Dean of Students at Plymouth University, said: "We were deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of one of our students.
"Our thoughts first and foremost are with his family, friends, and those closest to him.
"James was a promising student who was close to graduating from his MEng Civil Engineering course just next year, and will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
"We are doing everything possible to support those affected at this difficult and incredibly sad time."
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors.
Kohlhepp admitted killing four people at a motorcycle shop in 2003, and a married couple on his property in 2015.
In 2016 he was arrested for kidnapping a woman and killing her boyfriend.
As part of his plea agreement, which allowed him to avoid facing the death penalty, he also received a 30-year sentence for criminal sexual conduct and a 30 years for kidnapping.
Kohlhepp, 44, is a registered sex offender who had built a successful real estate business in Woodruff, South Carolina, 80 miles northwest of the state capital of Columbia.
In November 2016, investigators found a woman locked inside a metal shipping container on his 95-acre estate, after receiving a signal from her mobile phone.
It was described at the time by Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright as "a hellish place to be locked in hot weather. No lights, no windows, no air flow".
Kala Brown, who met Kohlhepp after he offered her work through Facebook, told officers that he had shot and killed her boyfriend in front of her.
She had been kept in chains for more than two months as Kohlhepp tried to convince her to fall in love with him, she described to US media.
On Friday, the Spartanburg County judge summoned the relatives of the victims in court, where they learned of the plea deal.
Police discovered human remains on his property belonging to her boyfriend, Charles David Carver, 32, as well as married couple Meagan Coxie, 25, and Johnny Coxie, 29, who had been buried there for more than a year.
The Coxies, who were identified by their tattoos, had a newborn child. They too had been hired to work on Kohlhepp's property.
During sentencing, Cindy Coxie - Johnny's mother - called the killer's actions "incomprehensible evil".
"Ultimately, good will triumph over evil," she continued, "God has put his finger on this. God has put a period."
Kohlhepp also confessed to killing four people at Superbike Motorsports in Spartanburg County after becoming enraged by an employee who mocked his experience as a biker.
Scott Ponder, Beverly Guy, Brian Lucas and Chris Sherbert were all shot and killed.
Court records show he had previously served a 15-year sentence in Arizona for kidnapping and raping his neighbour when he was a teenager.
"This is a big day, a long time coming," said Sheriff Wright, after the sentence was handed down on Friday.
The move was seen as a clear signal by the bank's new boss, Haruhiko Kuroda, that he was willing to spend heavily to achieve an inflation target of 2%.
The bank said it would increase its purchase of government bonds by 50 trillion yen ($520bn; £350bn) per year.
That is the equivalent of almost 10% of Japan's annual gross domestic product.
The bank added that it would buy longer-term government bonds as well as riskier assets.
"The previous approach of incremental easing wasn't enough to pull Japan out of deflation and achieve 2% inflation in two years," Mr Kuroda said.
"This time, we took all necessary steps to achieve the target."
Japan's economy has been hurt by a variety of factors, not least decades of deflation or falling prices.
Falling prices discourage people from spending and companies from investing, and that has trapped Japan in a cycle of sluggish growth and recession.
Given the slowdown in Japan's export sector in recent years, reviving domestic demand has become ever more crucial to spurring a fresh wave of economic growth in the country.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has also said that stoking inflation is key to boosting domestic consumption.
Under pressure from the government, the central bank had doubled its inflation target to 2%, earlier this year.
Analysts said that while achieving that target was an uphill battle, the central bank's policies indicated that it was moving in the right direction.
"Achieving 2% inflation in two years remains quite difficult. But the possibility of that target being achieved is now much higher than before with these measures," said Yoshimasa Maruyama, chief economist as Itochu Economic Research Institute.
The yen fell against the US dollar, and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index rose 2.2% on the central bank's decision, indicating markets were reacting positively to the extent of the stimulus measures.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was elected last year, has been pushing for the Bank of Japan to do more to help the economy.
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It's not just the volume of new money that is significant; it is where the new money will go.
Mr Kuroda is targeting long-term government bonds and non-government assets such as ETFs - Exchange Traded Funds.
Buying long-term government bonds should have the effect of pushing down long-term interest rates, which should make it extremely cheap to borrow in Japan over a much longer period of time.
That should encourage companies and people to borrow and invest in things such as real estate.
Buying ETFs is a way for the central bank to push money directly into the stock market, supporting and increasing the value of assets.
Again this should give companies an incentive to spend and invest.
There is one other effect of Mr Kuroda's policies he is less likely to talk about.
When it becomes very cheap to borrow long-term it can boost the so-called "carry-trade".
This is where traders borrow yen at very low interest rates and use it buy currencies in countries where rates are higher.
This will have the effect of further weakening the value of the yen.
That is good for Japanese exporters. But Tokyo is already under fire in the US, accused by some of currency manipulation.
The last thing Mr Kuroda wants is to set off a currency war.
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His plan, a combination of big government spending as well as an aggressive central bank asset buying programme, has been dubbed Abenomics.
Mr Kuroda, who was nominated by Mr Abe for the top job at the central bank, is seen as sharing those views, which are a departure from the BOJ's previous stance.
On Thursday, the bank said it would increase its purchases of Japanese government bonds and extended the average maturity of the bonds it purchases from three years to seven years.
The bank added that it would also buy relatively riskier assets such as exchange-traded funds and real estate trust funds.
The decisions passed with unanimous votes from the board of the central bank, despite earlier reports that Mr Kuroda may not win the backing of his colleagues for the measures. The strength of support is an indication that this would mark the beginning of Mr Kuroda's shift towards more aggressive monetary easing.
Mr Kuroda has previously said that he would do "whatever it takes" to drive growth.
Analysts said the moves by the central bank indicated that he was delivering on the earlier rhetoric.
"Kuroda made good on his promise of boosting monetary easing in terms of both volume and types of assets that the bank purchases," said Junko Nishioka, chief Japan economist at RBS Securities in Tokyo.
"Today's decision was far more than market expectations given some scepticism among market players beforehand that the BOJ may not decide on aggressive policy steps this week."
However, some observers have expressed concern that this new strategy may leave Japan, which already has the largest debt pile of any industrialised nation, even more in the red.
But while her likes and ambitions are not unusual, her journey to Northern Ireland has been anything but ordinary.
She is one of about 500 refugees from the conflict in Syria who have settled in Northern Ireland since late 2015.
She is also one of more than 20 Syrian children who get extra help with their education at an after-school club at the Conway Education Centre in Belfast.
The centre runs homework support classes for refugee children four days a week.
Local volunteers, including teachers, give up their time to help with homework, language study and exam revision.
Mona arrived in Belfast with her parents and three younger sisters more than a year ago, after spending three years in a refugee camp in Jordan.
"When I came to here, I didn't have any language, I didn't speak any English," she said.
"I couldn't understand my friends and what they were talking about, and the accent is important.
"So I tried to learn the accent too, so that's now easy to me."
"I now speak English better than Arabic!"
Mona definitely speaks with a Belfast inflection in her voice, but her family underwent a harrowing journey after fleeing Syria.
"I went walking to Jordan and stayed for a couple of days in the desert," Mona said.
"They were long days with no water, no food, no anything."
"I have three sisters and they were crying and wanting water."
Elsewhere in Conway Education Centre, 16-year-old Omran Al-Haj-Kadour is getting help preparing for his double award science GCSE.
Now a student at Corpus Christi College in west Belfast, he arrived in the city a year ago after spending three years in a refugee camp in Lebannon.
He originally comes from north Syria, not far from Aleppo.
Like Mona, he knew no English when he arrived and has worked hard to learn the language.
"The English language is very hard and it took me a time to learn it, you know," he said.
"It took me about four months to be able to speak English.
"I studied about 12 hours every day from about eight in the morning until nine at night.
"I studied at school and after school I got English lessons and then I watched teachers teach English on Youtube."
Omran loves his life in Northern Ireland and wants to be an engineer.
"I do my GCSEs this year, and I get a lot of help in school from my teachers and my principal.
"I come to Conway to get help in my homework and to improve my English."
Pauline Kersten is the manager of Conway Education Centre and she marvels at the determination and resilience of the refugee children.
"They are so hungry for learning and they are happy to be here," she said.
"They're eager, they're keen, they're intelligent, and they want to do their homework and they want to do it well.
"Many people don't realise what they've come through - they've fled for their lives."
She added: "They work so hard to learn the language as it's key to integration and to getting on in school.
"And they work so hard to get to know the culture.
"They want to integrate and they have overcome so many obstacles to get here.
"These children have seen things that nobody should ever see, but they are here and they are trying to make a life for themselves."
Some of the children's parents also come to Conway Education Centre to learn English.
Omran, meanwhile, is studying for his science GCSE alongside his younger brother, who is also a pupil at Corpus Christi.
But, in some ways, he thinks Northern Ireland pupils do not realise how good they have it.
"I find school here very, very easy - easier than Syria," he laughs.
"The school is Syria was very, very hard."
The psychology project is examining self-esteem and feelings of judging or being judged as part of the pressures women can face.
Dr Sarah Riley said they were looking at the "social process" of body image.
One student is collating real-time reports from fellow undergraduates.
Audrie Schneller asked them to send her a text when they "received" or "gave" a look from or to other women.
She said: "When the other students discussed their experiences it made them realise how often they looked or felt looked at in a judgmental way. They were really surprised to see what a critical culture we live and participate in.
"Even though I expected it, it's still shocking to see the pressure young women put on one another."
Dr Riley said women could take small steps to reduce feelings of self-doubt when feeling judged, which can trigger body issues and potentially lead to certain eating disorders.
"Try and assume the best. For example, looks aren't necessarily negative, they could be admiring, or simply someone lost in thought," she said.
"Remember to give yourself and other women positive looks and comments, and enjoy a compliment if it comes your way, and challenge an idea that dressing up is where women's power lies."
The live video stream will be made up of original programming as well as feeds from Bloomberg bureaus.
The deal builds on the live-streaming deals Twitter has done with others that spreads content via the social network.
The deal could also help Twitter compete more with giants such as Google and Facebook, which already make a lot of money from video ads.
Bloomberg's chief executive Justin Smith said the video stream would be "broader in focus" than its existing output.
He said it would build on the habits of many Twitter users who send tweets as they watch live events.
"Viewers have already embraced a multi-stream experience with live events and marrying those experiences seemed like a very powerful thing to offer to consumers," he told the Wall Street Journal.
Twitter's chief operating officer Anthony Noto said the stream would be designed for mobile audiences so people can focus on it when they see something interesting to them.
The deal builds on other efforts Twitter has made to beef up the live video streaming available via its service. In the first three months of 2017, Twitter broadcast about 800 hours of live video. Many of those streams were connected to specific events.
Neither Twitter nor Bloomberg would be drawn on the terms of the deal. The ad-supported, 24-hour service is due to be working by the autumn.
The Gunners trailed 3-2 with seven minutes to go before Aaron Ramsey and Giroud swung the game back in the home side's favour at a euphoric Emirates Stadium.
Alexandre Lacazette headed the Gunners ahead 94 seconds into his top-flight debut, only for Shinji Okazaki to nod in an equaliser just two minutes later.
Vardy then slid the visitors ahead from Marc Albrighton's cross, before Danny Welbeck drew Arsenal level at the end of a pulsating opening half.
Leicester took the lead again when Vardy headed in Riyad Mahrez's corner before Arsene Wenger made an inspired double substitution which sparked Arsenal's comeback.
Substitute Ramsey smashed in an angled drive - from a corner which was won after Mesut Ozil handled in the build-up - before Giroud showed athleticism and strength to meet Granit Xhaka's corner.
Giroud's days at Arsenal appeared to be numbered following the arrival of fellow France striker Lacazette from Lyon for a club-record £46.5m fee.
And Wenger revealed after Friday's win that Giroud, who has scored 97 goals in 231 appearances since joining from Montpellier in 2012, could have left the Gunners this summer.
"At one stage I opened the door for him as I knew I had many strikers, and in the end he decided to stay," said Wenger.
"He doesn't want to leave and I'm happy he wants to stay."
The 30-year-old wasted no time in proving his worth with another vital goal after coming on as a substitute.
Giroud offers a different, more physical option for Wenger, but is hoping for a more substantial role at the club.
Since the start of last season, he has scored seven Premier League goals when coming off the bench - three more than any other player in the same period.
"I prefer to be on the pitch as much as I can but I want to help the team reach the targets," he said.
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Arsenal started the new Premier League season having won just one of their previous five opening matches - all of which were also home fixtures.
In the build-up to Friday's game Wenger repeatedly stressed the importance of beginning with a positive result against Leicester - and the Gunners appeared to have listened to their manager as they made the dream start.
Lacazette was perfectly placed to take advantage of Wes Morgan misjudging Mohamed Elneny's cross, flicking in a low header to become the fastest-scoring debutant in Premier League history.
The joy did not last long, however. Leicester exploited sloppiness by the Gunners to go ahead, leading to murmurings of discontent among the home crowd.
Arsenal's failure to finish in the top four of the Premier League for the first time in 20 years last season, not to mention the criticism Wenger has received from some sections of the Gunners support, meant the Frenchman could ill-afford to begin with a defeat.
And the mood ebbed and flowed inside the Emirates - with some of the familiar grumblings of discontent evident.
The atmosphere turned dark among the home fans after Vardy's first, the audible frustration subsiding when Welbeck calmly rolled in Saed Kolasinac's cut-back, only to return again when Vardy restored the Foxes lead.
Wenger looked on anxiously from the dugout, eventually appearing on the touchline when he introduced Ramsey and Giroud after 67 minutes.
Within 20 minutes both players had scored - and the mood completely changed - as Arsenal avoided losing their opening fixture for the fourth time in five years.
Leicester manager Craig Shakespeare talked in his pre-match interview about the Foxes knowing their counter-attacking strengths and trying to use them to good effect against Arsenal's "fashionable" back three.
That is exactly what they did.
The visitors found joy down the flanks, exposing the Gunners' familiar defensive failings through Vardy's sharp movement and quick balls forward.
Their rapid breaks were reminiscent of their title-winning side of two seasons ago, as was their clinical finishing: the Foxes scored with each of their three efforts on target.
Unfortunately for the 2015-16 champions, it was their own lapses of concentration which could not keep Arsenal out at the other end.
Led by captain Wes Morgan and new signing Harry Maguire, Leicester remained resolute in the second half until the pressure from Arsenal - who had 27 attempts at goal - eventually told.
"Scoring three goals away from home is a positive and we'll get back on the training field to make sure we sort the problems out," said Vardy, who turned down a move to the Gunners last summer.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger:
"We know defensively we can do better but overall we produced a top-quality game.
"When the substitutes came on they had enough quality to make the difference.
"I'm convinced that overall this kind of game can strengthen the belief. When you're in difficult situations you're reminded you've done it before so can do it again."
Leicester manager Craig Shakespeare:
"We spoke about being compact and being a threat with the pace of Vardy. We executed that well. We're disappointed to score three and come away with a defeat.
"When teams make substitutes just before corners it's confusing. I'm disappointed with the handball in the build up, but once the corner's given you have to defend it better. I don't know whether it was lack of concentration or game management.
The rest of the opening Premier League weekend, of course...
After that, Arsenal go to Stoke City - a place where they have struggled in recent years, winning just one of their past seven trips - on Saturday, 19 August (17:30 BST).
Leicester return home as they welcome newly-promoted Brighton on the same day (15:00 BST).
Match ends, Arsenal 4, Leicester City 3.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 4, Leicester City 3.
Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Granit Xhaka with a headed pass.
Wes Morgan (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Wes Morgan (Leicester City).
Offside, Arsenal. Sead Kolasinac tries a through ball, but Mesut Özil is caught offside.
Offside, Arsenal. Alexandre Lacazette tries a through ball, but Theo Walcott is caught offside.
Foul by Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal).
Danny Simpson (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Granit Xhaka (Arsenal).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Leicester City. Demarai Gray replaces Marc Albrighton.
Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daniel Amartey (Leicester City).
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Goal! Arsenal 4, Leicester City 3. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Granit Xhaka with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Kasper Schmeichel.
Attempt saved. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Olivier Giroud.
Goal! Arsenal 3, Leicester City 3. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Granit Xhaka following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Danny Simpson.
Substitution, Leicester City. Kelechi Iheanacho replaces Matty James.
Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) header from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Granit Xhaka with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Wilfred Ndidi.
Attempt blocked. Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Granit Xhaka.
Foul by Sead Kolasinac (Arsenal).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Arsenal. Theo Walcott replaces Danny Welbeck.
Attempt missed. Mesut Özil (Arsenal) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the left. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Attempt blocked. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Héctor Bellerín.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Christian Fuchs.
Attempt blocked. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.
Substitution, Leicester City. Daniel Amartey replaces Shinji Okazaki.
Attempt blocked. Mesut Özil (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alexandre Lacazette.
Attempt saved. Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alexandre Lacazette with a cross.
Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matty James (Leicester City).
Substitution, Arsenal. Olivier Giroud replaces Rob Holding.
Richard Vevar, 64, of Wrexham, denied inciting a boy to indecently assault another and physical assault while working at Bryn Alyn Community, a firm which ran children's homes.
A jury at Mold Crown Court found him not guilty of both counts on Tuesday.
He said the acquittals had ended a period of "hell".
Operation Pallial was set up by the National Crime Agency after allegations emerged from children aged between six and 19 who had been at care homes across north Wales between 1953 and 1995.
Mr Vevar told the court during the proceedings the allegations - which dated as far back as 1978 - were rubbish.
Speaking after the hearing, he said: "This has been hell on earth for me - a massive injustice bringing me to court.
"It has destroyed my life completely," he added. "It has driven me to have to take anti-psychotic drugs."
Mr Vevar, who has taken early retirement due to ill-health, criticised Operation Pallial, saying: "There are a lot of innocent people being persecuted."
The crowds mingle in the sunshine, kids queue for ice-cream, adults for fish and chips; young Asian women in saris or headscarves enjoy the fairground rides and shirtless men with dogs on chains watch performers on temporary stages.
It is a tradition that dates back to Oldham's days of industrial greatness. Before World War One, the town produced more cotton than France and Germany combined. By the 1960s and 70s, more than 300 cotton mills working day and night had pulled in immigrant workers from across the Asian sub-continent.
"This was a brilliant place for a young immigrant in the 1970s," Riaz Ahmad told me. He came here from Pakistan in 1974 at the age of 21, and has been a Labour councillor for much of the last 25 years.
"The town was full of noise and smoke from the chimneys. The mayoress's chain of office has 365 diamonds - one for each of the cotton mills that operated here."
When the world was buying cotton, Oldham thrived, a genuine beneficiary of a global market. But then the world started making cotton, and much more cheaply; Oldham's decline was as sudden as it was dramatic. The tide of globalisation had turned. This year Oldham was named, by the Office for National Statistics, the most deprived town in England.
The townscape is still dominated by those famous old mills. But many are derelict, their windows smashed, their roofs stripped of copper and lead, water leaking into what was their immense production halls.
Throughout, Oldham remained a Labour fortress. Though Winston Churchill was once the town's Liberal MP, Labour have been winning elections here hands down for as long as anyone can remember. But in June, Oldham, like most of post-industrial England, voted decisively to leave the EU, in defiance of Labour's pro-Remain stance.
"I'd always voted Labour," Marlene Nurse, a retired schoolteacher told me. "But then we got a leaflet through the door from UKIP. We didn't know anything about that party so we went along to their public meeting. [My husband Ian and I] met Paul Nuttall [UKIP deputy leader] there. It was an eye-opener. He was talking common sense.
"We'd never heard anything like it from the Labour Party or the Conservatives. I thought - this is what we want. From then on we were committed."
In 2005, UKIP polled less than 3% in Oldham; in a parliamentary by-election this year in Oldham West and Royton, it polled 23% - propelling the party into second place.
Oldham has drawn a new wave of migrants since EU enlargement in 2004.
"Lots of east Europeans have been sent here because the housing is cheap and the rents are low," Marlene Nurse told me. "The media try to say UKIP supporters are racist, but it's not true. We are ordinary, decent, honourable people.
"Nigel Farage gets a terrible time in the media, he's barely allowed to finish his sentence before the interviewers cut him off. But if you actually listen to what he says, he makes sense - common sense."
"I am not complacent about this threat," says Riaz Ahmad. "We will not sleepwalk into that. We are working in the estates to hold onto our support. But UKIP are a one-agenda party, and that issue is now resolved [by the EU referendum].
"So what has UKIP got to offer? They'll have to reinvent themselves, so we'll see what they come up with."
The EU referendum result revealed a profound divide in British society. It is not the traditional divide, between Conservative and Labour, but one that cuts through both major UK parties.
It is as though the Britain that thrived under globalisation and open markets, the Britain that voted to stay in the EU, failed to notice that another Britain had been incubating for decades in the dereliction to which the once proud industrial heartlands have been reduced since the 1970s.
An entrenched hostility to the EU has been building in that second Britain in direct proportion to the decline of its industrial base.
The vote on 23 June was, in Oldham and towns like it, a revolt against globalisation and a revolt against open markets. But how much was it also a revolt by people who have always voted Labour?
Real votes in real elections are still going Labour's way in Oldham. But the EU referendum has shifted something in the alignment of political loyalties in the old industrial heartlands.
Anti-EU and anti-Westminster sentiment emerges from it emboldened. Labour still has the numbers; but UKIP has the energy, the momentum, and a renewed sense of its own legitimacy as the authentic voice of those left behind in a globalised economy,
"If I were a Labour MP or councillor here in Oldham, should I be scared?" I asked Marlene Nurse. "Oh I hope so," she said, and laughed. "I certainly hope so!"
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Mark Keary, head of Bethnal Green Academy, told MPs it was still not clear how they had been radicalised.
GCSE pupils Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum left in February to join the so-called Islamic State group.
Mr Keary said efforts to prevent radicalisation had to keep pace as militants' recruitment tactics changed.
Giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Mr Keary said the school had come under "huge scrutiny from counter-terrorism, the police... in a long-running inquiry" into the girls' radicalisation.
He said the inquiry had concluded the investigations would be moving elsewhere but "further down the line we are still no clearer what the agents of that change [the radicalisation] were."
He said the school had been fully engaged with the Prevent strategy from the summer of 2014, adding that what had happened had taken "many agencies by surprise".
"We are hugely concerned. We have looked into every aspect of our work, we have looked closely at what we as a school could or should have done that would have been different."
Both Mr Keary and former deputy head Alison Brannick said Prevent training for teachers had focused on "the stereotype of the angry young man", which none of the girls had fitted.
He added: "We were quite focused through the Prevent strategy on looking for symptoms of radicalisation that on this occasion simply had not materialised."
Mr Keary said Prevent had already changed since February and must continue to evolve.
"Any legislative response or any strategy is in danger of becoming outmoded almost instantly because tactics for recruitment and radicalisation appear to shift and change in response...
"It needs to be very regularly reviewed across the board.
"We cannot be caught in the same situation when we imagine that the radicalisation process and those who represent a threat to our young people will simply stand still.
"What we've got to learn how to do is to adapt and be for once proactive in relation to this.
"The Prevent strategy, if it had one original flaw that perhaps lingers at this point is that it is predominantly reactive."
Mr Keary said the strategy would need commitment from school communities and staff, with work across the curriculum to educate young people to become more critical in their thinking.
The committee also heard evidence from Sara Khan, of the organisation Inspire, about the group's work within the Muslim community to challenge radical preachers, and from the advocacy group Cage.
Scottish Borders Council said it was designed to help it advance plans for the scheme in Duns.
The survey on the £1.65m project is available via the local authority's website.
Plans were lodged for the museum last week but the council said it now wanted public feedback.
Councillor Vicky Davidson said: "I am delighted that the planning application has now been lodged and we've reached another milestone towards providing a bigger and better Jim Clark museum.
"As part of developing the wider museum we would like to hear ideas from both local people and visitors about what they think about the current memorial room and what new exhibits, fixtures or events they would like to see featured in the new museum in future.
"I would encourage anyone with an interest to take this short survey and help shape the proposals for a museum that will not only attract even more visitors to the area but which will also do justice to Jim Clark's incredible achievements."
The firm already employs about 1,500 staff at its office in the Titanic Quarter.
The office support jobs will pay salaries of about £35,000.
First Minister Peter Robinson said: "This announcement by one of the most prestigious financial companies in the world reflects the firm's confidence in its Belfast operations."
He added: "The financial services sector is at the heart of the economy and the decisions and transactions that take place in Belfast will impact across the globe."
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said: "Citi's presence here over the past 10 years has played a major role in developing the financial services sector, both in providing jobs and training.
"This reinvestment will create much needed highly-skilled jobs, and also increase the skills base of the financial services sector by introducing specialist investment banking functions."
Invest NI is offering grants of about £6m.
The firm first invested in Northern Ireland in 2004.
Its Belfast operation provides support such as legal and technology services to company operations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
James Bardrick of Citi said: "The success of our current operations in Belfast was an important factor behind this latest decision to create another 600 jobs.
"The supply of talent in Northern Ireland, particularly at graduate level, is impressive and, coupled with the support from Invest NI and the Department of Employment and Learning, it makes this region highly attractive to a global company like Citi seeking the best location for growth."
Labour won seven Scottish seats in last week's election - six more than in 2015 - and narrowly lost out in several more.
The party had held 41 Scottish seats before its collapse two years ago, when the SNP won 56 of the 59 seats.
As he welcomed the new Scottish Labour MPs to Westminster, Mr Corbyn said they would "soon be joined by a lot more".
Labour won 56 fewer seats than the Conservatives across the UK but did considerably better than expected as it denied Theresa May a majority in the House of Commons.
With Mrs May attempting to secure a controversial arrangement with Northern Ireland's DUP that would see its MPs back her minority government, Mr Corbyn has said he believes a second election could be held later this year or early next.
As he congratulated his Scottish MPs on their "fantastic result", Mr Corbyn predicted they would "soon be joined by a lot more Labour MPs from Scotland".
He added: "Scotland has elected Labour MPs in good numbers and has voted Labour in good numbers and I am very enthusiastic and very optimistic about the future.
"Our campaigning hasn't stopped, it carries on and as soon as this government finally recognises that it cannot govern then there will be another election and we will be back in bigger numbers still."
Some senior figures within the Scottish party - including leader Kezia Dugdale and Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray - had openly criticised Mr Corbyn's leadership ahead of the election.
Ms Dugdale backed Owen Smith when he challenged Mr Corbyn for the party leadership, with the Scottish Labour leader arguing that her UK counterpart was unable to "unite our party and lead us into government".
And Mr Murray - who resigned as shadow Scottish secretary in protest at Mr Corbyn's leadership - tweeted earlier this year that Mr Corbyn was "destroying the party".
Mr Murray, who had been the party's only MP in Scotland - joked that he was "no longer Lonely Murray" as he appeared alongside Mr Corbyn and his six new colleagues.
Insisting that Scottish Labour was "back", Mr Murray said the party's new contingent of MPs would "take the fight" to both the Conservatives and the SNP.
Mr Corbyn has still to announce his new shadow cabinet, so it is not yet known which - if any - of his Scottish MPs will be appointed as shadow Scottish secretary.
The post had been filled by English MP Dave Anderson after Mr Murray's resignation, but Mr Anderson stood down as an MP ahead of the election.
The authority will freeze council tax next year, but will cut 300 jobs and many services to balance the books.
They include closing Splott pool, selling Flat Holm Island in the Bristol Channel and ending the Big Weekend event.
There will be more money for schools and social services.
The Labour-led cabinet said cuts of £22m had to be found in the next budget and it needed to find £110m of savings during the lifetime of the current council.
It outlined some of its proposals in a full council meeting on Thursday evening.
Russell Goodway, who holds the finance portfolio in the Cardiff cabinet, told colleagues: The picture is far from rosy. I am not looking to put a gloss on it or spin. There is no escaping the pain."
Delivering proposals for the 2013-2014 budget, he said some service areas will see budgets cut by 90% by 2021.
He added that there would be "serious collateral damage", with jobs hit - including 300 post closures in the next year.
Savings that will be made include:
Mr Goodway said that the council did not intend to close the city's riding school, which had been feared.
Instead, it was working to find an alternative operator to run the riding school on its 30-acre site in Pontcanna.
Staff at the riding centre - who protested outside the meeting - claimed they were sent letters telling them that the school would close on 1 April.
But Mr Goodway told councillors that the school would remain open until a new partner was found.
He also said that there would be an increase in spending for schools - but it would mean they would have to buy some of the services the authority currently provides for them.
Social services would also get an increase in their total budget, he added.
The council did have the option of increasing council tax to bring in more money, but Labour in Cardiff pledged to freeze council tax during last year's elections.
Both Conservative and Liberal Democrat opposition councillors said they would wait to see "the devil in the detail" before coming to any firm decisions on the budget proposals.
But the Plaid Cymru group leader, Neil McEvoy, said the proposals were being delivered by a "right-wing Labour council" who were nothing more than "red Tories".
The budget will be put to a full council meeting at the end of February.
Tope Obadeyi scored with a looping shot which evaded the Hamilton goalkeeper Michael McGovern.
Dougie Imrie had earlier seen a close-range shot cleared off the line by Conrad Balatoni, while Josh Magennis had gone close for Kilmarnock.
The result will ease some of the pressure which has been building on the Kilmarnock manager Gary Locke.
Hamilton's poor run of form continues - they have only managed one win from their last 10 matches.
Right from the kick-off Hamilton opted to test the Kilmarnock defence, Ali Crawford with the attempt from the centre-circle. It was on target but Jamie MacDonald saved comfortably.
Obadeyi then loped forward for Kilmarnock, but his shot from the edge of the box was well off target.
The much-maligned Killie defence then held up fairly well to some sustained Hamilton pressure.
There was a soft claim from Lucas Tagliapietra for a penalty after a corner. The giant defender appeared to be manhandled in the box, but nothing was given.
There were signs of life from Kilmarnock in the attacking third as Magennis fired over the bar, and McHattie shot wide of the post.
Magennis then jinked into the box but his near-post shot was batted away by McGovern in the Accies goal. Obadeyi did similar shortly after.
At the other end Darian Mackinnon cut a dangerous ball across the penalty area, but unfortunately for Hamilton there were no takers.
Conrad Balatoni then made the clearance of the season off the goal-line. Dougie Imrie fired in a fierce shot from eight yards which had MacDonald beaten, but there was Balatoni on the line to repel the ball with a superb clearing header.
Five minutes into the second-half it looked like Magennis would give Kilmarnock the lead as his volley from McHattie's cross seemed destined to nestle in the top corner. Somehow McGovern managed to get a glove to it and tip the shot over the bar.
There then followed a lengthy delay as Tagliapietra was stretchered from the field after picking up an injury at a corner. He was replaced by Jamie Sendles-White.
There was a real sense that either side could win the match, and the game became increasingly stretched in the second-half.
And it was Kilmarnock who made the breakthrough. The ball found Obadeyi in the box and his shot into the turn looped up and over McGovern and into the net.
The freaky effort was scored right in front of the Kilmarnock fans and they celebrated with gusto.
Hamilton tried to respond with a free-kick into the box which found the head of Ziggy Gordon, but his effort was turned around the post by MacDonald.
Kilmarnock almost took a two goal advantage after neat play involving talented youngster Greg Kiltie on the edge of the box. Kiltie angled a shot towards the corner of the net but it was well saved by McGovern.
Match ends, Hamilton Academical 0, Kilmarnock 1.
Second Half ends, Hamilton Academical 0, Kilmarnock 1.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Dale Carrick replaces Greg Kiltie.
Mark O'Hara (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card.
Carlton Morris (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tope Obadeyi (Kilmarnock).
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Aaron Splaine replaces Adam Frizzell.
Attempt saved. Ziggy Gordon (Hamilton Academical) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Kevin McHattie.
Carlton Morris (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tope Obadeyi (Kilmarnock).
Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kevin McHattie (Kilmarnock).
Attempt saved. Greg Kiltie (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Carlton Morris (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Smith (Kilmarnock).
Attempt saved. Eamonn Brophy (Hamilton Academical) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Jamie Sendles-White (Hamilton Academical).
Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Michael McGovern.
Attempt saved. Greg Kiltie (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Steven Smith (Kilmarnock).
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Daniel Redmond replaces Dougie Imrie.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Jesus Garcia Tena.
Jesus Garcia Tena (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jesus Garcia Tena (Hamilton Academical).
Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Eamonn Brophy (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Jamie MacDonald.
Attempt saved. Ziggy Gordon (Hamilton Academical) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Steven Smith (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Smith (Kilmarnock).
Attempt missed. Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Eamonn Brophy replaces Louis Longridge.
Carlton Morris (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Slater (Kilmarnock).
Goal! Hamilton Academical 0, Kilmarnock 1. Tope Obadeyi (Kilmarnock) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Josh Magennis.
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Kilmarnock recorded their first victory in over two months to edge out Hamilton Academical.
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A 20-year-old man was arrested in east Belfast where one woman was found.
Another man, 28, was arrested in Banbridge where three women were rescued.
Det Chief Insp Mark Bell said: "The arrests are part of an extensive investigation into an organised criminal gang with eastern European links."
The searches were carried out at properties on the Newtownards Road in east Belfast and at Kenlis Street in Banbridge on Thursday.
The men were arrested on suspicion of human trafficking for sexual exploitation, controlling prostitution and money laundering.
They are currently in custody.
A related search was conducted in London by the Metropolitan Police but no victims were found and no one was arrested.
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The 26-year-old, who became well known as Lady Sybil Crawley, will play Ophelia in the production at the Almeida Theatre in London.
Sherlock actor Andrew Scott will play Hamlet in the 400-year-old Shakespeare play while Juliet Stevenson will play Hamlet's mother Gertrude.
Robert Icke will direct the production, which opens in February.
Brown Findlay has also previously appeared in Jamaica Inn, Misfits and The Outcast, with film credits including Winter's Tale and The Riot Club.
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The women were assaulted as they walked home after a night out in Portsmouth at 23:30 BST on Easter Sunday.
The victims, who were in a group of eight, say they were set upon by seven men who shouted homophobic abuse before kicking and punching them.
One woman lost seven teeth when she was punched in the face.
The women, who wish to remain anonymous, said others in their group were punched, kicked and stamped during the assault on Kingston Road.
In a joint statement, they said: "This was a brutal homophobic attack on innocent women trying to get home after a night out."
The group said they were singing "I'm in the mood for dancing" as they walked home from a karaoke night in the North End area of the city when a man ran towards one of them, a 25 year old, and punched her in the temple.
When her 23-year-old friend tried to come to her aid, she was hit in the face, knocking out seven of her teeth and breaking her jaw.
A 32-year-old woman "was quickly surrounded by seven men, she tried to cover her face while being hit and grabbed as another woman pleaded for them to stop," the women said.
"Once they had finished attacking [her], they threw her against the shutters on which she was previously beaten." She was left with extensive bruising to her breasts and upper body.
The victims said the men then attacked a 27-year-old woman who had tried to intervene. "She was kicked to the floor, following this her head was stamped on," they said.
Another woman, 21, was punched, leaving her with a black eye.
The 25-year-old victim also sustained a black eye, as well as bruised kidneys and liver and a dislocated knee and shoulder.
The group added: "All involved have been left with injuries and many left emotionally scared.
"We are angered but overall we are fiercely upset. Innocent women trying to get home to their families should not be disgustingly attacked due to being homosexual."
Hampshire Constabulary has appealed for witnesses to come forward.
The force said a 27-year-old man from Portsmouth was arrested on suspicion of affray.
A 23-year-old man, a 25-year-old man and a 26-year-old man, all from London, were arrested on suspicion of assault causing actual bodily harm.
All four men have been released but remain under investigation.
Players are allowed to enter eight tournaments based on the ranking they had before a long-term injury lay off.
Robson made her comeback from a wrist injury in June having not competed since the 2014 Australian Open.
The 21-year-old was a wildcard entry at Wimbledon, losing 6-4 6-4 in the first round to Evgeniya Rodina.
She is currently competing in an ITF tournament in Granby, Canada, which is a level below the WTA Tour, and is set to play Naomi Osaka on Wednesday night in the first round at about 00:00 BST.
Should she win, it would be the Briton's first singles victory since September 2013.
Robson ended 2013 ranked 46 in the world but her absence from the sport means she is now 913 in the world.
The layouts seem to converge over time to a similar structure regardless of where or over how long they were built.
The study,
in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface
, analysed 14 subway networks around the world.
It found common distributions of stations within the networks, as well as common proportions of the numbers of lines, stations, and total distances.
In some senses, it is unsurprising that the study found that networks tended over time to comprise a dense core of central stations with a number of lines radiating outward from it.
By choosing the world's largest networks, from Beijing to Barcelona, the results were bound to represent networks that serve city centres with a dense collection of stations and bring commuters inward from more distant stations.
But the analysis shows a number of less obvious similarities across all 14 networks.
It found the total number of stations was proportional to the square of the number of lines - that is, a four-fold increase in station number would result in a doubling of the number of lines.
The dense core of central stations all had the same average number of neighbours in the network, and in all cases, about half the total number of stations were found outside the core.
In addition, the length of any one branch from the core's centre was about the same as twice the diameter of the core.
The number of stations at a given distance from the centre was proportional to the square of that distance, but only up to the edge of the core; at more distant reaches of the network, the number of stations contained was directly proportional to distance.
The authors analysed how the networks grew and added lines and stations, finding that they all converged over time to these similar structures.
They authors point out that the similarities exist regardless of where the networks were, when they were begun, or how quickly they reached their current layout.
"Although these (networks) might appear to be planned in some centralised manner, it is our contention here that subway systems like many other features of city systems evolve and self-organise themselves as the product of a stream of rational but usually uncoordinated decisions taking place through time," they wrote.
The authors say that the systems do not appear to be "fractal". Fractal systems follow mathematical patterns that seem equivalent in a number of physical and social systems ranging from the movements of planets to the movements of depressed people, but they
may or may not reflect a deeper, more universal organisational principle
.
Nevertheless, the team wrote that some underlying rule is likely to be driving the way subway systems end up worldwide.
"The existence of unique long-time limit topological and spatial features is a universal signature that fundamental mechanisms, independent of historical and geographical differences, contribute to the evolution of these transportation networks," they wrote.
A leaked report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said there were 2,784 centrifuges at Fordo, and that Iran could soon double the number operating from 700 to 1,400.
The development is likely to fuel Western suspicions that Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
The government in Tehran insists the nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.
Talks this year about the uranium enrichment programme between Iran and the so-called P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - have made little progress.
Iran's progress at Fordo was disclosed in a leaked report based on the findings of the IAEA's inspectors, who visit the facility regularly.
While the uranium enrichment plant is not yet fully operational - with only about 700 of the 3,000 centrifuges the facility is designed in use - experts say it could be within months.
The IAEA report said four new cascades of 174 centrifuges each "having been subjected to vacuum testing, were ready for feeding" with uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas.
Once the new cascades were in operation, monthly production of 20%-enriched (medium-enriched) uranium would be about 25kg (55lb) per month, compared with 15kg at present, one official said.
The facility at Fordo, which is buried deep under a mountain inside a military base near the holy city of Qom, is designed to contain 16 cascades producing medium-enriched uranium, which experts say could be enriched to about 90%, or weapons-grade, in a relatively short time.
The IAEA also revealed in its report that Iran had produced about 233kg (512lb) of higher-grade enriched uranium since 2010, an increase of 43kg since August.
Earlier this year, the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) used 96kg of its supply of 20%-enriched uranium for conversion into fuel for its medical research reactor in Tehran. Experts say it would be difficult to turn the fuel into weapons-grade uranium.
Nuclear fuel had also been removed from the core of the nuclear reactor at Bushehr without a reason being given by Iran, the IAEA added.
The report also said that "extensive activities" at the Parchin military site had seriously undermined an investigation into indications that experiments related to nuclear weapons might have been carried out there. Iran is suspected of attempting to removing evidence.
Iran has denied that there are any nuclear-related activities at Parchin.
The IAEA's report concluded that the agency was "unable... to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities".
The ex-Team Sky rider, who was second in the past two years, finished behind compatriot Caleb Ewan in a bunch sprint on the 90km final stage in Adelaide.
Porte, who now rides for BMC Racing, had won Saturday's fifth stage to lead by 48 seconds.
"It's just incredible to come back here and win after being so close the past two years," he said.
"I had a good break at the end of last season and I've come back refreshed - physically and mentally - and to win this race, it means a hell of a lot."
Porte maintained his 48-second overall advantage over Colombia's Esteban Chaves with Australia's Jay McCarthy a further three seconds back in third overall.
Ewan's sprint victory, where he edged out world champion Peter Sagan, gave him his fourth stage win as he joined Germany's Andre Greipel (2008) and Australia's Robbie McEwen (2002) as the only riders to have won four stages in the same edition of the race.
OVERALL RESULTS
1. Richie Porte (Aus/BMC Racing) 19 hours 55 minutes 49 seconds
2. Esteban Chaves (Col/Orica) +48secs
3. Jay McCarthy (Aus/BORA) +51secs
4. Nathan Haas (Aus/Dimension Data) +51secs
5. Diego Ulissi (Ita/UAE Abu Dhabi) +59secs
Selected others
38. Ben Swift (GB/UAE Abu Dhabi) +4mins 16secs
49. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) +6mins 27secs
97. Luke Rowe (GB/Team Sky) +21mins 03secs
107. Ian Stannard (GB/Team Sky) +24mins 56secs
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The organiser said the play portrays him as "evil" throughout so should not be performed where he rests.
The petition has been handed in to Leicester Cathedral.
Both the cathedral and theatre company Antic Disposition say they still intend to go ahead.
The play, which is touring the country, is due to be performed in Leicester on 19 and 20 July.
Joanne Larner, petition organiser, said: "It is inappropriate and disrespectful to perform that play, which blackens his name, where he is buried. He is meant to be buried in dignity and honour.
"The whole play is completely degrading. He is displayed as the personification of evil."
Joanne, 59, of Essex, added she does not mind it being held somewhere else, just not the cathedral.
A spokesman from Leicester Cathedral said it had no intention of changing its plans.
He said: "These performances will go ahead as we engage in the dynamics between the man and the myths of King Richard III. The performances will take place in the main body of the building. We continue to work with the public day by day to ensure that the King's grave is respected."
Ben Horslen and John Risebero, directors of Antic Disposition, added: "As a company that specialises in site-specific productions, we've found that staging Shakespeare's work in historic venues adds an extra dimension to his stories, and we are always excited to use our settings to allow audiences to connect with his work in new ways.
"Our two performances in Leicester Cathedral sold out within five days, demonstrating the support for and interest in the production."
The attack, which happened on Tuesday at 06:30 local time (04:30 GMT) near Sulz village, is the third stabbing on a European train in a month.
Austrian police say the man, a German national, appeared mentally disturbed.
He resisted arrest but officers used pepper spray and had the help of a 22-year-old bystander. Together they managed to arrest him.
The perpetrator lunged at a 19-year-old man on the seat opposite him, police said, before attacking a 17-year-old boy. It is not clear whether the victims were travelling together or whether they knew each other.
The 19 year-old has suffered wounds to the stomach and back. The 17 year-old's throat has been injured.
Austrian police said they were searching for a motive.
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Seventy-nine "viable" weapons were recovered from the car's trailer when it was stopped by UK Border Force officers at Coquelles near the Channel Tunnel terminal on Saturday.
Two men, a Polish and a Czech national, have been remanded in custody at Uxbridge magistrates' court in connection with the operation.
The guns were concealed in specially-adapted engine blocks.
The seizure follows a joint operation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Metropolitan Police working with Border Force officials in France.
Graham Gardner, the NCA's deputy director of investigations, said: "Our recent threat assessment highlights that handguns are still commonly favoured by some criminal groups in the UK.
"They may not be the largest firearm, but they are easily concealable and lethal in the hands of anyone prepared to use them."
Denis Kolencukov, 23, originally from the Czech Republic but living in the UK, and Polish national Janusz Michek, 59, are each charged with two firearms offences.
No further action will be taken against six other Polish nationals arrested in Coquelles.
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A group of 82 hot air balloons took off from Dover and travelled to France.
It took them three hours to make the 26 mile journey.
If confirmed by officials, this attempt will beat the current world record of 49 balloons making the trip.
Sion Bedwyr Evans, 41, of of Llanrug, and Garry Vaughan Roberts, 43, of Caernarfon, had faced 50 charges between them.
They were alleged to have happened at Canolfan Brynffynnon in Y Felinheli between September 2006 and March 2014.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the charges had been dropped after new information from the police.
Catrin Evans, head of the CPS Cymru-Wales Complex Casework Unit, said they had written to the court confirming the prosecution will offer no evidence against Mr Evans, who was acting head teacher at the unit, and his colleague.
The family act, who made their debut in 1973, said they were "absolutely honoured" to be recognised.
Folk singer Martin Carthy, who has been performing for 50 years and recorded more than 40 albums, will also be given a special award.
The awards, marking their 15th anniversary, will be held at London's Royal Albert Hall on 19 February.
Clannad, which comprises siblings Moya, Ciaran and Pol Brennan and their twin uncles Noel and Padraig, shot to fame with their theme to TV drama Harry's Game in 1982.
Their younger sister was recruited to the band in the late 1970s and went on to have an internationally successful career as solo star Enya.
"We are really looking forward to being part of the big night at the Royal Albert Hall," added the band, who will also perform at the awards ceremony.
Their previous accolades include a Grammy for the best new age album in 1999, while they won a career achievement honour at the Ireland's Meteor Awards in 2007.
Carthy said: "I've just been lucky enough to follow my heart and pretty much do what I want over the past 50 years or so.
His wife Norma Waterson and daughter Eliza are also well-known and respected folk musicians.
"If, along the way, I've been able to play a part, however small, in keeping the traditional music of these islands alive, then I consider myself a fortunate man," added the 72-year-old.
Carthy has won four folk awards at previous ceremonies, including folk singer of the year in 2002 and 2005.
Bob Shennan, the controller of Radio 2 and BBC 6Music, said: "Clannad and Martin Carthy have made magnificent contributions to folk music over the years and are thoroughly deserving of these prestigious accolades."
The full nominations for this year's event have also been announced, across nine categories.
The 23-year-old Nigeria international has yet to play for the Blues since signing in January 2012 and is out on loan for a fourth time - this time at Turkey's Alanyaspor.
Omeruo, who won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria, admits he is unhappy with his situation.
My priority is to play at the top, to find a place where I get to play regularly
"It might happen that I get to play for Chelsea but it is no longer my immediate priority," Omeruo told BBC Sport.
"You have no idea how frustrating it is to always go out on loan," added the Nigeria defender.
The season-long move to Turkey was a swift return to the Super Lig for centre-back Omeruo after another loan stint at Kasimpasa last term.
He was a regular in the Kasimpasa side, making 26 appearances, but the Turkish club could not take up the option to buy him at the end of his loan spell.
And it is unlikely Alanyaspor could make the switch permanent because last August Omeruo signed a contract extension with Chelsea, keeping him on the club's books until July 2019.
Despite watching his compatriot Victor Moses establishing himself under Antonio Conte at Stamford Bridge this season, Omeruo concedes he may have to look elsewhere for regular football.
"Last season I had an opportunity to go to one of Turkey's biggest clubs [Besiktas] but the deal collapsed two days to the end of the transfer window," he added.
"This season I was lucky I could find a place where I could still play because they want me to come to Alanyaspor.
"My priority is to play at the top, to find a place where I get to play regularly.
"Next season will be interesting because I'm looking to be in one of the top leagues, so we'll see what happens."
Omeruo joined Chelsea from Belgian side Standard Liege and has since been on loan at ADO Den Haag in Netherlands and twice at English side Middlesbrough.
Despite not making a competitive appearance for Chelsea, Omeruo was called up by Nigeria for the first time in January 2013 and went on to play at that year's Africa Cup of Nations and Confederations Cup and at the 2014 World Cup.
Britain Stronger in Europe says it has the backing of five political parties and David Cameron to make the case for the UK's continued EU membership.
Grassroots Out, which is vying with Vote Leave to lead the Out campaign, has Nigel Farage among its backers.
The Electoral Commission is expected to make a decision by 14 April.
The watchdog can select one designated lead campaign for both the "Leave" and "Remain" sides ahead of the referendum on EU membership on 23 June.
The chosen campaigns will get access to a grant of up to £600,000, an overall spending limit of £7m, campaign broadcasts, free mailshots and free access to meeting rooms.
It will judge each applicant's merits on the basis of a range of criteria, such as level of cross-party support, campaign tactics and organisational capacity.
Britain Stronger in Europe is expected to be the only group seeking the formal In designation.
In its submission, it says it has the support of Labour, the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and three Northern Ireland parties - the Alliance Party, the Green Party and the SDLP.
Mr Cameron, who has become the overall figurehead of the In campaign, says he fully backs the application, saying it draws support from "every corner of the UK" and that its opponents are "divided into at least two camps who can't agree on very much".
While it backs staying in the EU, the SNP is running its own separate campaign in Scotland, while the Green Party of England and Wales has affiliated itself to Another World Is Possible - a different group formed by Labour MPs on the left of the party.
The Grassroots Out application will be submitted by Mr Farage and Tory MPs Peter Bone and Tom Pursglove. It says it has the support of Tory, Labour, UKIP and DUP politicians.
Vote Leave, which is vying with Grassroots Out, will submit its application at a later date.
It said key individuals backing Britain Stronger in Europe were past supporters of joining the euro while several organisations supporting the campaign group received EU funding.
Political parties and other groups can run their own campaigns but they will be limited to a spend of £700,000 if they register with the watchdog and will have to report the source of donations.
If they don't register with the Commission they will be limited to spending less than £10,000.
The Batley Variety Club, now known as Batley Frontier, is being converted into a gym.
A special event called 'It's the Final Frontier' was held at the West Yorkshire venue on Saturday to mark its last night.
Organisers said it was a sell-out and thanked people for their support.
Posting on the club's Facebook page, Jackie Hatfield, said: "Was a fabulous night the Final Frontier for young and old - my dad Dennis is 82 and had a fabulous night never came off the dance floor."
Another reveller tweeted: "Thank you Batley Frontier for the memories. You will be missed."
The Bradford Road club opened in 1967 with The Bachelors playing to a crowd of around 2,000 people.
It was opened and run by Jimmy Corrigan who, along with wife Betty, built the club on the site of a former sewage works.
He succeeded in attracting some of the music industry's biggest names including Louis Armstrong who played the club in 1968 just weeks after he knocked the Beatles off the number one spot.
Dame Shirley Bassey played at the venue a number of times and was regularly booked for three-week runs which would sell out.
Reflecting on the closure, she said: "I have many happy memories of singing at the Batley Variety Club so sorry to hear it is closing.
"I remember the opening night and I walked into my dressing room the owner had found out I liked Mars bars and there to greet me was a mountain of Mars bars. It took me a year to eat them and put me off Mars bars for life."
The Crues hold a one-point lead going into the final three rounds of matches.
"These games will be hotly contested. We can't have any slip-ups at this stage," said Crues boss Stephen Baxter.
"It's going to be a tough ask for us but we just have to keep winning our games and you never know what happens," stated Linfield captain Jamie Mulgrew.
"We have all worked incredibly hard all season and I don't think anyone would have thought that we would be this close at this stage," added the midfielder.
Linfield are unbeaten in 16 fixtures in all competitions and have not conceded a goal in 10 of their last 15 outings.
"Linfield are a top, top team and I always knew how difficult it would be. We are both fighting it out and we have to keep going," observed Baxter.
"People got carried away three months ago and said it was all over when we were seven points clear but now one more defeat and it could be away from us.
"There is one point in it and it can swing either way at the stroke of a foot or a head.
"You have to put your bodies on the line at this stage and we are just trying to prepare everybody as best we can and concentrate on what we are doing."
Crusaders' opponents Glenavon have drawn 13 of their matches in the league this campaign, the most of any side, leaving manager Gary Hamilton to lament the absence of clinical firepower in front of goal from his sixth-placed side.
"We have dominated a lot of games and created plenty of chances but can't find that winning goal. If we did we would be a lot higher up the table than we are," argued the Lurgan Blues boss.
"We are hoping that Andy Mitchell will come in next season and turn those draws into wins."
Meanwhile Coleraine manager Oran Kearney has banned any dressing room talk about the Irish Cup final as his charges prepare to face the Blues at Windsor Park in the second of their top-flight fixtures over the Easter period.
"We have no focus on the Irish Cup at this stage. I won't allow it. It's unprofessional to think in that way about the future and we have so much on our plate at this point in time," insisted Kearney, whose side are without a loss in 17 matches.
"We must do our job in the league first and the cup will look after itself."
Ballymena United will aim to end a run of five league games without a win, four of those defeats, when they play Cliftonville in the evening's other top-six encounter at the Showgrounds.
In the bottom half, Portadown must win again away to Ards and hope that Carrick Rangers lose at home to Glentoran as they try to further postpone their probable relegation to the Championship.
Ballinamallard United face Dungannon Swifts at Ferney Park.
Former Crusaders title-winning manager and ex-Glenavon and Ballymena United boss Roy Walker:
"This is one of those title races that we all long for and there is every chance that both Crusaders and Linfield will win their next two games and it will go right down to the wire.
"Linfield did a very professional job at Ballymena on Saturday and have a lot about them both offensively and defensively.
"It's a case of whoever blinks first and Crusaders have got to be single-minded and just chalk off the games as they come. They are still in pole position and the ball is firmly in their court. If they win their games, that's it.
"The Crues have Stephen Baxter at the helm, who has done it all before as a player and a manager, and has led them through choppy waters. There's no reason he can't see them through again."
Former Glentoran manager Scott Young:
"Crusaders have shown character throughout the season and have big-game players in the likes of Paul Heatley, Jordan Owens and Sean O'Neill, but there is no way the league title is in the bag yet.
"They haven't necessarily been playing the free-flowing football of previous seasons or shown those wee bits of magic but they are still in front.
"Both clubs deserve huge credit that we have the title race that we have and they are both in there fighting with three games to play.
"It's great for Irish League football and there could be a twist to the plot still to come."
Italian Giovinazzi replaced Wehrlein for the season-opener in Australia after the 22-year-old German withdrew because of a lack of fitness following a back injury.
Giovinazzi, 23, finished 12th in Melbourne on his grand prix debut.
Wehrlein hopes to be fit for the third race of the championship in Bahrain or the following race in Russia.
"For me the most important is that I can train intensively to ensure a 100% performance from my side as soon as possible," said Wehrlein.
"I will then be well-prepared for my first complete grand prix weekend for Sauber."
Wehrlein, a Mercedes protege who was in the running to replace retired world champion Nico Rosberg at the factory team before losing out to Valtteri Bottas, injured his back in a crash at the Race of Champions in Miami in January.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has backed Wehrlein to "come back strong".
"I feel for Pascal, because he has had all the bad luck," said Wolff.
"I'm impressed with the maturity he has shown to inform Sauber that he wouldn't be able to perform at the level required in Melbourne.
"That took courage and selflessness, which I know earned him a lot of credit within the team."
Burgess, 26, took time off to contemplate his future after criticism of his role in England's World Cup campaign, before returning to Bath.
He has been heavily linked with a move back to former club South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League.
"We have registered an interest," Hetherington told BBC Sport.
"We are fully aware that he is contracted to Bath, but we are waiting in the wings if Bath allow him to speak to clubs.
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"Any Super League club or NRL would be interested in a player like Sam.
"Sam may well remain at Bath or go back to Souths, but if he was available, and we recognise that a transfer fee would be required, we are keen."
Bath coach Mike Ford remains confident that he can persuade the Dewsbury-born forward to stay at the Premiership club and continue his development as a union player.
"Sam's frame of mind since he's come back has been brilliant. He's come in and cracked on and has trained very well for these couple of days," said Ford on Tuesday.
He told BBC Radio Bristol: "Sam attracts media attention, we can handle it, we laugh about it at times. Nothing's changed."
One stumbling block that could delay any return to the Rabbitohs is the salary cap which would need to accommodate Burgess' pay, as their recruitment has largely been completed for 2016.
Leeds have the ability to offset £175,000 of any potential annual salary away from the Super League salary cap, under the new Marquee Player Rule.
"Yes he would [be suited to that], we supported the principle of a marquee player system," Hetherington added.
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"However, we always said it was unlikely we'd take up the option unless they were exceptional, and Burgess falls into that exceptional bracket."
The former Bradford Bulls forward left for Australia at the start of 2010 and was part of a quartet of Burgess brothers at Souths until the end of the 2014 season.
After helping Souths win their first NRL title for 43 years, Burgess switched to Bath.
Twins Thomas and George remain contracted to Souths, and the former told BBC Sport on Sunday that Sam was "at a crossroads" regarding his future, while oldest brother Luke now plays for Manly.
The family's lawyer Aamer Anwar said they wanted to express confidence in Police Scotland's new investigation.
He warned that this trust was "not unconditional" and that detectives from the original inquiry needed to answer for actions which had "betrayed Emma".
The family had been meeting the Lord Advocate James Wolffe at the Crown Office in Edinburgh.
Emma Caldwell, a 27-year-old heroin addict who had been working as a prostitute, was discovered dead in woods near Biggar in May 2005.
In May 2015, the Lord Advocate had told Police Scotland to reinvestigate her murder after the most senior officers in the Crown Office considered the case.
Reading a statement outside the Crown Office, Mr Anwar said the family had felt let down by the original investigation, which had failed to bring Emma's killer to justice.
He said: "The Caldwell family made it clear to the Lord Advocate that they had not forgotten that senior detectives from Strathclyde Police had betrayed Emma and they must answer for their actions one day."
He also said they had been frustrated about the length of time the new investigation was taking.
"The Lord Advocate tried to reassure the family that this is a painstaking complex investigation begun from scratch," he said.
Senior investigating officers told him that thousands of documents are being re-examined, which have generated numerous lines of inquiry that need to be investigated.
Police Scotland have also invited the Metropolitan Police to review its investigation strategy.
Mr Anwar said it had robust and painful meeting for the family, but they had welcomed "the dedication and commitment show by Police Scotland and the Lord Advocate to securing justice".
Making a direct appeal to the killer, he said: "Eleven years ago when you took Emma's life, you tore apart her family's lives forever.
"They were unable to bury Emma for some two years.
"Her mother Margaret has never been able to grieve and when William, Emma's father, died in 20001 he made his family promise they would never give up fighting for justice.
"Sadly it is inevitable that other women will have suffered at the hands of this killer and he will have aroused suspicions in his friends and family.
"The Caldwell family urges those who have such information to have the courage to come forward and speak to the police in total confidence."
After the meeting, a Crown Office spokesman said: "In May 2015 Crown Counsel instructed a re-investigation of the murder of Emma Caldwell.
"That investigation is complex and ongoing.
"The Lord Advocate today had the opportunity to meet with Emma Caldwell's family and to discuss the case with them."
The new investigation was launched after a BBC File on Four programme claimed that a local suspect was dropped in favour of prosecuting four Turkish men.
The programme revealed that officers who wanted to charge the local man, one of Emma's clients, were stopped by senior detectives investigating the Turkish suspects.
One of the Turkish men, who was charged with murdering Ms Caldwell, was awarded an out-of-court settlement after suing police for false arrest.
Bottom side Notts, who began the day on 61-3 in pursuit of an unlikely 452 to win at Scarborough, lost Tom Moores in the first over the day.
They never recovered as Tim Bresnan finished with 5-36 and Jack Brooks 4-35 as Notts were bowled out for 146.
Defeat leaves Notts 35 points adrift of safety with with only three games left.
Yorkshire, who are chasing a third successive County Championship title, and Middlesex have four games to play and meet at Lord's in this season's final round of matches next month.
A Yorkshire victory looked unlikely when they slumped to 51-6 on the opening morning after being put in by Notts captain Chris Read.
But a fourth win of the season never looked in doubt after they recovered to post 282 in their first innings before skittling the visitors for only 94.
Moores, who resisted Yorkshire's bowlers on day three for an unbeaten 41, fell to the fourth ball of the final morning when he edged Bresnan to Adam Lyth at second slip.
Bresnan removed Samit Patel and Chris Read in quick succession to complete his first five-wicket haul of the summer before Yorkshire wrapped up victory shortly after lunch.
Ryan Sidebottom had Ben Hutton caught behind off the third ball after the interval, and in the next over Brooks had Brendan Taylor caught at cover and bowled Luke Fletcher with successive balls.
Imran Tahir survived the hat-trick ball but soon became the last man to fall when he fended Brooks to Alex Lees at short leg.
The trial is part of an effort to cut down on binge drinking, but the students' union said it cannot be the only reason to refuse entry to someone.
A spokesman said the union was "happy to support any campaign that promotes and encourages responsible drinking".
Random breathalyser tests are carried out on night-time events and the scheme is being run with South Wales Police.
A Students' Union spokeswoman said: "Commercial impact, either positive or negative, had no bearing whatsoever on the Students' Union's decision to be involved in this trial scheme."
Officers arrived at the Jaipur Art Summit on Saturday following complaints that the life-size cow floating in the air was offensive to Hindus.
They detained two artists for a few hours, while Hindu activists brought the installation down.
Activists say the raid is a sign of growing religious intolerance in India.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje tweeted on Sunday that she was "saddened" by the incident, and the police commissioner of Jaipur also apologised.
She said the chief of the local police station was "removed and I have spoken to the artist personally".
Artist Siddhartha Kararwal had called his life-size cow effigy Bovine Divine, and had created it to highlight the plight of Indian cows that scavenge and choke on plastic bags.
But some people complained the cow looked as if it had been hanged, and that the model insulted the animal, which Hindus revere as a symbol of life and sustenance.
Some Hindu activists brought the installation down, but garlanded and blessed the cow before it was seized by police.
The police briefly detained two other artists, Chintan Upadhyay and Anish Ahluwalia, who protested against the move, leading to social media outrage.
The director of the art summit Pratap Sharma told The Indian Express newspaper that they don't plan to reinstall the work.
"We don't want to hurt anyone's sensibilities again, so we are not going to install the work again," he said.
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Supporters also boycotted the first 20 minutes of the 3-1 quarter-final win.
They are unhappy at the rising cost of attending Bundesliga games, with a quarter of away tickets for Tuesday's match costing 70 euros (£55).
On Saturday, Liverpool fans staged a walk-out during their home game against Sunderland in protest at ticket prices.
Dortmund fan Marc Quambusch, a member of the campaign group behind the protest, explained why some supporters chose to miss the opening 20 minutes.
"Obviously it's not something we want to do, but we feel we have to do it," he told the BBC World Service. "We don't feel very good about not supporting the team for the first 20 minutes, but it has to be."
Quambusch also backed the decision of thousands of Liverpool fans to leave the Sunderland match early.
"It's always good to see fans protesting against bad conditions and, yes, they have our solidarity," he said. "I hope it is inspiring other fans to join them and to protest as well. I love English football but it is killing itself."
According to Quambusch, fans were being ironic. He says Germans use the expression "great tennis" to describe something very good.
So throwing tennis balls, he says, was a way of telling Stuttgart that their prices were too high. "It was an idea to make it clear that enough is enough," Quambusch told BBC Radio 5 live.
There is the perception in Britain that tickets don't cost that much in Germany, but that's wrong, says Quambusch.
"When it comes to standing tickets, it's ok," he said. "But you don't have so many standing tickets. It's not cheap, in a way."
Dortmund took the lead against Stuttgart with a fifth-minute strike from Germany international Marco Reus.
The home side, who had won their previous four Bundesliga games, drew level in the 21st minute thanks to a Lukas Rupp effort.
Goals from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - his 30th of the season - and Henrikh Mkhitaryan secured Dortmund's place in the semi-finals.
The British pair were beaten by Moreno de Pauw and Kenny de Ketele of Belgium in the final race, the madison.
Wiggins, 36, plans to retire after the Six Day event in Ghent in November but hinted at a possible change of heart.
"Money talks," he joked. "Who wouldn't want to come back with a week like this? I don't know. I love racing."
After competing at the Lee Valley velodrome, which hosted the London 2012 track events and was built on the site of the Eastway facility that he used as a boy, the five-time Olympic champion said it was an appropriate place to end his career in Britain.
"It has such fantastic memories for me. I will always come back - I'll probably be back next year, but in the stands," he told Eurosport.
The event started last Tuesday and Wiggins and Cavendish led going into Sunday's final day but were beaten in the last race of the exhibition event.
De Pauw and De Ketele gained a lap late in the madison - after a slipped hand-sling changeover cost the reigning British world champions in the closing stages in London - and took the final sprint to win by 11 points.
"It just shows what a class act they are - hats off to them," said Wiggins.
Cavendish hopes that he can help give Wiggins' a winning send-off in Ghent - the city of his birth.
"We're in top condition and know we can go to Ghent ready to win," he said.
Wiggins was racing for the first time after a period he described as "topsy turvy".
It emerged in September that Wiggins took a banned steroid before his 2012 Tour de France win.
Britain's most decorated Olympian had a therapeutic use exemption to allow him to use the drug.
While no rules were broken, some of Wiggins former team-mates and a doctor who worked with him at Team Sky say questions remain over his use of triamcinolone to treat allergies and respiratory issues.
Wiggins told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that his treatment put him "back on a level playing field" and that he didn't gain any "unfair advantage".
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The goal came after just seven minutes in Valencia after great link-up play between Helen Richardson-Walsh, Sophie Bray and goalscorer Lily Owsley.
Great Britain had chances to double their lead but were denied by Germany goalkeeper Kristina Reynolds.
And GB goalkeeper Maddie Hinch made a number of late saves.
She said: "Words can't really describe the feeling. To reach a final and book a spot at Rio, we can't be happier."
Owsley's first goal in the competition ensured Danny Kerry's side remain unbeaten in the World League and will face China in Sunday's final.
"For 15 minutes we were awesome. After that we won ugly," Kerry said.
The top three teams in the World League qualify for next year's Olympics and by winning the semi-final it guaranteed GB's passage to Rio.
It has been an eventful 12 months. Samsung smartphones exploded, GoPro drones dropped out of the air and Pebble smartwatches met an untimely end.
Facebook became embroiled in a fake news controversy, Yahoo revealed several mega-breaches, we identified the supposed creator of Bitcoin - who then went AWOL - and millions indulged in a game of Pokemon Go.
Yet none of those stories made our most-read-of-the-month list - based on the number of times an article was clicked - as you can see below.
January: Licence to spy
There is a good rule of thumb: if you do not want your employer to know what you are up to online, wait until you are not on the job. And at the start of 2016, a Romanian company successfully argued it was within its rights to read Yahoo Messenger chats sent by one of its staff.
The sales engineer had claimed his privacy had been invaded as he had posted details about his health and sex life, but the European Court of Human Rights noted he had previously been warned not to send personal messages within working hours. However, later in the year, the man appealed and the case was reconsidered. The ECHR will now issue a fresh ruling in early 2017.
February: iPhone lockout
Apple clashed with the FBI when it refused to unlock an iPhone used by a murderer. Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik had killed 14 people in a shooting spree in California before being shot dead themselves. Farook's iPhone 5C was password-protected and the FBI feared that if it tried and failed to guess the combination, the device would auto-delete.
The agency demanded a bypass, but Apple refused to help saying it would set a dangerous precedent. A legal battle ensued, but then suddenly ended when the FBI declared an unnamed third party had found its own way to access the data. For now, the matter rests. But at the height of the stand-off, Donald Trump called on consumers to boycott Apple. That is likely to serve as a warning to any tech firm tempted to take a similar stance in a future dispute.
March: Amazon's shock tactics
Amazon's bosses sounded somewhat distrustful when it was reported that they had started screening videos of staff caught stealing on the job via big TVs in their US warehouses. The alleged offenders were said to have been silhouetted with the words "arrested" and "terminated" superimposed over them.
It was not the only time working conditions at the company made headlines. Earlier this month, Amazon was also accused of threatening to axe workers if they took four days off for sickness even if they had a doctor's note.
April: Google's awkward April Fool
It must have seemed like a hilarious idea. To celebrate April Fool's Day, Google added a button to its Gmail app to let users send a gif of a Minion cartoon character dropping a microphone. The meme symbolises a triumphant moment and had been popularised by rappers, actors and even a fast food chain.
So what could go wrong? Well, because of a "bug" some users reported the gif had been added even if they clicked Gmail's normal "send" button. People complained of having the yellow henchman pop up in inappropriate messages. One man even claimed it had cost him his job. Despicable Google!
May: Microsoft's "nasty trick"
As the shutters began to close on Microsoft's free Windows 10 offer, it faced a challenge. Many were ignoring its pop-up plea to upgrade and were opting instead to stick with earlier versions of the operating system.
So, in an effort to spur them on, the firm embarked on a mischievous strategy: clicking on the cross in the pop-up's top right-hand corner no longer dismissed the Windows update but triggered it instead. The move was widely denounced and Microsoft soon added a further notification message providing users with another chance to opt out before the software was installed. The firm's chief marketing officer recently acknowledged the whole affair had been "a lowlight" for all involved.
June: Shattered glass
BBC Click's Dan Simmons was invited to visit the world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge ahead of its launch in China. He took a sledgehammer with him. You can view the results in the clip above. It's smashing! The bridge opened to the public in August, but was closed again a fortnight later for urgent maintenance work. We understand Dan was not to blame.
July: Self-drive death
While other car-makers talked up their self-driving vehicle plans, Tesla went ahead and deployed a restricted form of the tech. The firm described its Autopilot feature as being a "beta" test, but it faced criticism when a former Navy Seal died after his Model S car failed to recognise a tractor trailer and ploughed into it.
Weeks later, another non-fatal crash involving Autopilot occurred in the US, and then unconfirmed reports emerged from China that another motorist had died in a motorway crash while using the feature. Tesla continues to roll out updates to Autopilot and its chief executive Elon Musk says the technology has the potential to save many lives. But critics - including the German and Dutch authorities - have urged Tesla to rebrand the system to discourage drivers from putting too much trust in it.
August: Android alert
Every summer, many of the world's top hackers, cybersecurity experts and government officials descend on Las Vegas for the Defcon and Black Hat conferences. To mark the events, a flurry of new cracks and bugs are revealed as researchers compete for recognition from their peers and the wider public.
This year's break-out revelation was about flaws in software used on Android devices powered by Qualcomm chips, which could be exploited to reveal their users' data. By the time the news was made public, Qualcomm had already developed a patch and Google fixed outstanding issues in an Android update released in September.
September: Hit the road, jack
Usually new hardware is all about what has been added. But the iPhone 7 made headlines because of Apple's decision to build it without a headphone jack - a decision that took "courage" apparently. To be fair, the move helped Apple make the handset more water-resistant, and others - including Samsung - are now rumoured to be considering similar moves.
But the path to a wireless music-playing future was not totally smooth after Apple had problems getting its accompanying AirPod earphones to market after running into manufacturing issues. The hiccup has now been addressed, but a backlog in orders means many users will not be able to pop the new tech into their ear canals until the new year.
October: Snapchat slapdown
Daughters... it does not matter how powerful you are, they are still prone to gain the the upper hand. President Obama revealed on TV that his youngest child, Sasha, had recorded him "lecturing" his family on Snapchat and other social media. He said she then secretly posted her reaction - a look of boredom - to her friends via the app. The anecdote sparked a brief media frenzy as gossip writers and others sought to track down Sasha's Snapchat account, but to no avail.
November: ...now with added dongle
Apple clocked up its third "win" of the year after it offered a discount on connector adapters following criticism that its latest laptops lacked legacy ports. The firm has a habit of dropping support for historic hardware standards ahead of the competition and often before many of its consumers are ready. But this time even it acknowledged that it was surprised by the scale of the backlash it had provoked.
December: Back to the phone future
Nostalgia had a certain role to play in our last popular story of the year, as Nokia revealed that handsets emblazoned with its brand are being promoted via its website once again. The Finnish firm is not actually making the mobiles this time round - a start-up called HMD Global is taking charge - but has lent its name for a fee.
Nokia itself is more interested in virtual reality and smart health tech these days. But for many, its brand, ringtone and Snake game will be forever associated with the dawn of the mobile age. Whether or not many people will actually buy one of the existing featurephones or forthcoming Android smartphones is another matter.
Emma Caresimo, 40, from Magor, was "horrified" after a bailiff arrived at her home and threatened to tow her car.
She said the "upsetting" ordeal was for an offence committed by someone with her maiden name from Liverpool.
Wigan council said the court instructed the bailiff while HM Courts & Tribunals Service blamed "human error".
Mrs Caresimo said she was at home with her three-year-old son when the bailiff clamped her Volkswagen Golf, which he told her was worth £3,700.
"I said 'I have never been to Wigan and I don't smoke' but he wasn't having any of it. He didn't believe me and said he'd heard it all before," she explained.
"He said he would take the clamp off only if I paid the outstanding fines of £650. I had no other choice; it was awful."
Mrs Caresimo called the police who, on arrival, said the bailiff was working within the law.
"They should not be able to get the wrong person like this, it's very distressing," she said.
Paul Barton, assistant director of operational services at Wigan council, said: "Following an unpaid fixed penalty notice last year we issued court proceedings to an Emma Smith with a Liverpool address.
"We prosecuted under this Liverpool address and have never issued any proceedings to a Welsh address or instructed any court or bailiff to visit a Welsh property."
An HM Courts & Tribunals Service spokeswoman said: "As a result of human error HMCTS wrongly took enforcement action against an individual with the same name and date of birth as an offender.
"We are deeply sorry for any distress caused by this regrettable incident and have arranged for the money to be refunded. We have taken steps to avoid this happening in future."
One who has, though, is Hampshire all-rounder Ian Holland, whose road to playing in the south of England can be traced back to an Australian show called Cricket Superstar.
Born in the United States, but a British passport holder through his English father, Holland has former Australia Test captain Allan Border to thank for his professional career.
In 2012, Holland edged out 14 other finalists who were selected through national trials for the Foxtel television series to earn the prize of a rookie contract with state side Victoria.
"It was one of those unique opportunities that popped up," the 26-year-old told BBC Radio Solent. "I went into it without any expectations and came out with an opportunity.
"It was a chance to fast-track myself at that point of my career and it got me a foot in the door of the Australian system."
Border was Cricket Superstar's chief judge with former Australia wicket-keeper Graham Manou its mentor, while Matthew Hayden and Ricky Ponting made guest appearances.
"It was a strange experience watching yourself back on television," Holland said. "There were a few challenges that looked good on camera, but it was Allan Border's involvement that gave it the credibility for me."
But despite his TV success and subsequent path into state cricket, Holland found his chances for Victoria limited and a move to the Northern Hemisphere followed.
"I'd been playing for Fleetwood Cricket Club in the Northern League for the past couple of years," the right-hander and right-arm medium pacer said.
"Dimitri Mascarenhas is the connection to Hampshire from the time he moved back to Melbourne. I played some second-team cricket here last season and then the first XI chances have come this year."
Figures of 4-16 and 2-23 for Hampshire in the County Championship against Somerset this week have helped him build on a handful of one-day and four-day appearances earlier in the campaign.
"It's been a really great transition for me," Holland revealed. "I'm really enjoying my cricket here and it's just a great place to play.
"My goal is to play here for the rest of my career."
Ian Holland was talking to BBC Radio Solent's Kevan James.
England dominated at set-pieces and secured victory thanks to two tries from Ben Morgan and 16 points from the boot of the 21-year-old George Ford.
"We played intelligently, the boys executed the game-plan. The scrum and maul were excellent," said Lancaster.
"But that was the game today - you have to play rugby in different ways."
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England lost their first two autumn internationals to New Zealand and South Africa - the top two sides in the world rankings - but ended with wins over Samoa and Australia.
Asked to rate his squad's recent performances, Lancaster responded: "Could do better, but it was never as bad as people were making out.
"Against New Zealand and South Africa, our game management let us down. Today our game management was much better."
England's forwards coach Graham Rowntree told BBC Radio 5 live sports extra that victory over Australia was "desperately needed".
"It was vital, because at times our performance levels haven't been as high as they should have been this autumn.
"The best thing to restore belief is winning. We had very frank discussions after New Zealand and South Africa, but you always need to look forward.
"We've got a great young set of lads and today it was all about getting a win against a big nation."
England face Wales on 6 February in the Six Nations curtain-raiser, opponents who also feature in their World Cup group.
Australia are in the same pool and their captain, Mike Hooper, admitted Saturday's defeat was hard to stomach.
"We couldn't get any ascendancy," he said. "There's a long time before we come back together as a group, so this is a disappointing way to finish.
"We just couldn't finish for the majority of the game and that lead to our downfall."
Project contractor Hochtief began the construction of six supports for the £37m Twin Sails Bridge last week.
It will span Backwater Channel in Holes Bay between Hamworthy and Poole town centre.
The first open day will be held at Hamworthy Library in Blandford Road between 1400 and 1900 BST on Wednesday.
The second one will be held at the Dolphin Shopping Centre between 0900 and 1700 GMT on 4 November.
The bridge is scheduled to open in early 2012.
Jim Bright, the Borough of Poole's strategic director, said: "We are aware that residents have questions relating to the construction of the Twin Sails Bridge and the impact of regeneration in their local community.
"By holding these open days we hope residents will take the opportunity of raising any questions or concerns they may have."
The collision involving a Vauxhall Astra and a Peugeot 206 took place on Ferry Road Drive shortly before 17:30 on 3 February.
A 53-year-old man was treated in hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
A man aged 19 and a 17-year-old have been charged with several road traffic offences, including theft of a motor vehicle, and theft by housebreaking.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Edinburgh Divisional Road Policing Unit and officers in the north worked together to conduct extensive inquiries in order to trace the suspects.
"As part of Operation RAC, officers from various departments across the capital continue to tackle housebreaking and vehicle theft."
Littergram invites people to share pictures of rubbish on their smartphone and report it to their council.
Danny Lucas, of Wrotham, Kent, said Facebook "is allowing us to keep our name and wishing us continued success".
Facebook, which owns the US photo-sharing giant, said it had nothing more to add.
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Earlier in the year, lawyers representing the internet giants had said Littergram's name was too similar to photo editing and sharing app Instagram, and that it was not "not acceptable".
Facebook added that it was obliged to take reasonable measures to protect its brand.
However, in a letter sent to Littergram this month, lawyers said given that the organisation was "not claiming trademarking rights", it considered "this matter closed at this time".
They added that they reserved the right to take action should circumstances change, but went on to wish the "commendable anti-litter campaign much success".
Mr Lucas said: "We applaud Facebook for taking this admirable approach and thank them very much for lifting a weight from our shoulders that will allow [us] to focus on the job in hand."
On Tuesday, the FIA said it will prioritise testing a clear screen over the controversial halo device, which was tested by all teams last year.
The FIA is committed to introducing additional protection in 2018.
Magnussen, 24, said: "We've seen some pictures. I'm not for it."
Speaking before the weekend's Russian Grand Prix, the Dane added: "I think it's going to be difficult, especially in the wet, with the screen. Even without a screen, in the wet it's difficult to see anything.
"I'm sure with that as well, it's going to be impossible and more dangerous in wet conditions."
The halo - a metal frame that arches over the driver's head from behind his shoulders and meets at central point at the front of the cockpit - is the only head-protection device that has so far proved suitable for the task of protecting drivers from large flying debris.
The FIA said the halo device would be used next season if a shield did not work.
Red Bull trialled a screen system last season - which was dubbed the 'aeroscreen' - but it failed its FIA tests.
A new screen system, known as the shield, has now been proposed with a shallower angle than on the aeroscreen. This is the device that will be tested this year.
The FIA tests will focus firstly on ensuring that the screen is strong enough to deflect a wheel and tyre fired at it at 150mph, and then on whether there are other major issues such as visibility.
The halo has passed all these tests and is ready for introduction, but F1 has already backtracked on a plan to introduce it this year and continues to vacillate over it.
Doubts have arisen from some drivers and team bosses, who feel that its aesthetics are not appropriate for the sport.
Force India's Mexican Sergio Perez: "It [the screen] looks better. It's probably not at the level of halo in terms of safety but there is a lot of improvement that the FIA think can be done. It's a matter of how much development they can do."
Haas' Romain Grosjean: "Can we choose nothing? I was not a huge fan of the halo and not of the shield either. I don't want to affect safety but I don't want to change what I have seen in F1 since ever. The next step is a closed cockpit and I don't want to see F1 being closed cars."
Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat: "I agree with Romain. I think it is enough for now. The way F1 cars should look now should remain the same. I am quite against both options."
Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas: "I don't mind the shield, it looks OK. It is definitely a good step on the halo in terms of how it looks. Safety it is always important to keep improving. I wouldn't mind trying out the shield and seeing if there are any issues but in terms of safety it would be a good step in terms of what we have now."
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen: "I have only seen a picture of the shield. Until we try it's very hard to say how it is. Is it better than the halo? I don't know. Looks-wise I don't think there is an awful lot of difference."
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo: "We got a presentation in China about the shield and we still have to see a bit more. First impressions seemed OK and I guess we will now get some development on that and run it in practices as soon as they can put it on the car. It's good they're still looking for the head protection stuff."
The officer was shot dead by two assailants on motorcycles while he was on duty in the city's northern outskirts, police said.
The attackers planted explosives on the body and set them off when other officers came to investigate, they say.
Defence Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said the ELN rebel group is likely to have carried out the attack.
"The leading theory is that this incident is the heinous and irresponsible work of the National Liberation Army (ELN) to terrorise the civilian population," Mr Villegas told Caracol radio.
Power stations have in the past been attacked by the ELN, Colombia's second-largest rebel group.
But the police said the attack could also be part of a plan by criminal gangs to target police officers.
Attacks on the security forces used to be relatively common in Colombia, with the ELN and the larger Farc rebel group both fighting the state, but they have become rare.
The Farc signed a peace deal with the government in November, putting an end to more than five decades of armed conflict.
The ELN is due to start peace talks with the government in January but the group has so far refused to release a former Congressman it is holding hostage, which the government says is a prerequisite for the talks.
There are also a number of powerful criminal gangs operating in Colombia, some of which have in the past called for their members to kill police officers.
Officials said the assailants' original target may have been an electrical substation near the checkpoint in the sparsely populated area.
The Labour leader said he would "invest properly" in the armed forces, promising more ships for the Royal Navy and aircraft for the RAF.
"We will protect the people of this country from any threat that they face anywhere in the world," he said.
In Friday's Question Time special, Mr Corbyn faced hostile audience questions about his stance on nuclear weapons.
Labour has committed to replacing the Trident missile system in its manifesto, despite Mr Corbyn's anti-nuclear views, and the leader has been reluctant to say whether he would be prepared to authorise a strike if Britain was under attack, if he was PM.
During a visit to Lincoln he was asked if he would keep the British people safe as prime minister.
He said he would, and added: "We will invest properly in our police service, we will invest properly in our armed services, the numbers in the armed services have gone down, the navy are crying out for more ships, the air force are crying out for more surveillance aircraft.
"We would fund them properly to achieve all of that."
He also repeated his vow to pursue a foreign policy aimed at addressing the issue of "ungoverned spaces" in war-torn countries like Libya where extremism can flourish.
Speaking after the Question Time show, Conservative Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Mr Corbyn's approach to Trident meant Labour's backing for the armed forces was "completely meaningless because when it came to the business of defending this country he wouldn't do it".
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The bells fell silent on Tuesday when the volunteer bell-ringing agreements were terminated for a new team.
Dr John Ridgeway-Wood, who plays the smaller carillon bells, said he was "sad and shocked" by the sacking.
York Minster said: "We don't discuss confidential issues relating to staff and volunteers."
In a letter sent to Mr Ridgeway-Wood on Thursday, the Reverend Canon Peter Moger said the carillon player's comments had breached the Minster's volunteer and social media policies.
Mr Moger said he had been "suspended with immediate effect in response to the intemperate comments about the Minster... and the similarly objectionable quotes attributed to you in the media concerning Chapter's decision to review Bell Ringing at the Minster".
Mr Ridgeway-Wood has been invited to a meeting "to discuss these concerns".
"Should you choose not to meet with us, your Volunteer Agreement and relationship with the Chapter of York will have to be terminated," Mr Moger said.
Mr Ridgeway-Wood said: "I won't be meeting them so basically I've been sacked.
"All I said was 'I'm shocked and saddened about the bell-ringers being sacked.
"It's sad when freedom of speech isn't allowed."
A petition calling for the sacked bell-ringers to be reinstated to peal the bells on Remembrance Sunday, Christmas Day and New Years Eve has received more than 5,000 signatures.
Bell-ringer Alice Etherington, who set up the petition, said: "It's an absolute travesty what's going on here."
York Minster said the bells would remain silent until the New Year while a new head bell ringer and peal team were being recruited.
Carillon bells are played using a keyboard.
The Syrian army said its warplane was on a mission against the Islamic State (IS) group when it came under fire on Sunday, according to state television.
It said the incident would have "dangerous repercussions" on efforts to fight terrorism.
The US said it acted in self-defence after the Syrian regime dropped bombs near US-backed fighters.
"In accordance with rules of engagement and in collective self-defence of Coalition-partnered forces [the plane] was immediately shot down," said the US military in a statement.
The incident took place in the town of Ja'Din, which is held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and lies on the outskirts of Raqqa.
The SDF rebel fighters, supported by US-led coalition air strikes, are encircling the IS stronghold of Raqqa.
Two hours before the plane was shot down, the US said forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attacked SDF fighters, "wounding a number" of them and driving them from Ja'Din.
The US said it responded without hesitation, but emphasised that it did not seek to fight to the Syrian regime.
"The demonstrated hostile intent and actions of pro-regime forces toward Coalition and partner forces in Syria conducting legitimate counter-Isis operations will not be tolerated," it added.
Syrian pro-government forces are not fighting the battle for Raqqa, but they are making ground against IS in the surrounding area, south-west of the city.
Earlier this month, the US shot down a pro-Syrian government armed drone after it fired at coalition forces near the al-Tanf border crossing, between Syria and Iraq.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced on Sunday that it has launched several missiles into eastern Syria, targeting IS fighters.
IS claimed responsibility for an attack on Iranian parliament earlier in June, which killed more than a dozen people.
Over the past five weeks, more than 150,000 people have visited the subversive theme park in a derelict seafront lido, which had been shut since 2000 and reopened in a blaze of publicity on 20 August.
The temporary art show in Weston-super-Mare has sold 4,000 tickets a day online, plus 500 more to people willing to queue for hours, often in pouring rain.
Dismaland describes itself as offering "entry-level anarchism", and satirises the tourism and theme-park industries.
But, it is the town's tourist businesses that have reaped the benefit - to the tune of £20m, says Visit Somerset, more than three times what the trade body initially suggested.
"The show has gone way beyond our hopes, says John Turner, of Visit Somerset.
"This has been a global phenomenon of major importance for the region and underlines how important tourism can be in the local economy."
The biggest boost has been to hotels and B&Bs. September is usually quiet, with most only half-full. But throughout the Dismaland show, almost every bed in Weston has been sold each night.
Hotelier Keith Fearn, who also runs the town's Hoteliers Association, said his two establishments have "been full every night".
"Hotels have been much busier than normal, and foreign visitors are from everywhere which is fantastic," he said. "Mexico, Thailand, China, America - everywhere."
Mr Fearn calculates that compared with the same period last year, an additional 50,000 nights have been sold in the town's hotels, with each guest spending an average of of £150 a night, allowing for dinner and drinks - ultimately generating about £7.5m.
Restaurants have been busy too. In her contemporary Italian eatery on the seafront, Victoria Upward showed me her reservations diary.
Every night has been full, even midweek, which is normally unheard of at this time of year - and attracting a much wider range of customers.
"Traditionally, we would have small families or coach trips," she said. "But we've had Americans, Germans, hipsters, new age travellers, you name it."
Anyone with a small plot of land on the seafront has opened temporary car parks, often charging £5, which is more than the £3 admission to Dismaland itself.
Thousands have come by train. Great Western Railways report a doubling of numbers on the Paddington to Weston line, equating to about £4.5m extra revenue.
Everyone has noted the irony of the anti-capitalist art show boosting business.
But, Banksy said he chose Weston because "I went there every summer until I was 17", so perhaps he would feel a little less animosity to small local traders than multi-nationals.
For Mr Turner, the event shows Weston can laugh at itself.
"It's just like the British, really," he said. "We never take ourselves too seriously.
"Banksy has ripped the Michael out of us, but it's brought a great deal back into the local economy."
Some 2,500 people were referred to the programme between January 2007 and December 2012.
In the counter-terrorism annual report, the Home Office said that hundreds of European jihadists had gone to Syria.
It warned that the overall threat to the UK had diversified beyond al-Qaeda plots developed from within Pakistan.
The 500 individuals who were given support through the Home Office's "Channel" programme included people who held extreme far-right views or were inspired by al-Qaeda. Some of the individuals steered away from violent extremism were of school age.
Charles Farr, head of the Home Office's Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism, said: "I really believe Channel is an essential part of our counter-terrorism. If you look at the cost by comparison, if those people had to be put through the criminal justice system or an investigation, it's a fraction of the amount. This is quite apart from the damage it does to families and communities."
The report said that hundreds of Europeans jihadists have gone to Syria to take part in the fighting. There had been 60 suicide attacks since the conflict escalated.
Further afield, the report reveals that the government has been increasingly concerned with Islamist groups turning to kidnap for ransom.
Some 150 foreign nationals have been held since 2009, 13 of them British. The number kidnapped in 2012 was double that in 2010.
Security officials estimate that the extremist groups have collected at least $60m (£39.5m) in ransom payments since 2008, either from governments or companies.
The UK is to lobby other members G8 nations to formulate a co-ordinated security response to kidnappings.
The annual report says that while Pakistan remains of highest importance, the overall threat to the UK has diversified.
Mr Farr said: "We're in a potentially key moment. The threat has dispersed and diversified to the point where it might require more resources because we're having to spread those resources across a wider geographical area.
"This poses significant challenges to our national security and to the security and intelligence agencies and departments working on counter-terrorism.
"Operating in these areas is difficult and dangerous, requires very significant resources and is complicated and at times made impossible by the breakdown of governance and law and order."
In the UK, there were 245 terrorism-related arrests in 2012, slightly higher than the average since 2001. Police say they have foiled a plot as big as the 7 July 2005 attacks every year.
Officials were also concerned about the witting or unwitting misuse of charities in the UK.
Earlier this year, three men were convicted of preparing a major plot in which they had posed as legitimate charity workers. They raised some £13,000 by conning ordinary people into handing over money.
Nothing had been elucidated. It was all mud-slinging. It was unworthy of a presidential election.
Maybe. But it didn't half make for riveting viewing. And at the end of the day, the debate did its job.
For the millions sitting through those two hours of insults, interruptions and (just occasionally) ideas, the differences between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron could hardly have been made any plainer.
The National Front leader set the tone with her opening remarks, which were clearly intended to cause personal hurt. Macron's smile had become a grimace, she said. The mask had fallen - behind the personable front lay the coldness of a banker.
Insults like that can only have been intended to rattle her adversary, to provoke him into saying something he would regret. And that was her tactic throughout: constantly needling Emmanuel Macron with jibes and vaguely-worded accusations.
There had been a big argument in advance about whether the producers of the debate would be allowed to use cutaways. These are images of the person who is not talking, when he or she reacts to the one who is.
Finally it was agreed that they could be broadcast - and thus we were able to watch Marine Le Pen doing something unusual. Throughout much of the debate she was smiling, sometimes even chuckling.
It seemed to be part of a rehearsed psychological ploy to unnerve her opponent, by appearing to find his answers so ludicrous as to be amusing.
Except none of this tactic worked. Emmanuel Macron did not rise to the bait. Say what you will of him, Macron is an extraordinarily composed and accomplished performer. Throughout the debate he remained master of himself and his argument.
At only one point did she score. In the section on terrorism, she launched a attack on Macron's supposed feebleness in face of the jihadist threat, and explained that she would make France safer by expelling foreign suspects.
Macron responded with a long-winded explanation of how so many terrorists were in fact French, and how therefore France needed to examine its own conscience for letting that happen.
The argument misfired badly because it made it look as if Macron blamed France as much as the terrorists.
But for the rest, it was Marine Le Pen who betrayed weakness and confusion on a range of issues - especially economic. On the question of leaving the euro, far from clearing up the uncertainty about what she actually wants, she made matters worse by exposing her ignorance of the old European Currency Unit.
She was constantly playing with documents in front of her, searching for points and remarks to quote back at him. But it made her look unsure of her brief, and too often her attacks were reduced to the same old slogans.
Macron, by contrast, appeared comfortable and spontaneous.
These face-to-face debates are a traditional part of the election process, and for 40 years the French have tuned in to see which candidate is more likely to faire président.
They want to know who has the look, who has the feel of a head of state.
Emmanuel Macron is an unknown quantity. Many loathe his ideas. Many fear his inexperience.
But last night - against Marine le Pen - there was little doubt who was the more presidentiable.
Nigel Worthington was Michael O'Neill's predecessor as Northern Ireland manager and knows the pain of missing out on qualification for a European Championship finals.
But as a player, he was present when the national side last qualified for a major tournament in Mexico in 1986.
He is well placed to offer an assessment on the scale of the current team's achievement and the pressures involved.
"I think it is a fantastic achievement by the players and manager and for the supporters who have been there through thick and thin," he said.
"The finals in France are something for them to look forward to and enjoy. They should take huge pride in what they have achieved.
"There was a period when Michael was manager when he went a number of games without a win, but he stuck with it and never gave up. The Irish Football Association also stuck with him and they should take credit for that.
"It is never easy to qualify, Northern Ireland got off to a great start with wins over Hungary, the Faroe Islands and Greece, they started the ball rolling and then it just gained momentum.
"I was at the game last night and it was fantastic, the team played really well and the atmosphere was incredible."
Worthington was part of the Northern Ireland team that drew with England 0-0 at Wembley in November 1985 to secure qualification for the World Cup finals in Mexico.
He said there was little time for celebration after the game, but recalled with fondness the post-match television interview of central defender, the late Alan McDonald.
"The celebration was short-lived, it was a Wednesday night, you went over to the fans, but then you were back in training with your club on the Thursday," he added.
"I remember Big Mac saying in the interview 'if anyone thinks that was a fix they can come and see me'.
"That was typical of Big Mac, he played with passion and pride and never let his head drop.
"He spoke from the heart."
The former Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United full-back said it took time to digest that success and he thinks it will be the same for O'Neill's players.
"At Wembley in 1985 it took a while to sink in and the current Northern Ireland players will experience this, it drip feeds into your system over the weeks until the end of the season and the start of the finals," he said.
"Then you look back on what you have achieved.
"I remember the pre-tournament training in Guadalajara in Mexico when we reached the finals, it was tough trying to acclimatise.
"The whole spectacle around the World Cup, the different teams being there and the supporters, was really fantastic."
Worthington also had a simple message for the players who now have the opportunity to sample Northern Ireland's first ever appearance at a European Championship finals.
"You are already the pride of Northern Ireland after this huge achievement, go and play with a smile on your face," he added.
The Pakistani government wanted to be able to monitor every message and email sent via its phones, it said.
In a blogpost, it said it had decided to "exit the market altogether" over the row.
It said Pakistan's demand was not to do with public safety but a request for "unfettered access".
In July, Pakistan's Telecommunications Authority told Blackberry the servers underpinning its messaging business would no longer be allowed to operate in the country, citing "security reasons".
Marty Beard, chief operating officer at Blackberry, said the "truth" of the matter was Pakistan had wanted to look at all the traffic passing across its messaging servers but the phone company would not "comply with that sort of directive".
"Remaining in Pakistan would have meant forfeiting our commitment to protect our users' privacy. That is a compromise we are not willing to make," wrote Mr Beard.
This led Pakistan to tell Blackberry its servers could no longer operate in the country.
Mr Beard said Blackberry did not support "backdoors" that would grant open access to customers' information and had never complied with such a request anywhere in the world.
"While we recognise the need to cooperate with lawful government investigative requests of criminal activity, we have never permitted wholesale access to our servers," he said.
Mr Beard said the company had regrets over leaving Pakistan because it was an "important market".
Initially, Blackberry said it would wind up its operations at the end of November. However, the exit date has now been moved to 30 December as the government shutdown deadline has been extended until that date.
Industry figures gathered by analyst company IDC suggest that, in early 2015, Blackberry had a 0.5% share of the global smartphone market. In 2014, Blackberry shipped about 5.8 million handsets - 70% less than in 2013.
The striker scored after 4, 61 and 85 minutes to inspire Dortmund to win 4-0 on the night - and 4-1 on aggregate.
He made amends for spurning a host of chances in Lisbon, including a missed penalty.
"After the first leg, I was very sad and really unsatisfied with my performance," the 27-year-old the official club website.
"I made a lot of mistakes throughout that match. So I wanted to show my team-mates today that I'm capable of much more.
"I'm very happy that we won and that we made it through. Tonight was absolutely fantastic."
After Dortmund reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2014, coach Thomas Tuchel joked about Aubameyang's performance in the first leg.
"After we had fielded Aubameyang's twin in Lisbon, we were happy to have him back for tonight's game," he told reporters.
The striker now has seven goals from seven games in this season's competition.
The hat-trick could hardly have come at a better time after Aubameyang irritated club officials on Saturday when sporting a Nike 'swoosh' logo in his hair during the 6-2 victory over Bayer Leverkusen.
The athletics brand's rival Puma is a shareholder in Dortmund, so prompting club officials to say they would be talking to the 2015 African Footballer of the Year about the matter.
One of those was sporting director Michael Zorc, who adopted a different tone when talking about Aubameyang's heroics at the Westfalenstadion on Wednesday.
"I said to 'Auba' after the first leg: 'You'll decide the second leg' - and that's exactly what happened," Zorc beamed.
Although the France international, 26, is not officially suspended, he will "not be available" for selection during the investigation, Liverpool said.
BBC Radio 5 live senior football reporter Ian Dennis said Sakho failed a test after the Europa League victory over Manchester United on 17 March.
It is thought Sakho tested positive for a type of fat burner, said Dennis.
The player has until Tuesday to request analysis of the B sample.
In a statement, Uefa said "there are no disciplinary proceedings opened at this stage".
Sakho, an £18m signing from Paris St-Germain in 2013, has played 34 games for Liverpool this season, including 10 in the Europa League.
He scored in the 4-3 victory over Borussia Dortmund on 14 April which secured their place in the semi-finals.
Liverpool, who are seventh in the Premier League, host Newcastle at Anfield on Saturday.
Sakho's Liverpool team-mate Kolo Toure was banned for six months in 2011 while at Manchester City after testing positive for a weight-loss drug contained within "water tablets" recommended to him by his wife.
A similar ban for Sakho would rule him out of Euro 2016 in France, which starts on 10 June.
BBC Radio 5 live senior football reporter Ian Dennis
"This is a player charge rather than a charge to the club.
"It doesn't mean Sakho is suspended - he would be eligible today and for Thursday's Europa League semi-final first leg against Villarreal.
"However, the owners, manager Jurgen Klopp, chief executive Ian Ayre and the player himself all felt it was in the best interests for him not to be available while the process was ongoing."
The small study, published in PLOS ONE, looked at 59 people who were all deemed to have mild to moderate dementia.
It is thought the body's response to gum inflammation may be hastening the brain's decline.
The Alzheimer's Society said if the link was proven to be true, then good oral health may help slow dementia.
The body's response to inflammatory conditions was cited as a possible reason for the quicker decline.
Inflammation causes immune cells to swell and has long been associated with Alzheimer's. Researchers believe their findings add weight to evidence that inflammation in the brain is what drives the disease.
The study, jointly led by the University of Southampton and King's College London, cognitively assessed the participants, and took blood samples to measure inflammatory markers in their blood.
Their oral health was also assessed by a dental hygienist who was unaware of the cognitive outcomes.
Of the sample group, 22 were found to have considerable gum disease while for the remaining 37 patients the disease was much less apparent. The average age of the group with gum disease was 75, and in the other group it was 79.
A majority of participants - 52 - were followed up at six months, and all assessments were repeated.
The presence of gum disease - or periodontitis as it is known - was associated with a six-fold increase in the rate of cognitive decline, the study suggested.
Dentist Dr Mark Ide from King's College London told the BBC News website he was "surprised" by the rate of decline, and said that as patients with gum disease chew on their teeth they were effectively giving themselves "mini-injections" of bacteria into their bloodstream.
"In just six months you could see the patients going downhill - it's really quite scary," he said.
Higher levels of antibodies to periodontal bacteria are associated with an increase in levels of inflammatory molecules elsewhere in the body - which in turn have been linked to greater rates of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease.
Prof Clive Holmes, senior author from the University of Southampton, said the results were "very interesting" and proved that this study needed to be carried out again but using a larger number of participants.
"However, if there is a direct relationship between periodontitis and cognitive decline, as this current study suggests, then treatment of gum disease might be a possible treatment option for Alzheimer's," he said.
He also said his researchers had taken into account the fact that gum disease may become more common in those people with Alzheimer's, because of a reduced ability to take care of oral hygiene as the disease progresses.
Dr Doug Brown, director of research and development at the Alzheimer's Society, also recognised that the study "adds evidence to the idea that gum disease could potentially be a contributing factor to Alzheimer's".
"If this is proven to be the case, better dental hygiene would offer a relatively straightforward way to help slow the progression of dementia and enable people to remain independent for longer," he said.
But he also described the study as "small" and said it was currently "unclear" whether the gum disease was the cause or the effect.
"We don't know if the gum disease is triggering the faster decline of dementia, or vice versa," he said.
In the UK around 80% of adults over 55 years old had evidence of gum disease, according to the adult dental survey of 2009, which is the latest data available.
There are around half a million people living with Alzheimer's disease in the UK .
The local authority has a deficit of about £7m.
However, leader Angus Campbell said raising council tax and previous rounds of savings should help the comhairle avoid making further cuts.
The full council will meet early next month to set the new budget.
A travel warning issued on Sunday urges US citizens in the central African country to leave "as soon as it is feasible to do so".
On Friday, 87 people were killed after three military sites were attacked, Burundi's army said.
US rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday called for an investigation into the killings.
Protests in Burundi began in April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would seek a third term in office.
Last month, Belgium advised its citizens to leave Burundi, while the EU cut staff levels, temporarily evacuating employees' "families and part of the non-essential staff".
"As a result of continuing violence, the Department of State ordered the departure of dependents of US government personnel and non-emergency US government personnel from Burundi," the US statement read.
"The US Embassy is able to offer only very limited emergency services to US citizens in Burundi."
It also gave advice for citizens who may encounter violence, advising them to stay indoors in ground floor rooms, away from doors and windows.
Col Gaspard Baratuza said 87 people were killed in clashes in the country's capital, Bujumbura, on Friday - 79 "enemies" and eight soldiers and policemen.
Witnesses told AFP that some of those killed were shot execution-style with their arms tied round their backs.
Carina Tertsakian, HRW's researcher for Burundi, called for a "serious and independent" enquiry into the killings.
"This is by far the most serious incident, with the highest number of victims, since the start of the crisis in April," she said.
"A serious, independent investigation is urgently needed to find out the exact circumstances in which these people were killed."
BBC Africa analyst Richard Hamilton said bodies on the streets were almost a daily occurrence in Bujumbura, but that this was the largest number of deaths in one night.
Violent clashes hit Burundi in April, a day after President Pierre Nkurunziza launched his bid for a third term in office.
Mr Nkurunziza was nominated to run by his governing CNDD-FDD party, a move opponents argued was unconstitutional.
According to the UN, at least 240 people have been killed and more than 200,000 have fled to neighbouring countries since April, raising fears of a civil war.
Steadman, 23, missed out on PT4 triathlon gold at Rio 2016 after taking a wrong turn in the swimming stage.
And she is now moving to the city where Olympic champion Alistair and his silver-winning brother live.
"I just think it's time to refresh things that have perhaps got stuck in their ways," Steadman said.
She told BBC Look East: "It's just to start a new chapter, to get some different perspective on coaching styles, improve my techniques in the three individual sports and I think it will be best done in Leeds.
"I'll try to give Jonny and Alistair a run for their money."
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report found there were 32 seconds between the first and second engines "flaming out".
The manual for the Eurocopter EC135, made by Airbus Helicopters, states the time should be "three to four minutes".
Ten people died when the helicopter crashed on 29 November 2013.
A spokesman for Airbus Helicopters said the error was contained in the maintenance manual for the helicopter and not the flight operating manual used by pilots.
He said: "Airbus Helicopters is updating its AMM maintenance manual to provide more accurate information in the next revised edition.
"The pilot's flight manual, which is the authorities'-approved documentation, does not rely on this mechanism for flight operations.
"Standard emergency procedure ensures that, when followed, the aircraft is on the ground long before double flameout occurs."
The AAIB report published last week found pilot David Traill did not follow emergency protocol and flew on despite low fuel warnings on the night of the crash.
Fuel supply switches were turned off, and low fuel warnings were triggered and acknowledged five times during the flight, the report found.
Guidelines say Mr Traill should have landed within 10 minutes of the first warning, but did not.
Investigators added that the pilot did not complete the emergency shutdown checklist following the first engine failure. The second engine failed 32 seconds later.
Mr Traill, who was attached to Police Scotland's air support unit, was a highly experienced former RAF and training pilot with more than 5,500 flying hours in helicopters.
Writing on Facebook, Mr Trail's sister Evelyn Holmes Mitchell said the "veiled allegation" that her brother caused the crash was "totally unacceptable".
She wrote: "David would not only have done everything in his power to save his companions and others but had the years of flying and teaching to make sure such a thing would not happen.
"It would break my heart to allow them to sully his memory and make this doubt his legacy to his nephews, niece and broader family."
Along with Mr Traill, police constables Tony Collins and Kirsty Nelis were killed when the helicopter crashed into the Clutha bar.
Those inside the pub who were killed were Mark O'Prey, John McGarrigle, Gary Arthur, Colin Gibson, Robert Jenkins, Samuel McGhee and Joe Cusker.
It comes after he surprised fans last week by rapping on a remix of Fiesta by Colombian band Bomba Estereo.
Smith told Beats 1 DJ Zane Lowe he has recorded more than 30 songs, with "six or seven that I really, really like".
The actor and rapper admitted he is "terrified" about making his first new album since 2005's Lost and Found.
"When you've had a certain amount of success, it seems like it should breed confidence," explained Smith.
"But it actually doesn't. When you win a lot, you lose the ability to lose. You're not allowed to lose anymore."
He added: "You actually lose the ability to create. The reckless abandon - and it's something I'm actually getting back from watching my kids, they really don't care - that kind of reckless abandon and that lack of fear.
"Not trying to live up to a legacy or anything like that, that gives you freedom," he said.
Smith said he had learned how to be happy to fail, adding that his film After Earth - which co-starred son Jaden Smith - was "a thoroughly and completely accepted failure."
"You have to fail a lot," he said, "you have to fail early. You have to fail often. And you have to fail forward. So I'm trying to get comfortable getting back to failing."
Smith told Lowe his recent collaboration with Bomba Estereo, which sees him rapping in both Spanish and English, had helped him by "shaking the rust off, knocking the dust off".
He revealed he has been in the studio "every day" between filming on forthcoming blockbuster Suicide Squad, including working with several unnamed collaborators.
"I'm really inspired and right now creatively my only struggles are figuring a way to say the things I want to say in a way that is still inspiring," said Smith.
"I'm just trying to still find that voice. I have so many things that I want to say, I'm struggling with saying them in a way that fits the flavour of music that I tend to like."
Also known as The Fresh Prince, the rapper said he is "pretty certain" he and former sidekick DJ Jazzy Jeff will take on the largest tour of their career together in 2016.
"Jeff and I actually have never done a full tour. I'm terrified," he admitted. "We've had a week run here, two weeks there. I'm really ready man."
Fleming, 21, has scored one try in four games for the Centurions but was ruled out of the derby win against Wigan with an ankle injury.
The former Sale Sharks rugby union product has run in seven tries in 19 appearances for his parent club.
"He has done exactly what we expected and has come in and done a good job for us," Leigh head coach Neil Jukes said.
Authorities believe the disease, which is treatable with antibiotics, was spread by squirrels and fleas.
The tourist's camp site - the Tuolumne Meadows Campground - will be closed until Friday as workers treat the area with insecticide.
A California child fell ill last month, but has recovered.
The latest suspected case is a person from Georgia who visited the Sierra National Forest in early August, but officials did not give further details.
Symptoms of the plague include high fever, chills, nausea, weakness and swollen lymph nodes in the neck, armpit or groin. If left untreated, the disease can be fatal.
There are three main types of plague depending on how the infection manifests. The bubonic plague is characterised by swollen lymph nodes. Pneumonic plague affects the respiratory system. It becomes septicaemic if it is found in the bloodstream.
The infected child showed signs of all three types, the state health department said.
Since 1970, 40 cases of plague have been reported in California, and nine people have died from the disease. Health officials commonly find plague-infected animals but human cases are relatively rare.
"The risk of exposure to people is very low," Dr Vicki Kramer of the California Department of Public Health told the Los Angeles Times.
Newcastle University student Ed Farmer, from Leicestershire, was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition on Tuesday last week.
The 20-year-old, who was studying economics, died in the city's Royal Victoria Infirmary the following day.
Friends posted tributes on social media sites, saying he lit up their lives with his "constant jokes and laughter".
Mr Farmer had reportedly been participating in an Agricultural Society event.
Northumbria Police said he had been drinking heavily.
Jonny Hedley posted a photo of his friend on Facebook and wrote: "RIP brother, been an absolute pleasure knowing you."
Another friend, Barney Carr, wrote on Facebook: "Gone too soon lad. You lit up all our lives, we'll miss you down here. RIP you legend."
The university said it was "deeply saddened" by the death of Mr Farmer, who had shown "great academic promise".
It added it took a "hard line" on behaviour that might constitute a risk and a full investigation would be carried out and "appropriate action" taken.
Northumbria Police said the investigation into the death of Mr Farmer, who is thought to have attended independent Oakham School, had now been passed to the coroner.
Duduzane Zuma said he was leaving his position in a mining company owned by the controversial Gupta family due to "a sustained political attack".
Both President Jacob Zuma and the Gupta family deny that they influenced the appointment of key ministers.
President Zuma is facing increased pressure to resign.
As well as the controversy over the Gupta family, the Constitutional Court recently said he had violated the constitution by not paying back public money used to upgrade his private residence in Nkandla.
He survived an attempt to impeach him in parliament.
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The European Union hasn't directly built any buildings in our part of the world, but it has helped fund a lot of new developments, many of which come with a sign saying "built with money from the EU".
For some this is the EU projecting "power" in a different way.
The issues of money, power and buildings are interconnected, which is why the debate about how much money the EU spends in our region is important.
But what has the European institution spent in Yorkshire? And how much has Yorkshire and the Humber effectively paid in?
As with all the numbers in this referendum debate, they're hotly disputed by both sides.
If you account for the British rebate, the effective discount on our membership that Margaret Thatcher negotiated in 1984, the UK sent £12.9bn to the European Union in 2015.
As a very rough calculation, when you divide the UK's overall payment by the number of taxpayers in the region, Yorkshire and the Humber contributed about £1bn towards that overall amount.
In comparison, the Yorkshire and Humber received £747m (979m euros) in funding from the EU between 2007 and 2013, according to the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI).
If you accept the rough workings of this calculation, that means we gave the European Union more money in one year than we got back in the space of six years.
However, that doesn't take into account the indirect effect EU money has had on the region such as the additional jobs that have been created because an EU backed project got the go-ahead.
So what exactly has the money gone towards?
York University got the single biggest grant for a new building, with the EU providing £19m in match funding for a new science park.
But it's not just buildings that have been funded. Some £30m was spent on the roll-out of broadband across the region and in total the money has helped create 20,000 new jobs and 2,700 businesses, according to the government.
Was all that money well spent? Well that probably depends on your point of view of the EU as a whole.
Vote Leave's John Longworth, the former head of the British Chambers of Commerce, says: "The investment that has come from Brussels is just our taxpayers' money recycled and then put towards projects that we might not want in the first place."
In many ways the debate is not about the amount of money being spent or the buildings being built but rather it is all about power.
Who is deciding where the money gets spent in the first place? Are the decisions being taken in Westminster or Brussels?
While visiting a manufacturing firm in Leeds, Mr Longworth summed up the Vote Leave position.
"We want to take back control so we can make our own decisions and take back the money that we give to Europe so we can invest it where we want.
"The beautiful thing about our democracy is that if you don't like the government you can throw them out. The thing with Europe is that with the bureaucrats in charge there is no democracy and you can't ever throw them out."
Those who want the UK to remain in the EU say there's no guarantee that future UK governments would spend the same on regions like ours.
Mark Dransfield says: "I look at the EU money as being a safety net for the North of England. Without EU funding lots of jobs simply wouldn't have been created in this part of the country."
His property company received £8m in EU funding to turn the site of a former steelworks in Sheffield into a new retail and office development.
"We're creating 900 new jobs here and without EU funding that sort of money just wouldn't come to our region, instead it would be wasted in London."
The latest figures show that per head of population, Yorkshire and the Humber received 3% less than the UK average when it comes to identifiable UK government spending in 2014/15.
Looking ahead, Yorkshire and the Humber is one of only two regions in the UK set to see the amount it receives from the EU fall over the next four years.
Between 2014-2020 the region is earmarked to get £606m (794m euros) - 18% less than the 2007-2013 funding period.
Looking back it's easy to say where money from the EU has been spent within Yorkshire and the Humber although it's difficult to quantify its impact.
It is, however, almost impossible to put a number on the ideas of national sovereignty or power. That is something voters will have to determine the value of themselves at the ballot box on 23 June.
The man was battling a brain tumour. Luke thought his fellow patient was putting on "the bravest face" for his family. Later, the cancer sufferer spoke to 28-year-old Luke about the things in life that mattered.
"He was understandably a bit scared," said Luke.
"We had so much in common - sport, nature, expeditions, travelling.
"He had already been operated on three times. He said he had lived an amazing life, but he didn't want it to end.
"He said 'Go out there, make the most of life, do everything you want to do. You never know what is round the corner'.
"I really took that to heart. He was very inspirational at a time when I had a lot of things going through my head."
Sadly, Luke's friend didn't make it. But his story, the experiences of other cancer sufferers Luke met in hospital, and the heartache of losing his uncle to cancer, have inspired the Edinburgh finance worker to undertake a solo, unassisted and unsupported trek to the South Pole.
If he achieves the goal, which he has called 'Due South', it is believed Luke would be the first Scot and - now aged 30 - the youngest Brit to do so. But first, he needs some help.
In November, Luke plans to drag 100kg of his equipment across 730 miles of snow and ice for 35 days to the South Pole, burning 10,000 calories a day and experiencing temperatures of -50C and winds of 100mph.
His proposed start date of the end of November will be ultimately determined by the weather, but there is a strong possibility he will be on his own in the snow on Christmas Day.
"It will be a guaranteed white Christmas, so that will be good," Luke joked.
"There may be a lack of presents, both giving and receiving, but perhaps I can take an extra hour's break and sing some Christmas carols to myself to keep sane."
Unassisted and unsupported, he will receive no outside help such as a re-supply by air, and no support from animals or vehicles. It will just be Luke on his skis, dragging his sledge through the wilderness.
He has already received the backing of explorers Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Mark Beaumont, and is now hoping to raise £50,000 to pay for the logistics of the expedition.
If successful, he then hopes to raise £25,000 for Marie Curie by completing the trek.
Inspired by Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen, Luke - who grew up in Stonehaven - always had ambitions to go to the South Pole. But it was his brain surgery which was a catalyst.
In February last year, he went to his doctor after experiencing severe headaches and problems with his vision.
The following day, he was subjected to a CT scan but not an MRI, as Luke's pacemaker - which was fitted for a heart block a day after he finished university at the age of 23 - prevented this.
He was told he had a suspected brain tumour.
Luke says he only found out he had a rare, non-cancerous, enterogenous cyst after the surgeons had operated on him for five hours. They removed a large part of the cyst, but a small section remains and he has to receive check-ups to ensure it does not return.
"It was a great shock, particularly to my friends and family, but it was effectively their positivity that helped pull me through the whole thing," said Luke.
"The support I have had since then is such a motivation - it can get you through anything, as far as I'm concerned. It was very humbling speaking to people in the hospital alongside me who had a lot worse things than me.
"I feel fit and healthy - I have taken on marathons, cycles, ultra marathons. I am able to do everything I want to do, apart from contact sport and go through airport security.
"It has given me a new lease of life - a strength of wanting to show people that you can come through difficult issues and difficult periods of your life and come through stronger and take on challenges."
Luke received the backing of Sir Ranulph after contacting the explorer to tell him of his plans to take on the South Pole after his brain surgery. He also met with the legendary explorer, who has agreed to offer Luke his support as patron.
Sir Ranulph said: "The challenge that Luke has set out to accomplish is admirable in a number of ways. Not only is he aiming to inspire others to achieve their own goals in life and also to raise funds for Marie Curie, but he does so after overcoming significant health challenges in his own, relatively young life.
"Reaching the South Pole solo and unassisted is without doubt one of the most enduring challenges possible. I wish him all the best and will be following his progress with great interest."
As well as the fundraising, all that is left for Luke to do is prepare for the journey. He has taken part in training in Norway, Greenland, and at the University of Glasgow's 'cold chamber'.
With the close support of his parents and girlfriend, his mind will soon turn to what he will take with him to the South Pole along with the essentials to keep him alive.
He will have a satellite phone to keep in contact with the outside world, and hopes to have a tracker on him for people to follow at home. Social media updates are also planned.
Sir Ranulph's autobiography, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know - a work that has inspired Luke throughout his periods of ill health - is likely to find a place on his sledge, along with some treats such as chocolate and wasabi peas.
He is currently creating a playlist of music he can listen to on the way, and is looking for suggestions from members of the public. Two songs likely to appear are Ben Howard's Keep Your Head Up and The Pogues' A Fairytale of New York, the latter to get him in the festive spirit.
With the possibility of a Christmas dinner of freeze-dried food and rubbery cheese, enjoyed on his own in the middle of Antarctica, it will certainly be one to remember.
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King, who won gold in the team pursuit at London 2012, suffered eight broken ribs and a collapsed lung while on a regular training route in south Wales.
The 24-year-old was in intensive care for two days and in hospital for 10.
"There were loads of things running through my mind, like I would never ride again," she told BBC Radio Solent.
"When I hit the floor I was fine. I thought I'd got off lightly. Then I felt excruciating pain as someone rode straight into my back and that's when all the damage was done.
"I could feel my ribs moving and was scared. I was in the road for an hour, it was raining. I lost feeling in my feet, which worried me. Three people had head injuries so I was last to be seen."
Cardiff-based King, originally from Hampshire, decided in October to switch from track to road cycling to ride full-time for team Wiggle Honda.
She was not named in the GB squad for 2014-15 funding year, and believes she has a better chance of getting into shape for the track in Rio by spending a season on the road.
King said the crash had not put her off road racing and is determined it will not disrupt her 2015 schedule, although she has not yet been back on a bike.
"In hospital I did three gym sessions - and that was with a chest drain in," said King. "A lot of people called me crazy, but that was just my way of dealing with it.
"I'm hoping to be on a static bike next week, but I won't be on the road for a few weeks - but I definitely will be back on a bike.
"I hope to resume full training at the start of the [new] year, so I'm still very determined."
King, who was runner-up to Laura Trott at the British Championships road race in June, added: "Initially I'm bound to be nervous, who wouldn't be? It doesn't change my focus to switch to the road.
"I've had bad crashes before and it hasn't stopped me. This is part of my job and was a freak injury. It was just bad luck."
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Burnett, 25, won Saturday's fight by split decision as two judges had him winning 119-107 but a third, Clark Sammartino, had him losing 118-108.
An IBF statement said there had been an "error with the scorecards" and the decision should have been unanimous.
"An error of this nature and at this level of the sport should not have occurred," it added in a statement.
"One of the scores after each round was recorded on the individual scorecards for the incorrect fighter."
After the fight, British Boxing Board of Control general secretary Robert Smith told BBC Sport Sammartino "won't be coming back".
The IBF's statement did not mention if any action would be taken against the American judge and described him as "solid, reliable and consistent".
However, it said it was "fully intent on deterring a situation such as this one from occurring again in the future".
Northern Irishman Burnett, who was only taking part in his 17th professional fight, knocked down 33-year-old defending champion Haskins of England in the sixth and 11th rounds during the fight in Belfast.
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Rose Polge, 25, who worked at Torbay Hospital in Devon, disappeared on 12 February. Her body was found in the sea off the coast of Dorset on 1 April.
The coroner concluded Dr Polge took her own life by walking into the sea.
In a statement read in court, her family called for action to halt the "crisis" affecting trainee doctors.
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Dr Polge had been "afraid of working the weekend" after working five days of an 11-day stretch, the inquest at Torquay heard.
Her boyfriend of five years, Dr Alasdair Hawley, said she woke him in a "distressed" state on the morning of Friday, 12 February.
Describing the last time he saw his girlfriend alive, Dr Hawley told the court: "I remember her asking me if she left medicine would I still love her."
He said: "I know she was struggling at work with perceived self-doubts. But feedback was that she was progressing well and was actually very capable."
Dr Polge left her shift at Torbay Hospital early after concerns were raised about her wellbeing and she saw a supervisor.
Her body was discovered off the Portland Bill headland seven weeks later.
South Devon coroner Ian Arrow said he was satisfied Dr Polge "died of drowning or hypothermia by immersion in water".
It emerged during the search for Dr Polge that she had left notes to loved ones before she disappeared.
The BBC understands that a note found in her car related mainly to personal issues, but included a passing reference to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Little detail about the content of the notes was referred to in court.
In a statement read at the inquest, Dr Polge's tearful family called for action.
It said many doctors worked "under terrific pressure" and coped with "fatigue and heavy workloads" which could "generate massive levels of anxiety".
It continued: "Doctors can feel a dreadful sense of personal failure and inadequacy if they struggle to keep working. Sometimes, the despair can be sudden and overwhelming."
The family said a recent General Medical Council survey identified the problem with low morale and heavy workloads, particularly among junior doctors.
They added: "Our hope is that something will be done about this crisis in the health service."
Forty wickets fell in three days at the VCA Stadium as India won by 124 runs to take an unassailable 2-0 series lead.
Visiting captain Hashim Amla said the track was the "toughest" he had faced.
The report has been sent to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which has 14 days to respond.
ICC general manager of cricket Geoff Allardice and chief match referee Ranjan Madugalle will then rule whether the pitch was poor and whether it warrants a penalty.
The match marked the first time a Test played in India has failed to see a batsman reach 50 runs, with India opener Murali Vijay's first-innings 40 the highest individual score.
South Africa, who are the world's top-ranked Test side and had previously not lost an away series since 2006, mustered just 79 in the first innings and lost all 20 wickets in the match to spinners.
On Twitter, former England captain Michael Vaughan described the pitch as "diabolical", a sentiment echoed by Australia spinner Glenn Maxwell.
However, Proteas assistant coach Adrian Birrell refused to blame the pitches for the team's series defeat.
"We're not complaining at all," he said before the fourth and final Test, which begins on Thursday.
"We're playing in India and we're playing in Indian conditions. We relish the opportunity. Unfortunately, we've not played to our full potential."
Alison Garrigan, 27, of Greater Manchester is due before Camberwell Magistrates' Court on 29 August.
Five other women who took part in the 16-hour ascent of the 1,016ft high (310m) building, admitted aggravated trespass and were cautioned.
The group scaled the 87-storey building in July in protest against Arctic oil drilling.
They evaded security guards to begin their climb in the early morning, saying the protest was intended to put Shell and other oil companies in the spotlight and they live-streamed the stunt using head cameras.
At the skyscraper's summit two of them unfurled a blue flag with Save the Arctic written on it.
In a statement Shell said oil and gas production in the Arctic "was not new".
The Shard, a Qatari-owned building, which was opened in February, contains offices, restaurants, a hotel and residential apartments.
The 22-year-old ex-Gillingham player has joined Maidstone from National League South club Eastbourne Borough.
Hare spent four years with Gillingham, making two senior appearances, but left the club in 2016 after missing almost a year because of a knee injury.
He can also play in defence and previously had a short loan spell with Maidstone in 2013.
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Under takeover rules, AB InBev has until 14 October to make a firm offer.
The New York Post is reporting that SAB's management is "leaning towards fighting" the expected offer.
Its shares closed down 3.8% in London, but that is a small proportion of the amount they have risen since AB InBev's interest was revealed on 16 September.
SABMiller is still about 20% above its level before that announcement.
If a deal goes through, the merged company would produce one-third of the world's beer.
SABMiller makes Peroni and Grolsch, while AB InBev produces Budweiser and Stella Artois.
Also on Tuesday, as a result of the expected offer, the company brought forward its six-month trading statement, reporting a 2% rise in sales volumes for the three months to September.
Growth in Latin American and African drinks volumes offset declines in North America and the Asia Pacific region.
But reported revenues fell by 9% because of the depreciation of emerging market currencies against the US dollar.
Unlike other class actions, some of the company's senior executives have also been named as defendants.
Providence alleges that Petrobras made false statements to investors that inflated the company's value.
Its lawyers say that when the corruption scandal broke, the city's investments plummeted.
So far, 39 people in Brazil have been indicted on charges that include corruption, money laundering and racketeering.
They have been accused of forming a cartel to drive up the prices of major Petrobras infrastructure projects and of channelling money into a kickback scheme at Petrobras to pay politicians.
The executives could face sentences of more than 20 years in jail.
The case has shaken the government of President Dilma Rousseff, who served as chair of the Petrobras board for seven years until 2010.
She has denied any knowledge of the scheme.
According to the Brazilian Federal Police the group under investigation moved more than $3.9bn (??2.5bn) in what police describe as "atypical" financial transactions.
Brazilian courts have blocked around $270m in assets belonging to various suspects. Federal agents revealed contracts worth $22bn are regarded as suspicious.
Former Petrobras director Paulo Roberto Costa, who worked at the company from 2004 to 2012, has told investigators that politicians received a 3% commission on contracts signed during this period.
Tracey Curtis-Taylor set off in her 1942 Boeing Stearman aircraft called 'Spirit of Artemis' from Farnborough, England, in October.
She was retracing the route of Amy Johnson, who in 1930 became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia, flying over 23 countries and making some 50 refuelling stops.
After landing in Sydney she tweeted it was the end of a "huge adventure" and also thanked "everyone who supported me".
Her route had taken her across Europe and the Mediterranean to Jordan, over the Arabian desert, across the Gulf of Oman to Pakistan, India and across Asia.
At least two others were injured in the attack early on Wednesday in Tepic, Nayarit state.
Local media reported that the victims were mostly young men who lived at a drug rehabilitation centre.
Police say rehab facilities are increasingly being targeted by drug cartels who suspect the clinics of harbouring members from rival gangs.
The attack came only days after gunmen shot more than a dozen recovering addicts in Tijuana, in Baja California.
And in September, 28 patients were killed in attacks on two rehab clinics in Ciudad Juarez.
The victims in that attack were lined up against a wall and murdered in what police said were reprisal killings.
Five men belonging to the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel have been arrested for the Ciudad Juarez murders.
Some 28,000 people have died in drugs-related violence in Mexico since 2006.
More than 7,000 people have died in the violence in 2010 - making it the bloodiest year since President Felipe Calderon dispatched some 50,000 troops to take on the drug cartels in 2006.
Mr Calderon, who was attending a forum on security as news of the latest massacre broke, called a minute of silence for victims of the bloodshed, the Associated Press reported.
The latest violence came shortly after Mr Calderon told the BBC the US should do more to reduce the demand for drugs that is fuelling violence in Mexico.
He told the Hardtalk programme that more should also be done to stem the flow of illegal weapons from the US.
President Calderon and other regional leaders have urged Californian voters to reject moves to legalise marijuana in their state.
Last week, police in Tijuana destroyed 134 tonnes of cannabis - the largest drugs haul ever seized in the country.
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Britain's Olympic track champion Dani King was "in so much pain, I couldn't breathe, couldn't cry," after a crash she feared would end her career.
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The 74 passengers and seven crew members used emergency chutes to evacuate the Airbus 320 in the incident late on Tuesday.
Local media reported that at least 20 people had minor injuries.
Transport ministry officials said a plane wheel may have clipped a radio facility near the runway on landing.
The structure, known as the localiser, helps aircraft find the landing strip. A fragment was found on the plane's left wheel, Japan's national broadcaster NHK reported.
Images from the scene showed apparent damage to the 6m (18ft) tower, with mangled metal torn down.
An aviation safety official told AFP news agency that the left side of the plane's tail was damaged and the country's transport safety board was investigating.
Asiana Airlines apologised for the incident, and said it had set up a response team to cope with the aftermath.
"As to the determination of the cause of the accident, we will co-operate as closely as possible with the relevant authorities," it said.
Passengers told NHK that they heard an explosion after landing, and the cabin was soon filled with smoke and a burning smell. The plane also appeared to be sliding on the runway.
"There was smoke coming out and some of the oxygen masks fell down. Cabin attendants were in such a panic and I thought 'we are going to die'," one woman told Japanese networks on Tuesday night.
The plane was flying to Hiroshima from South Korea's Incheon airport, near Seoul.
The airport was closed for several hours.
In July 2013, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from Incheon crashed on landing at San Francisco airport after its tail clipped a sea wall.
Three people died in the crash - including one Chinese teenager who was run over by a firefighting vehicle in the chaos.
And two years prior to that, two Asiana pilots were killed when their China-bound cargo flight crashed into the sea off South Korea's Jeju island.
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Air safety authorities in Japan are investigating how a South Korean Asiana Airlines plane skidded off a runway on landing at Hiroshima airport.
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The on-loan Motherwell midfielder's left-foot shot from outside the box gave Queens the lead.
Christian Nade struck to bring the Sons level, following in after Andy Stirling hit the goal frame.
But Thomas netted his third goal in two games, firing in on the rebound after Joe Thomson's shot had come back off the crossbar.
Match ends, Dumbarton 1, Queen of the South 2.
Second Half ends, Dumbarton 1, Queen of the South 2.
Mark Docherty (Dumbarton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Derek Lyle (Queen of the South).
Samuel Stanton (Dumbarton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Samuel Stanton (Dumbarton).
Dom Thomas (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Mark Docherty (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dom Thomas (Queen of the South).
Foul by Garry Fleming (Dumbarton).
Andy Dowie (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Chris Higgins (Queen of the South) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Darren Barr.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Chris Higgins.
Attempt missed. Andy Stirling (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Robert Thomson replaces David Smith.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Darren Barr.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Gregor Buchanan.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Derek Lyle replaces Daniel Carmichael.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by David Smith.
Attempt saved. Joseph Thomson (Queen of the South) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Lewis Vaughan (Dumbarton).
Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Samuel Stanton (Dumbarton) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Garry Fleming replaces Christian Nade.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Calum Gallagher replaces Stuart Carswell.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Gregor Buchanan.
Goal! Dumbarton 1, Queen of the South 2. Dom Thomas (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Joseph Thomson.
Joseph Thomson (Queen of the South) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the centre of the box.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Samuel Stanton.
Goal! Dumbarton 1, Queen of the South 1. Christian Nade (Dumbarton) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Andy Stirling (Dumbarton) hits the right post with a right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Alan Martin.
Attempt saved. Daniel Carmichael (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Stuart Carswell.
Attempt blocked. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Daniel Harvie (Dumbarton).
Dom Thomas (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Lewis Vaughan (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
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Dom Thomas scored twice as Queen of the South moved up to fifth in the Scottish Championship by beating Dumbarton.
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The 25-year-old Sunderland winger was carried off on a stretcher in Cairo during his team's defeat by Egypt.
"It's not serious, it's a benign ankle sprain," the federation said in a statement on its website. "He will be able to play in Gabon."
Tunisia will play Senegal on Sunday.
They will also face Algeria and Zimbabwe in Group B at the finals, which run from 14 January to 5 February.
Khazri is one of Tunisia's key players, even though he has had a lack of game time for his Premier League club over the last few months.
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Tunisia's Wahbi Khazri will be fit to play at the Africa Cup of Nations despite suffering an ankle injury in a friendly on Sunday, the Tunisian Football Federation said on Tuesday.
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A two-week review into 56 legacy cases began last week.
Many of the delayed investigations involve killings linked to the security forces.
Lord Justice Weir said the MoD was not short of money as they were fighting wars across the world.
The cases involve 95 deaths where inquests have still to be heard.
These include some of the most controversial killings during the Troubles.
The judge made his comments when he was told the reason the MoD had missed deadlines for disclosing classified papers to the coroners' courts was due to resource pressures.
"The MoD is not short of money," he said.
"It's busy all over the world fighting wars and it's about to buy some new submarines with nuclear warheads - so it's not short of money."
He added: "This is obviously very low on their list of priorities."
The judge was examining the shooting dead of Belfast father-of-six Patrick McVeigh by a covert army unit, the Military Reaction Force, in 1972.
He also examined the cases of seven IRA men shot by the SAS in two separate ambushes in the early 1990s.
In the case of IRA men Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell, Patrick Vincent and Peter Clancy, who were killed by the SAS in Clonoe, County Tyrone, in 1992, the judge was told the MoD still had not disclosed documents to the court - more than a year after committing to do so.
The MoD also faced criticism for its handling of the stalled inquest for IRA men Michael "Peter" Ryan, Anthony Doris and Laurence McNally, who were killed by the SAS in Coagh, County Tyrone, in June 1991.
Lord Justice Weir stressed that the holding of investigations was not "optional".
"It's not like buying a new Jeep or getting a new regimental mascot," he said.
"This is not an option - this is an international obligation on the state."
He said the MoD argument that it was under resource pressure raised questions over the government's commitment to its obligations under international human rights laws.
El Hassani, 43, lies one shot off the lead after making three birdies and 15 pars in Rabat, Morocco.
"I hit a couple of fairways and I also made a couple of recovery shots like Seve Ballesteros," said the Moroccan.
Jason Scrivener, Francesco Laporta and Thomas Linard top the leaderboard after carding a four under par round of 68.
The European Tour and Ladies European Tour are staging both the men's and women's tournaments at the same venue for the first time this week.
The men are playing on the red course, while the neighbouring blue course is hosting the Lalla Meryem Cup. England's Florentyna Parker led at the end of the first day after a five under par 67.
Compatriot Liz Young is among the pack just one shot behind.
Soldiers from 9 Regiment Army Air Corps in Dishforth held the ceremony to mark the merging of the unit with another regiment in Somerset.
Its closure means there will be no British Army helicopter units based in the north of England.
The regiment has served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Its most recent operation was providing disaster relief in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
The ceremony was attended by the local mayor Kenny Fuller, who once served in the regiment as a helicopter pilot.
Mr Fuller described the event as "extremely emotional".
"I got a bit upset there when they were handing over the flag over to the regimental colonel," he said.
"It's quite moving."
One man was arrested when a car was stopped by police on the Naas dual carriageway shortly before 15:00 local time.
The suspected firearm and ammunition were recovered from this vehicle.
Shortly afterwards, a second car was stopped on the Long Mile Road in the west of the city and another man was arrested.
Both cars were stopped as part of an ongoing investigation into organised crime in the city.
The men are being held under the Republic of Ireland's Offences Against the State Act.
The 21-year-old has agreed a one-year contract with an option to extend the deal for two further years.
Originally from Mold in north Wales, Jones has also played for Sale Sharks and RGC 1404.
"It all came about quite fast - it escalated quite quickly to be honest," Jones told BBC Wales Sport.
"I enjoyed my time with the Blues and now I've got the opportunity to come out to France and I'm just going to get my head down and work hard and see what happens".
Perpignan play in France's ProD2 and face Bèziers and Carcassone in pre-season friendlies before opening their season campaign at home against Mont-de-Marsan.
If he can establish himself with Perpignan, Jones hopes to add a senior Wales cap to his five for the Under-20s and does not think his move to France will affect his chances of representing Wales in the future.
"I feel like in my position at my age it's not a major factor," he explained.
"I've just turned 21 and I know at my age not many people at 21 are going to play tight-head prop for Wales."
Taylor's 88th-minute decider came after Vale's JJ Hooper had cancelled out Aaron Phillips' opener for the hosts, with all three goals coming in the final half-hour.
It was Northampton's third win on the trot and lifted them 11 points clear of fourth-bottom Vale, who themselves are now five points adrift of safety after relegation rivals Oldham defeated Oxford.
Cobblers started brightly, with Michael Smith and Keshi Anderson firing over, while Luke Williams was also off target with another effort.
Leonardo Fasan pulled off a smart save to deny Anderson from the edge of the box as Northampton made all the running, with John-Joe O'Toole also failing to hit the target for the hosts.
Fasan denied Marc Richards in another Northampton attack before Vale created their first opening just before the break when Anton Forrester was denied by Adam Smith.
After the restart, Sam Foley fired wide for Vale before the home side created further chances, Richards failing to hit the target from a tight angle in the six-yard box and Taylor having a shot blocked.
It was going to take something special to break the deadlock and it came in the 63rd minute when an intended cross from full-back Phillips beat Fasan and found the top corner of the net.
Boosted by the breakthrough, Cobblers went in search of the crucial second goal. Smith went close with a header, while Richards blazed over from close range before then firing wide from the edge of the box.
But it was Vale who struck next, getting back on level terms in the 73rd minute when Northampton failed to deal with a corner and Hooper beat Smith from 15 yards.
Vale began to get on top in the closing stages but Northampton could have reclaimed their lead only for substitute Hiram Boateng to head wide from close range.
The home fans need not have worried, though, as two minutes from the end Taylor caught out Fasan from 30 yards to net home the match-winning strike.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Authorities said Faisal Mohammad, 18, had probably been "self-radicalised," and had not been in direct contact with the militant group.
Police shot and killed Mohammad after he carried out the November attack at the University of California, Merced.
The FBI said agents found IS propaganda on Mohammad's computer.
The US-born student was also found with writings that showed that he had planned the attack in advance. All of his victims survived.
He first stabbed two students in a classroom with a hunting knife, before attacking a construction worker who tried to help them. Mohammed then ran outside and stabbed a university employee.
A month later, a husband and wife killed 14 people at a staff training event in San Bernardino.
The FBI has also described Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik as being "self-radicalised" yet inspired by IS.
Billy Midmore, 23, was found guilty by a jury in 2016 of attacking Carla Whitlock in a Southampton street.
He was jailed for 15 years with five years extended licence for causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, said Midmore had an "appalling" record and the sentence was "not excessive".
Ms Whitlock, a mother-of-six, was sprayed with drain cleaner containing sulphuric acid in Guildhall Square in September 2015.
Train CCTV showed Midmore giving a high-five and fist-bumping a friend hours later.
The trial at Southampton Crown Court heard the attack happened after Ms Whitlock brokered a drug deal which went wrong.
Midmore's brother Geoffrey, 27, was robbed of drugs and cash worth £2,000.
On the morning the acid was bought, Geoffrey Midmore sent a message to his girlfriend saying: " It's cool though - I know who robbed me and set it up."
Later that day, he messaged a photograph of the drain cleaner, with the words: "This is the one face melter".
At the appeal, Billy Midmore's barrister argued the later message was hearsay evidence and should not have been admissible at the trial.
The barrister, Mark Ruffell, also argued Billy Midmore should have had a chance at his trial to question his brother about the message and why he sent it.
The Crown had argued the brothers, from London, bought the acid together and the attack was a joint enterprise.
Lord Thomas said the sentence handed to Billy Midmore was "not excessive or wrong in principle" in view of the defendant's "appalling list of previous convictions".
He said he would explain his decision to refuse the appeal against conviction at a later date.
The department's spokesman would not give any details of what happened but confirmed one of the officers received medical treatment for her injuries.
Democratic Unionist Party MLA Edwin Poots has claimed one of the officers was scalded when a kettle of hot water fell during a struggle with an inmate.
He said the jail was under-staffed.
Mr Poots is a former Stormont minster for health and public safety and a current member of Stormont's justice committee.
On his Twitter account on Sunday, he wrote: "A prison officer scalded with hot water and five colleagues injured. How long is the SMT [senior management team] and Minister going to drag their feet."
He told the BBC that under-staffing in the high-security County Antrim jail was creating dangers for both staff and inmates.
In a statement on the latest incident on Sunday afternoon, the Department of Justice said: "In line with Prison Service policy, a full investigation will now be carried out."
A prison inspection report last year said Maghaberry prison was "unsafe and unstable" for prisoners and staff.
Last week, the BBC's Nolan Show revealed that prisoners were attacked by other inmates more than 800 times in Northern Ireland jails over the last three years, almost half of them in Maghaberry.
Appeal court judges said that, under law, the bakers were not allowed to provide a service only to people who agreed with their religious beliefs.
Two years ago, the family-run firm refused to make a cake iced with the slogan: "Support Gay Marriage".
The order was placed at its Belfast shop by gay rights activist Gareth Lee.
The firm argued that the cake's message was against the bakers' religious views.
Reacting to the ruling, Daniel McArthur from Ashers said he was "extremely disappointed" adding that it undermined "democratic freedom, religious freedom and free speech".
"If equality law means people can be punished for politely refusing to support other people's causes then equality law needs to change," he said.
"We had served Mr Lee before and we would be happy to serve him again.
"The judges accepted that we did not know that Mr Lee was gay and that he was not the reason we declined the order.
"We have always said it was not about the customer, it was about the message."
In court on Monday, three judges said it did not follow that icing a message meant you supported that message.
In their ruling, they said: "The fact that a baker provides a cake for a particular team or portrays witches on a Halloween cake does not indicate any support for either."
The judges also said that Ashers would not have objected to a cake carrying the message: "Support Heterosexual Marriage" or indeed "Support Marriage".
"We accept that it was the use of the word 'gay' in the context of the message which prevented the order from being fulfilled," they said.
"The reason that the order was cancelled was that the appellants would not provide a cake with a message supporting a right to marry for those of a particular sexual orientation.
"This was a case of association with the gay and bisexual community and the protected personal characteristic was the sexual orientation of that community.
"Accordingly this was direct discrimination."
The judges said that in the course of the hearing, concern was expressed about the role of the Equality Commission in the pursuit of the case.
They said that they had been assured that the commission was available to give advice and assistance to those such as the appellants "who may find themselves in difficulties as a result of their deeply held religious beliefs".
"The only correspondence to the appellants that we have seen, however, did not include any offer of such assistance and may have created the impression that the commission was not interested in assisting the faith community where issues of this sort arose," they added.
The judges said it "should not have been beyond the capacity of the commission to provide or arrange for the provision of advice to the appellants at an earlier stage and we would hope that such a course would be followed if a situation such as this were to arise in future".
Speaking publicly for the first time about the case, Mr Lee said he was both "relieved" and "grateful to the appeal court judges."
Michael Wardlow, from the Equality Commission, said the appeal court ruling against Ashers bakery was extremely significant and clarified the law.
"The judgement today was very clear. It said unequivocally, faith is important, but faith cannot set aside equality legislation that has been long fought," he said.
The appeal court upheld the original court's decision that Ashers in County Antrim discriminated against Mr Lee.
At that time, the judge said she accepted that Ashers had "genuine and deeply held" religious views, but said the business was not above the law.
The family's appeal was heard in May, but the judgement was reserved.
Paul Mahoney, 29, from Carnhill in Derry, had pleaded guilty to a number of offences.
Last month, a court heard that Mahoney put the movie industry at risk of losing £120m.
He made almost £300,000 through advertising revenue generated from illegal sites.
These offered access to the latest films and television shows, many before general release.
Mahoney, who is partially-blind, operated the online racket for six years. In one instance, more than one million films were illegally streamed over a period of six months.
A lawyer described the money involved in his sophisticated fraud as "quite staggering".
During this period he claimed more than £12,000 in state benefits. Almost £82,400 was also found hidden at the home he shared with his parents.
The judge described Mahoney's operation as cunning, clever and complex and added that Londonderry Crown Court had to impose the sentence to show that offending of this nature did not go unpunished.
The investigation against Mahoney was led by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) in conjunction with the PSNI.
The director general of Fact, Kieron Sharp, welcomed the judgement.
"Financially, it had the potential for causing great loss to the film and television industries in the UK," he said,
"This is about the people who work within those industries, who make those films, who need the funding to be able to make film and television programmes in the future.
"The message it sends out is that it's not a victimless crime. When people take films for free, somebody is suffering somewhere and also that if you are going to make money out of it and cause such loss, you will pay the penalty and go to prison."
An action plan has been agreed, but Thursday's EU summit ended with leaders recognising that more solidarity was needed - as much within the 28-nation bloc as in its relations with Turkey.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel aims to build on the progress made in EU Commission negotiations with Turkey by visiting Ankara on Sunday, but she admitted that "there is still a huge amount to do".
Turkey is the main transit country for Syrian refugees and other migrants - many of them also fleeing conflict zones - hoping to start a new life in Europe.
It is driving a hard bargain with the EU because of the cost of sheltering more than two million Syrian refugees on its soil, and because the crisis has put it in a strong negotiating position.
Record numbers of migrants continue to risk their lives on crowded boats crossing from Turkey to the Greek islands and from chaotic Libya to Italy.
The relocation of refugees to other EU countries has started, but so far the numbers are small, and the scheme is hotly debated.
Eritreans are going from Italy to Sweden, and soon Syrians are to leave Greece for Luxembourg.
But the idea of having a permanent mechanism to relocate refugees inside the EU caused friction at the summit, so it was left out of the summit conclusions.
Mrs Merkel told a news conference that "for some reason some East European countries feel treated badly, and I need to understand why they react so strongly and are so tough on migrants".
Last month Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania opposed the relocation plan, but were outvoted.
The focus on Turkey is now bound up with its candidacy for EU membership and its desire for visa-free travel for its citizens in the EU's Schengen passport-free zone.
The summit conclusions say Turkey's EU accession process "needs to be re-energised".
That could mean the EU soon opening new policy areas - called "chapters" - in the accession talks, which have been stalled because of Turkey's long-standing dispute with Cyprus.
Yet growing violence in Turkey and a general election on 1 November make this a difficult time to be conducting such sensitive talks.
Twin suicide bombings in Ankara last Saturday killed nearly 100 people rallying for peace - the worst such atrocity in modern Turkish history. It came amid escalating clashes between Turkish forces and PKK Kurdish rebels.
That instability, the ruling AK Party's crackdown on opponents, and wider concerns about human rights make it controversial for the EU to be offering inducements in exchange for action to keep migrants in Turkey.
A deal on migrant readmission between the EU and Turkey was reached in December 2013, which on paper allows the EU to send failed asylum seekers back. But Turkey has not ratified the deal and the message of this summit is that such agreements must now be put into practice.
Turkey says that for it to take back migrants from Greece and other EU countries - an extra burden besides the many refugees it is housing - the EU must bring forward visa liberalisation. Ankara would like visa-free travel to start in mid-2016, rather than 2017.
Turkey is a candidate for EU membership, yet only Bulgaria and Luxembourg recognise Turkey as a "safe country of origin" when handling asylum cases.
Last year 23% of asylum claims by Turkish nationals in the EU were treated as well-founded.
If an EU state considers a country safe then it can legally send migrants back there, so now there is a drive to establish a common EU list of safe countries, to speed up migrant returns.
But the EU border force Frontex is still far short of the resources it needs - especially as the plan now is for Frontex to start initiating migrant returns itself.
So the conclusions stressed the need to fulfil the EU's funding pledges for Frontex, Turkey and UN agencies struggling with the surge in migrant numbers.
Ms Merkel said a figure of €3bn (£2.2bn; $3.4bn) in EU aid for Turkey was discussed "because Turkey has spent €7bn on refugees, but received only €1bn".
The bottom line is that much more money needs to be spent on tackling a crisis that European Parliament President Martin Schulz called "an epochal challenge, with migration flows unseen since the Second World War".
Williams, England's most-capped player, and Nobbs have been sidelined through hamstring injuries, while Duggan returns from an ankle problem.
The Lionesses face Bosnia in Bristol on 29 November (15:30 GMT).
It will be their first home game since finishing third at this summer's World Cup in Canada.
The same squad will also travel to Duisburg to play Germany on Thursday, 26 November (17:00 GMT) in a friendly.
Manager Mark Sampson said: "2015 has been an amazing year for the team and our supporters, full of special memories for everyone involved.
"To end the year with a match in Germany, one of the biggest tests in women's football, and then the team's homecoming in Bristol against Bosnia is a fitting way to mark such a big year for the game."
Goalkeepers: Karen Bardsley (Manchester City), Rachael Laws (Sunderland), Carly Telford (Notts County)
Defenders: Laura Bassett (Notts County), Lucy Bronze (Manchester City), Gilly Flaherty (Chelsea), Alex Greenwood (Notts County), Steph Houghton (Manchester City), Claire Rafferty (Chelsea), Demi Stokes (Manchester City), Casey Stoney (Arsenal), Amy Turner (Notts County)
Midfielders: Isobel Christiansen (Manchester City), Jordan Nobbs (Arsenal), Jill Scott (Manchester City), Fara Williams (Liverpool)
Forwards: Eni Aluko (Chelsea), Jess Clarke (Notts County), Gemma Davison (Chelsea), Toni Duggan (Manchester City), Fran Kirby (Chelsea), Jodie Taylor (Portland Thorns), Ellen White (Notts County)
Mairi Hedderwick wrote and illustrated the hugely popular series of books, which were turned into a BBC TV series.
The awards will be given annually to one author and one learning professional who have had "an inspiring impact on young readers in Scotland".
Also honoured at this year's event was school librarian Susan Morton.
Mairi's Hedderwick books have been popular with children for more than 30 years and been translated into six languages.
She has written or illustrated more than 30 titles for children, including her most famous creation Katie Morag.
The author said: "Being given this award has been very good for me because I have sometimes put my head in the sand about the phenomenal success of Katie Morag and this very special event has made me face up to the fact of how important and key she is to the culture of Scotland, the country I love. I am so, so lucky.
"To be given this special award is definitely the crème de la crème icing on my cake. I promise to share a slice, or maybe two, with Katie Morag."
The Scottish Book Trust Award for Learning Professional was awarded to Susan Morton for the "significant impact she has had on her school community".
Ms Morton has been the school librarian at Inverclyde Academy for a year, and the award organisers said she had transformed attitudes towards books and reading among the pupils there.
Marc Lambert, chief executive at Scottish Book Trust, said: "Mairi has captured the imagination of children across the world with her beautiful stories and watercolours.
"The character of Katie Morag is a beloved part of Scottish culture and Mairi's strong support of nurturing quality writing, while her own work inspires readers, makes her so important to the literary landscape in Scotland."
He added: "From one room in a school, Susan Morton has shown the huge impact a motivated and creative learning professional can have on a whole community.
"Susan is an outstanding example of the wonderful work being done by many teachers and librarians across Scotland in nurturing a culture of reading for pleasure."
Sam Allardyce's side will play the 2010 World Cup winners four days after their World Cup 2018 qualifier against Scotland.
Like England, Spain had a disappointing Euro 2016 campaign - also exiting at the last-16 stage after a 2-0 defeat by Italy.
The two countries last met in a friendly in November 2015, with Spain winning 2-0.
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The clashes followed a match between the al-Ahly and al-Masry clubs in February of that year, and left 74 football fans dead.
The riots - Egypt's worst-ever football disaster - began after a top-league game at the stadium.
The case, and earlier sentencing, fuelled tensions and bouts of violence.
The verdict came as part of a retrial of 73 defendants in the case, in which another 40 defendants were sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.
Other defendants were acquitted. The verdicts can be appealed against.
•74 people killed in Port Said stadium on 2 February 2012
•Clashes broke out between rival fans of clubs al-Masry and al-Ahly
•Fans flooded on to pitch attacking al-Ahly players and fans as match ended
•Most died of concussion, cuts and suffocation
Several police officers were tried in the case, alongside officials from al-Masry as well as Port Said fans.
None were among those who received death sentences, but Port Said's former security chief was sentenced to five years in prison.
Police were accused of letting fans from the local team al-Masry attack supporters of Cairo club al-Ahly, who had been vocal in supporting the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.
Many of the dead were crushed when panicked fans tried to escape from the stadium after a post-match pitch invasion by al-Masry supporters.
The violence sparked unrest in the capital, Cairo, where another 16 people died.
During the clashes, then-President Mohammed Morsi declared a state of emergency in the city.
Rachel and Nyomi Fee deny murdering two-year-old Liam in March 2014 and abusing two other boys.
In his closing speech, advocate depute Alex Prentice, said the pair had shown "an unyielding, heartless cruelty" towards Liam.
He urged the jury to find them guilty of all of the charges against them.
Mr Prentice said the extent of the injuries and the lack of medical assistance should assist the jury in working out the mental attitude of Rachel and Nyomi Fee towards the youngster.
He also said the two accused acted together with a "common criminal purpose" and described it as a "circumstantial case".
Mr Prentice told the jury it was a "harrowing case" and said they would need to be made of "granite" not to be moved by what had been heard. But he said sympathy should play no part in their judgement.
Mr Prentice told the jury of nine women and six men the most obvious thing for an adult to do would be to tell a doctor, nurse or hospital the real reason for injuries suffered by a child.
He said: "The conduct I say is set out on the evidence in the charges suggest a course of violence and cruelty towards the children.
"That's capable of providing you with evidence in relation to the murder charge.
"I ask you to find both the accused guilty of everything that's on this indictment. You're entitled to do that.
"There's sufficient evidence led in this case to justify the charges as they stand. The evidence is there in support of all that is on the indictment."
He added: "You can look at the awkward and very deliberate lies and explanations that were put forward.
"The most obvious thing would be to tell a doctor or a health visitor or a hospital immediately. If it's sexualised behaviour, that indicates a problem that has to be addressed.
"No, they hide it. They never tell anyone. They never mention it until the night Liam dies.
"In this case I suggest there's a clear and compelling case of the boys being ill-treated in a way that is completely unacceptable."
Nyomi Fee, 29, and Rachel Fee, 31, deny killing the toddler at a house near Glenrothes in Fife on 22 March 2014, by repeatedly inflicting "blunt force trauma" to his head and body.
They also face charges they neglected Liam and abused two other children.
The pair blame one of the other children in their care for killing Liam.
The women, who are both originally from Ryton, Tyne and Wear, deny all the charges against them.
The trial at the High Court in Livingston continues.
No one in the house was injured but the car damaged black railings, brickwork and some possessions inside the house in Long Leys Road, in Lincoln.
Lincolnshire Police were called to the house at about 02:00 GMT but the driver of the car had left the scene.
A 24-year-old man was arrested later on Friday, on suspicion of driving while unfit through drink or drugs.
Police said the man, who was suffering from minor injuries and was arrested elsewhere in the city, remained in custody.
One nearby resident, who did not want to be named, told the Lincolnshire Echo the people in the house "had a pretty lucky escape".
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said firefighters made the vehicle safe, mopped up some fluid on the road and handed over to the council building inspector.
A Sunday Mail article alleged that a syndicate, including a top police officer, was behind the recent use of cyanide to kill elephants for tusks.
The story was untrue and tarnished the force's image, the police said.
Some culprits involved had already been arrested, the spokesperson said.
The article undermined the police's investigation into poaching, police spokeswoman Charity Charamba told journalists in the capital, Harare.
Meanwhile, two travellers from Zimbabwe have been arrested at Hong Kong International Airport with 36kg (80lb) of suspected ivory, worth an estimated $46,500 (£30,000), in their hand luggage, the South China Morning Post reports.
Some of the items were found in a tailor-made vest, the paper quoted Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department as saying.
The Sunday Mail's editor Mabasa Sasa, investigations editor Brian Chitemba and reporter Tinashe Farawo were detained on Monday night.
They had "dented and tarnished the image of the organisation for no apparent reason", Ms Charamba said.
"The editor and reporters of the Sunday Mail cannot be allowed to hide behind the privilege of journalism to peddle these falsehoods," she said.
Journalists in future should work with the security forces to identify suspected poachers, she added.
The BBC's Brian Hungwe in the Harare says more than 60 elephants were killed with cyanide in or near Hwange National Park in south-western Zimbabwe last month.
Some of the carcasses were found without tusks and a sophisticated poaching syndicate involving locals and foreigners is believed to be behind the poisonings, he says.
The journalists are expected to be formally charged in court on Wednesday.
Loughty Dube, the director of the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ), said the arrests were "barbaric and unconstitutional".
"The police should simply have asked for a retraction, issued a statement with the correct position or registered their complaint through VMCZ," he told the AFP news agency.
The boss and co-founder of UK financial services business True Potential is showing me the firm's savings app on his iPhone.
But the screen freezes, revealing his account details. Mr Harrison has serious money invested.
"Well," he says, "if a car dealer is trying to sell you a Ford as the best on the market, you wouldn't expect him to be driving around in a Merc.
"It's about believing in what you're doing… If anything goes wrong - trust me - I know first."
Mr Harrison would prefer the exact figure was not disclosed. But it represents only part of his assets, which include a huge house next to Hadrian's Wall on the border between England and Scotland, and a luxury hotel.
Not bad for someone who was adopted soon after his birth in Cardiff, grew up in a Country Durham mining village, and whose first pay packet was £6 working as an apprentice for the steelmaker Consett Iron Company.
Set up a decade ago, Newcastle-based savings and investment firm True Potential now enjoys annual revenues of more than £70m a year, and is the second successful financial services venture that Mr Harrison has founded.
He ran his previous business, Positive Solutions, for six years from 1997 to 2003, before selling it to insurance giant Aegon for £130m.
So, now aged 66, what does Mr Harrison think is the secret of his success? "Work hard, lots of luck. There was no big plan. I just stumbled on, trying to make some money."
There aren't many businessmen who can claim that a broken leg was their big career break, but Mr Harrison is one of them.
Aged 33 at the time, after a number of years working on building sites, he was running his own bricklaying business and hating it.
"Everyone was earning more money than me," he says looking back.
Then during a casual football game he badly fractured his leg. Unable to climb up and down ladders at building sites, a career re-think was needed.
Family life: Married, with two daughters and two sons
What cars do you drive? Audi RS6 and Bentley Supersport
Favourite book? The Rational Optimist, by Matt Ridley
Best piece of business advice? Sell for a living
Your most irritating habit? Always making fun. Sometimes it isn't funny
Dislikes? Hipsters in skinny jeans
How do you keep fit? Run to the pub
Favourite drink? Mexican beer
First ambition? Be a professional footballer
Motto: Duck first, then run
"Everything is pure chance - either good luck, or bad luck," Mr Harrison says.
Good fortune found him in his local library in the north east of England, with his leg in cast, reading its only book on sales and marketing.
I'd make a good salesman, he told himself. And thanks to a friend who worked for the company, he got a job as a pensions seller at a company called Hambro Life.
Hardworking, but also easy going and affable, Mr Harrison rose to become a director.
But he attributes his success at Hambro Life (which went on to become Allied Dunbar), to yet more luck.
In the 1990s the UK pensions market expanded fast, and he says he rode the crest of the wave.
"It isn't false modesty," he insists. "I do work hard at what I do. But no matter how hard you work, you need a growing and thriving market."
However, he and Hambro eventually parted ways after what Mr Harrison admits was "a bit of tension".
This tension was caused by a light bulb moment he had while doing a master of Business Administration degree through the Open University in the early 1990s.
His university studies were increasingly done on a computer, and he wondered why writing investments couldn't be done the same way.
At the time selling financial products involved truck-loads of paperwork and thousands of back-office staff.
He wanted Hambro salesmen issued with laptops. Customers could be shown spreadsheets in the comfort of their homes. Sales could be signed off in days, not weeks.
It sounds quaint now. Back then "it was a revolutionary idea," Mr Harrison says. "It was also unpopular because it would have meant about 1,500 jobs going.
"I thought I was right, they thought I was wrong - so I left."
It was the catalyst for setting up Positive Solutions in 1997, which utilised computers from the start.
Mr Harrison says that he and a college re-mortgaged their homes to fund the firm, and "we would have been well and truly wiped out if it had failed".
Thankfully, it was a success, and within four years Positive Solutions was the biggest privately-owned UK independent financial advisor, turning over more than £10m a year.
Mr Harrison then sold up in 2003, before finally severing all links in 2006.
With a fortune in the bank, why didn't he just go and lay on a beach?
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It's a question his wife sometimes asks, he admits. "But I actually enjoy the work. I enjoy the craic, and I enjoy working with people."
So, in 2007 he and his investment partners launched True Potential - a year before the global financial crisis.
The timing wasn't great, but Mr Harrison says that merely meant that the expansion of the business was not as quick as it otherwise would have been.
"It slowed us down; probably cost us two or three years in terms of sales growth," he says.
But setbacks make you a better businessman, he believes. It's about "staying strong... Back yourself. You just have to get on with it".
A decade later, and True Potential is now enjoying annual sales growth of more than 27%.
"David Harrison is a genuine innovator," says Ian McKenna, an expert on technology in the financial advice marketplace.
"He's a hard-driving businessman who is making a real difference," adds Mr McKenna, who works for consultancy Finance & Technology Research Centre.
Mr Harrison likes to shrug it off as luck, but perhaps the most successful entrepreneurs make their own luck. David Harrison puts his money where his mouth is.
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The Gunners have exited at the first knockout stage for the past six years, having finished second in their group in five of those campaigns.
But they topped their section thanks to a 4-1 win in Basel and Ludogorets' shock 2-2 draw at Paris St-Germain.
"We wanted to do our job and got lucky with the PSG result," Wenger said.
Arsenal will avoid Monaco and Barcelona, who eliminated them in 2015 and 2016 respectively, as well as Atletico Madrid and Napoli in Monday's draw.
However, teams they could still be paired with include Bayern Munich, who knocked them out in 2013 and 2014, and one of Borussia Dortmund or Real Madrid.
"We can still have a difficult draw," said Wenger. "But there's less guilt when you finish first in the group because you feel you have done your job and you play the second leg of the first knockout tie at home.
"It is what we wanted but, at the moment, the difficulty of the draw will not be much different."
Arsenal's win in Switzerland came thanks to a Lucas Perez hat-trick, the Spaniard more than doubling his Gunners goal tally after making a £17m move from Deportivo La Coruna in August.
He twice tapped into an empty net, and got his third with a neat finish from just inside the 18-yard box.
"The first two were quite easy goals, created by the team," said Wenger. "But the third goal is a real striker's goal.
"He scored over 20 goals in Spain last year and tonight he showed why. He has a real eye for goal."
BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty
Arsenal's success in topping their group is a tribute to their growing resilience, which saw them draw home and away to PSG in games where they were forced to suffer and battle for long periods.
They also showed the swagger when they needed it to ruthlessly put Basel away to fulfil their side of the bargain while Ludogorets delivered the big favour in Paris.
The different facets the Gunners have shown in coming out on top of the group suggests increasing maturity in Arsene Wenger's team and more justification for his belief they can make their mark in the Champions League this season.
The Guardian, Metro, Daily Star and I newspapers all led with Arsenal on their Wednesday back pages.
The 42-year-old was assaulted in her car in the grounds of Bonnyrigg Health Centre at about 11:00 on Thursday.
She suffered minor injuries to her face.
Police said a 46-year-old woman has now been arrested in connection with the incident. A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
The toilets at Staffin on Skye were among a number of Highland Council-run sites shut this year to save money.
The council has been in talks with Staffin Community Trust about alternative facilities.
In the meantime, two complaints have been received public urination and defecation in and around the village.
The nearest public toilet is in Kilmuir about 11 miles (17km) from Staffin.
Residents have told BBC Alba of people using ditches, a nearby quarry and the rear of the closed toilet block.
Highland Council it had cost £6,700 a year to run Staffin's loos.
A spokeswoman said: "We cannot confirm that people have been urinating and defecating in the area - we have found no evidence to support these claims.
"There have been two complaints made, one to environmental health and one to roads and community works.
"In addition to this we have had three enquiries about Staffin toilets."
She added: "The council has been in discussions with Staffin Community Trust and have agreed in principle to operate a seasonal - April to October - Highland Comfort Scheme within the community hall."
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She's the latest to be born at the park as a part of a special breeding programme. The newborn weighs a hefty 7 stone.
White rhinos numbers have fallen in the wild because of poaching. They're hunted because their horns are worth a lot of money.
This little one doesn't have a name yet, a competition will be launched to decide what to call her.
Lewis Knapp was hit by a silver Vauxhall Vectra at 04:30 BST on Saturday as he crossed Anderson Street near the junction with Beach Road.
The 20-year-old, of Boldon Colliery, died at the scene.
Northumbria Police said a 20-year-old man arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving in relation to the crash had been released on bail.
Performances should be shorter with no interval, he argues, while orchestras could drop their formal dress code.
The musician, who plays the BBC Proms next week, says the lack of new audiences has become critical.
"It's important to address this issue if we want to refresh the experience of hearing great classical music live without resorting to gimmicks."
Writing in the Radio Times, Hough accuses the programmers of becoming stuck in their ways.
"At some point in the early 20th Century we settled into a pattern: Concerts should start early evening and last roughly two hours with a liquid interval, either to drink a glass of wine or visit the ladies / gents.
"I think we should consider removing the interval and starting either earlier or later than 7:30pm - 60 to 80 minutes of music, then out."
Hough adds that he played such a concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic a few months ago, "and it felt charged with an energy that the traditional concert can sometimes lack".
The question of how to attract younger audiences has vexed classical musicians for years.
The focus usually turns to new ways of presenting music, such as last year's blockbuster Ibiza Prom; or educational outreach programmes, like the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's "In Harmony" project, which uses music-making to improve the health, education and aspirations of children and young people in Everton.
But shorter performances have proved effective in attracting new audiences for the Montreal Symphony in Canada, which holds an annual festival called "Viree Classique" (Classical Spree) every summer.
The event boasts 30 concerts in 30 hours, all within walking distance of each other, with reduced ticket prices and a time limit of 45 minutes.
Reviewing this year's event, critic Paul Wells observed that the children he brings to the concerts "like classical music well enough, but like a lot of ordinary people, they find a regular-length symphony concert a bit of a chore".
"But at the Viree classique, at just about the time an ordinary person starts to wonder when the concert will end, it ends."
In his Radio Times column, Hough points out that shorter performances could even allow for two performances in one evening, boosting revenues for concert halls.
The pianist plays his the BBC Proms for the 25th time next Tuesday, 23 August, with a programme featuring Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev. There will be an interval.
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The six-strong team is based at the Camp Hill Estate, near Bedale, preparing for the world championships.
It is being coached by Nicola Minichiello, a world bobsleigh champion from Sheffield who competed in three Winter Olympics.
Bedale is one of two Olympic-standard dry bobsleigh facilities in England.
Mrs Minichiello said, on a physical level, the Brazilian team is world class.
"Last year they competed in the world championships for the first time, and they were a tenth of a second behind the fastest starters in the world," she said.
"We know with bobsleigh that the start is a huge part of it. They do have to keep learning, they do have to improve their equipment."
She added: "They don't have a multi-million pound programme, so there are areas where they will struggle to compete against the rest of the world, but physically they are one of the best teams in the world.
"Every day is an adventure with these guys. They are always smiling, they have a good feeling about them."
Mrs Minichiello trained at the Camp Hill estate in Bedale herself.
Brazil does not have any bobsleigh training facilities, which is why the team is in North Yorkshire.
Mrs Minichiello compared the team to the one in the 1990s' American film Cool Runnings, based on the story of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team's debut in competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
"It's not actually about sport, sport is a part of it, but it's actually about life," she said.
"It's about showing them - and probably the other Brazilian young people that aspire to be them - that if you work hard, anything is possible.
"I don't like to compare it to Cool Runnings but it really is. It's about the underdog really being able to achieve and make the changes they need to to be able to compete."
The 35-year-old arrived before the 2016-17 season as a player-coach.
He has understudied leading goalkeeper Joe Day and became joint caretaker manager after Graham Westley's departure in March, 2017.
Newport survived in League Two and boss Mike Flynn said Bittner is "another good pair of eyes on the touchline".
Bittner said: "After an unbelievable finish to last season, when I think we showed to everyone what we are capable of, I am delighted to have re-signed for the club."
The Home Safe Hospital Stay pilot aims to install alarms for people worried about their homes being targeted by criminals while they are in hospital.
If an intruder enters their house, an auto dialler system will call numbers of their choice.
Light timers are also available to deter potential burglars by giving the impression the property is occupied.
If successful, the scheme could be rolled out elsewhere.
The scheme will be launched on Friday at the Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan Hospital.
It will be run by the Ebbw Vale and Tredegar Crime Prevention Panel and funded by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent.
The votes, which took place alongside the presidential election, legalise the growth and consumption of cannabis for those over 21 years old.
Arizona rejected legalising recreational use. Florida and North Dakota legalised medicinal use.
The drug will be an option in the management of conditions including cancer, Aids and hepatitis C.
California said the taxes on the sale and farming of cannabis would support youth programmes, environmental protection and law enforcement.
In other ballot initiatives across the US on election night:
Legal marijuana is among the fastest growing industries in America, with some analysts suggesting sales could reach $22bn (£17.6bn) by 2020.
Opponents, however, had said the proposition opened the way for promotion of the drug on shows watched by young people, exhibiting "reckless disregard for child health and safety".
In Massachusetts, the legislation is set to take effect in December, with similar taxation measures to those in California.
California was one of the first states to legalise the drug for medicinal purposes in 1996.
On Tuesday, voters in Florida and North Dakota followed suit, making medicinal use legal in a majority of US states.
Many states used the general election as an opportunity to put a range of questions to the public on matters such as tax, the minimum wage or the death penalty.
That's because it's April Fools' Day, when we all get to play the joker!
"It has been celebrated in the UK since at least the 19th century," explains Andrea Livesey, a historian from the University of Bristol. "Children were commonly the victims of these pranks!"
So we wanted to find out more about why we celebrate April Fools' Day.
The first of April some do say,
Is set apart for All Fools' Day;
But why the people call it so
Nor I, nor they themselves, do know…
18th century folk rhyme
Andrea told us that not everybody agrees where the festival come from.
She says: "There is surprisingly little known about the origins of April Fools' Day and there are a large number of completely different - and quite entertaining - theories of its origin."
So let's have a look at some of them.
"Some have argued that a story told by early English poet Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century - where a fox plays a prank on a rooster (who is almost eaten because of it) - is the first reference to pranks taking place on the first of April."
The poet doesn't actually directly refer to April 1st though. In the poem, he says 32 days "syn March began", which people have said is "32 days since March began" which would be April 1st.
But those who don't believe this theory say he was just using confusing words to make fun of people in the poem.
Some believe the tradition started because of events in the calendar.
Something called renewal festivals date back to Roman times. These were a celebration at the start of a new year or season, when things went a bit topsy turvy.
"Servants could control masters or children could control their parents!" says Andrea.
March is the time of the Spring Equinox, so people think the joker tradition could come from this, as the beginning of spring and planting flowers was considered the start of the new year.
There is another calendar theory about when people started celebrating new year at the beginning of January, instead of the end of March.
Those who continued to celebrate it at the end of March, rather than on 1st January like we do today, were considered to be fools and had jokes played on them.
"The earliest concrete records we have about 1st April are from France and Holland in the 1500s and, because of this, people believe that it must have been a northern European tradition that spread to Britain," Andrea explains.
It is actually known as April Fish Day in some areas of Europe.
People think this is because there are a lot of fish in French streams and rivers around 1st April, and they are easy to catch - foolish fish!
So it soon became a tradition to play tricks on people on April 1st too.
"It is still a common trick in France, and elsewhere in Europe, to attach a paper fish to somebody's back on April Fools' Day, and also to give chocolate fish as gifts," Andrea says.
So it appears we don't actually know for sure where April Fools' Day officially started.
But one thing's for sure - people have been playing jokes on April 1st for a very long time!
So watch out that you don't get pranked!
He said Congress had been given ample opportunity to come up with its own plan but had failed to act.
Republicans in Congress say such action would be beyond Mr Obama's authority.
His remarks follow media reports he plans to extend protection from deportation, potentially affecting as many as five million immigrants.
At a news conference during a visit to Myanmar, Mr Obama said he had given the House of Representatives more than a year to come up with an immigration bill but they had failed to do so.
The Senate passed a far-reaching immigration bill in 2013, but the House has not taken up the legislation.
"There has been ample opportunity for Congress to pass a bipartisan immigration bill that would strengthen our borders, improve the legal immigration system and lift millions of people out of the shadows," he said.
"I said that if in fact Congress failed to act, I would use all the lawful authority I possess to try to make the system work better," he added.
"And that's going to happen before the end of the year."
Mr Obama added that as soon as Congress passed a bill he could sign, "any executive actions will be replaced".
But Republicans in Congress said the president should work with them.
"We're going to fight the president tooth and nail if he continues down this path," House Speaker John Boehner told reporters.
Mitch McConnell, the incoming Senate majority leader, urged the president to "work with us to try to find a way to improve our immigration system".
Some Republicans are pushing for the budget bill to include a statement prohibiting "the use of appropriated funds for the president's immigration machinations".
Such a move could provoke a block by the Democrats, or a veto by the president, which in turn raises the risk of a government shutdown.
Unilateral action has been expected on immigration but details of what the president was considering were first reported this week in the New York Times and Fox News .
At the centre of the reports is a plan to extend the president's "deferred action" plan, which was designed to protect young adults who were brought to the US illegally as children from being deported.
The plan is to include parents of children who are US citizens or legal residents.
The action is designed to prevent the break-up of families via deportations. The number of those affected by the suggested policy is based on how long an individual has lived in the US.
If the administration limits the "deferred action" to those who have lived in the US for more than 10 years, it would affect 2.5 million undocumented immigrants, experts estimate.
If the time limit is lowered to five years, it would stop deportations for as many as 3.3 million.
Other parts of the executive action reported by the media include:
They escaped late Monday evening from the Woodland Hills Youth Development Center in Nashville.
Police said some escapees had handed themselves in, some were brought back by parents and some were picked up.
The centre holds juvenile prisoners, many of whom have committed at least three felonies, a state spokesman said.
The teenagers who escaped ranged in ages from 14 to 19, said Rob Johnson of the Tennessee Department of Children's Services.
The escape occurred when a large group of teenagers went outside all at once after a guard shift change, Mr Johnson said.
Officials did not know if it was planned or spontaneous.
FBI agent Steve Richardson said agents had gone in after negotiations with Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, deteriorated.
Dykes had been keeping the boy, Ethan, in a storm shelter since last Tuesday after abducting him from a school bus and shooting dead the driver.
The 66-year-old bus driver's funeral was held on Sunday.
Daryle Hendry, who lives about a quarter of a mile (0.4km) from the bunker, told the Associated Press he heard a boom followed by a gunshot on Monday afternoon.
Mr Richardson said negotiations between officials and Dykes had deteriorated over the past 24 hours, and that the abductor had been seen holding a gun.
"We were certainly concerned for the safety of the child," he said.
Fearing the child, Ethan, was in imminent danger, officials raided the bunker at 15:12 local time (21:12 GMT), he said.
A local law enforcement official told Reuters a stun or flash grenade was detonated as part of the operation to free him, but did not release other details.
It was unclear how Dykes had died. The child was said to have been unharmed and taken to hospital where he was reunited with his family.
"I have visited with Ethan. He is doing fine: he's laughing, joking, playing, eating - the things that you would expect a normal five to six-year-old to do," the FBI agent told reporters.
"Family members say he is doing well, he is unharmed and it's just a really happy reunion," Alabama State Senator Harri Anne Smith told BBC News.
The incident began in Midland City on Tuesday afternoon when the bus driver refused to hand over the child, whom Mr Dykes apparently snatched at random.
According to witnesses, the kidnapper pounced when the school bus stopped to let off two children.
Dykes grabbed the door so it could not close and came on board, demanding two boys aged six and eight.
When the bus driver, Charles Albert Poland, blocked the bus aisle with his arm, witnesses said Dykes fired four shots, killing him.
During the six-day standoff, officials talked to Dykes and delivered medication and toys to the boy through a 4in (10cm) ventilation pipe.
Officials did not elaborate on what the navy veteran wanted during negotiations.
"Based on our discussions with Mr Dykes, he feels like he has a story that's important to him, although it's very complex," Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said on Monday.
According to court records, Dykes had been due to appear in court last Wednesday, accused of menacing neighbours as they drove past his home some weeks ago.
People who live nearby said he had once beaten a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a firearm.
Court records showed Dykes was arrested in Florida in 1995 for improper exhibition of a weapon, but the charges were dismissed.
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A senior judge has challenged claims the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is not able to properly resource its work on some inquests into Troubles deaths in Northern Ireland.
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A student who stabbed four people at a California university was inspired by the so-called Islamic State group, the FBI has said.
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One of two brothers, jailed for an acid attack which left a woman scarred and blind in one eye, has lost his appeals against both conviction and sentence.
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The Christian owners of a Northern Ireland bakery have lost their appeal against a ruling that their refusal to make a "gay cake" was discriminatory.
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A Londonderry man who ran an internet piracy scam from his bedroom has been sentenced to four years, two of which will be spent in prison.
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Toni Duggan, Fara Williams and Jordan Nobbs have been included in the England women's squad for the Euro 2017 qualifiers later this month.
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An Egyptian court has upheld death sentences for 11 men over their involvement in deadly football stadium violence in 2012 in Port Said.
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A man has been arrested after a car crashed into a house, destroying a front window.
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Three journalists from a state-owned paper in Zimbabwe have been arrested and will be charged with publishing falsehoods over a report about the poisoning of elephants, the police say.
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A woman has been arrested and charged with an assault on a heavily pregnant woman in Midlothian.
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A baby white rhino has been born at Knowsley Safari Park in Merseyside.
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A man who was killed when he was struck by a car in South Shields has been named by police.
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Pianist Stephen Hough has called for classical concerts to be overhauled to attract younger audiences.
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The Brazilian bobsleigh team is training at a track in North Yorkshire as the rest of the world watches the Olympics in its home country.
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Newport County goalkeeper James Bittner has signed a one-year extension to his contract to keep him at Rodney Parade until June 2018.
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Maine has joined California, Nevada and Massachusetts in backing recreational marijuana use in state-wide polls.
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On 1st April, many of you may be planning to be mischievous and play pranks on your friends and family.
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Nine teenagers are still being sought after more than 30 held at a juvenile detention centre in Tennessee escaped by crawling through a fence.
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A kidnapper in the US state of Alabama has died after police raided his bunker, saving a five-year-old boy held captive inside for six days.
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The former world champions, who have had equipment issues in Melbourne, cannot be caught by third-placed Italy.
Defending world champions Liesl Tesch and Dan Fitzgibbon took gold with a day to spare in front of their home fans.
"I think realistically this morning we knew that [silver] was the best that could happen," said Birrell.
"We sailed over some weed on day two, and then we had a problem with Alex's canting seat.
"We have to respect the fact that [the Australians] sailed really well this week and deserve their world title.
"I think the scores would have been a lot closer had it not been for the seat issue and the weed. That being said, they sailed really well and we're going to have to find some more."
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Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell won Great Britain's first medal at the Para World Sailing Championships after taking silver in the SKUD.
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The Finn's Law campaign is named after the Hertfordshire police dog who, along with his handler, was stabbed in Stevenage while chasing a suspect.
It wants people who attack police animals to face charges similar to those for attacking a person.
It will be debated on 14 November after topping 100,000 signatures in a month.
More on this and other news from Hertfordshire
German shepherd Finn was stabbed in the head and chest and his handler, PC Dave Wardell, received a hand injury in Denton Road after they pursued a suspect in the early hours of 5 October.
A 16-year-old boy from London has been charged with the assault of the officer and criminal damage relating to the dog.
The petition, set up on the UK government's petition site days after the attack, proposes that police animals "be given protection that reflects their status if assaulted in the line of duty" and has now received more than 120,000 signatures.
Mark Tasker from the campaign said: "We are absolutely elated, we always knew this was something that would capture the public's imagination and it seems that Parliament recognises just how offensive it is to classify the killing or serious attack on a police dog or horse as criminal damage."
Assistant Chief Constable Dan Vajzovic from the Joint Protected Services for Beds, Cambs and Herts said: "It has been uplifting to see how much the public have got behind the issue and given their support.
"Naturally we support any legislation that offers an effective mechanism for reducing the likelihood of officers and their police dogs being subject to assault and injury."
The injured dog underwent emergency surgery and is now recovering at home.
The officer required treatment in hospital.
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The team, bidding to become the first British crew to win the America's Cup, earn two points for the next phase, the qualifying series in May and June.
The winners of that will face Oracle Team USA in the main event, the 2017 America's Cup later in June.
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Ainslie's team won after a tie-break in the regatta in Japan by virtue of a better result in the last race.
Land Rover BAR finished the series with 512 points, 19 ahead of Oracle Team USA, the two-time defending America's Cup champions, in second place.
Emirates Team New Zealand, who lost an 8-1 lead to Oracle in the 2013 America's Cup, finished third overall with 493 points.
Ainslie, the most successful sailor in Olympic history, is attempting to end Britain's long wait to bring the America's Cup back to the UK, where the oldest trophy in international sport was first contested in 1851.
"It's a massive day for us, proving we can win at the top end. It's a big step towards the America's Cup next year in Bermuda," said Ainslie, who was part of the winning Oracle team three years ago.
"We are under no illusions over just how tough it is. We hope to have the fastest boat next year."
Land Rover BAR held a one-point advantage after the first day of the Fukuoka regatta but Artemis Racing of Sweden won the first two races on Sunday.
Ainslie's crew needed to finish ahead of the Swedes in the last race of the day to clinch the title and came in third, with Artemis one place further back.
She was walking through the subway tunnel in Duke Street around 22:30 BST on Sunday when two men and two women asked her for a cigarette.
When she declined, one of the men punched her in the face and shouted sectarian abuse, while a woman cut her face with some type of weapon.
The victim was treated in hospital for a large wound and bruising to her face.
Sites using service provider Freedom Hosting to deliver their material have had code added to their pages, which could be used to reveal the identities of people visiting them.
Freedom Hosting delivered sites via Tor, a network designed to keep net activity anonymous.
The news has led some to claim that Tor no longer offers a "safe option".
"This challenges the assumption people have made that Tor is a simple way of maintaining your anonymity online," Alan Woodward, chief technology officer at security advisors Charteris, told the BBC.
"The bottom line is that is not guaranteed even if you think you are taking the right steps to hide your identity. This is the first time we've seen somebody looking to unmask people rather than just security researchers discussing the possibility."
Invented by the US Naval Research Laboratory to help people use the web without being traced, Tor (The Onion Router) aids anonymity in two ways.
First, it can be used to browse the world wide web anonymously. It does this by routing traffic through many separate encrypted layers to hide the data identifiers that prove useful in police investigations.
Second, there are hidden sites on Tor that use the .onion domain suffix. These are effectively websites but, as they sit on Tor, are almost impervious to investigation.
Although many media reports about Tor have focused on how it is used to spread pornography and images of child abuse as well as to sell drugs via sites such as the Silk Road, it is also used for many legitimate means.
Journalists and whistle-blowers use it to communicate with each other, with the New Yorker magazine's Strongbox being one example of a "dead drop" service based on the technology.
It is also used by military and law enforcement officers to gather intelligence.
The project's developers also suggest it be used as a way for people wishing to research Aids, birth control or religion anonymously in areas where information on such topics is restricted.
Tor has been funded by, among others, the EFF, Google, Human Rights Watch and the US National Science Foundation.
Mr Woodward added that the way the added code had been designed suggested a US law enforcement agency was behind the breach.
Tor users expressed mixed feelings about the news.
"This exploit targets kiddie porn viewers only. If that's not you, you have nothing to worry about," suggested one.
An "exploit" refers to software that makes programs, websites and other code do something they were not originally designed to do.
But another said: "This week it's child porn, next week it may be a whistle-blower or an activist."
News of the action was confirmed by an administrator of the Tor Project on its blog.
It said that over the weekend people had contacted it to say that a large number of sites using Tor, which were hidden from other net users, had gone offline simultaneously.
"The current news indicates that someone has exploited the software behind Freedom Hosting," it said.
"From what is known so far, the breach was used to configure the server in a way that it injects some sort of Javascript exploit in the web pages delivered to users. This exploit is used to load a malware payload to infect users' computers."
Freedom Hosting was previously targeted by the Anonymous hacktivist collective, whose members temporarily forced it offline in 2011 after claiming it was the largest host of material showing child abuse on Tor.
The Daily Dot news site reports that paedophiles continued to use the hosting service and have been warning each other of the breach since the news emerged.
They also told each other to stop using TorMail, a service used to allow people to send and receive email anonymously, which used Freedom Hosting's servers.
Freedom Hosting also provided access to HackBB, a hacking-themed discussion forum, and the Cleaned Hidden Wiki, an encyclopaedia of Tor and other dark nets.
The hosting service's terms and conditions had stated that illegal activities were not allowed on the sites it supported, but added that it was "not responsible" for its users' actions.
Tor's developers have stressed that "the person, or persons, who run Freedom Hosting are in no way affiliated or connected to The Tor Project".
Analysis of the Javascript exploit suggests that it takes advantage of a vulnerability in Firefox 17, which meant that people using that version of Mozilla's browser could be identified, despite the protections built into Tor.
"It appears to connect the machine using the compromised browser to an address which appears to originate from Reston, Virginia, US, and sends the hostname and MAC [media access control] address of the machine," Mr Woodward said.
"Unlike IP [internet protocol] addresses, media access control addresses are considered unique to a particular piece of hardware, although they can be spoofed under certain circumstances.
"It seems unlikely that the malware was written by criminals as the information it is sending back to its masters is of little use to anyone other than law enforcement agencies who are trying to track down machines that are using the Tor network to remain anonymous."
News of the breach came shortly after the Irish Times reported that a 28-year-old Dublin-based man had been arrested and accused by the FBI of being "the largest facilitator of child porn on the planet".
It said that Eric Eoin Marques faces allegations that he had aided and abetted a conspiracy to advertise material showing the abuse of prepubescent children.
The paper reported that the US authorities are seeking his extradition on four charges.
It said the judge in the case ruled that while Mr Marques was entitled to the presumption of innocence, he should remain in custody pending a further hearing because he posed a flight risk.
A spokesman for the FBI told the BBC: "An individual has been arrested in Ireland as part of an ongoing criminal investigation in the United States. Because this is matter is ongoing, longstanding Department of Justice Policy prohibits us from discussing this matter further."
Belfast City Council has approved a plan for a studio thought to be worth up to £14m to be built on the shores of Belfast Lough.
County Antrim man Mark Huffam said it would help Northern Ireland to compete in the "world market for studio space".
"Let's get it built and let's see if we can expand when it's up," he said.
"I think it's really what is needed to keep the industry going which has been doing fantastically well in Northern Ireland.
"From the films that we've already done in Northern Ireland, everybody has left with a very enjoyable experience and have always been keen to come back."
Game Of Thrones, the fantasy adventure series, is filmed at Belfast's Titanic Studios and at other locations in Northern Ireland.
Last year, the film agency Northern Ireland Screen said Game Of Thrones had contributed £110 to the local economy, while other international film projects have also been based in Northern Ireland.
Mr Huffam, who has also worked on major Hollywood films Saving Private Ryan and The Martian, said the industry was giving people opportunities for sustainable creative careers.
"You can't do it without local talent, you can't be competitive without using local talent," he said.
"The great thing with the film and television industry is it trains that talent very quickly, so we've grown that talent pool in 10 years by a multiple of 10."
The new studio will be built at Giant's Park on Belfast Lough's north foreshore and will include production space and workshops.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has just released data on baby names for England and Wales in 2014.
Their figures show that some children will grow up bearing the names of characters from the fantasy adventure.
Arya is the most popular girl's name, with 244 babies named after the character played by Maisie Williams.
There were also 53 babies named Khaleesi, nine Daenerys, six Sansas and four Briennes.
The blonde Daenerys Targaryen, played by actor Emilia Clarke, is one of the most recognisable figures in the drama, and her image is often used on publicity material for the show.
Daenerys is also known as Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, which has obviously caught the imagination of a number of parents across the UK.
The Starks, Lannisters and Greyjoys are battling it out for popularity among the male Game of Thrones names.
In 2014, 18 boys were called after the treacherous Theon, while 17 were named after the dwarf Tyrion.
In addition, four boys each bear the names Bran and Sandor.
The hugely-popular series is mostly filmed in Northern Ireland and contributes millions to the local economy.
While the number of babies with cast names is relatively small, the ONS say there has been an increase since George R R Martin's original novels first appeared on TV screens in 2011.
The boy band One Direction also remains popular with many parents across England and Wales, but it appears that Irish member Niall Horan is the least notable.
Only 155 boys were given his first name in 2014, compared to 231 Zayns, 902 Liams, 999 boys called Louis, and 5,379 called Harry.
The most popular names in England and Wales in 2014 were Oliver for a boy and Amelia for a girl.
That is in contrast to Northern Ireland where statistics released earlier this year showed that the most popular baby names in 2014 were Jack and Emily.
Those figures also showed no evidence of a Game of Thrones impact locally, but among the baby names used here were Devin, Kaanye, Peanut, Princeton and
Rocco for boys, and Blessing, Piper, Coco, Texas, Suri and Mazie for girls.
It is 10 years since the fictional Edinburgh detective John Rebus last appeared on television.
But now independent producer Eleventh Hour Films has announced that it has acquired the television rights to Ian Rankin's best selling crime novels.
The deal coincides with the 30th anniversary of the publication of the first Rebus novel, Knots and Crosses.
Award-winning writer Gregory Burke has been tasked with adapting the novels for TV, according to the production company.
The Scottish playwright won plaudits for his play Black Watch and for his screenplay for the critically-acclaimed film '71.
Eleventh Hour Films said he will work up a "bold and visionary take for a contemporary international TV audience".
Mr Burke's attachment to the project has been warmly welcomed by Rebus' creator, Ian Rankin.
He said: "I'm so thrilled and honoured that Gregory Burke is bringing his outstanding storytelling talent to Rebus.
"As far as I'm concerned it's the perfect match, allowing the character of John Rebus to emerge in all his complex three-dimensional glory."
Mr Burke added: "It is an honour and a privilege to have the opportunity to work on adapting an iconic character like John Rebus for television.
"As someone who has grown up and lives in south east Scotland, Ian Rankin's best-selling books provide the perfect material to make a thrilling series about crime in the modern world."
In a series of tweets to fans, Mr Rankin also said that he had his "fingers crossed" that actor Ken Stott would reprise his role as the gruff detective.
Stott took on the lead role in an earlier TV incarnation of Rebus, an STV production for ITV which ran from 2000 until 2007, replacing John Hannah.
The author also suggested that more time would be given to each story, with longer episodes.
Armed police were called to the property on Knockatern Grove on Tuesday afternoon.
The man was detained on suspicion of possessing of an offensive weapon with intent to commit an offence and assault on police.
Researchers trained an algorithm using more than 1,500 photos of Chinese citizens, hundreds of them convicts.
They said the program was then able to correctly identify criminals in further photos 89% of the time.
But the research, which has not been peer reviewed, has been criticised by criminology experts who say the AI may reflect bias in the justice system.
"This article is not looking at people's behaviour, it is looking at criminal conviction," said Prof Susan McVie, professor of quantitative criminology at the University of Edinburgh.
"The criminal justice system consists of a series of decision-making stages, by the police, prosecution and the courts. At each of those stages, people's decision making is affected by factors that are not related to offending behaviour - such as stereotypes about who is most likely to be guilty.
"Research shows jurors are more likely to convict people who look or dress a certain way. What this research may be picking up on is stereotypes that lead to people being picked up by the criminal justice system, rather than the likelihood of somebody offending."
The researchers took 1,856 ID photographs of Chinese citizens that fitted strict criteria of males aged between 18 and 55 with no facial hair or markings. The collection contained 730 ID pictures - not police mugshots - of convicted criminals or "wanted suspects by the ministry of public security".
After using 90% of the images to train their algorithm, the researchers used the remaining photos to see whether the computer could correctly identify the convicts. It did so correctly about nine times out of 10.
The researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University said their algorithm had identified key facial features, such as the curvature of the upper lip and distance between eyes, that were common among the convicts.
But Prof McVie said the algorithm may simply have identified patterns in the type of people who are convicted by human juries.
"This is an example of statistics-led research with no theoretical underpinning," said Prof McVie, who is also the director of the Applied Quantitative Methods Network research centre.
"What would be the reason that somebody's face would lead them to be criminal or not? There is no theoretical reason that the way somebody looks should make them a criminal.
"There is a huge margin of error around this sort of work and if you were trying to use the algorithm to predict who might commit a crime, you wouldn't find a high success rate," she told the BBC.
"Going back over 100 years ago, Cesare Lombroso was a 19th Century criminologist who used phrenology - feeling people's heads - with a theory that there were lumps and bumps associated with certain personality traits.
"But it is now considered to be very old and flawed science - criminologists have not believed in it for decades."
Prof McVie also warned that an algorithm used to spot potential criminals based on their appearance - such as passport scanning at an airport, or ID scanning at a night club - could have dangerous consequences.
"Using a system like this based on looks rather than behaviour could lead to eugenics-based policy-making," she said.
"What worries me the most is that we might be judging who is a criminal based on their looks. That sort of approach went badly wrong in our not-too distant history."
The 350 coins have lain on the Atlantic sea bed off the coast of Florida for the past 300 years.
The coins are from a fleet of 11 Spanish galleons that sank during a hurricane while making the journey from Cuba to Spain.
Treasure hunting is a popular activity in the waters around Florida.
The discovery is the second major find by treasure hunters in recent months. In June, they found about 50 coins worth about $1m.
The 350 coins, which were brought to the surface at the end of July, turned up in just a metre of water close to the shore, buried under the sand.
Under US state law, Florida will keep 20% of value of the find.
The diver who discovered the coins, William Bartlett, declined to say what his cut would be, telling a local newspaper: "I'm just a guy on a boat living the dream."
Brent Brisben, who owns the rights to the wrecked ships, says the find includes nine rare pieces known as "royal eight escudos". Only 20 were known to be in existence before this latest find.
"These royals are perfect specimens of coinage of the time and they were made on royal order for the king of Spain," Mr Brisben said.
Home side Montpellier dominated and led 14-3 at the interval after tries from Vincent Martin and Nemani Nadolo.
Nadolo scored an opportunistic third while Rob Kearney was in the sin-bin.
Leinster trailed 22-9 with seconds left before captain Nacewa squeezed over and ran in under the posts to make the conversion a formality.
Montpellier's huge pack caused problems for Leinster in the first half and dominated the physical exchanges.
Leinster's forwards were under pressure and Cian Healy fumbled possession from a pick-and-go with Montpellier, lethal on the turnover, capitalising with the opening try through Martin after 29 minutes.
The centre spotted a mismatch in midfield and ripped through Leinster forwards Mike Ross and Jamie Heaslip.
Nadolo crashed over in the corner for Montpellier's second try in the 35th minute.
Kearney was sin-binned after 57 minutes for a late hit and with the visitors down to 14 men, Heaslip made an uncharacteristic blunder from the base of a maul.
His blindside pass to Zane Kirchner was brilliantly intercepted by Nadolo, who clinched the match-winning third try.
Fly-half Johnny Sexton was deemed fit to start after missing last weekend's 33-15 home win over Castres after feeling a tightness in his hamstring, with rookie replacement Joey Carberry impressing in his absence.
The Ireland number 10 didn't take any chances in the heavy conditions allowing Nacewa to kick at goal but fitness is clearly still an issue and he was replaced at half-time by Carberry.
With an autumn international series and Tests against New Zealand (twice), Canada and Australia looming in a few weeks' time, worries over Sexton's hamstring injury will be a concern for Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt.
Back-row Sean O'Brien was playing his first senior game since last season's Six Nations following a hamstring injury and also limped off.
Montpellier wing Nemani Nadolo: "We were a bit disappointed last week to lose at the final whistle.
"We had one of the best teams in the world here at home and we had to front up.
"We did well, we ran it a bit and I just did what I had to do."
Leinster head coach Leo Cullen: "We're happy to take a point and move on.
"We were just being ultra-cautious [with Sexton and O'Brien] at this time of year. Both will come through fine."
Montpellier: J Michel; M O'Connor, V Martin, A Dumoulin, N Nadolo; Frans Steyn, N White; Y Watremez, S Mamukashvili, J Du Plessis, J Du Plessis, P Willemse; F Ouedraogo, A Qera, P Spies.
Replacements: R Ruffenach, M Nariashvili, D Kubriashvili, N van Rensburg, W Liebenberg, T O'Leary, B Botica, J Mogg.
Leinster: R Kearney; Z Kirchner, G Ringrose, R Henshaw, I Nacewa (capt); J Sexton, L McGrath; C Healy, J Tracy, M Ross, D Toner, M Kearney, S O'Brien, J van der Flier, J Heaslip.
Replacements: S Cronin, J McGrath, M Bent, I Nagle, J Murphy, D Leavy, J Gibson-Park, J Carberry.
Radio Cymru is also cutting its airtime by two hours a day after losing the right to play more than 30,000 songs.
The musicians broke away from the Performing Right Society (PRS) to join a new agency, claiming they were being short-changed for their work.
The agency, Eos, says it wants a "fair price for Welsh music".
The right to broadcast the songs of 331 Welsh-language musicians and music publishers rests with Eos - the Welsh word for nightingale - from today.
The dispute arose from a change by the PRS in 2007 which many Welsh language artists claim cut their royalty payments by as much as 85%.
Since then, an alliance of Welsh musicians and composers has sought to improve the payments made by broadcasters, launching the new agency in August to handle the licensing of their work.
The BBC said Eos had rejected a substantial offer to settle the dispute shortly before Christmas.
As no agreement was reached, Radio Cymru has implemented changes to its broadcasting hours and programme content.
Daily output is being reduced by two hours, as the station will start broadcasting an hour later in the morning at 06:30 GMT, finishing an hour early at 23:00 GMT.
Playlists will include popular classical and instrumental music, as well as a number of English-language and international artists.
Some Welsh-language pop music not affected by the rights dispute is being included.
The C2 evening programmes - which showcase new Welsh music - will be cut to an hour.
BBC Cymru Wales said in a statement on Monday it was "very disappointed" an agreement had not been reached and confirmed Radio Cymru programmes would be affected.
"Radio Cymru's commitment to support and develop Welsh music is a longstanding one - and we have listened carefully to the concerns of Welsh-language composers and artists during this dispute," the statement said.
"Both the BBC and Eos want to ensure that a fair outcome is achieved - and it is a fair outcome for all parties that we will be focusing on when further talks with Eos take place next week."
The BBC Trust - the BBC's governing body which is independent of the corporation's management - has urged a settlement claiming it was in nobody's interest for the dispute to continue.
BBC National Trustee for Wales Elan Closs Stephens said: "I urge both parties to reach a fair and affordable settlement so that Radio Cymru can quickly return to providing its usual comprehensive and much loved service."
Eos chair Gwilym Morus has said it was a "shame that the BBC have chosen to damage the national radio service because they are unwilling to pay a fair price for Welsh music".
He said he did not want any more harm done to Radio Cymru because both the station and the musicians shared the same audience.
"Regretfully, I believe the BBC in London is showing a lack of respect towards their own staff in Wales and towards Welsh culture," he said.
Radio Cymru reaches about 142,000 listeners a week, or 6% of the adult population of Wales, according to the latest Rajar audience survey.
On Saturday the Welsh-language TV station S4C confirmed it had reached agreement with Eos over the use of its artists' music.
This, however, was not about what is happening on the shores of Mediterranean countries, but to do with the thousands of people fleeing in another direction from the fighting in Yemen, and landing on the Horn of Africa.
The United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, estimates that since Yemen's conflict began in March, some 70,000 people have fled to Somalia, Djibouti, Sudan and Ethiopia.
Most have been making the perilous journey by boat across the Gulf of Aden or the Red Sea.
In pictures: The Somalis fleeing home from Yemen
Even the shortest crossing - the strait between Yemen and Djibouti - is traditionally called "the gates of grief" because of its notoriously choppy waters.
Then there is the added problem that none of those countries in the Horn of Africa are really equipped to absorb large numbers of refugees.
Perhaps the most striking thing about this particular refugee crisis is that many of those fleeing Yemen originally went there to get away from problems in their homeland.
Before it descended into violence, Yemen was a host country to 250,000 Somalis. They had originally fled the civil war in Somalia in the 1990s and had crossed the sea in search of safety and work.
Now a substantial number of them are retracing their steps back to Somalia because it is more attractive than staying in an even worse war-torn country.
The irony is not lost on Nicoletta Giordano, Chief of Mission for the IOM in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
"We have a paradoxical situation," she says. "These are refugees who would have originally been smuggled into Yemen. But now we have 26,000 Somalis who are returning home."
This presents huge logistical problems for the Somali government, which is not used to dealing with a refugee influx - in fact, rather the reverse.
A recent UN report pinpointed the biggest problems in trying to reintegrate the returning Somalis: "Widespread conflict and political strife [in Somalia] have crippled essential infrastructure and more than three-quarters of the population lack access to healthcare, proper sanitation and safe drinking water."
In an attempt to prepare, a delegation of Somali officials is visiting Yemen soon to try and ascertain whether more of their nationals will be expecting refuge in the coming months.
Djibouti may be more stable than Somalia but it still faces huge challenges in dealing with refugees.
It is thought around 24,000 have arrived in this tiny country in the last few months - around half of them are Yemenis.
The UN is forecasting a total of 36,000 refugees may have arrived in Djibouti by the end of 2016 if the situation in Yemen continues to deteriorate.
The impact of so many people on such as small country is tangible, says Nicoletta Giordano.
"The Djiboutians have managed as best they could and a refugee camp has been set up at Obock but it's very hostile terrain - the weather is harsh and there are desert conditions."
As well as sandstorms and 50C heat, the residents of the camp at Obock have to contend with no electricity and shortages of drinkable water.
There is also no surgeon there and a midwife was only recently recruited.
Indeed, life is so harsh in Obock that many Yemenis have decided they want to avoid at all costs going anywhere near it.
Aid agencies fear that means many refugees are not registering with the authorities and may be putting themselves and their children into even more risky situations as a result.
For seven months now the fighting in Yemen has raged. Aside from civilian casualties, the prospect of famine and the lack of economic opportunities are added reasons to flee the country.
Winter weather and the blockades on Yemen's ports may mean the numbers trying to cross the Gulf of Aden temporarily subside.
But the UN's forecasts suggest that in a year's time there could be 200,000 refugees in the Horn of Africa - a part of the world not used to seeing an immigration influx.
The former West Ham trainee had a loan spell with the U's in 2011 when he scored six goals in 14 appearances.
"He can play wide and up top with his pace and athleticism," Oxford manager Michael Appleton told BBC Radio Oxford.
"He had such a good time when he was last here. He knows we've got ambitions to play in the Championship and that's obviously where he wants to play too."
Hall joined Bolton is the summer of 2013, and played 34 times for the Lancashire club, but only 16 of them were starts.
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Guardiola's run of six straight league wins at the start of his reign ended with a warm embrace for his victorious counterpart Mauricio Pochettino, the Catalan's smile and low-key touchline body language confirming he had no complaints about this 2-0 defeat.
He was as dignified in defeat as he has been in victory - but what lessons emerged from this reality check for the team installed as firm Premier League title favourites?
Guardiola likes his side to get their opponents on what Sir Alex Ferguson called "the carousel" - a label plucked from the days when Xavi and Andres Iniesta tormented teams by passing as if they were born in possession of a football, and illustrated by two emphatic Champions League final losses for Manchester United at the hands of his Barcelona team.
What happens when a team not only refuses to jump aboard the carousel, but takes decisive action to stop it before it makes its first spin?
Celtic and their manager Brendan Rodgers started it in that 3-3 Champions League classic at Parkhead on Wednesday when they pressed, hassled and harried City relentlessly, never giving Guardiola's players a moment's peace as they were forced to come from behind three times to take a point.
Spurs, with players of a higher calibre, rattled City from the first whistle, with the outstanding Son Heung-min leading the charge while Guardiola's full-backs Pablo Zabaleta and Aleksandar Kolarov were attacked mercilessly. The latter was so unnerved, he slashed Danny Rose's cross into his own net for the first goal after nine minutes.
Only John Stones retained a modicum of composure as Tottenham, following Celtic's example, tore into City. One observer suggested the pace of the first half was so high you needed to be at peak fitness to watch it, let alone play in it.
And on the touchline was the grand orchestrator Pochettino, waving his players forward with demands to press City higher and higher up the pitch. At one point his orders took him into Guardiola's technical area, such was his desire for Spurs to carry out his game plan.
City just went back and back, rattling all the way, as Spurs gave them a thorough going over without demonstrating any of the frailties that allowed them back in against Celtic.
Guardiola will know there will be more where this came from. The Premier League is an unforgiving arena - any perceived weaknesses are pounced upon and highlighted.
He will have learned from this thunderous 90 minutes, and will at least be comforted by the knowledge that not too many teams will have the speed, fitness levels and ability to carry it off for 90 minutes.
As Guardiola rightly said afterwards: "Losing is part of the game. I never thought that we would not lose a game. You can't imagine that. It is normal to the process. Sometimes it happens and it can help us improve.
"It is October. You cannot imagine my team is already done. I am new here. So far it has been an amazing performance but we need more. We have to work more."
Best to learn the lesson early, perhaps.
Claudio Bravo is a central plank in Guardiola's future plans for Manchester City but still looks desperately ill-at-ease when placed under the sort of pressure Spurs applied.
Taunted almost every time the ball landed at his feet as Spurs fans revelled in the high-octane approach of their team, he became a symbol of City's struggles, despite a fine second-half penalty save from Erik Lamela.
The 33-year-old was brought from Barcelona after Joe Hart was shown the door, to not only be a goalkeeper but act as instigator of City's style to play out from the back. This day will not be considered a success.
The good news is he will know he has the backing of Guardiola
Bravo's interventions arguably led to more attacking opportunities for Spurs than City, firing one clearance high into the danger area and almost getting caught in possession in the early moments of the second half.
It is proving to be a tough transition for the Chilean, with trust yet to be built with his defenders as he finds life harder without members of Barcelona's elite to find with the ball at his feet.
Bravo's vulnerability has also been noted by opposition supporters and he will need to learn to block out the jeers that will come his way when he is in possession.
In his defence, and to stop him simply becoming an easy target on occasions when it goes wrong, he was not responsible for either goal and there were plenty in front of him who have to take their share of responsibility for City's first league defeat.
The good news is he will know he has the backing of Guardiola, who has shown such faith in Bravo and believes he will prove that £17m was money well spent.
Guardiola was right to provide some sobering context to this defeat. City have made a magnificent start under his stewardship but in real terms he has barely walked through the door.
The jury may be out on Bravo but elsewhere he has bought well. Stones was an honourable exception to Sunday's defensive struggles while Nolito, Ilkay Gundogan and Leroy Sane will add unquestionable quality.
Guardiola, however, is currently presiding over an ageing defence and the creaks are showing in 31-year-old Pablo Zabaleta, a magnificent City servant, and Kolarov at 30. Bacary Sagna, 33, was back-up on the bench along with 31-year-old Gael Clichy.
To add further mitigating circumstances, Guardiola was without arguably his most potent creative influence in the injured Kevin de Bruyne while the return of a injury-free Vincent Kompany will be welcome.
They are unlikely to run into many teams as driven and full of desire as Spurs were on Sunday
Guardiola will probably need another two transfer windows to make this his City side - the fact they have started so brilliantly is testimony to the instant impact he has had at Etihad Stadium and on the Premier League.
A full and firing City, working to Guardiola's principles, still have the talent to grace the Premier League this season and they are unlikely to run into many teams as driven and full of desire as Spurs were on Sunday.
Guardiola's measured response was just right. This was bound to happen - and he has shown in the past he is a very fast learner.
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The Indiana governor told reporters he is fine after the rough touchdown at LaGuardia Airport. No one was injured.
Mr Pence and the other 30 or so passengers were evacuated through the back of the plane. He was coming from a campaign event in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
LaGuardia Airport has been closed until further notice, said officials.
The pilot slammed on the brakes and passengers on the aircraft could smell burning rubber.
Live TV footage showed Mr Pence standing in the rain near the plane among emergency vehicles, talking to police and other officials.
He tweeted: "So thankful everyone on our plane is safe. Grateful for our first responders & the concern & prayers of so many. Back on the trail tomorrow!"
He said mud had splashed on the front windows of the cockpit.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called Mr Pence to check on him after the incident, the campaign said.
"Mr Trump did reach out to Gov Pence. He's glad that everyone on board is safe," Trump spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in an emailed statement.
He was in a motorcade en route to a rally in Geneva, Ohio.
Mr Trump told supporters at his rally about Mr Pence's plane mishap, saying: "You know, he was in a big accident with a plane.
"The plane skidded off the runway and was pretty close to grave, grave danger, but I just spoke to Mike and he's fine. He got out. Everybody's fine."
Mr Pence cancelled a fundraising event that he was to take part in at Trump Tower in Manhattan, and headed to his hotel.
It hasn't been a good week for the Indiana governor.
On Wednesday, he announced on Twitter that his dog, a beagle named Maverick, had passed away aged 13.
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The 32-year-old falsely claimed he was robbed at gunpoint during the Games and was banned for 10 months in September.
"After Rio, I was probably the most hated person in the world," the six-time Olympic gold medallist told ESPN.
"There were a couple of points where I was crying, thinking, 'If I go to bed and never wake up, fine.'"
Asked whether that meant he considered suicide, Lochte nodded, adding: "I was about to hang up my entire life."
Lochte, who has won 12 Olympic medals, is one of the most successful swimmers in history. He won gold at Rio 2016 in the 4x200m freestyle relay alongside team-mates Conor Dwyer, Townley Haas, and Michael Phelps.
But his actions following the final races in the pool provoked harsh criticism.
"You can be at the all-time high and then the next second the all-time low," he said. "I love being at the Olympics, but I'm the opposite of what you'd expect.
"It's been that way my whole life. I don't fit in."
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While in Rio, Lochte said he and three team-mates were held up at a petrol station during a night out.
Police questioned the account after CCTV footage showed the group had vandalised the petrol station and Lochte later admitted he had "over-exaggerated" his story.
Lochte - who is expecting a baby with his fiancee - said he is now positive about the future and has shifted his focus to qualifying for the 2020 Games in Tokyo.
"Everything happens for a reason," said Lochte, whose ban expires after next month's World Championships in Hungary.
"I was done with swimming back in 2013. I was drained, wiped out. Now I've found a new purpose with my son. This fire has been ignited, and it's bigger than ever.
"I'm just so excited because I know what's going to happen in Tokyo. Everyone is going to have to watch out."
New statistics show its 2014 emission levels were 45.8% lower than in 1990.
The Scottish government had set a target to reduce emissions by at least 42% by 2020, and 80% by 2050.
Climate Change Secretary Roseanna Cunningham welcomed the "outstanding progress" and confirmed that the government would now set a "new and more testing 2020 target".
Figures published on the Scottish government's website also revealed that Scotland met its annual climate change targets for the first time since 2010.
But environmental campaigners said the loss of heavy industry and warm winters contributed more to the cut in emissions than bold government policy.
Ms Cunningham said a reduction in residential emissions in 2014 may have been due to something as simple as people turning down their heating.
"This underlines that small individual actions, if repeated on a large scale, can have a big impact in tackling climate change," she said.
The minister added: "This is an especially important time for climate change, in light of the international agreement reached in Paris last December and it is great news that Scotland continues to show ambition and demonstrates the progress that can be made.
"We will continue to rise to the challenge and the first minister has already confirmed that the Scottish government plans to establish a new and more testing 2020 target.
"We are not complacent and we will continue to take action and encourage others to do their bit to tackle climate change."
The government said the statistics showed that Scotland had outperformed the rest of the UK as a whole.
There was a 39.5% drop in Scottish source emissions between 1990 and 2014, compared to the UK's 33% reduction over the same period.
Jim Densham, of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, said it was "great news" that Scotland had hit its target and it proved it was possible to cut emissions "while building a progressive and productive society".
"However apart from the electricity and waste sectors, it's hard to see a bold fingerprint of Scottish government policy driving the transition to a zero carbon economy," he said.
"This target has been met because of the loss of heavy industry, warmer winter weather, our changing share of European emissions credits and some government policies.
"Individual action is important but the Scottish government needs to lead with the big policies for major emission reductions."
The Scottish Greens' climate change spokesman Mark Ruskell said the figures show things are "moving in the right direction".
But he added: "Transport remains the Scottish government's weak spot, with road traffic back to where it was in 2007 and the hugely-polluting aviation sector doubling its impact.
"If we're to stretch our climate targets further, ministers are going to have to transform their policies and budgets, and the Scottish Greens stand ready to help them make those changes."
Claudia Beamish, of Scottish Labour, said it was "no time to be resting on laurels", despite the welcome news.
She urged the government to target a 56% reduction in emissions by 2020 and to aspire to generate 50% of "our heat and transport demand" from renewables by 2030.
In March this year, the UN climate change secretary praised Scotland's progress on climate change as "exemplary".
Christiana Figueres told BBC Scotland that she was impressed by the pace of change, and described the reduction in emissions since 1990 as "quite impressive".
The Scottish government will give a ministerial statement on greenhouse gas emissions at about 14:20, watch it live at Holyrood Live.
Alan Turing is credited with cracking Nazi Germany's Enigma code, in the process shortening World War Two, and saving countless lives.
He was also a mathematical genius, the father of the modern computer and much of his ground-breaking work was conducted at the University of Manchester.
Today, mathematics students at the university attend lectures in the building bearing his name.
But it was also in Manchester, in 1952, that Dr Turing was arrested for having sex with another man, which was then an illegal act.
He was tried and convicted of gross indecency, banned from working for the government and forced to have injections of female hormones in a bid to render him asexual.
Two years after his conviction Turing poisoned himself with cyanide, which a inquest deemed to be suicide.
The fact that such a "national hero" was then treated by the state in such a "barbaric" way was described as a "terrible blight on our history" by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, who requested the royal pardon.
The decision has been welcomed by Manchester's gay community, who have strived for years to get Turing's story a wider audience.
"It's great news but something that is long overdue," said Rob Cookson, director of The Lesbian and Gay Foundation (LGF), based in Manchester.
"It is recognition to the range of people involved in fighting this. It is another step towards equality."
The original petition calling for a posthumous pardon was begun by William Jones - also a computer scientist and a gay man living in Manchester - which eventually reached 37,000 signatures.
"It's a very good step along the path that the country's realised what happened to him and the law generally was wrong," Mr Jones said.
"In Manchester he's not as well known as he should be but it's [the pardon] something the gay community should be very proud about."
Back in 1994, when the city's leaders renamed part of the inner ring road Alan Turing Way, some people living nearby did not recognise the name.
"The council leader at the time was a mathematician and had heard of Turing," said councillor Pat Karney.
"We were horrified when we heard the story, particularly the chemical castration and secondly because of his unrecognised contribution to computers and the war."
The renaming of the road - and the subsequent decision to highlight his story by commissioning a play about his life - marked a turning point, Manchester Withington Lib Dem MP John Leech later told Parliament.
"Over time, however, the simple fact of renaming it meant people got to know about him."
Calls for a permanent memorial followed and a statue of Alan Turing sitting on a bench in Manchester's Sackville Gardens, close to the city's Gay Village, was unveiled in 2001.
Sculptor Glyn Hughes said it is now a popular tourist attraction, but when the idea for a prominent memorial was first put forward 13 years ago funding was hard to come by.
"I am absolutely delighted... I think this will be a landmark case," he said.
As Turing's story gained profile, a petition started by computer programmer Dr John Graham-Cumming led to a official apology in 2009 from the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
His efforts were backed by Mr Leech, who tabled a motion in Parliament last year calling for a posthumous pardon.
He said: "Alan Turing's contribution to Manchester was enormous as well as his efforts in bringing the war to an early conclusion. He is a national hero."
The decision to pardon Dr Turing means attention can be focused on his "significant" achievements, which are marked at the University of Manchester where he spent the last six years of his life working.
In that time he helped create the world's first modern computer, the Manchester Mark 1, and also invented a test for artificial intelligence.
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, president and vice-chancellor of the university, said: "His legacy will live on as one of the most significant scientists of his or any other generation."
The city council and the LGF last year launched the Alan Turing Memorial Award to recognise people who have made a significant contribution to the fight against homophobia.
And many campaigners are calling for Dr Turing's case to set a precedent enabling further pardons for others who had similar convictions.
Mr Karney said: "Lots of other lives were destroyed. We will be righting their injustice in a symbolic way."
On 31 March - the date he was convicted - the city council will hold an Alan Turing Pardon Day and the names of other Mancunians convicted of the same offences will be read out in a ceremony before the statue of the great man.
In the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, I am a little disconcerted by my first encounter with an intelligent machine.
The robot's head is attached to a box rather than a body and looks more like something from a mannequin than a human.
The rational part of me knows all too well that this is simply a bundle of plastic and silicon.
"Hello, do you want to play a game?" it asks.
The facial features - the agility of the eyes, cheeks and mouth - are projected on to the inside of a translucent skull, and the movements seem to work very fluently.
And something about the machine's gaze - along with dozens of tiny adjustments of its face - is clearly connecting with some element of my subconscious because I am far more convinced than I had thought possible. And very slightly unnerved, too.
What this means, in the brave new world of robotics, is that I have entered what scientists call the "uncanny valley", a state of uncertainty and discomfort about the nature of the entity I am talking to.
As the technology and software come closer to achieving some kind of human mimicry, understanding this strange mental zone is crucial to making robots more acceptable.
And that is something advocates of robotics are determined to do - partly because huge new markets for robots have opened up and partly because there are all kinds of tasks that machines can do more safely than us.
The most obvious examples are robots that can be used as explorers of space or the deep ocean, or as scouts or even workers in the most radioactive parts of nuclear power stations.
But we are now on the brink of a new era as machines are developed to enter more sensitive areas of our lives - everything from hospital surgeries to our homes to care for the elderly.
One of the directors of the Edinburgh centre, Prof David Lane, says there is now "a global race to be the country that develops the best smart robots".
In the 1970s, Germany, Japan and South Korea quickly dominated the market for robots designed to work in factories.
"We want to be at the front of the race if we can," he says. "We don't want to lose out the way we did with the first generation of industrial robots."
So how we interact with the new machines - and whether we like them - has become one of the most critical issues.
And for many years, robots have played such a well-defined role in science fiction that we have come to assume that they should look and behave in certain ways, and to take for granted that they are fictitious.
In the Star Wars films, robots were friendly and comical. In the thriller Blade Runner, they were powerful and malevolent.
So, on meeting a robot, our minds struggle to process a combination of long-held expectations and startling new impressions.
Among those exploring the fascinating twilight realm of the interface between human and machine is Prof Ruth Aylett of Heriot-Watt University, which is part of the Edinburgh robotics centre along with Edinburgh University.
"You might think people would look at a robot and say, 'that's a lump of metal'. But research has shown that if it's responsive and has expressive behaviour, people will treat it as what we call a 'social actor' - in other words, as if it was a person, much the way we look at things in cartoons.
"We know that they are not real but we treat them as if they are real characters, as if they really had dreams and hopes like us - in other words, we suspend our disbelief.
"People do that with robots that have good interactive behaviour - we can't help ourselves."
Overcoming the uncanny valley might seem impossible but it has already been achieved with one kind of robot, specifically designed to seem friendly and to serve as a tool to help dementia patients.
Known as Paro, this Japanese machine is modelled on a baby seal with adorably large eyes, soft white fur, a plaintive cry for attention and enough intelligence to be responsive to voices and touching.
In a country like Japan, with an ageing population increasingly at risk of being left alone, the idea of a robotic companion has a strong appeal.
Some 3,500 Paro seals have been sold around the world, with several of these in use in the UK - and the experience seems to be generally positive.
Ron Abbott, an 85-year-old dementia sufferer, was among the first to encounter the robot in Britain, and a charming video shows him interacting with it, and laughing out loud as it responds.
I held one of the Paro robots myself - it was surprisingly soft and heavy - and could not help warming to the way the robot flapped its fins, opened its eyes and uttered little cries to hold my gaze.
To me, it obviously wasn't real but it did feel more alive than a toy.
For Claire Jepson, who helps to manage the robots at the Grenoside Grange Hospital in Sheffield, nearly all her patients find some benefit in spending time with them, possibly because they are drawn to the machines' apparent vulnerability.
"Our patients experience a lot of distress when they come to us. Paro provides comfort, people begin to focus on this thing; the tactile stimulation calms them.
"They seem to be reassured by offering the seal reassurance; it's crying out, it's wanting to be looked after, as a lot of patients do."
She says the robots are an addition to patient care, not a substitute for it, but some critics have questioned whether the arrival of automated assistants will lead to a cut in staff numbers.
The advent of robots in care homes has also triggered a debate about the ethics of using machines for something as sensitive as supporting the elderly.
Prof Noel Sharkey of the University of Sheffield, who has led studies into robotics, declares himself to be fan of the technology. But he also warns that the implications of intelligent, mobile devices have not been thought through.
"Robots could help nurses lift an old person or be used to protect you from cutting yourself with a knife or leaving your cooker on," he says, before going on to outline some risks.
"We need to look at privacy. Imagine an old lady living at home: she's in the bathroom, and there's one of these robots patrolling round looking for her, and you don't know who's looking through the camera.
"It comes into the bathroom and she's standing there naked. Well, who's at the other side of that? Is there somebody smirking and giggling? So there should be some way of knocking, a design that allows you to have your privacy and your dignity."
Awareness of the potentially negative impacts of robots has led designers to concentrate on ensuring that, for a start, they are safe.
Prof Sethu Vijayakumar, a director of the Edinburgh centre, shows me a project where a robot is being taught to avoid touching a human - whenever one of the researchers reaches towards the robot, the machine twists its arm out of the way.
For him, the research focus is on what is called "shared autonomy" - where humans remain in control while delegating certain tasks to robots.
That allows people to retain oversight but at the same time to exploit the strength and precision of the machines. Full autonomy lies in the much more distant future.
And what if a robot went rogue? I ask, eyeing a robotic hand strapped to his left arm and occasionally twitching.
"At this stage, there's very little risk of that," Prof Vijayakumar says.
"We still have significant control of the electronics, the Artificial Intelligence - and there's a kill button."
Along with "uncanny valley and "shared autonomy", "kill button" is a crucial phrase in the robotics field.
As long as people remain nervous of the machines malfunctioning or becoming too powerful, an off-switch - a last-ditch of human control - will always be needed.
They are also angry at reports the players had been too hungover to play.
Uefa has begun disciplinary proceedings and say that the case will be dealt with by its Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body on 28 September, citing Scotland's "refusal to play".
The SFA says the team suffered from "an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis".
The Scotland women's U19s were due to play Serbia in Albania in the final game of their Uefa European Championship qualifying round robin.
Gareth Evans' side had already defeated Cyprus 8-0 and hosts Albania 11-0, but pulled out of the game with Serbia with nine players from the squad and eight members of the backroom staff ill, calling it an "exceptional situation."
Reports in the Serbian media suggested the players had got drunk the night before and were too hungover to play, something which has angered the SFA.
BBC Scotland also believes the governing body are unhappy with the poor hotel conditions their players were subjected to during their stay, with the walls affected by damp.
"This (the illness) was flagged to Uefa via the match delegate on the day of the match and contact was subsequently made with the Albanian FA to verify the developing illness," the Scottish FA said in a statement.
"A visit was made by a local doctor near the match venue in Durres and upon submitting his findings, the game was postponed."
Head coach Evans also revealed goalkeeping coach Kevin Stewart took ill at Heathrow Airport while travelling back to Aberdeen and had to be treated there.
"I have never experienced anything like it but the main thing is that we are back recuperating and awaiting Uefa's verdict," said Evans.
"We remain hopeful they will look sympathetically at the exceptional circumstances."
Jamar Walker, who had been living in Handsworth, Birmingham, was found with knife wounds in Raglan Road, Smethwick, during the early hours of Sunday.
He had been stabbed in his upper leg, West Midlands Police said.
A 17-year-old boy was also injured but was released from hospital after being treated for a stab wound to his back.
Det Insp Warren Hines said investigations were continuing.
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"It is believed there was some sort of fracas in the street which led to one teenager tragically losing his life and another being injured," he said.
CCTV images are being looked at and forensic investigators are at the scene.
"I would urge anyone who was around the Raglan Road area at the time to please get in touch," the policeman added.
In his conference speech in Manchester, the chancellor said the Tories had created a "new centre ground" and were "the true party of labour".
He also said councils in England would be able to set and keep hold of their share of £26bn in business rates.
Former Labour minister Lord Adonis is to lead a new infrastructure body.
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Mr Osborne's speech went "way beyond" a conventional chancellor's address and appeared focused on the "next prize" - succeeding David Cameron as Conservative Party leader.
Among key conference developments:
Mr Osborne said while he had grown up in London, he had been "changed" by representing a constituency near Manchester and convinced of the need to increase investment in the North of England.
The Conservatives needed to understand the "reservations" of people who did not back them at the election, he said.
"So to these working people who have been completely abandoned by a party heading off to the fringes of the left, let us all here today extend our hand.
"Do you know what the supporters of the new Labour leadership now call anyone who believes in strong national defence, a market economy, and the country living within its means?
"They call them Tories. Well, it's our job to make sure they're absolutely right."
"We are the builders." We know that George Osborne is fond of appearing in a hi-vis jacket on a building site, he's fond of talking about infrastructure, he's fond of appearing to be a man of action, and making things happen.
But what he is trying to do is not just build roads and railways, but find a way to build a Conservative majority in 2020 and beyond.
The way he and David Cameron believe it can happen is by occupying as much of what they describe as the "common ground", to use their election victory to persuade millions of voters in the middle they are the sensible majority.
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Mr Osborne, who said the Conservatives were "now the party of work, the only true party of labour", also called for new ways to fund infrastructure projects.
His central proposal - which will only apply in England - involved business rates, which are charged on most non-residential properties like factories, offices and shops.
They are currently set by central government, collected by councils and then redistributed by Whitehall across the country.
Mr Osborne said this "merry-go-round" would be ended, with local authorities retaining the proceeds locally and able to cut rates.
Areas with elected mayors will have an additional power to raise money by increasing rates, he said. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own business rate systems.
The Local Government Association said the reforms were "great news".
Chairman Gary Porter said: "With greater local control, councils will have flexibility to reduce business rates for the types of shops and businesses that residents want in their high streets and neighbourhoods."
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Labour would look at the detail of Mr Osborne's business rates proposals, but warned safeguards were needed so "poorer areas of the country do not lose out on vital revenue".
In his speech, Mr Osborne also acknowledged Labour's role in proposing a National Infrastructure Commission, saying he was "delighted" Lord Adonis, policy chief in Tony Blair's government before becoming transport secretary under Gordon Brown, had agreed to lead it.
Lord Adonis has resigned the Labour whip and will sit as a crossbencher in the Lords as he takes on his new role.
Earlier the chancellor also defended the government's changes to tax credits, after some Conservatives called for a rethink.
Critics include senior backbencher David Davis, who compared them to the poll tax, and ex minister David Willetts, who likened the changes to Labour's abolition of the 10p tax band in 2007.
Mr Osborne said a typical family on the minimum wage would be better off, with the changes offset by the new National Living Wage.
And he insisted other European leaders were not too preoccupied by the migrant crisis to consider the UK's demands for EU reform ahead of its membership referendum.
"I'm not saying it's the only thing they're thinking about, but they are thinking about it," he added.
Lord Adonis, a Social Democrat councillor and Liberal Democrat election candidate before joining Labour, said: "Without big improvements to its transport and energy systems, Britain will grind to a halt."
The infrastructure commission will initially focus on London's transport system, connections between cities in the north of England, and updating the energy network - funded by selling off land, buildings and other government assets.
It will start work immediately and will produce a report at the start of each five-year Parliament containing recommendations of projects.
Asked if the new scheme would make it harder for councils and individuals to oppose projects, Mr Osborne told BBC Breakfast there were "always going to be people who don't like new building, don't like new roads, don't like new railways near them".
"But the truth is if we hadn't built railways in the past, or motorways in the past, that would have been a disaster for this country, and it would be a disaster for this country if we stop building now," he added.
John Cridland, director-general of the CBI business lobby group, said: "Updating the UK's infrastructure is critical to sustainable growth and productivity, and we've long called for an independent body to assess our long-term needs."
The Gyfeillion Colliery footbridge in Hopkinstown, Rhondda Cynon Taff, closed in 2014 due to safety concerns.
It is the responsibility of Network Rail and the county council and both parties have confirmed they are progressing with plans to remove it.
Resident Chris Pick said he would be "outraged if it was demolished".
Known locally as Smokey Bridge, Mr Pick said it was one of the last remaining structures to remind the village of its "proud mining heritage".
"All the rest has been torn down and built upon," he said.
"The miners used this bridge to safely cross the railway and many of their grandchildren and great grandchildren live in Hopkinstown today.
"To tear down the bridge is to destroy their heritage."
Lyndon Francis grew up in Graigwen and spent his childhood playing in Hopkinstown.
"Smokey Bridge was and still is special to Hopkinstown people," he said.
"As kids we would stand on the bridge and watch the steam trains as they passed and the smoke would engulf us."
Stuart Caddy said: "Too many historical landmarks have been lost locally, and Hopkinstown is rightly proud of its mining heritage which is being completely ignored."
A Rhondda Cynon Taf council spokesman said the bridge was in a "very poor condition structurally" and a £1.5m investment would be needed to replace it.
They said there was a suitable alternative route for pedestrians nearby and "in almost three years since the bridge's closure, the council has received just one query from a resident about its status".
A spokesman added: "Having considered its low-usage when open, the significant cost to the public purse for its replacement and upkeep, and the future potential hazard it could cause to the railway line, a decision has been made for all parties to progress an extinguishment order on the route."
A Network Rail spokesman said it had to "balance the needs of those who are keen to retain various historical assets with their responsibility to provide a safe network with the best value for money to the taxpayer".
He said they were working closely with the council to consult with Cadw - the Welsh Government's historic environment service - on its plans to remove the bridge.
Residents have until 25 August to object to the extinguishment order.
Care providers warn that growing staff shortages mean vulnerable people are receiving poorer levels of care.
In a letter to the prime minister, the chairman of the UK Homecare Association says the adult social care system - which applies to those over the age of 18 - has begun to collapse.
The government says an extra £2bn is being invested in social care.
An ageing population means demand is increasing for adult social care services.
Those who provide care to people directly in their own homes, or in nursing homes, say a growing shortage of staff means people face receiving deteriorating levels of care.
"You just can't provide a consistent level of care if you have to keep recruiting new people", said Sue Gregory, who has been a care home nurse in North Yorkshire for 13 years.
"Its very simple, not many people want to do this kind of work, and this is a profession that relies on you getting to know the people you are looking after."
Data gathered by the charity Skills for Care, shows that in 2015-16 there were more than 1.3 million people employed in the adult social care sector in England.
Analysing the data, BBC News has found that:
The figures show that social care providers are struggling to retain their staff, with the industry having a staff turnover rate of 27% - nearly twice the average for other professions in the UK.
"This is not the job I'm going to be doing for the rest of my career" said 25 year old Trudi Hewitt, who works at a care home in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
"I really care about the people I look after, but I just feel that the care sector is a dead end job".
"It's upsetting and disheartening when you find out that people earn more than you do in a supermarket just for stacking shelves."
The government has recently committed to spending an extra £2bn on the social care system, and allowed local authorities to raise council tax bills in order to fund social care services.
The number of people aged over 75 is expected to double by the year 2040, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Those trying to provide social care services say without radical change, there will not be enough people to care for an ageing population.
In a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May, Mike Padgham, Chairman of the UK Homecare Association, said: "My biggest fear is that we will soon run out of capacity to provide care to those who cannot fund themselves.
"I agree wholeheartedly with Age UK's warning that the social care system will begin to collapse this year, but I would go further and say that the system has already begun to collapse."
Downing Street said it thanked Mr Padgham for his letter.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "Social care jobs have increased at an average of 3 per cent a year since 2010, but we want to see improvements in turnover rates, with talented staff attracted to a robust sector backed by an additional £2bn over the next three years.
"Meanwhile, we're investing in the workforce of the future, with a total of 87,800 apprentices starting last year - up 37,300 compared to 2010."
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For centuries, the city has been a place of grim fascination for outsiders.
The raising of the US Navy as a permanent full-time force was a response to the depredations of the Barbary Corsairs - the pirate force which based itself in the Muslim ports of the Maghreb and preyed on Western shipping.
The Casbah of Algiers - a steep and twisting warren of white stone buildings that spills down to the Mediterranean shore like a heap of dirty sugar-cubes - had been one of their strongest redoubts.
And 20 years ago, Algeria was gripped by a vicious civil war which may have killed as many as 200,000 people.
The conflict was triggered when the military-backed government scrapped an election in the early 1990s after the first-round results suggested that Islamists were on the point of winning.
But these Americans were interested in a third, equally dark and bitter period of Algerian history - the struggle for liberation from French colonialism in the 1950s and 1960s.
They had come to seek out Yacef Saadi, the Algerian guerrilla leader whose memoirs of the independence war formed the basis of the film, La Bataille d'Algers (The Battle of Algiers), which remains one of the most compelling studies of insurrection and counter-insurgency ever recorded.
I made the same journey as the two US intelligence officers up the steep hills to the south of Algiers to find the spacious villa where Mr Saadi now lives, commanding a stunning view of the city he helped turn into a battleground to free his country.
It is possible that I had a more fruitful visit than the Americans.
When Mr Saadi realised from the nature of their questions that they were intelligence officials trying to gather information that might help the United States in its newly-launched war in Iraq, he had some blunt advice for them.
"Listen," he said. "The day you land in Iraq is the day you lose the war there."
He was not surprised that the Americans had sought him out.
It has long been said that the Pentagon uses The Battle of Algiers as a training aid, encouraging young officers to watch it.
In part, this is presumably because some of the observations about an army from a Western, Christian country fighting a Muslim, Arab insurrection are still valid.
It is also a salutary reminder of how hard an indigenous guerrilla force will fight against a foreign invader.
Mr Saadi makes the point that the Americans could have learned that story in Vietnam but he acknowledges that it is there in his own life-story too.
But partly the film's enduring power comes simply from the fact that it was a brilliant piece of story-telling, its grainy monochrome texture lending a newsreel authenticity and a dark urgency.
It is something of a miracle that it turned out to offer such a subtle narrative of intertwined stories and perspectives.
An early plan for the project was called Para! and would have told the story from the French point of view.
And the finished product is based on the memoirs of a man the French would have regarded as a ruthless terrorist.
Even though he had been invited to make the film by the authorities in newly-independent Algeria, the Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo somehow managed to stick to his plan to reflect the parallel narratives which between them provide the full story of the war.
The French tortured prisoners, staged brutal reprisal raids and deployed paratroopers in the Casbah to bully the local civilian population into submission.
The Algerians used no-warning bomb attacks and were ruthless in hunting down agents of the French government - and anyone suspected of collaborating with them - when they were at their most defenceless.
There is one sequence in which three Algerian Muslim women remove their robes and headscarves and dress in European clothes to allow them to slip through French security and plant no-warning bombs in civilian area, including an airline office and a cafe.
The slow passage of time, as the minutes tick by towards detonation while young people in the cafe dance to a song called "See You Tomorrow," must be among the most tense moments in the movie.
For many of the dancers, you know, there will be no tomorrow.
I stood with Mr Saadi on his balcony looking over the dirty white stone city to the sharp blue of the Mediterranean.
"There were battles everywhere," he told me. "Attacks even in the sleepiest suburbs, first to take their weapons and then to fight them."
I asked him, as I often ask old soldiers, if the darker memories of those violent days ever haunt his dreams. He gave me the shortest answer I have ever heard.
"Of course not," he said. 'Victory was ours."
I wondered what those two American visitors had made of the man whose life story has become a kind of handbook for how a small, irregular army with the right motivation can fight and beat a much larger and better-armed force.
"They didn't need to come to see me to ask that," he told me. "All you need to know to understand that is that we won our freedom."
There are only about 520 Amur tigers - also known as Siberian tigers - left in the wild and 326 in captivity across Europe and Russia.
The two-week-old cubs, who have yet to be sexed, form part of an international breeding programme to protect Amurs which are classified as an endangered species.
They are the first to be born at Woburn for 23 years.
The cubs were born overnight on 17 September to first-time mum Minerva, who turns four this month, and father Elton, also aged four.
Minerva, who keepers said had "taken to motherhood brilliantly", is ranked as the seventh most important female Amur in the captive tiger population as she has few genetic relatives in captivity.
Mother and cubs are being kept in a private den away from the public to ensure as little disturbance as possible, however, they will be allowed out to explore the park's nine-acre tiger reserve early next year.
Minerva and Elton - who also lives at Woburn - were brought together by staff from the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) as they were considered "an important genetic match".
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Jo Cook, from the Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance, said: "Maintaining a healthy captive population of Amur tigers in zoos and parks is important because they act as an insurance population and can be used for reintroductions should that become a necessary conservation action to support wild Amur tigers."
When the two cubs are old enough they will join Woburn's Amur tigers - mum, dad and another female Neurka, in the "Kingdom of the Carnivores" - a specially designed nine-acre enclosure complete with sleeping platforms and bathing pools - as they are said to be the only big cats that like water.
Chantelle Connelly, 27, denied assaulting the woman, whom she had met in a Newcastle bar in October.
Newcastle Magistrates' Court heard she had been "jealous" of the 22-year-old victim and repeatedly asked if she had "gone with" an ex-boyfriend.
Connelly will be sentenced in July.
Magistrates heard a mutual friend introduced Connelly to the woman, who recognised her from the TV show.
When they moved with a larger group to another bar in Stowell Street, Connelly "got jealous" about an ex-boyfriend, Tommy Sayers, the court was told.
After she left the bar with two friends, Connelly followed and grabbed the woman's phone, the court heard.
She checked the woman's Facebook for evidence she had seen Mr Sayers, but did not find any.
The complainant told the court: "Chantelle was back in my face shouting 'have you been with Tommy?"'
The court heard as the woman walked off to get a taxi, Connelly hit her in the face, knocking her backwards so she fell.
Her wrist was broken and her lip was split, which required stitches.
Connelly denied being anywhere near where the attack took place and denied hitting the woman.
But magistrates accepted the victim's account.
July saw a surplus of £0.2bn, compared with last year's deficit of £0.3bn.
For the four months so far this year, though, public sector net borrowing - which leaves out support for public sector banks - was £1.9bn higher than last year's at £22.8bn.
The figures come from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
July is the second most important month, apart from January, for tax revenue paid for by those completing self-assessment forms, such as the self-employed,
In both months, accrued receipts are higher because of receipts from self-assessed income tax.
This month, those receipts were the highest since records began in 1999.
July's receipts increased by £0.8bn, to £8bn, compared with July 2016.
A Treasury spokesperson said: 'We are making good progress in strengthening our public finances and living within our means.
"Our national debt, at £65,000 for every UK household, is still too high. That is why we have a clear fiscal plan to reduce our debts and build a stronger economy for every household."
But Ruth Gregory, economist at Capital Economics, said the figures were probably just a blip, as the deadline fell on a different day of the week from last year.
"Self-assessment receipts were boosted by the 31 July deadline falling on a Monday this year, but Sunday in 2016, meaning that some receipts were recorded in August last year," she said.
She pointed out that so far, borrowing was still some 9% higher than the £20.9bn seen last year, with the OBR expecting this to worsen further.
"As such, despite July's strength, the chancellor may still find that he has little scope for any easing back on the planned fiscal squeeze in his November Budget."
The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has forecast that public sector net borrowing will be £58.3bn during the financial year ending March 2018.
The ONS data showed that total government debt, excluding public sector banks, stood at £1.758 trillion at the end of July, which is equivalent to 87.5% of gross domestic product (GDP).
Bahar Mustafa, 28, had faced charges of allegedly sending an offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was "not enough evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction".
Her lawyer said the climb down called the CPS's judgement into question.
Mike Schwarz, a partner at Bindmans LLP, said: "The decision first to prosecute and then to climb down so soon afterwards, made by the Crown Prosecution Service headquarters, calls into question their ability to make sensible judgments on delicate issues."
The CPS said one of the complainants had requested a review of its decision to discontinue the case.
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Ms Mustafa, of Edmonton, north London, is the student union welfare and diversity officer at Goldsmiths, University of London.
She had been due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Thursday charged with sending electronic communications on Twitter and Facebook which conveyed threats for the purposes of causing distress or anxiety to the recipient.
Ms Mustafa was also charged with sending grossly offensive and menacing messages by means of public communication network.
A CPS spokesperson said: "Following the decision to discontinue this case one of the complainants has now requested a review of this decision under the Victim's Right to Review Scheme.
"It would not be appropriate to comment further on this case until this process has been completed."
It was previously reported that Ms Mustafa was alleged to have posted an event invitation on Facebook, which has since been taken down, that said: "Invite loads of BME Women and non-binary people!!
"Also, if you've been invited and you're a man and/or white PLEASE DON'T COME just cos I invited a bunch of people and hope you will be responsible enough to respect this is a BME Women and non-binary event only."
The messages were alleged to have been posted by Ms Mustafa between 10 November last year and 31 May.
Ms Mustafa was elected by union members to the student union, which is independent of Goldsmiths.
Mr Maduro was speaking to supporters in Caracas before meeting the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), Ernesto Samper.
He later asked Mr Samper to mediate between Venezuela and the US.
The US imposed sanctions against Venezuelan officials in December.
They were aimed at those allegedly involved in suppressing the anti-government protests that shook Venezuela in the first six months of 2014.
On Monday, the US also imposed visa restrictions on unnamed Venezuelan officials it accuses of human rights violations and corruption.
Addressing crowds of supporters in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, Mr Maduro called on the US president to "rectify and stop in time the coup plan (that would see) the destruction of Venezuela.
"President Obama, I say this with goodwill: We hope that you set a new and different tone with Venezuela."
Relations between the US and Venezuela have been tense for many years. The two countries last had ambassadors in each other's capitals in 2010.
Mr Maduro later told a news conference he had asked Unasur to "support the South American country" by mediating with the US.
For his part, Ernesto Samper said he would take Mr Maduro's concerns to Unasur member states, adding that it was them who could decide on whether to take any action.
The South American union is based in the Ecuadorean capital, Quito, and is made up of 12 countries, including Venezuela.
Mr Maduro's comments come days after he accused US Vice-President Joe Biden of plotting a coup against his left-wing government, an allegation that Mr Biden's office called "baseless and patently false".
The Spain forward, who joined in a club record £60m deal from Real Madrid last week, came on in the second half.
With Chelsea 3-1 down, Morata flicked on a Cesc Fabregas corner for Michy Batshuayi to poke in.
A Rafinha goal and two by Thomas Muller had put Bayern in command before Marcos Alonso scored for Chelsea.
The 20-year-old Nigeria international completed his move on Thursday after a work permit was approved, signing a five-and-a-half-year deal.
Ndidi has already trained with the squad and could make his debut in Saturday's FA Cup third-round tie at Everton (15:00 GMT).
"He's an impressive player with a big future," said manager Claudio Ranieri.
"I feel I can learn a lot here," Ndidi told the club's TV channel.
"I try to win the balls for the team - that is one of my main attributes. I have to achieve a lot here."
Ndidi helped Genk finish top of their Europa League group to secure their place in the knockout stages of this season's competition.
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The missile was launched off the North's east coast early on Wednesday and travelled about 1,000km (620 miles), one of the North's longest launches to date.
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe said it was a "grave threat" to his country.
The North is barred from developing nuclear and ballistic missile technology by UN resolution.
But it had vowed a "physical response" after the US and South Korea agreed plans to deploy an advanced US missile defence system in South Korea.
The North has carried out repeated missile tests in recent months.
The US Strategic Command said two missiles had been fired simultaneously on Wednesday from Hwanghae province at about 07:50 Seoul time (22:50 GMT Tuesday), but one exploded immediately after launch.
The Japanese defence ministry said the other missile landed inside its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) - the 200 nautical miles of ocean around a country over which it has jurisdiction.
An official at South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it appeared to have been a medium-range Rodong.
The launch showed the North's "ambition to attack neighbouring countries", he said. There were no reports of any damage.
Mr Abe said it posed a grave threat to Japan's security, calling it an "unforgiveable act of violence". He said Tokyo had protested strongly against it.
The US similarly condemned the launch.
"We remain prepared to work to respond to further DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] provocations, as well as to defend ourselves and our allies from any attack or provocation," said State Department spokeswoman Anna Richey-Allen.
In June, after what appeared to be several failed launches, North Korea sent a mid-range missile more than 1,400km into the atmosphere, indicating it had made progress in its abilities to strike US targets in the region, according to analysts.
In July, North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea, saying it was a simulated strike on the South.
Local media reports say South Korean officials believe the North is preparing to conduct a fifth test of a nuclear weapon.
But North Korea is not yet believed to have the ability to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile to make a deliverable weapon.
Greenwich, in south-east London, and Bristol will each host a project of their own, while Coventry and Milton Keynes will share a third.
The decision was announced by the quango Innovate UK, after George Osborne's Autumn Statement.
The chancellor also announced an additional £9m in funding for the work, adding to the £10m that had been announced in July.
The businesses involved will add further funds.
Bristol will host the Venturer consortium, which aims to investigate whether driverless cars can reduce congestion and make roads safer.
Its members include the insurance group Axa, and much of its focus will be on the public's reaction to the tech as well as the legal and insurance implications of its introduction.
Greenwich is set to run the Gateway scheme. This will be led by the Transport Research Laboratory consultancy and also involves General Motors, and the AA and RAC motoring associations. It plans to carry out tests of automated passenger shuttle vehicles as well as autonomous valet parking for adapted cars.
In addition, a self-drive car simulator will make use of a photorealistic 3D model of the area to study how people react to sharing the driving of a vehicle with its computer.
"The combination of TRL's independent expertise; robust, reliable testing protocols and driving simulation facilities alongside the diverse and high calibre qualities of our consortium means we can safely demonstrate automated vehicles to build acceptance and trust in this revolutionary technology," said the firm's chief executive Rob Wallis.
Milton Keynes and Coventry will host the UK Autodrive programme.
This involves Ford, Jaguar Land Rover and the engineering consultancy Arup among others, and will test both self-drive cars on the road as well as self-driving pods designed for pedestrianised areas.
Part of this group's work will be to develop the technologies that will need to be built into roads and the surrounding infrastructure to aid vehicle navigation.
"Our plan with the practical demonstration phases is to start testing with single vehicles on closed roads, and to build up to a point where all road users, as well as legislators, the police and insurance companies, are confident about how driverless pods and fully and partially autonomous cars can operate safely on UK roads," said Tim Armitage from Arup.
The tests will last from between 18 to 36 months and begin on 1 January.
Clare Goulbourn-Lay said the scheme was "problematic" for staff and patients, and began a petition which has received 8,400 signatures.
Charges would have been placed on 625 spaces in the area, and restrictions placed on a further 741.
However, Reading Borough Council said it had not abandoned the idea.
The online petition opposed the introduction of pay-and-display meters for Addington Road, Erleigh Road and other roads around the hospital in Reading.
Reading Borough Council said it had looked at priority parking for residents, and further investigations would be carried out and finished by September.
John Baker, 76, died after being found in a street in the Bridgeton area, just after midnight in the early hours of Wednesday.
Police launched a murder inquiry and said the death may be connected with an earlier robbery and an attempted robbery.
The 24-year-old is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday.
Inquiries are continuing and a significant police presence remains within the Calton and Bridgeton areas.
Sixty women remain in hospital and at least 20 are in a critical condition following the tubectomy operations.
A team of doctors from the capital, Delhi, are being flown to the state to help out with the emergency.
Health camps are staged throughout India to control its huge population.
The Chhattisgarh government has ordered an inquiry into the deaths and Chief Minister Raman Singh has said "it appears the incident occurred due to negligence" by doctors.
The victims' families, all from poor families, have each been promised a compensation of about $6,600 (£4,150).
Four senior health officials have been suspended and a police complaint has been registered against the surgeon who performed the operations.
But the Congress party in the state has held protests and called a general strike to demand the resignation of the chief minister and Health Minister Amar Agrawal.
The shutdown is being supported by the state's chamber of commerce and several other organisations.
The impact of the protest is being felt in Bilaspur district where many schools are shut and there is little transport on the streets, reports BBC Hindi's Alok Putul from Bilaspur.
Female sterilisation works by sealing the fallopian tubes that carry eggs from the ovaries to the womb. This can be done using clips, clamps or small rings or by tying and cutting the tube - this stops the egg and sperm meeting, so pregnancy can't occur.
Eggs will still be released from the ovaries as normal, but they will be reabsorbed by the body instead.
The procedure is very effective and straightforward when carried out correctly and by a highly trained professional. But it is not without risks.
It requires an anaesthetic and there is a risk of damage to other organs during the procedure. There can be bleeding and infection too. It should also be considered permanent - it is difficult to reverse.
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The tubectomies were carried out on 83 women on Saturday in Pendari village in Bilaspur district. According to government rules, one surgeon should only perform 35 operations in a day.
When the women were brought in, they were vomiting continuously and their blood pressure had fallen dramatically, the BBC's Yogita Limaye reports from the Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences in Bilaspur.
Doctors say their condition keeps fluctuating rapidly, and it is hard to say if anyone is out of danger, our correspondent adds.
A team of four doctors from Delhi's premier AIIMS hospital (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) is on its way to Chhattisgarh to help with the treatment of women admitted to four hospitals there.
Chhattisgarh health officials have denied any responsibility for the deaths, but some suggested that medics were under pressure from the authorities to perform too many sterilisation operations in too little time.
Preliminary examinations showed the deaths had been caused by infection or shock as a result of blood loss, state deputy health director Amar Singh told the Press Trust of India news agency.
But health officials told BBC Hindi that the cause of the deaths would be known only after post-mortem reports were available.
Botched sterilisation operations are nothing new in India.
In January 2012, three men were arrested in Bihar state for operating on 53 women in two hours. The men had carried out operations in a field and without the use of anaesthesia.
Authorities in India have been promoting family planning for several decades, trying to convince people to have smaller families.
The 2011 census shows that the country's population is now 1.2 billion, which means that India is on course to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2030.
More people live in the country than in the US, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh combined.
Sterilisation camps are frequently held to carry out mass tubectomy operations for women - or vasectomies for men - and in some states, health workers receive money for each person they bring to a clinic to be sterilised.
Reports say a sum of about $10 was given to each of the women at the Bilaspur district camp.
Andrew Moran, 31, from Salford, Greater Manchester, was arrested at a luxury villa in Alicante last week.
He was convicted of armed robbery in his absence after fleeing a Burnley court in 2009.
He faces investigation over drugs and weapons found at his house, Spanish police said.
He could also face charges of escaping from police who tracked him down in Murcia in November by ramming two police vehicles and driving the wrong way down a motorway.
Moran was placed on the most wanted list after leaping from the dock and assaulting four security guards during his trial at Burnley Crown Court in February 2009.
He was found guilty, alongside Stephen Devalda, of taking part in an armed robbery in which Royal Mail guards were threatened with a gun, machete and baseball bat in Colne, Lancashire, in May 2005.
One of the guards was assaulted before the offenders escaped with £25,000.
Devalda, 29, also from Salford, had also been on the run but was captured in Spain in March 2011.
He was later jailed by a judge at Preston Crown Court, for nine years and eight months.
North Korea is currently in the same time zone as South Korea and Japan, which are nine hours ahead of GMT.
But Pyongyang Time will see the clocks put back by 30 minutes on 15 August.
State news agency KCNA said "wicked Japanese imperialists" had "deprived Korea of even its standard time" by changing the clocks during occupation.
The entire Korean peninsula - then one country - was 8.5 hours ahead of GMT until Japan colonised it in 1910.
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KCNA quoted officials as saying the decision to adopt Pyongyang Time reflected "the unshakeable faith and will of the service personnel and people on the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation".
South Korea said the move could cause some short-term inconvenience at the Kaesong industrial plant in North Korea, jointly run by the two Koreas.
"And in the longer term, there may be some fallout for efforts to unify standards and reduce differences between the two sides," Unification Ministry official Jeong Joon-Hee said.
There is no international body that approves a country's change of time zone as countries decide for themselves.
In 2011, Samoa changed its time zone to the other side of the international dateline, losing one day, so as to make communication easier with neighbours Australia and New Zealand.
And North Korea is not the only country that has created its own unique time zone.
In 2007, Venezuela decided to turn its clocks back by half an hour as President Hugo Chavez wanted to have a "more fair distribution of the sunrise" to residents.
Venezuela is now the only country with a time zone 4.5 hours behind GMT.
Isabel Martinez, 33, has been charged with five counts of malice murder, five counts of murder and six counts of aggravated assault.
Police found the bodies after responding to a 911 call in Loganville, located outside of Atlanta.
Another child inside the home was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Gwinnett County police Cpl Michele Pihera said: "Right now we believe we have everybody involved in this crime.
"What her motivations are for committing this horrendous crime, we still don't know."
The suspect called police from the property at 04:47 local time (08:47 GMT) to report a stabbing.
Cpl Pihera said the mother spoke Spanish in the 911 call, which initially made it difficult for operators to communicate with her.
The county sheriff's office said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement were getting involved in the case, but did not specify further details.
In Chicago, relatives of the family said Ms Martinez had been "a little down and depressed" because her father died in Mexico one day after Father's Day.
Police said the children were all under the age of 10 and the man in his mid-30s.
A knife appeared to be used in the attack, but a medical examiner will determine how each of the victims died, Cpl Pihera added.
A neighbour told WSB-TV that the woman may have been home with her deceased family members for hours before police arrived.
"It's reasonable to believe they were in the home all night," Gwinnett police Corporal Deon Washington told the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Moeen is available for the County Championship Division Two match against Northamptonshire, starting on Friday.
And, despite last weekend's eight-wicket win over Glamorgan, Rhodes has confirmed that Moeen, 29, will play.
"Whoever misses out, it's special circumstances. They understand that," Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester.
"We love having Mo in our side - he's a wonderful character. His attitude is brilliant when he comes back to play for us."
As well as his one-off Championship appearance against Northants, Moeen has been made available by the England and Wales Cricket Board for Worcestershire's first three One-Day Cup matches - against Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Northants.
"We've got good young players who have played quite a bit now so hopefully we can all gel together this year and surprise a few people. And they've made a good start," said Moeen.
"The Championship game is very important from a Worcestershire point of view. And also from a personal point of view to get some form and bat some time.
"But the three one-dayers are also something I'm definitely looking forward to, and hopefully opening the batting again."
Moeen played three early season Championship matches for Worcestershire last summer, scoring 273 runs at an average of 91, but he took only one wicket with his off-spin.
It will be his first Worcestershire appearance since making 81 in the the nine-wicket One-Day Cup quarter-final defeat by Somerset at Taunton last August.
Rennie, 52, will complete his contract as coach of Super Rugby outfit The Chiefs in Hamilton, New Zealand, before moving to Scotstoun.
Townsend is replacing Vern Cotter as Scotland head coach.
Rennie said he "couldn't turn down" the "opportunity to work with such exciting players at a club with big ambitions".
The former Wellington centre added: "It's no secret I have been interested in coaching abroad and this chance fits the bill. I am very motivated to continue the success (at Glasgow) and build the club."
Rennie joined The Chiefs in 2012 and won two Super Rugby titles in his first two seasons.
The New Zealander started his coaching career in 1999 at Wellington, where the team won their first NPC title in 14 years in his opening season as head coach in 2000.
He also coached Manawatu in the ITM Cup between 2006 and 2011 and also in that time won three consecutive Junior World Championships in charge of the New Zealand U20 side.
Scottish Rugby's chief executive Mark Dodson said: "It is a clear indication of the progress Scottish Rugby and Glasgow Warriors are making that we can attract a coach of Dave's experience to Scotland to work with our players.
"Gregor has developed a great winning culture at Glasgow Warriors and I'm very confident Dave will be able to build on that solid foundation to bring more success to the club."
The UK body advising the health service recommended a new test is introduced which is easier for people to complete at home.
Officials said it may put more pressure on services to diagnose and treat the cancer, such as colonoscopies.
Public Health Wales is planning rolling out new testing kits while the Welsh Government considers the implications.
Bowel Cancer UK said the wait meant "lives are being lost".
Currently, anyone aged 60-74 and registered with a family doctor in Wales gets a bowel cancer testing kit through the post every two years.
These tests compare three stool samples over a two-week period to see if there are any traces of blood present - one of the tell-tale signs that something might be wrong.
The new test, called a faecal immunochemical test (Fit) requires just one sample to be tested.
It means it is less time-consuming for patients, which in turn makes them more likely to complete and return their samples for testing.
"Bowel cancer screening saves lives so we must ensure more people complete and return the test when they receive it in the post," Deborah Alsina, chief executive of Bowel Cancer UK, said.
"Screening can detect bowel cancer at an early stage in people with no symptoms, when it is easier to treat."
She said the best way to improve screening uptake was to introduce the Fit tests.
"The test has been proven to be more accurate and easier for people to complete," she said.
Bowel cancer is the third biggest cancer killer in Wales with 1,000 people dying every year. If it is diagnosed at the earliest stages it is treatable and most patients survive.
The UK National Screening Committee recommended introducing the new tests earlier this year and the issue was raised by the Welsh Screening Committee in January.
The Welsh Government is considering increased pressure on the NHS and is expected to report back to the next meeting of the Welsh Screening Committee.
A spokesman for the government said: "Earlier this year the Wales Screening Committee confirmed that Public Health Wales should continue with their planning to introduce Fit testing so as not to cause any unnecessary delays."
Foster Christian, 53, of Dickens Avenue in the city, is charged with the murder of Simon Gorecki and Natasha Sadler.
Mr Gorecki, 47, and Ms Sadler, 40, were found when police were called to the property on Tuesday.
Mr Christian is also charged with two counts of grievous bodily harm. He is due to appear before Medway Magistrates Court on Friday.
A 16-year-old boy who was described as being in a critical condition following the argument is now stable, Kent Police said.
Two women, aged 18 and 35, who were arrested early on Thursday on suspicion of perverting the course of justice are still in custody, the force added.
Each one commemorates a member of British services killed in Afghanistan since 2001.
They're the work of East Ayrshire artist Brian Carey and he's just renewed the crosses.
To mark the start of the Commonwealth Games in the city, he's adding crosses to honour all the fatalities from forces of the Commonwealth.
"Hopefully some of the visitors from the Commonwealth countries will take the time to come over and look at the work, and think of the ones from their country that have died in the conflict", he told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme.
I first saw the installation when it first went up, some 18 months ago.
I was struck by the relentlessness of it all, as you walked past cross after cross after cross - reading the names, and a brief description of how each person died.
"IED (improvised explosive device) blast" ... "IED blast" ... "IED blast" ... "shot" ... "vehicle accident" ... "IED blast".
"I used to just put crosses out, with the individual's name on", Brian Carey explained, "But people didn't really connect what it was, so I started adding the area where the person had been killed and how the individual had died.
"I think it brings it home. It makes a more powerful artwork."
He's faced opposition from both sides of the debate about the conflict.
Some accuse him of glorifying soldiers, and ask why he isn't listing civilians who've been killed.
But some on the other side suspect him of having an anti-war agenda.
But Brian Carey relishes the reaction his work provokes.
"Quite often forces' family want me to email individual photographs of their son's cross," he says.
"I get every type of reaction from the general public. Cursing, swearing, I've had people spitting at me while I've been putting the work out.
"Current service, Royal Marines, teenagers, you name it, with lumps in their throat ready to break down in front of the work."
The Glasgow installation isn't the only one.
Brian Carey has put his crosses in parks in Glasgow, on Howford bridge near his home, and around Fort William.
He'd like to take them to the other parts of the UK, and even to New York. But no-one will give him permission.
"It's the work no-one is willing to put their name to authorising", he says.
So instead, he operates on the edge of the law. Without permission, but hoping people will understand, and tolerate, what he's doing.
Though some crosses he'd left near Ben Nevis were taken down, after a member of the public complained they were very upsetting.
Brian's response to that? "They're supposed to be."
Singers, dancers and fireworks lit up the iconic stadium before tributes were paid to Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad, who died on Saturday.
Sir Philip Craven, International Paralympic Committee president, said the movement was "united in grief".
Referring to the success of the Games, Craven said the Rio Paralympics were "uniquely Brazilian and wondrous".
Britain finished the Games with 147 medals, 64 of which were gold. They were second behind China, who claimed 107 golds and 239 in total.
Craven thanked organisers, athletes and spectators after passing the Paralympic flag to the governor of Tokyo, which hosts the next Games in 2020.
Craven was also warmly applauded when bestowing the Paralympic Order - his organisation's highest honour - on the Brazilian city.
Standing alongside him, Carlos Nuzman, the president of Rio's organising committee, was cheered when he exclaimed: "Mission accomplished.
"The Brazil we love so much has shown the world what it can do.
"This celebration started with a dream. It was 20 years in the making. Many thought it was impossible. But not for Rio and Brazil.
"The impossible happened. Brazilians never give up."
Cyclist Golbarnezhad's death is the first in competition at a summer Olympics or Paralympics since Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen in the 100km team time trial at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
"Tonight is a celebration of the last 12 days of sport but it's also a very sombre occasion following Saturday's extremely tragic events," said Craven.
"The passing of Bahman Golbarnezhad has affected us all and left the whole Paralympic movement united in grief."
As well as the closing ceremony tribute, flags were lowered to half-mast as Iran won gold on Sunday in the sitting volleyball, one of the final events of the Games.
Flags have also been lowered around the Paralympic village.
An investigation into the crash has begun, the IPC said.
Kadeena Cox, who won gold medals in both athletics and cycling, carried the flag for ParalympicsGB at the closing ceremony.
The 25-year-old is the first Briton to win titles in two sports at the same Games since Seoul 1988.
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As flagbearer, Cox led out one of the most successful British Paralympic teams in history, having ensured their best medal haul since 1988.
Dame Sarah Storey won her third and GB's 60th gold medal of the Games on Saturday, with the tally reaching 64 golds by the end of the day.
During the closing ceremony, Storey was presented to the crowd after being elected to the IPC Athletes' Council.
The Ayrshire club is staging the 145th Open this July.
It announced last year that it was carrying out a review into its all-male membership policy.
Maureen McGonigle of the Scottish Women in Sport Foundation said the club had to "come into the 21st Century".
Governing body, the Royal and Ancient (R&A), said the issue was "a matter for the club" to decide on.
Royal Troon is one of two golf clubs on the rota to host the Open Championship which do not accept female members.
The other is Muirfield in East Lothian, where the event was held in 2013.
Ms McGonigle told BBC Radio Scotland's John Beattie: "To have that kind of attitude and be hosting one of the top events in Scotland - I do find that quite surprising and I don't think it is something that should happen.
"I think discrimination in any form, in this day and age, should not be allowed. There has got to be equality throughout.
"They (Royal Troon) have to come into the 21st Century and look at the benefits that women bring to a club."
Troon has previously considered itself as a special case in respect of its male-only membership policy as it shares facilities with the Ladies Golf Club, Troon.
Both clubs are sharing the responsibility of hosting the Open via a joint championship committee.
However, last year it said it would "undertake a comprehensive review to consider the most appropriate membership policy for the future".
The timetable for the review is yet be announced.
Ms McGonigle added: "There's no need for research. There's plenty of evidence out there that clearly tells you the benefits of including a diverse population within your organisation .
"I think they have to look at the commercial side. Numbers are falling dramatically in golf clubs, women are not becoming members anymore and I think that is because the environment portrayed is not conducive.
"Women are not going to waste their time trying to get into a club that clearly doesn't want them to be there. They'll take their money elsewhere."
Speaking on Radio Scotland about preparations ahead of The Open at Troon this summer, the R&A's executive director of championships, Johnnie Cole-Hamilton, said: "I think it has been well documented that Royal Troon is reviewing its membership."
"The R&A looks forward to its outcome.
"It is really a matter for the club to carry out that review and we can only wait for the outcome and handle it when that review comes out."
Essentra, which set up a plant on the city's Imperial Park in 2014, will more than double its staff to over 100.
The firm is being supported with £143,000 in grants and loans from the Welsh government.
Economy Minister Edwina Hart said she was delighted Newport had been chosen by Essentra to be "a centre of excellence within this global group".
Justin Mallon, 31, and Owen McLaughlin, 34, both from Livingston, appeared on petition at Livingston Sheriff Court.
They were both accused of assault to injury, danger of life and attempted murder at a house in Camps Riggs, Livingston.
They made no plea and were remanded in custody for further inquiries.
Police had been called to the house at about 21:20 on Saturday following reports that a man had been seriously injured.
The 36-year-old was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where he remains in a critical but stable condition.
Now, with the Rio Olympics closing in fast, a new BBC documentary explores how they do it - what sets them apart, what drives them on, what hurts and what works, and how a pair of brothers can compete with each other every day, yet stay so close.
It's one thing being born within easy riding distance of the empty roads and climbs of the Yorkshire Dales. It's quite another going to a secondary school where keen runners were allowed to leave the school gates at lunchtime to train, and then join the front of the lunch queue when they got back.
Alistair: "You could literally roam wherever you want. That sense of adventure, being able to leave school, and that sense of freedom, is something that really inspired me. I'm sure I'd have failed at everything without that."
Jonny: "Triangle Bike Shop was one of those things that was just pure fluke. We were in Horsforth, which is not a big town. It happened to have one of the first triathlon shops in the north of England, when very few people knew what triathlon was.
"Adam Nevins, who ran it, was great. He gave us the kit - when we'd bring our bikes in with all sorts of bits broken, he would stop his work and fix them for us. But the other far more important side is the time he put in to show us the endless routes around the Dales, and in giving us this philosophy: to enjoy training, to not really worry too much about numbers in those days, to just go out and ride."
Three training sessions a day. Physical discomfort in each. In every race, a burning in legs and lungs that would make any ordinary person throw in in the towel.
Alistair: "It would seem quite strange to a lot of people, that you could actually enjoy physically hurting yourself. It doesn't seem to make sense.
"I don't know where it comes from. I think in some ways that it's not quite escapism, but everyone has a state of mind, or something that they enjoy doing or something that takes them away from everyone else, and maybe that's been it for me."
Two of the best triathletes in the world, not just in the same training group but in the same family. Competing together in every training session, battling for the same medals and Olympic glory.
Jonny: "It has spilled over, definitely. We've been doing races that are low key and supposed to be fun. In 2012, we raced the Yorkshire cross country championships, and although we were first and second, we'd had a busy week and should just have been running together.
"Instead, with a kilometre to go, we were absolutely maxing out. It was a couple of weeks later that Alistair tore his Achilles. That race probably went a long way to doing that.
"If both of us had backed off for the last 10-15 seconds, which we could have easily done, then we would have been fine. We should really have thought, 'It's January 2012, the Olympics are eight months away, why are we racing each other?'"
In 2012, Alistair won Olympic gold. Since then, a succession of injuries have disrupted his chances of adding to his world titles. With Rio closing fast, he is looking to be the first male triathlete in history to retain an Olympic crown.
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Alistair: "Winning feels very different depending on the event, your state of mind and how competitive it is.
"People say, 'How do you cope with the pressure of the Olympics?' Really, it's just been the same - I've stood on thousands of start lines, and it's a slow progression from the start line of a Leeds school cross country race to the Olympic Games. I wanted to win the Yorkshire Cross Country Championships when I was 12 just as much as I wanted to win the Olympics when I was 24.
"I've had some great experiences, where I've got everything out of myself that day, everyone was competitive. That's fantastic - the Olympics was like that for me.
"I've had other days where I've thought 'Yeah, I could have done things a lot better there. I didn't do that well'.
"And then I've had races where I've gone into it thinking 'I'm going to really struggle to win this, I'm only going to win this either by sheer guts or by being a bit clever about it', and I've pulled it off. They're very, very satisfying races."
Every athlete has to lose. But is the pleasure you get from winning more intense than the disappointment of losing?
Alistair: "Definitely. It's not like I cross the finish line and I'm disappointed that I've lost - I'm disappointed sometimes when I don't feel like I can race to the best of my ability, and I don't feel kind of satisfied that way. But in terms of actually losing, the times that Jonny's beaten me or Javier Gomez has beaten me, if I feel like I've had a good race then I'm actually pretty happy with that.
"But it's also a bit dangerous as well, because I don't like this attitude of, 'I had a bad race but it's a learning experience.' That's a very convenient excuse for a lot of people, why it's a good reason to have bad performances when it's not."
Jonny: "The first reaction is, 'Wow!' if I've won or had a great race, and the next reaction is definitely a bit, 'That was a bit weird - I'm upsetting the norm, I shouldn't be beating Alistair.' And it's something that I need to get over.
"I know I need to go in to races with confidence, because if you go into races and kind of expect Alistair to win, you are already beaten. It means those days when we're equally as good as each other, he's more likely to edge it because he expects to win.
"Hopefully it's something that I've been able to change over the last few years, to be able to expect to beat Alistair. Or maybe not expect to, but not to think of it as something completely crazy if I do."
Why push yourself through so much physical and mental torment? Is there still the same endorphin rush that amateur runners and cyclists feel after a training session or inconsequential local race?
Alistair: "I think on some level when you're an elite endurance athlete, that buzz is what you do it for, day in day out. It's probably an addiction to some extent. You don't feel quite right without it.
"It's a bit unfortunate in that you're starting off and you're running for half-an-hour and you get that buzz, and yet it gets to a point where if you haven't done six hours of training in a day you don't get it at all.
"You get the bigger buzz after racing as well, because it's physically testing and there's the psychological aspect of it and winning. But it's something that really interests me - I've asked quite a lot of old and retired athletes, does that kick ever go away, or do you still keep needing to feed that addiction, even when you're 60 or 70 years old? Do you still need to go out and give yourself a bit of a kicking to feel happy?"
Repeated ankle problems for Alistair, a stress fracture in 2015 for Jonny just as he was hitting top form. How to handle your job and your favourite hobby both being taken away from you?
Jonny: "I thought I'd be an awful injured athlete. I thought it would drive me crazy not being able to do anything, but I'm actually very good at changing my goal to a different one.
"Instead of focusing my training, I was trying to be the best kind of injured athlete I could possibly be. That involved being the best use of crutches in the world - my left leg didn't touch the ground for four weeks.
"Straight away, I got on the phone to the nutritionist to ask how I could heal it. What were the best possible things I could eat? I got told all the usual - protein shakes, eat lots of cherries, that kind of thing. I made myself the best sort of nutrition plan in the world. I don't think I could have done a better job of giving it the best possible healing."
While the Brownlees have been injured or chasing other prizes, Spain's Javier Gomez has claimed world title after world title. Going into Rio, it's Gomez and his compatriot Mario Mola who pose the biggest threat once again.
Alistair: "The times I've spent with Gomez, he's been very cordial, but it's not like we're best friends and we go out for a beer with each other. I don't think while your rivalry is that strong in sport, you're going to be that friendly, I think that's just the way it is, however many things you've got in common - you've got no chance.
"I'd much prefer Jonny to beat me than Gomez! That's the crux of it. At the end of the day when you're stood on the start line I want to beat both of them, but I'm actually probably a bit more worried about Jonny on his day than I am about Gomez.
"Jonny's got the capabilities to have a really good day, and I'm not quite sure with Gomez. He surprises people sometimes as well, so who knows. Come the Olympics, I'd much prefer Jonny to beat me than Gomez."
They no longer live in the same house, as they did in the build-up to London 2012. But no more than a mile of road or footpath separates them, and the relationship is, if anything, even stronger than it was then.
Jonny: "In Alistair's head, his way is definitely always the right way. And if it's not the right way then he'll just argue that it is the right way, whatever. And then he'll change the opinions to what he wants and then say what he was arguing was that way anyway.
"If he were a film, it would be 'Alistair's Movie. The Best Movie Ever. By Alistair Brownlee, starring Alistair Brownlee'. And he would convince everyone that it is the best movie, even if it's not."
Alistair: "Jonny is basically that guy out of One Foot In The Grave, the miserable old man. And he acts like that a lot of the time. He hates it when I call him Victor. But that TV programme was written about him before his time.
"If he were a film, I think it would have to be some kind of spoof comedy about how very mundane things annoyed him terribly. So the tagline would have to be something along the lines of, 'The day the world ended because the postman was late…'"
Does an Olympic gold make you happy? Sometimes. For a while. And then?
Alistair: "I think whether I'm happy with or not, I've made my decision already. I might have four or five years of being the best in the world and then pay for it later in life.
"I made a decision to be as good as I possibly can be, and there are negatives to that choice. The big one being it's a complete life change - you might be wanting to do other things, like in education, or a career or whatever.
"But it's not necessarily something that's bad. You make the decision for a positive reason - you want to be as good as you can be. It's not a drawback, it's the choice."
Jonny: "I think I am more of a team player. I like being around people more than Alistair, I like kind of working off people, and I like to think I'm quite good at that relationship.
"Being with people - getting the best out of people, so that includes training partners so when you're training with them or when you're racing with them, working together - I'm better at. And I'm a lot better at listening to other people, and involving their ideas, whereas Alistair is a bit more, 'It's my way'."
On motivation
How to keep going through those three training sessions, day after day? How to keep going when you have already won the greatest prize your sport has to offer?
Alistair: "I've got no idea. I've always been a bit scared of losing that ability to push myself.
"But it's been absolutely amazing - every time I've had an injury and it's got to that stage, the first time I've had the chance to push myself, not only do I have the experience afterwards where everyone thinks, 'Yeah, it's fantastic - I've gone hard', I actually get a few moments in and I think 'I just love being in pain!'
"I actually love this. I thrive off pushing myself, not only if it's a competitive situation, trying to hang on to someone, but also just on my own, being able to push myself and hurt.
"I've got no idea where that's come from, I think it's just years and years of just doing it may be and enjoying doing it. Although I think my dad would tell you, even the first time he saw me doing cross country as a six-year-old, I went red in the face and looked like I was about to die. So maybe I had it even then."
Jonny: "Alistair is a little bit more motivated by being outside and by exploring, which I really do as well, but may be not so much. I am definitely motivated by setting a goal and going for it.
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"I've always been like that as a kid. I remember growing up and wanting to qualify for the Yorkshire cross country team, so I told myself over Christmas I was going to run every day. On Christmas Day, we were travelling to my uncle's house and I would say 'Right, I'm going to get up and go for a run'. So I got up early, opened my presents really quickly and went out for a run, because I wanted to get my run in, because I'd set myself that goal."
Less than 100 days to go. Four years that have flown past. Gold and bronze then. And now?
Jonny: "In London, when we turned up and went through security, everyone else had to get their water bottles out of their bag, their Allen keys to go through airport security. Whereas the army boys saw we were British, and said, 'Don't worry lads, you go straight through...'
"The other side of it is to race in London. We caught a train down, went to Leeds station, sat out in some coffee shop until our train turned up in all our kit, caught the train down to London, like nothing was happening - normal commuters just walking past us like a normal day.
"That was when we had that home advantage - and the home crowd was everyone cheering for us. But that brought with it a lot of pressure, a lot of expectation and a lot of things leading up in to the race.
"It's quite nice to have something completely different, because London's done now as an athlete - I've had that experience, and let's go on and have a completely different experience in Rio."
Alistair: "I like to think I am still the best one-off racer, but I'm not sure. It's been tested in the last year or so, but I think you've got to tell yourself that.
"If I can be in the shape I was in in London, I can be in position to win any kind of triathlon. And I'd like to think I can be better than that, so you've just got to keep telling yourself that and train towards it."
Someone close to the Brownlee brothers once once told me that when they had finished triathlon, one was going to be successful and one was going to be happy. Can they guess which one they were?
Alistair: "People would probably say that I would be successful, because I'd be driven and because I'd want to do something else. But even I don't know that myself.
"Some days I wake up and think actually I'd love to do something else, in a completely different career, to prove I could be successful at something else, just to myself, out of interest. Then other days I wake up and think, 'Sod it - nah, I can just live a nice life where I can bike out to a cafe every day and not worry too much…'"
Jonny: "I think I'll be the happy one. Because when I finish triathlon I'll do what I want to do, whether it's teaching or still involved in sport, and that'll keep me happy whereas Alistair will want to go and do the best that he wants to be. If that leads to financial gain or unhappiness or whatever, I don't know. But he'll try his best at it."
The crossing is used by aid workers, journalists and Palestinians with Israeli permits to enter or leave Gaza.
Meanwhile, an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza killed a mother and three children, local health officials said.
More than 2,090 Palestinians - mostly civilians, according to the UN - and 67 Israelis have died in the recent fighting.
Most of the dead on the Israeli side have been soldiers. A Thai national in the country was also killed by rocket fire early on in the six-week-old conflict.
Hostilities between the two sides resumed on Tuesday after a temporary truce, scuppering efforts by Egyptian negotiators to achieve a long-term ceasefire deal.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said Palestinian militants had fired missiles at the Erez crossing from a concealed rocket launcher in northern Gaza.
The military added that at least 50 missiles had been fired into Israel since Saturday night.
It said Israeli forces were continuing their air strikes targeting sites of Hamas, the militant group which dominates Gaza.
One of the raids killed Mohamed al-Oul who was in charge of managing Hamas' funds, according to the IDF. Hamas has not yet commented on the alleged killing.
Meanwhile, Gazan health officials said a mother and three children died when their home was bombed near the Jabaliya refugee camp.
Sunday's fighting has claimed at least eight lives in Gaza.
The previous day, 22 people were hurt when a 12-storey block - said by Israel to be a Hamas command centre - was demolished by two missiles.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again warned Palestinian civilians to evacuate "from every site from which Hamas is carrying out terrorist activity".
"Every one of these places is a target for us," he said in a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
Israel had announced it would "intensify" its offensive after a four-year-old Israeli boy was killed in a village near the Gaza border.
In an interview with Yahoo News, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal rejected the charge that his organisation was targeting Israeli civilians.
"We try most of the time to aim at military targets and Israeli bases," Mr Meshaal said. "But we do not have the weapons available to our enemy… so aiming is difficult."
The current fighting erupted after tensions soared with the killings of three Israeli teenagers by Palestinian suspects in the West Bank in June, followed by the murder of a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem in an alleged revenge attack by Jewish suspects.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas earlier called on Israel and Hamas to attend fresh talks in Egypt.
Mr Abbas, who controls the West Bank, formed a unity government with Hamas in April, prompting Israel to freeze peace talks.
The Israeli government has vowed to pursue its military campaign until "full security" is achieved through the disarmament of Hamas and other groups in Gaza.
Hamas has insisted on a lifting of the economic blockade of Gaza as part of any longer-term deal.
The country's Privacy Protection Commission (CPP) also accused Facebook of tracking the browsing habits of non-users, as well as its own members.
The action follows criticism of Facebook by the same body in May.
Facebook said it was surprised that the CPP had taken the "theatrical action" because it was due to meet the watchdog this week to discuss its concerns.
The CPP said it took the decision because Facebook did not provide "satisfactory answers" to the questions it raised last month, according to a spokeswoman.
The commission, which is working with German, Dutch, French and Spanish counterparts, accused Facebook of trampling on European privacy laws.
A Facebook spokesman said: "We were surprised and disappointed that, after the [CPP] had already agreed to meet with us on 19 June to discuss their recommendations, they took the theatrical action of bringing Facebook Belgium to court on the day beforehand.
"Although we are confident that there is no merit to the [CPP]'s case, we remain happy to work with them in an effort to resolve their concerns, through a dialogue with us at Facebook Ireland and with our regulator, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner."
The commission has asked the court for an immediate order banning Facebook from monitoring non-users in particular, which it may do via plug-ins or cookies.
In the past, Facebook has claimed that the Belgian commission's jurisdiction is "unclear" because the American firm is regulated in Europe by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.
It also defended its actions when the Belgian commission released its report last month, saying that most websites used cookies, which it said has been an "industry standard for more than 15 years".
Trade group the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) has estimated output will reach 259.5m hectolitres (mhl) this year - a fall of 5% compared with 2015.
This would be among the three poorest years for output since 2000, it added.
However, it said it was unlikely this would affect prices in the shops.
"Some price tensions could appear in some geographic areas impacted by [bad weather]," an OIV spokesperson told the BBC.
"But very often wine producers and wine industries keep wine stocks in order to respond to such risks."
In Europe, the OIV said Italy was again set to be the world's leading producer - even though output is expected to fall 2% this year to 48.8 mhl.
But in France - the number two producer - it said production was likely to fall 12% after vineyards endured frost and hailstorms in the spring, then drought in the summer.
In South America, production was also hit by "climatic events".
As a result, Argentina is likely to report a 35% plunge in output, Chile a 21% fall and Brazil a 50% fall when compared with 2015.
South Africa, meanwhile, is on track to report a bruising 19% fall in production - but other New World producers are doing better.
The OIV said Australia was expected to see a 5% rise in production, New Zealand a 34% jump and the US - the world's fourth-largest producer of wine - growth of 2%.
The Scottish Moorland Group has responded to concerns raised earlier this month about the shooting of the animals in the Cairngorms.
The cull prompted the Cairngorms National Park Authority to call for restraint in the culling of hares.
Tim Baynes, director of the Scottish Moorland Group, said culls were lawful and only done when numbers were high.
He said the animals were taken to control the spread of sheep ticks to grouse and to prevent damage to young trees and rare plantlife such as juniper and sphagnum moss.
Mr Baynes said: "We wish to reassure people that when culls are taking place there is no question of the population being 'wiped out'.
"Responsible culling of a range of species, including hares, is recognised and supported by a wide range of conservation bodies.
"There has been an issue raised by some about the scale of culling and it should be made clear that no responsible organisation supports indiscriminate culling.
"Within moorland management voluntary restraint is exercised and hares are only culled when numbers are at a high enough level to require it. There is no point in culling hares, or indeed any desire to, if there could be any risk to their conservation status."
Also known as blue hares, Scotland has almost all of the British mountain hare population.
They are Britain's only native hare and may have been here since the Ice Age.
The brown hare, which can be seen on farmland across Scotland, was introduced to Britain possibly by the Romans or during the Iron Age.
Heather moorland managed for grouse shooting provides the best habitat for mountain hare, according to public agency Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).
However, SNH, the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust and Scottish Land and Estates - which is involved in the Scottish Moorland Group - have asked shooting estates to limit large-scale culls because of concerns about the species' conservation status.
An effort also started last year to provide clearer information on the health of hare populations.
Online there is a public petition seeking support for the mountain hare to be given protected species status. It has gathered more than 12,500 signatures so far.
The proposals for a former industrial site in the Cathays area include a social science research park and an entrepreneurship centre.
The other buildings would host research on semiconductor technology and turning academic work to practical uses.
Last month the university moved back into the top 125 of world universities.
The university said it aims to put innovation and entrepreneurship at the heart of its strategy to be an "engine for future prosperity, health and growth in Wales, the UK and the wider world".
The innovation centre would offer advice to local firms as well as business "spin-outs" from the university itself, while the semiconductor research institute would test the technology "in realistic environments", college officials added.
The social science research park would be the first in the world, the university said, and would provide an environment for "creating, sharing and applying new knowledge".
Practical "real-world applications" for society, healthcare, culture and the economy would be the focus of a research facility for academic research, according to the university's leaders.
"What we're going to do is come up with a new way of doing innovation," Prof Riordan told BBC Radio Wales.
"We want to orientate the university and all of its capacity towards innovation in a way that I don't think has been done before."
The university, which has 28,000 students, is a member of the Russell Group of UK universities.
The Scots finished the penultimate day of their four-day match on 52-3 with seven second-innings wickets remaining.
Kyle Coetzer, Hamish Gardiner and Matt Machan all failed to breach 10 runs but Preston Mommsen and Richie Berrington are undefeated on 18 and 16 not out.
Michael Rippon top-scored for the Dutch in their second innings with 37 as they were bowled out for 123.
The Netherlands posted 210 in their first innings and bowled out their opponents for 133 to lead the contest by 77 runs.
Scotland battled back and Josh Davey took three wickets - including Ben Cooper and Roelof van der Merwe without scoring - while Safyaan Sharif (2-8) and Richie Berrington (2-7) also impressed.
But the Scots struggled to build on their lifeline as they chased their victory target of 201.
Coetzer only managed eight runs before being caught out by Van der Merwe, who soon trapped Gardiner lbw for seven. Machan fared even worse, scoring just three before Wesley Barresi caught him out to leave Scotland 18-3.
But Mommsen and Berrington gave Grant Bradburn's side some hope going into the final day on Friday.
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The Japanese company needs to raise funds after revealing a heavy one-off loss at its US nuclear power business.
Toshiba will unveil the size of the writedown next month, but some estimate it could be around $6bn (£5bn).
It is widely reported that 20% of the chip business will be sold off, and the firm is expected to confirm this later.
Toshiba's chip business is the second biggest in the world after Samsung's, and has been valued at between $9bn and $13bn.
The firm says it hopes to have struck a deal by the end of March.
Reports suggest Canon, Western Digital and the Development Bank of Japan could be potential buyers, though analysts expect Toshiba may be forced to accept a cut-price offer given its financial woes are well-publicised.
Toshiba: What's going wrong?
Shares in Toshiba have fallen more than 45% since late December, when it revealed the problems in its nuclear arm, linked to a deal done by US subsidiary, Westinghouse Electric.
Westinghouse bought a nuclear construction and services business from Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I) in 2015. But assets that it took on are likely to be worth less than initially thought, and there is also a dispute about payments that are due.
Toshiba has also reported "inefficiencies" in the labour force at CB&I, along with other factors driving up costs.
The damage to its finances threatens to undo efforts to recover from 2015 revelations that profits had been overstated for seven years. The accounting scandal led to the resignation of the company's chief executive.
Since then, Toshiba has been trying to slim down the business, including selling its profitable medical devices operation to Canon in 2016.
The women's game beat the men onto the global crease, with their inaugural World Cup in 1973 coming two years before the first male event.
Not only was batswoman Lynne, now 77, part of that wider trailblazing moment for sport, she played her part on the pitch too, scoring 263 runs in four innings, and making the first World Cup century.
What makes her and the England team's victory the more remarkable is that they played and promoted the women's game in the 1960s and 1970s for no financial reward, in fact their love of cricket left them regularly out of pocket.
By way of contrast, when England take to the field in Sunday's sell-out 2017 final at Lords they will be playing for a cool $660,000 (£512,000). Even the losing team will collect $330,000. It is all part of an ICC pot of $2m prize money this year.
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"It is great for the girls that they can now make a career out of cricket if that is what they chose to do in life," says Lynne, who combined playing cricket for England with playing international hockey for Wales, and holding down a full-time job as a PE teacher.
"I am pleased for them. When I was playing I never imagined that one day it would be something that could provide a living."
The inaugural Women's World Cup was the result of the vision of the late Rachael Heyhoe Flint and a £40,000 backing from businessman Sir Jack Hayward, both from Wolverhampton (the latter went on to own football club Wolves).
Organised as a round robin event, England - whose team included nine teachers - beat Australia in the final deciding match on 28 July 1973.
"We didn't get given any medals for winning the World Cup, although we were introduced to Princess Anne," recalls Lynne of that historic day at Edgbaston.
"We drove ourselves to all of the England games in the tournament, and after the game against Australia I had to be back at work in south Wales on the Monday."
It was the same story throughout her cricketing career - playing solely for the glory of winning, and for meagre playing expenses, interspersed with bouts of fundraising to keep the women's cricket show on the road.
"I can tell you exactly about our finances - we paid for everything," she recalls of an international career that saw her play 10 Tests, and 12 one day internationals for England over a 13-year period.
"We paid for our playing kit, our playing equipment, and most of the cost of our tours."
To raise money towards the cost of those overseas tours. cricketing legend Rachael Heyhoe Flint organised fund raising across England, and beyond.
And that meant a lot of travelling for Lynne, the sole Welsh player in the England team.
"Those games covered the whole of England," she says. "We also played a fund raising game in Edinburgh one time. We played there on the Sunday, and drove back on the Sunday night.
"We worked, most of us had jobs, and had to be back at work on the Monday. It was pure dedication."
The Women's Cricket Association - all volunteers - who ran Women's Cricket at the time, also paid a small amount towards the cost of overseas tours.
Lynne went on a four-and-a-half month tour of New Zealand and Australia in 1968-69, and fortunately her understanding employers Neath Girls Grammar School gave her the time off with pay.
She also went on tour to the West Indies in 1971, when Sir Jack Hayward stepped in to fund the fares of the travelling party.
"When we were away on tour we only stayed in hotels when we played Test matches, when we played friendly matches we were put up to stay with local families," recalls Lynne.
Lynne got interested in cricket through father Raymond, a keen village cricketer and member of Dafen cricket club in Llanelli.
"From the age of six I used to watch him play every weekend. When I got to eight or nine I got my own cricket bat from Woolworths and would play with a tennis ball.
"There was no girls' cricket when I was growing up, I played in a boys team at Christchurch church in Llanelli."
She went on to play for Cardiff, Sussex Women, Glamorgan Women and West Counties Women.
"For the first couple of my playing years I didn't have a car, and friends would have to drive me around," says Lynne, a full MCC member.
"Then I managed to buy a little Singer Chamois car. I would drive thousands of miles each year playing cricket and hockey."
Lynne Thomas on cricket pioneer Rachael Heyhoe Flint
"She was wonderful person and a tremendous captain. She had a very good rapport with people from all levels of society.
"She was a good leader, and we would have done anything for her. She was one of the girls - on and off the field.
"She fought for women's sport, truthfully and in an honest way. She started it all off, if it wasn't for her the present day women would not enjoy a cricket career, and we wouldn't have had the World Cup in England this year."
Lynne, who with her team-mates were belatedly awarded winners' medals this summer, will be at Lord's on Sunday for the culmination of a tournament which she says "will have helped spread the game around the world".
During the 1973 event she and Enid Bakewell put on 246 - an English opening partnership record that stood until Sarah Taylor and Caroline Atkins made 268 at Lord's against South Africa in 2008.
"I was at Lord's when our record was broken, and we were interviewed in the pavilion for three-quarters of an hour by the media," she says. "But when we broke the record in 1973 nobody knew we had done it, not even ourselves.
"It was only decades later that my niece read about it in the Guinness Book of Firsts. We just played for the love of if, and did not worry about records."
She adds: "It was the same all through my career - in fact we paid out for the pleasure of playing, it was all about money going out, not coming in."
The 24-year-old, of Kazakhstan, lifted a combined score of 418kg and broke the total world record as well as the clean and jerk world record with 233kg.
Russian Alexandr Ivanov took silver and Anatoli Ciricu of Moldova won bronze.
Briton Peter Kirkbride finished 16th overall after coming seventh in Group B, despite tearing a bicep.
Ilyin repeated his success of 2008 Beijing 2008 to win Kazakhstan's fourth lifting gold of the Games.
Twenty-four-year-old Kirkbride managed an opening snatch of 138kg before suffering the injury trying to lift 142kg at ExCeL.
He then dropped his third and final attempt before lifting a personal best 190kg in the clean and jerk to secure his best total of 328kg.
"It was a great performance, a new PB this year, so I'm happy," Kirkbride said.
"I was just enjoying being in the Olympics. As soon as I got that first clean and jerk in, that was all that mattered to me. Get a total in and be an Olympian."
Hester rode the 15-year-old stallion at the 2012 Olympics in London as Great Britain won gold in the team event.
Uthopia was bought at auction in May after the row, but has since been purchased on Hester's behalf by an anonymous supporter after negotiations.
"It's been a stressful time but I must thank the parties concerned in getting to this outcome," he said.
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"Those involved wish to remain anonymous, and I hope that everyone can respect that, but they have my extreme gratitude.
"I must also thank all the supporters of British dressage for their good wishes and encouragement - it's meant a lot to me and my team."
Team GB's dressage squad for August's Games in Rio has not yet been confirmed, but Hester is one of 12 riders to be nominated for a place by the British Equestrian Federation.
The firm said the search had begun for a replacement and Mr Philips would stay until the year-end results in March.
Andrew Higginson, the chairman-elect, said: "We need to return the business to growth. The board believes this is best done under new leadership."
Separately, Morrisons said like-for-like sales excluding fuel in the six weeks to 4 January fell 3.1%.
The supermarket also said it would be closing 10 loss-making stores during 2015.
Shares in Morrisons jumped at the start of trading and closed 4.5% higher on the day.
Mr Philips was under pressure for Morrisons' poor trading performance, in particular for delays in moving into the convenience store sector and setting up an online operation.
Last September, chairman Sir Ian Gibson acknowledged that trading conditions were tough and that the whole industry was experiencing "unprecedented change".
Morrisons is being squeezed between the higher end of the market and the discount supermarkets chains.
This squeeze was underlined on Tuesday with latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel. The data showed that Waitrose, Aldi and Lidl increased market share in the 12 weeks to 4 January, while Morrisons, Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's all lost ground.
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The surprise demise of Dalton Philips as chief executive of Morrisons is further evidence that supermarket boards have had enough of "steady as she goes".
The supermarket chain's figures this morning actually show some progress in arresting sales decline but that no longer appears enough for retailers watching nervously as discounters eat into their profit margins.
Mr Philips has been the first victim of what might be called the "Dave Lewis effect".
The new chief executive of Tesco showed that with some simple, customer focused changes sales numbers can be boosted. Tesco surprised the market last week when it announced better Christmas figures than expected. If fuel is included, like-for-like sales actually turned positive.
Against that, Morrisons' figures look less than rosy.
New brooms are now in vogue. Andrew Higginson, the new chairman of Morrisons and former finance director of Tesco, clearly wants someone at the top who isn't weighed down with any historic baggage.
Mr Philips said in a statement that he had been "proud" to work at the company. "Over the last five years, we have made many improvements to the business and given Morrisons strong foundations for the future."
Mr Philips will remain at the company until Morrisons reports its annual profits figures in March. The executive said in a conference call with journalists. "I don't have another job to go to. My wife has given me a long list of chores to do."
Morrisons also said Mr Higginson, a former Tesco finance director, would succeed Mr Gibson as chairman on 22 January.
The Bradford-based company's Christmas trading figures were slightly better than analysts' forecasts, which had been predicting a fall of about 3.8%.
However, the numbers still compare unfavourably with Morrisons' bigger rivals.
Last week, Sainsbury's warned that the outlook for 2015 would "remain challenging". The comments came after the supermarket reported a 1.7% drop in like-for-like sales over the Christmas trading period.
And Tesco said its sales over the holiday period were down just 0.3%.
The competitive challenge facing the big four supermarkets was reinforced in the Kantar data.
Among the big chains, Sainsbury's market share held up best, falling 0.7% to 16.9%. Tesco fell 1.2% to 29.1%, while Asda's market share was down 1.6% to 16.8%. Morrisons' was also down 1.6%, to 11.3%.
Aldi and Lidl have grown by 22.6% and 15.1% to finish the year with market shares of 4.8% and 3.5% respectively. More than half of all British households visited at least one of the two retailers over the past 12 weeks.
Waitrose also maintained its strong run as sales rose 6.6% to take its market share to 5.1%.
Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar Worldpanel, said: "Shoppers chose to buy a little bit more this Christmas compared with last year, a trend which has pushed sales growth up to 0.6%.
"This is low in historical terms, but a rally for the supermarkets compared with recent months."
The Met Office has issued an amber alert for rain in parts of central and southern Scotland, Tayside and Fife.
It has warned that up to 200mm (7.8inches) of rain could fall on high ground, over a 30-hour period.
Dumfries and Galloway Council said it was preparing for flooding similar to that which was experienced in 2009.
A spokesoman said the Whitesands car park in Dumfries would be closed from midnight on Friday.
She added that the River Nith, which runs through the town, is expected to burst its banks at about lunchtime on Saturday.
The Met Office warned that, across Scotland, transport could be disrupted and flooding is likely as the ground is saturated and river levels are high.
Their amber warning will come into force at 02:00 on Saturday and it will run until 06:00 on Sunday.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) on Friday evening issued 35 flood warnings and 15 flood alerts across Scotland.
It said communities in Tayside, central, west central Scotland, Ayrshire and Arran, Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders may be affected by flooding during Saturday.
Marc Becker, Sepa's hydrology duty manager, said: "Rainfall will be heaviest over central and southern areas of Scotland during Friday evening and throughout Saturday which will cause river levels to rise.
"River levels in the Tay, Clyde and Tweed catchments are already high and are expected to rise considerably in the next 24 hours.
"Over the coming days we will continue to monitor levels and update the public on our latest forecasts via social media and Floodline.
"We would encourage members of the public to remain vigilant and be mindful of the conditions in their locality and when travelling."
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Find updates about travel disruption on the Traffic Scotland website.
Ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne has cancelled most of its Friday sailings and the rest have been disrupted. Friday sailings of Highland Council's Corran Ferry have also been affected.
Storm Desmond is the fourth storm to be named by The Met Office this winter, after storms Abigail, Barney and Clodagh.
In its latest warning, the Met Office said: "Be prepared for the likelihood of flooding affecting properties and parts of communities.
"Watercourses may become dangerous, deep and fast-flowing, while some transport disruption seems likely."
The chief forecaster said rainfall totals of between 60-100mm (2-4in) were likely quite widely.
Yellow warnings of wind and rain have also been issued for all of Scotland, except Orkney and Shetland.
The worst of the wind is expected on Saturday afternoon and evening, when gusts in the south-west are expected to reach 70mph.
The Met Office warning said: "Please be aware of the likelihood of travel disruption on roads and ferry routes.
"Winds may be strong enough to bring down trees and perhaps cause damage to buildings and other structures."
The weakening of the pound against the euro since the Brexit vote led to the change in the threshold.
The amount of compensation payable is set at €100,000 across the European Union, so significant currency moves can alter the level for UK savers.
The change means the protection returns to its pre-July 2015 level.
It covers money in current accounts, savings accounts, and cash ISAs.
Under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), up to £85,000 per person, per institution is now protected if a bank, building society or credit union goes bust. In other words, if the bank collapses, savers will get any money in these accounts up to £85,000 paid back in compensation.
Joint accounts have a protection level of £170,000.
Mark Neale, chief executive of the FSCS, said: "The limit increase will protect even more of peoples' savings. The new limit will protect about 98% of people so it is worth people knowing their limits."
The scheme has a protection checker for savers.
Some MPs have been critical of the way the limit has fluctuated and have called for a settled level to maintain public awareness.
At the start of the banking crisis in 2007 the maximum payout for depositors was just £31,700 per person, made up of 100% of the first £2,000 and then 90% of their next £33,000.
Brian Allen, 69, a City Cab driver, is seen having a row with the cyclist on Princes Street and then minutes later waiting for the rider on Regent Street.
The Justice of the Peace Court heard the incident happened on 28 August.
Allen pleaded guilty to careless driving and assault.
He was fined £360 and given nine penalty points for careless driving and admonished and dismissed for assault when he was sentenced on Thursday.
Now it is up to Edinburgh City Council to decide whether Allen should lose his taxi licence.
Les McVay, City Cabs company secretary, told BBC Scotland they were supporting Allen "on his past character" - saying he had held a clean licence for 52 years until now.
He said: "I would like to call on the cyclist to post the full unedited version of the footage. The full unedited version shows the cyclist kicking Brian's door and banging on his window. It is quite abusive at the beginning.
"We can all potentially do silly things in the heat of the moment and I don't know what possessed him but we are standing by him because of his character.
"He is very remorseful and knows it shouldn't have happened.
"I don't have the authority to sack him. He will now have to go to the council and they will decide what happens to his licence."
A City of Edinburgh Council spokeswoman said: "'The council was first made aware of the incident on Tuesday when the footage was brought to staff attention and we are now actively investigating."
Spurs, who are two points behind leaders Leicester with 11 games remaining, have not been top since the first week of the 2009-10 season.
But ex-Chelsea boss Ranieri, whose side host West Brom on Tuesday (19:45 GMT), believes the Londoners can end their 55-year wait for a top-flight title.
"Tottenham are strong in every situation," said the Italian.
Spurs could go top with a win at West Ham on Wednesday, should the Foxes slip up against West Brom.
Arsenal are three points adrift of their London rivals in third, with Manchester City another four points back in fourth, albeit with a game in hand.
Ranieri believes his side's exploits this season have allowed Tottenham to avoid the usual attention generated by a title challenge.
"Everyone is speaking about Leicester but nobody about Tottenham," he said.
"Tottenham, in my opinion, are favourites. When they defend and when they attack, they know what they want.
"We are the surprise, that is fantastic, a good energy, but if we are realistic the real competitors are Manchester City, Arsenal and Tottenham."
Ranieri may be reluctant to speak about his side's title hopes, but West Brom counterpart Tony Pulis is hoping the Foxes can hold off their rivals.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "The divide between the big clubs and everyone else is enormous. It would give everyone hope. You want to see the underdog do well.
"It would be a wonderful, wonderful achievement. I hope they see it through."
Pulis believes a Leicester triumph, a year after fighting relegation, would eclipse the achievements of Brian Clough with Nottingham Forest in 1978.
Clough took Forest to their first - and only - domestic league title a year after winning promotion to the top flight, later winning two European Cups.
"It'd be that big," said Pulis. "But it was different then. The divide then wasn't as great as the divide is now between those who've got it and those who haven't got it.
"The Premier League wasn't in place, so you'd most probably put this in front of that."
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Jalal Uddin was bludgeoned in the face in an attack in a Rochdale children's play area in February.
Mohammed Hussain Syeedy, 21, from the town, drove the man said to have killed the 71-year-old - Mohammed Kadir - to the park before the attack.
Manchester Crown Court heard he hated the imam's practices. He was jailed for life with a minimum term of 24 years.
High Court judge Sir David Maddison said Mr Uddin was a "gentle, well-respected man" who was "brutally" killed because he practised taweez faith healing.
He told Syeedy: "You and your co-offender saw the practice as a form of black magic that could not be tolerated within Islam.
"You stalked him" and "the intention was to cause extreme, grave and permanently disabling harm", the judge added.
Murder of an imam - the interpretation of 'magic'
Syeedy shook his head several times when the jury returned its verdict after four hours of deliberations. His alleged accomplice Mr Kadir, of Chamber Road, Oldham, has left the UK and is thought to be in Syria.
The court heard Syeedy and Mr Kadir were consumed by hatred of Mr Uddin because he practised a form of Islamic healing in Rochdale's Bangladeshi community which the so-called Islamic State (IS) considers "black magic".
Everyone I spoke to in Rochdale says Jalal Uddin was a kind man who lived a simple life, providing religious education to the young and spiritual support to the sick, elderly and grieving.
But for Syeedy and his partner, who's now probably in Syria, the imam wasn't Muslim enough.
Why? Because they adhered to a violent with-us-or-against-us ideology whose followers, be they so-called Islamic State, al-Qaeda or another jihadist outfit, believe they have the right to be the judge, jury and execution of others.
If you don't agree with them, you've abandoned the faith. And if you've abandoned the faith, the penalty is death.
This may read like a horrible isolated crime, but it's not. In fact it's the second murder in a year of a Muslim by another Muslim for purely sectarian reasons.
Glasgow shopkeeper Assad Shah was killed in different circumstances - but his killer's motivation was the same.
The imam killed because he wasn't 'Muslim enough'
Spiritual healer Mr Uddin was targeted after it was discovered he was providing taweez, in which he made amulets to bring good fortune to the wearer.
Some consider the practice of taweez as positive but IS, which Syeedy and Mr Kadir were said in court to support, regards all "magic" as forbidden and believes those who practise it should be punished, often by death.
Former Manchester United steward Syeedy was involved in surveillance of the spiritual healer and, along with Mr Kadir, followed him after he left the Jalalia Mosque to go to a friend's house for an evening meal on 18 February.
The court heard he did not agree with taweez and planned get Mr Uddin deported - he had overstayed illegally after moving to the UK to work as an imam in 2002.
When that failed, the pair wanted to expose Mr Uddin's practices and Mr Kadir entered the park in a bid to dupe him into giving a taweez, which could then be presented to the mosque committee.
The court heard Syeedy was a "knowing participant" in the murder and his claim he had no idea what Mr Kadir planned and then carried out was "absurd".
Mr Uddin was dealt at least five blows when he was bludgeoned in the face with what is believed to have been a hammer in the park. He later died in hospital.
The ferocity of the attack meant his skull was driven down into his brain and his dentures were broken.
The jury heard that Syeedy may have provided the murder weapon, which has not been found.
When police searched the former engineering student's home after his arrest, officers found a "large volume" of IS-related material on his phone and other devices which showed he had been radicalised, the jury was told.
Giving evidence, the Rochdale-born Muslim said he was not a follower of IS and was "disgusted" about the death of Mr Uddin.
Det Ch Supt Tony Mole said: "Although Mohammed Syeedy may not have delivered the fatal blow to Mr Uddin, it is clear that he played an integral role in the murder."
In a tribute, Mr Uddin's family said it was an "incredibly cruel and callous attack" on an "innocent elderly man" by "deplorable and cowardly" killers.
"Although Jalal was a Muslim who peacefully practised his faith, he had a love and respect for all religions, cultures and creeds, and the fact that he was murdered by someone inspired by Isil [IS] shows the true nature and barbarity of this organisation and those who serve it.
"Weeks prior to his murder, Jalal had intended to return to Bangladesh and be reunited with his wife, children and grandchildren.
"We take comfort from the fact that the evidence acknowledges that Jalal was a greatly respected man, a caring and loving soul... Jalal was the greatest man in our lives; his smile will never be replaced."
Bob Weise and Steve Shapiro, both 71, left Norway in July and have had to call rescue teams in Norway, Denmark, Scotland, Ireland and Cornwall.
They were most recently assisted on Tuesday when their vessel was towed into St Ives harbour, Cornwall.
The pair said the rescues had nothing to do with "seamanship".
Some fishermen have doubted their competence and experience but the two men said they have just had bad luck.
Mr Shapiro, a screenwriter and author, said he had been sailing since he was nine years old.
He added the boat was "very safe and sturdy".
Fisherman Grant Lorris, from St Ives, said the ordeal had annoyed him as anyone could buy a boat and "not have a clue what they're doing".
Mr Weise, an ex-US Army helicopter pilot, said: "We're fit, and when we come ashore people say 'can we help you?' like we're infirm, but I can understand their concern."
Their boat, Nora, is being repaired in St Ives after suffering from a broken propeller shaft and battery problems.
A spokeswoman from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said: "The UK Coastguard has responded on two occasions over the last three days to assist the crew of the Nora.
"The crew and their vessel were brought to a place of safety near St Ives.
"However, it is the responsibility of the crew to undertake the necessary repairs to safely prepare them for the next stage of their journey."
The pair, both from North America, said when their boat was repaired they planned to continue their voyage.
Answering a question about integration Dr Ann Myatt said: "We've not yet shot anybody so that's wonderful."
Mrs Cox was fatally shot and stabbed in Birstall, West Yorkshire, by Thomas Mair in June 2016.
Dr Myatt said her comments were "ill-judged". Brendan Cox called the remark a "stupid thing to say".
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In a video of the hustings posted online by the Indian Muslim Welfare Society, which hosted the event, the six candidates contesting the Batley and Spen seat were asked: "How can you foster or encourage integration and what would you do to tackle Islamophobia?"
Dr Myatt said: "This sort of evening is absolutely first-rate because we have here people of all faiths, we have here people from different parts of the community and we've not yet shot anybody so that's wonderful."
Her comments were met with groans from the audience, while Labour candidate and friend of Mrs Cox Tracy Brabin was visibly shocked.
At the end of the event a member of the public can be heard saying: "Do you take the comment back?" to which Dr Myatt replied: "I apologise unreservedly for a stupid comment. I'm really sorry."
Mrs Cox's widower Brendan Cox said on Twitter: "This was clearly a stupid thing to say but I hope we can all assume the best and put it down to a slip of the tongue rather than any malice."
Labour Party member David Keeton, who was at the event, said: "My initial reaction at what she said was shock, then utter abhorrence that someone could say such a thing under any circumstances, let alone here less than a year after our wonderful MP Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right terrorist."
Other candidates at the hustings said there was shock among the audience after the comment.
Alan Freeman, who is standing for the Green Party, said he was "pretty taken aback" and said the "atmosphere of the event turned far darker than it had previously been".
He said that though Dr Myatt had apologised at the event "the damage had already been done".
Liberal Democrat candidate John Lawson added: "It's very a unfortunate choice of words. There were people in the room who knew Jo personally."
Dr Myatt, a consultant dermatologist in the NHS, later released a statement saying she "wholeheartedly" apologised for her "ill-judged remarks and for any offence they caused".
"I said sorry at the time and would like to apologise again for my comments, which were out of character and came at the end of a tiring day," she added.
The Museum of Orange Heritage will allow visitors to learn more about the roots and history of Orangeism in Ireland and around the world.
The museum was part-funded by £3.6m of EU peace-fund money.
Dr David Hume of the Orange Order said he wanted to give people a "better, more informed view of who we are".
"We, in turn, will have a better, more informed view of their opinions," he added.
Charles Thomas Hall, an Orangeman from Connecticut in the United States, was the first visitor to the new museum.
Visitors will be able to learn about Orange symbols and regalia, play instruments, and listen to different types of band music.
A collarette belonging to former Manchester United and Northern Ireland footballer George Best when he was in the junior Royal Black Institution is on display.
A roll of honour of famous members of the Orange details the history of people, like Dr Thomas Barnardo, whose philanthropic work led to the foundation of children's charity Barnardos.
Dr Hume said the museum aims to promote reconciliation through education, and there was a desire to "challenge people in terms of their perceptions of Orangeism".
"We want anybody who wants to come in here," he said.
"We have a very strong engagement with the maintained school sector, we definitely want children from that sector to be here and to learn about our traditions.
"We also want pupils from the state sector to be here because we feel there's a deficit there in terms of their understanding and knowledge."
Christopher Halliwell, 52, denies killing Becky Godden between 1 January 2003 and 3 April 2008.
Miss Godden was last seen alive getting into a taxi outside a club in Swindon. Later he told his GP a passenger assaulted him, the court was told.
He is already serving a life sentence for murdering Sian O'Callaghan in 2011.
Miss O'Callaghan went missing after a night out with friends in Swindon.
Her semi-naked body was discovered in undergrowth in Uffington, Oxfordshire, while the remains of Miss Godden were found in Eastleach, Gloucestershire in 2011.
In a written statement, his GP Dr Philip Mayes, told Bristol Crown Court Halliwell came into his surgery complaining of a sore hand.
He claimed he had been assaulted by a man for refusing to pick him up on the street because he was a private hire driver and that a fight had ensued.
"I... noted that Mr Halliwell had scratches to his face... consistent with a fight.
"I can remember that Mr Halliwell was emotionally distressed and upset while telling me about what had happened to him," Dr Mayes said.
Mr Halliwell, who is representing himself, also told the detective who bought him to justice, former Det Supt Steve Fulcher, "it was a pleasure ruining your career".
After asking Mr Fulcher a few questions clarifying points the officer had made in statements relating to his leading of the investigation into the disappearance and murder of Sian O'Callaghan, Mr Halliwall indicated he had one more question to ask.
He told Mr Fulcher: "Oh and by the way, it was a pleasure ruining your career."
The case continues.
The Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of only three acute trusts in England to receive the highest rating over the past year.
It runs St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, Worthing Hospital and Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea.
Chief executive Marianne Griffiths said it was an "acknowledgement of the exceptional service" provided by staff.
CQC inspectors praised the trust for its "outstanding care and treatment to the community it served".
They said "many examples of very good practice across all areas" had been seen during four inspections in December.
Key findings included "an embedded culture" of learning from incidents, an improvement in infection control ratings for the sixth successive year, a clear and consistent focus on safety, and demonstrably delivering care based on the needs of patients.
Areas where improvements were needed included a review in the levels of medical and nursing staff on each shift in critical care and the grading of referrals within acceptable timescales.
Inspectors rated St Richard's Hospital and Worthing Hospital "outstanding" while the smaller Southland Hospital was rated as "good overall".
Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards, said the trust aspired "to be one of the best patient-centred services in the National Health Service, with a trust-wide mantra of patients first".
"Staff and patients who we met during this inspection spoke positively about the patient journey and the striving for continual improvement.
"We found a clear focus on quality improvement, innovation and safety, starting even before patients are admitted," he said.
The award-winning director has been wanted in the US for decades after admitting to sex with a minor.
Mr Polanski, now 83, fled ahead of his sentencing for statutory rape in 1978.
The Cesars have defended their choice, praising the director as an "insatiable aesthete".
His role in the 2017 awards has outraged women right's groups, who have called for a boycott of next month's televised ceremony.
The minister, Laurence Rossignol, told France Culture radio she found it "surprising and shocking that a rape case counts for little in the life of a man".
However, a statement from the French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques, which runs the Cesars, praised the director.
"Artist, filmmaker, producer, writer, actor, director, there are many words to define Roman Polanski but only one to express our admiration and enchantment: thank you, Mr President," said the organisation's head, Alain Terzian, according to French newspaper Le Monde.
Mr Polanski, best known for the films Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby and The Pianist, has French and Polish citizenship.
In December, Poland's Supreme Court rejected a request by the nation's justice minister to have Mr Polanski extradited to the US to face the charges.
His victim, Samantha Geimer, described the ordeal of giving testimony against Polanski, in an interview for the BBC's Hardtalk programme in 2013.
The 42nd Cesars ceremony will take place in Paris on 24 February.
An online petition calling for him to be removed from the jury role had gathered just under 50,000 signatures on Friday.
"It is an insult to women and the suffering they can endure, an insult to victims of rape," it read.
The company cited Brexit as one reason for a "marginal slowdown" in its corporate and commercial property practices during the middle of 2016.
Turnover for the 12 months to 31 August was down by 3%, at £21m.
However, the firm said it had been boosted in 2017 by a series of clients wins.
They include the Scottish government, Glasgow City Council, National Galleries Scotland, Prestwick Airport, Avis and Glasgow Chamber of Commerce.
Managing partner Murray McCall said: "We are pleased to have weathered some of the political uncertainty last year and produced a very steady set of numbers in the circumstances.
"2016 was an important year for Anderson Strathern, with significant investment in our people, mergers and lateral hires, technology and a major rebranding exercise.
"At our half-year point, we're up on the previous year so we're encouraged to see the growth coming through."
Anderson Strathern has 51 partners and more than 240 employees across Edinburgh, Glasgow and East Lothian.
The 23-year-old died in hospital on Thursday after contracting meningitis.
He had been taken to Antrim Area Hospital the previous week, two days after playing a challenge game for his club.
The funeral of Mr Devlin took place at St Patrick's Church, Ballinderry, on Sunday.
GAA president Aogan O Fearghail said the player "represented both his native county Derry and his home club Ballinderry with distinction and was highly regarded across his native county and further afield".
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) has sent the case of Wendy Graham to the court after obtaining fresh evidence.
The commission said the evidence suggested her responsibility may have been diminished.
Graham was convicted of killing Mark Thomson in Edinburgh in December 2008.
Jurors at her trial heard that the 50-year-old had repeatedly stabbed Mr Thomson, leaving him bleeding to death from 10 wounds at his flat in the Inch area of the city in June 2008.
She told a friend in a text message: "I hate him. I have got to get him out of my life for once and for all."
Graham, who was then 42, has always admitted responsibility for the killing.
In a statement, the SCCRC said: "It appeared to the commission that her conviction for murder, rather than culpable homicide, may have been a miscarriage of justice."
The case will now be referred to the High Court of Justiciary for appeal.
Writing in the Postgraduate Medical Journal (PMJ), the doctors said a Mediterranean diet quickly reduced the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
And they said it may be better than low-fat diets for sustained weight loss.
Official NHS advice is to monitor calorie intake to maintain a healthy weight.
Last month NHS leaders stressed the need for urgent action to tackle obesity and the health problems that often go with it.
The PMJ editorial argues a focus on food intake is the best approach, but it warns crash dieting is harmful.
Signatories of the piece included the chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Prof Terence Stephenson, and Dr Mahiben Maruthappu, who has a senior role at NHS England.
They criticise the weight-loss industry for focusing on calorie restriction rather than "good nutrition".
And they make the case for a Mediterranean diet, including fruit and vegetables, nuts and olive oil, citing research suggesting it quickly reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes, and may be better than low-fat diets for sustained weight loss.
The lead author, cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, says the scientific evidence is overwhelming.
"What's more responsible is that we tell people to concentrate on eating nutritious foods.
Inspired by traditional cuisine of countries such as Greece, Spain and Italy, the Mediterranean diet has long been associated with good health and fit hearts.
Typically, it consists of an abundance of vegetables, fresh fruit, wholegrain cereals, olive oil and nuts, as well as poultry and fish, rather than lots of red meat and butter or animal fats.
"It's going to have an impact on their health very quickly. We know the traditional Mediterranean diet, which is higher in fat, proven from randomised controlled trials, reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke even within months of implementation."
The article also says adopting a Mediterranean diet after a heart attack is almost three times as effective at reducing deaths as taking cholesterol-lowering statin medication.
The authors argue the NHS is in a "key position" to set a national example by providing healthy food in hospitals and by ensuring doctors and nurses understand the evidence.
Prof Stephenson says the service can exert a powerful influence, for good or ill.
"Our hospitals and surgeries are the frontline for delivering health, it's nothing more than common sense then that we should be leading by example.
"We wouldn't dream of letting people drink alcohol or smoke in any healthcare environment, so I find it incomprehensible that we facilitate and sometimes actively promote food and drink that in some ways cause as many problems. And although some positive steps have been taken on the food given to patients in hospital, their visitors and staff also deserve better."
Public Health England is reviewing the dietary advice conveyed in the "eatwell plate" - which is used across the UK for guidance on what food to eat. Its recommendations include calorie-counted recipes to help achieve a healthy weight.
Dr Alison Tedstone, the chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said there was no single silver-bullet solution.
"Government advice is to eat plenty of bread, rice, potatoes, pasta and other starchy foods, plenty of fruit and vegetables; and some milk and dairy products, meat, fish, eggs, beans and other sources of non-dairy protein.
"Foods high in salt, fat and sugar should be eaten less often and in small amounts. If you are currently overweight you will need to eat less to achieve a healthy weight and be active as part of a healthy lifestyle."
The chairman of the National Obesity Forum, professor David Haslam, welcomed the article.
"A calorie is not just a calorie and it is naive for anyone to think the complex hormonal and neurological appetite systems of the body respond to different substances in the diet in identical fashion."
He said banning fast food outlets in hospitals would be a "legal minefield" given the extended contracts in existence. But he said healthy nutrition programmes could be put in place - as has happened in other big organisations - to counter what he called their "sinister effect".
The 23-year-old's new deal means he is now under contract with the Championship club until 2019.
Bonham has played seven times for the Bees, making his Championship debut against Barnsley in April.
Brentford boss Dean Smith said Bonham "needs to play matches" to fulfil his "great potential".
The 28-year-old defender had a medical with the Baggies on Friday but no agreement has been reached over his personal terms.
There is a chance the deal could be resurrected as a loan move but manager Tony Pulis is looking at other options.
Meanwhile, Pulis says he might have to offer Spurs target Saido Berahino, 22, some protection from the ongoing transfer speculation.
The Baggies turned down a bid for Berahino from Tottenham on Tuesday.
"I told him not to get wrapped up in all the hype," said Pulis. "He's a young lad and he might need some protection."
Berahino is yet to score this season after managing 20 goals last term.
And Pulis accepts West Brom would not be able to hold off Tottenham forever should the offers continue to rise.
"I'm sure Tottenham wanted to keep Gareth Bale and Manchester United wanted to keep Cristiano Ronaldo," said Pulis.
He is expected to face Chelsea at The Hawthorns on Sunday.
"God has given him a great gift and he can't waste it. Lots of people have done that in the past. I just hope he's not one of them."
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Fisherman John McKinnon spotted the whale from the shore at Elgol in Skye at the weekend and alerted British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR).
After raising the alarm, Mr McKinnon and one of his nephews went out in a boat to check on the animal.
The pair were able to cut the whale free. BDMLR identified it as one they had tried to rescue just weeks earlier.
BDMLR thought the whale had drowned after losing track of it due to bad weather.
After the fishermen cut the fishing gear from the whale's tail, the animal swam off before returning to the boat for a few moments before swimming away.
The Wales flanker sustained the problem during the Lions' 16-15 second-Test defeat in Melbourne at the weekend.
"It is incredibly disappointing to be ruled out of the tour through injury," the 24-year-old said.
If selected, Brian O'Driscoll is likely to captain the side in what would be his ninth and final Lions Test.
Either Ireland's Sean O'Brien or fellow Welshman Justin Tipuric is likely to replace Warburton in the starting XV.
Despite the strength in depth they have at open-side, it is a major blow to the Lions' chance of a first series win in 16 years.
With lock Paul O'Connell already ruled out, the Lions have lost a second leader in their pack.
Warburton, who will remain with the squad for the rest of the tour, played a key role in the Lions gaining ascendancy at the breakdown in Saturday's second Test defeat in Melbourne.
Head coach Warren Gatland acknowledged the impact of his captain's departure 13 minutes from time, leaving him without a specialist open-side with O'Brien already on at number eight.
"I wish the team all the best and hope I can play some part in the build-up this week. I am confident the boys can finish the job off and secure the series win," said Warburton, who also missed the first two matches with a knee injury.
Gatland will now need to consider the balance of his back row for the finale, among a host of other selection decisions.
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The combination of Dan Lydiate and Warburton worked well in Melbourne and Tipuric would be the most direct replacement as the other specialist open-side in the squad.
But O'Brien, more of a ball-carrier than a breakdown forager in the Warburton mould, also offers a potent option.
Gatland is also weighing up potential changes at loose-head prop, where Alex Corbisiero is likely to return after a calf strain, at scrum-half with Mike Phillips fit again, and at centre, where Jamie Roberts - if he proves his recovery from a hamstring injury - and Manu Tuilagi offer alternative options.
The positions of hooker, lock and number eight could also come under scrutiny as Gatland and his coaches contemplate the side they will send out with the task of winning a first Lions series since 1997.
O'Driscoll, 34, has led the Lions on seven previous occasions, but only once before in a Test - the infamous opener in New Zealand in 2005 when his involvement controversially ended inside the first minute after a double spear tackle.
Schweigen is a German word describing the specific quiet you get when people do not speak.
And schweigen is what Mrs Merkel now hopes for from fellow EU leaders and her own cabinet members, to give some semblance of EU unity and calm.
At a closed gathering of Europe's centre-right parties in Brussels last week for example, she appealed to, or rather instructed, politicians to hold their counsel on Brexit until after the summer.
Crisis or no crisis, you can count on European politicians to unfailingly take their cherished August holiday.
This year, Mrs Merkel hopes it will serve as a cooling-off period for the resentful, fizzing with outrage at "ungrateful UK" (like Spain); the vengeful, itching to make life miserable for a post-Brexit Britain (like France); the panicked, worrying about the imminent demise of the rest of the EU (such as Italy); and the media divas/politicians without real influence (such as the president of the European Parliament or the foreign ministers of various countries including Germany) who hog the headlines, making unhelpful waves.
But, canny politician that she is, Angela Merkel cannot imagine that after a splash or two in the Mediterranean, Europe will be much more coherent in its attitude towards Brexit.
She knows it will not be.
But the August time-out gives her space to plan.
September will tell her which UK prime minister she will have to deal with in Brexit negotiations, for example.
And it is policy, attitude and experience that will likely temper her attitude rather than the sex of the UK's next premier, as has been suggested by some (male) commentators.
The summer break will also give Mrs Merkel time to try to get her own house in order.
Next year is election year in Germany and parties are already in campaign mode.
Angela Merkel heads the centre-right CDU party. Both the Social Democrat vice-chancellor and her sister conservative CSU party in Bavaria have already tried to use the Brexit vote to damage her.
The Social Democrats blame Mrs Merkel's austerity programme for souring public opinion against the EU.
The CSU insists Germany must not pay a euro more to plug the gaping hole that will be left in the EU budget by Britain's departure.
But what is bothering Angela Merkel most of all are recent public opinion polls..
German voters are traditionally seen as some of the EU's most enthusiastic supporters but according to news channel N24, 62% of Germans now want decision-making powers transferred from Brussels back to Berlin.
Mrs Merkel, who grew up in the communist East, under the shadow of Germany's World War Two history, is a passionate supporter of European unity.
But ever the pragmatist, she is keenly aware the people of Europe demand change.
For now she seems happy to allow the man sometimes referred to as her "attack dog" - remember the Greek euro crisis a year ago? - to make EU reformist noises.
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble gave a round of interviews this Sunday, saying time was of the essence and demanding that EU capitals take back powers from the European Commission so as to be more effective in times of crisis.
In fact, rather quietly, Angela Merkel and fellow EU leaders had already whipped the carpet from under the Commission's feet last week, hastily appointing their own chief negotiator for Brexit talks.
The Commission had assumed it alone would play the starring European role in the drama.
And this is just the beginning.
A high-level EU source of mine predicts almighty clashes ahead with the European Commission post-Brexit on the back of the lessons Europe's leaders are gleaning from the vote.
"They [the European Commission] are the real fat cats, the out-of-touch bureaucrats Leave campaigners in the UK complained about, but they are not the EU," he told me.
"We, leaders and willing European parliamentarians, now have to wrest back EU control from the civil servants."
One final reason Angela Merkel hopes for voices in Europe to be silent over the summer is to allow the chaotic proportions of Britain's post-referendum political and economic firework display to make their full impact across the European side of the Channel.
She hopes it will serve as a warning to the continent's multitude of Eurosceptics to call for EU change by all means but to beware of EU departure for fear that THAT could happen to THEM too.
First, let's look at the vote across the UK. The pollsters got one thing, at least, absolutely correct.
For months they have been suggesting that Scotland was the most pro-Remain part of the UK; that Northern Ireland was also pro-Remain, although somewhat less so; and that things looked much closer in both England and Wales, with Wales tending to be marginally more pro-Remain than England.
And that is exactly how it turned out. These are the figures for voting (and turnout) by nation:
Strikingly, the two nations that voted for Remain - Scotland and Northern Ireland - have both actually become more pro-EU since 1975. Wales and England have travelled a long way in the other direction.
It is also interesting that turnout was lower in the two pro-Remain nations.
This didn't change the result - even if both Scotland and Northern Ireland had had the same turnout rate as England, then Leave would still have won.
It may be simply that the referendum engaged more people in England and Wales.
But there may also have been some element of voter fatigue - and also activist fatigue - in Scotland, in particular, which has had a lot of campaigning and voting over the last three years.
What about the vote in Wales? Understanding exactly how Wales came to vote leave will take plenty of further analysis.
But we can see which areas voted for Remain and Leave.
Here I've listed the 22 Welsh local authorities in order of how they voted, from the most pro-Remain to the most pro-Leave:
One notable feature of the results is how many prominent Welsh politicians found themselves on the wrong side of their own local communities.
Among those who supported Remain:
Meanwhile, on the pro-Leave side, Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies also found himself on the opposite side of the majority of his fellow voters in the Vale of Glamorgan, as did MP David Davies in Monmouthshire. But that was not the case for all politicians.
Former Welsh Secretary David Jones - whose Clwyd West seat straddles the border of Conwy and Denbighshire - would have been delighted that a majority in both counties followed his advice in supporting leave, while current Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns was (just) in the pro-Remain majority in the Vale of Glamorgan.
A statement by its regional force said air and ground forces were involved. It did not identify the militant group.
A French soldier was killed in the area earlier this month.
Mali suffers frequent attacks by Islamist militants despite a French military operation in 2013 to drive jihadists from northern cities.
A French military spokesman said the militants had been targeted in the Foulsare forest, in the south-west of Gao province.
On Saturday, Mali's National Assembly voted to extend a state of emergency by six months in a bid to quell an upsurge in attacks.
Violence has also intensified in neighbouring Burkina Faso.
In December, 12 soldiers were killed in an attack by militants near Burkina Faso's border with Mali.
In January last year, 29 people, many of them foreigners, died in a attack on a hotel in the capital Ouagadougou.
France, the former colonial power in Mali, has deployed about 4,000 soldiers in the region to fight extremists.
Industry statistics released on Monday show theatres took an overall $1.354bn (£923m) in 2015, compared to 2014's total of $1.362bn (£928m).
Audience figures also saw a dip from 13.13 million people to 12.98 million in 2015.
Yet the year ended on a high as several shows, including Aladdin and The Illusionists, broke theatre records.
The Broadway League said 2014 had set a surprising benchmark for takings and attendance.
"We are very happy with this season because we are comparing it to the biggest season, and we are very close. It's hard to add to it until we add more theatres," said Charlotte St Martin, president of the Broadway League, in a Wall Street Journal interview.
In addition, the difference between 2014 and 2015 was partly due to the number of total weeks overall that shows were on stage, the league said.
In 2015 there were 33 fewer playing weeks than 2014.
The league's figures show that 20 productions out of the 38 playing in the New York theatre hub took more than $1m in the seven days of last week.
Musicals Book of Mormon, the Lion King and Wicked took more than $2m (£1.3m), while Aladdin made a record-breaking $2,398,110 (£1,633,907) for nine shows.
The Illusionists at the Neil Simon Theatre took in $1,801,326 (£1,227,299) over 13 performances, breaking the record set at the venue by All the Way in 2014.
Peter Pan tale Finding Neverland at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre also enjoyed record-breaking takings of $1,477,174 (£1,006,444) for nine shows.
The success of the final week of 2015 - in which Broadway box offices pulled in $43,065,466 (£29,341,844) - was not a total surprise since ticket prices habitually rise over the Christmas period and theatres put on extra shows.
Yet the final six weeks of 2015 saw a $7m (£4.7m) drop in box office takings over the same period last year.
But 2015 was a successful year if looked at from the perspective of the consistently successful musicals, such as the Lion King and Book of Mormon. And the year also saw a hit in the new musical Hamilton, which earned unprecedented pop-culture attention.
Farrell, who led the team to a World Series win in 2013, said his cancer of the immune system is "very treatable".
Red Sox assistant coach Torey Lovullo will serve as manager while Farrell receives treatment.
Doctors discovered the cancer when Farrell was undergoing hernia surgery earlier this week.
"I can honestly tell you that I'm extremely fortunate that it was found," Farrell said on Friday. "It's localised. It's highly curable."
Farrell started his career as a Major League Baseball pitcher and also served as the manager of the Toronto Blue Jays from 2011 to 2012.
On Friday, Farrell received an outpouring of support from fans and colleagues on social media.
Even the Red Sox's arch-rivals, the New York Yankees tweeted: "Wishing RedSox manager John Farrell a full and speedy recovery."
The New Zealand-born 37-year-old, who previously played for Newcastle Falcons and Northampton Saints, has made 82 appearances for Bristol since 2013.
"It feels like the right time for me to take on a new chapter and retire," he told the club website.
"The game has given me incredible opportunities and I have enjoyed every minute of it."
The company said holidaymakers were avoiding Turkey, usually a popular destination, because of safety fears.
Travel to Belgium had also seen a "sharp decline in demand" after the Brussels attacks.
Revenues for the past six months fell to £2.67bn, down from £2.74bn for the same period last year.
The company said the Brussels airport attack in March had significantly affected its visitor revenues from Belgium, due to "operational disruption to our flying programme, a high level of cancellations and a significant drop in customer demand".
But pre-tax losses for the six months to 31 March fell slightly from £303m to £288m because the company said it was selling higher quality holidays and improving margins.
And chief executive Peter Fankhauser said the picture in other parts of the business looked slightly rosier.
"Thomas Cook is trading well to destinations other than Turkey, with particularly strong bookings to Spain and the USA."
He added that the company was "well positioned to meet our existing growth expectations".
Thomas Cook said it anticipated that underlying operating profits for the year would fall between £310m and £335m, at the bottom of the range forecasted by analysts.
The Argentine forward curled home both of his goals before the break, the first from an angle inside the box and the second from a central position on the edge.
Juve turned a dominant lead into one that should see them go on and win the tie when Giorgio Chiellini showed strength and guile to steer home a header from a corner.
For the second European round running, Barca - who were as defensively suspect as they were in losing 4-0 to Paris St-Germain in the first leg of their last-16 tie - must come back from a heavy away defeat to progress.
However, after their record-breaking achievement to overturn that deficit against PSG, they will retain hope heading into the return leg at the Nou Camp on 19 April.
The last time these two sides met in the Champions League was in the 2015 final, when Barcelona secured the trophy courtesy of a 3-1 win.
The Italians are a much-changed side, with only goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and defender Leonardo Bonucci starting both the game in Berlin and Tuesday's in Turin, but they played like a side with a score to settle.
The opening 20 minutes were a lesson in high-pressing, aggressive play that created a clear headed opening for Gonzalo Higuain to spurn before paying off through Dybala's two strikes.
The remaining 70 minutes saw Juve retain a high work-rate but with the luxury of strategically selecting their moments to counter attack.
This approach twice set up Higuain for shots that were saved by Marc-Andre ter Stegen before more lax defending - this time from Javier Mascherano, who had been moved to centre-back from midfield at half-time - allowed Chiellini to head home from a corner.
The win means Juve, who have won their last 32 Serie A home games, are now undefeated in 18 European games in Turin.
With the second-best defence of any side in Europe's top-five leagues and having gone 441 Champions League minutes without conceding, the Italians are well-equipped to avoid wilting under second-leg pressure in Spain.
Barcelona's heroics in the return leg against PSG papered over the cracks of what was a truly terrible first-leg display in the French capital.
After another heavy away defeat - their third in four Champions League games on the road and a second in succession after Saturday's La Liga loss at Malaga - there is no escaping the feeling that this is a team in decline.
They are often shambolic at the back, with Samuel Umtiti and Jeremy Mathieu error-prone and Mascherano a fading force.
Andres Iniesta is a class act in midfield and the attacking unit of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar is unrivalled in Europe, but only the talismanic Messi proved a threat in Turin.
He had a goal rightly ruled out for offside, curled a shot just past the post, laid on a defence-splitting pass for Suarez to shoot wide and another to send Iniesta clear only to see Buffon superbly claw his shot past the post.
Buffon's instinctive save not only denied Barcelona a vital away goal, but came just 76 seconds before Dybala made it 2-0.
Luis Enrique's side have come back from a seemingly inevitable exit once in this season's Champions League. They will need all 11 players at the very top of their game if they are to have any chance of repeating the feat.
Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri: "I want to congratulate the lads because, as a team, they did great.
"It isn't easy overcoming a team like Barcelona, but we also dug deep to keep a clean sheet. That was fundamental for us.
"But we have to remain humble, keep our heads down and keep working. PSG scored four, and look what happened.
"In Barcelona, it will be different and we have to try and score a goal."
Barcelona coach Luis Enrique: "We basically gifted two goals to Juventus in the opening half. As coach, for me it's inexplicable how they were so much better than us.
"It's like a nightmare. We've had very little luck of late, and now I can only hope that from tomorrow we get back on our feet.
"In the first half the players were determined, but we made the same mistakes from Paris, and that's a problem. Our second half was much better. But I still have the opening half in my head, like a nightmare.
"Maybe it wasn't [a repeat of] Paris, but it was like the third half from Paris.
"I'm an optimistic person. But I take responsibility for this. I'm the coach and the buck stops at me.
"If we play as well as we can, we can score four goals against anyone."
Barcelona host Real Sociedad in La Liga on Saturday before the home leg with Juve. The Italian side travel to Pescara this Saturday and then to Spain four days later.
Match ends, Juventus 3, Barcelona 0.
Second Half ends, Juventus 3, Barcelona 0.
Attempt saved. Sergi Roberto (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Neymar with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) because of an injury.
Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alex Sandro (Juventus).
Hand ball by Neymar (Barcelona).
Attempt blocked. Dani Alves (Juventus) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gonzalo Higuaín.
Mario Lemina (Juventus) is shown the yellow card.
Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by André Gomes (Barcelona).
Dani Alves (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Juventus. Andrea Barzagli replaces Miralem Pjanic.
Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mario Mandzukic (Juventus).
Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Javier Mascherano.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Giorgio Chiellini.
Attempt blocked. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tomás Rincón (Juventus).
Foul by Neymar (Barcelona).
Dani Alves (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lionel Messi (Barcelona).
Alex Sandro (Juventus) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Sergi Roberto.
Substitution, Juventus. Tomás Rincón replaces Paulo Dybala.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Alex Sandro.
Foul by Gerard Piqué (Barcelona).
Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Giorgio Chiellini.
Attempt missed. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Sergi Roberto.
Sami Khedira (Juventus) is shown the yellow card.
Sami Khedira (Juventus) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Substitution, Juventus. Mario Lemina replaces Juan Cuadrado.
Offside, Juventus. Miralem Pjanic tries a through ball, but Sami Khedira is caught offside.
Foul by André Gomes (Barcelona).
Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Juan Cuadrado (Juventus) because of an injury.
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The uniform is on sale for £85,000 at Parade Antiques in Plymouth - a city that Goering's Luftwaffe planes bombed extensively in World War Two.
Jonathan Arkush, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said the sale was "repellent".
Shop owner John Cabello said the item was a reminder of Nazi atrocities and did not glorify them.
Goering was one of the most senior politicians in Nazi Germany and a close confidante of Hitler.
Mr Cabello said he bought the uniform at auction from a private Swiss museum.
Sweat blemishes and fraying on buttons and buckles are a sign that it belonged to overweight Goering, he said.
Mr Arkush said: "Anything that tends to glorify a regime that was guilty of murder on an industrial scale is absolutely anathema to a civilized society and the owner of this artefact would do us all a favour if he would just burn it."
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, senior rabbi to the Movement for Reform Judaism: "It will be shown off as an item with an ideological message, the very last one we want to promote as British people who fought the Nazis."
Mr Cabello said: "I see both sides of the argument.
"You can see the historical side without being sucked into the political side of it."
Hermann Goering became responsible for the Luftwaffe, the German air force, in 1935.
Until the final days of the war, Goering was named as Hitler's successor in the event of the Nazi leader's death.
He was captured shortly after the end of the war in 1945, with large quantities of looted art.
After the war he was found guilty at the Nuremberg Trials, where he was the most senior politician on trial. He was sentenced to be hanged but took his own life by poisoning himself on 14 October 1946, the night before he was due to be executed.
Source: BBC History
Mr Cabello said he was "completely certain" that the uniform was not artificially aged and had been worn by Goering.
But World War Two historian Dr Helen Fry said any buyer should be "sceptical" about the uniform's provenance.
"Goering was under the command of the Americans after he was captured and it's quite hard to imagine something like that coming from him," she said.
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Nóirín O'Sullivan had been under pressure to clarify her position after the PSNI said some Provisional IRA members were involved in the Belfast murder of Kevin McGuigan Sr.
In February, she wrote to Sinn Féin to say she had no evidence it was active.
She has now said she did not deny the organisation's existence.
Ms O'Sullivan wrote to Sinn Féin's justice spokesman in the Republic of Ireland, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, to say her force had no information or intelligence to support the assertion that the Provisional IRA still maintained its paramilitary structures or its involvement in criminal activities.
That position seemed to some to be at odds with the PSNI's statements that the IRA still existed and that some of its members were suspected of involvement in Mr McGuigan Sr's murder.
With the Irish justice minister Frances Fitzgerald calling for a fresh assessment of the country's police intelligence on the IRA, Ms O'Sullivan broke several days of silence on the issue.
In her statement she said she had not denied the existence of the IRA, and in her letter to Sinn Féin she had noted that former IRA members were involved in crime.
Security assessments, she added, were kept under constant review.
Nelson Oliveira's looping header from Alex Pritchard's set-piece had given Norwich a deserved first-half lead.
But Bogle's near-post header from a corner and cleanly struck free-kick put the hosts ahead as they battled back.
Mitchell Dijks then nodded level from a Norwich corner and both sides searched for a late winner that would not come.
Wigan remain 23rd, five points below 21st-placed Burton with a game in hand, while Norwich stay seventh but move to within two points of sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday.
The Canaries had put the ball in the net on 25 minutes when Russell Martin headed in on the rebound after a Jonny Howson effort bounced off the woodwork, but the linesman's flag was already raised for offside.
However, not long after the visitors - bidding for a fourth straight win - did take the lead as Oliveira netted his eighth league goal of the season.
After the break, Wigan sprung to life and former Grimsby striker Bogle's quickfire brace on his first start for the Latics turned the game around.
But Dijks' header soon had the visitors back on level terms to deny Wigan a seventh league win of the season.
The hosts, who had failed to scored in nine of their past 12 home league games, could have won it late on but Norwich keeper John Ruddy saved well from Jake Buxton.
Wigan Athletic boss Warren Joyce: "I'm disappointed we did not end up winning the game, because I felt we deserved the three points.
"I was happy with the whole team - the effort, the commitment, the work-rate, the desire.
"We were good value to have taken the lead, and it's disappointing not to see it through."
Norwich City boss Alex Neil: "We were the better side in the first half and we controlled the game - we should have been more than 1-0 up.
"The frustration for me is that the goal that Russell Martin scored was onside, having watched it back.
"We were frustrated tonight as a group. We feel we should have won it. We made it difficult for ourselves."
Match ends, Wigan Athletic 2, Norwich City 2.
Second Half ends, Wigan Athletic 2, Norwich City 2.
Attempt missed. Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cameron Jerome.
Josh Murphy (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Max Power (Wigan Athletic).
Jonny Howson (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Morsy (Wigan Athletic).
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Dan Burn.
Sam Morsy (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sam Morsy (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt saved. Jake Buxton (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Connolly with a headed pass.
Ivo Pinto (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Ivo Pinto.
Foul by Jacob Murphy (Norwich City).
Omar Bogle (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Norwich City. Jacob Murphy replaces Alex Pritchard.
Attempt saved. Josh Murphy (Norwich City) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Cameron Jerome.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by John Ruddy.
Attempt saved. Sam Morsy (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Stephen Warnock.
Attempt blocked. Sam Morsy (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City).
Jake Buxton (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Wigan Athletic. Jake Buxton tries a through ball, but William Grigg is caught offside.
Goal! Wigan Athletic 2, Norwich City 2. Mitchell Dijks (Norwich City) header from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Alex Pritchard with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Jakob Haugaard.
Substitution, Norwich City. Josh Murphy replaces Yanic Wildschut.
Goal! Wigan Athletic 2, Norwich City 1. Omar Bogle (Wigan Athletic) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic) because of an injury.
Foul by Yanic Wildschut (Norwich City).
Callum Connolly (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ivo Pinto (Norwich City).
Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cameron Jerome with a headed pass.
Hand ball by Omar Bogle (Wigan Athletic).
Goal! Wigan Athletic 1, Norwich City 1. Omar Bogle (Wigan Athletic) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Michael Jacobs with a cross following a corner.
Jordan Miers was reported missing on Sunday afternoon after failing to return home from a night out with work friends on Saturday night.
He was last seen Park Tawe retail park at about 10.30 GMT by a person who followed him for a time because they were concerned for his safety.
He had appeared "intoxicated" and crossed a river bridge onto a towpath.
CCTV footage shows Mr Miers leaving the retail park and police believe he may have planned to walk home to Bonymaen in the direction of the Liberty Stadium.
Ch Insp Chris Truscott said searches had taken place along routes the children's football coach may have used and specialist teams had joined the hunt.
"We have utilised the police helicopter and specialist teams and further specialist resources have been deployed today [Wednesday] to carry out a search of the river," he added.
Ch Insp Truscott appealed for anyone who saw Mr Miers after 22:00 GMT on Saturday to contact the police.
The ex-Scotland player pleaded not guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court to assaulting a man in the Black Bull pub in The Grassmarket on 6 December 2014.
His defence solicitor, Kathleen More, said he also denied gesticulating in a threatening manner and struggling with Stewart Sugden, a member of staff.
Trial was set for May.
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He has been behind some mega-money moves at the top of the Premier League, and also kept clubs afloat by thrashing out last-minute deals.
He is currently an advisor to League One side Preston North End, having also had roles at Barnsley and Plymouth.
Here is his guide to the transfer window and deadline day.
I remember the first transfer window in 2002 when I was at Leeds United and I'd been dealing with Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy for weeks about the potential transfer of Robbie Keane.
In the end we were playing Birmingham City at St Andrew's. Was the deal getting done? Wasn't it getting done?
I was trying to watch the game. And literally at two minutes to five - the deadline was at five - we managed to get the transfer through. Our club secretary was in the Birmingham secretary's office trying to get the faxes through.
Striker Keane joined Leeds for £12m in 2001 from Inter Milan after an initial loan spell and left for Tottenham for £7m in 2002 after the club entered financial difficulties.
Leeds United signed Rio Ferdinand from West Ham for £18m in November 2000 and sold him to Manchester United for a £12m profit after 73 games
If a player doesn't want to play for you, the best you can do is get the best price for the club. A classic example was when I sold Rio Ferdinand. He returned from the 2002 World Cup and came into my office on his first day back and said he wanted to go to Manchester United.
Once we knew he was going, the cat and mouse game is how much can you get for him. Ultimately we got £30m. It was difficult. Once you know the player is going and where he wants to go to, how do you push the price up so the other club don't say 'we know he's coming to us so we'll keep the price depressed'? But we managed to get them from an initial bid of £18m up to £30m, so it was a job well done.
At Cardiff we brought in almost £30m from selling players in five years. We were £30m in debt; we had no cash. My job was to sell at least £5m worth of players each year to keep the club alive. The challenge was to hold your nerve and get the highest price possible when we needed the cash.
When striker Michael Chopra went to Sunderland, the initial bid was about £1.5m-£2m and we eventually got £5m. That money kept the club alive that summer. The first bid for midfielder Aaron Ramsey from Manchester United and Arsenal was around £1m. Now I think I sold him on the cheap for £5m but he'd only played a few games at the time.
It was holding one's nerve - knowing that you needed to sell in order to pay the payroll at the end of the month. You had to weigh up at what point does the other club pull out versus you negotiating to get a higher price.
Chopra joined Cardiff from Newcastle for £500,000 in 2006 and left for 10 times that figure a year later to Sunderland. He rejoined Cardiff, initially on loan, little over a year later and signed permanently for £4m.
Ramsey was a Cardiff youth-team product who left the club for Arsenal after 22 appearances.
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I walked into a club a couple of years ago and there was a player who hardly played for the team and never kicked a ball while I was there. He had been signed on a lot of money yet, I'm told, didn't have a medical before signing. That's like pouring money down the drain.
You've got to be professional. If you can't complete a transfer to your satisfaction, and that includes a medical, then you don't do it.
That's another thing the transfer deadline does - it puts people under pressure. The cost of getting relegated from the Premier League is so enormous. If you find yourself in the bottom six in the league in January, the need to survive is so intense that perhaps people cut corners. The problem is that can come back to haunt you.
One of the lessons I've learned over the years is nobody prepares you for the spotlight, profile and pressure of being in charge of transfers. When I was in charge of Leeds, I was far more responsive to supporters' needs and reactive to managers' demands than perhaps I should have been. I learned an interesting lesson.
During my five years at Cardiff, I took a view that if we were doing the right thing, I could live with myself. Whatever the external pressure, I'd learned my lesson. I did a far better job buying and selling players at Cardiff than I did, perhaps, in some of the occasions when I was at Leeds.
Once there is a determined deadline, people always think 'I've got a big longer, I've got a bit longer' and then you start to panic. It's the most amazing last day - you just have to watch the television yourself.
It's people thinking 'if I hang on they'll be more desperate to sell because they need the money so will sell cheaply'. And on the other hand people are saying 'if I hang on, they're desperate for the player so will pay a higher price'. It creates an artificial period so whether you're buying or selling, it changes the price structure. From a supporter's point of view, it's really exciting.
I'm not in favour of transfer windows. I think a lot of work gets done late in the day - they inflate prices. People are desperate to avoid relegation or to sell players.
It's an artificial period in the normality of running a football club - it puts too much stress on everybody.
The sooner it disappears the better. A lot of clubs end up spending more money on average players than they ought to and some clubs end up getting an undervalue for players they've sold.
The hosts led 19-6 at half-time thanks to tries from Paul Grant, Semesa Rokoduguni and a penalty try.
Jamie Gibson thought he had won it when he bundled over, soon after Chris Cook's superb solo try for Bath as the lead ebbed back and forth late on.
But Priestland's nerveless kick lifted Bath up to third.
An outstanding final 10 minutes saw Fijian Api Ratuniyarawa barge through to put Saints 23-22 up, having been 13-points behind early in the second half.
Replacement scrum-half Cook then scored one of the tries of the season as he latched onto the ball on halfway, chipped it up and then kicked the ball over the try-line to touch down for the bonus point.
Northampton complained Ben Tapuai's pass to Cook had gone forward, but referee Wayne Barnes allowed the try.
Bath's joy was short-lived when Gibson finished off a driving maul and the flawless Stephen Myler converted to put Northampton back in front by a point.
However, seconds from full-time, indiscipline at the ruck gave the hosts a close-range penalty which Wales fly-half Priestland slotted through just inside the post.
The win ends a run of three straight Premiership defeats for Bath, while defeat ends Saints three-match league winning streak.
Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder:
"To get five points is huge for us. I'd take that any day. The learning for us is that we let them back into the game. We've got to learn to shut teams out.
"We let them back in through our indiscipline. Their line-outs were hard to stop. I have to say, if anything, there are a few demons running through people's heads."
Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder:
"I think Bath were the better team in the first half and put us under pressure. We conceded a couple of weak tries.
"Certainly the Rokoduguni try, there was poor defending there, but we came back into it and played well.
Bath: Homer; Rokoduguni, Clark, Tapuai, Wilson; Priestland (co-capt), Fotuali'i; Catt, Dunn, Lahiff, Stooke, Ewels, Ellis, Louw (co-capt), Grant.
Replacements: Batty, Obano, Palma-Newport, Denton, Mercer, Cook, Hastings, Davies.
Northampton Saints: Tuala; K.Pisi, Tuitavake, Mallinder, Foden (capt); Myler, Groom; A.Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Paterson, Day, Gibson, Harrison, Dickinson.
Replacements: Clare, E.Waller, Hill, Ratuniyarawa, Clark, Dickson, Hutchinson, Wilson.
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The 31-year-old has not been capped at senior level but played six times for Scotland's Under-21 side.
Uncapped Bain, 23, was included in Gordon Strachan's initial squad with Hull City's Allan McGregor, 33, rested.
The Scots face Qatar in a friendly on Friday before the Euro 2016 qualifier against the Irish on 13 June.
Celtic's Craig Gordon, 32, and 30-year-old Cardiff City stopper David Marshall are the other keepers in Strachan's squad.
Speaking last week, the national coach explained: "Allan's got a problem that we've known for a year, he's been playing with an injury, and the club and himself want time for that to calm down."
Samson started his career at Killie and had spells with seven other Scottish clubs and Hereford United before returning to Rugby Park in 2013. He has amassed over 300 senior club appearances.
Stoke City's 29-year-old midfielder Charlie Adam and Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths, 24, secured places in Strachan's selection after impressive end-of-season form while Griffiths' club-mate Charlie Mulgrew, 29, also features after recently returning from injury.
Goalkeepers: Craig Gordon (Celtic), David Marshall (Cardiff City), Craig Samson (Kilmarnock).
Defenders: Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town), Craig Forsyth (Derby County), Gordon Greer (Brighton & Hove Albion), Alan Hutton (Aston Villa), Russell Martin (Norwich City), Charlie Mulgrew (Celtic), Mark Reynolds (Aberdeen), Andrew Robertson (Hull City), Steven Whittaker (Norwich City).
Midfielders: Charlie Adam (Stoke City), Ikechi Anya (Watford), Barry Bannan (Crystal Palace), Scott Brown (Celtic), Darren Fletcher (West Bromwich Albion), James Forrest (Celtic), Shaun Maloney (Chicago Fire), James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion), James McArthur (Crystal Palace), Matt Ritchie (Bournemouth).
Forwards: Steven Fletcher (Sunderland), Leigh Griffiths (Celtic), Steven Naismith (Everton), Johnny Russell (Derby County).
Sarries led 13-8 at the break through tries from Mako Vunipola and Mike Ellery, with Josh Bassett replying.
Two penalties from Wasps fly-half Jimmy Gopperth pulled the score back to 16-14 but Jamie George's converted try gave Sarries breathing space.
After Wasps winger Bassett was sent to the bin, George powered over again to secure a bonus point for the hosts.
Relive Saracens' win over Wasps
Saracens are now two points above Wasps, who had won their opening five games, in the table.
Dai Young's Wasps had started the campaign in imposing form but were on the back foot at Allianz Park following's Vunipola's early score.
They worked their way back into the match and looked to be heading into half-time on level terms until Ellery's late score gave double winners Saracens the edge.
Wasps began the second half on top but were not able to take advantage and England hooker George went over from close range to put Saracens clear, before Lozowski added the conversion to make it 23-14.
Once Bassett saw yellow for a high tackle, George was able to touch down from a rolling maul to put the gloss on their victory.
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall (on the upcoming return of fly-half Owen Farrell):
"Owen was with the team for Wasps. He warmed up with them and place-kicked for the first time before the game.
"If everything goes to plan, then hopefully he'll be available for the weekend.
"He's an influential member of the squad and it's good to have him around. He could definitely come straight into the team.
"Alex Lozowski has put his case forward so it's a big shout for us, but Owen is a world-class fly-half."
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young:
"You have to give Saracens a lot of credit, they really strangled us and didn't allow us to play.
"We've made a really good start to the season, but we've come to the home of the double champions and it was a little too much for us.
"It's not all doom and gloom because it's the first game we've lost, but if you're going to lose to anyone it should be the double winners.
"We're disappointed because we didn't look like we fired enough shots, but that's because of how good Saracens were defensively."
Saracens: Maitland; Ellery, Bosch, Barritt (capt), Wyles; Lozowski, Wigglesworth; M Vunipola, Brits, Figallo, Itoje, Kruis, Rhodes. Burger, B Vunipola.
Replacements: George, Lamositele, Du Plessis, Hamilton, Wray, Spencer, Tompkins, Gallagher.
Wasps: Miller; Wade, Daly, Gopperth (capt), Bassett; Cipriani, Robson; McIntyre, Cruse, Moore, Symons, Myall, Johnson, Young, Hughes.
Replacements: Gaskell, Mullan, Cooper-Woolley, Launchbury, Rieder, Simpson, Eastmond, Halai.
Yellow card: Bassett (69)
Referee: Matthew Carley.
Attendance: 9,911.
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Pupils at Crown Primary have said that they feel relaxed and enjoy books more when reading them aloud to retrievers Blue and Morna.
Hannah Earnshaw, a probationary teacher, is piloting the scheme at the school.
She suggested bringing in the two dogs after researching the benefits of the pets in boosting the confidence of reluctant readers.
The children have told of feeling happier reading to Blue and Morna because, "unlike grown ups", they do not ask them to repeat sentences and also give them time to think about what they are saying.
Ms Earnshaw said: "The kids that are reading to the dogs rather than reading to me improved significantly more in a reading test than the ones just reading to me.
"Also, the children who read to the dogs enjoyed the reading experience more than the kids that read to me.
"So to me that suggests that not only does it have a direct impact on reading, it also impacts on their enjoyment of reading."
Ms Earnshaw recruited the help of her aunt Catriona Addy, who is a volunteer for the organisation Pets as Therapy, to bring in dogs for the reading sessions.
Craig Sibbald struck from John Baird's pass to give the Bairns the lead midway through the first half.
And Myles Hippolyte fired in the second for Peter Houston's side early in the second period.
Farid El Alagui's effort gave Dunfermline hope in the final 15 minutes but the Pars could not draw level.
Match ends, Falkirk 2, Dunfermline Athletic 1.
Second Half ends, Falkirk 2, Dunfermline Athletic 1.
Foul by Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic).
Luke Leahy (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Lewis Martin (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Robert McHugh (Falkirk).
David McCracken (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Farid El Alagui (Dunfermline Athletic).
Attempt missed. Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic).
Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Scott Shepherd (Falkirk).
Robert McHugh (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card.
David Hopkirk (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Craig Sibbald (Falkirk).
Substitution, Falkirk. John Rankin replaces Tom Taiwo.
Substitution, Falkirk. Scott Shepherd replaces Myles Hippolyte.
Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic).
Attempt saved. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by David McCracken.
Attempt missed. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Falkirk. Paul Watson replaces Lewis Kidd because of an injury.
Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic).
Luke Leahy (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Falkirk 2, Dunfermline Athletic 1. Farid El Alagui (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. David Hopkirk (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Robert McHugh (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Gavin Reilly replaces Michael Paton.
Foul by Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic).
Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Robert McHugh (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. David Hopkirk (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic).
Mark Kerr (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
About 120 Thames Valley Police officers executed warrants at 10 properties in Banbury, as well as one in Birmingham.
The men were arrested on suspicion of rape and other offences relating to three females between 2008 and 2015.
Det Supt Paul Hayles called it a "complex investigation into non-recent child sexual exploitation" in the town.
He added: "Following the arrests we are continuing to work with our partners to safeguard and support the victims."
The raids on Tuesday morning are part of what the police are calling Operation Nautical.
The men arrested are aged between 21 and 42 and remain in custody.
Supt Kath Lowe, local police area commander for Banbury, said: "The nature of these arrests may appear concerning and I understand that people may have questions about them.
"Because this is an ongoing investigation, we will not be able to provide all the information straight away, but we will keep the community updated when we can."
There is an increased police presence in the area following the arrests.
And while Mercury's Barcelona describes an alluring "jewel in the sun", a footballing conquest in this city can also be viewed in that light.
Victory is not something that comes to many visitors to the theatrical Camp Nou, something Celtic are hunting when they tread a now familiar track to the home of the star-studded FC Barcelona in their Champions League opener.
Indeed, it will be the Scottish champions' sixth trip here in just over 12 years.
The size of the task remains as formidable as ever against a club that has won five European Champions Cups, four of which have come within the last 11 seasons.
This Barca side continues to shine in the most glittering period of its history.
But, if Celtic are to upset all of the odds, perhaps now is the time to do so going by the most recent of examples.
Deportivo Alaves returned to the top table of Spanish football this summer after an 11-season absence from La Liga, a spell which included four campaigns in the third tier.
Their resurrection hit new heights with a 2-1 victory at Camp Nou on Saturday around the time Celtic were humiliating neighbours Rangers.
The odds of an Alaves victory were around 25-1, with bookmakers offering about the same for a Celtic success on Tuesday.
"I would like to never lose," said manager Luis Enrique. "This team has had two years (of success) beyond any doubt, but that doesn't mean we can't lose.
"We will try to change that, but we are not interested in the past.
"The team has reacted well. They are obviously annoyed because we don't like and are not accustomed to losing at home.
"We have the shortest turnaround you can have between games. The players are rested and desperate to compete and play again in the Camp Nou in a competition that excites us."
Yet, Barca were beaten. At home. By a newly promoted side.
Star-man Lionel Messi - who missed both meetings with Celtic in 2013 - is battling back from a groin injury and may not start.
Andres Iniesta - Spain's most decorated footballer - has only just returned after injuring his knee during the Spanish Super Cup win over Sevilla.
Neymar is just back from the Olympics where he helped Brazil win gold, playing his first club game of the season in Saturday's loss.
There also remains uncertainty over Enrique's own future with his contract due to expire at the end of the season and talks postponed until the winter.
It could be seen as straw-grabbing.
But Celtic are an opponent 'Blaugrana' are not taking lightly, with Enrique talking warmly of opposite number Brendan Rodgers.
"I like Rodgers as a coach; he likes to take the game to the opposition and you can see that already in his short time at Celtic," said Enrique.
"He loves good football, he likes to take the burden of the initiative.
"They have made good signings and I'm worried about some of the Celtic players - [Moussa] Dembele, [Scott] Sinclair, [Patrick] Roberts - they can give us problems.
"We will have to overcome high pressure and circulate the ball well."
Whilst that perfect dream is alive, there are red flags, some more obvious than others.
Barcelona haven't lost a Champions League game at home since 2013 when Bayern Munich trounced them in the semi finals.
They haven't lost two home games in a row over 90 minutes since 1998.
They were beaten in the preceding league match last time they faced the Scottish champions, before inflicting a record-equalling 6-1 defeat on the Parkhead club.
Messi, Neymar and Rodgers' old Liverpool talisman Luis Suarez could play together for the first time this season on Tuesday. Those three have scored 255 goals in 302 combined appearances since the Uruguayan joined his prolific peers.
Spanish World Cup winner Gerard Pique and international colleague Jordi Alba - who scored a late winner against Neil Lennon's Celtic here in 2012 - are also ready to return to the fold.
Mercury also spoke of a 'miracle sensation.'
Can Celtic experience one of European football's rarest of tastes for themselves in Catalonia?
The Nigel Farage Show will air from 19:00 to 20:00, Mondays to Thursdays, with the host describing it as "full of opinions, callers and reaction".
He tweeted: "I invite listeners to agree with me, challenge me & together we can lead Britain's conversation."
Mr Farage, a friend of US President-elect Donald Trump, is an MEP for South East England.
He resigned as UKIP leader last summer, but returned on an interim basis after his successor, Diane James, resigned only 18 days into the job.
Mr Farage's former deputy, Paul Nuttall, won the second leadership contest of the year.
Mr Trump has said Mr Farage - among the first politicians to visit the president-elect after his victory last year - would make a "great" UK ambassador to the US, but Downing Street responded that there was "no vacancy".
The former UKIP leader has previously taken part in occasional Phone Farage shows on LBC. The new regular slot begins next Monday.
Hull FC hopes to raise £50,000 from supporters and businesses for youngsters to attend matches in the 2016 season that kicks-off in February.
Hull is ranked as the third most deprived local authority in England.
Gareth Ellis, the club's captain, said: "As a club we can make a massive difference to people."
The scheme is to give youngsters from some of the city's less affluent areas a chance to see live sport at the KC Stadium, where the rugby league club plays its games. It includes transport to games, food and the chance of an arts qualification.
Luke Medcalf, from community centre Hessle Road Network, that is involved in the scheme said: "There used to be a hustle and bustle around this area with the fish trade.
"That went and left a big hole where people filled it with a lot of bad things including drugs, domestic violence and crime."
The scheme is also in memory of Bradley Parker, a former Hull FC and England youth rugby league player who died in a car accident.
According to The Index of Multiple Deprivation, that includes income, employment and health among seven components, in 2015 Hull was the third most-deprived local authority in England (out of 326).
Seven of Hull's wards are amongst the 1% of the most-deprived in England.
But if Theresa May's government gave a political green light to such a controversial proposal, how might it happen?
The first step would be the removal of the current ban on opening new grammar schools in England.
This was introduced in the early years of Tony Blair's government in the vain hope of drawing a line under the debate about grammars.
In the Blair compromise deal, the remaining grammars were allowed to continue, unless a ballot of the local community chose to abolish them. But there would be a ban on the creation of any new grammars.
The repeal of this legislation is the first target of grammar campaigners.
But there is also a requirement, created by David Cameron's government, that all new state schools should be free schools, a type of academy set up by community groups or academy chains.
So the most likely route for new grammars would be as a form of free school. These are likely to expand anyway, as there are official forecasts showing an extra 570,000 more secondary places in England are needed within the decade.
But free schools are non-selective and are officially described as "'all-ability' schools, so can't use the academic selection processes of grammar schools".
This would have to change to allow entrance tests for new grammar free schools.
But senior Conservative MP and longstanding grammar supporter Graham Brady says repealing the ban on new grammars might also lift the limit on selection by free schools.
A rethinking of free school rules might already be under consideration. The former director of the New Schools Network, Nick Timothy, has called for changes to encourage more faith groups to create free schools.
Mr Timothy is now Mrs May's joint chief of staff in Downing Street and in a key position of influence for any redesign of free schools.
There could also be an imminent opportunity for legislation.
The schools White Paper, launched by former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan earlier this year, was torpedoed by Tory backbenchers over the move to force every school to become an academy.
If there is any salvage from the wreck, it would need to be reassembled into a schools bill in the autumn.
Could that be an opportunity to end the ban on new grammars and change the rules for free schools?
It would certainly be a big symbolic move.
But for the government it might be a big bang for not that many bucks.
Removing a ban isn't the same as announcing a building spree. And a free school approach would depend on groups applying and demonstrating the need for a new school, which would mean years before any bricks were laid.
The level of public demand from parents for a school in which their own children might not get a place remains uncertain.
Another way of expanding grammar numbers, without building any new schools, would be to allow private schools which were once grammars - such as the old direct grant grammars - to return to the state sector.
For such a move, grammar school campaigners would have to make the argument that academic selection goes hand in hand with social mobility. They will want to be seen as providing a ladder for clever youngsters from poorer backgrounds.
They will present themselves as a lifeline for families unable to afford the house prices that can surround high-achieving schools.
They will be up against much of the educational establishment, as well as the opposition parties, who will argue that academic selection is a direct obstacle to social mobility and that it is really about social selection.
They will warn that the 11-plus entrance exam becomes an arms race of expensive tutoring and grammar schools are likely to have a disproportionately affluent intake.
There have been strong arguments, including from Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw, that creating a grammar school means a negative impact on neighbouring schools, in effect recreating secondary moderns.
But the tenacious grammar supporters are likely to be feeling more optimistic than for many years.
They will feel Mrs May is instinctively more sympathetic to their arguments. She is part of that demographic whose own school years overlapped with the switch-over from grammar to comprehensive.
And while Mr Cameron's cabinet, with so many prominent former public school pupils, might have been vulnerable to accusations of elitism in education, Mrs May will have much more room to manoeuvre.
Her cabinet has the lowest proportion of privately educated ministers since the 1940s and there are almost as many former grammar pupils as those from private schools.
Grammar campaigners were also heartened by new Education Secretary Justine Greening saying she was keeping an "open mind".
This holding position might not be surprising since she had barely turned on the lights in her new office.
But perhaps more revealing were her comments that the school system was no longer a "binary world", with more choice and variety in the types of school.
Could allowing a few more grammars be seen as extending choice? Could they be presented as part of a wider range of options, particularly for the most academically able?
But would this mean the government was ditching Mr Cameron's education reforms. Would promoting grammar schools mean academies were no longer the gold standard? In a school system with such a strong sense of hierarchy, where would grammars fit with promises of "excellence for all"?
The English school system has struggled for decades with whether grammar schools were part of the future or the past.
Grammars are on the faultline between parents wanting both collective fairness and personal advantage. It's that educational anxiety that wants the best for everyone, but something a bit better for yourself.
Thomas, 50, defended the disgraced former Tour de France champion as the 43-year-old Texan joined the ex-England footballer on the tour route.
Armstrong, stripped of his seven titles for drug abuse, is riding Thomas' One Day Ahead fundraising event.
Thomas, like Armstrong a cancer survivor, said: "What is wrong with him doing good in the cancer community?"
Armstrong has teamed up with the former Crystal Palace midfielder to ride two stages ahead of the main tour to raise £1m for Cure Leukaemia, starting with today's stage 13 from Muret to Rodez.
Thomas is tackling the 3,360-kilometre route of this year's race to celebrate the 10th anniversary of entering remission and riding the 2005 tour course.
He told BBC Sport: "It was time to give him a chance.
"I was given three months to live in 2003, I read Lance Armstrong's book, and it was his focus of fighting cancer that inspired not just me, but millions of others.
"I knew the idea of getting him involved would divide opinion.
"But looking at the bigger picture, we've got world awareness of what we're doing to help generate more money for the professors and doctors that we're supporting.
"He has apologised, but some people won't accept the apology."
Brian Cookson, president of the sport's governing body the UCI, said Armstrong was not welcome. But Tour de France leader Chris Froome says he understands the charity element, having lost his mother to a cancer-related illness.
Thomas added: "Lance is a cancer survivor who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to help research. I thought it was time to give him a chance.
"He's not going to race again, but from what I've seen he's more upset at not being able to get back into the cancer community.
"He's given us profile obviously, but we hope on the back of that he goes back to helping bigger cancer communities and doing good again."
Armstrong feels that he may never be accepted back by the cycling world.
He told BBC Sport: "I think I've got a lot to give in the fight against cancer, but that's not really for me to decide.
"My credentials in that world are pretty legitimate and I stay committed to it. But I don't know if cycling will ever accept me back."
The vessel will now be transported from the East Float Dock, Birkenhead, to Portsmouth Naval Base.
It became a glittering clubhouse and venue after the war but sank at its mooring after becoming corroded.
A £916,149 grant from the National Memorial Heritage Fund (NHMF) enabled the salvage of the craft which will now undergo restoration.
The two-day operation to raise it was completed on Thursday.
Professor Dominic Tweddle, director general of the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth, called it the "last of these vital workhorses known to have participated in D-Day".
He added: "This humble but vital ship played a significant role for the Royal Navy.
"Also importantly her sheer size... an ocean going vessel capable of carrying ten armoured vehicles, challenges the common perception that landing craft were small assault craft."
It is hoped LCT 7074, as it was known, will eventually go on display at Portsmouth's D-Day museum after its restoration to coincide with the museum's redesign, and the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019.
National Museum of the Royal Navy said "initial discussions" had taken place.
Carole Souter, chief executive of NHMF, said it was "fitting" that it was able to save "one of the last remaining of 7,000 ships that took part in D-Day, the largest ever seaborne invasion and a significant moment in UK and world history".
The craft will be stored at Portsmouth Naval Base while plans are developed and further funding is sought to conserve and restore it.
The Briton, who defended his IBF title against Eric Molina on Saturday, is set to meet ex-champion Klitschko in April.
Joshua, 27, has recently begun working full-time again with McCracken, who trained him as an amateur, helping him win Olympic gold at London 2012.
"Without a doubt, he can knock anybody out," McCracken told BBC Radio 5 live.
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"If he hits them hard enough, he will without a doubt knock them out.
"Anthony can box, can move well, has great balance. Speed is the key as well.
"When you have his speed, they don't see the punches coming. And that will be the plan for Klitschko, that he just can't avoid or defend what's coming from Anthony.
"He's looking forward to it. He's enjoying his boxing. The tests lie ahead but he's in a great place and we're more than confident that he'll beat Klitschko."
McCracken watched at Manchester Arena on Saturday as the Watford-born fighter stopped American Molina in the third round.
Promoter Eddie Hearn then announced that Joshua would fight Klitschko at Wembley Arena on 29 April, by which time the Ukrainian will be 41.
"Klitschko is a different type of test," McCracken said. "Klitschko won't be fazed - he's hugely experienced.
"He knows his way around, he knows how to jab and grab and nullify big punchers. He's beaten big punchers before, but I think Anthony's more than a big puncher."
Klitschko became free to fight Joshua for the WBA and IBF belts after Tyson Fury relinquished his titles in October.
Britain's Fury, who beat Klitschko to win the WBA and WBO titles in November 2015, had twice pulled out of scheduled rematches.
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Holly Lodge Girls' College has captured events including sports days, school plays and a trip to Nazi Germany, where pupils watched the Hitler Youth taking part in a tug-of-war.
The archive will be catalogued by Liverpool Central Library so it can be made available to the public, reports Lindsey Prosser for North West Tonight.
Year after year, some wealthy individuals have used legitimate reliefs to pay little or no tax, according to the Treasury. Other schemes have been seen as more contrived.
The way in which these high-income individuals have used the system has led to an argument about morality, but also what can be done to halt the avoidance.
Accountants and commentators say this is nothing new, as many of these schemes have been around for years.
Remember, tax avoidance - unlike tax evasion - is perfectly legal, so it is up to the government to change the rules to make these people pay more in tax.
So, what are the most common ways that individuals look to mitigate their tax bill?
The BBC News website asked two experts to pick out some of the most common avoidance schemes: Ronnie Ludwig of Saffery Champness Accountants and John Whiting of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, who also advises the government on tax simplification.
Wealthy individuals have a lot of disposable income - money that is not needed to heat the house, feed the children, or pay the council tax bill.
This income can be invested in things that lead to a reduction in the amount of tax they have to pay.
For example, this income can be pumped into an individual's pension scheme, up to a certain limit, or into schemes that are aimed at allowing businesses to thrive.
The latter - known as Enterprise Investment Schemes - are designed to encourage wealthy people to invest in new businesses that appear to have good ideas, but could be risky investments.
Banks may not be willing to take the risk these days, but wealthy people are encouraged to do so because they receive tax relief on the chunk of their own income that they put in and also pay little or no tax on any return they get out if the business is successful.
Some of these schemes already have a limit on how much income people can invest and get tax relief on.
Others do not, such as giving a chunk of their income to charity, or possibly donating a chunk of their companies' shares.
Some people may choose to give some of their income to charity, rather than the state. As with some reliefs they may not benefit directly as individuals, but it may mean the government does not gain as much in tax as it might expect, as the charities would benefit instead.
This month a cap of 25% of incomes (or £50,000, whichever is the greater) was introduced for income tax relief, available on a range of methods that do not already have caps.
Another well-known ploy, available to anyone, is to insure their lives, and write this policy into a trust for their children, so the money passes straight to them without paying inheritance tax. However, for somebody approaching later life, the premiums on such a policy are likely to be expensive.
Again, this is a perfectly legitimate thing to do, for those who have their own business.
Many small businesses might survive only because the owner's husband or wife is prepared to do a lot of work behind the scenes for relatively little pay.
However, some businessmen and women have employed their husbands or wives, who paid little or no tax previously. They might do very little work, but are still paid a salary.
This means that the couple divides its income tax bill, rather than one of them - who might be the boss of the company - receiving all of the income and so paying a larger amount in tax.
The benefit from this arrangement arises because most people get a tax-free allowance to set against the first chunk of their income.
This applies in full only to individuals with a taxable income of less than £100,000.
Above that level, the once-universal personal allowance is gradually withdrawn.
If only one of the couple took all the income, he or she might also be pushed into a higher tax bracket.
The couple may also pay less tax by sharing ownership of the company and paying themselves a dividend, rather than salary - something that governments have also tried to crack down on.
Chancellor George Osborne wants to strengthen existing rules against this and similar schemes by introducing a General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR).
This aims to act as blanket legislation to allow the taxman to differentiate between what counts as responsible tax planning and what is abusive tax avoidance. An advisory group on the issue has now been set up, with the government intending to bring in the rule soon.
The test should be clearer - did Parliament intend for this tax not to be paid when it set out tax laws?
That does not mean that this will not be challenged by either side, and accountants say that these appeals could still be lengthy and expensive.
Some say the line between avoidance and legitimate tax planning will still be blurred. But others argue that the general rule should create a culture in which people will think twice about signing up to an avoidance scheme, knowing that they may be more likely to pay back the tax and pay a penalty.
They want to speak to the men about an attack on three other men at about 03:00 on Sunday 6 September last year.
Police said the victims were approached and attacked as they crossed Bath Street, after leaving a nightclub in Elmbank Gardens.
One of the men had to go to hospital the next day to be treated for injuries to his leg.
Their attackers left the scene of the assault and headed in the direction of the Glasgow Hilton Hotel, next to the M8.
Det Con Stephen Palmer appealed for help in tracing the men in the CCTV images.
He said: "This appears to have been an unprovoked attack on a group of men heading home from a night out.
"I would appeal to anyone who recognises the men in the images to contact officers as they may be able to assist with our inquiries.
One man had brown hair and was wearing an off-white T-shirt, jeans and trainers.
A second man had dark hair and was wearing a white shirt and jeans, while the third man had dark hair and he was wearing a white shirt and black jacket.
The crew made the discovery 18-months ago on the verge of the M74, near J6, opposite Hamilton Services.
It included two structures, coins and pieces of pottery and smoking pipes.
Archaeologist believe they may be more than 1,000 years old and could finally identify the location of the lost village of Cadzow.
Cadzow was the name given to a community on the edge of the River Clyde at this location until 1445.
King James II gave his permission for the area to be renamed and residents were forced to move a mile or so south to the town's current location.
The artefacts and structures were uncovered close to a memorial stone which rests against a tree on the motorway verge.
The stone marks the former position of the 1000 year-old Netherton Cross - one of the earliest symbols of Christianity in the town and one of the most valuable pre-Norman Christian relics in Scotland.
While preparing the ground for construction of a new motorway lane, workers uncovered two ancient stone structures beneath the surface.
Work was then stopped to allow a specialist team from Guard Archaeology to investigate the site and safeguard anything of historic interest.
Warren Bailie, from Guard Archaeology said: "Medieval remains rarely survive in industrial centres such as Glasgow due to widespread industrialisation of the nineteenth century, including mining, road and housing construction.
"Very few medieval settlements have survived, so we're delighted to recover and record such a rare and interesting piece of Scottish history."
Kevin Mooney, project director for the excavation, said: "It is believed one of the structures was literally on the position of the Netherton Cross, and there is a possibility that one or other of these buildings may have had some religious connection, although further analysis of the artefacts may shed some light on this.
"Despite the area being heavily mined in the early 1900s, it's possible the area around the Netherton Cross was not disturbed for religious reasons.
"We are not sure of the age of these structures just yet, however, the Netherton Cross dates from the 10th or 11th Century, therefore it is possible that the surrounding buildings could date from the same period - so we could be looking at a site and artefacts that are 1,000 years old."
During the dig the team found nine medieval coins, fragments of animal bone, clay smoking-pipe fragments and more than 200 sherds of glazed medieval pottery that could date to the 1400s or earlier.
Mr Mooney added: "It is very unusual to find so many coins in one place. We think it's possible that people thought it lucky to leave a coin at the religious shrine.
"We've also discovered two gaming pieces, one carved of stone and the other a circle of green-glazed medieval pottery, which could have been used in a medieval game of some sort.
"This provides us with an all too rare glimpse into the past, shedding light on the medieval beginnings of Hamilton."
The team also found a lead pistol shot in the floor of one of the structures, possible evidence that an officer involved in the Battle of Bothwell Bridge (1679) may have taken cover in the, then ruins, of the buildings at Netherton.
The remnants of the structures and the contents have been recorded and reported to Historic Environment Scotland.
Further analysis and dating will take place of the artefacts recovered.
The discoveries were made during work to widen part of the motorway as part of the £500m M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Project.
The horses' owner, John Davey, said he was co-operating with the charity and denied claims they were being ill-treated on land in Merseyside.
Resident Amanda Woods said horses were in a "horrific condition" when they found them on Sunday.
A foal was discovered entangled in an electric fence but Mr Davey said the power was off.
Mrs Woods said they discovered a dead foal in a barn in Coney Lane, Tarbock Green, and said other horses seemed "very thin".
She wants the horses to be seized from owner, founder and managing director of Davey's Chemists, who also breeds racehorses.
A petition has been signed by more than 4,000 people.
The smell in the barn was "repulsive," Mrs Woods added, and said mares in the field were "thin and their feet are in a poor condition".
Mr Davey told the BBC the horses were "in good order." He said a mare and foal had been moved to another stable by the residents to "give them a chance to come right".
He admitted that one of the animals had a cut on its forehead, but it was being treated with cream from a vet.
The animals' owner said he appreciated the help of the "Good Samaritans" who alerted him to the foal entangled in electric fence tape.
He said they had been making arrangements for the dead foal to be taken away.
Mr Davey said the animals were "not emaciated".
The RSPCA said it was "was made aware of animal welfare concerns about a number of horses in stables and on land in Knowsley".
In a statement, it said the inspector requested the attendance of an experienced equine vet.
An inspector has attended daily to ensure that the welfare advice given to the owner is being acted upon.
"As this is an ongoing investigation, we are unable to comment further at this time," it added.
"We want to reassure the public we are doing all we can to help these horses and their welfare is very important to us."
Public borrowing dropped to £10.5bn last month, down £0.9bn from a year earlier, although analysts had expected the figure to fall further to £10bn.
Borrowing in the current financial year to date (April to August) has reached £33.8bn, which is £4.9bn lower than the same point last year.
The ONS added there was no clear sign of the Brexit vote affecting figures.
Chancellor Philip Hammond has said he may have to reset fiscal policy to offset any negative outcome from the vote.
However, he has dampened down talk that he might reveal an increase in public spending when he reveals his Autumn Statement in November.
The ONS said receipts from income and corporation taxes rose strongly compared with a year ago, but VAT receipts rose at their slowest annual pace since March 2015.
Independent research company Capital Economics said the improvement in public finances "was unlikely to last".
Scott Bowman, UK economist at Capital Economics, said: "The improvement in the UK public finances in August was partly due to one-off timing factors and is unlikely to continue due to the economic slowdown as a result of the Brexit vote.
"The effect of the apparent slowdown in GDP growth since the vote will instead hit the public finances in coming months."
In March's Budget, the Office for Budget Responsibility estimated that the government would borrow £55.5bn in the current financial year
Howard Archer from IHS Global Insight said the latest borrowing figures were "mixed news" for Mr Hammond.
"On the positive side, this adds to the evidence that the economy has been resilient so far following June's Brexit vote, with tax receipts holding up relatively well overall.
"Nevertheless, the public finances are still off track to meet the March Budget target, which highlights the fact that the chancellor really has limited ability to provide a boost to the economy in November's Autumn Statement if he is to maintain a semblance of fiscal discipline."
The ex-prime minister has represented the Quartet - the US, EU, UN and Russia - since 2007 in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
The Financial Times said Mr Blair hoped to "reconfigure" the role but wanted to remain involved in the peace process.
The paper quoted US sources saying his current role was "no longer viable".
And it suggested the EU's new foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini also wanted the Quartet to be revamped amid frustration about the lack of progress in reviving negotiations after they broke down last year.
The FT said that no decision had been made but that Mr Blair's future involvement in the Middle East might be clarified later this week.
One possibility, it suggested, was that he might take on a more regional role focused on liaising with countries such as Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia where he is regarded as having the most influence.
A senior US official told the BBC there had been no moves to remove Mr Blair from his position as Middle East envoy.
"There is one thing I want to be absolutely clear about there has been no effort by the Quartet to push Tony out of his current role as Quartet representative. There is just no truth for that," the official said.
It was always unfair to blame Tony Blair for failing to bring peace to the Middle East. Quite simply, it was never his job.
As Middle East envoy for the Quartet, his remit was always much more narrow.
From the outset, his role was to promote economic development in the Palestinian territories: the Gaza Strip and Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Two years ago, Mr Blair's office was given the task of devising a $4bn (£2.7bn) growth and investment plan, designed to accompany a new US-led push to forge a political settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.
But economic development and the peace process go hand in hand, with the former almost always hostage to the latter.
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The official added: "As far as the United States is concerned Tony has been a very valued partner in efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and we will continue to value his support going forward."
They said it was a "natural time" to reflect on the way forward for Middle East peace and the future role of the Quartet "and obviously Tony has been a big part of that discussion".
Neither Mr Blair, who met US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday and visited Gaza last month, nor his office have commented on the story.
The former Labour leader's role in the region, which he took on after leaving office in 2007, has always been controversial given his pivotal role in the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Reports of possible changes to the Quartet's focus come ahead of elections in Israel later this week, in which the centre-left is expected to make ground.
In recent times, Mr Blair has been responsible for overseeing a $4bn (£2.7bn) plan to stimulate growth and investment in the Palestinian territories announced in 2013.
Downing Street said Mr Blair had been doing "important work" since 2007.
"In terms of his own approach to how he thinks he may be best able to make a contribution, that is principally a matter for Tony Blair," a spokesman said. "The prime minister thinks he has been doing important work as the Quartet's representative."
The 26-year-old, capped 37 times, tore cruciate ligaments in his left knee while playing for Waikato Chiefs.
He will have a knee reconstruction and is expected to be out for six months.
New Zealand's first match at the World Cup - against Argentina at Wembley - will be played on 20 September, with the final on 31 October.
"I wasn't too sure what it was when it happened," said Cruden, who told the All Blacks website he had not given up hope of playing at the World Cup.
"It was hard to believe when I heard what it was. There was no swelling around the knee and it still feels reasonably strong.
"It felt like I had been struck down by a sniper."
Cruden, who has scored 280 points for the All Blacks, made his most recent international appearance in the 24-21 win over England in November.
He was the starting fly-half for New Zealand's 2011 World Cup final triumph after Dan Carter and Colin Slade sustained injuries.
Cruden went off in the first half of the 8-7 win over France with a knee injury, leaving Stephen Donald - who had been on a fishing holiday at the start of the tournament - to kick the decisive penalty.
The vehicle left the busway's concrete tracks on 22 February near Trumpington, and ended up mounting a verge.
The "excessive speed" at a junction between one set of guide tracks and another made it "unlikely the bus was under the driver's control".
The driver was dismissed after the accident, operator Stagecoach said.
Two of those injured, an elderly woman and an elderly man were taken to hospital. The other injured passengers were treated at the scene.
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The crash also caused "considerable damage" to the bus itself, as well as the track.
The county council report into the accident said it happened as the driver was moving from a single guided carriageway to a dual carriageway, a point at which he is expected to steer the vehicle to ensure correct alignment.
Conditions at the time were dry and visibility good, however CCTV images "showed the bus being thrown from one side of the guideway section to the other, before being thrown onto the adjacent maintenance track and up onto the verge".
Investigations showed the vehicle was travelling at more than 53mph in a 30mph zone on the approach to the dualled track.
As it entered the junction the bus was positioned further to the left than it should have been and collided with part of the concrete guide.
One of the guided wheels was also "sheared off" which had a "catastrophic effect on the bus's guidance... magnified by the bus's forward momentum", the report said.
The report concluded the driver's "excessive speed" indicated he was "either inattentive or overconfident".
CCTV from inside the vehicle suggested the driver "appeared to be reading something" and looked "shocked" as the bus collided with the guideway.
He was also thrown off his seat into the foot well of the bus.
It was "unlikely the bus was under the driver's control" at that point, the report said.
Its authors recommended the council, which operates the busway, work more closely with bus companies to develop a system to ensure training and monitoring procedures are "open and transparent".
The Cambridgeshire guided busway opened in 2011 and connects Cambridge with Huntingdon and St Ives.
The busway carries thousands of passengers in and out of Cambridge every day, with buses running on the specially-designed concrete tracks.
Craig Gilroy is back after missing Saturday's victory over Treviso after taking a bang on his head in the opening win over the Dragons.
Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac will bring in Hadleigh Parkes to partner Jonathan Davies in midfield.
Meanwhile, Liam Williams moves to the wing with Aled Thomas at full-back and Lewis Rawlins returns from illness.
Another Ireland international, Iain Henderson, could make his campaign bow for Ulster after being named as a replacement.
Charles Piutau returns to the Ulster starting line-up after being ruled out of last week's game with a minor thumb injury.
Andrew Trimble and Rory Best are still being rested for the hosts after playing major roles in Ireland's summer tour to South Africa.
Jared Payne continues to recover from a calf injury picked up at an Ireland training camp last month.
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Meanwhile hooker Rob Herring will make his 100th appearance for the Irish province.
Among the eight changes from last week's victory in Italy, Stuart McCloskey returns in the backline, with Callum Black, Peter Browne, Alan O'Connor and Robboe Diack bolstering the pack.
Louis Ludik switches from full-back to the left wing to accommodate the return of New Zealander Piutau, while Angus Lloyd still awaits his first competitive appearance after being an unused substitute against Treviso.
While the Scarlets have lost their opening two games against Munster and Edinburgh, Ulster assistant coach Clarke is still expecting a tough test against the club that defeated Ulster home and away last season.
"I know they have gone zero from two but they have played plenty of footie and have created plenty of opportunities and are a team that physically can mix it with the best."
Scarlets' disappointing start follows a summer when they recruited Wales and Lions centre Jonathan Davies and Blues fly-half Rhys Patchell.
They were the top-placed Welsh region in the Pro12 last season, and are Wales' only representatives in the European Champions' Cup this term but have scored only one try in two league matches.
Ulster: C Piutau; C Gilroy, S Olding, S McCloskey, L Ludik; P Jackson, R Pienaar; C Black, R Herring (capt), R Ah You; P Browne, A O'Connor; C Ross, S Reidy, R Diack.
Replacements: J Andrew, A Warwick, R Kane, F van der Merwe, I Henderson, A Lloyd, L Marshall, R Lyttle.
Scarlets: A Thomas, L Williams, Jonathan Davies, H Parkes, S Evans, R Patchell, G Davies, W Jones, K Owens (capt), W Kruger, J Ball, D Bulbring, L Rawlins, James Davies, J Barclay.
Replacements: R Elias, L Garrett, P Edwards, T Beirne, W Boyde, Aled Davies, S Williams, S Hughes.
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The officials say Paruyr Hayrikyan, aged 63, was taken to hospital with a gunshot injury to his shoulder. He is reportedly in a stable condition.
Police have sealed off the area and are searching for the gunman.
Mr Hayrikyan, a well-known dissident from the Soviet era, is one of eight people contesting the 18 February poll.
He spent a number of years in Soviet prison camps and in exile for being a member of a clandestine political organisation as well as for his anti-establishment writings.
Mr Hayrikyan is seen as one of the outsiders in the elections, with incumbent leader Serge Sarkisian widely expected to win.
The 2008 presidential vote led to clashes between police and protesters which left 10 people dead after then Mr Sarkisian was declared the winner.
Armenia's economy was badly hit by the 2008-9 global financial crisis. It remains hobbled by a trade blockade imposed by neighbouring Turkey and Azerbaijan since the 1990s war with Azerbaijan over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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A two-week review into 56 legacy cases began last week.
Many of the delayed investigations involve killings linked to the security forces.
Lord Justice Weir said the MoD was not short of money as they were fighting wars across the world.
The cases involve 95 deaths where inquests have still to be heard.
These include some of the most controversial killings during the Troubles.
The judge made his comments when he was told the reason the MoD had missed deadlines for disclosing classified papers to the coroners' courts was due to resource pressures.
"The MoD is not short of money," he said.
"It's busy all over the world fighting wars and it's about to buy some new submarines with nuclear warheads - so it's not short of money."
He added: "This is obviously very low on their list of priorities."
The judge was examining the shooting dead of Belfast father-of-six Patrick McVeigh by a covert army unit, the Military Reaction Force, in 1972.
He also examined the cases of seven IRA men shot by the SAS in two separate ambushes in the early 1990s.
In the case of IRA men Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell, Patrick Vincent and Peter Clancy, who were killed by the SAS in Clonoe, County Tyrone, in 1992, the judge was told the MoD still had not disclosed documents to the court - more than a year after committing to do so.
The MoD also faced criticism for its handling of the stalled inquest for IRA men Michael "Peter" Ryan, Anthony Doris and Laurence McNally, who were killed by the SAS in Coagh, County Tyrone, in June 1991.
Lord Justice Weir stressed that the holding of investigations was not "optional".
"It's not like buying a new Jeep or getting a new regimental mascot," he said.
"This is not an option - this is an international obligation on the state."
He said the MoD argument that it was under resource pressure raised questions over the government's commitment to its obligations under international human rights laws.
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A senior judge has challenged claims the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is not able to properly resource its work on some inquests into Troubles deaths in Northern Ireland.
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The scheme hopes to safeguard the future of the Torwoodlee Tower near Galashiels which dates back to 1601.
A fundraising campaign was launched in 2001 to generate the resources necessary to consolidate the building.
A two-year £150,000 project is now able to get under way which should help to make the structure safe to view.
The tower plays a part in the history of Galashiels and its annual Braw Lads' Gathering celebrations.
James Pringle, the 14th and current laird of Torwoodlee, said: "In 2001 we launched a campaign to raise the funds we needed to consolidate this romantic ruin.
"That year was the quincentenary of 1501 when we first came to Torwoodlee and it seemed a very apt moment to be thinking of the next 500 years.
"Now, thanks to the generosity of the Fallago Environment Fund, Historic Scotland, local people and Pringles around the world, we are in a position to undertake the two year project to stop the tower falling down any more."
He said when the project was finished the tower would be "safe for people to look at and admire once again".
The Anaphylaxis Campaign - an allergy charity - says there are about 35 known cases in the entire world.
And for that reason, scientific understanding of the condition is relatively limited.
Aquagenic urticaria - as it is officially called - is something that even many medical professionals know nothing about.
But after discussing the condition on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show, the production team was amazed when dozens of people came forward to say they were suffering in a similar way.
It seemed that thanks to our radio phone-in, we had discovered that more people suffer with an allergy to water than previously thought.
Dr Sarah Jarvis, a GP and BBC Radio 2's medical expert, says: "Allergy to water is remarkably rare.
"Some people are so allergic to water that even their tears or their sweat can cause them to come out in a rash.
"The most common time to develop allergies in general is around the time of puberty, although they can be developed at any stage of life.
"Often the allergy can become worse over time.
"A true water allergy is a type of urticaria.
"With urticaria, within one to 15 minutes of being exposed to a substance, you come up in hives.
"It is like nettle rash on the skin, and you can get really dramatic swelling all over.
"Fingers especially can become red, hot and intensely itchy."
Dr Jarvis says antihistamine tablets are used to treat most types of urticaria, but they deliver only variable success for those with a genuine water allergy.
"There simply aren't enough people in the world who have it to be able to successfully conduct the studies we need to," she says.
"There is no definitive cure."
But as with any allergy, people who suffer do so with varying degrees of severity.
Dr Jarvis says: "Some people will come out in hives regularly, others occasionally, and some people will get it chronically, with the swelling and itching lasting for weeks."
Below, some of our listeners explain what it is like to be allergic to water.
There have been times where it has felt like someone is holding a stinging nettle to my face.
The allergy - which mainly causes intense itching - is concentrated in the creases of my elbows, the backs of my knees and my face.
Even sweat makes me itch.
I have to carry a hand towel with me everywhere I go to wipe it off.
I am a cyclist, and every time I come to standstill, I dab my face.
Sometimes people do not believe that you are allergic to water; they take the Mickey out of you.
It all started when I was about 60.
I was a metal grinder, and initially I thought it had something to do with metal dust getting to me.
If I had a shower or got my hands wet, they - along with my torso and back - would itch like nobody's business.
I get a red rash all over.
If you were to feel my arm after I have a reaction, it feels like sandpaper.
And in fact if someone had rubbed actual sandpaper on me after, it would have been a relief.
The itching is so intense that at times I would actually go outside and rub my back against a pebbledash wall.
I flare up even if I do everyday tasks like cleaning out the fish tank.
If it was much more severe, I can see how it might drive you to suicide.
You just want anything to take the pain away.
I went to the see the doctor, and we went through everything in my lifestyle.
I changed shampoo, shower gels, water temperature, and nothing worked.
My doctor eventually decided that the only thing it could be was water.
I am helped now by a heavy-duty antihistamine.
I was eight when it first happened.
I was walking to school one day in the rain, and my hands and neck swelled up with hives - it was really frightening.
I later went to the doctor for an allergy test.
They put tiny drops of different substances on my arm to see what I was allergic to.
They also put a 'control' substance on, which was water.
It is a control substance because water is not supposed to cause a reaction at all.
But after 15 minutes, my entire arm swelled up.
It turns out that I was allergic to it.
It got worse for me.
I would play sport at school - but the moment I started to sweat, I would get swelling.
When the swelling happens around my joints, it really hurts.
When my neck swells up, it makes me wheezy.
Teachers did not believe me when I said I could not play sport in the rain - until they saw what it did to me.
I take antihistamines every day, which means I can drink water - it is a necessary evil.
I tend to have three-minute showers and have to get dry as fast as possible.
From the response we got from our listeners on the Jeremy Vine Show, it would appear that a true allergy to water could be more common than widely believed.
Amena Warner, the head of clinical services for Allergy UK, said: "Once awareness is raised of what the symptoms are of this condition, then many people may associate this with the symptoms they are experiencing.
"And so, we may come to realise that actually it is not quite as rare as we think."
On 18 June 1994, a few regulars had just finished watching the Republic of Ireland's footballers beat Italy in the World Cup.
Just after 22:00 BST, two gunmen from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), one armed with an AK47 and the other with a Czech-made rifle, walked inside and began firing indiscriminately.
Six men were killed instantly.
They were 34-year-old Adrian Rogan, Malcolm Jenkinson, 53, Barney Green, 87, Daniel McCreanor, 59, Patrick O'Hare, 35, and Eamon Byrne, 39.
All were Catholic civilians. Mr Green was one of the oldest people to be killed in the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Witnesses said that the killers laughed as they ran to their getaway car.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the brother of the bar owner described how the dead were "piled on top of each other".
"We are still in a state of complete numbness. My head is just saturated with the thought of it all. My feelings for these poor families," Keiron O'Toole said.
He also rubbished claims by the UVF that the bar had been hosting a republican meeting.
"That is absolute nonsense. This was a mixed pub, Protestant and Catholic came in, no-one cared what religion they were.
"There was just a complete attempt to kill Catholics and who ever else happened to be in the bar among them."
The UVF's explanation for the attack was also dismissed angrily by unionist politicians.
"Obviously these people are psychopaths - nothing short of it," an Ulster Unionist councillor said.
"I feel shocked and disgusted to think that these people call themselves loyalists."
Senior police officers had their own views on the reason for the murders - a random sectarian attack in response to other killings.
Two days previously, republican terror group the Irish National Liberation Army had killed three UVF members in Belfast.
The following day, the UVF responded by killing a Catholic taxi driver and later two Protestants, they believed to be Catholic.
They then turned their attention to the County Down bar.
No-one has ever been convicted over the Loughinisland attack and the families of those who died became concerned about the investigation.
In 2006, they lodged an official complaint with the police ombudsman, who has the power to investigate the actions of police in Northern Ireland throughout the Troubles.
The families said they were prompted by revelations that linked the gang with at least one person who was an agent of the security forces.
They were also concerned that the getaway car used by the killers was destroyed by police ten months after the shootings and not retained for evidential purposes.
The ombudsman's report has been delayed on several occasions.
It had been scheduled for publication in 2009, but was postponed after new material came forward.
Relatives of those who died were strongly critical of the original ombudsman report when it was finally published in 2011.
It found that the police did not properly investigate the killings but said there was no evidence of collusion between police and the UVF paramilitaries who carried out the attack.
The report's findings were later quashed by Belfast High Court and a fresh investigation was opened by the ombudsman.
In 2014, one of the survivors, Colm Smyth, called on those responsible to come forward.
A police reservist was arrested and questioned over perverting the course of justice and withholding information in 2010.
After considering the charges against him, the Public Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence and it would not be proceeding with a court case.
Ant and Dec dedicated their Bafta TV Award to the Queen after winning a prize for their presentation of her 90th birthday celebration event.
But Netflix's lavish royal drama The Crown left empty handed even though it had the most nominations.
Here are seven things we learned from some of the winners backstage:
"I am not going to be the first female Doctor," said Phoebe Waller-Bridge after winning the prize for best female comedy performance. "Not that I know of."
The Fleabag star had been the bookies' favourite to take over the lead role in Doctor Who after Peter Capaldi bows out.
But speaking after her Bafta win she seemed to settle the rumours once and for all.
The actress, who has a role in the untitled Han Solo Star Wars spin-off, admitted she hadn't even started writing series two of Fleabag.
"I had an idea on a bus and I thought I might be able to open it up again," she said.
"It's galvanizing because you feel like there's something that resonates with people."
Planet Earth II won the public vote for TV's must-see moment award for its snakes vs iguana chase.
Its makers revealed how every 400 minutes of film shot produces just one minute of screen time.
But fans of the natural history show, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, have a long wait before the next one.
For a start, Planet Earth III hasn't even been commissioned. And even if it had it wouldn't be on TV screens until 2022 at the earliest.
"These things take five years to make even if we started today," said Mike Gunton, the show's executive producer.
Sir David wasn't at the ceremony, and the team admitted they hadn't been able to send him a message about the win.
"Sadly, texting is not an option," Gunton added. "He doesn't do texting."
"It was a horrible year," said Charlie Brooker, after he and his team won best comedy for his satirical review series Wipe.
"At one point I said I don't want to do the show because it was so depressing - and then I was reminded we had a contractual obligation and so we had to push on.
"We've done these shows for years. Do you remember when it was about a woman dropping a cat in a bin? That was the worst thing that happened that year."
Brooker added there were no plans for a snap election special due to lack of time.
"This time last year they asked us if we wanted to do an EU referendum Wipe and I said 'that would be boring - who cares about that?'.
"Which goes to show how much I know."
The Night Manager's Tom Hollander, who won best supporting actor, was the only cast member to be recognised at the Baftas.
The six-part thriller, adapted from the 1993 John Le Carre novel, had been the biggest TV winner at the Golden Globes.
So many were surprised when it got just one Bafta nod.
"This show itself has not been underexposed," admitted Hollander, who played the scheming character Corky.
"We all feel we've had our fair share of attention and it's time to exit stage left and stop slapping ourselves on the back.
"But I'm utterly thrilled to get an award on home territory."
EastEnders star Danny Dyer found out in Who Do You Think You Are? that he is a direct descendant from King Edward III.
Speaking after the show was named best feature programme, he said: "There was a bit of a void in my life and I never understood why I was an actor or why I was famous...
"To understand that I've got a bloodline that is extremely famous fills a little hole. It's still hard to get my head round."
Had any royals been in touch since the programme?
"No, they've been blanking me!" he joked.
"I wouldn't mind meeting any of them, have a bit of dialogue with them - talk about football or something."
Speaking after Saturday Night Takeaway was named best entertainment programme, Ant and Dec confirmed that ITV is "on board" with the idea of a one-off reunion of hit kids' morning show SM:TV Live.
The show, which ran from 1998 to 2003, launched the presenting careers of the Geordie duo, who appeared alongside Cat Deeley.
Ant said: "We've had first discussions about it and it looks like it's going to go ahead."
Expect the show to land in August or Sept 2018 for its 20th anniversary.
Dec said: "We'll get the team back together and have a bit of fun on a Saturday morning at 09:25."
When Sarah Lancashire picked up her best actress Bafta she thanked The Crown's Claire Foy for "the best 10 hours under a duvet I've ever had".
The Happy Valley star explained later that she'd started the first episode at 09:00 on a Sunday and was still watching in bed 10 hours later.
"There were so many brilliant performances in it but Claire's was so subtle," Lancashire said.
Holding up her gold Bafta mask, she added: "I'd like to be able to chop this in half."
The actress also noted how two of her best roles - in Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley - had happened in her late 40s.
"I can't complain," she said. "At a time when most actresses are disappearing I seemed to become very visible."
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United boss David Moyes said England winger Young, 28, would be out "for a time" but unsure exactly how long.
Moyes was angry his side were not given a penalty for the tackle that felled Young during United's 2-1 defeat to Spurs on New Year's Day.
He claimed Howard Webb's decision not to award a spotkick was "scandalous".
Moyes added: "It's an incredible decision, in fact probably one of the worst I think I saw. If you follow through on a player anywhere else on the pitch with your foot high, it would be a red card."
Moyes was unable to offer an update on the fitness of striker Robin van Persie, who has missed the last six matches with a thigh injury.
The 31-year-old Portuguese's last deal was set to end in June 2018 but he will now remain with the Spanish giants until June 2021.
He added that the new contract would not be the last deal he signs.
"What I most want is to continue enjoying the years I have left to play," said the former Manchester United player. "I still have 10 years."
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez added: "We want to be together for many years to come."
Ronaldo has scored 371 goals since joining Real from United in 2009 and has helped the club win the Champions League twice and La Liga once.
While he wants to end his career at the Bernabeu, he admitted: "No-one knows what the future holds."
He added: "I'm going to be here for another five years, but let it be known this will not be my last contract.
"I have said many times that I carry this club in my heart, it is part of me and it is a special time in my life.
"Of course I would like to end my career at this club. I want to be here for many years to come. I want to continue rewriting history at this club."
It has been reported his weekly wage will remain at around £365,000.
Ronaldo helped Real cement their place at the top of the La Liga table by beating Leganes 3-0 on Sunday.
After the game, Real boss Zinedine Zidane described Ronaldo as "unique".
Wales became the first country in the world to make it mandatory that all new buildings - such as homes, flats and care homes - be fitted out.
Ruthin School's 40-bedroom block for boarding pupils has a system installed.
North Wales Fire and Rescue's Stuart Millington said it is "leading the way".
He said: "The legislation is intended to reduce the number of deaths and injuries from fire, improve the safety afforded to fire fighters and contribute to the sustainability of new developments."
The school's new-build is the first residential facility in north Wales to have sprinklers installed since the legislation came into effect, the service said.
However, the new rule has not been welcomed by all, with developer Redrow saying the "red tape" would lead to less new buildings in Wales.
Mr Bird, 78, from Barnsley, was regarded as one of the game's most popular and consistent umpires.
A guard of honour by the players and a standing ovation from the crowd marked his final Test, between England and India, at Lord's in 1996.
After retiring in 1998, he set up the Dickie Bird Foundation which gives grants to under-privileged children.
Speaking about the award, Mr Bird told the BBC: "It came as quite a surprise... but I'm tremendously delighted and honoured to get this great honour, this OBE.
"It's a marvellous and wonderful honour and I never expected it, really.
"It came out of the blue, because I got the MBE in 1986 which is a long time ago, and so when this came along I was completely stunned, shocked."
Talking about his foundation, Mr Bird said: "It's for under-privileged kids, who the mothers and parents can't afford to buy them sports equipment... and if we think they are a worthy cause then we send them a grant.
"And my aim is to get them off street corners, away from television, doing exercises and giving them a start in life."
Other people honoured in South Yorkshire include the county force's recently-retired chief constable, Med Hughes, who has been appointed CBE for his services to the police.
World taekwondo champion Sarah Stevenson, from Doncaster, becomes an MBE for her services to martial arts.
And Christine Manby has been appointed OBE for her work with South Yorkshire's Women's Royal Voluntary Service.
A lot of them just get sent a bag of kits so it's a really unique part of being on this team and it will definitely get us excited and make us feel like we're part of the team going forward.
My preparations for Rio are going really well.
I had a bit of a blip a couple of weeks ago in Leeds. I was hoping to race a bit better there but things don't always go to plan.
I have to re-evaluate and move on. I'm looking forward to racing again in the ITU series race in Stockholm on Saturday, as that will be the last race before the games.
Hopefully I can have a good hit out in Stockholm and rectify some of the mistakes and problems that I had in Leeds when I finished ninth.
There were a few issues, I had a pretty terrible swim which was unexpected.
Training has been going really well but sometimes these things happen.
There's no excuse for it. I've had a few weeks to think of what might have happened. I just want to go out in Stockholm and rectify that and have a good race there.
It's a quality field and it's a series that brings out some of the top in the field. It will be an opportunity for me, Vicky Holland and Helen Jenkins to actually race together before the games.
It will be fun to race with them and see what we can do as a team. Everything is building towards Rio and from Stockholm we're going to go on to St Moritz which is our final big camp before we head out.
I'm absolutely looking at a podium again and you always do when you start a world series race, that's the aim. For me it will be to build on Leeds and progress from there, really.
We're surrounded by a fantastic medical team and we're constantly being updated on anything that comes through on the Zika virus.
I have a lot of confidence in the medical team that they will make smart decisions for us. They would never send us anywhere or let us go anywhere where there was a huge threat to our health.
At the moment I don't think that threat is too bad, especially as I'm not planning on having a family myself in the next few years, that's the worry of a lot of the athletes and staff travelling.
For me personally at the minute, I'm confident in the decisions that the British medical team are making for us.
Everyone's talking about the fact that Wales have got to the quarter finals of Euro 2016 and England haven't, but I think the focus should really be on the fact that Wales have done it.
Regardless of how England or any of the other home nations are doing, it's an incredible achievement when you look at where Wales have come from in the past 10 years.
Everyone is really proud of them and I think that's why the nation has really got behind it and is excited about what's happening.
Anything that happens from now on is an absolute bonus. Hopefully they can ride this crest of success with the excitement behind it and that can put them forward to at least the next round.
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If we make the semi-finals then that will be quite the achievement.
I'll try my best to watch Wales play Belgium on Friday night. I'm in Sweden for the ITU World Triathlon event so if I can tune in, that will be fantastic.
We'll see what the Swedish football fans are demanding.
Belgium are going to be a tough team, they're gaining momentum as the tournament progresses.
It's a tough call but the way the boys have been playing so far, I think they can walk away with another win to get them to the semi-final.
Non Stanford was speaking to BBC Wales Sport's Jay Freeman.
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The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) said it had deciphered a document, from 8 January AD 57, found at the dig at Bloomberg's new headquarters.
The first ever reference to London, financial documents and evidence of schooling have also been translated.
Over 700 artefacts from the dig will go on display when the building opens.
According to MOLA, the tablets reveal the first years of the capital "in the words of the people who lived, worked, traded with and administered the new city".
Director Sophie Jackson said the findings had "far exceeded all expectations" and would allow archaeologists "to get closer to the first Roman Britons".
Earliest reference to London
Researchers believe this tablet, is the earliest ever reference to London predating Tacitus' mention of London in his Annals which were produced about 50 years later.
Dated AD 65/70-80, it reads "Londinio Mogontio" which translates to "'In London, to Mogontius".
Earliest readable tablet
This tablet was found in a layer dated by MOLA to AD 43-53 so is thought to have been from the Romans' first decade of rule.
In translation it reads "...because they are boasting through the whole market that you have lent them money. Therefore I ask you in your own interest not to appear shabby... you will not thus favour your own affairs...."
Evidence of schooling
The letters on this tablet show part of the alphabet: "ABCDIIFGHIKLMNOPQRST"
Archaeologists believe it is writing practice, or a demonstration of literacy or letterforms, and possibly the first evidence of Roman schooling found in Britain.
Earliest dated document from Roman Britain
This tablet reads: " In the consulship of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus for the second time and of Lucius Calpurnius Piso, on the 6th day before the Ides of January (8 January AD 57).I, Tibullus the freedman of Venustus, have written and say that I owe Gratus the freedman of Spurius 105 denarii from the price of the merchandise which has been sold and delivered. This money I am due to repay him or the person whom the matter will concern..."
According to MOLA, it is the earliest intrinsically-dated document ever found in the UK, and is a financial document written on 8 January AD 57.
The documents were written on wooden tablets which would have been covered in blackened beeswax.
Although the wax has not survived, the words were etched into the wood below using styluses.
The area is around the buried Walbrook River and objects were trapped in soaking mud which helped to preserve the wood.
Once excavated, the tablets were kept in water, then cleaned and freeze-dried.
Dr Roger Tomlin, who translated the documents said it had been "a privilege to eavesdrop" on the people of Roman London.
The London Mithraeum exhibition will open at the site in autumn 2017.
BBC iWonder: The history of handwriting, from tablet to tablet
John Bercow said the SNP members deserved respect for the way they turned up in large numbers to support each other in the chamber.
But he said he did not believe the party had yet changed the parliament.
Mr Bercow was speaking at an the Edinburgh Festival Fringe organised by Edinburgh University's business school.
The SNP won 50% of Scottish votes in the general election to secure an unprecedented 56 of the country's 59 Westminster seats.
Asked how the Scottish nationalists - who now form the third largest party in the Commons - have changed the parliament, the Speaker said: "The significant thing is not how the SNP have changed parliament, because I don't think yet that they have.
"I think the significant thing is that, whatever you think of the SNP, their parliamentary party has said something very significant by its behaviour since May about group solidarity.
"They turn up in large numbers, they turn up very regularly, they turn up to support each other and a lot of them are already proving to be very good parliamentarians.
"It's not for me to support the SNP or oppose the SNP and I wouldn't dream of doing so, but I'm simply saying respect where it's due."
Mr Bercow said Nicola Sturgeon's party had scored a "notable political victory" when it was credited with forcing the Conservatives to shelve plans to water down the hunting ban in England and Wales.
In a wide-ranging discussion, Mr Bercow also indicated that the House could change its stance on applause within the chamber if MPs so wished.
In May, the Speaker told SNP MPs to stop clapping during a response from the party's Westminster leader Angus Robertson to the Queen's Speech.
Asked why they were not allowed to applaud, Mr Bercow said: "I think my attitude to that is if the House wants to change its procedures, it can, if they vote to do so."
David Roache, who was convicted in 2002 of murdering John Kelly, died at HMP Low Moss, near Bishopbriggs on Saturday.
Police Scotland have been advised of the death and the matter will be reported to the procurator fiscal.
The SPS said that the prisoner's next of kin had been informed and that a fatal accident inquiry may be held.
The Pole, whose right arm was partially severed in a rally accident in 2011, has driven Mercedes' F1 simulator.
Motorsports boss Toto Wolff told BBC Sport Kubica was "helping" Mercedes.
"If there's any chance of getting him back in a DTM touring car or F1 cockpit, we'd love to do it," said Wolff.
"Any team would love to have a Robert Kubica."
But Wolff, also the executive director of the Mercedes F1 team, emphasised that the former BMW and Renault driver was focusing mainly this year on his programme in the European Rally Championship.
"He is somebody I have known for 10 years but it's absolutely his call how he wants to help us and his main focus is rallying," said Wolff.
"This is where he wants to be successful and what he wants to do in the future."
Kubica, 28, is competing in rallying this season as he continues his recovery from the injuries that forced him out of F1 ahead of the 2011 season.
The Pole, who was one of the most highly regarded stars in F1, is undergoing regular rehabilitation on his right arm, which still does not have full movement.
Kubica posted competitive lap times earlier this year in a Mercedes DTM (German touring car championship) car - during a test arranged by Wolff - and admitted at the weekend that he had been in the Mercedes F1 simulator.
BBC Sport understands the door is open for Kubica to continue to use the Mercedes simulator should he wish to do so.
Kubica has made no secret of the fact that he wants to return to F1 eventually, assuming he can recover sufficient movement in his right arm to allow him to operate an F1 car within the tight confines of its cockpit.
"There is no guarantee I will or will not come back to F1," he told Autosport magazine on last weekend's Rally Azores.
He added: "Unfortunately, my F1, not career, but my F1 story got interrupted, so I found rallying was my best option to slowly come back. For this year, it was what I was looking for."
Kubica's former team Lotus, which changed its name from Renault ahead of the 2012 season, have also made it clear they would welcome Kubica back.
And Ferrari have in the past made no secret of their admiration for his skills.
But the fact Kubica is now being given access to the Mercedes simulator - one of any F1 team's most closely guarded secrets - suggests they would be his number one option should he recover sufficiently to allow him to race in the sport again.
The Super Eagles were toothless in front of goal in the first leg, which ended 0-0, and needed 52 minutes of the return game to make the breakthrough.
Moses Simon fired them ahead, finally ending the resistance of a team they were expected to sweep aside.
A second goal was added by Efe Ambrose on 88 minutes before Swaziland had Phumlani Dlamini sent off when he was shown a second yellow card.
Another of the continent's heavyweights, Ghana, secured their passage in very similar fashion to Nigeria.
Having been held 0-0 to Comoros in the first leg, the Black Stars hit two goals without reply in the return match to go through 2-0 on aggregate.
Wakaso Mubarak grabbed the opener and Aston Villa's Jordan Ayew added the second late on.
And just as Swaziland ended their match with 10 men, so too did Comoros when Omar Mdahoma received a second yellow card with eight minutes remaining.
Egypt made the most of Chad's late arrival to win easily 4-0 to go through 4-1 on aggregate.
Chad only arrived at the Borg Al Arab stadium in 30 minutes before kick-off.
This after their flight from N'Djamena was delayed due to a row over player bonuses and then the condition of the plane they were using for the journey.
The Pharaoh's were 2-0 up inside 10 minutes with goals from Mohamed El Neny and then Abdalallah El Saied.
Portugal based Koka then headed home twice in the space of five minutes before half-time to put the game beyond doubt.
Cape Verde, fourth in the Fifa rankings for Africa, beat Kenya 2-0 to overturn a first leg loss and win 3-2 on aggregate.
Heldon Ramos, who is on loan at Portguese side Rio Ave, with both goals for the Blue Sharks.
Kenya had only arrived in Praia hours before the match after a lengthy flight from Nairobi following a delayed departure as players and the charter airline demanded to be paid before they would take off.
Mali were another side to overcome a first leg deficit winning 2-0 against visiting Botswana to make 3-2 overall.
Bordeaux's Cheick Diabate made it 2-2 on aggregate with a penalty after only 10 minutes of play Bakary Sako of Crystal Palace, gave the Eagles lead on the half hour mark.
Senegal were pushed all the way in the first leg by Madagascar but were better at home in Dakar with a 3-0 victory to make it 4-2 overall.
West Ham midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate gave the hosts the lead midway through the first-half with Moussa Konate scoring the second eight minutes after the break.
Mame Biram Diouf, who scored in the first leg, made sure of the win with eight minutes remaining.
Tunisia eased past Mauritania with a second 2-1 win, to make it 4-2 overall.
Defender Syam Ben Youssef gave the hosts the lead early in the second half before Moulaye Ahmed 'Bessam' Khalil gave Mauritania hope with an equaliser.
Substitute Saad Bguir, who plays for local club Esperance, sealed the victory for the hosts.
African champions Ivory Coast were convincing 3-0 winners over Liberia in Abidjan to complete a 4-0 aggregate win.
Striker Giovanni Sio, who plays for Rennes in France, scored twice before half-time.
While Nice midfielder Jean Michel Seri was also on target for the Elephants.
Burkina Faso overturned a first leg deficit against Benin with a 2-0 victory in Ouagadougou.
Jonathan Pitroipa was on target from the penalty spot before Chelsea's Bertrand Traore completed the comeback and send the Burkinabe through 3-2 on aggregate.
Algeria crushed 10-man Tanzania 7-0 in Blida with Porto's Yacine Brahimi scoring as early as the first minute.
Napoli's Faouzi Ghoulam then scored the first of his two goals with a superb freekick from outside the area, he also scored from the penalty spot after the break.
Tanzania had to play the whole of the second half with 10 men after Mudathir Yahya was dismissed for a second bookable offence after 41 minutes.
Moments later Riyad Mahrez, of Leicester City, made it 3-0 at half-time.
Islam Slimani, who scored the goals to secure a 2-2 draw in the first leg, grabbed another brace in the second half including a penalty.
Carl Medjani was also on the scoresheet as the Algerians won 9-2 on aggregate.
South Africa needed an own goal to earn a narrow 1-0 win over visiting Angola in Durban.
Manucho Diniz was the unfortunate player who got the last touch on a corner to give Bafana Bafana the 4-1 aggregate win.
Libya were the first team on Tuesday to book their place in the next round after a 3-1 win in Rwanda gave them a 4-1 aggregate victory.
Khumaj put the visitors ahead in the second leg to put them in control of the tie.
Rwanda's Jacques Tuyisenge made it 1-1 on the day and offered his side some hope of a comeback but Libya pulled away thanks to a brace from Mohamed Ghanudi.
And Cameroon are through, despite being held to a 0-0 draw at home to Niger. The Indomitable Lions secured their passage in the first leg with a 3-0 win.
Congo finally emerged victorious after a fantastic tussle with Ethiopia, the Red Devils winning their second leg 2-1 to go through 6-4 on aggregate.
Ethiopia's Getaneh Kebede scored the opening goal of the second leg to level the tie at 4-4 on aggregate.
But Francis N'Ganga nudged Congo ahead overall when he made it 1-1 on the day and Thievy Bifouma's strike sealed his side's victory.
The final group stage begins next October, the 20 second-round qualifiers will form five groups of four teams with the winners of each group booking their place at the finals in Russia.
England host Malta on Saturday (17:00 BST) and visit Slovenia on Tuesday (19:45 BST) in World Cup qualifiers.
The Everton veteran's withdrawal from Gareth Southgate's first squad as interim boss increases the chances of a debut for Burnley's Michael Keane.
Keane, 23, was added to the squad after Glen Johnson also withdrew through injury.
Southgate called up winger Andros Townsend on Monday as a replacement for the injured Raheem Sterling.
But he has no immediate plans to call up a replacement for Jagielka.
Chelsea defender Gary Cahill missed training at England's St George's Park base on Friday with a sort throat but is expected to be fit to face Malta.
The injury to Jagielka is not thought to be serious with Everton's captain expected to be fit for the his side's trip to Premier League leaders Manchester City next Saturday.
England are behind Group F leaders Scotland on goal difference following a 1-0 win in Slovakia last month under former boss Sam Allardyce, who lost his job after just 67 days in charge.
Goalkeepers: Fraser Forster (Southampton), Joe Hart (Torino, on loan from Manchester City), Tom Heaton (Burnley)
Defenders: Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Michael Keane (Burnley), Danny Rose (Tottenham), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), Kyle Walker (Tottenham)
Midfielders: Eric Dier (Tottenham), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Michail Antonio (West Ham), Jesse Lingard (Manchester United), Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Dele Alli (Tottenham), Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace)
Strikers: Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool), Jamie Vardy (Leicester)
The Met Office says cold weather will continue throughout Thursday and it will remain very cold until the beginning of next week.
The wintry weather gave snowboarders a chance to take to the heights of Divis Mountain in Belfast.
Many parts of Belfast were affected by the snow, particularly those on higher ground. Stevie Anderson's picture shows Woodvale Park at first light on Thursday morning.
The winter sun rises over the Glenshane Pass, as BBC cameraman Peter Jones captured this morning.
In Ballynure, Country Antrim, the snow made driving conditions difficult when several inches fell overnight.
Many parts of east Antrim experienced heavy snow and disruption, but it also gave Bob Farmbrough the opportunity to photograph the snow lying on the trees overlooking Carrickfergus.
Fields in Boardmills, County Down, were also covered with snow, as Dennis Sheridan's picture shows.
The snow also covered the peaks of the Mourne mountains, as this picture by Lauren Harte shows, taken from Newcastle.
BBC News reporter Julian Fowler took this image while filming, showing parts of the Clogher Valley in County Tyrone covered with snow.
The Met Office issued an amber weather warning for snow, which started falling on Wednesday evening. This picture by Philip Palmer was taken just under Dromore viaduct in County Down.
The judge indicated that the confiscation order could force Hayes to sell his family's home.
The Serious Fraud Office had targeted more than £2m of his assets, but described the order as "substantial".
Last year Hayes was jailed for 11 years for manipulating the Libor rate.
He was convicted an eight counts of conspiracy to defraud while working for UBS and Citigroup during the period between 2006 and 2010.
In his court ruling judge Judge Jeremy Cooke said: "I am satisfied that the defendant is unable to pay the full amount immediately and therefore order that whatever cannot be paid immediately to be paid within 3 months."
He added that if Hayes could only pay off the amount by selling his house, then the court could extend that deadline.
The court order identified several items that could used to pay off the order, including:
If Hayes fails to meet the terms of the confiscation order, then he faces another three years in jail.
Hayes's trading activities were based on Libor - the London interbank offered rate - an interest rate used by banks around the world to set the price of financial products worth trillions of pounds.
The ability to organise even minor movements in the rate had the potential to generate bumper profits for a trader.
During Hayes's trial, jurors were told that he promised to pay a broker up to $100,000 to keep the Libor rate "as low as possible".
The court heard that manipulating the Libor rate was so commonplace that an offer of a Mars bar could get it changed.
In January six City brokers were cleared of helping Hayes rig Libor.
Commenting on today's court order, Mark Thompson, head of the SFO's Proceeds of Crime Division, said: "The court acknowledged the challenges of quantifying the benefit from crime in this case.
"The SFO provided the court with all the available information and the outcome is a substantial confiscation order, which Mr Hayes will need to satisfy or face a further period of imprisonment."
Shi, a representative of Fosun, will move to the West Midlands next month to be involved on a "day-to-day basis".
He led negotiations on behalf of Fosun, which led to their £45m takeover of Wolves from Steve Morgan in July 2016.
"I think this will help us to work together even closer, and make our leadership team stronger," said Shi.
"Since Fosun became owners of the club, I have travelled over from China on several occasions, and it has always been a strong intention that I would relocate when the time was right.
"Despite the season having its highs and lows, I have enjoyed every minute of the challenge so far, and I believe we are well placed to make sustained and consistent progress over the next 12 months."
Wolves, who finished 15th in the Championship last season, have had four managers in less than a year under Fosun, with former Porto and Valencia boss Nuno Espirito Santo appointed last month.
She has left her job as human resource development minister, but will remain in the cabinet as textiles minister.
Mr Modi has also inducted 19 new ministers in his government in a bid to improve efficiency.
The new ministers, including former journalist MJ Akbar and MP Arjun Ram Meghwal, were sworn-in on Tuesday.
Ms Irani has been replaced by former environment minister Prakash Javadekar.
Senior cabinet ministers - Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar - have retained their posts.
Ms Irani's critics often accused her of bringing right-wing ideas to India's education system - allegations she always denied.
But under her watch, several universities witnessed protests from students over issues of discrimination and freedom of speech.
Twitter users were divided over the news, some praised Ms Irani for her work but others felt relieved that she had been removed from the education ministry.
Some who were happy with the change tweeted using the #ByeByeSmriti:
Meanwhile, the inclusion of three new ministers from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh is seen as an attempt to boost Mr Modi's party's chances of winning state elections due in 2017.
The government now has 13 ministers from India's most populous state.
Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 73 out of 80 seats in the 2014 general election and it is hoping for a big win in next year's assembly polls.
The state has been ruled by regional parties for the past 15 years.
Correspondents say that Mr Modi will expect his new ministers to promote his policies in Uttar Pradesh to attract voters.
This weekend saw only one team below the Premier League left unbeaten, two League One clubs joining forces to protest against their owners and another not quite hitting the spot on social media.
Here are five stories you may have missed from Saturday's EFL action.
It is very rare new managers are appointed mid-season because things are looking rosy.
A change of gaffer is a chance to provide fresh impetus, improve results and, hopefully, change the overall course of a season. Step forward Neil Warnock, Steve McClaren and Steve Bruce.
Warnock's Cardiff side had lost six of their past seven before Friday night's 2-1 victory over Bristol City, while McClaren's return to Derby County saw a 1-0 win over Leeds United.
In the West Midlands derby, former Birmingham City boss Bruce's Aston Villa could not make it a clean sweep as they drew 1-1 with Wolves.
Still, I'm sure all three chairmen will be happy - for now.
The game at Villa Park was arguably the biggest derby in the EFL this weekend - but there were also a couple you might be less familiar with.
In Greater Manchester, the 'M66 derby' is named after the stretch of motorway that separates Rochdale and Bury, and on Saturday Dale won a sixth game in a row as they came out on top 2-0 at home.
In League Two, two late goals in the so-called 'Dockyard derby' between Plymouth and Portsmouth saw it finish 2-2 at Home Park.
And, back to Friday, and Warnock's first game was also his first 'Severnside derby', which is what games between Cardiff City and Bristol City are called. So there you go, pub quiz fans.
We're now two months into the season and, with most clubs having played 13 league matches so far, only one EFL team remains unbeaten - League Two's Carlisle United.
Bradford City and the Cumbrians both went into the weekend as the only sides without a defeat, but the Bantams lost at Oxford United, leaving Keith Curle's side standing proud after they beat Hartlepool United 3-2.
Carlisle are third after their win, four points behind leaders Plymouth, with a record of six wins and seven draws.
The only time they have tasted defeat so far in the 2016-17 campaign was their EFL Cup second-round exit to Derby, when they lost 14-13 on penalties.
In a show of solidarity between two sets of fans unhappy with their clubs' ownership, Charlton Athletic and Coventry City supporters united on a protest march before their game at The Valley.
Addicks followers are unhappy with the way owner Roland Duchatelet and chief executive Katrien Meire are running their club, with Sky Blues fans taking issue with the way club owners Sisu are handling matters affecting their team.
After the march, the game was stopped for five minutes as plastic toy pigs had to be cleared from the pitch, having been thrown on by both sets of supporters.
Protests continued throughout the match, which Charlton won 3-0 to leave them 15th, with Coventry bottom of League One.
Social media can be a wonderful tool to connect with people all over the world.
Football clubs use it for behind-the-scenes footage, live coverage throughout games and also for team news as soon as it is announced.
However, Burton Albion's post revealing their substitutes' bench for their Championship game at Wigan Athletic was not the easiest to digest...
White font on yellow background - not the best choice?
The tweet was shared numerous times as Saturday progressed and the graphic got quite the treatment when it came to being reviewed.
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Speaking in London, he said: "Take a longer, more optimistic view of history."
Earlier, the US president visited the Globe theatre and watched actors perform scenes from Hamlet.
It came a day after he said Britain would be at "the back of the queue" for US trade deals if it left the EU.
His comments angered Leave campaigners. UKIP leader Nigel Farage accused him of doing Downing Street's "bidding" and "talking down Britain" and Tory Liam Fox said his views were "irrelevant".
Following his appearance at Lindley Hall in London, Mr Obama met Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Mr Corbyn said he had had an "excellent" discussion with the president on issues including the challenges facing post-industrial societies, the power of global corporations, technology, inequality, poverty, and "very briefly" the subject of Europe.
Taking questions from young people at the earlier town-hall event, Mr Obama said change takes time.
"If any of you begin to work on an issue that you care deeply about, don't be disappointed if a year out things haven't been completely solved," he said.
"Don't give up and succumb to cynicism if after five years poverty has not been eradicated and prejudice is still out there somewhere and we haven't resolved all of the steps we need to take to reverse climate change."
Progress is "not inevitable" but must be fought for over the long term, he said.
Mr Obama said it was "inspiring" meeting young people, which "gives [him] new ideas".
Asked about security and attitudes to Muslims, he said keeping people safe and preventing terrorist attacks in the US and UK was "one of our biggest challenges".
The US president said there was "a tiny subset of groups that have perverted Islam" and our "greatest allies" in tackling extremism in the US were those "Muslim Americans who are historically fully integrated in our society".
He said Islamophobia was not only wrong but "as a practical matter... self-defeating behaviour if we are serious about terrorism".
Being careful with language used in relation to Muslims and respecting people's faiths were "security matters, not just feel-good, liberal political correctness", he said.
Mr Obama also praised Prime Minister David Cameron for being "ahead of the curve" on LGBT rights issues.
He said the campaign for marriage equality in the US and elsewhere had "probably been the fastest set of changes in terms of a social movement that [he'd] seen".
Asked about his legacy as president, Mr Obama said he would not have a sense until 10 years from now.
But he added: "I'll look at a scorecard at the end... I think that I have been true to myself."
He mentioned changes he had made to the US healthcare system: "That's something I'm proud of," he said.
"And saving the world economy from a great depression, that was pretty good."
Asked about skills in dealing with political opponents and finding common ground, Mr Obama said: "If you spend time with people who just agree with you, you become even more extreme in your convictions.
"Seek out people who don't agree with you. That will teach you to compromise.
"Compromise does not mean surrendering what you believe."
Mr Obama's comments came on the second full day of his three-day visit to the UK, and weeks ahead of the 23 June in-out referendum.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Mr Cameron on Friday, Mr Obama said the US "wants Britain's influence to grow - including within Europe".
"The UK is at its best when it's helping to lead a strong European Union. It leverages UK power to be part of the EU.
"I don't think the EU moderates British influence in the world, it magnifies it."
The university says new legislation proposed by the right-wing Fidesz government on Tuesday night makes it impossible for it to function.
The CEU's founder, philanthropist George Soros, has a strained relationship with the PM Viktor Orban.
But the government says it supports the university and does not want it to go.
Education Secretary Laszlo Palkovics said the proposed legislation followed a review of 28 foreign universities operating in Hungary, including the CEU in Budapest.
"This is not an anti-CEU investigation and not against Mr Soros," he said.
The Hungary-born billionaire founded the university in 1991 and continues to fund it.
He wanted the CEU to be a bastion of liberal thought and promote the values of an open society and democracy.
But the university appears to have become the latest target in a campaign by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government against liberal values.
The government says the CEU and other foreign-funded universities are operating outside the law, and that the new legislation aims to create a new legal footing.
The CEU, established and registered in New York State, is an independent, private university for masters and PhD students from more than 100 countries.
If approved by parliament, the law would mean the university can only continue working if an intergovernmental agreement between US President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is signed, and if the university establishes a campus in the US by February next year.
The first is unlikely - both Mr Trump and Mr Orban are sworn enemies of Mr Soros. The second is physically impossible.
Twenty-seven other foreign universities will be affected by the legislation, Education Secretary Laszlo Palkovics told the BBC, and all must abide by the new law.
Only the CEU has no campus in its home country, the US.
But CEU Rector Michael Ignatieff says the university is fully legal and the new law has been designed to disable it.
"We will defend our achievements vigorously against anyone who seeks to defame our work in the eyes of the Hungarian people," he said.
The new rules would force the CEU to change its name, set up a campus in New York, change its curriculum and become subservient to both the US and Hungarian governments.
Protesting staff and students are now seeking the support of other universities, both in Hungary and worldwide.
It comes at a time of deteriorating relations between US President Donald Trump and Mr Soros, who recently described the new occupant of the White House as "an imposter, a [political] conman and a would-be dictator".
Relations between Mr Soros and Mr Orban - a keen supporter of the US president - also became strained when Mr Orban accused him of wanting a role in Hungarian politics and supporting the influx of migrants into Europe.
Mr Orban recently claimed Hungary was "under siege" from asylum seekers.
The prime minister won a scholarship sponsored by Mr Soros to study at Oxford university and the pair were allies in the days immediately following the fall of communism.
But with the two now at loggerheads, NGOs partially funded by Mr Soros' Open Society Foundation are under pressure to close in Hungary.
A three-year ban is in place on killing fish outside estuary limits with strict controls on numbers in inland waters.
The Annan Common Good Fund holds the rights to traditional fishing methods such as haaf, poke and stake netting in much of the area.
It has estimated the annual cost of the regulations is nearly £17,000 and hopes to reclaim it from Marine Scotland.
The new regulations have sparked concerns for the future of some of the historic fishing methods used in the waters off Dumfries and Galloway.
When they were introduced the Scottish government said it was aware of the "cultural importance" of haaf netting.
Now the Annan Common Good Fund is being asked to submit a compensation claim for the losses it believes it will incur.
It is also being asked to agree take part in scientific research which will allow some salmon to be caught.
It claimed on Monday, in an article published on its English-language website, that censors had deleted an interview on the issue of free speech.
But by Tuesday evening that article appeared to have been deleted as well.
Chinese media is heavily regulated with government censors often removing content on websites and social media.
Caixin's latest article, which is now offline but still available to read as a cached version online, reported that the "government censorship organ" the Cyberspace Administration of China had deleted an interview on its Chinese-language site on 5 March.
The interview was with Jiang Hong, a delegate from the advisory Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, who said members should be allowed to speak freely, but because of "certain events, everyone is a bit dazed and doesn't want to talk too much".
Caixin, in its Monday article, said that editors were told the interview had "illegal content" and "violated laws and regulations". It also quoted Mr Jiang's reaction to the deletion as "terrible and bewildering... I couldn't see anything illegal."
Beijing-based Caixin is widely respected in China, and is known for its financial reporting and investigative journalism.
The move comes after last month's tour of state media outlets by President Xi Jinping. It was widely seen as confirmation of his desire to bring journalists to heel and to stamp out what his government derides as dangerous "Western values" such as freedom of expression, correspondents say.
In 2015, China was the world's top jailer of journalists with a record 49 reporters behind bars, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists., and Freedom House has ranked the country as the world's worst abuser of internet freedom.
The midfielder took a kick to the foot but Arsene Wenger said it was just a "precautionary" measure.
Leicester's Wes Morgan is out with a hamstring injury while Nampalys Mendy's season is over following an ankle operation.
Robert Huth is back after a Champions League ban, but Islam Slimani remains sidelined with a groin injury.
Simon Brotherton: "I love that picture of Arsene Wenger celebrating at the weekend as his team beat Manchester City at Wembley - an intense release of joy and relief and a rare moment for him to truly enjoy in a turbulent campaign.
"Wenger's reorganised defensive strategy seems to be working and a rejuvenated Arsenal will be put to the test both here and in the North London derby at the weekend.
"Leicester haven't won any of the last 20 league meetings against the Gunners but have won five of the last seven league matches under Craig Shakespeare, and are more than capable of making a game of this encounter."
Twitter: @SimonBrotherton
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "It looks like we will [have to win all our remaining games to finish in the top four]. That has to be the target and to achieve that we have to win the next one [against Leicester].
"We have to take the energy level we showed on Sunday into the Premier League."
Leicester manager Craig Shakespeare: "I'm not sure how many points it will take [to avoid relegation] and the weekend proved that. Teams are capable of winning games and putting points on the board.
"We have to make sure we look after our own club. You are not sure what's round the corner."
"Seeing the Arsenal [FA Cup semi-final] match, it didn't look like turmoil to me. There were players fighting and they thoroughly deserved the win in the end, even though it was a close game."
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The 19-year-old centre-half becomes the third defensive signing made by interim manager Rob Page inside a fortnight.
Bournemouth loan man Stephane Zubar made his Vale debut in Tuesday night's 3-2 Johnstone's Paint trophy defeat, while West Bromwich Albion youngster Reiss Greenidge is yet to figure.
Vale, who are yet to keep a clean sheet this season, are likely to give Streete his debut on Saturday against Yeovil.
Streete, who has signed for an initial month, has been watched by Page and chairman Norman Smurthwaite several times in recent weeks for Newcastle's under-21s.
Its name is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, originating as it did in 1987 after the beginning of the first intifada, or Palestinian uprising, against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
It originally had a dual purpose of carrying out an armed struggle against Israel - led by its military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades - and delivering social welfare programmes.
But since 2005, it has also engaged in the Palestinian political process, becoming the first Islamist group in the Arab world to win election through the ballot box (before reinforcing its power in Gaza by ousting its Fatah rivals).
Hamas as a whole, or in some cases its military wing, is designated a terrorist group by Israel, the US, EU, and UK, as well as other powers. Under its charter, the group is committed to the destruction of Israel.
To its supporters, though, Hamas is seen as a legitimate resistance movement.
In May 2017, the group published a new policy document for the first time since its founding. It declared a willingness to accept an interim Palestinian state within pre-1967 boundaries, without recognising Israel, and did not repeat the anti-Jewish language of its charter.
The text was seen as an effort by Hamas to soften its image, though the group made clear it did not replace the charter.
In 2006, Hamas won a stunning victory in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections, but tensions with the rival Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas heightened.
Deadly clashes between Fatah and Hamas erupted in Gaza in June 2007, after which Hamas set up a rival government, leaving Fatah and the PA running parts of the West Bank not under Israeli control.
Israel held Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from the Gaza Strip, and has carried out three major military campaigns in Gaza - Operation Cast Lead in December 2008, Operation Pillar of Defence in November 2012, and Operation Protective Edge in July 2014.
The offensives were preceded by escalations in cross-border fighting, with scores of rocket attacks from Gaza, and air strikes against it by Israel.
Hamas emerged from the 2008 and 2012 conflicts militarily degraded but with renewed support among Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank for having confronted Israel and survived.
The group nevertheless continued to struggle under the joint blockade imposed on Gaza by Israel and Egypt, and became increasingly isolated after falling out with regional powers in the wake of the Arab Spring. The overthrow in July 2013 of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, a key ally, was a further blow.
In April 2014, Hamas agreed a reconciliation deal with Fatah that led to the formation a national unity government, but it has never been fully implemented.
Hamas came to prominence after the first intifada as the main Palestinian opponent of the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
Despite numerous Israeli operations against it and clampdowns by the Palestinian Authority, Hamas found it had an effective power of veto over the process by launching suicide attacks.
In February and March 1996, it carried out several suicide bus bombings, killing nearly 60 Israelis, in retaliation for the assassination in December 1995 of Hamas bomb maker Yahya Ayyash.
The bombings were widely blamed for turning Israelis off the peace process and bringing Benjamin Netanyahu - a staunch opponent of the Oslo accords - to power.
In the post-Oslo world, most particularly following the failure of US President Bill Clinton's Camp David summit in 2000 and the second intifada which followed shortly thereafter, Hamas gained power and influence as Israel clamped down on the Palestinian Authority, which it accused of sponsoring deadly attacks.
Hamas organised clinics and schools, which served Palestinians who felt let down by the corrupt and inefficient Palestinian Authority, dominated by the Fatah faction.
Many Palestinians cheered the wave of Hamas suicide attacks in the first years of the second intifada.
They saw "martyrdom" operations as avenging their own losses and Israel's settlement building in the West Bank, wanted by Palestinians as part of their own state.
After the death of Fatah leader Yasser Arafat in 2004, the Palestinian Authority was taken over by Mahmoud Abbas.
He viewed Hamas rocket fire as counter-productive, inflicting relatively little damage on Israel but provoking a harsh response by the Israeli military.
When Hamas scored a landslide victory in 2006, the stage was set for a bitter power-struggle with Fatah.
Hamas resisted all efforts to get it to sign up to previous Palestinian agreements with Israel, as well as to recognise Israel's legitimacy and to renounce violence.
Hamas's charter defines historic Palestine - including present-day Israel - as Islamic land and it rules out any permanent peace with the Jewish state.
The charter also repeatedly makes attacks on Jews as a people, drawing charges that the movement is anti-Semitic.
Hamas has, however, offered a 10-year truce in return for a complete Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967: the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
It insists though that millions of Palestinian refugees stemming from the 1948 war must be allowed to return to homes in what became Israel - a move that would threaten Israel's very existence.
Over the years Hamas has lost many members in Israeli assassinations and security sweeps:
After the death of Sheikh Yassin, Khaled Meshaal became the group's political leader in exile. He was succeeded by Gaza-based Ismail Haniya in May 2017.
Hamas's decision to stand in elections in 2006 was a major departure for the movement.
The new government was subjected to tough economic and diplomatic sanctions by Israel and its allies in the West.
After Hamas ousted Fatah from Gaza in 2007, Israel tightened its blockade on the territory, and rocket-fire and Israeli counter-raids continued.
In December that year, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead - a 22-day offensive aimed, Israel said, at halting rocket attacks from Gaza. More than 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.
Israel cited the same reason for Pillar of Defence in 2012- which began with an air strike that killed Ahmed Jabari, the Qassam Brigades commander. Some 170 Palestinians - mostly civilians - and six Israelis died in the eight-day conflict.
Palestinian sources say Hamas largely tried to maintain calm after the conflict ended, with the Qassam Brigades not joining in the rocket attacks on Israel.
But Hamas also did not move to halt the rocket fire altogether, apparently because it was concerned that Palestinians would see it as less committed to fighting Israel than rival militant groups, particularly Islamic Jihad.
Rocket fire increased in mid-June 2014 when Israel arrested many Hamas members across the West Bank while searching for three murdered Israeli teenagers.
Then on 7 July, Hamas claimed responsibility for firing rockets at Israel for the first time since 2012, and Hamas and Israel became embroiled in the most intensive fighting for months.
The fighting ended after 50 days with a ceasefire. At least 2,189 Palestinians were killed, including more than 1,486 civilians, according to the UN. On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers were killed along with the six civilians.
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World football's governing body turned down a request by both teams to wear the symbol to mark Armistice Day.
Fifa said it had not "banned" the move but "reiterated" rules on displaying "political" statements on shirts.
England and Scotland could now face a points deduction, a fine, or both.
England won the Group F match 3-0 thanks to goals from Daniel Sturridge, Adam Lallana and Gary Cahill.
Northern Ireland's players wore plain black armbands during their 4-0 World Cup qualifying Group C victory against Azerbaijan in Belfast on Friday.
Wales will wear plain black armbands when they face Serbia on Saturday.
The Football Association of Wales says it does not want to risk a financial penalty or points deduction by going against Fifa's rules.
The poppy is a symbol of remembrance for those who have died in conflict and is traditionally worn on and in the days before and after 11 November, which is also known as Armistice Day.
According to the rule-making International Football Association Board, which includes members of the four British FAs, players cannot wear "political, religious or personal slogans, statements or images".
Fifa secretary general Fatma Samoura said last week: "We have to apply uniformly and across the 211 member associations the laws of the game.
"Britain is not the only country that has been suffering from the result of war."
Fifa's match commissioner at Wembley will decide whether to mention the armbands in their official report.
If they do, the case would then go to Fifa's disciplinary committee.
The English Football Association has already said it will contest any fine and believes its "legal position is right and our moral position is right".
But former England right-back Danny Mills believes the FA "has picked the wrong fight" and is "likely to get a fine".
The former Leeds player told BBC Breakfast: "Surely all of the money that has been spent on arguments, lawyers and the fine it may get from Fifa would have been much better being donated to the Royal British Legion.
"It would have done far more good than this needless argument."
The Scottish Football Association believes Fifa is "misinterpreting the rules" and claims the poppy "is not a political statement".
He was riding a black Suzuki in Halfway Road at about 10:00 BST when he crashed with a Ford Fiesta.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene and his next of kin have been informed, Kent Police said.
A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and is in custody.
Newlywed Michaela McAreavey was murdered in her hotel room on the island of Mauritius.
John McAreavey, her husband of less than two weeks, said "my life ended as well" that day.
The McAreaveys were on honeymoon at the Legends Hotel when John found 27-year-old Michaela dead in the bathtub of their room.
Michaela, daughter of Mickey Harte, one of Ireland's leading sports figures had gone back to their room from a poolside restaurant to get biscuits.
When she did not return her husband went back to their room and found her body in the bath. She had been strangled.
The police and prosecution said she had been murdered after disturbing thieves in her room.
Five hotel workers would later be arrested over the murder before two - floor supervisor Sandip Moneea, 43, and cleaner Avinash Treebhoowoon, 32, were charged.
Both denied the murder.
The trial at the island's Supreme Court in the capital city of Port Louis was expected to last around two weeks. It would instead take more than six weeks.
Some of the most harrowing testimony came from Michaela's widower John.
He recalled finding their hotel room door open, then seeing his wife in the bath with the water still running.
"I ran to the bathroom, dropped my bag and grabbed Michaela," he said.
He said he did not know what was going on, but she was cold and he noticed marks on her neck.
He said he pulled Mrs McAreavey from the bathtub, and although he did not know CPR he attempted to resuscitate her.
"I was holding her in my arms, telling her to wake up - 'Michaela, Michaela, come on, wake up'," he told the jury.
Mr McAreavey said he then screamed for help.
The McAreavey and Harte families were often upset by some of the proceedings, which had to be adjourned on 15 June after heated exchanges between the defence and prosecution.
In the early days of the trial, the family were also clearly upset at occasional bursts of laughter from the public gallery.
They were prompted by the extrovert style of defence barrister Ravi Rutnah.
He later withdrew as defence counsel, claiming his professional integrity had been questioned by a prosecution witness.
In May, there were angry scenes over what the defence claimed was a sex guide found in the McAreaveys' room.
A family friend told the BBC the booklet was an insert from a women's magazine.
John McAreavey said on the day of the murder he had offered to go up to the room instead of Michaela.
"Obviously I wish I had gone," he told the court.
He said he and Michaela had never got the chance to spend one night in the house they planned to start married life in.
"It was very important to us that we would only ever live together when we were married," he said.
"We felt by waiting it would make the experience more new and magical and something to look forward to after we returned from honeymoon."
Speaking to USA Today, the 21-year-old said his new material would be more mature after a few years of making the wrong sort of headlines.
"I don't want to say it's different because that's what everyone says," he said.
"But it is different, it's a grown-up version of Justin and I think people will be shocked."
The Canadian pop star said he was turning his life around, echoing comments he made at the filming of his Comedy Central Roast last month.
"My whole direction has changed," he said.
"What you are thinking about all the time is what you write, and now that I'm thinking about more positive things, it completely changes my music."
Bieber has worked with Kanye West before on the rapper's track, Yeezus.
His manager Scooter Braun tweeted news that he was working with Slayer and Jay Z producer Rick Rubin in January.
Bieber told USA Today that he had to re-record some of the music on his new album because it didn't sound right.
"[The album] was done but it didn't match up to where I am now and where my head's at," he said.
"I want to tell my story, but I also want to give people hope. I lost hope for a while, I was in a dark place, but it's about getting out of that rut.
"It's about knowing there's sunshine on the other side."
In June last year Justin Bieber said sorry after footage of him leaked using the n-word while telling a joke about the Ku Klux Klan.
He was charged with assault and dangerous driving after crashing his quad bike into a minivan near his hometown of Stratford, Ontario.
He's also serving two years probation for throwing eggs at his neighbour's house in LA.
Bieber says the lyrics on the follow-up to 2012's Believe are about growing up, life experience and faith.
"You're around some people sometimes and it might taint what you believe," he said.
"I think that's what happened with me, I lowered my beliefs."
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Its annual look at the UK economy endorsed the government's deficit cutting plan, saying it was essential.
But it said if growth failed to pick up, the government would have to consider delaying cuts.
The body also stressed the risks to the UK of the eurozone crisis.
"Unfortunately the economic recovery in the UK has not yet taken hold and uncertainties abound," said IMF managing director Christine Lagarde.
"The stresses in the euro area affect the UK through many channels. Growth is too slow and unemployment - including youth unemployment - is too high. Policies to bolster demand before low growth becomes entrenched are needed."
By Stephanie FlandersEconomics editor
It was a case of "nice policies, shame about the economy".
There was a lot of support for what the government has been doing so far and a lot of blunt words about what has been happening in the economy.
The IMF did seem to think that the Bank of England should do more now to help the recovery, maybe even cut interest rates from their current very low level, and pump more money into the economy.
There was also quite a long list of things that Ms Lagarde thought the chancellor should be doing.
What was important to him is that most of those things are things that he and the prime minister have actually talked about.
Things like making it easier for businesses to borrow and more infrastructure projects financed by the private sector.
The second part of the IMF report talks about what the government might need to do if things get worse - a Plan B.
It is not saying it is time for that yet, and although the economy has weakened, the IMF still doesn't think that it is bad enough to go there just yet.
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UK interest rates are currently at a record low of 0.5%, a level the IMF said the Bank of England should reconsider the "efficacy" of.
It said the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which sets interest rates and authorises other monetary boosts, such as QE - which involves pumping money into the economy to boost growth - should look at loosening the purse-strings.
These stimulus measures can lead to higher inflation, but the IMF's report comes on the same day of the latest UK inflation figures, which show a sharp drop in the annual rate to 3% last month, the lowest rate since February 2010.
The Bank of England and the IMF both expect that rate to continue to come down.
One suggestion was for the rate of VAT to be cut, something the Labour opposition have been advocating.
The IMF's technical expert on the UK economy, Ajai Chopra said: "I think the sort of measures we have in mind are, one could consider cutting the Value Added Tax. One could consider the payroll contributions because these can be credibly temporary. The emphasis here is on temporary and those are the sorts of measures we have in mind."
In its official statement on the UK economy, the IMF mission states:
"Fiscal easing measures...should focus on temporary tax cuts and greater infrastructure spending, as these may be more credibly temporary than increases in current spending."
The report said the weak recovery indicated that the process of unwinding pre-crisis imbalances was likely to be more protracted than previously anticipated, partly because of the difficulty of getting credit.
By Nick RobinsonPolitical editor
It said that output remained more than 4% below its pre-crisis peak, and that unemployment at 8.2%, with a large number of young people without a job, was still "much too high".
But the report said that the UK had made "substantial progress" towards achieving a more sustainable budgetary position and reducing fiscal risks.
Ms Lagarde, gave a strong endorsement to the government's actions: "The gain that resulted from the fiscal consolidation that was decided two years ago has been that result, the credibility of the UK government and its ability to borrow at extremely favourable rates.
"Sometimes you feel like you could look back and wonder 'what if?'. And when I think back myself to May 2010, when the UK deficit was at 11% and I try to imagine what the situation would be like today if no such fiscal consolidation programme had been decided... I shiver."
The Chancellor, George Osborne, welcomed the IMF's findings: "The IMF couldn't be clearer today. Britain has to deal with its debts and the government's fiscal policy is the appropriate one and an essential part of our road to recovery.
"They [the IMF] agree that, in their words 'reducing the high structural deficit remains essential' and make clear in their statement that they consider the current pace of fiscal consolidation to be appropriate."
But the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, said: "A year ago, the IMF warned that if economic growth undershot expectations, the government should boost the economy with temporary tax cuts and greater infrastructure spending - as Labour has called for in our five-point plan for jobs and growth.
"Since then our economy has been pushed into a double-dip recession. How much worse do things have to get before David Cameron and George Osborne finally take action?"
Pointing to what it called the "global importance" of the UK's financial centre, the IMF report praised policies that had helped to build up capital "buffers" at banks, and the strengthening of regulation within the UK.
The IMF recently forecast UK growth of 2% in 2013.
The global body's revised UK forecasts now match those of the UK's independent Office for Budget Responsibility.
But both are more optimistic than most independent UK economists, who expect economic growth of about 1.6% next year.
The last-16 second leg in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was called off at 0-0 after the players were attacked as they came out of the tunnel after half-time.
River manager Marcelo Gallardo described the scenes at Boca's La Bombonera stadium as "deplorable".
Boca president Daniel Angelici said: "We will do all we can to help police."
Fans managed to get through high wire fencing and on to the pitch.
Television pictures showed River players Leonardo Ponzio and Leonel Vangioni rubbing their eyes, with other players pouring water over their faces after apparently being sprayed with a pepper spray-like substance.
"I can't see, I can't see. I am burning. This is not a war," said River Plate defender Ramiro Funes Mori during chaotic scenes as the match was halted.
All three players, along with team-mate Matias Kranevitter, were taken to hospital for treatment for what Argentine radio described as burns.
Angelici said his club would "accept responsibility" for the incident but added Boca's players should not be punished for what he said was "society's problem, not football's problem".
"These people are sick," he added. "An aerosol is small, it is very powerful. It can fit in your pocket and when there are almost 50,000 people it can get by security."
South American football's governing body Conmebol said its disciplinary committee has started disciplinary proceedings against Boca and given the club until Saturday to respond.
The association still has to decide whether to replay the match, complete it at a neutral venue, or award the tie to River, who were 1-0 up from the first leg on 7 May.
Rapidly-expanding MotoNovo is moving its headquarters across the city and planning to more than double in size over the next few years.
The company, owned by a South African bank, is relocating from Llanishen to Central Square in the city centre.
It joins a bank and a legal firm in the same office block being built next to Cardiff Central railway station.
Economy Minister Edwina Hart said: "It is a strong vote of confidence in Wales and what it can offer companies looking to grow their businesses.
"It is a substantial inward investment that will raise the profile of this thriving and rapidly expanding sector in Wales."
The new location is part of the city's enterprise zone and has been supported with a £3m Welsh Government grant.
MotoNovo already has 424 staff and has been looking for larger offices in the city since last year.
It has taken on 150 workers since the start of 2015 and is looking to take on 587 more over the next five years.
The firm is owned by South African FirstRand bank and sells car and motorcycle finance - including work with hundreds of dealerships.
ANALYSIS by Brian Meechan, BBC Wales business correspondent
Professional and financial services is one of the sectors that's been targeted by the Welsh Government as a key area for growth.
There have been quite significant developments in recent years including Deloitte creating hundreds of jobs in Cardiff's enterprise zone.
That zone focuses specifically on attracting professional and financial services companies.
Recent figures showed that in 2014/15, Cardiff more than doubled the number of jobs it had created in the zone, taking the total to a thousand.
There's also a professional and financial services sector panel of impressive Welsh business figures with global experience working to attract jobs to the country.
Cardiff's in a strong position because it has three universities which turn out skilled graduates every year.
Office space in the capital is also significantly cheaper than some other parts of the country.
But the idea of awarding grants to companies is also highly controversial to some who argue that money should not be given to businesses or, if it is, it should be in the form of a loan.
Call centres are an increasingly important part of the Welsh economy.
The umbrella group for the industry, the Welsh Contact Centre Forum, says 30,000 people are now employed in it.
It forecasts growth of around 30% over the next three years and the creation of nearly 10,000 new jobs by 2019.
Critics say call centre jobs can be poorly paid and the workplaces are often not unionised.
However, they have provided jobs at a time when a great deal of manufacturing work has moved off-shore.
MotoNovo was founded more than 40 years ago as Carlyle Finance and was part of the Julian Hodge Bank, before being sold 10 years ago. Then the workforce in Cardiff was around 60.
Coincidentally, its former owners Julian Hodge Bank - which has 120 staff - is also relocating to the same nine-storey building, One Central Square, along with legal firm Blake Morgan.
The company rebranded as MotoNovo four years ago and was voted number six in the top UK 100 companies who are the best to work for in a recent Sunday Times annual survey.
Chief executive Mark Standish added: "Our greatest strength is the people who make up 'Team MotoNovo' and having led the business for 16 years, I couldn't be prouder than to be announcing our growth and investment plans."
With almost all the votes now counted, the 'No' side passed the winning total of 1,852,828 needed to win the referendum just after 6am on Friday morning.
The Yes camp has had some victories, including in Glasgow and Dundee, but not enough to secure victory overall.
Talks will now begin on giving more powers to Scotland.
After weeks of campaigning across the country, Scottish voters made their decision yesterday by answering yes or no to the question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
It was the first time people aged 16 and 17 were allowed to vote in a UK referendum.
85% of people registered turned up to vote - a record high for an election or referendum.
The final margin of victory for the pro-UK Better Together campaign was 55% to 45%.
Scotland has been part of the UK for more than 300 years, so the vote was a huge moment for the country.
MPs from the three main political parties in Westminster say - even with a NO vote the result will mean big changes across the UK.
The leader of the 'Yes' campaign, Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, has accepted defeat and called on Westminster to deliver on their promise of more powers for the Scottish Parliament.
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, says he's congratulated Alistair Darling, who is the leader of pro-UK Better Together campaign.
The 25-year-old tested positive for a banned substance and was sent home from the tour of New Zealand last week.
Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera told parliament that authorities will send a B sample to the International Cricket Council for testing.
"We are doing all we can to defend him," said the minister.
"We are wondering if this allegation is a conspiracy to keep him out of next year's T20 World Cup."
Jayasekera added that Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena had spoken to Perera, who was withdrawn from the series in New Zealand which comprises two Tests, five one-day internationals and two Twenty20 internationals.
Sri Lanka are defending champions for next year's ICC World Twenty20 in India in March and April, and will face England, South Africa, West Indies and a qualifying nation in the group stage.
It's the last of the grouping of the world's largest economies, the G20, to open up its market to foreigners. Until now, they were only able to indirectly buy shares and would only get the economic benefits.
Industry experts say Monday's move, that allows foreigners voting rights, could be transformative for the region as Saudi companies will be able to profit from the scrutiny and strategy of sophisticated international partners and overseas investment will help push forward the country's economic reforms.
But don't hold your breath. Major emerging market players are not quite queuing around the bourse yet.
That's because there are a multitude of rules to determine who can invest in the gradual opening-up of the Middle East's biggest stock market.
They appear to be quite restrictive. Only institutions that manage $5bn (£3.2bn) of assets (or $3bn if the regulator makes an exception) with a five-year investment record will be given the green light for now.
No single investor can own more than 5% of a company and overall foreign ownership of that company cannot top 49%. Overall, only 10% of equity in the stock exchange, called the Tadawul, can be foreign-owned.
Despite that, buying into the stock market - which is up 15% already this year - is a mouth-watering prospect for qualifying investors.
The market's value of over $560bn and daily trading volumes of about $2.4bn outstrips bourses in South Africa, Russia, Turkey and Mexico.
One key sector, retail, is booming due to high consumer spending.
Subsidised gas has created an extremely competitive petrochemicals sector and the banking sector also looks highly profitable with many bank customers choosing Sharia-compliant, interest-free deposits, which is a bonus for investors.
Investors will also appreciate Saudi Arabia's strong economy. Over the past few years, high oil profits have been used to wipe out the country's debt and build its foreign reserves to 100% of GDP.
There's a growing middle class, salaries keep rising and spending on healthcare and education remains a priority for King Salman. Economists predict the non-oil sector will continue its impressive growth rate, at around 5% this year.
Source: Tadawul Annual Report, Dec 2014
So why then, are some experts sceptical about what the level of take-up will actually be?
One Middle East-based equities and portfolio manager told me he thought there would be fewer than a dozen institutions certified to invest to begin with, while another boss of a Saudi-based asset management company thinks only half the $50bn of investments on offer to foreigners will be taken up over the next two years.
One reason could be that, as a consequence of high earnings, company valuations are on the high side for investors although they could be justified by potentially offering higher growth rates.
Another possible deterrent is the mandatory requirement that money must be settled up front rather than within two days of the investment, as is the case in other stock markets.
The stock market can also fall sharply as a result of the volatile price of oil in the very short term, though it tends to recover quickly too. Over the last 12 months, oil prices have dropped around 40% and the stock market is down only 2%.
One very experienced international asset manager believes that big pension funds and insurance companies are likely to wait and see how the reforms bed in first.
To be clear, very few doubt this opening is a good move, just that it will take time.
Looking ahead, interest may shoot up in a few years if Saudi moves on from its frontier market status to join the most widely followed emerging markets index, the MSCI.
Mohieddine Kronfol, a founding partner of Franklin Templeton Investments ME, believes a great journey has begun.
He says it could eventually lead to an energised debt market and also predicts that pressure will increase for domestic political and social reforms from ethical investors of the future.
Which is why Facebook is moving quickly to get ahead in its running battle with Adblock Plus, a company that offers software that blocks ads from appearing to its 100 million or so users.
Last week, Facebook made tweaks to its news feed so that the way Adblock Plus (and other similar software) “spotted” ads no longer worked, essentially tricking the blocking software into thinking ads were just normal posts.
In response, Adblock Plus - drawing on the open source community - came up with a workaround.
The company wrote on Thursday that “for this round of the cat-and-mouse contest, looks like the mouse won."
The mouse was barely into its cheese when Facebook vowed to hit back.
The firm’s head of advertising, Andrew Bosworth - known as Boz - wrote on Twitter that "these new attempts don’t just block ads but also posts from friends and Pages.
"We plan to address the issue."
Boz and his advertising team didn’t take long. By Thursday evening, only a few hours after Adblock Plus made its workaround public, the site began rolling out new code that meant Adblock Plus's workaround no longer worked.
“We’re disappointed that ad blocking companies are punishing people on Facebook as these new attempts don’t just block ads but also posts from friends and Pages," the company said in a statement.
"Ad blockers are a blunt instrument, which is why we’ve instead focused on building tools like ad preferences to put control in people’s hands.”
Adblock Plus is a controversial company. While initial ad blockers were all about stopping annoying, sometimes harmful, pop-up ads - Adblock Plus is a far more sophisticated fare. It’s able to skim out pre-roll adverts on videos, as well as remove some non-intrusive advertising on pages.
Non-intrusive is a matter of opinion, of course - some would consider any advertising a unwelcome part of their browsing experience. Particularly in the case of Google and Facebook who have built their vast fortunes on producing targeted ads that require masses of data collection and tracking.
But it’s why Google and Facebook are free to use - and most certainly always will be. The money has to come from somewhere, and right now it’s advertising.
Where Adblock Plus stirs real controversy is in its business model.
The software doesn’t block ads on all sites. The company has a whitelist. To get on it, a site has to pay Adblock Plus.
Some call it extortion - the company disagrees, saying it plays an important role in keeping online advertising in check.
Facebook has said it will not be paying to be whitelisted, Boz wrote earlier this week.
"Rather than paying ad blocking companies to unblock the ads we show - as some of these companies have invited us to do in the past - we’re putting control in people’s hands with our updated ad preferences and our other advertising controls."
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The Kiwis won 9-2 at London's Olympic Stadium on Saturday to level the Test series 1-1 before next Saturday's sold-out match in Wigan.
"We played half well today - in defence - but in the attacking half struggled to gain momentum," said McNamara.
"The result was disappointing but there is not much between the two teams."
McNamara's side won the opening Test 26-12 in Hull and took an early lead through a Gareth Widdop penalty in front of 44,393 fans.
But they failed to add any more points as New Zealand scored the only try of the game through Shaun Kenny-Dowall after the break.
The Kiwis forced 14 repeat sets as they built pressure close to the English line.
"I'm hugely proud of the way we defended for huge parts of the game and restricted New Zealand to one try," added McNamara. "But the problem was we had too much of it to do.
"Some of the errors we made were really basic and we put pressure on ourselves.
"We came here to really go for this game. That was the plan, not sit and make it happen, but the other team were pretty good as well."
England thought they had scored a crucial try under the posts late in the game which, if converted, would have levelled the scores at 8-8.
Australian official Gerard Sutton awarded a try on the field but sent it up for review and, after several minutes of studying the incident, the decision was overturned by video referees Phil Bentham and James Child.
They ruled that prop James Graham had not grounded the ball properly - a decision that was greeted by boos from the home crowd.
The England camp were very unhappy with the decision and afterwards Graham said: "You will have to find a physicist and ask him about downward pressure."
McNamara added: "The referee on the field awarded it. I've looked at it a lot of times. They obviously found enough reason to disallow it. I'll have to back their judgement on that, but it was a bit strange."
The Kiwis were understandably unwilling to criticise the decision.
Co-skipper Isaac Luke said: "I was not really surprised the decision changed, in this day and age there are different interpretations."
Kiwi coach Stephen Kearney felt that the call evened things up after some decisions had gone against his team during their defeat in the opening Test.
"From my point of view, I did not see complete downward movement with the hands, so, yes, that's football," he said.
"A couple of calls did not go our way last week. We were fortunate today, which makes for a share of good luck."
Earlier in the week Kearney named the starting XIII that played in Hull.
Watching his team in training, though, he decided to make a change. On Thursday he told Tuimoala Lolohea that he would not be playing at scrum-half with 21-year-old Kodi Nikorima replacing him.
Nikorima had a decent game and almost scored a try late on, but spilled the ball close to the line.
"I just got a feeling over the course of the week," explained Kearney.
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"It was a big decision in the sense that Tui had done nothing wrong, I just thought that for this game Kodi would be a better fit."
Kearney warned his team they would have to improve once again before next Saturday (13:00 GMT kick-off).
"I thought our attitude in defence was a big difference. Right from the kick-off there was a different level of commitment," he said.
"I still think England are a good footy team and we have to treat them with respect.
"Our performance from today will not be good enough next week - England will be looking to improve and it makes it a real challenge."
One alleged victim told the BBC he felt "dirty and embarrassed" after being regularly assaulted at a surgery in Whitchurch in the 1970s.
"Tom", not his real name, said the abuse was carried out between the ages of nine and 13 when his mother was in the room and later when he was alone.
He said he had spoken out because he wanted others to come forward.
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A second alleged victim, who also wanted to remain anonymous, said he was abused by the same GP during the same era, from the age of 13 until about 18.
He said he had buried what happened for many years believing he was responsible and only talked about it five years ago during counselling.
"Tom" said it had taken 40 years to talk about what happened. He said he remembered coming home from the GP's surgery feeling "dirty, embarrassed and used".
"The first time I was examined I was nine-years-old and my mother was in the room and I was taken behind a big old heavy hospital-type screen."
He said things moved on "systematically" and things got "more intense" once he was examined on his own while his mother waited outside the room.
"I didn't know any different. I thought that's how doctors are, that's what doctors do, and it was only when it stopped happening that I thought, I started to wonder," he said.
"Tom's" story first appeared in the Whitchurch Herald but he has since spoken to other people who also claim they were sexually abused by the GP.
They include boys, girls and young women, said Victoria Neale from Hudgell Solicitors.
She appealed for anyone else to come forward.
West Mercia Police said it had received five reports of non-recent sexual offences in Whitchurch and investigations were ongoing.
Chris Bown was made managing director after a £6m public inquiry published criticisms of the standard of care at Stafford Hospital.
The hospital was renamed the County Hospital, and a new trust set up to replace Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust.
The trust now running the hospital said Mr Bown's job was always "an interim role".
The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust said its management structure was now being "reviewed".
The health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission, has yet to inspect Stafford County Hospital.
Mr Bown, who was appointed in September, is leaving to become Interim Chief Executive of East Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Mr Bown said: "During my time here I have been hugely impressed with the commitment and expertise of the staff.
"I believe County Hospital and the wider trust have a strong future and I look forward to seeing them both go from strength to strength."
Former Chelsea boss Grant, 59, has been discussing his financial package with the Ghana Football Association (GFA).
There had been concerns his Israeli nationality could pose access problems to some North African countries.
GFA president Kwesi Nyantekyie told BBC Sport "that is an issue" but says the two parties will deal with it.
"The holder of an Israeli passport will not only be denied entry into North African countries, he will be denied into some Arab countries," he said.
"He has brought an alternative way of dealing with it. There is a satisfactory arrangement to arrest his threat. Very soon, in a matter of months, we should clear that."
Nyantekyie confirmed Grant has met with the GFA in Accra and said it is "almost certain" the two parties will reach a deal.
"By the time we finish with our game against Togo, we should have an agreement in place," he said.
Grant will be given a two-year contract, and Nyantekyie says the GFA is confident he has the profile to succeed in the role.
"He is a motivator. He has the capacity and skill to manage egos and top players and these are some of the challenges that the Black Stars team is going through.
"He has the strength, he has a strong mentality. He feels in Africa most of the players lack the passion or the mentality even though they have the skill. We hope he will be able to instil these qualities so that we will win trophies."
Grant took Chelsea to the final of the 2008 European Champions League, in which they were beaten by Manchester United, and also had a four-year spell in charge of Israel's national side.
The Black Stars have been without a permanent coach since Kwesi Appiah left after the opening two 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, with Maxwell Konadu leading the team on a temporary basis.
Ghana midfielder Andre Dede Ayew said: "If Avram Grant comes to Ghana, we will support him. He is a good coach, he has coached big clubs and hopefully he will help Ghana.
"What is most important is that we win trophies - and anybody that is going to bring trophies, I will be with the person whether he is big, small or whatever.
"If he is coming to Ghana, I know he will feel the Ghanaian pressure, he will know that Ghana is a country which needs to win because we have not won a trophy in a long while."
Ghana missed an opportunity to qualify for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations after losing 1-0 to Uganda in Group E in Kampala on Saturday.
The group will be decided after the final round of matches on Wednesday.
Amir, 24, served half of a six-month prison sentence and was banned for five years for a spot-fixing offence against England at Lord's in August 2010.
The fast bowler has not played in a Test since then but is available for the four-match series against England which starts in July.
"The way he has been bowling, he is there," Misbah said.
"You look at his bowling speed, his swing, his control - they're all there. He can still be the best bowler in the world."
The left-armer, along with then Test captain Salman Butt and new-ball partner Mohammad Asif, was found guilty of corruption by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in February 2011, and sent to prison in November of the same year following a criminal trial at Southwark Crown Court in London.
Amir, who was banned for bowling deliberate no balls for money, became eligible to play again last September, and his left-arm swing variations have already impressed sufficiently to be recalled for the ICC World Twenty20 this spring.
"Whatever form of the game he has played since his comeback, he has done well," Misbah added.
"He knows he is under pressure, but he is handling it well."
Amir was Pakistan's Player of the Series against England in 2010 after taking 19 wickets at an average of 18.36.
The first Test begins at Lord's on 14 July.
His party, AKP, is meeting to try to form a government after losing its majority in a general election for the first time in 13 years.
It secured 41%, a sharp drop from 2011, and must form a coalition or face entering a minority government.
Mr Erdogan has called on all parties to "preserve the atmosphere of stability" in Turkey.
"I believe the results, which do not give the opportunity to any party to form a single-party government, will be assessed healthily and realistically by every party," Mr Erdogan said.
The AKP is now likely to try to form a coalition, but no party has yet indicated it is willing to join forces with it.
Opposition parties may yet try to form a coalition against the AKP.
But Numan Kurtulmus, one of Turkey's four deputy prime ministers, said there would be no government without representation by the AKP.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is meeting AKP cabinet members and officials to assess the election results in Ankara.
After the official final result is declared, he will have 45 days to form a government.
Mr Kurtulmus said another election was possible.
This is potentially a new political era in Turkey.
The AKP still won this election, with over 40% of the vote - a share of the vote that parties in any democracy would crave.
It still has a substantial power base, mainly of the more religious, conservative Turks, who feel liberated by the party and the president.
But the AKP's dominance, the one-man political show that has played out in Turkey for 13 years and polarised this nation, has just taken a very big kick.
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The result is a blow to Mr Erdogan's plans to boost his office's powers.
He had been seeking a two-thirds majority to turn Turkey into a presidential republic.
The pro-Kurdish HDP crossed the 10% threshold, securing seats in parliament for the first time.
"The discussion of executive presidency and dictatorship have come to an end in Turkey with these elections," said HDP leader Selahattin Demirtas.
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On Monday morning, the Turkish currency fell to near-record lows against the dollar, and shares dropped by more than 8% soon after the Istanbul stock exchange opened.
The central bank acted quickly to prop up the lira by cutting the interest rate on foreign currency deposits.
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Seven civilians, one UN peacekeeper and four soldiers are among the dead, the army says.
UN General Jean Baillaud said it was suspected that the attack was carried out by a Ugandan Islamist group, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
The ADF is based in north-east DR Congo after being pushed out of Uganda.
One local civil society group put the death toll at 38.
Activists who have spoken to witnesses tell a gruesome story of around 40 attackers entering the town of Eringeti on Sunday and killing indiscriminately, including inside the clinic, reports the BBC Maud Jullien in DR Congo.
The seven civilians who died were all killed in the clinic.
The attackers also blocked the town's military base and a position of the UN peacekeeping mission, while others looted shops and the clinic.
They then left in the middle of the night, having raided and burned down a large number of houses.
Our correspondent has been told that most of the town's population of about 20,000 have fled.
Gen Baillaud says this was the most serious attack in the area in months, but there has been a spate of raids recently as rebels have been stocking up on vital goods.
The ADF was formed in 1996 by a puritanical Muslim sect in the Ruwenzori mountains of western Uganda.
In 1998 it increased its activities and a number of bomb blasts in markets and restaurants in Kampala were blamed on the group.
After years of sporadic raids, the Ugandan army almost destroyed the ADF's capacity over 10 years ago and it moved its base DR Congo, where it has formed alliances with some of the many armed groups based in eastern DR Congo.
The US Commerce Department revised its fourth quarter GDP to upward from an initial estimate of 0.7%.
Overall, the US economy is estimated to have grown at a rate of 2.4% for all of 2015.
One reason for the revised figure was greater consumer spending than officials initially thought, boosted by an improving labour market.
Analysts had expected the fourth quarter growth rate to remain unchanged from the last estimate of 1%.
"It's especially good that we saw a boost in consumption, however we are only talking about 1.4% growth, which is still anaemic compared to the 3.5% we would like to see," said Dan North, chief economist at Euler Hermes North America.
"The economy is still running in low gear," he said.
Increased employment has helped to slowly boost wages and housing prices, while low oil prices have increased discretionary spending by US households.
The stronger growth rate could increase the chances of an interest rate hike when the Federal Reserve meets in April. The central bank left rates unchanged at its meeting in March, saying the slowing global economy raised risks for the US market.
US corporate profits dipped 11.5% for the fourth quarter compared to the same October through December period in the previous year.
Companies were hurt by low oil prices, with some industrial and petroleum linked companies forced to cut their workforces or file for bankruptcy.
Hamilton, who missed most of Friday's second after a crash, was off the German's pace throughout and ended up fourth, half a second off the pace.
The Briton unusually took a second set of new tyres late in the session but made the latest in a series of errors.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen was second - just 0.002 seconds slower than Rosberg.
The Dutchman's team-mate Daniel Ricciardo was third ahead of the Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel.
Ricciardo was 0.463secs slower than Verstappen but did not do a qualifying simulation run late in the session.
Hamilton will be spending the break before qualifying at 13:00 BST working with his engineers on improving the car, on a track at which he has excelled since the start of his F1 career.
The world champion has won at the Hungaroring four times - sharing the record with Michael Schumacher - and came into the weekend determined to take Mercedes' first win here in the hybrid era after difficult races in 2014 and 2015.
Hamilton is one point behind Rosberg in the championship and wants to go into the summer break after next weekend's German Grand Prix with a lead.
But the crash on Friday afternoon appears to have set him back this weekend.
He felt on Friday afternoon that he would be able to recover from the accident, which happened after only 10 minutes of the second session and forced him to sit out the rest of it.
But he did not look comfortable out on track on Saturday morning, making a series of mistakes.
Hamilton was nearly a second off Rosberg after the set-up work of the first 40 minutes was completed, after which he complained of overheating in the cockpit.
His seat was changed before Hamilton headed out for the qualifying simulation laps in the final minutes of the session but he ended up 0.508secs behind Rosberg.
At that point, he returned to the pits for a second new set of tyres, presumably to try the car again to see if he could improve, but ran off the track at the fast, blind-entry Turn Four and failed to improve.
Fernando Alonso was an impressive seventh for McLaren, narrowly ahead of Williams' Valtteri Bottas, Force India's Sergio Perez and a strong performance from Jolyon Palmer in the Renault.
The Englishman was two places and 0.054secs ahead of team-mate Kevin Magnussen.
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Companies now have permission to bid to redevelop the square, after approval by Swansea council on Thursday.
A developer has already submitted proposals to build three "quality restaurants" there and refurbish the site.
Council leader Rob Stewart said the square was "tired" but could be transformed.
The city park would form part of the planned regeneration of Swansea which was unveiled by the council in January.
A public open spaces notice will now be published, giving people the chance to give their views.
Proposals will then be invited, with the council to consider whether the schemes could affect public access or events.
Mr Stewart said: "Castle Square is looking tired, but it's a key location that has the potential to become a special destination in a revitalised Swansea city centre.
"If cabinet agrees to the consideration of redevelopment opportunities at Castle Square, then a marketing exercise could lead to the potential for private investment, which would be a good thing.
"This would reduce costs to the taxpayer, but we will also protect public access and usage in any future scheme."
The council said preliminary discussions have also started with retailers, restaurants, cinema operators and housing developers as part of the redevelopment of the St David's and Civic Centre sites.
Almost 2,000 pregnant women now have the virus, Colombia's National Health Institute said, out of the more than 20,000 people infected across Colombia.
The mosquito-borne virus has been linked to babies being born with abnormally small brains.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned Zika is "spreading explosively", predicting up to 4m cases this year.
Colombia says it expects the overall number of people to be infected to rise to more than 500,000 by the end of 2016.
On Monday, the WHO meets to decide whether Zika should be treated as a global emergency.
Brazil has been worst affected by the outbreak, followed by Colombia, but more than 20 other countries have seen cases.
Jamaica and Peru reported their first confirmed cases over the weekend, with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala urging calm and stressing that the patient contracted the disease outside of the country.
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Zika symptoms are mild, causing a low fever, joint pain, headaches, a rash and conjunctivitis.
But concern surrounds a surge in babies born with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, from mothers infected with Zika. A link has not been confirmed.
Colombia has also said it has seen an increase in cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare disorder that can cause temporary paralysis, that has also been linked to Zika.
The outbreak has sparked health warnings and eradication campaigns, with Brazil deploying troops and Colombia launching a mass fumigation campaign to fight mosquitoes.
Colombia and other Latin American countries have advised women to delay getting pregnant for the moment.
Kim Jong-il, North Korea's "Dear Leader", was in the process of grooming Kim Jong-un as his successor when he died on 17 December 2011.
Immediately after his father's death, the younger Kim was hailed as "the great successor". He was named head of the party, state and army within a fortnight of his father's death.
In January 2016, Mr Kim shot to global headlines again when he oversaw what the regime claimed was an underground hydrogen bomb test - its second nuclear test since he came to power.
Previously, his most high-profile act had been to purge and execute his uncle, Chang Song-thaek, who state media said had been plotting a coup, in December 2013.
Little is still known about the elusive young man who is the youngest son of Kim Jong-il and his late third wife Ko Yong-hui.
Born in 1983 or early 1984, he was initially not thought to be in the frame to take up his father's mantle.
Analysts focused their attention on his half-brother Kim Jong-nam and older full brother Kim Jong-chol.
However Kim Jong-nam's deportation from Japan in May 2001 and middle brother Kim Jong-chol's apparent "unmanliness" improved his chances.
Analysts saw him as the coming man after he was awarded a series of high-profile political posts.
Swiss-educated like his brothers, Kim Jong-un avoided Western influences, returning home when not in school and dining out with the North Korean ambassador.
After his return to Pyongyang, he is known to have attended the Kim Il-sung Military University.
His mother was thought to be Kim Jong-il's favourite wife, and she clearly doted on her son, reportedly calling him the "Morning Star King".
In his 2003 book, I Was Kim Jong-il's Chef, a Japanese man writing under the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto also claimed that Kim Jong-un was his father's favourite.
In August 2010 Kim Jong-il visited China. One South Korean TV station cited a South Korean official as saying Kim Jong-un had accompanied his father on the trip.
Some reports speculated that he had been anointed successor partly because of his resemblance to North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung.
A few North Korea watchers went so far as to say that he may have had plastic surgery to enhance the resemblance, in a country where the deification of the Kim family is at the heart of its grip on power.
Mr Kim made his first public speech as North Korea marked the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Kim Il-sung on 15 April 2012, praising the "military first" doctrine and vowing the time his nation could be threatened was "forever over".
"Superiority in military technology is no longer monopolised by imperialists," he said, adding: "We have to make every effort to reinforce the people's armed forces."
Not much was known of Mr Kim's personal life until television footage of an unidentified woman attending events with him surfaced. In July 2012, state media announced that Mr Kim was married to "Comrade Ri Sol-ju".
Little is know of Ms Ri, but her stylish appearance - short, chic haircut and Western dress - led some analysts to suggest that she was from an upper-class family and that she fits Mr Kim's efforts to project a more relaxed image compared to his predecessors.
Details surrounding the marriage of Mr Kim to Ms Ri remain unclear. Most reports had suggested that Ms Ri may have been a singer who caught Mr Kim's attention during a performance.
Aside from attending official events, the couple's public appearances have included visits to an amusement park and watching a concert featuring Disney characters.
American basketball star Dennis Rodman, who met Mr Kim in 2013 and 2014, told The Guardian newspaper that Mr Kim had a daughter.
In 2012, Mr Kim was appointed marshal - the highest military rank - following a high-level military reshuffle in which army chief Ri Yong-ho was removed.
Since then some of North Korea's actions have elicited condemnation from the international community.
A few months into his leadership, in April 2012, North Korea launched a rocket which it said would put a satellite into orbit. The unsuccessful launch was seen by many as a banned test of long-range missile technology.
This attempt was followed by a successful launch of a satellite into space, using a three-stage rocket, in December 2012. South Korea, Japan and the US said the launch was a disguised missile test, and the UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution condemning the launch and tightening sanctions.
In February 2013, North Korea carried out a third nuclear test, said to be twice as big as the 2009 test. This resulted in fresh sanctions from the UN Security Council.
In April 2013, heightened tension in the peninsula saw North Korea withdraw workers from the Kaesong industrial zone, jointly run with South Korea and the last symbol of inter-Korean co-operation. The zone was reopened in the following September after negotiations.
In January 2016, the regime made an as-yet unproven claim that it had successfully carried out its first underground hydrogen bomb test, triggering a global outcry and fears that the state, which has few allies, had acquired a more advanced nuclear capability than previously known.
The purge of his uncle in late 2013 caused international concern. Mr Chang was vice-chairman of the powerful National Defence Commission who sat at the heart of the country's leadership, and was seen as a major figure in Mr Kim's administration.
In his first public reference to the execution in a message broadcast on 1 January 2014, Mr Kim spoke of the "elimination of factionalist filth".
Angel Correa missed a sitter for Atletico and Vitolo should have put Sevilla ahead with a volley which Jan Oblak brilliantly kept out.
With 17 minutes left midfielder N'Zonzi settled the game by sprinting away from Atletico's defence to slot home.
The visitors, who were unbeaten and would have gone top with a draw, had Koke sent off for two yellow cards.
European champions Real Madrid leapfrogged Sevilla to the top of the table after a 2-1 win over Athletic Bilbao.
Match ends, Sevilla 1, Atlético de Madrid 0.
Second Half ends, Sevilla 1, Atlético de Madrid 0.
Substitution, Sevilla. Joaquín Correa replaces Luciano Vietto.
Substitution, Sevilla. Vicente Iborra replaces Franco Vázquez.
Foul by Nico Pareja (Sevilla).
Fernando Torres (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) header from very close range is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann with a headed pass.
Foul by Nico Pareja (Sevilla).
Nicolás Gaitán (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Samir Nasri (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicolás Gaitán (Atlético de Madrid).
Foul by Gabriel Mercado (Sevilla).
Tiago (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Franco Vázquez (Sevilla) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Mariano.
Attempt blocked. Vitolo (Sevilla) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Adil Rami.
Mariano (Sevilla) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mariano (Sevilla).
Nicolás Gaitán (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Steven N'Zonzi (Sevilla).
Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Sergio Escudero (Sevilla) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by Stefan Savic.
Foul by Luciano Vietto (Sevilla).
Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second yellow card to Koke (Atlético de Madrid) for a bad foul.
Adil Rami (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Koke (Atlético de Madrid).
Offside, Sevilla. Samir Nasri tries a through ball, but Steven N'Zonzi is caught offside.
Franco Vázquez (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid).
Offside, Atlético de Madrid. Gabi tries a through ball, but Fernando Torres is caught offside.
Goal! Sevilla 1, Atlético de Madrid 0. Steven N'Zonzi (Sevilla) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Luciano Vietto.
Foul by Franco Vázquez (Sevilla).
Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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. Fernando Torres replaces Kevin Gameiro.
Corner, Sevilla. Conceded by Diego Godín.
Foul by Gabriel Mercado (Sevilla).
Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Koke (Atlético de Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Rodgers, 32, claimed the S7 50m freestyle before anchoring the medley relay team to success to take her tally to five golds in total.
Millward, 34, won the S9 400m freestyle and joined Rodgers, Claire Cashmore and Harriet Lee in the relay.
Steph Slater won Britain's other gold with success in the S8 50m freestyle.
There were silvers for Ellie Robinson (S6 50m butterfly) and Bethany Firth in the SM14 200m individual medley, the latter finishing ahead of team-mate Jessica-Jane Applegate, while Tom Hamer (SM14 medley) and Andrew Mullen (S5 50m freestyle) won bronze.
It means GB end the event, the last major test before September's Rio Paralympics, with 46 medals, including 22 golds.
"I just gave it everything and it's great to end the week on a high," said Rodgers, who beat Germany's Denise Grahl by 0.45 seconds to retain the individual title she won in Eindhoven two years ago.
"I like when it is a tight race - it can be hard when you've just got the clock and nothing else."
In the relay, Millward gave Britain a solid start and they were second after the first 100m before Lee put the quartet into the lead.
She and Cashmore gave Rodgers a sizeable 11-second advantage and the latter held on in the freestyle despite the Russian team closing.
"It means the world," added Rodgers. "These girls were amazing. I always need them to give me a great leg and they really did and they gave me such a lead so I just needed to hang on."
"As a team we really wanted to show our dominance going into Rio," said Cashmore. "I think we definitely did that."
While national performance director Chris Furber was delighted with the team's display, he knows there are more difficult tests ahead this summer.
"We've benchmarked ourselves against some of the best in the world and we now need to continue the momentum between now and Rio," he said.
Ian Stewart, 56, denies murdering Helen Bailey and dumping her body in order to inherit her fortune.
He said one of the men attacked him on the day the Electra Brown writer vanished and warned he would not "see Helen again" if he spoke to police.
Mr Stewart claimed the men had hounded the writer over past business dealings.
Ms Bailey was last seen on 11 April and reported missing by Mr Stewart on 15 April 2016.
She was found beneath the garage at her home, together with that of her dachshund Boris, on 15 July.
The 56-year-old is accused of sedating and murdering his partner before dumping her body in a foul cesspit beneath their garage.
He told his trial at St Albans Crown Court that he lied to Ms Bailey's friends, family and the police about her whereabouts out of fear for her life.
Two men, whom he knew only as Nick and Joe, were said to have been old business associates of her first husband, John Sinfield.
Stewart claimed he was attacked by the tattooed thug called Nick on his doorstep last spring.
He told the court: "As I opened the door, he pushed me back into the hall and he must have tripped me at some point.
"He said: 'Helen is with us, she is helping us solve a problem, don't tell anyone'.
"He said: 'Sorry, we have taken Helen and Boris with us', he said 'we will be back we will see you Friday, if anyone asks tell them she's gone Broadstairs (Kent), don't tell anyone in any way'.
"He then said: 'If you tell anyone you won't see Helen again'."
Mr Stewart continued: "I was still on the floor, I was winded and my eyes were watering and he then hit me again and said: 'Do you understand?' and I nodded.
"He then quoted my telephone number at me and asked if that was correct and I just nodded.
"I was shocked and confused, it was so odd," he added.
The defendant claimed Joe had visited the house earlier and demanded if Ms Bailey knew about his old business dealings, before saying, in hushed tones: "Just think about this."
Mr Stewart, of Baldock Road, Royston, Hertfordshire, denies murder, preventing a lawful burial, fraud, and three counts of perverting the course of justice.
The trial continues.
The 24-year-old, who won promotion to Ligue 1 under Foxes manager Claudio Ranieri when he was at Monaco, joins the Premier League champions for an undisclosed fee.
He joined Nice in 2013 and made 110 league appearances for the club.
Mendy is Leicester's third summer signing after goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler and defender Luis Hernandez.
"I know the coach, I know his mentality and I know his philosophy," said Mendy. "When he speaks it's direct and clear and for me I like this."
Mendy played in all of Nice's games last season as they finished fourth in France's top flight.
He played five times for France Under-21s but is yet to make an appearance for his country's senior side.
Residents of Aird Uig on Lewis have registered an interest in taking over buildings at Gallan Head.
They were used by the RAF, and later the Ministry of Defence, during the Cold War then by Nato until recently.
The community wants to take advantage of the area's dark skies and marine wildlife.
It has been suggested that a hydrophone could be installed in the sea below Aird Uig to allow people to listen to whales.
Martin Hayes, chairman of the Gallan Head Community Trust, said he believed the observatory would be the first in the isles and the land involved could be purchased at low, or, no cost.
He said: "There will have to be an independent valuation but we believe the land is more a liability than an asset.
"The remediation costs are something like between £300,000 and £500,000. There are 14 redundant buildings on the site - we would use some of them."
He added: "The village was never told what the base was used for - it was all top secret.
"But we have to generate income to keep the village going and this is our chance."
Everyone wanted tariff-free access to EU markets, the shadow chancellor said.
But there was a debate on-going within the Labour Party about whether the best option was continued membership or a separate agreement, he added.
Jeremy Corbyn has suggested the single market is "inextricably linked" to EU membership and the UK cannot remain.
Speaking on Sunday, the Labour leader said leaving the EU meant leaving the EU's internal market - whose members must abide by rules on the free movement of goods, capital, services, and labour.
The party's international trade spokesman, Barry Gardiner, has gone further, saying the UK should also rule out remaining in the customs union beyond any transitional period, claiming that failing to do so would make the UK a "vassal state" unable to negotiate sovereign trade deals.
However, many Labour MPs disagree with both positions - arguing that it is in the UK's economic interests to remain in both. They point out there are non-EU members, like Norway, which have full access to the single market and countries such as Turkey which belong to the customs union.
And Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones is arguing Labour should be pushing for the UK to remain in the single market - even though it might mean not being able to impose any controls on immigration from the EU.
Mr McDonnell insisted Labour had a "straightforward" position on the type of access the UK needed to its largest market after it leaves the EU in March 2019.
"Our objective is tariff-free access to the market," he said. "That has been our objective since immediately after the referendum.
"The structures - whether we are in or out - are a secondary matter.
"We are not ruling anything out but what we are saying is that we are the fifth largest economy in the world and we have a special status in both our relationship with the EU and the rest of the globe and we feel we can get a deal that achieves tariff-free access."
Pressed on whether he and Mr Corbyn disagreed on the matter, he said: "I think we are all on the same page with regard to our objectives... there is a debate around whether it is full membership or a new relationship or a separate agreement.
"What we are saying is keep our eye on what is the most important objective, tariff-free access. We can achieve that."
The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said there was a "deep internal divide" within the party and the shadow chancellor was seeking to "soften" the party's stance following a backlash by pro-EU MPs and trade unionists over Mr Corbyn and Mr Gardiner's remarks
Amid signs of growing internal strains over Brexit, the former shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander said she had never felt "more concerned" about her party's position.
"My colleague Barry Gardiner's contribution to the Brexit debate, in which he argues for the UK to come out of the single market and customs union to facilitate Brexit was, for me, depressing and disingenuous in equal measure," she wrote in the Guardian.
She accused her colleague of using arguments on sovereignty, immigration and the legal jurisdiction that "could have come straight out of Tory Central Office", Instead, she said Labour must focus on the damage posed to those on low and middle incomes of a so-called hard Brexit.
The government has said the UK will leave the single market and customs union but could maintain some existing arrangements for an interim period to help British business adjust.
Officers have also targeted but not fire Tasers at 13-year-olds, Freedom of Information statistics requested by the Greater London Authority (GLA) Conservatives show.
The Tories said officers should use cameras connected to their Tasers to protect "the most vulnerable".
The Met said recent figures had showed a reduction in the use of Tasers.
Andrew Boff, leader of the GLA Conservatives, has called for officers to start using new body-worn cameras on their uniforms that are designed to activate automatically when the Taser is taken from its holster.
The Los Angeles Police Department already use cameras to record Taser incidents and the Met Police are currently trialling body cameras across 10 London boroughs, but they a not activated when Tasers are used.
Mr Boff said Tasers were "an important tool in public safety," but without context their use on the elderly or children was "questionable."
He said: "Body-worn cameras triggered by the use of the Taser would capture the events leading to a needed intervention.
"They have been shown to increase accountability whilst reducing complaints, protecting both police officers and the most vulnerable in society."
Tasers fire two darts with a five-second, 50,000-volt charge, which can temporarily disable its target.
The Met's website states the devices have been used by specially trained officers as an additional option to manage situations where violence is threatened or likely from a safe distance.
The Freedom of Information data obtained by Mr Boff showed in 2013 and 2014, Tasers were:
In 2013 and 2014, the Met used Tasers in 4,105 incidents, including firing them 503 times, according to figures.
The Met said the most recent Home Office figures showed there had been a reduction of 11.7% in the use of them.
The figures from October 2014 said Tasers had been fired 992 times from January to June 2014, compared to 1124 times from July to December 2013.
A Met Police spokesman added: "The MPS currently has in the region of 1,000 body-worn video cameras deployed as part of a year-long pilot. This is thought to be the world's largest trial."
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The profit was achieved on turnover of £297m in the 15 months to December 2014.
The directors' report said the figures showed a "substantial improvement" in the Ballymena-based group's performance.
It added that the outlook for 2015 was positive with a strong UK order book.
The business now employs more than 1,500 people, mainly in Ballymena.
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Now the polls have shut, what have been the best and worst moments for the parties during a month of campaigning?
High point - Leanne Wood pushing the first minister into the same ground as Plaid on steel
For some time Carwyn Jones' government has dismissed the idea of a Welsh stake in Tata Steel's UK operation, as proposed by Plaid Cymru. But that seemed partially forgotten when Leanne Wood pressed Carwyn Jones at the ITV Wales leaders' debate on whether his party would take such action.
Mr Jones said the Welsh Government would be prepared to take an equity stake to save the Port Talbot steelworks if it was "affordable".
The concession came with that final caveat, but was enough to be the story of the night.
Low point - efficiency 'uncertainty'
Plaid Cymru made much of work by academics Brian Morgan and Gerald Holtham in independently checking their manifesto.
The document said the "overall income projections and the estimated costings" seemed to be "reasonable", but also warned of "uncertainty" over proposed efficiency savings. The party planned £300m in efficiencies in the NHS.
"It is certainly the case raising these sums from efficiency gains is not going to be easy or painless," they said.
High point - solid TV performances from the leader
Andrew RT Davies put in confident performances in leaders' debates held on ITV and the BBC.
He focused on Welsh Labour's record on public services and, in the final six-way debate, aggressively pushed Carwyn Jones over the cancer drugs fund.
Low point - broadcasters banned from Davies-Cameron event
It seemed somewhat of a snub when the prime minister visited Gower constituency but denied broadcasters access.
The move appeared designed to avoid the PM having to answer questions on the junior doctors' strike, but it had the effect that Mr Davies was not seen on news bulletins stood alongside the prime minister.
Seen in the context of the continued divisions in the Conservative party on the upcoming referendum - with the prime minister in the remain camp and Mr Davies backing the Leave campaign - questions about a rift remain.
High point - Westminster troubles
Carwyn Jones was lucky early on, with Westminster troubles putting the UK Conservative government on the back foot.
Whether it was the EU, tax, the junior doctors strike - all generated headlines which served Labour well and Tories ill.
But that can be a double-edged sword, as we discovered with the decision for Jeremy Corbyn to stay away from Wales amid the anti-Semitism row.
Low point - Carwyn Jones forced to deny Welsh health care 'second-rate'
Mr Jones found himself on the back foot during the BBC Wales Leaders' debate, when a teacher from Cardiff forced the Welsh Labour leader to defend his health-service record.
Angharad Roche said she was disappointed at Welsh Labour's record on cancer treatment and angrily told Mr Jones: "When I voted for devolution which I did and I was proud to do so, I did not expect to have second-rate health care in this country."
Mr Jones said cancer patients got treatment more quickly in Wales than in England, despite the latter's cancer drugs fund.
High point - Kirsty Williams' resilient debate performances
Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams worked hard to have her small party's voice heard in the 2016 campaign and performed well in TV debates.
Carwyn Jones had held off from attacking the Lib Dems, but Ms Williams did not reciprocate - pressing the first minister on education during the ITV Wales leaders' debate.
At the BBC Wales event, she focused her fire on Nathan Gill of UKIP and his policy on grammar schools.
Low point - other parties deem them irrelevant
Neither Labour, the Tories, Plaid Cymru nor UKIP spent much of their time attacking the Liberal Democrats. There was very little attention on the party from their rivals.
It either suggests others hope to co-operate with Ms Williams after the campaign, or they consider the party so irrelevant to the overall result they do not think there's any mileage in bothering.
High point - the manifesto
UKIP has, in the past, been labelled a single-issue party with not much to say beyond the European Union.
But for this campaign, Mark Reckless has appeared to answer that criticism with a manifesto full of policies relevant to the devolved bodies.
That in itself is an achievement for a group which failed to win representation to the assembly at the last election.
Low point - would Nathan Gill have chosen Mark Reckless and Neil Hamilton as candidates? 'Probably not'
It is pretty unheard-of for a Welsh group leader to go into an assembly campaign criticising his own colleagues, but the row over the selection of candidates spilled out on to primetime TV when Mr Gill suggested he might not have picked either to run alongside him.
The comments threw fuel on a row, which had been brewing for months, with Mr Hamilton's wife Christine calling Mr Gill a "third-rate general" on Twitter.
Derby are 10th in the Championship and sacked Steve McClaren on Sunday, five months into his second spell in charge.
Rowett is County's fifth manager in 13 months following Paul Clement, Darren Wassall, Nigel Pearson and McClaren.
Rowett, who was sacked by Birmingham in December, made 120 outings for the Rams from 1995 to 1998 and said he has a "special bond" with the club.
He added: "During that time, we tasted success when we were promoted to the Premiership (1995-96) and moved to Pride Park Stadium under [then-manager] Jim Smith.
"Living in the local area, I understand the expectation of the fan base and it goes without saying that Derby County has fantastic and committed supporters.
"I have coached in the academy in the past so I know the values of the club and I am looking forward to sharing my experience and knowledge of the league with the staff and players."
The ex-Burton Albion manager was also linked with the vacant Norwich job and also held talks with Rangers.
He has brought in Kevin Summerfield as assistant manager, Mark Sale as first-team coach, Kevin Poole as goalkeeping coach and Joe Carnall as head of performance analysis.
Current first-team coach Kevin Phillips will continue as part of the set up but Pascal Zuberbuhler has left his role as goalkeeping coach.
"Gary is being tasked with, and has the full responsibility for, leading our redevelopment programme," said Derby County Chairman Mel Morris.
"He is an exemplar of the qualities and values we want in our team and has clearly demonstrated his abilities to get that from his players too."
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The trailer was shown at an official fan convention in California and has also been released online.
Han Solo the space smuggler, played by Harrison Ford, last appeared in a Star Wars film more than 30 years ago when Return of the Jedi was released.
The Force Awakens is set for release on 18 December and is the first in a new series of Star Wars films.
The firm is opening Pearson College, teaching a degree course validated by existing London universities.
The business and enterprise degree, taught in London and Manchester, will have about 40 places this year.
The college says it will be for "students who are serious about succeeding in business".
Pearson says this will be the first time a FTSE 100 company has directly delivered a degree course.
It will be seen as a significant symbolic step into UK higher education from a major player in the education market.
Pearson owns the Edexcel exam board, along with educational publishing interests and digital education businesses. It owns Penguin and the Financial Times.
The BSc degree course, which will be taught in Pearson's offices, will offer places from this autumn.
Tuition fees will be £6,500 per year - below the average for universities, many of which are now charging £9,000 per year.
There will be an option of an accelerated two-year course, as well as studying over three years.
The college will not have its own degree-awarding powers - so the degree will be validated by Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, which is part of the University of London.
Pearson wants to provide a degree course which will teach practical, hands-on business skills.
"We have a network of blue-chip industry relationships, many of whom are working with us on the design and delivery of our degree programmes," said the college's managing director Roxanne Stockwell.
"This gives us an inherent understanding of the modern business environment and employer needs."
But Sally Hunt, leader of the UCU lecturers' union, raised concerns about the expansion of private providers in the UK university system.
"Opening the door to for-profit companies in higher education is very risky, especially given this government's failure to regulate provision and monitor courses run by private providers," she said.
Pearson will become part of a growing but still relatively small private higher education sector.
There had been ambitions for a much bigger shake-up in higher education - with the expectation of more private providers offering degree courses.
But the White Paper which set out plans for a more competitive market did not become legislation.
Despite this there have been some signs of private providers playing a bigger role.
Last month Regent's College in London gained its own degree-awarding powers.
And BPP University College, a for-profit university with its own degree-awarding powers, announced it was expanding into health-related degree courses.
Although there had been an expectation of more overseas providers offering courses in the UK, there are indications that technology is changing more rapidly than regulations.
This year has seen the rapid emergence of online university courses in the United States, headed by partnerships involving institutions such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Princeton.
The California-based Coursera consortium, set up by academics at Stanford University, reported last week that since launching earlier this year it had signed up a million students around the world.
This included an estimated 40,000 students based in the UK.
Essex were set 329 to win after Sussex were bowled out for 288 in the morning as Jamie Porter finished with 5-82.
Cook, who was dropped on one by Danny Briggs, remained vigilant after the visitors fell to 128-4 and lost regular wickets throughout the afternoon as the seamers ran though the top order.
The 31-year-old finished on 127 not out as Essex closed on 266-7.
It was the England opener's second successive hundred in his opening two County Championship matches, having been made available for Essex's first four Division Two games.
Cook's 103-run fifth-wicket partnership with Jesse Ryder had briefly given Essex hope of victory, with 95 needed from a minimum of 16 overs, before Ryder was bowled by Luke Wells.
The Sussex leg-spinner then had skipper Ryan ten Doeschate caught at deep cover and Ajmal Shahzad trapped James Foster lbw as the match swung back in the hosts' favour with Essex needing to bat out 10 overs with three wickets remaining.
However, Cook and Graham Napier (six not out) survived the new ball as Essex remained unbeaten following their win over Gloucestershire last week.
The long-serving midfielder, 25, played 203 games for Rovers in seven years.
Defenders Adam Henley, Wes Brown, Gordon Greer and Joshua Askew, midfielders Hope Akpan and Danny Guthrie and striker Ramirez Howarth are also leaving the club on June 30th.
New contracts have been offered to youth defender Lewis Travis, 19, and midfielder Connor Mahoney, 20.
After winning the toss and choosing to bat, India collapsed to 8-4 as Broad and Anderson found prodigious swing and carry on a bouncy wicket.
Captain Mahendra Dhoni countered with 71, but Broad blew away the tail to bowl India out for 152, a total in which a record-equalling six batsmen were out for ducks.
England lost both openers cheaply, but rallied to reach 113-3 by the close, with Ian Bell unbeaten on 45.
Bell added 77 with Gary Ballance, whose dismissal for 37 in the final over of the day gave a second wicket to fast bowler Varun Aaron, one of three India players making their first appearances of the series.
England's near perfect day has put them in a strong position from which to go 2-1 up with one match to play.
It represents a remarkable turnaround for a team whose heavy defeat in the second Test at Lord's extended their winless run to 10 matches and prompted widespread calls for captain Alastair Cook to stand down.
Here in Manchester, Cook was indebted to Dhoni's decision to bat first under grey skies and Anderson, whose brilliant opening burst underlined his importance to the side in the week he was cleared of misconduct for his fracas with India's Ravindra Jadeja.
Broad, who will undergo knee surgery after the fifth Test, was not far behind, although his final four wickets owed more to poor batting than fine bowling.
After the start of play had been delayed half-an-hour by rain, Broad instigated the rout when he had experienced opener Gautam Gambhir - drafted in for the struggling Shikhar Dhawan - caught by Joe Root in the gully.
Fourteen mad minutes, and three immaculate away-swingers later, the tourists were four down.
Murali Vijay and Virat Kohli both nicked Anderson to Alastair Cook at first slip, and Cheteshwar Pujara poked at Broad and was well taken by Chris Jordan at fourth.
With Anderson and Broad expertly exploiting helpful conditions, India were in danger of total meltdown, but captain Dhoni led a recovery of sorts.
He added 54 with Ajinkya Rahane, who was out on the stroke of lunch, and 66 with Ravichandran Ashwin, who counter-attacked with an entertaining 40 off 42 balls.
In between, there was a satisfying moment for Anderson, as he followed two outswingers with a beautifully disguised inswinger to have his Trent Bridge nemesis Jadeja trapped lbw for a duck.
The last four wickets arrived in relatively quick succession during another fine spell from Broad before tea.
Ashwin and Dhoni were both caught slogging, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Pankaj Singh were clean bowled to take the tally of ducks to six.
Kumar stuck an early blow with the ball when Sam Robson was bowled shouldering arms to an inswinger.
The Middlesex opener now has only 69 runs in his last five Test innings and could soon come under pressure for his place.
Meanwhile, Cook's search for a first Test hundred since May 2013 goes on. The captain could not resist hooking fast bowler Varun Aaron and planting a catch into the hands of deep backward square leg.
At 36-2, India had an opening, but England reasserted themselves through Ballance and Bell.
Ballance, who has three hundreds in his last five Tests, started slowly before finding the boundary with sweetly timed drives on both sides of the wicket.
Bell was aggressive from the outset, hitting seven fours and swatting Ashwin over his head for six to emphasise England's supremacy.
Last year, Ashers Baking Company was found to have discriminated against a customer who placed the order in 2014.
It is trying to overturn the ruling.
The appeal was scheduled for earlier this year, but was halted after an intervention from Mr Larkin.
Mr Larkin was granted permission to take part in the case after senior judges decided Larkin had raised an arguable case that sexual orientation laws in Northern Ireland directly discriminate against those who hold religious beliefs or political opinions.
On Tuesday, Mr Larkin gave legal submissions.
He told the court that "this case is about expression".
Mr Larkin said if it was the case where the customer Gareth Lee has "been refused some of Ashers excellent chocolate eclairs because he was gay or perceived to be gay then I would be standing on the other side of court".
"But it's not about that, it's about expression and whether it's lawful under Northern Ireland constitutional law for Ashers to be forced ... to articulate or express or say a political message which is at variance with their political views and in particular their religious views," he added.
He added that Mr Lee's sexual orientation is of "supreme irrelevance" to Ashers.
The McArthur family, the owners of the Belfast shop, has said their case has implications for freedom of expression across the UK.
A barrister for the family told Belfast's Court of Appeal on Monday there was no contractual obligation to provide the cake.
"This was not a refusal to sell a cake, it was about the refusal to sell this particular cake," he said.
A barrister for Mr Lee said on Tuesday that the McArthur family were not being forced to do anything against their beliefs.
He said many businesses printed messages they did not associate with, citing the example of posters made by candidates fighting last week's Assembly election.
The lawyer for Mr Lee said a flier advertising the service and the fashion in which the order was taken was evidence that it was not a forced act.
"It is no more forced speech than any of the delivery merchants or the post office or any of the companies that printed the numerous hoardings around Belfast and the rest of Northern Ireland for the Assembly elections this week."
Lord Justice Weir, one of three appeal judges asked if it could be argued that "support gay marriage" was blasphemous.
The barrister for Mr Lee told the court it was not blasphemous, because the campaign for gay marriage was a civil recognition.
"It's not abusive of religion to say support gay marriage," he added.
He said Mr Lee was not asking Ashers to promote anything.
"Just because you ice a cake with Larne Ladies Football Club doesn't mean you support them, even if all your staff were arch rivals of Larne Ladies Football Club," he said.
The hearing continues.
Yousif Badri, 29, is accused of being involved in conduct "with the intention of committing acts of terrorism".
He denies charges under the Terrorism Act at the High Court in Glasgow.
Mr Badri accused IS of "hijacking" Muslim history and "trying to get almost legitimacy".
He told the court: "It tries to appear as a religious organisation, but it's more like a Mafia organisation or criminal gang."
Defence QC Murdo Macleod said: "There is an ongoing debate between militants and non-militants?"
Mr Badri replied: "Yes."
The QC asked: "You will have been strongly-opposed to Al-Qaeda and IS?"
Mr Badri agreed.
Mr Macleod asked: "Do you want to shoot anybody?" and he replied: "No."
Mr Macleod then said: "Are you interested in making shells?" and Mr Badri replied: No."
The trial, before judge Lord Turnbull, continues.
The 24-year-old centre-back, who has five caps for Norway, has signed from Molde on a three-and-a-half year deal.
Forren said: "It's a dream come true for me. Southampton is a big club in the Premier League.
"This is where I have always wanted to come and play football. The plan the chairman has for this club is fantastic, I hope I can join in."
Forren had been expected to arrive on Merseyside on Tuesday after Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers invited him for a trial, but the defender headed to St Mary's instead.
Forren added: "When I was told of the interest from Southampton, straight away I wanted to come and talk to the chairman.
"We had a chat and I was very impressed - there was no doubt that this is where I wanted to be."
Everton had previously been tracking the defender, only for that interest to cool.
Liverpool had been reluctant to bid for Forren until they had seen him train with the first-team squad.
Rodgers remains keen on signing a centre-back during the transfer window and is likely to allow Sebastian Coates to go out on loan if he is successful.
The FAW made a post-tax profit of £891,000 for the year ending 30 June, 2016.
Turnover for the year was £21m, an increase of £10.5m (102%) on the previous year.
The financial year included the Euro 2016 finals in France, up to and including the round of 16.
The quarter-finals and semi-finals of the competition occurred in July after the end of the business year.
FAW chief executive Jonathan Ford previously said Wales' run to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 earned a £3m profit for the association.
Ford is pleased with the profit for the period 2015-16 and said it was "imperative" to invest the money in new facilities.
"We hope to use that money, together with grants we have available and together with other money we may be able to get our hands on, to continue to improve facilities," Ford told BBC Wales Sport.
"They're probably the one thing throughout this country where we are a little bit behind.
"Our commitment to improving facilities throughout Wales, especially around the areas of national development and training centres, is clearly going to be a focus for us over the coming couple of years.
"Our objective is to get more people playing football and as a result of that more people playing football to a higher standard."
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner said it was "investigating the unintentional discharge" at the Hunterston facility in North Ayrshire.
The incident took place on 7 March at the Civil Nuclear Constabulary station.
The force is a specialist armed police service that is dedicated to protecting 14 civil nuclear sites across Scotland, England and Wales.
A report will be submitted to the Civil Nuclear Constabulary deputy chief constable in due course.
Foreign Ministry officials, who claim they have evidence Shahram Amiri was kidnapped, told state media he had now left the US.
The US state department has insisted he was in the US of his own free will.
In June, Mr Amiri appeared in three videos giving conflicting stories about how he had arrived in the US.
He said in the first that he had been kidnapped by CIA and Saudi agents while on a pilgrimage.
In the second message he said he had gone to the US to improve his education and was living freely in Arizona.
In the third, he claimed to have escaped from US custody.
On Monday evening Mr Amiri arrived at the Iranian Interests Section of the Pakistani embassy in Washington, which handles Iranian affairs in the US capital, and asked to be repatriated.
Since then, he has renewed his allegations that he was kidnapped, giving more details in an interview from the Iranian diplomatic mission with a Danish TV company.
He said he was abducted while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
"A white van stopped in front of me... They told me in Farsi that they were part of another group of pilgrims and said 'We are going towards a mosque and we will be happy to take you as well'," he told Atlantic TV.
"When I opened the door to get in and sit down, the person at the back put a gun to my side and said 'Please be quiet, don't make any noise'."
He said he was drugged and woke up in a military plane which took him to "American territory".
He added that he was put under intense psychological pressure to accept millions of dollars and tell US media that he had defected from Iran with sensitive documents and was claiming asylum in the US - a deal he said he refused to accept.
But in the US, unnamed officials and security sources are claiming that Mr Amiri defected and was put into a programme similar to a witness-protection.
Later, he apparently became concerned for family members he had left behind, had a breakdown and decided to return to Iran, US reports claim.
A US official told the BBC: "He provided useful information to the United States. The Iranians now have him. In terms of win-loss, it's not even a close call."
Iranian media quoted foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast as saying Mr Amiri would travel back to Iran though a "third country".
"With the efforts of the Islamic Republic of Iran and effective co-operation of Pakistan's embassy in Washington, a few minutes ago Shahram Amiri left American soil and is heading back to Iran," Mr Mehmanparast said.
Another foreign ministry spokesman later said the scientist would make a stopover in Qatar. There are no direct flights from the US to Iran.
In June, Iran claimed it had handed evidence to the US that the scientist had been abducted.
The US had repeatedly said it had no information about Mr Amiri.
However, on Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged publicly for the first time that the scientist was in the US - but she flatly denied allegations of abduction.
"Mr Amiri has been in the United States of his own free will and he is free to go," she said.
Iranian media reports say Mr Amiri worked as a researcher at a university in Tehran, but some reports say he worked for the country's atomic energy organisation and had in-depth knowledge of its controversial nuclear programme.
The 31-year-old made his debut as a contributor to the nightly satirical show last December.
His first appearance took aim at racial tensions in the US, saying: "I never thought I'd be more afraid of police in America than in South Africa."
Stewart announced he would be stepping down in January. He has hosted the influential comedy show for 16 years.
The presenter has yet to set a timetable for his departure, but the selection of a replacement should make the task easier.
Producers will want to give Noah time to settle into this new role before next year's Presidential election.
Speaking to the New York Times from Dubai, where he is on tour, the comedian expressed disbelief at his appointment.
"You don't believe it for the first few hours," he said. "You need a stiff drink, and then unfortunately you're in a place where you can't really get alcohol."
"I'm thrilled for the show and for Trevor," said Stewart in a statement. "He's a tremendous comic and talent that we've loved working with."
The star added he "may rejoin [The Daily Show] as a correspondent just to be a part of it!"
Comedian Chris Rock, who had been touted as a possible replacement for Stewart, tweeted: "Thank you president Obama"
Under Stewart's guidance, The Daily Show has become one of the most important political programmes on US television.
Even though he insists he is a comedian, not a journalist, Stewart's passionate monologues on politics, race and social justice exert a real influence on political debate in the United States.
"He essentially invented a new way to deliver the news that spoke to a younger generation less trusting of the traditional sources but still very interested in the world." said Dan Pfeiffer, an adviser to President Barack Obama, when Stewart announced he was quitting.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren added: "Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!"
As well as Stewart, the Daily Show has also nurtured the careers of comedians such as Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver - all of whom started off a "reporters" in the show's fake newsroom set-up.
Noah is a relative unknown in the States, but has hosted numerous television shows - including his own late night talk show - in his native country.
It has garnered him an avid following on Twitter, where his two million followers will be aware of his ability to satirise the news without disengaging from the issues.
One popular tweet, posted during Nelson Mandela's memorial service in 2013, read: "People shouldn't have booed Zuma at Mandela's memorial. But it's crazy that their anger supersedes their pain."
And after the 2012 Olympic Games, he quipped: "I'll miss the Olympics. It's the one time, when a group of black people can run, with no suspicion."
Noah was previously the subject of David Paul Meyer's award-winning film You Laugh But It's True, which documented his career in post-apartheid South Africa.
The comedian has also appeared on UK panel shows including QI and 8 Out Of 10 Cats, as well as performing on the BBC's Live From The Apollo programme.
He also performed at last year's Royal Variety Performance, where he spoke about his parents - a white Swiss man and a black Xhosa woman, whose relationship was illegal under apartheid laws.
His mother was fined and jailed by the South African government - Noah joked that he was "born a crime" - and he grew up in a Soweto township.
A TV career began when he landed a role on the soap opera Isidingo, aged 18, and he went on to host reality shows and radio programmes before becoming a stand-up.
"Trevor Noah is an enormous talent," said Michelle Ganeless, president of Comedy Central, which broadcasts the show. "He has an insightful and unique point of view, and most importantly, is wickedly funny.
"He has a huge international following and is poised to explode here in America, and we are thrilled to have him join Comedy Central."
Writing on Twitter, Noah added: "No-one can replace Jon Stewart. But together with the amazing team at The Daily Show, we will continue to make this the best damn news show!"
South African reaction: Milton Nkosi, Johannesburg
South Africans are overjoyed at the news that their compatriot will succeed Jon Stewart on the Daily Show. It was even the lead story in some local news bulletins.
The Soweto-born comedian is a much-loved figure here. In a polarised country like South Africa he cuts across racial divisions with his great sense of humour.
The department of Arts and Culture told me it was great news.
"No doubt this is a big development for Mr Noah's career and a resounding statement that South Africa has the artistic talent of international stature and calibre," said spokesman Sandile Memela.
"We wish to congratulate him on this significant achievement."
Several MPs have told me there is an unspoken assumption that he will stand down as Liberal Democrat leader in the next Parliament - whatever the result in May.
While Lib Dems are fighting for their political lives in constituencies, they are thinking hard about life after Clegg.
Their leader's career could end with defeat in his Sheffield Hallam seat, of course, or in resignation after a terrible election performance.
But even if he manages to prove the polls wrong - as he insists is possible - it would be very natural for him to stand down in 2017, one senior MP says.
It is widely thought he has not asked his wife Miriam to endure more than two general elections, another insists.
Clegg's aides dismiss such talk - he intends to be the leader through the whole of the next Parliament they say.
That is not what plenty of his colleagues expect though, and several are positioning themselves to fight to replace him.
They eye left-leaning Tim Farron with suspicion.
Two campaigns to be the party's president, one successful, have given him much more contact with members - who will elect the new leader - than any of his rivals.
He gets a lot of press.
MPs use almost identical terms to describe him criss-crossing the country eating rubbery chicken at meals with activists, who he showers with praise.
Some are dismissive - Farron is a good campaigner they say, but "not cerebral". Others use more forthright terms to dismiss his abilities.
The party's former leader Lord Ashdown told 5 Live: "Tim's a very able guy but at the moment judgement is not his strong suit."
His rivals, like the health minister Norman Lamb, are growing increasingly explicit about their ambitions.
If there is a contest, the energy secretary Ed Davey will want to stand, and he too has backers.
Those who are not talking about life after Clegg in public worry they too should give interviews for fear of not being regarded as a contender.
Who else? Jo Swinson, equalities minister, should also be a candidate one well-respected figure tells me, provided she is still an MP after the election.
Lib Dems suspect Treasury minister Danny Alexander of harbouring leadership ambitions, but he too faces a tough fight to hold his seat and many in the party regard him as having grown far too close to the Chancellor George Osborne.
A definitive list is hard to complete though because Lib Dems only need the support of 10% of the party's MPs to stand.
If the general election goes as badly as the polls suggest a would-be leader could comfortably fit the necessary supporters in a cosy phone box.
It could be a crowded contest.
The boy was pulled over in Broken Hill in the New South Wales outback on Saturday after a patrol noticed the car's bumper dragging on the ground.
Police said the boy had been attempting to drive 4,000km from Kendall in NSW to Perth, Western Australia.
He was arrested and taken to Broken Hill police station.
His parents, who had reported him missing, picked him up on Sunday.
The journey from Kendall to Broken Hill involves driving hundreds of kilometres along straight, sealed highways which pass through some of Australia's most productive farmland and the featureless plains of the outback.
The whole route to Perth would have taken about 40 hours, if travelling non-stop.
Local media reported that the boy managed to evade suspicion partly because he looks much older.
The manager of a petrol station in the town of Cobar was quoted as saying that he looked "maybe 19 or 20".
Police also said the boy was "about six foot tall" (1.8m).
"He'd taken the family car," Det Insp Kim Fehon told the Australian Associated Press.
"His parents reported him missing immediately after he left home, so they were looking for him."
A NSW Police spokesman told the BBC it was possible he could face charges under the Young Offenders Act.
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Orient's Mathieu Baudry's had a second-half header cleared off the line before Shaun Brisley hooked the winner home after Notts County failed to clear the danger from a corner.
Notts, who are yet to win at home under Jamie Fullerton, rarely threatened.
Victory leaves Orient outside the play-off places on goal difference alone.
Defeat sees Notts slip to 15th in the League Two table.
Leyton Orient player-manager Kevin Nolan told BBC Radio London:
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"Obviously after the disappointment of last week I thought we came here and limited them to very few chances today.
"I'm delighted with the response of the lads from last week and that's the main thing.
"We're going to be looking at what we've done over the last few games at home, but hopefully next week you'll see me smiling like I am today."
The professional clubs are not for sale, he stresses, but at the right price and to people who will sign in blood their commitment to invest in homegrown talent, he'd talk about a deal.
So how much would it take to get into the room with him?
You pick a number out of the air - £8m-£10m per year- and he says nowhere near.
"I'm not interested at that price because that's barely a year's money," he remarks.
"Somewhere along the lines of £7m or £8m is what it costs to run a really well-financed professional rugby team for a year. You take it on for a five-, six-, seven-year period and that's the kind of quantum we're talking about.
"I'm asking you for £50m-£60m for that kind of control. If your pockets are that deep then we can have that conversation."
That exchange is illustrative of Dodson's mindset. The SRU, much like its counterparts in Ireland and Wales, need fresh investment - and quickly. The rich leagues of England and France have opened up a yawning financial gap and the Celts are left to scramble in their wake.
Dodson has talked to some moneyed big-shots in the past about such things, high net-worth characters he has tried to bring into the loop as he tries to bring more money into the game to feed all the mouths he needs to feed and stave off the threat of losing his box-office players to offers from abroad.
He says: "I've been here five years and it's very difficult to bring new investment into professional teams that are sat inside a governing body.
"It's something we need to think about. It's an odd vehicle to invest in. They're put off by the structure. It's not the normal venture capital, private equity play, so they look at it and think, 'What am I investing in here?'
"I think we have to simplify ourselves to allow people to invest into a structure where they go, 'Ah, I understand that, I can see how it's controlled and where my money is going'."
All of this begs a fairly obvious question, of course. Why would anybody of sane mind rifle tens of millions of pounds into Scottish rugby?
Dodson says he's thought about this a lot. On the face of it, it makes no sense at all. Glasgow and Edinburgh exist in a tiny market, a Pro12 competition where the total broadcasting revenues amount to £12m, a relative spit in a bucket.
"You can work on the principle that pro rugby is one of the fastest growing sports in the world," he contends.
"The World Cup in England was a massive success. You've now got interest in this game on a global basis, you've also got money coming into the game from a broadcast perspective the like of which we have never seen before, you've got billionaires investing in England and France and there are only so many clubs available to buy.
"There's a scarcity. If you look at what is happening in football, there's Chinese investment in all four West Midlands clubs now. A few years ago you wouldn't have expected Wolves and West Brom to have Chinese investment.
"I know that's a different world and the market is massive, but there's a demand for sports properties and I believe we can get ourselves to a stage in rugby where we can offer attractive properties at a fraction of the cost of football.
"These people exist. We've done our due diligence on where the money lies and the money is out there, it's out there in spades. It's not for the faint-hearted but the rewards are now becoming tangible. You can see that in England.
"What we need to do is find people who believe in Scotland, who buy into the values of our teams and are prepared to put a flag in the earth and say this is where we want to go."
Once he's found his man, or woman, Dodson could turn his mind to tracking down Lord Lucan, the abominable snowman and the Loch Ness monster. If he can tie down his billionaire, the other three should be a doddle.
He knows that the rugby world is shifting fast and that the new money in England and France is the biggest game-changer in the professional era. It's a gargantuan task, but to sit still is to guarantee failure.
Dodson continues: "There's a lot to consider. Look at the domestic game - the grassroots, the clubs. Hugely important stuff,
"We have to make the clubs sustainable. They're asking us to show more leadership and, as a union, we need to do that. We have to show our clubs that we're as determined to be strong in the domestic game as we are in the professional game.
"Maybe that message hasn't gone out from Murrayfield in the past."
He has other messages. Edinburgh's failure, again, to make the top-six of the Pro12? "It can't carry on. They all know it. They've got a much more balanced squad this season, more firepower and more depth," he says.
"Finishing where they did last season is not acceptable and Alan (Solomons, head coach) was the first to say it."
And, to conclude, something surreal - Bunnygate. The embarrassment that fell on the SRU after Jim Hamilton's tale of a pre-World Cup day out with the French marines was acute. In the telling of a graphic and utterly surreal tale of rabbits getting brutally killed and eaten by the Scotland squad, Hamilton applied more top-spin than Andy Murray would get through in a season.
But, still, the fact remained that some rabbits were killed, even if it didn't happen in the way the former Scotland player suggested.
"Let me be clear," says Dodson. "It shouldn't have happened and it won't happen again. If you listen to Jim's podcast he's telling a very tall tale which he has admitted was wildly exaggerated. It doesn't stop the fact that things happened on that survival trip with the French marines that shouldn't have happened and will not happen again.
"We're very, very sorry for any distress it has caused."
Hardy shared video shot inside the club's academy dressing room before a game at Manchester City.
He removed the video after the FA, which prohibits filming in changing rooms, contacted the club.
A children's charity said Hardy should take guidelines "seriously" but he said they must not be "overly restrictive".
When the FA's safeguards relating to changing rooms and photography were pointed out to Hardy after he initially published the video, he posted a series of tweets defending it.
The video, which was removed after the FA approached Notts County, did not show any player in a state of undress.
When Hardy took the video down, he tweeted an apology, but again defended the filming and sharing of the video.
"Apologies to those who felt they had to complain to FA re: video of academy team jumping around in their full kit excited at Man City. Deleted," Hardy tweeted.
He followed up with: "Our children enjoying themselves too much. We'll be sending them back up the chimneys next!!"
In a statement, Hardy said he had "received overwhelming support from parents of the children concerned".
He continued: "What frustrates me in this particular case is that I am said to have contravened a guideline which prevents images being taken of children who are undressed.
"My view is that the fact the video was shot inside the changing room is completely irrelevant as the children were all suitably clothed.
"As a father of five children, three of whom are under the age of 10, as well as a coach of under-eights and under-10s football teams, I am well aware of my responsibilities as a parent, adult and coach."
More than 8,000 youth football clubs have renewed their safeguarding commitment with the FA since the sport's child sexual abuse scandal emerged in 2016.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), the United Kingdom's leading children's charity, which has worked with the FA since the the 1990s and set up a dedicated football abuse hotline following allegations of historical child abuse, said "they prohibit anyone taking photos or filming within areas where young people are changing".
An NSPCC spokesperson said: "With the recent shocking revelations about sexual abuse in football clubs, we would hope that everyone involved in children's sports, particularly at the highest level to take safeguarding seriously."
The FA said Notts "dealt with the matter" after being contacted, and that there will be no further investigation, although they will keep and "open dialogue" with the club.
However, Hardy said he does not want to see children's enjoyment of the game "diminished" by guidelines, or parents and coaches denied the chance to "capture precious moments on film".
He added: "My opinion is that, while I fully advocate tough punishment for those who pose a genuine threat to children, we must be careful when setting safeguarding rules to ensure they are not overly restrictive.
"What next? Are mobile phones going to be banned at beaches and waterparks? Yes, we must protect our children, but common sense has to prevail in an era when photography, videography and social media play such a prominent role in everyone's lives."
Mr Corbyn met staff at Harris Tweed Hebrides and is to address a town hall rally in Stornoway to highlight his party's policies for rural areas.
He is to tour a series of marginal seats in Scotland over the next five days, attending speeches and rallies.
The Tories say his policies lack credibility, while the SNP were critical of his position on Brexit.
Labour gained six seats north of the border in June's snap election, having lost 40 in the previous poll in 2015.
However, they were less than 100 votes behind the SNP in two Glasgow seats, and less than 1,000 votes behind in six Scottish seats in total.
With the election result stripping Theresa May's Conservatives of their majority in government, Mr Corbyn has pledged to remain on an election footing. His party has identified up to 18 Scottish seats as potential targets.
The Labour leader is using his visit to the Western Isles to highlight Labour plans to "rural-proof" policies in government, so that all laws are assessed on their impact on rural communities.
Mr Corbyn said: "Rural communities have been taken for granted for too long. There has been chronic underinvestment in transport, broadband and public services, with rural infrastructure and industry neglected.
"Labour will invest in transport, broadband, public services, housing and environmental and coastal protections - vital for the economy and the rural way of life."
He pledged to visit Scotland "roughly once a month" to campaign, and called on the Scottish government to use "every power they've got" to combat austerity from the Westminster administration.
The SNP has a lead of just over 1,000 votes in the local constituency of Na'h-Eileanan an Iar, where Angus MacNeil held his seat in June's election by a majority of 6.8%, over a Labour challenger.
A spokesman for the party said Mr Corbyn's "backing for the Tories' extreme Brexit, outside the single market and customs union, is set to hit our rural communities hardest".
He added: "Rural areas benefit massively from our membership of the EU, having access to funding, tariff-free trade and a highly-skilled labour market.
"Sadly, rather than wanting to protect these benefits for rural communities, Labour are pledging to deliver an extreme Brexit. Jeremy Corbyn and Labour simply cannot be trusted to deliver for rural Scotland."
The Scottish Conservatives, meanwhile, said it wasn't long ago that Scottish Labour "dreaded the thought of Jeremy Corbyn coming north".
MSP Miles Briggs added: "Had he won the general election, Corbyn would have sold Scotland out in a heartbeat, and that ambivalence to Scotland's place in the UK hasn't changed."
Rob Walton, 36, from Hinckley, Leicestershire, was hit by a "freak wave" while swimming off the coast of Labenne, south west France, on Monday.
In a statement, Mr Walton's family described the father of four as a "larger than life" character.
Mr Walton played at Championship level in Birmingham, Rotherham and Coventry.
In recent years, he was player-coach at Rugby Lions and had guided them to two successive promotions.
The statement said: "Rob's wife Gemma, his parents, sister and all the family are absolutely devastated by their loss.
"He was a larger than life character and touched everyone around him, whether that was on the rugby pitch, coaching, spending time with his beautiful children or having fun with his vast circle of family and friends."
The statement added the family were "overwhelmed" by the love and support they had received "at this difficult time".
"We would ask everyone to give us some time to try to come to terms with the huge hole he will leave in our lives and fully respect our privacy," it added.
It is believed Mr Walton was body boarding when tragedy struck, according to reports in France.
His death is currently being investigated by police in Labenne.
Local reports said his spine may have been fatally damaged after being hit by a freak wave.
The accident happened at about 14:00 BST on Monday.
Mr Walton grew up in Stoke Golding, Leicestershire, and played junior and senior rugby for Hinckley before moving to Birmingham and Solihull, Rotherham and Coventry.
The lock forward, who was known affectionately as "Yoghurt", was part of the Birmingham side - then known as the Pertemps Bees - that famously beat London Wasps in the 2004 Powergen Cup quarter-final.
After a second stint in Hinckley, he moved into coaching.
Paying tribute to him, friends described him as a "gentle giant".
Stewart and Janice Wagstaff have been accused of seven offences relating to "environmental permitting regulations" at the tip in Great Heck.
Mr Wagstaff, 54, and Mrs Wagstaff, 52, of Templar Close, Whitley, near Selby are due to appear at York Magistrates' Court on 17 February.
The tip was run by Wagstaff TWM until it went into liquidation in July 2015.
Despite the home side having the lion's share of possession in the opening exchanges, it was Queen's Park who took the lead.
Ryan McGeever won the battle in the air to head Sean Burns' cross into the bottom corner from close range.
But the hosts levelled before the break, Brian Martin nodding in Blair Henderson's corner.
The Wasdale rescue team said it was "shocked" at how walkers lacked "basic" outdoor skills.
Earlier this week the team dealt with six emergencies in 12 hours including 18 people stuck at the stream crossing on Lingmell Gill.
So far this year the Wasdale team has handled 80 call-outs.
This is more than it dealt with in the whole of last year. Spokesman Richard Warren said it was going to be another record year for emergencies.
Advice from Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team
- Select a route suitable for even the weakest party members
- Get a weather forecast
- Leave a route card with your details, the intended route, your equipment and estimated time of arrival with someone responsible
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- Carry basic survival equipment, food and spare clothes for the time of year. Remember conditions can change quickly on the hills and even a mid summer day can have gale force winds and rain
- Always carry a map, compass and torch and learn how to navigate before going onto the high fells
"We have been trying to reduce the numbers of avoidable incidents with little success," he said.
"The Lake District is again heading for a record year for call-outs and it is becoming quite shocking the level of ill preparedness and lack of basic outdoor skills necessary to safely get up a mountain.
"We are all volunteers and there is a limit to what we can do."
He added: "We've had 80 '999' calls since the start of the year, 20 of these in the first three weeks of August and at least 14 avoidable."
The team deals with calls to Scafell Pike, which is the highest mountain in England and the central peak in the popular Three Peaks Challenge.
The Ballymurphy families represent 10 people killed in west Belfast as the government introduced internment - imprisonment without trial.
They walked out of a meeting with James Brokenshire on Monday.
They had urged him to release funds for inquests into the shootings.
"My father was murdered, he was shot 14 times when he was defenceless as he lay on the ground," said John Teggart.
"I will continue to campaign but I am really disappointed with how things went. I thought better with the new secretary of state."
Mr Teggart said the families had told the secretary of state what happened to their loved ones and how they had been campaigning.
"We had asked about funds for the legacy inquest, but he refused to answer," he said.
"We asked him to release funds out of the £150m set aside by the British government to deal with the legacy of the past. He refused to answer questions on that. He batted it back and put it back to the executive.
"We walked out because he was going around in circles and refused to answer questions."
Mr Teggart said that referring the matter back to the Executive was "a red herring".
He insisted that funds should be released.
"It is not just the Ballymurphy families. It is ourselves, Kingsmills, the RUC widows - All our hurt is the same. We are campaigning for the same thing. It is up to the British Government to release the funds."
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said: "The legacy aspect of the Fresh Start agreement is one that is continuing to exercise all of use, but more importantly the families of victims. I am hoping that the last piece of the jigsaw can be put in place," he said.
"I do believe there is a huge responsibility on the British government to stop using the delays of others on the issue. They should fund those inquests as requested by the Lord Chief Justice.
"This is a big issue, these people have waited for 45 years and I think it is only right that the British government take up their responsibility."
Ten people were shot dead in west Belfast in the three days after internment was introduced, in what the bereaved families refer to as the Ballymurphy Massacre.
A priest and a mother of eight were among the civilians killed by the Parachute Regiment.
An 11th person died of a heart attack after a confrontation involving a soldier.
The region's 10 councils and health groups will take over £6bn allocated for health and social care, with full powers being devolved a year later.
Mr Osborne signed the memorandum of understanding, dubbed Devo Manc, for "better, more joined-up health care".
Labour MP Barbara Keeley said: "We're being handed over a funding crisis."
From 1 April, the region will start making its own decisions to "provide the foundations" for a Greater Manchester health and social care strategy.
Manchester City Council said this, along with business and investment proposals, would also give a "transitional plan" for full devolution by April 2016.
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£98.7bn is the estimated NHS budget for 2015-16 across England
2.7 million is the estimated population in Greater Manchester
53 million people are estimated to live in England
Mr Osborne said: "We have a landmark agreement to bring the local NHS and social care much more closely together.
"I am excited about all this because not only does it mean the people of Greater Manchester having more control over the decisions that affect their lives, I believe it will also lead to better, much more joined-up health care.
"It's also a historic day for Greater Manchester. They are leading the country in this important change."
The agreement "does not require any reorganisation of the NHS or its principles", the city council said.
Hugh Pym: 'A potentially momentous week for the NHS'
Ms Keeley, MP for Worsley and Eccles South, said: "The problem with Osborne's offer is that it is on existing budgets.
"A&E has just been through its biggest crisis for many many years, so let's be realistic about it.
"There are big gaps in social care, our hospitals are in deficit [and] that's no way to do a proper job of integrating care, which is Labour's policy - to integrate health and social care at the local level."
The agreement is part of the government's northern powerhouse plan to close the economic gap between north and south by investing in regions.
The plan would see local leaders, and ultimately Greater Manchester's new directly elected mayor, control how budgets are allocated.
Deputy leader of Greater Manchester Combined Authority Sir Richard Leese said: "The first big change is to make sure that a lot of people aren't entering into needing healthcare that don't need to do so."
Sir Richard, who is also the leader of Labour-run Manchester City Council, said "people are spending too long in hospital" so "there will proper care packages available" when they return home.
The plan aims to ease the pressure on hospitals in the long-term.
Arif Ansari, Political Correspondent, BBC North West Tonight
The chief executive of NHS England Simon Stevens quipped that "we are now signing the nuptials". For some of us, it felt more like a renewal of the vows.
Last November, the chancellor signed the UK's first "devolution deal" - but this may be a bigger deal, as Greater Manchester becomes a testbed for NHS devolution.
But the congregation in the Town Hall may have noticed a lack of Labour MPs - this deal has exposed a division between Labour's local authority leadership and its Westminster team.
The shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, who's long championed integration, called it a "two-tier system" and his colleague, Wigan MP Lisa Nandy, said it showed "complete contempt" for local people.
They believe there's a lack of democratic oversight. They were also politically exposed, unaware this major agreement was being negotiated.
The chief executive of Manchester City Council, Sir Howard Bernstein - perhaps taking the role of Best Man - told me the NHS won't be controlled by any future mayor but by a new health board of council leaders and local NHS managers.
Other council leaders, including the Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson, are left wishing they had been invited to a similar ceremony.
Ann Barnes, chief executive of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, said: "It is not about increasing power, but about increasing the health and prosperity of local people.
"We will have greater opportunities to respond swiftly and effectively to the needs of residents and really transform services for them. They will have a powerful voice in a powerful partnership."
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens described the memorandum of understanding as a "landmark agreement".
"[It] charts a path to the greatest integration and devolution of care funding since the creation of the NHS in 1948," he said.
"Greater Manchester now has a unique opportunity for innovation and improvement in health and wellbeing. The eyes of the country will now be on what this new partnership can deliver, and today the work begins."
New figures show 1.2m appointments were missed at Welsh hospitals alone in the last three years.
The party said that wastes time and costs the NHS around £60m a year.
The health minister said a fine would be complicated to bring in, while GP bodies criticised the plan.
The figures do not include missed GP appointments, but an inquiry last year by the assembly's public accounts committee found patients failed to turn up for more than one in 10 GP appointments - up to 600,000 per year.
It estimated missed hospital appointments have cost the NHS more than £180m since 2012/13.
The Conservatives said they would bring in a pilot scheme - charging irresponsible patients who miss NHS hospital appointments a small contribution towards the resources wasted.
The highest number of missed hospital appointments was in the Cardiff and Vale health board area, where there were almost 100,000 last year.
Research by BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf programme also suggested there had been a significant increase in the number of children's hospital appointments missed over the last two years - up by more than a third in Powys and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board areas.
A poll on the health service for ICM Research/BBC Wales earlier this year found 81% of people backed the idea of a fine for those who missed GP or hospital appointments.
Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Health Darren Millar AM accused the Welsh government of doing nothing to get to grips with the problem.
"We all have a right to use the NHS but we must do so responsibly," he said.
"While some people who miss appointments do so through no fault of their own, the reality is that many do not."
He said as well as wasting time and money it could have potentially harmful outcomes for those who fail to turn up.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said of a fine: "It's a superficially attractive idea but the minute you start to examine the detail, it crumbles.
"Would it include children, vulnerable pensioners, people with learning disabilities? If the answer is no, you see how complicated it could be."
He said it could lead to the "perverse result" of people not turning up to see a GP and going to accident and emergency units instead.
Dr David Bailey, deputy chair of the British Medical Association's Welsh GP committee, said: "The relationship between GP and patient is a lifelong one - and damaging that by petty little charges really doesn't seem to me to be the right way forward.
"When you want somebody to be your advocate and you give your trust - the last thing you want is for him or her to charge you a tenner."
The Royal College of General Practitioners said it disagreed with charging patients for appointments, under any circumstances.
"Introducing a charge for appointments would fundamentally change one of the founding principles of general practice - that healthcare is free at the point of need," said a spokesman.
"Missed appointments can be frustrating but in many cases there are valid reasons for patients not being able to attend - and they can be warning signs that something more serious is wrong."
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Warren Gatland's side tour New Zealand next summer, and are underdogs to win the series against the world champions.
But Jones feels the Lions are capable of toppling the All Blacks for the first time since 1971.
"There are definite weaknesses in the New Zealand side," Jones told BBC Sport.
"The Lions have to attack those weaknesses and then play to their strengths."
Steve Hansen's All Blacks have not lost a Test at home since 2009, a run of 43 games, but Jones added: "The Lions have a great chance.
"Of course it is going to be tough, but out of the four teams [England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland], they can put out a great squad of 35, 36 players more than capable of taking the Kiwis on."
Jones was backed to coach the Lions himself after guiding England to a Grand Slam and a series whitewash of Australia, but was unavailable because of his commitment to the Rugby Football Union.
However, he feels the Lions have the right man in Gatland, who led the Lions to victory in Australia in 2013.
Gatland, confirmed as Lions coach last Wednesday, will lead the team until the end of the tour next July, having taken a sabbatical from his job as Wales head coach.
"It's a great appointment," Jones said. "Warren has done it before, and he has a great appreciation of European rugby.
"He knows the players in England, Scotland and Ireland - obviously he knows the Welsh players - so he will do a great job."
Jones' focus is now on the first match of England's autumn series, against South Africa at Twickenham, with the squad named at the end of this month.
"We always ask the players to go back to their clubs and perform like international players," Jones said.
"So if players don't perform at that level, then the selection will change."
England face the Springboks on 12 November, before matches against Fiji, Argentina and Australia.
The Albertan, who has a longstanding interest in fossils, was digging a basement for a new home in Calgary's north-west.
Mr Nernberg is, according to reports, a donor to Alberta's Big Valley Creation Science Museum.
However, he realised these fossils should be seen by a palaeontologist.
"When the five fish fossils presented themselves to me in the excavator bucket, the first thing I said was you're coming home with me, the second thing was I better call a palaeontologist," Mr Nernberg said, according to a statement from the University of Calgary.
The specimens were in sandstone from the Paskapoo Formation, a Palaeocene age sedimentary rock which underlies parts of southern Alberta.
About 60 million years old, these rocks preserve evidence of life from the time following the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period, which wiped out three-quarters of all species on earth, including the dinosaurs.
"Because complete fossils are relatively rare from this time period in Alberta, any such discoveries are significant as they shed light on the nature and diversity of animals that lived not long after the extinction of the dinosaurs," said University of Calgary palaeontologist Darla Zelenitsky.
According to the university, all fossils in Alberta are the property of the province, and do not belong to the landowners or the finders.
While the university makes no mention of finder Edgar Nernberg's creationist links, Canadian newspapers have made much of them.
The Calgary Sun asked the "good-natured" Mr Nernberg if his find had affected his view that the earth was created 6,000 years ago.
"No, it hasn't changed my mind. We all have the same evidence, and it's just a matter of how you interpret it," he told the paper.
"There's no dates stamped on these things."
But Dr Zelenitsky - while she might disagree about fossil dating - praised Mr Nernberg for his awareness of what the fossils were.
"Most people would have overlooked these - when these were uncovered, Edgar right away recognised them," she told the paper.
"An ordinary person might have just seen blobs in the rock."
The fossils will now go to Alberta's Royal Tyrrell Museum, where they will be cleaned and studied, and may end up on display.
Somerville College's Andrew Warren, 56, and US professor Wyndham Lathem, 42, are accused of fatally stabbing Trenton Cornell-Duranleau in Mr Lathem's flat.
Chicago Police charged the pair with first-degree murder after they were returned to the city from California.
Mr Cornell-Duranleau, a hair stylist, was found with more than 40 stab wounds on 27 July.
Mr Warren was suspended from his university job as senior treasury assistant after the body was found.
A post-mortem examination showed Mr Cornell-Duranleau had the drug methamphetamine in his system.
Mr Lathem, who has been sacked as a microbiology professor at Northwestern University in Illinois, was in a personal relationship with the victim, police have said.
He plans to plead not guilty, according to his lawyer.
Teacher quality has often been highlighted as the key to raising school standards and this research warns of a serious gap in funding.
David Weston, chief executive of the Teacher Development Trust, said the findings were "extremely concerning".
The Department for Education said such training was "vital for all teachers".
But it was up to head teachers to "make the right decisions for their staff".
The study says 600 schools have "wiped out" their budget for professional development.
Head teachers have warned about pressures on school funding and the education charity warns that training budgets can be among the first to suffer when there are cuts.
"It is shockingly short-sighted for schools to be slashing these budgets at a time when there is more pressure than ever on recruiting and keeping staff," said Mr Weston.
"We work with schools who have invested in this area and seen huge improvements in pupil results and teacher recruitment."
He said that investment in professional training should remain a priority and that pupils deserved to be taught by teachers with up-to-date skills.
The research found lower-achieving schools were likely to spend less on training than those which were more successful.
Secondary schools on average spent 0.37% of their budgets on staff training and 0.65% in primary schools.
Funding levels for training were "pitifully low", said Prof Robert Coe, director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at Durham University.
"Research evidence is very clear that investing in high-quality support for teachers' professional learning is not just one of the most effective things schools can do to raise standards, but one of the best-value choices they can make.
"Cutting spending on CPD, even in a time of tight budgets, would be one of the most counterproductive, short-sighted and evidence-averse things a school could do."
The deputy head of Quintin Kynaston school in north London, Ross McGill, said it was wrong for schools to be "squeezed into a corner, forced to make a decision to cut, or have no continuous professional development budget available to their staff".
He said that the staff development budget was "always the first thing to be cut when unplanned financial circumstances arise throughout the academic year".
"With rapid reforms in curriculum, examinations and assessment, every school will need to invest a huge amount of time for all staff to be one step ahead of their students in class," he said.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "Continued professional development is vital for all teachers to help improve their knowledge and skills.
"Thanks to our investment in school funding, which at more than £40bn in 2016-17 is at its highest level on record, we are giving all schools access to the resources they need.
"We trust heads to make the right decisions for their staff and use those resources to invest in high quality training and development."
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Just under 76% of A&E patients at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow were treated within four hours in the week ending 11 December.
The Scottish government's target is for 95% to be seen and subsequently admitted, transferred or discharged.
Ministers said an increase in demand had affected waiting times.
Scotland-wide, hospitals recorded their worst performance for 10 months. According to the latest figures, 89.9% of A&E patients were dealt with within four hours.
At the £842m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, which opened in April 2015, a total of 1,787 patients attended the hospital's A&E department during the period between 5 and 11 December.
The figures showed 41 A&E patients had to wait more than eight hours and one had to wait more than 12 hours .
Commenting on the statistics, Scottish Labour's health spokesman Anas Sarwar said that Health Secretary Shona Robison needed to "get a grip of the growing NHS winter crisis".
"These figures show that A&E performance across Scotland is getting worse. The fact that one quarter of A&E patients at the £850m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital aren't seen within four hours is unacceptable.
"These figures are yet more evidence that the SNP's decision to allow the closure of the minor injuries unit at Yorkhill Hospital is senseless, reckless and ultimately dangerous."
The Scottish Liberal Democrats said the waiting times recorded at the hospital were "intolerable".
Ms Robison said: "We are monitoring A&E performance closely to ensure no-one is waiting longer than absolutely necessary in our emergency departments.
"This week has been particularly challenging for some of our hospitals with demand increasing by over 5% compared to the same week last year - over 1,200 more patients.
"This increase in demand has affected waiting times in some areas of the country, and we are working particularly closely with those health boards affected to identify and implement immediate solutions."
Ms Robison added that Scottish A&E departments had consistently out-performed other areas of the UK for at least the past 20 months.
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Scotland's largest hospital has recorded its worst ever accident and emergency waiting times, figures have shown.
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A Care Quality Commission (CQC) report found the trust failed to meet safety standards for staffing levels, training and support and patient welfare.
The report follows a series of concerns over the care of children at the unit.
Two cardiac high dependency beds have been created and the number of beds at the unit has been cut from 16 to 12.
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UBHT) said it had "improved the nurse to patient numbers".
An unannounced inspection was carried out on 5 September following concerns raised by two families whose children had been patients at the children's hospital.
Luke Jenkins, seven, of Cardiff, had been expected to make a recovery after heart surgery at the hospital.
He was moved from intensive care 24 hours after the operation because of "increasing demand" on beds in the department but later suffered cardiac arrest and died.
"They're looking after seriously ill patients - as they keep saying - and they've not got enough staff to look after them so they're putting children's lives at risk," said Stephen Jenkins, Luke's father.
A report put together by an investigative team at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust said "the workload and patient dependency is recognised as being significant" in Luke's death.
Three weeks earlier Sean Turner, four, had died on the same ward.
He was transferred from intensive care to the ward one day after surgery.
His parents asked for him to go back into intensive care but he was not allowed to return until he suffered a cardiac arrest in his father's arms four days after surgery.
Sean died four weeks later from a significant bleed in his brain.
A hospital review into his death found staff shortages, failure of staff to recognise his deteriorating condition and poor communication with his parents had contributed.
"If you haven't got the staff to make the children better don't take them. Why rush them through?" said Stephen Turner, Sean father.
"It [the unit] needs to be closed down," said Yolanda Turner, Sean's mother.
"We've been saying it ever since Sean and Luke. When Luke died after Sean that shouldn't have happened. It's unsafe in there and we witnessed that twice.
"They're not prepared for the children who have complications after surgery. They can't cope with that."
Ian Biggs, deputy director of the CQC in the South, said: "We found that on a number of shifts, staffing levels on Ward 32 fell below these inadequate levels and to make matters worse, some staff did not have the appropriate experience to care for patients with high dependency needs.
"Doctors and nurses told us that the current staffing levels were having an impact on the care and service being provided, with checks missed or reduced at times and not enough time to communicate with families.
By Matthew HillBBC West health correspondent
This story raises questions about how the hospital responded to concerns about staffing levels.
Sources from the trust have told me that from 2009 they warned senior management there were not enough nurses on ward 32 or capacity in intensive care.
The trust insists it reviews staffing on an hour-by-hour basis. It says over the past two years it has invested £600,000 in paediatric cardiac services, which equates to 14.5 full-time equivalent staff, and is now carrying out another review.
But that does not satisfy the parents of Sean Turner or the CQC, which believes more needs to be done. The regulator only serves an improvement notice on a hospital in the region about once a year, so this is certainly a slap on the wrists and the hospital will have to respond very quickly to the CQC's demands.
"The trust themselves have acknowledged that their system of providing high dependency care was not sustainable.
"But having identified the risks of providing high dependency care on a general ward, they had not taken effective steps to ensure they reduced the risks to patients. "
The trust has been told it must provide a report within seven days setting out how it will meet the other standards.
Robert Woolley, Chief Executive of UBHT, said: "I am deeply concerned that some families believe that we have let them down and will continue to ensure that we address their concerns and bring forward our plans to develop a high dependency unit.
"We have also improved the nurse to patient numbers on the cardiac ward. As a result of these actions, I believe we have addressed the issues leading to the warning notice and I would welcome a return visit from the CQC to confirm this."
CQC inspectors will monitor the trust's progress and check to ensure the improvements it requires have been made.
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Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell to 5.17%, down from February's figure of 5.37%.
Better weather has meant agricultural harvests have been more controllable, stabilising the price of food.
The dip in global oil prices also helped lower the rate, which is in line with the government's aim of keeping inflation below 6%.
Analysts had forecast a rate of about 5.5% for March. In February, unseasonal rains had pushed up food prices.
India's central bank has cut interest rates twice this year with its key rate now at 7.5%. Analysts say the bank could act again.
Economist at Capital Economics Shilan Shah said: "This has raised the possibility of an interest rate cut outside the scheduled review cycle for the third time this year."
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Police sources said the shooting was connected to the hunt for fugitives.
Earlier, security sources said surveillance video showed a possible ninth assailant during the attacks in which 129 people died.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) group has said it carried out the attacks on Friday.
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Alexis Sanchez scored an extra-time winner as the Gunners came from behind to win 2-1 and reach a record 20th final - and an eighth under Wenger.
"People questioned us, we went through tough times," Wenger said.
"You can be divided or united and we have shown the right response."
Wenger, 67, has come under more scrutiny this season than at any other time in his 21-year reign at Arsenal, with the Gunners lying in seventh place in the Premier League and on the receiving end of a 10-2 aggregate thrashing by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
The Frenchman is out of contract at the end of the season and has been offered a new two-year deal, although he is yet to announce whether he will continue.
Some sections of Arsenal fans have protested against Wenger in recent months, but the manager was pleased to see his side rally after falling behind to Sergio Aguero's opener.
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"You know I feel the club is in a very strong shape, and that we have a very strong overall situation and a very strong team," he said.
"One day I will leave anyway so the most important thing is that Arsenal will always be a great club that everybody admires.
"I felt it was a big test for us today, a mental test because many people question if we can turn up on an occasion like this.
"It was a very tight game but overall I think we deserved to win the game. The players showed great togetherness."
Sanchez and Mesut Ozil have been linked with moves away from the club this summer, and the Chilean highlighted his importance with his 24th goal of the season which settled the tie,
Wenger expects the former Barcelona forward to extend his stay at the Emirates.
He said: "Alexis Sanchez was like the team. He had problems at the start and became stronger and stronger.
"He is an animal, always ready to kill the opponent. He will never give up.
"He will be here next year because he has a contract and hopefully we will manage to extend him."
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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said he had no regrets after seeing his side beaten, a result which means the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss will end a season without a trophy for the first time in his coaching career.
"We performed like we would want to in a final," he said.
"We did absolutely everything. Congratulations to Arsenal. We'll improve next season.
"We competed here, we had more chances but the finishing was like it has been throughout the season."
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty at Wembley:
Arsene Wenger's mask slipped as he pumped his fists in triumph repeatedly at the conclusion of Arsenal's win.
Wenger has never been under greater scrutiny or pressure than he has been in recent months, dealing with the toxic combination of growing unrest among Arsenal fans and a collapse in form that leaves their Champions League ambitions under threat.
And yet here, with the pressure at its highest, Wenger coaxed the sort of performance out of Arsenal that puts him on course for an historic FA Cup win when they face Chelsea in the final in late May.
Yes, his Arsenal side enjoyed large portions of good fortune with Raheem Sterling's disallowed goal and efforts against the woodwork from Yaya Toure and Fernandinho - but Wenger deserves credit for persevering with a three-man defensive system that goes against his natural instincts.
This was an Arsenal display of steel, grit and resilience topped off by a comeback crowned by Sanchez's poached winner.
And Arsenal's players played for their manager, with some dedicating the victory to the man who has been a convenient shield for their own shortcomings during the recent slide.
Reality dictates that Arsenal's ills and the uncertainly surrounding Wenger cannot be wiped away by one win. He will need a trophy and/or that top-four place otherwise they idea of him staying on and signing a new deal will be a hard sell to that disgruntled strand of Gunners support.
As for Wenger's opposite number Guardiola, he may have had a hard luck story to tell as he left Wembley but the bottom line is the man brought to Manchester City to move them on to the next level in succession to Manuel Pellegrini will end the season empty-handed and that is a serious disappointment.
This was not how it was meant to be but this City team simply has too many flaws. For all their attacking riches, they are not ruthless enough, are insecure at the back and uncertainty continues over the goalkeeping position, where Guardiola's choice to replace Joe Hart, Claudio Bravo, has not convinced.
And now the pressure is really on - if Guardiola fails to guide City into the top four then this season will be nothing other than an abject failure after the exit at the last 16 stage to Monaco in the Champions League.
City are currently fourth, a point ahead of Manchester United before Thursday's derby at Etihad Stadium.
A top-four place was the very minimum requirement for Guardiola and his players before the start of the season - failure to deliver would not be well-received by the club's fiercely ambitious Abu Dhabi-based hierarchy.
New laws that come into force next month in the southern city do not specify what amount of spilled urine would be classed as a violation.
The move has provoked derision and debate in local newspapers and on China's version of Twitter, Weibo.
Critics suggested toilet inspectors would be needed to enforce the rules.
The regulations were designed to curb the "uncouth use of a public toilet", a city government official told the AFP news agency.
The Beijing Times carried a commentary calling into question the necessity of making a law on something that could "be simply guided by social consensus".
Cpl Joshua Hoole, 26, of Ecclefechan, near Lockerbie, died on pre-course training for the Platoon Sergeants' Battle Course on Tuesday.
He was a member of the Rifles regiment at ITC Catterick.
A post mortem examination is being carried out on Friday and police are continuing their investigations.
The Ministry of Defence confirmed a second soldier was admitted to hospital on the same day and has since been discharged.
A spokeswoman said he was not on the same exercise as Cpl Hoole.
"We seek to make all training as safe as reasonably possible while ensuring that soldiers are ready for the challenges of protecting the United Kingdom. Where practicable all recommendations made in recent inquests have been implemented," she said.
Maj Dean Murch, officer commanding The Rifles, 1st infantry training battalion, said they are "utterly devastated" following the death.
"His family have lost a son, a brother, a fiance and a very special friend," he said.
"Their grief will be inconsolable."
He added: "Truly the thoughts and prayers of every single Rifleman in the Regiment and all his colleagues at the Infantry Training Centre are with them in their hour of need, now and in the forthcoming days and beyond."
Cpl Hoole had just finished an eight-mile course when he collapsed at Dering Lines infantry training centre just before 09:00 BST on Tuesday.
It was the hottest day of the year where temperatures in the Brecon area peaked at just above 30C (86F).
Cpl Hoole's death follows those of three soldiers who were taking part in an SAS training exercise in the Brecon Beacons on one of the hottest days of 2013.
The Ministry of Defence will carry out a full investigation into the death, Defence Minister Harriett Baldwin has confirmed.
Michail Antonio's seventh-minute header from Dimitri Payet's corner gave Slaven Bilic's side a narrow victory margin - but the Hammers were vastly superior to a disappointing Spurs, who never threatened the victory they required to overhaul Leicester at the top of the table.
Spurs were second best in all departments and when they did threaten, West Ham keeper Adrian saved from Toby Alderweireld's shot and Harry Kane's rebound, the England striker also failing with a good chance at the far post late on.
And how West Ham's fans lapped it up as they relished putting the skids under Spurs while only leaving themselves one point off the top four in this most unpredictable of seasons.
Relive the drama from Upton Park
Reaction from this game and the rest of Wednesday's Premier League matches
Spurs have not been at the summit of the top tier in March since 1964 - and they will have to wait a little longer after one of their poorest performances of the season.
Mauricio Pochettino's team pride themselves on pressing their opponents but had the tables turned on them ruthlessly by their hosts, especially in a harrowing first 45 minutes in which they were run off their feet and out of position.
Spurs could never gather any momentum or rhythm and, on the rare occasions they threatened, the normally reliable Kane was unable to find the target.
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This was only their fourth defeat of the Premier League season - and they have an immediate chance to make amends in the north London derby with Arsenal at White Hart Lane on Saturday.
There is no reason to lose faith in a Spurs side that has come so far this season - but they still need to answer the question about whether they can crack it when the heat is on, because they came up short at West Ham.
Bilic stepped into the breach when a call from Real Madrid snatched Rafael Benitez away from West Ham only hours before he was scheduled to succeed Sam Allardyce at the Boleyn Ground.
The Croat had a short but distinguished playing career at West Ham - and has brought charisma and style to a club that prides itself (not necessarily with much justification in the recent era) on playing with a certain style and panache.
There is no mistaking the style now, built on the no-frills framework of James Collins in defence and the admirable consistency of captain Mark Noble in midfield - and with glorious attacking flourishes.
Payet is the darling of the Hammers' fans, the French midfield man signed for £10m from Marseille in the summer, bringing a buzz of excitement every time he gets the ball.
Throw in the skill of Manuel Lanzini, the unpredictability of Antonio and the power of on-loan Emmanuel Emenike, and Bilic is putting together a potent combination - as Spurs found to their cost.
Just turn right out of Upton Park station and on to Queen Street and you get the instant flavour of what makes the Boleyn Ground so special.
Vibrant, busy and with all the sights, sounds and smells of one of the great traditional old English football arenas - an arena that will sadly soon close its doors forever.
There are only five more Premier League games here (and the possibility of an FA Cup replay against Manchester United should West Ham draw at Old Trafford) before they make the short journey to the Olympic Stadium for next season.
And how this venue will be missed. Time moves on and West Ham have been presented with a perfect opportunity to progress, but night games in particular are very special here in east London.
The home fans give the ground a thunderous atmosphere from before kick-off, when the bubbles machine accompanies the club's old anthem 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles' and continues non-stop in a relentless, intense environment.
The Hammers will lose something when they leave here, as it remains one of the great landmarks of English football.
West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic: "To match Spurs you have to play well, but to outplay them and win was magnificent.
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"Maybe I'm biased but they should be more happy with the result than us, because it could have been more.
"In all aspects of football we were magnificent and I congratulate the players."
Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino: "We didn't start well. The first half was poor, we never found solutions to play like we normally play.
"We had more freedom in the second half but if you don't score it's difficult to get the points.
"We were poor. We know. We are very disappointed. But the way the players fought in the second half was fantastic."
Tottenham will be itching to get back to winning ways but face a tough north London derby at home to Arsenal on Saturday (12:45 GMT).
On the same day Slaven Bilic takes his West Ham side to Everton (15:00 GMT) - a place he knows well, having turned out for the Toffees in his playing career.
Fans headed for the exits in the 74th minute - Villa were formed in 1874 - with their side trailing 3-0.
Ramiro Funes Mori gave Everton the lead by meeting Kevin Mirallas' corner before Aaron Lennon's close-range finish doubled their lead.
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Romelu Lukaku made it 3-0 before Rudy Gestede headed a consolation for Villa.
The result leaves the home side eight points from safety with 10 games left.
Relive all the drama from Villa Park
Reaction from Villa Park and all of Tuesday's Premier League games
Mathematically, Villa can still avoid a first relegation since 1987.
Yet with five of their remaining 10 games against Manchester City (away), Tottenham (home), Chelsea (home), Manchester United (away) and Arsenal (away), they have their work cut out to avoid the drop.
The mood inside Villa Park was ugly throughout, with fans in the sub-30,000 crowd making their feelings known towards the club's hierarchy.
Those who joined the 74th-minute protest - which will be repeated at their next two home games - missed substitute Gestede's goal from a Jordan Veretout cross.
However, it could not prevent Villa from a ninth defeat in 17 league games - and third in a row - under Remi Garde.
"The mood is turning ugly. The crowd are chanting 'from European nights to relegation fights - we want Lerner out'. A few fans are pointing fingers at chief executive Tom Fox in the directors' box.
"There are hundreds of fans streaming out of Villa Park. There are a lot of people who have paid a lot of money walking out. The Villa fans are voting with their feet. I haven't seen anything like this before at Villa.
"I remember the demonstrations against Doug Ellis, but he must seem a great chairman in retrospect. This is the worst team I've seen in 41 years of reporting on Villa, simple as that."
There is renewed pressure on Roberto Martinez following the multi-million pound investment in Everton by Iranian billionaire Farhad Moshiri.
Yet if the Spaniard is feeling the heat, he did a great job disguising it, taking time to shake hands with Villa's mascot and sign autographs during the match.
His side controlled the game from start to finish, racing into a 2-0 lead as Villa left Funes Mori in space to score before Lennon fired home after being teed up by the impressive Mirallas.
Funes Mori turned provider as Lukaku's knee helped make it 3-0 and it could have been more - Bryan Oviedo had a shot cleared off the line.
There will be much tougher tests for Martinez and Everton but, having climbed above neighbours Liverpool into 10th spot, this was a highly satisfactory night for them.
Aston Villa boss Remi Garde: "When you prepare a plan and so early in the game you have to change it, it's very difficult. We were too fragile, we didn't take the advantage of playing at home.
"The positive sign is that we never gave up and we reduced the score. But it's difficult to keep a positive mood when you miss chances like we missed today."
Everton manager Roberto Martinez: "We managed the game well - it's always difficult when you're away from home to get a real good composure but we had that. It's a performance that won't get the credit it deserves - Aston Villa had a lot of fight.
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"I feel that the squad is in a very good moment - we've been very consistent the last six games. We're enjoying our football and playing with a lot of confidence."
It does not get any easier for Villa. They face teams chasing the title in both of their next two games - visiting Manchester City on Saturday (15:00 GMT) before hosting Tottenham on 13 March.
Everton will try to make it four wins in five Premier League games when they host West Ham on Saturday (15:00 GMT).
Match ends, Aston Villa 1, Everton 3.
Second Half ends, Aston Villa 1, Everton 3.
Attempt saved. Ramiro Funes Mori (Everton) left footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Aly Cissokho.
Attempt blocked. James McCarthy (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ross Barkley.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Ciaran Clark.
Ross Barkley (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Idrissa Gueye (Aston Villa).
Attempt missed. Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jordan Veretout with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Aaron Lennon.
Attempt saved. Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rudy Gestede with a headed pass.
Substitution, Everton. Oumar Niasse replaces Kevin Mirallas.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Alan Hutton.
Attempt blocked. Kevin Mirallas (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Ramiro Funes Mori.
Attempt blocked. Rudy Gestede (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Idrissa Gueye.
Attempt blocked. Leandro Bacuna (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Everton. Leighton Baines replaces Bryan Oviedo because of an injury.
Foul by James McCarthy (Everton).
Leandro Bacuna (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Aston Villa 1, Everton 3. Rudy Gestede (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Jordan Veretout with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Bryan Oviedo (Everton) because of an injury.
Substitution, Everton. John Stones replaces Seamus Coleman.
Attempt missed. Idrissa Gueye (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Bryan Oviedo.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Jordan Veretout replaces Ashley Westwood because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Phil Jagielka with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Aly Cissokho.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Rudy Gestede replaces Gabriel Agbonlahor.
Delay in match Micah Richards (Aston Villa) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Ashley Westwood (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Phil Jagielka.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Phil Jagielka.
Attempt blocked. Ashley Westwood (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Micah Richards.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Bryan Oviedo.
Goal! Aston Villa 0, Everton 3. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) right footed shot from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Ramiro Funes Mori with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Brad Guzan.
Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Aaron Lennon with a cross.
Mr Modi began his two-day visit on Wednesday with a private dinner with Mr Putin.
These talks have been held annually since 2000 and hosted alternately between Moscow and Delhi.
Russia and India were close allies during the Cold War, but recently the relationship has become more complex.
Bilateral trade between the two countries stands at $10bn (£6.74bn) and Russia is India's second largest defence supplier.
But earlier this year, India was reported to be displeased with Russia for selling attack helicopters to Pakistan and Russia was unhappy with India for choosing French Rafale fighters and American Apache attack helicopters over Moscow's defence products.
Mr Modi's visit is seen as a chance to work on the personal chemistry between the two leaders, and to reset relations between their countries, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow.
India has become an even more important market for Russia since the West imposed economic sanctions, our correspondent says, adding that Moscow is looking to sell India its sophisticated S400 anti-aircraft systems.
A deal to manufacture military helicopters and build further nuclear power plants in India could also be signed.
Last year, Russia announced it would help India build at least 10 more nuclear reactors. It has already built in a nuclear reactor in Tamil Nadu state.
The two countries have outlined an "ambitious vision" for nuclear energy and agreed that the new reactors would be built over the next 20 years.
The 28-year-old suffered a brain injury in a motorbike accident in Vietnam more than a year ago.
Vietnamese doctors gave Inglis, from Daviot, near Inverness, a 1% chance of survival.
She had hoped to compete at 2022's Commonwealth Games, but is taking her surgeon's advice that it is too risky.
Inglis, who won her silver medal in 2014, told BBC Radio Scotland's The Kaye Adams Programme the surgeon had warned that if she suffered another head injury it would likely be life-threatening.
She said it would be "just stupid" to put her life at risk by returning to compete in judo, even though it was a sport that she "loved" and been involved in since a young age.
Inglis said: "I am slowly coming to terms with that door maybe closing on my life.
"I was always hopeful of a return to the mat and competing again. But I have been told that if I had an injury to my head, I might not come through that.
"I have to take on what the professional says."
She hopes to be able to one day coach judo, but said at the moment she has "found it hard to be around the sport".
Inglis said she continues to set herself goals, including driving a car again which she said would increase her feeling of independence.
She described her recovery as "crazy" with good improvements physically, while mentally it has not been "plain sailing" and been "a struggle".
Inglis was teaching in Vietnam when she was seriously injured in the accident on 10 May last year.
She was riding a taxi motorbike when part of her skirt caught on the machine's back wheel and she was pulled to the ground.
A crowdfunding campaign raised money to cover the cost of treatment in Thailand and a flight back to Scotland. She woke up from a coma in a hospital in Edinburgh, six weeks after the accident.
A titanium cap was bolted to her skull as part of her treatment and recovery from her injuries.
Inglis told the programme that after waking from the coma she had to learn again how to walk and "work hard" to build up her strength.
She said: "I am now fully mobile and able to walk up stairs and hills and I am in the gym with a personal trainer."
But she added: "Mentally it has been a struggle.
"I am having to deal with things that I bottled up and chose not to address."
The chancellor, who is under pressure from colleagues to lift the 1% public pay cap, said he understood people were "weary" after seven years of austerity.
But speaking in London, he rejected calls to "take the foot off the pedal".
Government must "hold its nerve" in the face of calls for a "different path" of higher taxes and borrowing, he said.
Mr Hammond is facing a growing chorus from within his own party for him to reconsider the 1% limit on increases in public sector salaries, which has been in place since 2012.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson expressed his support for a rethink on Monday, with sources suggesting he believed public sector workers could enjoy higher rewards in a "responsible way" that did not damage the public finances.
Rises of 1% for dentists, nurses, doctors and the military have already been agreed for this year and No 10 said ministers would respond to pay review bodies in due course.
Nigel Lawson, a former chancellor to Margaret Thatcher, said it was Mr Hammond's job to keep control of public spending to avoid "economic disaster".
"It's not easy but it is necessary," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "People understand we need to pay our way on the road to economic success."
Lord Lawson called on ministers to formulate the policy behind closed doors, adding: "Stop having this debate in public, it's ludicrous".
Speaking to business leaders at a CBI dinner, Mr Hammond acknowledged there was widespread frustration at the stagnation in real-terms pay growth at a time of rising inflation.
Addressing the current debate over public sector pay, he said government policy had "always been designed to strike the right balance of between being fair to our public servants and fair to those who pay for them".
"That approach has not changed; and we continually assess that balance. But we do, of course, recognise that the British people are weary after seven years hard slog repairing the damage of the great recession.
"They have travelled a long way… but still the sunlit uplands seem stubbornly to remain one further ridge away.
"And once again, some are questioning whether we should abandon the economic plan that has brought us so far… and take a different path."
After the Conservatives' failure to win an overall majority, he said it was up to his party to again make the case for a market-based economy, underpinned by sound public finances.
Analysis
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg
Arguably the simpler part of the debate has been had - many public sector workers are feeling the pinch, and there is more and more pressure to remove the limit on pay rises. The more complicated bit, who or what would pay for the increase, is a conversation that's yet to happen.
Whatever Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have said in the last 24 hours, don't expect anything to happen in a hurry. The first pay review body is not due to report for another few weeks.
It seems unlikely that the government will announce any plan to either ditch the cap or promise to accept the decisions of the review bodies before then.
It's not in either Theresa May or Philip Hammond's DNA to make quick decisions.
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"After seven long and tough years, the high-wage, high-growth economy for which we strive is tantalisingly close to being within our grasp," he added.
"It would be easy to take our foot off the pedal. But instead we must hold our nerve... and maintain our focus resolutely on the prizes that are so nearly within reach."
The country needed "the right Brexit deal agreed in the months ahead… a steady determination to restore our public finances to balance by 2025… and a relentless focus on transforming Britain's productivity performance".
The BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were intense discussions among ministers about the political wisdom of shifting position but while there was "change in the air" there was, as yet, no common position.
Labour said immediate action was needed from the government not "just more empty words or infighting from members of the Cabinet".
But former Conservative minister Sir Oliver Letwin warned that "some modest tax rises" would be necessary to fund any public sector pay rise. "If you want to spend more, then you have to raise some more," he told BBC2's Daily Politics.
He added that decisions like these need "to be made as part of a package".
Students at UWE Bristol, working with the charity Oxfam, have built the urinal which they're testing at the university's grounds.
They hope that if the trial is successful, the technology could be used to provide light for toilets in refugee camps, where electricity is scarce.
Andy Bastable, from Oxfam, says this could be a massive step forward: "Fuel for generators is expensive. As urine is free, this an extremely low-cost and sustainable way of producing light for people at night."
A human produces 500 litres of wee every year, so there's always a lot to use and it's easy to get hold of.
The technology is called Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC).
Microbes are little cells that feed on wee; they then create electricity as a side-effect which can be used to power the lights!
The equipment that does this is placed under the toilet to collect the wee and process it.
Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos, who's leading the project, says the important thing is how cheap this is: "This experiment could cost as little as £600 to set up.
"This technology is in theory everlasting."
This isn't the first experiment to try and make our body waste produce useful things.
Recently the world's richest man, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, revealed a machine that takes human poo and converts it into electricity and clean water you can drink.
It will have been the first successful terror attack on a passenger jet for more than a decade, and the loss of 224 foreign civilians will have opened up a new front in the war against the so-called Islamic State group.
Relations between Russia, Egypt and the UK are already under strain, and Egypt stands to lose billions of pounds in tourism revenue if it is confirmed that IS was able to smuggle a bomb through one of its most popular resorts.
Here BBC correspondents look at the potential fallout for some of the parties in an increasingly complex international incident.
In search for answers, British ties to Egypt take a hit
Airport security rethink 'may be needed'
Could Islamic State have bombed Flight 9268?
What we know about the Sinai crash
Egypt has launched its own intelligence investigation into how a bomb could have been placed onboard the airliner. A senior Egyptian official who asked not to be named has told the BBC that every lead was being followed up, and security at its airports vastly increased, even though the official crash investigation has yet to conclude.
Britain has still not shared its intelligence with Egypt on the suspected bombing of the Metrojet airliner, said the official.
The official said its intelligence service was looking into every possibility of how someone could have placed a bomb inside the luggage compartment of the doomed plane.
This included going through CCTV footage from the airport's baggage area, which had not yet revealed anything suspicious, and questioning employees. Western counter-terrorism experts suspect that jihadists in the Sinai were able to penetrate airport security to target the Russian plane and there is a belief that Islamic State's affiliate in Sinai may have been able to bribe an airport employee.
But the senior Egyptian official said that foreign airliners at Sharm el-Sheikh airport were never boarded by Egyptian personnel unless requested by the airline. He said that before the crash only 20%-30% of airport employees were searched but that figure had now been raised to 100%, with workers being screened both on entry and exit.
Cars were being stopped half a mile from the terminal and checked for any explosive traces, he said, and planes on the runway were being guarded around the clock by a cordon of Egyptian military and security personnel. Egypt is willing to pay any price to prevent this happening again, said the official.
"The picture is getting grimmer, we don't know what to do," a receptionist in one of Sharm el-Sheikh's luxurious hotels told me.
The resort is one of Egypt's main tourist hubs and it had been preparing for a busy season. At this time of year, this beautiful spot is usually bustling with tourists who come to enjoy the warm sun and the lovely beaches. But now everything has changed.
Tourism accounts for nearly 13% of Egypt's GDP - about £24 billion ($36bn) - and provides nearly 12% of the country's jobs. An exodus of British and Russian tourists from Sharm el-Sheikh will leave many Egyptians wondering about their future.
Most of the holidaymakers who visit the Egypt every year come from Russia and the UK, many of them to stay in Sharm el-Sheikh. But not any more. Flights have been suspended to this coastal city and all the remaining tourists are getting out.
As I walk around, many of the restaurants and cafes overlooking the Red Sea are all but empty. "We pay rents, electricity, taxes and salaries," a restaurant owner tells me. "If we don't have enough tourists, how can we cover all these expenses?"
After the crash, it is hard to tell if the industry will recover any time soon.
Even as funerals take place and stranded tourists wonder how long it will take them to get home, the wider ramifications are still sinking in. And they are enormous.
If it emerges, as many now suspect, that Islamic State militants planted a bomb on board the Russian plane, it opens a whole new front in the growing international campaign against the jihadist group.
Officials will need to know where those responsible acquired the know how to carry out such an attack. Was it conceived, planned and executed entirely within the lawless boundaries of the Sinai Peninsula, or did it draw on expertise from elsewhere?
IS has never brought down a plane before, so some are wondering whether the group reached out to its arch rival, al-Qaeda. If so, this would represent another troubling development.
For all the criticism surrounding last week's sudden British decision to suspend flights, the fact that both the Russians and the Egyptians now appear to agree that terrorism was the most likely cause could inject a degree of common purpose into the international community's fractured efforts to confront IS.
But intelligence sharing is a sensitive business. The British government was criticised by Russian and Egyptian officials for not sharing its information or explaining its actions, causing considerable tension between London and Cairo.
Intelligence agencies are extremely reluctant to share what they know, for fear of divulging sensitive sources and methods, or when the vital information comes from another agency. Reports that British officials were provided with Israeli intelligence intercepts may help to explain why London was so tight-lipped.
For thousands of Russians, being forced to return baggage-free from their Egyptian holiday will leave the unmistakable impression that terrorism was behind the death of more than 200 of their compatriots the previous week.
Yet, at home, government officials insist that all explanations for the Sinai crash are still on the table. Having an airliner blown out of the sky in revenge for Moscow's air campaign against the Islamic State poses uncomfortable question for Vladimir Putin - have Russian authorities calculated the wider risks of sending its planes on bombing missions in a region so unstable and so loved by millions of Russian tourists?
But public opinion in Russia is very pliable and responds well to the line taken by state-sponsored TV. Government channels continue to trumpet Russian air force successes in Syria and stress the importance of fighting Islamic extremism, even miles away from Russian shores. There is little concern over the complete lack of public or parliamentary discussion.
If air crash investigators conclude that the Metrojet plane was indeed brought down by a bomb, it as quite possible the atrocity will be used as an argument for stepping up, rather than limiting, Russia's campaign in Syria.
We're all used to the liquids ban on planes, and you've probably had to take your shoes off before going through security. Both restrictions came about because of attack plots on airliners.
So the big question now is: If this was a terror attack, will we see yet more rules put in place at airport security? And will it mean even longer queues?
It all depends on whether this was a bomb and if it was, how they managed to get it on board. Already, there has been a lot of focus on the security screening at Sharm el-Sheikh airport, or the possible lack of it.
But as one expert, Philip Baum, pointed out, when screening at US airports was probed recently, in 67 out of 70 tests inspectors managed to smuggle things through, including dummy explosive devices.
There is also the chance that an airport worker may have helped, but that could be hard to prove. There are plenty of countries where staff are badly paid and corruption is rife. You can screen staff but not all attacks are carried out by people with a previous record.
And what about the other things carried onto planes? Meals for example. Do you then try to screen the staff in the food companies?
The UK's foreign secretary has suggested that if this crash was down to a bomb, the government will look again at airport security in countries where Islamic State is active. That could include Turkey, for example. But it's too early to say whether all this will translate into yet more layers of airport security, and therefore longer queues, around the world.
12 January 2016 Last updated at 16:48 GMT
Fishermen were able to get many of the short-finned whales back into the sea but some died.
The whales started beaching themselves on Monday afternoon.
Not much is known about why the whales were so close to the shore but it is thought that they may have lost their way. Marine biologists say events like this are very rare.
Lewis Haunch, from Leigh in Greater Manchester, underwent emergency treatment but he was pronounced dead shortly after midnight.
A police spokesman said: "Inquiries are still ongoing into his death and how he obtained the substance he took."
Two 17-year-old males have been arrested in the Greater Manchester area on suspicion of drugs offences and are in custody.
Chief Superintendent Keith Gilert, Leeds Festival's police commander, said: "At this time the indications are that the man consumed drugs immediately before he collapsed. A report will be sent to the coroner in due course."
Issuing a warning to festival-goers about the dangers of illegal drugs, he said anyone who had concerns for themselves or others should contact festival site or security staff or seek medical assistance.
Elliott, 30, sustained head injuries and multiple fractures at the Faugheen 50 event and was airlifted to Cork University Hospital.
The county Antrim man's successes in recent years include a victory at last year's Southern 100 on the Isle of Man.
A serious practice crash at the Tipperary meeting on Saturday left Cork rider Brian Coomey in intensive car.
Laois rider Noel Carroll also sustained injuries in the practice accident and both riders were also airlifted to the Cork hospital.
Elliott, who made his Isle of Man TT debut this year, was scheduled to compete in his home meeting at this weekend's Armoy Road Races.
The county Antrim rider was also entered for next month's Ulster Grand Prix, a meeting in which he achieved two top-10 finishes last year.
The Faugheen crashes are the latest in number of serious incidents during the current Irish road racing season.
English rider Malachi Mitchell Thomas was killed during the North West 200 in May when Dungannon rider Ryan Farquhar was seriously injured in a separate crash at the triangle meeting.
On Tuesday, for the first time, Mrs Clinton directly apologised for her decision to exclusively use private email for her official government duties.
"That was a mistake," she said during an ABC News interview. "I'm sorry about that. I take responsibility."
The admission is in stark contrast to Mrs Clinton's insistence when the story broke in March that she had nothing to apologise for and that her actions were within the boundaries of the law, no different - in manner if not extent - to those of her predecessors in office.
While she stands by the view of the legality of her actions, she now acknowledges the toll the story has taken on her political standing, as her public approval ratings have sagged.
"I do think I could have and should have done a better job answering questions earlier," she said. "What I had done was allowed, it was above board. But in retrospect, as I look back at it now, even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts. One for personal, one for work-related emails."
She also posted a message on Facebook to her supporters reiterating those sentiments.
"I wanted you to hear this directly from me," she wrote.
For months Mrs Clinton had insisted in the propriety of her email activities, despite the occasionally embarrassing details contained in the thousands of publicly released messages she provided to the State Department and the revelation that some of her communications contained information that has since been labelled classified.
In an August speech in Iowa, Mrs Clinton even joked about the matter, telling a Democratic audience that she liked Snapchat messaging because the service's texts "disappear all by themselves".
Later that month, however, she acknowledged that Americans may have questions about her email set-up and that it would have been better to rely on government systems for work-related messages.
Then, last Friday - in comments that would presage Tuesday's round of contrition - Mrs Clinton told an NBC interviewer that she was sorry for the "confusion" the story created and that the email setup "wasn't the best choice".
According to the New York Times, the Clinton campaign had recently conducted a focus group in the key early primary state of New Hampshire on Mrs Clinton's email-related comments. The results reportedly indicated that the issue "was drowning out nearly everything else that Mrs Clinton was hoping to communicate to voters" and that the former secretary of state must take more steps to address the controversy.
Mrs Clinton now plans to "address the email controversy more openly, and with a tone of humility rather than defensiveness".
This will likely do little to quell Mrs Clinton's critics, who insist that the Democrat's email setup jeopardised national security and flouted freedom of information laws.
"By any objective measure, the Democratic presidential front-runner has responded to her email scandal with deflection and deception, shredding her credibility while giving a sceptical public another reason not to trust the institutions of politics and government," writes the National Journal's Ron Fournier. "An apology doesn't fix that."
Mrs Clinton's change of tactics could be part of what's being billed as a larger strategy on the part of her campaign to have the candidate show more humour and heart, reports the Times, and "bring spontaneity to a candidacy that sometimes seems wooden and overly cautious".
This kind of talk is often a flashing red warning light of a campaign in a nosedive. Although the tenor of Mrs Clinton's media coverage and the trajectory of her poll numbers should be of concern for the candidate, it's important to keep in mind that the fundamentals of the race for the Democratic nomination still weigh heavily in her favour.
She still has a powerful fundraising apparatus to finance her campaign. The Democratic Party establishment is, by and large, in her corner. And rank-and-file Democratic voters continue to view her positively on the whole.
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, with his unvarnished populist appeal, has cut into her support in early voting states and even pulled ahead in numerous recent New Hampshire polls, but his ability to wage an effective campaign in the later states is in doubt.
Vice-President Joe Biden continues to drop hints that he's considering entering the fray if, in his words, he can devote his "whole heart" and "whole soul" to the race.
"The honest-to-God answer is I just don't know," Mr Biden told a Florida audience last week.
Even if he does launch a bid, there's no guarantee he would be able to beat the former first lady - and, in fact, the presence of a high-profile opponent could help Mrs Clinton dispel the damaging notion that her presidential bid is nothing more than a pre-ordained coronation.
Unlike the Republican race, where time is short for candidates jockeying for poll position and financial support, it's still early in the game for a dominant front-runner like Mrs Clinton.
Despite the signs of doubt and seeds of panic, time - for now - is on her side.
Tana Shane saw Jesus Deniz stranded without fuel on the side of the road on Wednesday near her home.
But when she returned to help with her husband and daughter, Mr Deniz robbed and shot them, killing the couple and wounding their daughter, police said.
Mr Deniz shot them after the daughter laughed at him, police said.
Mr Deniz fled in the Shanes' car, but he was apprehended in Meeteetse, Wyoming, about 120 miles (190 km) away from Pryor, the small town on the Crow Indian Reservation where the shooting took place.
He is expected to be returned to Montana for a court appearance on Friday.
The daughter, 26-year-old Jorah Shane, underwent surgery on Wednesday to remove a bullet from her spine, but she is expected to survive.
"He's only 18, and he looked like an innocent boy," said Ada Shane, a relative of the victims. "Both my brother and sister-in-law have big hearts."
The 39-year-old woman suffered head injuries in the fall in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, last April.
Swindon Magistrates' Court heard she stepped on to a wooden board placed over the well which gave way.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Strakers had been warned about the well and the board being unsafe.
The woman suffered concussion in the fall, and was submerged in water in the well for an hour before being rescued.
The court heard she also suffered post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the fall.
Insp Matthew Tyler said it could have "easily become a fatal tragedy".
He added: "If, when warned of the unsafe well, the company had properly checked to see if it was secure the trauma this individual has gone through could have been prevented."
Bosses at Strakers, which is based in Market Place, Devizes, pleaded guilty to breaching section 3 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and were fined £200,000 and ordered to pay costs of £2,474.
Antony Bulley, Strakers managing director, said directors and staff had been "deeply distressed" by the incident.
"We wish to make it known that Strakers have carried out extensive internal investigations and have fully cooperated with the Health and Safety Executive throughout culminating in a plea of guilty at the earliest opportunity presented."
He added that the company's aim is "to ensure that everything possible is done to avoid any similar incident occurring in the future to any member of the public or our staff".
The call came after Ukraine jailed two alleged Russian special forces soldiers for several crimes including terrorism.
Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov are accused of involvement in Ukraine's conflict with pro-Russian rebels in the east.
A Russian court jailed Ukrainian Nadiya Savchenko for 22 years in March.
She was captured by eastern separatists in 2015 and accused of directing artillery fire that killed two Russian journalists.
Relations between Russia and Ukraine badly deteriorated following Moscow's annexation of the Crimea peninsula in 2014 and its alleged support for pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko on Monday night, the Kremlin said.
During the phone call, the pair agreed Savchenko would be allowed a consular visit "in the very near future", according to a statement.
Her trial caused an international outcry and her lawyers have said her condition has deteriorated after she started a hunger strike in protest against her treatment.
On Monday a court in Kiev found Yerofeyev and Alexandrov guilty of waging an "aggressive war" against Ukraine, committing a terrorist act and using weapons to provoke an armed conflict.
They were sentenced to 14 years in jail.
Russia has always denied sending troops to eastern Ukraine and said the men were volunteers who had left active service.
Mr Poroshenko has previously proposed swapping the two Russian men for Savchenko.
Fernando Suarez, who heads the King Juan Carlos University in Madrid, is accused of repeatedly copying other people's work without giving credit.
On Thursday, he was removed from his chairmanship on a national education commission.
Mr Suarez has said he is the victim of defamation and harassment.
The permanent commission of the conference of Spanish university chancellors said on Thursday that Mr Suarez was leaving due to "information published about presumed plagiarism".
He has been accused of copying other historians' work and that of his students, over a period of up to 10 years.
One article published under his name was said to consist of 70% copied-and-pasted words from another person's book.
The French historian Bernard Vincent told the AFP news agency Mr Suarez had borrowed paragraphs from his work, describing it as "scandalous".
He said: "I'm absolutely indignant."
Last month, the university Mr Suarez heads had informed students that the campus had installed a system called Unplag to monitor submitted assignments for plagiarism.
An email sent to 40,000 students stated that the new programme would help uphold standards of integrity, academic honesty and independent thinking.
Students have set up at least nine separate petitions calling for Mr Suarez to resign from the top job at the university. Together they have collected tens of thousands of signatures.
One pointed out: "Plagiarism is grounds for any student to be suspended immediately."
At the end of July the Team Sky rider, 30, became the first Briton to win the Tour twice.
In Spain he will attempt to become only the 10th cyclist to win two Grand Tours in one season.
He joins Nairo Quintana of Colombia and Italian Vincenzo Nibali in a strong Vuelta field.
Quintana finished second behind Froome in Paris this year and Nibali was the Tour champion in 2014.
American racer Tejay van Garderen will also compete.
The race starts in Puerto Banus on Saturday, 22 August and finishes three weeks later in Madrid on 13 September.
A Grand Tour refers to one of the three major European professional cycling stage races - the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana.
The last man to win two in a season was Spaniard Alberto Contador, who won the Giro and Vuelta in 2008.
Only French pair Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault have ever won both the Tour and the Vuelta.
The latter consists of 21 day-long stages, over a 23-day period that includes two rest days and covers more than 3,000 kilometres.
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After a thrilling second-Test win last weekend, the Lions will start the third and final meeting as underdogs.
New Zealand have not lost consecutive home matches since 1998 and have not been beaten at Eden Park in 23 years.
But Lions captain Sam Warburton has "unfinished business" in the decider.
The Welsh flanker, 28, missed the series-clinching third Test win over Australia in 2013 with a hamstring injury and has been beset by injuries in recent years.
He missed six weeks at the end of the domestic season with a knee injury, and suffered a fractured cheekbone in October 2016. He was also on the bench for the first Test after suffering an ankle knock.
"It feels like all the sacrifice over the past four years and all the little things I have done have come to this moment," Warburton told BBC Sport.
The Lions were easily beaten 30-15 in the first Test, but claimed a 24-21 victory in the second after the hosts played 55 minutes with 14 men following the sending-off of Sonny Bill Williams.
Now they go into the decider knowing they can achieve a first series win in New Zealand since 1971.
Assistant coach Rob Howley spoke of the "glint in the eyes" of the Lions players since that Wellington win and, although fly-half Johnny Sexton said he "struggles to enjoy it sometimes with the nerves", he acknowledged that he and his team-mates "have to cherish" a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Head coach Warren Gatland has spoken of the Lions "achieving something special" and "creating a legacy", but his counterpart Steve Hansen has attempted to play down the importance.
"Is the series hugely significant? Of course it is. Will it define this team? No, because there is a heck of a lot more of this story to be written," said former police officer Hansen.
"We are expected to win every Test match, and win well. But we are only playing a rugby game. Real pressure is when you've got to spend half an hour giving someone CPR and trying to save their life."
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Going into the second Test, the All Blacks appeared settled and confident, while it was Gatland and the Lions who were experimenting with selection.
A week later and Gatland has named an unchanged 23, while Hansen has drafted in two rookies in the back line, Ngani Laumape and Jordie Barrett, to deal with a minor injury crisis.
The series started with New Zealand fielding the likes of Sonny Bill Williams, Ryan Crotty and Ben Smith; it finishes with Hansen gambling on youth.
However the forward pack are still bursting with experience, with skipper Kieran Read becoming only the seventh man to win 100 All Blacks caps.
As for the Lions, Howley has spoken of their big-game players, with nine of the 23 featuring in the victorious third Test against Australia four years ago.
The captain that day was Alun Wyn Jones, who on Saturday plays in his ninth consecutive Lions Test, a longer run than anyone else in the professional era.
Wing Anthony Watson is fit to take his place in the side. This is despite being on the receiving end of a shoulder to the head from Williams that earned the New Zealand centre a red card and left the Bath man requiring assessment.
"I remember everything," said Watson. "I had to brace myself for it, I guess, but it's part and parcel of the game.
"He messaged me on Twitter to say there was no intention, and I don't doubt that."
BBC Radio 5 live rugby union reporter Chris Jones
While All Blacks assistant coach Wayne Smith says his side "do a lot of work" on the opposition before big games, the Lions management insist the tourists have been solely focusing on themselves.
"We haven't even spoken about them," said Gatland on Thursday.
Either way, the tactical battle between the two sets of coaches will be fascinating.
Hansen et al took the Lions by surprise with their forward-orientated style in Auckland while, despite preconceptions, it's the Lions who have played a more expansive game across the Tests, outscoring the All Blacks by two tries to none in Wellington, albeit with a man advantage.
But would this series be wrapped up already if Williams had stayed on the field at the Westpac? Or have the Lions developed an all-round gameplan to shock the All Blacks?
These questions will be answered come Saturday evening.
Lions head coach Warren Gatland: "They have the chance to do something special. You have those moments in your life and you don't want those moments to pass you by."
Lions captain Sam Warburton: "I can't imagine any team has better support than the Lions do."
All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen: "We could win, lose or draw, but we will be a better team for it."
4 - Number of tries scored by the Lions in the Test series, compared to three by the hosts
19 - Number of years since the All Blacks lost twice in a row at home
38 - Number of matches since the All Blacks lost at Eden Park
56 - Minutes the All Blacks played with 14 men in the second Test in Wellington
80 - Number of years since the All Blacks lost a series having won the opener
20,000 - Minimum number of Lions fans expected at 45,000-capacity Eden Park
"Red Army look to pour boiling oil on Kiwi plebs at Fortress Eden Park" - www.stuff.co.nz
"All the angst of a World Cup final" - Wynne Gray in the New Zealand Herald.
"Bring it home boys!!!" - 2009 and 2013 Lion @jamieheaslip.
"The Lions is alive & well." - Lions legend @brianODriscoll after the 2nd Test victory.
Lions: Liam Williams (Wales); Anthony Watson (England), Jonathan Davies (Wales), Owen Farrell (England), Elliot Daly (England); Johnny Sexton (Ireland), Conor Murray (Ireland); Mako Vunipola (England), Jamie George (England) Tadhg Furlong (Ireland), Maro Itoje (England), Alun Wyn Jones (Wales) Sam Warburton (capt, Wales), Sean O'Brien (Ireland), Taulupe Faletau (Wales)
Replacements: Ken Owens (Wales), Jack McGrath (Ireland), Kyle Sinckler (England), Courtney Lawes (England), CJ Stander (Ireland), Rhys Webb (Wales), Ben Te'o (England), Jack Nowell (England)
New Zealand: Jordie Barrett; Israel Dagg, Anton Lienert-Brown, Ngani Laumape, Julian Savea; Beauden Barrett, Aaron Smith; Joe Moody, Codie Taylor, Owen Franks, Brodie Retallick, Sam Whitelock, Jerome Kaino, Sam Cane, Kieran Read.
Replacements: Nathan Harris, Wyatt Crockett, Charlie Faumuina, Scott Barrett, Ardie Savea, TJ Perenara, Aaron Cruden, Malakai Fekitoa.
"Eve" was discovered at Must Farm quarry at Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, and donated to the museum last year.
The museum was awarded £90,000 from the DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund to display the specimen alongside another plesiosaur.
Director Prof Paul Smith said it would "reinvigorate" the museum.
Eve will be displayed with a short-necked plesiosaur discovered near Oxford in the 1990s in new cases, and with new artwork and digital content.
"The exhibit will present a picture of central England 165 million years ago: submerged 50 metres underwater in a warm, shallow sea, teeming with animals that are now long-extinct," a spokesman said.
Mr Smith said it would "conserve and exhibit two internationally-significant fossil marine reptiles".
The museum is currently looking for matched funding to complete the project.
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Carwyn Jones told AMs "transitional arrangements" would be needed to avoid trade "falling off a cliff".
The prime minister has said the formal Brexit negotiation process will begin by the end of March, with the UK set to leave the EU by summer 2019.
On Friday, Mr Jones said putting new trade arrangements in place within that timescale would be a "world record".
Giving evidence to the assembly's committee for the scrutiny of the first minister, he said: "I think it is hugely difficult to imagine a scenario where within two-years-and-a-bit there is a comprehensive arrangement between the UK and the EU."
"I think that would be a world record in terms of getting that done in that amount of time.
"The UK government needs to look at what needs to be done to bridge any gap that might be between the ending of the Article 50 process and a more lasting, sustainable settlement to avoid going off the edge of a cliff and then having to climb back up it when a lasting solution is found."
Mr Jones added that there was a "need to think about what the transitional arrangements might be whilst respecting, of course, the results of the referendum."
He also called for a new independent body to adjudicate disputes between the devolved governments and the UK Treasury.
In the event of a disagreement between Whitehall and Cardiff, Edinburgh or Belfast on how financial decisions should be made following Brexit, Mr Jones said: "The UK will have to develop its structure as we leave the EU.
"We can't go to a situation where decisions on the UK's internal market, or financial decisions, are governed entirely by Whitehall - there has to be agreement between governments."
Meanwhile the Supreme Court has said it will allow the Scottish and Welsh governments to intervene in the UK government's appeal against a ruling that Parliament must be consulted on the triggering of the formal Brexit process.
In Friday's scrutiny session in Cardiff Bay, Mr Jones also said UK ministers needed to take "more of an interest" in the steel industry to secure its future.
Commenting on the current position at Tata's Port Talbot plant, the first minister said there had been less "engagement" with the firm under Theresa May's leadership than there there had been under her predecessor David Cameron.
Downing Street has been asked to respond.
Jamie Shannon, 23, from the Stirling area, was fatally injured at Yesnaby on Monday.
He was working with an Edinburgh-based company, Haggis Adventures, guiding a minibus group on a tour of the Highlands and islands.
Police said inquiries were continuing but there were no suspicious circumstances.
In a statement other staff members at Haggis Adventures said he was "adored" as a colleague and a "best friend".
"He loved his job, he was incredibly fun, passionate and cared deeply for everyone he ever met. It will be absolutely impossible to forget the impact he has had on all of us at Haggis, passengers and staff alike." they said.
"His smile and laugh were infectious, we will miss his energy, his positivity, his loyalty and most of all his hugs.
"Nobody gives as good a hug as Jamie. To say he will be sorely missed is an understatement; Scotland came alive with Jamie at the helm, always with a smile."
A paramedic was lowered from a rescue helicopter and taken onto a lifeboat as part of the rescue operation on Monday..
Police Scotland later confirmed that Mr Shannon had died.
Brian and Mary Pat O'Donnell effectively barricaded themselves into the house at Gorse Hill, Killiney, in February to stop a bank repossession.
They had made a settlement with Bank of Ireland in 2011, in which the mansion was used as security for bank loans.
The Court of Appeal ruled they do not have right of residence in the house.
The judge upheld an earlier High Court ruling that the bank was entitled to an injunction directing Mr and Mrs O'Donnell to leave the property.
However, she granted a two-week stay on her order, to allow the O'Donnells to apply for leave for a Supreme Court appeal.
The hearing was the latest stage in a lengthy, high-profile legal case that media have dubbed the "Battle for Gorse Hill".
The mansion, overlooking Dublin bay, is in one of the city's most expensive and prestigious residential areas, where neighbours include rock stars like U2 singer Bono. Gorse Hill includes a swimming pool and tennis courts.
The O'Donnells' fight to stay in their family home, despite owing millions to Bank of Ireland as the result of failed property investments, has strongly divided opinion.
At one stage, the couple enlisted members of the land league anti-repossession movement to block the entrance to the mansion.
On Wednesday, the judge said that in the settlement the couple made with the Bank of Ireland in March 2011, they had agreed to give full, vacant possession of Gorse Hill, if the bank decided to call in the house as security on their multi-million euro borrowings.
She added that before Mr and Mrs O'Donnell returned to Dublin to take up residency in Gorse Hill in February this year, the couple had not lived in the house since late 2011.
The judge said there was an inevitable inference they returned from the UK to prevent the bank repossessing the Dublin property.
The O'Donnell family acquired the mansion on Vico Road, Killiney, through an Isle of Man-registered company called Vico Limited.
Under this arrangement, the court heard, the couple were entitled to live in the house with their adult children.
But earlier this year, a bank-appointed receiver was given a court order to take possession of Gorse Hill by 1 February, against the wishes of the O'Donnell children.
The adult children left the mansion in accordance with the court order, but on 2 March, the couple's eldest son, Blake O'Donnell, told a court in Dublin that his parents were now occupying the property.
At Wednesday's Court of Appeal hearing, the judge ruled Vico Limited's possession of the house ended on 2 March, following a Supreme Court decision on the earlier legal action taken by the O'Donnell children.
She said the bank had made a strong case that the right of residence of the O'Donnells did not extend past this date.
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The German played aggressively to surprise Britain's world number one and register a 7-5 5-7 6-2 6-4 victory.
Murray, 29, has never won the title despite reaching the final five times, but was favourite to win after Novak Djokovic was knocked out on Thursday.
"It a tough loss at one of the biggest events and one that I wanted to do better at," Murray told BBC Sport.
"I get a bit of time off now and try to learn from it and try to understand what I could have done a little bit better, and then come back and try again."
It is the first time since 2009 that the Scot has not reached the quarter-finals in Melbourne.
Johanna Konta is now the only Briton left in the singles after Dan Evans' run was ended by France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Sunday.
"Mischa plays with a game style that not many players play these days and he played it extremely well," said Murray.
"In the slams, with the best-of-five format, you have time to turn things around. There's also time to mess it up as well."
Zverev's attacking serve-and-volley style meant that Murray was under pressure throughout.
The Briton grew more frustrated as the match progressed, turning and shouting to his box as he tried to halt Zverev's progress.
"I was getting myself pumped up and at the end of the set I was trying to get a little more energy, show positive body language," he added.
"I don't think I was flat, it just wasn't to be today. He deserved to win. It's a tough one to lose."
A clearly emotional Zverev, who is coached by his parents, paid tribute to his younger brother Alexander after he completed the win over Murray.
Alexander, 19, narrowly missed out on a place in the quarter-finals after a five-set contest with Rafael Nadal on Saturday.
"My brother inspires me all the time because he plays such great tennis and he challenges me to do better in myself," said Zverev, 29.
The German is the lowest-ranked player to beat Murray at a Grand Slam since Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela, then also ranked 50th, beat him at Melbourne in 2006.
He will go on to face either Roger Federer, who he described as his idol, or Kei Nishikori in the last eight.
"I was like in a little coma, just serving and volleying my way through it. There were a few points where I didn't know how I pulled it off but somehow I made it," Zverev added.
"It was kind of easy to stay aggressive but it was tough to stay calm. I was expecting to maybe double fault in the last but somehow I made it."
Leon Smith, Great Britain Davis Cup captain, on BBC Radio 5 live
Andy will obviously be very disappointed but hopefully in a couple of days' time he can look back and realise what he's done over the last decade in Slams is absolutely phenomenal.
So as much as this one hurts, he's got an incredible record and he's got time now to go and prepare for the next one, the French Open and onwards.
Mischa Zverev played great. It was much talked about beforehand, he plays in a way that other players just aren't used to playing against - serve and volley all the time on the first serve, a lot of times on the second, hitting and coming in off returns. It just made it more difficult to get into the match because there's no rhythm.
Jeremy Bates, former British number one
I don't think this has any reflection whatsoever on how the rest of the year goes - they are here to play 18, 19 tournaments I think Andy plays on average per year - he's got all the Slams coming up, he's still world number one and in a very strong position.
One loss is not going to rock the boat too much or blow him off course. If anything it will motivate him to probably work harder - he's somebody who analyses these things, he likes to look into the reasons, what he could've done better, what went wrong and that's his mind, that's the way he works, that's why he's successful and he will use it along those lines to carry on.
He'll probably have another great year, he's in the driving seat.
The singer's A5 ink drawing titled Loving The Alien fetched £4,300 in an eBay auction for the Gloucestershire hospice charity Longfield.
A new drawing called Reflection IV, 2016 donated by Mr Gormley sold for £2,700.
Hattie Allsop from the charity said the results had been "amazing".
About 200 artworks were listed in the The Big Heart auction to raise funds for the small Minchinhampton-based charity.
Many of the pieces were donated after an appeal by Los Angeles stylist Dave Thomas who grew up in Gloucester and whose aunt was looked after by the hospice.
Mr Thomas said: "(Boy George) did that back stage at the Hollywood Bowl when he was performing with the LA Philharmonic Orchestra so it is quite a special one."
A second painting by the former Culture Club singer called Old Punks Never Die, which he donated "in memory of Aunty Sue", sold for £2,251.
Other top sellers included a doodled self-portrait by Lionel Richie which attracted 38 bids and sold for £300 and a "limited edition" drawing of a sheep by David Cameron called Ewe Matter which raised £92
Ms Alsop said the auction had raised £15,000 for the charity but an LA buyer had offered another £4,300 if Boy George would replicate his pen and ink sketch.
"He's going to agree," she said.
"His stylist will be on to him."
Ms Bartolotti made the case for a change in approach in a speech at Cardiff University on Thursday night.
Legalising cannabis has been Green Party policy for some time.
Ms Bartolotti said: "No one has yet died from using cannabis, in fact the health benefits of cannabis in the treatment of epilepsy and cancer are already well documented."
She added: "Commercial organisations in the UK are already allowed to patent and sell cannabis extracts, whilst the population as a whole is criminalised for using it - even if it saves their life. This simply has to be changed."
Ms Bartolotti said cannabis is wrongly labelled as a gateway drug to harder substances like cocaine and heroin and it is the criminalisation of it which is the gateway.
Police said about 30 members of a white supremacist group were holding a rally outside the California State Capitol when about 400 counter-protesters turned up and fights broke out.
Nine men and one woman were treated for stab wounds, cuts and bruises, officials said.
No arrests have been reported so far.
Video posted on social media showed dozens of people, some wearing masks and wielding what appeared to be wooden bats, racing across the capitol grounds and attacking others.
The two people seriously wounded had suffered stab wounds, Sacramento Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey said.
"There was a large number of people carrying sticks and rushing to either get into the melee or see what was going on," he said.
Matthew Heimbach, chairman of white supremacist group the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), told the Los Angeles Times that his group and the Golden State Skinheads had organised the rally.
He said one of their marchers had been stabbed in an artery and six of the counter-protesters had also been stabbed.
TWP vice chairman Matt Parrott, who was at the rally, blamed "leftist radicals" for the violence.
The TWP is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as the political wing of the Traditionalist Youth Network, which aims to "indoctrinate high school and college students into white nationalism".
The draft resolution put before the UN Security Council in New York has the potential to be a game-changer on the ground.
It demands a lifting of the sieges, condemns starvation as a strategy of war, singles out the barbarity of the barrel bombs dropped on civilian populations by the Assad regime and, most crucially of all perhaps, calls for aid convoys to be allowed to cross the Syrian border from neighbouring countries such as Turkey and Iraq.
It also criticises opposition forces that have besieged areas, though on a smaller scale, and expresses concern about the rise of al-Qaeda-affiliated terror groups in Syria.
However, it is by no means certain that the draft will ever emerge from the Security Council.
The resolution, which was drafted by Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan, has exposed the longstanding division within the Security Council. Three of its permanent members, France, Britain and the US, are pushing hard for its passage because of the alarming deterioration in recent months of Syria's humanitarian crisis.
Russia, which has stymied efforts in the past to boost humanitarian aid and vetoed three previous UN resolutions on Syria, has again been resistant.
In intense negotiations in New York over the past week, Russia has complained that the Western-backed resolution is one-sided.
It assails the Assad regime, they claim, while downplaying what it sees as the rise of terrorism.
The Western nations argue they have come up with balanced wording.
What they are not prepared to do is use language that speaks of equivalence between the Assad regime and Islamist militant forces.
More than 80% of the Syrians living in besieged areas are prevented from leaving by government forces. Likewise, it is the Assad regime that is dropping barrel bombs on its own people.
"The balance is between getting a text that will make a difference," one senior western diplomat told me, "whilst at the same time getting the Russians on board."
To make the resolution more palatable to Russia, the threat of sanctions if the Assad regime refuses to comply has been removed. Instead, it speaks more vaguely of taking "further steps in the case of non-compliance".
Punishing the Assad regime would therefore require a second resolution, at which point the Russians could wield their veto. It is the same two-resolution formula used to get Russian backing for the Syrian chemical weapons resolution last September.
The sticking point is cross-border access for the aid convoys. This is non-negotiable for the US, France and Britain.
But Russia sees it as a violation of Syrian sovereignty.
"This is a direct contradiction of international humanitarian law and the provisions approved by the UN for the purposes of humanitarian operations," complained the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. "The UNSC will not create such precedents."
Western diplomats say that the resolution enshrines the principle of Syrian sovereignty, and the bringing in aid over the borders will make a huge difference to the people in need.
Moscow has substantially changed its position over the past two weeks. At the start of the month, it opposed any new humanitarian resolution. Now it has come up with a draft of its own, a much weaker document.
"The million-dollar question", according to one Western diplomat, is whether they will support the Western-led draft.
The Western powers claim they are looking for a resolution and not a Russian veto. One theory, denied by senior Western diplomats in New York, is that the resolution was designed to embarrass Russia during the Sochi Winter Olympics.
But it would not look good for Russia to exercise its veto as its showcase games are coming to a close.
They intended to bring it to a vote on Friday, before Sochi's closing ceremony on Sunday. As a concession to the Russians, who were calling for a delay, the vote has now been scheduled for Saturday morning.
The intentions of China, the other veto-wielding power on the Security Council, are unclear. It often sides with Russia, when Moscow opts for a veto. In negotiations it has been lukewarm to the resolution.
Westerns powers are clearly becoming more impatient. The Geneva talks have broken down. The conflict has intensified. In the space of less than six months, the death toll has risen from 100,000 to to 140,000.
Even as the warring parties met around the negotiating table in Geneva, the civil war entered one of its most brutal and bloody phases.
The recent evacuation of the besieged Old City of Homs, which the Russians originally argued showed that a resolution on humanitarian access was unnecessary, did not provide the basis for a long-term humanitarian solution.
It took 14 months to negotiate and affected only 1,400 people.
UN officials are adamant that a meaningful resolution is needed urgently. Will Russia allow it to pass?
Raymond Fuller, 88, from Poole, joined the Royal Navy as a 17 year old in 1943 and served on HMS Illustrious.
The carrier's aircraft attacked targets in Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies and took part in the Battle of Okinawa.
Mr Fuller's pilgrimage in the new year is being funded by the Big Lottery Fund's Heroes Return scheme.
In early 1944, the aircraft of HMS Illustrious and an American carrier joined forces to strike a naval base at Sabang in northern Sumatra.
The ship went on to Tricomalee in Sri Lanka for respite before the start of the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
Mr Fuller said: "I remember Christmas Day 1944 very well because we had some free time to do whatever we liked, before the discipline clamped down again on Boxing Day.
"One chap said 'I fancy swimming over to that destroyer for a cup of tea' - and he did. I gather he was well received on board.
"It was a very welcome break - we used to get so tired. It was so hot down in the hangar and during action stations it was closed up and the ventilation was switched off so it was like working in an oven."
The Kranji memorial is dedicated to the men and women from the UK, Australia, Canada, Sri Lanka, India, Malaya, the Netherlands and New Zealand who died defending Singapore and Malaya against Japanese forces.
Mr Fuller said: "You did get to know some of the pilots. It was very sad when you found out they didn't return.
"It will be important to visit the cemetery and spend some time thinking about those who never made it - especially the PoWs."
Big Lottery Fund chairman Peter Ainsworth said: "It is worth reminding ourselves that veterans spent Christmases in very different circumstances during the Second World War, so that we could have the peace and freedoms we enjoy today."
The Heroes Return programme has awarded in excess of £28m to more than 57,000 veterans, widows and carers since 2004.
New figures from Police Scotland show the number of vehicles speeding on the road has dropped from one in three to one in 15 since the cameras were introduced in October.
However, the number of speeders caught in the last quarter rose compared to the first three months of the system.
Bosses said this was "not unexpected".
The average speed camera system was controversial before it was installed, with critics claiming it would have little impact on safety and increase journey times, while disrupting traffic flow on the road.
The A9 was long considered one of the country's most dangerous roads, with the Scottish government committing £3bn to convert the full length of the Perth to Inverness route to dual carriageway.
In total, 1,744 vehicles were detected speeding in the A9 enforcement area between 28 October and 20 April, which the group said indicated an "extremely high level of compliance".
This works out as an average of ten cars caught speeding per day, from an average volume of 10,000 vehicles travelling between Inverness and Perth and 24,000 between Dunblane and Perth.
The figures also displayed a downward trend in the number of crashes on the road.
About driver in every 20 was caught travelling at excess speed in the three months after the cameras were introduced in October.
That number rose in subsequent months to one in 15, but Stewart Leggett, chairman of the A9 Safety Group - a body which involves Transport Scotland, police and road maintenance companies - said the rise was "not unexpected".
He said: "The latest data shows that in the areas covered by cameras compliance rates remain exceptionally high.
"The monitoring equipment on the route clearly indicates that there has been a significant shift in driver behaviour with the number of vehicles exceeding the speed limit reduced from one in three to one in 15.
"And more importantly the number of vehicles travelling at 10mph above the limit has been maintained at a level of around 1 in 250 since the cameras were introduced."
The black and tan male collie cross was picked up at the summit of Scafell Pike in the Lake District on 16 May by a couple of Scottish holidaymakers.
Staff at the Scottish SPCA in Glasgow nicknamed the dog Scafell and launched an appeal to locate the owner.
A Cumbrian sheep farmer has now come forward to claim the dog, who is actually named Sid.
Katrina Cavanagh of the Scottish SPCA, said: "The couple who found Sid told us he was petrified and they brought him home because they couldn't get help locally.
"Unfortunately, Sid wasn't microchipped so we couldn't contact his owner directly. Thankfully, he came forward following our appeal and arranged for Sid to be collected as he wasn't able to travel to Glasgow.
"The owner is a local sheep farmer and Sid is one of his working dogs. He believes Sid took off after a bitch in season and had been looking for him.
"While he was surprised when he found out Sid was in Scotland, he was also very relieved he was safe.
"He's a lovely dog and we wouldn't have had any trouble finding him a home if we'd needed to as we had lots of offers.
"This is another example of why it's important for pets to be microchipped."
At 978m (3,209ft), Scafell Pike is the highest peak in England.
They are both very young - under seven years old.
The boy's slicked-back hair and the girl's smocked dress whisper post-war chic.
On the back, it reads: "David and Sandra, Neville Road, Birmingham, 1946." But the snap got separated from its owner at Terminal 1 in Dublin airport.
Now, big-hearted airport staff have put out a plea in the hope of reuniting photograph and owner.
They tweeted: "A passenger left this photo at the security area in T1 today. Dated 1946.
"Please RT so we can find the owner."
Paul O'Kane, chief communications officer for the airport said this was one lost item that they just could not ignore.
"We have more than 20 million passengers going through the airport every year," he said.
"One of our staff found the photograph under a plastic security tray and we felt we couldn't ignore it.
"The caption suggests it belongs to someone of Irish origin who is perhaps living in Birmingham. It is clearly of tremendous sentimental value.
"We shall also send a message to Birmingham airport to see if they can help us reunite the photograph with its owner."
From 1 April crofters will be able to apply for up to £28,000 under the new Croft House Grant Scheme.
Up to £38,000 will be available to crofters living on islands or specified mainland communities.
The levels have been frozen since 2006 and the changes follow consultation with the public and crofters.
Environment Minister Aileen McLeod said good quality housing would help to attract and retain people in Scotland's most remote and rural communities.
She said: "The Scottish government's Croft House Grant Scheme has invested £14m to build or improve almost 700 homes since 2007 and the changes I am announcing today will help ensure this support is fit for purpose in the years to come.
"I am pleased to confirm that - despite on-going cuts to our budget as a result the UK government's continuing austerity programme - we are committed to continuing to provide funding for croft houses."
Jamie McGrigor, Highlands and Islands Conservative MSP and convenor of the Scottish Parliament's cross party group on crofting, said the extra support had been long awaited.
He said: "I broadly welcome today's announcement which is long overdue given grant levels have been frozen since 2006, meaning of course that they have been cut significantly in real terms over this period."
The multinational angered workers and the government when it announced a plan in October to close two furnaces at its steel plant in Florange.
It gave the government a grace period of 60 days to look for a new owner.
The Mittal family said they were "extremely shocked" by the comments.
"We no longer want Arcelor Mittal in France because they didn't respect France," Arnaud Montebourg told French business daily Les Echos.
The minister, who previously opposed the closure of a Peugeot factory, accused the company of "overwhelming lies" and said the Florange closure breaks a promise made by chief executive Lakshmi Mittal during Mittal Steel's 26.9bn-euro (£21.8bn) takeover of Arcelor in 2006, which was strongly opposed by French ministers.
The problem "isn't the furnaces in Florange, it's Mittal", said Mr Montebourg.
Mr Mittal, the Indian-born chief executive, is expected to meet with President Francois Hollande on Tuesday to discuss the group's operations in France.
The talks come ahead of a deadline on Saturday which Mr Mittal gave the state to find a buyer for the two idled blast furnaces in Florange, a traditional steel town in north-eastern France.
The government says it has received two offers, but only for the entire site. Mr Mittal has refused to sell the full operation, which employs a total of 20,000 workers.
As a result, Mr Montebourg has said he is exploring how to seize the entire Florange site should Mr Mittal refuse his demands.
According to the French newspaper, Mr Montebourg's idea "would be a partnership with a minor manufacturer, the time to stabilise activity" in Florange.
Jean-Louis Borloo, a conservative politician and a former environment minister, also supported Mr Montebourg's efforts.
"France's steel industry needs to live - there are 2,200 people on the site, 22,000 Arcelor Mittal employees in France and globally, there are 75,000 [employees involved in steel]," he told France Inter radio.
"And the idea that the government, along with its sovereign wealth fund and partners like Eramet and Ascometal (mining and metallurgical groups), reflect upon a temporary state control... does not seem inappropriate."
The Mittal family said they were "extremely shocked" by Mr Montebourg's attacks on the steelmaker.
One person close to the group said: "These are pretty violent comments towards a group that employs 20,000 people in France."
About 50 people braved the chilly water at the Marine Lake in St Helier to raise money for care home Les Amis and the Jersey Aquatic Rescue Club.
One swimmer said: "It was freezing, I just ran in, got my head down and just ran back out."
Long distance swimmers also took to the water at St Catherine to raise money for CLIC Sargent Jersey and the RNLI.
The Jersey Long Distance Swimming Club organised the St Catherine swim, followed by soup and bread in the cafe afterwards.
A spokesman for the group said 24 people entered the water, raising about £200 for the charity, describing the water as "very cold".
Frederick Boyd was on leave at his home in Glasgow when he failed to return to Castle Huntly jail in Dundee on Tuesday.
The public have been warned not to approach Boyd and contact police if they see him.
Police said he was thought to have connections in the Clydebank, Knightswood and the Drumchapel areas of Glasgow.
He is described as being of medium build, clean shaven with short brown hair.
In a statement on Tuesday, Josephine Deehan and Patsy Kelly said they would stand in the 5 May assembly election as independent social democrats.
They said supporters feel the party is out of touch. Both are candidates in the West Tyrone constituency.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said it was a result of a high number of people wanting to stand for the party.
The resignations are seen as the first test of Mr Eastwood's leadership.
He became leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party in November.
He defeated Dr Alasdair McDonnell in a vote at the party's annual conference in Armagh by 172 votes to 133.
Ms Deehan, who has been a member of the party for 15 years, highlighted a lack of female candidates as "an unacceptable state of affairs."
"Despite the success of four SDLP women councillors in Omagh there is not one woman candidate on the SDLP election ticket west of the Bann in these forthcoming elections," she said.
Patsy Kelly, a councillor for five years, objected to what he called "career politicians".
"With the advent of the assembly we have seen the arrival of career politicians whose priorities are self advancement and self perpetuation rather than the daily struggles of ordinary people and the hardships they face," Mr Kelly said.
Mr Eastwood rejected charges of cronyism, but admitted there are ongoing issues in the West Tyrone constituency.
"Of course, we've got some problems, but I think that comes from a place where lots of people seem to want to run for the SDLP in this election, I think that's a good thing," he said.
"I think people are convinced that we are a party of change, that's why Daniel McCrossan is our candidate in West Tyrone.
"He's a fantastic new candidate with new energy and new ideas."
Mr Eastwood also addressed the lack of female SDLP candidates in West Tyrone, compared to the number of women councillors.
"We have one candidate in the constituency, we have female candidates right across the north and they are all very, very good candidates and I look forward to them being elected," he said.
Mr McCrossan did not address the councillors' criticism directly, but he was applauded by other SDLP members when he spoke at a party event in Belfast on Tuesday.
A team at Dounreay were faced with the challenge of retrieving small pieces of radioactive metal from inside the site's Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR).
They came up with placing a blob of the tacky substance on a 10m (32ft) rod which was inserted deep into the PFR.
The metal sticks to the soft adhesive and can then be collected for analysis.
Dounreay, near Thurso in Caithness, is being closed down at a cost of about more than £1bn.
Teams involved in the decommissioning and clean up work have frequently been asked to find cost-effective ways of dealing with hazardous radioactive material.
Other household items have been put to use at the site, including kitchen can openers and soup tin-sized cans that have held radioactive material for more than 30 years.
And a silver ironing board cover and a duvet have protected a robotic camera built to explore pipes inside the Dounreay Fast Reactor.
Six Jews were killed at the centre, which was one of several places targeted in the November 2008 attacks.
Indian forces regained control of the building after several days and killed two gunmen there.
The attacks at a railway station, two hotels and other landmarks claimed 166 lives. Nine gunmen were also killed.
Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his pregnant wife Rivkah, 28, who ran the Chabad House Jewish cultural centre, were killed in the attack, but the couple's two-year-old son, Moshe, survived.
He was found crying next to their bodies by his Indian nanny, who hid in a cupboard during the attack, but emerged to rescue the child after his parents were killed.
She later escorted the boy to Israel to care for him. He has extended family there.
Some 25 rabbis from across Asia gathered on Tuesday at the newly renovated centre and announced plans to turn the top two floors of the five-storey building into a $2.5m (£1.5m) museum.
The refurbished cultural centre has a synagogue, offices, guest rooms, a restaurant, a commercial kitchen and security rooms.
"We're not moving into a new building - we are returning to our original building and we will be continuing and expanding all the activities that took place here," Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, new co-director of the centre with his wife, Chaya, told the AFP news agency.
Chintan Sakariya, a local businessman, who witnessed the attack on the centre, said he had "mixed" feelings over its reopening.
"They're coming back strongly and we support that. But there's going to be a lot of inconvenience for local residents, a lot of security, a lot of blockades," he said.
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, a prominent member of the orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement who helped to rebuild the centre, said its reopening would be "really a message for the whole world".
"You can overcome challenges, even the most horrific of challenges. You can and must rebuild, and this project serves as a beacon of light and hope that evil will not prevail," he said in a statement.
In 2012, India executed Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, the sole surviving gunman from the 2008 attacks.
Qasab was part of a heavily armed and well-drilled, 10-member militant unit which arrived in Mumbai by sea on 26 November 2008.
The men split into groups to attack various targets. Their assault on the Taj Mahal Hotel, Oberoi Trident Hotel and the Jewish centre went on for more than two days.
Pakistan-based banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba was blamed for the attacks, which soured India-Pakistan ties.
Britain's donations of more than £100m in the summer of 2014 helped to set up nearly 3,000 hospital beds.
This vital provision, researchers estimate, prevented 56,000 Ebola cases.
But a further 12,500 cases could have been averted if the beds been available even a month earlier, they calculate.
The UK government insists that it did act swiftly and says the international community as a whole could have done more.
It's not the first time the government's response to Ebola has come under scrutiny.
In February, the Public Accounts Committee said funds had not been released quickly enough to deal with the crisis.
In the months following the Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization was also heavily criticised for being slow to act.
The work from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, published in the journal PNAS, details how much of an impact a delay in international aid may have had.
Researchers used a mathematical model to estimate how many cases of Ebola were averted thanks to foreign aid efforts that set up treatment centres where patients with the infectious virus could be quarantined and cared for.
From September 2014 onwards, more than 2,700 treatment beds were introduced in Ebola holding centres, community care centres and treatment units to support the overwhelmed health system in Sierra Leone.
The researchers calculate that these beds prevented some 56,600 cases of Ebola.
Had they been installed a month earlier, tens of thousands more would have been avoided.
With Ebola killing more than half of those it infects, thousands more lives would also have been saved.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the world's deadliest to date.
11,312
Deaths - probable, confirmed and suspected
(Includes one in the US and six in Mali)
4,808 Liberia
3,955 Sierra Leone
2,534 Guinea
8 Nigeria
The three West African countries at the heart of the Ebola epidemic have recorded their first week with no new cases since the outbreak began in March 2014.
But experts agree there is no room for complacency - experience shows that the disease could easily break out again.
To date, the UK has committed £427m to defeating Ebola.
A spokeswoman for the Department for International Development said: "Britain has been at the forefront of the international response to Ebola in Sierra Leone.
"By deploying NHS medics and military personnel and building treatment centres across the country, our swift action helped save countless lives and contain the spread of the disease."
Set up in 2013, Frontline has already trained 220 recruits in the South East and Manchester and is now selecting 180 graduates to take up posts from July.
The charity has secured government backing and aims to get 1,000 graduates into children's social work by 2020.
Government data shows there were 4,320 vacancies in 2014 for children's social workers in England.
High-profile child abuse cases such as Baby P and Victoria Climbie in London and Keanu Williams in Birmingham - where social workers were criticised for not doing more to prevent the deaths of vulnerable children - have seen them come under intense scrutiny.
Government ministers have serious concerns about the quality of many social workers and Ofsted inspections suggest widespread problems.
Bad headlines and a perception that social work is poorly paid have meant the profession is often viewed as low prestige by graduates.
Frontline is hoping to redress the situation in a similar way to Teach First which aims to recruit high-calibre graduates into the teaching profession.
Frontline, an independent charity with cross-party support, will now start its next recruitment round for 300 graduates and career changers to enter the profession in July 2017.
But the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) said schemes such as Frontline, Step Up and Think Ahead, which aim to attract high calibre individuals, were still in their infancy.
Professional officer at BASW Karen Goodman, who has more than 30 years experience in the profession, said: "None of these schemes have been going long enough for us to know if they are successful.
"We don't know about the issues of retention, and we need to think about how social workers are treated once they are qualified.
"One of the things that concerns us about Frontline is that they [the recruits] may be academically very good, but what about their emotional resilience?"
Mrs Goodman also warned these schemes tended to get priority access to student placements, which led to a shortage for undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
The expansion of the Frontline scheme will be announced in a speech on Thursday by the Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan.
Mrs Morgan will also announce further plans to increase and speed up the number of adoptions in England.
She will say the government will change the law to make it clear that councils and courts must place children with the person best able to care for them right up to their 18th birthday - rather than with carers who cannot provide the support these children need over the long term.
Cllr Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said councils were committed to finding loving homes for all children who need them and regional collaboration had been a strong feature of this success.
"However, social work practice is only one part of the solution, and it is vital that court delays are also addressed and legal proceedings sped up if we are to continue to provide much-needed homes for children.
"There is no simple one-size-fits-all approach to vulnerable children. We must take care that the ongoing focus on adoption does not distract from the importance of other types of long and short-term care."
There are 26,810 children's social workers employed in England - which is equivalent to 24,620 full-time posts.
There were 4,320 full time equivalent vacancies reported at 30 September 2014. Local authorities estimated they would need 4,570 social workers to fill these posts. The vacancy rate reported was 15%.
In the year from September 2013, 4,400 children's social workers (4,060 equivalent full time posts) were reported to have left their local authority. The turnover rate was 17%.
Source: Department for Education. Figures relate to 30 September 2014.
Frontline chief executive Josh MacAlister said: "Today's announcement is a great opportunity for the charity to go national in developing even more outstanding social workers to stand alongside those children and families who need them the most.
"This endorsement is a reflection of the quality of the work undertaken by our participants who are already changing lives for the most vulnerable children and families in Britain."
Lord Adonis, Frontline's chairman, said he was confident the national rollout would make a "real difference" to the lives of children and families.
"Social workers are crucial to improving the life chances of vulnerable children, and it is vital that we continue to address the national challenge in getting more top talent into the profession."
The fight is on the undercard of Chris Eubank Jr's bout with Renold Quinlan.
Selby, 28, won the vacant IBF Inter-Continental Flyweight title with victory via TKO against Jake Bornea at Wembley Arena in November 2016.
Diale, 28, from the Philippines, has won 32 of his 46 fights, lost 10 and drawn four.
Selby, the younger brother of IBF featherweight champion Lee, has been tipped as a future world champion.
A former European amateur champion, he has won all seven of his fights since turning professional.
England ended the international career of Pietersen in February 2014.
"I know that the current captain would love to have me in the England team," said Pietersen while co-commentating on the Australian Big Bash Twenty20.
Ex-Australia captain and fellow commentator Ricky Ponting said some England players had bigger "egos" than Pietersen.
England start a one-day tri-series against hosts Australia and India on Friday, before the World Cup starts on 14 February.
Pietersen, who has scored 195 runs at an average of 39 for Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash, said: "I want to play for England.
"I'm 34. Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara is 38 years old and has just scored a double hundred.
"I honestly believe I am batting as well as I have ever batted at the moment.
"I got over my knee injury, which was huge. Over the last 18 months I've just hated batting just because my knee has been so sore."
Morgan took over from Alastair Cook as England captain in December, before playing four games for Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash.
Pietersen, who has not played for England since the 5-0 Ashes Test series ended in January 2014, released a book later in the year in which he said there was a bullying culture in the dressing room.
In April last year England and Wales Cricket Board managing director Paul Downton dismissed the chances of Pietersen ever playing for England again, saying: "The sooner we understand that Kevin has had his time, the better - I don't see any going back."
And just before Christmas, following the publication of Pietersen's controversial book, Downton told the Daily Telegraph: "If anything more bridges have been burned by Kevin's book. There is no interest from our point of view in going backwards."
During commentary on Tuesday former Australia captain Ponting said: "You were quoted in your book as saying if there was an Olympic race in your team for egos, you wouldn't be on the podium. Who would be?"
Pietersen responded by asking: "Who would you reckon would be on the podium?"
Ponting - who said egos were "a trait of champions" - did not name players but strongly hinted at Graeme Swann, Matt Prior, James Anderson and Stuart Broad.
He said: "I would probably say a right-arm off spinner, the guy that fielded behind the wicket and wore a bit of protection and maybe a couple of your fast bowlers would be the ones.
"You wouldn't probably don't even rank in the top four."
Judge Marco Aurelio Mello on Monday removed Mr Calheiros, who must face trial for alleged embezzlement.
Mr Calheiros says he will wait for a final decision by the whole Supreme Court on the issue on Wednesday.
Earlier, he had appealed against his removal, arguing that it could undermine a government austerity plan the Senate is due to vote on.
The controversial austerity plan, known as PEC-55, is scheduled to go to the Senate before the end of the year.
The judge's ruling was also a blow to centre-right President Michel Temer, a key ally of Mr Calheiros.
Under the order, Mr Calheiros would be temporarily replaced as Senate head by a member of the opposition Worker's Party, who may block the vote.
Judge Mello said his decision was valid with immediate effect, but could still be overturned by a majority of Supreme Court judges.
Senate lawyers said there was a legal basis for Mr Calheiros to continue until all the Supreme Court judges met to deliberate on Wednesday.
Mr Calheiros has been accused of taking bribes from a construction company.
Judge Mello approved the injunction requested by the left-wing Rede party which argued that a politician facing criminal charges cannot be in the presidential line of succession.
As head of the Senate, Mr Calheiros is second in line after the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Rodrigo Maia.
Brazil does not currently have a vice-president, as Mr Temer, who occupied the post, replaced Dilma Rousseff as president earlier this year.
She was dismissed after an impeachment trial.
The case against Mr Calheiros dates back to 2007.
He was forced to resign as Senate leader at the time, but was re-elected six years later. He denies wrongdoing.
Mr Calheiros is accused of agreeing with a construction company that it should pay maintenance fees for a daughter he had had during an extramarital affair with a journalist.
The company allegedly billed the Senate for the payments.
Mr Calheiros, 61, is also being investigated separately in connection with a big kickback scheme at the state-owned oil company, Petrobras.
Dozens of politicians, civil servants and businessmen have been detained since the investigation, known as Operation Car Wash, began in 2014.
Mr Gandhi, who trekked 16km (10 miles) to reach the shrine on Friday, said he hoped others would follow him to boost tourism in Uttarakhand state.
Hundreds of other pilgrims are also visiting the renovated shrine.
More than 5,700 people are believed to have died in the floods.
Four thousands villages in Rudraprayag district were affected.
The shrine is situated in the Himalayas, about 11,755ft above sea level near Chorabari Glacier, and is surrounded by snow-capped mountains.
Mr Gandhi was among the first pilgrims to visit the temple on Friday when it opened for pilgrimage.
"I wanted to walk the distance as a tribute to the people who died in the tragedy in 2013," NDTV quoted him as saying.
He began the trek on Thursday and spent the night at a government-run shelter the news channel reported, adding that he turned down the offer to use a government helicopter to fly to the temple.
Mr Gandhi recently returned from a nearly two-month-long sabbatical and has been uncharacteristically active in politics since then, leading his party in its campaign against the government's controversial land reforms policy and the issue of internet freedom in India.
Meanwhile, hundreds of other pilgrims have arrived from across India and Nepal to visit the famous shrine, reports BBC Hindi's Shiv Joshi in Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand state.
Authorities have constructed new roads leading up to Guptakashi, near Kedarnath, and lodges and hotels in the area have been refurbished to accommodate the visiting pilgrims, our correspondent adds.
A resolution banning North Korean exports and limiting investments in the country was passed unanimously.
The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said it was "the most stringent set of sanctions on any country in a generation".
Pyongyang tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July, claiming it now had the ability to hit the US.
However, experts doubt the capability of the missiles to hit their targets.
The tests were condemned by South Korea, Japan and the US, and prompted the drafting of the new UN sanctions.
The export of coal, ore and other raw materials to China is one of North Korea's few sources of cash.
Estimates say that North Korea exports about $3bn worth of goods each year - and the sanctions could eliminate $1bn of that trade.
Earlier this year, China suspended imports of coal to increase pressure on Pyongyang.
However, repeated sanctions have so far failed to deter North Korea from continuing with its missile development.
China, North Korea's only international ally and a veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council, voted in favour of the resolution this time. It has often protected Pyongyang from harmful resolutions in the past.
The US ambassador said the Security Council had increased the penalty for North Korea's ballistic missile activity "to a whole new level".
"Today the Security Council has come together to put the North Korean dictator on notice," Ms Haley told the council after the vote.
"North Korea's irresponsible and careless acts have just proved to be costly for the regime."
She also praised China's stance.
China's ambassador, Liu Jieyi, said the resolution showed that the world was "united in its position regarding the nuclear position on the Korean peninsula".
He welcomed US statements that it was not seeking regime change or prioritising the reunification of Korea.
But - along with the Russian ambassador - he criticised the US deployment of the Thaad anti-missile system in South Korea, calling for the deployment to be halted.
UK ambassador Matthew Rycroft said: "North Korea bears full responsibility for the measures we have enacted today.
"It does not have to be this way. North Korea should forgo the path of provocation, forgo the path of further escalation."
The isolated state's repeated missile and nuclear weapon tests have been condemned by neighbours in the region.
But South Korea says it may hold direct talks with the North during a regional meeting this weekend.
Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said she was willing to talk to her counterpart from Pyongyang, if the chance "naturally occurs".
Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are meeting in Manila in the Philippines.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports "cautious expectations" that Kang Kyung-wha would meet North Korea's Ri Yong-ho on the sidelines of the forum.
"If there is an opportunity that naturally occurs, we should talk," Ms Kang told the agency.
"I would like to deliver our desire for the North to stop its provocations and positively respond to our recent special offers [for talks] aimed at establishing a peace regime."
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will also be attending the weekend's talks, where North Korea's nuclear programme is expected to be a main topic.
As the meeting began, Asean members issued a joint statement saying they had "grave concerns" over North Korea's actions, which "seriously threaten peace".
For cars registered after 1 April 2017, VED will be transformed into three bands - zero, standard and premium.
George Osborne said the "standard" charge of £140 would cover 95% of all cars. Revenues will be paid into the Roads Fund from 2020-21.
The chancellor also said that fuel duty would remain frozen this year.
Mr Osborne said: "There will be no change to VED for existing cars - no one will pay more in tax than they do today for the car they already own."
He added that the £140 rate was less than the average £166 that motorists pay at present.
However, the new rates will not apply in the first year after registration. There will be special first year rates linked to a car's carbon emissions.
Motoring groups gave a mixed reaction to the move.
Mike Hawes, the chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said the change "came as a surprise and is of considerable concern".
"While we are pleased that zero-emission cars will, on the whole, remain exempt from VED, the new regime will disincentivise take up of low emission vehicles," he said.
"New technologies such as plug-in hybrid, the fastest growing ultra low emission vehicle segment, will not benefit from long-term VED incentive, threatening the ability of the UK and the UK automotive sector to meet ever stricter CO2 targets."
He also said the introduction of a surcharge on premium cars risked undermining growth in UK manufacturing and exports.
"British-built premium cars are in increasing demand at home and globally, and the industry helps to support almost 800,000 jobs in the UK. Levelling a punitive tax on these vehicles will almost certainly impact domestic demand."
Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, said: "Costs for many drivers will rise, but two things help offset the financial pain.
"One is that new car prices have dropped in real terms over many years and the other is that money raised from VED will be ring-fenced for road investment, something not seen since the 1930s."
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Facial reconstruction experts at the university developed images of the king's head from the skeletal remains found buried under a car park in 2012.
The remains of the 15th century monarch were re-buried at Leicester Cathedral this week.
The new painting is based on both the reconstruction and old portraits.
Richard III died in 1485 at Bosworth Field during the Wars of the Roses, and his remains were found buried under a car park in Leicester more than 520 years later.
Facial reconstruction experts at the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at Dundee University developed an image of the king's head from photographs and scans of the skeleton.
Janice Aitken, an artist based at the university's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, worked with the CAHID team while painting an up to date portrait of the last Plantagenet king.
She also referenced a portrait painted by an unknown artist between 1504 and 1520, which hangs in Windsor Castle.
Ms Aitken said: "There are many copies of paintings of Richard III but I understand that there are no paintings of him directly from life in existence.
"I thought that it would be interesting to add to the visual record by combining the recent reconstruction with a work that was probably painted by a contemporary of the king."
She said being involved with the project, which led to the skeletal remains being reburied at Leicester Cathedral, had been "incredible".
"I was completely unprepared for the impact that the reconstruction would have. The story of the discovery of the remains of Richard III seems to have resonated across the world."
Hundreds of people were affected after high winds cancelled sailings to and from the Isle of Man.
The Steam Packet Company said: "it had no choice" but to halt Tuesday's 19:45 sailing from Douglas to Heysham and the return journey at 02:15 on Wednesday.
A spokesman said most passengers "have now travelled on alternative sailings."
The decision to cancel the ferry sailings was taken as winds in the Irish Sea were gusting in excess of 60mph (50 knots).
Chief Executive Mark Woodward said: "We had 540 passengers booked on Tuesday's 19.45 sailing to Heysham, and by midday on Wednesday more than half that number had already been accommodated on scheduled Ben-my-Chree and Manannan services.
"There were 469 motorcycles on Wednesday morning's Manannan sailing, which is a record".
TT fans Rich Clover and Andy Smith from Gloucester told the BBC they were trying to get an alternative sailing.
"What can you do about it? Absolutely nothing," added Mr Clover.
"We know some of the lads who are racing so we might be able to stay with them tonight. If not there's the good old Sea Terminal floor.
"We'll get through it, it's not the end of the world".
Rob Jarvis from Middlesex said he was eager to get home to his wife who was recovering from an operation.
"There's a lot going on at home right now and I need to get back soon.
"The communication hasn't been good so I thought I'd get down here to the Sea Terminal to try and sort it out. Obviously, everyone else had the same idea".
A Facebook page called the TT and Manx Grand Prix Helpline was established to offer free help to all TT visitors.
Of the 13 sides left in a delayed third round, Woking (three times) and Macclesfield (twice) are ex-winners.
But Nantwich and Guiseley are both former winners of the FA Vase, for lower-ranked non-league sides.
And, if the Dabbers can go all the way to win at Wembley, they would become the first side to win both trophies.
After having the original tie with Stourbridge postponed on Saturday due to a waterlogged pitch, Nantwich now hope to play on Tuesday night.
And, following Monday's quarter-final draw, the incentive for Nantwich is the chance of another home tie against Yorkshire side Guiseley, now in the National League top flight, but the only other side left in who have won the Vase.
Guiseley, who face a home third round replay after drawing 2-2 at Dover on Saturday, won the Vase way back in 1991, an achievement emulated by Nantwich in 2006, under player-manager Steve Davis.
Both are flourishing non-league clubs who have grown sufficiently within the English non-league pyramid to now be considered for the FA Trophy, rather than the FA Vase.
But, in the 41 years since the Vase was first competed for, no side has gone on to claim the greater Trophy prize, Forest Green Rovers (twice) and Tamworth having come closest as beaten finalists.
"All I ask is that we give 100%, play well, then see what happens," said Nantwich chairman Tony Davison. "But this is the furthest we've been in the Trophy and it's certainly raising our profile. We're getting more involved in the town. People are phoning up and asking about us now.
"We want to play in the National League and we're not that far away. We've already beaten two National League sides. We outplayed Stockport County at Edgeley Park and demonstrated what we can do both home and away against Bradford Park Avenue.
"Our manager Phil Parkinson is doing a marvellous job. We're a much better club than we were a year ago."
The meeting of Nantwich and Stourbridge at the Weaver Stadium, eighth v seventh in the Northern Premier League, is one of two ties not involving a National League team.
Along with National League South side Sutton United's replay at Isthmian League high fliers Bognor Regis Town (following (Saturday's 0-0 draw), that guarantees at least two teams from outside the non-league top flight making it into the quarter-finals on 27 February.
When the two teams met in the league in October, Nantwich won 1-0. And, having already come though six games, which also included the removal of BBC television documentary stars Salford City, they now quite fancy their chances of emulating the Dabbers' class of 2006.
It was May 2006, at St Andrew's, home of Birmingham City (one of the seven temporary venues used while Wembley was being rebuilt), when Nantwich won the Vase, beating Hillingdon Town 3-1 in the final.
All they can hope is that the ultimate outcome does not prove quite so much a contrast in pain and pleasure as it was for the man who scored twice that day, Andy Kinsey, who dislocated his shoulder, celebrating his second goal.
Third round: Tuesday 9 February - Nantwich Town v Stourbridge, Torquay v Macclesfield, Bognor Regis Town v Sutton United (replay), Guiseley v Dover Athletic (replay); Wednesday 10 February - Halifax v Chester.
Quarter-final draw: Nantwich or Stourbridge v Dover or Guiseley, Halifax or Chester v Gateshead, Grimsby Town v Woking, Sutton United or Bognor Regis Town v Torquay United or Macclesfield Town. Ties scheduled to be played on Saturday 27 February (15:00 GMT).
National League sides in bold.
Sixth tier sides left in: National League South: Sutton (3rd)
Seventh tier sides left in : Northern Premier: Stourbridge (7th), Nantwich (8th); Isthmian Premier - Bognor Regis (4th).
Previous success in the Trophy: Winners - Woking (three times), Macclesfield Town (twice); Runners-up: Sutton United (1981), Torquay United (2008), Grimsby Town (2013).
Previous Vase winners to reach Trophy final: Forest Green (1999 and 2001), Tamworth (2003).
First two senators resigned on learning they held citizenship of New Zealand and Canada. Then a third stood down from his cabinet post on discovering that although he had never even been there, he was a citizen of Italy.
Now, further checks have swept Australia's deputy prime minister up into what has become a full-blown, dual-nationality crisis. If Barnaby Joyce is deemed ineligible to hold his seat after being found to hold New Zealand citizenship, it could force the government from power.
Mr Joyce is the leader of the National Party, the junior member of Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's conservative coalition government, which holds a one-seat majority in Australia's lower house.
If Mr Joyce - Australian-born but to a New Zealand-born father - is ruled ineligible, it would force a by-election which could end the government's grip on power.
Whether that occurs or not, no-one could have predicted the scarcely believable saga which has rocked Canberra for the past month, with Mr Joyce's heavyweight case now the fifth dual-nationality matter to be referred to the High Court.
It has all been done under the suddenly menacing shadow of the 116-year-old Section 44 of the nation's constitution, which forbids anyone holding citizenship of another country from running for parliament.
It's an issue which says much about Australia as an immigrant nation, as federal MPs who were born overseas - 25 of them in total - have raced to check which country, or countries, count them as citizens.
Others have been caught up unknowingly, such as Mr Joyce, who says he was unaware he automatically had New Zealand citizenship through his father having been born there.
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While lurching towards comedic farce, the "dual citizenship crisis" has drawn serious scorn for politicians and their attention to detail, after other recent so-called oversights in areas such as official travel expenses and the declaration of assets.
It has also raised the question: how can a populace be sure the people they're electing to represent their interests and advance their country will do just that?
And it has had serious ramifications for the political parties concerned and of course the MPs, with questions over whether they should pay back the vast sums of money earned as parliamentarians.
Initially the situation rocked the Greens, the environment-driven party seen as the biggest parliamentary force outside the dominant duopoly of the conservative Liberal-National government and the Labor opposition.
On 14 July, Greens' co-deputy leader Scott Ludlam, who left New Zealand aged three, suddenly resigned from parliament. The West Australian senator was informed he still held dual citizenship - since he had not formally renounced New Zealand - after some digging by an adversarial Perth barrister, who warned of a High Court challenge to Mr Ludlam's parliamentary qualifications.
This prompted checks by the Greens' other co-deputy leader Larissa Waters, who tearfully announced her resignation on finding she was still a citizen of Canada, where she was born before moving to Australia when still a baby. Similar to Mr Ludlam, she wrongly assumed she had automatically rescinded Canadian citizenship on becoming an Australian.
A few days later National Party senator Matt Canavan resigned his ministry in Mr Turnbull's cabinet - after a call from his mother.
Maria Canavan, like her son, was born in Australia. But in 2006, due to her Italian parentage, she had registered herself and her three children for Italian citizenship. Mr Canavan, who was 25 at the time, said he had been unaware of this as his mother had not told him. Like Mr Joyce, his eligibility will now be decided by the High Court.
Elsewhere, a Labor MP from Tasmania, Justine Keay, announced happily she had revoked her UK citizenship before last year's election. Doubt arose, however, when it was revealed confirmation of that process was not received from the UK until a week after the election.
However, legal experts believe Ms Keay is safe, as she took all necessary steps to renounce her British citizenship before the poll. Her case has not been referred to the High Court.
Less safe, apparently, is Queensland senator Malcolm Roberts from the far-right One Nation party. He declared he had renounced his UK citizenship before the election, but confirmation was not received until five months after the poll. Also, Senator Roberts had initially merely sent emails to UK citizenship authorities, rather than filling out official renunciation forms as Ms Keay had done.
Senator Roberts' case is now also slated for consideration by the High Court, which will also have to make a ruling on the process for replacing Mr Ludlum and Ms Waters.
Overall, 23 MPs born in 14 foreign countries - including former PM Tony Abbott - have now shown proof they are exclusively Australian citizens. Labor senator Sam Dastyari even showed he had spent A$25,000 (£15,000; $20,000) in legal fees to renounce his Iranian citizenship.
The constitution's Section 44 (i) states that any person who "is under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power... shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of the House of Representatives".
This is interpreted by the High Court as meaning anyone with dual citizenship is not permitted to run for office. Though the clause has so far affected several seemingly innocent victims, it is unlikely to be changed because of the difficulty of altering the Australian constitution.
While formality is not considered a traditional Australian trait, the rash of formally checking credentials says much about the country.
Last year's census showed 26.3% of Australians were born overseas, up from 24.6% five years earlier. And, invoking the case of Senator Canavan and his mother, nearly half of Australians were either born overseas or had one or both parents who were.
Although other countries' constitutions hold stipulations about MPs' citizenship, the problem is not as likely to be seen elsewhere. In the UK, for example, only 13% of people were born in another country. The rates are slightly higher in two other nations drawn into Australia's saga - Canada (22%) and New Zealand (23.3%).
Five takeaways from Australia's census
Section 44 was included in the constitution when Australia gained Federation in 1901, when issues like war, treason, the interests of country and empire may have been the key motivations.
"In 1901 if you weren't a British subject you might have your loyalty questioned," Dr Paul Kildea, senior law lecturer at the University of New South Wales, told the BBC.
While multicultural Australia is vastly different now - even Britain was declared a "foreign power" in a 1999 High Court ruling on Section 44 - Dr Kildea said the principal behind the clause still stood.
"If the Australian parliament is presented with a bill which affects another nation, the clause is designed to ensure that MPs will be putting Australia's interests first," he said.
Dr Kildea said the clause could be altered to reflect modern Australia's make-up - either to demand more simply that candidates have Australian citizenship, or have them declare their dual nationality and let the voters decide. A third way was for the High Court to make a ruling, which could then be cited as precedent, that an MP had to have been aware of his or her dual nationality to be ineligible.
Regardless of the motivations behind the clause, Dr Kildea said there were still questions over whether it served its designed purpose.
"Just because an MP is not a citizen of a certain country doesn't mean they won't favour that country, as things like political donations from foreign countries have shown," he said.
Paul, 28, has made 135 club appearances since making his debut in 2008, and spent the 2013-14 season at Worcester.
Fellow prop Jack, 26, joined Pirates in 2013 from Plymouth Albion and has played 87 times.
Cargill arrived at the Mennaye from Yorkshire Carnegie in 2015 and has scored 157 points in 38 games.
"We've openly said that retention's been our priority and we're pretty much there with that, barring a few signatures," coach Gavin Cattle told BBC Radio Cornwall.
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Ian Taylor stopped proceedings for the Portland helicopter, which was retired on Friday after 22 years.
The helicopter has been axed in favour of a Hampshire-based regional service.
The coastguard said the diver was rescued within 40 minutes, but Mr Taylor said the wait for the rescue earlier was "disgraceful".
He interrupted a memorial service, which included the unveiling of a commemorative stone, at Portland harbour.
He apologised and was applauded by those who had gathered for the service as he left.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said the "unwell diver" - a man - was airlifted to hospital but did not give any further details of his condition.
"For a significant proportion of their time, coastguard helicopters are not on the ground at their base but are out conducting their duties around the UK," a spokeswoman added.
"When an incident occurs, the UK Coastguard tasks the most appropriate resources, be they lifeboats, coastguard rescue teams, helicopters or other local resources."
The memorial stone bears the names of all 46 former crew and staff.
The decision to retire the service comes despite a campaign and 100,000-signature petition to save it.
It is part of a new restructuring of the MCA that will see a fleet of search and rescue helicopters operate from 10 bases around the UK.
The MCA said it was 15 minutes flying time from Lee-on-Solent, where the new Leonardo AW189 helicopter is based, to Portland.
Heli Operations saved the Portland helicopter base at Osprey Quay last year and it will now be used as a refuelling facility.
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Officers want to speak to three people who may be able to provide more information about the incident.
The 44-year-old driver needed hospital treatment and is recovering at home.
The incident happened at the bus stop on Queen Street at about 17:00 BST on 3 May and Gwent Police has appealed for witnesses.
Papers leaked from the law firm detailed how the world's rich and powerful used it to shield money from taxation in their home countries.
The FCA said it had written to the firms earlier this week.
Banking giants, including HSBC, deny they help clients to avoid tax.
HSBC, Credit Suisse and the Royal Bank of Scotland-owned Coutts Trustees all feature in the leaked Panama Papers.
The revelations in the papers are based on more than 11 million documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca.
They name lenders said to have helped to set up structures making it hard for tax officials to pinpoint money flows.
They also name institutions alleged to have helped firms that were subject to international sanctions.
In a statement, the FCA said: "The FCA has written to a number of firms about this issue, including those on our Systematic Anti-Money Laundering Programme, and we are working closely with a number of other agencies who are also looking at this.
"As part of our responsibility to ensure the integrity of the UK financial markets we require all authorised firms to have systems and controls in place to mitigate the risk that they might be used to commit financial crime."
The neural network was trained on a dataset of one million photos and one million recipes.
The trial model worked best on desserts and found smoothies and sushi more challenging, the researchers said.
The team has released an online trial although it is not a finished product.
When tested by the BBC, recipes that were generated based on a picture of spaghetti bolognese included "Italian tomato sauce" and "gunk on noodles".
A photo of a Black Forest gateau yielded "chocolate mocha cake" and "frozen grasshopper squares" - both of which looked similar to the image uploaded - and it successfully identified a hot dog.
"In computer vision, food is mostly neglected because we don't have the large-scale datasets needed to make predictions," said MIT researcher Yusuf Aytar.
"But seemingly useless photos on social media can actually provide valuable insight into health habits and dietary preferences."
The team will be presenting their paper at a conference in Honolulu later this month.
Previous models by other researchers have not used such a large data bank.
In the future the system could be developed to include how a food is prepared and could also be adapted to provide nutritional information, MIT said.
Artificial intelligence expert Calum Chace, author of The Economic Singularity, said the system was an interesting use of deep learning.
"It's an example of how machines can not only do things that humans cannot, but they perceive the world very differently from us," he told the BBC.
"Just as AlphaGo showed the world's best Go players whole new ways of looking at the game they had spent their lives mastering, this system will enable us to see the very food we eat in a different way."
In May 2017 Google's DeepMind AlphaGo artificial intelligence defeated the world's number one Go player Ke Jie, who was reduced to tears.
Following its success, AlphaGo was retired, with DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis saying it had achieved its objective.
The 61-year-old, who played Toby Ziegler, tweeted the phrase after seeing it being used as part of protests against Donald Trump.
As a result news outlets in the US and elsewhere began trying to explain the term to their audience.
After the actor's intervention the term began trending across the world.
Mr Schiff said his attention was first drawn to the word bawbag when he saw it appear in coverage of global protests at the American election result.
He told BBC Scotland that led to tweets in his newsfeed from people in the UK.
He said: "The Scottish ones had great words on their posters and I was like 'what is that?'
"I think I tweeted something like 'what the hell does that mean?'
"And then someone started sending me definitions of everything."
"I said 'I love that word - what the heck is that?'"
Mr Schiff said one of his Twitter followers suggested a hashtag using the phrase.
He added: "I went 'let it be so' and that's how it began - and why it went so viral so quickly - it became number one trend in the UK - Scotland first - and then the UK - and then I think a top 10 tweet here in America and Australia.
"It was a fun diversion that also contributed to the great unifying feeling that was spreading around the world and was quite remarkable.
"I think most Americans were like me, like 'what is that word and where did it come from?'"
The actor described said the Scots as "fun-loving" and said the term bawbag was taken differently from an American insult.
He said: "I wouldn't use a standard American insult, but the Scots are so fun-loving about it.
"I think that's the spirit of it and means it isn't as damaging as it otherwise might be. It's not meant in any other way except as a unifying fun thing.
"We need to laugh. It's one of the reasons [behind] the Scottish word as a hashtag."
Mr Schiff said he had been sent numerous definitions of Scottish colloquial words and that he had developed a love of the vocabulary.
He also said that he had been inundated with invitations to come to Scotland and intended to visit the Edinburgh Festival and some of the country's golf courses, although not those owned by Mr Trump.
Live period music and a banquet prepared in the Tudor kitchen are just some of the activities being held later to mark the event.
Actors will also be performing palace stories throughout the day.
Declared a palace in 1530 by Henry VIII, the London building has hosted William Shakespeare.
Rebuilt under the orders of Cardinal Wolsey in 1515, the palace also hosted the religious conference which led to the creation of the King James Bible.
Deborah Shaw, from Hampton Court Palace, said the site had always been used to make a statement.
"It was a real bling palace. It was a place to show off for... first of all for Wolsey when he started rebuilding it," she said.
"He was on the European stage as a cardinal and he had to have a place to entertain ambassadors and obviously the king, and of course the king, Henry the VIII, loved it so much that he got Wolsey to rather obligingly hand it over."
Celebrations will culminate in a party this evening where the historic palace's south facade will be lit up with animation and music displaying its 500-year history, ending with a 25-minute light show.
Thousands of young people have been recruited to contribute to an animated film covering the history of the palace. Workshops have been held at the venue since February.
Hampton Court Palace has hosted many royal honeymoons, meetings between Elizabeth I and her suitors and a performance from Handel.
It is the place where Jane Seymour died, where Charles I was imprisoned and where William III suffered a fatal accident.
Or, less extravagantly - two tramps fighting in a ditch over a broken watch, which neither knows how to mend.
Whoever wins Labour's leadership contest will have to find a way to fix a couple of problems quite outside their grand, old-fashioned ideological clash.
That's the trouble with civil wars. The grandchildren end up fighting their grandparents' battles, with just as much passion but only a dim echo of relevance.
Of course Owen Smith's pitch is that he's a smarter, slicker version of Jeremy Corbyn, but there's no doubt how the forces line up.
The battle for the soul of the left has existed as long as socialist parties themselves. But originally it was about means, not ends - revolution or the parliamentary path.
Eventually rejection of revolution encompassed a rejection of its aims as well. Out went state control of the economy and in came an acceptance that social democratic parties would curb capitalism, not replace it - methodism, not Marx.
Fast forward to Labour in the 1980s and the latest incarnation of the struggle - the campaign to expel the Trotskyist Militant Tendency from the Labour Party.
Fast forward even further to Tony Blair's triumph, leaving the hard left broken and the sentimental Clause Four scrapped. Only bitter old-fashioned remnants clinging to the wreckage of Marxism remained, only a few people like Mr Corbyn still waving a tattered red banner.
But Mr Blair's New Labour shattered on the rock of Iraq, then broke under the weight of 2008's financial crisis.
Many on the left felt his enthusiastic embrace of military liberal interventionism vindicated their opposition to what they've always called imperialism.
The economic crisis of 2008 left social democratic parties all over the West stranded, their central promise to moderate the market broken.
It made the radical left's attack on what it calls "neoliberalism" look a lot more pertinent than it had for decades.
But its critique is not - on the whole - matched by equally sharp policy prescriptions. So two discredited ideologies fight out old battles, while the world changes around them at a dizzying pace.
The left is cock-a-hoop to be in charge through a series of accidents and is relishing the battle with the establishment.
You might almost feel this is what these long-term revolutionaries live for - the struggle, not the sometimes bitter and hard-to-swallow fruits of victory. (Ask Greece's Syriza party about that.)
The right dismisses the youthful enthusiasts questing for radical change to the way we live as "Trots" or "tankies".
One senior MP told me there was no place in the party for the likes of them - to me echoes of the old machine politics of the one-party town hall when people were told they could not join because the Labour Party was "full".
Most shy away from fresh thinking - they just want back the power they had under Gordon Brown and Mr Blair.
If people seem disillusioned with politics as usual, a rerun of the classic 1980s sitcom "Marxist v moderates" may not appeal.
It doesn't make the dispute irrelevant, but it makes their solutions, on both sides, feel piecemeal and outdated.
For Labour faces two big, practical challenges about which neither the left nor the right have much to say.
Both are facets of the politics of identity and nationalism.
The first is what to do about the question at the heart of Brexit - immigration.
Many one-time Labour working class supporters - perhaps those who defected to UKIP - voted to leave the EU specifically to curb immigration. Theresa May obviously thinks she can turn many of these into Conservative voters.
The trouble for Labour is that many in the other half of its grand coalition feel bereft by Brexit, mournful in their belief that their country has taken a nasty turn into a little England where foreigners are not welcome.
It will be a tactical question too, if the government fails to meet people's expectations. There's plenty of anecdotal evidence whether from celebrity chefs or Gujarati heritage authors that some voters expected all "European" or "brown" people to be sent packing.
While countering this sort of rhetoric is easy for Labour, the rest is not.
Broadly the party has two choices - educate or accept. Either confront those who dislike immigration and tell them they are wrong, or accept their arguments are right and fight for a particular system of control.
Opting for either will split the party along new fracture lines.
The other problem is Scotland. Whether Labour is led by Mr Smith, Mr Corbyn, Clem Attlee reincarnated or Joe Broon, they won't get to be the next Government without winning Scotland back or forming an alliance with the Scottish National Party.
Given that the former is a very long and rocky road indeed, it means the later will be a big question at the next general election.
There's a fair bit of evidence that the possibility of a pact with the SNP did for Ed Miliband - even though he dismissed it - and the Conservative adverts showing the then Labour leader in the pocket of then SNP leader Alex Salmond worked.
Acknowledging the possibility of a deal could be deadly both in England and Scotland - dismissing it would suggest a lack of ambition to rule and a lose grasp on reality.
These look to me like unsolvable conundrums, but it would be worth anyone who wants to be Labour leader grappling with these central questions, rather than indulge in rerunning the battles of a past century.
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Khalid Mahmood says the existence of a specialist group might encourage people to report hate crimes formally instead of on social media.
The group would include representatives from West Midlands Police and Birmingham City Council.
Police have stressed there has been no rise in hate crime in the region since the EU referendum.
Mr Mahmood, MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, said: "We need to work properly to be able to ensure all the community is safe.
"By setting up this group people can report directly to the police instead of going through other social media avenues."
While some areas of the country have seen a sharp rise in reports of hate crime in the wake of the referendum, West Midlands Police says there has been no obvious rise in incidents.
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire presenter Trish Adudu revealed she had been racially abused in the street by a man who told her to "go home".
An arson attack on a Walsall halal butchers was found not to be a racial hate crime after initial investigations.
Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Jeremy Corbyn went head to head in Nuneaton, a marginal seat Labour failed to win at the election.
One audience member asked them to compare themselves with "successful" SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon.
The new leader will be announced at a special conference on 12 September.
A series of live and televised hustings will be held over the coming weeks.
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said the first debate was "incredibly important", especially as it took place in a seat Labour had hoped to win but "went backwards".
Mr Burnham the bookies' favourite, sought to cast himself as the candidate from outside the "Westminster bubble", and said: "Your accent shouldn't stop you getting anywhere."
When the shadow health secretary said the "party comes first", Ms Kendall interjected to say: "No, the country comes first."
Ms Kendall said she would be a candidate with no "baggage", and said Labour had not been trusted with the public finances.
Ms Cooper said she made no apology for having run a government department, while Mr Corbyn, the left-wing MP who narrowly made it onto the ballot just before the deadline, said people had had enough of "personality politics".
"They want something which is much more about movement politics," he added.
Asked to compare herself with Ms Sturgeon, Ms Cooper said it would be "fantastic to smash the final glass ceiling" and appoint a female leader. But she declined to endorse Ms Kendall if she was not successful just so Labour would have a woman in charge.
The often-hostile questioners included a fireman who turned to UKIP as a protest vote and a man who raised immigration concerns and told the candidates: "You live in a different world to me."
After a woman in the audience attacked the "sense of entitlement" of some welfare claimants, Ms Cooper revealed she had spent a year off work sick for a 20 years ago, relying on welfare, and "as a result, I would never say that people who can't work are workshy".
In the final question, the panel were asked if they should be replaced if they are in charge but Labour is looking like losing the 2020 general election.
Some in the party have called for it to be made easier for the leader to be replaced under such circumstances.
Ms Kendall said she agreed: "Because more than anything I want Labour to win so we can change the country".
Mr Corbyn said the leader should be re-elected regularly anyway, while Mr Burnham said "of course" Labour should be able to get rid of a failing leader. "I'm someone with my feet on the ground," he said. Ms Cooper says Labour already has rules to allow a leader change.
Ed Miliband's eventual replacement will be decided by a vote of Labour Party representatives, members and affiliates, to be conducted on a one-member, one-vote basis.
12 August: Deadline for people to join the Labour Party
14 August: Ballot papers sent out by post
10 September: Polling closes at midday
12 September: Winners announced at special conference
27 September: Labour's party conference begins
Nick Davies, his wife Jane Boulter-Davies, and Pierre-Yves Garnier were banned on 10 June, and cannot now hold office until 31 January 2017.
Davies stood down as chief of staff to IAAF president Lord Coe last December.
The IAAF ethics board said more time was needed to "conclude the process".
The provisional suspensions, initially for 180 days, were imposed earlier this year after "careful consideration of the evidence and information available".
That relates to an email reported to have been sent by former IAAF consultant Papa Massata Diack to his father and then IAAF president Lamine Diack in July 2013.
It claimed three staff members were in receipt of, or had knowledge of, a cash payment to withhold details of attempted cover-ups of Russian doping cases.
In December, Davies said he was standing aside "until such time as the ethics board is able to review the matter properly".
Boulter-Davies is employed by the IAAF as a project manager, while Garnier is a medical manager.
Vester Lee Flanagan, 41, an ex-employee of WDBJ7 TV known professionally as Bryce Williams, was in a car that was surrounded by police following a chase.
WDBJ7 TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were killed some seven hours earlier during an interview in the town of Moneta.
The gunman later uploaded a video of himself opening fire at close range.
The White House has urged Congress to rapidly pass gun control laws in the wake of this latest shooting in the US.
What we know so far
Reaction as it happened
Virginia State Police said the suspect's vehicle had been spotted on the Interstate 66 highway following the shooting, and crashed off the road after being pursued by officers.
"Troopers approached the vehicle and found the male driver suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound," the force said in a statement.
He later died in hospital, a police spokesman said.
The Twitter account of Flanagan suggested he had held a grudge against Mr Ward, 27, and Ms Parker, 24.
Police said his utterances on social media the previous evening suggested the attack was pre-planned.
ABC News has meanwhile revealed that it received a 23-page fax, apparently sent by Flanagan on Wednesday morning, in which he claimed his anger had been "building steadily".
The fax said the attack was intended to avenge the Charleston shootings earlier this year - a suspected hate crime in which a white gunman killed nine parishioners at an African-American church.
The rambling fax also complained of racial discrimination, harassment and bullying in the workplace, and professed admiration for the perpetrators of gun massacres at a US school and university.
The attack on the journalists took place at a large shopping centre, Bridgewater Plaza, near Smith Mountain Lake.
Ms Parker was starting a breakfast TV interview about tourism at the shopping centre when suddenly shots rang out, the camera spun and dropped to the ground, and her screams could be heard.
The footage then captured what appeared to be a fleeting image of the gunman, who was wearing black trousers and a blue top - and holding a handgun.
Vester Lee Flanagan/Bryce Williams
What we know about the gunman
The woman who was being interviewed, Vicki Gardner of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, survived the attack and is in a stable condition in hospital following surgery.
Bryce Williams's Twitter and Facebook feeds, which have now been suspended, subsequently showed video shot by the gunman.
They showed him raising a handgun, training it on the trio, and opening fire 14 times. The TV station's own footage of the attack recorded only eight of the shots.
Staff at the TV station, which continued broadcasting after the live report, expressed shock and sadness at the loss of their colleagues.
"Alison and Adam died this morning at 06:45 shortly after the shots rang out," the station's president and general manager, Jeffrey Marks, announced on air.
"I cannot tell you how much they were loved by the WDBJ7 team... our hearts are broken."
He described the suspected killer as "an unhappy man" who was "difficult to work with" and had to be escorted from the TV station by police officers when he was finally dismissed.
A complaint filed against the station with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by the suspect had been dismissed, Mr Marks added.
WDBJ7 anchor Chris Hurst revealed that he and Ms Parker had been in a relationship and had planned to marry.
"We were together almost nine months. It was the best nine months of our lives. We wanted to get married. We just celebrated her 24th birthday.
"She was the most radiant woman I ever met. And for some reason she loved me back. She loved her family, her parents and her brother."
He added that Ms Parker had worked on a regular basis with Mr Ward, and that he was heartbroken for Mr Ward's fiancee, a producer at the station.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest, speaking to reporters, urged the passing of new gun control laws.
"There are some common sense things that only Congress can do that we know would have a tangible impact on reducing gun violence in this country," he said.
Alison Parker
Adam Ward
Who were the two journalists?
No-one was injured but shoppers in a pedestrian zone were forced to dive out of the way in Thursday's incident.
The man was caught by soldiers, who found knives, a non-lethal gun and a substance which a bomb disposal team had to deal with in the car.
It came a day after four people were killed in an attack involving a high-speed car in London.
The vehicle hit many people on Westminster bridge near the Houses of Parliament before the driver got out. He was shot dead after fatally stabbing a police officer.
Witnesses in Belgium told the BBC that it was only because the London attack was on their minds that they had been alert enough to jump out of the way.
The Belgium suspect has been identified as 39-year-old "Mohamed R", a French resident and Tunisian national.
He was charged with "an attempt to murder in a terrorist manner, an attempt to hit and wound in a terrorist manner and arms infractions", the federal prosecutor's office said.
When detained the man was "under the influence of something", sources said, but AFP news agency reported that it was not clear what substance.
He was not in a state to be questioned by police until Friday, sources told AFP.
Following the suspected attack, Antwerp Mayor Bart de Wever thanked Antwerp citizens, police and rapid response team "who arrested the suspect in a professional manner and may have avoided much worse that way".
Just two days earlier, Belgium marked the first anniversary of the attacks in Brussels airport and a metro station, which killed 32 people and left more than 300 wounded.
Security has been tightened in the centre of Antwerp, a port city that sits on the northern border with the Netherlands.
He was found outside Park View Apartments in Harold's Cross at about 04:00 local time on Saturday.
He was taken to hospital where he died on Sunday morning.
Police said a man in his early 40s had been arrested in connection with the assault. They have appealed to anyone who might have witnessed it to come forward.
The Sutton Trust says Oxbridge should simplify the process to help those from schools and homes not familiar with it.
The universities accused the trust of making "unjustified criticisms" and perpetuating "common myths".
The report comes after David Cameron warned top institutions they needed to do more to tackle social inequality.
The Sutton Trust says would-be undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge have to undergo different interviews, tests and written assessments depending on the course and college to which they are applying.
"Both universities evaluate many different aspects of a prospective student's application in great detail," the report, Oxbridge Admissions, says.
"But this means that there is significant complexity in the admissions system to both universities, which can seem off-putting to students unfamiliar with the process who may have little support from their schools."
It also warns that interviews "can be intimidating for young people, not least to those who have not had significant preparation and support to prepare".
The Sutton Trust report highlights a number of issues it says make the current admissions procedure complicated. For example:
The Sutton Trust report comes just days after Cambridge University announced would-be undergraduates would have to sit written tests as part of the application process.
The university said the aim was to maintain fairness during changes to the qualification system in England.
Responding to the report, a spokesman for Cambridge University said the university had worked closely with the Sutton Trust to widen participation.
"We are therefore disappointed that this report demonstrates a lack of understanding of our admissions process and makes a series of incorrect and unjustified criticisms and recommendations," he said.
"We have a proven track record of improving access. We are committed to widening participation whilst maintaining high academic standards.
"We continually review our admissions processes and the effectiveness of our extensive widening participation work."
A spokeswoman for Oxford University said: "We are disappointed that one of our longstanding access partners is actively perpetuating some of the most common myths about how the selection process works.
"These myths are a fundamental barrier to Oxford's access work, and only reinforce perceptions that deter exactly those candidates we try hardest to encourage to apply."
She said Oxford was committed to transparency and self-scrutiny and reviewed its selection criteria and admissions policies on an "ongoing basis".
"Oxford is interested not just in demonstrated ability but academic potential, and admissions tutors carefully consider not just candidates' achievements but the context in which they occur when making offers," she said.
Sir Peter Lampl, who chairs the Sutton Trust, said: "Our surveys and experience suggest that many bright state school students are put off by the application process, which is both intimidating and complex.
"Specifically, we believe that the universities rather than the colleges should control the admissions policies and interviews.
"The numbers of additional exams and tests should be reviewed, again to avoid advantaging those who gain from extra tuition and support.
"More should be done to consider contextual admissions, recognising how much harder it can be for a bright student in a tough inner city school than in a successful private or state school."
The Berriedale Braes were the scene of a lorry fire on 5 August which blocked the road for five hours. A 77-mile (124 km) detour was unsuitable for HGVs.
The SCC said accidents were a "frequent occurrence" and adversely affected businesses in the far north and Orkney.
Transport Scotland said a solution to the hairpin was being progressed.
The A9 drops from 150m (492ft) to 20m (65ft) as it enters a valley at the Berriedale Braes.
The A9 provides a link to the far north mainland coast and the ferry services at Scrabster, Gills Bay and John O'Groats to Orkney.
The fire earlier this month destroyed the lorry's tractor unit and trailer, which was carrying rubbish. No-one was injured.
The A9 was closed in both directions between the A897 Dunrobin Street junction and the A99 junction in Latheron.
The diversion put in place was only open to cars.
Liz Cameron, SCC chief executive, said: "On this occasion, HGVs were forced to turn back altogether as the diverted route was not suitable for HGV traffic, accounting for about one in 10 vehicles on the road.
"It is simply unacceptable that road users, businesses, and communities not only in Caithness but also in Orkney, face this level and frequency of disruption to their lives and livelihoods."
She added: "The adverse economic effects of these road closures and detours on businesses in Caithness are significant.
"But with the required investment to upgrade this part of the A9 estimated at approximately £2.5m, a fraction of the overall £3bn set aside for the A9 upgrade programme south of Inverness, this economic disruption could be substantially reduced at a relatively low cost to the taxpayer."
The design of the preferred option for tackling Berriedale Braes was published by Transport Scotland in April.
An outline of the final scheme should be released later this year.
A Transport Scotland spokesman said: "While the decision to close roads rests with Police Scotland, we are tackling the particular challenges at Berriedale Braes as a matter of urgency.
"The A9 is a vital arterial route connecting communities across Scotland and we are pressing ahead with unprecedented investment in its upgrade.
"We also appreciate the significant challenges to road users, in particular HGV's, in negotiating the hairpin bend at Berriedale Braes."
Victor Zamora told local media that he had lost everything. "It's a tragedy," he said.
Ten people lost their lives, 19 are missing and hundreds lost their homes in floods in the Atacama desert region, one of the driest places on earth.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has described the situation as bleak.
She said many villages remained isolated and needed urgent help.
President Bachelet said it was likely the number of dead would increase as many people remain unaccounted for.
The storms, which began on Tuesday evening, have cut off roads, caused power cuts and severed communications.
Mr Zamora said the floods came when everyone was asleep. He said he was only able to get away with a few things.
"Me and my neighbours are trying to help each other," he said.
Flash floods in the Atacama region turned riverbeds that had been dry for years into torrents.
Residents scrambled onto the roofs of their homes or fled to high ground to escape the floodwaters, as streets turned into rivers that swept up everything in their path.
Many mines in the major copper producing area have temporarily suspended production.
The floods come as southern Chile struggles with huge wildfires made worse by a severe drought.
The Magpies had a five-point lead at the top of the Championship in November, but are now second and have lost four of their last eight matches.
Benitez told BBC Newcastle: "I don't think we need to rectify anything, we need to try and do the same things.
"We will encourage the players to play with the same confidence, intensity, ability and same spirit."
Newcastle have lost two of their last three games to Sheffield Wednesday and Blackburn Rovers, with victory over 10-man Nottingham Forest sandwiched in between.
And Benitez says the club are hoping to make use of the transfer window in the coming weeks.
"We know the areas we want to improve and we will try to find something if possible," added Benitez.
"January is not an easy market, but we are working to see if we can find something which is better."
First-period goals from Abbie Russell and Sorcha Clarke set UCD on their way to victory at Queen's.
Deidre Duke's fine reverse stick finish made it 3-0 before Katie Mullan added the fourth.
Hermes-Monkstown are a point behind UCD after beating third-placed Cork Harlequins 4-3 while Ulster Elks lost 1-0 to Railway Union to remain bottom.
Monkstown have a game in hand on UCD with the two sides still to play each other as well.
The league's top scorer Anna O'Flanagan helped herself to two more goals with Nikki Evans and Ellen Curran also finding the net for Monkstown.
Railway Union moved above Pegasus and into fifth place after Niamh Carey scored the only goal of the game at Jordanstown as the Dublin side beat Ulster Elks 1-0.
The Elks remain rooted to the bottom of the table and a point behind Pembroke Wanderers, who lost 3-0 to Loreto.
The team that finishes last will be relegated to their provincial league next season while the side that finishes ninth must face a promotion/relegation play-off.
The result also sees Loreto strengthen their grip on fourth place and the final place in the play-offs.
In Friday night's game a Chloe Brown goal from a penalty corner in the final minute was enough to give Ards a 1-0 win over Belfast Harlequins that keeps alive their outside chances of making the top four.
There was just the one rearranged game in the men's IHL as Monkstown beat Railway Union 3-2, which leaves a five-point gap between Railway and Instonians at the bottom of the table, but the Belfast side have two games in hand.
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.
The 53-year-old Scot replaced Paul Lambert at Ewood Park on a two-year deal after he left his role with Major League Soccer side Houston Dynamo.
There has been some negative reaction to the ex-Burnley manager's arrival, with a petition set up against him.
"I'm not naive in any respect. I understand opinion, people will have an opinion about me," said Coyle.
He told BBC Radio Lancashire: "I would suggest if Jose Mourinho came in here there would have been some fans that were not happy about him, so that's not making light of it.
"I certainly understand that local rivalry and everything that goes with it, then it might be a bit more dividing of people. All I would say is when you come along, come and support your team, get behind your team because that is the key.
"I've been in the game long enough to understand those opinions."
The Lancashire "Cotton Mill" derby between Blackburn and Burnley is considered to be one of the most passionate in England, with just 14 miles separating the two founder members of the Football League.
Coyle won promotion to the Premier League in 2009 with the Clarets before his move to Bolton halfway through the following season.
"Of course there's that rivalry, I understand that, I get that," added Coyle. "But this is an unbelievable job at a fantastic club.
"People will have their opinion but that doesn't alter the fact that it has got an outstanding supporter base and it's up to us to give those fans something to shout about on the field.
"Of course you weigh up everything, but it's a great opportunity to move forward."
The East of England Co-op intended to have the offer at just one shop, in Clacton, starting last Wednesday.
However, computers introduced it at the checkouts of 140 stores across Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.
The error was corrected a day later, but not before the company had lost about £43,000 in revenue.
Shopper Noel Galer spotted something was up when he went to one of the stores at Martham near Great Yarmouth.
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"The checkout assistant noticed my surprise and said they seemed to have a computer fault which was knocking 20% off everything that was going through and they weren't sure whether it was just their shop or not," he said.
"It's always been said that to err is human, but to really mess things up you need a computer and this is a perfect example."
Roger Grosvenor, retail officer for the Co-op, said he was "flabbergasted" because nothing like it had happened before.
"It went viral and we were aware of the problem within an hour and a bit, but I just wanted to know the extent and cause of the problem.
"Unfortunately the computers at our Ipswich headquarters didn't want to play ball, so it took a day and a half to get us back on song.
"No-one's in trouble - it was an honest mistake."
The Co-op said sales were up 4% on the days of the discount, but officials had yet to analyse the figures to see if this was due to the mistake or simply down to the run-up to Christmas.
The 20% discount will continue at the supermarket on Bull Hill Road in Clacton, where it will run until 31 December when the store closes for good.
The offer only applied to cans, bottles and packets, not alcohol, tobacco or fresh food.
Households where at least one person earns more than £50,000 will have the benefit reduced or stopped.
Officials say it means as many as 500,000 parents may have to complete self-assessment tax forms. A flood of calls for advice is expected.
Ministers say the changes, which take effect on 7 January, are needed to help the deficit reduction plan.
However, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg described the coalition's plan as an "excruciatingly difficult decision".
Mr Clegg told an audience that "we don't expect them to welcome this" and he admitted that many of the families who would lose out were "people who do not feel wealthy".
Letters will be sent to people who earn more than £50,000 who live at an address where child benefit is received to explain how their family is likely to be affected.
Alison Garton and husband Rod have a three-year-old daughter called Megan.
They live in Sittingbourne in Kent and owing to the new rules are set to lose most of their child benefit.
"We live in one of the most expensive parts of the country, meaning that our income just about supports a mortgage on this type of property," said Mrs Garton, 41.
She believes that there is a lack of fairness in the way the changes will come into force.
The benefit money that was used to pay for nappies, and now clothes and shoes, will not be replaced.
"I work part-time in London, but my salary just supports my train fare. I work because the government is encouraging us to go back to work," she said.
"I don't think the system is fair, we pay in a lot, but get very little in return."
The letter says:
"If these changes apply to you or your partner, you should jointly decide whether to:
Child benefit currently stands at £20.30 a week for the first child and £13.40 for each child after that.
Under the new approach, families where one parent earns between £50,000 and £60,000 will have their benefit reduced on a sliding scale, and will only lose the benefit entirely when earning over £60,000.
The change will cost families with three children and at least one parent earning more than £60,000 about £2,450 a year - the equivalent of a £4,000 pay cut.
And it will produce anomalies, such as in the case of two-earner households where both parents earn £49,000.
They will keep all their benefit, while others who have one parent on £60,000 and the other staying at home will lose all of theirs.
However, the details mean that people earning between £50,000 and £60,000 will benefit from some child benefit - so are likely not to want to cancel it entirely.
This means that hundreds of thousands of parents will have to complete a self-assessment tax form.
Q&A: Child benefit changes
Accountants say they expect calls from people confused by the change, or looking to avoid losing benefit by legal means, for example, making additional pension contributions.
Meanwhile, senior Conservatives have released poll results that suggest 82% of the public support plans to cut child benefit for high-earning families, while 13% oppose it.
Populus surveyed 2,066 British adults between 24 and 26 October.
A Treasury spokesman, responding to the poll, said: "In a period when the government is having to reduce welfare spending, it is very difficult to justify continuing to pay for the child benefit of the wealthiest 15% of families in society.
"The unprecedented scale of the deficit has meant that the government has had to make tough choices to reduce public spending; but we have always been clear that those with the broadest shoulders should carry the greatest burden."
The spokesman added that 85% of all families with children would be unaffected by the changes and would continue to receive child benefit in full.
Meanwhile, new guidance has been outlined for families which expect one parent to earn more than £60,000, and so do not claim child benefit, but who subsequently have a fall in income.
They will now be able to claim the benefit retrospectively, which might not have been the case under the original legislation.
"For many people, especially those with fluctuating income or who gain or lose a partner or who do not know which partner has the higher income, this is still going to be difficult. And, of course, for HMRC, who have to administer it all," said Patrick Stevens, president of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
Families told police the gunmen claimed they were community police and took away several young men.
Chilapa has been caught in battles between two rival drug gangs fighting for territorial control.
Local media say the number of disappeared could be much higher.
Last year, 43 students disappeared in another town in Guerrero, Iguala.
The gunmen overran Chilapa between 9 and 14 May, disarming local police and forcing the police chief to leave.
They said they had come to end violence in the city between rival drug gangs Los Rojos and Los Ardillos, and said some police officers were working for Los Rojos.
The gunmen later returned the police weapons.
After they left some residents said the gunmen had been kidnapping and rounding up men. Most of the men were said to be under 30.
Federal prosecutors announced on Thursday they were sending detectives and experts to Chilapa to search for the disappeared.
Also on Thursday, police found at least three dismembered bodies wrapped in blankets in a cemetery near Chilapa. They have not been identified.
Jose Diaz Navarro, who is representing the families of the disappeared, said he had an unofficial report of a far larger group of 30 missing people.
He said some families were afraid to speak out and others had already left the city out of fear.
Budgens in Victoria Road, Mortimer, was damaged in the raid.
Owner Charlie Hills said a 4x4 reversed in to the front of the shop. Nothing of value was stolen due to the security system in place.
He said: "There is a lot of mess but we are clearing up. It's a lot of damage and a lot of trouble for nothing effectively."
Thames Valley Police confirmed the shop was raided between 03:30 and 04:00 GMT.
Mr Hills said: "The community have been fantastic. We have had lots of support."
Robert Leslie McNamara, 24, of Newby Farm Crescent, Scalby, Scarborough, was granted conditional bail at South and East Cheshire Magistrates' Court.
He is alleged to have targeted the footballer's home at about 21:00 BST on 3 August in Prestbury, Cheshire.
The alarm at the ??6m property was reportedly triggered.
Mr McNamara is due to appear at Chester Crown Court on 7 September.
The Rooneys' family home was targeted as the striker, his wife, Coleen, and their three sons, Kai, Klay and Kit, were at the charity tribute game against the Manchester United player's first club, Everton.
The testimonial, which ended 0-0, made history as it was the first game between Premier League teams to be streamed live on Facebook.
Last June, 52.5% of Welsh voters chose to leave while 47.5% wanted to remain.
Mr Williams said speaking up for the remain voters would give a boost to the traditionally pro-EU Lib Dems.
He said that UK voters should have the right to finish the Brexit process through a second referendum on the terms of exit.
Mr Williams, who lost his seat in 2015, told the final day of the party's Welsh spring conference in Swansea on Sunday he had accepted the first referendum's result.
"It's the will of the people," he said.
But he reiterated the party's call for a referendum on the outcome of the Brexit negotiations, saying: "The people of the UK started this process, and I believe the people of the UK should have the right to finish it as well.
"They will want to see what this process has brought for them in terms of their lives, their families, their businesses and of the environment."
Earlier conference delegates passed a motion calling on the UK government to "reconsider its hard Brexit stance" and allow a further referendum.
Prior to his speech, the former Brecon and Radnorshire MP told BBC Wales: "We've found a real vein of support thanks to our response to the hard Brexit proposed by Theresa May."
"Like a lot of elections there will be local issues but it will be the generally positive and supportive mood music that the party has generated that'll lead to a good response on the doorstep.
"Yes there are people who will be determined to leave [the EU] and to have as hard a Brexit as possible, these people we won't convince.
"But there will be a lot of voters who will appreciate us standing up for our values, and wanting to support our candidates."
The Liberal Democrats had ran councils in Cardiff, Swansea Newport and Wrexham but now they do not control any and have only 75 councillors across Wales.
Welsh party leader Mark Williams told BBC Radio Wales "Brexit will happen" - but it could be stopped by a second poll on the negotiations.
"If people reject the plans as presented by the government in a referendum then we are where we are and we are in Europe," he told the Sunday Supplement programme.
He said "Brexit will happen" meant the "Conservative government are going to negotiate a Brexit plan", which it would be held to account over.
Mr Williams is himself hoping to win a seat on Powys council in the local council elections on 4 May.
Delegates also backed a party proposal to call for a tax on take-away food and drink packaging that is not recyclable or part of a deposit return scheme.
The party's environment spokesman, former AM Bill Powell, said: "Clearly this matter resonates with people.
"We need to go out there and make absolutely clear that we're committed to the key principles of a sustainable Wales."
Everton had hardly touched the ball when Austin headed home from point-blank range after an assist from 19-year-old debutant Josh Sims.
Koeman, who was given a mixed reception on his return to the club he left in June, saw his side miss numerous chances to equalise.
The best fell to Idrissa Gueye, but the former Aston Villa midfielder shot over after Seamus Coleman's cut-back.
The win lifts Southampton up to 10th in the Premier League, two points behind seventh-placed Everton.
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Defeat means Everton have won once in eight Premier League games, with Koeman's honeymoon period well and truly over.
In an entertaining game, his side created enough to ensure his return to the club he successfully managed for two seasons would be fruitful.
But Everton tested Saints keeper Fraser Forster just once - a tame 93rd-minute shot by Gareth Barry.
As well as Gueye's wild miss, Barry and Ross Barkley headed great chances over while Yannick Bolasie wasted a further two opportunities in a game during which striker Romelu Lukaku, despite playing the full 90 minutes, had just 35 touches.
It could have been worse for the visitors. Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg hit the outside of the Everton post after the interval, while Maarten Stekelenburg brilliantly kept out Austin's flying header and Phil Jagielka cleared off the line from James Ward-Prowse.
It does not get any easier for Koeman. Three of their next four league games are at home to Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool.
Saints boss Claude Puel sprang a major surprise by naming teenage forward Sims in the side ahead of experienced attacking options Shane Long and Jay Rodriguez.
Sims was selected after impressing for the under-23 side, and the England youth international grasped his chance with a mature and confident display.
He had already had a shot charged down when he lifted the ball into the path of Austin to open the scoring as some fans were still taking their seats.
Sims used his pace to cause Everton's defence problems and, in a display which augurs well for Southampton's future, tested Stekelenburg with a header and a shot from distance.
He also ensured Leighton Baines left with a bruise or two after an over-enthusiastic challenge, before receiving a standing ovation when he was replaced six minutes from the end.
Southampton boss Claude Puel: "It was a very good performance for us because we had a lot of injury problems before the match.
"It was a good game against a good team, it had lovely action and I took pleasure from our chances - it's interesting for the future.
"Josh Sims - for his first Premier League game, I guess it's OK! I am happy for him and the team. He showed very good progress with the under-23s and I thought it would be a good opportunity for him.
"I think it's important to respect the academy here and when we have problems with injuries it's fantastic to be able to start players from the academy."
Everton manager Ronald Koeman: "Our start was really poor because even the kick-off was ours and we lost the ball too fast.
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"I can't complain about our second half but if you don't score, you can't win.
"I wasn't aware of Josh Sims when I was here and he is not my problem - I work for Everton, not Southampton."
After playing in the Europa League last Thursday and the Premier League on Sunday, Southampton now turn their attention to Wednesday's EFL Cup quarter-final at Arsenal (19:45 GMT). Everton have a full week to prepare for Manchester United's visit to Goodison Park next Sunday (16:00 GMT).
Match ends, Southampton 1, Everton 0.
Second Half ends, Southampton 1, Everton 0.
Attempt saved. Gareth Barry (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Yannick Bolasie with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Kevin Mirallas (Everton) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Attempt blocked. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordy Clasie.
Attempt missed. Enner Valencia (Everton) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kevin Mirallas with a cross.
Substitution, Southampton. Shane Long replaces Charlie Austin.
Attempt missed. Enner Valencia (Everton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Seamus Coleman with a cross.
Substitution, Southampton. Sam McQueen replaces Josh Sims.
Ashley Williams (Everton) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Everton. Enner Valencia replaces Leighton Baines.
Attempt blocked. Seamus Coleman (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Mirallas.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Phil Jagielka.
Attempt saved. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.
Cédric Soares (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yannick Bolasie (Everton).
Substitution, Southampton. Jordy Clasie replaces Nathan Redmond.
Romelu Lukaku (Everton) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Charlie Austin.
Attempt saved. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by José Fonte.
Foul by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton).
Yannick Bolasie (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Josh Sims (Southampton).
Leighton Baines (Everton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Nathan Redmond (Southampton).
Seamus Coleman (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Everton. Kevin Mirallas replaces Ross Barkley.
Attempt missed. Yannick Bolasie (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ross Barkley.
Foul by Virgil van Dijk (Southampton).
Phil Jagielka (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Josh Sims (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Phil Jagielka (Everton).
Oriol Romeu (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ross Barkley (Everton).
Substitution, Everton. Gerard Deulofeu replaces Aaron Lennon.
Cédric Soares (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yannick Bolasie (Everton).
Foul by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton).
Switzerland's access to millions of euros of EU funding is now at risk.
A European Commission spokesman said the Horizon 2020 research programme and Erasmus+ student exchanges were linked to freedom of movement.
Switzerland has blocked free access to its employment market for Croatians.
Switzerland is not in the EU but more than half of its exports go to the 28-nation bloc and it has adopted large sections of EU policy.
Horizon 2020 will provide nearly 80bn euros (£65bn; $110bn) over seven years for research projects in the EU.
In the current programme Swiss participants have received more than 1.8bn euros in research grants. The first new grants are to be decided later this year.
Erasmus+ has a budget of 14.7bn euros and enables more than four million young Europeans to study and get work experience abroad.
Like most EU member states Switzerland is also in the Schengen zone, which enables citizens to cross European borders without passport checks.
When Croatia joined the EU last summer Switzerland agreed to grant Croatians the same rights as those enjoyed by other EU workers in Switzerland.
But at the weekend Switzerland said the accord could not be signed "in its current form", after an 8 February referendum invalidated the Swiss-EU pact on freedom of movement.
Swiss voters narrowly backed a proposal to bring back strict quotas for immigration from EU countries.
Referring to Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+, the EU's envoy to Switzerland, Richard Jones, said "there is a link between these agreements and freedom of movement".
In a comment to the AFP news agency, EU Commission spokesman Joe Hennon said that "given the circumstances and in the absence of a clear political signal to do so, upcoming negotiation rounds have been postponed until Switzerland signs" the Croatia deal.
Last month the EU Science Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn praised Switzerland for its success in winning EU research grants.
Ms Geoghegan-Quinn said Swiss research was especially strong in the areas of computer science, health, nanoscience and new production technologies.
Although the Swiss economy is booming and unemployment is low, many Swiss worry about the effects of immigration.
Geraldine Savary, a senior Swiss parliamentarian and socialist, said suspension of Swiss participation in Horizon 2020 would be a "catastrophe" for the country's research, because Switzerland "receives much more today than it puts in".
Speaking to the Swiss public broadcaster RTS, she said that for at least two years "researchers won't be able to submit projects". Swiss scientists in Lausanne and Zurich participating in the EU's Human Brain Project would be among those affected, she warned.
Ms Savary is a science specialist in the Council of States, the Swiss upper house.
Earlier Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga called Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic to tell her Switzerland would not be able to sign the deal extending the right of free access to Switzerland to the EU's newest member state.
Ms Sommaruga also informed Brussels that the agreement needed to be re-examined, her spokesman Philippe Schwander said.
The Swiss referendum had created a "new constitutional disposition", Mr Schwander noted.
He stressed that the justice minister was seeking a "solution" to ensure Croatians were not being discriminated against.
Following the vote, the EU warned it would reassess its relations with Switzerland "as a whole".
A quarter of Switzerland's eight million-strong population is foreign, and last year 80,000 new immigrants arrived.
Since 2007, most of the EU's 500 million residents have been on an equal footing with locals in the Swiss job market - the result of a policy voted into law in a 2000 referendum.
But a coalition led by the right-wing Swiss People's Party has pushed to reverse this deal, calling it "a huge mistake".
Supporters of quotas believe free movement has put pressure on housing, health, education, and transport. They also argue that foreign workers drive salaries down.
The Swiss government and business leaders say free movement is key to Switzerland's economic success, allowing employers to choose skilled staff from across Europe.
The 41-year-old, who led Yorkshire from the second division to consecutive County Championship titles, is returning to his native Australia.
Yorkshire will wait to appoint the successor to Gillespie - who took over in 2011 - after the season ends.
"Jason feels the close season is an appropriate time to part company," a Yorkshire statement said.
Gillespie's wife and their four children have recently returned to Australia, where the former fast bowler also coaches the Adelaide Strikers in Australia's Big Bash Twenty20 competition.
Gillespie's last match in charge will be the Division One match against Middlesex starting on 20 September, which could decide the County Championship title.
Second-placed Yorkshire, aiming to win three titles in a row for the first time since 1968, are just five points behind Middlesex with four matches left.
Both of Yorkshire's limited-overs campaigns in 2016 ended in semi-final defeats. They lost to Durham in the T20 Blast, and on Sunday lost to Surrey in the One-Day Cup.
In May last year, Gillespie held talks with England's director of cricket Andrew Strauss over replacing the sacked Peter Moores as national coach, before the role eventually went to Australian Trevor Bayliss.
Gillespie was also linked with a coaching role with Australia earlier this summer and revealed he met head coach Darren Lehmann, but said at the time he was not offered a job and "wouldn't be applying for a role" either.
Yorkshire and England fast bowler Liam Plunkett told BBC Sport: "I'm sure it's a tough decision for him. He's a family man. Maybe that's one of the reasons why he's leaving is he wants to be with his family."
The 22-year-old has been criticised for making costly mistakes since a £47m move to Manchester City from Everton.
But his former Everton manager Martinez - now boss at Belgium - says he should not be under so much pressure.
"You're talking about one of the best footballing centre-halves in European football - but that's potential," the Spaniard told BBC Radio 5 live.
"We're very, very quick to judge people and not to understand that he's still a very young man, probably ahead of where he should be."
He added young centre-halves were "rare" - and so was the number of managers willing to play youngsters in such an important position.
"You're the last man and when you make a mistake in those areas you are going to get punished," Martinez explained.
In last week's Premier League game against Leicester City, Stones played a back-pass to Foxes striker Jamie Vardy, who rounded the goalkeeper and scored.
The defender was then left out of Manchester City's starting line-up for their midweek win against Watford.
"He's someone who needs to learn many aspects of his play," Martinez said.
"The value in the market proves to me he's got the potential to be one of the best centre-halves in Europe but he's not ready yet - his decision making, he needs to learn certain aspects to make sure he doesn't make mistakes in areas you don't get away with in football."
Martinez also expects another of his former Everton players, midfielder Ross Barkley, to come good.
The 23-year-old has been in and out of the Everton side under new boss Ronald Koeman but Martinez said: "The first time I took my first session at Everton I saw a player that could do things I've very rarely seen players do. Ross Barkley has a special natural talent and I'm sure he'll come through and show his real potential."
Since taking over the Belgium national team in August, Martinez has guided the Red Devils to four wins from four 2018 World Cup qualifying matches - scoring 21 goals and conceding just one in the process.
He was appointed only three months after getting sacked by Everton, where he had spent three years.
Martinez led Everton to fifth in the Premier League in his first season and Europa League qualification.
Last season the Merseysiders appeared in the semi-finals of both domestic cup competitions - but he lost his job with the Toffees lying mid-table in the Premier League with five home wins all season.
Martinez says he accepts results were not good enough to keep him in a job given the short-term demands of the modern game, but added: "I will always treasure my memories as an Everton manager - reaching the Europa League, getting 72 points, and then last campaign we were so so close to getting to the finals of both domestic cups.
"I still get satisfaction with our long-term project that we had in hand, seeing players that we invested in heavily, giving them big roles like the level of investment in young players like John Stones, Ross Barkley and Romelu Lukaku, that they have taken the football club to a different level."
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Wales will elect four MEPs on 22 May.
In 2009, the Conservatives, Labour, Plaid Cymru and UKIP each won a Welsh seat in the European Parliament.
David Cameron celebrated on the steps of the Senedd, as it was the first time Labour had been beaten into second place in a national election in Wales since 1918.
In European elections the votes are spread widely between the parties, so the Tories were able to top the poll with 21.2% of the vote, up 1.8% on the previous election.
The real story was what a disaster the vote was for Labour, down a massive 12.2% to 20.3%.
The then Labour First Minister Rhodri Morgan blamed the recession, the MPs' expenses scandal - that was at its height - and "perception" of divisions within the party.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown was under fire from Labour MPs, including some in his cabinet, who feared he was unlikely to lead them to victory in the next general election.
But back to this European election, and the latest polling we have by YouGov for ITV Wales, published in February.
It put Labour on 39%, UKIP on 18%, the Conservatives had 17%, Plaid Cymru 12% and the Liberal Democrats 7%, with a margin of error of plus or minus three per cent.
If repeated next month, it suggests Labour could win two seats, with UKIP and the Conservatives having a Welsh MEP each and Plaid Cymru losing out.
Of course, this was just one snap shot poll of about 1,200 people, it was back in February, these things are very fluid and turnout is likely to have a big influence on the outcome in May.
Having said that, it does help explain the motivation behind Plaid leader Leanne Wood's attack on UKIP at her party's conference.
At a UK level, of course, a UKIP victory over the Conservatives could make Tory MPs more concerned about their general election prospects.
They could, in turn, make things that much more difficult for David Cameron on matters European.
Once the MEPs are in place, campaigning for September's independence referendum in Scotland will be entering its final months, with potentially huge implications for both Scotland and the rest of the UK.
The Yes campaigners might previously have been dismissed as no hopers, but the polls have been narrowing and there is increasing nervousness within the pro-Union Better Together team.
Were Scotland to vote to leave the United Kingdom, we would then be set for a very strange general election in 2015.
Scottish MPs would face the prospect of having a limited lifespan on the green benches.
They could hardly remain in the House of Commons if Scotland were no longer part of the UK.
One scenario would be for parliament to be dissolved once Scotland became independent, and for an early general election to be held.
But what if Ed Miliband was prime minister with a majority of, say, 30 seats?
There are currently 41 Scottish Labour MPs, would he want to face an election in which his prospects of returning to power would be so diminished?
Might Labour be more likely to soldier on as a minority administration, with the opposition happy to leave a weakened government in place rather than force a vote of no confidence?
And, under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, an election no longer automatically follows a government losing a confidence vote.
MPs would first have 14 days to form a new administration that could command their confidence.
And voters could possibly punish parties who had voted out a government without being able to replace it themselves.
According to the SNP's timetable, a successful Yes vote would mean an independent Scotland in March 2016.
Were that to be the case, it would be a pretty fevered political scenario for the Welsh assembly election due two months later.
The goings on at Westminster traditionally have a big influence on other elections here in Wales, just like the last European poll, and so the ramifications of Scottish independence for MPs could have all sorts of implications for voting patterns in the assembly election.
It is something of an understatement to say we might just be in for an interesting couple of years in UK and Welsh politics.
The results of the European elections won't be known until the Sunday night, after the UK poll on 22 May, to allow time for the rest of the EU to vote.
There will be full coverage across the BBC.
The bronze statue will be of Whelan holding the FA Cup which the Latics won in 2013 by beating Manchester City.
It will be unveiled at a free event on his birthday - Thursday, 24 November.
"We feel it will be a great tribute to him and the legacy which he has created for the town of Wigan," said chairman David Sharpe, Whelan's grandson.
Whelan bought Wigan in 1995 when they were in the fourth tier of English football (then called Division Three) and his huge investment, including the building of the DW Stadium, saw them reach the Premier League in 2005.
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