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The 15-year-old from Liverpool was found dead at his home in Fazakerley in November 2014.
A fundraising campaign set up in his memory has already raised more than £3,000 for a cancer care charity.
Liverpool Lighthouse will record a CD with young musicians in support of that campaign.
The urban gospel arts centre, based in Anfield, works with disaffected young people in the area.
Erick Maina was described as a committed Christian who loved charity work and "just wanted to help others".
Floral tributes were left for him by residents and neighbours following his death.
Matt Moreton, from Liverpool Lighthouse, said: "Erick loved music and supporting people and had a particular passion for supporting Marie Curie and we wanted to reflect this whilst giving young people a chance to develop their own skills and experiences in the music industry.
"Musicians and bands of all styles and abilities are welcome to take part. We will make rehearsal space available so they can prepare themselves for their time in the recording studio."
An open day is being held on Wednesday for musicians to sign up to the project.
The CD will be recorded in the Lighthouse recording studio next week.
The agreement will mean continued support for the C-130Js until 2022, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
Marshall, which was founded in 1909, are specialists in servicing transport planes.
RAF Hercules aircraft are used to carry troops, supplies and equipment in support of military operations.
More on this story and others from Cambridgeshire
The MoD describes the Hercules as "one of RAF's workhorses" and a "vital part of its transport fleet".
As part of the six-year contract work will also be undertaken by Lockheed Martin and its sub-contractors at sites in Havant, Stansted and Cheltenham.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: "It (the contract) will secure around 1,200 skilled jobs and ensure our essential RAF transport aircraft are prepared for operations for years to come."
The contract will focus on servicing the 24 RAF C-130J-type Hercules planes following the retirement of the C-130K planes.
Protesters predicted their biggest rally yet to demand the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Mr Saleh told a rally of his own supporters he was ready to hand over power, but only to "safe hands".
Soldiers fired in the air to hold back Saleh loyalists when they tried to march on the opposition rally.
In his speech, the president - who has been in office for more than three decades - condemned bloodshed but also urged his supporters to "stand firm".
He earlier denied that government forces had played any part in the shooting of demonstrators last week.
Amnesty International has warned the government against any further use of "deadly force", saying: "The government cannot just shoot its way out of this crisis."
Yemen, the Arab world's most impoverished nation, is a key ally in the US-led fight against al-Qaeda, which has established a strong presence there.
Two recent bomb plots against US targets - two American cargo planes in October and a Detroit-bound airliner in December 2009 - originated in Yemen.
Both the government and opposition have set up checkpoints in Sanaa and the streets are full of armed men.
There is real fear of a new confrontation, a BBC correspondent reports from the city.
By Damien McGuinnessBBC News, Sanaa
Mr Saleh is clearly running out of things he can offer the opposition but he still has plenty of military might and he has vowed to protect himself.
His speech on Friday was rather vague. He has offered to step down before, so it still looks like a stalemate.
The Western concern is that any chaos could be exploited by al-Qaeda, which has a presence in Yemen.
The opposition are calling the new rally a Friday of Departure but one student activist told me that Friday of Uncertainty would be more appropriate.
According to an AFP news agency report, Friday's crowds number in the hundreds of thousands.
President Saleh, dressed in a smart suit and sunglasses, took the microphone before a huge crowd.
"We don't want power but we need to hand power over to safe hands, not to sick, resentful or corrupt hands," he said.
"We are against firing a single bullet and when we give concessions, this is to ensure there is no bloodshed," he added.
"We will remain steadfast and challenge them with all power we have."
Some Saleh loyalists were carrying guns and waving traditional Yemeni daggers at Friday's rally, Reuters news agency reports.
Others rode motorbikes with large posters of Mr Saleh affixed to them, waving flags and playing patriotic music.
"No to chaos, yes to security and stability," banners read.
Mr Saleh has said the unrest risks taking Yemen into civil war. Several senior officials have left his side to go to the opposition.
In another part of the city, on a square near the university where protesters have been camped out since February, tens of thousands gathered for an anti-Saleh demonstration.
An Associated Press news agency report estimated that the crowd there was bigger than the rally in support of the president, despite attempts by the authorities to restrict access to the city centre.
Demonstrators chanted slogans calling for Mr Saleh's removal and waved red cards emblazoned with the word "leave".
Affrah, a protester and blogger in Sanaa, told the BBC the president could step aside earlier if he chose: "He keeps repeating that violence will happen, chaos will happen. It's really not going to happen, he's the one who will start it."
She said she was determined to carry on fighting for democracy even though she had received threats.
"Someone... sent me a [Facebook] message giving me private details about my mother, my sister and telling me that apparently I don't want to live in security.
Protests: Country by country
"Nevertheless, I am continuing. We deserve a better life than this, we deserve a better life full of democracy and freedom and people speaking their minds without any kind of fear or any kind of limitation."
Student Abdullah Jabali, 33, told Reuters at Friday's rally that he did not believe Mr Saleh's promises to stand down within a year.
"I came here to get rid of this butcher because he killed our comrades," he said.
On Wednesday, Yemen's parliament passed sweeping emergency laws giving the security forces far-reaching powers to detain suspects and prevent demonstrations.
Amnesty International responded on Friday by saying: "After the horrific killing of dozens of protesters last Friday, it is incredibly disturbing that Yemen's leaders have given the security forces more powers through a new emergency law instead of reining them in."
Yemen is one of a number of countries in the region that have seen unrest since the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia were ousted in popular revolts.
It is unclear how the man, found in Lon Ceiriog, Prestatyn, sustained the injures.
He was taken to hospital after being found on Monday at 13:45 GMT, said North Wales Police.
Officers are appealing for witnesses to an incident around Lon Brynli and Lon Ceiriog.
The event in the southern oil hub of Port Harcourt was organised by a group supporting the independence of the south-eastern region of Biafra.
The group says it backs Mr Trump because he supports "self-governance".
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) allege 11 people died in clashes with security forces during the rally.
But a police spokesman in Port Harcourt told the BBC that only tear gas was fired and said some people were wounded in the scuffles.
At least one million people died in the 1967-70 civil war started by Biafran secessionists. Pro-Biafra protests have resumed over the last 18 months.
(IPOB) dubbed the event in Port Harcourt a solidarity rally and hundreds of supporters waved flags and chanted pro-Trump slogans.
Prince Emmanuel Kanu, the brother of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu - who has been held by the Nigerian government since October 2015 on treason charges - said Mr Trump had won their favour as he "supports the right to self-determination".
According to the AFP news agency, IPOB has also renamed its push for secession "Biafrexit", after the UK's Brexit vote to leave the European Union.
IPOB's campaign has gained momentum since the authorities detained Mr Kanu.
Human rights activists say the heavy-handed approach of dealing with the group has inflamed the tensions.
Another loss at Kingspan Stadium would complete a dismal tournament for Tom Tierney's Ireland side.
Irish changes from Tuesday's defeat by Australia include Katie Fitzhenry and Heather O'Brien in for concussed pair Jenny Murphy and Claire Molloy.
Eimear Considine and Jeamie Deacon also replace Sene Naoupu and Louise Galvin.
Considine will start at wing with Deacon partnering Fitzhenry at centre in the first game between the countries since Ireland's 12-7 Six Nations win in March.
Wales make six changes from the hammering by Canada which include two positional switches.
Elinor Snowsill moves from fly-half to full-back, allowing Robyn Wilkins her first tournament start at number 10 while Elen Evans switches from left to right wing as Jasmine Joyce returns to the side.
The two other Wales changes see Keira Bevan starting at scrum-half and Siwan Lillicrap coming into the second row as injuries rule Rebecca Rowe and Dyddgu Hywel out of the match.
With Wales hammered 52-0 by Canada in the fifth-place semi-final on Tuesday, Ireland will be favourites heading into Saturday's match but home confidence is unlikely to be high after Australia overturned the pool defeat to beat the Irish in midweek.
The Irish have been on the back foot in the tournament since they struggled to beat Australia and Japan in their opening matches and the air was then firmly sucked out of the hosts when they outclassed by France in the pool decider.
"It's no secret that we didn't want to be in this position but it's where we have found ourselves on the final weekend," said the Ireland coach.
"While we're disappointed that we're not competing for higher honours, we want to sign off the competition with a win.
"It really is a cup final tomorrow, with automatic qualification for the 2021 Women's Rugby World Cup on the line."
Despite Tuesday's hammering by Canada, Welsh rugby's head of performance Geraint John believes the country can take positives from the tournament.
"I think we've shown there are some good quality players there," said John.
"New Zealand were going to be either one or two in the world though we did exceptionally well against Canada in the pool game.
"Canada are not in the top four here, but you'd say they are a top-four side in the world."
Ireland: Hannah Tyrrell; Eimear Considine, Katie Fitzhenry, Jeamie Deacon, Alison Miller; Nora Stapleton, Nicole Cronin; Lindsay Peat, Cliodhna Moloney, Ailis Egan; Ciara Cooney, Marie-Louise Reilly; Paula Fitzpatrick (capt), Ciara Griffin, Heather O'Brien.
Replacements: Leah Lyons, Isle Van Staden, Ciara O'Connor, Sophie Spence, Ashleigh Baxter, Larissa Muldoon, Sene Naoupu, Mairead Coyne.
Wales: Elinor Snowsill; Elen Evans, Gemma Rowland, Hannah Jones, Jasmine Joyce; Robyn Wilkins, Keira Bevan; Caryl Thomas, Carys Phillips (capt), Amy Evans; Siwan Lillicrap, Mel Clay; Alisha Butchers, Rachel Taylor, Sioned Harries
Replacements: Kelsey Jones, Gwenllian Pyrs, Cerys Hale, Shona Powell-Hughes, Lleucu George, Sian Moore, India Berbillion, Jodie Evans
What is shingles?
Shingles is caused by the same virus as chickenpox, herpes varicella zoster.
The virus can remain inactive in the nervous system for decades, with the body's immune system keeping it in check, but later in life it can flare up again and emerge this time as shingles.
The disease affects the nerves and the skin, causing a painful rash.
Can I catch it from other people?
No. It is not possible to catch shingles itself from someone with the condition. If you have not had chickenpox before, however, you can catch that from someone with shingles.
Infection is usually passed on by direct contact with fluid from the lesions. It is not spread by respiratory droplets.
People with a shingles rash on the body should be advised to keep the affected area covered and to avoid sharing towels, going swimming or playing contact sports. Adults can return to work as soon as they feel well enough, provided that the rash can be covered or the blisters have dried up.
How dangerous is it?
Most of the time, shingles will get better on its own. The painful rash usually lasts around a week and takes two to four weeks to fully heal. In severe cases, however, it can cause serious complications, including hearing loss or brain swelling. Some people may also experience long-term nerve damage, which can cause pain and weakness or paralysis.
Can drugs treat it?
Shingles is caused by a virus so antibiotics will not work. Doctors may prescribe an antiviral drug such as acyclovir to lessen the symptoms. Painkillers are also helpful.
Why vaccinate at the age of 70?
The risk of shingles increases with age, and is most common in people over 50. Indeed, half of people who reach 85 will get it.
It is unclear what triggers a reactivation of infection, but people with low immunity - those who are poorly nourished, have another illness or are taking certain medications - are at increased risk.
It is estimated that 3 in every 1,000 people get shingles in the UK every year.
Shingles is also more likely to cause complications in older people, which is why experts say people in their 70s should be targeted by an immunisation programme regardless of whether they have had shingles or chickenpox before.
Is the vaccine new?
No. The vaccine has been around for some time but has not been widely offered to people in the UK. Some people have paid to have the jab on a private prescription at a cost of around £150.
It is not clear how much the NHS will have to pay per jab but it is likely to be less than this under contracts with pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Is it safe?
The independent advisory expert group, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), has reviewed the efficacy and safety data on the shingles vaccine and has recommended that a national immunisation programme be started.
The vaccine contains a live weakened version of the chickenpox virus that stimulates an immune response to boost the body's resilience.
Some people who receive the vaccine may get a chickenpox-like rash near the injection site. As a precaution, this should be covered until it disappears.
The vaccine has been widely used in the US and there have been no documented cases of people getting chickenpox from someone who has received the shingles vaccine.
Is it 100% effective?
The vaccine is thought to work in around half of those who receive it.
A study in 38,000 people showed that vaccination reduced the occurrence of shingles by 50%. Studies also suggest that among the vaccinated who do still develop the disease, the symptoms are less severe.
Research suggests that the shingles vaccine is effective for at least six years, but may last longer.
Can the vaccine be used in children to prevent chickenpox?
Chickenpox is caused by the same virus that the shingles vaccine protects against.
The UK does not recommend routine vaccination of children against chickenpox. It is sometimes offered to people who are at greater risk of serious infection.
Some say that vaccinating children against chickenpox could cause an increase in the incidence of shingles in the elderly.
The theory is that once people have had chickenpox, every time they come into contact with an infected youngster their body's defence system receives the equivalent of a booster jab, building up resistance against the disease throughout adulthood.
If children no longer harboured the disease, a rise in shingles among adults could, in principle, follow.
Mr Lamb, a former care minister, said: "I'm thinking about it," while ex-business secretary Sir Vince Cable said: "I haven't ruled anything out."
Another former minister, Jo Swinson, is the bookies' favourite.
Mr Farron quit saying he could no longer reconcile his Christian faith with his leadership of a liberal party.
Former deputy leader Sir Simon Hughes said his comments were "brave".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Simon said: "Where there are issues which are very controversial within that faith community it became unfairly difficult that Tim was put in the firing line and felt that he couldn't adequately do justice to his faith while upholding the liberal values which he has argued for all his life."
During the campaign, Mr Farron 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".
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live, Lib Dem MP Alistair Carmichael criticised the media for repeatedly questioning Mr Farron on the subject.
"To be asked once would have been legitimate, to be asked time after time after time in the way that Tim was - I think that does have an element of bullying in it," he said.
Ms Swinson is a former business and equalities minister who regained her seat at the general election, Sir Ed is the former energy secretary who also returned to Parliament last week, and Mr Lamb, a health minister under the coalition government, lost out to Mr Farron in the last leadership contest.
Sir Vince told The Independent: "I haven't ruled anything out. I'm consulting colleagues to get their views on what is the next best step for the party."
But BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said while the 74-year-old may seek to lead the part for a couple of years, it's unlikely he would contest the next election.
Mr Lamb told BBC's Question Time: "It's a week since we emerged from the general election - completely knackered to be blunt - and I don't think it's sensible to make snap decisions.
"It's a big decision - not only for me, but for my wife and family and for others around us - and I want to make the right decision, not jump to a decision too quickly."
In a hastily-arranged statement on Wednesday, 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.
"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.
The Lib Dems increased their tally of seats from nine to 12 at last week's election, but their 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.
The company, part-owned by private equity firm Bain Capital, wants to pay off some of its debt, it says.
It was founded in 1957 in Toronto and is known for its coyote fur-lined hooded jackets.
The company says it started off making woollen vests, raincoats and snowmobile suits.
It then moved into Arctic and mountain expedition coats and more recently, luxury jackets.
The company issued a $100m (£80m) placeholder filing, but could raise as much as $300m, valuing the company at $2bn, according to Bloomberg news.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and RBC Capital Markets will organise the share sale, according to the filing.
The company has seen rapid growth of late. It booked 291 million Canadian dollars in sales in the year to the end of March 2016, up from 218 million a year earlier.
In December 2013, Bain Capital bought 70% in the business to accelerate its growth. It charges the company a management fee for its expertise.
While using fur and down in its coats, the company says "down only comes as a by-product from the poultry industry and has not come from live-plucked or force-fed birds". Its fur comes from regulated trappers and not fur farms, it says.
The 1978 space shooter was honoured alongside Sonic the Hedgehog, The Legend of Zelda, The Oregon Trail, Grand Theft Auto III and The Sims.
They join the six inaugural titles from 2015: Doom, Pong, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros, Tetris and World of Warcraft.
Titles are selected for the US-based museum based on their status among players, longevity and influence.
Hall of fame games become permanent exhibits at The Strong museum of play in Rochester, New York.
The winning games were selected from 15 finalists, which included Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider and the original Pokemon games.
The inductees span genres, decades and platforms but "all have significantly affected the video game industry, popular culture, and society in general," the museum said.
"Although a handful of shooter games preceded Space Invaders, its runaway success, innovative features, compelling graphics, and elemental themes captured the public imagination, spurring many imitators and a craze for arcade games," said Jeremy Saucier, assistant director of The Strong's International Centre for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG).
Oregon Trail, in which the player controls a wagon of settlers crossing the West in the early days of American settlement, is fondly remembered by many for its fun approach to education as well as its difficulty, which saw players frequently "die" of dysentery.
Grand Theft Auto III, a game with violence and mature themes, made headlines when it was released in 2001. It was a big commercial success, selling 14 million copies.
"Grand Theft Auto III renewed debates about the role of games and violence in society while it signalled video games aren't just for kids," Mr Saucier said.
The Legend of Zelda and Sonic the Hedgehog were the first entries in long-running franchises for Nintendo and Sega respectively, and remain popular today. Both games spawned multiple sequels and spinoffs, including cartoon series.
The Sims, released in 2000, was described by the museum as a "virtual dollhouse game" in which players manipulate digital characters to create their own stories.
"The game has had universal appeal, with female players outnumbering males, and adults as passionate about the game as children," said ICHEG director Jon-Paul Dyson.
"By turning the computer into a toy to explore the complexity of the human experience, The Sims radically expanded the notion of what a game could be."
Morgan made his name on the US comedy show, where he was a cast member from 1999 to 2006 before joining 30 Rock.
Former co-stars Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin also joined Morgan on Saturday.
Morgan joked: "People are wondering, 'Can he speak? Does he have 100 percent mental capacity?' But the truth is, I never did."
He added: "I might actually be a few points higher now."
But he didn't avoid addressing the trauma he had suffered since the crash, which killed his friend and fellow comedian, James McNair.
"It was awful," Morgan said in his opening monologue, "but it also showed me how much love and support I have ... and here I am."
He then performed a 30 Rock sketch with Fey and Baldwin in which his character nearly dies.
Morgan played Tracy Jordan in Fey's popular US sitcom, which ran from 2006 to 2013.
The star was later joined on stage by his wife Megan Wollover and their baby daughter.
Morgan was left in a coma for two weeks, with a traumatic head injury, a broken leg, nose and ribs, after a Walmart lorry crashed into the back of his limousine in June 2014.
McNair had also been a passenger in the limo.
In August, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Walmart employee Kevin Roper, the driver of the lorry, could have prevented the crash had he been driving at the posted speed limit.
Investigators found that Mr Roper's truck was driving 65 mph in a 45 mph zone.
The NTSB said he had been awake for 28 hours at the time of the crash.
They also said the injuries to Morgan and other passengers were exacerbated by their failure to wear seat belts.
Mr Roper has been charged with vehicular homicide and assault by auto and is awaiting trial in New Jersey.
Morgan reached an "amicable" settlement with Walmart in May, the terms of which have not been made public.
Samuel Chukwueze and Victor Osimhen both scored twice for the Golden Eaglets, with Kelechi Nwakali also getting himself on the scoresheet.
Chile conceded two of the goals from the penalty spot - while Nigeria failed with a third penalty - and also had Funsho Bamgboye sent off.
The hosts' lone goal was scored by Marcelo Allende.
Nigeria join South Korea in the last 16, with Chile set to face United States in a crunch match at the Estadio Sausalito on Friday.
Teresa Cooper was given major tranquilisers, anti-depressants and other drugs at Kendall House, Gravesend, Kent between 1981 and 1984.
In January, the Bishop of Rochester announced there would be a review of what went on at the home.
Ms Cooper said victims of Kendall House were being failed again.
She said she was informed about the review into Kendall House during a meeting with senior clergy in September 2014 but believed no terms of reference had yet been set and a panel had not been appointed.
"One year and one month is not an acceptable length of time," she said.
"I feel that they are not taking it seriously and we [the victims] have basically been pushed and shoved on a pile and left."
She added: "When you're going through this process [trying to get justice] the worst thing you can do to a survivor, who has been ignored that bad, is to ignore them all over again.
"What it does is take you back to the place that they're supposed to be investigating. They have taken me emotionally back to Kendall House."
Former children's minister Tim Loughton MP said he would have expected the church to have set the terms of reference and a panel by now.
"That should have been done months ago and the victims should have been informed all the way through as well."
In 2010, Ms Cooper agreed an out-of-court settlement with the Church of England, which did not accept liability.
It followed a 2009 BBC investigation that found she had been given drugs more than 1,200 times at Kendall House and 10 ex-residents had gone on to have children with birth defects.
The Diocese of Rochester said the bishop's "genuine concern" was that "any review be conducted thoroughly and properly rather than in haste".
It said former residents had received a letter of apology but it "would not be helpful for the Bishop of Rochester to speculate" on the review's outcome.
Hull-born Andy Kirkpatrick wrote Psychovertical after completing a 12-day solo climb of Reticent Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite, California.
A chance meeting with Glasgow-based film-maker Jen Randall at El Capitan in 2012 led to the film project.
Randall, also a climber, makes award-winning documentaries.
Her previous films deal with women in climbing, bouldering and mountaineering and have been recognised at UK and international mountain film festivals.
Psychovertical recounts Kirkpatrick's experiences of severe dyslexia in childhood and later life, his "lost adolescence" and personal relationships in between accounts of pitches up El Capitan.
The book won the The Boardman Tasker Prize For Mountain Literature in 2008.
The climber, who frequently makes ascents of routes on El Capitan, a vertical granite rock formation that rises to 900m (3,000ft), has made a name for himself tackling vertical climbs, often in challenging winter weather conditions.
In 2014, he made a 14-day first ascent of the South Ridge of Ulvertanna in Antarctica in freezing temperatures.
Randall, who has begun a crowdfunding campaign to finance the making of the film, said: "I met Andy in Yosemite 2012.
"A friend and I had just realised we were far from ready to climb El Capitan and Andy and his climbing partner Paul took us under their wing and gave us the confidence to go for it.
"We did, and we succeeded."
On the planned film she added: "This is going to be a film about identity, about love. It will be funny, moving, all the things that make life brilliant, hard and worth it."
The Mancunian, who suffered a cracked skull and broke his ankle when he was attacked by thieves seven months ago, matched Perez throughout.
Crolla, 28, appeared to have won the bout after Perez twice had points deducted for low blows.
Judges scored the fight 116-111 for Crolla, 114-113 for Perez, and 113-113.
The champion extended his fine record to just one loss in 34 fights, while Crolla - who has 29 wins in 36 professional contests - recorded a third draw of his career.
"I'm bitterly disappointed I've not got the world title take to home with me. I thought the deductions swayed it for me," an upset Crolla told Sky Sports afterwards.
"I had to dig deep and do the crowd proud. I will only come back stronger.
"When this opportunity came I was never going to give it up. But I promise everyone that I will win the world title."
Following a WBA super-bantamweight title win for Bury's Scott Quigg over Kiko Martinez, the Manchester Arena raucously welcomed Crolla, who has completed a remarkable recovery from the attack by burglars at his neighbour's house in December.
And after Perez - who has an exceptional life story himself - made a fast start, Crolla showed no rustiness.
The local favourite rocked his 31-year-old opponent in the second round with a right hand, and although Perez continued at a frenetic pace, Crolla matched his work-rate.
The Colombian, who resisted the call to join paramilitaries in his civil war-affected homeland, landed plenty of shots but did not upset the home fighter's rhythm.
And when the reigning champion landed the second of his low blows in the 12th round, it looked likely to hand Crolla victory. Two of the judges felt differently, however.
Crolla's trainer Joe Gallagher, who also coaches Quigg, added: "I thought Anthony had won it by two rounds. I'm very proud of him. The people of Manchester that came out to support him were fantastic.
"But it is a bit disappointing and it has put a dampener on the evening. I should have had two world champions this evening."
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The Commonwealth champion beat fellow Brit Tom Reed by ippon in the under-81kg category final.
Philip Awiti-Alcaraz took under-100kg silver and Stuart McWatt, Andy Burns, Frazer Chamberlain, Ben Fletcher and Theodore Spalding-McIntosh won bronze.
As well as the gold medal, Livesey secured 100 ranking points towards qualification for 2016 Olympics in Rio.
Ashley McKenzie, who also won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, was unable to mark his return to action after injury with a medal.
He lost out on under-60kg bronze by ippon to France's Vincent Manquest.
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By taking the Four Nations to the Midlands, Wasps - a club with a previously nomadic existence and now owners of the Ricoh Arena - helped England win the right to host rugby league's World Cup in 2021.
Rugby league thrives along the 127-mile stretch of the M62 between Liverpool and Hull, but the Four Nations is being showcased on a truly national stage - seven games at six venues in six regions, culminating in the final at Anfield.
Jon Dutton, the Four Nations' tournament director, said: "As we put the bid in for the 2021 World Cup, this international tournament was incredibly important in terms of moving on from 2013 World Cup and working towards that next one here in five years' time.
"We had a strategy in building the schedule - it was about visibility and profile, using a mixture of iconic venues new to the sport and staging games in core rugby league markets."
That includes taking England to London Stadium, where victory over Australia - according to retired rugby league great Martin Offiah - is vital if the game is to get renewed life in the capital.
BBC Sport looks at the potential impact of the year's biggest international tournament, as the Rugby Football League boldly tries to showcase the game across England.
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When Wasps were plotting to relocate from London to Coventry in 2014, rugby league was already part of the grand plan.
Surprising, if you consider them a rugby union club. Logical, if you take into consideration that they were to buy a full share of a 32,500-seater stadium that comes with a 9,000-capacity indoor arena.
Of 777 events in 2015, 16 of them were rugby union matches. Just 35% of their revenue came from the game.
"We knew we had to get the venue working hard all year round and it wouldn't just be about rugby and football," said Wasps Group chief executive David Armstrong.
"We need as many uses as we can, so rugby league was in the thinking at the time."
The Ricoh Arena has only staged one previous rugby league match - an English third-tier game between Coventry Bears and Keighley Cougars, which attracted a crowd of 1,097.
However, they were showcased as a potential host city for the 2021 World Cup and have bid to stage Super League's Magic Weekend in the future, which feature six top-flight matches over two days.
"We were pipped at the post by Newcastle for Magic Weekend in 2017," Armstrong said of St James' Park's successful attempt to host the event for a third successive year.
"We hope it will come here in the future and allow fans in the West Midlands the chance to watch all the Super League clubs.
"We would be disappointed if we didn't have rugby league being played here every year."
Coventry, it seems, is where the rugby league-mad north meets the rugby union stronghold in the south - a romantic notion considering that almost 200 years ago in the nearby town of Rugby, William Webb Ellis picked up a football and ran with it to effectively invent the game of rugby union.
The codes were split in 1895, but Armstrong says any existing divide between the sports is now exaggerated.
"We are not developing a competitor, we are developing a companion," he said.
The two sports are most closely integrated through the 'City of Rugby' initiative, under which the development and promotion of both codes is streamlined from grassroots to elite level.
League side Coventry Bears have their roots in rugby union, organising bucket collections at Coventry Rugby matches so they could buy their first kit in 1998.
Alongside Wasps and Coventry City Council, the Bears worked on the Four Nations bid.
Alan Robinson, Bears founder and managing director, said: "There is no better opportunity than this to open people's eyes to rugby league, as people are a little blind to it here.
"It's not rugby union. It's different, it's explosive, it's fast.
"They might not know who Johnathan Thurston is, but if they see him and see what he can do, and see Shaun Johnson and what he can do, they won't be able to deny that skill and respect it for what it is."
England winger Ryan Hall: "It will be interesting down there. I know they have a team, Coventry Bears, and that is something that the RFL want to develop - they see an opportunity there and I'm more than happy to see rugby league spread its wings and get about a bit and we are doing that in the international game."
Australia front-rower Aaron Woods said: "It's an honour to get tasked to play in those sorts of places. It's really good for the international game to grow - you have to grow. I look at rugby union and how big it is worldwide and if we can get rugby league as half as good as that it would be good for the game."
Rugby league sits on the fringes in London but at its sporting heart at the same time. The game's greats are immortalised outside Wembley Stadium alongside a statue of England's 1966 World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore.
Offiah, one of the most prolific try scorers in rugby league history, is one of the five players represented, celebrating his most famous try, an 80-metre dash against Leeds in the 1994 Challenge Cup final.
He also had spells playing for London Broncos in Super League, was part of the England side that lost the 1995 World Cup final to Australia and is now a trustee of the London Rugby League Foundation.
"To have big international rugby league matches is important as it keeps the light on for the game in London," said the 50-year-old.
Wayne Bennett's England side, he stressed, will be shouldering that responsibility when they play Australia in the capital on Sunday, 13 November (14:00 GMT).
"England needs to win," said Offiah, who was injured the last time the national team beat Australia in 1995.
"This is sport, not a drama film. There is no script written, so if people go to a sporting event and feel they have seen it before, it will lose its appeal."
The London Rugby League Foundation was started in January 2015 with the aim of helping to grow the game in the south east of England, where there are 1,500 junior players at 19 clubs in the region - twice the number compared to a decade earlier.
And, with the charity delivering coaching to 5,000 primary and secondary school students in the 2015-16 academic year, while also working extensively with community clubs in the region, Offiah proudly says the game has "a hold" at grassroots level.
But since the Broncos' relegation from Super League in 2014, London has not been represented in the top flight.
And, while the England v Australia game is just the second elite match hosted in the city in 2016, after August's Challenge Cup final at Wembley, it is expected to attract the biggest crowd of the Four Nations.
Workington Town's Derwent Park home, the smallest Four Nations venue, stands as a testament to its pedigree as an international rugby league destination, having been upgraded in order to host two World Cup matches in 2013.
When the world's top-ranked team New Zealand face Scotland there on Friday 11 November (20:00 GMT), hopes are high that the game will inspire greater interest in rugby league and a club recently relegated to League One and facing hard financial times.
Malcolm Allison, director of Workington Town, said: "That is the legacy you want the game to leave behind. We already have the facility legacy and now a fantastic spin-off would be having youngsters from the area getting involved, participation to grow and interest to increase.
"There's no doubt that relegation in isolation is a massive disappointment for the club and the fans.
"However, what it has done is allow us to reassess things, bring together a wider board of directors and review the structure of the club both on and off the field.
"The fact that we can look forward to an international match between Scotland and New Zealand is a real tonic for the fans of the local area."
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Police said the man who fell off an apartment block on Sunday night was the former head of the local Urban Administrative Bureau.
He is thought to have authorised the landfill site that collapsed.
It is the third recent case in China where officials appear to have killed themselves after industrial disasters.
Shenzhen police have taken legal action against 12 people involved in the landslide - some from the company that owned the landfill site.
The government had already warned that those responsible would be "seriously punished in accordance with the law".
The 20 December landslide engulfed more than 30 buildings at an industrial park in the city, one of China's biggest and a major industrial centre.
More than 70 people were buried and are still unaccounted for. An official investigation is under way.
Separately, over the weekend, the owner of a mine where miners were trapped by a rock fall jumped down a shaft, killing himself, in an apparent suicide.
Earlier in the year, an official in Tianjin fell to his death from a high building after the massive chemical explosion which killed 173 people.
The BBC's Stephen Evans, in Beijing, says the reason for the deaths is not clear - but one possibility is that a crackdown on people responsible for accidents is pushing them to take their own lives rather than face long imprisonment and the confiscation of wealth.
For the past several months now, Justice Chinnaswamy Swaminathan Karnan of the Calcutta High Court has been on a massive collision course with the top judges of India's Supreme Court.
On Monday, matters came to a head when a seven-judge Supreme Court bench, that included India's Chief Justice JS Khehar, ordered a psychiatric evaluation of Justice Karnan by a panel of government doctors to ascertain if he was mentally ill.
An angry Justice Karnan responded by ordering similar tests on the seven top court judges.
The BBC pieces together the story of this epic battle - how it started, where it is now, and where it's headed.
The present standoff began on 23 January when Justice Karnan wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the names of 20 "corrupt judges" and three senior law officials.
Even though he failed to provide any evidence against those named in the list, he urged Mr Modi to investigate - and take action against them.
On 8 February, the seven-judge bench decided that this - and other similar letters Justice Karnan had sent in the past accusing his fellow judges of corruption and bias - was "contempt of court" and demanded an explanation from him.
On 13 February, the day he was due to appear in court, Justice Karnan did not show up. The top court gave him another chance and asked him to come on 10 March.
But when he ignored that date too, the Supreme Court issued a "bailable warrant" against him, ordering the West Bengal state police chief to bring him in on 31 March.
He was also barred from performing any judicial or administrative functions until further orders.
But the rebel judge did not fall in line.
On the same day, he too passed an order - a low-caste Dalit (formerly Untouchable), he accused the seven judges of caste bias and ordered that a case be registered against them for discriminating against him.
He also "ordered" them to pay him 140m rupees ($2.2m; £1.7m) in compensation.
A few days later, when the arrest warrant was served to him, he "rejected" it saying it was "illegal" and "unconstitutional".
And it's gone rapidly downhill since then.
Last Friday, Justice Karnan stunned India when he passed an order banning the chief justice of India and the other six judges from leaving the country.
From a makeshift court he's set up at his home since being barred from the high court, he directed the Air Control Authority in Delhi to prevent the judges from travelling abroad while they were being tried for caste bias against him.
He also ordered the judges to appear at his "home-court" on 1 May (Monday) - the same day they had asked him to appear in the Supreme Court.
On that day, the Supreme Court judges asked the question as to whether Justice Karnan was "feigning mental imbalance" and ordered a panel of doctors to medically examine him on 4 May.
The director general of police (DGP) in West Bengal was ordered to provide a team of officers to help the medical board carry out the examination and the board was ordered to submit its report by 8 May.
The judges believed they were being considerate - they said from what Justice Karnan had been saying at his news conferences and from the "orders" he had passed in recent days, it seemed he might not be able to defend himself in court.
But that did not please the rebel judge.
He said that he was "of sound health and mind", that his wife and two sons are "very much satisfied" with his physical and mental health, that the court order was "an insult to a Dalit judge", and that he would not undergo a medical test.
Within hours, he had also passed his own "counter-order" - directing the director general of police (DGP) in Delhi to send the seven judges before a psychiatric board to check if they were mentally ill and bring the report to him by 7 May.
Now Delhi police is headed by a commissioner and there's no DGP, but that is a minor quibble considering the battle involves India's top judges.
A rebel without a pause.
During his seven-year tenure as a high court judge in Chennai from 2009, he accused at least two chief justices of discriminating against him because of his caste.
He also accused a fellow judge of raping an intern - a claim yet to be proven.
On a few occasions, media reports said he also barged into other judges' courtrooms and generally antagonised his colleagues, so much so that at the end of 2014 several of his fellow judges petitioned the chief justice of India, demanding his transfer because they couldn't work with him.
A year ago, when the Supreme Court did transfer him to Kolkata, he passed an order staying his own transfer.
It was only after a closed-door meeting with the then chief justice of India, TS Thakur, that he agreed to move.
No-one really knows - it's the first time ever in India that the top court has invoked contempt proceedings against a sitting high court judge.
The next important date on the calendar is 4 May - the day Justice Karnan is due to undergo psychiatric evaluation. But it's unlikely that he could be forced to see the doctors against his will.
Legal experts say they expect the case to drag on at least until 12 June - the day he turns 62 and retires.
The Supreme Court may be in a better position to take action against him once he's hanged up his boots.
A group of 75 set out in three vehicles but were abandoned by traffickers, who feared the security forces.
A local official told the BBC that dozens of bodies had been buried, and 23 survivors were taken to the town, although one later died.
African migrants travel through the desert aiming to reach Libya and cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
However, the journey is perilous as the migrants are crammed into pick-up trucks and have few supplies.
Two weeks ago Niger troops rescued 92 migrants who were on the brink of death in the Sahara Desert.
The group, which included women and children, was abandoned without water and food.
Looking at the reaction from teachers on Twitter, staffrooms across England might hear some other less flattering accolades.
"The worst education secretary in living memory," is one of the more polite comments.
Both reactions are a testimony to how much he has come to dominate the education debate - as, in a breakneck four years, he turned most secondary schools into academies and re-wrote the exam system.
His radical interventions were often very personal, carrying the flavour of his own upbringing, passions and prejudices.
And the opposition against him was often equally personal. It was his name that appeared on protest banners when teachers went on strike.
Even the re-shaping of the curriculum - and the removal of US authors from literature set texts - became a debate about Mr Gove's reading preferences.
He repeatedly placed himself in a line of education reformers - often outside the Conservative party, including Tony Blair and Lord Adonis.
And he said he had made it his "personal crusade" to close the gap between the educational attainment of rich and poor pupils.
The smoke of battle obscured the significance of how much energy and attention, from a Conservative-headed government, was focused on raising standards in non-selective state schools, with almost no diversionary forays into grammar schools, voucher schemes or funding private places.
What will be his legacy?
Almost 60% of secondary schools are now academies. There are more than 300 free schools open or approved. It's unlikely that any incoming government would remove much of the autonomy of these schools.
After a chaotic start, with GCSEs being scrapped and then reinstated, the qualifications system in England has been re-drawn, moving back to a more traditional, exam-based model.
The curriculum has been rewritten - always with some controversy thrown into the mix and often with some idiosyncrasy.
The draft version of the primary history curriculum, including teaching eight-year-olds about the heptarchy (the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons), was mocked by the teachers' unions as training for a pub quiz.
It remains to be seen how much of the detail might be unpicked in his absence - but he gave a strong sense of momentum towards greater academic rigour.
And his re-invention of school league tables - away from the unyielding reliance on five good GCSEs - could be an unexpected and long-lasting influence.
Another unintended by-product of all this upheaval is that the English education system, already separate from Scotland, is now fundamentally different from Wales and Northern Ireland.
An under-recognised change, with far-reaching ramifications, has been his emphasis on wanting England's schools to catch up with international competitors. In the flurry of announcements it was almost overlooked that for the first time England's GCSEs are to be pegged against the global benchmark of Pisa tests.
But the question that will hang over his legacy is whether his divisiveness was counter-productive. He couldn't seem to resist the confrontational comment, and his instincts seemed disputatious.
He had a toxic relationship with the teachers' unions that meant that every reform was greeted with hostility. He mocked the educational establishment as the Blob - but at the same time these were the people who were going to have to put his words into action.
A remarkable one in 12 of England's entire female workforce has a job in a school - they might not be a group to antagonise if you're chasing women's votes in an election.
Mr Gove made the news around him - but a peculiarity of his time in office was that he rarely gave the type of press conferences and open briefings that had been expected of education secretaries announcing major changes.
Many of his policy revolutions were revealed overnight in the columns of supportive newspapers - almost as if he were still in opposition.
This might have had its roots in the awkward start to his time in office, when his attempts at reforming the school buildings programme turned into a public mess.
But it meant that this most fluent and stylish of communicators tended to devote his energies to the already converted. They took him to their hearts and gave him a vocally supportive following, but it meant he gained few allies outside his own insurgent circle.
And his critics continued to accuse him of hidden shallows - relying on caricatures rather than engaging with those who disagreed with him.
It only seemed to be more recently that he seemed to want to talk more widely.
His reign in education might be over, but arguments over his impact have only just begun.
Police found still and moving pictures in the possession of Nathan Newman, 40, from Cumbria.
Newman, from Station Road, Flimby, was jailed for 30 months at Carlisle Crown Court having previously admitted taking and downloading indecent images, and voyeurism.
Hundreds of the images were classed as "Category A" - the most serious.
Judge Peter Davies told him: "All of these offences were committed with the intention of your own perverted lust."
Newman was also made subject to a sexual harm prevention order and must sign the sex offenders register indefinitely.
Cafodd yr adroddiad ei wneud er mwyn adolygu sut y gallai'r cyngor helpu trigolion i fod yn gyfrifol am wasanaethau o fewn eu cymunedau.
Mae tua 75 gwasanaeth erbyn hyn yn cael eu rhedeg gan grwpiau ac mae'r adroddiad sydd wedi ei gyflwyno i gabinet y cyngor yn dweud bod angen gwneud mwy i gydnabod y gwaith da.
Ar hyn o bryd mae 39 o ganolfannau cymunedol yn cael eu rhedeg gan bwyllgorau gwirfoddol yn y sir a 6 clwb bowliau.
Mae 30 o grwpiau gwirfoddol hefyd yn gweithio gyda'r cyngor er mwyn gwneud gwaith fel clirio sbwriel, gwaith cynnal a chadw a threfnu digwyddiadau.
"Pan oedden ni yn casglu tystiolaeth, y neges gyson oedden ni yn clywed oedd bod nifer o wirfoddolwyr yn y gymuned a grwpiau cymunedol ddim yn teimlo eu bod yn cael eu gwerthfawrogi gan eu cymuned na'r cyngor," meddai'r adroddiad.
Mae'r adroddiad hefyd yn dweud bod yna bryderon am safon y gwasanaeth os nad yw'r cyngor ynghlwm â'r gwasanaeth ac os bydd rhai prosiectau yn gallu parhau yn yr hir dymor oherwydd oedran y gwirfoddolwyr.
10 argymhelliad sydd yn yr adroddiad ac maent yn cynnwys creu gwobrau ar gyfer gwirfoddolwyr yn ystod seremoni flynyddol yr Arglwydd Faer.
Dywedodd, Mark Child, sydd yn aelod o gabinet y cyngor bod grwpiau cymunedol a gwirfoddolwyr yn hanfodol a bod ganddynt enw da.
Up in the hills of central Laos, it shimmers to the horizon, punctuated by treetops breaking the surface and long-tail fishing boats buzzing past.
"I think they could turn this place into a tourist attraction," says 75 year old Kam Kong, as he untangles his nets on the edge of the water.
This postcard-perfect scene is actually the reservoir for the Nam Theun 2 dam - one of the biggest hydroelectric projects in Southeast Asia.
Its opening may mark a turning point for Laos as it hopes to move from being the sleepy, under-developed backwater of Indochina to, as its government has put it, the "battery" for this increasingly power-hungry region.
As the water is released from the reservoir, it rushes downhill and into a rather utilitarian white-and-green power station, where turbines hum as they produce more than a thousand megawatts of electricity.
Pylons march across the hill into neighbouring Thailand, which is taking almost all the power produced by Nam Theun 2.
In theory, the figures should add up nicely for Laos. Revenue from the project may bring the government some $2bn over the next 25 years, a serious amount for one of the world's least-developed countries.
According to one of the project's backers, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Nam Theun 2 could provide almost a tenth of the national budget in a good year.
But the spectre of the so-called "resource curse" hangs over any developing country that suddenly gains a windfall from energy, with funds siphoned off by a greedy few instead of being used for the greater good.
Laos insists that is not going to happen this time, despite its low ranking on Transparency International's "perceptions of corruption" index.
"Nam Theun 2 is business, but we need the revenue for the development of the country," says Sivixay Soukkharath, a government worker in charge of resettling villagers affected by the dam.
"The government will give people education, healthcare and infrastructure, and it will allow us to protect the environment throughout the country."
The financial deals Laos signed with the ADB and the World Bank to set up the $1.2bn project stipulate that revenue from the sale of electricity has to be used in this way.
There are also provisions for re-settling the 6,000 people whose villages disappeared under the reservoir - and tens of thousands more living downstream who have been affected by higher water levels.
Kam Kong used to be a farmer.
Now, like other villagers on the Nakai plateau, he has received training on how to make a living from fishing, and also runs a small shop at the edge of the reservoir.
He has no regrets about seeing his old home underwater.
"To be frank, I don't miss a lot of things from the village," he says.
"At our new place, we have roads and electricity. We can take care of ourselves now. I'm very happy."
But other people are concerned.
Some pressure groups say that not enough has been done to make sure the displaced villagers have been given sustainable, alternative livelihoods.
One organisation, International Rivers, said that communities affected by the dam were "struggling to adapt" to changes in the environment.
It has asked the World and Asian Development Banks to hold back on financing other dams in Laos until they can guarantee the projects will not cause damage to the environment - or the people who have to make way.
But discouraging the development of hydropower projects may be a thankless task.
There are at least nine in various stages of planning in Laos alone - and many more planned by other countries in the Greater Mekong sub-region.
Some propose damming the mainstream Mekong, the great river upon which millions of people rely to provide their fish catch and fertilise their rice paddies.
Nobody is sure what level of impact these dams would have if they were built.
But the Asian Development Bank says it will not consider funding any of these projects until a thorough assessment has been made.
That may not stop money coming from other sources.
Southeast Asia's rapidly developing countries either crave electricity, or the revenue that may come from generating it.
The Nam Theun 2 stakeholders had hoped their project might serve as a model for environmentally-sensitive, socially-inclusive hydropower.
But Sivixay Soukkharath admits that future developments in Laos might not follow its example.
Even if the hydropower projects are delayed, the alternatives are hardly more palatable for environmentalists: coal, gas or nuclear power stations.
Living without electricity is, understandably, becoming increasingly unacceptable for people in this region.
Providing it in a way that is sensitive to the environment and vulnerable communities is likely to be an enormous challenge.
The Republican sought to laugh off the comment, which was preceded by the supporter saying: "We have a problem in this country - it's called Muslims".
The comments were made at a campaign rally for Mr Trump in New Hampshire.
Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton said his failure to denounce "hateful rhetoric" was "disturbing and wrong".
Pointing to his first questioner at the campaign event in Rochester, the billionaire businessman said: "I like this guy."
"We have a problem in this country called Muslims," the man said. "We know our current president is one. You know he's not even an American."
"We need this question?" Mr Trump said, laughing.
"But anyway," the man continued, "we have training camps growing where they want to kill us. That's my question: When can we get rid of them?"
Mr Trump failed to clarify that Mr Obama is a Christian American, instead replying that "bad things are happening" and saying he would look into them.
Mrs Clinton joined criticism of Mr Trump on social media, tweeting: "Donald Trump not denouncing false statements about POTUS & hateful rhetoric about Muslims is disturbing & just plain wrong. Cut it out."
In a statement, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Mr Trump's "racism knows no bounds".
Mr Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski sought to play down the incident, telling US media that "all he heard was a question about training camps".
"The media wants to make this issue about Obama. The bigger issue is that Obama is waging a war against Christians in this country," Mr Lewandowski told the Washington Post.
The incident evoked a moment during the 2008 campaign when Republican nominee John McCain took the microphone away from a woman who said she did not trust Mr Obama because he was "an Arab".
President Obama, who has spoken openly about his Christian faith, was born to an American mother and Kenyan father in Hawaii.
But Mr Trump has been one of the leading sceptics, challenging Mr Obama in 2011 to produce his birth certificate to disprove rumours that he was born in Kenya, which the president did.
With more than a year until polling day, the businessman is ahead of his Republican rivals in the polls despite having no political experience.
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Speaking at a memorial service in the Tennessee town, Mr Biden also called the suspect a "perverse ideologue".
US authorities say Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez acted alone when he attacked two military facilities in Chattanooga.
But the FBI has said it has not yet been able to establish a motive.
Mr Biden was joined by US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter and families of the victims for the service, a month on from the 16 July attack.
The vice president alluded to the recent loss of his own son Beau Biden, a former attorney general of Delaware who died from brain cancer in May.
"I wish I were not here," he told the families. "I have some sense of how hard it is for you to be here."
"I didn't have the privilege of knowing any one of them personally but oh, I knew them," Mr Biden added.
"Confident, determined, trustworthy, compassionate and always, always loyal. I knew them. They were my son. And so many other sons I know."
FBI investigators say Abdulazeez, 24, acted alone in the crime but say they are still unsure whether he was inspired by radical ideology or driven by mental illness as his family has suggested.
"The meaning of their killing is yet unclear, what combination of disturbed mind, violent extremism and hateful ideology was at work, we don't know," said Mr Carter.
Abdulazeez, a former engineering student, was shot dead by police after opening fire at a military recruitment centre and later a reserve centre seven miles (12km) away.
Mr Carter has ordered the military to review its procedures for protecting American troops inside the United States and to step up security at recruiting stations.
Military chiefs have until Friday to present their plans.
Every school will be allocated funds to help with facilities for mental health as well as physical exercise.
But schools, which have been warning of cash shortages, will not be able to use the fizzy drink levy to pay for staff.
Ms Greening said that such "health and wellbeing benefits can last a lifetime".
The soft drinks industry levy, announced in last year's Budget, is going to provide £415m for schools in 2018-19 to promote healthier lifestyles.
The idea was to tackle childhood obesity by applying a levy that increased according to the amount of sugar in drinks - with the money being spent on improving health in schools.
The government forecast it would raise £520m in 2018-19 - and expected that it would be an incentive for the food and drinks industry to cut levels of sugar.
The levy provides capital funding to support facilities for sports, after-school activities and to encourage healthy eating - but it will not pay for PE teachers or other staff.
All state-funded primary and secondary schools and sixth forms will receive a slice of the sports levy, but there will also be a bidding process for funding for specific projects.
"Schools can really help our children get a healthy start in life from exercise and sport, and also from knowing what a healthy diet means," said Ms Greening.
"It's not only good for them while they're in education, but the health and wellbeing benefits can last a lifetime."
But Gavin Partington, director general of the British Soft Drinks Association, said it was "odd to hinge this investment on a punitive tax against the soft drinks sector which has led the way in helping consumers reduce sugar intake - down nearly 18% since 2012".
"There is no evidence from around the world that a tax of this sort has reduced levels of obesity," said Mr Partington.
The British Geological Survey (BGS), which recorded it at about 15:45, said it had a magnitude of 3.8 and was centred on Moidart.
A smaller quake, which registered 1.5 on the Richter scale, was centred on Kingussie.
It was the biggest such tremor to be felt in the region since a 4.1 magnitude earthquake in Oban in 1986.
More recently there was a magnitude 3.5 earthquake in Glenuig in January 2011 and one measuring 3.6 in Dumfries, on Boxing Day 2006.
On the latest event, the BGS stated: "This earthquake was felt widely across the west of Scotland."
People in the area shared their experience of the rumble on Twitter. One wrote: "Think I just experienced a minor #earthquake, here on Ardnamurchan. West coast #Scotland. Anyone else feel it, my kitchen rumbled."
Another said: "Just experienced 2 earthquake tremors here in Scotland. Never felt anything like that, like the ground beneath us was exploding. Terrifying!"
Small earthquakes are relatively common but most go unnoticed.
The largest one known to have hit the UK had a magnitude of 6.1 on 7 June 1931 in the North Sea while the biggest recorded in Scotland was a magnitude 5.2 event in Argyll in 1880.
A mapping project recently said there had been more than 4,000 quakes to hit Scotland over the past 50 years.
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Under a candidate this divisive, there's not much room for feeling anything in between, as the realisation dawns that Donald Trump now has a plausible shot at being America's next president.
There has never been a candidate for the White House quite like this. He came into the race something of a joke, he conducted his campaign in ways that sometimes seemed like a joke (remember the steaks) but he won the nomination with totally serious conviction, demolishing his large field of competitors.
One by one, the primary wins stacked up and the other candidates fell. It was extraordinary to watch. The man almost no-one in the American political world took seriously defied all the predictions.
How did he do it?
Trump tapped into something we all should have seen, but failed to. For years, working class Americans have suffered from low employment and stagnant wages. They've watched the spread of globalisation, immigration and free trade and they felt left behind.
The US economy appeared to boom, but their lives didn't reflect that triumph. They had got a bad deal. Add to that an America that seemed to have faltered on the global stage and a president congenitally averse to nationalistic chest-thumping and Donald Trump was a gift.
From the billionaire's New York penthouse, he somehow understood the concerns of less educated Americans, particularly less educated American men.
He appeared to have an intuitive understanding of their loves and hates. He even said at one point in this absurdly long campaign that he loved the poorly educated. He knew they felt shackled by political correctness, and he gave them freedom to rail against it.
He knew they were afraid that their country was changing around them, increasingly populated by people whose first language was Spanish not English. When he suggested that Mexico was sending rapists across the border, he vindicated those fears. When he proposed to ban all Muslims from America, he gave voice to the anti-Islamic sentiment that's simmered in the US since 9/11.
It has been a remarkable display of political instinct from a man who's never been in politics. His supporters are so devoted to him that he could do no wrong. When he said Vietnam torture victim and war vet Senator John McCain wasn't a war hero, his approval ratings went up.
When he suggested a female reporter posed a tough question because she was menstruating, his numbers improved again.
Mexico, Muslims, Lyin' Ted... they all just fuelled the Trump train. And they love him most because he doesn't sound like all the politicians who have promised much and delivered little.
And yet, at the risk of being churlish on the night Mr Trump celebrates a stunning victory, it is worth noting how he has also alienated millions of Americans in a way we have not seen here in modern history.
Never has a candidate for the presidency been this reviled and rejected by some members of their own party. There is a long list (literally, you can find it on the website of The Hill newspaper) of Republican politicians and strategists who have said they will never vote for Trump.
In private there are many more who have said they will vote for Hillary rather than Donald.
These are the people - and I have spoken to many of them - who say their party's candidate is a "bigot", "racist", "misogynist". They call him "crass", "rude", "a bully".
Some of these people may now fall in line with the party leadership, hold their nose and tick the Trump box, but they don't like him.
If you broaden the surveys out to all Americans, Trump breaks records with his unfavourability ratings.
Which is why two groups are cheering tonight, team Trump and team Clinton.
The Clinton campaign remains convinced that this is the perfect race for them. They see Trump's negatives and they believe he is the best candidate they could have hoped for as their Republican opponent.
Moreover, the demographics of America would suggest that whoever is the Democratic nominee stands an odds-on chance of winning the White House - there are just more Democratic than Republican voters in the country.
But this is a curious year, the political rule book has been shredded and Donald Trump hates losing almost more than he loves winning.
The Clinton camp would be wrong to get too confident too soon. If we have learned one thing in this crazy campaign, it is that predictions are foolish.
Call me a fool, but I'm prepared to make just one more - the Clinton-Trump match-up is going to be brutal.
You thought the last 24 hours was ugly. You haven't seen anything yet.
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Van Gaal, 64, was said to have told executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward he would be prepared to quit following Saturday's 1-0 defeat by Southampton.
Sources have told BBC Sport no such conversation took place.
Van Gaal returned to United's training ground on Tuesday as they begin preparations for Friday's FA Cup fourth-round tie against Derby County.
Woodward, meanwhile, has club commitments in London rather than north-west England.
United are maintaining their long-established position of refusing to publicly discuss Van Gaal's future.
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The Red Devils have won just two of their past 10 Premier League matches and are five points behind fourth-placed Tottenham.
Van Gaal and his players were booed during and after Saturday's home game, in which they had just one shot on target.
Appointed as successor to David Moyes in 2014, Van Gaal is just over halfway through a three-year contract.
He took the team back into the Champions League in his first campaign but has been heavily criticised this season for both United's style of play and results.
Van Gaal's side were eliminated in the group stage of the Champions League and have failed to score a first-half goal in their past 11 home games.
Former chief executive David Gill, who is still a director of the club, said on Sunday the team have "underachieved".
Should Woodward and the club's owners, the Glazer family, decide a change is required, the three favourites to replace Van Gaal are Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho and Ryan Giggs.
United are reluctant to get into a public battle for Guardiola, given the widely held view the 45-year-old has already decided to join Manchester City when his Bayern Munich contract expires in the summer.
Mourinho, 53, is available after his dismissal by Chelsea in December and is understood to be interested in the job should it become available.
Giggs, 42, took charge for four matches following Moyes' sacking in April 2014, before accepting the role of Van Gaal's assistant.
It would be a surprise if the most decorated player in the club's history did not covet the manager's job but whether he would accept a short-term appointment without some guarantee of his future status is less certain.
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The 74-year-old Welsh singer and The Voice judge, famous for hits like Delilah, It's Not Unusual and Sex Bomb, will take to the stage at Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire in July.
Organiser Hugh Phillimore said: "We had a long, long negotiation with Sir Tom and finally he's coming to join us, so we are very excited about that."
Also on the bill are Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Lulu and Razorlight.
Other acts include The Fratellis, Blue, Billy Ocean and Chas & Dave.
Mr Phillimore added: "It's been an ambition of ours for a long time to get Tom on board.
"I started negotiating the line-up in August for my dream team."
Cornbury Festival, which is in its 12th year, takes place from 10 to 12 July.
Rentokil acquired City Link in 2006, but City Link has lost money since 2007, including £26m in 2012.
It has struggled in the face of weakening demand for its services from small businesses.
It is now being offloaded to restructuring specialist Better Capital, who are expected to invest £40m into the business.
Better Capital has recently invested in fashion retailer Jaeger and double-glazing firm Everest.
City Link will continue to be run by its existing management team, Rentokil said in a statement.
Rentokil chief executive Alan Brown said: "I believe City Link has now turned the corner after five years of substantial losses."
But he said Rentokil was offloading the business to focus on its core pest control and hygiene operations.
Its shares closed 0.6% down, having been up more than 4% in morning trading, following the news.
Speculation regarding a new league came after Tuesday's meeting of officials from the Gunners and Premier League rivals Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United.
A representative from the International Champions Cup series was also involved.
An Arsenal spokesman said: "Discussions were primarily around the ICC and formats of European competitions."
The ICC involves matches between several high-profile European clubs played, predominantly, as pre-season tournaments worldwide.
Any impetus for a breakaway league is believed to come from clubs in mainland Europe due to the current financial strength of the Premier League.
"Not Arsenal, nor any clubs at the meeting, are seeking changes to the Premier League and European landscape and no conversations surrounding displacing the Premier League or starting a European super league took place," added the Arsenal spokesman.
Uefa, European football's governing body, said it had no concrete proposals to change the format of its European competitions, but was constantly reviewing the situation.
"We have just gone into a new three-year cycle for Champions League and Europa League, so we cannot offer any further comment at this stage," said a Uefa spokesman.
The Premier League's new broadcasting deals, worth more than £8bn in total and due to take effect from the beginning of the 2016-2017 season, will dwarf the current financial rewards on offer for a successful European campaign.
The Premier League declined to comment.
European shares gained ground following the decision, particularly in the mining sector, and commodities rose.
The Chinese central bank also cut the ratio of Chinese currency that it expects its banks to hold.
China hopes that looser monetary policy, in the shape of cheaper money, will help it hit its growth target of 7% for 2015.
The changes will come into effect on Saturday.
The decision from the People's Bank of China suggests a concern that the slowdown in growth might be becoming too abrupt.
Official figures published earlier this week told a different story. They suggested a very moderate weakening in the third quarter of the year. But Beijing's data are widely regarded as unreliable.
Lower interest rates tend to stimulate borrowing by consumers and businesses and so could contain the slowdown, but there is a risk the move could lead to a build up of debt - and some economists say China is in danger of having a financial crisis.
In London, shares in the benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 1.3%, led by miners Glencore and Fresnillo, which added 7% and 4% respectively. The Dax in Frankfurt rose 3.0%.
Brent crude was up 0.8% to $48.46 per barrel.
China's economy has grow at an average annual rate of 10% for the past three decades, but has been cooling in the past few years.
Last year it grew by 7.4%, which is extraordinary by Western standards, but a definite slowdown for China.
There is little doubt that its economy is slowing to a more sustainable rate of growth, with the question being whether that transition can be made smoothly.
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The four-minute Facebook video was filmed after day three of Australia's Test match against South Africa, where the men had been working as TV pundits.
Towards the end of the footage, the trio all put their belts on.
But Tasmania police were alerted to the infringement and reviewed the video.
In a statement, the authorities said: "Tasmania police remind motorists that seatbelts save lives and urge drivers to insist their passengers buckle up too."
Former Australian captain Mark Taylor was driving the van and former wicketkeeper Ian Healy was a passenger in the front seat, but both were wearing seatbelts.
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The Football Association is searching for a new England boss following Sam Allardyce's departure after 67 days.
Asked about taking the job, Wenger, 66, said: "One day, if I'm free, why not?" Pochettino, 44, said: "Yes, why not? In the future."
Both said they are committed to their current clubs.
Allardyce, who replaced Roy Hodgson following England's disappointing Euro 2016, left by mutual agreement on Tuesday after the Daily Telegraph claimed he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
Allardyce won his only game in charge, a 1-0 victory over Slovakia in their opening 2018 World Cup qualifier in September.
England Under-21 boss Gareth Southgate will take charge of the senior team for the next four matches, including three World Cup qualifiers, starting with Malta at Wembley (8 October), Slovenia away (11 October), Scotland at home (11 November) and Spain in a friendly (15 November).
Southgate could be an option for the permanent role depending on his success, while Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe, Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew and ex-Hull City manager Steve Bruce have also been mentioned as candidates.
Frenchman Wenger is the longest-serving - and most successful - overseas manager in England, having won 15 trophies during his 20-year tenure at Arsenal, including three Premier League titles and six FA Cups.
Arsenal, who are unbeaten in eight games in all competitions this season, play Burnley on Sunday at 16:30 BST aiming for a fifth consecutive Premier League victory.
Pochettino has earned a reputation as one of the brightest managerial talents in English football.
The 44-year-old Argentine led Southampton to eighth spot in the Premier League in 2012-13 before moving to Spurs in 2014.
Last season, he took Tottenham back into the Champions League with automatic qualification from a third-placed league finish.
Burnley boss Sean Dyche, 44, ruled himself out of contention for the England job because of a lack of experience.
"If you want to build a chance of being good at that kind of level, you need more years and layers of experience," he said.
"In the future, who knows? Maybe. But at the moment I think there are people better placed than me."
BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty
The Arsenal manager's credentials easily outstrip those of the other candidates being touted as Allardyce's replacement.
At 66, Wenger might even share Allardyce's view when he was appointed that his age and experience make him the perfect fit for international management.
Wenger is the perfect next England manager with the ideal credentials and track record if the FA can formulate a plan to somehow attract him to what many now call an impossible job.
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Amazon's Twitter account said it was working to resolve difficulties customers were having checking out.
The promotion ran for the first time last year, when the site also faced technical problems.
More than 34.4 million items were sold that day, exceeding the amount sold on Black Friday the previous year.
This year, customers complained of not being able to check out their purchases, with some missing deals available for a limited time.
Others said they were experiencing issues adding items to their cart.
It is not uncommon for sites to struggle under unprecedented volumes of traffic while running promotions.
Many websites suffered problems during last November's Black Friday online rush, including Argos, Boots and Tesco.
Mr Corbyn has won his bid to retain the Labour leadership, defeating the Pontypridd MP.
The Labour leader received 61.8% of the vote - a larger margin than 12 months ago.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said Labour now had to work hard to offer the UK the opposition it had been "denied".
Mr Smith said: "There is no doubt that the Labour Party has changed under his [Corbyn's] leadership, he has mobilised huge numbers of people over the last 12 months, many of whom are here at conference in Liverpool, and he deserves the credit for that, and for winning this contest so decisively.
"I have no time for talk of a split in the Labour movement - it's Labour or nothing for me... although today's result shows that our movement remains divided, it now falls primarily to Jeremy Corbyn, as Labour leader, to heal those divisions and to unite our movement."
Welsh Labour leader Mr Jones offered his congratulations to Mr Corbyn along with his "commiserations" to Mr Smith, who he said fought a "good campaign".
But he added: "This has not been a happy period for the Labour Party, the country has been denied the functional and forensic opposition they have a right to expect in Westminster, and we must work hard now to put that right."
But former Labour cabinet minister Lord Peter Hain said: "The party has to make the best of the predicament we are in.
"I hope all Jeremy's supporters actually get out there and campaign because where I worked in south Wales, in both the assembly elections and the referendum they were nowhere to be seen."
Mike Hedges, Swansea East AM and a supporter of Mr Corbyn, told BBC Radio Wales the result tells the Parliamentary Labour Party "loudly and clearly that Jeremy Corbyn has the overwhelming support of the membership", which he said "should stop another leadership campaign next year or the year after".
Shadow Welsh Secretary Paul Flynn said Labour's "gap year from reality is over", adding: "We must bury futile infighting and unite to defend the NHS, the welfare services and universal education that we created."
Caerphilly MP and Corbyn-critic Wayne David, who had resigned from the Labour frontbench before the challenge by Mr Smith, did not think the result had changed anything.
"The onus is on Jeremy now. He has a fresh mandate. He has to make real his words," he said.
He added if Mr Corbyn had a desire to make a team he would be "more than happy to work for him" but added "that does not necessarily mean I would go on the front bench".
Former shadow Welsh Secretary Nia Griffith called for "people from all parts of the party to take part and really participate in making the Labour party work properly".
On Friday, Ms Griffith indicated she would be willing serve in a shadow cabinet under Mr Corbyn, three months after quitting the shadow cabinet.
Cardiff councillor Darren Williams, a Corbyn supporting member of the ruling National Executive Committee, said "the whole party in Wales has to get behind" Mr Corbyn "and make sure that we turn outward and take the fight to the Tories".
Recently Labour made changes that would give the Welsh party more control of its own affairs.
Mr Williams welcomed the move but said: "I hope there won't be an attempt by Welsh Labour to isolate itself from the positive things that Jeremy represents at the British level."
The result comes after a tumultuous summer for Labour following the Brexit vote and months of tension between the leadership and the party's MPs.
Following criticism of Mr Corbyn's alleged "lacklustre" campaigning in the referendum, many Labour shadow cabinet members resigned.
Mr Corbyn then lost a confidence vote and in July Mr Smith challenged the Labour leader for the top job.
A spokesperson for the Welsh Conservatives said: "Jeremy Corbyn's re-election is merely another chapter in the protracted saga of the Labour party's decline."
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said: "The chaos and infighting engulfing the Labour Party as well as the proposed boundary changes mean that the party is unlikely to win a Westminster election for at least a decade, possibly even longer."
Total sales increased by 1.9%, according to the British Retail Consortium and KPMG's latest survey.
A separate report, by Barclaycard, showed that spending in restaurants, pubs and cinemas had also increased in the month following the vote.
However, Barclaycard found that overall spending fell by 1%.
David McCorquodale, head of retail at KPMG, said sunny days had "helped blow away some of the post-referendum blues, boosting the UK feelgood factor and giving consumers a sense that 'life goes on' following the initial shock of the Brexit vote".
He added that picnics and barbecues had helped lift sales of food and drink, while summer promotions and holiday preparations had helped boost fashion sales.
Helen Dickinson, the chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said the rise was not surprising, given that "little has materially changed" for most UK households since the EU referendum.
A monthly report by Barclaycard, which processes nearly half of all the nation's credit and debit card transactions, found that consumer spending growth fell to 2.6% in July, down from 3.6% in May and June.
But the warmer weather may have played a part in a 12.2% increase in spending in pubs and a 12.8% rise in what card-holders spent in restaurants, it said.
There were some less positive results in the company's consumer confidence research, which found that Britons were more cautious about their future spending plans, with nearly 50% not confident in their ability to spend more on non-essential items.
Paul Lockstone, managing director at Barclaycard, said: "These are the first full month's figures since the EU referendum, so it's too early to say if this is the start of a long-term trend, but it seems likely consumers will be watching the external environment carefully ahead of any major spending decisions."
The Italian outfit failed to win a race in 2014 and recently appointed Maurizio Arrivabene as their new team principal after sacking Marco Mattiacci.
There has also been a change in the car with four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel replacing Fernando Alonso.
Marchionne said: "2015 will be a difficult year that will put the team to a real test."
The Fiat Chrysler chief executive, who replaced Luca di Montezemolo as Ferrari chairman in October, continued: "I think 2015 is going to be a reconstitution year. It will be Maurizio's first full year with the team.
"I think hopefully within the next 12 months we will remove all the baggage of uncertainty that is going to plague at least the initial phase of 2015."
Ferrari came fourth in the constructors championship in 2014, behind Mercedes, Red Bull and Williams.
Marchionne added that his team, whose engine has been outperformed by champions Mercedes, were paying a price for decisions made under the previous management.
"We started late with the 2015 car, certain choices and strategies that were made by others and that, in retrospect, I don't necessarily share," said the 62-year-old Italian.
However, with Vettel replacing Alonso, who has rejoined McLaren, and work under way on improving their car, Marchionne is confident they can recover ground on their rivals by the end of 2015, in particular Mercedes.
"Some of the work has already started," he said. "We need to be able to emulate their success."
Arrivabene said he would consider two race wins next year a success, adding: "If we win four, we go to heaven."
Six new episodes of Porridge, starring Kevin Bishop, will be made after a pilot episode received warm reviews.
The remake of the 1970s show, which saw Bishop play the grandson of Ronnie Barker's inmate Fletch, was part of the BBC's sitcom season.
Motherland was part of "New on Two", which saw several new sitcoms piloted on BBC Two.
Porridge creators Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who will write the new BBC One series, said: "We're in a state of disbelief that Porridge is coming back after all these years, but Kevin Bishop is a worthy successor to Ronnie Barker.
"So even though we feel like recidivists, we're more than happy to go back inside."
Bishop said: "It was an honour to be asked to play Fletch although I never thought it would go further than just the one-off homage.
"To be welcomed back by Porridge fans and the BBC to make a full series, is one of the proudest moments in my career."
Last month, 4.4 million viewers tuned in to the new episode of Porridge, which received broadly positive reviews.
The Telegraph's Michael Hogan said Porridge "left me with an indulgent grin on my face", while The Daily Mail described it as "an affectionate tribute to a magnificent series, by the men who created it".
The original series of Porridge, which saw Barker and Richard Beckinsale appear as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade prison in Cumberland, ran from 1974 to 1977.
More than two million viewers watched the pilot episode of Motherland across all platforms and the comedy - starring Anna Maxwell Martin as a harassed parent - was praised by critics.
The Guardian described Motherland as "terrific" while The Independent called it "a magnificent half-hour of fresh comedy".
The pilot episode was written by Graham Linehan, Helen Linehan, Sharon Horgan and Holly Walsh.
As the full BBC Two series was announced, Catastrophe star Horgan said: "I am thrilled and relieved to have finally found a good use for my 13 years of mothering.
"Apologies in advance to the brave women and men of the school run."
Six 30-minute episodes will be made both of Motherland and Porridge.
Broadcast dates for both shows are yet to be announced, but Porridge will go into production in January.
The BBC also announced that a series of A Brief History of Tim, written by and starring Tim Renkow, had been commissioned.
Renkow, who has cerebral palsy, plays the lead role in the comedy which sees his character use his condition to get away with saying whatever he wants.
Four 22-minute episodes of A Brief History of Tim will be made for BBC Three, which moved online earlier this year.
Renkow said: "I'm very excited to be working with the BBC. I just hope I can beat my old employment record of two days."
Damian Kavanagh, controller of BBC Three, said: "We are all about the best new British comedy at BBC Three and are very happy to give A Brief History of Tim a home."
Shane Allen, the BBC's controller of comedy commissioning, said: "These three exciting new commissions reinforce our mission to keep nurturing the very best of new talent and to cherish the great talents we've championed over the years."
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Trailing 1-0 from the first leg in Spain, Bayern levelled the tie through Xabi Alonso's deflected free-kick.
Atletico keeper Jan Oblak saved Thomas Muller's low penalty, before Antoine Griezmann coolly fired in an equaliser.
Robert Lewandowski's header set up a tense finish, but Atletico held on after Fernando Torres missed a penalty.
Bayern, backed by a vociferous home crowd, desperately pressed for a third goal that would send them through.
However, they could not find a way past Oblak, who blocked David Alaba's 20-yard volley in injury time.
Atletico, aiming to be crowned European champions for the first time, will meet Manchester City or Real Madrid in the final in Milan on 28 May.
City face Atletico's neighbours at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday after the teams drew 0-0 in last week's first leg.
Relive an eventful night in Munich
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There was a tense atmosphere throughout the second leg in Munich, with the tie delicately balanced until the final whistle.
Bayern's opening goal, Muller's penalty miss and tempers flaring on the touchline - Pep Guardiola and Diego Simeone animatedly disagreeing over a decision - had already made for an entertaining first half.
Griezmann's vital away goal and Lewandowski's close-range finish - nodding in Arturo Vidal's headed cross from four yards - pointed towards even more drama in the final 15 minutes.
However, the anticipated Bayern onslaught failed to materialise.
Instead, Atletico won a penalty, despite Torres being fouled outside the box, before Simeone lost his cool again when he appeared to strike a member of his own staff.
Still Bayern needed only one goal to progress - and had five minutes of added time to score it. But Atletico survived, sparking wild celebrations among Simeone and his players.
Atletico have lost twice in the final of Europe's leading club competition - to Bayern in the 1974 European Cup and against neighbours Real two years ago.
Against a team playing in their fifth successive semi-final, they produced another display of remarkable defiance at the Allianz Arena.
German champions Bayern had 33 attempts on goal and 72% of possession - but it still was not enough to beat the gritty Spaniards.
The hallmark of Atletico's recent success has been their strength in defence, with Simeone's side developing a reputation as one of the toughest teams in Europe to break down.
However, the quality of their clinical attack should not be overlooked.
Atletico had not even managed a single touch in the Bayern penalty area until Griezmann fired in from the edge of the box.
The France striker marginally beat the Bayern offside trap, latching on to Torres' through ball before coolly drilling underneath Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer.
Guardiola is regarded as one of the world's greatest coaches, having won trophies galore with both Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
But the Spaniard will leave for Manchester City in the summer having failed to deliver the Champions League in his three-year spell in Bavaria.
Guardiola had acknowledged that winning the club's sixth European crown - or not - would be how his reign at Bayern was judged.
His side lost against Spanish opposition in the semi-finals in each of the past two seasons - to Real Madrid in 2014 and his former club Barcelona last year.
Atletico were well placed to make it an unwanted hat-trick after Saul Niguez's sublime first-leg goal in Madrid put them in control.
The Spanish title hopefuls rode their luck at times after Alonso's opener, particularly in the first half when they were outclassed by an aggressive and high-pressing Bayern side.
But they regrouped after the break, keeping their discipline and shape as Bayern's 12th successive Champions League home win proved meaningless.
"We tried to press them high, have counter-attacks and this was why we got the goal," said former Liverpool and Chelsea striker Torres.
Muller was named in the Bayern starting line-up after he was surprisingly left on the bench in Madrid last week.
Guardiola was heavily criticised in the German media for that decision, with Muller - who has scored 32 goals in 46 matches this season - so often a match-winner for club and country.
But the Germany forward's most decisive contribution in the second leg was failing to convert his first-half spot-kick.
That would have put Bayern ahead in the tie for the first time, just as Atletico's usually unruffled defence started to look rattled.
"The missed penalty gave us life," said Atletico coach Simeone, who was close to tears after Griezmann's goal.
Before Atletico can turn their attention to the Champions League final, they must focus on a thrilling Spanish title race.
Simeone's second-placed side, who won La Liga in 2014, are level on points with defending champions Barcelona with two games left. Third-placed Real Madrid are a point further behind.
Bayern, meanwhile, can still win the domestic double in Guardiola's final season in charge.
Two more points will clinch their fourth straight Bundesliga title even if nearest rivals Borussia Dortmund win both of their final two games.
They face Dortmund in the German Cup final on 21 May.
30 August 2016 Last updated at 18:06 BST
Black female pupils at Pretoria Girls High, whose protests have sparked a national debate about race, say that they have been told to straighten their hair and are banned from having afros.
Watch our visual guide to see which hairstyles are allowed and which break the rules.
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Solitary bees aren't like honeybees that live in hives. They make their nests on their own and lay their eggs in tunnels.
To help them have somewhere to live, you can make your own bee hotel...
To make a bee B and B you'll need:
Get a grown up to help stick all of the sides of the box together with wood glue - leaving one side open. Then stick on the top and bottom of the box.
Put bamboo cane and other hollow materials into the box- ask a grown up to cut it down to size if necessary. The bees will nest and lay eggs in these tubes.
And there you have your bee B and B!
The government's annual budget outlined a 1% increase in personal income tax and spending cuts of 25bn rand (£1.4bn; $2.2bn) over the next two years
Projected economic growth for 2015 is 2%, down from 2.5% forecast last year.
Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene warned the economy would suffer from another three years of power disruptions.
Economic growth could even halve again down to just 1% this year if power constraints worsened.
He said state-owned power group Eskom faced a 200bn rand funding gap up to 2017.
Eskom will receive a capital injection of 23bn rand this year, to be raised through the sale of non-strategic government shareholdings in some state-owned companies.
Electricity prices will rise to finance Eskom's rebuilding of the country's power infrastructure.
Mr Nene said he would also introduce a temporary increase in the electricity levy, to 5.5 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) from 3.5 cents/kWh.
"The most important challenges facing the economy are unemployment and the security and reliability of the energy supply," he said.
"Today's budget is constrained by the need to consolidate our public finances, in the context of slower growth and rising debt."
Economic growth in 2014 was 1.5%, dragged down by prolonged labour strikes in the key mining sector as well as energy shortages.
Mr Nene called for moderation in wage increases to spur faster growth and create more jobs. The unemployment rate stands close to 25%.
Public sector union Nehawu is in talks relating to demands for pay increases way above inflation. The Treasury forecasts inflation will be 4.3% in 2015, and rise to 5.6% in 2016.
The budget also included spending cuts of 25bn rand over the next two years, while maintaining core social and economic programmes.
Some analysts have called his plans a "Robin Hood" budget, because of the tax increases for the rich, in a country were welfare recipients outnumber tax payers. But Mr Nene admitted himself he had little scope for what he described as a "challenging" budget to prepare. South Africa's economy has been having a hard time. Last year, industrial action, including a prolonged strike on the country's platinum mines, severely reduced growth. This year, rolling blackouts (better known as load-shedding here) are pushing some small businesses to the brink of bankruptcy. But there was nothing in the budget speech that was new - Mr Nene is not a big one for surprises. What everyone will be watching now is the next few months. Wage negotiations on the country's gold mines are due by the middle of the year, with the accompanying threat of strikes. Meanwhile, unemployment, particularly among young people, remains stubbornly high, despite efforts to reduce it. However, the real test will be how fast the power situation can be solved. Some analysts say while the lights stay on, there's hope. Once they go out, it spells dark times ahead.
South Africa's deficit has risen to 3.9% of the economy this year rather than the 3.6% forecast.
The ratings agency Moody's has downgraded South Africa's sovereign debt rating in November, following similar downgrades from rival agencies Fitch and Standard & Poor's.
Moody's said its decision was based on "poor medium-term growth prospects due to structural weaknesses, including ongoing energy shortages as well as rising interest rates".
Net debt has doubled since the start of the financial crisis as the country increased borrowing to try to repair the economy. Mr Nene said debt was expected to stabilise at less than 45% of GDP in three years' time.
Gerard Pique headed the hosts in front but Real quickly equalised through Karim Benzema's spectacular volley.
Cristiano Ronaldo netted the winner only two minutes after the visitors had defender Sergio Ramos sent off for two bookable offences.
But which players impressed and who disappointed? These are the player ratings for both sides.
Had little chance with either of Real's goals, and punched out a drive from Cristiano Ronaldo in the first half. Solid enough when dealing with crosses and blameless in defeat.
Mindful of the threat posed by Ronaldo down his flank, the Brazilian was more restrained than usual in coming forward, and Barca perhaps suffered from his reduced service to Lionel Messi. Fired a long-range blaster over the bar.
Scored Barca's goal with a good header from a corner and generally defended well, making one excellent block to deny Benzema. Will have been frustrated to see Toni Kroos' deflected cross skim over his head and drop for Benzema to equalise.
A typical battling display from the Argentine, who was rightly shown a yellow card for a crude challenge on Gareth Bale. Generally contained Benzema but looked occasionally vulnerable against Ronaldo and Bale's inside bursts.
A match-up of two speedsters with Bale and he came off second best. Offered little coming forward and was fortunate to see Bale have a header disallowed for a supposed push after being beaten in the air. Also beaten by Bale's cross for the winner.
Forced a good save from Keylor Navas with a left-footed shot in the first half, and delivered the corner for Pique's goal. A classy performance and the team deteriorated when he was replaced by Arda Turan.
An unflappably calm presence in the centre of midfield when Barca were on top, with his precise and unfussy passing keeping his team's rhythm. But found himself overrun in the latter stages as Madrid grew in strength.
Some typically wispy runs from the dribbling wizard, who also had a powerful shot blocked by Ramos in the first half. But he was rarely able to penetrate the visiting defence and declined in influence as the game went on.
Played a little deeper and more centrally than usual but, as always, the Argentine was at the heart of his team's attacking efforts. Came close with two free-kicks, had a penalty appeal waved away and forced a good save with a deftly clipped shot.
A night to forget for the Uruguayan, who missed an absolute sitter in the early stages, was shown a yellow card for throwing his arm in Pepe's face and struggled to get much change out of Pepe and Ramos.
Made a very strong start, setting up early chances for Suarez and Iniesta, also curling a tough chance well over the bar. But he faded badly after the break and was regularly caught in possession in a weak second half showing.
Introduced for Rakitic but made little impact, with Barca losing control of the contest after he appeared. Had a late half-chance to level but saw his shot blocked.
The Costa Rica international has been outstanding this season after his club's botched attempt to sign David de Gea in the summer, and he delivered again here with two outstanding diving saves to deny Rakitic and Messi.
Was booked early for a lunge on Iniesta and initially struggled badly against Neymar. But he responded well to finish the game strongly, playing a role in the winner by feeding Bale.
Sent off in the latter stages after being booked for dissent and a foul on Suarez, but still played a full part with a committed and physically fearless performance. Made one great last-ditch challenge on Messi, prompting calls for a penalty that were rightly turned down.
The Portuguese powerhouse largely performed with resilience and determination to frustrate Suarez, but he was lucky to get away with a poor hashed clearance in the first half which resulted in Rakitic forcing a good save from Navas.
Was overworked in defence initially but slowly became more of an attacking force as the game went on, acting as the catalyst for the equaliser with a driving run to find Kroos. Appears to be blessed with never-ending supplies of energy.
Maybe lucky to escape an early booking for a foul on Busquets as his frustration at Barca's dominance became evident. But he never stopped working for his team and performed tidily in the second half.
Looked like a rabbit in the headlights during the early stages, when his technical deficiencies were laid bare as a number of passes went astray. But he is in the team for his defensive abilities and he played a key role in that respect, protecting his back four well.
Like Modric, he looked overwhelmed in the opening stages and couldn't get near the ball. But, reflecting his team's overall performance, he gradually gained strength and delivered the cross for Benzema's equaliser.
Man-of-the-match performance from the Welshman, who was his team's most dangerous player all night, regularly troubling Barca with his powerful running. Unlucky to see a header disallowed for a supposed push and picked out Ronaldo with a deep cross for the winner. Maybe his best game for the club.
Couldn't get involved at all in the first half, barely touching the ball before slicing a glorious chance over the top. Continued to contribute little but rescued another otherwise poor performance with an excellent finish for the equaliser. Substituted soon after.
Virtually nothing went right for the Portuguese star, whose frequent attempts to run at the home team defence generally led him down cul-de-sacs. But his frustrating night took a drastic turn for the better when he pounced for the winner, crisply finishing Bale's cross.
Came on at a perfect time as Barca were starting to tire, and took full advantage with his fast and direct running contributing to his team's late dominance.
A late time-wasting sub, with no chance to make an impact.
Researchers say treatments could be developed based on antimicrobial peptides that occur naturally in the immune systems of humans and animals.
The Edinburgh Napier University team observed how they increase the body's natural response to rhinovirus infection.
Rhinovirus is the main virus responsible for the common cold.
The team synthesised antimicrobial peptides found in pigs and sheep, and assessed their impact on lung cells infected with rhinovirus.
The peptides successfully attacked the virus, and could provide clues for developing novel treatments based on peptides found in nature.
Dr Peter Barlow, associate professor of immunology and infection at the university, said: "This is an exciting discovery and our next steps will be to modify the peptide to make it even better at killing this virus.
"This research is still in the early stages, but we will ultimately be looking to develop drug treatments that have the potential to cure the common cold."
An effective treatment for the cold could help sufferers of more serious lung conditions, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), for whom viral infections can pose a serious health risk.
Dr Barlow added: "There is no cure and no vaccine so the development of effective therapies for human rhinovirus, the main causal agent of the common cold and one of the most common causes of viral respiratory tract infections, is an urgent requirement.
"This study represents a major step towards finding a treatment."
Earlier research by Dr Barlow had underlined the potential of antimicrobial peptides in tackling the influenza A virus.
The latest study, was funded by the Chief Scientist Office and medical research charity Tenovus Scotland.
She is visiting the country with her partner Brad Pitt as he shoots the film World War Z in various locations.
The pair are long-standing supporters of the Halo Trust's work.
Jolie took the opportunity to visit the trust's headquarters in Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, on Saturday for the first time.
She was given a briefing by senior Halo staff on the current landmine problem and heard about the kind of work they are doing.
She said: "It was a privilege to visit the Halo headquarters and meet their committed staff.
"In the aftermath of war, Halo's mine-clearing efforts are fundamental to a safe return and community building."
The Jolie-Pitt Foundation has provided "hundreds of thousands of pounds" worth of financial support to Halo, funding humanitarian mine clearance teams in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
Guy Willoughby, co-founder and director of the trust, said: "It was a great opportunity for us to talk through the projects and also plan our demining priorities for the future - identifying which communities in different countries are most in need of our support."
Halo is one of the world's oldest and largest humanitarian landmine clearance organisations and tackles the problem of landmines and other explosive remnants of war.
Other celebrity supporters have included Prince Harry and his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales.
The boy had been looking out of the bus window as it drove down a narrow street in the city centre, witnesses say.
Police cordoned off the scene and covered the body with a blanket before it was removed by a mortuary van.
The teenager, whose identity has not been released, was among a group of 106 pupils from Molapo High School.
The authorities are investigating the circumstances around the teenager's death.
The students and teachers, who are said to be severely traumatised, are receiving counselling.
A security guard, who asked not to be identified, had been stationed outside a car dealership nearby.
"[The bus] first hit this sign; everybody was still inside... The boy then peeked his head out the window - he was sitting near the back - to see what was happening and before he knew it, he was struck by the sign on the second pole," he told the Durban Mercury.
"Everyone was crying, the teachers, the pupils; it was hectic. I wanted to help, but I couldn't. He was still breathing - blood still gushing - when I got to him. But there was absolutely nothing I could do for him," said another witness.
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Tomic and Nick Kyrgios had been warned by Australia's Olympic team boss that their behaviour was being monitored in the build-up to the Games.
Tomic, 23, was criticised for holding his racquet by the strings when facing a match point at the Madrid Open.
He says he made himself unavailable for Rio "with a heavy sense of regret".
The world number 22 added: "On the basis of my extremely busy playing schedule and my own personal circumstances, I am regrettably unable to commit to this year's tournament."
Tomic plans to play in the Abierto Mexicano Los Cabos, which starts on 8 August, two days after the Olympic tennis tournament begins.
Tomic's behaviour at the Madrid Open was labelled "appalling" by Australia's Olympic chef de mission Kitty Chiller, who said she would not "twist anyone's arm" to compete in Rio.
The Dutch parliament has already backed the EU association agreement with Ukraine, a landmark integration pact that removes trade barriers.
But Eurosceptic activists succeeded in triggering a referendum after securing about 450,000 signatures in support of their citizens' initiative.
The European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, has warned that a No vote could lead to a "continental crisis".
The UK referendum campaign is now in full swing, ahead of the British in-out vote in June on whether to stay in the EU. It has totally overshadowed the Dutch referendum.
But the geopolitical stakes are high in the EU agreement with Ukraine. The ultimate aim is to integrate the ex-Soviet republic into the EU's internal market - and Russia is hostile to it.
Supporters see it as a key step to draw Ukraine out of Russia's orbit but Eurosceptics say it goes too far, too fast.
Under a new Dutch law, more than 300,000 signatures are required to secure a referendum. Once the signatures have been verified, the vote must be held within six months.
Next month's vote is the first under the new law, which was designed to improve Dutch democracy by giving citizens a bigger say.
A leading No campaigner, Thierry Baudet, said: "This is a chance to say we're here too, the most important thing is to finally give the Dutch people a vote on the continuous expansion and increase of powers of the European Union."
He accused the EU of "reckless geopolitical moves".
An association agreement must be ratified by all EU member states. So could a No vote by the Dutch block the deal?
Tony van der Togt of the Clingendael Institute, a Dutch foreign affairs think-tank, said a No would mean "uncharted waters" - even though the referendum is not legally binding.
A big rejection of the agreement would oblige the government to resubmit it to parliament for approval, he said.
But a low turnout would make it easier for politicians to dismiss the result.
Andre Krouwel, a political scientist at VU Free University in Amsterdam, said Commission President Juncker's warning was counter-productive.
"He's telling people who want to vote against, 'If you get a majority then you create a crisis' - and that's exactly what the anti-European camp wants."
The referendum comes at a time of voter frustration. With the migrant crisis and economic uncertainty, people are increasingly questioning the EU's ability to provide security and stability.
The vote is being seen as a litmus test of public opinion.
According to Mr Krouwel, the Eurosceptics are abusing the referendum process.
"They're increasing our ignorance because they're not talking about what really should be decided," he complained.
"If people want to get out of the EU, let's ask them that. With this referendum, people will not know what it means."
And Russia is already a factor in this vote.
Many of those in favour of the Ukraine deal say a vote against it will throw Russian President Vladimir Putin a propaganda victory.
In a jazz bar in the north of Amsterdam, newspaper columnist Bert Lanting showed me a big feature with a photo of the mangled wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.
He said he had received hate mail after writing an article accusing the Eurosceptics of taking Russia's side.
"It's true," he said. "If you're saying No to the [Ukraine] treaty you're supporting the people who downed flight MH17."
The Netherlands suffered the most deaths - 193 - when the passenger jet was shot out of the sky over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in July 2014. Many of the 298 victims' families blame President Putin.
The West and Ukraine say Russian-backed rebels brought down the Boeing 777 but Russia blames Ukrainian forces.
"Most people in Ukraine, they supported this treaty," Lanting said. "Who are we [the Dutch] to say you can't decide on your own future?"
Despite the high stakes, many Dutch citizens have no idea they are being asked to vote on this issue.
In a small, unscientific survey on Grote Markt Street in The Hague, I asked shoppers if they were aware of the referendum. They responded with shrugs and blank stares.
According to an Ipsos poll released this week, 27% of Dutch voters are completely unaware of the referendum.
Turnout must exceed 30% for it to be officially valid. The immediate challenge will be to convince the Dutch public that this is an issue worth voting on.
Newcastle dominated the first half and led when Tommy Elphick turned DeAndre Yedlin's cross into his own net.
Dwight Gayle and Mo Diame both missed chances to double Newcastle's lead.
Mile Jedinak had a header ruled out for offside and Jordan Ayew hit the post for Villa, before substitute Tshibola met Ayew's corner at the far post.
Villa had already lost nine points from winning positions this season, more than any other team in the Championship, after conceding a host of late goals.
But it was Newcastle who were left feeling deflated after not taking a series of chances to put the game out of the hosts' reach.
Villa, who left out Jack Grealish while an internal investigation continues into the midfielder's part in an all-night party at a Birmingham hotel, were second best for long spells and trailed when Elphick sliced into his own goal.
The Villa captain then lost possession to put Gayle clean through but the striker saw his shot saved by keeper Pierluigi Gollini, before Diame sliced wide from six yards after the break.
Villa improved in the closing stages and were denied an equaliser by a correct offside flag when Jedinak headed in Ayew's free-kick, before the Ghanaian forward curled a brilliant shot against the post.
But Tshibola's first goal for the club rescued a point as Villa drew for the sixth time in nine league games this season.
Aston Villa manager Roberto di Matteo:
"Against (Nottingham) Forest we turned the game around but unfortunately we conceded an equaliser.
"Today we got it back and pushed on to find the second. There's certainly a degree of belief that we're still in the game and can win.
"Our challenge is to turn the draws into wins because we have drawn too many games and that's what the table reflects."
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez:
"We were so dominant in the first half we could've finished the game and now we're talking about another thing.
"That's football, you have to take your chances and we didn't do it.
"We made some mistakes defending in the second half and we have to give credit to them but, for me, the positives were the first half and the negatives were the mistakes in the second half and that we allowed them to stay in the game."
Match ends, Aston Villa 1, Newcastle United 1.
Second Half ends, Aston Villa 1, Newcastle United 1.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Cheick Tioté.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Cheick Tioté.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Matz Sels.
Attempt saved. Rudy Gestede (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pierluigi Gollini.
Hand ball by Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United).
Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United).
Goal! Aston Villa 1, Newcastle United 1. Aaron Tshibola (Aston Villa) header from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jordan Ayew with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Jonjo Shelvey.
Attempt blocked. James Chester (Aston Villa) header from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Ciaran Clark.
Foul by Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United).
James Chester (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Rushian Hepburn-Murphy replaces Ashley Westwood.
Attempt missed. Tommy Elphick (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jordan Ayew with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Paul Dummett.
Attempt blocked. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Aleksandar Mitrovic.
Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa).
Offside, Aston Villa. Rudy Gestede tries a through ball, but Jordan Ayew is caught offside.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Aleksandar Mitrovic replaces Dwight Gayle.
Aaron Tshibola (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card.
Aaron Tshibola (Aston Villa) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Attempt blocked. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Yoan Gouffran.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Cheick Tioté replaces DeAndre Yedlin because of an injury.
Delay in match DeAndre Yedlin (Newcastle United) because of an injury.
Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa) hits the right post with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Jordan Amavi.
Foul by Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United).
Jordan Amavi (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Rudy Gestede (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jordan Ayew with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Paul Dummett.
Offside, Aston Villa. Jordan Ayew tries a through ball, but Mile Jedinak is caught offside.
Foul by Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United).
Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by DeAndre Yedlin (Newcastle United).
Jordan Amavi (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey.
The Englishman, 28, had six birdies in his outward nine as he shot a four-under-par 68 at Wentworth.
On the 10th tee, Willett was 12 under and threatening Paul McGinley's tournament-record halfway score of 13 under but a bogey stalled his progress.
Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Rafael Cabrera-Bello and Joost Luiten are five under.
The group, led by Irish property developer Anthony McMullen, wanted 51% control of the Shropshire club.
But Telford say that they had concerns over the investment arrangement.
"The club board entered direct discussions with the potential investor from Ireland," the Shropshire club confirmed in a statement.
"There were a number of phone discussions and we met him face to face on 15 May and 19 May.
"The individual outlined a proposed structure for the club that substantially increased off-the-field operating costs by at least £150,000 per annum.
"There was no indication as to how these additional costs would be financed, given he was unable to finance the purchase of the shares."
AFC Telford were formed by fans in 2004 following the liquidation of the old Telford United, famed in the 1970s and 1980s for their non-league FA Cup-fighting exploits.
Since being reformed, in the eighth tier of English football, the Bucks have twice been promoted to English football's fifth tier, in 2011 and 2014, only to be relegated in 2013 and again in 2015.
The Shropshire-based outfit have now spent two seasons back at sixth-tier level, finishing 18th in 2015-16 and 17th in 2016-17.
After seeking new investment in October 2016, an American-based Telford fan made an official approach for his home-town club.
But the then fan-owned club's constitution, run by a Supporters' Trust, would have allowed him to initially invest no more than 20%.
The club, who last year tried to raise £50,000 in extra income to improve a cash flow problem, have since changed their structure.
It follows Friday's cyber-attack which affected more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries.
Det Ch Insp Douglas Grant said no incidents have been reported in Northern Ireland yet.
However, he said the PSNI "cannot rule out the possibility that local systems may be vulnerable".
"As people return to work tomorrow after the weekend, many will have unopened, potentially infected emails in their inboxes, or their systems may already be infected and are waiting to activate," Mr Grant added.
"It is of the utmost importance that individuals and organisations act to ensure the integrity of our local cyber networks and take appropriate action to reduce the threat posed by cyber criminals."
The virus took control of users' files, demanding payments; Russia and the UK were among the worst-hit countries.
Experts say another attack could be imminent and have warned people to ensure their security is up to date.
The ransomware, which locked users' files and demanded payment to allow access, spread to 150 countries, including Spain, Russia, the US and China.
In England, 48 trusts reported problems at hospitals, GP surgeries or pharmacies and 13 NHS organisations in Scotland were also affected.
In the Republic of Ireland, there has been one reported infection in a system at a small voluntary healthcare facility in Wexford.
Its computers, which were not connected to the Health Service Executive (HSE) network, have been isolated.
The HSE cut off its network from external communications as a precaution, on Friday.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said its cyber crime centre would continue to actively participate "in the national co-ordinated response to this attack and we would encourage all local businesses and public services to take immediate steps to protect their systems and reduce their vulnerability".
"We would also recommend that businesses and industries join the local Cyber Information Sharing Partnership (CISP) so they can receive the most up to date threat and mitigation information to help protect their cyber security," it added.
The PSNI said further information is available via the National Cyber Security Centre and appealed to anyone who believes they may be victims of cyber-attack to contact them.
The National Cyber Security Centre has said more ransomware cases may come to light on Monday, "possibly at a significant scale".
Ransomware attacks are "some of the most immediately damaging forms of cyber-attack", it said, and advised companies to:
The actor and writer tweeted that Met Police had "kindly returned a number of children's letters to me that had been stolen in December."
He added that he had "now replied to them all".
Last week he had apologised to fans if they had not received replies from him as he had just found out a large box of letters had been stolen.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said a member of the public had found items of discarded mail in Camden on 8 April.
They said they were looking into whether an offence had been committed.
The box of letters had been posted to him by his publisher Harper Collins.
Walliams told fans that he endeavoured to reply to every fan letter and suggested those without a response should "please write again".
The Britain's Got Talent judge is a best-selling children's author.
He has written eight books for HarperCollins, including Gangsta Granny and Mr Stink that have been turned into TV adaptations.
Almost 34,000 airline tickets had to be cancelled in one 18-month period - with lack of staff to escort detainees one reason, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration report said.
A separate report suggests officials have lost track of thousands of foreign students whose visas have expired.
The Home Office said it was working to reduce cancelled and failed removals.
In some cases, the government argued cancellations were "out of [its] control", for example because of late legal challenges or disruptive behaviour of those scheduled for deportation.
However, the report said a lack of security staff to accompany detainees on their journey out of the UK was also a "major constraint".
The recorded loss on unused tickets was £1.4m - equivalent to 4% of the total amount spent on tickets
On average, the private company which is contracted to provide staff, Tascor, was only able to do so 15 days later than requested, inspectors said.
However, responding to the report, Tascor said it had no contractual requirement to complete removals within a specified timescale.
"The majority of the cancellations fall outside of Tascor's control, largely due to legal challenges or lack of emergency travel documents," the company added.
These two, rather dense, inspection reports merit close examination because they touch on a subject of public concern: Why is it that people who have no right to be in the UK cannot be removed?
The reasons are complex because the process is complex. If one link in the chain breaks down - a last-minute legal challenge, missing travel documents or no available security escorts - then the removal has to be cancelled.
However, the 15-day gap between the removal date requested by the Home Office and Tascor being able to provide staff suggests there are some serious recruitment problems that must be urgently addressed.
The worry is that the problems will not be fixed.
As the report on the student visa process points out, a recommendation by inspectors in 2012 for the removal of overseas students who are in the UK illegally to be made a priority has still not been acted upon.
Lucy Moreton, general secretary of ISU, which represents border agency and immigration staff, said recruiting more Tascor personnel could help the deportation process but "whether the Home Office would be prepared to pay for that is another matter".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said: "A large number of flights are missed because we simply can't move detainees from one place to another as we need to."
The report found that between October 2014 and March 2015, on average 2.5 flight tickets were issued for each individual successfully removed.
While some departments booked refundable tickets because of the high risk of cancellation, others simply chose the cheapest possible tickets which were normally not refundable, the report said.
The refund rate varied between 48% and 93% and there was "little obvious agreement" within the Home Office about how best to manage the problem, it said.
It recommended a regular review of the reasons for cancelled or failed removals, including those deemed "out of [Home Office] control", and develop guidance for caseworkers, for when to request refundable tickets.
A separate report suggests thousands of foreign students have fallen off the Home Office's radar - meaning the number who may have stayed in Britain illegally is unknown.
To get a visa, foreign students must produce a form from a licensed education establishment, which acts as their sponsor.
Under the terms of their licence, sponsors must notify the Home Office of any changes in a student's circumstances that would affect their sponsorship, such as failure to enrol on their course, a pattern of unauthorised absences, withdrawal or expulsion, or early completion of their studies.
Once notified, officials consider the case and decide whether to end the student's leave to remain in the UK.
The immigration watchdog said it found there was no process in place to monitor individuals in 71,601 cases in the two years to April 2015.
"Many of these individuals might have departed the UK, or might have been granted leave to remain on other grounds. However, the true position, including the number and whereabouts of those who have remained in the UK illegally was not known," the report said.
The Home Office said work was "already under way to address the recommendations relating to ticketing and escorting" and accepted all of the chief inspectors recommendations.
Third seed Halep looked to be heading out after going a set and 5-1 down.
But the Romanian won five consecutive games and then saved match point to take it to a decider, which she finished off with ease.
Halep will play Karolina Pliskova in the last four, after the world number three beat Caroline Garcia 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 in Wednesday's other quarter-final.
Garcia, 23, was the last French hope remaining in both the men's and women's singles draw.
The world number 28 put up a decent fight to take the first set against second seed Pliskova to a tie-break, but the 2016 US Open finalist proved too strong.
Unseeded Latvian Jelena Ostapenko will take on Timea Bacsinszky in Thursday's other semi, meaning there will be a first-time Grand Slam women's singles champion crowned in Paris.
Fifth seed Svitolina looked set to become the first Ukrainian woman to make a semi-final in Grand Slam history, as she stormed ahead in the opening stages against Halep - a runner-up in Paris in 2014.
She allowed her opponent just four winners in the first set and was four games to the good in the second before the Romanian's remarkable turnaround.
Svitolina served for victory at 5-2 and 5-4 before wasting a match point at 6-5 in the tense tie-breaker.
"I don't know how I came back," said 25-year-old Halep, who won 12 of the last 13 games on Suzanne Lenglen Court and served out the match with an ace.
"She was playing tough, hard and strong. Maybe I was a little lucky but I didn't give up."
Pliskova, 25, will replace Angelique Kerber as the new world number one if she beats Halep to make Saturday's final.
"It was very tough. She played very well, we were both serving well," said Pliskova after reaching her first semi-final in Paris.
"She [Garcia] played a great tournament, even today, it was 50-50, it came down to about two points. I'm really glad I made it.
"I am very happy. Before the tournament I wasn't sure if I could play good tennis on clay."
Her order came as the hackers posted more data online on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency reported.
Officials said earlier that only designs and manuals of plant equipment were leaked, and reactors' innermost networks were not compromised.
South Korea has not ruled out North Korean involvement in the attack.
Ms Park made no mention of any link between the North and the cyber attack but said the plants remained safe.
She told officials in a cabinet meeting to check their preparations and inspect safeguards against cyber terrorism on the nation's key facilities, including nuclear reactors.
She called the data leak a "grave situation that is unacceptable", and said there should have been "not a trace of lapse as a matter of national security", in remarks reported by Reuters.
Yonhap reported that the hacker posted on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon four files of reactor-related information, including what appeared to be diagrams of facilities, and reasserted demands that reactors be suspended.
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co Ltd (KHNP) has been conducting large-scale drills at four nuclear power plant complexes.
A hacker calling himself "president of the anti-nuclear reactor group" had posted blueprints of nuclear reactors on social media on Friday, in the latest in a series of postings since 15 December, and demanding some reactors be closed by Christmas.
Officials have asked the US Federal Bureau of Investigation for help in finding the hacker, after discovering that IP addresses in multiple locations had been used, including South Korea, the US and Japan, reported The Korea Times.
North Korea outage
Ms Park in the same cabinet meeting also referred to the recent hacking of US movie studio Sony Pictures, saying it was a reminder of the "seriousness of cyber terrorism".
The US has attributed the Sony hacking to North Korea over the film The Interview, and President Barack Obama has vowed the US would take a "proportionate response". Pyongyang has denied its involvement.
North Korea saw its internet go down from Monday night to Tuesday morning. The cause for the outage is not yet known.
Sir Cary Cooper said a compulsion to deal with the messages had caused the UK's employees to become less productive than many of their international counterparts.
"For people to be working at night, weekends and holiday on emails is not good for the health of our country," the professor told the BBC.
He also wants limits on internal email.
"We need to ban emails [sent and received] within the same building," he said, advocating instead for face-to-face meetings and phone calls.
His comments follow a speech he gave on the topic to the British Psychological Society's annual conference, which was covered by the Times.
However, the academic sought to clarify the newspaper's claim that he wanted IT staff to shut down employers' computer servers outside office hours.
"I'm not encouraging them to do that - I think it's pretty extreme to close down your server," he said.
"But if it turns out [email] is adversely affecting your business and the health of your employees, then that's an option."
A more practical solution, he said, would be to flash warnings if workers were detected to be using work email when they should be relaxing or engaged in family activities.
"They could get a message back, for example, saying, 'You have accessed 27 messages today,' alerting them to what they are doing.
"Every organisation has to come to a conclusion as to what is a good way to be operating, and the best way to do that is by asking the employees themselves how do we stop this epidemic of us being linked all the time to our emails."
Sir Cary is professor of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster University and previously advised the Government Office for Science about mental health in the workplace.
He referenced recent figures from the Office for National Statistics that indicate the UK has the second-lowest rate of productivity out of the leading G7 industrial nations - putting it behind the US, Germany, France, Italy and Canada, but ahead of Japan.
The professor acknowledged that email use was not the only factor involved, but suggested that the UK's development of a "macho culture", in which employees wanted to be seen to be available by email at all hours, was causing stress and depression, and in turn making workers less efficient.
While some organisations have adopted work-focused social networks as an alternative to email - using products such as Microsoft's Yammer, Slack and Jive - Sir Cary said these were "symptoms of the same problem".
IT services giant Atos, however, believes that social media tools can solve many of email's problems if used properly,
The French company made headlines in 2011 when it revealed it was banning the use of internal emails as part of a longer-term goal of ending email use altogether.
The announcement caused a stir in large part because much of the company's revenue is derived from providing email services to others.
Atos's chief information officer confirmed it had stuck with the policy, but added that this had required both training and a cultural shift.
"It's about making clear our expectations about communications have changed," Marc Mosthav told the BBC.
"In the past, the idea was that when you came back from holiday and had tens or hundreds of messages that you would deal with them.
"Now, we make clear that you don't have to catch up with them because social communication's needs are very different to those of an email application.
"And the whole practice of copying in everyone into a message in order to cover your own back has also been reduced - it really changes the way people think about work communications."
Mr Mosthav acknowledged, however, that few of Atos's clients had opted to adopt a similar "zero email" policy, at least as yet.
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The runaway leaders won all eight of their league matches last month, taking them 19 points clear of nearest challengers Rangers.
It is the third time Rodgers has won the monthly prize since taking over in the summer.
Midfielder Armstrong, 24, scored five goals for the champions in December.
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Dr Caroline Gannon investigated the deaths of babies including those in the womb or stillbirths.
She said the final straw was having to advise a couple to use a picnic cooler bag to return their baby's remains to NI following an abortion in England.
The attorney general said the law was under consideration.
A family can have a post-mortem examination carried out in England - but they are difficult to arrange.
Dr Gannon's resignation leaves Northern Ireland with only one paediatric pathologist.
She said the recent interventions by Attorney General John Larkin made her position untenable.
"The workload we had was manageable, but then when these rulings came out - that was the tipping point and for me, professionally," she told BBC News NI.
"I just felt I was acting unethically by taking part in this system where parents are denied a voice in what happens to their baby."
AG's interventions in NI abortion law:
Dr Gannon cited the example of one couple who wanted a post-mortem examination to find out why they had been told their baby had a fatal foetal abnormality.
As it remains illegal in Northern Ireland for an abortion to be carried out on the grounds of such a diagnosis, the couple had to travel to England for the termination.
The only way they could find to transport the remains home was in a cooler bag with ice packs.
"They're on their own in a strange town, a strange country in a private clinic with no support," said Dr Gannon, who has worked in Northern Ireland for almost 30 years.
Had the couple been in Northern Ireland, there would have been midwives present and hospital processes in place so they could sit with their baby, she added.
"Somebody else would be responsible for bringing their baby down to the mortuary to ensure the post mortem is carried out," she said.
"But they had to organise that themselves and transport their own baby's body back in a picnic cooler, in the boot of the car, on the overnight ferry."
The father of the woman involved said he travelled to England the day after his daughter with the cooler bag.
Describing the whole experience as traumatic for his family, he told the BBC's Talkback programme that he hoped the attorney general would never have to know what it felt like.
"It was horrendous and it's a terrible, terrible shame that Northern Ireland, in this day and age, has to look people straight in the eye around the world and say this is the way we deal with these things," he said.
"I just please hope that this will change the legislation because at least something good would have come out of the the most awful experience."
Attorney General statement
Mr Larkin previously argued that allowing terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormality discriminated against children with disabilities.
He has also said there is no agreed clinical definition of fatal foetal abnormality.
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Dr Gannon said she felt it was unethical to work in a system where women and couples were being "denied information and choice".
"I cannot reconcile the legal system I am having to operate under with my own personal ethical beliefs," she said.
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It means Wales will be the first UK nation to introduce a system where people are presumed to have consented to become donors unless they opt out.
It could come into force by 2015.
Mark Drakeford said he was proud about Tuesday's vote but his thoughts were with those waiting for organs.
The vote took place just before 22:00 BST and 43 of the 60 assembly members backed the bill. Eight Conservatives voted against and Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies did not vote. Plaid Cymru AM Jocelyn Davies abstained.
Mr Drakeford told BBC Wales the vote followed an "epic" five-hour discussion, adding: "I'm very relieved to see the bill safely on to the statute books but very proud as well - proud of achieving this in Wales, proud of the job that the assembly has done in scrutinising and improving the bill."
He said that "most of all, my feelings are with those people waiting for donation whose lives depend upon having an organ through transplantation".
The current system, which operates across the UK, relies on people signing up to a voluntary scheme and carrying a donor card.
But the Welsh government wants to drive up low transplant rates by 25% and say the new scheme will save countless lives.
As currently happens, organs could go to recipients anywhere in the UK, not just in Wales.
According to the NHS Blood and Transplant service, there are around 250 people on a waiting list for a transplant at any one time, and 33 people in Wales died in 2012/13 while waiting.
Evidence from other countries with an opt-out system indicates that the rise in organ donors is small with around 15 additional donors provided each year and approximately 45 extra organs.
There has been opposition to the scheme but ministers insist it will be implemented sensitively and they will launch a two-year, £8m publicity drive to inform people about their choices.
The British Medical Association (BMA), welcomed the result of the vote.
Dr Richard Lewis, BMA Wales secretary, said: "A few years ago, Wales was ready to lead the UK on banning smoking in public places but we didn't have the necessary legal powers.
"This time we are delighted that our National Assembly has shown the rest of the UK the way forward and fully support its implementation.
"Patients across the country will now benefit directly or indirectly from this bill."
Roy J Thomas, chief executive of Kidney Wales Foundation (KWF) said: "Deemed consent has a positive and sizeable effect on organ donation rates of some 25% to 35% higher on average in presumed consent countries.
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"One person dies every week in Wales waiting for an organ transplant.
"Three people die a day in the UK. The current system has failed those waiting."
There had been opposition to the changes from Christian churches and from within the Muslim and Jewish communities, who wanted a "soft opt-out scheme" to give deceased patients' families a say on donation if their relative had neither opted in or out.
Well took an early lead after Scott McDonald took advantage of a defensive mistake to score.
St Johnstone equalised through striker Steven MacLean. Like McDonald, it was his 14th goal of the season.
Just before half-time, Danny Swanson slotted home from close range for the Saints to secure a significant victory.
The result means the Perth side have a five-point lead over Motherwell with only two games left to play.
Motherwell were gifted the perfect start when goalkeeper Zander Clark sliced his clearance from a back pass right into the path of McDonald, who headed into an empty net.
St Johnstone almost equalised from a training ground free-kick. Brian Easton played the ball sideways to Liam Craig, who curled in an effort from 25 yards that came back off the post.
Up at the other end, Chris Cadden had a chance from close-range following a knockdown from Louis Moult, but his effort was weak and Clark was able to gather.
Marvin Johnson then loped forward from his left-back berth into the St Johnstone penalty area.
His cutback found the feet of McDonald, but the Australian striker lashed his shot wide of the target.
St Johnstone left-back Easton would have better luck. His cross was met at the back post by MacLean, who supplied the perfect finish to bury the ball into the corner of the net.
The Perth outfit took the lead just before half-time. David Wotherspoon's cross found Swanson with time and space in the box and the midfielder calmly slotted the ball home.
Just after the break, McDonald fired just wide of the post as Motherwell searched for an equaliser.
Joe Shaughnessy headed over the bar as St Johnstone set about stretching their lead.
Motherwell goalkeeper Connor Ripley then had to make a decent diving save to deny a low, drilled effort from Wotherspoon.
There was plenty of Motherwell pressure, but too few clear-cut chances, as St Johnstone held on for a hugely valuable three points.
Match ends, Motherwell 1, St. Johnstone 2.
Second Half ends, Motherwell 1, St. Johnstone 2.
Attempt missed. Scott McDonald (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Tam Scobbie (St. Johnstone).
Marvin Johnson (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jack Leitch (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Brian Easton (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jack Leitch (Motherwell).
Attempt missed. Christopher Kane (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Motherwell. Jack Leitch replaces Marvin Johnson.
Darnell Fisher (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Stephen Pearson (Motherwell).
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Tam Scobbie replaces Danny Swanson.
Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Louis Moult (Motherwell).
Attempt missed. Marvin Johnson (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Christopher Kane replaces Graham Cummins.
Attempt missed. Chris Cadden (Motherwell) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Stephen Pearson (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Steven MacLean.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Brian Easton.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Kieran Kennedy.
David Wotherspoon (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Marvin Johnson (Motherwell).
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Brian Easton.
Substitution, Motherwell. Dom Thomas replaces Lionel Ainsworth.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Darnell Fisher.
Attempt saved. David Wotherspoon (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Scott McDonald (Motherwell) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Motherwell. Joe Chalmers replaces Keith Lasley because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Joe Shaughnessy (St. Johnstone) header from very close range is too high.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Marvin Johnson.
Attempt missed. Scott McDonald (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Steven Anderson (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott McDonald (Motherwell).
Second Half begins Motherwell 1, St. Johnstone 2.
First Half ends, Motherwell 1, St. Johnstone 2.
Goal! Motherwell 1, St. Johnstone 2. Danny Swanson (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Steven MacLean.
Attempt missed. Marvin Johnson (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Motherwell. Conceded by Darnell Fisher.
His conservative Popular Party (PP) won both elections but fell short of a clear majority - and he will most likely fail to get enough parliamentary support in a confidence vote this week.
He came to power in 2011 and steered Spain back from the brink of economic meltdown with harsh doses of austerity. But unemployment remained stubbornly high and the PP got mired in a corruption scandal.
The uncompromising Mr Rajoy this month broke his habit of remaining motionless, signing a 150-point political pact with the centrist, anti-corruption Ciudadanos (Citizens) party.
Yet he still needs the second-largest party in Congress, the Socialists (PSOE), to abstain in the confidence vote, in order to win a simple majority.
So instead of a political coronation it looks set to be a humiliation, as the PSOE said it would vote against him.
That could deepen the sense of political pantomime, setting up a Christmas Day general election for an unenthusiastic electorate, because of the parliamentary calendar.
Congress Speaker Ana Pastor, a former PP minister, fixed 31 August as the date for the confidence vote - and so set the clock ticking towards that most unwanted Christmas gift, whether by accident or Machiavellian design.
Unsurprisingly, many Spaniards are increasingly frustrated by the political impasse.
Ana Arriero, a 38-year-old architect from Madrid, says she is "absolutely fed up with political strategies which, far from trying to unblock the situation and create a government, seek personal gain".
The absence of a fully-fledged government is also threatening Spain's budding economic recovery which has chipped away at unemployment, now down to 20%, after hitting 27% in 2013.
Spain remains on course to register 3% GDP growth in 2016, almost double the European Central Bank's projection for the eurozone as a whole.
But, bereft of the authority to trigger new projects, Spain's Public Works Ministry and the state companies under its control spent 20% less on contracts in the first six months of this year, compared to the same period last year.
"This blockage will affect the economy and that has an impact on each individual. In my case, it could affect future contracts due to a lack of investment," adds Ms Arriero.
Nieves Alvarez is a widow from Madrid with health problems, living with her unemployed son on her €300 (£256; $335) a month pension. She finds watching this political game "very frustrating" while Spain's deep social problems remain largely unsolved.
"People like us are not feeling any benefit from the economic improvement. It's a very difficult situation and I think we are going to be voting again on 25 December - although half the people will be resting all day after Christmas Eve, while the rest will be travelling and won't vote."
The PSOE leader, Pedro Sanchez, finds himself in a "Catch-22" situation. If he allows the PP back into power, he fears this will be unpalatable to left-wing voters. If he doesn't, he will be held responsible for the country's third election in 12 months.
Mr Sanchez has made no new moves to negotiate an alternative government, having tried and failed to do so back in March.
Back then he negotiated an alliance with Ciudadanos, but failed to convince the left-wing, anti-austerity party Podemos (We Can) to support a potential centre-left coalition.
"Mr Rajoy must negotiate with his natural allies," Mr Sanchez says repeatedly. But with Podemos and the Basque and Catalan nationalists all opposing the conservative leader, it is the PSOE that holds the key to a second Rajoy term.
Mr Sanchez's first step on emerging from a beach break last week was to propose reducing the electoral campaign, to prevent a ballot on Christmas Day - a sign that the prospect of a third ballot is looming ever larger.
Perhaps the only way out, as hinted at by some senior Socialists, is a different candidate from the PP, less tainted than Mr Rajoy by the party's corruption scandals.
But Pablo Simon, a politics professor at Madrid's Carlos III University, doubts that the PP could dump its leader. "It is an extremely vertical organisation, so it's very hard to see how Mr Rajoy could be forced out," he said.
Pressure could mount on Mr Rajoy, however, when some of the PP's dirty laundry gets a public airing, in a major corruption trial due to start in October.
The callers ask to take over a home computer and demand money to fix it. Some then install viruses as well.
The software company said it had received more than 65,000 complaints about tech support scams since May.
It is taking legal action against several firms it accuses of misusing its name in such cases.
The scam has been around for decades with callers peddling useless security software and tricking people into spending hundreds of pounds (or dollars) to solve non-existent computer problems.
Increasingly, the bogus technicians are gaining access to people's computers remotely.
From there they can also steal personal and financial information and install malware.
In some cases people are tricked into signing up for support via fake web ads. Others receive a direct telephone call from a technician claiming to represent Microsoft.
Microsoft has warned that scammers are likely to be active over the Christmas period.
"The holiday season is a popular time for scammers as more people engage in online activities, including shopping, donating to charity and searching for travel deals," it said.
Older people needed to be particularly vigilant, it said.
"Tech support scammers don't discriminate; they will go after anyone, but not surprisingly senior citizens have been among the most vulnerable."
The US Federal Trade Commission filed a legal case in Florida last month against a company that used adverts to scare people into believing their computer had a virus and then sell them allegedly worthless services.
In the UK, National Trading Standards has recently taken legal action against a man from Luton who hired people at an Indian call centre to falsely tell people their computers had a serious problem.
Mohammed Khalid Jamil was given a four-month suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay £5,665 compensation and £13,929 in prosecution costs.
Microsoft has issued tips to help users avoid falling for such scams.
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Neil Warnock's side fought out an excellent 2-0 victory at Elland Road.
Morrison is expecting a tough test at Derby on Valentine's Day, but believes if Cardiff can keep up the levels they reached at Leeds then they can win.
"If we can be as solid as we were against Leeds then we've got every chance of coming away with three points," said the Bluebirds captain.
Cardiff face a Derby side recently knocked out of the FA Cup by Leicester and which fought back for a thrilling 3-3 draw at home to Bristol City last time out.
Steve McClaren's men are pushing for a play-off spot, but Morrison said he and his teammates will travel with no fear.
"It's going to be tough, Derby have a good squad with a lot of good players," added Morrison.
"But they've had a difficult week with the cup and that. If we can go there and put in a performance like the one we did against Leeds then we've got every chance of coming back with at least a point and maybe all three.
"Under the boss we are solid. We know what we are capable of. We'll go to Derby confident. If you go to Leeds and come away with a clean-sheet and a win with the run they are on, then we will go to Derby with nothing to fear."
Cardiff's good win at Leeds came via goals from Morrison and another for striker Kenneth Zohore, but was built on solid defending.
Indeed Cardiff kept their first clean-sheet on their travels at Elland Road since the opening day of the season.
Morrison said much of that was down to his growing partnership in the heart of defence with Sol Bamba, who Warnock brought to the club in October.
"It's been fantastic," said Morrison.
"Some players take a bit of time to adapt to a new team and a new partner next to them, but from the moment Sol stepped in there we just hit it off.
"I trust him and he trusts me. We've got a good thing going. Sometimes it's a bit telepathic and you just trust each other. I know he's got my back."
Mr Hands spoke to Scotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney on the phone about the financial arrangements underpinning the new Scotland Bill.
But he has been criticised by MPs for going on holiday to at a "crucial stage" in negotiations.
MSPs also want a deal before 23 February so they have time to scrutinise the plans.
Despite months of talks, the deadline for agreement was pushed back earlier this month.
A Treasury spokeswoman earlier insisted Mr Hands would return "at any time" if the Scottish government was "willing to make a substantial move".
But First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's spokesman said: "This beggars belief. Having secured an extra week for negotiations, the deputy first minister offered to clear his diary to go to London on Monday and do whatever was required during this week to thrash out a deal.
"We now find out that the reason a Monday meeting was not agreed to is that the UK government's chief negotiator has gone on holiday to France - before even having the courtesy to respond to the revised proposal submitted by the Scottish government last week."
He added: "It is time for the UK government to decide if they are really serious about reaching a deal. Otherwise, they will stand accused of breaking their vow."
The SNP's Pete Wishart, who chairs the Scottish Affairs committee at Westminster, told BBC Scotland it was "ridiculous" Mr Hands was away at a "crucial" stage in the talks.
Mr Wishart, who is MP for Perth and North Perthshire, said the decision showed a "lack of respect for the process" and urged him to return to the UK.
And Labour's shadow secretary of state for Scotland Ian Murray said: "It beggars belief that Greg Hands thought he could take a holiday at this crucial stage in the negotiations."
He added: "If the Treasury won't take this seriously, David Cameron must get involved. Both governments must do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to reach an agreement."
Despite months of talks, the UK and Scottish governments have been unable to reach a deal on the fiscal framework for the bill.
The parties disagree on their interpretation of the "no detriment" principle laid out by the Smith Commission on new powers for Scotland, which stipulates that neither the UK or the Scottish budgets should be left worse off by a deal.
Fire Brigades Union (FBU) members walked out at 09:00 GMT on Tuesday, forcing authorities to implement contingency plans.
Householders have been warned to be extra vigilant about fires as colder weather sets in.
Fire Minister Penny Mordaunt said the strike action was "completely unnecessary".
London Fire Commissioner Ron Dobson said: "As it gets colder, the temptation is to huddle closer to your heater but that could be a fatal mistake."
This is the 48th period of industrial action since the dispute began. The last strike action, lasting four days, took place at the end of October.
Union officials say that under government proposals, firefighters will have to work until they are 60 instead of 55, pay more into their pensions and get less in retirement.
The plans will leave firefighters at risk of dismissal as their fitness declines into their 50s, the FBU said.
Akon Guode, 37, killed one-year-old Bol and four-year-old twins Hanger and Madit in Melbourne's south-west in 2015.
Another child, six-year-old Alual, was also in the car but survived.
In the Supreme Court of Victoria, Guode pleaded guilty to one count of infanticide, two counts of murder and one of attempted murder.
She entered her pleas with help from an interpreter. Guode arrived in Australia from South Sudan in 2008.
Joseph Manyang, the father of the three children, told a hearing last year that Guode said she felt dizzy before the crash.
He described Guode as a "loving mother" who would not have harmed the children intentionally.
However, a key witness told police in a statement that Guode spoke about killing her children on the day of the tragedy.
Passersby and emergency crews tried desperately to rescue the children in the moments after the car entered Lake Gladman in Wyndham Vale.
A harrowing emergency call from one witness was played during a court hearing last year.
"I saw them deliberately drive in there, well it looked like that anyway," Alexandra Colson-Ing said, according to The Age.
After moving closer to the scene, she said: "They are floating, they are floating in the water. (They) can't swim."
Guode and her daughter Alual were rescued.
Guode has been remanded in custody until her next court appearance on 31 January.
Diplomatic ties have been broken, angry words exchanged and Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran. But the dispute between the two Middle Eastern nations has deep religious, historic and political roots.
Iran and Saudi Arabia are on opposing sides of a more than 1,000-year old argument at the heart of Islam - between Sunnis and Shia.
After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, his followers split over who was his rightful heir.
It is important not to overstate the division. Sunnis and Shia share fundamental beliefs, and have co-existed for centuries - the animosity between Iran and Saudi Arabia is better understood in terms of a power struggle in the Middle East and beyond.
But despite this, sectarianism is an ugly reality in many of the conflicts raging today.
Iran and Saudi Arabia's status as leading exponents of Shia and Sunni Islam respectively have informed their foreign policies, with both sides forming alliances with countries who share their theologies - and backing militant groups in those that don't.
Islam's ancient schism
The recent rift between Iran and Saudi Arabia can be traced to the Iranian revolution of 1979, which saw a pro-Western leader toppled and Shia religious authorities taking over.
Tehran began backing Shia militias and parties abroad, and Riyadh - concerned at the growing influence of a newly-strident Iran - strengthened links to other Sunni governments, including the formation of the Gulf Co-operation Council.
The 1980s saw tensions between Saudi and Iran escalate - Saudi Arabia backed Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and after clashes at the hajj in 1987 killed hundreds of Iranian pilgrims, Saudi Arabia suspended diplomatic ties for three years.
Another key milestone was the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, when the overthrow of Saddam Hussein saw a Shia-led government come to power in Riyadh's neighbour.
The Arab Spring saw Iran support its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with the Saudis backing the opposition when popular protests turned into civil war.
In Bahrain, Saudi troops helped put down anti-government protests by the majority Shia population there.
Saudi Arabia felt threatened by last year's Iranian nuclear deal, fearing the easing of sanctions would allow Tehran to further support Shia groups in the Middle East.
If you add to this the Iranian fury over a deadly stampede during last year's Hajj pilgrimage and a more assertive Saudi foreign policy since the new king took charge, then the row over the execution of Sheikh Nimr becomes just the latest in a long-running struggle.
Iran-Saudi crisis 'most dangerous for decades'
Today there are two ongoing major flashpoints - Syria and Yemen.
As news emerged of the executions, a Saudi-led coalition battling Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen officially announced the end of a ceasefire that neither side had ever fully observed.
Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of backing the Shia group, and intervened to support Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Divisions on Syria boil down to the fact that Iran wants its ally, President Assad, to stay while Saudi Arabia says he must go. Both support rival fighters on the ground.
Painstaking efforts were taken to get the two sides to join peace talks later this month aimed at resolving a conflict that has killed more than 250,000 people, but with Riyadh-Tehran diplomatic ties severed, chances of success look ever more distant.
Where key countries stand on Syria
Perhaps the only thing we can be certain about is that hostile Iranian-Saudi relations will only prolong the misery of Yemen and Syria, with a diplomatic solution unlikely and both sides keen to prevent the other gaining influence.
International reaction has been predictable, with Saudi allies such as Bahrain also taking measures to downgrade or end relations with Iran.
World powers have called for de-escalation. The US is in a delicate position, being a long-term ally of Saudi Arabia but seeing a thaw in ties with Iran in the wake of the nuclear deal.
American foreign policy is undergoing a "pivot" towards Asia; the US enjoys greater energy security following a fracking boom - how far would Washington be prepared to wade into the row?
The gloomiest prediction from commentators is that the region could be entering a version of the Thirty Years' War, which saw Catholic and Protestant states battle for supremacy in the 17th Century.
But many will be hoping those angered by Sheikh Nimr's death will take the advice of the cleric's own brother, Mohammed, who said any protests should be peaceful.
Inception star Tom Hardy, new Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield, US actress Emma Stone and Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson are also in the running.
"I'm in very good company with the other actors who have been nominated," said Arterton, 24, who appeared in 2008 Bond film Quantum of Solace.
The winner will be announced at the Bafta awards on 13 February.
Arteton starred opposite Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench in Quantum of Solace, the most recent entry in the 007 film series.
The Gravesend-born actress also appeared in Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe.
Film critic and Bafta member Mark Kermode said that Arterton's inclusion summed up what the Rising Star award was about.
"It's not a beginner's list, it's about people on the cusp of stardom," he told the BBC.
He said that despite starring in big budget movies like Clash of the Titans, Arterton "came into her own" in the low-budget kidnap thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed.
"On the strength of that you could show that to any casting director and say that's the range that she can do," Kermode said.
Garfield, 27, was recently nominated for a Golden Globe award for best supporting actor for his role in The Social Network, about the Facebook website.
He recently landed the lead role of Peter Parker in the next Spider-Man movie, due for release in 2012.
Stone will also appear in Spider-Man, playing the part of Gwen Stacy. The 22-year-old's other films include Easy A, Superbad and Zombieland.
Kermode said: "Being in a Spider-Man movie will irrevocably change anyone's life. It's a big project. Peter Parker is one of the great roles. I thank that what's nice is that this nomination has happened now - in advance of that."
Hardy made his name in Spielberg's TV series Band of Brothers and drew plaudits for his lead role in Bronson, in which he played infamous British criminal Charles Bronson.
The 33-year-old has been linked to roles in the latest Mad Max and Batman films and will be seen later this year in a new version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Johnson, 20, played the young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy and was seen last year in comic book movie Kick-Ass.
He and Nowhere Boy's director, the artist Sam Taylor-Wood, had a baby daughter last summer.
Previous recipients of the Rising Star award, sponsored by telecommunications giant Orange, include Shia LaBeouf and Kristen Stewart.
Musician and actor Ben Drew, better known as rapper Plan B, is among this year's judges.
Drew said of the nominees: "They've proved they can act - it's about who can take it to the next level. We're looking for a name that can carry a film, like the DiCaprios of this world."
PC Claire Stretton, who has been sacked, was family liaison officer to Charles Foulkes and his wife after their son was murdered in 2001.
Solicitor Nick Turner said their three daughters reached an out-of-court settlement with West Mercia Police.
Ms Stretton was claimed to have manipulated Mr Foulkes for £100,000.
Mr Foulkes' daughters took legal action against the force after their father died aged 93 in 2011. Mr Turner said the settlement was reached in the summer.
Papers lodged at the High Court last year said the officer, identified as "PC X", met Mr Foulkes and his terminally ill wife Dorothy, of Church Stretton, Shropshire, after the death of their 49-year-old son Colin.
Colin Foulkes was killed by John Latus who beheaded him with an axe.
Charles Foulkes was the sole beneficiary of his son's estate of about £180,000, according to the papers.
"Such was the inappropriate manner in which PC X interacted [with Mr Foulkes], his wife referred to PC X with great distress as his 'bit of fluff'," according to the documents.
The family said Ms Stretton took advantage of "his vulnerabilities" and "abused her position of trust" following the death of his son and later wife.
The officer allegedly sent Mr Foulkes texts saying she loved him and that he was "special". The daughters said their father gave the officer "substantial sums of money and presents" over a 10-year period.
Ms Stretton, who worked for the force in Telford for 26 years, was dismissed last week for gross misconduct.
Det Supt Gary Watson, head of professional standards said: "The misconduct hearing found that the behaviour of the officer fell below the standards we expect from our officers and staff and amounted to a breach of the standards of professional behaviour, namely discreditable conduct and a breach of honesty and integrity."
Mr Turner, of Russell and Co Solicitors of Malvern, Herefordshire, said the family were "relieved that some semblance of justice has been achieved".
"What should have been a situation whereby the family liaison officer appointed by the police brought support, strength and counselling to the family - instead of that their misery was compounded by the totally inappropriate actions of PC Stretton."
Banks and building societies are unveiling their deals as part of the government-backed scheme which begins on Tuesday.
As with a traditional cash Isa, interest will be free of both income and capital gains tax.
The government will also top-up savings in these accounts.
When savers take money out to buy a house or flat, the government will add 25% to whatever is in the account, up to a maximum of £3,000.
Among those to have unveiled details of their new Help to Buy Isa products are the Halifax, part of Lloyds Banking Group, which will offer an interest rate of 4%. The Nationwide will pay 2% interest and offer access to other perks, while the NatWest will offer 2% but vows not to give bonus rates for new customers which quickly disappear.
The rates are variable so may change over time.
Charlotte Nelson, of financial information service Moneyfacts, said: "It looks like the competition is now on to entice these new savers and to be seen as the first-time buyers' choice."
Plans for a Help to Buy Isa scheme for potential first-time buyers were announced in Chancellor George Osborne's Budget in March. Rising house prices and rents have meant it can take longer for these young adults to save the deposit required to secure a mortgage.
Campbell Robb, chief executive of housing charity Shelter, said that a "key test" for the measures would be whether they would work for people on average and lower incomes.
The two-page instruction by the Vatican's department on doctrine said ashes of the dead must be kept in "sacred places" such as cemeteries.
It also stressed that the Roman Catholic Church still preferred burials over cremations.
The Vatican allowed cremation in 1963 but has always frowned on the practice.
It also stressed at the time that cremation must not suggest a denial of faith about resurrection.
"It is not permitted to scatter the ashes of the faithful departed in the air, on land, at sea or in some other way, nor may they be preserved in mementos, pieces of jewellery or other objects," said the instruction by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
"These courses of action cannot be legitimised by an appeal to the sanitary, social, or economic motives that may have occasioned the choice of cremation."
The Vatican said it was issuing the new guidelines to counter "new ideas contrary to the Church's faith" that had become widespread since 1963.
It said the Church could not "condone attitudes or permit rites that involve erroneous ideas about death, such as considering death as the definitive annihilation of the person, or the moment of fusion with Mother Nature or the universe, or as a stage in the cycle of regeneration, or as the definitive liberation from the 'prison' of the body".
The guidelines reiterated that Catholics who chose to be cremated "for reasons contrary to the Christian faith" must be denied a Christian funeral.
The Vatican also stressed that "the Church continues to prefer the practice of burying the bodies of the deceased, because this shows a greater esteem towards the deceased".
Pope Francis had already approved the guidelines, the Vatican said.
Fearing the impact of naturalistic ideas about the circle of life, where the body is regarded as no different to other physical matter, the Vatican has decided to clarify its position on what should happen to the remains of the dead.
Cardinal Gerhard Muller, the head of the Church's powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said ashes of those cremated should be committed to a cemetery or another consecrated place.
But Britain and some other western countries face a shortage of land in which to bury bodies.
There are concerns this announcement will not only place financial burdens on Catholic families but also increase the pressure on cemeteries, half of which are expected to run out of space within the next 20 years.
The man, who has not been named, was crossing Manchester Road near the junction with Hollins Road in Failsworth, at 22:20 GMT on Friday.
The 59-year-old was taken to hospital but died a short time later.
Police said he was hit by a red Honda Jazz. The driver stopped at the scene but police have asked for witnesses to contact them.
In particular they would like to speak to the occupants of a light-coloured Hackney cab and a Mitsubishi Shogun waiting to turn right on to Hollins Road at the time.
Stephen Rhodes, who was also the voice of Family Fortunes for 14 years, died aged 66 on Monday.
The former BBC broadcaster, who worked at Three Counties Radio on the consumer and breakfast programmes, has been described as "a genius".
He was diagnosed with the disease in 2014.
As well as presenting This Morning as relief presenter for Richard Madeley from 1994 to 1997, Mr Rhodes was also the host of Central Weekend.
He worked on Family Fortunes from 1987 until 1999.
Mr Rhodes joined BBC Three Counties Radio in 1995 before leaving in 2010 to stand as an independent candidate in the Luton South seat in the General Election.
He also presented The Politics Show on BBC East for four years.
BBC Three Counties editor Laura Moss said: "MND is a cruel disease.
"He faced it head on and campaigned tirelessly on behalf of the charity, fighting for better services and treatment."
Friend and Three Counties colleague Jonathan Vernon-Smith, who now presents the consumer show, called Mr Rhodes "a radio genius".
He said: "They always say you should choose your role models carefully and I'm very thankful that Stephen Rhodes was mine."
He added Mr Rhodes "had the ability to make the audience laugh and cry" and was "a kind, caring and hugely entertaining man".
Another former colleague, Jane Prendergast, called Mr Rhodes "a joy" and "a great broadcaster".
In his last interview with Three Counties in August 2015, Mr Rhodes said he was trying to raise awareness of MND.
"Anybody can get this," he said. "There's no explanation as to how it comes around."
Mr Rhodes leaves behind wife Greggy and four children.
1 December 2016 Last updated at 07:21 GMT
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Ricky Burlton, 20, from Enfield, London, died after he was hit by a car on the A10 exit slip road at Hoddesdon on 4 June 2010.
Officers want to question Alexi Shyti, who is thought to have been living under an assumed name at the time.
Europol said Mr Shyti may now be living in southern Europe.
Mr Shyti, believed to have been driving a Rover involved in the crash, fled the UK the next day.
A Europol spokesman said: "The suspect is believed to have been in Albania, and may have travelled to Greece and Italy under different names."
He said anyone with any information should call Hertfordshire Police.
Alice Burch from the New Forest started on 1 October and passed the finish line in Southampton on Sunday.
The mother-of-one is raising money for a charity which provides veterinary care to working animals in Africa and the Middle East.
She said at the end: "It was really hard because it was so windy. It's been good though, I've enjoyed it."
"I am quite stubborn, I said I was going to do it so I did it."
She posted on Facebook after the event: "It's been an epic journey, one I've had the pleasure of sharing with both old and new faces.
Ms Burch has raised £3,800 out of a target of £60,000 for the charity SPANA.
She started after a close friend, who championed the charity, passed away last year.
During the course of her challenge she took part in the Bournemouth Marathon, but many have been run at the athletics track at the Outdoor Sports Centre in Southampton.
Loganair will continue to operate the route with £800,000 of funding supporting the six-month extension.
The UK and Scottish governments and Dundee City Council agreed to extend the current public service obligation contract.
Loganair operates two daily flights each way each weekday, with a further flight on a Sunday.
The UK government funding is through the Regional Air Connectivity Fund, which aims to maintain connectivity between London and smaller regional airports, where routes are at risk of being withdrawn.
Scottish government Transport Minister Derek Mackay said: "The extension of the public service obligation on the Dundee-Stansted route is a welcome and important step for the future of the airport.
"All parties have worked together to reach an agreement that will see the route safeguarded in the immediate future, with a view to reaching a longer-term solution in due course.
Dundee City Council leader Ken Guild said: "I am pleased that the partners in this route have agreed that the backing for it will be extended.
"We will continue to work with them to encourage as many people as possible to use the service."
Frank Mulholland QC said he would expect an inquiry to be held given the level of public concern over the incident.
Lamara Bell, 25, and John Yuill, 28, were found in their car three days after it crashed near Stirling.
Police later admitted they had failed to respond to a call about the crash.
Ms Bell was critically injured in the crash and died later in hospital. Her partner Mr Yuill died at the scene.
Mr Mulholland instructed the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) to carry out an independent investigation into the circumstances.
Earlier this year, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie wrote to the Lord Advocate asking for an update on the investigation.
In a reply to Mr Rennie, Mr Mulholland said: "When all investigations are completed this case will be reported to Crown Counsel for instruction as to what, if any, proceedings are appropriate.
"It is open to Crown Counsel to instruct fatal accident inquiries or criminal proceedings where appropriate.
"As with any sudden death case, the evidence in this case will be analysed carefully and all options will be considered.
"I should add that, notwithstanding a decision on criminal proceedings, I find it inconceivable that a fatal accident inquiry will not be held given the public concern over this tragedy."
A Crown Office spokesman said: "The Crown has received an interim report from the Pirc in connection with an incident on the M9 in July 2015. It would be inappropriate to comment further while the investigation is live.
"The families of those involved will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments."
An inquiry following the crash has already highlighted weaknesses in Police Scotland's roll-out of its new national call-handling system.
Vardy, 28, is the Premier League's top scorer with six goals and was named in the latest England squad on Thursday.
"He has two broken bones but the medical staff have done very well to treat it," said Ranieri.
"A lot of players want to play on when they feel good. We agree as long as he is safe, then for us it is OK."
Vardy, who scored twice in Leicester's 5-2 defeat by Arsenal, injured his wrist the 3-2 win against Aston Villa on 13 September.
Ranieri added the striker would be fit to play in Leicester's next match, away to Norwich City on Saturday.
The 28-year-old played 23 games to help Bolton win promotion from League One last season, scoring three goals.
He previously spent four years with Millwall, where he played alongside recent Dons signing Jimmy Abdou.
"They formed an incredible partnership at Millwall a few years back and they complement each other well," boss Neal Ardley told the club website.
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The announcement came as the Edinburgh-based challenger bank saw underlying profit rise by nearly 5%, to £65m.
Total income was up more than 5% to £274m in the year to 12 March.
Sainsbury's said it performed strongly in the personal loans market, with 15% year-on-year growth in the number of advances to new customers.
The bank's portfolio of insurance products also continued to perform well, resulting in new business growth of more than 10% year-on-year.
Sales of new home insurance policies increased by more than 25%.
In an interim results statement, Sainsbury's said: "Given the bank's strong trading performance and the trust people have in the Sainsbury's brand, we have decided to launch new mortgage products in 2017.
"We believe these products will complement our existing financial services portfolio and we expect customers to respond well."
Sainsbury's also reported that it was "making good progress" in moving towards "a new, more flexible" banking IT platform.
It forecasts total transition costs to be "at the top of the £340m to £380m range".
Meanwhile, Edinburgh-based Virgin Money has reported a sharp rise in gross mortgage lending.
It said lending climbed by year-on-year by 30% in the first quarter to a record £2.1bn, giving the bank a market share of 3.4%.
The bank added that residential gross mortgage lending increased by 35%, while buy-to-let lending was up by 17%.
Credit card balances surpassed £1.8bn at the end of the quarter, up from £1.6bn as at 31 December.
Virgin Money said it was looking towards an "accelerated target" of £3bn of credit card "outstandings" by the end of 2017.
Chief executive Jayne-Anne Gadhia said: "I am delighted to report it has been another excellent quarter for Virgin Money.
"We had a record start to the year for mortgages and our savings franchise continues to flourish with a strong inflow of cash ISAs.
"I am particularly pleased with the performance of the credit card business which continues to exceed expectations one year on since launching to the public."
Wi-fi Assist first appeared in iOS9 and allows devices to automatically switch between wi-fi and mobile data.
A class-action lawsuit filed in California alleged that some people had run up large mobile data bills as a result of the feature, which was enabled by default.
Apple declined to comment.
Wi-fi Assist is designed to give people a more seamless internet experience as they leave an area with wi-fi, or if the signal is weak.
By default, most smartphones exclusively use a wi-fi connection to access the internet if one is available - helping keep people within their mobile data allowance.
But prioritising wi-fi can result in periods of poor connectivity - for example when leaving home - while a smartphone judges whether the wi-fi is still available, before reverting to mobile data.
Some Android handsets have a similar setting, such as Samsung's Smart Network Switch, which is switched off by default.
According to tech blog AppleInsider, the complainants filing the lawsuit said Apple had not properly explained the potential consequences of Wi-Fi Assist.
They alleged the "overall amount in controversy" exceeded $5m (£3.25m), because so many people could be affected.
Apple's support website currently warns customers that they "might use more cellular data" if they leave the feature enabled.
"For most users, this should only be a small percentage higher than previous usage," the website says.
"Apple could have put a pop-up notice on the phone to explain what had changed," said Daniel Gleeson, mobile analyst at IHS.
"But you know as well as I do that nobody reads all those pop-ups when updating their device.
"Most Apple customers will be in a premium tier with a big data bundle, so the number of customers receiving bill shock should be quite small. But it could be a bigger issue internationally where more people use pre-paid tariffs."
He was cycling on the Brian's Well Road in west Belfast on Monday afternoon when he was knocked down.
The Belfast Health Trust confirmed that a boy, who is being treated at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital, was in a critical condition.
The Brian's Well Road and Pembrook Loop remain closed with diversions in place.
Tisdale's side were given a flying start by David Wheeler's fourth-minute goal and they wrapped up a 3-0 win before half-time with further strikes from Joel Grant and Lee Holmes.
The opener came when Alex Whitmore's poor clearance gave Holmes space and time to run on goal and the former Derby midfielder produced the perfect through ball for Wheeler to drill a low shot past Barry Roche from the edge of the area.
Lloyd James fired wide but the Grecians did not have to wait long for a second as, on 16 minutes, Reuben Reid did well to hold off his man on the edge of the area before teeing up Grant, who drilled a low left-foot shot in off the right post.
Jim Bentley's men hit back, with Tom Barkhuizen volleying Michael Rose's corner straight at Christy Pym and Cole Stockton heading weakly at goal from a second set-piece, before Exeter scored an all-too-simple third.
Holmes was allowed to run into the Morecambe area and without any challenge was able to stab a left-foot shot with the outside of his foot past the helpless Roche from 12 yards out.
Morecambe started the second half strongly, with Stockton firing over from close range, and they dominated from then on without being able to pull a goal back.
Substitute keeper Bobby Olejnik saved superbly from Lee Molyneux's sweetly-struck shot, Pierce Sweeney cleared Ryan Edwards's shot off the line and Whitmore also went close.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Morecambe 0, Exeter City 3.
Second Half ends, Morecambe 0, Exeter City 3.
Alex Whitmore (Morecambe) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Jake Taylor (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Aaron McGowan (Morecambe) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Jack Stacey.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Pierce Sweeney.
Attempt missed. Ryan Edwards (Morecambe) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Exeter City. Jack Stacey replaces Luke Croll.
Luke Croll (Exeter City) is shown the yellow card.
Tom Barkhuizen (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luke Croll (Exeter City).
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Aaron McGowan.
Substitution, Morecambe. Ntumba Massanka replaces Lee Molyneux.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Pierce Sweeney.
Peter Murphy (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luke Croll (Exeter City).
Substitution, Exeter City. Robbie Simpson replaces Reuben Reid.
Attempt missed. Cole Stockton (Morecambe) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Jake Taylor.
Attempt missed. Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Ryan Edwards.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Joel Grant (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Barry Roche.
James Jennings (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pierce Sweeney (Exeter City).
Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jake Taylor (Exeter City).
Lloyd James (Exeter City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jack Dunn (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lloyd James (Exeter City).
Attempt missed. Cole Stockton (Morecambe) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Tom Barkhuizen (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Craig Woodman (Exeter City).
Substitution, Morecambe. Jack Dunn replaces Kevin Ellison.
Foul by James Jennings (Morecambe).
David Wheeler (Exeter City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lee Molyneux (Morecambe).
The 24-year-old went missing after leaving a nightclub in Glasgow on 11 April. Her body was found four days later at a farm near Milngavie.
Ms Buckley's father John said the family was "grateful" for the support shown during "this terrible time".
Alexander Pacteau, 21, from Glasgow, has been charged with her murder.
Ms Buckley's parents, John and Marian, travelled to Scotland from Cork after she disappeared and said they were touched by the support they had received.
In a statement issued through the Irish Examiner, Mr Buckley said: "We are very grateful for all the support and messages of sympathy we received from so many people from all over Scotland at this terrible time for our family.
"People have been extremely helpful to us right from the moment we discovered that Karen was missing.
"We would like to thank everybody in Scotland who helped us in any way.
Mr Buckley said: "People have been very good to us and it means a lot.
"The Scottish police were wonderful and very professional right through it all.
He said some police officers "took the trouble to travel to Ireland for Karen's funeral", and added: "It was a very kind and thoughtful thing to do."
A major police search was launched when Ms Buckley was reported missing by friends on Sunday 12 April when she failed to return after leaving a nightclub in Glasgow's west end the previous night.
The 24-year-old's body was found at High Craigton Farm, near Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, following a four-day search.
Following the discovery, about 300 people attended a vigil in Glasgow's George Square in April, including her parents.
Ms Buckley, a qualified nurse, moved to Scotland in February and was studying occupational therapy at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Mr Buckley said: "We will never forget the huge outpouring of support and sympathy we got when we were in Scotland, it was incredible.
"We want to thank everybody who took part in the search for Karen and the hundreds of people who turned out for the vigil in George Square.
"We are extremely upset that Karen will never have the chance to live out her life, travel more and pursue her career in occupational therapy.
"That maybe someday she could have a family of her own and enjoy a happy and eventful life, which is what she would have wanted.
"We are still in shock and disbelief and it sometimes feels like all of this isn't real."
Mr Pacteau is also accused of attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
He made no plea or declaration when he made his second appearance at Glasgow Sheriff Court in April and was remanded in custody.
The German, punched by Ukrainian Andriy Grivko on stage three, outsprinted Team Sky's Italian Elia Viviani, while Britain's Mark Cavendish was fourth.
Cavendish gesticulated with frustration after failing to come round Kittel, who he had been following in the sprint.
"I'm super proud. It's a nice start to the season," said Quick-Step Floors rider Kittel, who won three stages.
"The final sprint didn't go according to plan because the chain of my lead-out man fell off so I had to go on my own."
Kittel's defence was expected to come under most pressure on Friday's hilly stage four, but it was cancelled because of high winds.
He ended up 18 seconds clear of Dutch rider Dylan Groenewegen in the overall standings with German John Degenkolb in third.
Team Dimension Data's Cavendish, who won the race in 2015, finished eighth overall, two places behind One Pro Cycling's Thomas Stewart, who was the highest-ranked Briton on general classification.
Stage 5 result:
1. Marcel Kittel (Ger/Quick-Step Floors) 2hrs 34mins 12secs
2. Elia Viviani (Ita/Team Sky) Same time
3. Riccardo Minali (Ita/Astana)
4. Mark Cavendish (GB/Team Dimension Data)
5. John Degenkolb (Ger/Trek-Segafredo)
General classification:
1. Marcel Kittel (Ger/Quick-Step Floors) 15hrs 8mins 56secs
2. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned/Lotto Jumbo) +18secs
3. John Degenkolb (Ger/Trek-Segafredo) +24secs
4. Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux/BMC Racing) Same time
5. Elia Viviani (Ita/Team Sky)
Selected:
6. Thomas Stewart (GB/One Pro Cycling) +24secs
8. Mark Cavendish (GB/Team Dimension Data) +26secs
10. Alex Dowsett (GB/Movistar) +27secs
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust recently received a report of a dead otter on a road in Gedling, Nottingham.
It said that while it was an upsetting discovery it proved for the first time that otters have been in the city.
While otters are known to live downstream on the Trent, this is the first proof they are further upstream.
Erin McDaid, from the trust, said: "Whilst a sad report, the fact remains this is the first confirmed report we've received of otters in this immediate area.
"We have received reports of otters further downstream and closer to the Trent at Gunthorpe - but only anecdotal evidence of otters in this area so, all in all, this is an interesting record."
Otters only returned to the county in the late 1990s, and road deaths have often provided the best evidence they remain in Nottinghamshire.
Mr McDaid added: "I have only seen otters in a remote area of Scotland, so to think we have them living here in Nottinghamshire, so close to the city is amazing.
"It's sad when creatures such as otters are killed on our roads, but they fact that they have returned to our rivers and streams is a real conservation success story."
The International Tennis Federation's Board of Directors has unanimously endorsed a "package of comprehensive reforms" for both Davis Cup and Fed Cup at a meeting in Indian Wells.
The recommendations will have to be ratified by the ITF's AGM in Vietnam in August.
Changes were discussed following a review of current match formats.
Any reform will require a formal vote of approval.
Last September, the ITF announced plans to introduce fixed host cities for future Davis Cup and Fed Cup finals.
The ITF is trying to come up with a format which will encourage more top players to commit to the competitions.
Novak Djokovic was the only member of the world's top ten to feature in last month's Davis Cup World Group first round ties.
Carl Campbell, 33, was shot on High Street in West Bromwich on Tuesday.
Mohammed Humza, 19, and Vikesh Chauhan, 24, are also charged with attempted murder, possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and possession of a prohibited object.
They appeared at Wolverhampton Crown Court earlier and are due to appear again on 26 January.
Relatives have described Mr Campbell as a "much loved son, devoted father and beloved brother".
The family addressed reports he was jailed in 2009 for causing the death by dangerous driving of Clarence Elwin in Tipton.
His family said: "Carl was a young man at the time who had a full driving licence, tax and insurance. He just panicked and left the scene.
"He was not a killer, it was an accident and he panicked so please don't judge him on that incident alone."
Two men, aged 18 and 19, were found injured inside the house in Salisbury Road, Canterbury last Thursday, while a 21-year-old man was found nearby.
One of the victims remains in hospital, but his injuries are not life-threatening, police said.
The arrested man, a 19-year-old from London, was released on bail until 14 September pending further inquiries.
Police said news of the end-of-year party had spread on social media and it was well-attended as a result.
Six first-year students had shared the house and two organised the party.
Officers were called to the house at about 01:15 BST.
It is 10 years since the Christmas savings club, which allowed people to spread the cost of food and presents, went bust.
The UK government is considering a report from the Law Commission which recommends new protections are introduced for customers.
The SNP has described the lack of a change in the law as "disappointing".
The Law Commission can only make recommendations for England and Wales, but much of consumer law is reserved to Westminster, so any changes made would affect the whole of the UK.
About 116,000 people, including 30,000 Scots, lost money when the company went out of business in October 2006.
In 2012 liquidators announced customers could eventually receive back up to half of their savings.
The Law Commission has recommended that the most vulnerable consumers be given added protection.
Stephen Lewis, of the commission, said: "We think that there is a case for them to be advanced up the hierarchy of creditors, so that they rank alongside employees for example.
"They would stand a better chance of getting a more significant payout than at present."
The commission's report also called for Christmas savings schemes to be regulated in the same way as banks.
It added that pre-pay energy customers and those buying new-build homes off-plan were particularly vulnerable, and called for similar protection in those sectors.
Louise McDaid, chairwoman of the Farepak Victims Committee, lost £400 when the company went bankrupt, eventually receiving 32% of that back.
"We want the government to implement some of the recommendations particularly to do with the savings clubs because unfortunately, even after 10 years, this could happen again," she said.
"I find it shocking that consumers can be ripped off even 10 years after Farepak."
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) contributed to the Law Commission's report.
It told the commission that savings schemes were often used by the most vulnerable in society.
David Menzies, Director of Insolvency at ICAS, said: "They tend to be used by people on low incomes.
"They are doing the right thing around saving up for Christmas, trying to avoid the debt, and in those circumstances it's clearly right that they should have some form of protection."
But Mr Menzies said that customers should not be given an "ultra-preference beyond other unsecured creditors".
"We would much rather see that the protection is given before they go into insolvency," he added.
The SNP's Westminster business spokeswoman Hannah Bardell said she would put pressure on the UK government to change the law.
"Some of the legislation in terms of consumer protection is hundreds of years old which seems incredible given how high-profile things like Farepak were," she said.
"I think it's really disappointing that the law hasn't changed in the ten years since Farepak ruined Christmas for thousands of people."
Mr Lewis added: "Another Farepak could happen and we think that therefore government should be ready, should make regulations and should exercise their powers to protect the consumers."
A spokesman for the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation said: "Customers are last in line for refunds when companies go insolvent, so we asked the Law Commission to look at what more could be done to protect them when they pre-pay for goods, buy gift vouchers or contribute to savings schemes.
"The government will respond to the recommendations in due course."
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President Koroma waded into the country's football feud by lashing out against "unproductive squabbles in football".
His dramatic intervention comes just over a month after Fifa secretary general Fatma Samoura visited Freetown and announced a roadmap designed to bring peace between Sierra Leone's warring football factions.
Sierra Leone FA (SLFA) president Isha Johansen is locked in a bitter fight with various club administrators, particularly over two issues - her organisational reforms and conveying of the SLFA congress.
The SLFA has also not been able to organise a league this year and a breakaway league organised by nine out of 14 Premier League clubs is ongoing.
President Koroma's comments came during a popular annual football competition carrying his name in his birth place of Makeni at the weekend.
"I've been trying to solve the issues for some time... there are no big issues other than, egos and selfish interests," the Head of State said.
"This should not stop us from looking at the bigger picture which is to promote our talented young men and women.
"I hope the impasse will come to an end very soon."
President Koroma, who has attempted several times to deal with the malaise infecting his country's national game, did not say what he would do if nothing has changed by March 2017.
Crucially, though, he warned that no one will be protected by Fifa - a clear reference to Fifa's stance that government should not interfere in football matters.
The world governing body has made no secret of its backing for Johansen, the only female football president in Africa.
President Koroma said: "Let nobody feel that he or she will continue to enjoy the protection of Fifa because when the Fifa secretary general Fatma Samoura came to Freetown recently, she made it very clear that it's time the stakeholders of football in the country sat down and sorted out the issues.
"It will be in the interest of the country to do so immediately because we have young talent to develop."
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Aregawi, who won gold at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow and 2014 World Indoor Championships in Sopot, has requested that a B-sample is tested.
The Ethiopia-born Swede, 25, failed an out-of-competition test conducted by governing body the IAAF.
Agent Valentijn Trouw said Aregawi was "shocked and devastated" by the news.
In an interview with the BBC World Service, Trouw added that Aregawi does not know how the drugs got into her system.
The RNLI wants to replace Burry Port's aging boathouse and bring both its lifeboats under one roof.
The centre will be built between the existing lifeboat station and the western slipway.
Roger Bowen, Burry Port Lifeboat operations manager, said it was "the start of an exciting new chapter in the station's 71-year history".
He added: "The RNLI will now proceed with the detail design and construction phase of this iconic building."
The centre will include modern training and changing facilities for the volunteer crew, which will help speed up launches, a workshop and a public viewing area.
The contents of a dog waste bin at Hunter's Chase playground was used to cover the playing apparatus on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.
A Tandridge Council spokesperson warned the acts of vandalism could spread disease among park users.
They urged anybody with information about the incidents to contact police.
Toxocara canis, a parasite often found in dog faeces, has the potential to cause asthma, epilepsy and blindness in humans.
The playground was closed while the area was cleaned.
Flood walls will be improved or knocked down and replaced along a 13km (8-mile) stretch of the River Derwent.
Council officials believe the work, due to finish in 2022, will reduce the annual risk of flooding in the area from 25 to 1 to 100 to 1.
But residents have said some parts of the scheme are "dependent" on private sector development.
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The walls were built soon after flooding in the area 50 years ago, with water reaching "within six inches" of the top of the current defences in 2000, according to residents.
David Bartram, from Derby City Council, said people would be "a lot safer" as a result of the scheme - which will also see nearly 500 trees chopped down but 600 replanted.
"You can never protect against every flood but what we're doing is sensibly reducing the risk of flooding and planning for the future," he said.
The newly-built walls will be approximately 6ft (1.8m) high with a glass top.
Adrian Perry, from the local residents' association, said some "question marks" remained over the project.
"Certain parts of the scheme are dependent on private sector development to provide these flood defences and given the economy at the moment, there are big question marks about when that will take place, if it will take place," he said.
A council spokesman added there is no issue with funding for the scheme, but admitted its timeframe relies on obtaining planning permission to build defences on sections of land along the river not owned by the authority.
Ranked as one of the country's top festive events, the swim on North Beach is now in its 46th year - but its family origins date back 100 years.
It is organised by the Tenby Sea Swim Association (TSSA) and has raised over £250,000 for charities.
This year's fancy dress theme was The Music of the Sea.
Speaking on BBC Radio 2, TSSA chairman Chris Osborne said the swim was a "fantastic way of breaking out of the indulgencies of Christmas Day".
"As soon as you come out from the sea you're suddenly awake again and ready for action."
Mr Osborne said participants did not have to swim, they just have to "immerse themselves".
"The theory is you charge in, and if there's six or seven hundred people charging with you, you haven't got much of a choice."
Mr Osborne predicted the sea temperature would be around five or six degrees.
The event follows the 52nd Porthcawl Christmas morning swim which was held yesterday.
Mike Jones, who led Cheshire West & Chester Council until 2015, spent £4,889 on a credit card for travel, food and accommodation, and failed to provide some receipts.
The authority's rules state those type of credit card transactions are "barred" and receipts must be provided. A police review is also under way.
Mr Jones said he met the rules.
In February, council officials announced an internal review of Mr Jones' credit card transactions, after details of his spending were revealed by the Chester Chronicle.
The BBC has been told the review will look into why the card was used for "subsistence, travel and accommodation", and also why receipts were not provided on 75 occasions, after new rules were introduced in 2013.
A "purchase card procedure" introduced in January 2013 states it "must not" be used to pay for food, drinks, travel, parking or accommodation.
A list of transactions shows Mr Jones' card was used for those purposes between 2010 and 2015, as well as paying for hospitality expenses.
Mr Jones was the only councillor to own a council credit card when he ran the Conservative-led Cheshire West & Chester Council from 2009 until elections in 2015, when Labour gained control.
He is now a backbench Conservative councillor for Tattenhall.
Some of Mike Jones' expenses paid for on his council credit card include:
In total, the card was used to spend £2,383 on the "barred" categories after the new rules were introduced.
Mr Jones said he was given an exemption allowing him to use his card to pay for parking, adding that some of his transactions may have related to work he carried out for the Local Government Association.
Records released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal Mr Jones did not provide receipts for transactions which mostly included parking and rail travel, despite rules saying "cardholders are required to retain all purchase receipts".
He said: "In all the cases where receipts are issued I have passed them into the council and if they are missing, unfortunately I have no idea why they have not been recorded.
"Expenses and use of the purchase card were properly scrutinised by officers and our audit staff. No such issue was raised with me," he said.
Council spokesman Mark Wynn said: "Councillor Jones, in his role as leader, met with potential external investors with a view to attracting regeneration and development to the borough.
"The council has reviewed all the transactions brought to its attention and responded accordingly and is conducting its own internal review."
Cheshire Police received a complaint from a former Cheshire West & Chester councillor in February.
It said: "The allegation is currently being reviewed, in order to establish whether any offences may have been committed."
It's been a season of ups and downs for the Glasgow side, but the manner of their victories over Manchester Storm on Friday and Sheffield Steelers on Saturday was pleasing.
And the Clan boss was especially satisfied to do it with a team short of four key players, but one with great collective spirit.
"We're short and a little banged up, but the guys had a common goal to get the points and we did that," Finnerty said.
"We competed from the back and scraped two wins against two high-octane offensive teams. Our defensive zone is probably the best it's been all season.
"Our game plan was executed in the way we wanted. It was a good weekend overall and I'm proud of my guys."
The mood around the club was completely different to seven days previously when they were beaten by Edinburgh Capitals and Storm.
But they bounced back in impressive fashion, starting on Friday at home when Manchester, playing three games in Scotland this weekend, began that mini run in Glasgow.
However, Finnerty's men ended up 2-1 winners, with goals from Mike Hammond and Scott Pitt, despite a consolation from Eric Neilson.
Clan headed to Sheffield on Saturday and after goalie Michal Zajkowski denied Guillaume Desbiens' penalty shot, they went two up through Hammond and Pitt.
Steelers pulled level through Colton Fretter and Andreas Valdix, but Matt Beca's overtime winner clinched both points as Braehead took a 3-2 win away from Yorkshire, completing the points haul.
Manchester left that disappointment behind to head to Fife Flyers on Saturday and although they took a point, they were on the losing side again in a fiery 4-3 overtime defeat.
Brendan Brooks and Chase Schaber put Flyers two up, but were pegged back by Jack Prince.
The game soon turned sour when Neilson was ejected from the game for an alleged altercation with a fan in the stands.
Storm had to refocus and Cody Cartier levelled the game up after two periods. Sebastien Thinel and Darian Dzuirzynski traded goals, but Ric Jackman took it in overtime for the home side.
Flyers headed to Nottingham Panthers on Sunday and were the first visitors to the Panthers' lair after Corey Neilson's side were crowned European Continental Cup champions last week.
And the Fifers spoiled the party, taking a 3-2 win after penalty shots to make it a four-point weekend for Todd Dutiaume's side also.
Justin Fox's goal cancelled out Brian McGrattan's earlier strike before Alex Nikiforuk restored Nottingham's lead. Brendan Brooks got the equaliser and the game went beyond regulation time.
While Shane Owen performed some heroics in goal, Fox's penalty shot was the one that proved decisive, confirming a hard-fought Flyers victory.
Manchester, completed their three-game stint north of the border, finished off at Edinburgh Capitals on Sunday and once more, ended up commiserating as they went down 2-1 to the Caps.
Mason Wilgosh and Mike D'Orazio struck for the home side to bookend the second period, but was pegged back by Manchester's Matt Bissonnette early in the third, but it was all they could muster.
It was a big win for the Capitals, who reduced the gap at the bottom of the league to three points behind Dundee Stars, who had a horror show of a weekend.
They were blanked 6-0 by Belfast Giants on Saturday as Mike Forney and Steve Saviano had them two up after the first 20 minutes.
James Desmarais, Chris Higgins and Jonathan Boxill made it comfortable before Desmarais added his second to complete the rout.
The misery continued at home on Sunday when they blanked again in a game that was arguably their biggest of the season - a 4-0 drubbing at the hands of Coventry Blaze.
Blaze are just above them in the play-off spots, but Marc LeFebvre's men just couldn't get near them as TJ Syner, Liam Stewart, Barry Almeida and Robin Bergman all struck to clinch victory.
Friday
Braehead Clan 2-1 Manchester Storm
Saturday
Belfast Giants 6-0 Dundee Stars
Fife Flyers 4-3 (OT) Manchester Storm
Sheffield Steelers 2-3 (OT) Braehead Clan
Sunday
Dundee Stars 0-4 Coventry Blaze
Edinburgh Capitals 2-1 Manchester Storm
Nottingham Panthers 2-3 (PS) Fife Flyers
Mr Hockey will co-convene a parliamentary group lobbying for a plebiscite to be held by 2020 on having an Australian head of state.
The move is expected to put the treasurer at odds with avowed monarchist Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Australia is a parliamentary democracy that retains Britain's monarch as head of state.
Mr Hockey's involvement in the group was announced by his close friend, journalist and Australian Republican Movement chair Peter FitzSimons.
"The key thing I wish to say today, is we are putting the band back together," Mr FitzSimons said, referring to the work he has done in the past with Mr Hockey on the republican movement.
"It's the hope in the next five years, Australia can begin the formal process towards becoming the Republic of Australia," Mr FitzSimons said, speaking at a National Press Club address in Canberra.
Mr Hockey has yet to comment on the new group, which he will convene with Labor senator Katy Gallagher, but a spokesperson from his office said he had long advocated his views on this issue "and those views haven't changed".
In contrast, in January, on Australia's national day, Mr Abbott reinforced his long-held commitment to the monarchy by controversially announcing a knighthood for Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.
In 1999, Australia held a referendum on having an Australian head of state but it failed because the public wanted to vote directly for a president.
The referendum asked only if people wanted a republic with a president appointed by parliament.
The debate was briefly revived by the Queen's representative in Australia Quentin Bryce in 2013, when she became the first serving governor-general to publicly back the country becoming a republic.
But last year Australia's support for a republic appeared to drop to its lowest level in more than three decades, around the time of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's visit to the country.
A Fairfax Media poll at that time found 51% of Australians polled believed a switch to a republic was unnecessary, with 42% backing a republic, down from a high of 58% in 1999.
The BBC looked at 25 of the "best of 2016" lists in music's most influential publications - including the NME, Rolling Stone, Vice, Billboard and Q Magazine - to discover the highest-ranked albums of the year.
Read about the top 10, and what the critics had to say about each of them, below.
As a teenager, you're often told the torrent of emotional ups and downs is "just hormones" and once puberty ends, life will sort itself out. But what if that's not true?
On her fourth album, 26-year-old indie-pop artist Mitski Miyawaki confronts that head on - exploring her anxiety, depression, happiness and everything in between. The songs mirror her turmoil, veering from the hushed sincerity of Once More To See You to the squalling punk of My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars.
A darling of America's lo-fi folk-rock scene, Missouri-born Angel Olsen got playful on her fourth album. Inspired by David Bowie, she experimented with different styles, new singing voices and, in the video for Intern, a bright silver tinsel wig.
The record is divided into two halves - an upbeat, pop-infused "side A", followed by a more introspective B-side, hinged around the cathartic, seven-minute fuzz-rock ballad Woman, in which she sings: "I dare you to understand/What makes me a woman."
Radiohead rekindled their relationship with melody on their ninth album, the beautiful and serene A Moon Shaped Pool.
Thom Yorke's break-up from his long-term partner Rachel Owen (who sadly died this week) pervades the album, adding a layer of melancholy to many of the songs - not least the closing track, True Love Waits, written at the start of their relationship in 1995 but uncompleted until this year.
Recorded in secret before rapper Phife Dawg's death from diabetes in March, A Tribe Called Quest's first album in 18 years was an unexpected return to form.
Lead single We The People addresses the rise in right-wing supremacism ("Muslims and gays?/Boy, we hate your ways," raps Q-Tip sardonically), while the Musical Youth-sampling Dis Generation is a salute to the rappers inspired by the Tribe's brand of socially-conscious hip-hop.
Hyperactive, ambitious and never truly finished, The Life Of Pablo gave an unprecedented glimpse into Kanye West's creative process - not to mention the psyche of the "38-year-old eight year old".
Initially available as a streaming exclusive on Tidal, it was tweaked and updated several times, and while much of it remains infuriatingly unfocused, West's lack of respect for musical boundaries makes for a compelling listen.
A year ago, Solange Knowles published an essay detailing the prejudice and hostility she has encountered in schools, airports and concert venues, simply for being a black woman.
It prompted a year of musical soul searching, in which she moved to Louisiana (where her grandparents lived until a Molotov cocktail was thrown into their home) and recorded a graceful, restrained album that addresses segregation, reverse racism, police brutality, cultural theft and black pride.
Inspired by the birth of his son and brimming with gospel influences, Chance The Rapper's third album effortlessly shakes off the self-obsessed nihilism of modern hip-hop for something altogether more joyful.
Lyrically sharp and fiercely independent, the Chicago-born musician shunned major label deals to release the album as a streaming exclusive on Apple Music. It duly became the first record to top the US charts without ever being sold.
With all the punctuality of Southern Trains, Frank Ocean's second album arrived four years late, one morning in August. It was worth the wait.
Hazy and meandering, its 17 tracks glide in and out of focus like a fever dream, as Ocean ponders on love, loss and reality itself. Difficult to digest at first, it rewards the repeat listener with richly-detailed sonic secrets.
David Bowie's death in January was all the more shocking because he sounded so creatively invigorated on Blackstar.
Retrospectively recognised as his "parting gift", it finds the star coming to terms with his own mortality (the title itself implies a light flickering out) while the music, recorded with a New York jazz band, suggests a journey into the unknown.
From the moment she performed at the Super Bowl dressed in Black Panther gear, it was clear Beyonce had something to get off her chest.
Two months later, she let us have it - a fierce, densely-layered album that uses Jay Z's (alleged) infidelity as the framing device for a meditation on black history, female identity, betrayal, resilience and redemption.
Sumptuously produced, the record also sees Beyonce spread her musical wings: she flaunts her Texas roots on the country ballad Daddy Lessons; while the Jack White-assisted Don't Hurt Yourself has been nominated for best rock performance at next year's Grammys.
But more than that, Lemonade is a window into the soul of a performer who has often seemed remote and untouchable. On Sandcastles, as she furiously scratches Jay Z's face off a photograph, her flawless vocals suddenly falter and fall apart.
But, this being Beyonce, the album ends with reconciliation: "With every tear came redemption and my torturer became my remedy," she says in a spoken-word interlude. "So we're gonna heal, we're gonna start again."
By association, she's telling marginalised women everywhere they can reclaim their lives through strength and forgiveness. And being a badass.
The 25 "best of lists surveyed appeared in: The Atlantic, The AV Club, Billboard magazine, Consequence of Sound, Cosmopolitan, Digital Spy, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, The i Newspaper, Mojo, NME, NPR, Paste, Pitchfork, Q Magazine, Rolling Stone, Salon, Spin, Stereogum, The Times, Time Magazine, Time Out London, Time Out New York, Uncut and Vice.
The full top 20 looked like this:
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We're here for the very first time to test out the new skeleton track and see what the venue has to offer and do vital prep work for when the team comes back to compete next year.
Each time a new Olympic venue is completed, there is a process of checking its safety and suitability for competition called 'homologation', where a select number of athletes are invited to try it out for the first time.
Some athletes were selected by random draw across the international field and those lucky few came here last year when things were much less finished to try out the track.
That completed successfully, the next stage is to hold a test event, which for skeleton is this year's final World Cup round.
The venue is looking great, almost finished and very clean and well presented. There are always small teething issues when everything's new as you might expect, but the organisers are helpful and doing their best to put on a great event.
The track is unique, with corner trajectories that have never been seen before, a long push start and technical questions all the way down.
There's no kreisel here (a 360 degree corner), but plenty of other challenges from the moment you jump on the sled to the finish line.
The longer your career as a slider, the fewer times you get to experience sliding a new track for the first time as they are only now built at new Olympic venues once every four years.
Obviously learning new tracks is a fairly common occurrence as a beginner when you first start competing and travelling, and at that time feeling out of your comfort zone almost becomes second nature as brand new scenarios are thrown at you constantly.
What makes this trip so unusual is that everyone on the international tour is experiencing being presented with a new track at the same time, so it's fascinating to see how people and teams approach getting to know it and getting over those fears of being at the start of a learning curve again.
I'm loving having a completely fresh challenge after a long, tough season of competing, and it's reminding me why I love the sport.
We came straight to Pyeongchang from the World Championships in Konigssee, Germany.
I left with real mixed feelings of how it had gone. On the one hand I had my best ever result at that track, 10th, but I was really hoping for better given that it was the most important race of the season.
I can't be disappointed with how I slid, I was consistent under pressure and finished seven places higher than in the World Cup there a few weeks previously.
Also, my strongest heat was cancelled when snow started to fall with only half the competitors having slid.
I always want races to be as fair as possible, but there's also an element of luck that comes with competing in an outdoor sport, and I've definitely felt the tough end of that this season on more than one occasion.
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So, when the heat that saw me jump several spots in the order was called off it was tough to come back and refocus for the second day of competition.
I still managed to climb three spots the second day, but I finished feeling very deflated that my best hadn't been good enough.
When you put all your energy and focus into something and it doesn't come off the way you hope, you can't help feeling that you've let down everyone around you who has worked so hard to get you there.
I'm just hoping that I'm saving all my luck for next season, and in the meantime learning as much as I can on the new Olympic track.
The final World Cup round is here in a week's time, so it'll be challenging to go back into competition mode one more time before the summer break.
But I'll definitely be looking for a strong result to round off the season and lay down a marker for next year.
In November the BBC revealed that up to 50 patients were being sent to out-of-area beds.
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) figures show between December 2013 and September 2014 the average expenditure was about £200,000.
The trust said the number outside the counties had been cut to 24.
Michael Scott, chief executive at the NSFT, said the increase in out-of-area beds was partly due to a major reorganisation of services.
That saw social workers previously employed by the trust transferred to Norfolk County Council.
At the same time there was a "marked increase in demand" for beds, he said.
"The figure has steadily decreased to 24 since. The opening a new 12-bed assessment ward in February will reduce the number of out of area placements even further," said Mr Scott.
A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: "NSFT and the local clinical commissioning groups need to properly fund both inpatient beds and community teams until there is a decent mental health service in Norfolk and Suffolk.
"The human and financial cost of failing to do so is unsustainable."
In November, Mr Scott told the BBC that the trust had been "dramatically underfunded" by £30m over four years.
While mainstream hospital funding is based on the number of patients, mental health receives a block grant unrelated to the number of users.
This has seen the budgets of the mainstream hospitals in Norfolk and Suffolk rise by 15% since 2010, while mental health service funding, despite a 4.4% increase in users, has fallen by 3%.
The NSFT has to make £40m of cuts by 2018 and this year is facing an overspend of more than £2m.
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The Briton cleared the required height of 2.31m on his third and final attempt during the morning session in London.
Elsewhere, Tiffany Porter narrowly missed out on the semi-finals of the women's 100m hurdles, while Alicia Barrett finished eighth in her heat.
There was disappointment too for Jade Lally, who failed to qualify for the discus final, with a throw of 57.71m.
Lally needed 62.50m or a top-12 finish to progress.
Ashley Bryant is in 17th position after three events in the men's decathlon, with 2484 points.
He ran 11.14 seconds in the 100m and jumped 7.44m in the long jump before throwing 14.09m in the shot put.
Grabarz, who finished third in the high jump final in his home Olympics in 2012, admitted he got a bit carried away with the support of the home crowd in London Stadium.
"Dealing with that crowd - it's going to be bigger, it's going to be more exciting in the final and I was too excited and ran too fast at the beginning, didn't control it enough and nearly made a total mess of it," he said.
"To come out there in front of a crowd just screaming my name is so exciting, and it really doesn't happen that often. I've just got to keep calm and jump higher in the final."
The poem, which appears to ask soldiers to shoot protesters in the Indian-ruled territory, went viral after being tweeted by the Digital India account.
It was later deleted but not before being retweeted by several people, including an opposition politician.
A Twitter user, Sarthak Garg, owned up to the "mistake" and apologised.
His message was retweeted by Digital India itself.
The agency has been warned it may lose its contract, a government official told the BBC.
He added that they had apologised for the incident.
The Hindi-language poem told the army to "lock the doors so no one could escape" and said "those who do not like it here can go graze buffaloes in Pakistan".
It made headlines in India, with many expressing shock.
Kashmir is claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan and has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years, sparking two wars between the countries.
Four steel columns were required at Scarthin Books, in Cromford, Derbyshire, to support the weight of about 100,000 books.
Thousands of pounds were raised within days of the appeal starting and it is now close to hitting a £10,000 target.
Manager David Booker said the fund had had donations from all over the world.
The shop, which has four floors and a vegetarian cafe, was dubbed one of the best in the world by The Guardian, in 2008.
"We've been blown away by the phenomenal response, it's very heart-warming," Mr Booker said.
"[The appeal] brought out people's memories and touched a nerve."
Initially, the aim was to raise 50% of the cost of the building work but the public's generosity has meant there is now enough money to carry out roofing and internal repairs.
Work has begun on safeguarding the building's future with four steel posts being installed on the ground floor.
Mr Booker said the builders had agreed to wait for payment until the crowd funding appeal ends on 26 April, with £9,042 raised so far.
The 25-year-old signed a new contract last month, despite speculation linking him with a move away from the club during the January transfer window.
"A year ago he was in and out of the side, and in the last six months he's turned himself into a week-by-week starting 11 player," Tisdale said.
"It shows his development so far and we hope it continues."
Wheeler joined Exeter from non-league Staines Town in 2013 and has scored 17 goals in 111 appearances for the Grecians.
"I'm delighted that he has signed," Tisdale added to BBC Sport.
"I wouldn't have begrudged him to significantly enhance his career either, as long as we had the compensation for it.
"I'm not going to hide the fact that I want to keep as many good players as I can, but on the other hand the type of club we have encourages players to improve and move.
"But that being said, I'm sure David's got enough about him to make his own mind up about what suits his own career and he's obviously decided that he's making good progress with us and wants to continue.
"We've been pretty good in terms of finding a financial offer to him that was acceptable and hopefully he'll be a big player for us in the next year or two."
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index had fallen by 3% at the lunch break to 16,344.09, while in South Korea the Kospi was down by 0.4% to 2,006.23.
In Australia the commodities-heavy benchmark S&P ASX 200 index traded down 10 points at midday to 5,147.40.
Shares of energy-related firms all traded lower. BHP Billiton lost 3%.
Woodside Petroleum shares lost 2% and shares of Rio Tinto gave up 1.5%.
Oil prices fell after a meeting of the world's leading oil exporters in Qatar failed to secure an agreement.
The international oil benchmark Brent traded down by more than 5% to about $40.87 a barrel. US crude futures were lower by 5.5% at $38.16 a barrel.
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, appeared willing to only freeze output if all Opec members agreed, including Iran.
But Iran maintained it would continue the increase in oil production it has followed since economic sanctions were lifted earlier this year. Iran was not at the meeting in Qatar. The next Opec meeting is scheduled to take place in June.
"Given the strong correlation between the oil price and equities, Asian markets are not looking like they will have a good start to the week," said Angus Nicholson, market analyst at IG in Melbourne.
Elsewhere in the region, the benchmark Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was was lower by 1.1% to 21,088.79.
Meanwhile in China the Shanghai composite traded down 1.3% to 3,038.55.
Market sentiment in Japan was also dented by an earthquake which hit the south of the country at the weekend.
Toyota shares traded down by more than 5% in Monday's session. The automaker has suspended production at various facilities across the country this week.
The company's supply chain was disrupted when an earthquake hit the Kumamoto prefecture last Saturday. That region is an important manufacturing hub for many big Japanese firms. Toyota's rival Honda, as well as electronics giant Sony, also had to suspend production at their plants there.
Saturday's magnitude-7.3 quake struck at 01:25 (15:25 GMT on Friday) close to the city of Kumamoto, which had been hit by a magnitude-6.4 quake on Thursday night.
Both quakes were shallow, causing huge damage to roads, bridges and tunnels. Big landslides had cut off remote mountain villages.
Today's the deadline for preliminary bids for Yahoo's media assets, which include Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and a range of digital magazines.
According to various media reports, potential suitors range from private equity firm TPG to the owner of the UK's Daily Mail. Yahoo has set a deadline for 18 April for interested parties to submit their offers.
Yahoo has been under pressure from shareholders to turn itself around. The company's shares have fallen by about 30% since the end of 2014.
The first episode of The Grand Tour, which is being made by Amazon Prime, will be filmed in Johannesburg in July.
It will mark the trio's first TV show since they exited Top Gear after Jeremy Clarkson punched a producer.
May joked on Twitter that the location was "chosen by Richard Hammond, who's run out of biltong".
When one South African fan asked if the news was true, Hammond confirmed and suggested the team hold a braai - Afrikaans for barbecue.
"Yes, for real. We'll have to have a Bra, a Bray, a, oh you know, a South African barbecue," he wrote.
The show will launch on Amazon Prime in the autumn, with each episode's pre-recorded studio items filmed in a different country.
Photos uploaded to The Grand Tour's Facebook page show the trio have already begun shooting in Portugal, Germany, Barbados and North Africa.
Jay Marine, vice president of Amazon Video Europe, said: "Given the popularity of Jeremy, Richard and James in South Africa, Johannesburg is a fantastic place to start."
Last year, Clarkson was suspended from Top Gear and later fired by the BBC after he punched Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon.
Hammond and May quit the show shortly after.
The trio were replaced on the show by former Friends actor Matt LeBlanc, BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans, and an extensive cast of co-presenters.
The new series of Top Gear made its debut on Sunday to more than four million viewers and mixed reviews.
According to the Payments Council, there has been a 19% increase in the numbers switching.
However, the head of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) suggested the results had been disappointing.
"The actual number of people switching has remained relatively low," Martin Wheatley told MPs this week.
In the first 11 months of its operation, 1.1 million customers switched their account to another bank, compared with 926,000 switches in the previous period.
The figures suggest just 2.2% of current account holders used the system to change provider.
Nevertheless, the Payments Council, which administers the system, said it had been a success.
"It's clear from reviewing its very first year that it's made great ground - empowering customers with the ability to switch their bank account easily and quickly if they choose to do so," said Gerard Lemos, the Payments Council executive chairman.
The Current Account Switch Service was introduced on 16 September 2013.
Since then, it has been possible for customers to move their accounts in seven days, instead of the 18 to 30 days it took previously.
Some experts believe the complexity of bank charges is a barrier to switching.
The Financial Services Consumer Panel, which advises the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is calling for an inquiry into the way banks charge customers for their current accounts.
Even though the accounts often appear to be free, they are often cross-subsidised by overdraft charges, for example.
"Consumers do not understand the real price they are paying for their 'free' banking, nor whether they would get a better deal elsewhere," said Sue Lewis, the chair of the Consumer Panel.
It is calling on the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to oversee the investigation.
Common seal Sija, originally from Belgium, has been transferred to Weymouth Sea Life Adventure Park where there are no male seals.
The decision was made after Sija gave birth to a second pup despite being given the contraceptive pill.
She has been joined at the sanctuary by her visually impaired surrogate mother Luna.
While living at the Cornwall Seal Sanctuary in Gweek Sija mated with ageing lothario Babyface.
One-eyed Babyface, 37, is one of the oldest seals in captivity and was thought to be infertile but fathered two pups with Sija.
The Weymouth Sea Life Adventure Park agreed to take Sija, who they described as "sex obsessed" and "randy", to stop her breeding.
On the seals' arrival this week, the park's Fiona Smith said they would be getting "lots of extra love, attention and feeding activities to keep them occupied".
Tamara Cooper, animal care supervisor at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary, said: "Both seals were thoroughly prepared and were not distressed in any way."
Lance Sgt Matthew Lawson, 37, who had just shared an early Valentine's meal with his wife in Kingston-upon-Thames, saw the teenager running towards them with police in hot pursuit.
Mr Lawson, from Derby, stuck out his foot and tripped the man up.
Footage of the incident has been viewed thousands of times online.
Police in Kingston said he was a "legend".
Lance Sgt Lawson is based at Wellington Barracks beside Buckingham Palace. He plays the euphonium in the Band of the Scots Guards, who will perform for the Queen on her 90th birthday in June.
He said: "I heard a shout of 'Stop! Police!' and immediately my military training just kicked in.
"I saw the policemen chasing a guy and I thought 'He's a bit of a whippet, they'll never catch him.'. So I reckoned I'd buy them a few seconds, and just stuck my leg out to trip him up.
"The guy fell and as the police grabbed him, they called back 'cheers, mate, thank you' and my wife and I just continued on our way and thought nothing more of it."
The Airlander 10, a plane-airship hybrid, was piloted out of the UK's biggest hangar at Cardington Airfield, Bedfordshire, at 04:00 BST on Saturday.
The 302ft-long (92m) aircraft passed with just a few feet to spare through the hangar doors and was then towed for 30 minutes to its mast site.
It was the public debut for the £25m craft, christened the Martha Gwyn.
Tests on its engines, generators and systems were completed last week, while ground systems tests will now be carried out.
The date of its maiden flight has yet to be announced.
The machine is about 60ft (18m) longer than the biggest passenger jets.
British firm Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has spent the past nine years developing the prototype in the Cardington hangar after the US Army ran out of money to develop it as a surveillance machine.
HAV has said the vessel could have many uses including surveillance, communications, transporting cargo, humanitarian missions and passenger travel.
Called Arc Welder, the tool acts as a wrapper around Android apps so they can run on Windows, OSX and Linux machines.
The software expands the places that Android apps can run and might make it easier for developers to get code working on different machines.
But one developer said it was better to write apps that run "natively" rather than via separate software.
Arc - the App Runtime for Chrome - was first released in late 2014 as a way for Android apps to run on machines running Google's Chrome operating system. The OS is used on many netbooks and other small machines made by Google and some of its hardware partners.
Now Google has produced a new tool, called Arc Welder, which converts Android apps into versions that can be used with the Chrome browser, not just the OS. With Welder it has also added support for many Google Play services so when apps are converted they do not lose access to payment systems, maps and other functions they expect.
In its developer documentation, Google said the underlying technology for Arc Welder meant converted apps should run almost as quickly as they did on a phone or tablet.
With Arc Welder Google, it is seeking a way to help developers get their creations onto as many machines as possible, but one developer was not sure it would accomplish that aim.
"The best way to make apps by far is to make them natively using the tools that they give us," said Sam Furr, director and co-founder of development studio The App Developers.
He said that moving away from those well-known development systems can mean losing some behaviours, such as touch combinations, that people expect. He also wondered if a converted app running via a browser sitting in a separate operating system would be as fast as one developed natively.
Running a phone app on a desktop would inevitably mean losing some functions, he said, because bigger computers lack some of the extras, such as accelerometers and GPS receivers, that are now standard on smartphones.
Mr Furr said the ability to reach lots of different operating systems with just one app was potentially attractive.
"When building an app you want to get it to as many people as possible but you have to ask how long it will take to get it on other platforms," he said.
"There's no shortage of cross-platform frameworks and some of them are very good," he said, "but in our experience you do not get the same end product as you would when you build it natively."
It is not known how the creature ended up there as the only settled populations known to exist in the UK are on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
RSPCA Cymru said it was found on 16 November adding its appearance was a "complete mystery".
The species is usually 35 to 45mm in length but while its sting is painful, it is not considered dangerous.
It usually lives in rock walls, and other rocky areas but the RSPCA is not sure if the scorpion has come from a domestic home, arrived in Swansea accidentally on a boat, or somehow travelled there from elsewhere in the UK.
Nicole Wallace, RSPCA animal collection officer, who rescued the scorpion, said: "We are eager to find out any information which may help us decipher where this scorpion came from.
"Unfortunately, it is impossible to know whether this scorpion has come from a domestic home, arrived in Swansea accidentally on a boat, or somehow travelled here from elsewhere in the UK."
Manchester City's Nmecha finished with an audacious back-heel from close range after combining with Tottenham's Marcus Edwards, with both players on as second-half substitutes.
Keith Downing's side face Portugal in Saturday's final in Gori, Georgia.
It is the fourth final reached by an England youth team this summer.
Last month, England won the Under-20 World Cup by beating Venezuela 1-0.
In addition, they won the 2017 Toulon Tournament in June, and reached the final of the European Under-17 tournament in May.
England were also semi-finalists at the European Under-21 Championship in Poland last month before losing on penalties to Germany.
It is also the third European Under-19 Championship final reached by England, having lost to France in 2005 and Ukraine in 2009.
Portugal beat the Netherlands 1-0 in Thursday's other semi-final.
"We left it late," said England manager Keith Downing.
"It was an awkward game - the Czechs are very well organised and well drilled, they made life really difficult for us for the 90 minutes. It was looking like it was going into extra time, but we found a little bit of magic from Marcus Edwards and a clever finish from Lukas."
Speaking to BBC Sport, he added: "That is our third clean sheet in four games. We talked about getting four out of five to give us a chance of wining the thing. Our defence is a bedrock and we have enough in the team going forward to produce goals."
Yes we have had them before, but this does look serious. There's a payment due to the IMF at the end of the month. If Greece and the eurozone can't agree to release delayed bailout money, that payment could be missed.
The Bank of Greece - part of the wider eurozone central banking system - has warned that could set off a chain of events ending with departure from the eurozone and probably the European Union, with some severe economic consequences.
In fact, the timing gets more complicated. The IMF managing director doesn't formally notify her board that a payment has been missed until a month after the due date - although it's hard to believe they wouldn't have heard about it on the grapevine.
And in the the interim, there is another, even larger payment due to the European Central Bank. So there is little time, though the financial world doesn't come to an end for Greece at midnight on 30 June.
What Greece is now doing is negotiating with the eurozone and the IMF the economic policy programme to follow if the remaining bailout money is to be paid out.
There are differences over the borrowing targets for the government finances, how to meet them - especially on pension cuts and value added tax increases - and whether Greece should receive debt relief.
So what position might a Greek negotiator be taking? And what are the pluses and minuses?
Option 1 is to hold out for a while to see what they can get but they are desperate for a deal and accept that they will give in to the demands of the creditors if that is what it takes to get them to sign on the dotted line.
The benefits are straightforward. The long delayed bailout payments would be made. Greece would be able to avoid defaulting on its debts.
The drawbacks are also pretty obvious. It would mean signing up to a programme of policies that includes further austerity and some specific measures to meet the budget targets, measures that the Syriza-led government hates: further cuts in pensions and reforms to value added tax.
The result would be dissension in the party and outrage among people affected. And in all likelihood further headwinds for the struggling economy, which has gone back into recession. There would have to be negotiations for further financial help - a third bailout and probably debt relief. More political torture for the government at home and internationally.
Option 2 is no surrender - utter determination not to give in and a conviction that the other side will buckle at the last moment.
If it works, it is the most appealing to the Greek negotiator. They get the delayed bailout money without having to take the immediate pain of option 1, though there is still the thorny question of making the government's finances sustainable in the long term.
Why might a negotiator believe this would work? Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis argues that a Greek exit would do untold damage to the rest of the eurozone. He doesn't appear to believe it when the other side says they could cope with the financial and economic fallout, much better than would have been the case earlier in the crisis.
There is also a desire in Brussels, Berlin and other EU capitals to avoid undermining the idea that the euro is forever. They would also be uneasy about the possibility of a failed state on the EU's southern flank, perhaps getting diplomatically closer to China and Russia.
Option 3 is no surrender, but with the acceptance that the other side might also dig their heels in. That would mean default on the debt payments coming due, perhaps the one owed to the IMF at the end of the month or to the ECB in July.
That doesn't necessarily mean exit from the eurozone, but it could trigger a chain of events that leads there. The European Central Bank would have to consider pulling the plug on the country's commercial banks, because a government default would raise new doubts about their solvency.
That in turn could lead to severe financial restrictions and perhaps a Greek decision to start printing their own currency, partly to keep the banks afloat. So there is a possible path that leads from failure in the negotiations to default and to a Greek exit from the eurozone.
There is a high political price in following that path. Greek public opinion is overwhelmingly in favour of keeping the euro.
Economically it would certainly be disruptive in the short term. In the longer term, some argue that Greece would be better off with its own currency to devalue and improve competitiveness and control of its own economic policies. But banking on that would be a huge gamble.
Option 4 is more delay. Maybe give a little ground, enough to persuade the eurozone to extend the negotiations for a few more weeks or even months, and perhaps make small bailout payments to prevent immediate default.
That avoids an immediate economic conflagration in Greece. But the dark cloud of uncertainty would hang over the country's economy - which went back into recession at the end of last year. The tension - or you might say the tedium - would be prolonged ever further.
Delaying decisions is something that both sides have shown themselves to be very good at during the eurozone crisis.
It could even drag on into August and disrupt the summer holiday in many European countries. If they let that happen it would be a sign that they are really taking it seriously.
Thur 18 June: European finance ministers meet in Luxembourg - this is the last chance for either side to cave in, according to some officials, so could be a late-nighter
Sun 21 June: If there is any prospect of a solution being within reach the EU could call an emergency meeting of European leaders
Mon 22 June: If no deal has been reached, Greece may have to start considering capital controls on its banks or other measures
Wed 24 June: The ECB is expected to review the financial support it gives to Greek banks. It can only supports banks that are fundamentally solvent
Thur 25 June: EU summit - the very, very last chance to do a deal. Greece is not currently high on the agenda but it may force its way up depending on the circumstances
Tue 30 June: Greece's current bailout expires. This may prompt the ECB to reconsider its support for Greek banks. By now, Greece should have paid €1.6bn (£1.1bn) to the IMF
Wed 1 July: The country could now be in arrears at the IMF. If so, it would be hard for the ECB to continue any support it is still giving to Greek banks
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It highlighted official data showing an average of 1,360 trains were cancelled or arrived more than 30 minutes late during every four-week period.
It said that equated to an average of 49 trains every day since Abellio took over the ScotRail franchise in 2015.
ScotRail said it was focused on delivering the best possible service.
Transport Scotland said that despite "recent challenges", the performance of rail services in Scotland was higher than the UK average.
Scottish Labour obtained the figures from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).
ScotRail produced a performance improvement plan in September at the request of Transport Scotland after punctuality and reliability fell below target.
On Thursday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would consider freezing the country's train fares next year amid concern over the reliability of ScotRail services.
She was responding to a Labour proposal to freeze fares in order to "give passengers a break".
Scottish Labour's transport spokesman Neil Bibby said the new figures were "just the latest demonstration of the problems that passengers are facing".
"Not only are people travelling on expensive and overcrowded trains, nearly 50 services a day are significantly late or even cancelled. That causes huge problems for commuters trying to get to and from work," he said.
"With so much disruption on the railways, it is clear passengers do not feel they are getting a fair deal."
A spokeswoman for ScotRail said it operated more than 2,300 services a day, with punctuality at 89.8% compared with 87.9% for operators in England and Wales.
She said: "We are going through the biggest change and improvement in our railway infrastructure since the Victorian era.
"That upgrade to our track is being matched by what we are investing in our fleet.
"Our largest ever train improvement programme will deliver new and better trains, with more seats and customer benefits like enhanced wi-fi and at-seat power sockets.
"All of this will take time. While we are working on it, we will do everything we can to minimise disruption and to keep people moving.
"When it is all in place, we will have transformed rail travel in Scotland.
"However, there is no doubt that we need to deliver better punctuality and reliability."
The spokeswoman said the company's performance improvement plan contained 246 individual actions "to make things better, every single day".
She added: "All 7,500 people who work for the ScotRail Alliance are focused on one goal - improving performance and delivering the best possible service for our customers."
A Transport Scotland spokesman said: "To put these numbers in perspective, ScotRail operates around 58,700 services every four weeks.
"It is also important to remember that, despite recent challenges, the performance of rail services in Scotland is higher than the UK average, with almost 90% of trains running on time and punctuality improving in the last eight weeks.
"Cancellations and trains missing the delay target (arriving within five minutes), are both counted in the calculation of the PPM measurement - a key performance measure in the ScotRail contract.
"ScotRail services remain almost 2% above the GB average."
The spokesman added: "The minister for transport has instructed ScotRail to bring forward an improvement plan and he outlined the key actions and investments the operator will make in order to lift its performance and meet passenger expectations in his statement to parliament earlier this week."
Teenager Conor Chaplin deservedly broke the deadlock for Pompey, ghosting past Fraser Franks before beating goalkeeper Jesse Joronen at his near post.
But the visitors battled hard and got their reward when Williams glanced home a header from Charlie Lee's long throw in the dying seconds.
Portsmouth dominated and will rue two missed chances from Gary Roberts.
Pompey would have gone top on goals scored had they won, after Plymouth Argyle lost 1-0 at Oxford United.
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Portsmouth manager Paul Cook told BBC Radio Solent:
"We've played 14 games, lost one, just keep going. Unfortunately today we couldn't hold the lead.
"We're just huffing and puffing, we just don't look at it. It's a lot more effort, rather than quality.
"We'll just go back to the training ground, look at the DVDs like you do, and just keep working hard."
The country's first private airline is thought to soon overtake flag carrier Vietnam Airlines in market share.
Investor interest is driven by the growth pace in the domestic airline market, one of the fastest in Asia.
Vietnam has over the past years been slowly opening up to international investment.
VietJet currently operates about 60 routes both domestically and internationally, and hopes to have a fleet of 200 aircraft by 2023.
The budget airline is another story of a booming Asian low-cost carrier managing to clock exceptional growth in its first years since taking to the sky.
The airline launched its first commercial flights only in December 2011 but, thanks to a rapidly growing middle class, has jumped to become the country's second-largest airline, almost head to head with flag carrier Vietnam Airlines.
Both carriers have about 40% of market share. But if Vietjet's past growth is anything to go by, it is set to claim the top spot in no time.
While most analysts agree that the domestic market will continue to show strong growth, there is caution over whether Vietjet will be able to replicate that success abroad.
"There's no doubt that they are the dominant low-cost carrier in Vietnam," explains aviation analyst Greg Waldron of FlightGlobal. "The question is whether they can really expand that model overseas."
"These business models are not like McDonald's, where you can just replicate the model elsewhere," he explains.
"With airlines, it's a lot more challenging: if they go internationally, this would add a huge amount of complexity to their business model. Long-haul flights would again be a completely different game."
Aside from its impressive growth rates, the airline is also known for its somewhat controversial PR stunts.
In the past, the airline has made occasional headlines with having its stewardesses serving the aisles wearing little more than a bikini as uniform.
"They've been clever about their marketing," says Mr Waldron. "This gave them huge publicity all over the world."
There's little doubt it garnered global coverage. In case it strikes you as somewhat inappropriate, however, Vietnamese authorities agree.
In at least one of the instances, Vietjet was fined for hiring models for an on-board bikini show.
He said at a city council meeting he promises "complete and total" reform after the death of Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times.
Hundreds of people blocked traffic and chanted "16 shots and a cover-up", demanding Mr Emanuel resign.
Jason Van Dyke, the white officer who shot McDonald, was charged with murder.
"I take responsibility for what happened because it happened on my watch," said Mr Emanuel.
"And if we're going to fix it, I want you to understand it's my responsibility with you.
"But if we're also going to begin the healing process, the first step in that journey is my step."
He criticised the police department for its actions and said its "supervision and leadership" had failed.
The apology was not enough for protesters, who broke through a police line and marched down Michigan Avenue, one of the main streets of the city.
Some participated in a sit-in, which appeared peaceful but blocked traffic.
A video of the shooting was kept from the public for more than a year and only ordered to be released by a judge in November.
Days of protests followed, and Mr Emanuel announced a new police accountability task force and fired the police chief, but many say the mayor was complicit in a cover-up of the McDonald case and must go.
Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd was referring to the unwillingness of the courts to review decisions reached behind closed doors by independent lawyers acting as arbitrators.
Arbitration is often the preferred means of resolving commercial disputes, not least because hearings are not open to the press or public.
Arbitrators chosen by the parties - sometimes sitting as a panel of three - hear the arguments in much the same way as a court and then deliver a ruling, known as an award.
In 2014, an arbitral tribunal ordered Russia to pay a record $50bn (£29.5bn) to former shareholders in the now defunct oil company Yukos.
Arbitration awards can be enforced in more than 150 countries around the world, although Russia is currently challenging the Yukos decision.
But the English courts will not agree to hear an appeal against an arbitrator's award unless it is open to serious doubt, meaning that few such appeals come before the courts.
This has resulted in "a serious impediment to the development of the common law", according to the lord chief justice.
He was referring to the way in which the decisions of senior judges are treated as precedents and followed by other courts.
The chief justice's concern was that without a steady diet of cases to feed on, the common law - effectively the collective wisdom of judges past and present - would become increasingly out of date.
It would change from a living instrument into what another judge had described as an ossuary, he said.
And that would make London a less attractive place for companies to settle their disputes.
There was a time when judges tried to pretend that they did not make new law - they merely declared it.
In a lecture published in 1972, the great Scottish judge Lord Reid famously said that some people seemed to think the common law was hidden in an Aladdin's cave and judges were given the magic password on appointment.
"But," he continued witheringly, "we do not believe in fairy tales any more."
The complaint now is that judges are making too much law or taking the law in the wrong direction.
The Supreme Court judges who overturned a veto by the attorney general and allowed publication of letters written to government ministers by the Prince of Wales, were accused last year of a "tendency towards judicial supremacism".
In a recent paper, the think tank Civitas argued instead that judges should swear to uphold the sovereignty of parliament.
"The effect would be that judges who invent new laws without public or parliamentary approval will be in breach of their oath and liable to removal from office," said the paper's author, Dr David Green.
In reality, though, judges have been developing English common law for hundreds of years.
Murder is a crime because the judges have always regarded it as unlawful, not because parliament ever said it was.
The ability of judges to develop the law was of particular importance in Scotland, which did not have a parliament of its own for 300 years.
Lawyers who try to persuade judges to extend the law are not in quite the same position as surgeons who may hone their skills by trying out new techniques on patients.
Judges can modify the body of laws in a way that doctors cannot modify the body of a patient.
But it is true to say that a modification of the law can be abandoned in the same way as a discredited surgical technique.
We saw that in February when the Supreme Court ruled that earlier decisions on joint enterprise had been misinterpreted and changed the law.
It seems hard to believe that the commercial court is running out of work.
Some lawyers thought Lord Thomas was trying to attract important cases back to the courts, which in turn might persuade leading lawyers to become judges, rather than sit as arbitrators.
The courts are finding it increasingly difficult to attract the very best recruits, not least because of the huge pay cut that a full-time judicial post now entails for successful lawyers.
But the lord chief justice offered a stark warning.
The consequence of diverting claims from courts to arbitrators, he said, "has been the undermining of the means through which much of the common law's strength - its 'excellence' - was developed, a danger not merely to those engaged in dispute resolution in London but, more importantly, to the development of the common law as the framework to underpin the international markets, trade and commerce".
When the most senior judge in England and Wales says the common law is in danger, we need to take heed.
Protesters angry at cuts to free travel for the elderly staged a demonstration at Sheffield station in June 2014.
Following an investigation, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said four officers had cases to answer for misconduct.
It said a fifth officer had a case to answer for gross misconduct.
A spokesperson for the IPCC said: "The IPCC received a number of appeals following a British Transport Police investigation into complaints about officers' actions during and following a protest at Sheffield Railway Station in June 2014.
"The IPCC reviewed the force's investigation and found there was evidence to indicate that three police officers and a police community support officer had cases to answer for misconduct, and a fifth officer had a case to answer for gross misconduct.
"The IPCC directed the force to hold appropriate disciplinary proceedings for these individuals, which will take place in due course."
The misconduct hearings are expected to take place in May and June.
Two protesters were charged with obstructing the police following the demonstration but they were later dropped.
Hogg was injured in a collision with team-mate Mark Hudson in the first half of the Terriers' 4-0 Championship defeat by Bristol City on Friday.
The 28-year-old was taken to hospital for treatment before being discharged on Saturday afternoon.
He made 30 league appearances for Town this season to help them to third in the table with nine games to play.
A club statement said: "Although he is expected to miss the rest of the 2016-17 season, the club is happy that Jonathan is in no immediate danger and looks forward to seeing 'Hoggy' back out on the pitch as soon as is safely possible.
"Alongside Jonathan, everyone at the club would like to thank the medical staff at Bristol City and the NHS staff at Bristol Royal Infirmary for ensuring Jonathan was looked after and received appropriate care."
World leaders, leading newspapers, and celebrities have used unprecedented language to describe a possible future president: "Racist", "repellent", "ignorant".
For what must have been the first time in history, the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination for the US presidency was openly called a fascist by a Democratic contender.
Some, of course, defended Mr Trump. Here are the reactions of some of those he could in theory find himself governing and working alongside in a year's time.
"[H]e is running for President as a fascist demagogue" - Martin O'Malley, Democratic presidential candidate.
"Donald Trump is unhinged. His 'policy' proposals are not serious" - Jeb Bush, Republican presidential candidate.
"I am hereby barring Donald Trump from entering St Petersburg..." - Rick Kriseman, Mayor of St Petersburg, Florida.
"Trump literally wants to write racism into our law books" - Huma Abedin, aide to Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.
"Trump sounds more like the leader of a lynchmob than a great nation like ours" - Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair),
"He's an asshole" - Michael Nutter, mayor of Philadelphia.
How special would the special relationship be under Mr Trump? Here's what UK politicians had to say about his comments.
"Divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong" - UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
Mr Cameron's spokeswoman declined to say whether the prime minister would be willing to meet Mr Trump, or whether the Republican might be barred from the UK.
"[A]n attack on democratic values and affront to common humanity" - Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party.
"The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump" - Boris Johnson, mayor of London.
Mr Johnson's response to Mr Trump's claim that parts of London were "so radicalised the police are afraid for their lives".
Mr Johnson will no longer by mayor by the time the next US president takes office. So what do the two possible new mayors think of the Republican frontrunner?
"An utterly repellent figure... one of the most malignant figures in politics" - Zac Goldsmith, Conservative candidate for mayor of London.
"He is clearly ignorant" - Sadiq Khan, Labour candidate for mayor of London.
"Mr Trump, like others, stokes hatred: our ONLY enemy is radical Islam" - Manuel Valls, prime minister of France.
"It's something that we can't accept in Canada" - Stephane Dion, foreign affairs minister, Canada.
"We have never been as far removed from what we've just heard in the United States," he added.
"It is... entirely fair to call him a mendacious racist" - Ben Smith, editor-in-chief, Buzzfeed.
Buzzfeed's editor-in-chief issued a memo to all staff to clear up a style point about referring to Mr Trump, authorising the respected news site's journalists to call the Republican frontrunner a liar and a racist.
"[T]here's nothing partisan about accurately describing Donald Trump", he wrote.
"America's modern Mussolini" - Dana Milbank, the Washington Post.
"Trump's chin-out toughness, sweeping right-hand gestures and talk of his 'huge' successes and his 'stupid' opponents all evoke the Italian dictator's style."
"Who said it, Donald Trump or Hitler?" - London's Daily Telegraph felt comfortable to compare Mr Trump with the Nazi leader.
"I didn't know that Donald Trump was fluent in Nazi" - Bassem Yousseff, Egyptian comedian and former talk show host.
Some people must think it was the right thing to say, right?
"Add in every other kind of immigrant and it's perfect!... GO TRUMP, GO!" - Ann Coulter, right-wing pundit.
Ms Coulter's only issue: that Mr Trump's plan did not go far enough.
"NOT endorsing Trump, but support Congressional vote for immediate pause to overhaul vetting process" - Rupert Murdoch
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch appeared to support Mr Trump's idea for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country, if not endorsing the man himself.
"The Jewish knives are coming out on Donald Trump" - David Duke, former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
"How come it's against American values to want to preserve the heritage of the country? We're overwhelmingly a Christian country and overwhelmingly a European country," Mr Duke said.
"Everybody else sounds the same" - Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio host.
Limbaugh and a cadre of conservative talk radio hosts defended Mr Trump, although none directly supported his Muslim shutdown.
His supporters - when Mr Trump made his announcement, at a rally in South Carolina, it was met with whoops and cheers.
His assembled fans were "cheering and almost giddy", The New Yorker reported. "No-one here we spoke with had a problem with the plan," said a CNN reporter.
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An attack in the town of Madagali on 13 January saw two women detonate their devices, killing themselves, two babies, and four others.
They had passed a vigilante checkpoint, mistaken for civilians because they were carrying infants.
Female attackers have been seen before, but officials said the use of babies could signal a "dangerous" trend.
The insurgent group Boko Haram is widely suspected of having carried out the attack.
Four women attacked Madagali located in Adamawa State, which was recaptured from Boko Haram in 2015.
Two were stopped at a security checkpoint, and detonated their devices, officials said.
The two women carrying infants, however, were not stopped, and exploded their own devices past the security point.
Boko Haram is known for using women, including young girls, as suicide bombers.
The Nigerian government has been fighting the group in a major counter-offensive, recapturing much of their former territory.
But the insurgents have ramped up their suicide bombings in response.
In early December, two female suicide attackers killed at least 45 people in the same town, after they detonated their devices in a busy market.
A similar attack killed 25 people a year earlier.
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Joe Smyth, who achieved UKIP's highest vote share in Wales in 2015, said Mr Gill showed "no leadership" during its turmoil over assembly poll selections.
Another three general election candidates, two standing in May's poll, have also called for Mr Gill to go.
A UKIP Wales spokesman said Mr Gill had "stood up constantly" for "proper representation" for the Welsh members.
On Tuesday, Mr Gill announced local members would now decide the rankings for UKIP's regional list candidates, seen as the party's best hopes for winning seats.
Mr Smyth, re-selected for Islwyn at May's assembly election, said Mr Gill should have insisted the Welsh party ran whole the selection process.
There were complaints within the party about the original plan for its National Executive Committee (NEC) to have the final say.
Mr Gill has described the move to give local branches a vote over the final rankings as a "great victory" over the NEC.
But some remain unhappy that former Conservative MPs Neil Hamilton and Mark Reckless are still in the running for selection.
At the general election, Mr Smyth won 19.8% of the vote in Islwyn.
Despite being re-selected for the constituency for the assembly poll, he pulled out of the regional list selection in protest at the way it was being organised.
Mr Smyth told BBC Wales both Mr Gill and the NEC had treated members, activists and candidates with "contempt".
"He's trying to make out now that he's saved the selection process by allowing the Welsh members to vote on the candidates, it's a fallacy," he said.
"Nathan was responsible and agreed to how the selection process was going to be run at the very beginning.
"It's completely and utterly farcical."
Accusing Mr Gill of "weak leadership", Mr Smyth called for him to "resign straight away".
The criticisms were endorsed by Blair Smillie, UKIP's candidate for Alyn and Deeside at the general election.
"Nathan Gill has been terrible, he has to go," he said.
"There is no leadership in Wales, the organisation in north Wales is in disarray."
Nigel Williams, standing in the Delyn constituency in May after running for UKIP in 2015, said he had been "concerned for some time we lack leadership across Wales".
"We've let the general election momentum slip, we need better leadership," he said.
Ken Beswick, UKIP's Torfaen general election candidate added: "Nathan Gill is not suitable as a leader - he has no backbone.
"He's very close to Nigel Farage and won't stand up to him."
Responding to the criticism, a UKIP spokesman said: "Far from being weak he's actually been very determined in his commitment to ensuring the process is not controlled by party elites.
"The selection process has been deeply complex to ensure the best outcome; there will always be people dissatisfied.
"We think putting the decision in the hands of the membership is the most democratic option.
"All candidates that will be submitted to the membership have been rigorously vetted to ensure the highest calibre candidates are put forward to represent UKIP Wales."
Ukad last week postponed a hearing into the Briton testing positive for a banned substance in February 2015.
Fury, 28, had hoped to box in July but the British Boxing Board of Control told BBC Sport he is suspended "until the matter is dealt with by Ukad".
Ukad, which has not given a timeframe, does not comment on individual cases.
BBBofC general secretary Robert Smith said: "I haven't seen any new dates yet. I presume they are trying to sort them out with legal advisors but until that hearing, his licence is suspended."
Warren described the postponement of the hearing as a "liberty" and suggested the government could "intervene".
"Ukad have got a problem," said Warren. "He's entitled to make a living. If he's done wrong then get it over with. How can this be right? Why does it drag on from 2015?"
Fury also faces potential repercussions for refusing to fulfil a later test based on perceived persecution by Ukad.
Warren asserts this took place when the former heavyweight champion of the world was struggling to cope with depression and that when Fury's uncle and trainer called Ukad "an hour later", they "refused to come back".
Fury, 28, and his cousin and fellow heavyweight Hughie Fury, 22, were charged by Ukad in June 2016 as a result of urine tests conducted 14 months earlier which showed traces of nandrolone.
Between the failed tests and charge, Tyson Fury claimed the WBA, IBF and WBO world titles from Wladimir Klitschko, while Hughie Fury fought four times.
Both men deny any wrongdoing but their hearing was postponed after over two days when Ukad cited a "potential conflict of interest" on its panel.
Hughie Fury is still free to compete but Tyson lost his licence in October 2016 as the BBBofC moved "pending further investigation into anti-doping and medical issues".
If the case is dismissed, Warren hopes Fury will fight on 8 July on the undercard of Billy Joe Saunders' WBO middleweight title defence against Avtandil Khurtsidze in London.
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The Foxes lifted the trophy, a first top-flight title in their 132-year history, after beating Everton at home.
Leicester were 5,000-1 to be champions after avoiding relegation last season.
"We know very well next season everything will be different but the fans are dreaming - keep dreaming," said Ranieri. "Why wake up?"
As English champions, the Foxes will go straight into the group stages of the Champions League for the 2016-17 campaign.
There has been speculation about the future of many of the club's players, including winger - and PFA Player of the Year - Riyad Mahrez and midfielder N'Golo Kante.
"If they are intelligent they stay with us another year," said Ranieri. "The Champions League is very difficult. Then after this next experience they can go.
"If they ask me something, I say 'stay with me'. But if somebody comes to me and says 'I'd like to go' then go because I want only happy players with me."
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After a 2-1 defeat by Arsenal in February when they were reduced to 10 men following Danny Simpson's dismissal, Leicester's lead at the top of the Premier League was only two points.
However, Ranieri said it was that result, along with a 3-1 win at Manchester City, that gave him the belief in his side's ability to see out their improbable title bid.
"I had some good feeling when we beat Manchester City and also when we lost 2-1 against Arsenal in 95 minutes," said the Italian.
"I said we can do something special because if Arsenal is fighting 11 versus 10 and scores after 95 minutes then we can do something special."
Leicester striker Jamie Vardy scored two goals against Everton to take his league tally to 24 for the season, and also missed a penalty.
The England international left the field clutching his left hamstring at the final whistle but eased concerns over his Euro 2016 availability when he said it was only cramp.
"I think someone put a spell on me to make it happen this season," he told Sky Sports.
"Everyone works as hard and if someone is having an off-game then we know we have someone behind us to pick us up and keep us going.
"It's been a very, very long and hard process to get where I am today. But I wouldn't have been able to do it without friends, and the team behind me as well."
He added: "We're like brothers - as soon as training is finished we're always in touch."
Leicester captain Wes Morgan called it "an unbelievable feeling to finally get my hands on the trophy".
"I had to hold back the tears, I held them back and lifted it up - it was the best feeling in the world," said the centre-back.
"Everyone has been going on about how I was going to lift the trophy and saying don't drop it and putting some pressure on me. There is no better feeling than lifting the trophy.
"Hopefully, we can crack on from here. It is a big, big season next season but I want to enjoy the moment.
"It's like a dream but now it's a reality and you just want to enjoy it."
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The 26-year-old scored 14 times for Sutton last season and was part of the side that reached the FA Cup fifth round, when they lost to Arsenal.
He has signed a two-year deal with Mark Robins' side as they prepare for League Two after relegation last term.
"He provides an important different option to the attacking threats which we currently have," said Robins.
"He is a raw talent with pace, power and aggression, and is also good in the air. We look forward to working with him and developing his ability further."
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The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said unsuspecting consumers handed over a total of £3.7m to fraudsters in 2013.
Among the 4,555 reports were 22 victims who lost £10,000 or more.
Almost half the cases involved flight or concert and festival tickets, although people buying tickets for sporting events were also targeted.
Fraud reports peaked in the summer music festival season, Acpo said, and spiked for flight tickets again in December.
The association said scams were typically carried out over the internet.
Acpo's national co-ordinator for economic crime, Commander Stephen Head, said the problem was getting worse.
"Millions of pounds were lost last year and millions more could go the same way in 2014," he warned.
"Taking a punt on an unofficial seller, be it over the internet or face-to-face, is just not worth the risk."
Cdr Head, of the City of London Police, said the responsibility for tackling the con artists lay with ticket distributors, as well as the police:
"I am calling on the industry to take a long hard look at the way tickets are sometimes sold in this country to ensure their processes are as resilient as they possibly can be to the growing threat of fraud."
Acpo pointed to research by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau which suggested fraudsters prepare for summer music festivals through the autumn and winter months.
It said a common method used by scammers was to claim the cost of flights had risen and demand more money.
If the buyer tried to cancel, a "cancellation" fee would be added, even though in many cases no flights had ever been booked by the fraudsters, Acpo said.
In the festival season fraudsters would typically produce a certificate of authentication to persuade music fans to hand over their money.
Thursday sees the start of a week-long police campaign to target the criminals in "hotspots" around the country.
CCTV footage shows the three men attacking a pedestrian in Borough Market before charging at armed officers. The men are then shot dead.
It comes after police investigating Saturday's attack - which left eight people dead - made three fresh arrests during raids in east London.
In total, 17 people have been arrested and five remain in custody.
Police have named Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Moroccan-Italian man who lived in east London, Khuram Butt, 27, from Barking, and Rachid Redouane, 30, who also lived in Barking, as the men who carried out the attack.
The three men drove into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people in Borough Market.
The new footage - which first emerged on social media - shows police shooting dead the men within seconds of arriving in Borough Market.
Police have been praised for ending the attack within eight minutes of the first 999 call.
The video shows a person walking into shot, before being chased and apparently being stabbed by the three men.
While the attack is ongoing, armed police arrive, prompting the three men to then charge at officers. However, the three men are shot dead within seconds.
Armed officers can then be seen examining the bodies of the men, who were wearing fake suicide vests.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has said 46 shots had been fired at the three attackers by eight police officers - five from the Met and three from the City of London force.
The footage makes both compelling and harrowing viewing. The first grainy images show a man being set upon by the three attackers as he walks along one of the narrow roads around Borough Market.
They repeatedly stab him, bundling him to the ground, before a police car arrives. Armed officers, guns raised, get out of the car. Six seconds later the attackers are dead.
The speed, professionalism, nerve and expertise shown by the firearms officers shines through in the video. Their actions undoubtedly saved many lives.
Separately, CCTV footage of Butt, Redouane and Zaghba apparently meeting at about 00:10 BST on Monday 29 May - five days before the attack - has also been published by the Times.
The film shows the men meeting outside a gym in Barking, according to the newspaper.
It shows Redouane throwing his mobile phone on the floor and walking off camera with the other two attackers, for about 10 minutes, before returning to collect his mobile.
The footage has been passed to police, the Times added.
On Wednesday night, two men were arrested on a street in Ilford, the Metropolitan Police said.
A 27-year-old man was held on suspicion of the preparation of terrorist acts. A 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply controlled drugs, and was later further arrested over firearms allegations.
A third man, aged 29, was arrested on suspicion of the preparation of terrorist acts at an address in Ilford.
The other two men arrested were held under the Terrorism Act earlier on Wednesday - a 30-year-old detained in Ilford and a 27-year-old in Barking.
Twelve people arrested after the day after attack have been released without charge.
NHS England said 29 patients remained in London hospitals, with 10 in a critical condition.
A British Transport Police officer who was seriously injured after confronting the three attackers armed only with a baton has said he did "everything I could" to fight them off.
The officer, who has not been named, has been praised for his bravery, and added: "I want to say sorry to the families that lost their loved ones. I'm so sorry I couldn't do more."
The family of French national Alexandre Pigeard, a waiter at Boro Bistro, in Borough Market, said he was stabbed to death while working on the restaurant's terrace.
"Alexandre was a marvellous son, a perfect older brother and a radiant young man," they said in a statement. "All his friends praised his kindness, his good humour and his generosity."
On Wednesday, police searching for French national Xavier Thomas, 45, said they had recovered a body from the Thames, bringing the death toll to eight.
Mr Thomas's next of kin have been told, police said, but formal identification has not yet taken place.
Meanwhile, the prime minister of Spain said Ignacio EcheverrÃa, 39, who died defending a woman with his skateboard, should be given a posthumous award - the Silver Cross of the Order of Civil Merit. Mr EcheverrÃa was from Madrid and was working for HSBC bank in London.
The others killed in the attack have been named as Sebastien Belanger, 36, from France, Australians Sara Zelenak and Kirsty Boden, Canadian national Chrissy Archibald, and James McMullan, from Hackney, London.
It earlier emerged that Khuram Butt was known to police and MI5 in 2015, but the Metropolitan Police said there had been no evidence of a plot.
Butt had appeared in a Channel 4 documentary The Jihadis Next Door, broadcast last year.
An Italian police source confirmed to the BBC that Youssef Zaghba had been placed on a watch list, which is shared with many countries, including the UK.
In March 2016, Italian officers stopped him at Bologna airport and found IS-related materials on his mobile phone. He was then stopped from continuing his journey to Istanbul.
But speaking at her house in Bologna, Zaghba's mother told the BBC she believed her son was radicalised in the UK.
Rachid Redouane claimed to be a Moroccan-Libyan. He married a British woman, 38-year-old Charisse O'Leary, in Dublin in 2012.
His ex-wife said she was "deeply shocked, saddened and numbed" by his actions.
In 2002, Lee Balkwell, 33, was found trapped under the drum of the concrete mixer lorry with multiple injuries consistent with his being crushed.
His father Les Balkwell believes his son was murdered and has criticised the police investigation into the death.
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority made the £12,000 award "after considering all the evidence".
Lee Balkwell was found dead in a lane, at South Ockendon, in July 2002. He had been cleaning out a cement mixer.
An inquest jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing through gross negligence.
Last year, Lee Balkwell's employer, Simon Bromley, was convicted of failing to ensure the health and safety of his employee but was cleared of manslaughter by gross negligence.
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority said it had considered all the evidence and based its decision on a clause in its constitution that it was "not necessary for the assailant to have been convicted of a criminal offence in connection with the injury".
"On the balance of probabilities falls this action within the scope of the scheme," its spokesman said.
Les Balkwell told the BBC: "It is like another chip out of the wall. The truth seems to be coming out. The fight will go on.
"My family wants to see closure. It is such a drain on them."
Essex Police has no plans to reopen the investigation, a spokesman said.
In 2012, an Independent Police Complaints Commission report found eight senior officers made 25 errors in a "seriously flawed" investigation. It found no evidence of corruption.
One building in Taipei, the capital, houses most embassies, and the International Co-operation and Development Fund is located on the upper floors.
Taiwan has long used development aid and assistance to keep its handful of diplomatic partners onside but its giant mainland neighbour is now an economic superpower.
The island's allies are being picked off by China in what Taiwan derisively calls a "diplomatic money game".
Sao Tome and Principe, one of Africa's smallest states, cut ties in December. Panama, a longstanding partner, has now done the same.
Analysts say more Central American nations could follow.
Taiwan's diplomatic isolation dates back to 1971, when the United Nations switched diplomatic recognition to Beijing's People's Republic of China, and most countries followed suit. China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province and aims to deny it the trappings of a sovereign state.
Still, in the early 1990s, there were about 30 countries choosing to recognise Taipei over Beijing. That number is now down to 19, plus the Holy See.
The competition between Taiwan and China for the affections of small states mostly located in Central America, the Caribbean and the Pacific has been fierce.
Alliances have often switched back and forth, as a product of domestic politics and in response to economic incentives.
Take the tiny Caribbean island of St Lucia. It first recognised Taiwan in 1984, under conservative Prime Minister John Compton. But when the St Lucia Labour Party took power in 1997, the government switched to China.
Yet, in 2007, Mr Compton was back in power and restored ties with Taiwan, infuriating Beijing, which had funded large infrastructure projects.
The foreign minister at the time is reported to have suggested that one should "support those who give you the most". Taiwan subsequently built a national tennis centre, among other projects.
Although the Labour Party won the election in 2011, it did not, as expected, switch back to China. Prime Minister Kenny Anthony said his country could not continue to behave "as if our sovereignty is for sale to the highest bidder".
St Lucia is not the only country to have swung like a pendulum between Taipei and Beijing: The Gambia, Liberia and Nicaragua are among others who have done the same.
How far China goes in trying to win over Taiwan's allies also depends on who is in power across the strait.
From 2000-2008, when the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was in charge, Taiwan lost many friends to China: Costa Rica, Senegal, Chad, Grenada, Dominica, Macedonia, Vanuatu, Liberia and Malawi.
China spent big: Costa Rica received a new stadium reportedly worth more than $100m (£78m).
It stopped pinching Taiwan's allies for a period beginning in 2008 when the China-friendly Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang (KMT) became president
"In that period Taiwan stopped trying to buy new allies but it also developed closer ties to the PRC," said Dr Dafydd Fell, a Taiwan expert at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). A key part of that was an understanding that both sides accepted the "1992 Consensus" - that there is one China but that what this means is interpreted differently.
That changed after President Tsai Ing-wen of the DPP took office in May 2016. She doesn't accept the 1992 Consensus "and so Beijing is looking at ways to punish Taiwan", Dr Fell says. These include reducing tourism and targeting its diplomatic allies.
"I think it is likely we will see more switches in the near future."
And who will be next?
Colin Alexander, the author of a book examining China and Taiwan's policies in Central America, says El Salvador or Nicaragua could turn away from Taipei.
El Salvador, he says, actually tried to recognise China during its diplomatic détente with Taiwan under President Ma and was rebuffed. The game has now changed.
Taiwanese President Tsai visited El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua in January to bolster her alliances after then President-elect Donald Trump caused outcry in Beijing by accepting a congratulatory phone call from her in early December.
In between the phone call and Ms Tsai's trip, Sao Tome and Principe flipped.
In Latin America and the Caribbean: Belize, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent & the Grenadines, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Paraguay, Honduras and Saint Lucia
In Africa: Burkina Faso and Swaziland
In Europe: The Holy See
In the Pacific: Kiribati, Nauru, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands and Palau
For Central American countries that have become democracies, recognising China is not just about money, Mr Alexander says. They also want to be seen as "diplomatically normal", instead of global outliers.
At the same time, he adds: "If you're from a small Central American Republic and you have Taiwan as your ally, Taiwan treats you as a princess really and you get a lot of benefits from it.
"If you move over to China, you're just another country that recognises China".
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Some of Taiwan's allies have touted their resistance to Chinese largesse and "dollar diplomacy".
Burkina Faso and Swaziland are Taiwan's last remaining partners in Africa, a continent into which China has poured billions in recent years.
"We get outrageous proposals telling us: 'If you sign with Beijing we'll offer you $50bn or even more,'" Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Alpha Barry told Bloomberg in January. "Taiwan is our friend and our partner. We're happy and we see no reason to reconsider the relationship."
Dilmei Olkeriil, the ambassador who represents the north Pacific nation of Palau in Taiwan, told the BBC she was "surprised" and "saddened" that Panama had switched to China. Ambassadors in Taiwan, she added, have a "close relationship".
She said it was unlikely her country would turn its back on Taiwan too, as most people support it.
These formal diplomatic relationships are still seen as significant for Taiwan, but are not as important as they used to be in general public opinion, says Dr Fell.
The main value is symbolic: leaders can make diplomatic visits and countries can speak up for Taiwan at the UN and other international organisations.
But ultimately, the relationships Taiwan has with major powers, like the United States - "which are called unofficial but which function as the same as official diplomatic ties" - are more important, he says.
The island has dozens of trade offices around the world that function as de-facto embassies.
The current focus on wresting small states away from Taiwan's embrace may also be counterproductive to Beijing's long-term goals, according to Dr Fell.
"Taiwanese find their international isolation very frustrating", he says, "and Chinese pressure tends to reinforce Taiwanese national identity."
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Strauss said Pietersen, who recorded a career-best 355 not out for Surrey on Tuesday, has not been banned from future England action.
But, in a 40-minute meeting with Strauss on Monday, he was told he would not be considered until after the summer's home Ashes series against Australia.
The 34-year-old was sacked by England in February 2014 but is playing county cricket in a bid to return to the Test team.
Strauss, speaking for the first time since his England and Wales Cricket Board appointment and after the sacking of head coach Peter Moores, said:
"Now is the time for us to be really open about the Kevin Pietersen situation - people have been running away from it for years," said Strauss.
"The truth about Kevin is that he is a phenomenal cricketer. But over months and years, trust has eroded between Kevin Pietersen and the ECB.
"There is a massive trust issue between me and Kevin.
"While there is no trust between Kevin and the ECB, it is our opinion he cannot feature in our short-term plans. Long-term, who knows?"
Speaking on Monday, before his meeting with Strauss, Pietersen said he was "desperate" to return to the international game, adding: "Personal differences have got nothing to do with what the public wants. The public just wants to see the England team winning.
"What more can I do? All I can do is score runs. I'm incredibly proud of how I played under pressure."
Pietersen reduced his Indian Premier League commitments this year to play for Surrey after incoming ECB chairman Colin Graves suggested an international return might be possible if he were to score runs in domestic cricket.
But Strauss's assertion that the South Africa-born batsman will not be considered for selection could signal the end of a career that took in 8,181 runs and 23 centuries in 104 Tests.
Pietersen last played for England in the final Test of a 5-0 Ashes series defeat in Australia in January 2014.
He was sacked a month later and released an autobiography in October criticising several players, saying there was a "bullying culture" in the squad.
In July 2014, Strauss apologised for making an offensive remark about his former team-mate during a live television broadcast.
Andrew Strauss offered Pietersen a role as an advisor on a board to improve the one-day side, which was turned down.
He said: "Kevin has got brilliant experience in one-day cricket and I think it would be madness not to try to get that information out of his head and help us form a strategy for English cricket going forwards.
"That's why I asked him to be on that board. Ultimately that may be an opportunity for us to start rebuilding trust."
Peter Moores was dismissed as England head coach on the same day Strauss was appointed as director of cricket.
It was Moores' second spell in charge of the team, which finished with a dismal World Cup performance and a drawn Test series in the West Indies.
"That was a very tough decision to take," Strauss told BBC Sport. "He's a very popular coach and has got some really strong attributes as a coach.
"I personally think he's got some limitations in the international arena around strategy and tactics and I think we saw that in the World Cup to a certain extent.
"But he was undermined greatly by the fact he had done the job before. He needed time and space to take the England cricket team forward and he was never going to get that."
Former Australia seamer Jason Gillespie, 40, is the current Yorkshire head coach and led the club from Division Two to the County Championship title within three years.
Strauss confirmed he is "one of the candidates" to replace Moores and said he wants someone in place in time for the Ashes, which begin in July.
"It is one of the top two coaching jobs in world cricket and there are a lot of ambitious coaches who want to prove they can cut the mustard at this level."
Strauss said Alastair Cook would remain as captain for the summer, with Joe Root "stepping up" to vice captain and Eoin Morgan remaining in charge of the one-day side.
"Alastair Cook has my full backing to lead the side into the Ashes this summer. He has had a brutally tough last 18 months, with his own form and one-day captaincy.
"Selection is something we need to look at. There have been times where there are issues around responsibility and accountability - I want to look at that this summer."
Strauss said he would not play a "tracksuit" role, instead leaving the coaching of the side to Moores' replacement.
He added that it would be his job to "make sure we are not off pace for the next World Cup".
"I am not going to be in the dressing room. That is not my role. The captain and the coach will be in control."
ECB chief executive Tom Harrison echoed Strauss's opinion on Pietersen.
"All I can add to what Andrew said is that we are aligned on the decision; myself, Andrew and Colin Graves.
"It has been a tricky issue that has been interpreted in different ways by different people.
"We are taking this as a chance to move forward with a new leadership with a real excitement about where English cricket can go."
Jonathan Agnew on BBC Radio 5 live: "Anyone who will have seen Andrew Strauss talk today very strongly about the issue of trust, will be of no doubt that Kevin Pietersen will not play for England again."
Piers Morgan on BBC Radio 5 live: "I spoke to Kevin this morning and he's incredibly upset, he believes he's been deeply misled. Remove the personal, vindictive politics in the selection process and allow the best player to play for England again."
Former England bowler Steve Harmison told BBC Sport: "I never expected Kevin to come back. I thought the decision to sack Kevin was baffling at the time. But I don't think this decision is baffling, because once you've sacked someone it is hard to come back.
"Andrew mentions the word trust, and I think that can work both ways. There were reports in the papers after their meeting on Monday and that can only have come from one place."
Former England and Kent batsman Ed Smith on Kevin Pietersen: "Fans are not divided. Social media is divided and social media is a poor reflection of cricket."
On Andrew Strauss: "Do you want someone to be interesting or good at their job? There's a massive misconception that the way to connect with the cricket public is by saying a lot."
Pietersen's Surrey team-mate Kumar Sangakkara: "In cricket it's not about who you like, but who adds the most value to the team. Whether it's the right or wrong decision remains to be seen with the future of English cricket."
Using techniques normally employed by biologists, academics studied links between stories from around the world and found some had prehistoric roots.
They found some tales were older than the earliest literary records, with one dating back to the Bronze Age.
The stories had been thought to date back to the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Durham University anthropologist Dr Jamie Tehrani, said Jack and the Beanstalk was rooted in a group of stories classified as The Boy Who Stole Ogre's Treasure, and could be traced back to when Eastern and Western Indo-European languages split more than 5,000 years ago.
Analysis showed Beauty And The Beast and Rumpelstiltskin to be about 4,000 years old.
And a folk tale called The Smith And The Devil, about a blacksmith selling his soul in a pact with the Devil in order to gain supernatural abilities, was estimated to go back 6,000 years to the Bronze Age.
A blacksmith strikes a deal with a malevolent supernatural being, such as the Devil, Death or a genie.
The blacksmith exchanges his soul for the power to weld any materials together.
He then uses this power to stick the villain to an immovable object, such as a tree, to renege on his side of the bargain.
This basic plot is stable throughout the Indo-European speaking world, from India to Scandinavia, according to the research.
The study said this tale could be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European society when metallurgy likely existed and there was archaeological and genetic evidence of massive territorial expansions by nomadic tribes from the Pontic steppe (the northern shores of the Black Sea) between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago.
However, John Lindow, a folklorist at the University of California, Berkeley, casts doubt on the theory in Science News, saying the Proto-Indo-European vocabulary for working with metal was limited and the word "smith" might not have existed.
If true, that would mean the version of "The Smith and the Devil" used in the study may not be that old, he said.
Dr Tehrani, who worked with folklorist Sara Graca Da Silva, from the New University of Lisbon, said: "We find it pretty remarkable these stories have survived without being written.
"They have been told since before even English, French and Italian existed. They were probably told in an extinct Indo-European language."
In the 19th Century, authors the Brothers Grimm believed many of the fairy tales they popularised, including Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White, were rooted in a shared cultural history dating back to the birth of the Indo-European language family.
Later thinkers challenged that view, saying some stories were much younger and had been passed into oral tradition, having first been written down by writers from the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Dr Jamie Tehrani said: "We can come firmly down on the side of Wilhelm Grimm.
"Some of these stories go back much further than the earliest literary record and indeed further back than Classical mythology - some versions of these stories appear in Latin and Greek texts - but our findings suggest they are much older than that."
The study, which was published in the Royal Society Open Science journal, employed phylogenetic methods to investigate the relationships between population histories and cultural phenomena, such as languages, marriage practices, political institutions, material culture and music.
It also used a "tree" of Indo-European languages to trace the descent of shared tales to see how far they could be demonstrated to go back in time.
Dr Tehrani explained: "We used a toolkit that we borrowed from evolutionary biology called phylogenetic comparative methods. This enables you to reconstruct the past in the absence of physical evidence.
"We've excavated information about our story-telling history, using information that's been preserved through the mechanism of inheritance, so in that sense they embody their own history.
"By comparing the folk tales that we find in different cultures and knowing something about the historical relationships among those cultures, we can make inferences about the stories that would have been told by their common ancestors," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Guy Tomlinson, 37, of Norfolk Walk, Leicester, was driving a Peugeot 206 when it collided with a tipper truck in Leicester on 9 March.
David Anger and Christopher Needham, who were both passengers in the car, died at the scene, on Fosse Road South.
At Leicester Crown Court Tomlinson admitted six driving offences. He will be sentenced in January.
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He pleaded guilty to two charges of death by dangerous driving, two charges of causing death by driving while uninsured and two counts of causing death by driving while unlicensed.
Two people in the lorry suffered minor injuries during the crash and damage was caused to a shop on the corner of Upperton Road.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has been investigating the crash.
Some of the software showed an animation or messages. Others invited the infected user to play a game.
Many of the viruses were created by "happy hackers" rather than organised criminals, said cybersecurity expert and curator Mikko Hypponen.
The malware all dates from the 1980s and 1990s.
The versions online have all been stripped of their destructive capabilities, but show the messages they would have displayed within emulator windows.
Much of the collection is mischievous and colourful in nature, but there was also more sinister malware around.
"I only chose interesting viruses," Mr Hypponen said of his picks.
His personal favourite is a virus called Casino, which overwrote a crucial part of the computer's file system but took a copy of personal files and then offered the user the opportunity to win them back in a game of Jackpot.
"Casino was a real problem," Mr Hypponen, who works at security firm F-Secure, told the BBC.
"At the time the advice was, you lose nothing by playing. In the early 1990s very few people had back-ups so you had lost your files anyway."
He said he was surprised by the number of people who felt nostalgic about the old malware.
"Most of the malware we analyse today is coming from organised criminal groups... and intelligence agencies," Mr Hyponnen added.
"Old school happy hackers who used to write viruses for fun are nowhere to be seen."
The village of Susiya - home to some 350 people - has become the focus of an international campaign, drawing in European diplomats, the US state department and pro-Palestinian activists.
"Look, there are families living here in tents. There's a cave, water cisterns and places where we put our sheep," Susiya resident Nasser Nawaja points out. "It's a simple Palestinian life."
But daily existence here has long been caught up in a complicated political situation. Now, for the third time in three decades, villagers are facing the threat of another forced displacement.
In May, the Israeli High Court denied a Palestinian request for an injunction to stop Israel's plans to destroy their homes.
The villagers have deeds to the land going back to the Ottoman era, but the Israeli authorities say their current structures were built without the necessary permits.
A senior officer from the defence ministry's administrative body in the West Bank warned that efforts to remove the villagers could begin any day, even though a legal appeal is due to be heard on 3 August.
The department said he had met Susiya's Palestinian inhabitants to "examine alternative solutions".
In the meantime, Susiya's residents are watching and waiting.
"Everyone in the village is living on their nerves," Mr Nawaja, 33, said. "We're afraid the Israelis might come at any time. We panic every time we hear cars approaching."
The rudimentary Palestinian homes in this harsh landscape are squeezed between the mainly brick-built houses in the Israeli settlement of Susiya and a site, run by settlers, where ruins of an ancient synagogue were found in the 1970s.
Israeli settlements in the occupied territories are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
Susiya falls within the 61% of the West Bank known as Area C, which the 1993 Israel-Palestinian interim peace accords placed under full Israeli control.
In 1986, local Palestinians were expelled from their homes on the archaeological site. The army then moved them again in 2001 after Palestinians killed an Israeli from the neighbouring settlement.
After the residents moved to the current location on their agricultural land, they say they tried to get building permission but it was denied.
Critics say in the vast majority of cases the Israeli civil administration, the body which implements government policy in the West Bank, does not approve Palestinian building applications in Area C.
Now Israeli and foreign activists are camping out in Susiya around the clock to try to prevent demolition orders from being carried out, and there is also diplomatic pressure against such a move.
"We're closely following developments… We strongly urge the Israeli authorities to refrain from carrying out any demolitions in the village," US state department spokesman John Kirby said in a rare public statement on the issue this month.
He added that any demolitions or evictions "would be harmful and provocative".
In turn, European Union foreign ministers issued a strongly worded statement urging Israel to abandon plans for the "forced transfer of population and demolition of Palestinian housing and infrastructure".
European donations help sustain Susiya village, which is not connected to mains electricity or public water supplies.
The Susiya case has taken on a special significance because of current tensions between Israel and both the US and EU.
They view any action against Palestinians in the context of continuing settlement growth and wider problems of demolitions and displacement affecting Palestinians and Bedouin in the occupied territories and Israel.
At the same time Israel's right-wing coalition government is being pressed by its supporters in the settler movement.
They point out there is now no legal obstacle to prevent buildings in Susiya being demolished and that some Israeli settler outposts deemed unlawful by the government have previously been removed.
"This is 100% a test case for the Israeli government - whether it stands up to the unending pressure placed on us, not only by the EU but now by the state department of the US, Israel's closest ally," says Ari Briggs of Regavim, an Israeli legal advocacy group.
"It is only going to get worse if Israel bows to the pressure today. Israel is a sovereign country and it has to say: 'We have interests as well and we have to follow those interests.'"
Back at Susiya, the head of the village council meets a delegation of members of the European Parliament who have arrived for a tour. Meanwhile local youngsters play football with a group of activists.
Seventy-year-old Mohammed Nawaja looks on. "Each time we've had to rebuild we've started with nothing," he says. "I must trust in God that my grandchildren won't have to live the same experience."
Ho Van Lang and his 82-year-old father reportedly shunned contact with the outside world after three family members were killed by a landmine.
For most of their time in the jungle their whereabouts was unknown.
They were discovered living in dense foliage in central Quang Ngai province and were barely able to communicate.
Mr Ho was said by officials to only know a few words of the local Cor dialect.
Vietnamese media reported that Mr Ho's brother succeeded in tracking the pair down 20 years ago, but had not been able to persuade them to return to modern society.
Local media initially reported that the 82-year-old's wife had been killed by the mine, but it subsequently emerged that it was in fact his mother and her two grandchildren.
While in the jungle, the pair wore only loincloths and used a homemade axe to chop down trees. They survived on corn, fruits and cassava roots from the jungle.
They lived in a tree house, five metres above ground, where they kept arrows for hunting and knives for killing animals.
The older man kept his military trousers neatly folded in a corner as well as the little red coat his son was thought to have been wearing when they fled.
A party of local people who discovered them were reported to be startled by their wild appearance and outlandish gestures.
They reported their find to the leaders of a local commune, who deployed a team to track them down.
After a five-hour search on Thursday the team located the father and son in their tree house.
Officials say that Mr Ho fled to the jungle after being traumatised by the mine explosion.
The pair are now being given medical checks as the first step in the process of reintegrating them into society.
No, it was another headline inside that summed it up - a love song to the brutality of the home pack. Below a picture of their heavy brigade demolishing another Scottish scrum, "Merci les gros!" captured the mood fairly well. "Les Bleus ont su abandonner leur projet de jeu ambitieux pour revenir aux basiques et enforcer...".
You didn't need to speak the lingo to get the message. France had ditched their notions of expansive rugby and replaced it with biff, grunt and as much physicality as they could muster, which was plenty. The enforcers won.
Having lost so many games for so many years, France had reached desperation point. They had to beat the Scots. And the best way they knew how was to bully the life out of them.
What was instructive was the Scottish mindset afterwards. It was one of disappointment to the point of dejection and devastation, not just among the players but the fans too.
We should think about this. Scotland were missing their first-choice props. They then lost their captain, their vice-captain and their vice-captain's replacement very early in the game. All the while, their scrum got obliterated.
In past years, had any or all of these things befallen Scotland then everybody would have been watching from behind the couch. The belief in this team's capacity to win has rocketed though.
Despite massive odds, they were close to pulling it off. As they sought to come back at the death, their decision-making became ragged and their composure was lost, but they were still alive. They had no right to be given what had happened to them, but they were.
Scotland were hanging in there because, a slapstick Finn Russell conversion apart, they made their few chances in the game go a very long way. Their second try wasn't even a chance - it was a bit of opportunism that is becoming the hallmark of this team, part of the reason why they are so exciting to watch.
They are so quick to recognise an opening now and so efficient at executing.
When Tommy Seymour galloped up the right wing, got the better of Scott Spedding and then found Tim Swinson running the most fantastic support line, it was a try that dropped out of the Parisian sky. And it put Scotland ahead.
It was a trippy moment. At that point, Scotland had no business being ahead. The French must have wondered what on earth was going on out there.
Scotland had lost Greig Laidlaw, John Barclay and John Hardie to injury by then. They had already conceded three scrum penalties and one scrum free-kick. They had precious little ball to play with.
Not enough possession, not enough territory and yet they had the lead. In previous years, they'd have been 15 points behind in those circumstances.
That conversion was a calamity. Sure, Scotland lost by six points, so on the face of it, it didn't matter. But psychologically surely it did, for France as much as Scotland.
Not long afterwards. Russell put a restart out on the full. We can't ever know for sure if the miss was still in his head - he will say no - but it was untypical of him.
France had been given a two-point let-off and things like that galvanise a team. Scotland were in the business of stripping away France's self-belief and getting their crowd whistling their derision - and the Swinson try against the odds was getting the job done nicely.
Can you imagine the discussion behind the French posts? "We're killing these guys in the scrum, so why are we losing? What is happening here?" Then the miss and the boost it would have given the hosts. It wasn't the difference between victory and defeat, but it was a small part of why it happened.
Another, far chunkier part, was the scrum. Six scrum penalties and one scrum free-kick were conceded on Sunday on top of further scrum problems against Ireland the week before.
Referees are watching for this now. Scotland have a bad reputation.
If a scrum hits the deck against Wales, who do you think will be penalised more often than not? A Welsh scrum that's been operating well, or a Scottish scrum that's been going backwards and down? These things matter.
Vern Cotter has had to deal with huge upset in this area. Since the World Cup in 2015 and through to the Six Nations in 2016, Alasdair Dickinson and WP Nel were the coach's first-choice props - and they were formidable. Not only had they brought stability back to the scrum, but they had big engines too. They were the rocks upon which Cotter was rebuilding Scotland.
They're both out through injury. So is Edinburgh's Rory Sutherland, who came off the bench in Scotland's final game of last year's Six Nations in Dublin.
Of the others - Ryan Grant went to the World Cup, but his career has stagnated badly and he's now trying to rediscover himself with Worcester, Jon Welsh also went to the World Cup but he's out of favour despite being a regular with Newcastle and Moray Low is out of the picture as well, as something of a bit-part player with Exeter.
Scotland cannot afford to have three of their frontline props all injured at the same time. Their brilliance in attack will mean that they will have a chance in most games, but it's hard to plug those holes when it's the likes of the French coming at you with only one thing in mind - physical dominance, death by scrummaging.
The fact that Scotland came within six points was a tribute to their finishing ability and the size of their heart. They will be a match for everybody in this Six Nations.
The suspicion, and frustration, is that, if they could only pick from a full deck, they could well be contenders.
Ava's seizures can last anything from two minutes to a couple of hours and vary in intensity.
"This time last year our little girl had a cardiac arrest after 16 seizures," Vera recalled.
Her daughter's seizures have reduced significantly since October when she began taking a legal form of cannabis oil known as CBD or Charlotte's Web.
"The CBD oil has demonstrated in our own home the effectiveness of the medicinal cannabis," she said.
"Her seizures have reduced by 80% to 90% after she began taking the CBD.
"She had seven seizures in October in total and our daughter previously would have had seven seizures in a couple of hours.
"This time last year between October and December we were in hospital continuously bar about five or six days in those couple of months. We haven't seen the inside of a hospital since September this year."
Clinical trials have indicated that Dravet syndrome can respond well to THC, a component of cannabis.
Ms Twomey had previously petitioned the Republic of Ireland's legislature to legalise the use of medicinal cannabis but to no avail.
In November, she set off from her home in the remote village of Aghabullogue with the intention of walking to the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) in Dublin to highlight the issue.
During her 150-mile trip, she begged the Irish health minister to listen to her in a Facebook post.
Simon Harris got in touch and subsequently announced plans to review the government's policy on medicinal cannabis.
On Thursday night, the Dáil (Irish parliament) passed a bill to make cannabis available in the Republic of Ireland for medicinal use.
Ms Twomey, who was in Dublin to see the bill being passed, said she was "delighted".
"We were so happy that so many of the TDs from all the different parties had something positive to say about this bill and that they all came together and really help the people who are out there that really need this medicine," she said.
"We'd like to get it as soon as we possibly could but we need it done right as well, so I hope they're not going to be taking too long to deliver the legislation to us, but we're thrilled that we're another step closer to getting the legislation passed. There seems to be a great will to get this done for people out there."
She said her daughter had improved so much in the past few months, but was hopeful she could improve further if she had access to THD.
"It has given her a quality of life that she didn't have before," she said.
"We can do more normal things now, we can go for a little journey in the car, we can go for a little walk.
"Before it was worry, worry, worry, every single moment. Obviously we're still concerned about her and monitoring her carefully all the time but it's definitely a better standard of life of her.
"She's happier and in less pain and sleeping better.
"Her appetite is also better and in school her teachers say she's getting on better with her classmates and teachers so every aspect of Ava's life has improved.
"The medicinal cannabis won't just give Ava back a life, but it will give us back a life that's more free."
Rory McAllister's fine free-kick put Peterhead in front before Paul Woods' penalty levelled things midway through the first half.
McIntosh smashed home what would prove to be the winner five minutes later.
Jamie McKernon was sent off late on as Peterhead set up a final against either Rangers or St Mirren.
McAllister opened the scoring on 17 minutes when he curled a free-kick into the bottom corner.
Woods was given the chance to regain parity for Queen's just five minutes later when McIntosh brought down Sean Burns in the penalty area. The midfielder slotted home the spot-kick to notch his seventh goal of the season.
McIntosh redeemed himself on 27 minutes when he tapped home Kevin Dzierzawski's free-kick for the decisive goal.
The Spiders lost McKernon to a red card at the end of the game as Peterhead held on to make the first final in their 124-year history.
Hundreds suffered symptoms consistent with reaction to a nerve agent after what the opposition and Western powers said was a Syrian government air strike on the area on Tuesday morning.
The Syrian military denied using any chemical agents, while its ally Russia said an air strike hit a rebel depot full of chemical munitions.
Activists and witnesses say warplanes attacked Khan Sheikhoun, about 50km (30 miles) south of the city of Idlib, early on Tuesday, when many people were asleep.
Mariam Abu Khalil, a 14-year-old resident who was awake, told the New York Times that she had seen an aircraft drop a bomb on a one-storey building.
The explosion sent a yellow mushroom cloud into the air that stung her eyes. "It was like a winter fog," she said. She sheltered in her home, but recalled that when people started arriving to help the wounded, "they inhaled the gas and died".
Hussein Kayal, a photographer for the pro-opposition Edlib Media Center (EMC), told the Associated Press that he was awoken by the sound of an explosion at about 06:30 (03:30 GMT). When he reached the scene, there was no smell, he said. He found people lying on the floor, unable to move and with constricted pupils.
Mohammed Rasoul, the head of a charity ambulance service in Idlib, told the BBC that he heard about the attack at about 06:45 and that when his medics arrived 20 minutes later they found people, many of them children, choking in the street.
The Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations (UOSSM), which funds hospitals in rebel-held Syria, said three of its staff in Khan Sheikhoun were affected while treating patients in the streets and had to be rushed to intensive care.
Victims experienced symptoms including redness of the eyes, foaming from the mouth, constricted pupils, blue facial skin and lips, severe shortness of breath and asphyxiation, it added.
A Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical team supporting the Bab al-Hawa hospital, near the Turkish border, confirmed similar symptoms in eight patients brought there from Khan Sheikhoun.
Rescue workers and opposition activists posted photos and videos on social media that showed victims exhibiting the symptoms described by doctors, as well as many people who had died.
The EMC posted photos showing what appeared to be at least seven dead children in the back of a pick-up truck. There were no visible traumatic injuries.
Another photo published by the group showed the bodies of at least 14 men, women and children on a street outside a hospital in Khan Sheikhoun.
The opposition-run health directorate in Idlib province - which is almost entirely controlled by rebel fighters and al-Qaeda-linked jihadists - says at least 89 people were killed, including 33 children and 18 women. Another 541 people were injured.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, put the death toll at 86 and said it was likely to rise, with many of the injured in a serious condition in hospital.
It was also not immediately clear whether anyone was killed when Khan Sheikhoun's main hospital was struck by a rocket on Tuesday afternoon.
The source of the projectile was not clear, but the EMC said warplanes had targeted clinics and the headquarters of the Syria Civil Defence, whose rescue workers are known as the White Helmets.
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the likelihood of a chemical being responsible was "amplified by an apparent lack of external injuries reported in cases showing a rapid onset of similar symptoms, including acute respiratory distress as the main cause of death".
"Some cases appear to show additional signs consistent with exposure to organophosphorus chemicals, a category of chemicals that includes nerve agents."
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) expressed serious concern about the reports and said a fact-finding mission was "in the process of gathering and analysing information from all available sources".
The OPCW will not be able to confirm anything until samples are tested at an accredited laboratory, but a doctor at a hospital in the town of Sarmin who treated some of the casualties believes it was the nerve agent Sarin.
"All the patients had the same symptoms - difficulty in breathing, weakness," Dr Abdulhai Tennari told the BBC. "They had very huge secretions in their respiratory tracts, which induced suffocation."
He noted that when the most serious cases were given an antidote for Sarin poisoning, atropine, their conditions became stable and they survived.
MSF said the patients' symptoms were "consistent with exposure to a neurotoxic agent such as Sarin". Its medical teams also reported that victims smelled of bleach, suggesting they had been exposed to chlorine as well.
On Thursday, Turkey's health ministry said the initial results of post mortems carried out on three victims under WHO supervision suggested that they "were exposed to a chemical substance (Sarin)". They suffered "pulmonary oedema [build-up of fluid], increase in the lung weight and blood in the lungs", it added.
A Syrian military statement published by state media categorically denied the use of "any chemical or toxic substance" in Khan Sheikhoun on Tuesday, adding that the military "has never used them, anytime, anywhere, and will not do so in the future."
Russia, which has carried out air strikes in support of President Assad since 2015, meanwhile said the Syrian air force had struck Khan Sheikhoun "between 11:30am and 12:30pm local time" on Tuesday, but that the target had been "a large terrorist ammunition depot" on its eastern outskirts.
"On the territory of the depot, there were workshops which produced chemical warfare munitions," it added, without providing any evidence. "Terrorists had been transporting chemical munitions from this largest arsenal to the territory of Iraq."
The ministry said the chemical munitions had also been used during the final stages of the battle for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo last autumn, asserting that the symptoms of the victims were "the same".
The US says its military radar systems monitored a Syrian Air Force fixed-wing aircraft take off from Shayrat airbase in Homs province on Tuesday morning and fly over Khan Sheikhoun on two occasions - at 06:37 (03:37 GMT) and 06:46.
US military officials told NBC News that the radar systems picked up flashes on the ground, indicating that ordnance had been dropped on the rebel-held town about the same time that the first casualties with breathing difficulties were reported.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former commanding officer of the British Armed Forces Joint Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) Regiment, said Russia's assertion that the strikes had hit rebel chemical weapons were "pretty fanciful".
"Axiomatically, if you blow up Sarin, you destroy it," he told the BBC.
Experts say the explosion resulting from an air strike on a chemical weapons facility would most likely incinerate any agents. Sarin and other nerve agents are also usually stocked in a "binary manner", which means they are kept as two distinct chemical precursors that are combined just before use, either manually or automatically inside a weapon when launched.
"It's very clear it's a Sarin attack," Mr de Bretton-Gordon added. "The view that it's an al-Qaeda or rebel stockpile of Sarin that's been blown up in an explosion, I think is completely unsustainable and completely untrue."
He also noted that chlorine was the only chemical believed to have been used in attacks in Aleppo over the past year.
A recent report by Human Rights Watch said government helicopters had dropped bombs containing chlorine on rebel-held areas of Aleppo on at least eight occasions between 17 November and 13 December, killing nine civilians.
Hasan Haj Ali, commander of the Free Idlib Army rebel group, called Russia's claim a "lie" and said rebel fighters did not have the capability to produce nerve agents.
The UK's representative to the UN, Matthew Rycroft, also told the Security Council that his country had seen nothing to suggest that any non-state actors in Syria had the sort of chemical weapons that would have been consistent with the symptoms.
The French envoy, Francois Delattre, meanwhile said there was "no fire" after the air strike, even though a strike on an ammunition depot "would have caused a fire".
It was also not clear why there was five hours' difference between the time of the strike reported by multiple witnesses and that stated by Russia.
Moscow's short account gave no evidence for its suggestion that a group was sending chemical weaponry to Iraq. So-called Islamic State, which has used the the blister agent sulphur mustard in Syria and Iraq, is not present in Khan Sheikhoun.
Sarin is highly toxic and considered 20 times as deadly as cyanide.
As with all nerve agents, Sarin inhibits the action of the acetylcholinesterase enzyme, which deactivates signals that cause human nerve cells to fire. This blockage pushes nerves into a continual "on" state. The heart and other muscles - including those involved in breathing - spasm. Sufficient exposure can lead to death via asphyxiation within minutes.
Sarin is almost impossible to detect because it is a clear, colourless and tasteless liquid that has no odour in its purest form. It can also evaporate and spread through the air.
The Syrian government was accused by Western powers of firing rockets filled with Sarin at several rebel-held suburbs of the capital Damascus in August 2013, killing hundreds of people.
President Bashar al-Assad denied the charge, blaming rebel fighters, but he did subsequently agree to destroy Syria's declared chemical arsenal.
Despite that, the OPCW and UN have continued to document the use of chemicals in attacks.
A joint investigation concluded in October that government forces had used chlorine as a weapon at least three times between 2014 and 2015. It also found Islamic State militants had used sulphur mustard in one attack.
The appointment in January raised fears that the circle of US intelligence chiefs was being politicised.
A White House aide said the reshuffle was not a demotion for Mr Bannon, who used to head up Breitbart News.
The aide said Mr Bannon was only given a seat on the NSC to keep an eye on National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was fired in February.
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Another day, another bit of palace intrigue in the White House. After a week in which presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner's power seemed to grow exponentially, another longtime Trump insider, Steve Bannon, has had his wings clipped.
The White House attempted to brush off news that the senior political adviser is no long a principal on the National Security Council, but the on-background administration explanations ring hollow.
Was Mr Bannon really just there to "de-operationalise" the council after the Obama years or, even more improbably, keep an eye on former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn? In January, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer vigorously asserted that Mr Bannon's presence on the council was nothing out of the ordinary.
Washington foreign policy insiders are probably relieved by this development, as they largely considered Mr Bannon a reckless and inexperienced provocateur. They may believe that international affairs "grown-ups" are finally in control.
Although his national security influence may have been curtailed, Mr Bannon will continue to cast a long shadow in this administration. He occupies prime White House real estate, reportedly maintains his top security clearance and, most importantly, almost certainly still has the president's ear on political matters.
The White House did not announce Wednesday's presidential executive order detailing the shake-up - it only came to light in a regulatory filing.
The reshuffle also restores the director of national intelligence, CIA director and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to full participation on the NSC's inner circle, its principals committee.
Critics have branded Mr Bannon - who once managed populist, right-wing Breitbart News - as a white nationalist.
In its 27 January memorandum elevating Mr Bannon, the White House had also downgraded the military chiefs of staff, provoking widespread criticism in Washington's foreign policy and security establishment.
The director of national intelligence and the joint chiefs were advised they only needed to attend NSC meetings when discussions pertained to their areas.
The White House bridled in January at criticism of the Bannon move, pointing out that President Barack Obama's former adviser, David Axelrod, regularly attended NSC meetings.
However, Mr Axelrod was never appointed to the principals committee, as Mr Bannon was.
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The striker scored four goals in 13 league starts after he joined from Premier League side West Brom on transfer deadline day last summer.
The last of the 35-year-old's four Cardiff goals came in a 3-1 defeat at Aston Villa on 26 November.
Cardiff manager Neil Warnock recently said that Lambert would struggle for game time next season.
Warnock will prefer Kenneth Zohore and new signing Danny Ward up front next season.
Lambert has scored three goals for England in 11 appearances.
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The children, from Hertfordshire, were reported lost near Abercraf at about 13:00 on Wednesday.
After a major rescue operation all were brought to safety.
St Albans School head Jonathan Gillespie thanked rescuers but said the alarm was raised when two of the party began to feel unwell.
Three mountain rescue teams, police, a coastguard helicopter and the ambulance service were involved in the search for the school children reportedly lost in low cloud around Llyn y Fan Fach, near Abercraf.
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Forty-seven pupils aged 15 and 16, were divided into groups on the second day of a three-day silver Duke of Edinburgh award expedition when two of them began to feel unwell, Mr Gillespie said.
They were part of a small group of seven who correctly followed their training procedures and called for help, he said.
School staff were able to give rescuers a grid location for the group, who were found and led down the mountain.
Three other groups were later located and rescuers confirmed all 26 children were safe. They were taken to a hospital to be checked as a precaution.
The pupils' attempts to make their own way down the mountain had been hampered by heavy rain, strong winds and a negligible mobile phone signal, emergency services said.
Mr Gillespie said: "I'm very proud of my staff and pupils and how they responded to it, and grateful to the emergency services."
He added: "At no stage have any of them been unaccounted for or missing."
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The Secretary-General [Ban Ki-moon] was shocked to learn about the large explosion in central Oslo and the shooting that took place in Utoeya today.
He condemns this violence and expresses his condolences to the government of Norway and the families of the victims. The United Nations stands together with the people of Norway at this terrible moment.
Our solidarity with Norway remains steadfast. Nato countries stand united in the battle against these acts of violence.
On behalf of Nato, I condemn in the strongest possible terms the heinous acts of violence in Norway. I would like to convey my sincere condolences to the Norwegian government, the Norwegian people and the families and loved ones of all those who suffered in these cruel and cowardly acts.
I wanted to personally extend my condolences to the people of Norway. It's a reminder that the entire international community holds a stake in preventing this kind of terror from occurring. We have to work co-operatively together both on intelligence and in terms of prevention of these kinds of horrible attacks.
I was outraged to hear about the explosion in Oslo and attack in Utoeya today that have killed and injured innocent people. My thoughts are with the wounded and those who have lost friends and family, and I know everyone in Britain will feel the same.
These attacks are a stark reminder of the threat we all face from terrorism. I have called Prime Minister Stoltenberg this evening to express my sincere condolences and to let him know that our thoughts are with the Norwegian people at this tragic time.
I have offered Britain's help, including through our close intelligence co-operation. We will work with Norway to hunt the murderers who did this and prevent any more innocent deaths. We can overcome this evil, and we will.
My feelings of sympathy go out to the victims of today's tragic events which have shaken my home country of Norway. The attacks were aimed at the heart of our democratic institutions and our open and peaceful nation. Those responsible for them must be brought to justice.
It appears the attack on the Utoeya youth camp was intended to hurt young citizens who actively engage in our democratic and political society. But we must not be intimidated. We need to work for freedom and democracy every day.
The Oslo bombing has reminded Europeans of the acute threat of terrorism which can strike out at innocent citizens anywhere. The Council of Europe will do all it can to combat terrorism and organised crime together with its international partners.
I was shocked and intensely saddened to learn of the attacks in Oslo and Utoya today. Canada stands with Norway on this tragic day.
We deeply regret the loss of life and injuries resulting from the explosion which occurred today in the government quarters... We were also horrified to learn that a gunman has opened fire at a youth camp at Utoeya.
Canada condemns these barbarous and senseless acts of violence and our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, witnesses and all those affected by these attacks.
Solicitors acting for Wandsworth, Hillingdon, Richmond and Windsor and Maidenhead councils have written to the prime minister saying expansion would be "irrational or otherwise unlawful".
In July, the Airports Commission (AC) said the plan was preferable to expanding Gatwick.
The government has said more work on the environmental impact was needed.
A final decision on the issue is expected in the summer.
In their letter, the councils remind David Cameron that in 2010 he promised to oppose a third runway at Heathrow - "no ifs, no buts".
Solicitors Harrison Grant, who successfully opposed Heathrow expansion in the High Court six years ago, say the AC's assessment is "flawed".
Conclusions on air quality "were based upon an error of law" and the proposals for reducing noise impact rely on "speculative" mitigation measures which "have been wholly rejected by the industry as unworkable", the councils said.
Lord True, leader of Richmond Council, said: "This letter is on behalf of the 100,000 people who voted No in the referendum run by Richmond and Hillingdon.
"We will consider any action, within the law, to fight against expansion at Heathrow. I urge the government - take heed of our letter. Keep your promises. Let's end this now rather than drag it out into the summer."
"Local people have planned their lives" in the expectation that Heathrow would not expand, said Ray Puddifoot, the leader of Hillingdon Council.
"A third runway at Heathrow would still produce unacceptable pollution and noise and cause the destruction of hundreds of homes and business," he said.
Last week, 13 protesters who disrupted flights at Heathrow in protest against a third runway were given suspended sentences.
City signed Dorrans on loan in February, after which the 27-year-old Scotsman scored three times in 18 appearances to help the Canaries secure promotion to the Premier League.
The Scotland international was signed in July 2008 by then boss Tony Mowbray from Livingston for just £150,000.
He went on to make 189 appearances for the Baggies, finding the net 26 times.
"Graham has been a very important part of the team over the last few months," said Canaries boss Alex Neil. "He has Premier League experience and is a top player.
"His experience and quality will help us. We're delighted he has joined us on a permanent basis."
Meanwhile Albion manager Tony Pulis has released midfielder Youssouf Mulumbu, 28, and utility players Chris Baird, 32, and Jason Davidson, 23.
The club have exercised contract options on goalkeeper Boaz Myhill, 32, and midfielder Claudio Yacob, 27, while they will enter negotiations on a new deal with centre-back Gareth McAuley, 35.
Three Academy graduates, striker Adil Nabi, midfielder Liam O'Neil and defender Donervon Daniels, all 21, have also had their contract options taken up.
Three young professionals, full-backs Bradley Garmston, 21 and Wez Atkinson, 20, and midfielder Mani O'Sullivan, 21, have been released, along with striker Alex Jones, 20, who has already joined Birmingham City.
Women have made at least 90 criminal complaints to police about the harassment by gangs at Cologne's main railway station on Thursday night.
Germans have been shocked by the scale of the attacks, involving many groups of drunk and aggressive young men.
Witnesses and police said the men were of Arab or North African appearance.
Mrs Merkel called Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker on Tuesday and expressed her "outrage over these disgusting attacks and sexual assaults".
The chancellor said everything must be done "to find the perpetrators as quickly and comprehensively as possible and punish them, regardless of their origin or background".
Up to 300 women demonstrated against the violence near the scene of the attacks on Tuesday evening. One placard read: "Mrs Merkel! Where are you? What do you say? This alarms us!"
There is an intense debate in Germany about refugees and migrants, who arrived in record numbers last year. But Mayor Reker urged people not to jump to conclusions about the Cologne assailants.
"It's completely improper... to link a group that appeared to come from North Africa with the refugees," she said, after crisis talks with the police.
Cologne police chief Wolfgang Albers called it "a completely new dimension of crime" and rejected criticism of his force's handling on the night.
Women were also targeted in Hamburg and Stuttgart in similar attacks, but on a smaller scale.
In Cologne at least one woman was raped and many were groped, including a volunteer policewoman.
One man described how his partner and 15-year-old daughter were surrounded by an enormous crowd outside the station and he was unable to help. "The attackers grabbed her and my partner's breasts and groped them between their legs."
Most of the crimes reported to police were robberies.
A policeman told the city's Express news website that he had detained eight suspects. "They were all asylum seekers, carrying copies of their residence certificates," he said.
However, there was no official confirmation that asylum seekers had been involved in the violence. Germany' migrant influx triggered marches by the anti-Islam Pegida movement last year.
Police were deployed outside the station because of the crowds on New Year's Eve, but failed to spot the many attacks, according to reports.
The pretty Christmas market and medieval setting may look idyllic, but at Christmas and New Year the area around Cologne Cathedral is a notorious danger zone when it comes to pickpockets and theft.
Now the sexual harassment, and in one case rape, of dozens of women has shocked Germany.
What is particularly disturbing is that the attacks appear to have been organised. Around 1,000 young men arrived in large groups, seemingly with the specific intention of carrying out attacks on women.
Police in Hamburg are now reporting similar incidents on New Year's Eve in the party area of St Pauli. One politician says this is just the tip of the iceberg.
And there are real concerns about what will happen in February when the drunken street-parties of carnival season kick off.
Cologne will stage carnival events in February, with hundreds of thousands of revellers expected in the streets, as on New Year's Eve.
The police chief said "the assailants' behaviour is a real concern for me, also because of the carnival".
After the crisis meeting he said that in future more police would be deployed at big city events and extra surveillance cameras would be installed.
Mayor Reker promised preventive measures ahead of the carnival. The authorities would warn young women about possible risks and "give a better explanation to people from other cultures about the meaning of carnival", she said.
"We need to prevent confusion here, about what constitutes happy behaviour and what is utterly separate from openness, especially in sexual behaviour," she said.
She called the attacks "monstrous", saying "we cannot allow this to become a lawless area".
A British woman visiting Cologne said fireworks had been thrown at her group by men who spoke neither German nor English. "They were trying to hug us, kiss us. One man stole my friend's bag," she told the BBC.
"Another tried to get us into his 'private taxi'. I've been in scary and even life-threatening situations and I've never experienced anything like that."
Cologne news website Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger says the suspects were already known to police because of frequent pickpocketing in and around the central station.
Senior members of the moderate Islamist Ennahda Party said the wording of the old constitution, which proclaims Islam as the state religion, would remain.
A group of ultra-conservative Muslims known as Salafis had demanded the introduction of Sharia.
Ennahda has been under growing pressure to declare its position on the issue.
The BBC's Jon Leyne says that the news will disappoint the increasingly vocal conservative minority, but it will bring relief to liberals and secularists who fear a tide of Islamism sweeping across the region.
"Ennahda has decided to retain the first clause of the previous constitution without change," senior Ennahda official Ameur Larayed told local media.
"We want the unity of our people and we do not want divisions."
The article from the 1959 constitution states: "Tunisia is a free, sovereign and independent state, whose religion is Islam, language is Arabic and has a republican regime."
Another senior figure, Ziad Doulatli, said he hoped the decision would help Tunisia to "serve as a model for other countries going through similar transformations".
Some 10,000 Salafis took to the streets of the capital, Tunis, on Sunday to express their support for the proposal that the country's legislation should be based on Islamic law.
The Tunisian uprising last January, which unseated long-time President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, inspired a wave of pro-democracy movements across North African and the Middle East.
Health Education England said 42 out of 76 trainee doctors at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital should be moved.
East Kent Hospitals trust said some emergency services will be affected.
The junior doctors are to be transferred to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford and the QEQM in Margate, also run by the trust.
The East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has admitted some emergency care would be affected at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital over the next few months, particularly in acute stroke care and services for elderly patients with serious illnesses such as pneumonia.
Julie Screaton, Health Education England's regional director for London and the South East, said: "Quality supervision of junior doctors is key to ensure patient safety.
"The lack of consultant cover meant that trainees were not adequately supported in their clinical practice and were consequently unable to receive the education and training for which they were placed in the trust."
A spokesman for the trust said about a quarter of those attending the Kent and Canterbury's urgent care centre would be taken to the trust's hospitals in Ashford and Margate instead.
He said: "The changes will be temporary and will not be immediate, to allow time for the trust to develop its plans and test them to make sure patients will be safe and well looked after."
The Trust was put into special measures in September 2014.
The latest report by the Care Quality Commission in December 2016 concluded the trust "requires improvement", but recommended it be taken out of special measures.
The private accommodation will be in the former Tech building, now known as John Bell House, in College Square East.
Planning permission was granted to joint venture partners, Watkin Jones & Sons and Lacuna Developments.
Completion is planned for the start of the academic year in September 2016.
Newry-based construction firm O'Hare and McGovern won the tender for the £16m redevelopment project.
Managing director of of O'Hare and McGovern, Eamon O'Hare, said: "This is a magnificent landmark building which is going to be completely revitalised to provide upmarket student accommodation. It's an exciting project which will be great for Belfast."
The accommodation will be made up of 292 bedrooms and 121 studios. The site will also house a reception suite as well as communal indoor and outdoor amenity areas.
Officers said the man was approached by two men carrying weapons at Monklands Hospital, Airdrie, at about 12:10 on Tuesday.
They demanded his car keys and then hit the man's legs with weapons before making off in his grey Audi A4.
It follows a similar attack near Glasgow Royal infirmary on Monday where three armed men stole a man's car.
Police said they were not ruling out a link between the two incidents.
In the latest attack, the victim had parked his car off Centenary Avenue and was walking to the hospital entrance when he was attacked.
He did not need hospital treatment.
Police said the first suspect had a slight build, was in his late teens or early 20s and was wearing dark clothing and a woollen balaclava.
The second man was also described as slim and wearing dark clothing and a woollen balaclava.
Det Sgt David Lamont said: "This was an innocent man simply going about his business who was randomly attacked by two opportunistic criminals.
"The men responsible gave no consideration for the victim or anyone else around the hospital at the time, and later drove off in the vehicle in an extremely erratic manner, placing other members of the public in danger.
"From inquiries so far, we know the car was driven through the Coatbridge area and was later abandoned in Netherhouse Place, Easterhouse."
In the incident on Monday, police said the stolen red three-door Vauxhall Corsa may have been in the area of Tillycairn Road in Easterhouse.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Police Scotland.
In 2014 prices rose by 9.8%, according to ONS figures.
Prices increased fastest in England, at 7.3%, and slowest in Scotland, where they fell 0.2% during 2015.
The value of houses and flats rose by just 1% in Wales, and by 1.5% in Northern Ireland.
The average price at the end of December was £288,000.
The ONS figure is in the middle of a range of estimates produced by other organisations.
Halifax, the UK's largest mortgage lender, said prices rose by as much as 9.5% in 2015, while the Nationwide Building Society put the increase at just 4.5%.
The Land Registry of England and Wales said the annual inflation rate was 6.4%.
Separate figures show that the number of new mortgages taken out in 2015 was roughly the same as in 2014.
But the Council of Mortgage Lenders said the amount being borrowed had risen from £112bn in 2014 to £118bn in 2015 - an increase of 5.3%.
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Wales were held 1-1 by Serbia and a third consecutive draw has left them third in Group D, four points behind leaders the Republic of Ireland.
"There's enough points on the board for us still to be competitive," the ex-Wales striker said.
"We've dropped six points in our last three games which is not a good sign."
Hartson added: "We've got to start winning games and we've got some really tough away games to come.
"We play the Republic of Ireland in March and if we can go there and get three points we only go a point behind them."
Wales face the Republic of Ireland in Dublin on 24 March and travel to Serbia in June with away fixtures in Moldova and Georgia to follow in the autumn.
Coleman's side had taken the lead in their in their previous three qualifiers but had to settle for a point in the each game.
It is a pattern which concerns former Arsenal and Celtic striker Hartson, who scored 14 goals in 51 games for Wales.
Wales have let in four goals during the current campaign, the same amount they conceded during the whole Euro 2016 qualifiers.
"If we can get back to keeping clean sheets we are going to win games because we've got goals in our team," Hartson told BBC Five live.
"It's that inability to see games out and demand from yourself to keep clean sheets like we did in the last campaign.
"That's what we've built our spirit and results on and climbing up the Fifa world rankings because we kept clean sheets.
"That's what we have to get back to."
Wales' next opponents, the Republic of Ireland, moved to the top of Group D with a 1-0 win over Austria in Vienna.
Former Irish international Kevin Kilbane says Martin O'Neill's side will be full of confidence going into next year's game against Wales at the Aviva Stadium.
"Ireland are in such a good position they can drop points and don't necessarily have to win the game," Kilbane told BBC Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad programme.
"It might cause Wales to try and force the issue a little bit.
"He's [O'Neill] got a side that's stable and there's real belief that this campaign, particularly after that Austria game, that they can top the group,"
Viv Endecott, owner of the Ginger Pop Shop in Corfe Castle, Dorset, which is dedicated to the works of Enid Blyton, published the advert to promote a tea towel with the logo "English freedom".
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld two complaints, ruling it caused "serious or widespread offence".
Ms Endecott said she was "proud" of the tea towel.
On its website, the shop describes itself as "all about Enid Blyton and her era". Some of the children's author's books featured golliwogs, and her work has been criticised for being racist.
The ASA ruling followed two complaints about the advert published in the Purbeck Gazette in June.
The ASA said: "We considered that many people were likely to view the character as representing negative racial stereotypes."
It added that it also considered that the inclusion of the words "English Freedom" were likely to contribute to that offence, "because in combination with the image it could be read as a negative reference to immigration or race".
The authority said the advert should not appear again.
In a statement, Ms Endecott said the tea towel was meant to "stimulate debate" and the shop had been "buzzing" with interest in it.
"I believe in free speech and a multiculturalism that celebrates the best of all humanity.
"The 'good' golliwog was on the tea towel to represent how it has become impossible to discuss anything to do with race without being accused of racism.
"This is important, because when we couldn't talk about uncontrolled immigration, it paved the way for Brexit."
Ms Endecott said she would not repeat the advert.
Port was given a whole life term for murdering four men he lured to his London flat and poisoned with lethal doses of the substance GHB.
Gerald Matovu pleaded guilty to selling the 41-year-old mephedrone and GHB in July and August 2015.
His crimes came to light during the investigation into Port but were not connected to the murders, Southwark Crown Court heard.
The 23-year-old, of Great Guildford Street, Southwark, has been bailed until sentencing in April.
Port bought the drugs from Matovu for use during consensual sex with his partner, the Met said.
Phone records showed the pair were in contact and Matovu had told Port he had "loads of G" - referring to GHB - and asked how much he wanted.
Judge Andrew Goymer said: "This case came to light following Port's arrest and interrogation of his mobile phone and who had been in contact with him.
"There is absolutely no suggestion that this defendant came into contact with those young men who were the unfortunate victims of Stephen Port's terrible crimes."
Port met his victims on dating websites, including Grindr, between August 2014 and September 2015 and coaxed them to his home in Barking for sex.
He gave them fatal doses of GHB and dumped their bodies in or near a graveyard within 500m of his house.
The Office for National Statistics said borrowing, excluding support for state-owned banks, was £7.2bn in April.
That was down from £7.5bn last year but higher than analysts' forecasts of about £6.6bn.
The ONS also revised up its estimate of the amount borrowed in the financial year to March to £76bn.
That was £2bn more than its previous estimate, and £3.8bn above the prediction that had been made by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which produces forecasts for government.
The main reason for the lower figure was weaker-than-expected income from workers' national insurance contributions.
The ONS says annual borrowing has been falling in general since the peak reached in the 2009-10 financial year.
Last year's figure was £15.7bn lower than for the year before, and is half that borrowed in 2009-10.
The ONS said that total public sector net debt - excluding public sector banks - by the end of April stood at £1.596 trillion, the equivalent of 83.3% of gross domestic product.
April's figure was affected by less-than-expected tax income from companies. Corporation tax revenue fell 5.1% from a year earlier to £5.8bn.
But it was boosted by changes to property taxes, introduced in April for buyers of second homes and investment properties.
The figures for April were saw the biggest take of stamp duty on land and property on record of £1.3bn.
The Chancellor, George Osborne, has laid out targets for borrowing, which he has pledged to continue to bring down.
Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "The muted start to fiscal year 2016-17 will fuel doubts about George Osborne's ability to get the deficit down to £55.5bn in 2016-17.
"It will also likely fuel even larger doubts about his ability to meet his long-term objective of a surplus of £10.4bn in 2019-20, especially as he now has to cover the £4.4bn gap that has resulted from the dropping of the planned cuts to disability benefits."
Martin Beck, senior economic advisor to the EY ITEM Club, echoed that view: "This looks to be a tall order, particularly given that the recent weakness in activity appears to be dampening growth in tax receipts. The government will need to see a strong rebound in activity in the second half of the year if it is to have a realistic chance of keeping its deficit reduction plan on track."
An artistic marine engineer has made a piece of apparatus inside the £6bn warship look like a Minion.
Minions have their own language, saying "bello" for "hello" and "poopaye" for "goodbye".
The Aircraft Carrier Alliance said the paintwork followed a long navy tradition of personalising ships.
The Ministry of Defence contractor is putting HMS Queen Elizabeth through sea trials after leaving Rosyth dockyard in Fife where it was built.
The warship has been berthed at Invergordon in the Highlands since early July.
The tradition of sailors adding their own personal touch to warships has been flagged up by the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth.
After seeing a photograph of HMS Queen Elizabeth's new comedy artwork, the museum tweeted that sailors serving on the Mary Rose were believed to have personalised the Tudor warship.
The museum added: "Good to see some traditions survive."
The Aircraft Carrier Alliance said the Minion showed that the ship's company was settling into its new home.
A spokesman said: "HMS Queen Elizabeth will be home to her ship's company for months at a time and this is a real example of how they're really enjoying being on board and establishing their working and living routines whilst we undertake contractor sea trials."
Since arriving at Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth, members of the ship's company have also been meeting the local community.
Some of the crew attended the Inverness Highland Games at the weekend.
The Aircraft Carrier Alliance said the warship's sea trails were continuing.
The spokesman said: "HMS Queen Elizabeth is making progress through her sea trials programme, which is designed to test the full spectrum of her vast and complex systems.
"We fully anticipate this will identify areas for improvement that will be addressed at sea, during a number of routine port stops or as part of the planned engineering period."
HMS Queen Elizabeth - one of two new carriers being built at Rosyth - began sea trials last month.
The ship had to pass under the Forth Bridge on its way to open sea.
It is the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy. The flight deck alone is the size of three football pitches.
Once in service with the Royal Navy, the ship can operate with a crew of 1,000 and 40 aircraft.
The 65,000 tonne warship is the Royal Navy's first aircraft carrier since HMS Illustrious was scrapped in 2014.
King Digital said it expects fluctuations in foreign currency and a lack of new releases to hold back its earnings in the current quarter.
The big drop in its shares came despite the release of first quarter sales figures that beat market expectations.
The firm has been struggling to increase market share.
King Digital's revenue fell 6.1% to $569.5m (£361m) in the first three months of the year from a year ago, but that was higher than analysts' forecasts of $563.4m.
However, the London-based game maker said its gross bookings, which is what players spend before costs such as app store fees - for the April to June period would be between $490m and $520m - below expectations.
"We look toward the remainder of the year, we expect the mid-year period to be seasonally softer, returning to growth trends in the latter part of the year," the company said in a statement on Thursday.
King Digital is launching a new game this year, but that will not be released until the later half of the year.
The company said that falls in both gross bookings and revenue in the first quarter were largely due to lower sales from its Candy Crush Saga and other "more mature games" - a sign that players are moving on to other games.
Questionnaires completed by 16,193 14 to 17-year-olds, published in BMC Public Health, showed one in five had tried or bought e-cigarettes.
The researchers said e-cigarettes were the "alcopops of the nicotine world" and needed tougher controls.
Experts said it was important to find out how many were becoming addicted.
Electronic cigarettes mimic the effects of real ones, producing a vapour that is less harmful than cigarette smoke, but the vapour usually contains nicotine, the addictive substance in cigarettes.
They divide opinion. Some see them as a vital tool for helping people to quit, while others argue they "normalise" smoking and may act as a gateway.
One major area of contention is the impact they have on children.
The analysis by Liverpool John Moores University showed that 19% of those who responded had tried "vaping".
E-cigarettes were used by 5% of teenagers who had never smoked, 50% of former smokers and 67% of light smokers.
The link was even stronger in children who drank alcohol or whose parents smoked.
Prof Mark Bellis told the BBC News website: "To many people the numbers we've identified might come as a bit of a shock.
"This is just being drawn into a repertoire - another drug that people can use to experiment with rather than being seen as an alternative to tobacco.
On nicotine, he said e-cigarettes were "providing a concentrated form of a highly addictive substance, with known problems associated with it, and we need to be very cautious about that and how we protect our young people."
A ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes to under-18s will be introduced in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Katherine Devlin, president of the Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association, told the BBC: "Obviously, teenagers accessing vaping products is a serious concern.
"[However] since the survey only records a single access, it doesn't provide any information about whether or not they go on to regular use.
"Other statistical data indicate that this is unlikely. Nevertheless, we hope that the newly introduced mandated age restrictions can reduce this number."
Data from the Office for National Statistics does suggest that those who use e-cigarettes are almost entirely current or former smokers.
Dr John Middleton, of the Faculty of Public Health, said: "We need to protect children and young people from the harms of nicotine by regulating electronic cigarettes.
"Our concern is that if we wait for proof that electronic cigarettes could act as a gateway to smoking cigarettes, it will already have happened and the tobacco industry will have been given the opportunity to recruit its next generation of smokers."
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The Pakistan all-rounder, promoted to open, smashed seven sixes in his 101 before holing out the ball after reaching his maiden Twenty20 hundred.
James Vince made 55 from 36 deliveries as Hampshire piled up 249-8 at Derby.
Derbyshire came out swinging but were all out for 148, with Liam Dawson and Kyle Abbott taking three wickets each.
Two-time winners Hampshire will now appear in their seventh Finals Day in the last eight years at Edgbaston on 2 September, while Derbyshire have never made it beyond the last eight.
Afridi's spellbinding innings included some of the cleanest hitting surely ever witnessed in the 15-year history of the competition, with several balls sailing out of the County Ground.
The 37-year-old's hundred was the fastest in the 2017 T20 Blast, beating the 45-ball centuries made by Worcestershire's Joe Clarke and Nottinghamshire's Alex Hales.
The former Pakistan international had been in poor form with the bat heading into the match, scoring just 50 runs in seven innings.
He said he had asked Hampshire's management to let him open because he felt "wasted at seven or eight" and signalled his intent from the off smashing Wayne Madsen's first over for 16.
By the time he was caught by Ben Cotton at deep fine leg, Afridi had taken Hampshire to 146-2 from only 12.2 overs.
Skipper Vince continued to find the rope after Afridi went, reaching his fourth half-century of the season, as Hampshire made the eighth highest T20 score in history.
In the chase Derbyshire slumped to 58-7 and looked set for the heaviest Twenty20 defeat of all time, before a last-wicket stand of 46 between Cotton and Imran Tahir brought some respectability.
In 1984 the president of Belgian side Anderlecht bribed the referee ahead of their Uefa Cup semi-final victory over Nottingham Forest.
The facts were finally revealed in 1997 and Anderlecht were banned from European competition for a year.
But new evidence shows Uefa was told about the bribe as early as 1992.
Four years after winning their second European Cup, Brian Clough's Forest faced Anderlecht in the semi-final of the Uefa Cup.
After convincingly winning the first leg 2-0, Forest had a dubious penalty awarded against them and a goal disallowed in the return tie, finally going out 3-2 on aggregate.
The truth behind those refereeing decisions only emerged during a 1997 criminal case when Anderlecht admitted paying the Spanish referee Emilio Guruceta Muro.
At first Uefa insisted it could take no action because the bribery took place more than 10 years previously, but eventually a one-year European ban was imposed on Anderlecht.
Now, BBC's Inside Out has found evidence Uefa had a dossier of evidence as early as 1992.
The evidence showed that shortly before the match Anderlecht president Constant Vanden Stock had approached local criminal Jean Elst.
Belgian journalist Frank van Laeken said: "Elst contacted a friend in the region, who went to Alicante and spoke to the referee.
"The referee said 'OK, I'll do it for 1.2m Belgian francs'."
But another criminal, Rene Van Aaken, stole details of the deal and blackmailed the club. Van Aaken then sent information to the Belgian FA in 1990 and 1992.
Mr van Laeken said: "If you receive something like this, a bunch of documents on possible games that are tampered with, you should investigate it."
The Belgian FA said it did not have the powers to investigate corruption and passed the information on to Uefa, but no sanction was imposed for more than four years.
Despite repeated requests from the BBC, Uefa has not offered an explanation of the delay.
Referee Muro died in a car crash in 1987, aged 45, but Anderlecht's stadium is still named after former club president Constant Vanden Stock, who died in 2008.
Elst and Van Aaken were both jailed. Elst died in prison while Van Aaken's conviction for blackmail was overturned on appeal.
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But for the players, the events of 25 April 1984 remain as painful as ever.
Forest goalkeeper Hans van Breukelen said: "For me it was building up that the referee was cheating.
"All the 50-50 balls around their 18 yard box, he blew the whistle and gave a free kick to Anderlecht."
Then Anderlecht were awarded a penalty for a challenge by Forest's Kenny Swain.
Striker Garry Birtles said: "That penalty was the most embarrassing decision I have ever seen in football.
"The distance between Kenny Swain and their guy who went down was absolutely ridiculous."
A last-gasp Forest goal, which would have been enough to win the tie, was also controversially disallowed. Anderlecht won 3-0 and went through.
Birtles said: "It was wrong then, it's wrong now and it will be wrong always.
"If you don't go after these people then they will think they can do it again."
Paul Hart, who scored the disallowed goal, said: "The whole thing stinks, it really does.
"When it's brought up, it still rankles."
Watch the full report on Inside Out on Monday at 19:30 BST on BBC One in the East Midlands or on BBC iPlayer.
He was found guilty of inciting violence during protests in 2014 in which 43 people - from both sides of the political divide - were killed.
The 44-year-old had been held in a military prison since February 2014.
While the court verdict was being awaited, fighting broke out between his supporters and pro-government activists outside the courthouse in Caracas.
Lopez's supporters said one of their number had suffered a heart-attack during the disturbances.
The court ruling was revealed by Lopez's Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) political party and later confirmed by his lawyers.
His defence team earlier said there had been serious irregularities in the trial, with the judge hearing 138 witnesses for the prosecution but only one of the 50 witnesses and pieces of evidence submitted by the defence.
His family says he has been in solitary confinement for most of his 19 months in prison and that his human rights have been violated.
Venezuela's maverick opposition leader
Several other opposition leaders have also been held in detention and their fate has divided opinion in Venezuela.
The US government and the United Nations have called for their release.
Reacting to the court verdict, US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson said she was "deeply concerned" by the conviction.
She also urged the Venezuelan government to "protect democracy" in the country.
For many poorer Venezuelans, Lopez is seen as a dangerous figure who incites violence and coups against the government and who is out of touch with the needs of most ordinary people.
His critics point to his involvement in 2002 in a failed coup attempt against late President Hugo Chavez.
But his supporters say he is a scapegoat for current President Nicolas Maduro during the country's economic crisis that has led to shortages of basic goods.
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The British men took the lead three times - through Phil Roper, Alastair Brogdon and Alan Forsyth - and each time they were pegged back.
Nevertheless, they top Pool A thanks to good wins against Canada and the world champions Australia.
On Thursday, Britain play the hosts India, who came bottom of pool B after two defeats and a draw.
"We're a bit disappointed we didn't play better but Belgium are a really strong side," Great Britain captain Dan Fox told BBC Sport.
"But, actually, we got the point we needed to top the group and we'll take it from there on Thursday."
India now stand between a much-changed Great Britain squad and their pre-tournament aim of reaching the semi-finals.
"They play really attacking hockey, they've got a lot of skilful players, and what we'll look to do is take the game to them," added Fox.
"The crowd will also be right behind them, so it'll be tough."
In a letter to the prime minister, the charities said many drugs would "now struggle to gain approval".
The medicines regulator has rejected this and said drugs would be approved faster than anywhere else in Europe.
The dispute is over planned changes to the Cancer Drugs Fund - a special pot of money just for cancer medicines.
It currently pays for innovative drugs that have been deemed too expensive for the NHS as a whole.
It includes medicines such as Kadcyla, which initially cost £90,000 per patient, and extends the lives of women with breast cancer by six months on average.
However, the fund was a victim of its own success and has been greatly overspent.
Its costs have risen to £340m in 2015-16 from an initial annual budget of £200m when it was set up in 2011.
The new system will start in July, fixing the fund's budget at £340m.
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) will give new medicines a Yes, No or Maybe rating before they come to market.
Those given the go-ahead will be routinely offered across the NHS, while those given a Maybe rating can be considered for the Cancer Drugs Fund.
But the 15 signatories of the letter, who include the chief executives of Beating Bowel Cancer, Prostate Cancer UK and Target Ovarian Cancer, say NICE's decision making is flawed.
Their letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, whose government introduced the Cancer Drugs Fund, says: "We are deeply concerned by the lack of reform proposed to the wider NICE process of appraising cancer medicines.
"Unfortunately the new system does not update the methodology used by NICE, introduced back in 1999, and many clinically-effective treatments will now struggle to gain approval.
"We urge you to intervene and commit to a review of the outdated mechanisms used to assess cancer medicines."
Baroness Delyth Morgan, the chief executive of Breast Cancer Now and one of the signatories, told the BBC: "What I'm worried about is that very soon we're going to see cancer patients who have potentially incurable cancer missing out on modern treatments that are available in other countries or across the border in the UK."
She added: "Not a single breast cancer drug has been considered cost-effective by NICE in the last seven years and this simply cannot continue."
NICE said the new system would see drugs approved for use on the NHS "earlier than any other country in Europe".
Sir Andrew Dillon, the organisation's chief executive, said: "I understand and support the ambition the charities have for access to effective cancer medicines.
"Our approach to assessing the value of new cancer drugs has been reviewed on a regular basis since we were set up in 1999 and is already more generous than for other conditions.
"It's now up to [pharmaceutical] companies to show that they recognise the challenges as well as the opportunities their new drugs present to the NHS, and show the same flexibility on cost to NICE as they have been showing to NHS England in its recent negotiations with companies for drugs already in the Cancer Drugs Fund."
Capercaillie have been declining since the 1970s with habitat loss and fatal collisions with deer fences among the causes for falling populations.
But populations in forestry in Strathspey in the Cairngorms have recovered.
There were just six displaying males - birds that are actively breeding - 15 years ago, and now there are 43.
The area is managed by Forest Enterprise Scotland (FES), which believes there could be as many as 200 capercaillie in its forests in Strathspey.
The management plan involves harvesting timber in a way that thins out trees to create habitat favoured by capercaillie.
The work by FES, an agency of Forestry Commission Scotland, has been recognised with a corporate achievement award from the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management.
The forward was sent off after appearing to elbow Liam Cooper in the 29th-minute of the Championship game.
"I was unlucky with the red card," the former West Brom striker, 35, tweeted midway through the second half.
"We all normally jump with our hands up to protect each other and expected his to be up as well."
He added: "I didn't mean to but caught the player and accept the referee had no choice. Hope the boys get something out of the game. Ups and downs."
Unfortunately for Odemwingie, who famously tried to engineer his own transfer from West Bromwich Albion to Queens Park Rangers on deadline day in the 2013 winter transfer window, his side, who are eight points adrift at the bottom of the Championship table, failed to get something out of the game.
"Great effort from the boys. Had the chances to equalise. Proud of them giving us hope for the season. Second half performance was top class," he tweeted after the full-time whistle.
Millers manager Kenny Jackett agreed with Odemwingie's interpretation of the incident.
"He's made contact first and my impression is that he hasn't set out, and isn't that type of player or lad at all, but he's put his arm up to protect himself and caught the centre-half," Jackett told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"We can't really complain with the referee's interpretation of the incident."
Rotherham, who are 11 points from safety, have only won once in the league all season.
The men, one of whom is in his 40s, the other in his 70s, were arrested in the county on Tuesday and are being questioned by police in Letterkenny.
Denis Donaldson was shot dead in April 2006 in a remote cottage in the hills of Donegal's north west coast.
Three years later, the dissident republican Real IRA claimed responsibility for the killing.
His death came months after he was exposed as an agent who had worked for police and MI5 for 20 years.
Mr Donaldson was once a key figure in Sinn Féin's rise in Northern Ireland politics.
Following the Good Friday Agreement and the eventual devolution of power to Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein appointed Mr Donaldson as their key administrator in the party's Stormont offices.
His family took legal action against officials in the Republic of Ireland in April, after an inquest into his death was adjourned for the 19th time.
The 23-year-old edged out France's Jimmy Vicaut and American Ronnie Baker, who were both clocked at 10.05 seconds.
"My focus was to be free and run free," said Ujah, who is now looking forward to the World Athletics Championships in London in August.
"London is the main one. I hope I can do something special then."
Ujah's fellow Briton Desiree Henry was sixth in the women's 100m as the Netherlands' Dafne Schippers took victory from Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast and Michelle-Lee Ahye of Trinidad and Tobago with a time of 10.99.
Morgan Lake equalled her season's best of 1.91m for fourth in the women's high jump, won by Russia's world champion Mariya Lasitskene (formerly Kuchina), competing as a neutral athlete while the country remains suspended from international athletics.
Andrew Pozzi ran 13.24 secs for fourth in the men's 110m hurdles, won by American Aries Merritt in 13.13, while Holly Bradshaw was seventh in the women's pole vault, won by Greece's Katerina Stefanidi with a world-leading height of 4.85m.
Steph Twell was 16th in the women's 5,000m with a season's best of 15 minutes, 24.05 seconds. The race was won by Kenya's Hellen Obiro in 14:18.37, a world leading time and national record, while Eilish McColgan did not finish.
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In a game of few chances at Anfield, the hosts were largely subdued by United's defensive organisation.
"This is a point that stopped them winning three," said Mourinho.
Klopp was not happy with his side, saying: "We tried to be too quick and lost patience with our passing."
The result leaves Liverpool fourth in the Premier League on 17 points, with United three points adrift in seventh.
Klopp felt his side "wasted a lot of energy" in the first half.
He added: "The second half was better but with a little bit faster legs, we could have created more."
Liverpool forced United goalkeeper David de Gea into two fine second-half stops, the Spaniard diving low to stop Emre Can and saving athletically from Philippe Coutinho.
The visitors had just 35% of possession - their lowest in a Premier League match since Opta began recording the data in 2003-04.
Asked about that statistic, Mourinho told Sky Sports: "That was the game that we played - we don't control the game by having the ball all the time."
He later added: "Two shots on target with 65% of possession. You have to be critical of Liverpool. It is their problem, not our problem."
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Mourinho has adopted a defensive approach at Anfield before - notably for a 2-0 win with Chelsea in April 2014 that derailed the Reds' title challenge.
This time his side largely suffocated a team that had won their previous four league games.
Describing the draw as a "positive result", the Portuguese said: "The game was difficult for both teams but for longer periods it was more difficult for them than us.
"We controlled the game not just tactically but the emotion of the game. That was probably the quietest Anfield I had and I was expecting it to be the other way.
"The reaction from their crowd was permanent disappointment. People expected us to come here and be really in trouble, which we were not."
United are five points behind leaders Manchester City and Arsenal, and Mourinho feels this will be a significant point as the season progresses.
"Other candidates for the title have easier fixtures at the moment and it is important to keep close to them," he said.
"Our moment to win four or five matches in a row will come and we'll be there."
Midfielder Ander Herrera, who was named man of the match, said: "We did a fantastic job and can be very proud. Every player gave everything and this is the way we have to play big matches."
Klopp said he felt "mixed emotions" after a match he described as "very confusing in many situations" and "too hectic".
He told Sky Sports: "I don't think we played as well as we could have - it's our fault.
"When you defend like Man Utd, that's their style. That's absolutely OK. Players need to be cool and pass the ball to the next player. We were playing risky passes in the first half.
"That's not the way we want to play. We should expect to play better: more patience, more composure."
Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson said: "We defended well but I think we could be a little more decisive in the final third."
United got the point they came for. You have got to give them credit because most teams that go to Anfield just get undone. Usually it is an ordeal but it looked comfortable for them.
It was a really good performance by United - clever in fact.
Liverpool like to win the ball off you high up the pitch, but United denied them that opportunity because they hit it long from every goal-kick instead of trying to play out from the back. How often do you see David de Gea doing that?
United were also using delaying tactics from the off to stop Liverpool finding any of their rhythm. Overall, Jose Mourinho set his side out to frustrate them and they have done exactly that.
United's best player? Ander Herrera, because of his work-rate, the number of times he won the ball, and how close he stuck to Philippe Coutinho throughout. Herrera wasn't even looked on as a starter for United at the beginning of season but is now nailed on in midfield because of the vital job he does for the team.
Liverpool were poor but they looked better when Adam Lallana came on and Roberto Firmino moved from the left to centre-forward. Firmino was making some great runs to stretch United's defence and was far more of a threat than Daniel Sturridge, but it is clear how important Lallana is to Liverpool - he is very clever on the ball.
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McGoldrick, 25, who trains in the same gym as world champion Lee Selby, was a 40-36 victor on the referee's card in his debut at bantamweight.
The gold medal winner at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, who also claimed bronze at the 2014 Games, has signed professional terms with MGM.
He is trained by Tony Borg in Newport.
McGoldrick featured in the first fight of the night on the undercard of Anthony Crolla's WBA lightweight title rematch with Jorge Linares.
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The African Seed Access Index (TASAI) monitors the state of the continent's seed sector and highlights problems that prevent seeds reaching farmers.
Organisers hope the scheme will shake off "decades of complacent government seed monopolies".
Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Kenya featured in the first assessment.
Changing landscape
Edward Mabaya, principal investigator for TASAI, said that food security was a key factor for African agriculture, which is dominated by smallholder farmers.
"Traditionally, the seed sectors have been dominated by government monopolies during the 1970s and 1980s but this changed in the 1990s," he said.
"Most of the systems were liberalised and this gave way to a new breed of domestic and multinational companies coming into the sector."
But this transition generated a number of challenges, such as ensuring the complex supply chains in the seed sector delivered the appropriate technologies to smallholder farmers.
Dr Mabaya told BBC News: "We thought that we needed an instrument that allowed you to run a very quick diagnostic test across the sector in a way that informed stakeholders, such as decision-makers and investors.
"The seed delivery system is only as strong as its weakest link, so if there is anyone along that value chain not doing their job or there is a bottleneck then seed does not find its way to the small farmer."
The initiative - a partnership between Cornell University in the US and Market Matters, a development organisation - hopes that it will deliver results to the farm gate.
Dr Mabaya said: "We know that there are some farmers who are not getting access to food crop seeds, and if they are then they are often getting varieties that are 30 or 40 years old.
"So we are coming in with this problem in mind and working our way upstream to identify the problems that may be causing this weak flow of appropriate technologies reaching farmers.
"Ultimately the result will be better flow, which will result in better technology, better competition and quality, lower prices and a wider range of choices for the farmer."
Critical measures
He explained how the index worked: "We have 16 critical measures within five categories: research and development, industry competitiveness, service to smallholder farmers, seed policy and regulation, and institutional support.
"We are looking to go into each country and doing a very detailed study of the seed sector, producing a report.
"We then take that information for each country and distil it so it is comparable across countries. We then make the information accessible for end users - often a government policymaker, private investor or development sector official - in a way that is actionable, allowing immediate comparisons across countries."
In its four-nation pilot study, the index found "uneven, though in many places promising, progress".
In South Africa, it found a competitive seed sector managing to get new seed varieties from breeders to farmers in a relatively short 12 months, compared with Zimbabwe (two years), and Kenya and Uganda (three years).
However, South Africa did not fare so well when it came to making seeds available in small packages, which better suit the needs and budgets of smallholder farmers.
For the key crop, maize, the index showed that over the past three years, Kenya had released 35 varieties and Zimbabwe 28, while Uganda had released just 12. In the same period, South Africa had released 221.
Future-proofing farming
Commenting on the index launch, Joe Devries, of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), said: "It's crucial that smallholder farmers in Africa have access to a wide range of crop varieties because small farms are the mainstay of food production in the region.
"Seeds may not be a cure-all, but without a healthy seed sector it's hard to see how African farmers can satisfy the food demands of a population growing faster than anywhere on Earth and adapt to climate change that are rapidly altering farming conditions."
Dr Mabaya added a personal dimension to the wider policy vision: "I am the product of a smallholder farmer in Zimbabwe.
"I am one of 10 children, raised by a farmer with less than two hectares of land. I was raised during the 1970s when new seed varieties were being made available. And, of course, this coincided with other support services, such as fertilisers, education and other technologies.
"This was how our parents were able to send us to school. For most smallholder farmers in Africa, the only way out of poverty is to increase your agricultural productivity."
The figures in the eventual Born Abroad report showed an unprecedented transformation that confirmed everything that we saw around us as we travelled around the country gathering stories of migration and change.
A decade on, that pace of change has increased.
What the census shows beyond any doubt is that the UK is in the midst of an astonishing era of demographic shift - and like the experience of many of its international peers, it is being driven by globalisation.
Ten years ago, there were some 4.3 million people in the UK who told the census that they had been born abroad. Almost all areas had been touched by changes from immigration - although in some areas the numbers were so small that it clearly amounted to little more than a family moving in or out - the phenomenon of a single Indian restaurant in a village, for instance.
In 2011, there were 7.5 million people born abroad living in England and Wales - up almost three million and taking their proportion of the population to 13%.
The UK is experiencing such rapid flows and movements of people from so many parts of the world, that parts of it can lay claim to being "super-diverse" - the idea that an area is home to so many people it's almost impossible to describe it in simple terms, such as home to one community or another.
The 2011 census used three measures to understand migration - it asked people where they were born, when they came to the UK and what passport they held. The Census also tried to capture who was a long-term migrant and who was only in the UK temporarily.
None of this is an exact science. For instance, the answer to who was born abroad includes large numbers of people whose parents served with the British Army in Germany. Asking people what passport they hold gives you a sense of identity - but nationality and identity can change.
But even with these kinds of understandable limitations, we have a very good idea of what is going on.
In 2001, the top three places where people were born abroad (excluding the Republic of Ireland) were India, Pakistan and Germany.
Poland lay 18th on the list - but over a decade numbers increased nine-fold as its workers came to the UK once the country joined the European Union.
The change has been so rapid that almost half of those born abroad arrived in the decade leading up to the 2011 census.
All regions witnessed an increase - although the changes varied greatly from area to area. London, already a global city in 2001, became more so, with its boroughs holding all the places in the diversity top 10.
One of the key drivers of the change was the expansion of the EU and the arrival of Polish workers. If you want just a snapshot of that change - look at Boston in Lincolnshire.
In 2001, it was home to fewer than 1,500 people born abroad - and because of the statistical quirk I've already mentioned, some of those were Brits born in Germany.
Today, almost 10,000 people born abroad call Boston home - 3,000 of them from Poland, more than any other local authority outside of the South East.
The greatest numerical change has however been in London. In 2001, almost two million people in the capital were born abroad. Today it is almost three million. If anyone doubted that London was now a world city, rather than just the capital of the UK, the figures say different. Only 44% of people in London now describe themselves as white British. In the east London borough of Newham, fewer than a fifth of the population described themselves so.
Four out of every 10 people in London in 2011 were foreign-born - up from three in 10 in 2001.
Overall, four London boroughs - Newham, Brent, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea are now home to a majority who were born outside of the UK. Three other parts of the capital are not far off.
The history of migration was once the story of cities: We had very distinct communities in specific places - an African-Caribbean community in London or Birmingham, for instance, and Indian or East African Asian people in Leicester.
Large historic communities remain - but there is also greater geographic spread among newcomers. For instance, some 90% of the Poles in the UK are spread across England and Wales in community after community.
So overall, increasing change, rapid change and increasing diversity.
Is this something happening to the UK alone? It lies 12th in the list of EU nations when you look at the proportion of people in each nation who were born abroad.
But England and Wales comes top in this category when you rank it alongside France, Germany and Italy - the other states with populations of over 50 million.
The 2001 census confirmed the change in the face of Britain - the 2011 census confirms that the change continues.
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Spieth lost his three-shot overnight lead by the turn on Sunday and trailed Matt Kuchar after bogeying the 13th.
But he then went on a run of birdie, eagle, birdie, birdie before making par at the last to finish on 12 under and win by three shots at Royal Birkdale.
"I feel fortunate the way everything happened," said the 23-year-old.
"I'll thoroughly enjoy this. It's as much of a high as I've ever experienced. I'll enjoy it more than anything I've achieved."
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Spieth sent a wayward drive 120 yards right of the fairway and into the deep rough on the 13th hole.
After discussing with the R&A rules officials, he took a penalty drop and played what became his third shot, more than 20 minutes after he struck his drive and went on to make bogey.
He said memories of Augusta in 2016, when he squandered a five-shot lead at the Masters, crept into his head but praised caddie Michael Greller for some wise words.
And the American then picked up five shots on the next four holes to retake the lead, before finishing with a par to claim his third major.
"That five-hole stretch is by far the best stretch of golf I have ever played," he told BBC Sport.
"To have it be at a major championship in the final round on Sunday, I'll have to sit back and think about it later on."
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The victory sees Spieth become just the 12th player in history to win three of golf's four majors and the second, after Jack Nicklaus to do so before turning 24.
Having won his first two majors, the Masters and US Open, in 2015, Spieth, who turns 24 on Thursday will head to the US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow next month looking to become just the sixth player to complete the career Grand Slam since the Masters was added to the roster in 1934.
Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen and Gary Player are the five to have achieved the feat, while Bobby Jones completed the original Grand Slam of US Amateur, US Open, The Open and The Amateur Championship in 1930.
"That's now the tournament that's really holding me back from everything I wanted to achieve in my career," said Spieth, who would become the youngest to win all four should he succeed this time.
"The career Grand Slam is a life goal of mine. Growing up I just wanted to compete, but things have progressed quickly."
Kuchar turned professional in 2000 after a brief spell working in financial services and said contending in a major was part of a "lifelong quest".
The 39-year-old did little wrong in picking up two shots of his own between holes 13 and 17, but trailing by two on the 18th tee he had to force the issue and ended up dropping a shot.
"It's hard to explain, it's crushing and it hurts," said the seven-time PGA Tour winner who recorded his best finish in a major. "It's an excitement and thrill to have played well, put up a battle, a fight.
"You work so hard to get to this position and have a chance to make history and win a championship. You don't get many opportunities. To be this close and taste it with five holes to go, it's a hard one to sit back and take."
Kuchar's mark of nine under means he has now finished in the top 10 of the sport's four biggest events on 10 occasions.
"As tough as it is to finish second, I'm sure it will lead to me continuing to work hard and push me harder to finish one place better," he added.
Dortmund warmed up for Thursday's Europa League quarter-final second leg against Liverpool by taking the lead through Shinji Kagawa on 49 minutes and Mattias Ginter on 56.
Leroy Sane and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar levelled on 51 and 66, respectively.
Dortmund trail Bayern by seven points with five games left.
They head for Anfield next week level with Liverpool, following a 1-1 draw in the first leg.
Match ends, FC Schalke 04 2, Borussia Dortmund 2.
Second Half ends, FC Schalke 04 2, Borussia Dortmund 2.
Foul by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (FC Schalke 04).
Sven Bender (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Max Meyer (FC Schalke 04) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting.
Johannes Geis (FC Schalke 04) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nuri Sahin (Borussia Dortmund).
Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Roman Neustädter (FC Schalke 04) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Roman Neustädter (FC Schalke 04).
Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar.
Attempt blocked. Sokratis (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Joel Matip.
Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sokratis.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, FC Schalke 04. Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting replaces Younes Belhanda.
Delay in match Matthias Ginter (Borussia Dortmund) because of an injury.
Younes Belhanda (FC Schalke 04) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Younes Belhanda (FC Schalke 04).
Matthias Ginter (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Shinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.
Foul by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (FC Schalke 04).
Nuri Sahin (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, FC Schalke 04. Dennis Aogo replaces Sead Kolasinac.
Foul by Johannes Geis (FC Schalke 04).
Shinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Johannes Geis (FC Schalke 04) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked.
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Ilkay Gündogan replaces Christian Pulisic.
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang replaces Moritz Leitner.
Erik Durm (Borussia Dortmund) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (FC Schalke 04) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Erik Durm (Borussia Dortmund).
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Joel Matip.
Attempt blocked. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adrián Ramos.
Attempt saved. Shinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Pulisic.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (FC Schalke 04) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (FC Schalke 04).
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (FC Schalke 04).
James Corfield, 19, had not been seen since he left the White Horse pub in Builth Wells in the early hours of last Tuesday morning.
Dyfed-Powys Police confirmed a body was found in Builth Wells on Sunday afternoon.
A force statement said: "The body has not been formally identified at this time."
It added: "The family have been made aware of the development and are being supported by a family liaison officer."
Brecon Mountain Rescue Team wrote on social media the team involved in the search for Mr Corfield was "very sad" to hear that a body had been recovered "from a deep pool in the River Wye at Builth Wells".
Mr Corfield, a member of Montgomery Young Farmers' Club, was due to meet his family at the Royal Welsh showground where he had been camping with friends.
Speaking at a press conference, his mother Louise Corfield had said on Thursday they were "desperate to know where he is".
Montgomeryshire AM Russell George said the discovery of a body was "incredibly sad news".
"There has been a real feeling of helplessness in the community as people just want to help in some way," he said.
"James and his family are well-known locally and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time."
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They said people were "acutely aware" of online surveillance by government, companies and also their peers.
The findings follow plans by UK ministers for new laws to help police and agencies monitor online threats.
The academics are halfway through an 18-month research project into digital citizenship and state surveillance.
They presented preliminary findings from focus groups, interviews with activists and opinion poll analysis at a conference on surveillance at Cardiff University.
Cardiff University's Lina Dencik said: "Most people don't like that this is happening, and will try and monitor their online behaviour accordingly, but also feel powerless to do much about it."
She added: "People want to know why and how their personal data is being collected and used, and what legal safeguards exist.
"This is central at a time when one of the first acts of the newly-elected Conservative government has been to increase intelligence agencies' surveillance powers, while at the same time withholding the publication of annual transparency reports on the security services as initiated under the coalition government."
The conference also heard from a lawyer representing the former CIA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Ben Wizner said the Snowden leak had led to journalists, politicians and courts in the US taking a tougher stance against granting additional surveillance powers to the intelligence agencies.
But he said that in some countries, such as France, Canada and Australia, recent terror attacks had been "exploited".
"What we see across the West is that politicians who say our existing institutions are strong enough to deal with this, we don't need to change our laws, are dismissed as weak and naive and politicians who say this is a war on terror, this is a new kind of threat, the greatest kind of threat we face are extolled as hard-nosed warriors," he said.
Although the US authorities would like Snowden - who remains in Russia - to plead guilty, he said his popularity around the world meant "they don't relish the idea of grabbing him and prosecuting him".
The Home Office has been asked to comment.
The two-day conference, at the university's School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, is being held as part of the Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society research project.
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The deal, which comes two weeks after the election resulted in a hung Parliament, will see the 10 DUP MPs back the Tories in key Commons votes.
There will be £1bn extra for Northern Ireland over the next two years.
DUP leader Arlene Foster said the "wide-ranging" pact was "good for Northern Ireland and the UK" but one critic said it was a "straight bung".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the deal was "clearly not in the national interest", and Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams said it enabled a "Tory Brexit which threatens the Good Friday Agreement".
It has prompted calls for matching public investment in Wales and Scotland.
A three page document outlining the terms of the agreement has been published in full. The DUP said it would apply for the lifetime of the Parliament, scheduled to last five years, but would also be reviewed at the end of the current session in two years' time.
There will be £1.5bn in funding - consisting of £1bn of new money and £500m of previously announced funds - to be spent over the next two years on infrastructure, health and education in Northern Ireland, money Mrs Foster said was needed to address the challenges from Northern Ireland's "unique history".
As part of the deal, the military covenant will be implemented in full in Northern Ireland, meaning more focus on the treatment of military veterans, while the triple lock guarantee of at least a 2.5% rise in the state pension each year, and winter fuel payments, will be maintained throughout the UK.
Other key points of the agreement include:
Mrs May shook hands with DUP leader Arlene Foster as she and other senior party figures arrived at Downing Street on Monday to finalise the pact. The two leaders then watched as Conservative chief whip Gavin Williamson and his DUP counterpart Jeffrey Donaldson signed the documents in No 10.
Speaking outside Downing Street, Mrs Foster said the agreement would bring stability to the UK government as it embarked on the Brexit process,
"This agreement will operate to deliver a stable government in the United Kingdom's national interest at this vital time," she said.
Analysis by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg
The Tories now face a bumpy day of criticism, about how the DUP have been bought off - £100m for each of their ten votes in Parliament. The other devolved nations will cry foul.
Some Tories too are deeply uncomfortable about the association with the DUP brand of unionism. And if the cuts are to be eased in Northern Ireland, what about other parts of the country?
But the money that's been found down the back of the Number 10 sofa for Northern Ireland may be worth it for Theresa May as the price of holding power, for now.
She now has her majority, whatever the cost, and a dividend could be the conclusion of a deal to get power sharing at Stormont up and running too.
Read Laura's blog in full
Welcoming the additional funding for Northern Ireland, she said it would benefit all communities. "Following our discussions the Conservative Party has recognised the case for higher funding in Northern Ireland, given our unique history and indeed circumstances over recent decades."
The UK prime minister said the pact was a "very good one" for the UK as a whole.
"We share many values in terms of wanting to see prosperity across the UK, the value of the union, the important bond between the different parts of the UK," Mrs May said. "We very much want to see that protected and enhanced
First Secretary of State Damian Green, a close ally of Mrs May's, said he hoped the extra money would help revive devolved government in Northern Ireland.
"The money that is attached to this agreement is actually less than the money attached to the original Stormont agreement in 2014," he told the BBC. "We know Northern Ireland has particular needs, because of its history and difficulties.
"There are parts of the Northern Ireland infrastructure that needs particular help and that has been recognised on a continuing basis."
The BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said most of the money being allocated to Northern Ireland would go to specific projects rather than general spending, meaning it would not necessarily impact on the Barnett formula which determines overall expenditure across the nations of the UK.
She said DUP sources pointed to the creation of a "coordination committee", suggesting this would give them a direct line in to government discussions and that this may prove particularly influential over the Brexit negotiations.
Northern Ireland has been without a devolved government since March and parties have until Thursday to find agreement.
The cash will go to the Northern Ireland executive if the devolved institutions are restored by the deadline of 29 June.
Under the so-called "confidence and supply" arrangement, the DUP will line up behind the government in key votes, such as on the Queen's Speech and Budgets, as well as Brexit and security matters, which are likely to dominate most of the current Parliament.
On other legislation, the DUP's support is not necessarily guaranteed - although the Northern Ireland party is expected to back the majority of the government's programme for the next two years after many of its more controversial policies were dropped.
The support of the DUP will give Mrs May an effective working majority of 13, given that Sinn Fein do not take up their seven seats and Speaker John Bercow and his three deputies - two of whom are Labour MPs - do not take part in votes.
Several senior Tories had advised her to govern without any formal agreement with the DUP, arguing the unionist party would not be prepared to bring Mrs May down and run the risk of triggering a fresh election given their longstanding hostility to Jeremy Corbyn and other senior Labour figures.
Former PM Sir John Major warned that a formal association with the DUP could undermine attempts to restore power-sharing government in Northern Ireland while some MPs said the DUP's socially conservative stance on issues such as gay marriage and abortion could damage the party in the longer term.
Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones suggested Mrs May was "throwing money at Northern Ireland while ignoring the rest of the UK", in what he called "cash for votes".
"Today's deal represents a straight bung to keep a weak prime minister and a faltering government in office," the Labour politician said.
Mr Corbyn said public service cuts should be stopped "right across the UK, not just in Northern Ireland".
He demanded to know where the extra money for Northern Ireland was coming from, and whether other parts of the UK would get a similar cash injection.
"This Tory-DUP deal is clearly not in the national interest but in May's party's interest to help her cling to power," he added.
Mr Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, said: "The Tory government has slashed more than £1bn from the block grant over the last seven years.
"The allocation of additional funds could help to ease the enormous pressure on our public services.
"The devil is in the detail."
On the plan to implement the military covenant in Northern Ireland, Mr Adams added: "Sinn Fein will resolutely oppose any attempt to give preferential treatment to British forces, either in terms of legacy or the provision of public services."
In the Commons, MPs from other parties lined up to criticise the new arrangements, with the SNP's Pete Wishart saying it was a "pathetic grubby little deal" and accusing the Tories and DUP of "pork barrel politics".
But Nigel Dodds, the DUP's Westminster leader, said his party could publish details of its correspondence with Labour and the SNP at the time of previous elections.
"Some of the faux outrage we have heard is hypocrisy of the highest order," he said.
Mr Dodds said the extra investment would be "for every section of the community in Northern Ireland".
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Donati, 35, has just ended his second spell at Bari in his native Italy.
He featured for Celtic between 2007 and 2009, helping them win the Scottish Premier League in 2008.
The former Italy Under-21 player could make his Accies debut in Saturday's Scottish League Cup match against St Mirren.
Atalanta, AC Milan and Sampdoria are among the clubs Donati has served.
Hamilton have also signed defenders Jack Breslin and Jordan McGregor, and taken Norwich City goalkeeper Remi Matthews on loan, in this summer's transfer window,
Meanwhile, Northern Ireland keeper Michael McGovern, who is out of contract after two years with Accies, is expected to join Norwich, who are managed by former Hamilton boss Alex Neil.
Playing their first League Cup game since 2008, Luton went ahead through Luke Rooney's penalty after Nathan Thompson handled in the area.
Michael Smith then levelled from the spot, after Nathan Byrne was brought down by Andy Drury, before slotting home his second from inside the box.
Former Swindon winger Rooney was sent off late on for a second booking.
Luton Town boss John Still told BBC Three Counties Radio:
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"They're a good side and they played very well.
"I was really pleased with what we've done. We played a new system today which we wanted to try and which I was pleased with.
"The performance was OK, I was quite happy. I've got no problems - I was happy with the game."
Swindon Town manager Mark Cooper told BBC Wiltshire:
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"The main thing we can take from the win is that we kept going and stuck to our principles.
"Even though we were a goal down, we kept going and stuck to our beliefs.
"It looked a dubious penalty but we kept passing the ball and we made Luton run.
"In the end I thought we wore them out."
Police said four Israelis were hurt in Tel Aviv before the suspected attacker was shot dead.
Another three Israelis were wounded in East Jerusalem, northern Israel and the West Bank, Israeli officials said.
Israeli forces targeting the house of a suspected attacker in the West Bank then shot dead a Palestinian as clashes began, Palestinian medics said.
Nine Israeli police officers were also injured in the clashes, Israel's Channel 2 TV said.
Four Israelis were shot or stabbed to death and three attackers killed in a series of attacks in the past week before Thursday's spate of stabbings.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later said the country was facing a "wave of terror".
At a news conference, he said: "The terrorist extremists won't achieve anything, we thwart them and we will win."
The Israeli authorities have increased security in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and put in place temporary restrictions on Palestinian access to Jerusalem's Old City, in an effort to stop more attacks.
In Tel Aviv on Thursday, a female soldier and three civilians were stabbed and lightly wounded with a screwdriver. The male assailant was then chased and shot dead by an air force officer, police said.
The incident occurred across the road from the Kirya military compound.
The mother of the soldier who was stabbed told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth: "I saw the terrorist running up to my daughter and stabbing her. I started screaming and crying and I understand that this was a terrorist attack.
"She sat on her gun so he couldn't steal it, and the other soldier ran after the terrorist. I'm in shock. I just spoke to her and she is traumatised."
Shortly afterwards, a Palestinian stabbed and seriously wounded a man near the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, close to the West Bank city of Hebron, the Israeli military said.
The attacker fled the scene and Israeli forces were searching the area, it added.
Hours earlier, a Jewish seminary student was seriously injured when he was stabbed in the neck by a Palestinian near a light rail station in the French Hill area of East Jerusalem, police said.
The assailant then reportedly fled the scene after attacking a security guard at the station and attempting to steal his weapon. He was eventually apprehended, police said.
Israeli security forces then shot dead a Palestinian man during clashes that erupted as they were moving towards the suspect's home, Palestinian medics said.
In yet another attack later on Thursday, an Israeli soldier was stabbed by an attacker in the northern Israeli town of Afula, police said.
They said the assailant - who was not identified - was arrested.
Tensions between Israel and Palestinians have soared in the past couple of weeks, with the attacks on Israelis following clashes between troops and Palestinian youths at a flashpoint holy compound in East Jerusalem.
Hundreds of Palestinians have been wounded and two shot dead, including a 13-year-old boy, in clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank over the same period.
Officers have an extension until Monday to question a man being held over Miss O'Callaghan's murder.
Miss O'Callaghan's body was found in Oxfordshire after Thursday's arrest.
Thousands of people gathered in Swindon on Saturday night for a vigil for the 22-year-old, at which Chinese lanterns and balloons were released.
Miss O'Callaghan had not been seen since leaving a nightclub in Swindon early on the morning of Saturday 19 March.
The suspect, named locally as taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, was arrested at a supermarket on suspicion of kidnap and two murders on Thursday morning.
Miss O'Callaghan's body was found at White Horse Hill, Uffington, Oxfordshire, after her suspected killer guided detectives to the spot.
He also directed them to Eastleach, Gloucestershire, where a search for the second body was started.
The remains were found on Saturday morning.
Det Supt Steve Fulcher, of Wiltshire Police, said officers had been told the remains were those of a woman abducted in Swindon between 2003 and 2005.
They have yet to be formally identified.
Det Supt Fulcher told a news conference on Saturday an examination of Miss O'Callaghan's body revealed that she had not been sexually assaulted.
Further tests, which could take some time, were still required on her body to determine the cause of death, he said.
Det Supt Fulcher said the suspect had indicated that he had killed another young woman at some point between 2003 and 2005.
"He couldn't be specific about the dates or the year but he was able to give me the exact location of the body," he said.
"He told me that a young woman had been taken by him from the Swindon area."
He appealed for anyone who had been "lamping" or poaching in the Ramsbury area of Wiltshire or nearby from 0300 BST on Saturday 19 March to contact the force if they had seen anything suspicious, or a green Toyota Avensis.
He stressed officers were not interested in prosecuting anyone for poaching.
Hundreds of Chinese lanterns and balloons were launched into the sky on Saturday evening during an event in Swindon in memory of Miss O'Callaghan. Thousands of people gathered at the town's Polo Ground for a two-minute silence.
Team mates also stood in silence on Saturday afternoon at the club where she played bowls.
A Wiltshire Police spokeswoman said floral tributes placed outside the Suju nightclub by Miss O'Callaghan's friends and well-wishers were being moved from the doorway because the club planned to re-open.
Miss O'Callaghan's family had agreed that the tributes could be moved, she added.
1. Sian last seen leaving Suju nightclub at 0252 GMT on 19 March to walk half a mile home to flat she shared with her boyfriend in Westmorland Rd.
2. Police search Savernake Forest from where signal from her phone was detected - her boyfriend had texted her at 0324 GMT the night she disappeared.
3. Police arrest 47-year-old taxi driver at Asda supermarket in Swindon's Orbital Centre on 24 March. Suspect's house in Ashbury Avenue is also searched.
4: On 24 March, suspect leads police to shallow grave at White Horse Hill, Uffington where Sian O'Callaghan's body is found.
5. The following day, 25 March, police search for second body at Eastleach, Gloucestershire.
At least 10 people are known to have died, and 121 people rescued, including a baby on Saturday morning.
The Red Cross criticised "chaotic scenes" as rescuers arrived. It is unclear how many people are trapped.
There are conflicting reports as to whether the building had six or seven storeys.
The rainfall has caused landslides, washed away houses and flooded roads. Police said 14 people died in the Nairobi rains, including those in the collapse. Another four died when a wall toppled over.
Steven Oundo, the chair of Kenya's National Construction Authority, told KTN there would be an investigation into whether the building had a certificate allowing people to live inside.
"The building went down during the heavy rains, but we still want to establish if all the procedures were followed when it was constructed," Nairobi's deputy governor Jonathan Mueke told reporters at the scene.
He said the building, which reports in Nairobi said was built two years ago, did not have planning permission.
Kenya's KTN network said on Saturday morning that a nearby building was being evacuated in case it too collapsed. Across the city, more than 800 homes were affected by the flooding, Kenya's Red Cross said.
The Huruma neighbourhood is a poor district on the outskirts of Nairobi made up of narrow streets, meaning firefighters struggled to get to the scene and were delayed by large crowds.
After some time, the army took charge of the rescue with the help of the Kenyan Red Cross.
Residents said that the building, which was on the edge of a river, shook violently in the rain before collapsing.
"I think it appears that some people are getting impatient but as it is we have got indications that there are people who are still trapped in the rubble," said Nathan Macharia Kigotho, the director of the national disaster operation centre.
"We don't want to use heavy machines because it is likely to crumble and crush them."
Poor building standards are a fact of life in Kenya, correspondents say. A survey carried out last year found that more than half the buildings in the capital were unfit for habitation.
The high demand for housing in Nairobi has led to some property developers bypassing building regulations to reduce costs and increase profits.
President Uhuru Kenyatta last year ordered an audit of all the buildings in the country after a spate of collapses.
Meanwhile two boys are missing in another part of the flood-hit country after going herding, according to the Red Cross.
Sgt Mark Shepherd shared photographs on Twitter of his shift working in Norwich city centre.
Figures released by police earlier this year suggest that more than half of violent crime in the city happens between 21:00 and 06:00.
Mr Shepherd said: "This hopefully shows we are human. People love the fact they are getting put on social media."
Mr Shepherd, who works for the Norwich South Safer Neighbourhood Team, posted tweets after 22:00 on Saturday until after 05:00 on Sunday, using the hashtag "SelfiesWithCops"
He described incidents including one which said: "A few assaults coming in now. Also collapsed drunks. #DrinkResponsibly #KnowYourLimits #AlcoholHarm Think, how will you get home?"
He said: "Engagement is really important and we regularly get asked for photos. This takes it a small step further."
Writing on Twitter, one person tweeted: "...great sport Mark, loving the picture. You even look like you were enjoying it!"
Another person said: "Love it."
A Norfolk Police spokesman said: "Social media can play a positive role in policing - keeping members of the public informed about incidents, day-to-day work and traffic issues - while also giving officers another way of keeping in touch with residents."
Executives from Siemens, Daimler, Munich Re and BASF told German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung they backed the bank.
"We stand with Deutsche Bank," BASF chairman Juergen Hambrecht said.
Deutsche Bank is facing a $14bn ($11bn) fine in the US for mis-selling mortgage-backed bonds before the financial crisis of 2008.
Its shares fell sharply last week on fears the fine could cripple the bank, at one point dropping to their lowest level in 30 years.
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Reinsurance giant Munich Re's chief executive, Nikolaus von Bomhard, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that he had followed the news, but saw no need to "reduce our business volume" with Deutsche Bank.
Dieter Zetsche, the chief executive of luxury car firm Daimler, also backed the bank, saying: "Deutsche Bank has a great tradition, a solid foundation and beyond that, a good future ahead. Of that I am convinced."
Siemens boss Joe Kaeser said that the bank's management "is pursuing the right goals and has our fullest confidence".
On Friday, Deutsche chief executive John Cryan insisted the bank's finances were strong, telling staff in an email that the lender had become the object of "hefty speculation" and that "new rumours" were causing the share price to fall.
Reports have also suggested the bank could be close to reaching a deal over a much lower fine of $5.4bn, boosting the shares.
Mr Cryan will attend this week's annual International Monetary Fund meeting held in Washington where he is expected to try and negotiate a deal with the Department of Justice over the fine.
Last week, the German government also denied reports that it was preparing a rescue plan for the bank - Germany's biggest lender - in case it could not afford to pay the US fine.
While Deutsche is a relatively small bank globally, it has significant trading relationships with all of the world's largest finance houses.
In June, the IMF identified it as a bigger potential risk to the wider financial system than any other global bank.
The hosts trailed 1-0 on aggregate from the first leg but Aubameyang levelled the last-16 tie after just four minutes with a header at the back post.
Winger Franco Cervi twice came close to scoring a vital away goal for Benfica before the interval.
But Dortmund took control after Christian Pulisic scored on 59 minutes.
The 18-year-old winger brilliantly chipped onrushing goalkeeper Ederson after being slid in by Lukasz Piszczek.
Aubameyang, who missed a penalty in the first leg in Lisbon, then swept in Marcel Schmelzer's low cross two minutes later before an unmarked Marc Bartra hit the post from a corner.
The Gabon striker completed his treble with five minutes remaining as he turned in Erik Durm's sublime pass.
Dortmund have now lost only one of their last 12 European home matches under coach Thomas Tuchel as they reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2014.
Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel: "That was the perfect time for 'Auba' to get his hat-trick.
"It was a sensational performance. I love goals like his first one because they need such good timing and Auba is always there with his nose for goal.
"We had a great start, then we lost our way after 25 minutes, but the second half was a top performance.
"We didn't want to let the first-leg defeat annoy us, now we are in the last eight and we want to go further."
Match ends, Borussia Dortmund 4, Benfica 0.
Second Half ends, Borussia Dortmund 4, Benfica 0.
Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Lukasz Piszczek tries a through ball, but Erik Durm is caught offside.
Foul by Shinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund).
Nelsinho (Benfica) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Matthias Ginter replaces Sokratis because of an injury.
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. André Schürrle replaces Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Goal! Borussia Dortmund 4, Benfica 0. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Erik Durm.
Marc Bartra (Borussia Dortmund) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Gonzalo Castro with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Eliseu.
Substitution, Benfica. Raúl Jiménez replaces Franco Cervi.
Sokratis (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonas (Benfica).
Foul by Shinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund).
Nelsinho (Benfica) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Shinji Kagawa replaces Ousmane Dembélé because of an injury.
Julian Weigl (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by André Almeida (Benfica).
Offside, Benfica. Luisão tries a through ball, but Jonas is caught offside.
Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang tries a through ball, but Ousmane Dembélé is caught offside.
Gonzalo Castro (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pizzi (Benfica).
Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Roman Bürki tries a through ball, but Ousmane Dembélé is caught offside.
Substitution, Benfica. Andrija Zivkovic replaces Andreas Samaris.
Ousmane Dembélé (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luisão (Benfica).
Ousmane Dembélé (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andreas Samaris (Benfica).
Julian Weigl (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by André Almeida (Benfica).
Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Roman Bürki tries a through ball, but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is caught offside.
Marcel Schmelzer (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Victor Lindelöf (Benfica).
Corner, Benfica. Conceded by Marc Bartra.
Foul by Marc Bartra (Borussia Dortmund).
Kostas Mitroglou (Benfica) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Gonzalo Castro (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund).
Franco Cervi (Benfica) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Sanchez capitalised on a mistake by Gunners team-mate Shkodran Mustafi to open the scoring.
Lars Stindl stabbed in an equaliser for Germany just before the break.
The result means Chile remain top of Group B, ahead of Germany on goal difference.
"I'm very happy to be Chile's top scorer. Our dream is to win this tournament and we feel we have a chance," said Sanchez, who has been linked with a move away from Arsenal this summer.
"We played well in the first half, but Germany adapted very well to how we were playing."
Chile and Germany need just one point from their remaining Group B games against Australia and Cameroon respectively to progress to the semi-finals.
Earlier on Thursday, a Mark Milligan penalty cancelled out an Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa goal as Australia and Cameroon drew 1-1.
Match ends, Germany 1, Chile 1.
Second Half ends, Germany 1, Chile 1.
Offside, Chile. Alexis Sánchez tries a through ball, but Mauricio Isla is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Emre Can (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Julian Draxler.
Substitution, Chile. Francisco Silva replaces Charles Aránguiz.
Foul by Sebastian Rudy (Germany).
Alexis Sánchez (Chile) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Emre Can (Germany).
Charles Aránguiz (Chile) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Martín Rodríguez (Chile) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Arturo Vidal with a through ball.
Substitution, Chile. Martín Rodríguez replaces Eduardo Vargas.
Attempt missed. Matthias Ginter (Germany) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Julian Draxler following a set piece situation.
Jean Beausejour (Chile) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Joshua Kimmich (Germany) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jean Beausejour (Chile).
Attempt blocked. Julian Draxler (Germany) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich.
Foul by Julian Draxler (Germany).
Pablo Hernández (Chile) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Lars Stindl (Germany) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sebastian Rudy.
Lars Stindl (Germany) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marcelo Díaz (Chile).
Substitution, Chile. Paulo Díaz replaces Gary Medel because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Gary Medel (Chile) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Lars Stindl (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sebastian Rudy with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Gonzalo Jara.
Attempt missed. Matthias Ginter (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Niklas Süle following a set piece situation.
Sebastian Rudy (Germany) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marcelo Díaz (Chile).
Alexis Sánchez (Chile) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Chile. Arturo Vidal tries a through ball, but Alexis Sánchez is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Eduardo Vargas (Chile) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Arturo Vidal.
Sebastian Rudy (Germany) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Arturo Vidal (Chile).
Attempt missed. Arturo Vidal (Chile) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Charles Aránguiz with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Chile. Conceded by Shkodran Mustafi.
Foul by Julian Draxler (Germany).
Mauricio Isla (Chile) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Sebastian Rudy (Germany) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sebastian Rudy (Germany).
The files show that all too often Agent Fifi, as she was known, was able to get them to "spill the beans".
The agent, real name Marie Chilver, was employed to test out trainee agents in Britain before they were sent to occupied Europe in World War Two.
Her file is one of thousands released by the National Archives in London.
Chilver, the daughter of an English father and Latvian mother, first came to the attention of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in 1941 when she helped an airman - Flt Lt Simpson, shot down over France - get back to England.
Suspicious that she was a German agent - she apparently looked too healthy for someone who had been in a prison camp, from which she had escaped - he called her "one of the most expert liars in the world".
However, once confident of her identity, the SOE put her to work in the UK masquerading as a French freelance journalist.
Chilver would start chatting to trainee agents in hotels and bars to see if they had learned how to keep secrets.
Most of them had not - one young promising Belgian agent was a case in point.
"Fifi" reported that by the end of the evening she had found out just about all there was to know about him, and his employment was terminated shortly after.
She insisted there was "absolute fairness" about her methods, saying it would help those trainees who did get through to "outwit all the Fifis they are likely to meet in their future career".
"Compared to what is most likely to happen in the field, it is very mild and innocent. It would be a pity to have to give up this method, because it does give the students a good chance of using their brains (or just their low cunning)," she wrote.
According to the National Archives blog, Chilver "was known to be stubborn, even stroppy - but with a strong moral sense".
She won compensation from the Soviet Union for property taken from her Latvian family, and used some of the money to set up an animal charity in the country.
She lived in the Wye Valley on the English-Welsh border with her lifelong friend - and fellow former intelligence officer - Jean Felgate.
Chilver died on 5 November 2007. Her file is among 3,300 intelligence and security documents from World War Two being made available for the first time online by the National Archives.
They have previously been available only in the reading rooms of the National Archives at Kew.
Holyrood voted by 91 to 30 to voice "concern" about the impact of the closure of Jobcentre Plus sites across the country.
The DWP has confirmed it has plans to shut 14 of its 97 jobcentres in Scotland as part of an estates review.
The Scottish government wanted this halted so it could bring forward proposals to "save these jobcentres".
The DWP argued that the majority of claims were now made online, leaving office space underused. It said its UK-wide estates review would save taxpayers £180m a year for the next decade.
Some smaller jobcentres will be merged with larger ones, while others will be co-located within council premises.
The announcement is the latest in a round of proposed closures, affecting up to 23 sites in Scotland, including half of all jobcentres in Glasgow.
Scottish employability minister Jamie Hepburn urged MSPs to come to a cross-party consensus to help halt the closures, enabling the Scottish government to pursue further co-location schemes to "save" the centres.
He said: "The now Scotland-wide planned closures are proposals that impact on communities and people the length and breadth of the country.
"They are disproportionate in impact, they have been announced with little detail, with limited consultation and with even less engagement with those who rely on and those who work in Jobcentre Plus services."
Mr Hepburn accused the DWP of "making decisions based on lines or circles on a map" and said extra cost for travel would have the biggest impact on vulnerable claimants, saying those he had met told him of concerns over paying for travel or for food.
He added: "I think it's clear these changes proposed by the DWP will have a negative impact on service users."
Labour's Mark Griffin said his party would back the motion, saying: "At a time when the Tories are cutting social security and hitting low paid workers with sanctions, when 139,000 people in Scotland are out of work, these proposals are reckless at best and at worse utterly perverse.
"It's completely counter-productive for the UK government to close so many jobcentres."
Meanwhile, Scottish Conservative MSP Adam Tomkins defended the plans.
He said: "The DWP's proposals are coming at a time when the jobs market in the UK, including here in Scotland, has changed very considerably. There are now more jobs in the British economy than ever before.
"In Glasgow the claimant count has fallen by 44% since 2010 and in this context it is surely rational to keep under review the nature and scale of the jobcentre provision that we need.
"We're talking about redesigning jobcentres to be more effective rather than cutting services."
His amendment, which deleted Mr Hepburn's motion while calling on the DWP to provide more information and saying there should have been "more meaningful dialogue" over the issue, was defeated in the final votes.
Mr Hepburn's motion was then passed by a margin of 91 votes to 30.
While MSPs were debating the closures, MPs on the Scottish affairs committee were quizzing DWP minister Damian Hinds about them.
He told "the fundamental rationale" behind the plans was that the department has a lot of space that is is not using.
He also told members that Glasgow had traditionally had an "unusually large number of job centres for its population", explaining the higher number of proposed closures there.
A DWP spokesman said: "With eight out of 10 jobseeker's allowance claims now made online and 20% of our office space underused we are streamlining our estate, which will save taxpayers £1.8bn.
"This year we are hiring 2,500 more work coaches to help those who need it most."
Officers were called to a property in the city's Firbank Road at 22:30 on Wednesday.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "There are no apparent suspicious circumstances and inquiries are continuing.
"A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal in due course."
The Secretary-General [Ban Ki-moon] was shocked to learn about the large explosion in central Oslo and the shooting that took place in Utoeya today.
He condemns this violence and expresses his condolences to the government of Norway and the families of the victims. The United Nations stands together with the people of Norway at this terrible moment.
Our solidarity with Norway remains steadfast. Nato countries stand united in the battle against these acts of violence.
On behalf of Nato, I condemn in the strongest possible terms the heinous acts of violence in Norway. I would like to convey my sincere condolences to the Norwegian government, the Norwegian people and the families and loved ones of all those who suffered in these cruel and cowardly acts.
I wanted to personally extend my condolences to the people of Norway. It's a reminder that the entire international community holds a stake in preventing this kind of terror from occurring. We have to work co-operatively together both on intelligence and in terms of prevention of these kinds of horrible attacks.
I was outraged to hear about the explosion in Oslo and attack in Utoeya today that have killed and injured innocent people. My thoughts are with the wounded and those who have lost friends and family, and I know everyone in Britain will feel the same.
These attacks are a stark reminder of the threat we all face from terrorism. I have called Prime Minister Stoltenberg this evening to express my sincere condolences and to let him know that our thoughts are with the Norwegian people at this tragic time.
I have offered Britain's help, including through our close intelligence co-operation. We will work with Norway to hunt the murderers who did this and prevent any more innocent deaths. We can overcome this evil, and we will.
My feelings of sympathy go out to the victims of today's tragic events which have shaken my home country of Norway. The attacks were aimed at the heart of our democratic institutions and our open and peaceful nation. Those responsible for them must be brought to justice.
It appears the attack on the Utoeya youth camp was intended to hurt young citizens who actively engage in our democratic and political society. But we must not be intimidated. We need to work for freedom and democracy every day.
The Oslo bombing has reminded Europeans of the acute threat of terrorism which can strike out at innocent citizens anywhere. The Council of Europe will do all it can to combat terrorism and organised crime together with its international partners.
I was shocked and intensely saddened to learn of the attacks in Oslo and Utoya today. Canada stands with Norway on this tragic day.
We deeply regret the loss of life and injuries resulting from the explosion which occurred today in the government quarters... We were also horrified to learn that a gunman has opened fire at a youth camp at Utoeya.
Canada condemns these barbarous and senseless acts of violence and our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, witnesses and all those affected by these attacks.
Solicitors acting for Wandsworth, Hillingdon, Richmond and Windsor and Maidenhead councils have written to the prime minister saying expansion would be "irrational or otherwise unlawful".
In July, the Airports Commission (AC) said the plan was preferable to expanding Gatwick.
The government has said more work on the environmental impact was needed.
A final decision on the issue is expected in the summer.
In their letter, the councils remind David Cameron that in 2010 he promised to oppose a third runway at Heathrow - "no ifs, no buts".
Solicitors Harrison Grant, who successfully opposed Heathrow expansion in the High Court six years ago, say the AC's assessment is "flawed".
Conclusions on air quality "were based upon an error of law" and the proposals for reducing noise impact rely on "speculative" mitigation measures which "have been wholly rejected by the industry as unworkable", the councils said.
Lord True, leader of Richmond Council, said: "This letter is on behalf of the 100,000 people who voted No in the referendum run by Richmond and Hillingdon.
"We will consider any action, within the law, to fight against expansion at Heathrow. I urge the government - take heed of our letter. Keep your promises. Let's end this now rather than drag it out into the summer."
"Local people have planned their lives" in the expectation that Heathrow would not expand, said Ray Puddifoot, the leader of Hillingdon Council.
"A third runway at Heathrow would still produce unacceptable pollution and noise and cause the destruction of hundreds of homes and business," he said.
Last week, 13 protesters who disrupted flights at Heathrow in protest against a third runway were given suspended sentences.
City signed Dorrans on loan in February, after which the 27-year-old Scotsman scored three times in 18 appearances to help the Canaries secure promotion to the Premier League.
The Scotland international was signed in July 2008 by then boss Tony Mowbray from Livingston for just £150,000.
He went on to make 189 appearances for the Baggies, finding the net 26 times.
"Graham has been a very important part of the team over the last few months," said Canaries boss Alex Neil. "He has Premier League experience and is a top player.
"His experience and quality will help us. We're delighted he has joined us on a permanent basis."
Meanwhile Albion manager Tony Pulis has released midfielder Youssouf Mulumbu, 28, and utility players Chris Baird, 32, and Jason Davidson, 23.
The club have exercised contract options on goalkeeper Boaz Myhill, 32, and midfielder Claudio Yacob, 27, while they will enter negotiations on a new deal with centre-back Gareth McAuley, 35.
Three Academy graduates, striker Adil Nabi, midfielder Liam O'Neil and defender Donervon Daniels, all 21, have also had their contract options taken up.
Three young professionals, full-backs Bradley Garmston, 21 and Wez Atkinson, 20, and midfielder Mani O'Sullivan, 21, have been released, along with striker Alex Jones, 20, who has already joined Birmingham City.
Women have made at least 90 criminal complaints to police about the harassment by gangs at Cologne's main railway station on Thursday night.
Germans have been shocked by the scale of the attacks, involving many groups of drunk and aggressive young men.
Witnesses and police said the men were of Arab or North African appearance.
Mrs Merkel called Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker on Tuesday and expressed her "outrage over these disgusting attacks and sexual assaults".
The chancellor said everything must be done "to find the perpetrators as quickly and comprehensively as possible and punish them, regardless of their origin or background".
Up to 300 women demonstrated against the violence near the scene of the attacks on Tuesday evening. One placard read: "Mrs Merkel! Where are you? What do you say? This alarms us!"
There is an intense debate in Germany about refugees and migrants, who arrived in record numbers last year. But Mayor Reker urged people not to jump to conclusions about the Cologne assailants.
"It's completely improper... to link a group that appeared to come from North Africa with the refugees," she said, after crisis talks with the police.
Cologne police chief Wolfgang Albers called it "a completely new dimension of crime" and rejected criticism of his force's handling on the night.
Women were also targeted in Hamburg and Stuttgart in similar attacks, but on a smaller scale.
In Cologne at least one woman was raped and many were groped, including a volunteer policewoman.
One man described how his partner and 15-year-old daughter were surrounded by an enormous crowd outside the station and he was unable to help. "The attackers grabbed her and my partner's breasts and groped them between their legs."
Most of the crimes reported to police were robberies.
A policeman told the city's Express news website that he had detained eight suspects. "They were all asylum seekers, carrying copies of their residence certificates," he said.
However, there was no official confirmation that asylum seekers had been involved in the violence. Germany' migrant influx triggered marches by the anti-Islam Pegida movement last year.
Police were deployed outside the station because of the crowds on New Year's Eve, but failed to spot the many attacks, according to reports.
The pretty Christmas market and medieval setting may look idyllic, but at Christmas and New Year the area around Cologne Cathedral is a notorious danger zone when it comes to pickpockets and theft.
Now the sexual harassment, and in one case rape, of dozens of women has shocked Germany.
What is particularly disturbing is that the attacks appear to have been organised. Around 1,000 young men arrived in large groups, seemingly with the specific intention of carrying out attacks on women.
Police in Hamburg are now reporting similar incidents on New Year's Eve in the party area of St Pauli. One politician says this is just the tip of the iceberg.
And there are real concerns about what will happen in February when the drunken street-parties of carnival season kick off.
Cologne will stage carnival events in February, with hundreds of thousands of revellers expected in the streets, as on New Year's Eve.
The police chief said "the assailants' behaviour is a real concern for me, also because of the carnival".
After the crisis meeting he said that in future more police would be deployed at big city events and extra surveillance cameras would be installed.
Mayor Reker promised preventive measures ahead of the carnival. The authorities would warn young women about possible risks and "give a better explanation to people from other cultures about the meaning of carnival", she said.
"We need to prevent confusion here, about what constitutes happy behaviour and what is utterly separate from openness, especially in sexual behaviour," she said.
She called the attacks "monstrous", saying "we cannot allow this to become a lawless area".
A British woman visiting Cologne said fireworks had been thrown at her group by men who spoke neither German nor English. "They were trying to hug us, kiss us. One man stole my friend's bag," she told the BBC.
"Another tried to get us into his 'private taxi'. I've been in scary and even life-threatening situations and I've never experienced anything like that."
Cologne news website Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger says the suspects were already known to police because of frequent pickpocketing in and around the central station.
Senior members of the moderate Islamist Ennahda Party said the wording of the old constitution, which proclaims Islam as the state religion, would remain.
A group of ultra-conservative Muslims known as Salafis had demanded the introduction of Sharia.
Ennahda has been under growing pressure to declare its position on the issue.
The BBC's Jon Leyne says that the news will disappoint the increasingly vocal conservative minority, but it will bring relief to liberals and secularists who fear a tide of Islamism sweeping across the region.
"Ennahda has decided to retain the first clause of the previous constitution without change," senior Ennahda official Ameur Larayed told local media.
"We want the unity of our people and we do not want divisions."
The article from the 1959 constitution states: "Tunisia is a free, sovereign and independent state, whose religion is Islam, language is Arabic and has a republican regime."
Another senior figure, Ziad Doulatli, said he hoped the decision would help Tunisia to "serve as a model for other countries going through similar transformations".
Some 10,000 Salafis took to the streets of the capital, Tunis, on Sunday to express their support for the proposal that the country's legislation should be based on Islamic law.
The Tunisian uprising last January, which unseated long-time President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, inspired a wave of pro-democracy movements across North African and the Middle East.
Health Education England said 42 out of 76 trainee doctors at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital should be moved.
East Kent Hospitals trust said some emergency services will be affected.
The junior doctors are to be transferred to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford and the QEQM in Margate, also run by the trust.
The East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has admitted some emergency care would be affected at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital over the next few months, particularly in acute stroke care and services for elderly patients with serious illnesses such as pneumonia.
Julie Screaton, Health Education England's regional director for London and the South East, said: "Quality supervision of junior doctors is key to ensure patient safety.
"The lack of consultant cover meant that trainees were not adequately supported in their clinical practice and were consequently unable to receive the education and training for which they were placed in the trust."
A spokesman for the trust said about a quarter of those attending the Kent and Canterbury's urgent care centre would be taken to the trust's hospitals in Ashford and Margate instead.
He said: "The changes will be temporary and will not be immediate, to allow time for the trust to develop its plans and test them to make sure patients will be safe and well looked after."
The Trust was put into special measures in September 2014.
The latest report by the Care Quality Commission in December 2016 concluded the trust "requires improvement", but recommended it be taken out of special measures.
The private accommodation will be in the former Tech building, now known as John Bell House, in College Square East.
Planning permission was granted to joint venture partners, Watkin Jones & Sons and Lacuna Developments.
Completion is planned for the start of the academic year in September 2016.
Newry-based construction firm O'Hare and McGovern won the tender for the £16m redevelopment project.
Managing director of of O'Hare and McGovern, Eamon O'Hare, said: "This is a magnificent landmark building which is going to be completely revitalised to provide upmarket student accommodation. It's an exciting project which will be great for Belfast."
The accommodation will be made up of 292 bedrooms and 121 studios. The site will also house a reception suite as well as communal indoor and outdoor amenity areas.
Officers said the man was approached by two men carrying weapons at Monklands Hospital, Airdrie, at about 12:10 on Tuesday.
They demanded his car keys and then hit the man's legs with weapons before making off in his grey Audi A4.
It follows a similar attack near Glasgow Royal infirmary on Monday where three armed men stole a man's car.
Police said they were not ruling out a link between the two incidents.
In the latest attack, the victim had parked his car off Centenary Avenue and was walking to the hospital entrance when he was attacked.
He did not need hospital treatment.
Police said the first suspect had a slight build, was in his late teens or early 20s and was wearing dark clothing and a woollen balaclava.
The second man was also described as slim and wearing dark clothing and a woollen balaclava.
Det Sgt David Lamont said: "This was an innocent man simply going about his business who was randomly attacked by two opportunistic criminals.
"The men responsible gave no consideration for the victim or anyone else around the hospital at the time, and later drove off in the vehicle in an extremely erratic manner, placing other members of the public in danger.
"From inquiries so far, we know the car was driven through the Coatbridge area and was later abandoned in Netherhouse Place, Easterhouse."
In the incident on Monday, police said the stolen red three-door Vauxhall Corsa may have been in the area of Tillycairn Road in Easterhouse.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Police Scotland.
In 2014 prices rose by 9.8%, according to ONS figures.
Prices increased fastest in England, at 7.3%, and slowest in Scotland, where they fell 0.2% during 2015.
The value of houses and flats rose by just 1% in Wales, and by 1.5% in Northern Ireland.
The average price at the end of December was £288,000.
The ONS figure is in the middle of a range of estimates produced by other organisations.
Halifax, the UK's largest mortgage lender, said prices rose by as much as 9.5% in 2015, while the Nationwide Building Society put the increase at just 4.5%.
The Land Registry of England and Wales said the annual inflation rate was 6.4%.
Separate figures show that the number of new mortgages taken out in 2015 was roughly the same as in 2014.
But the Council of Mortgage Lenders said the amount being borrowed had risen from £112bn in 2014 to £118bn in 2015 - an increase of 5.3%.
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Wales were held 1-1 by Serbia and a third consecutive draw has left them third in Group D, four points behind leaders the Republic of Ireland.
"There's enough points on the board for us still to be competitive," the ex-Wales striker said.
"We've dropped six points in our last three games which is not a good sign."
Hartson added: "We've got to start winning games and we've got some really tough away games to come.
"We play the Republic of Ireland in March and if we can go there and get three points we only go a point behind them."
Wales face the Republic of Ireland in Dublin on 24 March and travel to Serbia in June with away fixtures in Moldova and Georgia to follow in the autumn.
Coleman's side had taken the lead in their in their previous three qualifiers but had to settle for a point in the each game.
It is a pattern which concerns former Arsenal and Celtic striker Hartson, who scored 14 goals in 51 games for Wales.
Wales have let in four goals during the current campaign, the same amount they conceded during the whole Euro 2016 qualifiers.
"If we can get back to keeping clean sheets we are going to win games because we've got goals in our team," Hartson told BBC Five live.
"It's that inability to see games out and demand from yourself to keep clean sheets like we did in the last campaign.
"That's what we've built our spirit and results on and climbing up the Fifa world rankings because we kept clean sheets.
"That's what we have to get back to."
Wales' next opponents, the Republic of Ireland, moved to the top of Group D with a 1-0 win over Austria in Vienna.
Former Irish international Kevin Kilbane says Martin O'Neill's side will be full of confidence going into next year's game against Wales at the Aviva Stadium.
"Ireland are in such a good position they can drop points and don't necessarily have to win the game," Kilbane told BBC Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad programme.
"It might cause Wales to try and force the issue a little bit.
"He's [O'Neill] got a side that's stable and there's real belief that this campaign, particularly after that Austria game, that they can top the group,"
Viv Endecott, owner of the Ginger Pop Shop in Corfe Castle, Dorset, which is dedicated to the works of Enid Blyton, published the advert to promote a tea towel with the logo "English freedom".
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld two complaints, ruling it caused "serious or widespread offence".
Ms Endecott said she was "proud" of the tea towel.
On its website, the shop describes itself as "all about Enid Blyton and her era". Some of the children's author's books featured golliwogs, and her work has been criticised for being racist.
The ASA ruling followed two complaints about the advert published in the Purbeck Gazette in June.
The ASA said: "We considered that many people were likely to view the character as representing negative racial stereotypes."
It added that it also considered that the inclusion of the words "English Freedom" were likely to contribute to that offence, "because in combination with the image it could be read as a negative reference to immigration or race".
The authority said the advert should not appear again.
In a statement, Ms Endecott said the tea towel was meant to "stimulate debate" and the shop had been "buzzing" with interest in it.
"I believe in free speech and a multiculturalism that celebrates the best of all humanity.
"The 'good' golliwog was on the tea towel to represent how it has become impossible to discuss anything to do with race without being accused of racism.
"This is important, because when we couldn't talk about uncontrolled immigration, it paved the way for Brexit."
Ms Endecott said she would not repeat the advert.
Port was given a whole life term for murdering four men he lured to his London flat and poisoned with lethal doses of the substance GHB.
Gerald Matovu pleaded guilty to selling the 41-year-old mephedrone and GHB in July and August 2015.
His crimes came to light during the investigation into Port but were not connected to the murders, Southwark Crown Court heard.
The 23-year-old, of Great Guildford Street, Southwark, has been bailed until sentencing in April.
Port bought the drugs from Matovu for use during consensual sex with his partner, the Met said.
Phone records showed the pair were in contact and Matovu had told Port he had "loads of G" - referring to GHB - and asked how much he wanted.
Judge Andrew Goymer said: "This case came to light following Port's arrest and interrogation of his mobile phone and who had been in contact with him.
"There is absolutely no suggestion that this defendant came into contact with those young men who were the unfortunate victims of Stephen Port's terrible crimes."
Port met his victims on dating websites, including Grindr, between August 2014 and September 2015 and coaxed them to his home in Barking for sex.
He gave them fatal doses of GHB and dumped their bodies in or near a graveyard within 500m of his house.
The Office for National Statistics said borrowing, excluding support for state-owned banks, was £7.2bn in April.
That was down from £7.5bn last year but higher than analysts' forecasts of about £6.6bn.
The ONS also revised up its estimate of the amount borrowed in the financial year to March to £76bn.
That was £2bn more than its previous estimate, and £3.8bn above the prediction that had been made by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which produces forecasts for government.
The main reason for the lower figure was weaker-than-expected income from workers' national insurance contributions.
The ONS says annual borrowing has been falling in general since the peak reached in the 2009-10 financial year.
Last year's figure was £15.7bn lower than for the year before, and is half that borrowed in 2009-10.
The ONS said that total public sector net debt - excluding public sector banks - by the end of April stood at £1.596 trillion, the equivalent of 83.3% of gross domestic product.
April's figure was affected by less-than-expected tax income from companies. Corporation tax revenue fell 5.1% from a year earlier to £5.8bn.
But it was boosted by changes to property taxes, introduced in April for buyers of second homes and investment properties.
The figures for April were saw the biggest take of stamp duty on land and property on record of £1.3bn.
The Chancellor, George Osborne, has laid out targets for borrowing, which he has pledged to continue to bring down.
Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "The muted start to fiscal year 2016-17 will fuel doubts about George Osborne's ability to get the deficit down to £55.5bn in 2016-17.
"It will also likely fuel even larger doubts about his ability to meet his long-term objective of a surplus of £10.4bn in 2019-20, especially as he now has to cover the £4.4bn gap that has resulted from the dropping of the planned cuts to disability benefits."
Martin Beck, senior economic advisor to the EY ITEM Club, echoed that view: "This looks to be a tall order, particularly given that the recent weakness in activity appears to be dampening growth in tax receipts. The government will need to see a strong rebound in activity in the second half of the year if it is to have a realistic chance of keeping its deficit reduction plan on track."
An artistic marine engineer has made a piece of apparatus inside the £6bn warship look like a Minion.
Minions have their own language, saying "bello" for "hello" and "poopaye" for "goodbye".
The Aircraft Carrier Alliance said the paintwork followed a long navy tradition of personalising ships.
The Ministry of Defence contractor is putting HMS Queen Elizabeth through sea trials after leaving Rosyth dockyard in Fife where it was built.
The warship has been berthed at Invergordon in the Highlands since early July.
The tradition of sailors adding their own personal touch to warships has been flagged up by the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth.
After seeing a photograph of HMS Queen Elizabeth's new comedy artwork, the museum tweeted that sailors serving on the Mary Rose were believed to have personalised the Tudor warship.
The museum added: "Good to see some traditions survive."
The Aircraft Carrier Alliance said the Minion showed that the ship's company was settling into its new home.
A spokesman said: "HMS Queen Elizabeth will be home to her ship's company for months at a time and this is a real example of how they're really enjoying being on board and establishing their working and living routines whilst we undertake contractor sea trials."
Since arriving at Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth, members of the ship's company have also been meeting the local community.
Some of the crew attended the Inverness Highland Games at the weekend.
The Aircraft Carrier Alliance said the warship's sea trails were continuing.
The spokesman said: "HMS Queen Elizabeth is making progress through her sea trials programme, which is designed to test the full spectrum of her vast and complex systems.
"We fully anticipate this will identify areas for improvement that will be addressed at sea, during a number of routine port stops or as part of the planned engineering period."
HMS Queen Elizabeth - one of two new carriers being built at Rosyth - began sea trials last month.
The ship had to pass under the Forth Bridge on its way to open sea.
It is the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy. The flight deck alone is the size of three football pitches.
Once in service with the Royal Navy, the ship can operate with a crew of 1,000 and 40 aircraft.
The 65,000 tonne warship is the Royal Navy's first aircraft carrier since HMS Illustrious was scrapped in 2014.
King Digital said it expects fluctuations in foreign currency and a lack of new releases to hold back its earnings in the current quarter.
The big drop in its shares came despite the release of first quarter sales figures that beat market expectations.
The firm has been struggling to increase market share.
King Digital's revenue fell 6.1% to $569.5m (£361m) in the first three months of the year from a year ago, but that was higher than analysts' forecasts of $563.4m.
However, the London-based game maker said its gross bookings, which is what players spend before costs such as app store fees - for the April to June period would be between $490m and $520m - below expectations.
"We look toward the remainder of the year, we expect the mid-year period to be seasonally softer, returning to growth trends in the latter part of the year," the company said in a statement on Thursday.
King Digital is launching a new game this year, but that will not be released until the later half of the year.
The company said that falls in both gross bookings and revenue in the first quarter were largely due to lower sales from its Candy Crush Saga and other "more mature games" - a sign that players are moving on to other games.
Questionnaires completed by 16,193 14 to 17-year-olds, published in BMC Public Health, showed one in five had tried or bought e-cigarettes.
The researchers said e-cigarettes were the "alcopops of the nicotine world" and needed tougher controls.
Experts said it was important to find out how many were becoming addicted.
Electronic cigarettes mimic the effects of real ones, producing a vapour that is less harmful than cigarette smoke, but the vapour usually contains nicotine, the addictive substance in cigarettes.
They divide opinion. Some see them as a vital tool for helping people to quit, while others argue they "normalise" smoking and may act as a gateway.
One major area of contention is the impact they have on children.
The analysis by Liverpool John Moores University showed that 19% of those who responded had tried "vaping".
E-cigarettes were used by 5% of teenagers who had never smoked, 50% of former smokers and 67% of light smokers.
The link was even stronger in children who drank alcohol or whose parents smoked.
Prof Mark Bellis told the BBC News website: "To many people the numbers we've identified might come as a bit of a shock.
"This is just being drawn into a repertoire - another drug that people can use to experiment with rather than being seen as an alternative to tobacco.
On nicotine, he said e-cigarettes were "providing a concentrated form of a highly addictive substance, with known problems associated with it, and we need to be very cautious about that and how we protect our young people."
A ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes to under-18s will be introduced in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Katherine Devlin, president of the Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association, told the BBC: "Obviously, teenagers accessing vaping products is a serious concern.
"[However] since the survey only records a single access, it doesn't provide any information about whether or not they go on to regular use.
"Other statistical data indicate that this is unlikely. Nevertheless, we hope that the newly introduced mandated age restrictions can reduce this number."
Data from the Office for National Statistics does suggest that those who use e-cigarettes are almost entirely current or former smokers.
Dr John Middleton, of the Faculty of Public Health, said: "We need to protect children and young people from the harms of nicotine by regulating electronic cigarettes.
"Our concern is that if we wait for proof that electronic cigarettes could act as a gateway to smoking cigarettes, it will already have happened and the tobacco industry will have been given the opportunity to recruit its next generation of smokers."
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The Pakistan all-rounder, promoted to open, smashed seven sixes in his 101 before holing out the ball after reaching his maiden Twenty20 hundred.
James Vince made 55 from 36 deliveries as Hampshire piled up 249-8 at Derby.
Derbyshire came out swinging but were all out for 148, with Liam Dawson and Kyle Abbott taking three wickets each.
Two-time winners Hampshire will now appear in their seventh Finals Day in the last eight years at Edgbaston on 2 September, while Derbyshire have never made it beyond the last eight.
Afridi's spellbinding innings included some of the cleanest hitting surely ever witnessed in the 15-year history of the competition, with several balls sailing out of the County Ground.
The 37-year-old's hundred was the fastest in the 2017 T20 Blast, beating the 45-ball centuries made by Worcestershire's Joe Clarke and Nottinghamshire's Alex Hales.
The former Pakistan international had been in poor form with the bat heading into the match, scoring just 50 runs in seven innings.
He said he had asked Hampshire's management to let him open because he felt "wasted at seven or eight" and signalled his intent from the off smashing Wayne Madsen's first over for 16.
By the time he was caught by Ben Cotton at deep fine leg, Afridi had taken Hampshire to 146-2 from only 12.2 overs.
Skipper Vince continued to find the rope after Afridi went, reaching his fourth half-century of the season, as Hampshire made the eighth highest T20 score in history.
In the chase Derbyshire slumped to 58-7 and looked set for the heaviest Twenty20 defeat of all time, before a last-wicket stand of 46 between Cotton and Imran Tahir brought some respectability.
In 1984 the president of Belgian side Anderlecht bribed the referee ahead of their Uefa Cup semi-final victory over Nottingham Forest.
The facts were finally revealed in 1997 and Anderlecht were banned from European competition for a year.
But new evidence shows Uefa was told about the bribe as early as 1992.
Four years after winning their second European Cup, Brian Clough's Forest faced Anderlecht in the semi-final of the Uefa Cup.
After convincingly winning the first leg 2-0, Forest had a dubious penalty awarded against them and a goal disallowed in the return tie, finally going out 3-2 on aggregate.
The truth behind those refereeing decisions only emerged during a 1997 criminal case when Anderlecht admitted paying the Spanish referee Emilio Guruceta Muro.
At first Uefa insisted it could take no action because the bribery took place more than 10 years previously, but eventually a one-year European ban was imposed on Anderlecht.
Now, BBC's Inside Out has found evidence Uefa had a dossier of evidence as early as 1992.
The evidence showed that shortly before the match Anderlecht president Constant Vanden Stock had approached local criminal Jean Elst.
Belgian journalist Frank van Laeken said: "Elst contacted a friend in the region, who went to Alicante and spoke to the referee.
"The referee said 'OK, I'll do it for 1.2m Belgian francs'."
But another criminal, Rene Van Aaken, stole details of the deal and blackmailed the club. Van Aaken then sent information to the Belgian FA in 1990 and 1992.
Mr van Laeken said: "If you receive something like this, a bunch of documents on possible games that are tampered with, you should investigate it."
The Belgian FA said it did not have the powers to investigate corruption and passed the information on to Uefa, but no sanction was imposed for more than four years.
Despite repeated requests from the BBC, Uefa has not offered an explanation of the delay.
Referee Muro died in a car crash in 1987, aged 45, but Anderlecht's stadium is still named after former club president Constant Vanden Stock, who died in 2008.
Elst and Van Aaken were both jailed. Elst died in prison while Van Aaken's conviction for blackmail was overturned on appeal.
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But for the players, the events of 25 April 1984 remain as painful as ever.
Forest goalkeeper Hans van Breukelen said: "For me it was building up that the referee was cheating.
"All the 50-50 balls around their 18 yard box, he blew the whistle and gave a free kick to Anderlecht."
Then Anderlecht were awarded a penalty for a challenge by Forest's Kenny Swain.
Striker Garry Birtles said: "That penalty was the most embarrassing decision I have ever seen in football.
"The distance between Kenny Swain and their guy who went down was absolutely ridiculous."
A last-gasp Forest goal, which would have been enough to win the tie, was also controversially disallowed. Anderlecht won 3-0 and went through.
Birtles said: "It was wrong then, it's wrong now and it will be wrong always.
"If you don't go after these people then they will think they can do it again."
Paul Hart, who scored the disallowed goal, said: "The whole thing stinks, it really does.
"When it's brought up, it still rankles."
Watch the full report on Inside Out on Monday at 19:30 BST on BBC One in the East Midlands or on BBC iPlayer.
He was found guilty of inciting violence during protests in 2014 in which 43 people - from both sides of the political divide - were killed.
The 44-year-old had been held in a military prison since February 2014.
While the court verdict was being awaited, fighting broke out between his supporters and pro-government activists outside the courthouse in Caracas.
Lopez's supporters said one of their number had suffered a heart-attack during the disturbances.
The court ruling was revealed by Lopez's Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) political party and later confirmed by his lawyers.
His defence team earlier said there had been serious irregularities in the trial, with the judge hearing 138 witnesses for the prosecution but only one of the 50 witnesses and pieces of evidence submitted by the defence.
His family says he has been in solitary confinement for most of his 19 months in prison and that his human rights have been violated.
Venezuela's maverick opposition leader
Several other opposition leaders have also been held in detention and their fate has divided opinion in Venezuela.
The US government and the United Nations have called for their release.
Reacting to the court verdict, US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson said she was "deeply concerned" by the conviction.
She also urged the Venezuelan government to "protect democracy" in the country.
For many poorer Venezuelans, Lopez is seen as a dangerous figure who incites violence and coups against the government and who is out of touch with the needs of most ordinary people.
His critics point to his involvement in 2002 in a failed coup attempt against late President Hugo Chavez.
But his supporters say he is a scapegoat for current President Nicolas Maduro during the country's economic crisis that has led to shortages of basic goods.
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The British men took the lead three times - through Phil Roper, Alastair Brogdon and Alan Forsyth - and each time they were pegged back.
Nevertheless, they top Pool A thanks to good wins against Canada and the world champions Australia.
On Thursday, Britain play the hosts India, who came bottom of pool B after two defeats and a draw.
"We're a bit disappointed we didn't play better but Belgium are a really strong side," Great Britain captain Dan Fox told BBC Sport.
"But, actually, we got the point we needed to top the group and we'll take it from there on Thursday."
India now stand between a much-changed Great Britain squad and their pre-tournament aim of reaching the semi-finals.
"They play really attacking hockey, they've got a lot of skilful players, and what we'll look to do is take the game to them," added Fox.
"The crowd will also be right behind them, so it'll be tough."
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It is also investigating former secretary generals Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner.
Fifa also handed its former vice-president Jeffrey Webb a life ban.
Blatter and Valcke are already banned from football-related activities for breaches of Fifa's code of ethics.
Blatter is currently suspended for six years, while Valcke is serving a 10-year ban.
Fifa says the pair, along with Kattner, are being investigated for possible violations of its code of ethics regarding rules of conduct, loyalty, conflicts of interest, offering and accepting gifts and other benefits, and bribery and corruption.
The violations relate to the salaries and bonuses paid to each of the three.
In June, Fifa's lawyers said there was evidence that the trio made "a coordinated effort" to "enrich themselves" between 2011 and 2015.
Webb, who is from the Cayman Islands, is also a former president of Concacaf and was one of seven people arrested in Zurich in May 2015 before Fifa's annual congress.
In November last year, he pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy, three of wire fraud conspiracy and three of money laundering conspiracy.
He has been banned from all football-related activities for life and fined 1m Swiss francs (£771,300).
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Seventh seed Konta is Britain's best hope of success following Murray's decision to pull out with a hip injury.
Konta takes on Serbia's Aleksandra Krunic in the second match on Grandstand court at around 19:00 BST.
Heather Watson, Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie all play at 16:00, with Aljaz Bedene scheduled to start on Tuesday.
Watson plays France's Alize Cornet on court four, Kyle Edmund faces Dutch 32nd seed Robin Haase on court 10, and qualifier Cameron Norrie takes on Russia's Dmitry Tursunov on court 14.
The match of the day sees world number two Simona Halep up against former champion Maria Sharapova, playing her first Grand Slam tournament since completing a 15-month doping suspension.
The Russian has won all six previous matches against Halep, although they have not played each other since 2015.
They will meet in the opening night-session contest, which follows the opening ceremony at 00:00 on Tuesday, with German fourth seed Alexander Zverev to follow against Darian King of Barbados.
Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza opens play on Arthur Ashe Stadium against American Varvara Lepchenko at 16:00, followed by 2014 champion Marin Cilic, who takes Murray's place in the draw against Tennys Sandgren of the USA.
Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniacki and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga also begin their campaigns on Monday.
It is a mark of Konta's elevated status that she is one of eight women who could end the tournament as world number one.
That remains a highly unlikely scenario, for now, but Konta's hard-court record suggests she has every chance of surpassing her previous best of the fourth round at Flushing Meadows.
"I do love the hard courts but I think with every surface there's an adjustment period," said the seventh seed.
"Just because your results indicate that you've done better on a surface recently, it doesn't mean for me personally that I straight away click.
"I think physically and approach-wise there's an adaptation process."
The Briton, 26, has only won two of four matches since reaching the Wimbledon semi-finals but believes "the quality of matches has been good".
Krunic, 24, enjoyed her best Grand Slam performance at the US Open when she beat Madison Keys and Petra Kvitova before losing narrowly to Victoria Azarenka, but that was three years ago.
She is now ranked 77th but there were warning signs for Konta in the Serb's win over French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in Cincinnati earlier this month.
Konta will not make the mistake of looking past Krunic, and her coach Wim Fissette is charged with coming up with a gameplan to overcome the 5ft 4in Serb.
"I don't look at the draw because I approach every tournament from the get-go that it's going to be tough, and I accept that fact," said Konta.
"All I need to be aware of is once I've talked to my coaches, what's my gameplan for the opponent that I'm playing?"
Watson, 25, is hoping to claim her first main-draw win at Flushing Meadows at the seventh attempt, and her recent form gives cause for optimism.
After slipping outside the top 100, the British number two is back up to 74th following a successful grass-court season and is desperate to end her poor New York run.
"I genuinely think it's just coincidence - let's go with that," she joked of her 0-6 record in New York. "It has to be because I won the juniors [in 2009], all my titles are on hard courts."
Edmund, 22, arrived late in New York as a result of his semi-final appearance in Winston Salem - his second semi-final of the US hard-court season.
Norrie came through qualifying at a Grand Slam event at the first time of asking, and the 22-year-old is full of confidence after turning professional earlier this year.
"I'm stoked," said the former US college champion.
"I've been working real hard on my routines in between points and I feel real focused and I'm playing every point, competing really well, so I'm really happy."
The 23-year-old Arsenal player last played for the national side in a Euro 2016 qualifier in October 2015, scoring in a 3-0 victory over Lithuania.
But he missed the finals in France through injury and was not selected for Sam Allardyce's only game in charge.
"It was a wake-up call," said Oxlade-Chamberlain. "To be available, feeling good and fit and not be in was a jolt."
The former Southampton man, who has been capped 23 times for the Three Lions, recovered from a knee problem in the summer and has played eight times for the Gunners this season.
However, he was left out of the 2018 World Cup qualifying win over Slovakia, before Allardyce left as manager following a newspaper investigation claiming he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
Interim boss Gareth Southgate then recalled the Arsenal player for the matches against Malta, on Saturday (17:00 BST), and Slovenia next Tuesday (19:45 BST).
"I have been playing for England since I was 18 and while I wouldn't say I took it all for granted it just seemed to be a part of my season - to play for Arsenal and to play for England," added Oxlade-Chamberlain.
"I am not young now, I am 23, so you need to be performing and playing as much as you can to deserve a chance to go and play for England.
"Being back in the set-up now makes me realise how special it is and it is something I want to keep happening in the foreseeable future.
"There are a lot of young players now that are doing really well and it's not an easy squad to get into. You shouldn't just be able to walk into an England squad."
They are demanding changes in the penal code so that the killing of police officers be treated as heinous crimes.
Eighty officers were killed in the line of duty in Rio this year alone.
In most cases, they died fighting the criminal gangs that control many of the city's shantytowns, or favelas.
During the week, protesters laid crosses on the sand of Copacabana beach with the names of the dead.
Wearing predominantly black, some 500 people staged a march on Sunday to raise awareness to the problem.
Many argue that while police brutality gets the headlines in Brazil and abroad, violence against police officer does not get the same media attention or the required legal protection.
"We want people to understand that there is a war going on in Rio de Janeiro," one of the protest organisers, Cpl Flavia Louzada, told Extra newspaper.
She said that the families of police officers killed in the line of duty got little financial support from the corporation.
"It takes at least four months, often more, for the families to begin receiving any benefit."
The protesters also called for extra security measures in the units set up in some of Rio's main favelas ahead of the Olympics the city will host in 2016.
The Pacifying Police Unit programme, or UPP, was launched in Rio in 2008, ahead of this year's World Cup.
It has since then managed to rid some of the city's most dangerous favelas.
But critics say some police officers have acted with brutality, leading to a resurgence of violence in some areas.
Alexander de Oliveira Silva lost both legs during a grenade attack to his post.
He told the AP news agency that he still believes in the programme, but admits that will be difficult to change public opinion and change the view of police.
Brazilian police have killed more than 11,000 people over the past five years, averaging about six killings a day, according to the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety.
The group, which monitors violence said law enforcement agents in the US, by comparison, had killed a similar number over the past 30 years.
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Mike Hedges reiterated his support to the Labour leader, calling for opponents to stand against him if they think they can do a better job.
A statement by Mr Hedges was read out at a rally of supporters of Mr Corbyn outside Welsh Labour's headquarters in Cardiff on Friday.
It comes after a week of turmoil in the party, with mass resignations from the shadow cabinet.
Despite repeated calls for his resignation, and losing a motion of no-confidence among his MPs, Mr Corbyn has stayed in place.
Pontypridd MP Owen Smith and Angela Eagle, MP for Wallasey, are considering leadership bids if he does not resign.
Mr Hedges, AM for Swansea East, said ordinary members overwhelmingly wanted Mr Corbyn as leader: "Thousands joined the Labour party in order to support him".
He said, in a statement read out at the rally at Transport House: "Has Jeremy made mistakes? Of course he has, all new leaders do.
"Remember when we had a Labour leader who could not eat a bacon sandwich?
"If someone thinks they can do a better job than Jeremy is doing, their option is straight forward. Go and get the required number of nominations from MPs, stand and let the members decide.
"Put crudely, put up or shut up."
The rally was told the statement had the support of Jenny Rathbone, Cardiff Central AM, but neither attended.
Speakers included Darren Williams, a Cardiff Labour councillor who sits on Labour's national executive committee.
He said the party needed to return to "full mandatory reselection", calling for MPs to "pay with their jobs for what they've done".
"We must never forgive or forget what's been done in the last few days," he said, adding Mr Corbyn has been put under "intense pressure by careerists and backstabbers".
PCS Wales Secretary Shavanah Taj said the 60,000 people reported to have joined the party in the last week "haven't joined the Labour Party because of Angela or Tom".
Among those who attended was Hedley McCarthy, former Blaenau Gwent Labour leader and a county councillor, who said Mr Corbyn had been "treated abysmally".
"They are showing no respect for the membership of the Labour Party," he added.
One organiser of the rally of said he believed about 300 people attended.
Earlier this week, First Minister Carwyn Jones said it would be very difficult for him to carry on as leader if he faced the same situation as Mr Corbyn.
The Youth Sports Trust report suggests children are not doing enough sport and are at risk becoming addicted to their handheld devices.
The charity say they're worried that lots of kids could suffer from health problems in the future and think more needs to be done to improve sport in school.
They want technology to be part of PE in schools to encourage more kids to get fit doing things they enjoy.
The Youth Sports Trust asked 1,000 five- to 16-year olds what they thought of sports in school.
The findings suggested that 75% of young people enjoy PE, but that digital technology can distract children from doing physical activities.
As well as 23% of the kids saying they think playing a computer game with a friend is exercise, around one in three said they spoke to their friends more on social media than they do in person.
The government said it has given schools £300m to improve school sport, and that PE is really important.
Children's minister Edward Timpson said: "It is pleasing that the Youth Sport Trust's research shows that millions of young people are enjoying PE lessons."
But he added that "action is needed now to modernise the approach to PE and school sport and in doing so, guarantee the best possible future for generations to come."
Nibali was pictured being helped up the road for five seconds as he tried to regain ground after a crash on Sunday.
The 2010 Vuelta winner, one of several to fall, had lost 88 seconds with around 30km of stage two remaining.
"I want to publicly apologise for what happened. Especially for the people who are angry or ashamed of me," he said.
Images showed the Astana team car pulling alongside Nibali, Tour de France winner in 2014, before both he and the car accelerated rapidly.
Judges decided Nibali was either towed by the car as he held it or as he grabbed on to a water bottle extended from the window - which is not an uncommon sight in cycling.
"There are lots of episodes like this and especially so after a crash," Nibali, 30, added in a statement on his Facebook page.
"I thought I'd get a fine and time penalty that would take me out of the overall classification. After all, I won't be the first or last to do this kind of thing."
Colombia's Esteban Chaves leads the general classification at the Vuelta by five seconds after two stages of a race that ends on 13 September in Madrid.
Britain's Tour de France champion Chris Froome is chasing a Vuelta-Tour double that has been done just twice before.
The 1970s Santos FC jersey was one of a collection sold by Swansea valley side Cwmtwrch RFC to raise money for a new club house.
In total, the memorabilia raised £18,000 at the auction.
But the highest bid of the day was the £19,000 paid for a Wales rugby jersey worn in the 1905 victory over New Zealand.
Items sold at the Vale of Glamorgan auction by Cwmtwrch RFC also included a Llanelli rugby jersey worn by fly-half great Phil Bennett, which sold for £500 and a Tour de France yellow jersey belonging to Eddy Merckx, which went for £4,200.
A teacher and pupils from the Royal Hospital School in Holbrook, Suffolk, took the drawing to be assessed as the BBC One show was filmed in London.
Expert Philip Mould said he believed the drawing dated back to 1798-1800 and was the work of Henry Edridge.
It had been hung at the entrance to the boarding house, where pupils would play ball games nearby.
Teacher Rober Mann said the drawing had been at the school since the 1820s.
Mr Mann said Nelson had served on the committee of the school, which is celebrating its 300th anniversary.
Expert Graham Lay was first to cast his eye over a variety of Nelson-related memorabilia taken to the roadshow.
He said a sword could be worth up to £40,000 if a connection to Nelson could be proved, but only "a few hundred pounds" if not.
He dismissed the school's belief that a necklace in their possession had been given by Nelson to Lady Hamilton, saying it was produced after his death.
But Mr Mould's assessment of the drawing prompted gasps from spectators and the school's representatives.
He said the particular type of cross-hatching and the "velvet"-like use of the pencil suggested it was the work of Edridge.
"I know that this is just the sort of image of the great Lord Nelson that many collectors across the world would almost die for.
"You have the great man, the hero, the victor of Trafalgar, who tragically died, with ships behind on one level, you've also got the soul of the man - so both aspects of the great hero."
Head boy Sam Kester said pupils were used to playing ball games around the drawing.
It will now be moved to the school's new heritage centre.
Joseph Lau confirmed he bought the ring-mounted, cushion-shaped stone for his seven-year-old daughter, renaming it "Blue Moon of Josephine" after her.
Auction house Sotheby's said the sale had set "a new world auction record for any diamond of any colour".
It is not the first time Lau, a property billionaire, has bought precious stones for his daughter.
The businessman - who was convicted of bribery and money laundering in 2014 - is also confirmed as the buyer of a 16.08-carat pink diamond, which Christie's sold for $28.5m on Tuesday.
It has been renamed "Sweet Josephine", a spokeswoman for Mr Lau told BBC News.
In 2009, he bought another blue diamond for his daughter - the 7.03-carat "Star of Josephine" - paying what was then a record $9.5m.
He was sentenced to five years in jail after his corruption convictions in a Macau court, but has avoided prison by not visiting the territory. There is no extradition treaty between Macau and Hong Kong.
Sotheby's spokesman David Bennett described Wednesday's blue diamond as "magical".
"I've never seen a more beautiful stone," he said.
"The shape, the colour, the purity, it's a magical stone and everybody, I think, who put it on their finger thought so."
Two bidders were locked in a telephone bidding war for eight minutes before the hammer went down on Wednesday's sale, correspondents say, with the jewel not exceeding its pre-sale estimate of $35-$55m.
The diamond was found in South Africa in January last year and its striking blue colour is attributed to the presence of the element boron within its crystal structure.
It was named "Blue Moon" to reflect its rarity.
Experts say the market for coloured diamonds has become increasingly strong in recent months, with both blue and pink diamonds attracting a lot of attention in jewel sales in Geneva.
Coloured diamonds are among the rarest in the world, even ones that are not particularly vivid or clear.
The Graff Pink - a 24.78-carat pink diamond auctioned for $46.2 million in Geneva in 2010 - was the previous diamond world auction record holder.
In 2013 a diamond known as the Pink Star was sold for what was then believed to be a record breaking $83m (£52m) - also at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva.
However, the buyer later defaulted on the purchase, and Sotheby's was forced to buy the diamond under its auction contract.
The Scottish actor will lead a cast of comedians in the cartoon tale of the richest duck in the world.
American actors Danny Pudi, Ben Schwartz and Bobby Moynihan will voice the parts of Scrooge's great-nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie.
DuckTales originally ran from 1987 to 1990. The revival will air in 2017.
Scrooge's nephew Donald Duck will also make appearances in the new show, along with fellow returning characters Launchpad McQuack and Webby Vanderquack.
The officials said companies active there were operating illegally in Argentine territory.
The announcement came as Argentina marked the 33rd anniversary of the war with the UK over the islands.
Earlier this week, three British oil exploration companies announced new oil and gas finds north of the islands.
In a speech in the city of Ushuaia the Argentine president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said Argentina had always been a victim of colonialism, "Our land has always been invaded, first by the Spanish, then by the English. "
A long-running dispute over the islands has created fresh tensions recently.
In March, the Argentine Foreign Ministry protested when the British Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon announced Britain would spend £280m over the next 10 years on renewing and improving defences on the islands.
The money, he said, would be spent on improving communications systems and replacing the Rapier air defence missiles when they go out of service at the end of the decade.
He also said the British government would invest in harbour facilities and fuel infrastructure.
Mr Fallon said the government was committed to protecting the Falkland islanders "right to remain British"
President Fernandez de Kirchner said in her speech that the British government was "confusing the people with government business in order to satisfy the armament manufacturers lobby and to win elections."
Her speech comes days after the Argentine Secretary for Malvinas Island Affairs, Daniel Filmus announced that new legislation passed in 2013 would be used to prosecute foreign oil companies breaking Argentine law by prospecting or extracting oil in the country's territory.
The law establishes that foreign oil companies executives face up to 15 years in prison and heavy fines, if they do not have Argentine government permission to carry out their work.
The British government rejected the law, arguing it could not be applied to the zone around the Falkland islands over which Britain had legal ownership.
At the end of February, Argentine officials in Ushuaia reported the arrival of a new oil exploration platform owned by British exploration companies, Rockhopper, Falkland Oil and Gas, Premier Oil and Noble Energy.
Earlier this week, three of the companies announced an oil discovery to the north of the Falkland islands - the first in a nine-month drilling campaign.
Paul Mansfield, 28, of no fixed address, denied the charges but was found guilty at Preston Crown Court and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Police said he befriended the "clearly intoxicated and vulnerable" victims, promising to help them.
The two attacks took place in 2014, the second while he was on bail for rape.
Police said Mansfield befriended a 20-year-old homeless woman and promised to give her somewhere safe to stay in the early hours of 17 June.
He took her to a flat on Charnley Road in the resort but when the victim tried to go to sleep, Mansfield raped her, biting her neck and striking her face during the attack.
She managed to escape and ran to Blackpool police station to report the attack.
Mansfield struck a second time on 9 September when he befriended a woman, 21, from Glasgow on a night out in the resort, said police.
She had become separated from her boyfriend after an argument, said police, and Mansfield offered to take her back to her hotel in a taxi.
Police said they ended up on Loftus Avenue where he dragged her down an alley and attempted to rape her.
She managed to push him off and run away, said police.
Lancashire Constabulary's Det Con Lisa Wainwright said Mansfield was a "dangerous sexual predator" who targeted his victims when they were intoxicated.
She said it was disturbing that he used the guise of befriending them when he had "clear intentions of assaulting them to satisfy his own sexual urges".
Mansfield was also found guilty of two sexual assaults and supplying Class A drugs, for which he was sentenced to two years to run concurrently.
Police said they have uncovered emails discussing tickets between Mr Hickey and Marcus Evans, head of THG Sports, dating back to 2010.
Mr Hickey, from Ireland, was arrested last week but has not yet been charged.
He has denied any wrongdoing.
Police in Rio said that Mr Hickey, the former president of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), and Mr Evans exchanged emails discussing tickets as recently as 3 August.
They said that the OCI facilitated the transfer of tickets to THG.
Police also told a news conference in Rio that they were investigating bank documents for evidence of money laundering linked to the illegal sale of tickets.
Mr Hickey has stepped down from his roles at the IOC and the OCI temporarily.
He is being held in the same cell at Bangu 10 Prison as THG Group director Kevin Mallon, who was arrested on 5 August.
Last week, a Rio judge ordered the arrest of four more THG executives, including Mr Evans, who is also the owner of football club Ipswich Town.
THG Sports is a corporate and sports hospitality group based in London. It has previously said that allegations against it are "entirely without foundation".
It is thought that Mr Hickey will appear in court later this week.
On Tuesday, Mr Hickey's lawyer denied that he tried to escape arrest.
Police in Rio have also said that Dermot Henihan, a member of the OCI whose passport was seized, is no longer of interest to the investigation after meeting police on Tuesday.
He has been told he is free to leave Rio.
Two other OCI officials who also had their passports seized, Kevin Kilty and Stephen Martin, who is from Northern Ireland, are to meet with police on Thursday.
The OCI has appointed a crisis management committee to lead its response to Brazil.
Following a scoreless draw against Galway United on Monday, the Candystripes are on the road as they visit Limerick this weekend.
Striker Rory Patterson remains out with an ankle fracture and midfielder Lukas Schubert is also unavailable.
Saturday's match is one of five away fixtures Derry must play this month.
Patterson is expected to return to action in mid-June and in the continued absence of his leading striker, Shiels has urged the rest of his players to become more ruthless in front of goal.
Having scored just 20 goals from their opening 12 games, Derry's league position is built on their defence, which is the third best in the league, and an away record that has seen them lose just once on the road so far this campaign.
"What the crowd pay their money for should be the priority of all clubs and our priority is to try and give them some satisfaction for making a journey and paying their money to go and support us," Shiels said. "In return, we want to provide entertainment and good quality of play."
"We're looking for a European [qualification] position. We're three points off second and we have to get through this period where we've four away games in the space of five matches. It's a period when we have to start getting wins and looking to build. If we can win [in Limerick] then we've got seven points off our last three games, which is good batting."
Limerick are just three points behind Derry going into this weekend's match and Shiels has warned his players they are facing a tough and well organised side.
"I still say they're one of the best teams in the league in terms of what they produce and their entertainment level," Shiels said. "They certainly are good at retaining the ball and they're a bit like ourselves in some respect. I've seen them dominate games and not win."
"The Sligo game [a 3-0 defeat] was a one-off for them and other than that they've dominated their last five games."
"I want to go there to win and the Derry people know that. Surely it gives them a good feeling that they're going to watch their team play good football and go out to win the game if they can."
The Riders, who have already won the BBL league title and BBL Trophy reached the play-off final with a 162-126 aggregate semi-final win over London.
Paternostro told BBC Radio Leicester: "You don't win 35 games if you don't know how to win important games.
"It is an incredible team. I think Riders fans and Leicester fans should be really proud of this team."
Leicester will now face Newcastle in Sunday's BBL play-off final in the O2 Arena in London, having beaten Plymouth in the Trophy final back in March..
Paternostro, who was named as BBL coach of the year for the fourth time earlier this month, continued: "Not only is this side successful, but they play the game the right way and play for their team-mates.
"The BBL hasn't seen too many teams like this who are so unselfish. I am proud of these guys."
Metal detectorist Christopher Preece, along with his wife June, found a number of small metallic objects under a slab of clay on Sandown Beach.
The couple, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, took the finds to a visitor centre where staff passed them on to experts.
The copper alloy knife, most likely used as a leather working tool, has been dated to 800-1000BC.
The couple also found a button from the 17th Century during their holiday last month.
Mr Preece said: "I have a keen interest in history and immediately thought they were very old, because the knife has a green colour which is often found on old copper."
His wife added: "To be told the knife is several thousand years old is just incredible.
"As it was found on the island, we are very keen for residents and visitors to enjoy it and were happy to donate it to the council's museum's service so it can go on display."
The knife and button are now on display at Newport Roman Villa.
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Fly-half Sam Davies conjured a rare - and pivotal - flash of quality to send Josh Matavesi in for the game's only try with a superb reverse pass.
Davies converted the score and kicked two penalties to Duncan Weir's three for Edinburgh.
The defeat is the Scottish side's fifth in succession and they remain ninth in the league table.
It was another foul night at Myreside; cold, wet and breezy. The Ospreys and Edinburgh exist in different worlds in the Pro 12, the visitors pursuing the top four and a title while the home side were merely trying to get the win that has eluded them for so long.
Edinburgh owned the opening 20 minutes but a lack of imagination, and wet conditions, plus stout resistance meant they led by just three points from Weir's boot.
Even that tiny advantage was eliminated soon after when Davies knocked over a penalty of his own. Twenty minutes had been played and the Ospreys hadn't yet fired a shot. They hadn't even got into Edinburgh's 22.
That changed quickly when Ospreys carved Edinburgh open with a rare moment of class in an otherwise poor contest.
It was Davies who created it, a little show-and-go then a nicely-timed pass to Matavesi arriving on an unstoppable line. Clinical. Davies added the conversion to make it 10-3.
Edinburgh had their chances to turn it around. Chance after chance in fact. They spent an inordinate amount of time in the opposition half as the game went on, but couldn't break through what is the Pro 12's best defence.
There was controversy when Edinburgh fired up a close-range, fast-moving maul that the Ospreys collapsed. They were awarded a penalty, but no penalty try.
Edinburgh went for touch instead of the posts and then, painfully, knocked on to allow the Ospreys to lift the siege. Amid all of this was the desperately sad sight of Alasdair Dickinson being stretchered off on his comeback after 10 weeks on the sidelines.
Scotland head coach Vern Cotter will await the medical report with something approaching dread.
Weir made it 10-6 with the boot but it needed to be more given their weight of possession.
Davies kicked the visitors back into a seven-point lead but Weir brought it back down to four. Continually, though, Edinburgh mistake followed Edinburgh mistake.
Ospreys hung on to go top - and their organisation and thunder in defence was the difference, apart from Davies' gorgeous creativity for the only try.
For Edinburgh, a fifth straight loss in what is an increasingly turbulent season.
Edinburgh acting head coach Duncan Hodge: "It was a tough night to play rugby, and they got one chance and took it. That seven points was a big cushion on a night like this. We had chances; we didn't help ourselves with little mistakes.
"We had a line-out five metres out that looked like it was going over the line at a rate of knots, and we don't get a break there. It's a tough one to take.
"The bottom line is, the decision is made by the referee. That's just incredibly tough, on a night like this, you've got an advantage like that. Seven points makes a huge difference to how you play the game, and we just didn't get that break.
"I don't know (the latest on Alasdair Dickinson's injury). It's terrible for Dicko and he'll be absolutely distraught. You can imagine what he's been through the last nine months, to be back on the field for 45 minutes and get carted off, it's not what anyone wanted to see."
Edinburgh: Blair Kinghorn; Damien Hoyland, Glenn Bryce, Chris Dean, Rory Scholes; Duncan Weir, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne; Alasdair Dickinson, Neil Cochrane (capt), Murray McCallum, Grant Gilchrist, Ben Toolis, Magnus Bradbury, Jamie Ritchie, Cornell Du Preez.
Replacements: Stuart McInally, Derrick Appiah, Kevin Bryce, Grant Gilchrist, Lewis Carmichael, Nathan Fowles, Junior Rasolea, Michael Allen.
Ospreys: Dan Evans; Keelan Giles, Kieron Fonotia, Josh Matavesi. Dafydd Howells; Sam Davies, Tom Habberfield (capt); Nicky Smith, Sam Parry, Brian Mujati, Tyler Ardron, Rory Thornton, Olly Cracknell, Sam Underhill, James King.
Replacements: Hugh Gustafson, Paul James, Rhodri Jones, Joe Bearman, Dan Baker, Brendon Leonard, Jonathan Spratt, Jay Baker.
Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)
Assistant referees: David Wilkinson (Ireland), Bob Nevins (Scotland)
Citing commissioner: Paul Minto (Scotland)
TMO: Kevin Beggs (Ireland)
Of more than 1,000 eight- to 18-year-old boys polled, 55% would consider changing their diet to look better.
And 23% said they believed there was a perfect male body.
"Boys are increasingly worried about their appearance," said Karen Fraser, of the Credos advertising industry think tank, which conducted the survey.
Most of the boys polled saw eating disorders (56%) as an issue for both boys and girls.
And almost as many felt dieting (55%) and extreme exercising (48%) were gender neutral issues.
But despite this pressure, the boys polled found it hard to discuss their concerns:
"The relatively low awareness of boys' body image issues amongst parents and teachers, coupled with a culture of boys not discussing their worries, makes it a tough environment for boys to seek support," said Credos director Ms Fraser.
One teacher told the researchers bullying about physical appearance was often harder to sort out among boys.
"With girls, somebody says, 'You're fat.'
"The natural reaction is that the girl cries, the other girl feels guilty, and it gets sorted out.
"With boys there's a lot more banter.
"You can see they're often hurt, but the expectation is to laugh and shrug it off."
According to the survey, the biggest influences on boys to look good come from:
More detailed questioning of the boys showed that while they were aware of the digital manipulation of images, they were shocked at how much models' looks were altered.
Many boys were aware of airbrushing but associated it with female images only.
The report recommends:
The research is published alongside a government-supported media literacy toolkit, Media Smart, to help parents and teachers talk to children about how adverts are made and how they can affect self-perception.
"We have to recognise that advertising and the wider media play some part in shaping how young people feel about themselves, both positively and negatively," said Ms Fraser, who added that she hoped advertisers would engage further in the debate.
Equalities Minister Caroline Dinenage agreed advertising could have a big impact on young minds and said it was important to empower young people to take a more critical view of it.
"This toolkit is a fantastic resource that can support teachers and parents to talk about body image and gender stereotypes in relation to the adverts we see every day," said Ms Dinenage.
The Greater London Authority Tories called the test - known as the Knowledge - "archaic" and a "major barrier" to recruitment.
The exam requires drivers to learn 25,000 street names.
Drivers' representatives said they were "stunned and shocked" by the suggestion.
The Saving An Icon report by Richard Tracey found black-cab drivers needed to make "fundamental changes" to keep up with the "increasingly popular app-based private hire firms" in an expanding city, and said it should be cut down by two-thirds.
He said the Knowledge was outdated in a world of GPS navigation, expensive, and could take people on average three years to complete.
"The examinations imposed are overly comprehensive in a time of GPS navigation, and the cost of purchasing the designated Hackney Carriage is a barrier to entry in an industry which is also rapidly ageing," he added.
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But Steve McNamara, the general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association said: "I'm stunned and shocked that anybody would suggest doing anything that altered or lowered the standard of taxi driving.
"However, that does not mean that we wouldn't be prepared to review some issues... with the proviso that standards wouldn't be dropped."
He said having such rigorous standards meant drivers "valued" their licences and "they did not want to lose it".
As part of the review Mr Tracey also suggested:
Taxi driver Nick, from Hertford, called the proposed move "devastating".
"It would be a huge backward step," he said.
"For a forward-thinking city, why would you not want a very high standard of taxis? The only reason they would do would be to [bow] to the pressure of Uber."
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Poppi was 13 months old when she was found with serious injuries at her home in Barrow, Cumbria, in December 2012.
Cumbria Police has now concluded performance proceedings into the competence of an officer involved in the initial investigation.
The BBC understands Det Insp Amanda Sadler admitted gross incompetence and was demoted to the rank of sergeant.
Following Poppi's death a family judge ruled that, on the balance of probabilities, she had been sexually assaulted by her father, Paul Worthington.
He was questioned on suspicion of sexual assault but never charged with any offence. He denies any wrongdoing.
In September, the Crown Prosecution Service announced it was carrying out a fresh review into the death.
Cumbria Police said performance proceedings were held in front of a panel, which was chaired by an independent senior officer from outside the force.
The officer admitted their actions in relation to the initial investigation into the death of Poppi amounted to gross incompetence.
The panel determined an immediate reduction in rank and the force will now consider the role the officer will undertake.
It said in a statement: "We are unable to comment any further on these proceedings."
Barrow and Furness MP John Woodcock said: "The public will find it difficult to understand why one of the key officers responsible for this investigation retains a senior position in the force despite admitting to gross incompetence in this highly sensitive case.
"The force should not be allowed to scapegoat one officer when it is clear there was manifest incompetence and systemic failing at all levels of the force that need to be acknowledged and acted up if we are to restore confidence in the police in Cumbria."
All 32 NFL clubs were able to bid for the opportunity, with the Florida-based team's proposal being selected.
We have had a tremendously positive reaction to our sport in the UK
The opposing team for the 2013 match will be announced in the months ahead.
Owner Shad Khan said: "Playing a home game in London over four seasons is consistent with our vision to introduce and grow the Jaguars brand globally."
Regular-season NFL games have been played at Wembley since 2007.
The NFL said it was also working to add a second UK-based game to its 2013 calendar.
Khan added: "We're appreciative of the support from the Jacksonville business community to make this a reality and winning proposition for everyone.
"This is a priceless opportunity to share the business, tourism and lifestyle story of Jacksonville with international audiences."
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said: "Our goal is to continue to grow the game, and this commitment by the Jacksonville Jaguars represents a major step forward in our international efforts.
"We have had a tremendously positive reaction to our sport in the UK and we're excited that the Jaguars are seizing this opportunity."
As part of the 2012 NFL schedule, the St Louis Rams host the New England Patriots at Wembley Stadium on 28 October.
The Rams had also been due to play in London in 2013 and 2014, but they recently pulled out of that deal, paving the way for the Jaguars to take over.
Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg
"Jeremy Thorpe's leadership and resolve were the driving force that continued the Liberal revival that began under Jo Grimond. Jeremy oversaw some of the party's most famous by-election victories and his involvement with the anti-apartheid movement and the campaign for Britain's membership of the common market were ahead of his time."
"He had a genuine sympathy for the underprivileged - whether in his beloved North Devon where his first campaign was for 'mains, drains and a little bit of light' or in Africa, where he was a resolute fighter against apartheid and became a respected friend of people like President Kaunda of Zambia."
Former Liberal Democrat minister Sir Nick Harvey, who represents Mr Thorpe's former constituency of North Devon
"Jeremy Thorpe was a colossal figure in the revival of the Liberal cause in post-war Britain and today's Lib Dem politicians continue to feast on his legacy. His charisma, energy and innovative campaigning lit up his generation of British politics. He was the first to embrace fully the television age, the first to hit the campaign trail in a helicopter and both the first and, rather memorably, the last to deploy a hovercraft.
"He would have shone in whatever walk of life he chose, but it was to the lasting benefit of Liberalism that he rejected the Conservatism of his ancestors and devoted himself to progressive causes at home and abroad. In North Devon he was a greatly loved champion of the community and is remembered with huge affection to this day."
Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell
"Jeremy Thorpe's enforced resignation as leader of the Liberal Party and his subsequent departure from Parliament should not obscure the fact that in his day he was an outstanding parliamentarian with a coruscating wit, and a brilliant campaigner on the stump whose interest and warmth made him a firm favourite with the public."
Greg Hands, deputy government chief whip and Conservative MP for Chelsea and Fulham tweets:
"One of my earliest political memories was of Jeremy Thorpe arriving to campaign where I lived in Looe, on a hovercraft on the beach, 1974."
Michael Crick, political correspondent for Channel 4 News tweets:
"Jeremy Thorpe had been top TV reporter in '50s, early '60s for ITV's "This Week". Big intvs w Kenneth Kaunda, King Hussein, Hastings Banda"
Businessman Roland Rudd tweets:
"Jeremy Thorpe also remembered as incredible showman using hovercraft in campaign and photographed hurdling fence on eve of feb 74 election."
The Carterhaugh Ba' Game is thought to have been an early forerunner of the modern game of rugby.
One account of the match, which was held on 4 December 1815, suggests the ball was picked up and slung between team mates.
It came eight years before the game of rugby purportedly originated at Rugby School.
The original game was played on part of the Bowhill Estate called the Carterhaugh peninsular - between the Ettrick and Yarrow Waters, near Selkirk.
Around 1,000 men are estimated to have taken part while another 2,000 spectators cheered on the teams from Selkirk and Yarrow.
Organised by Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg and the fourth Duke of Buccleuch, the game was accompanied by pipes, banners and wild celebrations.
The game was re-created as part of a day-long celebration event on Friday, which included a traditional hand ba' game played by local enthusiasts.
The re-enactment was officially started by the current Duke of Buccleuch, who threw a ball in the air.
In a narrated interpretation of the original game, it featured a local re-enactment group, drummers, flagbearers, halberdiers, musketeers and jesters.
The event was organised by The Bill McLaren Foundation and Bowhill House - the Selkirk home of the Duke of Buccleuch.
A 28-year-old Jamaican woman was arrested and charged with attempted drug importation. She was remanded in custody by magistrates.
Border Force officers found the drugs on a search of luggage being taken off a flight from Montego Bay on 2 July.
A 33-year-old man has also been bailed pending further inquiries. The drugs are being tested for purity.
We are in the midst of an election campaign here in Ghana - heading towards 7 December when we elect a new parliament and a new president.
We might not be attracting the same attention from the world as the US one did, but ours is no less interesting.
Over here, we campaign in parables. Not for us the straight talking and almost violent language that characterised the American campaign.
At the moment, however, like the rest of the world, we are trying to come to terms with President-elect Donald Trump. Since the US results, attempts are being made to draw parallels between our two countries. Some people are invoking symmetry.
Since the first elections in our fourth republic in 1992, every time the Democrats have won in the US, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) won here and when the Republicans have won in the US, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) - who also have an elephant as their party symbol - have won here.
So the question is being asked: Does a Republican win in the US mean an NPP win in Ghana?
But before we actually vote, the big problem we face right now is trying to understand what people mean when they speak during this political season.
In the scheme of things here, the traditional chiefs are not allowed to participate in active party politics.
They therefore, tend to speak in parables and use a lot of proverbs when they meet with the political leaders.
It is now a full-time undertaking trying to decipher exactly what a chief means when he talks in public.
Probably, one of the most colourful bits of language came in the Volta region recently when one of the leading chiefs of the area spoke to an opposition party leader.
A little background here would be useful for the uninitiated of the local politics.
The Volta region has always voted solidly for the NDC, the ruling party; so much so that the region has been named the "World Bank of the NDC".
Everybody's ears picked up therefore, this leading chief moved from the banking analogy and said: "The Volta region is a beautiful bride, waiting for the best suitor."
In other words, the chief was asserting that the Volta region did not have a commitment to any political party.
He went further to say that the Volta region was not "that loyal housewife whose husband only came home when he was hungry".
The interpreters quickly went to work to decipher what the chief meant.
It was generally agreed that the chief was sending a message to the NDC that the Volta region was no longer their reliable stronghold and they resented being courted only during elections.
Elizabeth Ohene:
"The ballot paper has no room for parables or proverbs"
I tried to make my own interpretation: If the region was a beautiful maiden on the lookout for the best suitor, then there couldn't be any loyal housewife or husbands coming home only when they are hungry.
So was the region unattached and on the singles market? Or had there been a divorce?
The reaction of the NDC has been swift.
"We shall work to deepen our husband and wife relationship," the chief of staff at the presidency went to tell the chiefs in the region.
In other words, hands off all would be suitors, there might be some tensions between us, but this is a marriage we intend to keep.
NDC candidate: John Dramani Mahama, 57
NPP candidate: Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, 72
On another occasion, John Dramani Mahama, the president of the republic, visited another eminent chief in the Volta region and enumerated all the great things he had done and why he deserved a second term.
The chief said he and his people would much rather deal with "the devil they know, than the angel they did not know".
The interpreters decided that "the devil they know" was the president and "the angel they did not know" was the presidential candidate of the main opposition party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The president left the palace a happy man and the elders of the chief were left scratching their heads when the opposition candidate came calling a week later.
Sometimes we run out of suitable proverbs and parables.
I am so looking forward to December 7 when we vote: There shall be no room for interpretation and/or misinterpretation.
The ballot paper has no room for parables or proverbs.
I have a feeling whatever results we get, there will be interpretations using the Donald Trump/Hillary Clinton analogy.
Maybe we should change our voting date and year to get out of the American voting cycle.
We have enough of our own proverbs and parables, not to need to add the American drama.
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The island has a long cycling history having staged Britain's biggest festival, International Cycle Week, for almost 70 years until 2003.
Cyclefest organiser Paul Philips said it will celebrate the island's "unique culture, environment and terrain".
The event will include the opening stage of the Pearl Izumi Tour.
Many of the UK's leading professional teams will take part, with riders completing about 30 laps of a one-mile (1.5km) closed road circuit in Ramsey.
Amongst those competing will be Ian Bibby, Ed Clancy and Mark Christian.
It will be the second professional race held on the island in as many months following the Manx International Grand Prix.
The festival will also include a 'mass participation' ride, mountain bike challenge, BMX GP and 82 mile (132 km) road race.
This year, including household names such as Mark Cavendish and Peter Kennaugh, eight Manx cyclists were selected for the Great Britain Olympic Development squad.
Organisers said they hope the event will help to inspire the next generation of Manx talent.
"These are the very leafy lanes and windswept moors that have helped forge champions like Cavendish and Kennaugh," Mr Phillips added.
A full event schedule can be found on the Cyclefest website.
The balance will be interesting because it will give some indication of who's eying a possible election...
Meanwhile, Parliament continues to hover in the strange legislative limbo that has opened up between the last dregs of David Cameron's premiership and the first bright new bills from Theresa May.
Floating in this uncharted void are some worthy technical measures, (Pension Schemes Bill and the Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill), some distance from the cutting edge of political controversy; and the behemoth that is the Investigatory Powers Bill, which is both a Cameron hangover and an authentic May bill, since the PM was very much identified with the need for tougher powers to monitor criminal and terrorist use of the internet in her incarnation as home secretary.
This week could see the Lords final acquiescence to the IP Bill, after a couple of rounds of ping-pong with the Commons.
The other big parliamentary clash of the week is a bit more surprising; on Friday the Labour MP Pat Glass has a private member's bill with the ominous title, the Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill.
As I write, a week before the second reading debate, the text has not been published. But it is already clear that is a heavily political measure, managed from the Labour Whips Office. (Anyone who suspects that forensic inspection will reveal the fingerprints of the new Chief Whip, Nick Brown, should note that the bill predates his arrival, so if there's a cunning plan here, it's a Rosie Winterton plan that he's continuing.)
Those with long memories may recall that Labour waged a very smart and ultimately effective campaign to frustrate a package of boundary changes, which would have greatly benefited the Conservatives at the last election - this bill seems to have a similar purpose.
There is a three line whip to ensure at least 100 Labour MPs attend and ensure that it gets the support necessary to bring it to a vote - but the real pinch point for this measure may be a filibuster at report stage. The result could be some tactical game-playing aimed at ensuring there is an extra day or even days available for report stage, later in the process, so we might even see Labour MPs killing off other private members' bills to ensure there is plenty of debating time available
Here's my rundown of the week ahead: .
The Commons opens (2.30pm) with Education questions. It's probable that some post half-term ministerial statements or urgent questions will follow at 3.30pm. Surely someone is going to find a way to extract some reaction from the government to the election of President Trump?
The day's legislating is the second reading debate on the Technical and Further Education Bill, which aims to make sure it is of high quality and responds to the needs of employers. The bill includes the proposal to extend the role of the Institute for Apprenticeships to cover technical education, which will mean that the Institute, which was set up to approve apprenticeship standards, will now ensure that all technical training is of the highest quality.
In Westminster Hall (at 4.30pm) there will be a debate on e-petition 168678 which calls for police dogs and horses given protection that reflects their status if assaulted in the line of duty. This would be similar to the US Federal Law Enforcement Animal Protection.
The Lords are not sitting.
The Commons opens (11.30am) with Health questions, to be followed by a Business Statement from the Leader of the House. This suggests there are some changes to the Parliamentary agenda in prospect.
The Conservative and former nurse, Maria Caulfield, presents a Ten Minute Rule Bill to require defibrillators to be provided in schools and colleges, and in sports centres and other public facilities, and to provide training and funding.
And then MPs will be asked to overturn the remaining Lords amendment to the Investigatory Powers Bill, the Crossbench peer Baroness Hollins' "Leveson" amendment, on costs in legal cases involving media not signed up to the new press regulator.
That is followed by what will probably be a fairly ritual scrutiny of the Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill, which tweaks the legislation which established the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS), to simplify it, and extend access to smaller and newer charities.
It also makes technical amendments to the legislation which establishes tax-free childcare, the government's scheme to support parents' childcare costs, scheduled to be rolled out from early 2017. Labour have put down amendments on preventing fraud and abuse of the scheme, but this does not have the feel of a major Commons clash a-brewing.
The adjournment does have more than the usual political edge; Labour Remainer, Chuka Umunna will be raising the issue of the funding of the NHS after the UK leaves the EU - he will call on the government to use the forthcoming Autumn Statement to commit to spending the £350m extra a week on the NHS that the Vote Leave campaign, and its members now in government promised during the Referendum campaign.
He will argue that this was one of the key promises of the Vote Leave campaign, and should now be honoured.
Committee picks are the Culture, Media and Sport hearing (10.30am) on ticket abuse and the Home Affairs hearing (2.45pm) on hate crime and its violent consequences - where the witnesses include: Nick Antjoule, the Hate Crime Manager for Galop, which provides support for LGBT people experiencing domestic abuse; Leonard Cheshire Disability; Hope Not Hate; Centre for the Analysis of Social Media: Demos and Dr Pete Burnap of Cardiff University's Social Data Science Lab.
And watch out for super-chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, at Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (at 10.15am), talking about food waste.
In the Lords (2.30pm) peers' main task to decide whether to push back again at the Commons and insist on the Hollis amendment to the Investigatory Powers Bill (see above).
I suspect they will feel they've pushed this one as far as they're willing, and will fold with suitable grace - thus allowing the bill to clear Parliament and be dispatched to the Palace for Royal Assent.
That is followed by a short debate on the recognition and future security of museums such as the People's History Museum led by Labour's former leader of the Lords, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon.
The Commons meets (11.30am) for half an hour of International Development questions, followed, at noon by Prime Minister's question time. Then, the SNP's Alison Thewliss presents a Ten Minute Rule Bill on feeding products for babies and children - she has argued in the past that a modest increase in breastfeeding could cut childhood obesity by perhaps 5%, equivalent to 16,300 obese young children, thus cutting annual health-care spending by £1.63m.
The day's main debate will be on an Opposition motion - to be announced.
My committee pick is the first public session of the new super-Committee on Exiting the EU (9.15 am). They'll be taking evidence from a number of experts on the UK's negotiating objectives for withdrawal from the EU. Typically this kind of session is the opening gambit for a select committee inquiry, and they are usually rather staid affairs.
But it will afford a glimpse of how this rather important new kid on the Committee Corridor will function, under its chair, Hilary Benn and likely vice Chair, Michael Gove.
In the Lords (from 3pm), the main business is the first day of detailed committee stage scrutiny of the Pension Schemes Bill, which seeks to protect savers and maintain confidence in master trust schemes and provide members of occupational pension schemes with a "level of protection equivalent to that of members of personal protection schemes".
In the Commons (9.30am), MPs open Transport questions, followed by the usual Business Statement from the Leader of the House, setting out what MPs will be debating in the coming week.
The main debates are on subjects chosen by the Backbench Business Committee - reductions to Employment Support Allowance and Universal Credit, and then International Men's Day.
The adjournment debate is on the "Maxwellisation" process. The SNP's Roger Mullin is concerned about "Maxwellisation", which allows those to be criticised by the report of an inquiry to see the criticisms in draft, and respond - as with Tony Blair and other former ministers to the Chilcot report on the Iraq War.
Mr Mullin will argue that this undermines the independence of inquiries, and allows the protagonists to delay the publication of reports, and he will call for a time limit on the process for future inquiries.
In Westminster Hall (1.30pm) MPs will have a chance to debate the Environmental Audit Committee's report on Soil Health which warned that neglecting the issue could lead to reduced food security, increased greenhouse gas emissions, greater flood risk, and damage to public health.
EASC Chair Mary Creagh believes that Brexit will provide an opportunity to reconfigure the farm subsidy system to deal with some of these points. And the debate may also provide a chance for MPs whose constituencies are affected to complain about the government scrapping clean-up grants for contaminated land.
The second debate (3pm) is on the future of the Post Office - led by Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins.
In the Lords (from 11am) my eye was caught by a question on the drink-drive limit in England and Wales from the Green Party peer, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb, asking ministers if they are planning to lower the limit.
A series of debates on subjects chosen by backbench peers will then follow. The first - in line with the new convention of holding at least one Brexit-related debate on a Thursday - is on the impact on the economy and investment of fluctuations in the level of the pound sterling, led by the Conservative Peer, Baroness McIntosh of Pickering, formerly MP and MEP Anne McIntosh.
That is followed by debates on the application of immigration policy to overseas students at UK universities and colleges; and on Economic Partnership Agreements negotiated between the European Commission and economic regions of Africa.
It's private members' bill day in the Commons, again. And as noted above, the main event will probably be the second reading debate on the Labour MP Pat Glass's Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill (see above), which may not leave much time for measures further down the agenda, like Andrew Gwynne's Disability Equality Training (Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Drivers) Bill or Ian Liddell-Grainger's Kew Gardens (Leases) Bill.
One moment to watch out for will be the formal read-out of bills which were on the agenda, but not debates, at 2.30pm.... most are pole-axed by a Whip shouting "object" as the bill title is read out. This ritual prevents them from being deemed to have had a formal second reading, and so allowed into committee stage.
The government supported the Conservative Edward Argar's Registration of Marriage Bill, (it would allow the names of mothers to be listed on wedding certificates) which lurks in the lower reaches of the agenda, but it was "objected" by a backbench MP in revenge for the blocking of John Nicholson's "Turing Bill" a couple of weeks ago.
Will it be objected again, or will it be allowed to go forward into committee?
And there are more private members' bills in the Lords (from 10am). First up, is the Labour peer Lord Lipsey's International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) (Amendment) Bill, which would allow the government to report on whether it was meeting its international aid target every five years, rather than annually. The wily Lord Lipsey is a Whitehall veteran and knows that few private members' bills from peers make it onto the statute books - so his purpose is probably to goad a minister into some response, rather than to actually change the law.
Peers are also due to debate the detail of the Register of Arms Brokers Bill proposed by the Lib Dem, Baroness Jolly, to tighten export controls on arms, and then the detail of the Renters' Rights Bill from another Lib Dem, Baroness Grender. This deals with issues like a ban on banning letting agents charging fees to tenants, and mandatory electrical checks.
As I write there are no amendments down for either bill - and if that does not change, the debates will be formal rubber-stampings, sending them on to report stage consideration.
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The Cardiff-born forward, who scored 11 goals in a loan spell at the club in 2010-11, will wear the number 39 shirt.
He said his main motivation for joining the Bluebirds was to be able to live at home with his family in Cardiff.
"I wanted to wake up every day with my kids," said 33-year-old Bellamy, who has taken a significant cut in wages. "There's more to life than football."
Cardiff chief executive Alan Whiteley added: "I am sure that Liverpool will agree that their loss is this football club's gain."
Rumours of Bellamy's return were fuelled this week when Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers confirmed he had given the Welshman permission to move closer to his family in south Wales.
Bellamy played and scored for Great Britain at the Olympics this summer. His talents are well known to the current Bluebirds manager Malky Mackay.
"We've known each other our whole careers," said Mackay. "We were together a long time ago at Norwich City. He's a proud lad from the area and he's a top player, a top talent."
Cardiff captain Mark Hudson thinks Bellamy can have a positive affect on his side's bid to win promotion to the Premier League.
"He's an international and he's been at the top level for a long time," said Hudson, who said Bellamy's influence had been evident during his loan spell at the club.
"To be able to work with someone like that was beneficial to everyone that was playing with him at the time," added Hudson.
"I learnt a lot from him, the way he conducted himself and went about his day-to-day business. You look at him now, he's a role model."
Cardiff have won three of four pre-season friendlies as they prepare for the Capital One Cup first-round tie at Northampton Town on Tuesday.
They also face Newcastle United at home on Saturday in their final warm-up match as they attempt to go one better than last season's play-off final defeat.
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"Top two is the main aim for us," said Hudson. "I don't think anyone wants to see us go through the play-offs again. I definitely don't.
"But with the squad we've got this year and the way we've gelled over the last 12 to 13 months, as a group we're a lot more solid now."
Mackay has also confirmed that defender Darcy Blake is still in his plans for next season, even though the youth team product has not signed a contract extension.
"We offered Darcy a contract extension and he's turned that down," said Mackay. "Darcy probably feels he needs first-team football."
Rangers won promotion to the top flight for this season and will face defending champions Celtic on 10 September.
"When you see the intensity and the passion in the crowd and the expectation, it's addictive," Lennon told BBC Scotland.
"In my career, when I've left this environment, it's never the same."
Lennon feels the midfield joust between Rangers' Joey Barton and Celtic's Scott Brown adds particular intrigue.
"It'll be interesting," Lennon said on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"He [Brown] has certainly got the athleticism, the power, pace. He'll certainly dominate Joey in that department. I think Joey's technically, probably slightly better.
"I didn't think he [Brown] had a great season last year but I think that was down to injury. I watched him last Sunday against Hearts. I thought he was back to his best."
Looking back on his own experience of Glasgow derbies, Lennon spoke of his on-field rivalry with Rangers captain Barry Ferguson - a friend off the pitch.
"When you have a nemesis, you have to put your marker down, in Old Firm games especially," Lennon explained. "You put your marker down early.
"Barry would've gone for me and I would've gone for Barry because we were seen as the two leaders in the team. It'll be the same with Barton and Brown, maybe.
"I had total respect for Barry. I thought he was a fantastic player - technically superb, could see a pass.
"Socially, it was very difficult but every now and again, we'd meet up quietly out of the road. We'd chew the fat but we never ever fell out or anything like that.
"We had words on the pitch and then it was forgotten about afterwards. There was a real high level of respect there."
The opening game does not count for scoring purposes.
But a win in Saturday's second game - the first in the ICC Women's Championship - will clinch their spot at the 2017 tournament.
"We are confident that we can deliver the one victory we now need," said England captain Heather Knight.
"It has been a quick turnaround following our series win in the Caribbean over the West Indies, and we are now looking forward to the fresh challenge of taking on Sri Lanka, with the ambition of finishing the busiest ever year for the England women's team on a high."
Australia, who top the Women's Championship standings, have already secured their place in the finals, which take place from 26 June-23 July in England and Wales.
Despite losing 2-1 to England in their Women's Championship games, the Windies can also secure their place at the tournament when they play India in a three-match series from Thursday.
The top four teams from the ICC Women's Championship gain direct qualification for the finals. The bottom four will have to qualify through the 10-team ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier 2017 in February in Colombo alongside regional qualifiers Bangladesh, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Scotland and Zimbabwe.
Four from that event go through to the finals.
England fixtures (all games start 04:30 GMT)
9 November: 1st ODI (all matches at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo)
12 November: *2nd ODI
15 November: *3rd ODI
17 November: *4th ODI
*Games counting towards World Cup qualification
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Kevin Hurley said he was committed to providing the devices to officers.
He said the cameras offered "unprecedented advantages" in gathering evidence.
Surrey Police Chief Constable Lynne Owens has launched a public consultation on the issue.
Mr Hurley said: "These cameras will provide unprecedented advantages in gathering evidence, deterring suspects from abusive or violent behaviour, recording all conversation between the officer and the suspect, and protecting the officer from baseless complaints.
"They will mean that officers can stay on the beat instead of wasting time returning to base to write up notes.
"By providing incontrovertible evidence to juries, they will also save time and costs in the courts."
He added the cameras would be purchased as soon as the chief constable has made recommendations on procurement.
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Some 80,000 people have fled during a four-week government offensive to drive back so-called Islamic State fighters, says the UN.
A further 25,000 civilians are likely on the move, the organisation adds.
Aid workers are struggling to provide food, water and medicine to people who are sleeping in the open in hopelessly overcrowded camps outside the city.
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"The overwhelming number of people that have come out of Falluja has actually overwhelmed our ability to respond to the people in need," said Nasr Muflahi from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
"We implore the Iraqi government to take charge of this humanitarian disaster unfolding on our watch," he added.
Iraqi government forces have succeeded in retaking most of Falluja, but fighting continues in some parts of the city, which is just 50km (30 miles) west of Baghdad.
We drove into Falluja on a road that snaked through what was once a wealthy suburb but is now deserted. Many homes have been destroyed.
By the side of the road, unexploded shells showed how dangerous these streets remain for civilians if they are allowed to return.
Many tell harrowing escape stories. Some have been caught in crossfire, others drowned in the Euphrates as they tried to swim to safety.
We heard the sound of artillery and gunfire wherever we went.
Read Ahmed Maher's report from Falluja
Many of those who fleeing the fighting have been forced to sleep in the open, and spend their days under the sun in temperatures set to reach 47C (117F) in the next few days.
Aid supplies are running dangerously low in overcrowded conditions. One newly opened camp, Amriyat al-Falluja, has only one latrine for 1,800 women, the NRC said.
The government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is already struggling to meet the needs of more than 3.4 million people across the country who have been displaced by conflict.
The IS group's self-styled Amaq news agency reported on Sunday that about 50 Iraqi troops had been killed and four army vehicles destroyed in "fierce fighting" with IS fighters near Falluja General Hospital in the north-east of the city.
Several civilians have been killed by militants while attempting to escape, including, on Monday, a two-year-old boy who was being carried by his mother.
Some residents were reportedly used as human shields by IS to slow the advance of government forces, who are being backed by air strikes from the US-led coalition.
IS militants had captured the northern city in January 2014 and held it for longer than any other city in Iraq or Syria - before the Iraqi army launched an operation to retake it.
The military personnel died in combat in Nangarhar province, said Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis.
Earlier this month American Army Staff Sgt Mark De Alencar, 37, was killed in the same province.
It comes only days after US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited the country.
The American soldiers were conducting an operation against IS Khorasan, an affiliate of the core Middle Eastern group.
The operation was conducted in partnership with the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, the Pentagon said.
"The fight against ISIS-K is important for the world, but sadly, it is not without sacrifice," said General John Nicholson, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan.
"On behalf of all US forces and our coalition partners, I offer our deepest sympathies to the families, friends, and fellow service members of our fallen comrades," he continued.
Next of kin have been notified, but their names are being temporarily withheld from the media, the Defence Department said.
The operation took place near the district of Achin, near to where the US recently dropped "the mother of all bombs", the largest non-nuclear weapon in the US arsenal.
The Mother of All Bombs: How badly did it hurt IS in Afghanistan?
A spokesman for the Nangarhar governor told Reuters that about 40 IS fighters were killed in the raid, and another 13 were captured alive.
Estimates for how many IS fighters are in Afghanistan vary.
US officials believe about 700 fighters occupy the Nangarhar and neighbouring Kunar province.
But Afghan officials estimate that there are closer to 1,500 militants.
Arriva Trains Wales routes between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury were cancelled on Monday morning due to high river levels at Machynlleth, Powys.
Some services from North Llanrwst to Blaenau Ffestiniog were also delayed due to speed restrictions on the line.
One flood warning and several flood alerts remain in place for north east, north west and mid Wales.
Meanwhile, 300 homes left without power after storms at the weekend have been reconnected.
Scottish Power said services to homes in north Wales were affected by very strong winds, which damaged power lines and brought down trees.
Power was reconnected at 18:30 GMT on Sunday.
A further 259 Western Power Distribution customers were also without electricity in the Pontyberem area of Carmarthenshire.
A spokesman for SP Energy Networks said: "We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Our engineering teams worked hard in poor conditions to restore supplies as quickly as possible."
It came as MPs backed UK involvement in the attacks by 524 votes to 43.
Newport West MP Paul Flynn said the motion on military action was "the thin end of a bloody and ugly wedge".
He was one of five Welsh MPs, three Labour and two Plaid Cymru, to vote against UK airstrikes on Islamic State.
MPs were recalled to Parliament to discuss whether Britain should take part in military action.
Mr Hain, MP for Neath, voted in favour of the motion but told the Commons in his speech beforehand that he had been wrong to back the 2003 invasion of Iraq over weapons of mass destruction.
"We went to war on a lie and the aftermath was disastrous," he said.
Plaid Cymru's Arfon MP, Hywel Williams, opposed the motion, warning MPs that air strikes would kill civilians and "radicalise" the young.
"It is disturbing that the prime minister has said that we must not allow past mistakes to become an excuse for inaction," he said.
"The shadow of the Iraq war still looms large - surely we should be learning from history, not forgetting it."
Cynon Valley Labour MP Ann Clwyd, a former special envoy on human rights in Iraq, said she supported the motion but did not think that air strikes would be enough to crush the militants.
"The Iraqi army are apparently not ready to do this, are not properly trained to do this, and you can't depend on the Peshmerga... a small group of soldiers who have been defending their own homeland," she said.
"They can't possibly be responsible for defending the whole of Iraq - that is just pie in the sky."
Mr Flynn was one of the strongest Welsh voices against intervention.
He said: "This motion is the thin end of a bloody and ugly wedge that will grow and expand and mission creep into a prolonged war with unforeseeable consequences.
"We're falling into vortex of hatreds in the Middle East that are ancient and deep and once we start this process, it will be almost impossible in the future to extricate ourselves from it."
His Labour colleagues, Gower MP Martin Caton and Swansea East MP Sian James, also voted against the motion as did Plaid's Carmarthen East and Dinefwr MP Jonathan Edwards and Hywel Williams.
Prime Minister David Cameron opened the debate on Friday saying the UK had a "duty" to confront the threat from Islamic State, and that joining the US-led air strikes would be "clearly lawful".
After a seven-hour debate, MPs voted for military action with a majority of 481. The BBC live page on the debate is now closed.
Dara De Cogan, 57, is accused of 12 counts of sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust.
The offences are said to have occurred between 2007 and 2009 while Mr De Cogan, of Kilburn, North Yorkshire, was working at Ampleforth College.
He appeared before magistrates in Scarborough but did not enter a plea.
Mr De Cogan was released on bail ahead of his next appearance at York Crown Court on 13 February.
The 18th Century Clandon Park House, in Surrey, was reduced to a shell by a major blaze in April.
Rupert Onslow said the £65m restoration cost would be best spent on at risk National Trust (NT) properties.
The NT said it was exploring "various options" for the Grade-I listed house, but it did have a future.
The Palladian mansion, near Guildford, was bequeathed to the NT in 1956.
Lord Onslow told BBC Surrey it should be allowed to go to ruin.
"The tragedy is that the house has gone. It's happened, Clandon has been lost," he said.
"My question, which I think is best answered by the members, is what would they wish to have done with the insurance money?
"Do the [NT] members want to see what would be a suburban mock-Georgian monolith sitting on a small garden?
"Or would they like to see restoration of a building of historic genuine nature that is in danger of collapsing?"
He added: "I will never forget seeing orange fire in 44 windows on four floors of that house.
"It's not because I didn't love Clandon it's just that I don't think the [NT] members would genuinely benefit from a replica.
"I think it should be shorn up and left as a tragic sad site. I look forward not backwards."
An NT spokeswoman said they had been "overwhelmed by the public's response since the fire".
"It has reinforced just what a special place it is to so many people," she said.
"We want to reassure all those people who love Clandon Park that it does have a future. We have already said that it will be rebuilt in some shape or form. We are currently looking carefully at various options for the house."
Investigators said the fire that swept through the building, which housed a collection of furniture, porcelain and textiles, was probably caused by an electrical fault.
Staff were able to get out of the house safely and no-one was injured. A salvage plan helped to save contents and fire detection systems operated as they should have done, the spokeswoman said.
Source: National Trust
Peter Ball, 83, retired Bishop of Lewes and Bishop of Gloucester, admitted indecent assault and misconduct in public office at the Old Bailey.
Many victims visited his former East Sussex home as aspiring priests or to explore their spirituality.
Ball has been bailed and will be sentenced on 7 October.
The retired clergyman, who was deemed fit to stand trial but has not been well, pleaded guilty to the charges in advance of his trial.
Appearing via video link from Taunton Crown Court, Ball admitted assaulting two victims between 1980 and 1983 and between 1990 and 1991.
He also admitted misconduct in public office between 1977 and 1992.
According to the charge, Ball committed misconduct by "misusing his position in authority to manipulate and prevail upon others for his own sexual gratification" in relation to 16 young men in their late teens or early 20s.
Details of the history leading to the retired clergyman being charged could only be revealed after Mr Justice Wilkie lifted reporting restrictions.
The allegations against Ball, now of Langport in Somerset, followed a review by the Church of England which prompted police action.
He had earlier failed in an attempt to get the case thrown out after he claimed he accepted a caution for one act of gross indecency in 1993.
It was argued Ball and the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord George Carey, had been assured by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) at that time that there would be no future action over related allegations.
They were both said to have believed the matter was closed and Ball resigned his post despite Gloucester Police being aware of allegations from two more men.
But the case resurfaced when the Diocese of Bath and Wells carried out a review prompting Sussex Police to reopen the investigation.
The Sussex force later charged Ball with misconduct and a string of sex offences.
Following his guilty pleas, the Church of England apologised to the victims.
In a statement, the Bishop of Durham, the Rt Rev Paul Butler, said: "We offer an unreserved apology to all the survivors and those affected by this news.
"We commend the bravery of those who brought these allegations forward, acknowledging how difficult and distressing this would have been."
He said the church co-operated fully with the police throughout the investigation and takes allegations of abuse "very seriously".
One of the men who was due to give evidence against Ball - who was abused by him as a teenager in the 1970s - said he was glad the disgraced bishop had pleaded guilty, but wished he had done it sooner.
"He knew he was guilty and he could have saved me and the other victims the trauma we've been through.
"He tried every trick to get out of admitting his guilt, saying he was too ill to stand trial, so I view his guilty plea very cynically."
Det Ch Insp Carwyn Hughes, from Sussex Police, said Ball had systematically abused the trust of his victims, using religion as a cloak behind which to carry out his grooming activity in order to satisfy his sexual interest and desire for young men.
Ball was Bishop of Lewes between 1977 and 1992 and Bishop of Gloucester from 1992 until his resignation the following year.
Jacqueline McPhie, 46, took the money while vice president for finance at Altus Intervention between March 2013 and April 2014.
McPhie, of Arbroath, admitted embezzlement at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Sentence was deferred to 31 May for background reports.
The court heard McPhie was paid a salary of more than £145,000 a year by the firm, which supplies equipment for North Sea projects.
However, she hatched a plan to divert money from the business to fund her lifestyle.
Alison Di Rollo, prosecuting, said McPhie bought an £80,000 Range Rover, and spent more than £60,000 on a new garage and driveway, £52,000 on a kitchen and £30,000 on a summer house in her garden.
More was spent on foreign holidays and designer clothes.
Ms Di Rollo told the court that McPhie had full "oversight" over the company's finances and had the trust of her employers.
The court heard that Altus had managed to recover more than £238,000 from McPhie.
Judge Lady Wise said: "You have pleaded guilty to extremely serious offences."
McPhie had previously been given 300 hours of community service 16 years ago for stealing £250,000 from previous employers.
She currently lives with her parents in a caravan in Arbroath.
It features the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and special guests.
The event at Parc Eirias concludes a Proms season which includes five performances at London's Royal Albert Hall.
The concert on 10 September will also be broadcast live. Tickets go on sale in May.
Rhodri Talfan Davies, director of BBC Wales, said he was delighted it was being hosted in north Wales.
Councillor Graham Rees, Conwy council cabinet member for tourism, marketing and leisure, said: "We're thrilled to welcome BBC Proms in the Park to Colwyn Bay and I'm excited to see yet another major event secured at Parc Eirias.
"Events are extremely important to Conwy county as they provide significant economic value for our many small businesses."
Police believe Judith Ducker, 64, was injured during a raid at Wellgate News, Rotherham, on 1 September. She died in hospital on Thursday.
Paul Blueitt, 36, from Rotherham, has been charged with attempted murder and robbery.
Police are trying to locate the man and woman captured on CCTV at the time of the raid.
Officers said the couple were captured on film between 11:00 BST and 11:25 BST and they may have entered the shop and been the last people to have seen Mrs Ducker.
South Yorkshire Police said the witnesses were "crucial" to the investigation.
The force added it was waiting for further tests after a post-mortem examination failed to establish a cause of death for Mrs Ducker.
She is believed to have had underlying health conditions.
Mr Blueitt was remanded in custody at Sheffield Crown Court on 3 October.
The 1927 footage, on a phonovision shellac disc, is the world's oldest surviving 78rpm piece of video.
It features Logie Baird's ventriloquist dummy Stookie Bill, which he used when developing his invention.
The recording will now be stored at Glasgow University.
It was part of a collection which was made subject to an export bar in April, following fears the collection would go to an overseas buyer when it was first put up for sale.
With the bar on exports set to expire on 29 September, the university has confirmed it is buying the collection with the help of an anonymous local businessman.
The donor lived for 20 years in Logie Baird's home town of Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute and wanted to keep the collection in the UK.
"I am delighted the collection has been saved and is now coming home," said the donor.
"It charts such an important period of modern engineering history so I felt it could not, and should not, leave these shores to move abroad. It needs to be shared for future generations," he continued.
"John Logie Baird was a Helensburgh man and a Scottish pioneer who helped change the world, and with his ties to the University of Glasgow.
"It is only right and proper that this important collection should be coming to the university and hopefully it will help inspire future pioneering engineers."
The collection also includes the log books used by Benjamin Clapp, Logie Baird's assistant, while conducting Logie Baird's transatlantic television trials.
The books also contain the world's first known use of the acronym TV.
Culture minister Ed Vaizey said: "It's fantastic news that the John Logie Baird collection has been saved for the nation.
"He and his team made the UK a world leader in 1920s television technology, including the first-ever transmission of transatlantic television pictures.
"This collection will be incredibly important for the study of the history of television, and I'm delighted that it will remain in the UK."
Logie Baird was an engineering student at the University of Glasgow from 1914 to 1915, when he tried to enlist for war duties but was turned down on health grounds.
Logie Baird gave the world's first public demonstration of television in London on 26 January, 1926.
In 1927, he transmitted a long-distance television signal over 438 miles (705km) of telephone line between London and Glasgow. This was the world's first long-distance transmission of television pictures.
The phonovision disc was recorded during later experimental trials. It was transmitted on 9 February, 1928, marking one of Logie Baird's earliest television broadcasts.
Thousands of women with terminal breast cancer are being denied extra time with their loved ones due to the high cost of new drugs, it said.
The charity called on drugs firms and government to make medicines more accessible.
Drugs firms said more drugs needed NHS approval.
NICE, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, said it approved drugs based on clinical and cost effectiveness.
Over the past few years, NICE has not recommended at least seven breast cancer treatments, with cost being a factor in the rejection of over half of those treatments.
Life-extending drugs that are not available on the NHS can currently be paid for through the £200m per-year Cancer Drugs Fund.
The fund is due to be available until the end of March 2016.
Many drugs have been rejected for approval by NICE on the grounds of cost, Breakthrough Breast Cancer said.
The charity has called for action from the government, the pharmaceutical industry, drugs approval body NICE, and charities to bring down the costs of new treatments and sort out funding issues.
"The Cancer Drugs Fund was only supposed to be a temporary solution and, while it should remain until a workable alternative is found, it is merely papering over the cracks of a system which is no longer fit for purpose," said Chris Askew, chief executive of Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
"Whilst there will be no quick fix solution to this problem, the pharmaceutical industry will need to get serious about its pricing and whoever forms the next government will need to get a grip on the problem and take action to resolve it," he added.
The NICE drugs approvals process takes into account the cost of the drug, as well as how it effects a patient's quality of life, and how long they live.
NICE uses a measure called a "quality adjusted life year" - a "QALY" - to gauge how much it would cost to give patients a year of healthy life using a treatment.
Drugs that cost up to between £20,000 and £30,000 per QALY can get NICE approval, but end-of-life drugs that cost almost double that can also be approved.
However, some innovative cancer treatments can cost up to £100,000 per QALY, so are dropped by NICE, Breakthrough Breast Cancer senior policy manager Caitlin Palframan said.
"We understand it costs money to develop new treatments," she said. "It's not that we believe that pharmaceutical companies don't have a right to make a profit.
"However, it doesn't do anybody any good if the treatments aren't available on the NHS," she added.
The charity gave the example of breast cancer drug Kadcyla, which is not routinely available in England and Wales, due to its cost.
Cancer drugs that are rejected by NICE can be funded through the Cancer Drugs Fund, but only in England, Ms Palframan said.
In Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, terminally-ill patients must get cancer specialists to apply for funding for non-approved treatments.
It was "unacceptable" that some terminally-ill patients "are having to fight for their treatment", she told the BBC.
The high costs of new cancer drugs mainly reflect research costs, drugs industry body the ABPI said.
"The price of development is high," said ABPI director of value and access Paul Catchpole. "It can cost more than £1bn and 10 to 12 years to research and develop a new medicine."
In addition, only one third of new medicines end up covering research and development costs, he said.
"The issue is - who decides what 'high' and 'appropriate' is?" he added.
Mr Catchpole said there were "no upper limits" on what the Cancer Drugs Fund was willing to pay, and called for "evolution" in how NICE assesses cancer drugs.
"We need to make sure [NICE] is taking into account the full costs and benefits of proposals," on the wider economy, he said.
The approvals body said it "makes recommendations for treatments based on the clinical and cost effectiveness of each drug."
"For NICE to recommend a treatment it must work at least as well as, or better than, currently available NHS treatments for the price that the NHS is being asked to pay," it said.
The body said that so far this year it had recommended five cancer treatments, and one drug had been recommended for a specific group of patients.
It has rejected two cancer drugs this year.
It found 21% of pupils who struggled with language as they began school, failed to meet the expected standards in national tests when they left.
The researchers said poor language skills had an effect on all children, regardless of family background.
Factors like parents' education and poverty were also tied to attainment.
Academics at the Institute of Education analysed the progress of 5,000 children using data from the Millennium Cohort Study and the National Pupil Database in England.
Some 23% of children who struggled with language at age five also did not reach the expected standard in their Sats (national tests) in English at age 11, the study found.
Under government plans, from 2017 children who do not pass these tests will have to re-sit them in their first year in secondary school.
Gareth Jenkins, from Save the Children, says the research demonstrates for the first time the most crucial determinant of success in Sats tests is how well children can communicate when they start school.
The poorest children are more likely to start school without simple skills, such as being able to tell a short story, express feelings and communicate easily with a wide range of adults
The charity says the research should prompt a national debate about how to drive up the quality of nursery provision.
"The most important thing we could do is to see every nursery led by an early years graduate teacher, because the research is really clear that this helps improve the quality of the activities, and the poorest children in particular benefit from that extra care," he said.
It is estimated that this would need a further 11,000 graduates to be employed.
The legal minimum set out in the early years framework in England says a nursery should be led by someone with two years experience and a Level 3 early years qualification, such as an NVQ Diploma.
Most two- and three-year-olds are in nurseries run by private or voluntary organisations, with 85% being rated by Ofsted as good or outstanding.
The Pre-School Learning Alliance has estimated that employing a fully, graduate-led workforce would result in a funding shortfall of 11% for funded three- and four-year-olds, and a 19% shortfall for funded two-year-olds.
Alliance chief executive, Neil Leitch, said early years had remained a low pay sector, and although recent increases in funding were welcome there were still financial pressures.
"What is not clear, however, is how providers are expected to recruit and retain graduate-level staff without the funding needed to pay adequate wages," he said.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "The number of graduates in the workforce continues to rise, and we want to see more trained graduates in these roles.
"That's why we provide funding course fees and bursaries for eligible trainees, and are also supporting employers to help with their staff training costs.
"We continue to look at what more can be done to encourage talented staff to forge a career in the early years and this will be a key strand of our Workforce Strategy which will be published in 2016."
In the UK, a higher proportion of public spending already supports early years care and education than in other developed countries, between 0.5% and 0.9% of national wealth, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Current government policy in England is focused on making childcare more available to working parents by extending free provision in term-time from 15 to 30 hours.
The first pilot schemes, costing £13m, will begin in eight areas of England this September, with the policy being fully implemented in 2017.
The 19-year-old University of Stirling swimmer clocked 47.90 seconds, which is also good enough for an automatic place at July's World Championships.
"I'm delighted with that," said Scott. "I didn't have the same preparation as last year, so to do a PB (personal best) is incredible.
"I just came out here to race, so that's a bonus."
University of Edinburgh duo Jack Thorpe and Kieran McGuckin were second and third behind Scott.
Scott finished fifth in last summer's Olympic final in 48.01 seconds, bringing home silver medals from the 4x200m freestyle and 4x100m medley relays.
"I was trying to hit the qualification time and I have done that," he added.
"It's a time for the Commonwealth Games [2018] as well so it's been a phenomenal day and I am glad to be on the podium with two other Scots."
Mark Szaranek, of Edinburgh University, was second behind Max Litchfield, who set a new British 400m individual medley record in his home town.
The coastguard at Exmouth beach cordoned off the 15ft (4.6m) by 15ft hole on Thursday afternoon.
The hole, which was "bubbling" with water, has since been filled in by the incoming tide.
East Devon District Council said it was trying to find out what caused the hole and a cordon remains at Orcombe Point.
When the coastguard team arrived they said the surrounding sand was soft and fresh holes were appearing.
Kite surf instructor James Dart said: "I looked over and there were big plumes of water coming out of the beach it was all bubbling up much like a geyser, it was probably going about a foot above the beach - it was quite tremendous sight.
"I got closer and saw plant matter coming up a few snails coming out too. It was something to spice things up in the rain."
It is thought there could have been a chamber underneath the hole, about 10ft (3m) to 15ft (4.6m) deep.
Council officials said engineers would "continue to monitor the situation over the weekend and between tides".
They added: "The beach is very popular with dog walkers and bathers who are being advised to avoid the cordoned off area.
"Heavy rain yesterday may be the cause of the hole - a natural phenomenon - to have opened up, but is still a bit of a mystery."
Nell Ryder, of Chester, travelled to Liverpool on Saturday to carry out the final wishes of her Toxteth-born husband John by spreading his ashes on the River Mersey.
When they returned to the car from a family meal, the urn had been taken.
Mrs Ryder appealed for the "lowlife" who took his ashes to return them.
"I don't want to think of him dumped somewhere. We just want him back please."
Mrs Ryder said she couldn't believe it when they returned from the restaurant and saw the car window had been smashed.
The theft had left the family "devastated" and she has been crying ever since, she said.
"It was just awful. We were gutted. We've no closure."
Mrs Ryder said family members including his son and daughter had gone for a meal at Toby Carvery on Aigburth Road while they waited for the high tide at 15:00 BST.
The container holding the ashes of Mr Ryder, who was a carpenter, was taken along with presents for her grandchildren.
Mrs Ryder pleaded with the thief to return the container which she said may have been mistaken for a whisky presentation box.
Funeral director Stephen Johnstone from Saltney, Chester said anyone with information can call him "in confidence" with a location.
Merseyside Police believe the items were stolen from a parked blue Nissan Qashqai between 13:30 and 15:00.
The force asked the offender to "search their conscience" and return them.
The 48-hour Global Game Jam is an international event where game developers work to a set theme to inspire their designs.
Abertay University is hosting the Dundee event for the fourth time.
Last year, more than 5,000 new games were created in one weekend, with 78 different countries taking part.
Almost 21,000 people have registered to take part at 636 separate locations across 93 countries this year.
This year, there is a sister site at Dundee MakerSpace where a further 50 participants will gather.
Each year's theme is announced at the start of the event, which organisers say is not a competition, but a focus on creativity and collaboration.
In 2015 the theme was "what do we do now?", while 2014's was "we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are".
Ryan Locke, Abertay University lecturer in computer arts, said: "We are delighted to be hosting our fourth Global Game Jam event and very much looking forward to the fun, beautiful and often meaningful ideas our students produce during these intensive creative events.
"We're also very happy to have many industry bodies and alumni take part. They play an important role in helping to guide and inspire new talent which is vital to the wider game making ecology of Dundee and Scotland."
Eighty per cent of those with breast, prostate and skin cancer are living for five years after diagnosis. The figure is 90% for testicular cancer.
Recently diagnosed prostate cancer patients will see a large improvement in their hopes of survival.
The figures are published by the Office for National Statistics.
The ONS report estimated the chances of people surviving for one year and for five years after being diagnosed with cancer in England.
The report looked at survival rates for 24 different common cancers diagnosed between 2008 and 2013.
It found survival improving for the majority of cancers, with survival generally higher in women.
For people with cancers diagnosed in 2013, the greatest improvement in survival chances will be in men with prostate cancer - from 83.6% to 87.6%.
High survival rates for prostate cancer and breast cancer are thought to be due to the increasing number of men and women getting their cancer diagnosed and treated at an early stage.
Other lesser-known cancers also showed promising improvements in the chances of survival.
For women with myeloma, or cancer of the white blood cells, there was a rise in five-year survival from 41.6% for those diagnosed in 2007-2011 to 46.2% for diagnosis between 2008 and 2012.
There were also large increases in survival chances for men with myeloma and men with leukaemia.
While some cancers have a good prognosis, others "remain extremely poor", the ONS report says.
Five-year survival estimates for cancers of the brain, lung, liver, pancreas and stomach are all below 19% for men and 22% for women.
Pancreatic cancer for both men and women has a survival rate of just 5.4% - the lowest in both sexes.
Nick Ormiston-Smith, head of statistical information at Cancer Research UK, said more people were surviving cancer then ever before "thanks to better treatments, earlier diagnosis and greater awareness".
"But the story's not so positive for all types of cancer," he said.
"Lung, pancreatic, oesophageal cancer and brain tumours still have relatively low survival rates, partly because they tend to be diagnosed at a later stage when they're much harder to treat."
He added: "We're working to beat all cancers sooner, increasing our research into cancers with lower survival rates and boosting our investment to help diagnose cancer earlier - accelerating progress to save more lives."
The Mayflower cruise terminal's departure, check-in, security and passenger lounges and drop-off and pick-up areas have been redesigned.
Steven Young, director of port services and government affairs at Carnival UK, said the aim was to create a "stress-free travel experience".
The work, which involves removing 100 tonnes of walls and floors, is due to completed by April.
Operator Associated British Ports (ABP) said the work would bring the terminal "in line with the requirements and standards of the modern-day cruise ship".
Both people - a man and a woman thought to be in their 70s - are reported to have been hiking on the Spanish island when they collapsed.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has confirmed that two British nationals died on 13 May.
A spokesman said: "We are providing consular assistance to the families."
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that the female pensioner was among a group of British tourists walking in the south of the island when she suffered a cardiac arrest.
She was one of a number of holidaymakers affected by the extreme heat during the trek near Presa del Salto del Perro in the Mogan district.
Meanwhile, the male pensioner is thought to have fallen into a ravine during a trek with his wife at the beauty spot Barranco de Azuaje in the north of the island.
Temperatures have been reaching 40°C in parts of the Canary Islands in recent days, when the average temperature for this time of year is about 20°C.
The World Meteorological Organisation has issued an orange weather warning for "extreme high temperatures" covering Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, and for parts of Gran Canaria and Tenerife.
On Saturday, the company welcomed the first visitors to the new 34bn yuan ($5.1bn; £3.9bn) park in Hefei which also has hotels and a shopping mall.
The firm plans to build as many as 20 more such parks across China by 2020.
Dalian Wanda has been outspoken about its rivalry with US firm Walt Disney which opened its first theme park in mainland China in June.
In May, Wanda launched its first theme park in Nanchang just weeks before Disney launched its Shanghai park.
At the Nanchang opening, Wanda owner and China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, said he wanted to move away from Western imports and to establish a global brand based on Chinese culture.
Walt Disney wants to go very big in one place in mainland China: Shanghai. Dalian Wanda is going for a smaller, cheaper presence in many more places. The two firms have very different strategies in the country.
Disney's $5.5bn gamble in Shanghai is a behemoth of an entertainment complex.
Although Wanda's chief Wang Jianlin has made much of his desire to take on Disney at its own game, his offering is quite different. There's less of an overall "experience" - fewer rides with some animated characters and hotels and retail on a smaller scale.
Wanda's sell seems to be a cheaper- but just as much fun- day out.
So far, Disney still has a significant lead in the key part of this equation - intellectual property. With Star Wars and Marvel's array of characters to add to Mickey Mouse it has much to entice families.
Wanda is now looking to develop something similar with its vast cinema chain and the well established independent US production firm Legendary Entertainment, which it bought earlier this year.
In an interview in May with state-run broadcaster CCTV, Mr Wang said in May that Wanda wanted "to ensure Disney is not profitable for 10-20 years in this business segment in China".
Disney's Shanghai park is its sixth theme park and its fourth outside the United States after Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
A number of further Wanda theme parks are currently under construction, with one in Harbin slated for opening in 2017 and the next in Qingdao, Guangzhou and Wuxi in 2018 and 2019.
A Wanda movie park in the city of Wuhan was opened in 2014 but at the end of July unexpectedly closed for renovation.
The rivalry between Dalian Wanda and Walt Disney comes as China's slowing economy affects domestic consumer spending. At Wanda's cinema arm, ticket sales were up by only 12.8% in the second quarter compared to 61% in the first.
Jordan Coe, 20, who was originally from Maddiston near Falkirk, is believed to have died from heatstroke.
He had been due to fight Khon Bola, a Cambodian boxer, in the Muang district of Thailand on Sunday night.
Friends of Mr Coe believe he may have been trying to lose a final few pounds in weight before the bout.
His mother Lisa is expected to fly to Thailand on Tuesday.
Mr Coe's close friend Liam McKendry, who trained with the boxer in Thailand, told BBC Scotland he was "still in shock" at the news.
He said: "It was only Wednesday I was talking to him.
"I'm still trying to process that he's passed away."
Mr McKendry said he was told of his friend's death on Sunday morning.
He said: "I just didn't want to believe it.
"I was trying to think of every possibility that he's got it muddled up, it's not Jordan, it's somebody else.
"It wasn't until I messaged Jordan's mum that I found out it was actually true."
Mr Coe began fighting at a gym in Grangemouth and later trained in Glasgow before moving to Thailand three years ago.
Coach Craig Floan from the Glasgow Thai Boxing Academy said Mr Coe was a "very, very fit young man" who "trained to the absolute max."
He said: "The Thais loved him because he went over and learned their language, learned their culture."
"There was nothing out of the ordinary that he did here or in Thailand, just trained extremely hard.
"We think he went a run to lose the last couple of pounds for the fight he was meant to have yesterday and he's not made it home."
China, the US's largest creditor, is "naturally concerned about developments in the US fiscal cliff", vice finance minister Zhu Guangyao said.
Washington must agree a deal to raise its borrowing limit by 17 October, or risk being unable to pay its bills.
He asked that "the US earnestly take steps to resolve" the issue.
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has said that unless Congress agrees an increase in the debt ceiling by 17 October, Washington will be left with about $30bn (£18.6bn) in cash to meet its obligations - about half the $60bn-a-day needed.
By Dick MeyerExecutive Producer, America, BBC News, Washington
On a very simple level, the closing of most of the American federal government can be pinned on the ambitions of one man, Speaker of the House John Boehner.
There is little doubt that Mr Boehner, a Republican, could whenever he wants gather enough votes from moderate Republicans and most all Democrats to reopen the government.
Why he is so attached to sticking with such a bruising job is another question. His caucus is balkanised and unruly. This Congress is held in the lowest public esteem since the invention of public opinion polls. And the Republicans are more disliked than the Democrats.
The man responsible for the shutdown
For many governments and investors the approaching deadlock over the debt ceiling is far more critical than the current impasse over the federal shutdown caused by Congress's failure to agree a new budget.
On Sunday Republican House Speaker John Boehner reiterated that Republican lawmakers would not agree to raise the debt ceiling unless it included measures to rein in public spending.
Mr Zhu said that China and the US are "inseparable". Beijing is a huge investor in US Treasury bonds.
"The executive branch of the US government has to take decisive and credible steps to avoid a default on its Treasury bonds," he said.
"It is important for the US economy as well as the global economy."
"We hope the United States fully understands the lessons of history," Mr Zhu said, referring to a similar deadlock in 2011 that led to a downgrade of the US "AAA" credit rating.
That deadlock ended with an eleventh-hour agreement.
On Monday, President Barack Obama said he would not negotiate with Republicans in the House of Representatives "under the threat of economic catastrophe".
He said that he and the Democrats in Congress had already agreed to fund the US government at levels that were favourable to Republicans but lower than preferred by the Democrats.
There is little doubt that Mr Boehner could whenever he wants gather enough votes from moderate Republicans and most all Democrats to reopen the government, says Dick Meyer, BBC executive producer, America.
Mr Obama called on Mr Boehner to allow his caucus to "vote their conscience" on a bill that would fund the government.
"If Republicans and Speaker Boehner are saying there are not enough votes, then they should prove it," he said, adding he had a "strong suspicion" there would be enough Republicans to join Democrats in the House of Representatives to pass the bill.
"Let the bill go to the floor and let's see what happens. Just vote."
Keates, 38, had an eventful night and not just because they conceded a late goal in their 2-2 draw with Barrow.
"I punched [assistant manager] Andy Davies in the face for our first goal and the second he dislocated my finger," Keates said.
"We had to get the doctor to pop my finger back in."
The former Walsall and Peterborough United midfielder was appointed Gary Mills' successor after three games in charge of Wrexham as caretaker manager.
John Rooney's 78th-minute strike looked to have sealed a second successive win for Keates' side but Ryan Yates levelled in the 88th minute to rescue a point for Barrow.
"It's been [a day of] highs and lows but I'm proud of the lads," Keates told BBC Radio Wales.
"Obviously we're disappointed with the result but there's something there to work with and we'll go forward."
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Golden State Warriors' Klay Thompson scored 22 points in what was a repeat of the 2008 and 2012 Olympic finals.
USA will face Serbia in Sunday's final after they defeated Australia 87-61.
"It means a lot to be in the final game for the gold. With passion like that it's going to be tough for anyone to beat us," said USA guard Kevin Durant.
"We like our chances, so we've got to come out and play with a lot of intensity, a lot of passion and energy and we'll be fine."
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On Tuesday ministers said a Welsh bid was not feasible after a study revealed costs of between £1.3bn and £1.5bn.
On Wednesday Plaid said ministers' estimates appeared to be "deliberately skewed" to appear more expensive.
Labour's Ken Skates said the figures were "based on a robust assessment".
The Commonwealth Games Federation had earlier said it was "surprised" by the figures provided by the Welsh Government.
In a letter to Economy Secretary Ken Skates, Shadow Sports Secretary Neil McEvoy said: "Given that the Commonwealth Games Federation has issued a statement seriously questioning your government's costing of £1.3bn to host the games, could you please issue your methodology and assumptions which underpin the feasibility study?
"The Glasgow games came in £32m under budget at £543m. Why would it cost more than double that figure to host the games in Wales?"
Speaking about the letter, Mr McEvoy called ministers' estimates "ambiguous at best" that seemed to have been "deliberately skewed to appear more expensive".
"That's why I want to see the detailed methodology behind these costs and proposals so that we can make an informed judgement of whether they are accurate - or whether we are being deliberately misled," he said.
But Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure Ken Skates said Plaid Cymru was not "comparing like with like", saying the figures were "based on a robust assessment of the total cost of delivery".
"They include the construction of necessary sporting facilities and additional infrastructure, the Games legacy, the delivery of all Wales benefits and the recommended contingency.
"Our understanding is that the Glasgow figure focuses solely on the operational delivery of the two week event."
The minister argued that a more accurate comparison would be the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, which he said had been widely quoted as being expected to cost more than $2bn in Australian dollars (£1.13bn).
Those games, he said, were "very much in line with our own projections".
Mr Skates added: "At the moment Plaid Cymru's economic strategy seems to consist of signing up to any project, regardless of cost or value for money and with no scrutiny of the long-term benefits to Wales.
"They need to get serious and develop a sense of responsibility."
A report from the Fraser of Allander Institute said Scotland seemed to be "stuck in a cycle of weak growth".
The Strathclyde University think-tank said that while growth is forecast to pick up in coming years, it is "likely to continue to lag behind the UK".
Ministers insist that the fundamentals of the Scottish economy remain strong, highlighting Brexit as a key challenge.
Figures are due out at the start of July which will confirm whether or not the Scottish economy has formally gone into recession - defined as two consecutive quarters of falling output.
The Fraser of Allander Institute report said that "on balance it is likely to be a close run thing".
It forecast growth at 1.2% for 2017 as a whole, 1.4% for 2018 and 1.6% for 2019.
The analysis includes some positive news - an apparent pick-up in business activity, unemployment at a record low and sectors like food and drink and tourism benefiting from the low value of the pound.
However, it also voices "increasing concern" about the slowdown apparently spreading across a wider set of industrial sectors.
It said political factors like Brexit "cast a shadow over the outlook", but said that this and the downturn in the oil and gas sector could not be solely to blame. The report said that "Scotland's economy seems to be stuck in a cycle of weak growth, declining confidence and poor investment and net export figures".
Fraser of Allander director Graeme Roy said the scale of the gap between the Scottish economy and that of the UK as a whole was growing.
He said: "On balance, our forecast is that growth will return in 2017, with tentative signs of a more positive outlook for Scotland's oil and gas sector and improving order books across Scottish businesses.
"In the current climate sentiment can change quickly. Should the upcoming Brexit negotiations go badly, or the UK economy slows down more quickly than anticipated, then Scotland's economic prospects could take a sharp turn for the worse.
"That being said, a number of sectors should post relatively healthy returns this year. In particular, Scotland's food and drink and tourism sectors should benefit from the low value of Sterling.
Economy Secretary Keith Brown said there was good news in the report, highlighting projected growth in the financial and business services, tourism and food and drink sectors.
He said: "This comes after good news for Scottish jobs. Scotland's unemployment rate is at record low levels of 4% - equalling the previous all-time low - and is also at its lowest rate since the recession, and much lower than Fraser of Allander's post-Brexit forecast of 7% for this year.
"And while challenges remain, the report also confirms emerging signs of confidence returning to the oil and gas sector, building on recent reports from Bank of Scotland and Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce.
"While these signs are encouraging, we must be clear that the biggest threat to Scotland's economy continues to be Brexit - as this report makes clear.
"To avert the 'Brexit negotiations going badly', as the report states, the UK government must work with us and the other devolved administrations with the aim of keeping the UK and Scotland in the single market and customs union."
Opposition leaders said the report showed the Scottish government must do more to support the economy.
Scottish Conservative economy spokesman Dean Lockhart said: '"As this report states, whether or not Scotland officially enters recession hangs in the balance. And that's while the rest of the UK powers ahead, so the SNP can't possibly blame Brexit.
"This is on the Scottish government's shoulders, and it has to explain what it is going to do to kick-start the economy it is in charge of.
"Make no mistake, Scotland has great potential. But that potential has been utterly neglected by an SNP government which has its priorities focused elsewhere."
Labour's economy spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said Scotland was "teetering on the brink of recession because Nicola Sturgeon has been more interested in running a campaign for a second independence referendum than running a government".
She added: "Every time difficult figures for our economy are announced SNP ministers claim the fundamentals of our economy are strong. ministers must take their heads out of the sand and stop being complacent.
"With the new powers of the Scottish Parliament and the budget for public services more dependent on Scottish tax revenues than previously, we need a government with a laser focus on growing the economy and creating jobs."
About 3,400 people, mainly from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, have died in the current outbreak.
President Barack Obama said on Monday that the US planned to screen incoming air passengers for the virus.
But PHE said this was not recommended by the World Health Organization and would mean screening "huge numbers of low-risk people".
David Cameron is to chair the weekly meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee on Wednesday where the UK's response to the outbreak will be discussed.
Downing Street said it was part of an "ongoing series" of meetings to co-ordinate the UK response
PHE said that if a case of Ebola were reported in the UK, the affected person would be isolated and protective measures would be implemented.
Dr Brian McCloskey, director of global health at PHE, said: "Our robust, well-developed and well-tested NHS systems for managing unusual infectious diseases are all active permanently, and always available and regularly tested and proven to be effective.
"The overall risk of Ebola to the UK remains low."
It comes after a Spanish nurse was diagnosed with Ebola in Madrid, making her the first person outside Africa to contract the disease.
Health officials in Madrid said three other people were also being tested for the virus, while some 52 others were being monitored.
In August, British nurse William Pooley, 29, caught Ebola while treating patients in Sierra Leone, but recovered after receiving treatment in the UK.
Professor Nick Phin, a director of PHE, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the case in Spain did not mean the UK was at any more risk from Ebola.
There are 40 flights a week arriving in the UK from three West African countries - Nigeria, Ghana and The Gambia.
British Airways recently suspended flights between Britain and Liberia and Sierra Leone owing to the "deteriorating public health situation" in the two countries.
Downing Street said Mr Cameron had spoken to Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma to "get the latest on the situation in the country" and to discuss how £125m in UK aid was assisting efforts.
A No 10 spokesman said President Koroma said the situation continued to be "very serious".
"The prime minister said the UK would continue to do all it could to support their efforts," the spokesman added.
The UK government has announced that more than 100 British army medics will be sent to Sierra Leone to fight Ebola.
Personnel from the 22 Field Hospital have undergone extensive training in preparation for their deployment and will staff a unit specifically set up to treat medics who have caught the disease.
Armed forces minister Mark Francois said it was "critical" to give other medical workers "the comfort that if they were to become infected, they could go there and get the best medical treatment that we can provide".
Passengers leaving affected countries already have their temperatures checked, but people do not become infectious until they display symptoms.
The WHO recommends that affected countries conduct exit screening on those with unexplained illness consistent with potential Ebola infection.
International Development Secretary Justine Greening said the government was continuing to keep the issue of tighter travel restrictions under review.
"Obviously the Spanish authorities are now looking at how this case happened. It doesn't change the assessment of the risk to the UK.
"But what it does show is why we're right to be working with governments as we are in Sierra Leone to help them combat this disease.
"What we need to do is get those transmission rates back under control, but until that happens we will continue to see more infections and a growing number of infections over the coming weeks."
Professor John Oxford, a virologist at Queen Mary University, told the BBC all doctors had been written to about Ebola.
He said: "Every doctor has been warned to look out for people coming into hospitals, taking the proper case history and not letting anything slip at that stage and taking it very seriously.
"Everyone is on the look-out and that's how it should be."
He said an outbreak of the virus in the UK was unlikely, compared with West Africa.
He added: "The virus is very fragile and easily destroyed by hot water, soap and detergent.
"So in a country where the infrastructure is good, where the hygiene level is good, where every house has running chlorinated water, a virus like this will find it exceedingly difficult to make a move."
Lucy Moreton, general secretary of the ISU - the union for borders, immigration and customs officials - said members were concerned about coming into contact with the virus.
She said she had spoken to a border force official who said there were no firm plans to change what was currently in place.
She said: "Nothing that is proposed by the US at this point would have detected the case they currently have.
"No amount of screening for fever before departure would have caught that.
"It's better than nothing but it's not a universal solution; it's not going to stop this spreading in the way it has.
"There are lots of other threats to world health and clearly that has to be a sensible precaution where it can be implemented.
"The risk remains very low and we have robust procedures in place at borders anyway."
Rehm, 27, won Paralympic gold in 2012 and is looking to become the second athlete after Oscar Pistorius to compete at the Olympics.
IAAF rules say amputee competitors must prove they do not have an advantage.
IAAF president Lord Coe said Rehm had not proven the prosthetic he uses "does not give him a competitive advantage".
Rehm had commissioned a scientific study hoping to prove he did not get an advantage, with a report last month indicating no clear edge over able-bodied athletes.
The study showed that amputees such as Rehm had a less efficient start but a more efficient jump.
Last year, Rehm jumped a Para-athletics world record of 8.40 metres to win the IPC world title in Doha.
That distance would have beaten Briton Greg Rutherford's winning leap at the 2012 London Olympics by nine centimetres.
John Jukes, 70, from Cheltenham, suffered six fractures to his eye socket and lost 3,000 euros (£2,190) during the attack on 31 March.
A campaign to replace the stolen money, led by the Gloucestershire Echo, has now raised more than £2,500.
A 30-year-old man has been charged with grievous bodily harm and robbery.
He is due to appear at Gloucester Crown Court on 7 May.
The plan is to connect the two grids using 138km of overhead lines between a new substation near Moy in County Tyrone and County Meath.
EirGird, the company behind the proposal, has said the interconnector is essential to secure a reliable supply into the future.
It is the second oral hearing by An Bord Pleanála into the matter.
An Bord Pleanála, the Irish planning authority, will hear submissions from EirGrid and opponents to the plans, at the hearing in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan.
It is due to last three months.
The first hearing collapsed in 2010 after hearing testimony for several weeks.
Under the proposals, 299 pylons would be constructed over the 103km route between the border at Clontibret in Monaghan and a large substation in Batterstown, County Meath.
The pylons would vary in height between 26m and 51m across Monaghan, Cavan and Meath.
A lawyer for EirGrid told the hearing that the project was essential to secure a safe, reliable, economic and efficient electricity supply between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
He said the development would save 20m euros (£15.47m) annually by 2020 rising to 60m euros (£46.42m) by 2030.
Campaigners want the cables to be put underground for environmental and health reasons.
The lawyer for EirGrid said the company had looked at the possibility of installing high voltage cables underground but said the best technical solution was to keep the cables over ground for the whole duration of the route.
In the Republic of Ireland, the state-owned commercial energy company, EirGrid, has submitted plans for the southern half of the project.
In Northern Ireland, the lead is being taken by System Operator for Northern Ireland (SONI).
A separate planning application is before the Planning Appeals Commission, with a hearing due to begin on 21 June.
Rick Minns, nicknamed Ruddy Muddy, creates his works of arts in the mud, grease and dust on unwashed vans.
He has used his "graffilthy art" to depict an image of Corrie Mckeague, who has been missing since September.
Mr Mckeague's mother Nicola Urquhart said it was "amazing" and hoped the "unusual" artwork would help spread the message in the search for her son.
She said: "It really is a fantastic likeness, I really can't believe he has done that on a back of a van.
"It's so unusual, I've never seen anything like it before. I think it will get people talking."
Mr Mckeague, originally from Dunfermline in Fife, has been missing since a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk on 24 September.
The 23-year-old gunner was last spotted on CCTV walking alone and eating takeaway food at 03:20 BST.
He was seen going into the "Horseshoe" area, a loading bay area close to Brentgovel Street, and not seen coming out again.
Mr Minns, 42, from Wicklewood, Norfolk, who first hit the headlines with his art in 2014, said he was "happy to help" the search.
He said: "Anything that can make a few more people aware - if it's seen by someone and leads to more information that would be great."
The report released on Tuesday found that First Nation children were often physically and sexually abused.
"They were stripped of their self-respect and they were stripped of their identity," said Murray Sinclair, one of the study's authors.
More than 130 residential schools operated across Canada.
The Canadian government forced more than 150,000 First Nation children to attend these schools from the 19th Century until the mid-1990s. The schools sought to integrate the children into mainstream Canadian society, but in doing so rid them of their native culture.
The policies have been cited as a major factor in an epidemic of substance abuse on reservations. Students said they were beaten for speaking their native language and were separated from their parents and customs.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a historic apology in parliament in 2008, acknowledging the physical and sexual abuse that took place in the schools.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which wrote the report, was created in 2006 as part of a $5bn (£3.3bn) class action settlement between the government, churches and the 90,000 surviving First Nation students.
The report issued 94 recommendations including an investigation into missing and murdered aboriginal women and an apology from Pope Francis on behalf of the Catholic Church.
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These culinary descriptions pepper most medical textbooks, helping physicians identify often unusual ailments - from harmless birthmarks to sight-threatening conditions.
Dr Ritu Lakhtakia, from Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, described these titbits of knowledge in the journal Medical Humanities.
She says they were an integral part of her medical degree, making hard scientific facts less dry and huge chunks of biochemical wisdom more palatable.
Food imagery has been used in medicine for many years. Here is an easy one to start with.
Cafe au lait spots - flat patches of milk-coffee coloured skin are a tell-tale sign of diseases such as neurofibromatosis in which usually non-cancerous masses grow along nerves.
More solitary spots can be seen in people without disease too.
And visions of fruit can give doctors clues to diseases that are much harder to see.
A cherry red spot at the back of the eye suggests the main vessel supplying blood to the eye has been blocked - an emergency situation, which needs immediate medical attention.
And harmless birthmarks that look like a splash of a favourite tipple are described in medical text as port wine stains.
The relatively common marks are caused by areas of small, abnormal blood vessels and can vary in hue from deep red to purple.
About one in 3,000 babies is born with one and laser treatment can help them fade.
Grapes crop up in various guises, not just in their alcoholic form.
Some bacteria, such as staphylococcus aureus, that are often present harmlessly on our skin, can resemble bunches of grapes as they grow.
The chest X-ray above shows miliary tuberculosis - a form of TB where the disease has spread around the body in a manner that is said to look like a scattering of millet seeds.
Some people with tuberculosis can develop masses of bacteria in their lungs. And if you were to inspect them more closely they are said to resemble and have the consistency of soft cheese - medical students learn of them as caseating (cheese-like) granulomas.
Dr Lakhtakia says: "For me it changed forever the delights of the cheese counter at the delicatessen."
She mentions perhaps even less palatable phrases including anchovy sauce - a term used to illustrate the dark pus seen in certain liver abscesses.
But more popular treats have not escaped this medical treatment. Chocolate cysts can help diagnose a condition called endometriosis, when tissue behaving like the lining of the womb is found outside the uterus.
It can cause the ovaries to fill with a dark fluid akin to chocolate.
Yet perhaps most ubiquitous of all is the common beer-belly - used by doctors and patients alike to describe a stomach that has had a few too many.
Dr Lakhtakia now uses food to teach her students - often walking round with samples of nutmeg and turmeric to help illustrate some of the more colourful workings of the inner body.
She says turmeric can match the urine of patients with severe jaundice, while nutmeg helps illustrate the appearance of congested livers.
They need fairly strong stomachs, she says.
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Clubs relegated from the Premier League will receive at least £64m over three years from next season.
Teams who spend only one season in the top tier will be given about £51m.
"Looking at a League One team now, if they don't get into the Premier League within the next five years there'll be absolutely zero chance," said Johnson.
"I think because there's such huge payments as far as the parachute stuff it'll just be impossible.
"It will end up going into [a system of] feeder clubs and there's no way around that because it just can't be sustainable."
Johnson left Barnsley to take charge at Ashton Gate this month, having started his managerial career at Oldham.
Asked by BBC Radio Bristol whether he thought football would change "fundamentally" in the near future, the 34-year-old agreed it would.
"You've only got to look at the likes of Manchester City now that have got City Group, and they've got six or seven clubs all around the world that are very closely linked," he said.
"It's becoming almost like a franchise global market scenario and the big clubs with the big money will just expand.
"It will become very difficult for the likes of an Oldham or Barnsley to get into the Premier League."
Bristol City are currently 21st in the Championship, five points above the relegation zone.
Doctors walked out at 08:00 GMT on Wednesday in the third stoppage in their dispute with the government over the imposition of a new contract.
Over 5,000 operations were cancelled before the action and hospitals seemed to cope well on the first day.
But NHS England said Thursday was likely to prove "more challenging".
Dr Anne Rainsberry, who is in charge of planning during the strike, suggested hospitals might find it difficult to discharge patients without junior doctors working, which could then clog up hospital wards.
She said this was because they had a vital role in chasing up test results and ensuring patients were ready for discharge.
"So far the NHS is holding up, but we always expected the second half of the strike to be more challenging," she said.
She also urged patients to go to hospital only when absolutely necessary.
"If people need medical help and it's not an emergency they should consider NHS Choices, visit their local pharmacy, or call their GP or NHS 111 for more serious matters.
"If their condition is an emergency or life-threatening they should call 999 as usual or go to A&E."
Doctors are providing emergency cover during the walkout, which ends on Friday morning, and consultants, nurses and midwives are all working in hospital as normal. GP surgeries are largely unaffected.
On Wednesday just over half of junior doctors expected in work did not turn up - a figure broadly in line with the previous strikes and to be expected considering the numbers needed to provide emergency care.
The latest walkout is the third in the long-running dispute, but the first to last 48 hours.
So far 19,000 operations and treatments have had to be postponed because of industrial action. The NHS carries out about 30,000 procedures a day.
Thousands of check-ups, appointments and tests have been affected as well.
Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association, said she had "growing concern" about the dispute.
"Whatever the rights and wrongs of the arguments put forward by either side, the failure to resolve the differences by agreement is bad for doctors, bad for the taxpayer, but above all bad for patients and the NHS."
The junior doctors row explained
Will the dispute have a toxic legacy?
What patients need to know during strike
The situation across the rest of the UK
Special report: Read more on the dispute
This week's walkout is the first of three 48-hour stoppages planned by the British Medical Association as it continues its fight against the government's plans to force through the changes to pay and conditions. The next two are planned for April.
The union has also said it will be launching a legal challenge to oppose the imposition of the contract that was announced following last month's strike.
But ministers have said they will be pushing ahead with imposition regardless. The new contracts are due to go out in May and will come into force from August.
Analysis: Was a deal ever possible?
The BMA said it "deeply regretted" the disruption that was being caused, but the action was necessary because of the "unfair" changes being imposed on the profession.
Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, said it was "hugely disappointing" that doctors were taking action as the contract was "safe, fair and reasonable".
He said the strike would be causing "much disruption to patients and their families which is completely unnecessary".
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Mr Lungu, elected in January, collapsed while giving a speech to commemorate International Women's Day in the capital, Lusaka, on Sunday.
During the campaign, Mr Lungu's allies denied reports he was sick and he offered to undergo a medical check-up.
The election was called following the death of his predecessor Michael Sata.
Mr Lungu, 58, was treated at a local hospital and his office issued a report assuring Zambians that the president was "feeling better" and would return home on Monday.
A statement from the president's office said he was suffering from a narrowing of the oesophagus which needed "high-tech medical procedure which is currently unavailable in Zambia".
"Therefore he has been referred for specialised treatment abroad," it said.
It said this was a recurrence of a condition for which he had been treated 30 years ago.
The statement did not specify when Mr Lungu would have the operation and journalists were not allowed to ask questions at the press briefing.
Mr Lungu, a former defence minister, is due to serve the remainder of Mr Sata's term, until elections in 2016.
While Mr Sata was president, the government was accused of covering up his ill-health.
Journalist Meluse Kapatamoyo says that after the deaths of two serving presidents in six years, some Zambians are concerned about Mr Lungu's condition.
Mr Sata died while in London and Ms Kapatamoyo says Zambians are likely to be even more anxious when Mr Lungu goes abroad for treatment.
However, she says that some people have been reassured by the regular medical updates on Mr Lungu's condition.
Wrexham board member Horne, who won 59 international caps, believes a negative result against their rivals could make things "turn for the worse."
Horne said the Dragons' board fully supported Mills, but admitted results have not been satisfactory.
"On the pitch it's been disappointing," Horne told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
He continued: "Inconsistency is costing us really. Automatic promotion certainly already looks very, very difficult.
"Even the play-offs are not going to be easy, but it's not impossible."
Wrexham are 14th in the National League and nine points off top spot with a section of fans booing the manager in recent weeks.
"I won't deny there is some dissent in the stands. It's strange how that has built up. It seems to have bubbled up quite seriously of late," Horne said.
"At the moment the fans are still with us in our quest to get back to the Football League.
"Everyone on the board are diehard Wrexham fans. We feel the same as the fans. We are aching to get back up there."
Horne says Mills still has the support the hierarchy at Wrexham, but admits he can ill-afford a derby defeat.
"Gary Mills has the full support of the board. We've got a massive game coming up on Saturday and Gary is preparing for that," he said.
"It's bigger than usual because it comes at what might could viewed as a critical time.
"The unrest and discontent amongst fans could be put aside for a little while with a good performance and good result.
"But if it was to go horribly wrong against Chester and they took the spoils, things could take a turn for the worse. There is no doubt about that."
As the prime minister has pointed out "access to the single market has many potential different meanings".
Japan and the US have "access" and, as one economist told me, even Haiti does.
Countries outside the EU have to negotiate trade deals, pay tariffs, get through customs and abide by EU rules.
This is all done without the advantage of having a say on those rules.
By comparison at the moment we are members of the EU's single market and have been for decades, which offers us totally free movement of goods, finance, and people around the EU, without any tariffs.
We also have influence on how the rules are written.
That's why much of business thinks "access" should mean "membership of" the single market, or what David Cameron called the "best access".
That is why the head of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Mike Hawes, said: "80% of what we produce is exported and the only way to succeed is through unrestricted and reciprocal access to the EU and global markets."
By "access" Mr Hawes means "membership" of the single market.
And it is not just carmakers that are worried about "access".
On Wednesday, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup of EU members, was asked what the consequences of Brexit might be.
He replied: "London and its financial service industry is servicing all of Europe now.
"They do that with the passport that gives them access to all the markets in Europe without any further bureaucratic hassle or other permits required and all of that will change.
"London has grown as a financial centre because of its position in Europe.
"Many Asian investors, other international institutions have come to London to service the European market from London and that position will inevitably change," he added.
Inevitable is a strong word.
The UK will work hard to negotiate the best possible access for all its industries and that could involve membership of the single market.
That is quite achievable.
Other countries are already in the single market without belonging to the EU, but they all allow free movement of EU citizens and pay into EU funds.
Leave supporters believe we can cut an especially favourable deal, but the SMMT also wants the UK "to shape EU regulations on the cars we drive" but that will be much more difficult once we are no longer members of the EU.
It shows how complicated the negotiations will be and how worried business is when people talk about "access" to the single market.
It is as if it is the answer to all their worries, but as the prime minister said, it depends on what you mean by "access".
The BBC revealed last week the county council was not renewing its block contract for seven beds at the Ashcroft Centre in Wicklewood.
The council would not accept a weekly rate of £650 per person.
Now Julian Support, which runs the centre, is in new talks with the council looking at how to keep it open.
Last week Julian Support said it was restructuring all its services and the Ashcroft Centre was facing closure in March when the county council contract was due to end.
Ben Curran, head of operations at Julian Support, said: "Cuts will have an impact on other services we provide for the community and staff at Ashcroft now face an uncertain future."
Julian Support and Norfolk County Council said in a joint statement following a morning meeting: "We both recognise that Ashcroft is a valuable service that provides very specific support to a number of vulnerable women.
"Julian Support has been able to identify ways to reduce their costs and the council has increased its funding offer to a level which Julian Support believe would enable them to continue providing a safe and good quality level of care for the seven beds purchased by the council.
"In addition, the council will continue to work with Julian Support to try to increase the viability of the home and make the service's future more secure.
"Both Julian Support and the county council are aware that the uncertainty surrounding Ashcroft has caused a lot of concern, particularly among those who are currently being supported at the home or who have benefitted from the service in the past, and we are keen to work together to find a solution."
Before 13 March last year, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was expecting to spend his next Christmas in retirement - in an old people's home in the Buenos Aires district of Flores, where he was born 77 years ago.
But now he carries the hopes and fears of more than a billion Roman Catholics.
What explains this suddenly renewed interest in Catholicism? What need is Pope Francis meeting in people?
Nine months ago the Church was beset by allegations of scandal and mismanagement in its bureaucracy and its bank, its reputation besmirched by the sexual abuse scandal.
"The dominant narrative about the Catholic Church today is 'rock star Pope takes the world by storm'," says John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter.
"If that's not a revolution, at least at the level of perception, then we have never seen one."
The revolution has been forged in gestures, such as the Pope's decision to include a Muslim woman when he washed the feet of young offenders last Easter, and his instinctive hug for a man whose face was badly disfigured by disease.
His refusal to live in the papal apartment or to wear the regal clothes that go with his office has also caught the public imagination.
So has the way he picks up the phone to call people out of the blue.
Sister Teresa, a nun of the Daughters of St Anne, was teaching a class of 11-year-olds at her school in Casal di Principe when her mobile phone rang.
"I saw a very long number," she says. "A voice said, 'I'm Pope Francis', and I said, 'You must be joking, I don't believe it'. He laughed, and said 'I AM, Father Bergoglio'."
Pope Francis called to bless the nuns' campaign against the dumping of toxic waste, touched by photographs they had sent him, each one depicting a mother holding the picture of a dead child.
She said the conversation had left her feeling "serene, because the Pope is thinking of us and loves us and is not leaving us alone".
But not all Roman Catholics welcome Pope Francis's new approach.
Some traditionalists say his unwillingness to talk much about the Church's beliefs on issues such as abortion, contraception and homosexuality cedes too much ground to secular values.
Catholic Church's "rejuvenation"
Kishore Jayabalan, director of a Christian research organisation, the Acton Institute, says others are uneasy about the effect of the Pope's humble style.
"Some of the more traditionalist critics of Pope Francis are worried about the less regal style of the papacy - the Pope, as a rule, has the trappings of a monarchy," he says.
But the "Francis effect" will not be limited to changes in style and emphasis.
Pope Francis has recruited eight cardinals to help him reform the Vatican bureaucracy and has acted to address mismanagement in the Vatican bank.
Now the Pope could be considering a far bigger step.
"I think the most profound change the Pope is aiming for is revamping the Synod of Bishops," says Robert Mickens, of Catholic journal The Tablet.
"It was set up in the 1960s and has been used to rubber-stamp whatever the Pope wanted to do.
"This Pope wants to expand it, to give it real power and use it to help him rule the Church and eventually to give them the authority to make decisions themselves. That would be a revolutionary change."
The Pope has also suggested that the power and authority concentrated for centuries in the papacy might be devolved to some extent, to conferences of bishops in countries round the world.
"Now we have a pope saying 'we can trust local bishops… to make the decisions,' says Mr Allen.
"In the long run, that shift of power from the centre to the periphery, if Francis pulls it off and makes it real, is a historically significant development in Catholic life."
But there could be dangers in loosening the reins on a Church of more than one billion people present in widely diverse societies across the world.
Fr Joseph Kramer, priest of The Most Holy Trinity of Pilgrims church in Rome, says the papacy is needed for practical reasons, to unify clergy who have a propensity to disagree.
"You run the risk of schisms and divisions and arguments", he says.
"This unfortunately happens in Eastern [Orthodox] churches and Protestant denominations, where you don't have a central authority."
There could be other reforms - perhaps an end to the ban on divorced and remarried Catholics from taking Holy Communion, perhaps a greater role for women in the Church.
But there will be no change to conservative teaching on fundamental issues such as homosexuality, euthanasia or abortion.
So can Pope Francis succeed in rebuilding Christian faith by simply changing the conversation, or the "narrative" about Catholicism, without real reform of its teaching?
John Allen sees the Francis pontificate as a kind of laboratory experiment.
"There has been a trend in progressive Catholicism that says we don't need to change the doctrines to recapture public interest," says Mr Allen.
"We need people to see the real commitment to human flourishing that is ultimately at the core of these doctrines. What we are going to see on Pope Francis's watch is that he will put a beguiling human face on to the classic message."
The change in tone under the new Pope, it seems, is aimed at a secularising society, one which at least one commentator sees as "post-Christian".
"The Christian epoch is gone, it's all over and Pope Francis knows that," says Mr Mickens of The Tablet.
"A Jesuit leader said the Church has been giving answers to questions people aren't asking. Pope Francis is trying to give answers to questions people are asking - why is my grandmother in a home? Why is there no-one to care for her? Why can't my son find work?"
Pope Francis now has the world's attention, fleeting and fickle though it may be, and a rare opportunity to make significant changes.
In the rush to disrupt every industry and to reinvent the way we live, do the tech utopians forget the negative impact some of their miraculous products can have on the lives and jobs of many people?
This week Amazon unveiled an idea for stores without checkouts or cashiers - and while it had the tech world swooning, others were aghast. They were not convinced that the wiping out of millions of retail jobs along with another area of human interaction was progress.
It seemed to reinforce the idea expressed by the noted technology thinker Om Malik in a recent New Yorker article, that Silicon Valley has an empathy vacuum. We've been speaking to Om who tells us that the Amazon Go concept is an example of the kind of technology that is now being invented without much thought - "the speed with which change is happening is far ahead of our capabilities as human beings to deal with it".
He thinks Silicon Valley needs to be rather more reflective about the impact its innovations are having on people who are fearful about the future - and he links this general anxiety about technology to the UK's Brexit vote and the rise of Donald Trump.
We've heard a lot on Tech Tent about a future where jobs are threatened by automation and artificial intelligence - but we assumed that was a distant threat. Suddenly it seems to be a very present worry for millions of people.
Have you ever come across someone whose face you recognised but you couldn't remember their names? It's always happening to me.
Now - as I reported earlier this week - there's an app for that. The augmented reality company Blippar already allows you to scan objects with your smartphone's camera to find out more about them - now you will be able to scan faces too.
But facial recognition software can be controversial - and this could be another of those innovations which sound great in a company brainstorming session but have unintended consequences in the real world. We hear from Blippar's co-founder Omar Tayeb who tells us how the app works - and why we shouldn't be worried about its implications for privacy.
Our final story is about another area where the tech industry's reputation is coming into question - the proliferation of fake news stories spread over social networks and via Google searches.
The tech firms are now starting to respond with initiatives that could help readers understand what is true and what is not - but what can the traditional media firms do?
Our reporter Jane Wakefield has been along to a hackathon where media organisations tried to work out what they could do to regain the trust of their audiences - and to show them that truth still matters:.
We hear from the Guardian, the UK's Mirror newspaper and Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics about how hard it is becoming in the online world to distinguish between news and propaganda. Ann Gripper from the Mirror argues that the problem now is that social media users get rewarded for sharing stories - fake or not.
Critics of the mainstream media will argue with some justification that the problem started long before many people got their news online. So whose job is it now to decide what is true - and put clear markings on fake stories? You might think that was the function of editors - but Alex Sander of the Guardian tells us "it's the reader's job to mark things as fake".
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China has seen a huge rise in the popularity of football in the country in recent years.
This means many Chinese managers are looking for big name players to add to their teams.
Ex-Manchester City player Carlos Tevez has recently been signed by Chinese team Shanghai Shenhua for a whopping £71.6 million!
But a change to the rules means that Chinese Super League clubs will only be allowed to play three non-Chinese players per game in their next season - which begins in March.
Martin's been finding out more about this new football powerhouse...
The Foxes won the title last season for the first time, but are only two points above the relegation places this term.
"We need to get on with now rather than saying: 'Last year was great,'" Huth told Football Focus. "It's reality. We are struggling with relegation."
Leicester have won only one of their eight league games since beating Manchester City 4-2 on 10 December.
They play Manchester United at home on Sunday (16:00 GMT).
"We're losing games and we can't put our fingers on how or why," added centre-back Huth.
"We fully deserved what we got last season, and it was always going to be a struggle after what happened, but we didn't think we would be in this position.
"For you to become better you need to be honest. You can't say you've been brilliant when you haven't."
Despite their domestic struggles, Leicester have impressed in their first Champions League campaign, winning their group to set up a last-16 tie with Spanish side Sevilla.
But 32-year-old Huth dismissed the idea that their league form has been affected by European action.
"People say it is a distraction, but for me it never has been and never will be - it's only an extra six games," he said.
"It's not like we're thinking about the Champions League every time we play in the Premier League."
Huth did concede they Leicester have missed midfielder N'Golo Kante, who moved to Chelsea in the summer, and goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, who missed eight games in November and December with a hand injury.
The German said: "N'Golo is an unbelievable player - you see what he is doing at Chelsea. He was awesome playing for us and we certainly miss him.
"Kasper is the best goalkeeper in the league and is very underrated. We missed him and didn't win many games without him."
Earlier this week, Leicester striker Leonardo Ulloa said he would not play for the club again, because he had been "betrayed" by manager Claudio Ranieri and "let down" by the club.
But Huth said the Foxes needed the Argentine forward after his proposed move to Sunderland fell through at the end of the transfer window.
"He has always been a part of our team," Huth added. "He's frustrated with things but we need him. He's a big player for us and we definitely need every player.
"As a group we've been here before. Two years ago we were bottom of the league and we still have a big group of players here from then. We've been in worse positions than we're in now.
"The supporters, me, the team, Claudio... we all need to do a bit more to turn things around."
The DJ, known as Dax J, was charged with public indecency and offending public morality.
He has already fled the country, and made a public apology.
The nightclub was shut down after footage of the weekend's event was shared on social media and sparked outrage.
A court spokesperson told AFP news agency that the court dismissed charges against the nightclub owner and an event organiser, but the prosecution has appealed saying the two should have checked what the DJ would be playing.
The event was part of Orbit Festival in Nabeul in the country's north-east.
The footage showed clubbers dancing to music played by two European DJs.
The music included a dance version of the call to prayer, the religious act that Muslims perform five times a day.
"We will not allow attacks against religious feelings and the sacred," the governor of Nabeul, Mnaouar Ouertani, said when the club was shut down.
Earlier in the week, the organisers of the Orbit Festival apologised in a post on the event's Facebook page, but said that they did not accept responsibility for the playing of any offensive music.
The DJ "did not realise it might offend an audience from a Muslim country like ours," they said in the post (in French).
Dax J has offered his "sincere apologies to anyone who may have been offended by music that I played at Orbit Festival in Tunisia on Friday".
"It was never my intention to upset or cause offence to anybody," he said.
The state of Western Australia introduced the strictest anti-smoking laws in the country in September 2010, with bans in cars carrying children, on sections of beaches and within 10m (32ft) of playground equipment.
Australia also plans to force tobacco companies to use plain packaging carrying graphic health warnings from July 2012.
Across the country, smoking is already banned inside all airports, government offices, health clinics and workplaces.
New Zealand has announced a ban on smoking throughout prisons from July 2011.
Officials said high levels of smoking were a risk to staff and prisoners, and they dismissed concerns that the ban would spark violence. It is believed that two-thirds of the New Zealand's prison population are smokers.
New Zealand already bans smoking in bars, clubs, restaurants, offices, workplaces and shops, and on public transport.
Canada's strict anti-smoking laws have been credited with cutting hospital admissions for heart and respiratory problems by about a third.
A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in April 2010 monitored admissions in the city of Toronto since smoking bans were introduced in 2001.
Smoking levels in Canada have long been among the lowest in the world, with about 21% of Canadians over the age of 15 reported to be smokers in 2002, according to government statistics.
In addition to bans on smoking in workplaces and many public places, cigarette packets bear graphic images of the damage done to internal organs by smoking.
China banned smoking in hospitals in May 2010 but activists say there have seen no signs of the government introducing a promised national ban on smoking in public places.
Many Chinese cities have their own regulations on where people can light up, but enforcement is varied.
A government survey in August showed that only a quarter of the adult population believed that smoking increased the risk of cancer. Anti-smoking campaigns are failing to influence them, state news agency Xinhua reported.
In May 2008, in the run-up to the Olympic Games, a smoking ban for most public buildings came into force in the Chinese capital, Beijing. The country has an estimated 350 million smokers. For every three cigarettes lit worldwide, one is smoked in China.
In April 2010 Syria become the first Arab state to ban smoking in public places including restaurants and cafes.
The law also prohibits smoking in educational institutions, health centres, sports halls, cinemas and theatres, and on public transport.
The restrictions include the nargile, or hubble-bubble pipe, which is popular among locals and tourists.
Egypt took its first steps in introducing a smoking ban earlier this year.
In July, the city of Alexandria began enforcing an existing law - usually flouted - that banned smoking in government buildings. Officials said they aimed to extend the ban to the city's cafes within two years.
Egypt is the biggest consumer of cigarettes in the Arab world, puffing its way through some 19 billion cigarettes every year.
Greece has long been regarded as Europe's biggest smoking nation and has struggled to make its citizens kick the habit. In September 2010 a fresh attempt was made with a law banning tobacco advertising and smoking in enclosed public spaces.
In 2009 smoking was prohibited in hospitals and schools, vehicles and all public spaces but it was largely ignored in many areas.
Previous attempts to introduce a ban in 2002 and 2003 also failed.
Spain already has anti-smoking laws but tougher rules were announced in October which will give the country some of the strictest legislation in Europe. Lighting up will be banned in bars, cafes and restaurants and extend to open areas near hospitals, schools and children's playground. The new rules are due to come into effect in January.
Poland brought in anti-smoking laws in November 2010. The ban covers schools, museums, theatres, airports and railway and bus stations, public transport, stadiums, hospitals and playgrounds. Smoking is also banned in one-room restaurants and bars.
Estonia joined those European countries banning smoking in bars and restaurants on 5 June, 2007. The law bans smoking in cafes, restaurants, bars, nightclubs - except for special zones - and at bus stops and underground train stations. Offenders face a fine of 80 euros, while owners of cafes and restaurants can face a fine of up to 2,000 euros.
Finland introduced a similar measure on 1 June 2009.
France took a major step towards a total public ban when it announced it would prevent smoking in workplaces and other public buildings from 1 February 2007.
The law was extended in 2008 to include cafes, restaurants and bars.
Its first serious move to cut smoking levels came in October 2003, when it raised the price of cigarettes by 20%.
Correspondents say attitudes to smoking have changed dramatically in France since the 2007 ban, and any fears that people would generally ignore the laws have proved false.
In Germany, eight states, including Berlin, ushered in 2008 declaring their pubs and restaurants smoke-free.
German restaurants and pubs have strongly resisted the bans, not only because of the potential loss of income but partly because of an earlier crackdown on smoking initiated by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
The sensitivity of the issue has prompted the authorities to allow special rooms to be set up purely for smokers.
The toughest rules in Germany have been brought in by Bavaria, where no smoking rooms have been allowed. Lighting up was recently banned at the Oktoberfest Munich beer festival for the first time.
The Republic of Ireland imposed tough anti-smoking legislation in March 2004, banning smoking in pubs, restaurants and other enclosed workplaces.
Anyone caught smoking in a prohibited location now faces a fine of up to 3,000 euros (£2,000).
Italy imposed a ban on smoking in all enclosed public places including bars and restaurants from midnight on 10 January, 2005.
Montenegro: In August 2004, Montenegro - then part of a union with Serbia - decided to introduce a sweeping ban on smoking in public places in the hope of overturning an established culture of smoking in offices, restaurants, bars and on buses.
Tobacco advertising and the portrayal of smoking on television are also banned.
The Netherlands: The Dutch government banned smoking for hotels, restaurants and the catering industry in 2008, but in November 2010 announced that it plans to exempt bars smaller than 70sq m (753sq ft), with no staff other than the owner.
All bars must put up a sign telling customers whether or not it is a smoking establishment.
Health Minister Edith Schippers said consumers "will get more freedom of choice and personnel will remain protected against tobacco smoke".
In Norway a national ban was imposed on smoking in restaurants, bars and cafes from 1 June 2004.
Portugal introduced restrictions on 1 January 2008 but the rules not as tight as some other European countries. Portuguese bars smaller than 100sq m can still opt to allow smoking. Public buildings can still have smoking zones, provided they are clearly signposted and ventilated.
Smoking in Sweden was prohibited in all bars and restaurants from midnight in May 2005.
In the United Kingdom, smoking is banned in nearly all enclosed public spaces - including bars, restaurants and workplaces.
The ban came into force in England in July 2007. Scotland introduced a ban in March 2006, followed by Wales and Northern Ireland in April 2007.
The government also plans to ask tobacco firms to put only basic information and health or picture warnings on their packets. Making packets a plain colour would also protect children from taking up smoking in the first place, it suggests.
A ban on smoking in public places came into force in October 2008 in an effort to curb high levels of tobacco addiction.
The law also bans direct and indirect advertising of tobacco products and the sale of cigarettes to children.
Iran banned tobacco advertising and smoking in public buildings in October 2003 - but analysts say both measures have had little effect.
However, in July 2010 smokers were banned from taking high-ranking jobs in the Iranian government, the news agency ILNA reported.
Statistics show smoking among young Iranians is on the rise.
Many cities and states are considering - or already enforcing - bans on smoking. By November 2010, 27 states had banned lighting up in public places.
California has some of the toughest and most extensive anti-smoking legislation anywhere in the world.
A ban on smoking inside or within 1.5m of any public building came into force in 1993 - recently extended to 6m. Smoking is also banned in restaurants, bars and enclosed workplaces - and on beaches - throughout the state.
New York is also set to adopt tought new measures, having banned smoking in bars, clubs and restaurants since March 2003. It is now set to extend the smoking ban to municipal parks, beaches and pedestrian areas, including the one in Times Square.
Anti-smoking laws have provoked a strong debate in the US. Some bar owners say their businesses are suffering and smokers say their rights are being infringed, while non-smokers say they enjoy the smoke-free environment.
The Russian government has announced plans to ban advertising and promotion of cigarettes from 2011 and to introduce a complete ban on smoking in enclosed spaces by 2015.
The addiction kills up to 500,000 people a year in the country, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reports.
A 2009 survey by the World Health Organization found that Russia has 43.9 million smokers - about 40% of the population. The survey also revealed that 60% of Russian men and 22% of Russian women smoke.
Uruguay - which recently hosted an international summit tobacco control - has introduced some of the world's toughest anti-tobacco policies, banning smoking in private as well as public enclosed spaces.
It requires 80% of every cigarette package to show graphic images of the consequences of smoking, including diseased lungs and rotten gums.
In the capital, Nairobi, a ban on smoking in indoor public places came into force in July 2007, with a similar ban in Mombasa and the Rift Valley town of Nakuru.
Anyone smoking in offices, bus stations, airports and sports venue faces a fine of 50,000 Kenya shillings ($700; £375) or six months in prison.
Bars and restaurants without separate smoking areas are also affected.
Tanzania banned smoking in many public places in July 2003, with smoke-free zones declared on public transport, as well as in schools and hospitals.
The government also banned the selling of tobacco to under-18s and advertising on radio and television and in newspapers.
Bhutan says it is determined to become the world's first smoking-free nation. It banned the sale of tobacco in 2004 and smoking in public places in 2005.
The country's draconian law gives police sweeping powers to enter homes and search for tobacco products. In addition, it gives them the power to jail shopkeepers for selling tobacco and to arrest smokers if they fail to provide customs receipts for imported cigarettes - which are only permitted in very small quantities.
Smokers can legally import only up to 200 cigarettes or 150g (5.3oz) of other tobacco products a month - but a 100% tax is charged on such products. People found in possession of tobacco must provide a customs receipt when challenged by police, and can face jail for smuggling if they fail to provide their receipts.
There is a cash fine for breaking the ban, and shops also stand to lose their licence.
Mrs Foster said on Wednesday that she wanted to better understand those who love the language.
She said she wanted to "listen to and engage with those from the Gaelic Irish background, those without the party political background".
Mr Ó Muilleoir said he hoped the meeting would happen soon.
"It's a positive move," he said.
"Anything that encourages dialogue, that encourages conversations, that encourages increased understanding has to be positive."
Stormont's parties have "paused" talks to strike a deal to form an executive until after Easter.
The parties have yet to find a deal almost six weeks after the assembly election.
One of Sinn Féin's key priorities in the talks is a guarantee that an Irish Language Act will be enacted.
In February, Arlene Foster said the DUP would never agree to an Irish Language Act.
But she has now said she would meet with "people who genuinely love the Irish language and don't want to use it as a political weapon".
Mr Ó Muilleoir said he hoped she would listen carefully to the views of Irish speakers as they are "united and firm on the need for an Irish Language Act".
"I think that Arlene will find when she meets the Irish language community that they're a very broad church, people with all political views and none," he said.
"She'll find they're united behind the belief that Irish is a shared treasure of our people.
"It's a gift which I think Irish speakers want to share with everyone including, of course, those unionists who haven't yet completed the journey of understanding how important the Irish language is."
He added that it is "too early" to judge where the DUP stands in relation to an Irish Language Act but that the meeting will "be of benefit to her and to the Irish language community".
Irish language group Pobal said it would "gladly accept" Mrs Foster's invitation to meet with Irish speakers and it had written to Mrs Foster to arrange a meeting.
The company said it would increase gas prices by 8.5% and electricity prices by 9%.
The move comes amid political wrangling over the issue of energy bills, with the government planning to review the green levies that form part of a bill.
On Monday, Scottish Power was hit by an £8.5m penalty for misleading doorstep and telephone sales.
The price rise would lead to a £113 increase in the average annual dual-fuel bill to £1,424, Scottish Power said. It will affect about 2.2 million Scottish Power customers.
However, different areas of the country will face different price increases. For example, the rise will be 10.2% on average in southern England, but 7.3% in some areas of Scotland.
Scottish Power is the fourth of the six major energy suppliers to announce price rises.
SSE announced an 8.2% increase in domestic bills from 15 November, British Gas said prices for its customers would go up by 9.2% on 23 November, and Npower announced the biggest rise of 10.4% which will take effect from 1 December.
Scottish Power echoed the views of other suppliers by suggesting that the price rises were the result of the rising wholesale cost of energy. The cost of delivering energy to people's homes, and the rising cost of the government's environmental and social schemes were also to blame, it said.
Neil Clitheroe, chief executive of energy retail and generation for Scottish Power, said that there were a number of costs - such as windfarm payments - that did not exist 10 years ago, but which affected bills.
"With an increase in costs for delivering compulsory schemes to reduce carbon emissions and improving energy efficiency in homes, we unfortunately have no other option than to pass these on by increasing our prices for customers," he said.
"We understand that these are difficult times for many families, and we have done what we can to hold our prices for as long as possible. Recently we announced a range of measures to help our most vulnerable customers this winter.
"We will now write to every customer who will be impacted by the price increase, and we would encourage anyone who is concerned to contact us so we can discuss their options."
Ann Robinson, of price comparison website Uswitch.com, which would benefit from people switching supplier, said: "Unfortunately, the floodgates have opened and it looks like consumers are going to be buffeted by suppliers in very quick succession."
Iberdrola, the Spanish parent group of Scottish Power, said that its UK operations had been affected by tight margins, as well as by energy efficiency and environmental measures imposed by the regulator.
"As a consequence, generation and supply is now loss-making, and leaves the company no option but to increase tariffs," it said.
There has been considerable political debate over the price rises.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has pledged a price freeze for 20 months if his party wins the next election and has been on the attack over the issue.
Subsequently, Prime Minister David Cameron said that there would be a review of the green levies charged to companies that are included in bills. He said this accounted for £113 on an average bill - the same amount as Scottish Power's subsequent price rise announcement.
The review will be followed by a competition test for the energy market to establish how it is functioning.
The Liberal Democrats called the idea a "panicky U-turn" by Mr Cameron, although Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg later said some of the environmental policies could be delivered in a more cost-effective way.
On Tuesday, former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major called for a windfall tax on excess profits made by the largest suppliers.
On Tuesday, energy firm bosses will give evidence to a committee of MPs about the price rises.
Between August and December last year, the "big six" energy companies introduced price rises of between 6% and 10.8%.
Earlier this week, the regulator, Ofgem, said that Scottish Power customers were misled during sales approaches due to the firm's failure to "adequately train and monitor" staff.
The company apologised for the errors between 2009 and 2012, and has set up a £1m compensation fund for customers who believe they were victims of mis-selling.
It said it would also pay £7.5m to the 140,000 customers it has on the government-led "warm home discount scheme" aimed at supporting customers who are likely to be at risk of fuel poverty, as part of the penalty.
Mike Leslie, who has retired after 30 years service, said Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was "bewildered and dazed".
It took five hours to read the arrest warrant to the Libyan intelligence officer - but he gave no reaction.
Al-Megrahi was jailed for life in 2001 for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, killing 270 people.
He was tried at a specially convened Scottish court sitting at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands.
After serving eight years in prison, he was controversially released on compassionate grounds following a terminal cancer diagnosis.
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Mr Leslie was one of three officers from Dumfries and Galloway who were at Camp Zeist when Al-Megrahi arrived there in 1999.
He said: "I think he was pretty bewildered, dazed by the events that were unfolding in front of him.
"I don't think ultimately he ever anticipated... that he would be handed over by Gaddafi.
"I actually read the warrant over to him.
"It took approximately five hours because you had to read the warrant over a line at a time, it went through an interpreter and also as part of that process, the 270 names of the victims had to be read over as well."
The former chief superintendent added: "There was never any reaction from him. It was very much staid and what you would expect from someone, I would imagine, that's been trained to give no reaction.
"But I think it boils down to the fact that he was pretty well bewildered by the fact that his country had handed him over."
Three years later, after Al-Megrahi lost an appeal against his conviction, Mr Leslie escorted him to a helicopter that was to fly him from the Netherlands to Scotland.
Mr Leslie said: "The most satisfying aspect for me was the fact that having been at Lockerbie on the night it happened, the aftermath and then arresting him, reading the warrant over to him and getting the opportunity to look him in the eyes when he was sitting there in front of me.
"I got a lot of satisfaction out of that and I got a lot of satisfaction for the families, I think - the fact that justice was being brought to him.
Mr Leslie recently retired as divisional commander of Police Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway.
Shaun Kelly, 27, of Hill Road, Ballymagan, Buncrana, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving on 11 July 2010, at Letterkenny Circuit Criminal Court.
The crash at Meenaduff, between Buncrana and Clonmany was Ireland's worst ever road accident.
Eight men, aged between 19 and 66, were killed.
Kelly was the driver of the black Volkswagen Passat with seven other men when it collided with another car.
Kelly was sentenced to four years imprisonment with the final two suspended last December.
He was also disqualified from driving for ten years.
In October, the Director of Public Prosecutions sought a review of Kelly's sentence saying it was "unduly lenient".
Counsel for the DPP, told the Court of Appeal in Dublin that it was the worst fatal collision and the worst case of dangerous driving in the history of the state.
She said the sentence did not reflect the gravity of Kelly's culpability and the harm that was actually caused.
Acceding to the application on Monday, the Court of Appeal found Kelly's sentence was "unduly lenient".
Mr Justice George Birmingham said there were factors present in the case which "justified, indeed required" a sentence of lower than seven years.
However, he said the Circuit Court judge had erred in the "double discount" of mitigating the sentence from seven to four and suspending the final two years.
He said the sentence represented a "substantial departure" from what would be appropriate.
He said Kelly was entitled to know "his fate" and the court hoped to be in a position to impose a new sentence on him on 7 December.
In his first speech since Mr Trump took office, Mr Khamenei said the president had exposed "political, economic, moral and social corruption" in the US.
The response follows Mr Trump's imposition of new sanctions on Iran over a ballistic missile test.
Mr Trump has also been a fierce critic of the landmark nuclear deal struck between Iran and world powers in 2015.
Mr Khamenei, addressing military commanders in the capital Tehran, said Mr Trump was trying to frighten Iranians, but would fail.
"We are thankful for this person who has arrived [President Trump]. Our thanks is for making our life easy as he showed the real face of America," he said.
"What we have been saying for more than 30 years about the political, economic, moral and social corruption in the US ruling system, this person arose during the election campaign and... has confirmed it."
Mr Khamenei called on Iranians to turn out in large numbers on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
His speech comes amid an escalating war of words between Iran and the US.
US Defence Secretary James Mattis recently called Iran the world's "biggest state sponsor of terrorism".
Iran confirmed last week it had tested a missile but denied violating a UN Security Council resolution on its nuclear activities.
A US statement said Iran's "continued support for terrorism and development of its ballistic missile programme poses a threat to the region".
In a tweet, President Trump accused Iran of playing with fire, adding: "They don't appreciate how 'kind' President Obama was to them. Not me."
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday he believed that Mr Trump would try to renegotiate the nuclear deal but that "Iran and European countries will not accept that".
"We will have difficult days ahead," he told the Ettelaat newspaper.
Under the deal, Iran agreed to curb its sensitive nuclear activities in return for the lifting of economic sanctions.
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The world number 10 was beaten 10-7 by Graeme Dott - the first time Carter has failed to make the last 16 since 2006.
Two-time finalist Carter told BBC Sport: "I lost it in the first session.
"Graeme is a tough opponent. It was a bit like watching Alex Higgins play - you think he's going to miss at any moment but he keeps knocking them in."
Carter, whose 15 Crucible appearances have come consecutively since he first qualified in 2003, trailed 4-0 after a disastrous start.
But he battled back to 6-3 and then 8-7, before the 2006 champion closed out victory.
Carter added: "It's hard to play against him because he is good at winning all the scrappy frames.
"By the breaks I looked the better player but it wasn't meant to be. I was just fractions out all of the time from being perfect.
"The first four frames summed it up - I had a complete nightmare. I should have won at least three of them and the score ends up 10-7 to me.
"I just didn't make the most of my chances and that came back to haunt me."
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Some passengers learned of the cancellation after they had checked in at Belfast International Airport.
The low-cost airline apologised, saying it was due to staff sickness.
The service has only been running since the start of July and it now offers the only direct transatlantic flights from Belfast.
Patrick Murphy, from north Belfast, was booked on the flight to Providence, in Rhode Island state.
"Our cases were checked in and we got texts from the airline to say it was cancelled," he said.
"Desk staff knew nothing about it and said it must be an administrative error. We've been told some of us may be transferred to the flight to Newark.
"When asked how will you decide who goes, we were told to form a line."
A Norwegian spokesman said: "Passengers are able to rebook free of charge on to another Norwegian flight or if they no longer wish to travel will be given a full refund.
"We would like to sincerely apologise again to passengers for the inconvenience caused."
Michael Allen and Magnus Bradbury produced the scores, both of them converted by Duncan Weir.
The stand-off added two penalties to cancel out two from Rhys Patchell to give Edinburgh a 20-6 interval lead.
An awful match - rugby and officiating - brought just three more points in the second half, Patchell making it 20-9 while Edinburgh were down to 14 men.
It was dour and, all too often, dire stuff. Edinburgh will be pleased with the win - and their defence - after their poor show against Cardiff last weekend. They are not exactly rocking, but at least they are up and running.
For Scarlets, worrying times. Two defeats in a row and a performance in Edinburgh that will have their supporters fretting.
It was 6-6 when Allen scored the first try, in the 34th minute.
Edinburgh had been ponderous in possession up to that point but when Weir executed a chip over the top inside the Scarlets 22, the visitors were sloppy in dealing with it.
Full-back Liam Williams attempted to dive on it while wing Steff Evans failed to cover as Allen got on the end of it and then touched down.
It was not clear if he applied downward pressure on the ball over the try-line, but the score was awarded nonetheless. Weir banged over the conversion from wide out to make it 13-6.
A minute before the break, Jake Ball, the Scarlets second-row, was sin-binned for taking a man in the air at a line-out and in quick order, Edinburgh scored again.
A terrible kicking miscue from Patchell inside his own 22 took a kindly ricochet off an Edinburgh shin and ended up in Bradbury's hands.
The number eight galloped to the line, Weir converted and Edinburgh had a 20-6 half-time lead.
The home team lost Bradbury to the sin-bin for a tip-tackle within a minute of the re-start and as soon as Bradbury returned, Phil Burleigh was binned for a ruck offence.
The visitors could only add three points from Patchell's boot while they had a one-man advantage, although were unlucky not to be awarded a penalty try late on when Allen high-tackled Evans into touch as the wing attempted to touch down.
Edinburgh: Glenn Bryce, Michael Allen, Sasa Tofilau, Phil Burleigh, Tom Brown, Duncan Weir, Nathan Fowles, Rory Sutherland, Ross Ford, WP Nel, Ben Toolis, Grant Gilchrist (capt), Jamie Ritchie, John Hardie, Magnus Bradbury.
Replacements: Stuart McInally, Allan Dell, Kevin Bryce, Fraser McKenzie, Hamish Watson, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, Blair Kinghorn, Solomoni Rasolea
Scarlets: Liam Williams, Hadleigh Parkes, Jonathan Davies, Scott Williams, Steff Evans, Rhys Patchell, Aled Davies; Wyn Jones, Ken Owens (capt), Werner Kruger, Jake Ball, David Bulbring, Aaron Shingler, James Davies, John Barclay.
Replacements: Ryan Elias, Luke Garrett, Peter Edwards, Tadhg Beirne, Josh Macleod, Gareth Davies, Dan Jones, Aled Thomas.
Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU)
Attendance: 2,650
The 24-hour weekend service on the Jubilee, Victoria and most of the Piccadilly, Central and Northern lines was due to start on 12 September.
Members of four unions took strike action on 6 August and 8 July in the dispute over the Night Tube proposals.
Three unions have also announced two 24-hour walkouts on 25 and 27 August.
Talks were held earlier at the conciliation service Acas in a bid to avert further strike action and a further meeting between the train drivers' union Aslef and LU is expected later this week.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and Unite members announced on Tuesday their members would walk out for 24 hours from 18:30 BST on Tuesday 25 August and at 18:30 on Thursday 27 August.
Unions are unhappy at conditions offered to drivers working on the new Night Tube service.
During the last strike on 6 August, London mayor Boris Johnson said he was "not fussed" about the night service starting on 12 September as planned, as long as it started in the autumn.
Len Duvall, leader of the London Assembly Labour group, said: "By speculatively announcing a start date without any consultation with the people expected to run the service, Boris Johnson's gung-ho approach has led to disputes, disruption and now delay."
He said he hoped the delay would provide "breathing space" for the unions and management to resolve the dispute.
In September 2014, Transport for London (TfL) announced the Night Tube would run on Fridays and Saturdays with six trains per hour through central London on five Tube lines.
On the Northern Line, there would have been eight trains per hour to meet demand at busy stations between Leicester Square and Camden Town, TfL said.
The Night Tube was part of a six-point long term economic plan Chancellor George Osborne and Mr Johnson said it would add £6.4bn to the London economy by 2030 and create half a million new jobs.
It was also announced in February the night-time services would be extended to the Metropolitan, Circle, District, and Hammersmith & City lines by 2021 and extended to the London Overground in 2017 and the Docklands Light Railway by 2021.
Zahida Manzoor quit over the Liberal Democrats' policies on Europe and praised what she said was Prime Minister Theresa May's clear leadership on Brexit.
She is the second former Lib Dem peer to switch to the Tories, after Lady Nicholson re-joined the party.
Baroness Manzoor said the Tory party was now her "natural home".
She also said leaving the Lib Dems, for whom she had been a member of the House of Lords for three years, was "tough but... the right thing to do".
Baroness Manzoor, who had been the Lib Dem spokeswoman on work and pensions, added: "I could not support the leadership of a party that calls itself democratic and then refuses to acknowledge the will of the people in a referendum."
She was referring to Lib Dem leader Tim Farron's call for a second referendum on the terms of any Brexit deal.
Baroness Manzoor said: "Theresa May's vision of a Britain that works for everyone, and her clear leadership over Brexit, now make the Conservatives a natural home for me and millions of people like me, from all communities across the UK.
"As Britain embarks on a new journey, outside the EU but reaching out to trade with the world, and as we really begin addressing the problems of social mobility at home, I look forward to helping play my part as a Conservative."
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Theresa May was responding to a question from Conservative MP Sir Edward Leigh, who said that MPs should not be spending "billions of pounds worth of expenditure on ourselves".
The project could cost up to £4bn and take five to eight years to complete - and could see MPs and peers moving out temporarily.
Sampson allegedly asked a mixed race player if she had been arrested.
He was cleared of any wrongdoing by an FA-appointed independent panel.
But Piara Powar of Football Against Racism in Europe said the way Aluko's complaint was handled troubled him.
"The FA has done the right thing in commissioning an independent investigation. However, the more revelations that emerge publicly the bigger the questions become," he added.
"As I see it Eniola Aluko is a leader and an individual of principle. She did the correct thing in raising her concerns. One of the questions I have is why a player raising legitimate issues has found her England career effectively ended and her voice gagged."
Sampson is accused of making the alleged comments in 2015. Aluko, who has 102 England caps, included the allegations in her case against Sampson, which was sent to the FA last year.
Since making the complaint, Chelsea forward Aluko has not been picked for England and last played for her country in April 2016 despite being the Women's Super League One top scorer the same year.
However, she still remains a centrally contracted player, on a deal worth about £30,000 a year.
Details of her complaint were leaked on 7 August about the bullying and harassment case but they did not include the alleged remarks made to the player, which Aluko claimed had "derogatory, racial and prejudicial connotations".
The alleged comments are understood to have made the player to whom they were directed feel "shocked" and extremely uncomfortable.
It was also revealed last week that Aluko received about £80,000 in a settlement with the FA, but the governing body said the 30-year-old was not "precluded from speaking about the facts of that complaint".
It said it had agreed "a mutual resolution" with her to avoid disrupting the England squad's preparations for Euro 2017, which ended in a semi-final defeat by the Netherlands earlier this month.
Aluko, who is also a lawyer, responded in a statement to confirm that she "raised a grievance against the FA as a result of treatment that I and others previously suffered".
In her original evidence submitted to the FA, Aluko said: "During a meeting, at which I was not present, MS [Sampson] used an analogy about pressing hard in midfield and getting a caution like a police caution.
"MS then addressed the player individually and said in relation to being cautioned by police: 'Haven't you been arrested before? Four times isn't it?'"
Aluko's evidence continued: "This comment about the player was made with derogatory, racial and prejudicial connotations.
"It was also a defamatory, untrue statement given that the player has never been arrested and MS's comment indicates an assumption (subconscious or conscious) that being mixed race from London suggests a criminal record with the police.
"Although I was not present at the meeting, other players confirmed MS made this comment and that it was not received as a joke and created an awkward atmosphere in the room.
"I was deeply concerned and felt it was highly inappropriate for the national team coach to make such a sweeping negative generalisation about a new player in the team."
Referring the alleged incident to her own bullying and harassment case, she added: "As a black female in the team, understanding the unfavourable, racial and social connotations underlying MS's comment further heightened my feelings of fear and isolation, especially in light of the previous instances where I have been negatively singled out, too."
In a statement, the FA said: "Following an internal review into allegations raised by Eniola Aluko last year, The FA commissioned an independent investigation conducted by a barrister, Katharine Newton, who is an expert on employment and discrimination law.
"The detailed independent investigation report did not uphold any of Eniola Aluko's complaints and found no wrong-doing on behalf of The FA or others."
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"It's difficult, if not impossible, to accurately predict how commonplace these types of settlements are, as they will likely have a confidentiality or non-disclosure clause
"In this case, the confidentiality clause appears to have lapsed following the conclusion of the tournament, but it could be the case that precise details of the settlement terms will remain private.
"The absolution of Mark Sampson does not prevent the possibility of further action being taken by the player, perhaps through a tribunal or through the civil courts.
"The commercial view might be that rather than 'hush money', the £80,000 payment is a commercially sensible preventative measure to compromise a potentially costly legal procedure."
A hostile home crowd was stunned into silence as Aaron Ramsey's outrageous chipped penalty gave Wales a precious half-time lead after Sam Vokes' shirt was pulled.
The visitors toiled relentlessly to protect that advantage, though they began to tire as they were subjected to exhaustingly long periods of Serbian pressure.
Aleksandar Mitrovic made the breakthrough with 17 minutes left, finishing calmly to give the hosts a point they more than deserved to reclaim their place at the top of Group D.
The Newcastle striker scored a late equaliser against Wales in Cardiff in November, and his intervention on this occasion was another hefty blow to Welsh chances of reaching next year's World Cup in Russia.
They remain third in their group, still four points behind Serbia and the Republic of Ireland with four games left.
But given Wales' raft of withdrawals prior to this match and Serbia's dominant display, this draw may well feel like a precious point gained for Chris Coleman's men.
Wales' World Cup hopes hung in the balance before kick-off in Belgrade, as they were five points behind the Republic of Ireland, who had drawn 1-1 with Austria earlier in the day.
Coleman and his players knew defeat would effectively extinguish any aspirations of qualifying automatically, while a draw would only have preserved them on the condition they won their remaining four fixtures.
Their task was made infinitely more difficult by the absence of Gareth Bale. The Real Madrid forward was suspended along with Neil Taylor, while several others were injured.
Given those they were without, Wales had to be resilient in the face of intense Serb pressure and an intimidating home crowd.
They defended bravely and, after Ramsey's insolent opening goal, had to be at their dogged best to repel chances for Mitrovic and others.
However, their immense workload eventually took its toll and a tiring defence allowed Mitrovic the space in the penalty area to fire past Wayne Hennessey at his near post.
Serbia had opportunities to score a second - captain Branislav Ivanovic headed one fine chance wide - but Wales dug deep to frustrate the relentless hosts and draw five consecutive games for the first time in their history.
Bale's suspension left an enormous void in the Welsh side, and so it was left to their other leading players fill that chasm.
Ramsey accepted the challenge with relish. Vokes' shirt was pulled at a corner and, after an initial confusing delay, referee Manuel De Sousa pointed to the spot.
There was a deafening din of boos as Ramsey placed the ball, but the Arsenal midfielder ignored the hysteria and audaciously dinked the ball into the right corner, wrongfooting goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic and sparking ecstatic celebrations among the Wales fans.
The phrase 'Panenka' is often used to describe similar goals, referring to a spot-kick taken by Czechoslovakia's Antonin Panenka in the 1976 European Championship final shootout.
Panenka chipped the ball down the middle of the West Germany goal to seal victory in the cheekiest fashion imaginable and, coincidentally, that was also at Stadion Rajko Mitic in Belgrade.
However, Serbia's resurgence meant that Ramsey's moment of impudent inspiration was only enough to give Wales a fifth successive draw, preserving their slim hopes of qualifying for only a third major tournament in their history.
Wales boss Chris Coleman on Sky Sports: "It was a great point. But we were 1-0 up, they weren't peppering Wayne Hennessey.
"You expect a tough game here but we had chances over 90 minutes. You aren't going to come here and play open football, we did that before and you know what happened. We lost 6-1.
"I can't fault the players, they worked so, so hard. Joe Ledley hasn't played for three months and he gave me 90 minutes, incredible.
"We can't seal the deal. Last campaign we saw them out but that's where we are. We weren't standing there biting our nails. It's all to play for. Serbia have got to go to Austria and the Republic of Ireland. It will go down to the wire."
Match ends, Serbia 1, Wales 1.
Second Half ends, Serbia 1, Wales 1.
Attempt missed. Aaron Ramsey (Wales) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jazz Richards.
Attempt missed. Emyr Huws (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Joe Allen.
Nemanja Matic (Serbia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Emyr Huws (Wales).
Nemanja Matic (Serbia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nemanja Matic (Serbia).
Aaron Ramsey (Wales) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Antonio Rukavina with a cross following a set piece situation.
Aleksandar Prijovic (Serbia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Ledley (Wales).
Attempt missed. Ben Davies (Wales) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Aleksandar Kolarov (Serbia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Emyr Huws (Wales).
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Kolarov (Serbia) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Branislav Ivanovic.
Substitution, Wales. Tom Lawrence replaces Sam Vokes.
Dusan Tadic (Serbia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Allen (Wales).
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Branislav Ivanovic.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Vladimir Stojkovic.
Attempt saved. Aaron Ramsey (Wales) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Joe Allen with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Nemanja Gudelj (Serbia) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner, Serbia. Conceded by Ben Davies.
Attempt blocked. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.
Branislav Ivanovic (Serbia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Vokes (Wales).
Goal! Serbia 1, Wales 1. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Aleksandar Prijovic.
Substitution, Wales. Emyr Huws replaces David Edwards.
Attempt missed. James Chester (Wales) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Joe Ledley with a cross.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Antonio Rukavina.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Nemanja Matic.
Jazz Richards (Wales) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Branislav Ivanovic (Serbia).
Sam Vokes (Wales) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jagos Vukovic (Serbia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Edwards (Wales).
Substitution, Serbia. Aleksandar Prijovic replaces Filip Kostic.
Corner, Serbia. Conceded by Joe Ledley.
Corner, Wales. Conceded by Matija Nastasic.
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The artwork, showing a couple embracing while checking their mobile phones, was posted on Banky's website on Monday and discovered on Clement Street earlier.
Hours later, the nearby Broad Plains Boys Club removed it with a crowbar.
The Banksy - believed to be on plywood - has been replaced with a note saying it was held at the club "to prevent vandalism or damage being done".
The work was discovered by Banksy fan Sally, who managed to track it down using the photo-sharing website Flickr and Google Street View.
"I was so excited, I popped down there and took a couple of photos - just after 10pm - but didn't tweet them because it's only held on with screws and I was worried the first person to go there would be a thief."
Gordon Powell, a youth worker from the club, said: "We're open all the time, day and night, so people can come and see it for a small donation.
"The club is 120 years old and we need £120,000 to keep the club open.
"There's a massive wall he [Banksy] could have done it on but he didn't, so we think he did it to help us raise the money."
The discovery of the new artwork came after Cheltenham Borough Council said it would be happy to help protect a piece of art, believed to be by Banksy, on a wall in the town.
Depicting three men using listening devices to "snoop" on a telephone box, it appeared on Sunday on the side of a house in Fairview Road.
A council spokeswoman said: "The council cannot condone graffiti which is put on to people's property without their permission.
"However, we recognise that the public do see work by Banksy as significant pieces of public art and it is clear that this piece has been getting a huge amount of favourable attention.
"It would be a shame if it was removed or damaged.
"As the artwork is on private property, it is the for the property owner to decide whether they would want it to be kept - they would need to consider the impact this may have on the residents of the property and the wider community.
"Although we still do not know if it is original work by Banksy, given the public interest, we would be happy to help the owner find a solution which would protect it from tagging or other graffiti."
The spokeswoman said the council was trying to get in touch with the owner of the property, but it had so far failed to make contact.
Karren Smith, who lives in the rented house, said she was "amazed" when she first saw the mural and by the number of people turning up to view it.
"It's really good. It was quite horrible before - just a white wall.
"It's been mental. It's completely mad. Yesterday the path was so chock-a-block. People had to step on to the road to get past.
"We're not even this busy on race week."
One famous early Banksy artwork, depicting a gorilla in a pink mask, was mistakenly painted over in Bristol in 2011.
Other Banksy images, including examples in Bristol, London, Southampton, New York and Melbourne, were vandalised or accidentally covered.
Banksy has not yet claimed the work in Cheltenham but it bears his hallmarks, according to other street artists.
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The BBC and ITV have won the rights to broadcast rugby's Six Nations competition for the next six years.
Taylor, who has been ITV's Rugby World Cup commentator, thinks it is important the sport remains on terrestrial television.
"In terms of the importance to the game, it's brilliant," said Taylor.
"I think it's often underestimated how important it is to be free-to-air as it were, so the whole nation can see it.
"In somewhere like Wales, where we need that stimulus, it really counts, because there is no question audiences suffer when you go over to Sky or BT."
Almost 10 million people watched the finale of the 2015 Six Nations on the BBC.
The new joint broadcasting deal runs from the 2016.
All of Wales' home matches will be shown live on the BBC, along with France and Scotland home matches.
ITV will screen England, Ireland and Italy home games.
A statement on the website of Welsh language channel S4C also stated: "Championship games which are broadcast by the BBC will also be broadcast in Welsh on S4C.
"Any further rights will be a matter for negotiations."
Taylor, who commentated on the 2003 Rugby World Cup final for ITV, is amazed that the two rival broadcasters are now working together.
"I'm quite amazed," he said.
"In my day, not as a player but as a broadcaster, it was 'never the Twain shall meet' and we were head-to-head for everything.
"The idea of cooperation was something that never came into it.
"In the last year you've already seen the precursor to it with a few of the presenters crossing over, working on both ITV and for the BBC and it seems a complete change of culture now."
O'Sullivan, who won a record seventh Masters title in January, lost four frames in a row to lose 5-4 to King.
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Mae gan y brifysgol gampysau yng Nghaerfyrddin, Abertawe a Llambed.
Er nad oes manylion wedi'u rhyddhau am niferoedd, mae undeb Unsain yn honni bod y brifysgol yn gobeithio lleihau nifer eu staff tua 10%.
Daw ddiwrnod yn unig ar ôl i Brifysgol De Cymru gyhoeddi y bydd hyd at 139 o swyddi'n cael eu torri.
Mae gan Brifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant tua 1,500 aelod o staff ar hyn o bryd, gyda mwy na 10,000 o fyfyrwyr.
Maen nhw wedi ysgrifennu at bob aelod o staff yn gofyn a fydden nhw'n agored i ddiswyddo gwirfoddol.
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant: "Fel rhan o'i busnes arferol, mae'r brifysgol yn adolygu lefelau staffio yn gyson, gydag ystyriaeth o weddill y sector.
"Mae costau staffio'r brifysgol yn uwch na'r cyfartaledd ar draws y sector ac felly mae adolygiad wedi'i wneud o lefelau staffio ar draws pob uned academaidd a phroffesiynol.
"Felly, mae'r brifysgol wedi lansio cynllun diswyddiadau gwirfoddol gyda'r nod o leihau costau lefelau staffio fel cyfran o drosiant, ac mae wedi cwrdd ag undebau i'w gwneud yn ymwybodol o'r sefyllfa."
Ychwanegodd y byddai'r broses yn debygol o barhau dros yr wythnosau nesaf.
Mae gwaith wedi dechrau y llynedd ar ddatblygiad £300m y brifysgol ym Mae Abertawe, a'r Drindod hefyd sydd y tu ôl i gynllun Yr Egin - cartref newydd S4C yng Nghaerfyrddin.
Dywedodd Hugh McDyer o Unsain: "Rydyn ni'n gwybod bod newidiadau mawr ar y ffordd i'r brifysgol, gyda safleoedd yn debygol o uno.
"Byddwn yn gweithio gyda nhw i ddod o hyd i arbedion os oes eu hangen, ond ni ddylai hynny fod ar draul staff rheng flaen.
"Mae'n hanfodol bod safon y dysgu a'r gefnogaeth i fyfyrwyr yn cael ei ddiogelu, ac rydyn ni eisiau i Brifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant i fod yn agored ac onest am raddfa'r her y mae'n ei wynebu a gweithio'n adeiladol gydag Unsain i leihau unrhyw effaith ar staff."
Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn ymwybodol o'r sefyllfa, a dywedodd llefarydd bod gweinidogion yn disgwyl ymgynghoriad cyn unrhyw benderfyniad.
The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) said the raid on its health clinic in Tangi Saidan in Wardak Province appeared to be carried out by soldiers from the Afghan National Army.
There was no immediate confirmation from the army, but a local politician said soldiers had targeted the clinic.
The village of Tangi Saidan is under the control of the Taliban.
Men who appeared to be from the Afghan army entered the clinic around 23:00 local time (18:30 GMT) on Wednesday, SCA communications manager Bjorn Lindh told the BBC.
"The clinic staff were detained by the soldiers and beaten," Mr Lindh said. "Then they started to search through the clinic, and took two injured persons and a caretaker out of the clinic... according to the information we have, they were taken to a place nearby and killed."
The head of the provincial council, Akhtar Muhammad Tahiri, told the BBC that "Afghan Special Forces conducted the operation - they said that opponents were being treated there."
A local government spokesman told news agency EFE that those killed "were not patients, but Taliban".
Wardak province was the scene of some of the most violent battles between Nato and the Taliban before international troops pulled out, and Taliban militants still maintain control of some areas.
The Afghan defence ministry has not confirmed the raid, but a spokesman told EFE that the incident was being investigated.
SCA Country Director Jorgen Holmstrom has described the attack as "a gross violation of humanitarian principles".
"Medical facilities and medical staff are to provide treatment to anyone in need and patients are to be granted safety according to humanitarian law," he said.
In October, a US attack on a clinic run by aid group Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) in Kunduz killed at least 42 people.
The US military's investigation into the attack concluded that the crew of the AC-130 gunship mistook the clinic for a nearby government building that had been seized by Taliban fighters.
Sunderland's Grindon Hall Christian School and Durham Free School were both rated inadequate following inspections in November.
The schools subsequently complained about the conduct of the inspectors.
Ofsted said no issues were raised during the inspections. A full investigation is under way.
Grindon Hall principal Chris Gray said the inspector's questioning was "hostile" and "inappropriate", claiming pupils were asked leading questions about homosexuality, race and other faiths.
In a statement, Ofsted said initial interviews with the three inspectors who visited the schools had found no evidence they acted incorrectly.
The statement said the allegations were serious but had not been raised with inspectors during the visits.
Ofsted said: "We have undertaken a detailed examination of the evidence base, interviewed each of the three inspectors who carried out the inspection and have held a separate meeting between the principal and Ofsted's North East regional director in respect of these allegations.
"To date, we have found no evidence to indicate that inspectors failed to act with care and sensitivity and to ask age-appropriate questions when they spoke to pupils, as they are trained to do."
Durham Free School complained the inspectors based their conclusion that "pupils were not being prepared for modern British life" on an interview with one student.
Ofsted said: "In reaching their conclusions about the effectiveness of the school's work inspectors considered a wide range of evidence.
"Discussions with students formed just a part of the evidence."
Ofsted criticised both schools for not tackling "prejudice-based bullying" and the use of racist or homophobic language by students.
Both schools said they did not recognise Ofsted's portrayal of them.
The body also said it visited two other schools in the North East in November but neither raised any concerns.
After their report was published, education secretary Nicky Morgan said she was terminating the funding for Durham Free School, which has 94 pupils.
On Monday, party candidate Andrew Atkinson said there was "around £1bn a year's worth" of waste in the NHS.
Mr Davies said on Tuesday the figure was based on comments to AMs by a senior NHS manager in 2009.
Rival parties have called Mr Atkinson's claim "wild, "ridiculous" and potentially "devastating" for the NHS.
The Conservatives have pledged to increase spending in the Welsh NHS in real terms over the next five years and say efficiency savings would be re-invested in the health budget.
The annual budget of the Welsh NHS is around £7bn and local health boards currently face efficiency savings of 3% a year.
Mr Atkinson, Conservative candidate for Wrexham, told BBC Radio Wales: "There is around £1bn a year's worth of waste in the NHS year on year.
"We would make sure that we clamp down on that waste to make sure we are using that budget more appropriately and in a more targeted way."
Defending the £1bn claim, Mr Davies said: "This figure does stand there because it was given by the finance director at the time, in 2009, to an assembly finance committee, so I'm assuming he knew his brief and he was talking about the facts as he saw them.
"We've all known for some time that we need to move services out of the acute sector, i.e. big district general hospitals and into the community, because that's where most people like to be treated.
"We do know from the public health point of view as well that community pharmacists can play a far bigger role in delivering service as well, so those are two instant access points that can be developed in the community that can deliver a cheaper way of developing services."
Plaid Cymru has already set out plans for annual NHS savings of £300m, but its health spokeswoman Elin Jones said: "Plaid Cymru will not cut a single penny from the NHS budget, we are committed to investing in front line services such as more doctors and nurses and faster diagnosis.
"What the Tories are talking about here is the equivalent of around a seventh of the entire Welsh NHS budget and could have a devastating impact on services leading to even greater waiting times and fewer staff on hospital wards."
A Liberal Democrat spokesman said the party believed the NHS "needs to be more efficient" but "to cost your policies on a billion pound of 'savings' is nothing short of ridiculous".
"The Tories will savagely cut our public services to the bone to fund their uncosted pledges," he warned.
UKIP said it would "conduct a full independent inquiry into the NHS in Wales to determine where there is flagrant waste and where we should put more resources into front-line services".
"There is chronic underfunding in certain departments leading to unacceptable waiting times and lack of treatment choice but also too much spent on middle management," a spokeswoman added.
Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones said efficiency savings were a euphemism for cuts, and called on the Conservatives to provide evidence that the Welsh NHS was wasting £1bn a year.
"It's one thing to make wild claims, it's another thing to back them up," he said.
'It's almost as if they've decided they're not going to win, so they can make any number of promises."
Italian President Sergio Mattarella commuted Robert Seldon Lady's sentence from nine years to seven. He also cancelled a three-year sentence handed to another American, Betnie Medero.
The two, neither of whom are in Italy, were convicted over the kidnap from Milan of a Muslim cleric, Abu Omar.
They were among 26 people convicted in their absence of the 2003 crime.
Omar, whose real name is Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, was taken from a Milan street by members of the CIA and Italian security forces.
He was allegedly then transferred between US military bases in Italy and Germany before being flown to Egypt and tortured.
He was held there for four years without a trial.
Italian prosecutors requested that those indicted over the rendition be extradited from the US to Italy to face charges, but the Italian justice ministry refused to issue the request to the US.
Seldon Lady was detained in Panama in July 2013 but was later released and travelled immediately to the US.
Italy convicted Omar in 2013 in his absence of "criminal association for the purposes of international terrorism" and sentenced him to six years in prison.
A statement from Mr Mattarella's office said that in reducing the sentences, the president took into consideration US President Barack Obama's decision to end the practice of extraordinary renditions.
The statement said that Italy and the EU consider the practice of rendition - taking suspects from foreign soil without permission - "incompatible with the fundamental principles of a state of law".
Commenting on the decision, Gauri van Gulik of Amnesty International said "the right thing to do would be to insist on extraditing them to Italy".
In 2013, President Mattarella's predecessor also cited Mr Obama's decision to end extraordinary rendition when he pardoned a US Air Force colonel, Giorgio Napolitano, the only military defendant among the Americans in the case.
Niccolo Pollari, Italy's former intelligence chief, who resigned over the affair, was convicted at a retrial in February 2013 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He insisted he knew nothing about the kidnapping.
Lady Susan Zetland, 76, of Aske Hall, near Richmond, North Yorkshire, was charged following the crash in July.
The crash on the A66 at Melsonby crossroads involved her Subaru Outback 4x4, two HGVs and another car
Lady Zetland appeared at Teesside Crown Court to deny the charge and was told she would stand trial at later date before being released on bail.
She was accompanied to court by her husband, Lawrence Mark Dundas, the 4th Marquess of Zetland.
Aske Hall was first mentioned in the Domesday Book, according to the hall's website, but was developed over the centuries by a number of owners.
It was bought in 1763 by Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet, for £45,000.
The Grade I listed Georgian country house is occasionally open to the public for guided tours.
The animal, reportedly a two-year-old brown bear, was shot dead after the attack at the Orsa Rovdjurspark.
The bear was said to have dug its way back into its enclosure, which the zookeeper was cleaning. The park has been closed for the rest of the day.
Orsa Rovdjurspark says it is Europe's "largest predator park", with a variety of bears, leopards and tigers.
The park said the zookeeper, who has not been named, was cleaning the enclosure ahead of a special activity, where guests get to go inside the enclosure with a zookeeper, The Local reported.
It was supposed to be empty but the bear appeared to have tunnelled its way back in.
Emergency services were called to the park, in the central county of Dalarna, at about 10:30 local time (08:30 GMT) and treated the man at the scene but he died later of his injuries.
The park's head, Sven Brunberg, said: "It started out as a normal day, a family had booked the activity and normal routines were followed. I'll leave it to the police to work out what went wrong."
Officers are investigating whether proper safety procedures were followed.
The park insisted no guests were at risk.
Orsa Rovdjurspark lists Kodiak, polar and brown bears among its animals, along with snow leopards and Siberian tigers, and offers "close encounters with powerful animals".
Many of its species are endangered.
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Gudmundur Benediktsson's country beat England 2-1 and the shock win was all too much for him.
He went viral after his reaction to Iceland beating Austria in the group stages.
Underdogs Iceland are ranked 34th in the world and playing in their first major tournament.
It is a world few Americans are aware of. But tens of thousands of American children are thought to be sexually exploited every year.
It's believed that every night hundreds are sold for sex.
The FBI says child sex abuse is almost at an epidemic level, despite the agency rescuing 600 children last year.
"Trafficking" often conjures images of people from other countries being smuggled over land and across the sea and then forced to work against their will in foreign lands. People are trafficked into America from Mexico, Central and South America. But the vast majority of children bought and sold for sex every night in the United States are American kids.
We have heard from a number of women from the East coast to the Mid-west who have frighteningly similar and horrific stories. Neglected, abused, exploited and often ignored starting from a young age - sometimes even prosecuted by the very people who should have protected them.
A handful of good souls, the kindness of a few strangers and the good work of some law enforcement agencies and the FBI offer some relief to America's most vulnerable. But the stories we have heard suggest they are only scratching the surface of one of America's best-kept and darkest secrets.
In Minnesota, I met with former sex workers who had sought support through an advocacy group called Breaking Free. Half of the women in the group were under the age of 18 when they first were sold for sex. Many of the others were not much older than 18.
One woman says she was bought by her aunt at the age of 14.
"She gave my mom $900. Told me I was going shopping at the mall."
The aunt would bring her to drug dealers' houses, where she was raped and given drugs.
"She would leave me...and then [was] like 'You were messed up, you wanted to stay'," she recalls. She soon believed the abuse was her fault and her choice.
Another woman says she was 17 when she was kicked out of the house.
"I wanted to get high," she says, and turned to working as a prostitute. She later started using the classified adverts website Backpage.com to make more money to keep up with her addiction.
A third was 14 when she was kidnapped by "a guy I thought I liked". She didn't return home for two years.
Jenny Gaines, who leads the group discussion at Breaking Free, says many "manipulate and take advantage of underage girls".
One woman said of her abuser, "He knew I was 14, he had to know that I was underage," despite her attempts to pretend to be 18.
"When he actually found out how old I was it didn't stop him... he wanted me even more."
A woman who was first trafficked at 14 says she is living in a shelter right now and is struggling to not return to prostitution.
"There's tricks' names still on my phone, I haven't even deleted them yet and I need to delete them," she says. "Because when I get down, when I'm feeling really yucky it's almost like I want to have that number there."
But she says she doesn't want to return to that life.
"It's just a big circle, you get high, you get tricked, you get the money and you just keep going around and going around, and you have to break off all of them to even be doing okay."
It is an uphill battle.
"I just need the support and to believe in myself that I can make it. It's a funny spot I'm in."
Another woman says she hasn't been on Backpage for eight months.
"I'm not perfect. I'm just trying," she says. She finds it difficult to provide for her daughter without the money she made working as a prostitute.
"I stopped when I was 22 and had my first son," the woman says, detailing her "off and on" experience. She's been away for seven months, partially because she is pregnant with her fourth child.
She hopes attending Breaking Free will prevent her from returning.
"I'm going to have a daughter," she says. "I don't want her to do like what I did."
Another woman likens it to an addiction.
"It's like I have this hole like whatever it is it's not enough, that fills it for me, my kids get what they want," she tells the group. "I don't ever have to ask nobody for nothing,"
Many of the women in the Breaking Free yearn for sense of normalcy.
"I just want my freedom back," one woman says. "I just want to look out for my kids, and live my life, live a normal life."
But for women who were sold for sex as children, abuse, drugs and sex work is normal.
One woman we spoke to in Minnesota was not at Breaking Free. She was on the streets, still working at five months pregnant.
She says was groomed from age 12 by a neighbour, who enticed her with a garage full of toys and games. He offered her money for topless photos.
"I see more and more younger girls out here now and it's really sad," she says.
"It's not a choice. At 12, it was not a choice."
Some of the groups that helped the BBC during the reporting of this story include Breaking Free, The Samaritan Women and Angels of Addiction.
Bairstow, who was dropped on 71, struck seven sixes and 16 fours in a stand of 189 in 25 overs with Joe Root (55).
His was the third century of the day as Stephen Cook (106) and Michael Richardson (100no) saw Durham to 335-5.
Bairstow and Root both fell to James Weighell (3-60), but Yorkshire reached 339-4 with 14 balls to spare.
The White Rose county, who last lifted a limited-overs trophy in 2002, have won all three games so far, while Durham have one victory from three.
Keaton Jennings set the visitors on their way with 72 before a brilliant boundary catch by Peter Handscomb brought his innings to an end.
South Africa Test opener Cook's 108-ball century was his first for Durham, while Richardson reached three figures from only 87 balls with two runs off the final delivery of their innings.
However, they were overshadowed by Bairstow, who revelled in his new role at the top of the order and raced to his hundred from 70 balls.
He was particularly punishing on the leg-side and had the chance to become only the third batsman after Surrey's Alistair Brown and Ravi Bopara of Essex to make a double century in a List A game between two first-class counties.
The 27-year-old was caught behind from the final ball of the 34th over, leaving Yorkshire to score 87 from the final 16.
England Test captain Root played on during an unproductive period when they failed to find the boundary between the end of the 33rd and middle of the 39th overs.
Skipper Gary Ballance, though, hit three successive boundaries off Paul Coughlin in the 41st over in his 29 before trod on his stumps, leaving Handscomb (47 not out) and Tim Bresnan to finish the job.
Mark Faulkner was the winning bidder in an auction of the Northampton shirt Adebayo Akinfenwa was wearing when he scored his first hat-trick, in 2012.
Akinfenwa, who now plays for AFC Wimbledon, donated the shirt to help raise funds for the Cobblers.
Mr Faulkner, 29, said: "I'm an extra large - he must be four triple Xs."
The shirt was auctioned twice, because the first winning bidder failed to pay the £7,500 agreed price.
Mr Faulkner, a self-professed "diehard Cobblers fan" who lives in the town, was outbid in the initial auction so was delighted when it was relisted.
"It went for £440, so a bit of a bargain," he said.
He has fond memories of Akinfenwa's time at Northampton Town and said the club "should never got rid of him".
"He was a great player for us, scored a lot of goals and was a fans' favourite. He's even more of a hero now, donating the shirt."
Mr Faulkner said he met Akinfenwa during a pitch invasion following the play-off semi-final victory against Cheltenham in 2013.
"I ended up shaking his hand - he was absolutely ginormous, massive," he said.
"We had a bit of a joke with my mates that all four of us would fit in his shirt.
"Wearing it would be a bit too big, so it's best kept on the wall."
The Cobblers' troubles have eased since the initial auction, which started with the aim of raising money to save the club from a winding-up petition over unpaid tax, which has since been paid.
More facts about Akinfenwa here
In the end it was all something of an anticlimax.
The annual panda mating season lasts just 36 hours and all week the two bears were watched intently to see whether they were ready.
Experts monitored their every move; scientists scrutinised their hormone levels.
The obvious signs appeared to be encouraging.
The male panda, Yang Guang, was bulking up for the big event, eating some 70kg of bamboo every day.
He was also performing acrobatics, doing handstands to scent mark as high as possible to prove his prowess.
Tian Tian too seemed to be displaying the right behaviour. At first she became grumpy and spent much of her days sleeping.
Then she began to call out to her potential mate, and the pair - who live in separate enclosures - were brought face to face through the bars.
A casual observer may well have concluded that they were ready.
But Professor Wang Pengyan, who had flown in from the Giant Panda Conservation Centre in China's Sichuan province, was not convinced.
"Not today," he told me, on more than one occasion this week, adding "she needs more time".
The hormone results, analysed by a team at the University of Edinburgh seemed to confirm Prof Wang's concerns.
Research scientist Sanya Aggarwal had a crucial role in reporting those results.
She is living in the zoo where she is wakened early each morning by the chattering of monkeys and the roar of lions.
Every day she heads to the panda enclosure to collect a sample of Tian Tian's urine before riding across Edinburgh by bus.
At her laboratory Ms Aggarwal explained the process: "We measure the hormone levels in the urine samples and the basic goal is just to be able to know when the ovulation is going to happen so we can time the artificial insemination or natural mating."
With a broad smile she said nobody on the bus knew what she was carrying with her.
"As long as it doesn't leak in my bag I don't think anybody would know," she laughed.
But instead of observing a sharp and continuous rise in Tian Tian's oestrogen, the observations showed the levels were bobbing up and down.
There was also, said the experts, "too much bark" in her calls.
And so, late last night, the professor of pandas made a call: at last Tian Tian was hormonally ready but her behaviour was "not conducive" to natural mating.
Instead a team from Germany moved in, attempting artificial insemination, the details of which are probably best left to the imagination.
Although the zoo says this went "very much to plan", it won't know until the summer whether it actually worked.
An ultrasound scan will be needed to confirm whether Tian Tian is pregnant.
For now bears and humans involved in what has been an exhausting week are having a rest.
A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.
Rising Nigerian tennis star Adetayo Adetunji knocks India's Zeel Desai out of this year's Youth Commonwealth Games in the Bahamas on Friday. The 18-year-old went on to defeat her Ghanaian opponent, Miriam Ibrahim, in the next round but was later knocked out at the quarter-final stage.
A car workshop in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, proudly displays the various spare parts for sale on an outside wall, in this photo taken on Monday. Business has been booming in Mogadishu since African Union and government troops drove militant Islamists out of the city.
Fishermen on the River Nile in Egypt's capital, Cairo, make this modest catch on Friday. Fish is a popular staple among Egyptians but the country's health ministry issues a warning every year to stay away from feseekh, the country's traditionally salty - and smelly - fermented mullet fish which dates back thousands of years.
Also on Friday, an enthusiastic supporter of Kenya's ruling Jubilee Party sports a paper mask depicting President Uhuru Kenyatta's face at a campaign rally in the capital, Nairobi, ahead of the 8 August general election.
Many are anxious that the post-election violence witnessed almost a decade ago should not be repeated. This photo taken on Sunday in Nairobi's Kibera slum, a stronghold of opposition leader Raila Odinga, shows the work of street artist Solomon Muyundo, alias Solo7.
Congolese supporters sing their national anthem on Monday at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny stadium in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan. The former French colony is playing host to its third international athletics tournament, with this year's Jeux de la Francophonie.
On Tuesday, Guinean sculptor Kaba Abdoulaye crafts items in Abidjan which he hopes to sell to visiting sport fans.
Nigeria's ailing President Buhari poses with his wife Aisha Buhari (R), and Eunice Ortom, the wife of Benue state governor, in London on Wednesday. Mr Buhari has received a visiting delegation of Nigerian politicians to Abuja House in the British capital, where he has been receiving medial treatment for a second time this year for an unspecified illness.
The accident, on the A140 at Roughton at about 07:25 GMT, was one of 12 police dealt with earlier.
Some of the vehicles collided while others skidded off the road, Norfolk Police said.
The road was closed between the B1436 Thorpe Market Road junction and the White Post Road junction but reopened just after 12:20 GMT.
Read more on this and other stories from Norfolk
Insp John Chapman, from the road policing unit, said his team alone had dealt with seven accidents "in the space of an hour".
He said bearing in mind the weather conditions, "it didn't surprise me that we were suffering quite a high volume of road traffic collisions".
"Fortunately, there were no serious injuries in any of these... but there was obviously a high demand on our resources."
He advised drivers to "expect the unexpected" during the cold snap.
Yet this is just the tip of an iceberg when it comes to UK firms owned by Indian businesses.
The visit to the UK by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which starts on Thursday, comes at a time when India is emerging as perhaps the strongest player among the so-called Bric nations - Brazil, Russia, India and China.
While the Brazilian, Chinese and Russian economies are all showing signs of slowing, India is booming.
Shielded from China's slowdown thanks to its huge domestic market, India's economy is growing at a rate of 7% per year, putting it neck and neck with the Chinese.
And some of that Indian growth is finding new markets in the UK.
According to a report earlier this year from government department UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), India is now the third-largest source of foreign direct investment into the UK.
In 2014 alone, investment from India into the UK increased by 64%, and is now almost level with France, the UK's second-largest investor after the US.
Throughout last year, India invested in 122 projects in the UK, compared with 124 for France and 564 for the US. This meant that Indian investment created 7,730 new UK jobs in 2014, and safeguarded a further 1,620, said UKTI.
Meanwhile, the UK India Business Council, the non-profit body that aims to boost trade and business links between the two countries, estimates that the total value of Indian investment in the UK in the 2013 to 2014 financial year totalled £1.89bn.
Overall there are now more than 800 Indian-owned businesses in the UK, employing more than 110,000 people.
In addition to Tata Motors, Indian IT firms Infosys and Wipro have UK operations. Meanwhile, sister Tata business, Tata Global Beverages, owns best-selling Tetley Tea; and Tata Steel has significant UK operations, despite recently announced job cuts due to falling demand and cheaper steel from China.
Alpesh Patel, of London-based private equity business Praefinium Partners, says that while the success of companies such as Tata and Infosys is well known, the quality of Indian small to medium-sized enterprises has improved significantly over the past 10 years, and many are looking to enter EU markets using the UK as their gateway.
He adds that the ease of doing business in the UK, as well as the English language and familiarity with UK institutions, also makes the UK an attractive proposition for Indian investors.
"Ease of business here is often overlooked and taken for granted," says Mr Patel.
"We're used to comparing things in absolute terms - we might say it took ages to fill in a tax return for example - but we don't compare it with the same thing in India where it really is a pain."
He adds that one area that particularly appeals to Indian investors is the ease with which they can raise finance in the UK.
"They're often not looking for money from the UK to go into their company in India, but looking for UK money going into their UK operations. We really overlook the size and strength of our angel investor and venture capital community.
"Relative to companies in India, we're seen as an absolute haven in terms of access to capital if you've got a good business."
Mukesh Rajani, UK India business group leader at accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers, says that besides the EU, the UK's historical connections with the rest of the world, including Africa, are key in attracting Indian investment.
He adds that Indian firms are also keen to tap into British hi-tech expertise.
"Advanced engineering is a big strength for the UK," says Mr Rajani. "High-end engineering, high-end advanced services, high-end pharmaceuticals are very interesting areas for Indian companies.
"Clearly at the high-end what is on offer in Britain is in a different league, and these things would take time for India to develop as it acquires its own talent."
Richard Heald, chief executive at the UK India Business Council, says that most of the investment in the UK is in the IT sectors and driven by Mr Modi's policy of making India the world's hub for IT industries.
He says: "A lot of the growth in indigenous Indian industries has to be sustained through technological development.
"If Modi's policies are to succeed then it needs to have exposure and involvement with a lot of the technological development, incubation, catapult centres, upstream technology companies that we have here.
"The Indians naturally look to us for that in the form of joint ventures, or acquisitions, or just investment."
Mr Heald highlights pharmaceutical firms Piramal and Cipla as two other Indian businesses that have made significant moves into the UK.
110,000
people are employed by Indian companies operating in the UK
13 Indian companies each employ more than 1,000 people in the UK
65,000 people work for Tata Group, which owns 5 of those 13 companies
28,000 of those work for Tata Motors, which owns Jaguar Land Rover
But what about UK investment going into India?
Between 2000 and 2015, the UK invested $22.2bn (£14.5bn) in India, accounting for around 9% of foreign direct investment in the country, according to a report by UK business group the CBI.
This makes the UK the largest foreign investor in India after Singapore and Mauritius.
The CBI study added that in total UK companies are estimated to employ 691,000 people in India. That is 5.5% of the organised private sector workforce.
Mr Heald says: "We estimate that there's been a 300% increase in the number of British companies setting up there in the past 10 years… there's been a huge acceleration.
"And the type of company is changing too - it's more e-commerce, services, IT and education."
Under India's federal system, individual states are now more competitive, and are seeking inbound investment by cutting red tape, and simplifying the country's notoriously arcane state tax systems.
Mr Heald adds: "The term 'competitive federalism' is now being bandied around… these states really have to compete for the investment pound."
Despite frequent mass-shootings, he has struggled to substantially reform US gun ownership rules.
The organisation often credited - or blamed - for that is the National Rifle Association (NRA), a lobbying organisation with vast resources and a highly-effective grassroots base.
Four experts talked to the BBC World Service Inquiry programme about the NRA's rise to power.
Warren Cassidy is retired executive vice president and chief executive officer of the NRA.
"The NRA was founded in 1871 shortly after the Civil War. Up through the first half of the 20th Century, it was known as a marksmanship organisation, a home for hunters and collectors.
"As political activity became more active in the US, when Jack Kennedy was shot, and then later Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, this started a real political movement.
"We had to get active because legislation was appearing, and the 1968 Gun Control Act required more licensed dealers involved in the transfer of firearms. That sounds like a harmless thing, but it causes a great deal more trouble for the law-abiding public.
"A few NRA directors were not happy with the sedate approach that a majority of the board were taking toward what we viewed as political threats. Some of them outright opposed us even dirtying our hands in the political arena.
"Then in 1977, we had the Cincinnati revolt. We came up with our own agenda, our own proposals on the floor of the annual meeting.
"We dismissed the current president, and went to the heart of the matter of the political action, and were successful. Many of us would say we became a political organisation at that point.
"Today, while the NRA is the leading educator of young shooters and conservation practices in hunting, it has tremendous [political] influence.
"Its great strength is our local state organisations - the California Rifle and Pistol Association, the Mass Rifle Association, Gun Owners' Action League and so forth throughout the 50 states - and these organisations are all volunteer. We send out representatives and help finance elections.
"We grade candidates who run in local and state offices on how they stand on the right to keep and bear arms, and follow them through their jobs as city councillors or mayors or governors and when they run for Congress.
"We spend the great majority of our money getting voters out. You can ask any one of those candidates elected to the Senate or the House of Representatives 'How did NRA help you?': 'Well, they got the voters out in my district or in my state'. That's where we work."
Carl Bogus is a professor of Law at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island.
"The words of the second amendment read: 'A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed', and what in essence it did was to say 'if the federal government doesn't arm the militia, the people can'.
"There had been only three US Supreme Court cases that dealt with the second amendment. They all held that the second amendment was related to militia service [and] granted a collective right, not an individual right. This was considered pretty settled until the 1960s.
"There was a concerted campaign by the NRA to change this. They stimulated lots of writing - particularly in American law reviews - saying the second amendment should grant an individual right [to bear arms].
"They won the war in 2008 in a case called 'The District of Columbia versus Heller', when the Supreme Court held for the first time that the second amendment grants an individual right.
"The nine justices of the US Supreme Court divided five to four along perfectly ideological lines. The conservatives said it grants an individual right, and the liberals all said, no, it grants a collective right.
"The individual rights view promoted by the NRA became embedded within the modern conservative movement, and therefore the Republican party.
"The political obstacle [to gun control] is not the sense of the American electorate per se. Maybe 80 or 90 per cent of Americans favour more stringent gun control.
"But the intensity factor of a very small fraction of the electorate - it may only be one or two per cent - who will absolutely not vote for a candidate that favours gun control makes this a controlling issue."
Richard Feldman is president of the Independent Firearm Owners' Association, and previously regional political director for the NRA.
"The best way to understand the NRA's incredible success is to take a step back. When we talk about guns, we're also talking about something else. Guns are a very symbolic issue, not unlike the flag.
"To millions of Americans, a gun is a symbol of all sorts of positive, traditional values of independence and freedom. When the government which can't protect its citizens wants to restrict the rights of citizens who have never misused their guns, those citizens get fearful.
"[The NRA] doesn't determine the outcome of an election that's 60/40, but the races that matter are on the cutting edge; 45/55. In an important year the gun issue can shift five per cent of the voters, making it a 50/50 race.
"There are few groups in this country that can actually reach 10,000 to 20,000 people in anyone's district, and every person represents more than one vote.
"I might, in meeting with a congressman, say 'Look, Congressman, I have two letters here, the letter that will go out to 15,000 of our members in your congressional district if you vote this way saying you're a fellow NRA member. The other letter, Congressman, reads pretty much the opposite'. Is that hardball? You bet.
"In 1994 [when President Clinton introduced a ban on assault weapons] I remember being asked 'Why do you need these guns?' My response was 'Well, I never needed them before, but if the government thinks I shouldn't be able to own them, I guess I want them now', and I did go out and buy about 15 of them before the ban.
"Every time our president or the Congress decides to limit and restrict some part of the firearm, boy, is there ever a run on guns. I absolutely can't believe the buying frenzy going on in this country as we speak.
"President Obama, whether he likes it or not, really does deserve the salesman of the millennia award: he is responsible for the sale of more firearms to more Americans than any person in history."
Professor Brian Anse Patrick is an expert on American gun culture and teaches courses in propaganda and communication.
"The NRA is vastly effective, and it's augmented by what I call 'anti-media'. The NRA was the first group I knew of that went online, that had e-mail bulletins.
"More people read gun culture in forums and so on than read the New York Times. And the NRA itself prints three magazines it sends to different subgroups; one that's strictly political, one aimed at hunters, another aimed at people who just like to shoot. The NRA has approximately five million members who receive these magazines.
"There are a lot of subcultures: target shooters, women and gun organisations, gay gun right groups. There's an organisation called Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. Their motto used to be 'For every Jew, a 22'.
"There used to be the 'I'm the NRA' campaign. They would show nice, wholesome people on a billboard - a female police officer, a game warden, a professional, an attempt to reverse this evil gun lobby menace that the New York Times loves to play with.
"If it weren't for the New York Times and its railing against gun culture, the NRA would not be in the position of strength it is in today. I looked at coverage from what we would call elite newspapers for a 10-year period: the more negative coverage the NRA received, the more members it received.
"There's a lot of reasons for this, one of which is that the gun culture has become what would be considered a classic social movement. Social movements tend to be organised around a sense of identity, like a grievance-based sense of identity. They're in conflict, and the resulting consequences of that are solidarity.
"Gun culture turned from this bunch of duck hunters to this annoyed mass of people."
The Inquiry is broadcast on the BBC World Service on Tuesdays from 12:05 GMT. Listen online or download the podcast.
The Solar Probe Plus mission will now carry the name of Eugene Parker, who conducted pioneering work on the "solar wind" - a stream of charged particles flowing out from the Sun's "atmosphere".
The spacecraft will swoop to within four million miles of the Sun's surface, enduring temperatures of about 2,500C.
The mission is due to launch in 2018.
"Nasa has never named a spacecraft after a researcher during their lifetime," said Thomas Zurbuchen, the head of Nasa's science mission directorate.
The change, which comes a few days before Prof Parker's 90th birthday, means that Solar Probe Plus, will now be known as the Parker Solar Probe.
Plans for solar 'close encounter'
Getting ready for the mission to Hell
The mission was originally announced in 2009, and is set to launch next year from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a Delta IV Heavy rocket.
Nasa scientist Nicola Fox, commented: "I like to call it the coolest, hottest mission under the Sun."
The spacecraft will travel through part of the Sun's atmosphere, closer to its surface than any manmade object before.
The aim is to better understand the upper layer of this atmosphere, known as the corona.
It should also expand our knowledge of the origin and evolution of the solar wind.
The spacecraft will be protected from the scorching temperatures by a specially developed carbon-composite shield.
The European Space Agency (Esa) plans to launch its own mission to the Sun, named Solar Orbiter, in February 2019.
The hosts clinched a four-wicket win as fifties from Mark Stoneman, Scott Borthwick and Paul Collingwood saw them chase down 293 with 14 balls spare.
Batting first, Hain shared a 143-run third-wicket stand with Tim Ambrose (86), as the visitors made 292-7.
However, Collingwood's game-changing 53 off 33 balls, which included five fours and three sixes, helped Durham home.
After putting Warwickshire in to bat at Gosforth, Chris Rushworth (2-65) gave Durham the ideal start as he had William Porterfield caught behind for six.
Hain, who has played just seven List A matches, reached three figures off 110 balls, with his measured innings including 13 fours before he was bowled by Keaton Jennings.
Rikki Clarke's late burst of 24 off 14 balls was hindered by Ateeq Javid and Jeetan Patel both falling for ducks to Usman Arshad (3-50).
Durham's batsmen all played their part in securing victory but it was captain Collingwood, who recently signed a new one-year extension with county, who propelled them towards their target reaching his half-century with a four laced past mid-off.
Despite Collingwood edging to third-man off Clarke, debutant wicketkeeper Stuart Poynter was on hand to send his sixth delivery to the boundary as Durham kept up their chase for a quarter-final spot.
The software giant will pay $196 a share - a premium of almost 50% to Friday's closing share price.
The deal will help Microsoft boost sales of its business and email software.
Microsoft said that LinkedIn would retain its "distinct brand, culture and independence".
Ben Wood, head of research at CCS Insight, said the deal would give Microsoft access to the world's biggest professional social network with more than 430 million members worldwide.
Watch: LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman's business secrets
"That's a valuable asset that can be deeply integrated with a number of Microsoft assets such as Office 365, Exchange and Outlook. That said, Microsoft has stated that the company will continue to operate as an independent business, so we'll have to see how deeply the integration occurs," Mr Wood said.
Ever had one of those annoying LinkedIn emails inviting you to "endorse" a contact for some skill or another? Perhaps LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner and its founder Reid Hoffman deserve to be endorsed for salesmanship after today's deal.
After a tricky period in which the shares have fallen amid widening losses, they have persuaded Microsoft to make its biggest deal. The software giant is paying a 50% premium on Friday's closing share price to buy LinkedIn, a price which amounts to $250 (£170) for every active user. To put that into context, that's about the market value of Sky, or eight times as much as Daily Mail owner DMGT - and they are both profitable.
But this deal is about more than money: it is meant as a powerful signal of where Satya Nadella is now taking Microsoft. He sees its future as a cloud computing business providing all sorts of professional services to clients - including a social network to connect them to each other.
"We are trying to ride the wave of the new technologies," Mr Nadella told me from Seattle. "It's about AI, it's about mobile, it's about cloud and we're trying to bring those things together."
However, the deal to buy Nokia's mobile phones division had a similar logic - and the entire value of that purchase was written off just a year later. So Microsoft's investors may look at that $26bn price tag nervously, while anyone with a few LinkedIn shares may be using the network to send a message of congratulations to their board.
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said he had long admired LinkedIn: "I have been thinking about this for a long time."
The deal was "key to our bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes", he added.
The company planned a different approach to integrating LinkedIn to preserve its culture and brand, Mr Nadella said: "That's what's going to be very very different about this."
Microsoft had a long record of successfully integrating acquisitions, he explained, citing Minecraft - the video game whose maker it bought in 2014 for $2.5bn - as well as its very first purchase: the presentation software PowerPoint for $14m in 1987.
LinkedIn shares soared 47%, or $61.50, to $192.60 in New York following the announcement of the deal.
Shares in the company, which floated in May 2011, have fallen by more than 40% this year.
The stock plunged by a quarter in February after the company issued a profit warning for the first quarter and reported an annual loss of $166m.
Ivan Feinseth, analyst at Tigress Financial Partners, said that LinkedIn was a great business "even though the company stubbed their toe back in February. It's a premium company and it deserves a premium valuation."
Shares in Microsoft fell 2.6% to $50.16, bringing the decline this year to almost 10%.
Jeff Weiner will remain chief executive, reporting to Mr Nadella. He and Reid Hoffman - the chairman, co-founder and controlling shareholder of LinkedIn - both backed the deal.
"Today is a re-founding moment for LinkedIn," said Mr Hoffman. "I see incredible opportunity for our members and customers and look forward to supporting this new and combined business."
LinkedIn has been trying to expand by offering users more messaging options, mobile apps and a revamped "newsfeed" to help boost engagement.
Last year, the site pledged to send less frequent and "more relevant" messages after numerous user complaints.
The takeover is by far the biggest acquisition made by Microsoft, which paid $8.5bn for Skype in 2011 and bought Nokia's mobile phone business for $7.2bn in 2013.
The LinkedIn acquisition also eclipses the $19bn that Facebook paid for WhatsApp in 2014.
Despite having a cash pile of about $92bn, Microsoft said it would pay for LinkedIn mostly by issuing new debt.
It expects the deal, which must be approved by regulators in the US, EU, Canada and Brazil, to generate annual savings of $150m by 2018.
From the parties' inability to work together, to fears of another election or even a bad Brexit deal, voters want to know what the future holds and what sort of government the UK will get in the end. Here, we tackle some of the questions being raised by BBC audiences.
Why doesn't the party with the most votes automatically become the governing party? Why do they have to reach 326 seats?
There are 650 MPs elected to the House of Commons and for a party to turn its policies into law, it needs the support of more than half of that total, which is 326.
If a party has 326 MPs or more it will be able to form a majority government and secure sufficient backing to ensure it can pass legislation. If it has fewer than 326 MPs it will always need to rely on the support of others - either from other parties or Independents - in order to implement its decisions.
So the party which forms the government must be able to guarantee that it can push its agenda forward and be effective in its leadership of the country.
Why can't the Conservatives and Labour work together to run our country?
Numbers-wise, both parties could join to form a working majority that could vote legislation through. However, the biggest problem could be agreeing on policies in the first place. You can see from their manifesto pledges that there may be more issues that divide them rather than unite them.
While both Labour and the Conservatives have ruled out a second referendum on Brexit and seem to both favour a "hard" Brexit, the Labour Party has not been explicit about many of its aims on the issue.
The parties differ enormously on the future funding of the NHS, taxation and social care to list only a few important areas where reaching a consensus could prove more of an issue than simply having a big enough cohort of MPs.
Could there be another election?
It is possible to have another election but as Theresa May has learned, forcing the public into another round of voting is not always a good idea. Voter fatigue could set in as the electorate may feel it cannot face going through a fourth vote (including the EU referendum) in three years. Another vote could backfire with a drop in turnout.
However, the prime minister has said she will not resign and will find a way to form a government, indicating the Conservatives will work with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to support her minority government.
Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, general elections take place on the first Thursday in May every five years but there are some ways in which another election could be called.
First, it could happen if two-thirds of MPs back a motion calling for an early election. It's two-thirds of all the seats in the House of Commons - not only those who vote - and it includes vacant seats. With 650 seats, that means 434 MPs must back an early election. This would be the quickest way.
Alternatively, an election could come about if a motion of no confidence in the government is passed in the House of Commons and no motion expressing confidence in the government is subsequently passed within 14 days - the wording of these motions has to be precisely as set out by the Act.
How will a hung Parliament affect Brexit and the single market?
The single reason Mrs May said she called the election was to strengthen her position in negotiating a good Brexit deal. It is inevitable now that with a reduced majority she will have to compromise her aims in order to get support from the other parties.
In particular the DUP - with whom Mrs May has said she will work - could be very influential here.
Time is of the essence though, as negotiations with the remaining European Union (EU) countries is due to start on 19 June.
The new government and its partners will have to work hard to agree a strategy, although the EU's budget commissioner, Gunther Oettinger, tweeted that the UK is now a weaker negotiating partner than prior to the election and questioned whether the Brexit negotiations could start on schedule.
What is The Queen's Speech and how can you be 'defeated' on it?
The Queen's Speech is the address that the Queen reads out on the occasion of the State Opening of Parliament in front of MPs and peers.
It is written by the government and outlines the programme of legislation that it wants to pass in the forthcoming Parliamentary year.
It is an event filled with pageantry dating back many centuries and generally happens at the start of each Parliamentary session - although in 2011 the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government decided against having one.
After the pomp and ceremony of the occasion, the Queen returns to Buckingham Palace and MPs move to the House of Commons to debate the Speech. This can last a number of days.
While the vote at the end is generally symbolic, it is possible that someone could take the opportunity to voice their opposition to its contents by voting against it.
With a minority government therefore it is feasible that Mrs May's proposals could be rejected before they pass this first hurdle.
Members of the House of Lords also debate the Queen's Speech but do not vote on it.
By Annie Flury, UGC and Social News
Duncan Evans, 58, who won the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year award in 1980, was jailed in 2009 for his involvement in a £20m VAT tax fraud.
Last year Evans, of St Asaph, was ordered to pay his fraudulent earnings back or face jail.
He went on the run but has since been arrested in the Algarve.
Previous court hearings were told Evans was involved in a scam using money from organised crime in Hong Kong to buy property in the north west of England.
As part of the transactions, more than £21m in VAT refunds were claimed illegally from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
The court heard Evans had lived a lavish lifestyle, buying a £200,000 Rolls-Royce and had a £3.5m home in Cheshire.
A judge had described Evans as a "devious and accomplished fraudster".
The Portuguese authorities confirmed Evans was arrested in the Algarve after playing a round of golf.
He has been remanded in custody as extradition proceedings continue.
A spokeswoman for HM Revenue and Customs said: "HMRC and the Crown Prosecution Service are aware that Duncan Evans has been arrested in Portugal following the issue of a European arrest warrant".
"We routinely work with our international partners to tackle cases of tax fraud and always look to bring tax fugitives back to the UK to face justice."
The work and pensions secretary told the Tory conference the party was tackling the "something for nothing" benefit culture inherited from Labour.
He warned "the job was not done" and vowed to ensure to make work pay and reduce numbers on sickness benefits.
He also denounced the "bile" of protesters outside the conference.
Addressing Conservative activists, many of whom have said they have been subject to personal abuse from anti-austerity protesters as they entered the Manchester venue, Mr Duncan Smith said his party would "not be moved" and challenged Jeremy Corbyn and other senior Labour figures to disassociate themselves from such behaviour.
"You've had to come through the line up outside of the bile and hatred of what is now the Labour Party," he said. "That is who they really are. That is what they represent."
Proposed curbs to working tax credits have caused unease among some Tory MPs but Mr Duncan Smith defended the policy, saying the existing tax credit bill had become unsustainable and accused the last Labour government of using the benefit as an electoral "bribe".
Since 2010, he said, the Conservatives had delivered "against the odds" in terms of boosting employment by every measure and, with the party now no longer in coalition with the Lib Dems, it would go much further in reshaping the welfare state.
Conservative welfare philosophy, he told his audience, was "rooted in human nature, not utopianism nor empty pity" and its reforms, such as the cap on household benefits, the introduction of Universal Credit and the national living wage, were driven by the objective of "ending poverty, not entrenching it and restoring lives, not parking them".
Fairness must be at the heart of the welfare state, he insisted, not just for the most vulnerable but for the taxpayer as well.
The party, he said, did not regard those unable to work as "victims", insisting that many of the long-term sick and those with disabilities wanted to return to employment and the government would help them to "work their way out of poverty".
"We have to raise the value of work - but not as Labour tried to do with the taxpayer subsidising wages through tax credits," he said.
"As Conservatives we don't want people to work just for tax receipts. We want people to work because it's best for them, their family and their communities... all our reforms have a simple principle at the heart of them: to restore lives."
He added: "Surely, we want to know that what we do in government rebuilds and restores the least of us. That is our purpose, not to rejoice at victory, no matter how hard won but to re-commit, even re-dedicate ourselves to this simple yet vital task."
Negotiators from six world powers are attempting to strike a deal with Iran to restrict its nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
The parties have set a deadline of the end of March to reach an agreement.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that progress was being made.
Mr Steinmeier said as he arrived in the Swiss city of Lausanne for the talks: "These are decisive days before us after nearly 12 years of negotiations with Iran.
"The endgame of the long negotiations has begun."
After meeting Mr Steinmeier and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Mr Zarif said: "I think we can in fact make the necessary progress to be able to resolve all the issues and start writing them down in a text that will become the final agreement."
He has already met US Secretary of State John Kerry in Lausanne.
Mr Fabius added a note of caution, saying: "We have moved forward on certain points, but on others not enough."
Britain, China and Russia are expected to join them over the weekend, with comprehensive talks due Sunday.
They have set themselves a deadlines of 31 March for a political framework agreement and 30 June for a final deal.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes but world powers fear it has military ambitions.
Some of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, says the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher.
Potential sticking points in the nuclear talks are thought to include the pace at which sanctions would be lifted, how long the deal will last and how much of Iran's nuclear facilities will be open to inspection.
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Air France would not confirm the number of cuts, but said it would present a cost-cutting plan on Monday.
Profits at the airline have been hit in part by strikes by pilots, who have been protesting over the expansion of its budget subsidiary.
It also faces stiff competition from low-cost rivals as well as airlines in the Middle East.
Air France said after a board meeting that it had decided to implement a new restructuring plan in order to accelerate its recovery.
"Facing the impossibility of reaching an agreement to implement the productivity measures within Air France and restore long-term profitability, the board members consider it essential to introduce an alternative plan and have unanimously agreed to mandate Air France-KLM and Air France Management to carry this out," the company said in a statement.
The plan will be presented to the Works Council on Monday.
Union sources leaked the planned job cuts to reporters at two news agencies.
The unions also said the restructuring could include retiring five long haul planes next summer and nine others in 2017.
One official is quoted as saying: "These points were presented to the board for information, but no vote has been taken."
Air France merged with Dutch KLM in 2004.
The north African country has bid to host the finals on four previous occasions but missed out on the 1994, 1998, 2006 and 2010 editions.
"We are convinced that Morocco could organise this competition just as South Africa did in 2010," said Ahmad.
Ahmad was elected Caf chief, replacing Issa Hayatou, on 16 March.
His backing for Morocco comes only a few months after Fifa president Gianni Infantino declared that the country has the necessary "infrastructure and organisational capacity" to host the World Cup.
South Africa's hosting of the tournament seven years ago is the only time the event has been played on the African continent.
John Cramond from Stranraer lost his sight as a young boy and never had the opportunity to get behind the wheel until last weekend.
He mentioned his dream of driving a car to Leonard Cheshire Disability volunteer co-ordinator Bill Milven.
He approached driving instructor James Edgar who has a dual control vehicle and together they hatched a plan to allow Mr Cramond the chance to drive.
Last Saturday morning he took Mr Cramond to a war-time airstrip near Stranraer where he spent an hour behind the wheel.
"I lost my sight when in my early years but I have never let this stop me from doing all that I could to live as normal a life as possible," said Mr Cramond.
"I had a go on a tandem bicycle with my son down south recently and that set me thinking that I really did want to try and have a go at driving a car - a thing that I thought I'd never do.
"After the lesson I was buzzing with excitement all day and couldn't wait to tell my family.
"I want to thank Bill and James for fulfilling a dream wish for me."
Mr Edgar said he had proved to be a speedy learner.
"John was amazingly quick at picking up the basics and we spent an hour going through the gears, braking and steering before finally and safely building up to a short sprint at 30 miles an hour," he said.
"Witnessing the joy on John's face as he was driving after all this time was a truly rewarding experience for me too and I'm so glad I was able to help."
Jose Manuel Barroso, who left the key post last October, said that Alexis Tsipras's Syriza-led administration lacked experience.
Greece's demands were "completely unacceptable to other countries", he told the BBC's Business Live programme.
In its election campaign, Syriza promised to ease economic austerity.
Mr Tsipras pledged new jobs and a rise in the minimum wage. But Greece's creditors have made it clear they will not support a bailout for the country unless there is a comprehensive plan to reduce spending and increase revenues.
On Wednesday, the Greek government submitted fresh reform proposals.
The new plan foresees increasing government revenues through a crackdown on tax evasion and fraud, and a new lottery designed to encourage payment of sales tax.
But it also includes extra spending, including increased pension payments and and rise in the minimum wage.
Greece's creditors will now decide whether these latest reform proposals go far enough to unlock the bailout money.
In the interview, Mr Barroso pointed out that there were poorer countries lending money to Greece who would not support the idea of Greece's debts being written off.
He called on Greece to take responsibility for its financial plight and implement structural reforms, which was now the most important issue for the country.
"It was not Germany or any other member of the EU that created the problems in Greece - the problems in Greece are structural: low productivity and previous governments."
Nations such as Ireland, Portugal and Spain had come back from the financial brink and Mr Barroso said Greece could do the same: "There is nothing regarding Greece that prevents it being successful, but... bad politics have created a lot of problems for Greece."
Greece's previous proposals failed to satisfy its main creditors, the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
But France's finance minister, Michel Sapin, said Greece's new proposals did represent some improvement in Athen's position.
"There is progress with the last list... Is there a need for more progress? Yes - in the quantification of the measures," he said.
A decision may not come before Greece is due to make a €450m (£330m) payment to the IMF on 9 April.
Eurozone finance ministers are likely to reserve any formal judgement for the next scheduled meeting in Riga on 24 April.
Despite the ongoing bail-out negotiations, Mr Barroso said a Greek departure from the eurozone was still a possibility. He said that would still be "negative", but that he believed it would be less damaging now because financial markets were much more confident than they had been in recent years.
However, he added that a "Grexit" would still leave the idea of monetary union in doubt. "It breaks a taboo and sets a precedent," he said.
The former EC chief and Portuguese prime minister also reiterated his view that Britons would be worse off if the UK left the European Union.
"I believe they would lose a lot if [the country] leaves the EU, because today, in the 21st century, versus the US, China, countries of 60 million people cannot speak at the same level - they do not have the same leverage - and we have to use the EU and our common leverage to count in the world."
Mr Barroso, 59, is now a visiting professor at Princeton University and the University of Geneva.
Business Live airs at 07.30GMT each weekday on BBC World TV.
16 March 2016 Last updated at 07:13 GMT
The 12 year old's been selected for the Great British team that will be at the competition in April.
Jamie began speed stacking two years ago and his best time at the cup cycle challenge is 5.7 seconds - less than a second off the world record.
Watch to see how fast he stacks cups - blink and you'll miss it!
The 27-year-old agreed a one-year contract after leaving Accrington Stanley as a free agent at the end of last season.
Dundee have already signed Scott Allan, Glen Kamara, Lewis Spence, Sofien Moussa, Jack Hendry, Roarie Deacon and Randy Wolters.
Parish will challenge number one Scott Bain for a starting place in goal.
A graduate of Aston Villa's youth set up, and a former England under-20 international, Parish impressed Dundee manager Neil McCann during a trial spell.
After spells at Cardiff, Wycombe, Bristol City, Newport County, Blackpool and Colchester, Parish made 16 appearances for Accrington Stanley last season.
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The 20-year-old will now remain at The Valley until the summer of 2019.
Aribo featured for the Addicks' Under-23 side last season and has made a total of four appearances since making his first-team debut in October.
"Joe is like a young Patrick Vieira with his leggy range, quality and appetite to get around the pitch," boss Karl Robinson told the club website.
"Charlton have a rich history of developing young players and I'm sure he's got the ability to get to the top."
The tourist attraction closed in June for a second time since its £7.5m revamp last year, and has not re-opened.
The closure was because of an "increase in levels of rock-fall" and the work was expected to take up to three weeks.
However, Mid and East Antrim Mayor Audrey Wales said it is not clear when the coastal walk will re-open.
"Whilst the timing...has been very unfortunate, it has been unavoidable and council makes no apologies that the safety of visitors to The Gobbins is, and will always be, our first priority," she said.
Commenting on when the attraction might re-open, Ms Wales said: "This is very much dependent on the approach taken in respect of completing the required work, to ensure that we adequately protect the natural environment within this Area of Special Scientific Interest, that we protect the bridges in situ from any rockfall resulting from the maintenance works."
But Sinn Féin MLA for East Antrim Oliver McMullan has urged Economy Minister Simon Hamilton to step in and has called for a full explanation of what the work will cost.
He said: "There needs to be a full explanation from the council, setting out exactly what's been going on.
"I want to know what they are hiding from the public."
"The council haven't made anything public and it is damning."
Part of the problem at the Gobbins is the nature of the rock.
It's mostly basalt which has a lot of fissures in it.
Water gets into them and by a process of freeze and thaw causes sections to loosen.
It's the threat of loose bits falling that has contributed to this decision to close.
The revamp of the Gobbins in Islandmagee was unveiled in August 2015 but the council has not revealed what maintenance of the attraction has cost since then.
Mr McMullan, who was a councillor when the original plans for the project were drawn-up, said: "The attraction has lost so much in takings already.
"The rumours I'm hearing are that it will cost an enormous amount to re-open and we need to know that cost.
"When I sat in Larne council I had my doubts it would ever open, and the way it's been run, I have my doubts it will ever be functional.
"I am setting down an emergency question for Simon Hamilton.
"Yes the council have handled it poorly, but the minister responsible for tourism must now take responsibility."
The tourist spot first shut in January 2016 for repair work, only re-opening at the end of April.
It was planned that the Gobbins would have been open to the public right throughout the year, weather dependent.
The plane caused more than 12 hours of disruption after landing shortly before 06:00 BST with a damaged undercarriage.
Passengers were warned to expect more delays as oil was washed away, before the runway was cleared at about 18:30.
The airport was temporarily closed earlier and all flights were suspended. Ten flights were cancelled and others were delayed.
Flights then operated from a shortened runway because of the obstruction.
The airport's managing director, Graham Keddie, said the freight aircraft had landed "right at the wrong time and right in the wrong place".
He said it "had to stop right in the junction of both our runways," he said.
The airport's operations director, Alan Whiteside, said the plane's starboard undercarriage had been damaged, which had made it difficult to move.
The airport authorities also had to wait for the Air Accident Investigation team to give the go-ahead for the plane's removal.
Mr Whiteside said the result was "quite a bit of havoc" which had a knock-on effect throughout the day.
There were lengthy queues in the terminal on Tuesday morning, said BBC News NI's Louise Cullen at the scene.
June Stobey from Newtownabbey arrived at the airport at 06:15, having planned a "birthday treat" trip to Glasgow with her son, Andrew.
"We were travelling Tuesday morning and coming back on Wednesday afternoon but our flight has been cancelled until 17:45," she said.
"He was looking forward to it but he's not willing to move from here until we get on the plane."
Sam McClean had been due to get an 08:10 flight to Glasgow, but it was cancelled.
"I was due to get a flight from Glasgow to Tasmania at 14:15 but I'm now having to wait on a flight at 17:20 that I'm hoping I'll get," he said.
"I'll have to get in touch with my relations in Ireland and get them to phone my wife in Tasmania and say: 'Don't come and pick me up, because the flight's been cancelled and I don't know when I'll be home.'"
Mr Keddie said airlines tried to get people booked onto later flights.
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Western powers are now becoming increasingly concerned that so-called Islamic State (IS) has built a presence in the North African state and the US has responded by launching air strikes on the militant group.
Only Libya's myriad armed militias really wield power - and it is felt they often hold the politicians they supposedly back to ransom.
During the uprising, anyone with a gun could command respect, and lots of armed groups emerged - up to 1,700, according to some estimates.
There are two rival parliaments and three governments - the latest government was formed in UN-brokered talks with the aim of replacing the other two. But this initiative is still on the rocks, partly because of concerns that the new government is being imposed by Western powers.
The oil-rich country once had one of the highest standards of living in Africa, with free healthcare and free education, but six years on from the uprising, it is facing a financial crisis.
This turmoil has allowed IS to gain a foothold in the country.
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IS had taken control of an "enclave" in and around the city of Sirte, the birthplace of Gaddafi. Security experts feared this could provide a safe haven for jihadists to train, fund and plan attacks in North Africa and across the Mediterranean.
However, pro-government forces backed by the West have now pushed back the Islamists and retaken the city.
Some security analysts describe Libya as an arms bazaar. It is awash with weapons looted from Gaddafi's arsenal - making an ideal playground for jihadists fleeing air strikes in Syria and Iraq.
IS has been attacking Libyan oil facilities, has kidnapped several foreign oil workers and in 2015 was behind two high-profile attacks on Tunisia's tourism industry - carried out by gunmen trained in Libya.
Tunisia has built a partial security barrier and trench along its border with Libya aimed at preventing further atrocities.
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The Libyans gaining ground on IS
The US has carried out at least four known air strikes in Libya since 2015. The latest one, in January, targeted an alleged training camp on the outskirts of Sirte where some IS militants had fled after the city fell.
The UK and France also have special forces operating in the North African state - the nature and extent of these operations have largely been secretive.
Three French soldiers died in July 2016 when their helicopter was shot down by militiamen who identified themselves as belonging to a new militant group called Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB).
Last year, plans were unveiled to send 6,000 troops from a number of Nato countries, including the UK and France, to Libya to train local troops to stop IS-linked groups from gaining more territory and to provide security to diplomatic missions that were looking to move back to the capital.
However, the new unity government was reluctant to openly allow or request such a presence and the plan has still not materialised.
Former US President Barack Obama, in an interview published in April 2016, said that the "worst mistake" of his presidency was the failure to prepare for the aftermath of Col Gaddafi's overthrow.
He partly blamed then-UK Prime Minister David Cameron for "the mess", saying he had not done enough to support the North African nation whose instability was threatening its neighbours and was a factor in Europe's migrant crisis.
Parliamentary elections held in 2014 were disputed. Those who held power refused to give it up and remained in the capital, Tripoli.
The newly elected parliament then moved to the port of Tobruk, 1,000km (620 miles) away and set up a rival government.
This parliament still has the official backing of the UN as Libya's official legislative body - despite the fact that it is opposed to the new unity administration. It wants Gen Khalifa Haftar, who is leading the battle against Islamist militias, to keep a senior role in a future army, something the UN agreement does not guarantee.
The UN-mediated deal for a unity government has seen the formation of a nine-member Presidency Council, led by Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj. He arrived in Tripoli in March 2016 to set up his administration and has been trying to win the support of the various militias and politicians, but it has little real power over the whole country.
The council has also suffered from divisions. Two members boycotted it continuously, eventually moving to the east, while another member resigned.
Mr Sarraj, an engineer by profession, approved the 1 August 2016 US air strike on suspected IS positions in Sirte, in the first co-ordinated military action between his government and the US.
Has Libya pulled back from the brink?
They were united in their hatred for Gaddafi - but nothing more. There was no single group in charge of the rebellion. Militias were based in different cities, fighting their own battles.
They are also ideologically divided - some of them are militant or moderate Islamists, others are secessionists or monarchists and yet others are liberals. Furthermore, the militias are split along regional, ethnic and local lines, making it a combustible mix.
And after more than four decades of authoritarian rule, they had little understanding of democracy.
So they were unable to forge compromises and build a new state based on the rule of law.
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West:
Guide to Libya's militias
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Oil production almost ground to a halt for more than two years but has recovered a little in recent months. This happened after a siege was lifted by LNA forces when they took over the main oil fields in central Libya and expelled a rival armed group led by Ibrahim Jathran. Banks are still strapped for cash, however, and there is little foreign currency available officially. The black market exchange rate has sky-rocketed in recent months, and food prices have risen. Hospitals are in short supply of medicine.
An estimated 400,000 Libyans are also internally displaced.
These beautiful pictures are the first ever taken of a wild lioness nursing a cub from a different species - an extremely rare event.
The pair were spotted by Joop Van Der Linde, a guest at Ndutu Safari Lodge in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
The scene is the Serengeti; the attentive mother, five-year-old Nosikitok.
The lioness has a GPS collar fitted by Kope Lion, a conservation NGO, and three young cubs of her own - born around the 27-28 June.
Dr Luke Hunter, President and Chief Conservation Officer for Panthera, a global wild cat conservation organisation which supports Kope Lion, told the BBC the incident was "truly unique".
"It's not something that I'm aware has ever happened before between large cats like this," he said.
"We know there are cases where lionesses will adopt other lion cubs... But this is unprecedented.
"I know of no other case - between any large cat, for that matter - where the species has adopted or nursed the cub of another species."
Most lionesses would normally kill a baby leopard if they found one, seeing just another predator in a competitive food-chain.
Dr Hunter says Nosikitok has cubs the same age as the young leopard - two to three weeks.
She was around a kilometre from her den, where her own cubs are hidden, when she found the spotted substitute.
"She's encountered this little cub, and she's treated it as her own. She's awash with maternal hormones, and this fierce, protective drive that all lionesses have - they're formidable mums," the lion expert notes.
It is not clear yet where the baby leopard's mother is, or if the lioness will try to adopt it full-time.
The local safari lodge say there is a resident female leopard there who almost certainly has cubs. And as Nosikitok's pride are unlikely to prove as indulgent as she is, the best outcome for the leopard would be a safe return to mum.
Dr Hunter says his team are on tenterhooks to see what comes next.
"It's a unique thing, it will be fascinating to see how it unfolds. Nature is unpredictable. Up until earlier this week, we would have said 'Nah, that never happens' - and now it happens!"
While one MP revealed a knife had been pulled on him, others had received death threats and one MP was so concerned she had a panic room fitted to her constituency office.
The research was carried out following the murder of the Batley and Spen MP, Jo Cox, in June.
A total of 55 out of 63 MPs responded.
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Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips has had a panic room fitted to her constituency office, while Gisela Stuart, MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, said she had received death threats on Twitter and verbal abuse at a railway station.
"Whilst I have chosen to be in public life, and therefore I have made a choice to take some risks, I feel an even greater responsibility towards my staff," she said.
She added: "We have to make it absolutely clear that this is unacceptable and work with others to stop it."
The MP who said he had a knife pulled on him did not want to be identified.
Staffordshire security expert Kenn Griffiths said MPs and public figures should "take stock" and "start to put together some sort of plans of action that they can take".
The National Child Abuse Investigation unit was unveiled by Police Scotland Chief Constable Stephen House and Education Minister Angela Constance.
The unit, based in Livingston, will help local divisions investigate child sexual abuse.
It will investigate both current and historical allegations, as well as online child abuse.
Sir Stephen said: "Child abuse, including child sexual exploitation, is a complex, challenging area of policing and we owe it to all those affected, whether now or in the past, to thoroughly investigate each and every report we receive.
"To be clear, the abuse and neglect of children is an issue for all of our communities. This is unacceptable.
"Children and young people should be allowed to live their lives without the fear of abuse or exploitation. We will proactively target those who pose a risk to children and work with our partners to ensure that support is available for victims."
Paul Carberry, Action for Children Scotland director of service development, said protecting children from abuse was not just a job for the police.
He said: "Adults from all walks of life must be equipped to spot the signs of child sexual exploitation, not just listening to what children are saying but seeing what is evident in their actions or behaviour."
The creation of the unit was announced in October in response to concerns following the child sex exploitation revelations in Rotherham, in South Yorkshire, where an investigation found at least 1,400 children were abused between 1997 and 2013.
Matt Forde, NSPCC Scotland's national head of service, said there was no reason to believe Scotland was immune from the the widespread sexual exploitation of children which had been seen in English towns and cities such as Rotherham.
Last November, a Glasgow City Council report found 97 children in the city had been identified as being victims of, or at risk of, sexual exploitation.
For most of the world, a government shutdown is very bad news - the result of revolution, invasion or disaster. Even in the middle of its ongoing civil war, the Syrian government has continued to pay its bills and workers' wages.
That leaders of one of the most powerful nations on earth willingly provoked a crisis that suspends public services and decreases economic growth is astonishing to many.
American policymakers "are facing the unthinkable prospect of shutting down the government as they squabble over the inconsequential accomplishment of a 10-week funding extension", Mexico's The News wrote in an editorial.
In the United States, however, government shutdowns - or the threat thereof - have become an accepted negotiating tactic, thanks to the quirks of the American federal system, which allows different branches of government to be controlled by different parties. It was a structure devised by the nation's founders to encourage compromise and deliberation, but lately has had just the opposite effect.
Elsewhere in the world, such shutdowns are practically impossible. The parliamentary system used by most European democracies ensures that the executive and legislature are controlled by the same party or coalition. Conceivably, a parliament could refuse to pass a budget proposed by the prime minister, but such an action would likely trigger a failure of the government and a new election - witness the current situation in the Netherlands, where Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government faced a no-confidence vote at the start of debate over his 2014 budget proposal. And even when there is a gap prior to a new government taking office, national services continue to operate.
In non-parliamentary democracies, such as Brazil, a strong executive branch has the ability to keep the lights on during a budget impasse. Such was the case in the United States as well, until a 1980 Carter administration interpretation of the 1884 Anti-Deficiency Act strictly limited the powers of federal agencies in the absence of congressional funding authorisations.
Now, as the latest shutdown crisis plays out, policymakers in other nations are left to ponder the worldwide impact of the impasse.
"Globalisation … means every country is in it together," writes David Blanchflower in the Independent in the UK. "Americans sneeze and Brits catch the flu."
"Canadians can only pray their economy won't be collateral damage," writes John Ibbitson in Canada's Globe and Mail. "Anything that drags down the American economy drags the Canadian economy down with it."
And this could be another reason why the United States has shutdown crises and other countries don't - because the United States can afford to. At least up until now, the American economy has been able to continue to grind along despite shutdown disruptions that would stagger other nations.
"Constant-shutdown, permanent-emergency governance is so destructive that no other serious country engages in or could tolerate it," James Fallows writes in the Atlantic. "The United States can afford it only because we are - still - so rich, with so much margin for waste and error."
This week he takes on Charlotte Green, the former Radio 4 newsreader, who made her debut reading out the classified football results on BBC Radio 5 live and the World Service on Saturday.
Green says it was a pleasant surprise when she was asked to take over from James Alexander Gordon.
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"I was absolutely delighted," Green said, who supports Tottenham.
"It is something I always dreamed about as a child. When I was six, I used to sit at the kitchen table and read them out loud, much to the annoyance of my sister who thought it was all terribly boring."
And her debut on Saturday predictably passed off perfectly.
A correct result is worth ONE point. A correct score earns THREE points.
Last week, Lawro got four results right, with one perfect score. His score of six saw him beaten by superstar sprinter Usain Bolt, whose six correct results with two perfect scores gave him 10 points, and put him second on the guest leaderboard.
We're keeping a record of the total scores for Lawro and his guests (below), and showing a table of how the Premier League would look if all of Lawro's predictions were correct (also at the bottom of the page).
Tottenham 1-1 Chelsea
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Green's prediction: 1-0
Aston Villa 3-2 Man City
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Green's prediction: 1-3
Fulham 1-2 Cardiff
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Green's prediction: 0-0
Hull 1-0 West Ham
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Green's prediction: 2-1
Man Utd 1-2 West Brom
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
Green's prediction: 2-0
Southampton 2-0 Crystal Palace
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Green's prediction: 2-0
Swansea 1-2 Arsenal
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Green's prediction: 1-2
Stoke 0-1 Norwich
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Green's prediction: 0-0
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Sunderland 1-3 Liverpool
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Green's prediction: 0-3
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Everton 3-2 Newcastle
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Green's prediction: 2-0
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Defender McAuley touched home Gareth Bale's left-wing 75th-minute cross.
"We are disappointed in the manner we lost and Gareth didn't deserve that because he has been excellent. We lay no blame on him at all," said Davis.
"We are devastated to be out but it's been a great journey and we have learned a lot from the experience."
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The Southampton midfielder added that there was "not a lot in the game" in Paris, which saw Wales book a place in the last eight of the tournament.
"We put everything into it and had the better chances in the first half but it wasn't meant to be our day.
"The fans were magnificent again and they have enjoyed the journey as much as us. We are just sad to see it end."
NI manager Michael O'Neill believed his side "were the better team on the day" but to lose was "very, very disappointing".
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"We gave everything and I couldn't ask any more of the players over the whole tournament.
"Gareth knows it's one of those balls across the box where he has to make a decision and he opted to touch it, which is always a risk.
"It was difficult for him to assess the situation, whether there was anyone behind him or not.
"It's a shame for him but Gareth has been magnificent for me throughout this tournament and throughout my time as manager."
The Northern Ireland squad will receive an official homecoming in Belfast on Monday evening.
Direct Choice Home Improvements Ltd was fined £50,000 in March 2016 by the Information Commissioner's Office for cold-calling 168 people who had opted out of receiving sales calls.
But BBC X-Ray found similar practices were continuing months later.
Direct Choice said one manager has now been sacked and another disciplined.
The firm had been fined for calling people who were on the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) - the register for people who do not want sales calls.
At the time, the company promised it had invested in new systems to prevent the problems happening again.
But BBC Wales' X-Ray programme has spoken to two customers on the TPS who were cold-called by the company in December 2016.
Mark Davies, from Narberth in Pembrokeshire, said: "They rang me completely out of the blue... I was annoyed because I'm registered with TPS."
Mr Davies ended up speaking to a manager.
"I pointed out that it was an offence now to phone people on the TPS and it was up to him to check our number against it, and he basically said if he did that he couldn't possibly run a business," he said.
Chris Harvey-Jones, from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, who is also on the TPS, told X-Ray the company had called him about 23 times.
"I've said, right, take me off your database. I've got no intention of ever buying anything from you, so you're wasting your time, and they say, 'oh yes, we'll take you off and you'll never get a call from us again', and then three days later you get another call," he said.
Mr Harvey-Jones even agreed to a visit from one of Direct Choice's sales reps in March last year to tell him he wanted the company to stop calling him.
But, in December the company phoned him again.
"We feel like it's harassment," Mr Harvey-Jones said.
"I really am at the end of my tether. It's making me angry now that they're still calling me. I've done everything I can do, so I just don't know what to do next."
Direct Choice has also been fined for the way the firm's reps sell its windows, doors and conservatories.
In 2015, it was fined £3,500 for falsely telling one customer their windows had a top A+ energy efficiency rating. That prosecution was brought by Trading Standards in Merthyr Tydfil.
And in October 2016, the company was given a £10,000 fine after a sales representative pressurised a grieving widow from Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taff, into signing a finance deal.
X-Ray sent a researcher to work undercover at Direct Choice in January to investigate the company's sales tactics, and the way it was cold-calling people.
The training was basic, with one manager telling new staff: "It's not customer services we're doing, it's not thanks for your time, have a lovely day, enjoy yourself - we keep them on the phone until they either say yes or they put the phone down."
John Mitchison, from the Direct Marketing Association, which runs the TPS, watched some of the programme's undercover footage.
He said: "It does shock me. It's probably one of the worst attitudes I've seen in the way they're treating consumers."
In response, Direct Choice told the programme that following the BBC investigation it has now sacked one manager and disciplined another.
It has admitted it had issues with its "call centre making calls to persons who do not want to be contacted, through registering with the TPS or otherwise".
It said its system does now filter out people on the TPS, and added: "Direct Choice Home Improvements Directors are now in regular contact with the ICO, who note a significant reduction in complaints regarding the company in recent months.
"Recommendations made by them are taken on board to ensure the company constantly improves."
The company also apologised for the upset caused by one of its reps to the widow from Ferndale.
It said the sales rep was dismissed after the court case and it has significantly changed their working practices to stop such incidents happening again.
It also pledges there will be no vote on the issue "until the Brexit process has played out".
But the manifesto, which was launched by Theresa May in Halifax, does not specify what "public consent" means.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants a referendum to be held in the autumn of next year or spring of 2019.
Her call was formally backed by the Scottish Parliament in March - although it was opposed by the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats, with the Scottish Greens backing the SNP in the final vote.
The prime minister has repeatedly said that "now is not the time" for another vote on the issue, arguing that the focus should instead be on negotiating the best Brexit deal for the whole of the UK.
But Ms Sturgeon argues that the Scottish people should be able to choose which path to follow in the wake of the Brexit vote, and that blocking a referendum would be a "democratic outrage".
The Conservative manifesto claims that "some would disrupt our attempts to get the best deal for Scotland and the United Kingdom with calls for a divisive referendum that the people of Scotland do not want".
It goes on to say: "We have been very clear that now is not the time for another referendum on independence.
"In order for a referendum to be fair, legal and decisive, it cannot take place until the Brexit process has played out and it should not take place unless there is public consent for it to happen.
"This is a time to pull together, not apart."
Mrs May said the manifesto contained proposals that would "see us through Brexit and beyond", describing it as a "plan for a stronger, fairer, more prosperous Britain".
She has promised a "mainstream government that would deliver for mainstream Britain" if she wins the election on 8 June.
The manifesto includes a fresh pledge to curb immigration, and says the government will deliver a balanced budget by the "middle of the next decade".
On Brexit, it pledges to negotiate a "deep and special partnership" which will allow free trade between the UK and the EU's member states, but with the UK leaving the single market and customs union.
It also says there will be no increase in VAT, and promises to increase the national living wage to 60% of the median earnings by 2020.
And it says the so-called "triple lock" on pensions will be reduced to a "double lock" with the state pension to rise by the higher of average earnings or inflation - but it will no longer go up by 2.5% if they are both lower than that.
The manifesto says Scotland's economic growth has lagged behind the rest of the United Kingdom in recent years, but that the Conservatives "take seriously our duty to secure prosperity for the whole of the United Kingdom".
The document pledges: "We will, therefore, take concerted action to help secure the long-term sustainability of the Scottish economy. Scotland and Scottish industries will be central to our industrial strategy."
This action will include:
Scottish Secretary David Mundell, who was the only Conservative MP elected in Scotland in the 2015 general election, described the manifesto as a "plan that delivers for Scotland".
He added: "It shows that a re-elected Conservative government will continue to ensure that Scotland benefits from its membership of the United Kingdom."
The SNP said the Conservative manifesto was a "cruel and callous attack on families" with planned cuts that it said would hit pensioners, working families and public services.
The party's deputy leader, Angus Robertson, said: "The SNP already protect free personal care, free childcare, free school meals, and will stand up against these callous Tory cuts."
He went on to claim the Conservatives have "made a rod for their own back" over independence, because "if they now fail to win the election in Scotland they have no basis whatsoever on which to continue to thwart the will of the Scottish Parliament".
Meanwhile, James Kelly of Scottish Labour said the Conservative "ideological obsession with a hard Brexit" had allowed the SNP to kick-start a fresh campaign for independence.
He added: "This Tory manifesto means every Conservative candidate in Scotland is standing on a platform endorsing the abhorrent rape clause, the bedroom tax and swingeing cuts to social security payments.
"There is now a clear choice between a radical vision of a fairer UK with a Labour government, or Theresa May' Little Britain, closed off from the world and building borders as nationalist governments always do."
Five political leaders campaigned in and around Edinburgh before their second televised debate.
The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats concentrated on education, while SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon unveiled her plans to help more young people into work.
The Scottish Greens announced plans to reform income tax and end council tax.
The leaders are due to go head-to-head in a second televised debate broadcast on STV later.
Last week they clashed on the issue of income tax during a BBC Scotland debate ahead of the Holyrood election.
During a visit to a community cafe in Edinburgh, Ms Sturgeon outlined her plan for a £100 jobs grant to 16-24 year olds who have been unemployed for more than six months, with a larger grant available to young couples.
She said: "We will use the new powers coming to the Scottish Parliament to support Scotland's young people and to grow our economy.
"I want to see all our young people start their working lives with the best possible opportunities and an equal chance of success."
Labour's Kezia Dugdale focussed on education, highlighting a drop in probationer teachers since the SNP first came to power.
She said: "Nicola Sturgeon claims that education is the defining priority of her government, but reality of her record just does not reflect that.
"Labour will ask those earning more than £150,000 a year to pay a bit more in tax so we can stop the cuts and invest in our schools."
Conservatives leader Ruth Davidson set out her early years education commitments during a nursery visit.
She said: "The SNP has singularly failed to make any progress on narrowing the attainment gap, despite having sole control over education for almost a decade.
"Standards of literacy and numeracy in Scotland among young people have been allowed to slip - the Scottish Conservatives would place reversing that trend at the absolute heart of education policy."
The Liberal Democrat's Willie Rennie took his penny on income tax for education pledge to the streets.
He said: "Liberal Democrats have set out clear plans for education, with a transformational investment of half a billion pounds a year for nurseries, schools and colleges.
"My challenge to the other parties ahead of this debate is clear: they need to match our ambition and build a Scotland that is fit for the future."
Ahead of the latest debate, Patrick Harvie of the Scottish Greens unveiled proposals for new income tax rates for Scotland's highest earners.
The party's plans would see income tax reduced for those earning under £26,500 once Holyrood gets power over rates and bands in April 2017.
He also set out his party's plans to scrap the existing council tax and replace it with a residential property tax based on up-to-date values.
A Scottish Green spokesman said: "With new powers over income tax rates and bands, now is the time for Holyrood to be bold and raise revenue to reverse cuts and tackle inequality.
"Our plans will show that for that bolder Holyrood, more Green MSPs are essential.
South Wales Police and the fire service are investigating the cause of the blaze, at Clydach Road in Blaenclydach, at about 19:25 BST on Friday.
Three fire engines, a hydraulic platform and a water bowser tackled the fire.
There were no injuries reported.
Speaking at the CBI Wales annual dinner, Brexit Secretary David Davis called for "cool heads" in a period of uncertainty.
Earlier, he visited hi-tech firm SPTS Technologies in Newport.
He said no Brexit options would be ruled in or out but the UK government would get "the best deal for Britain".
Mr Davis, speaking to 400 industry leaders at the dinner in Cardiff on Thursday evening, asked them to be confident about the future as the UK seeks "not a bitter divorce, but a better relationship" with the EU.
"Our challenge is to navigate a period of inevitable uncertainty with cool heads and a united sense of purpose and confidence," Mr Davis he said.
"Suggestions that the UK might somehow reverse its decision aren't just misleading, they risk undermining our negotiating position and adding to uncertainty.
"And a second referendum would give those on the other side in the negotiations an incentive to give us the worst possible deal to try to force the British people to change their minds.
"The Welsh economy is in good shape for the road ahead and remains fundamentally strong, highly competitive and open for business."
Earlier in the House of Commons, Mr Davis said the UK would consider making payments to the EU after it leaves the bloc to secure the best possible access to the EU single market.
Mr Davis then travelled to south Wales to join a tour of SPTS Technologies, just off the M4, with Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns and Brexit Minister David Jones.
The high-tech firm has grown steadily and now employs 280 on its site at Coldra.
It was an interesting choice for the Brexit Secretary as it is a company that trades globally and has international staff.
In fact, it sometimes has to hire staff from other EU nations because they cannot find the skills here in the UK.
STPS makes the machines that in turn make the leading edge technology that ends up in a range of devices, from sensors in airbags, parts of smart phones and LED lighting.
It exports all over the world, with 30% of customers in the EU. At the moment, if a client within the EU has a problem with one of its machines, a worker flies out to sort it out.
That could change depending on what the UK agrees as part of Brexit.
It is hard to imagine that the company did not spell that out to Mr Davis during his company tour.
"We are facing both challenges and opportunities following Brexit," said Mr Cairns.
"We will deliver a deal that ensures our exit from the EU will be a success for the whole of the UK, including Wales."
Chris May, 28, was last seen by family at his home in Kelvedon on 25 May 2015.
His case was formally declared a murder investigation exactly a year later.
A 35-year-old Braintree man has been arrested on suspicion of murder while a 25-year-man from Kelvedon was arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
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Mr May's abandoned Volkswagen Golf was found in the village of Fairstead, about 10 (16km) miles from Kelvedon on the morning he went missing.
Speaking last month, Det Ch Insp Marina Ericson said Mr May was a drug user who dealt in ecstasy, cocaine and mephedrone.
"There is a strong likelihood that Chris' involvement with drugs is linked to his death," she said in May.
As revealed by BBC News Online, police had reclassified the Chris May case from a missing person's inquiry to a homicide probe as far back as February.
Police withheld this information from the public as part of their investigation.
Essex Police said four letters from anonymous authors have been sent to police claiming to have information about what happened to Mr May.
At least two of them, police, say have been proven to be hoaxes.
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The 25-year-old seamer moves up nine places to seventh.
Team-mate Katherine Brunt is fifth with South Africa's Marizanne Kapp first.
Australians Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry top the batter and all-rounder rankings respectively.
Shrubsole, who leads the Twenty20 bowling rankings, took 6-46 as England won a thrilling final against the team they lost to in the World Cup opening match.
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England spinner Laura Marsh has moved up one position to 19th in the ODI bowling rankings, while seamer Jenny Gunn has moved up two places to 20th.
Natalie Sciver is eighth in the ODI batter rankings and Sarah Taylor has progressed three positions to 12th after scoring 54 in the semi-final and 45 in the final. She was also chosen as wicket-keeper in the ICC's team of the tournament.
England captain Heather Knight is 15th in the batter rankings and opener Tammy Beaumont 18th.
There was no change in the women's team rankings, which take into account both ODIs and T20Is, with Australia retaining top spot and England in second.
Border collie Pickles found the Jules Rimet Trophy after it was stolen four months ahead of the 1966 World Cup.
Dave Corbett - who received a reward of about £6,000 - spoke ahead of the 50th anniversary of the tournament, which England went on to win.
He said: "If you've got a dog, love it. He may pay you back."
Pickles found the famous trophy - stolen a week earlier while on display at Central Hall in Westminster - on 27 March. It was wrapped in newspaper near Mr Corbett's home in south London.
Mr Corbett told how he tore off the newspaper and noticed the names of previous winners Brazil, West Germany and Uruguay before taking it to his local police station.
He said: "I pushed open the double doors and behind was a sergeant standing at his big desk.
"I banged the package on the desk and said 'I think I've found the World Cup'.
"He looked at me and at it and said 'It doesn't look very World Cuppy to me'. "
Police initially treated Mr Corbett as a suspect before he explained how he was taking Pickles for an evening walk when he noticed the dog sniffing at a tied-up package in bushes next to a car.
The return of the trophy elevated Pickles and Mr Corbett to national hero status and the pair were invited to a celebratory dinner after England went on to lift the trophy when they beat West Germany 4-2 in the final on 30 July.
Mr Corbett used the reward money to buy a house at Lingfield, Surrey - where he has lived ever since.
"It changed my life completely and I put it all down to my mate Pickles down there," Mr Corbett said as he nodded at the dog's grave in his back garden in Lingfield.
Jevans was director of sport at London Olympic organisers Locog before taking on the World Cup post in October 2012.
A Rugby World Cup organising committee statement said Jevans leaves "with plans in excellent shape" and more than "1.9m tickets sold".
Jevans said: "This is the right decision for me to make at this time."
Stephen Brown will become the new managing director and working alongside chairman Andy Cosslett.
Cosslett said Jevans' "legacy will be seen during and after the tournament is delivered".
Jevans added: "I am immensely proud of the team and all that we have achieved in the time that I have been chief executive.
"Everything is in place to ensure that this is the best Rugby World Cup ever, and I am confident my team will deliver an exceptional tournament."
The 48-match tournament begins on 18 September when England play Fiji at Twickenham.
Monday's attack at Ohio State University was carried out by one of its students, Somali-born Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the authorities said.
The IS-affiliated Amaq news agency called the 18-year-old business undergraduate a "soldier".
Artan drove his car at a group of people, then attacked them with a knife before being shot dead.
The IS claim does not prove much in terms of the attack in Ohio. The group often refers to individuals who carry out attacks as its "soldiers", but the crucial question is firstly whether the individual had any form of direct contact with IS.
Face-to-face contact may be unlikely but online communication is possible. If there was no direct contact, it could still be the case that an individual was inspired rather than directed by the group. In this case, an individual may leave his or her own pledge of allegiance in written form or online or in a video.
But until such evidence emerges, it remains hard to know if this is just an opportunistic claim by the group rather than one based on real substance.
Most of the victims were injured by Artan's car, but two were stabbed with a "butcher's knife" and another suffered a fractured skull, officials said.
One of the wounded victims, William Clark, an Ohio State University professor, described how Artan's vehicle had crashed into a large concrete planter before bouncing off and striking him.
"It clipped the back of my right leg and basically flipped me up in the air and I landed on the concrete," he told a news conference.
Mr Clark said Artan then got out of the car and began attacking students before he was shot down.
Surveillance photos showed Artan in the car by himself just before the attack, but investigators are looking into whether anyone else was involved.
Dozens of FBI agents have searched Artan's apartment for clues as to what may have triggered the attacks.
Neighbours described him as polite and said he attended daily prayers at a local mosque.
Artan, who was born in Somalia and was a US permanent resident, arrived in the country in 2014 as the child of a refugee.
He had been living in Pakistan from 2007 to 2014.
Artan recently posted on Facebook about the US treatment of Muslims, according to the AP, citing a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"If you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks, then make peace" with the Islamic State group, he allegedly wrote.
Representative Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said the act was indicative of someone who may have been self-radicalised.
Militants of the so-called Islamic State have found recruits in the US Somali community in recent years.
About a dozen young men and women from Minnesota's Somali community have travelled to Syria to join militant groups.
Nine men in Minnesota were sentenced on terror charges for plotting to join the Islamic State group.
And a Somali-American man attacked 10 people with a knife at a central Minnesota mall before he was killed by an off-duty police officer in September.
Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of Council of American-Islamic Relations' Minnesota chapter, said some Somali-Americans were concerned about being viewed as "guilty by association".
After Monday's attack, he said: "We must not let the act of one individual, no matter what his motive or background, to further divide our community or our nation."
Liam Howard, 24, told his victim Matthew Fyfe: "Sit down or I will take your head off."
He then hit Mr Fyfe across the face, leaving him scarred for life.
Howard admitted assaulting Mr Fyfe with the cleaver to his permanent disfigurement in the attack at a flat in Beaverbank Place in May last year.
He carried out the attack just five months after being released early from jail for attempted murder.
Sentencing Howard, judge Lord Bannatyne told him: "This wholly unprovoked assault involved the use of a weapon, a meat cleaver, which you had taken from your mother's house to this flat.
"This must have been a terrifying ordeal for the complainer. You have a significant level of previous offending for crimes of violence and you had only been released from prison for a short time before committing this offence. You are at high risk of re-offending."
Lord Bannatyne ordered Howard to be monitored in the community for four years and nine months after his release from prison.
He also said Howard must serve the remaining 33 months of his previous sentence for attempted murder before beginning his latest sentence.
The court heard that Mr Fyfe had been at a friend's flat in the Broughton area of Edinburgh on 3 May when Howard and a woman suddenly showed up.
Advocate depute Sheena Fraser, prosecuting, said Mr Fyfe has been left with a 10cm (4in) facial scar and was suffering from depression.
Defence counsel Ronnie Renucci said: "He accepts responsibility for his actions. He had taken a significant amount of valium, but realises that is no excuse."
Saturday's 3-2 defeat at Arsenal, the Swans' first match under new boss Bob Bradley, saw them slip to 19th place.
Swansea have not won in seven league matches since they beat Burnley on the opening day.
"We have strong players and a strong team. We just need to get the points," Fer told BBC Wales Sport.
"The Premier League is hard, but I think our players are too good to go down.
"It is easy [to know what we need to do] to climb up the table and not go down. We need some wins to go with strong performances."
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Fer, who joined the Swans on a permanent basis from QPR this summer following a loan spell last season, says Bradley is making his mark.
"We have a new coach and I think he has brought some life into the team and I think you could see that in our performance [against Arsenal]," he said.
"His training sessions are hard. He's trying to get us fitter and fitter and I think we need that as well.
"The mindset is different. We fought to the end against Arsenal and if we do that against other teams, we are going to get results.
"Hopefully we are going to start getting points."
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The reigning NBA Most Valuable Player had shared the previous record (12) with Kobe Bryant and Donyell Marshall.
His history-making exploits came three days after the 28-year-old had failed to record a three-pointer in a game for the first time in two years.
Curry had previously gone a record 157 games with at least one three-pointer.
Hasan Anil Eken, whose client Patrick Ekeng died in such circumstances last year, believes this could prove crucial in a battle to save a player's life.
"With this injury, every second is very important to save lives," Eken wrote.
Fifa says SCA victims have "a success rate of 90% for resuscitation" if correctly treated within two minutes.
Football players are the ones who are closest to (each other) - timing is important
This involves using an automatic external defibrillator (AED), a device that sends a powerful electric shock to a heart to try to restore its natural rhythm.
After two minutes, the probability of success declines at a rate of "about 10% per minute", says Fifa.
Cameroonian Ekeng died in May 2016 playing for Dinamo Bucharest in Romania. The ambulance that treated him had no defibrillator.
Since early June, two Ivorian footballers have died of suspected heart issues - Cheick Tiote and Eugene Kouame - while Ajax midfielder Abdelhak Nouri suffered permanent brain damage after collapsing during a friendly.
"Football players are the ones who are closest to (each other) - timing is important," Eken said in his letter to football's world governing body.
"The education to football professionals can be done twice a year to improve (their) confidence."
Eken, an agent who is currently studying at Real Madrid's Graduate School, spoke to doctors from several leading European clubs about his proposal.
He says he was repeatedly told timing was the key factor in treating victims.
"Players should learn about first aid treatment - they should know what to do when these incidents happen," argues the Turk.
"If there is a doctor, he should be the one to do it first. But what if not? Imagine training where no doctors are around and a team-mate starts to have SCA.
"Players will have two choices - either helping the player from what they have learnt or risking time to call a doctor."
In 2014, Fifa introduced an app - called CPR11 - which provides users with "clear instructions on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation", which also includes details on how to use an AED.
"How confident can players be after studying first aid treatment from an app?" asks Eken, who is not convinced by the practicality of players using such technology in an emergency situation.
In June, the Global Sports Statistics company told the BBC that 26 of 64 footballers to have died in the last 10 years came from African countries.
Since Eken's client died, at least nine players - seven of whom are African - have died from heart-related issues.
He has also sought support for his proposal from Ajax in light of the end to Nouri's once-promising career.
Following Ekeng's death in May 2016, his agent proposed a new ruling called the 'Eken'g Rule' in which he called on Fifa to make small hospitals a mandatory requirement for every stadium.
The proposal was rejected by Fifa's then medical chief officer, Jiri Dvorak, on account of being unfeasible for logistical and financial reasons.
Dvorak has since quit Fifa but Eken says he has been more positive about his latest approach, with the Czech saying such a move "is possible" while cautioning that any decision lies in the hands of Fifa's lawmakers.
The Zurich-based organisation has yet to respond to the Turkish agent.
Examples of players assisting others on the field of play is not unheard of - with Togo's Francis Kone saying he has saved the lives of four different players who swallowed their tongue on the pitch during his career.
Borja Baston gave the visitors a shock early lead with Eibar's first ever goal against Barca.
Suarez headed the hosts level before half-time and fired them ahead early in the second half.
Javier Mascherano was sent off for dissent but Suarez scored again to put Barca level with leaders Real.
Barca made the worst possible start, as the injured Lionel Messi watched from the stands.
Their defence was easily sliced open, and although Keko was denied by Claudio Bravo, the loose ball ran to Baston to fire home in the 10th minute.
It is the seventh consecutive La Liga game where they have failed to keep a clean sheet.
Suarez levelled 11 minutes later with his side's first effort on target, the Uruguayan heading home unchallenged from close range after Neymar and Sandro combined.
Eibar held out until the break, but the pressure told two minutes after the restart as Barca took the lead.
Moments after the visitors missed a chance to go back in front, Suarez drilled home a shot from just inside the area after Neymar's pass.
Mascherano's straight red card offered Eibar late hope.
But Suarez claimed a sublime third to put the result beyond doubt, controlling with his chest to bring the ball down and drill home from just inside the area.
Barcelona boss Luis Enrique: "We know the importance of Luis. What he gives you is invaluable, non-negotiable. If he then finishes in the area, that's great. He's essential and irreplaceable.
On Javier Mascherano's red card: "It would be terrible to lose him for several games, but they should look at whether these expressions are spoken into air or with eye contact."
Match ends, Barcelona 3, Eibar 1.
Second Half ends, Barcelona 3, Eibar 1.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Eddy (Eibar) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Delay in match Sergio Busquets (Barcelona) because of an injury.
Delay in match Eddy (Eibar) because of an injury.
Sergio Busquets (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Eddy (Eibar).
Neymar (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card.
Ander Capa (Eibar) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Neymar (Barcelona).
Ander Capa (Eibar) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gerard Piqué (Barcelona).
Sergi Enrich (Eibar) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match (Barcelona).
Corner, Barcelona. Conceded by Ander Capa.
Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Keko (Eibar).
Goal! Barcelona 3, Eibar 1. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Neymar with a through ball.
Javier Mascherano (Barcelona) is shown the red card.
Aleksandar Pantic (Eibar) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Luis Suárez (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aleksandar Pantic (Eibar).
Foul by Neymar (Barcelona).
Gonzalo Escalante (Eibar) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Sergio Busquets (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Keko (Eibar).
Luis Suárez (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mauro Dos Santos (Eibar).
Substitution, Eibar. Saúl Berjón replaces Takashi Inui.
Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Eddy (Eibar).
Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Neymar (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Eddy (Eibar).
Attempt missed. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Neymar with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Eddy (Eibar) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a set piece situation.
Foul by Jeremy Mathieu (Barcelona).
The former Wakefield, Huddersfield and Castleford three-quarter has been a regular for Salford since he joined from Batley in June 2014.
He has scored 11 goals in 13 games for Ian Watson's side in 2016.
"I want to play in big games in front of big crowds and hopefully push for an international spot," Griffin told the Hull FC website.
"I believe Hull is the best club to help me do that."
Airlie Birds coach Lee Radford said: "He's a player we have had to put a lot of focus on when coming up against Salford over the last couple of seasons because of his physical presence both in defence and attack and his ability with the ball in hand."
The company behind the project, Orkney Distilling Ltd, said it expected the facility in Kirkwall to open in late summer.
The development is set to create up to 10 local jobs.
Orkney Distilling was formed early last year by local couple Stephen and Aly Kemp, who developed their own variety of gin called Kirkjuvagr.
Full production of Kirkjuvagr will move to the new Kirkwall seafront distillery in Ayre Road once it is operational.
The company also said it had plans for further product lines, which it will reveal later this year.
Mr Kemp said: "After months of planning, we're really excited to see the project now under way.
"Our aim is to have the project completed by the end of August, with our focus then on training our new staff and gradually moving full production of Kirkjuvagr to Ayre Road."
He added: "With a major increase in tourist numbers predicted for this year, along with a rise in cruise ship visits, there's a real need for more high-quality attractions in the county to enhance the experience of those travelling to our islands."
In a separate development, the company which runs the UK's most northerly distillery has reported a big increase in output in the past year.
The Unst-based Shetland Distillery Company said output grew by 300% to 300,000 bottles because of the popularity of its gins and whiskies.
Distillery manager Mark Turnbull said: "It's been a really busy year with a big upturn in demand both from our distributors and from online orders.
"We're delighted that more and more people are enjoying our products and supporting the distillery and Unst."
The repaired road in Fukuoka sank by about 7cm (2.7in) on Saturday over a 30-sq-m (322 sq-ft) area and was temporarily closed.
The chasm first appeared on 8 November in Fukuoka's business district.
Construction officials quoted by Jiji Press on Saturday said the latest subsidence was "within expectations".
They said it happened because "special soil" used to repair the sinkhole may have compressed soil underneath it as it hardened.
The Japan Times said the road was only closed for a few hours on Saturday.
Workers moved fast to fill the first hole, which spanned a five-lane street, stretching 30m (98ft) wide and 15m deep.
The street was reopened within a week. City officials say the collapse was caused by underground construction nearby.
No one was hurt in either incident.
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Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said the deal was reached at UN-brokered talks in Geneva, Switzerland.
The south-western city has been the scene of months of fierce fighting between Houthi rebels and forces backing the government.
Local residents are now enduring dire shortages of all kinds, reports say.
Mr Ahmed described the agreement as a "major step forward".
There are hopes that aid deliveries will be sent to other Yemeni cities in the coming days.
At least 5,700 people, almost half of them civilians, have been killed in air strikes and fighting on the ground since a Saudi-led coalition launched a military campaign in March in support of the government.
The campaign was launched after the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and advanced towards the second city of Aden.
The already dire humanitarian situation in Yemen has also deteriorated severely, with more than 21 million people - four-fifths of the population - now requiring aid.
Since March, coalition and pro-government forces have retaken Aden and the city of Marib.
Rhinos skipper Kevin Sinfield's 14-point haul helped his team once again come from fifth place to triumph.
It was 14-14 at the break, man of the match Sinfield and Ben Jones-Bishop wiping out Richie Myler's lead, only for Joel Monaghan to respond for Wire.
But second-half tries from Carl Ablett and Ryan Hall saw Leeds home.
Warrington centre Ryan Atkins was the first to score after the break, but the champions once again held their nerve on the rugby league season's biggest stage.
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Brett Hodgson kicked two of his three conversions and a penalty for the Challenge Cup holders, but it was not enough.
Saturday's game was a repeat of the Challenge Cup final in August, And, in their first Grand Final, the Wolves were hoping to become the first team since St Helens in 2006 to do the double.
But Leeds wrecked their old coach Tony Smith's hopes of becoming the first man to win the Super League with two different clubs.
Sinfield, who has led his side to all of their six titles, maintained his record with the boot in the play-offs, in which he has been successful with all his 21 kicks, to thoroughly deserve his second Harry Sunderland Trophy for man-of-the-match.
And former England captain Jamie Peacock, appearing in his 10th Grand Final, won his eighth winner's ring.
Whatever fans, coaches, players and pundits make of the play-off system, with Leeds winning it from fifth place in the table for a second year running, the Rhinos are the master exponents of it.
Brian McDermott has now led his side to the last four domestic finals, coupled with last year's win in the World Club Challenge, which the Rhinos will now contest in the new year, once again against Melbourne Storm.
With both sides back to full-strength, the omens were good, as was the weather on a sun-kissed evening in Manchester.
Amidst a wall of noise from the 70,676 Old Trafford crowd, Warrington kicked off and, after surviving a Leeds repeat set, drew first blood on three minutes.
Successive drives from Mickey Higham and Ben Westwood teed up a Lee Briers bomb that Leeds fumbled and, after Chrs Riley was held up, a quick release from the play-the-ball picked out Myler, who slipped through a gap to touch down, Hodgson converting.
Last season's final against St Helens had turned on a moment of magic by Rob Burrow, but it was a team effort rather than individual flair that hauled the Rhinos back into it this time.
With a score chalked off for a forward pass when Sinfield's sublime cut-out-ball tracked Hall out wide, they eventually scored the try their growing influence deserved through a well-worked move in the left corner on 18 minutes.
Sinfield's high-ball was tapped down to Ablett by Hall, only for the centre to be blocked.
But he offloaded to Sinfield, the man who had began the move, who stretched out an arm to ground his own converted score.
In his seventh final as captain, Sinfield then drilled his kick over for two points six minutes later when Westwood was penalised for interference to give Leeds the lead for the first time.
And, on 27 minutes, they punished further Wolves indiscipline with a second try.
Leeds worked the ball right and Danny McGuire's pass found Jones-Bishop, who held off the defence in the corner to record his 14th try of the campaign.
I don't like the word surreal but it feels like that. It's been such an up and down season, the same as last year. I couldn't believe we beat Wigan last week and then to come and do this is just special
Warrington refused to buckle, turning round an eight-point deficit when Briers found the deadly Monaghan on the right to bring them within two after Hodgson's kick.
And they pulled level when 2009 Man of Steel Hodgson was on target to level on the hooter.
The second period began in the same fashion as the first, with Smith's side making the brighter start.
Leeds full-back Hardaker spilled after a huge hit to turn over inside the 20, and Warrington worked the ball through Myler and Hodgson to feed Atkins who powered over in the left corner, Hodgson failing to convert.
But Wire's lead once again did not last a quarter of an hour, Ablett crashing onto Lunt's ball from dummy half to score following Kylie Leuluai's drive to level before Sinfield added the extra to put his side back in front at 20-18.
And it took a try of genuine quality to seal victory for the Rhinos.
Hall finished it in the left corner, but the build-up which took the play from left to right and back again involved sparkling handling from Kallum Watkins, Danny McGuire and Ablett.
Burrow's 40-20 late on bought breathing space as the time ticked away. And, when the hooter sounded, Leeds were left to celebrate another remarkable season of success in the blue and amber.
Leeds skipper Kevin Sinfield:
"We've been here before. We've been behind. When they scored first at the start, Jamie Jones-Buchanan said 'We've been here before fellas, we never score first'.
"But you just don't stop believing. Thankfully we found a way to win. We're getting good hidings throughout the year and things aren't going well but you stick with it.
"The club's special. Not just the players, not just the coaches, the backroom staff, our fans, our families."
Warrington coach Tony Smith:
"Kevin Sinfield is a terrific player. One of the best club players I have seen over here.
"He contributes in a massive way, not just in his performances on the field but off it.
"He's a steady thinker and steady hand, he does everything right and he is a real inspiration.
"I'm proud to have been associated with him and to have coached him."
Leeds coach Brian McDermott:
"The pressure on the players to come up with the goods is immense. To get in the play-offs, in every game we've played, there's been such an amount of pressure.
"We created history last year doing it from fifth. And we've had some games where we can't work out what they're trying to achieve.
"But they must be as proud as punch, because this has been an incredible victory. Every one of them, they're brilliant. They deserve a huge amount of credit. It's unbelievable working with them."
Warrington: Hodgson; Riley, Ratchford, Atkins, J Monaghan; Briers, Myler; Harrison, Higham, Hill, Westwood, Waterhouse, Grix.
Replacements: Cooper, M Monaghan, Wood, Morley.
Leeds: Hardaker; Jones-Bishop, Watkins, Ablett, Hall; McGuire, Sinfield; Leuluai, Burrow, Peacock, Jones-Buchanan, Delaney, Bailey.
Replacements: Kirke, Lunt, Ward, Griffin.
Attendance: 70,676.
Referee: Richard Silverwood.
Half a million Allied and German soldiers were killed, wounded or went missing in three months of fighting.
Many drowned in the thick mud, caused by weeks of rain.
A service will be held in Ypres, where the King of Belgium and Prince William will lay wreaths at the Menin Gate.
Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele was fought between 31 July and 6 November 1917 in northern Belgium.
About 275,000 Allied troops and 220,000 Germans died.
British troops hoped to push back the Germans from a ridge, near the Belgian town of Ypres during the three-and-a half month campaign.
Thick mud clogged up rifles and stopped tanks, and ultimately, the fighting is believed to have won the allied forces only a small amount of ground.
On Monday, the anniversary of the start of the battle, events will continue with a special service held at Tyne Cot cemetery, where thousands are buried and commemorated.
The 25-year-old Hartlepool middleweight took a unanimous decision over Azerbaijan's Elena Vystropova, who she beat to win the world gold in 2012.
Marshall will book a place in Rio by making the semi-finals in Kazakhstan.
Team-mate Nicola Adams and the Republic of Ireland's Katie Taylor begin their campaigns on Saturday.
Adams has already ensured that she will be in Brazil to defend her Olympic flyweight title after victory at the European qualifying tournament in April.
Taylor - like Marshall - must make the last four of the World Championships to book her place after a surprise defeat by Azerbaijani fighter Yana Alexseevna last month.
In the Indian state of Maharashtra, Matthew Wheeler and Priti Gupta spend time at a unique police checkpost.
And in Thailand's capital Bangkok, Hoang Nguyen visits a model agency with a difference.
The question is, what makes these two very different workplaces, which are so far apart, actually very similar?
In the melee of honking horns and swerving wheels on a busy Indian road, a policeman with a whistle is easy to miss. But throw in two or three transgender inspectors in high visibility jackets and there's no problem stopping the traffic.
By working together with these volunteers, the police in rural Thane, north-east of Mumbai gain extra help and a vital new source of information, while their transgender assistants gain credibility and respect. They are suddenly viewed in a position of authority by members of the public who had previously looked down upon them and mocked them.
This particular scheme started when, at the end of last year, a group of transgender women stopped a thief who was being chased by a police patrol car. The force then invited the group to join what is known as the local "police mitra", or friends of the police.
Their duties include crowd management at festivals, visiting slums and communities to advise on security, and offering a trusted point of contact for people concerned about crime in their area.
In India attitudes to those whose gender identity differs from their assigned sex can often be negative, forcing many transgender men and women to live life on the margins of society.
But it's hoped this scheme will lead to change across the country. Volunteer inspector Shreeshah is a graduate but despite her education, had found it hard to get a job. But working with the police has changed how others treat her. "I am not treated in an inhuman way as I was before. I can walk freely on the roads now,"
Rajesh Pradhan of the Maharashtra Police believes the scheme, which has seen around 50 people sign up, has been a great success and wants more volunteers.
"Their potential for policing is tremendous," he says.
It was down to foreign demand that Siwaporn Hotarapawanond started to see the potential in trans models.
Ms Hotarapawanond, nicknamed Apple, said because there are many transgender people in Thailand, she just thought that there would be opportunities for them to work in the modelling industry.
Since opening the world's first trans model division in October 2014, Apple Model Management Ltd has recruited around 50 transgender models - from Thailand, Russia, Spain, England, Sweden, the US and the Philippines.
But while trans men and women are no longer pushed to the fringes of society, Apple says more needs to be done to make the business world more open-minded.
"The minute that the clients know the girls are transgender, fewer than 50% get to the casting stage", she says. "They said that they don't want them to be presenters for the products because they're afraid about the image. In business it is like this."
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This was partly why Nisjanaaj Sudlarphaar, who models using the name Sarina, left Thailand for New York four years ago.
"When I worked as a model in New York, most people didn't know I was transgender. Two years ago, I came back here and things started to change.
"They were happy to see one little girl who went to New York and worked with international people," she says. She believes her experience brings hope.
Apple says that other agencies would represent the trans models as women, whereas now they could be open about their transgender status. In fact, others are now starting to copy her business model.
"Of course they understand that the clients are going to refuse them. But we are showing them to the clients and explaining that they can work the same as anyone else.
"The clients may not like them because of their looks, but we say don't judge them because of how they're born."
No 10 policy unit head George Freeman said personal independence payments (PIP) reforms were needed to roll back the "bizarre" decisions of tribunals.
Ministers say the changes will save £3.7bn but leave a "strong safety net".
But disability charity Scope criticised Mr Freeman's "crude" distinction between physical and mental health.
And Labour said the comments were "an insult to disabled people".
Responding to criticism online to his interview on BBC 5 live's Pienaar's Politics, Mr Freeman later tweeted that he had suffered from anxiety and depression in childhood, adding: "I don't need and lectures on the damage anxiety does."
The government is proposing changes to PIPs, which replaced the Disability Living Allowance (DLA), after two tribunal rulings at the end of 2016 which it said would have added £3.7bn to the benefits bill by 2023.
The benefit is intended to help people cope with the extra costs of living with ill health or disability and are made according to the points a person scores in an assessment of their needs.
In his BBC interview Mr Freeman said: "These tweaks are actually about rolling back some bizarre decisions by tribunals that now mean benefits are being given to people who are taking pills at home, who suffer from anxiety," he said.
"We want to make sure we get the money to the really disabled people who need it."
The Conservative MP for Mid Norfolk added that he and the prime minister "totally" understood anxiety. "We've set out in the mental health strategy how seriously we take it," he added.
After the interview, shadow chancellor John McDonnell tweeted: "This is an insult to disabled people. (George Freeman) should apologise immediately or Theresa May should make him."
And Scope chief executive Mark Atkinson said: "It is unhelpful to make crude distinctions between those with physical impairments and mental health issues because the kind of impairment someone has is not a good indicator of the costs they will face.
"Many disabled people will now be anxiously waiting to hear as to whether or not these tighter rules will affect their current PIP award.
"The government must offer clarity and reassurance that these new measures will not negatively affect the financial support that disabled people receive now or in the future, and that they stand by their commitment to making no further changes to disability benefits in this Parliament."
Disabilities minister Penny Mordaunt said she was reforming the PIP payments to "restore the original aim of the benefit" to make sure support was given to the most needy.
Mr McDonnell said he was "furious" about the proposed changes to PIPS, and said Labour would pressurise the government to reverse them in next month's Budget.
"Next week the Tories will make out that the economy and the public finances are doing better, however, they are planning to go ahead with a £3.7bn cut to the disabled," he said.
The cuts would mean many people with severe disabilities "are going to be trapped in their homes", he added.
The Liberal Democrats said the government was using court losses "as an excuse to severely restrict disability benefits".
A DWP spokeswoman said the government was "committed to ensuring our welfare system is a strong safety net for those who need it".
Ben & Jerry's tubs and Feast ice creams are among those whose portion size will shrink, according to a report in trade journal The Grocer.
Unilever said the move was to help consumers "make healthier choices."
From the spring, "single serving" portions will contain no more than 250 calories.
Unilever's UK ice cream marketing director Noel Clarke said: "We have introduced this 250 calorie cap to help make it easier for our consumers to make informed and healthier choices when enjoying their favourite ice creams as part of a balanced lifestyle."
Some products, worth £5.4m in sales, will be dropped altogether, The Guardian reported.
Magnum Infinity Chocolate & Caramel, Magnum Infinity Chocolate, and Cornetto Choc 'N' Ball are some products that will melt away, the newspaper said.
Residents of the village, in Hunan province, were reportedly angry about the handling of a young woman's death last month.
Officials say the death was caused by pesticide poisoning, but relatives have accused her husband of involvement.
Her relatives beat the husband and took local officials hostage when they attempted to intervene.
In a statement reported by state media, the police said that the trouble began on Thursday after the family displayed the woman's corpse in her mother-in-law's house.
When police attempted to defuse the situation they were attacked and forced to kneel before the deceased woman, the statement adds.
Hundreds of villagers joined the bereaved relatives the next day to protest and attack the local police station.
The police say that hundreds of officers were called in to restore order.
Diego Costa put the Blues ahead with their first attempt on target as he headed in from Cesar Azpilicueta's floated cross.
Marcos Alonso nearly doubled the visitors' lead as he hit the underside of the crossbar with a curling 25-yard free-kick.
Palace's best chances fell to Jason Puncheon, but he headed wide and fired a free-kick narrowly over.
Antonio Conte's side, who have 43 points, have played a game more than Liverpool in second and third-placed Arsenal, who are both on 34 points.
Arsenal meet fourth-placed Manchester City on Sunday, before Liverpool visit Everton in the Merseyside derby on Monday.
Chelsea also won 11 matches between April and September 2009, with the Premier League record being Arsenal's 14-game winning run in 2002.
On 17 December 2015, Chelsea sacked Jose Mourinho for a second time, seven months after he had led them to the Premier League title, with the club 16th and only one point above the relegation zone.
Fast forward a year and the Blues, who finished the 2015-16 season in 10th after Guus Hiddink steadied things, are nine points clear as they chase a fifth Premier League title.
All four of their previous titles - in 2004-05, 2005-06, 2009-10 and 2014-15 - have come having topped the table at Christmas.
Only several fine saves from Palace goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey denied Chelsea a wider margin of victory at Selhurst Park, the Welshman doing well to deny N'Golo Kante and Alonso, who later struck the woodwork.
Chelsea have the top goalscorer in the league in Costa and are also continuing to impress at the other end of the pitch through goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, centre-halves Azpilicueta, Gary Cahill and David Luiz, and the cover provided in front of them by Nemanja Matic and Kante.
Hosts Palace did not have a shot on target in the first half and Chelsea defended superbly to deny them any clear-cut opportunities in the second half.
Conte's side have now conceded only two goals in 11 Premier League matches since changing to three at the back following a 3-0 defeat by Arsenal on 24 September.
If they can continue this defensive excellence throughout the rest of the season, the title will surely be heading back to Stamford Bridge.
While it has been a fine 12 months for Chelsea, the same cannot be said for Palace.
Yes, they reached the FA Cup final, losing 2-1 after extra time to Manchester United, but they have won only six of 36 Premier League games in 2016.
They have kept just one clean sheet in 22 top-flight matches, and are only one point above the relegation zone.
Scott Dann was at fault for Costa's goal - he was caught not watching the ball and failed to get off the ground to challenge.
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Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew: "It was a strong performance but they did not give us anything and that was as good a defensive display that we have seen. Once we conceded, it was very difficult.
"We could not get Wilfried Zaha isolated. We kept the ball and passed it well, but the final pass was very difficult. For our offensive players, it was the toughest game they have had. This team is not getting what it is deserves. That will change.
"We have all come up against this system before but it is with outstanding players. They ask questions and do not make errors. N'Golo Kante gives so much energy like he had at Leicester and fills holes which goes unnoticed.
"You don't really expect a centre-half [Azpilicueta] to have that quality - it was a Cesc Fabregas-type ball for the goal and it was a crucial one before half time. I take heart from the last two performances. We deserved something."
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Chelsea boss Antonio Conte: "The run is fantastic. Congratulations to my players, not me. I am pleased for them because they deserve this. I see every single moment, every day. It is commitment, the way we prepare for the game and the way they fight. I am pleased for the fans who are fantastic home and away and who push us.
"We can improve though. You can always improve in different aspects. I am pleased with this level we have reached, but it is important to understand we are only at the 17th game in the season. We must not look at the table. We must not look at our rivals and continue working hard ourselves.
"We have reached a good balance between offence and defence. In some moments, our goalkeeper has been decisive. We dominated the last game but Thibaut made a fantastic save. After last season when he conceded lots of goals, this season is very good for him. We attack and defend as a team."
Both sides are in Premier League action again on Boxing Day, with Crystal Palace at Watford in the early game (12:30 GMT) and Chelsea hosting Bournemouth (15:00 GMT).
Chelsea will be without 13-goal top goalscorer Costa as a first-half foul on Joe Ledley saw the Spain striker get booked, his fifth yellow card of the season, and he will now serve a one-match suspension. Team-mate Kante will also be missing as he was also shown a fifth yellow card, following a number of fouls.
Match ends, Crystal Palace 0, Chelsea 1.
Second Half ends, Crystal Palace 0, Chelsea 1.
Foul by Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace).
David Luiz (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.
Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Scott Dann (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea).
Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marcos Alonso (Chelsea).
Scott Dann (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea).
Substitution, Chelsea. Michy Batshuayi replaces Diego Costa.
Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea).
Hand ball by Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea).
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Ezekiel Fryers replaces Martin Kelly.
Attempt saved. Gary Cahill (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) hits the bar with a left footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.
Damien Delaney (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Damien Delaney (Crystal Palace).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James McArthur (Crystal Palace).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Joe Ledley (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marcos Alonso (Chelsea).
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Damien Delaney.
Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Fraizer Campbell replaces Yohan Cabaye.
Substitution, Chelsea. Branislav Ivanovic replaces Victor Moses.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Martin Kelly.
Martin Kelly (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nemanja Matic (Chelsea).
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Andros Townsend replaces Jason Puncheon.
Attempt saved. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Victor Moses.
Attempt saved. N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Victor Moses.
Attempt saved. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Damien Delaney.
Attempt saved. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace) because of an injury.
The officers were from two undercover units, disbanded in 2008 and 2011, and the relationships took place over a 25-year period up to that time.
The women describe the impact the mens' deceit had on their lives, and in one case, those of their children.
Belinda Harvey
Belinda Harvey is one of three women who have allowed themselves to be named in public. She met a man she knew as Bob Robinson at a friend's party in 1987 - and only later discovered that his real name was Bob Lambert.
During their 18-month relationship, Ms Harvey believed they would be together.
Robinson then told her he had to go on the run from the police - a cover story as he prepared for his extraction from his deployment.
He said he would send for her when it was safe - but she never heard from him again.
Speaking at a press conference about the settlement on Friday, she said: "I was tricked [by the state] into trusting my heart to a man who was an actor."
The relationship was formed around the period that Robinson left another targeted woman "Jacqui", with whom he had a son. Jacqui has separately settled her case with the Metropolitan Police for more than £400,000.
Helen Steel
Political campaigner Helen Steel, well known for her role in the mammoth "McLibel" legal battle of the 1980s and 1990s, formed a relationship with John "Barker" Dines in 1990.
They were together for two years, and during that time rented a flat and discussed starting a family.
"Then John followed the (Special Demonstration Squad) SDS pattern of appearing to have a breakdown and disappearing abroad," she said.
"I was left distraught and I spent years searching for him. In the course of that search I found he had been using the identity of a child who had died."
Kate Wilson
Kate Wilson, an environmental campaigner, formed a relationship with Mark "Stone" Kennedy and they lived together between 2003 and 2005.
They eventually split up, but stayed friends, until she discovered in 2010 that he had been an undercover officer who had been lying to her all along.
"The personal implications of that discovery for my life's projects, and my sense of who I am and what I can believe, have been devastating, and I remain haunted by unanswered questions," she said.
Ms Wilson was not part of Friday's financial settlement and continues to pursue her case against the Metropolitan Police. She says she now knows she was befriended by five other undercover officers and a GPS tracker was put on her car.
She said: "Was I targeted for my political beliefs? Or am I simply 'collateral intrusion' in a secret operation against political dissent, that sidelined my life, my family, my body and myself, and did not even consider it worthy of a mention in an operational authorisation?"
"Naomi"
"Naomi" was involved with a number of social justice and environmental groups - and through her network of friends she met Mark "Stone" Kennedy - the first undercover officer to be exposed as working within political campaign groups.
She believed their relationship in 2005 was genuine - they not only went travelling together, but he attended her brother's wedding.
She ended the relationship - but for five years they kept in touch - until she discovered from other campaigners that he was an undercover officer.
"I would never have consented to the relationship had I known the truth," she said.
"Lisa"
Lisa had a relationship with Mark "Stone" Kennedy for six years - a relationship where he became part of her family, even attending her father's funeral.
"He was my closest friend, my partner and my confidant for most of my thirties," she said.
She discovered he was an undercover officer in 2010, while they were still together.
She added: "It has had a profound traumatic effect on me. I have had difficulty forming relationships ever since. It was a deception perpetrated, overseen and supervised by the state."
"Alison"
Alison was working on a number of social justice campaigns, including against police corruption, when she met Mark "Cassidy" Jenner. They fell in love and lived together during a five-year relationship that ended in 2000 with his disappearance
For a year before he left her life, they attended relationship counselling because she wanted to start a family and he did not.
"I later discovered he was married with children throughout this time. I loved him very deeply and have suffered significant psychological damage from the experience of suspecting and then proving he was an undercover police officer," she said.
"Five years of my life, documented in photographs and videos, are tainted by the presence of a person I never really knew."
"Ruth"
Ruth met Jim "Sutton" Boyling in the 1990s when she was an activist with the environmental protest network, Reclaim the Streets. They were together for 18 months until he disappeared.
In 2011 she discovered that Sutton was in fact Boyling.
"Rosa"
Rosa's relationship with Jim "Sutton" Boyling lasted nine years - they met after he introduced himself as an activist interested in the same causes as her.
They moved in together, but he later disappeared, saying he was suffering a mental breakdown.
He then returned to her life, revealed he had been undercover - and their second relationship began. They soon had children.
Rosa says the long-term relationship was fraudulent because she was manipulated by the officer.
"The unlikely truth was this," she said. "My life partner was fabricated by the state. He never existed.
"I was pregnant within two weeks of his reappearance and bore children by the actor, a random police officer, who had played my partner."
Apple has also filed a second case alleging Qualcomm had broken the terms of a deal covering how Apple could use technologies it had licensed.
Qualcomm said it was ready to defend its business practices in court.
The lawsuits come soon after US regulators sued Qualcomm, alleging that the firm was guilty of market abuse.
In its legal papers, Apple said Qualcomm was using its dominant position as a supplier of communication chips for mobile phones to squeeze more cash from firms that use its technologies.
In the second legal case, Apple said that Qualcomm had denied it access to chip technologies it was entitled to under the terms of an agreed licensing deal.
In a statement, Qualcomm said it had not yet seen all the details of the two cases.
"These filings by Apple's Chinese subsidiary are just part of Apple's efforts to find ways to pay less for Qualcomm's technology," said Don Rosenberg, head lawyer for Qualcomm.
He added that Apple was offered terms and conditions that were drawn up in 2015 following a ruling by Chinese trade regulators that dictated how Qualcomm should deal with companies keen to use its modem chips.
More than 100 Chinese firms signed up to these terms and conditions, he said, adding that Apple "refused to even consider them".
"Qualcomm is prepared to defend its business model anywhere in the world," said Mr Rosenberg.
Last week, the US Federal Trade Commission sued Qualcomm claiming it had abused its dominance in modem chips for mobile phones. The FTC said Qualcomm's use of low licensing fees was helping it to enforce its monopoly.
In response, Qualcomm said the FTC complaint was based on a "flawed legal theory" and "significant misconceptions" about the way the mobile industry worked.
Soon after the FTC filed its complaint, Apple followed up with its own legal action seeking $1bn (£793m) in rebates and accusing Qualcomm of overcharging it for chips.
Qualcomm said it planned to fight both legal cases.
The chip-maker has been hit with legal challenges and regulatory action around the world over the last few years.
In December 2016, South Korean regulators fined it 1.03trn won (£698m) for breaking competition laws.
In 2015, it paid a $975m (£775m) fine in China following an anti-trust probe. The European Commission has also accused it of anti-competitive practices.
Melvin Nicholson was out on the moor, south of Glen Coe, on Sunday when the "unbelievably beautiful" white rainbow appeared.
Mr Nicholson said: "It is a colourless rainbow that is made up of tiny water droplets that cause fog.
"It's an amazing thing to witness and can generally only be seen if the sun is behind you when you are looking at it."
He said an isolated windswept tree, framed by the fog bow, completed the shot,
"It was just beyond magical and one of those days that you'll remember for a long time to come," he added.
A fog bow has also been photographed in the Cairngorms.
Climber Andy Luke took his image on Sunday near the summit of Cairn Lochan.
He said: "It was quite amazing."
Mark Moat, 42, and from Bridgnorth, is also charged with arson in connection with the blaze, which broke out last November.
Sandra Nowocinska, 22, died four days after being rescued from the fire at an apartment in the Horsefair area.
Mr Moat was remanded in custody and is due at Worcester Crown Court in June.
He faces additional charges of arson and threatening to cause criminal damage in relation to two other separate incidents.
Scientist Samantha Ho, 39, was found in Curlew Place, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, on Saturday. Witnesses said her head and body were found separately.
A post-mortem examination concluded she died from "multiple cuts to the neck".
Timothy Allen, 40, of Curlew Place, has been charged with murder and is due at the Old Bailey on Friday.
Ms Ho, who has family links to the Harrogate area, was found after armed officers were called by the ambulance service and forced entry to the house.
"We came out and there was a big police presence. We came out to see what was going on and were asked to go back in," neighbour Ian Worsfold said.
Mr Allen was arrested on suspicion of murder and was initially taken to Hinchingbrooke Hospital with what police described as a serious but not life-threatening injury.
He was later released from hospital and was charged with murder on Monday.
"Everyone's just stunned, absolutely numb," Mr Worsfold said.
"It doesn't happen in places like this. It's something that happens in soap operas. It's been like living in a soap opera for the last few days - it's just absolutely horrible."
He said Ms Ho and Mr Allen had lived in the close "for a couple of years".
"They used to socialise, we've got a very close-knit community here," Mr Worsfold said.
"I've never known shock like this.
"It's devastated the whole community. An awful lot of people have been walking around in a daze thinking you're going to wake up, but you're not going to."
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesman said the death was being treated as an isolated incident and no-one else was being sought.
"Officers are in contact with the victim's family and they are being kept up-to-date on the inquiry," he said.
A dog was also killed in the incident, it emerged.
Inquiries are continuing at the property.
The result secured their second double of the season and lifts them into fourth place in League One, level on points with Rochdale but above them on goal difference.
Marshall put Bradford in front after 22 minutes when he received the ball on the right from Josh Cullen and cut into the penalty area before scoring with a superb right-foot shot low into the far corner of the net.
Ched Evans twice went close to equalising for Chesterfield. First, he took advantage of a mix-up between Bradford captain Romain Vincelot and fellow defender Nathaniel Knight-Percival before slipping the ball out to Reece Mitchell on the left and then just failing to connect when Mitchell returned the ball into the box.
He then latched on to former Bradford midfielder Gary Liddle's pass only to see his low, right-foot shot rebound off the post.
Marshall and Nicky Law then had shots saved by Ryan Fulton before Bradford doubled their lead in the 44th minute when Cullen's low cross from the right was met by the on-rushing Hiwula, who fired the ball into the net from close range.
Hiwula, Marshall and Law went close to adding to Bradford's lead in the second half as the Bantams maintained their unbeaten home record.
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Match ends, Bradford City 2, Chesterfield 0.
Second Half ends, Bradford City 2, Chesterfield 0.
Nicky Law (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ched Evans (Chesterfield).
Attempt saved. Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Dion Donohue.
Attempt blocked. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by James Meredith.
Dion Donohue (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Dion Donohue.
Tony McMahon (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dan Gardner (Chesterfield).
Nicky Law (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jon Nolan (Chesterfield).
Attempt saved. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Dan Gardner replaces Reece Mitchell.
Attempt saved. Conor Wilkinson (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Delay in match Ched Evans (Chesterfield) because of an injury.
Foul by Timothee Dieng (Bradford City).
Gary Liddle (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Nathaniel Knight-Percival (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ched Evans (Chesterfield).
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Stephen Darby.
Attempt missed. Nicky Law (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Ian Evatt.
Attempt missed. Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Bradford City. Stephen Darby replaces Alex Jones.
Attempt saved. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Anderson (Chesterfield).
Attempt missed. Nicky Law (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Conor Wilkinson replaces Rai Simons.
Josh Cullen (Bradford City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bradford City).
Reece Mitchell (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Hird (Chesterfield).
Attempt missed. Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
A man was reported to have attacked the girl off Rother View Road in Canklow at about 08:30 GMT.
He has been described as aged about 40, white with a slight tan, spiked blonde hair and a clean shaven face.
The man is said to be between 5ft 7in and 5ft 9in tall and wearing black jogging bottoms and a grey hooded jumper.
Additional police patrols will be present in the area over the next couple of days to reassure the local community, South Yorkshire Police said.
The 22-year-old suffered the injury in scoring a try for Warrington in Friday's 35-28 loss at home to Wigan.
Currie's form meant he was widely expected to be included in the England squad for the upcoming Four Nations tournament at the end of the season.
"Our worst fears have come to fruition. He's torn his ACL off the bone," said Wolves head coach Tony Smith.
"He's on his way to London as we speak for repair. I believe that will involve a graft back onto the bone.
"The minimum recovery would be six months but I reckon he will be close to nine months. It's a big blow for the young man."
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The result means Britain, bronze medallists in 2012, progress from the group stage with a 100% record.
Michelle Vittese put the US ahead on 39 minutes, but GB scored twice in three fourth-quarter minutes through Sophie Bray and Alex Danson.
Danny Kerry's side will play Spain in the quarter-finals on Monday.
"If you'd offered us top spot at the start of the week I'd have bitten your hand off," said captain Kate Richardson-Walsh.
"The momentum we've created is good. All the sides are excellent in this tournament so I'm really proud of what we've done so far."
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Author Keith Allan Noble is offering a £25,000 reward for information on Mr Falconio's whereabouts.
In 2005 Bradley Murdoch was found guilty of murdering Mr Falconio whose body has not been found.
Mayor of Alice Springs Damien Ryan said: "To put out a reward like this... it doesn't seem to be very sincere."
Mr Ryan called posters advertising Mr Noble's reward, which had been put up in Alice Springs, "a cheap stunt".
He added: "[For] the family and the people involved in the whole case it's pretty offensive.
"A trial has been held, a person has been found guilty. Sadly the problem hasn't be solved for the family involved."
Mr Falconio, who worked in Kent and was from Huddersfield, was ambushed with his girlfriend Joanne Lees while they were driving along a desert highway between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek in northern Australia.
Ms Lees told police she was bound, gagged and bundled into a pick-up before she escaped.
Mr Falconio's body was never found.
Mr Noble, who believes Mr Falconio is alive, created a poster advertising the reward.
He said: "It's not publicity. I'm not interested in the book per se, I'm interested in us finding Falconio."
Mr Noble, who lives in Austria, said he had written five letters to the Falconio family asking them for a response to his claim, but he has not yet had a reply.
The airline is reported to owe $500,000 (£320,000) to a local supplier.
Earlier this week an Air Zimbabwe plane was grounded in London until a similar debt was paid off.
The airline is reported to be struggling to deal with a total debt of $140m and is said to be on the verge of collapse.
"We are not flying into South Africa. We are trying to secure funding to pay our debts in South Africa," Innocent Mavhunga, Air Zimbabwe's acting chief executive, told the state-owned Herald newspaper.
He said, however, that the airline was continuing to fly to Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Other companies, such as South African Airways and British Airways' Comair, continue to fly between Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, and South Africa, the regional powerhouse.
Tara Hudson, 27, from Bath, said she was segregated at HMP Bristol and kept in her cell.
Ms Hudson, who was moved from the men's prison after a national outcry, wants more training for staff and clearer rules on transgender prisoners.
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said a national review is looking at what improvements can be made.
Ms Hudson spent six weeks in jail in 2015, after she admitted head-butting a barman.
She has lived as a woman all her adult life but, because she is legally a man, was initially sent to a male prison.
"I could tell that they weren't really ready for a prisoner like myself," she said.
"Because of my gender identity they felt they had to lock me up in segregation and keep me away from the main population of the prison.
"I felt like I was being persecuted by the state… I felt I had no rights.. I felt like an animal in a zoo."
Before she was moved to HMP Eastwood women's prison, Ms Hudson said she was kept in her cell when other prisoners were allowed out for college courses and the gym.
The MOJ said transgender prisoners are managed safely and in accordance with the law, but it was carrying out a review to see what improvements can be made.
Eastwood Park's governor, Suzy Dymond-White, said a "one size fits all" approach would not work.
"I would prefer to maintain people as individuals and transgender people are at different states of transition and they have different backgrounds and they're in different states not just physically but emotionally and mentally as well," she said.
"A basic set of guidelines is always useful but actually we should assess the people as individuals and look at what their needs are."
Bath MP Ben Howlett, who is on the Women and Equalities Select Committee, said he was pleased the government had heeded the committee's calls to clarify the rules on transgender inmates.
"More prisoners are given a fair allocation of accommodation while serving their sentence.
"This issue is systematic of how much prejudice, discrimination and misunderstanding there is around trans community in today's society."
Later this week a new TV series, The Secret, revolving around County Londonderry murderers Colin Howell and Hazel Stewart, will air with Nesbitt in the lead role of Howell.
The couple were found guilty of murdering their spouses, Trevor Buchanan and Lesley Howell, more than five years ago. The bodies of the victims were found in a fume-filled car in Castlerock in 1991. At the time, police believed they died in a suicide pact.
The truth of what happened was kept secret until 2009 when Howell, a dentist and a former lay preacher, He told police he and Stewart had been having an affair at the time of the murders and planned them together.
Stewart was jailed for at least 18 years for plotting the murders with Howell.
It is an infamous case that shocked not just the quiet north coast community where the murders took place, but the whole of Northern Ireland.
Nesbitt, a north coast native himself, from Coleraine, told BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday News programme he had been fascinated by the story for some time.
"I knew about the story for a long time, it was a story I knew thanks to my friends and family," he said.
"Obviously, what drew me to it was that it happened in my home town, it's an incredible story which lifted Northern Ireland out of the torture of the Troubles - out of the frying pan into the fire.
"He (Howell) was a great character, and I was desperate to do it."
Nesbitt acknowledged that portraying a real-life murderer was unlike anything he had every done before, but that the cast and crew were given great access to the story to ensure the portrayal was as accurate as possible.
"What's difficult and important is to find the truth in this story, but we had such access to detail, to testimony, interviews Colin gave," Nesbitt said.
"We wanted to make it good. The idea of committing a murder is not very easy. It's ugly, clumsy, violent, messy and it has a terrible impact on someone's life, but it's a great jigsaw for us to try and put together."
Nesbitt's co-star, Irish actress Genevieve O'Reilly, plays Hazel Stewart in the drama.
She said she had heard nothing about the case prior to reading the script, and said it was both a "captivating and shocking tale".
"This story captivates us because it happened next door. These were respectable people, with strong communities around them, who had a seemingly deep faith with lovely children," she said.
"You do wonder, 'how did that happen'? But it's a deeply sad, sordid and horrible tale, living a lie and what that does to you."
O'Reilly said seeing testimony from the trial and media reports at the time were helpful for her portrayal of Stewart.
"It was all really helpful - to see that she was loved and yet vilified, respected and yet feared, somewhere in the middle there is the woman, and that's my task," she said.
"Seeing her interrogation, that was played in full at the trial and for me that was the most effective, valuable piece of evidence because I could read the woman in those words. Her half-tripping, lying, struggling to remember, doubting herself - I could see the lies under the secret there."
This interview will air on The Sunday News on BBC Radio Ulster at 13:00 BST on Sunday 24 April
The 36-year-old from Manchester played alongside wife Helen as they became the first same-sex married couple to win Olympic gold in the same final.
IoM sport's Gary Corkhill said her "vast international experience" will make her "a fascinating guest."
The awards ceremony will be held at the Villa Marina in Douglas on 22 March.
After Rio, she retired from international duty after a record 375 appearances, 49 goals and 13 years as England and GB skipper.
Corkhill added: "Kate is an inspirational and charismatic leader who helped build the incredible team ethos and commitment that drove the GB team to its nail-biting victory in Rio."
Richardson-Walsh said: "The Isle of Man has a fantastic sporting pedigree and it's a privilege to be able to take part in the awards."
Nominations for the Isle of Man Sports Awards close in January.
Artist Luke Jerram was commissioned by 20-21 Arts Centre in Scunthorpe to produce the work.
From February the gold replicas - each cast in £1,000 worth of 18-carat gold - will be hidden around the town for the public to find and keep.
Clues to their whereabouts will be disguised in five paintings which will be on display at the venue.
Officials said the paintings were created with the aid of a professional code-breaker, and the locations of the hidden gold artefacts would range in difficulty.
Dominic Mason, 20-21's exhibition officer, said one would be so hard to crack that the gold may not be found.
"As a legacy for the project ,this painting will remain on display in the North Lincolnshire Museum with the associated golden artefact remaining hidden for the public to find one day," he said.
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A Janus train engine - as used in Scunthorpe's steel industry - and a Viking brooch are among the five objects from North Lincolnshire Museum selected by the artist to reflect the heritage of the region.
Bristol-based artist Luke Jerram said: "I like the idea that ancient objects that were once hidden beneath the earth and were discovered and displayed at the museum are now being re-hidden."
Upon finding an artefact, the member of the public will get to keep the object, as well as being able to decide which venue in the area will get to keep the associated painting.
The exhibition, funded by the Lottery and Arts Council England, will run from 18 February until 29 April.
Finders keepers
In September, the board requested that Mr Kennedy resign following criticism of the commission's handling of a row with crofters in the Western Isles.
Mr Kennedy has refused to stand down, despite also coming under pressure from the government to do so.
He met the board members, known as commissioners, in Inverness.
One of the members walked out of the gathering after it was decided not to open the meeting to the public.
Mr Kennedy has said he did nothing wrong in the row over the running of common grazings in parts of the Western Isles.
In a statement following the gathering at a hotel in Inverness, the Crofting Commission described it as a "special meeting" which was called by the interim chief executive at the request of Mr Kennedy.
The commission said that those present "reaffirmed the importance of working together effectively" in the final months of their terms. Elections to the commission are to be held next year.
The board is due to meet again next Wednesday.
Wing Joyce is one of four changes to the team following their heavy defeat by England in Cardiff.
The other changes see Rhiannon Parker come in at scrum-half, Rebecco de Filippo return at centre and Cerys Hale at loosehead prop.
Joyce scored two tries in a non-cap match against Spain in January.
"Jasmine and Rhiannon are two talented individuals who have been in and around the squad for a while now, and we feel the way they've performed in the warm-up games and in training has earned them this opportunity," Wales Women boss Rowland Phillips said.
After their defeat by England, Phillips says his players have responded well in training and they can rise to the occasion against Scotland, who were defeated 55-0 against France in their last game.
Phillips continued: "The response of the players following the England match has been outstanding. From the Sunday following that game, our focus immediately moved on to Scotland.
"Scotland's last two performances in the competition - losing to a last-minute play from Ireland and being very competitive in the first 20 minutes against France - shows how much they have improved this season. We will need to be ready for this challenge."
Wales: Dyddgu Hywel (Scarlets), Jasmine Joyce (Scarlets)*, Kerin Lake (Ospreys), Rebecca de Filippo (Newport Gwent Dragons), Elen Evans (Scarlets), Elinor Snowsill (Newport Gwent Dragons), Rhiannon Parker (Cardiff Blues)*, Cerys Hale (Newport Gwent Dragons), Carys Phillips (c) (Ospreys), Amy Evans (Ospreys), Rebecca Rowe (Newport Gwent Dragons), Mel Clay (Ospreys), Alisha Butchers (Scarlets),Rachel Taylor (Scarlets), Sioned Harries (Scarlets)
Replacements: Lowri Harries (Scarlets), Gwenllian Pyrs (Scarlets), Caryl Thomas (Scarlets), Siwan Lillicrap (Ospreys), Nia Elen Davies (Cardiff Blues), Sian Moore (Newport Gwent Dragons), Robyn Wilkins (Ospreys), Gemma Rowland (Newport Gwent Dragons)
The hosts were already up against it after conceding a 154-run first-innings lead, before being reduced to 15-4 by Rory Kleinveldt (5-53) on day two.
Led by nightwatchman Hardus Viljoen (63), Kent's lower order put up a good effort in extending the score to 184.
But Northants took just 27 balls to reach their target on 31-0.
Openers Ben Duckett and Rob Newton were unparted in completing Northants' third win of the season.
Kleinveldt took just one wicket on the final morning, ending up with the 16th five-wicket haul of his first-class career and his first this summer for Northants.
Darren Stevens (44) and Sam Billings, who only arrived back in Kent in the early hours after driving from Manchester overnight having been 12th man for England's T20 international against Pakistan, also weighed in with runs down the order to see the game into the afternoon session.
Ben Duckett's first-innings double century helped to earn 23 points to ensure Northants will not finish bottom of Division Two, lifting them up to fourth.
But the main impact was at the top end of the table, where it leaves leaders Essex now needing just six points from two matches to be sure of the one promotion place.
Essex, on 219 points, are 20 clear of second-placed Kent, who have one game left - against Essex at Canterbury, starting on 20 September - and can get a maximum of 223.
Third-placed Sussex, who are on 176 with two games left, can get to 224 but it still leaves Essex in prime position to wrap up promotion at home to Glamorgan at Chelmsford next week.
Hardus Viljoen told BBC Radio Kent:
"Whatever the outcome in the final match against Essex, maybe it wasn't meant to be for us this year. We'll see what happens next summer.
"I'd never write us off as a team. This was one of those games when we weren't at our best and the overcast conditions on the first morning played a massive role in the outcome of the game.
"If you take Ben Duckett's incredible knock out of the game we might have shaped up quite well. Without his 208 we'd have bowled them out for 170-odd."
Northamptonshire captain Alex Wakely told BBC Radio Northampton:
"That was one of our most complete performances of the season. Earlier in the summer I felt we were playing bit-part cricket at times. In the last couple of games, things have gone perfectly.
"Bowling first we were brilliant and didn't give them much at all, but I must talk again about that innings by Ben Duckett. It was special.
"Sam Billings asked me if Kent had bowled badly to him or was Ben that good? I answered, he was that good. I don't think there is anyone batting better than him in the country right now. I don't think it will be very long before we see him in an England shirt."
Audience numbers grew by 17% to 76,624, with operating profit rising from £64,116 to £87,734.
The critically acclaimed The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil and Witness for the Prosecution were among the Dundee Rep Theatre productions.
Turnover and grants received also increased in the last financial year.
Scottish Dance Theatre, which last year celebrated its 30th anniversary, produced two new works and toured seven productions around the world.
Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre Limited reported a turnover of £1.764m, compared to £1.501m the previous year, the report noted.
It received £2.928m in grants, an increase of £47,885 from last year.
Creative Learning, which works with communities and schools, saw increased participation to more than 35,000 students.
Chief executive Nick Parr said he has been "blessed" with a supportive team who had "embraced the need for change."
He said: "Our two ensemble model, developed over the past two decades, is a beacon of quality that we are lucky to have in Dundee and, indeed, Scotland.
"No other organisation can boast permanent ensembles of dancers and actors and it is vital that our immensely supportive funders continue to work with us to preserve our wonderfully creative company."
Police said a 34-year-old woman who was the mother of at least seven of the children had been taken to hospital with stab wounds but was stable.
Police have not confirmed Australian reports that the children, aged between 18 months and 15 years, were stabbed.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said in a statement it was an "unspeakable crime".
He said all parents would feel "gut-wrenching sadness at what has happened".
A candlelit vigil and church service were held in Cairns on Friday night.
The house in the Manoora suburb has been cordoned off.
Police said it was a "tragic event" but there was no cause for public concern.
They have not made any arrests, but said the injured woman was assisting with their investigations.
Cairns Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar confirmed to reporters that the woman was the mother of at least seven of the children, but that formal identification of the bodies had not yet taken place.
"We believe the other child is a family member but that is being followed up," he said.
He said police could not confirm how the children died until coroners' reports were carried out.
Police are speaking to a range of people, he said, including a man seen near the house earlier in the day, but there are as yet no formal suspects.
Specialist police officers were being brought in from Brisbane, he said, including child trauma experts.
AAP reporter Cleo Fraser at the scene told the BBC residents were standing in the street in shock.
Queensland Police said in a statement earlier that they were called to a residence in Murray Street at 11:20 local time (01:20 GMT) following reports of a woman with serious injuries.
"During an examination of the residence police located the bodies of the children, all aged between 18 months and 15 years," said the statement.
Associated Press quoted Lisa Thaiday, a cousin of the injured woman, as saying that the children were found by their elder sibling, a 20-year-old man, when he returned to the house.
"I'm going to see him now, he needs comforting," Ms Thaiday said. "We're a big family... I just can't believe it. We just found out [about] those poor babies."
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman said he was "deeply saddened and shocked" by the events.
"Indeed, the whole Cairns community and the people of Queensland will feel the effects of this tragedy, particularly at a time of year when families come together."
The deaths come with Australia still reeling from the siege of a cafe in Sydney which ended on Tuesday morning, with the gunman and two hostages dead.
Mr Abbott said in his statement that these were "trying days for our country".
Several police and governmental investigations are under way into the police operation and how the gunman, Man Haron Monis, was able to carry out the attack.
Monis was on bail at the time of the attack after being charged with sexual assaults and being an accessory to the murder of his wife.
A car packed with explosives blew up near car dealerships in the Shia area of Bayaa in the south of the city. More than 50 people were injured.
The Islamic State (IS) group claimed the attack, saying it targeted "a gathering of Shias".
At least 24 people were killed in other attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Baghdad saw a wave of deadly suicide attacks by IS in the first few days of 2017, but the number had dropped until recently.
An AFP reporter at the scene of Thursday's bomb reported seeing numerous burnt-out vehicles, and blood on the ground.
Security sources said the bomb was detonated in a busy street and was the deadliest attack in Baghdad for several months. A plume of smoke from the blast could be seen above the Bayaa neighbourhood for much of the day.
Medics have warned the number of fatalities and injuries could rise as they struggle to cope with scores of people wounded in the attack.
It is thought that car dealerships may present convenient targets for the militants because it is easy for them to leave vehicles laden with explosives alongside lots of other vehicles that are also parked in the same area.
As the clear-up operation gets underway, distressed relatives are reported to be at the scene desperate to find news of their loved ones.
The IS group has stepped up its attacks since the Iraqi army, aided by US-led coalition strikes, launched its campaign to dislodge the Sunni militant group from its stronghold of Mosul in the north four months ago.
The militants now control the west of the city, while the eastern part is held by Iraqi forces and their allies.
On Wednesday, an attack on used-car dealers in the Habibya area of Sadr City, a suburb in the north of the Iraqi capital, left 18 dead.
On Tuesday, a car bomb in the south of Baghdad killed four people.
On 2 January, at least 35 people were killed in a bomb blast in Sadr City, in an attack claimed by IS.
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Mick Creedon, now Derbyshire chief constable, said there was enough evidence to prosecute the MP in 1991.
He spoke following publication of an independent inquiry into allegations against Lord Janner.
The late peer's family deny the allegations.
Mr Creedon said: "It remains a simple and regrettable fact that Lord Janner should have been prosecuted 25 years ago.
"This report confirms that the reason he was not [prosecuted] was a direct decision made by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and not by Leicestershire Constabulary."
Mr Creedon was a detective sergeant with the Leicestershire force when he became aware of allegations against Lord Janner, who was then MP for Leicester West.
At the time, he was investigating a convicted sex offender called Frank Beck for abuse at children's homes in Leicestershire.
Mr Creedon and his colleague, Det Insp Kelvyn Ashby, interviewed the victim who is referred to in the inquiry report as Complainant 1.
Complainant 1 described being groomed by the MP and having sexual activity with him between the summer of 1974 and December 1975, when he was under 16 years of age and living in a children's home.
Mr Creedon and Det Insp Ashby interviewed the MP under caution on 13 March 1991.
The MP's answer to every question was: "As advised by my solicitor, I do not wish to answer."
But despite this lack of cooperation, police obtained evidence that supported Complainant 1's account, including personal letters sent by Lord Janner.
Mick Creedon's intervention is significant because he's now one of the country's most experienced police chiefs. It matters after all these years, because reputations are at stake.
He's already given preliminary evidence to Justice Lowell Goddard's new Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. That inquiry's looking for "institutional failings".
Mr Creedon says he wanted to arrest Greville Janner in 1991, but he was ordered to interview the MP by appointment instead.
That meant Greville Janner's home wasn't searched. But Mick Creedon says he "believed the victim's account of abuse".
Sir Richard Henriques, the retired High Court judge who carried out the inquiry, wrote in his report that the "primary cause of failing to prosecute Janner in 1991 was, in my judgment, an inefficient investigation by police".
However, Sir Richard said there was still enough evidence against Lord Janner in December 1991 to provide "a realistic prospect of conviction", and concluded the decision not to charge him was wrong.
Mr Creedon accused the inquiry of unfairly blaming the police.
"I do not recall us receiving any requests for further investigative work from either counsel or the CPS," he said.
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His side conceded seven tries as they slipped to a second loss of the season.
Ospreys coach Steve Tandy praised his team's "huge shift" and added: "To get five points is really pleasing."
But Wilson commented: "Physically we didn't turn up tonight, we got manhandled and as a group - coaches included - we've got to look at that and say it's not good enough."
Blues were Wales' leading team going into the game, and led 10-3 after a quarter of an hour thanks to Kristian Dacey's try.
But a yellow card for full-back Dan Fish saw Ospreys score 19 points inside 10 minutes to take complete control and secure a bonus point before half time.
"The yellow card is a catalyst, if you like, but you can't blame the yellow card for the amount of tackles one-on-one that people missed leading up to what was three tries in that period," said Wilson.
"It's physically not the performance we've seen this season from the Blues players. They're a far better group of players than that and we'll work hard to put it right.
"Maybe it's a little bit of a reminder of where we are and that we still have a huge amount of work to do.
"We've had four good results and a reasonably good performance against Leinster, so there's definitely something there to build on, but tonight in a derby - the ones that we all talk about as the big games - it's not acceptable."
Tandy, whose side moved to second place in the table, was happy with the way his team bounced back from consecutive defeats away to Leinster and Ulster.
"It's really pleasing for the boys to get a bonus point win against the high-flying Blues and I think more importantly we backed up last week," he said.
"We were really disappointed that we didn't get a result out in Ulster but they have dug in and put in another huge shift and to get five points is really pleasing.
"It was how we kept our speed of ball, how we looked after the tackle contest really well and that allowed us to keep on the front foot and keep working the Blues."
Ospreys have now won 11 consecutive games against Cardiff Blues and scored 32 tries in their six matches this season.
The only disappointment for the Swansea-based region was a serious looking ankle injury to Canada international wing Jeff Hassler who was taken from the field on a stretcher.
"I don't think it's going to be good," said Tandy. "It's a big disappointment for us."
Jackie Thomson identified Angus Sinclair as one of the two men she saw with Christine Eadie and Helen Scott.
They were at the World's End pub in Edinburgh.
Mr Sinclair, 69, has pleaded not guilty to assaulting, raping and murdering the 17-year-olds.
Ms Thomson, who was with the girls on the night they went missing and were killed, was giving evidence on the third day of Mr Sinclair's trial at the High Court in Livingston.
She told the court that she and another friend, Tony, had left Christine and Helen in the World's End in the company of two men at around 10.45pm on Saturday 15 October, 37 years ago.
Prosecuting, Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland said Ms Thomson had been shown a series of 12 photographs of men by the police in 2004.
Mr Mulholland said she was shown the images to see if she could identify anyone who was one of the males she saw with the girls in the pub in 1977.
Pointing to Mr Sinclair, he told the court Ms Thomson had identified the accused.
He asked: "How sure were you that this person on photo K, Angus Sinclair, was one of the two male persons?"
Ms Thomson replied: "In 1977 he looked quite a lot different - younger than that. It is hard to say because I had seen photos in the newspapers."
Mr Mulholland asked her to answer the question directly, stating: "How sure were you?"
She replied: "I was pretty sure, yeah."
Earlier, a former boyfriend of one of two girls found dead in 1977 has told the court he never had sex with her.
Alan Dixon, 56, was in a relationship with Helen Scott for about two years until her death.
Ms Scott and Christine Eadie, both 17, were last seen alive at the World's End pub in Edinburgh in October 1977.
Their bodies were found in two different parts of East Lothian. Angus Sinclair, 69, denies murdering the girls after raping and strangling them.
Mr Sinclair is alleged to have gagged the girls, bound their wrists and tied a ligature around their necks.
He denies inflicting blunt force injuries on Ms Eadie by repeatedly punching and kicking her on the body and biting her.
He also denies forcing Ms Scott to walk barefoot into a field, ripping the strap from her handbag, repeatedly punching and kicking her on the head and body and stamping on her head.
And he denies stealing clothing, footwear, jewellery and other personal effects from the teenagers in an attempt to pervert the course of justice.
Mr Sinclair has lodged three special defences, of incrimination, consent and alibi.
The case is expected to last two to three weeks.
1 February 2013 Last updated at 17:13 GMT
She performed the song when Barack Obama was officially sworn in to his second term as American president but lots of people noticed she wasn't singing live.
Instead she pretended to sing to a pre-recorded backing track, something known as lip synching.
She says it is because she had not had enough time to rehearse the song.
To prove how good her voice is she sang the anthem live for journalists at a press conference and promised not to lip synch when she performs at the Superbowl.
The Welshman, who helped Britain to track pursuit gold at the Rio Olympics, was due to be part of Team Sky for the Adelaide-based event.
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Australian Caleb Ewan won the first stage riding for Orica-Scott.
Team Sky doctor Neil Heron said: "The earliest Owain will leave the hospital is Thursday and recovery and recuperation is likely to take at least four weeks.
"Owain is obviously disappointed, but he appreciates he needs to be 100% fit to get back racing."
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Robots will eventually help carry out less invasive surgery in areas such as ear, nose and throat, and urology.
Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the "advanced facilities" would attract specialists to Wales and give patients the latest treatment.
A prostate surgery robot at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff will also be given extra funding.
The cash will boost facilities for training doctors from hospitals across south Wales in robotic surgery.
Professor Andrew Davies, chair of Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, said: "This is great news for patients as it will allow our doctors and nurses to improve and extend their skills and surgical techniques."
The visitors, 2-1 up from the first game, went ahead through Lewis Milne, with David Cox adding to their lead.
Danny Denholm fired home early in the second half and Aiden Malone knocked in a back-heel finish.
Scott Brown pulled one back for Peterhead before Josh Peters completed the rout from close range.
The visitors made the perfect start on five minutes when Milne raced on to a through ball to slip his shot under keeper Graeme Smith from 14 yards.
The second goal arrived on 17 minutes when Cox steered in a Milne pass from a couple of yards.
Nicky Riley had a shot blocked for a corner and Leighton McIntosh saw his header clawed away by keeper Grant Adam as the home side pressed for a goal to give them some hope but Forfar, with a strong wind at their back, looked dangerous on the counter attack.
Denholm cracked in a powerful left foot shot six minutes after the restart from the left side of the Peterhead box to leave the home side with an impossible task.
Substitute Malone piled the misery on for the Balmoor side back-heeling in the fourth goal from close in.
Peterhead reduced the deficit when Brown rifled a low shot in from 22 yards but substitute Peters then knocked in his 17th goal of the season as the Loons marched back into the third tier at the first time of asking.
Forfar Athletic manager Gary Bollan: "We expected a tight game because Peterhead are a good side and not many teams come here and score five goals.
"We were without Gavin Swankie, who has been influential for us this season, but Lewis Milne filled his boots and got the first goal.
"We felt if we kept the ball well enough we could catch them on the break and cause them problems. Our back four were magnificent, getting the ball into wide areas and into midfield. At times, we cut them open.
"After the disappointment of relegation last season, we had a huge job in front of us. We probably should have won the league but we've done it the hard way."
Match ends, Peterhead 1, Forfar Athletic 5.
Second Half ends, Peterhead 1, Forfar Athletic 5.
Jamie Stevenson (Peterhead) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lewis Milne (Forfar Athletic).
Foul by Scott Brown (Peterhead).
David Cox (Forfar Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Thomas O'Brien (Forfar Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Leighton McIntosh (Peterhead) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Leighton McIntosh (Peterhead).
Christopher McLaughlin (Forfar Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Scott Ross (Peterhead) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marc Scott (Forfar Athletic).
Goal! Peterhead 1, Forfar Athletic 5. Josh Peters (Forfar Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Jim Lister.
Substitution, Forfar Athletic. Josh Peters replaces Aiden Malone because of an injury.
Goal! Peterhead 1, Forfar Athletic 4. Scott Brown (Peterhead) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Peterhead. Nathan Blockley replaces Ryan Strachan.
Simon Ferry (Peterhead) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Simon Ferry (Peterhead).
Marc Scott (Forfar Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Eddie Malone (Forfar Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Allan Smith (Peterhead) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Eddie Malone (Forfar Athletic).
Attempt saved. Leighton McIntosh (Peterhead) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Nicky Riley (Peterhead) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Grant Anderson (Peterhead) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Ryan Strachan (Peterhead) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal! Peterhead 0, Forfar Athletic 4. Aiden Malone (Forfar Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Aiden Malone (Forfar Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Scott Brown (Peterhead) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Scott Brown (Peterhead) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Liam Gordon (Peterhead).
Jim Lister (Forfar Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Peterhead. Allan Smith replaces Jamie Redman.
Substitution, Forfar Athletic. Marc Scott replaces Danny Denholm.
Attempt missed. Jamie Redman (Peterhead) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Peterhead. Conceded by Thomas O'Brien.
Attempt saved. Scott Brown (Peterhead) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Strachan (Peterhead) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jamie Stevenson (Peterhead) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Denholm (Forfar Athletic).
The 23-year-old has been recovering from a shoulder injury after undergoing surgery in July.
Lee, who played in all three Tests for Wales in New Zealand in June, was expected to be sidelined for 12-16 weeks.
"He's looking good," said Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac.
"There's been consultation (with Wales) and everyone is happy with his testing.
"He's training with us today and he's stepping it up. He'll have more involvement next week."
Scarlets suffered a second successive Pro12 loss when they were beaten 20-9 by Edinburgh at Murrayfield on Friday.
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The bill would have allowed faith-based organisations to refuse service to gay and transgender people.
Disney, the National Football League, Coca-Cola and others threatened to pull business out of the state.
The veto comes as other US states enacted similar laws that limit gay rights.
"I believe it is a matter of character for our state," Governor Nathan Deal said.
"I do not think that we have to discriminate against anyone to protect the faith-based community in Georgia."
Republicans lawmakers said the bill would protect religious people who believe serving gay and transgender people violates their beliefs.
The bill also would have protected clergy not wishing to perform gay marriages, and people who would not attend weddings based on religious beliefs.
If passed, opponents said it would have legalised discrimination and flattened ordinances passed to protect gay and transgender people.
Mr Deal said his decision was "about the character of our state and the character of our people. Georgia is a welcoming state; it is full of loving, kind and generous people."
Disney said it would not shoot films in Georgia if the bill became law.
"Disney and Marvel are inclusive companies, and although we have had great experiences filming in Georgia, we will plan to take our business elsewhere should any legislation allowing discriminatory practices be signed into state law," a Disney spokesman told Variety last week.
Warner Bros and cable network AMC released a similar statement last week. AMC produces the hit show The Walking Dead, which is filmed in the state.
Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank denounced the bill, and the National Football League said passing the bill would have hurt Atlanta's chances of hosting the Super Bowl.
"The message to Governor Nathan Deal was loud and clear: this deplorable legislation was bad for his constituents, bad for business and bad for Georgia's future," said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a leading gay rights group. "Discrimination and intolerance have no place in the 21st Century."
Republican State Senator Josh McKoon said he was "disappointed" and thought Mr Deal was someone "the faith community could rely on".
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.
Last week, North Carolina's legislature passed a sweeping bill that bars its cities and counties from having their own anti-discrimination rules.
Legislators pushed for the bill after Charlotte passed an ordinance allowing transgender people to use restrooms according to gender identity.
Lawmakers in several other US states have proposed similar legislation - sometimes referred to as "bathroom bills".
The North Carolina law has also drawn criticism from the business community with Charlotte-based Bank of America, Apple and other large companies expressing concern about the law.
On Monday, a federal lawsuit was filed against the governor of North Carolina over the new law.
Two transgender men along with two civil rights groups filed the lawsuit, asking a judge to declare the law unconstitutional.
Swansea Bay City Region's chairman Sir Terry Matthews aims to transform these sectors in the same way the internet changed telecom.
The blueprint is to create up to 33,000 jobs over the next 20 years.
A fibre-optic transatlantic cable from New York to Oxwich Bay would be a "game changer" to bring ultrafast broadband.
The city region has decided to go for something distinctive and ambitious in its vision - not based on physical infrastructure or huge transport projects.
It concedes that south west Wales is underachieving economically and also needs to be resilient, particularly with the difficulties being faced by big employers like Tata Steel at Port Talbot.
Those behind it say they want to "punch above our weight" and offer something of importance to the UK, as well as developing something different to what other city deals are offering.
South west Wales would in essence become a giant test bed for internet and digital innovation.
The bid has been analysed by Cardiff University and it is estimated the economic potential could see 33,000 jobs created over 20 years - worth £3.3bn in output.
The four local councils in the city region are looking at a £100m commitment over 20 years, with contributions from the private sector, higher education and European Union.
The negotiations for the fibre-optic link from north America is understood to be at an advanced stage and would bring the ultra-fast broadband speeds to west Wales first, enabling towns along the coast to benefit.
Sir Terry, speaking from Canada, said it was important to realise the main transmission communication channel from New York to London was via the south west Wales region.
"It speaks very loudly to the importance of building up a technology sector on those communication channels.
"There's an opportunity of creating a significant industry which is in software. Coding should become the name of the game for the people in this region."
In a letter to Chancellor George Osborne, Sir Terry - who made his millions in internet developments of the telecom industry - said the vision addressed global challenges and was of a sufficient scale to attract international investors.
"The prosperity gap between Swansea Bay and the rest of Wales and the UK remains stubbornly and unacceptably high.
"Real transformation will not be achieved by simply doing more of the same."
Swansea council recently unveiled its own regeneration proposals and leader Rob Stewart called the city deal proposal "an enormously exciting bid".
The shooting happened in Braithwaite Road, Sparkbrook, at about 23:30 BST on Thursday. The 22-year-old man remains in a stable condition in hospital.
West Midlands Police said three men aged 20, 21 and 25, have been arrested in connection with the shooting.
The busy Stratford Road at the junction of Bordesley Middleway and Braithwaite Road has been cordoned off while forensic investigations take place.
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Lizzi Walton is struggling under the weight of 25,000 brochures, and she is inundated with calls.
It is a good job she can multi-task because she has got plenty to do.
From this tiny office in the middle of a small Gloucestershire market town, Lizzi is running an international festival - one that will see some 15,000 visitors swell the local streets this month.
So are we talking music, literature or the latest fad, food - all of which are now popular festival fodder?
No, this festival is all about fabric or, to be more precise, textiles - and it is already into its sixth year.
Stroud has a proud textile heritage. In its heyday, the town was bursting at the seams with mills churning out cloth.
By the mid 19th century, there were more than 1,000 looms at work in what was known as the Golden Valley.
Stroud Scarlet, a beautiful red woollen fabric, graced the backs of the Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Family, and local manufacturers were world-renowned.
Today Stroud still boasts a mill that makes cloth for snooker tables and championship tennis balls.
It is this former global reputation that Lizzi is seeking to build on.
"Stroud has such a proud textile heritage and I wanted that tradition to live on," she says.
"This area is teeming with talent and was at the forefront of the arts and crafts movement.
"[Famous 19th century designer] William Morris' country house Kelmscott Manor is just up the road."
Born in Stroud, Lizzi trained in fine art at Winchester and has spent much of her life working in arts administration.
Then, a few years ago, she decided to channel her considerable creative energy into putting the town back on the map and single-handedly started the festival of which she is now the director.
"I support good design, provide contemporary artists with a platform to showcase their work, and aim to create a real buzz around textiles again," she says.
This year, more than ever, one senses that buzz is growing. The recent recession has awakened a whole new generation to the delights of sewing, knitting and crochet.
"Make do and mend" has gone from being a wartime necessity to a fashion trend, and in Stroud itself two enterprising barmaids from The Prince Albert are now running popular monthly clothing repair sessions alongside the peanuts and pints.
But Lizzi is keen to point out that textiles are not just about domestic crafts.
"It's really not just about women making quilts, although of course that definitely has a place," she says.
"Textiles helped make Britain great and fashion, for instance, is a huge generator of wealth.
"Fabrics play a major role in all our lives, from the cradle to the grave we're literally touched by textiles. It's a global language."
This year the festival is an exciting mix of exhibitions, talks and workshops, with artists coming from as far afield as Holland, France and Japan to take part.
Established world-class makers rub shoulders with emerging talent, and quirky fringe events provide opportunities for everyone to get involved.
Putting on a festival in a recession is no easy task, and the programme is delivered on a shoestring. Apart from Lizzi, there is just one part-time administrator.
"With investment, we could draw even bigger crowds," she says.
"The local economy is already benefiting from hosting an international festival, and visitor numbers have grown year-on-year, with 65% of people coming from outside of the county.
"Bed and breakfasts in the town this month are full. The craft sector brings in cash and helps people think outside of the box, both important commodities - especially today."
The 5.2cm (two inch) coin was taken to the auction house in Dorchester, Dorset, by its owner who was unaware of its significance.
The Declaration Pound, which dates from 1643, was described by auctioneers as "extremely rare".
It was struck in Oxford, a year after the English Civil War broke out, at a new mint created to launch an official currency under Royalist control.
Duke's Auctioneers had expected the coin to fetch £50,000.
It had been handed down through several generations to the current owner, who said she did not know where it had originally come from.
The coin marks Charles I's attempts to regain his failing power from the Parliamentarians led by Oliver Cromwell.
A legend inscribed on the back of the coin in Latin reads: "Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered".
It is seen as a declaration of the king's power and his belief in absolute monarchy.
According to the National Archives, £1 in 1640 would have been worth £85.80 in 2005.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendation includes a ban on hands-free devices, making it stricter than any current state laws.
Thirty-five states have banned texting when driving, and nine states have outlawed hand-held mobile phone use.
But enforcement is generally not a priority.
And no states ban the use of hands-free devices for all drivers.
The NTSB does not have the power to impose such a nationwide ban, but its recommendations carry significant weight with federal regulators and lawmakers.
In a unanimous vote, the board also recommended increased enforcement of existing laws.
The NTSB recommendations would make an exception for devices seen as aiding driver safety, such as GPS systems.
The debate was prompted by a pile-up in the state of Missouri last year, caused by a 19-year-old driver who sent or received 11 texts in the few minutes before the crash.
Missouri has a law banning drivers under 21 years old from texting while driving, but was not enforcing it regularly at the time of the accident.
"We're not here to win a popularity contest," NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman told reporters on Tuesday.
"No email, no text, no update, no call is worth a human life."
Other high-profile cases investigated by the NTSB include the death of 25 people in a train collision, which involved an engineer texting.
Another accident involved a lorry driver who was using his phone when he collided with a van, killing 11 people.
About two out of 10 drivers have texted or emailed from a mobile phone while driving, according to a survey of US drivers by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Half of drivers between 21-24 years of age had done so.
The survey found that many drivers do not think it is dangerous when they use phones on the road - only when others do.
The body of the 18-year-old was recovered by RNLI crews close to Weymouth ferry terminal on 15 March.
Louis, from Dorchester, went missing on Valentine's Day after a night out. It is understood he was celebrating a friend's birthday when he went missing.
The force said in a statement: "His family have been updated. Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time."
He wants to ensure firms in countries which do not use the euro as their currency are not discriminated against.
He also wants to ensure those countries, including the UK, are never required to bail-out euro members.
German leader Angela Merkel said her message to Mr Osborne was that the UK must "stay in" the EU.
Mr Osborne's visit to Germany comes as the UK government "steps up the pace" of renegotiation talks ahead of an in/out referendum promised by the end of 2017.
Prime Minister David Cameron will next week set out Britain's demands in full in a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk.
But Mr Osborne is preparing the ground with a speech to business leaders in Berlin, setting out his vision of Britain's place in a "two-tier" Europe.
He will tell the BDI, the Federation of German Industries, the EU must accept that the single market has more than one currency and that it "should not discriminate against any business on the basis of the currency of the country in which they reside".
"What we seek are principles embedded in EU law and binding on EU institutions that safeguard the operation of the union for all 28 member states. The principles must support the integrity of the European single market."
And he will add: "We must never let taxpayers in countries that are not in the euro bear the cost for supporting countries in the eurozone."
Not much happens in the European Union without Germany's agreement.
So the conversations between the Chancellor George Osborne and the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schauble, really matter.
And Mr Osborne will use this visit to give more details of two of the four goals the government hopes to achieve as part of their quest for a new relationship with the rest of the EU - an explicit end to the commitment of ever closer union, where countries inside the EU inevitably become more and more aligned, and a legal guarantee that British businesses won't lose out because they are not in the eurozone.
Making those demands to the rest of the EU is one thing, persuading their leaders to help the UK's cause is quite another.
Speaking ahead of Mr Osborne's appearance at the conference, Angela Merkel said: "I think Great Britain should remain a member of the European Union. Mr Osborne is not here yet (at the BDI meeting), but you can relay a message to him: Stay in.
"But of course this is not just up to us. In the end the British have to decide. The only promise we can make is this: Whereever their demands are justified, more competitiveness, more effectiveness in the EU, the British demands are our demands too.
"Of course we won't be able to agree on everything, we have always found possibilities for opt-outs, and the Europe of today is not a one-speed Europe.
"For us there are many reasons to keep the UK in the EU and we will do everything we can to make this happen. But the British have to decide and I hope they will make a decision that takes Europe forward."
Another crucial demand for the UK is the ability to opt-out of the EU's commitment to "ever-closer union" between member states, which dates back to the 1957 Treaty of Rome.
Mr Osborne will tell members of the BDI the British people "do not want to be part of an ever-closer union".
He will stress the British government's desire to stay in a reformed, EU, but will add: "It needs to be a Europe where we are not part of that ever closer union you are more comfortable with.
"In the UK, where this is widely interpreted as a commitment to ever-closer political integration, that concept is now supported by a tiny proportion of voters.
"I believe it is this that is the cause of some of the strains between Britain and our European partners.
"Ever closer union is not right for us any longer."
He will say that the new principles "must ensure that as the eurozone chooses to integrate it does so in a way that does not damage the interests of non-euro members".
The chancellor fears Britain could be kept out of decisions on single market laws that will have an impact on its economy as integration between the 19 euro member states intensifies.
His proposals could be enshrined in future EU treaty changes after Britain has held its referendum but only if Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne can persuade other EU countries to accept that they do not represent special treatment for the UK.
Michael Sandford, 20, pleaded guilty in September to being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and disrupting an official function.
He was accused of grabbing a policeman's gun at a rally in Las Vegas in order to shoot at the candidate.
His mother says "he is remorseful over what he did".
Sandford, of Dorking, Surrey, had faced up to 10 years in prison over the alleged assassination plot.
The court heard that he could be eligible for release in four months' time, at which point he will be deported to the UK.
The defence team said their client is autistic and suffers seizures and obsession-compulsion anxiety.
Michael Sandford appeared in court in orange prison garb, looking pale and slight, his ankles shackled.
He smiled as members of his family waved to him and mouthed: "I love you."
Sandford then broke down in tears as he apologised for what he had done and for taking up time and costing the taxpayer money.
"I just feel terrible about it," he said.
The judge James Mahan appeared sympathetic, telling Sandford: "I don't think you harboured malice in your heart."
His mother, Lynne Sandford, also addressed the judge, saying her son was "cherished and adored".
"It breaks my heart to see him in this environment," she said, as she appealed for a lenient sentence on the basis that her son needed treatment and the support of his family.
After Sandford was arrested, he told officers he had planned to shoot the billionaire Republican candidate.
He failed to pull the weapon from an officer's holster, the court heard.
His mother said that she had lost contact with her son after he left home to travel around the US in 2015.
He had previously shown no interest in politics, and she was unable to explain why he would want to shoot Mr Trump.
According to court documents, Sandford, who was homeless and living in the US illegally having overstayed his visa, told the Secret Service that he had driven from California to Nevada with the goal of shooting Mr Trump.
The papers detail how he had been plotting the attack for around a year and had gone to a gun range in Las Vegas the day before the attack to learn how to shoot, firing 20 rounds from a 9mm Glock pistol.
He reportedly told an officer that he had expected to die in the attack but that he also had tickets for a later Trump rally in Arizona in case he needed a second chance.
Judge James C Mahan described the incident as "a crazy stunt".
"You have a medical problem," the judge told Sandford, adding that it is "nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about."
"I don't see you as evil or a sociopath," the judge said, wishing Sandford luck as he rose to leave the courtroom.
Mae cyflwynwyr, actorion, chwaraewyr rygbi a phêl-droed, academyddion a beirdd ymhlith y bobl sydd wedi ateb ein cwestiynau. Ond faint o sylw oeddech chi'n ei gymryd o'u hatebion? Rhowch gynnig ar ein cwis...
With polls narrowing, experts say the votes of young people will be "absolutely crucial" in the contest.
BBC Scotland teamed up with The Social to host a debate with young politicians taking questions from an audience of people aged under 30.
They highlighted issues including housing, human rights and homelessness.
Taking part in the debate, which was streamed live on Facebook and Twitter, were the SNP's Stewart McDonald, Labour's Pam Duncan-Glancy, Conservative Kirstene Hair, Lib Dem Kris Chapman and Green MSP Ross Greer, attempting to win over a panel of young voters.
The key topics discussed focused on engaging young people in politics.
Prof John Curtice of Strathclyde University said the turnout rate among the young could be "absolutely crucial" in the election.
He said: "One thing we know from every single election about younger voters is that they are less likely to vote. And therefore how many of them turn up to vote, whether they abstain in the kind of numbers they did in the last election or whether they turn out in rather high numbers this time, could well in truth determine or have a significant impact on the outcome of this election."
Discussing political engagement in the debate, Mr McDonald said: "My experience is that young people are generally quite well tapped into the issues in a way that perhaps older generations aren't. Young people tend to be more broad and open-minded on the issues, and the more time we spend engaging them the better."
Mr Greer, who was elected as Holyrood's youngest MSP aged 21, said: "When I was elected, there were some people saying 'how can you possibly be a politician at that age, you don't have enough life experience to know what you're talking about. But our parliaments are supposed to represent all of society - they're not doing that if they're full of white men over the age of 50."
Ms Hair said it was "really important that you engage with young people", and said she had seen more young people involved in Tory campaigns in recent years.
She also said Ruth Davidson had lobbied Tory colleagues at Westminster to reduce the voting age in UK-wide elections to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote.
Meanwhile Ms Duncan-Glancy said her party was standing on policies aimed at engaging young voters.
She said: "The manifesto we have put forward for this election is a manifesto for young people. We've got policies to be proud of, which is why you'll see a lot more from Labour on social media on what we'll do for young people."
And Mr Chapman said future generations were the "most powerful tool in society", saying it was important to invest in them.
He said: "It's all about engaging young people and representing them and making sure they have a voice at all levels of parliament and politics."
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The attack happened near Balloch Road in Balloch at about 22:45 on Sunday 11 September last year.
The man in the image is described as white, in his 20s, about 5ft 7in tall, of slim build with short dark hair and riding a red Firefox bicycle.
He was wearing a long-sleeved grey top and a short-sleeved black top.
Police Scotland said he was also wearing black lycra shorts, black Sondico socks, grey Nike trainers and was carrying a black rucksack.
Officers have urged anyone who recognises the man to contact them.
The 54-year-old was arrested after "clashing" with a teenager at the store in Camden on Friday 17 October.
In a statement posted on his website following the incident, Mr Joyce claimed he had asked for the police to be called after he had "detained a youth".
He is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 30 December.
The Metropolitan Police said the former Labour MP, who is now an independent, had been charged with two counts of common assault and one count of criminal damage.
One Love Manchester is raising money for those affected by the suicide bombing at the end of Ariana Grande's performance at the Manchester Arena.
She is returning to the city, joined by stars including Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Take That.
It is not yet known how the unfolding London attack might affect the event.
Grande tweeted after the incident in the capital that she was "praying for London".
The Manchester attack killed 22 people - including children and teenagers who saw the show as well as parents arriving at the arena to pick them up at the end of the night.
The youngest victim was just eight years old.
Ariana Grande is going to be performing, having said she wanted to return to the "incredibly brave city" to spend time with her fans, and to "honour and raise money for the victims and their families".
She's bringing a host of stars with her - Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Coldplay, Usher, Pharrell, Little Mix, Robbie Williams, Black Eyed Peas, Niall Horan and Take That are all on the bill.
The Old Trafford cricket ground has a 50,000 capacity and tickets sold out within 20 minutes when they went on general sale.
Some tickets were set aside for fans at the original concert, who were promised free entry. Ticketmaster said 14,200 tickets were being held for them.
People have been asked not to bring bags, "for speed of entry", and will be searched as they enter the grounds.
Full details are here.
Proceeds will go to the We Love Manchester emergency fund, which has been set up by Manchester City Council, in conjunction with the British Red Cross. Organisers expect at least £2m to be raised from the event.
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Favaro has played 28 times for Warriors in two seasons and was voted the club's player of the season last campaign.
It is understood Glasgow have signed open-side flanker Callum Gibbins from Super Rugby champions, the Hurricanes, as a replacement.
Gibbins, 28, will join next season after his commitments in New Zealand.
Meanwhile, Scotland back-row Josh Strauss is likely to be allowed to leave Glasgow when his contract expires this summer.
The 30-year-old, who started Saturday's Six Nations win over Ireland, has attracted interest from clubs in the Top 14 and Aviva Premiership.
Following Monday's announcement that Stormers and Scotland centre Huw Jones will be joining Glasgow in the summer, Sam Johnson and Nick Grigg have extended their stays at Scotstoun.
They will compete with Jones and Alex Dunbar for starting places, with Mark Bennett's contract expiring.
Australia-born Johnson, 23, has signed a new two-year deal, keeping him in Glasgow until at least May 2019, while Grigg, a year older, will remain with the Warriors for at least another season after extending his contract by a further 12 months until May 2018.
All-action flanker Favaro has featured on nine occasions for Glasgow this season, although shoulder and ankle problems have limited his game time.
The Scotstoun fan favourite is included in Italy's Six Nations squad, but missed the opening-round defeat by Wales through injury.
Gibbins has been a member of the Hurricanes' wider Super Rugby group since 2013, earning his place in the full squad in 2015, and going on to make 25 appearances in the competition.
The New Zealander is reputed to be among the fittest members of the Canes squad, having twice won the team's notorious pre-season surf-to-peak challenge, which comprises a range of flat and climbing runs and cycles, but has found himself beneath All Blacks prodigy Ardie Savea in the pecking order.
Gibbins captains Manawatu Turbos in the provincial Mitre 10 Cup, where Dave Rennie, who takes over as Glasgow boss this summer, gave him his debut in 2009.
His Turbos stint has also seen him play for Scotland attack coach Jason O'Halloran, who will join Rennie's staff at Scotstoun next season, and Scotland head coach Vern Cotter's brother Jeremy.
The flanker will move to Scotland once his southern hemisphere commitments have been fulfilled.
The vehicles, worth an estimated £500,000, were taken from locations across Northern Ireland.
The thefts happened between May 2016 and February 2017.
Algimantas Scipouas, from Dunlade Road in Greysteel, appeared in Newry Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
The charges relate to the theft of a Range Rover, a Mercedes, an Audi Q7 Jeep and 26 Audi cars.
A police officer told the court that technology had been used to clone keys which were then used in the thefts.
Speaking through an interpreter Scipouas confirmed he understood the charges against him.
No application was made for bail.
He was remanded in custody and is due to appear in court again by video-link next month.
Moobs earns its listing as a slang term for a man's prominent breasts, and YOLO is an acronym for "you only live once".
New words and phrases are usually added to the dictionary once editors have enough evidence to demonstrate continued historical use.
Other entries focus on the centenary of Roald Dahl's birth, with additions such as Oompa Loompa and witching hour.
Words related to food, speech, media and retail also feature.
The OED is a historical dictionary and a definitive guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of almost 830,000 past and present words, senses, and compounds from across the English-speaking world.
It differs from the online Oxford dictionary, which lists current definitions of English words, and has a lower threshold for accepting new entries to its list of words.
Some of the words and senses to be added or updated in the OED, along with the dictionary's definitions:
There are also a number of new entries related to Roald Dahl which coincide with centenary celebrations and the publication of the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary.
These include the words Oompa Loompa, scrumdiddlyumptious, witching hour, human bean and golden ticket.
"The inclusions reflect both his influence as an author and his vivid and distinctive style," said the chief editor of the OED, Michael Proffitt.
"For many children, Roald Dahl's work is not only one of their first experiences of reading, but also their earliest exposure to the creative power of language."
The pair clashed just before half-time with the game goalless and MacKenzie was shown a straight red card.
He was given his marching orders for a similar incident with Huddersfield's Alan Lee in September.
"I'd like to apologise to my team-mates and my manager and the fans," the 26-year-old told BBC Three Counties Radio.
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"On the incident, firstly I was just doing my job. I made a good clearance and then I was kicked on the ground and when I confronted the player he headbutted me.
"And I retaliated which obviously was wrong.
"I've apologised and I'll apologise again. It was wrong. I should have alerted the referee if he didn't see it - or the linesman who conveniently didn't see it either.
"I find it hard how half a stadium can see it but a referee and linesman can't.
"I need to learn from this. It's not the first time it's happened. Maybe I am a target for players who think they can wind me up. But I need to get that out of my game or it could hamper my career."
Dons boss Karl Robinson said MacKenzie's actions were unacceptable and added the Scot would be punished internally.
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But the MK manager praised the defender, who will be suspended for four games, for facing the media immediately after the game.
"I bet you were all shocked to see the player want to come to speak to you," he said.
"If we make mistakes we stand up as men, hold our hands up and internally we'll deal with everything else.
"The player can't headbutt our player, I'm disappointed they missed that.
"But I can't accept what happened afterwards. I'm so proud of him in a weird way, coming out and accepting his punishment. I'm not proud of what he did but he'll learn from it."
The postponement is a setback for the president who had insisted he would win the numbers to pass it through the lower chamber of Congress on Thursday.
The American Healthcare Act is intended to replace parts of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.
Repealing and replacing so-called Obamacare was a major plank of Mr Trump's election campaign.
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Republicans would still meet on Thursday evening but the plan was for a House vote on Friday.
A White House official said that "the vote will be in the morning to avoid voting at 3AM... We feel this should be done in the light of day, not in the wee hours of the night and we are confident the bill will pass in the morning".
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Mr Trump had made a "rookie's error for bringing this up on a day when clearly you're not ready".
After a tumultuous day on Capitol Hill, it has become apparent that there simply aren't enough votes to pass the healthcare reform law. At the moment, it may not even be close.
Minutes before the announced delay, the president himself was insisting that a vote would happen on Thursday night, so this turn of events signifies an embarrassing setback.
If success was just a vote or two away, the evening would probably have proceeded as planned, with Speaker Paul Ryan and Donald Trump offering whatever threats or entreaties were necessary to edge past the finish line. Instead, the bill remains on the edge of an abyss.
For Republicans, a delay is better than outright defeat, of course, a scenario which would have undermined both the president's claims to be a dealmaking supremo and Mr Ryan's ability to control his party's hardliners.
The White House now has more time to negotiate with the conservative House Freedom Caucus, who represent the best, possible last, chance to salvage the bill. Such support will come with a high price, however, with any move to the right making the legislation all the harder to pass in the more moderate-minded Senate.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has all week insisted the administration would get the numbers and that the bill would pass, saying there was "no plan B".
The bill needs 215 votes to pass but ran into opposition mainly from conservative Republicans who believed it did not roll back enough of Mr Obama's Affordable Care Act.
Obamacare helped 20 million previously uninsured Americans get health insurance but has been plagued by increases in insurance premiums, which were also a problem before the health law.
Mr Trump promised a new law that would cover more people and at a lower cost.
The Republican bill keeps some of the popular elements of Obamacare but limits future federal funding for Medicaid, which covers low-income people.
A new estimate by the Congressional Budget Office released on Thursday evening said recent changes to the bill would make it costlier than previously thought.
The number of uninsured Americans would rise to 24 million by 2026 under the new law, the budget analysis said.
Groups representing doctors, hospitals and the elderly have said they are opposed to the Republican bill.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus met Mr Trump on Thursday and afterwards said there was "no deal".
The failure to go to a vote is a blow for the president, who has projected himself as a master dealmaker and has spent the week visiting the Capitol and calling senators on the phone to win over opponents.
House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows said there were "not enough members to get a yes, but progress is being made".
He played down what he called the "artificial deadline" of Thursday.
Mr Meadows insisted: "We are going to get to the finish line."
David Armitage did not take part, but filmed a live video on Facebook telling viewers "carnage, that's what we do".
The incident saw a large number of motorcyclists tear through streets and pedestrian areas in the city.
Armitage, of Headingley, was one of 13 defendants who appeared at Leeds Crown Court on Monday.
All had admitted causing a public nuisance at a previous court hearing and were given bail until sentencing on Tuesday.
Witnesses likened the scenes on 31 October to the Mel Gibson film Mad Max.
Andrew Horton, prosecuting, told the court: "The motorcyclists were travelling en masse with over 100 riders, some not wearing helmets but wearing Halloween-type face masks of varying descriptions."
He said footage showed the bikers speeding, weaving between traffic and performing wheelies.
"The riders showed little or no regard for the safety of others," he told the court.
Mr Horton added that Armitage "directed and encouraged riders... and was shown cheering and embracing riders".
Police received about 160 calls from the public and were forced to close a section of Kirkstall Road.
The court also heard many of the riders had expressed regret when interviewed by police.
Mr Horton said Nicholas Flaherty told police "he would never normally ride in that manner but it was such a buzz, it was like he was in a film".
Another rider, Dean Fawcett, said in interview that he "thought it was a good idea but quickly realised it was turning into mayhem and that was not his intention".
The court also heard the event raised about £400, which Armitage initially claimed would go to Children in Need, but later said any money raised would go to the family of a local murder victim.
Deborah Smithies, representing Armitage, said he became confused after his arrest about what to do with the funds, which he still holds, "and stands ready to direct them where appropriate".
All 13 defendants pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to "causing a public nuisance by participating in a large-scale procession of motorbikes and similar vehicles that rode around Leeds in a manner that interfered with the comfort, enjoyment and safety of the public".
Omar Ahmed, 24, of Stonegate View, Meanwood
David Armitage, 26, of Brookfield Road, Headingley
Ashley Benson, 26, of Whingate Road, Armley
Michael Clough, 28, of Torre View, Burmantofts
Ben Colley, 26, of Butterbowl Road, Farnley. He also pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and without insurance
Dean Fawcett, 28, of Intake View, Middleton
Nicholas Flaherty, 30, of Prospect Street, Farsley. He also admitted perverting the course of justice
Rachel Taylor, 30, of Grange Park Walk, Leeds
Joshua Hawley, 23, of Mead Grove, Colton
Dylan Lockwood, 23, of Torre Grove, Burmantofts
Adam Nicholson, 27, of Bellmount Close, Leeds
Anton Rojas, 26, of Skelton Avenue, Burmantofts
Jamie Ayres, 26, of Lupton Avenue, Leeds
Hernani Banza, 27, of Shafton View, Leeds, pleaded not guilty to the same charge and is due to stand trial at Leeds Crown Court on 28 November
Mr Meacher, 75, had been MP for Oldham West and Royton since 1970, retaining the seat with a 14,738 majority in May.
The funeral service was held at St Mary's Anglican church in Wimbledon Village, London, for Mr Meacher who died on 21 October.
Mourners included Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former leader Ed Miliband.
In eulogies from family, friends and Reverend Mary Bide he was described as a man of "great integrity" with "huge intellect and learning" and a "wonderfully dry sense of humour".
His son David told mourners his father "approached work and life with boundless enthusiasm.
"He would be moved to real anger and sorrow to hear about people who were suffering from benefit cuts."
Former Labour MP Chris Mullin referred to Mr Meacher as a "serial dissident," who was "razor sharp, had a boyish charm and a naivety that never left him".
"He had been calling for a national living wage since 1970. Almost to the day of his death he was thinking of ways to resist tax credit cuts and making plans.
"He never lost his radical streak or infectious good humour," he said.
A by-election for the Oldham West and Royton constituency takes place on 3 December.
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Fruean, 28, has undergone several heart operations in the last decade, chiefly stemming from his rheumatic fever.
He is being subjected to additional medical assessment by club staff before completing a deal with Edinburgh.
The former Crusaders player will become Richard Cockerill's second signing as head coach as the Englishman prepares to succeed Duncan Hodge.
It is understood the former Leicester Tigers boss is eager to bolster his options in the backline.
Fruean's impending move follows that of fellow centre Mark Bennett, who suffered a cruciate ligament injury, which means the Scotland international faces up to a year on the sidelines, after agreeing a switch from Glasgow Warriors.
Injuries have limited New Zealand-born Fruean to just six Bath appearances, since joining the Premiership club from Hawke's Bay.
However, he has expressed a desire to represent Samoa in the 2018-19 Sevens World Series, with a view to playing for the national XV at the 2019 World Cup.
Any such sevens involvement would deprive Edinburgh of the 6ft 2in, 102kg centre for chunks of their Pro12 and European campaigns respectively.
With most results declared, Mr Iohannis, mayor of Sibiu, had 54.5% of the vote to Mr Ponta's 45.5%.
Mr Iohannis, 55 and an ethnic German, vowed to change politics and said "another kind of Romania is beginning".
Romania is one of the most corrupt EU states, something the centre-right Mr Iohannis has vowed to tackle.
Despite the election result, Mr Ponta told a local TV channel that he had "no reason to resign" as prime minister.
He had hoped to become the country's youngest president, replacing the incumbent Traian Basescu who cannot stand for re-election after serving two terms.
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Romania's large diaspora of up to four million people played a key role in the election. Many expat voters were said to be disillusioned with Mr Ponta.
After the first round of voting there were protests at polling stations in Paris, London and other cities. In some places voters had to queue for hours - with some unable to vote - leading to the resignation of the foreign minister last week.
The number of expatriate voters on Sunday more than doubled to 379,000 and large queues thronged polling stations at embassies and consulates across Europe, from Milan and Munich to London and Portsmouth.
Police in Paris fired tear gas on Sunday evening to disperse voters angry that they had been unable to cast their ballots. The new foreign minister had suggested that voters in France should travel instead to the eastern city of Nancy.
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Mr Ponta had been leading in the opinion polls and had beaten Mr Iohannis, the mayor of Sibiu in Transylvania, in the first round of the presidential election.
"We are a democratic country," Mr Ponta said outside the headquarters of his Social Democratic Party on Sunday. "The people are always right."
Mr Ponta, 42, had promised to reduce the budget deficit, increase pensions and the minimum wage.
As prime minister, he oversaw economic growth and political stability in Romania, the EU's second-poorest state after Bulgaria.
Aside from tackling corruption, Mr Iohannis, 55, promised in his election campaign to strengthen the independence of the judicial system.
Five miles of road from Kincraig to Dalraddy is involved in the first phase of a £3bn project to dual the A9 from Inverness to Perth.
A 40mph speed restriction will be in place on the five-mile section from Monday, Transport Scotland said.
Average speed cameras will be used to enforce the speed limit.
Nicholas Williams' challenge against Andrew Barlow caused the cup match between Cefn Albion and AFC Brynford last October to be abandoned.
Williams claimed it was a freak accident but Recorder Huw Rees called it "shocking violence".
Williams, 26, of Wrexham, was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm at Caernarfon Crown Court.
The court heard Mr Barlow broke his tibia and fibula and is still receiving treatment.
Speaking after the hearing, Det Con Rhodri Ifans of North Wales Police said: "This was a particularly callous assault which has had a huge impact on the victim.
"Anyone who commits acts of violence must realise to potential seriousness of their actions and we will vigorously pursue offenders and bring them to justice."
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There are many types of epilepsy and epileptic seizure, including both convulsive (involving shaking/body spasms of some kind) and non-convulsive (where people might show no signs of having had a seizure). We spoke to Sophie Harries, who had her first convulsive seizure at the age of 15.
So, what is epilepsy?
Epilepsy is a neurological condition which leads to the person to have seizures. These occur in the brain and can be focal or generalised.
What kind of epilepsy do you have?
I have generalised idiopathic epilepsy with photosensitivity, which means that the cause is thought to be genetic and I have generalised seizures. I have tonic clonic or grand mal seizures, which is the stereotypical shaking and grunting.
Also, my epilepsy is triggered by flashing lights which is the photosensitivity part. Only 5% of people have photosensitive epilepsy and it is typically triggered by flashing lights such as strobes, camera flashes or bicycle lights - but sunlight flickering through trees is another trigger.
Can you describe what it's like to have a seizure - do you remember it?
I can never remember my seizures, I've lost up to four days before. Afterwards I sleep for a very long time - I also ache, and have a really bad headache that lasts the whole day.
Do you get any warning signs that you're about to have a seizure?
Find out more from Epilepsy Society
Most of my seizures have occurred when I'm either asleep or going to sleep - however I have had one whilst awake and I didn't get any warning signs like some people get.
How does someone get epilepsy - were you born with it?
Epilepsy can be inherited (idiopathic) or caused through injury such as stroke or a tumour (symptomatic). Although my epilepsy is thought to be genetic I developed my epilepsy at 15; this may be due to my seizure threshold (the level of stimulation at which your brain will have a seizure) becoming less but no one can say for certain.
Do you remember your first experience of epilepsy?
My first experience of epilepsy was really scary. I was abroad, the doctor spoke broken English and I was being given a drug to help my muscles relax. I had no idea what had happened and when I found out I was even more scared.
Why now? What caused it? What's wrong with me? So many questions which didn't have answers, and not all of them will ever will be answered. Even now when I have a seizure it knocks all my confidence and all the questions get asked again.
What do you have to do to control your epilepsy?
I take medication daily to control my epilepsy and will have to for the rest of my life. I also have to avoid triggers, make sure I get enough sleep and don't get too stressed.
How does it affect your day to day life?
Day to day my epilepsy doesn't have a massive impact but I do have to be mindful of situations - especially if there is anything to do with lights. Bicycle lights that flash when I'm walking home are a particular issue in the winter, and then in the summer I have to cover one eye if the sun is flickering through trees.
Do you feel like people treat you differently because you have epilepsy?
Most people don't treat me too differently if at all, although they are mindful of my triggers and try to avoid them.
However, some people do treat me differently. I've been called "Epi" instead of my actual name (which the person didn't bother to learn!), and I've been told that I am possessed and have the devil in me, when I was on a bus. I have also been told that epilepsy isn't a disability and that I'm making a fuss out of nothing.
Is there anything you can/can't do as a result of your epilepsy?
I can't go to the cinema or nightclubs with my friends where there are strobing lights, and I have to ensure I get enough sleep and don't get too stressed.
Do you feel it's had a positive or negative effect on your life, overall?
Overall I feel that epilepsy has negatively impacted my life, but I have been able to work with Epilepsy Society to raise awareness which I see as really valuable.
What advice would you give a young person who's just been diagnosed with epilepsy?
I would say to get stuck in raising awareness - it will be incredibly valuable and help you come to terms with your diagnosis.
Also be open and talk about it with people. Initially I didn't want to tell people I had epilepsy and it made it difficult to say and explain it - it became my big secret.
Finally, focus on the positives and the milestones. This month I'm a year seizure free :)
The tests threaten to cause new tensions between the two nations following their landmark nuclear deal.
Iran fired "several unguided rockets" about 1,370m (1,500 yards) from two US vessels and a French frigate, US military spokesman Kyle Raines said.
The tests were "highly provocative", said Cmdr Raines.
The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that provides passage for nearly a third of all oil traded by sea. The strait is also crucial for ships taking part in the war against so-called Islamic State.
In 2012 Iran threatened to block the strait, which lies at the entrance of the Gulf and is 33km (21 miles) wide at its narrowest point.
The latest incident, which took place on Saturday according to the US, follows a series of weapons tests by the Islamic Republic. Iranian media and officials did not immediately comment on the reports.
Iranian ships announced over maritime radio their intention to carry out the test 23 minutes before the rockets were fired, Cmdr Raines said.
"Firing weapons so close to passing coalition ships and commercial traffic within an internationally recognised maritime traffic lane is unsafe, unprofessional and inconsistent with international maritime law," he said.
The US Navy's 5th Fleet is based in nearby Bahrain. It conducts anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf and serves as a regional counterbalance to Iran.
Iran signed a long-term deal with six world powers in July to limit its sensitive nuclear activities in return for the lifting of crippling sanctions.
However, this year it has also broadcast footage of a missile attack on a mock-up of an US aircraft carrier and aired film on state TV of an underground missile base.
The Strait of Hormuz was the scene of a battle between the US and Iran in April 1988, when the US attacked two Iranian oil platforms used for surveillance and sank or damaged six of its vessels, including two naval frigates.
Tensions had erupted after the near-sinking of missile frigate USS Samuel B Roberts by an Iranian mine.
In July 1988, the USS Vincennes was patrolling the strait when it shot down an Iran Air flight heading to Dubai, killing 290 people on board. The ship's crew apparently mistook the plane for an Iranian F-14 fighter.
Andrew Coogan was found dead at the scene of the fire in stables at Shorrocks Hill Country Club in Formby.
An investigation began, but police have now confirmed it is not being treated as a suspected crime.
Mr Coogan's family described him as "a devoted uncle" who "helped many people and was a pleasure to be around".
"We will miss him dearly," they added.
Firefighters said Mr Coogan's body was found in a caravan and the dead horses in a stable.
Merseyside Police said a post-mortem had taken place but the cause of death had been withheld until toxicology tests had been completed.
The Kodu Kup challenges children to create their own game using Kodu, Microsoft's visual programming language.
The winning game was a futuristic one in which players compete to defeat an evil robot.
The competition is part of a huge push to get children doing more coding.
Alfie Finch-Critchley, aged 14, and 12-year-old team mates Joseph Banerjee and Jonathan Haley are from Uppingham Community College in the East Midlands.
Their futuristic game, Confined - which was inspired by Valve's title Portal - won the 12-16 age category.
They competed against teams from Portugal, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Greece, Lithuania and Estonia in the final, in which they had to complete a Dragons'-Den style pitch to a jury of MEPs, education and gaming experts.
"Computational thinking helps our young people to understand and play an active role in the world that surrounds them," commented Simon Peyton-Jones, chair of the Computing at School campaign
"The Kodu Kup provides an opportunity for children to creatively engage with computing, whilst also teaching them the coding skills which will help them to secure the jobs of the future."
Speaking about the process, Alfie said: "Apart from the event itself, the best part of participating in the Kodu Kup for me was the teamwork. We worked together and we were able to take our individual talents and combine them to get the best result possible.
"Kids don't always need to be told what to do to understand things, through computational thinking and perseverance you can find out for yourself, and if you can get a grasp of computers and computer science you can understand the world around us."
Judge Kelly Smith, head of television and games at BAFTA, said that the standard of the competition "blew me away".
The winners were chosen for their presentation, the details they had put into their game and the way they had worked as a team.
"They had really thought about the design, usability and where their product would be placed in the market, which is remarkable for a group of 12- to 14-year-olds," she said.
The competition is part of EU Code Week, an initiative aimed at getting more children interested in coding.
Microsoft, together with Facebook, Rovio, SAP and Liberty Global, have formed a coalition to launch a pan-European online platform to drive participation in coding.
In September, coding in English schools was made mandatory for all children aged five to 16.
The BBC is a partner in a UK-based coding initiative dubbed Year of Code, which aims, among other things, to crowdsource funding to help parents, pupils and educational organisations get involved in coding.
The new law states that anyone found with such images can be jailed for up to a year, or fined up to $10,000 (£6,000).
The ban does not apply to animation or to comic art known as manga.
Japan was previously the only country in the 34-strong Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) without such a prohibition.
Opponents of the bill say that freedom of expression needs to be protected in a country that once suffered heavy government censorship.
Analysts say there was strong resistance from manga artists, free-speech advocates and publishers.
They said it would impinge on freedom of expression and allow authorities to make arbitrary decisions about art.
The Japan Magazine Publishers' Association, which represents over 90 publishing companies, posted a statement on its website earlier in June saying the law could "put a strain" on artists and publishing culture.
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo says Japan is still considered one of the world centres for the exchange and consumption of images of child sexual abuse.
Crimes related to child sexual abuse have reportedly been on the rise in Japan.
Police uncovered 1,644 cases last year, about 10 times higher than a decade ago.
More than half of the cases involved sharing or selling photos or videos over the internet, police said.
The new law will allow those who do possess such material a year to get rid of it.
Japan had earlier banned the production and distribution of child pornography in 1999.
A spokesperson for the PSNI said young people threw stones at the officers while they were responding to the call in Falls Park.
"No officers were injured as a result of the incident and the person in distress was located and tended to until the arrival of paramedics a short time later," they said.
The company, which was owned by Rutland Partners, was sold to food tycoon Ranjit Boparan in September.
Mr Boparan also owns the 2 Sisters Food Group, which produces about a third of all poultry products eaten in the UK.
The Boparan Private Office has declined to comment on the inquiry.
Bernard Matthews was bought by investment company Rutland Partners in 2013.
The take-over by the Boparan Private Office, Mr Boparan's private investment arm, was done under a deal struck prior to administration, but the sale has left former suppliers unlikely to get back what they are owed.
The CMA said it would be looking at whether the deal would lead to a "substantial lessening of competition" in the UK markets.
While this review takes place, the company has been told to stop any further integration but it will still continue to operate.
Sebastian Chrispin from the BBC's business unit said the CMA has a number of methods at its disposal if it finds the merger is anti-competitive.
"[These range from] blocking the merger, unwinding the transaction, ordering the company to sell bits of its business to competitors, or get the company to promise it will behave in a certain way," he said.
"But they are only things it will deploy if, after this quite intensive review, it finds there is a risk to competition by the merger going ahead."
Two top-tier Australian rules football teams have played a match in China for the first time.
About 10,000 fans watched Port Adelaide Power beat Gold Coast Suns 110-38 in the Australian Football League (AFL) game at Shanghai's Jiangwan Stadium.
As part of a final fling before closing its doors for a two-year, multi-million pound redevelopment, the art gallery held two events - Extreme Makeover, for the over 18s and Breaking the Rules, for families.
There were DJs, a ceilidh and a picnic area.
Hundreds turned up, some queuing for hours.
Christine Rew, Aberdeen's art gallery and museums manager, says: "It has been overwhelming.
"We have been absolutely staggered at the number of people who have been queuing, very patiently, to get into the gallery.
"It is really positive. You can just see on people's faces, they are really enjoying themselves. They are enjoying interacting with the gallery in a different way."
By far the most popular feature was the chance to doodle on the wall and unleash the inner artist.
One mum said she hoped her child would be inspired to have a painting on the art gallery wall one day.
But for most it was a chance to make their mark in the art world, if only for a short time.
Christine Rew says drawing and doodling is "a natural thing".
She says: "We all do it but generally in an art gallery you are not allowed to.
"This event is called Breaking the rules, so we are letting people break that rule."
Ms Rew adds: "Downstairs we have got a couple of walls that are not going to be changed with the development. They will be covered over and we are asking people to leave messages for the future.
"Who knows in 50 or 60 years time there might be more building work going on and we hope it will be like some kind of time capsule and people coming after us will find all these messages."
The redevelopment has not been without controversy.
Some have criticised the new design.
Christine Rew says there is an appetite to do art differently.
She says: "There is a perception that art is always high-brow but actually it is for everyone.
"The gallery is for everyone and we really hope that message will come through and people will remember it over the next two years and come back in 2017.
"People want to come and do a whole range of activities at the gallery not just come and see paintings and sculpture and art work.
"In the redevelopment we've got three new spaces that we are creating for events and activities but we also be looking to see how we can continue to programme events like this in the future."
The refurbishment is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
Some of the galleries art will go on show at a new collection centre being currently built.
There are also plans to put pieces out to Drum Castle and other venues throughout the north east.
The nuclear plant at Wylfa on Anglesey was shut down in December.
Over the two years leading up to the closure, the artist group X-10 has been creating responses to it in the form of video, photography, sound, sculpture and installation.
The exhibition, Power in the Land, has opened in Powys and will tour Wales.
Each artist has made an individual response to the physical and energetic presence of the power station, the future legacy for the Anglesey site and to the complex associations of nuclear power.
The artists were interested in looking at the site's physical, political and cultural contexts as well as surveying the actual landscape and its geographical situation.
The exhibition will be at the Oriel Davies gallery in Newtown until 6 April, before moving to Aberystwyth Arts Centre between 14 May and 2 July, and ending at Bay Arts Cardiff in January 2017.
Karen Thompson, 24, was left in tears after being told items like teddy bears broke crematorium regulations and they had to be cleared by 13 April.
Swindon Borough Council has agreed silk flowers and cards can remain at the grave in Kingsdown Cemetery.
Items like stones, teddy bears, solar lights and wind chimes must be removed.
The council said site maintenance, such as grass cutting, was made more complicated if graves had many items placed on them "because they can be accidentally damaged, which in our experience can cause further distress".
During a meeting earlier this week, the crematorium director advised Ms Thompson that items such as silk flowers, plastic daisies and birthday or Christmas cards can be left on the grave for up to two weeks.
She was also told the memorial must be reduced in size to 12 inches squared - the standard allocation for an ashes burial plot.
The council said the appearance of the cemetery "can be an emotive issue" and it was difficult to reach a decision that satisfies everyone.
Ms Thompson lost her daughter suddenly to illness in 2013 and said leaving gifts at the grave "means the whole world" to the family.
"We haven't got Mya here today to buy her gifts for her birthday, Easter eggs for Easter or Christmas presents, so instead we give her a little gift... for her little garden."
The Public Health Wales dental survey showed those from the most-deprived backgrounds have had the biggest reduction over the last decade.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said he was "pleased" by the progress.
But chief dental officer, Dr Colette Bridgeman, said there was still "scope for improvement".
The report, based on a survey of about 8,000 five-year-old children at more than 500 schools in Wales in 2015-2016, is the latest carried out by the Welsh Oral Health Information Unit.
It showed in 2007-08, about 14 out of a class of 30 (47.6%) children had decay, with an average of 4.2 teeth affected.
But by last year, this had fallen to about 10 children out of a class of 30 (34.2%), with an average of 3.6 teeth affected.
Only Cwm Taf University Health Board has not seen a "statistically and clinically significant reduction" in tooth decay among this age group, the report said.
It said dental disease levels in children in Wales continued to improve across all social groups, with the most deprived fifth seeing the largest reduction in decay - 15%.
This improvement is "likely to be due to the impact" of the Welsh Government's Designed to Smile programme, a scheme introduced in 2009, which encourages children to brush their teeth and provides dental care equipment.
The report said that, while there had been "great improvements" over the last nine years, there is plenty of scope for further improvement for the third of children still experiencing decay.
Dr Bridgeman said, typically, half of decay experienced by five-year-olds will have been evident from when they were three, so the government was "re-focussing" Designed to Smile on children aged zero to five.
Vaughan Gething said: "It's clear that our Designed to Smile programme is making a real impact in improving the oral health of children across Wales but we know that we have to continue seeing these improvements."
The Tories said a Labour-SNP deal after the election would be "a fine mess," whilst the Liberal Democrats criticised the SNP's economic policy.
The leader of Labour in Scotland, Jim Murphy, attacked the "cruel cuts" being planned by the Conservatives.
Meanwhile, the SNP are hosting their largest ever conference in the SECC in Glasgow.
An advertising van with a Conservative poster showing Ed Miliband and Alex Salmond as the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy was parked nearby.
It is the latest in a line of Tory campaign material focussing on the idea that were Labour to require support from the SNP as a minority government, this would have negative consequences for the UK as a whole.
The poster read: "Only the Scottish Conservatives will secure a better future for Scotland. Don't let Labour and the SNP wreck it."
The Liberal Democrats have launched an attack on SNP economic policy, saying it will "wreck the recovery".
Scottish Liberal Democrat party president Malcolm Bruce MP said: "It is not liberal or progressive to leave an ever-growing mountain of debt for future generations to pay.
"The Conservatives want to cut too much, putting at risk public services, and the SNP want to borrow even more than Labour, threatening our economic recovery.
"We will not spend today what our children should have tomorrow. Only the Liberal Democrats have a clear and affordable plan to create a stronger economy and fairer society for Scotland."
Meanwhile, Labour said that 340,000 disabled Scots would be at risk from Conservative benefit cuts, after leaked documents appeared to show that taxing Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payments and Attendance Allowance were ideas being considered to reduce the welfare budget by £12bn.
Jim Murphy, leader of Labour in Scotland, said: "These cuts would be cruel blow to those Scots who are already struggling with personal difficulties to make ends meet.
"It is a mark of a civilised society that those who have most help those who have least and are less fortunate. Around 340,000 Scots currently receive Disability Living allowance and if these proposed cuts were introduced, their benefit would be taxed.
"The scale of these cuts show why it is imperative that Labour wins the General Election."
At the SNP conference, which the party said 3000 people attended, leader Nicola Sturgeon promised to reform Westminster for ordinary people, wherever they lived in the UK.
Addressing "people of progressive opinion all across the UK", Ms Sturgeon said: "As long as Scotland remains part of the Westminster system, we will be your allies in seeking to shake up and reform that outdated and discredited system once and for all.
"Westminster needs to change. To be more responsive to the needs and demands of ordinary people, wherever they are in the UK.
"So to people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, I make this promise. The SNP stands ready to work with you in making that positive change for all of us."
He was best known for presenting BBC's Play School for 21 years from 1964, and Play Away from 1971 to 1984.
His agent said he had been living with Parkinson's disease and died at Denville Hall, a retirement home often used by those in the entertainment industry.
A statement from the family said: "He lived courageously with Parkinson's disease for a long time."
Cant was also a guest presenter on Jackanory and appeared on ITV's Dappledown Farm, which ran from 1990 to 2003.
He got his big break when he auditioned for Play School, when part of the audition required him to climb into a cardboard box.
His voice was known to millions in shows such as Trumpton, his most famous line being the fire brigade call-out: "Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub."
For millions his voice immediately evokes childhood.
In the early '60s - an audition in which he was asked to sit in a cardboard box led to a job on a new programme called Play School.
Born in Ipswich, he trained as a printer before having a go at acting.
The warm, friendly voice was perfect for another children's venture - Trumpton, Camberwick Green - and the slightly more industrial Chigley.
If it sounds as though it was recorded in a cupboard, it's because it was.
Along with Play Away, Bric a Brac and other programmes he was part of children's TV for more than 20 years.
He wrote and appeared on stage, but more than anything he was - for many - a much loved part of childhood.
Cant's Play School co-presenter and former Coronation Street star Derek Griffiths paid tribute on Twitter, posting a reunion picture of the team.
Former Blackadder star Sir Tony Robinson also tweeted: "Brian Cant was my mentor and friend on Play Away. We wrote and performed together for two years. Always patient, courteous and funny P-L-A-Y R-I-P."
Cant was honoured with a special Children's Bafta award in 2010.
In a BBC interview, he explained that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1999.
He said the one thing he wanted children to take away from his work was "that I made them laugh, I made them feel happy".
On receiving his Bafta, Cant said: "One of the main rules of those Play School days was that we should play to the camera as though we were talking to one child, in whatever circumstance.
"It could be somebody in a tower block, a nice semi-detached somewhere, or a Royal palace. You had to phrase everything so, whoever was watching it, they felt you were talking to them."
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However, if you're a bit of a butterfly boffin, you may have already noticed that there have not been too many of them around this year.
The same could be said of last year and the weather has had a big part to play.
Last year saw a poor summer weatherwise, depleting the butterfly population.
Ian Rippey is a Butterfly Recorder with the Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland Committee.
He said that numbers were already down last year due to a poor summer.
He also added that the mild wet winter would not be favourable as they tend to do better after a cold dry winter season. As a result, numbers reduced this year having started from a low level.
From sightings of resident butterflies in Northern Ireland so far, most species have not been doing well except for the Painted Lady.
Even a couple of other species that did emerge in the fine spell at the end of May into the start of June now seem to be disappointingly low in numbers.
The Wall Brown, which has already been in steep decline in recent years, has not been spotted at all this year. This is also the case for four of the other resident species, Purple Hairstreak, Silver-washed Fritillary, Clouded Yellow and Grayling.
So that good spell of weather may not have had a positive effect, especially with the deterioration in sunshine and daytime temperatures since then.
Butterfly spotters can only hope for an upturn in the weather, and that doesn't look like happening any time soon.
The next Big Butterfly Count is coming up and Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland would like as many people as possible to join in.
Information on how to take part and identify species can be found on their website.
Freddie Sears opened the scoring for the hosts after three minutes when he glanced in a free-kick, but Danny Ward levelled four minutes later when the ball dropped to him from a corner.
Ward grabbed his second goal when he volleyed in from a long throw.
However, McGoldrick struck with a long-range effort in added time to hand Ipswich a point at Portman Road.
Ipswich had failed to score in six of their last seven Championship games, but Sears' earlier strike saw them create a number chances in the first-half.
After Ward put Rotherham 2-1 up, Mick McCarthy's Ipswich side struggled to create meaningful opportunities but McGoldrick's second of he season, in the fifth minute of injury time, earned them a point.
It denied Millers boss Kenny Jackett, in his second match in charge, a first win since he replaced Alan Stubbs eight days earlier - but it was enough to end a seven-game losing run in the league.
Former West Brom, Cardiff City and Stoke City striker Peter Odemwingie made his Rotherham debut off the bench, but he failed to help the strugglers prevail in a dramatic finish.
Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy:
"I thought we played well in the first half, but we didn't play well in the second half so I understand it [being booed off the pitch].
"We were nervous and cautious following their second goal which was real Keystone Cops defending.
"For three years and about nine months here, I have had relative success with people thinking I am doing a good job and chanting 'Super Mick' and the like.
"I prefer a good atmosphere and I prefer the nice comments but I don't get too carried away by them, like I don't get too carried away by the boos and jeers.
Rotherham manager Kenny Jackett:
"Football can be a cruel game and it is very deflating for our players who worked so hard during the match.
"It was a terrific strike from David McGoldrick but it is the second late goal we have conceded in the last week and it is costing us.
"There are things we need to work on but we were very competitive and we look like we have a goal threat and we also stopped the rot of defeats.
"Danny Ward took his goals very well and with his pace, he is always going to be a threat. We need to keep utilising him properly."
Match ends, Ipswich Town 2, Rotherham United 2.
Second Half ends, Ipswich Town 2, Rotherham United 2.
Goal! Ipswich Town 2, Rotherham United 2. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Jonathan Williams (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cole Skuse.
Foul by Luke Varney (Ipswich Town).
Will Vaulks (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Cole Skuse (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by David McGoldrick.
Foul by Luke Varney (Ipswich Town).
Dael Fry (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Ipswich Town. Bartosz Bialkowski tries a through ball, but Luke Varney is caught offside.
Luke Chambers (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Newell (Rotherham United).
Attempt blocked. Danny Ward (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dexter Blackstock.
Attempt blocked. Danny Ward (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Offside, Rotherham United. Peter Odemwingie tries a through ball, but Danny Ward is caught offside.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Luke Varney replaces Myles Kenlock.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Peter Odemwingie replaces Jon Taylor because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jon Taylor (Rotherham United) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Luke Chambers (Ipswich Town) header from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tom Lawrence with a cross.
Jonathan Williams (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Newell (Rotherham United).
Foul by Leon Best (Ipswich Town).
Richard Wood (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Rotherham United. Joe Newell tries a through ball, but Danny Ward is caught offside.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Jon Taylor.
Attempt missed. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Offside, Rotherham United. Dael Fry tries a through ball, but Dexter Blackstock is caught offside.
Jonathan Williams (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Will Vaulks (Rotherham United).
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Jonathan Williams replaces Teddy Bishop.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Leon Best replaces Grant Ward.
Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jon Taylor (Rotherham United).
Attempt saved. Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) header from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt blocked. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Grant Ward with a cross.
Attempt missed. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Cole Skuse.
Attempt missed. Grant Ward (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Tom Lawrence.
Attempt missed. Richard Wood (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Will Vaulks.
Attempt missed. Grant Ward (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Ofcom was investigating the broadcaster in the wake of the phone hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch's media empire, which owns 39% of BSkyB.
However, Ofcom has criticised former BSkyB chairman James Murdoch, Rupert's son, for his role in the scandal.
Ofcom said his actions "repeatedly fell short" of what was expected. But News Corp hit back, defending his record.
Under the Broadcasting Act 1990, Ofcom has to ensure holders of broadcasting licences are "fit and proper".
Amid allegations that senior executives at News International, Rupert Murdoch's newspaper arm, knew the extent of the phone hacking, Ofcom decided to investigate if the affair had any bearing on BSkyB.
In a ruling on Thursday, Ofcom said: "In July 2011, in light of the public debate about phone hacking and other allegations, Ofcom confirmed that it had a duty to consider whether Sky was fit and proper to continue to hold its broadcast licences.
"Ofcom considers that, on the evidence currently available and having taken into account all the relevant factors, Sky is fit and proper to hold its broadcast licences."
Ofcom said, however, that "should further evidence become available" it may review the issue. Criminal investigations into phone hacking continue and several court cases involving senior executives from News International are pending.
BSkyB welcomed the decision, saying: "Ofcom is right to conclude that Sky is a fit and proper broadcaster. As a company, we are committed to high standards of governance and we take our regulatory obligations extremely seriously."
'Difficult to comprehend'
However, the conduct of James Murdoch, who resigned as chairman of BSkyB in April (but remains a non-executive director) and has also relinquished his role at the UK newspaper group, was questionable, Ofcom concluded.
The regulator said: "Ofcom considers on the basis of the evidence available to date... James Murdoch's conduct in relation to events at NGN [the newspaper group] repeatedly fell short of the conduct to be expected of him as a chief executive officer and chairman.
"However, Ofcom considers that the evidence available to date does not provide a reasonable basis to conclude that James Murdoch deliberately engaged in any wrongdoing."
While acknowledging that many of the circumstances over phone hacking were outside of Mr Murdoch's control or unknown to him, Ofcom criticises severely his failure to make himself aware of the deepening scandal.
"We consider James Murdoch's conduct, including his failure to initiate action on his own account on a number of occasions, to be both difficult to comprehend and ill-judged.
"We consider that the events... raise questions regarding James Murdoch's competence in the handling of these matters, and his attitude towards the possibility of wrongdoing in the companies for which he was responsible," Ofcom said.
The regulator said that Mr Murdoch's non-executive role on the BSkyB board did not impact on its "fit and proper" test, because there were other "experienced individuals who would be expected to be capable of exercising effective independent oversight".
Ofcom continued: "We recognise that whether it is appropriate for James Murdoch to be a director in light of the events is a matter for the board and shareholders of Sky."
News Corp - Rupert Murdoch's main holding company - welcomed Ofcom's decision but defended James Murdoch, saying he deserved credit for helping build BSkyB into an outstanding broadcaster.
In a statement to the Press Association, News Corp said: "We are pleased that Ofcom recognises BSkyB as a fit and proper holder of a broadcast licence and remain proud of both News Corporation's and James Murdoch's distinguished record in facilitating the transformation of Sky into Britain's leading pay television and home communications provider.
"We disagree, however, with certain of the report's statements about James Murdoch's prior actions as an executive and director, which are not at all substantiated by evidence."
Last May, the Commons media committee concluded that Rupert Murdoch was "not a fit person" to run a major international business. However, four of the 10 committee members disagreed, as the MPs split on party lines.
Tom Watson, MP, a leading campaigner on phone hacking, told the BBC on Thursday that Ofcom may "come to regret" its fit and proper clearance. "We are half-way through a criminal investigation and there may be further evidence," he said.
However, David Elstein, a former BSkyB executive, said he was "not surprised" by Ofcom's decision on BSkyB's broadcasting licence. "It's an interesting verdict, but life goes on".
John Whittingdale, chairman of the Commons Culture Media and Sport committee, which looked into phone hacking, said that Ofcom had came to the same conclusions as the MPs.
He told the BBC: "We concluded that James Murdoch was guilty of failing to carry out his duties as properly as he might, but that we couldn't see evidence to prove that he had any knowledge or involvement in phone hacking and that is essentially what Ofcom have concluded as well.
"They have been very critical of him, saying that he has failed to meet the standards expected on several different matters, but they too have said that there is no proof that he had any involvement."
Public outrage over phone hacking last year forced News Corp to drop its $12bn (£7.7bn) bid to buy the 61% of BSkyB it did not already own.
However, some analysts believe the Ofcom ruling could pave the way for a fresh BSkyB bid. News Corp plans to split its operations into two: publishing (including newspapers) and the more profitable News Entertainment division, which includes Fox television and film studios.
Investment bank Morgan Stanley said: "This (Ofcom ruling) is very positive for Sky. It removes the regulatory overhang from the company and potentially opens up the way for the entertainment arm of the demerged NewsCorp to bid for Sky in due course."
The previous regulatory hurdles of media plurality and the "fit and proper" test have been lowered, the bank said.
"News Entertainment, shorn of the UK newspaper titles, should present no issue as an owner of BSkyB," Morgan Stanley said. "The fit and proper issue - this would appear now to be resolved."
A Home Office study suggests some forces spend much more than others on items such as batons and body armour.
Since 2010 more than £200m has been saved through better procurement, but the government said more could be done.
But police chiefs warned such savings would not be enough to solve the scale of cuts facing police forces.
The study reveals what the police pay for 20 common items of uniform including shirts, high-visibility jackets and helmets, as well as front-line equipment such as batons, handcuffs and vehicles.
Forces have streamlined their procurement but the figures show there are still wide variations in spending.
Northamptonshire and Staffordshire Police bought batons for their officers costing £82.91 each while South Wales managed to buy them for just £22.99, the study found.
Humberside bought police helmets for more than £43 each while most other forces acquired them for under £30.
Policing minister Mike Penning said: "For too long the police have approached the market in a fragmented way, buying equipment in small amounts and to varying specifications.
"It makes no sense for forces to buy separately when money can be saved if they act together.
"This will help the public and police and crime commissioners hold chief constables to account for how they spend taxpayers' money and, crucially, reveal potential opportunities for further savings."
Police chiefs and commissioners say the scale of cuts facing police - between 25% and 40% - would not be achieved by cuts in equipment spending alone.
They have warned that the number of officers could be reduced to levels seen in the 1970s.
The total police workforce dropped by 36,3672 (15%) between March 2010 and September 2014, and officer numbers dropped by 16,659 (12%) to 127,075.
In June the National Audit Office warned that the Home Office had "insufficient information" on how much further it could cut police funding without "degrading services".
It was the 24-year-old's first goal for the Robins since he left Forest to join them on a three-year deal in August.
Apostolos Vellios gave the visitors an early lead at Ashton Gate as he found the back of the net via the post.
However, a poor backpass from Danny Fox allowed Tammy Abraham to equalise for Bristol City before Paterson's toe poke gave his side all three points.
Forest, looking for their first league win in six, enjoyed a lot of success down the left and Ben Osborn drove past the Robins defence before passing to Henri Lansbury, who played the ball across the goal to Vellios for his fourth goal of the season.
The home side pressed for an equaliser after the break and Abraham netted his 11th goal of the season when he pounced on Fox's mistake and rounded goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic before slotting in from a tight angle.
Three minutes later, City turned the game on its head as a long free-kick was headed down in the box by Abraham allowing Paterson the simplest of goals.
Victory maintained Bristol City's place in the Championship's top six as Forest dropped to 18th, four points above the drop zone.
Bristol City manager Lee Johnson:
"The attitude of the players at the end of a really tough run of games was little short of miraculous.
"I had to change things at half-time. It was no reflection on the players taken off, but we had to get more attacking options on the field.
"We had a bit of luck with the back-pass for Tammy's goal, but our pressing was good throughout and Tammy still had to finish it.
"The second goal demoralised Forest and sometimes things are written in the stars, like Jamie Paterson scoring against his old club."
Nottingham Forest head coach Philippe Montanier:
"We had good control of the game except for a spell of about eight minutes that cost us the result.
"I thought we played well in the first half and deserved to lead 1-0. We knew Bristol City would push onto our back four in the second half, but we were strong and just lost the game in that vital eight minutes.
"Bristol played well, but I thought we deserved something and it is tough on my players to lose after that performance.
"What we are doing at the moment is not sufficient. We need to be more efficient and take care of the details which make the difference in a close match."
Match ends, Bristol City 2, Nottingham Forest 1.
Second Half ends, Bristol City 2, Nottingham Forest 1.
Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daniel Fox (Nottingham Forest).
Attempt blocked. Nicklas Bendtner (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Armand Traore replaces Ben Osborn.
Attempt missed. Henri Lansbury (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Ben Osborn.
Attempt missed. Joe Bryan (Bristol City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Jamie Paterson (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Nicklas Bendtner (Nottingham Forest).
Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daniel Fox (Nottingham Forest).
Substitution, Bristol City. Joe Bryan replaces Bobby Reid.
Attempt missed. Nicklas Bendtner (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Nicklas Bendtner (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City).
Chris Cohen (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tammy Abraham (Bristol City).
Thomas Lam (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Bobby Reid (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Scott Golbourne following a fast break.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Aden Flint.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Nicklas Bendtner replaces Licá.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by Matt Mills.
Attempt missed. Licá (Nottingham Forest) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Osborn with a cross.
Attempt missed. Bobby Reid (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Scott Golbourne (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest).
Goal! Bristol City 2, Nottingham Forest 1. Jamie Paterson (Bristol City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Tammy Abraham following a set piece situation.
Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pajtim Kasami (Nottingham Forest).
Offside, Bristol City. Jamie Paterson tries a through ball, but Tammy Abraham is caught offside.
Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Bristol City 1, Nottingham Forest 1. Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the bottom left corner.
Offside, Nottingham Forest. Henri Lansbury tries a through ball, but Ben Osborn is caught offside.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by Matt Mills.
Attempt missed. Hördur Bjorgvin Magnusson (Bristol City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matt Mills (Nottingham Forest).
Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card.
Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ten Protestant men were shot by the IRA in County Armagh in 1976, in an attack known as the Kingsmills massacre.
An inquest has been told the original Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) investigation was short of manpower.
The court also heard RUC Special Branch denied police detectives permission to question a number of prime suspects.
The Kingsmills victims were travelling home from their jobs in a textile factory when an IRA gang ambushed their minibus.
The gunmen ordered the only Catholic man on board the bus to leave the scene, before lining up the Protestants and opening fire.
More than 150 bullets were fired at the defenceless men - 10 died and one survived but was very seriously injured.
The RUC's investigation was led by Det Ch Insp James Mitchell, an experienced officer who had joined the police force in 1959.
He rose from the rank of constable to a leading position in the RUC's Criminal Investigation Department, investigating some of Northern Ireland's most grisly murders.
Giving evidence to the inquest in Belfast, Mr Mitchell said that he arrived at the scene of the murders within 20 minutes of receiving the emergency call.
He was greeted with what he described in court as "one of the most gruesome murder scenes of the Troubles".
Mr Mitchell said that while responsibility for the attack was originally claimed by a group calling itself the South Armagh Republican Action Force, he had no doubt it had been carried out by Provisional IRA members from north County Louth and south County Armagh.
The former officer faced questions over the RUC's handling of the investigation - including issues that had been raised in a 2011 review of the case by the Historical Enquiries Team.
Mr Mitchell told the court that he required between 40 and 50 detectives to work on such a huge murder investigation, but the maximum he was given was 12 detectives and two sergeants.
He said that from ballistics reports, the RUC knew that 11 weapons had been used in the Kingsmills attack - some of which had also been used in a string of other IRA murders.
These included the IRA gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange hall in 1975, which led to the deaths of five men.
A barrister acting for some of the families of the Kingsmills victims questioned Mr Mitchell about claims that the RUC failed to interview a number of witnesses.
The former officer confirmed that the RUC had planned to interview a suspected IRA man but RUC Special Branch officers denied them access to the suspect.
The court also heard that the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) had reported a sighting of a hijacked van - which was believed to have been used by the Kingsmills gunmen - parked outside the home of another suspected IRA member.
Mr Mitchell was asked why that man not brought in for questioning but he was unable to explain the decision.
The former detective was also asked why his officers had apparently failed to respond to a number of entries in the RUC's serious incident log.
One entry related to a phone call from a young woman who told police she saw a large group of men behind a shop in County Armagh on the afternoon of the Kingmills attack.
The court heard she was also able to describe the hijacked van used by the gunmen.
Mr Mitchell said he could not say why her report did not appear to have been acted on by the RUC.
The inquest also heard that the RUC failed to trace or question several eyewitnesses who came across the scene in the aftermath of the attack.
These included three men described in court as "potentially important witnesses" and a woman who gave a lift to the Catholic man who the gunmen had ordered to flee the scene.
The court heard that the woman, who had been driving a small car, brought the man back to his home after the shootings.
However, she was never identified let alone interviewed to check if she could help with the investigation.
Speaking outside court, Colin Wharton - who lost his brother in the Kingsmills attack - described the failures in the RUC investigation as "staggering".
His curling strike from 25 yards, after replacing top scorer Gary Roberts, was enough to settle the match five minutes from time.
A crowd of 6,560 attended the League Two clash in Cleethorpes.
Early on, it took a fingertip save from Grimsby stopper James McKeown to deny Gareth Evans, before Danny Rose also dragged wide for Pompey.
Other chances were few and far between for the remainder of the first half but soon after the restart, McKeown had to be on red alert as Michael Smith bore down on goal, only to shoot straight at the goalkeeper.
At the other end, a dipping volley from Ashley Chambers brought the best out of David Forde.
It sparked the season-high crowd into life and the introduction of Tom Bolarinwa from the bench had a similar impact on Grimsby.
But a spell of home pressure proved to be in vain as Naismith curled a fine winner past McKeown.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Grimsby Town 0, Portsmouth 1.
Second Half ends, Grimsby Town 0, Portsmouth 1.
Gareth Evans (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gareth Evans (Portsmouth).
Kayden Jackson (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Noel Hunt replaces Michael Smith.
Attempt saved. Scott Vernon (Grimsby Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Grimsby Town 0, Portsmouth 1. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the top right corner.
Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Gowling (Grimsby Town).
James Berrett (Grimsby Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Berrett (Grimsby Town).
Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Enda Stevens (Portsmouth).
Tom Bolarinwa (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Luke Summerfield.
Foul by Michael Smith (Portsmouth).
Josh Gowling (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Conor Chaplin replaces Kyle Bennett.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Kal Naismith replaces Gary Roberts.
Foul by Michael Smith (Portsmouth).
James Berrett (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Josh Gowling (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by Enda Stevens.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Scott Vernon replaces Brandon Comley.
Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Attempt missed. Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Berrett (Grimsby Town).
Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town).
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by David Forde.
Attempt saved. Tom Bolarinwa (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Michael Smith (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Carl Baker (Portsmouth).
Danny Andrew (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Tom Bolarinwa replaces Ashley Chambers.
Attempt blocked. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
It found 20 large drones had been destroyed or had sustained at least $2m in damage due to accidents last year.
The military's most advanced drone, the Reaper - used, including by the RAF, in the US-led military intervention against so-called Islamic State - was one of the worst affected.
Experts warned the impact of drone crashes was likely to get worse.
The Washington Post obtained accident investigation documents through a Freedom of Information request.
It revealed investigators had traced the problems experienced by the Reaper to a faulty starter generator.
Deputy chief of staff Lt Gen Robert P Otto told the newspaper the USAF was "looking closely to determine what is the core issue there".
Drone Wars UK, which records the crashes of large military drones, says most military drone crashes since 2007 have been in Afghanistan, with the second highest number in the US - where military drones are tested.
Iraq has the third highest number of crashes.
And since 2011, crashes have been reported in or off the coast of seven African countries as well as Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
According to Chris Cole, of Drone Wars UK, said: "Large military drones crash so often that we can track the spreading use of these systems simply through looking at crash data.
"In 2007, only three countries saw crashes of these large military drones - Afghanistan, Iraq and the US.
"But by the end of 2014, this had risen to 23 countries, indicating an almost eightfold increase in their use in just a few years.
"Remotely controlled drones are inherently less safe than aircraft with a pilot on-board, and that is why we see so many crashes.
"While the military drone crashes that have happened so far tend to be in remote locations, if regulators give in to the increasing pressure to open up British and European airspace to these large drones, the impact is likely to be far greater."
Both spent most of the summer on England duty, Bell playing in just four of the Bears' 16 Championship games, while Trott made just two appearances.
The emerging Chris Woakes, now the one current Bears player generally guaranteed an England place, played in half their matches.
That leaves 10 players who played in the vast majority of the Bears' 16 games, seven of whom are still at the club.
Add in the renewed availability of Trott and Bell - and it is little wonder why Bears boss Ashley Giles had such a feeling of familiarity when he chose to return to Edgbaston from Lancashire this winter.
When he left at the end of that 2012 season to take up a new role as England's one-day coach, Giles left behind a team led by Jim Troughton.
Now he still has the retired Troughton as his right-hand man, as first-team coach, working with skipper Bell, now in his second season as Bears captain and looking more and more like an afterthought for an England call.
"We know each other well and trust each other and all have the best interests of Warwickshire at heart," Giles told BBC Sport, ahead of Friday's County Championship opener against his native Surrey at The Oval. "They don't get much more right, do they?
"To be home, in a familiar place with familiar faces around me, I feel happy and that makes a massive difference to the way I do my job.
"I had a great relationship with Trouts as coach and captain. Now it's as coach and sports director. We can have some honest and open conversations and at times we won't agree. But I'm under no illusions that the hard work starts here.
"There's never a problem during the winter. Everyone loves each other and gets on a house like on fire. But, once you start playing competitive cricket, the pressure really ramps up."
Giles' main task, as he knows, will be judged on how results go. After all, last summer's One-Day Cup victory at Lord's was still not enough to keep previous boss Dougie Brown in a job, thanks to the Bears' poor form in the Championship and T20.
And Giles is non-committal on the Bears' chances in all three formats, other than to say "any club of our size would hope to be up there".
He is reluctant to make comparison with what he inherited when Mark Greatbatch left as coach in 2007. But he does admit that the club is stronger than the one he returned to as director of cricket, just a month after being forced to retire from playing.
"I took over a team who were bottom of everything, who'd been relegated twice (in the Championship and the one-day league), who then became the best team in the country," said Giles, who is also quick to point out how much of his job is planning for the future.
"We currently have this big stock of senior players and a fair amount of 19-to-21-year-olds and very little in between," he said. "We need to be asking serious questions of the young group. We need to see improvement and we need to see it quickly. And, if we get, it, they'll get an opportunity.
"Internal development has to be our focus. That's not a new thing. It's just something traditionally that we've not done well at.
"In the team of the nineties, a lot of those guys came from outside. The balance is making sure we bring players through our system. But that system, if you compare the 150 clubs we have down here to maybe four to five hundred in both Yorkshire and Lancashire, it's difficult to compete on a like-for-like basis.
"It's why we have to be smart. The 2012 team was about bringing the right people in and making them part of our culture. If you've got the right people, if they're from here, Worcestershire or Timbuktu, then you can win things."
"I felt for Lancashire," said Giles. "We'd started something that we were two years into a five-year plan.
"We'd got some very exciting youngsters coming through, we won promotion, stayed up, won a trophy. We did all the things we wanted to do. They've got a really good launchpad.
"But last year it became clear that my personal circumstances were becoming more and more challenging. It was nothing to do with anyone up there because I really enjoyed my time with Lancashire,
"They now become competition this year. It will be interesting going back to Old Trafford and having them back here."
NHS Borders said a number of patients were suffering from "gastrointestinal symptoms".
Ward 12 has been shut as well as a bay in Ward 16 and a bay in the hospital's stroke unit.
Visitors to Ward 12 have been "strongly discouraged", with relatives and carers asked to "carefully consider" visiting.
New MRI, CT and mammography scanners will replace existing machines in hospitals in each of Wales' seven health board areas.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said it showed the Welsh Government was "putting our money where our mouth is".
The machines should be in place by the end of March 2017.
Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital got a new MRI scanner 12 months ago and it is similar to the machines which will be rolled out to other hospitals.
MRI manager John Furnish said: "This machine has greater capabilities - it can scan giving a higher signal level in the images, which makes them much better to look at, better resolution and there are certain areas where we can do techniques we could not do before."
Alison Lee, radiology directorate manager at the Aneurin Bevan Health Board, added: "I think we're up against a rock and a hard place at the moment with the demand in patient scans going up and this development ensures that patients receive a scan of the best diagnostic quality that we can give."
On top of Thursday's announcement, a further £15m has been allocated for diagnostic equipment in the 2017-18 draft budget agreement.
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The National Order of the Legion Honour (the Legion d'honneur) was bestowed on the men who took part in the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944.
They received their awards at a ceremony at Edinburgh Castle.
The presentations were made by Emmanuel Cocher, the French consul general in Scotland.
Among the recipients was 99-year-old John McMillan from Barnton in Edinburgh.
He served as a Major in the Royal Artillery Field Regiment, part of the 15th Scottish Infantry Division.
After landing at Normandy in June 1944, he served throughout the campaign and was awarded the Military Cross in July of that year for acts of exemplary gallantry during active, dangerous operations against the German forces.
Adam Kelly, 94, from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, was also decorated for his role as part of 525 Company, 51st Highland Division as a driver.
After landing in Normandy, he saw action near Caen in northern France and then advanced through the country into Belgium.
The Legion d'honneur was established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte in recognition of both military and civilian merit.
Membership of the Legion is technically restricted to French nationals but foreign nationals who have served France or the ideals it upholds may also receive the honour.
In a statement on its website, the French Consulate in Edinburgh said: "The Consul General decorated nine British veterans for the landing and liberation of France in the presence of nearly 200 people.
"A beautiful way to start the year is to honour those heroes to whom we owe the peace, independence and rediscovered honour of our nation."
Kevin Gray, chief executive of Legion Scotland, added: "Remembrance is at the heart of what we do and ceremonies like this are another reminder of the sacrifices made and bravery shown by our veterans.
"We would like to congratulate the men that received France's highest national order as recognition for their service to their country."
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Nine Scottish veterans of World War Two have been awarded France's highest honour for their role in liberating the country from German occupation.
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"I tried hard taking all my energy, but it took too much time to move in deep deep snow," Nobukazu Kuriki wrote on his Facebook page.
"I realised if I kept going, I wouldn't be able to come back alive," he wrote.
He took the decision after attempting a final push to reach the 8,848m (29,029ft) summit.
The 33-year-old was the first person to attempt the climb since Nepal's devastating earthquake in April.
It was the fifth time he had tried to reach the summit in the past six years.
Mr Kuriki wrote that he decided to abandon his attempt after leaving "the final camp" on Saturday evening.
"Thank you so much for all your support," he said.
He was following the same route used by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay when they became the first people to reach the summit in 1953.
Mr Kuriki prefers to climb in winter, alone and with minimal gear. "This is the purest form of climbing and it is worth the extra danger," he said earlier.
He has taken on Everest alone four times in the previous six years but has been forced to abandon the climb each time with the summit in view.
In 2012, he lost all of his fingers and one thumb after spending two days in a snow hole at 8,230m in temperatures lower than -20C.
His injuries present significant challenges in even the most basic climbing manoeuvres.
"I do feel nervous and afraid," he told Reuters shortly after arriving in Nepal a more than a month ago for acclimatising.
"This is only natural before attempting the challenge of climbing Everest, particularly after the earthquake and at this time of year."
Nepal's lucrative climbing industry was destroyed by the 25 April earthquake which killed more than 9,000 people and the avalanches that followed.
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The pledge came after management met Renfrewshire Council leaders and Business Minister Paul Wheelhouse to discuss the relocation.
In November, Chivas announced plans to invest £40m in upgrading its bottling plant in Dumbarton.
The move involves closing its existing operations in Paisley by 2019.
However, Chivas said all permanent employees based in Paisley would be offered a transfer to the new site, starting from next year.
Chivas currently has 460 full-time employees at Paisley and 600 at its Kilmalid site in Dumbarton.
The impact on Paisley and the potential use for the site was discussed at the meeting on Thursday.
Chivas Brothers chairman Laurent Lacassagne said: "We welcomed a collaborative and productive meeting today convened by the Scottish government and Renfrewshire Council at which we discussed several potential options and ideas for the future use of the Paisley site.
"Reinforcing our commitment to working with all representatives to support the positive development of the site for the local community, we look forward to meeting again as a working group to explore these ideas further."
Mr Wheelhouse described it as a "positive meeting".
He said: "I am encouraged that Chivas Brothers is engaging with the staff directly on the process and practical implications of the investment decision and I am pleased that the company has confirmed that it will offer all permanent staff at the Paisley site a position at the new Dumbarton facility.
"We recognise that the relocation will have an impact on Paisley and I will continue to work with the company, the local authority and all key stakeholders to explore how the site can best be developed for future use, to ensure we can deliver the best outcome for the workforce, Paisley and the Renfrewshire economy."
Renfrewshire Council leader Mark Macmillan said: "It is important both for the workforce and for the future of the site that we work together to get a positive outcome."
Germany replace world champions USA as the number one team.
England came third at the SheBelieves Cup earlier in March after a 1-0 win over USA and defeat by European and Olympic champions Germany.
Northern Ireland rise four places to 55th, Wales move up one to 33rd and Scotland stay 21st.
It is the first time since March 2015 that USA have been replaced at the top of the table.
England Women will host Italy and Austria in April - their final home matches before the Euro 2017 finals this summer.
Ken Skates told the Arts Council of Wales annual conference people of all kinds could benefit if involved.
He said doing drama and sport had helped him cope with mental illness.
Mr Skates also urged arts groups to "explore and exploit every single option" for funding - crowdsourcing included - but stressed it was "not about removing government support".
"If we are to really truly ramp up investment and participation levels we need to explore and exploit every single option for getting more funding," he told BBC Wales after speaking at Thursday's conference in Cardiff.
Aaron Burns and Stephen Lowry scored for the Blues in a comeback Ferney Park win while Eoin Bradley's penalty sunk the Crues at the Showgrounds.
Jay Donnelly's double gave Cliftonville a 2-1 win over Ballymena and Michael Ruddy netted as Ards beat Glenavon 1-0.
Dungannon beat basement boys Portadown 1-0 with Peter McMahon on target.
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Ryan Curran gave the Mallards a deserved first-half lead with a clinical strike into the bottom corner.
Linfield improved after the break and substitute Burns fired home from Andrew Waterworth's cross to level.
In a decisive final 10 minutes Mallards forward Jason McCartney hit the bar before Lowry smashed in the winner.
Johnny Lafferty was dismissed after the final whistle following a confrontation with a Linfield player.
"There were a few words said at half-time and we eventually got over the line," said Lowry.
"We believe we can go on and win the league title. As soon as I struck the ball, I knew it was going in."
It could be a massive result in the title race as David Healy's men capitalised on the narrow defeat for Crusaders.
Bradley slotted home the spot-kick on 15 minutes after a handball from former Bannsiders defender Howard Beverland.
Crusaders pressed in vain for an equaliser with David Cushley slicing wide from close range in the dying minutes.
The results set up a mouth-watering showdown between the top two at Windsor Park in a fortnight.
Coleraine are now unbeaten in 14 games and remain in third and two points clear of Cliftonville.
Donnelly's glancing header put the Reds in front against Ballymena at Solitude but the visitors hit back with a Johnny McMurray goal.
A dangerous tackle on Stephen Garrett saw United midfielder Tony Kane red-carded on 54 minutes and Donnelly won it on 88 minutes with an instinctive finish.
Glenavon boss Gary Hamilton rung the changes for the visit to Ards as he plans for next weekend's Irish Cup semi-final against Coleraine.
Mark Patton hit the Ards woodwork before Ruddy netted on the rebound with a minute left after his penalty was saved by James Taylor.
It's looking increasingly bleak for Portadown, who are 14 points adrift at the bottom with just five games left.
A former Ports player condemned them to defeat at Shamrock Park, with Peter McMahon finishing at the second attempt in the first half to secure the points for Dungannon.
Director Paul Feig's gender-swapping reboot also features Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones on the ghostbusting team.
Feig broke the news on Twitter, posting a picture of Hemsworth with the words: "Our receptionist. #whoyougonnacall."
Actress Annie Potts played the original receptionist, Janine Melnitz, in the 1984 film.
The ghost-hoovering team originally featured Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson, while Sigourney Weaver played Dana, a woman troubled by a poltergeist in her apartment.
According to Variety, Australian actor Hemsworth originally passed on one of the film's male roles as it was too small.
Sources told the industry website and magazine the part had since been "beefed up" after Sony worked on the script.
Production on the new Ghostbusters is due to start later this summer, with the film scheduled to hit cinemas on 22 July, 2016.
The original, directed by Ivan Reitman, made almost $300m (£198m) at the global box office. A sequel, Ghostbusters II, followed five years later.
Feig previously directed McCarthy and Wiig together in hit comedy Bridesmaids, while his new film Spy - also starring McCarthy - debuted at the top of the UK and US box office at the weekend.
And charities say this leaves "great concern" for their future health - some patients show early markers of eye, heart and kidney disease.
Data from England and Wales suggests more than 1,000 new cases were recorded in people under-25 last year.
But overall blood sugar control in this group has improved, the study shows.
Type 1 diabetes often appears in childhood. It is caused by the immune system destroying cells in the pancreas, leaving patients unable to control their blood sugar.
This is different to the far more common type 2 diabetes, which is largely due to an unhealthy lifestyle.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) looked at figures from young people's diabetes units across England and Wales in 2013-14.
Its analysis shows that 26,867 children and young people with diabetes were recorded last year, compared with 25,221 in 2012/13.
But just 16% underwent all seven annual health checks that are recommended to monitor their blood sugar control and any complications.
Persistently high blood sugar levels can lead to serious problems, including heart disease and kidney disorders.
The figures suggest:
Barbara Young, Diabetes UK chief executive, said there was evidence that children were experiencing problems with their eyesight or kidneys before they reached their 18th birthday.
She said: "This is tragic and we have great concerns for their future health if they are already showing signs of complications at such a young age.
"There is an urgent need for the NHS to make the pace of improvement quicker."
Dr Justin Warner, of the RCPCH, said: "This is the first time we have been able to collect and analyse the data on early warning signs and levels are higher than we would expect.
"There is some good news though - we can see from the audit that blood sugar control is getting better across England and Wales.
"We hope this will have a knock-on effect, reducing these early warning signs too."
The study also looked at type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 5% of all cases of diabetes in children and young people.
Many young people with this form of diabetes live in deprived areas of England and Wales.
Hampshire Police were called to Pier Street, Ventnor, shortly after midnight to reports a 57-year-old man had been assaulted outside the Rose Inn.
The force said a 26-year-old man was initially held. A further two men, aged 31 and 32, have since been arrested.
Hampshire Constabulary has appealed witnesses to come forward.
Det Ch Insp Dave Brown said: "Investigations are continuing today as we work to establish the exact circumstances of this man's death.
"We would like to speak to anyone who was in or in the vicinity of the Rose Inn on Christmas Eve night."
A section of Pier Street was cordoned off for much of Christmas Day but has since reopened.
Moves including banning the sale of new diesel and petrol cars from 2040 and £255m for councils to tackle air pollution locally have been welcomed.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the government was determined to deliver a "green revolution".
But environmental groups criticised the decision not to include a scrappage scheme or immediate clean air zones.
The plan to stop all sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2040 is part of the government's intention for almost every car and van on UK roads to be zero emission by 2050.
The government report includes the promise of £40m immediately to start local schemes rolling, which could include changing road layouts, retrofitting public transport or schemes to encourage people to leave their cars at home.
The funding pot will come from changes to tax on diesel vehicles and the reprioritising departmental budgets - the exact details will be announced later in the year.
If those measures do not cut emissions enough, charging zones for the most polluting vehicles could be the next step.
While air pollution has been mostly falling in the UK, in many cities, nitrogen oxides - which form part of the discharge from car exhausts - regularly breach safe levels.
Mr Grayling said the new plan showed the government was "determined to deliver a green revolution in transport and reduce pollution in our towns and cities".
But campaigners say these are the measures that need to be implemented now to tackle environmental and health problems, with air pollution linked to about 40,000 premature deaths a year in the UK.
Professor Neena Modi, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Hea lth, said air pollution "is a public health emergency" and said it was "frankly inexcusable" that the plans still did not go far enough.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas welcomed the 2040 announcement, but added: "We also need action that tackles this health emergency in the coming months and years.
"We should use this opportunity to revamp our towns and cities with investment in walking and cycling, and by ensuring that public transport is affordable and reliable."
Greenpeace UK's clean air campaigner Areeba Hamid said 2040 was "far too late" and called for the UK to "lead the world in clean transport revolution".
And ClientEarth - the law firm that took the government to court over pollution levels - said the plans were "underwhelming" and "lacking in urgency".
The shadow environment secretary, Labour's Sue Hayman, said the plan saw the government "shunting the problem on to local authorities" and accused it of having a "squeamish attitude" towards clean air zones.
"With nearly 40 million people living in areas with illegal levels of air pollution, action is needed now, not in 23 years' time," she added.
Liberal Democrat and former Energy Secretary Ed Davey criticised the lack of scrappage scheme as a "shameful betrayal" of diesel car drivers, and said it showed "the utter lack of ambition" of the plan.
And London Mayor Sadiq Khan said people in the capital were "suffering right now" because of air pollution and "can't afford to wait".
The AA also said significant investment would be needed to install charging points across the country for electric vehicles and warned the National Grid would come under pressure with a mass switch-on of recharging after the rush hour.
The government said a new bill would allow it to require the installation of charge points at motorway service areas and large fuel retailers.
The timetable for councils to come up with initial plans has been cut from 18 months to eight, with the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) wanting to "inject additional urgency" into the process.
It follows the government being given its own deadline of 31 July after High Court judges said it was failing to meet EU pollution limits.
Local Government Association environment spokesman Martin Tett welcomed the additional funding, but opposed holding off on a scrappage scheme, arguing "this immediate intervention could help increase the uptake of lower emission vehicles".
BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin said councils were not happy to be taking the rap for the controversial policy when it was the government that had encouraged the sale of diesel vehicles in the first place.
"Today's government plan is not comprehensive - it doesn't address pollution from construction, farming and gas boilers," he added.
"And clean air campaigners say the government is using the 2040 electric cars announcement to distract from failings in its short-term pollution policy."
The UK announcement comes amid signs of an accelerating shift towards electric cars instead of petrol and diesel ones, at home and abroad:
Ford's chief financial officer Bob Shanks told the BBC that he supported the ban and believed that Europe would be "ground zero" in leading a global trend to electric vehicles.
"We certainly see that trajectory being quite feasible, and is something that we support," he added.
British Transport Police said the incident happened on a 16:00 service, travelling from Edinburgh Waverley to Peterborough last Sunday.
A spokesman said the assault, while the train was at Waverley Station, was on a boy aged two or three who was hit three times and kicked in the head and chest.
The man and three children got off at Alnmouth in Northumberland.
Police would like to speak to anyone who witnessed the alleged incident or anyone who can help identify those involved.
The man was described as being white, of large build, with short, dark hair. He was wearing glasses, dark jeans and white Nike trainers.
PC Joss Froggatt, said: "I would like to speak to anyone who was on board this service who may have seen or heard the incident. It is unclear at this stage exactly what took place, but we have had serious allegations made, so we are investigating to establish what happened.
"If you have any information, please contact me by calling 0800 40 50 40 or text 61016, quoting reference number 324 12/2/17."
Police say the bodies of two men in their 70s have been discovered in the debris of burnt-out houses in the town of Yarloop, south of Perth.
An emergency bushfire warning remains in place for Yarloop.
Emergency services have warned that the towns of Harvey, Cookernup and Wokalup are also facing a big threat.
West Australia Premier Colin Barnett has declared the main area of the fire to be the scene of a natural disaster and eligible for emergency funds.
Residents and holiday-makers in the area - a major beef and dairy farming area - have been evacuated.
Dairy farmers have been forced to jettison thousands of litres of milk because road closures have prevented tankers from reaching farms already badly hit by power cuts.
The fire, which may have been ignited by a lightning strike on Wednesday, is now estimated to have destroyed some 67,000 hectares (166,000 acres) of land.
Firefighters from New South Wales have now been deployed to relieve exhausted local crews, the Reuters news agency reported.
Another large fire is also reported to be burning near the town of Esperance, on the southern coast of West Australia.
But so far Yarloop has been worst hit, with at least 130 properties destroyed. But State Premier Colin Barnett has said it will be rebuilt.
Gusts of up to 60km/h (37mph) had fanned the blaze, known as the Waroona fire, to heights of 50m (150ft).
The strong winds have now eased, but the fire remains unpredictable.
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"We're seeing conditions that we've not seen before on this type of fire, particularly when it went through Yarloop," Western Australia Fire Commissioner Wayne Gregson said.
It remains unclear how many of the town's more than 500 residents will be able to return.
Four firefighters were injured battling the blaze in Yarloop and one fire truck was destroyed.
The loss of property in Yarloop is described as "significant" with the pub, bowling club and historic timber workshops destroyed.
The Western Australia bushfire comes less than a month after southern Victoria was struck by similar blazes.
More than 100 homes were destroyed by an outbreak on Christmas Day.
Australia is particularly prone to bushfires as much of the country has both a hot, dry climate, and plenty of vegetation to burn. All it then takes to start a fire is ignition, and there can be as many as a thousand lightening strikes in a storm.
Their impact can be reduced by preparation: authorities can clear vulnerable land in advance and build more fire-resistant settlements; individuals can prepare their own defences and escape plans.
Less fast-moving fires can be fought by "direct attack" - ground troops with hoses - but more dangerous situations have to be fought with strategic techniques like "back-burning" land ahead of an advancing fire, to starve it of fuel when it arrives.
Richard Holdich had stored samples at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital in 1992 as he was to undergo chemotherapy treatment for testicular cancer.
He decided later to start fertility treatment but there had been a failure in the freezer storing the samples.
Mr Holdich, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, is suing NHS Lothian.
The health authority is contesting the action and maintain the samples remained viable and could have been used for IVF treatment.
A procedural hearing at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, in the case was due to begin before Lord Jones on Tuesday but the judge was told that counsel considered that four days allocated was no longer sufficient.
David Stephenson QC, for the health board, said: "Approximately another 20 actions have been raised by other men who had samples stored in the same freezer."
He said they lay "in abeyance" while the present action was treated as a test case.
In the action Mr Holdich, 43, said he was told his treatment for teratoma testicular cancer, needed to combat the illness, would leave him infertile.
The samples were stored in liquid nitrogen at a temperature of minus 196C.
Over a period of about 48 hours the temperature rose to minus 53C.
It is claimed it is likely the change in temperature caused damage to the DNA of surviving cells which effects the ability to form a viable embryo in culture and a live birth.
It is maintained in the action that DNA damage is associated with an increased risk of miscarriage and is likely to increase the risk of birth defects.
Mr Holdich said that in 2002 he received a letter after an expert was brought in which said the advice was that the samples should not be used.
It said: "The problem is that during the thawing and refreezing ice crystals may have formed in the sperm and if they have, this could have caused damage to the chromosomes or genes."
Mr Holdich decided not to proceed to fertility treatment using the sperm samples.
The health authority said two sperm samples from the freezer which have been used in fertility treatment have resulted in conception and the birth of healthy children.
Xavier Rolet told the Treasury Select Committee this was needed to protect the UK's financial industry.
He agreed that Brexit might see a massive migration of City employment to other EU countries, not just a few tens of thousands of jobs.
He said the projected two years of Brexit negotiation was "too short".
"What is required to maintain stability is nothing less than a grandfathering of the existing conditions of trade, for a limited period of time," Mr Rolet said.
He said this could be achieved by a five-year transitional deal, maintaining existing business arrangements and regulations, starting from the point at which Brexit negotiations were triggered.
The committee was hearing evidence about the UK's future economic relationship with the EU.
Mr Rolet was speaking alongside Douglas Flint, the chairman of HSBC, and Elizabeth Corley, vice chair of Allianz Global Investors.
The MPs were told of the fears and concerns of the financial services industry if Brexit left it outside the EU's single market and without the ease of trade that comes with it.
Mr Rolet was asked what would happen if the outcome of Brexit negotiations was that LSE members could no longer handle financial transactions denominated in euros, such as the huge international trade in derivatives between the worlds banks and other financial institutions, which is centred in London.
He warned that many tens of thousands of jobs might move from the UK to elsewhere in the EU, because firms, especially foreign ones, currently based in the UK would wish to continue doing business with the rest of Europe under existing EU rules.
"Without a clear path to continued operation of our global businesses our customers simply would not wait," said Mr Rolet.
He added: "I'm not just talking about the clearing jobs themselves which number into the few thousands."
"But the very large array of ancillary functions, whether it's syndication, trading, treasury management, middle office, back office, risk management, software, which range into far more than just a few thousand or tens of thousands of jobs. They would then start migrating."
Mr Rolet added that such a movement of financial business to other countries would also lead to greater risks to the stability of the international financial system, which might undermine the Brexit negotiations themselves.
The solution, he suggested, was the policy of "grandfathering", whereby the old arrangements were kept in place.
"[This] is likely to strongly support a positive outcome for these [Brexit] negotiations," he said.
Mr Douglas Flint, chairman of the huge international HSBC banking group, told the MPs he was worried about a negative outcome of the Brexit negotiations for the international banking industry based in London.
"The economic system (in London) is like a Jenga tower," he said. "You don't know what will happen if you pull pieces out."
And he explained some of the thinking at big banks behind the decisions they might make in the future.
"There are two risks to jobs. One is we move the jobs, the other is the jobs are simply eliminated because the market opportunity [in Europe] is unattractive," he said.
He added that if the UK's banking industry ended up outside the EU single market, customers would find that it was slower to make payments, and those customers such as smaller businesses would probably have to pay more for the banking services which take place in an almost seamless way today.
Mr Flint told the MPs his bank had already started contingency planning for a Brexit deal that left the UK outside the EU single market, with France, Dublin, Amsterdam and Luxembourg as likely destinations for banking operations currently based in London.
Last month a report from the House of Lords report warned that any disruption to the UK's financial industry during Brexit negotiations might lead to businesses and services moving to New York.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed down 0.13% at 20,543.19.
Shares in troubled Japanese car parts maker, Takata, closed down more than 1% as it continued to face problems over its faulty airbags.
The firm said it was intending to replace a chemical used in its airbags, as it tries to fix the fault that led to six deaths and multiple injuries.
Kevin Kennedy, Takata's executive vice president, is due to be questioned by the US Congress on Tuesday about the fault.
On the currency markets, the US dollar continued to rise against the yen, and at one point climbed to above 125 yen for the first time since late 2002.
A US survey showing manufacturing picked up pace in May, together with numbers that showed a strong jump in US construction spending, helped to push the dollar higher.
A weaker yen against the dollar is good news for Japan's big exporters as it lowers the cost of their goods for overseas consumers.
In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite ended up 1.7% at 4,910.53, adding to its near 5% gain on Monday.
A raft of initial share offerings this week is expected to draw liquidity from the market.
Eleven companies started taking initial public offering subscriptions on Tuesday, and another 12 firms will begin on Wednesday.
The listings are expected to lock up 8.3tn yuan ($1.34tn; £881bn) of cash, according to local reports.
However, analysts said they were not expecting the volatility of last week - when mainland shares fell some 6% in one session - because there was enough liquidity in the market to handle the new share sales.
Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index closed down 0.5% at 27,466.72.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 1.73% at 5,636.01 - its biggest fall for four weeks.
As widely expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia kept its rates on hold at an historic low of 2%, but analysts said the decision had weighed on investor sentiment.
In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index closed down 1.13% at 2,078.64.
Investor sentiment may be dented this week, some analysts said, after the country recorded its first deaths from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or Mers.
South Korea said it is monitoring close to seven hundred people for possible infection, while the country's health ministry said a 58-year-old woman and a 71-year-old man had died from the illness.
He said the cost would be "way below that", but he could not put a figure on it, saying the work would go out to tender to get the best deal.
Previous plans for an M4 relief road were scrapped in 2009, when Welsh ministers said the costs had risen to £1bn which they judged "unaffordable".
Mr Jones told BBC Radio Wales "we want to get it built".
According to project details on the Welsh government website which were last updated in July, the estimated cost of the relief road remains around £1bn.
Speaking on the Jason Mohammad programme on Thursday, he said: "There's got to be an environmental assessment and there's probably going to be a public inquiry - now we've got to go through that process.
"Once that's done, we'll get cracking with it."
Plaid Cymru favours an alternative, cheaper plan to relieve M4 congestion, rather than the so-called black route Welsh ministers propose.
Plaid transport spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: "Not only do I think it would be £1bn, the black route, it would likely be way over that because this kind of project always leads to overspend."
Mr Jones also defended his sacking of a Labour AM from a key post for criticising the Welsh government for spending £20m preparing for the road.
Jenny Rathbone was removed as chair of the committee overseeing EU spending in Wales.
Mr Jones said: "It's the same as if you're a cabinet minister - you can't attack your colleagues in public.
"That's the simple rule of any cabinet anywhere in the world."
Are the terms of the debate on the M4 relief road changing?
The choice has been framed in a £1bn new motorway, also known as the black route, to the south of Newport versus an upgrading of the southern distributor road, or the blue route, at around a third of the cost, or substantially cheaper at least.
Now, according to the first minister, that price difference is shrinking.
He has already referred to the blue route as costing between £600m to £800m, and now the black route is coming in much cheaper than originally thought.
The first minister has not said on what basis he has come to this conclusion, other than he won't give a specific figure because he doesn't want to show his hand to potential contractors.
What is puzzling is the Welsh government website has put the cost at around £1bn in its summary of the project, which names the engineering consultants Arup and Atkins.
In the meantime, preparatory work continues for a new motorway, even though no final decision has been made.
Last week, Economy Minister Edwina Hart told AMs 160 people are working on the project.
Jesse Norman said the culture select committee, which he chairs, "needed to be satisfied the culture has changed".
The report into cases of sexual abuse by the former BBC presenter is set to criticise the corporation, according to a leaked draft.
BBC chief Lord Hall said lessons would be learned from a "dark chapter".
News website Exaro claims Dame Janet Smith's draft report says the BBC had a "deferential culture", "untouchable stars" and "above the law" managers.
Lawyer Liz Dux, of Slater and Gordon, which represents 168 Savile victims, said: "It is deeply disturbing that this inquiry appears to have concluded the same culture which allowed Savile to commit his appalling offences with impunity still persists today."
But Dame Janet's team said they were "disappointed" Exaro had published the "early draft".
A statement said the document was out of date and significant changes had been made to its contents and conclusions.
Lord Hall, director general of the BBC, said: "What happened was a dark chapter in the history of the BBC.
"The responsible thing must be to act on the final report which we have not received."
He added that it would be "invaluable in helping us understand what happened and to help ensure that we do everything possible to avoid it happening again".
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Dame Janet's review was set up in October 2012 by the BBC to carry out an impartial investigation of the corporation's culture and practices during the years it employed Savile, thought to be from 1964 to 2007.
According to Exaro, Dame Janet does not believe the BBC can be criticised for not uncovering his "sexual deviancy".
The leaked report, which Exaro said was completed more than a year ago, should come with "a lot of health warnings", the BBC's media and arts correspondent David Sillito said.
But he said many of the quotes in Exaro's article matched "exactly" with what he had been told during his own investigations.
According to Exaro, the leaked draft:
Will Wyatt, a former BBC executive who left in the 1990s, said people would struggle to see how concerns could not have gone up the chain of command, but stressed: "I honestly never heard anything."
He said he mostly dealt with the factual and journalistic areas of the BBC, rather than the showbiz side, but did recognise it to be a deferential organisation.
"If you had said, around the time, that pop stars and DJs exploited their position, one would not be surprised. But the thought that it was happening with young kids is just beyond belief," he told Today.
But Rodney Collins, who was a press officer for the BBC in the 1970s said the corporation was aware of rumours about Savile "and young girls".
He said he was asked by the late Douglas Muggeridge, controller of Radio 1 and Radio 2, to investigate the possibility the claims would be printed in the newspapers.
"He said 'now I don't know what's true and what isn't true... I'd like you to go to the people you trust in Fleet Street and ask them have they heard any rumours about Savile, does anybody intend to publish anything and can you come back to me'," Mr Collins said.
Smith, 27, has agreed a three-and-a-half-year deal at Loftus Road after scoring nine goals in 53 appearances for the Whites.
Morrison, 23, helped the R's win promotion to the Premier League in 2014 while on loan from West Ham.
He made just four Serie A appearances as a substitute in 18 months in Rome.
Meanwhile, forward Pawel Wszolek has had his loan deal from Hellas Verona made permanent, triggering a contract that expires in the summer of 2019.
Poland international Wszolek, who has joined for an undisclosed fee, has three goals in 18 games for the R's, having signed on loan in the August transfer window last year.
"I think every team needs a big, strong centre-forward and Matt fits that bill for us," Rangers boss Ian Holloway told the club website.
"He's hungry, he's hard-working and he's got a massive personality.
He added: "Pawel has been wonderful for me since I've been back here so I'm absolutely delighted we've exercised the option."
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The Tarr Steps in Exmoor National Park across the River Barle were knocked out of place during storms in November.
Conservation manager Rob Wilson North said the "big problem" was "the water bringing fallen debris from the woodland".
The bridge has now been rebuilt for the second time in four years.
Mr Wilson North, who works for the national park, added landowners must share some of the blame and manage their land better.
Tarr Steps is made up of 17 spans and stretches nearly 164ft (50m) across the river.
Its exact age is unknown, with several theories claiming Tarr Steps date from the Bronze Age, while others date them to about 1400 AD.
The repair work involved putting the pieces together - with some weighing up to two tonnes - much like a jigsaw as each stone is numbered.
Cabinet member for highways at Somerset County Council, David Fothergill, said: "It is an ancient scheduled monument, it's Grade I listed.
"It attracts huge numbers of people to Exmoor in terms of tourism and the local economy, it's the jewel in the crown for Exmoor and we do need to look after it."
Tarr Steps has been damaged many times throughout its long history, most recently in 2013.
Due to its protected status, the bridge must be put together exactly as before.
The council added that additional work had taken place to repair an upstream "tree protection boom" to prevent trees falling into the river and hitting the bridge.
It also said the Tarr Steps could be better protected if landowners did not stack timber along the river.
The new Environment Secretary said he wanted to enhance current rules safeguarding Nature wherever possible.
He said he would discuss shifting the use of farm grants after 2022 in order to enhance the countryside.
Environmentalists welcomed his promises, but some are sceptical whether they will actually be met.
Mr Gove made his comments to BBC Farming Today.
He reassured farmers that there would be no race to the bottom on agricultural standards. The UK will compete on quality, he said.
"Two things are critically important: we need to maintain, and where possible, enhance environmental and animal welfare standards. We have a good track record on both areas and don't want to see either of them diluted or eroded."
Mr Gove, who once described himself as a "shy green", is clearly seeking good relations with environmental groups during Brexit.
During his time as a back-bencher, he expressed the view that EU laws protecting the heaths in his Surrey constituency should be diluted because they put up the cost of housing.
And previously, as a minister, he tried to take climate change off the geography part of the school curriculum and blocked the then climate minister Amber Rudd from attending international talks.
Mr Gove said he had been in discussions with the RSPB, and wanted to offer an assurance about any Brexit change in EU laws.
"It may well be that we change operation of particular rules," he said. "But any change will be designed to ensure we get better protection for the environment."
He continued: "While the EU has often been a force for good in raising environmental standards, some of the means haven't necessarily been the most effective regulatory tools - so getting those right will be critical to Brexit success.
"There's a huge opportunity to design a better system for supporting farmers, but first I need to listen to environmentalists about how we can use that money to better protect the environment… and also to farmers to learn how to make the regime work better."
The RSPB said their meeting with Mr Gove was encouraging. Their spokesperson Martin Harper said: "He asked the right questions, took notes and listened. These are good signs.
"Without keeping and strengthening existing environmental regulations the government won't be able to achieve their manifesto commitment 'to pass on the environment in a better state to the next generation'."
Others were more sceptical. On reading Mr Gove's pledge to improve wildlife protection, Kate Parminter, Liberal Democrat environment spokesperson, tweeted: "Has he put that on the side of a bus, too?"
Tom Burke, from the green think tank e3g, warned that Mr Gove must deliver actions, not just words. He called on the Environment Secretary to explain how Natura 2000 wildlife sites currently protected by the EU would be safeguarded in future.
These sites form the largest coordinated network of protected areas in the world and, currently, member states have to discuss any plans to develop them with Brussels.
"Watch what Gove does, not what he says," Mr Burke told BBC News.
"How will he translate the EU Habitats Directive into UK law? Who can environmentalists appeal to if the government allows development in a sensitive site? That's a key question.
"I suspect Gove has been given a remit to ensure that the environment doesn't become an issue in Brexit talks. But that could mean that anything that might be controversial gets buried under a torrent of fudge."
But the Times newspaper columnist Matt Ridley urged Mr Gove to stand firm on re-shaping unnecessary rules.
He wrote: "The current obsession of the environmental pressure groups is that there must be no 'watering down' of environmental designations after Brexit.
"Mr Gove should demand that environmental policies are judged by their results, not their intentions. In fisheries, air pollution, tackling invasive species, reforming farm subsidies, wildlife conservation, badgers, landscape protection, genetically modified food and pesticides, what counts is not the size of the budget going, the moral motive behind it, or the number of committees overseeing it — but whether it gets results."
Mr Gove said he would look again at scientific evidence on the badger cull, but said there would be no change to policy.
On seasonal farm labour, he surprised some political commentators by saying: "There's an absolute commitment from the prime minister and from all of us in cabinet that when it comes to shaping new migration policy the economy comes first."
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It says the storm is now near the town of San Juan de Nicaragua.
Costa Rica declared an emergency and ordered the evacuation of 4,000 people from Atlantic coastal areas.
Meanwhile, a powerful earthquake shook Nicaragua and El Salvador on Thursday triggering a brief tsunami alert.
The 7.0 magnitude quake in the Pacific Ocean was about 120km (75 miles) off the coast of El Salvador. There were no reports of damage or casualties but residents were initially advised to evacuate coastal areas. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center later said the threat had passed.
Nevertheless, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega declared a state of emergency due to the hurricane and the quake.
Potential for destruction
Hurricane Otto has wind speeds of up to 110mph (175km/h) and is expected to weaken to a tropical storm by Thursday night.
Forecasters have warned of heavy rains which they fear could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
Four people died in Panama earlier this week as a result of severe weather caused by the approach of Hurricane Otto.
A number of flights were cancelled in Costa Rica, but local media reported that US hard rock band Guns N' Roses were able to land ahead of their concert on Saturday.
Costa Rica has not been directly hit by a hurricane since records began in 1851.
A resident of the capital, San Jose, praised the authorities for their response.
"The government has been doing a great job in keeping people informed. We get messages constantly through our cell phones, mobile numbers," Gabriela Hernandez said.
Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis urged residents to heed official warnings.
"Let me be clear: the hurricane is potentially highly destructive. We hope no-one gets hurt, but that is why we must be prepared, and follow the authorities' orders."
The 14 cases of misuse by council staff recorded in 2012 included suggestive comments, threats, and criticism of the authorities concerned.
Powys council sacked one worker and gave final written warnings to two others, while Gwynedd and Torfaen also reported three cases each.
Ten Welsh councils said they had recorded no misuse of social media.
The figures were obtained in a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by BBC Wales' Welsh-language news website, Newyddion Ar-lein.
Powys council recorded three cases of misuse of Facebook.
One employee "sent messages of an inappropriate and suggestive nature to a learner through Facebook".
This person was immediately suspended and their fixed term contract was later terminated.
Two employees received a final written warning, one for "posting worrying comments" and the other for "bringing the council into possible disrepute by posting inappropriate comments".
In a statement Powys council said: "The use of social media within the council is limited during core working hours unless staff members request access for business purposes to update information for the public.
"In which case, they have to submit a business case to our communications team for approval."
In Gwynedd, three council employees received a written warning for disparaging the council on Facebook.
There were three cases of misuse in Torfaen in 2012, but the council would not release details claiming it would be "contrary to the principles of the Data Protection Act".
There were disciplinary procedures in Swansea after a council employee "made threats and inappropriate comments" on Facebook about other staff.
In Bridgend, one staff member was disciplined for misuse of Twitter outside the workplace.
One Ceredigion council employee received a written warning for criticising the council's services on Facebook.
In Caerphilly an employee received "advice and support" after posting inappropriate comments outside the workplace on Twitter.
One case was recorded in Carmarthenshire, where an employee made inappropriate comments outside work hours on Facebook, for which they received a written warning and was monitored for six months.
An employee of Rhondda Cynon Taf council was given an informal warning following "inappropriate and personal comments" on a website.
There was one investigation into alleged misuse of social media in Newport council in 2012, but it was decided that "there was no case to answer".
No cases of misuse were recorded in Blaenau Gwent, Vale of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Conwy, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Flintshire, Anglesey, and Wrexham.
Neath Port Talbot council did not respond to the FoI request, and Denbighshire council said that the cost of retrieving the information from its records was too great.
Matthew Sinclair, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said councils were right to take action against those misusing social media.
"Taxpayers want to know that council staff are using their time properly and getting value for local residents' cash," he said.
"Whilst social media can be useful for letting residents know what the council are up to and for increasing transparency, it's important that it's not misused.
"If council staff are posting inappropriate comments on social media accounts then appropriate action must be taken."
Newyddion Ar-lein has previously discovered that two police employees resigned in 2012 over misuse of Facebook, while three Welsh government civil servants were given warnings about postings on Facebook or Twitter.
Jeremy Kerr sent anonymous letters containing packets of pesticide-laced milk powder to dairy giant Fonterra and a farming body in November 2014.
The exercise sparked an international scare and cost Fonterra and authorities NZ$37m ($25m; £18m) in investigations.
New Zealand is the world's largest dairy exporter.
The dairy industry forms the backbone of its economy.
Kerr had pleaded guilty to two charges of attempted blackmail in sending the packages, which appeared to be a protest against the widespread use of 1080 in New Zealand.
A judge ruled that Kerr, who owned a company that manufactured an alternative pesticide, had done it knowing that he would benefit financially if 1080 was banned.
Justice Geoffrey Venning said Kerr's actions had "posed a major threat to trading relationships between New Zealand and other countries," reported NZ Herald.
Fonterra alone reportedly spent NZ$20m as it secured supply chains and conducted checks.
Fonterra faced a food scare in 2013 when it said contaminated products that could cause botulism had been exported overseas.
It was later found to have been a false alarm, but it led to many countries blocking imports of those particular products. China lifted its ban in October 2014.
Prime Minister John Key was quoted in local media as saying that New Zealanders would be "appalled" by Kerr's behaviour and would be "pleased" at his jail sentence.
"To go out there for commercial and profiteering gain, put out the scaremongering campaign and at least argue that they are going to carry out the threats that could kill babies is just despicable behaviour," he said.
Hundreds of fast food workers and supporters converged in front of McDonald's corporate headquarters on Thursday morning before the company's annual shareholder meeting.
They demanded the fast food giant raise wages to $15 per hour, from $9.
Separately, investors voted to change how board members are elected.
They are unhappy with the firm's slumping sales.
McDonald's - the once invincible-seeming US corporate food giant whose arches are seen across the globe - is struggling, as health-conscious consumers eschew its food in the US and workers stage day-long protests against the company.
That has made this shareholder meeting - the first since British-born chief executive Steve Easterbrook took over the firm in January - a crucial focus of both worker angst and investor frustration.
McDonald's banned media from attending the event, and has sought to dismiss both worker complaints and investor efforts to change the management of the firm.
On a chilly morning outside the company's headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, hundreds of protestors chanted slogans such as "supersize my wages" as shareholders arrived at the meeting.
A dozen police prevented the protestors from interacting with the attendees, who were required to show their shareholder ballots emblazoned with a large red 2015 stamp to a security guard before being allowed in.
Some protestors carried oversize checks with the weekly wages of "actual McDonald's workers" - $62.18 and $34.07.
Many had travelled from across the country - New York City, Tampa, and Philadelphia - to hand in a petition of a million signatures demanding McDonald's raise the minimum wage it pays workers.
They said they were energised by the Los Angeles' city council's announcement on Tuesday that it had voted to increase the minimum wage in the city to $15 per hour by 2020.
Since 2012, the group - known as the Fast for 15 coalition - has been putting pressure on corporations to increase wages from the current US federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour to a "living wage" of $15.
Many experts have said that the group has been successful in exerting pressure on firms such as Walmart, Target, and others to raise wages.
"Part of the [wage increases] are due to the fact that as the economy has improved, [corporations] need to do something to hold on to workers - Walmart was having trouble keeping goods stocked in their stores," Professor Ken Jacobs, head of the University of California-Berkeley's Labor Center, told the BBC.
"But I don't think McDonald's, without all the protests, would have acted.
"I think the workers [who], really quite courageously, went out on strike have really inspired and moved something that's very big and will have long-term repercussions."
Lawrence Yancy, a lifelong Chicagoan, has worked in fast food since he graduated high school in 1989, after which he got a job at Wendy's.
He is just one of many workers here who are frustrated with the gap between how much McDonald's executives are paid versus the restaurant employees.
"I'm tired of struggling all the time," he told the BBC during a break from the protests at his small and slightly run-down one bedroom apartment in the Kimball neighbourhood. The area is close to Hyde Park, near where US President Barack Obama lives.
He has worked as a grill cook at a Chicago McDonald's since January 2003 and says he was inspired to join the movement after labour organisers visited his store last year as part of an effort by the Service Employees International Union to get fast food workers to join a union.
He says he is frustrated that his wages have barely budged from the $5.50 per hour he started making when he first joined the company, to the $8.40 he makes now.
"I just want to be able to save - and maybe buy some new clothes," he said.
McDonald's has dismissed the protests as not being indicative of workers at the firm and its franchises more generally.
This "is the latest instance in an $80m publicity campaign organized and paid for by the Service Employees International Union and its members," said the company in a statement.
"As has been the case in earlier protests, very few McDonald's or independent franchisee employees are participating."
But many shareholders took pictures of the protests as they headed into the meeting - which could further add to investor concerns, as well as influencing voting at the meeting.
Late on Wednesday, large institutional investors released a letter calling for McDonald's and other firms to amend the way investors can decide who sits on the company's board through a move known as "proxy access".
The investors include the California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers) and the New York City Pension Funds - who control a combined $860bn in assets.
The heads of pension funds in New York City, Chicago, and California wrote in a letter that the move was an effort to challenge the company's decision to buy back shares to please investors, at the expense of long-term growth.
"McDonalds is facing serious performance challenges. But despite a recently announced and much needed turnaround plan, the company continues to direct capital towards an aggressive share buyback programme," they wrote in a letter.
They said that these buybacks should instead be directed at increasing worker wages, in addition to being reinvested in the company.
McDonald's urged shareholders to vote against the move. Despite the opposition, 61% of voting shareholders approved the proxy access bylaw.
"We'll be evaluating the advisory vote, and the board will consider it to determine what's appropriate," McDonald's said in a statement.
The 700-seat theatre at West Horsley Place, near Guildford, would be a new home for Grange Park Opera, currently based in Hampshire.
The former University Challenge quizmaster inherited the house from his aunt Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe.
He said the opera house plans were "absolutely thrilling".
"I'm not directly involved in any way in running the theatre but it will look like a tiny Covent Garden in the back garden."
Gascoigne, 80, did not know his 99-year-old aunt had left him the house until he was contacted by his solicitor after her death.
Auctions of the duchess's possessions in London and Geneva earlier this year raised £8.8m.
Gascoigne and his wife, a potter, have no children and the property will be passed to the Mary Roxburghe Trust dedicated to the performing arts and teaching arts and crafts.
Gascoigne said he was approached by Grange Park Opera, whose lease at The Grange was terminated earlier this year.
"The opera company are going to be giving us an annual sum towards repairing the house," he said.
"Their being there will also make us better known and make the place live again.
"We want to do more than just restore the house - we want to make it a place where lots is happening."
If planning permission is granted, it is hoped the theatre will open in June 2017.
Guildford Borough Council said a pre-application had been submitted and it was talking with Gascoigne's consultants.
"A full planning application will be required and once received, the proposal will need to be carefully assessed," it said.
Spurs have missed out on Champions League qualification as they sit sixth, 10 points off fourth with two games remaining.
"Always you need to analyse the last season," said Pochettino.
"Nobody is sure that they are staying at the club."
After Gareth Bale's £85m move to Real Madrid two years ago, Tottenham brought in Roberto Soldado, Paulinho, Vlad Chiriches and Etienne Capoue, but they have struggled to make a significant impact.
Defenders Federico Fazio and Ben Davies, as well as midfielder Benjamin Stambouli have been unable to make much of an impression since being signed by Pochettino after he became Spurs boss last summer.
Pochettino accepts lessons must be learned from past mistakes in the transfer market if the club is to enjoy success in the future.
"We need to look forward and we need to learn from the past," he added.
"We have a plan for the development in the next few years and we need to deliver it."
Ex-Hatter Cullen gave the Tangerines the lead with a low strike that keeper Stuart Moore could not keep out.
Dan Potts' side-footed strike from Justin James' cut back and Isaac Vassell's sweet hit then put Luton ahead with two goals in two minutes.
But Cullen's superb 25-yard curling effort levelled the tie and he scored his third from the penalty spot.
The Tangerines will take their one-goal advantage to Kenilworth Road for the second leg on Thursday (19:45 BST).
After Cullen scored his brilliant second goal, Luton captain Scott Cuthbert wrestled Tom Aldred down in the penalty area to allow the striker to get his third from 12 yards.
Cullen was top scorer at Luton in his final season at the club but joined then League One side Blackpool for a fee of £180,000 in 2015.
The Tangerines suffered back-to-back relegations last season and are playing in the fourth tier for the first time in 15 years, but Gary Bowyer's first full campaign at the club has given them a chance of an immediate return to League One.
Luton, who finished fourth in League Two, had beaten seventh-placed finishers Blackpool twice already this season and had won their last six games before the defeat.
Blackpool boss Gary Bowyer:
"We worked the first goal really well but we then had a crazy five minutes and that's something for us to learn from and get ready to go again on Thursday.
"The mentality's been the most pleasing aspect for me - the mentality we showed, and our game management, came to the fore after half-time.
"Mark Cullen is a goalscorer. He had two goals and I couldn't see anybody else taking that penalty off him, but he showed bravery and he put it away well."
Luton manager Nathan Jones:
"We showed naivety in our defending and that's what cost us. Going forward, there was no problem at all.
"I didn't expect to concede three goals - we have the second-best defensive record in the league - but we have, and now all we can do is make sure we don't concede any more.
"An open game will suit both teams in the second leg, but it won't just be an open game - we'll have a gameplan to win the game, and if we do that then we're still in the tie."
Match ends, Blackpool 3, Luton Town 2.
Second Half ends, Blackpool 3, Luton Town 2.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Olly Lee (Luton Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Ollie Palmer (Luton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Olly Lee with a headed pass.
Foul by Ollie Palmer (Luton Town).
Jordan Flores (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town) because of an injury.
Delay in match Andy Taylor (Blackpool) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Alan Sheehan (Luton Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Andy Taylor.
Substitution, Luton Town. Ollie Palmer replaces Lawson D'Ath.
Substitution, Blackpool. Ian Black replaces Mark Cullen.
Attempt missed. Brad Potts (Blackpool) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jordan Flores.
Substitution, Blackpool. Jordan Flores replaces Neil Danns.
Foul by Jack Marriott (Luton Town).
Will Aimson (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lawson D'Ath (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Lawson D'Ath (Luton Town).
Nathan Delfouneso (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Luton Town. Jack Marriott replaces Isaac Vassell.
Attempt blocked. Andy Taylor (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Payne.
Attempt blocked. Dan Potts (Luton Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dan Potts (Luton Town).
Substitution, Blackpool. Nathan Delfouneso replaces Kyle Vassell because of an injury.
Goal! Blackpool 3, Luton Town 2. Mark Cullen (Blackpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty Blackpool. Tom Aldred draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Scott Cuthbert (Luton Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
Neil Danns (Blackpool) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by James Justin (Luton Town).
Alan Sheehan (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Hand ball by Alan Sheehan (Luton Town).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Mark Cullen (Blackpool) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Clark Robertson (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Jack Payne with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Glen Rea.
Work to install a new linkspan at Ullapool ferry terminal has been pushed back from February to April because of delays in upgrading Stornoway harbour.
The improvements are needed before a new £42m ferry can be introduced.
Mr Mackay said he shared local communities' frustration with delays in making the improvements.
The new MV Loch Seaforth had been expected to take over the route from the MV Isle of Lewis last year.
The taskforce will involve Transport Scotland, port authorities, Caledonian Maritime Assets, Caledonian MacBrayne and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
Mr Mackay said: "I have called for the formation of this taskforce so we can put the delays behind us and bring the focus back to delivering a project that promises to be a significant upgrade for ferry users.
"The first priority will be to get the harbour works at Stornoway completed at the earliest opportunity."
Calmac is planning a revised sailing schedule to work around disruption caused by the installation of the new linkspan at Ullapool.
The schedule involves:
Calmac said provisional timetables have been drafted and it would be talking to interested parties over the coming weeks about how to "optimise sailing times".
Mr Mackay added: "We must not lose sight of the end goal here - improved harbour facilities in Stornoway and Ullapool and a new state-of-the-art ferry for both communities.
"I look forward to seeing the MV Loch Seaforth operating on this route and bringing an improved service to ferry users."
Ullapool's 42 year old linkspan is to be replaced with a new two-lane structure which would allow vehicles to move on and off ferries quicker.
Delaying the work until April pushes the work into a busier period for ferry sailings.
Martin Dorchester, Calmac's managing director, said: "The introduction of the new vessel Loch Seaforth to the route, and the Ullapool linkspan replacement is completely dependent on the completion of the Stornoway improvements.
"However, to allow passengers to plan their movements as much as possible, the closure is now planned to start on 20 April for a maximum of five weeks.
"While we will be planning alternative travel arrangements to commence from 20 April, this is still very much based on work in Stornoway being finished."
Strathclyde Police spent more than double the amount of any other force, with a bill of £22,536 since 2007.
Scotland's biggest force, which has 1,121 vehicles in its fleet, recorded 185 incidents of misfuelling.
Fife Constabulary had two instances, both in 2008, each costing £5,100, giving a total spend of £10,200.
It said there had been no other incidents between 2007 and 2012.
Grampian Police, which has had a total of 76 misfuelling incidents since 1 April 2007, spent £9,936 fixing its vehicles.
Lothian and Borders and Tayside paid out a little more than £5,600 each.
However, while Tayside recorded 26 incidents, Lothian and Borders only had seven.
One incident in 2007 in the Lothian and Borders force area, involving a BMW, cost £5,221.53.
The vehicle had been run after it was misfuelled, meaning it needed a completely new fuel system, tank, new fuel lines and injectors.
A spokeswoman for the force said: "The job was carried out at a BMW dealer to keep the warranty valid and therefore there were high labour costs as well."
Central Scotland Police has recorded 25 incidents since 2006, costing £5,339.51, while Dumfries and Galloway paid out the least of all Scotland's forces, with a bill of only £526.31 for 10 incidents.
Northern Constabulary said it was unable to provide annual figures as they were not stored electronically but said it believed the number of incidents was down to "one or two per year", costing up to £150 each time.
It said: "The fleet manager notes that we have a reducing number of these incidents each year as officers are made more aware of the potential issues.
"We have fitted misfuel prevention devices to most of our vehicles.
"Our most recent vehicles already have a misfuel prevention device fitted.
"It is standard practice that the vehicle converters fit the devices to vehicles prior to initial deployment."
The figures were obtained through a freedom of information request to all eight of Scotland's police forces.
Lothian and Borders Police, which has 620 vehicles in its fleet, said: "The majority (of) Lothian and Borders vehicles are filled at a bunkered site, which is key controlled to the product.
"This eliminates misfuelling internally.
"In all cases the vehicles were diesel models and were incorrectly fuelled with petrol."
Campaign group Taxpayer Scotland said such mistakes could cost police forces a "fortune" in cash and resources.
The group's Robert Oxley said: "Simple measures such as reminders on fuel caps would help ensure officers don't repeat this kind of avoidable error.
"Individuals should have to take responsibility for the costs incurred if they continually make the same blunders."
The Castle Rushen time piece had been in continual use in Castletown for more than 400 years until it was removed for repairs in 2011.
It was raised back into position by an abseiling team working with Manx National Heritage (MNH).
An MNH spokesman said the restoration project cost about ??5,000.
He said many of the parts had been replaced.
"In a turret clock such as this, the movement of the big wheels is transferred one to another by little ones called pinions.
"These pinions take a lot of the stress during the operation of the clock and tend to wear out.
"We replaced all six pinions with superior, bespoke cast iron leaf more in keeping with the age of the clock."
Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Thomas Heatherwick said scrapping the bridge would indicate that "we have suddenly have no confidence in ourselves".
The proposal for a new bridge over the Thames has been beset by controversy.
Newsnight has learned the funding gap is £22m more than previously thought.
If the bridge is ever going to be built, the team behind it need to raise £175m.
They have £60m of taxpayers' money, leaving £115m to come from the private sector, companies and individuals.
But Newsnight has learned that several funders have pulled out over the last year, and according to figures provided by the Garden Bridge Trust itself, what had been described as a £30m shortfall is actually in the region of £52m.
Asked about the discrepancy, a spokesperson for the project said: "Last year a small number of pledges made by interested organisations did not progress to formal funding contracts."
Transport for London have conceded that the procurement process was neither as open or fair as it should have been, and in July, Newsnight reported that the government is deciding whether to continue to underwrite it.
The Garden Bridge was conceived of by the actress Joanna Lumley as a memorial to Princess Diana. It was championed by Boris Johnson as London mayor and by George Osborne as chancellor.
But Sadiq Khan, the current mayor of London, has said there can be no more support from Transport for London or the Greater London Authority beyond the £30m they are contributing. He also said he believes it would be more expensive to cancel the project than to continue.
The plan is for the bridge to run between Temple Underground Station and the South Bank, and for it to be covered in trees and shrubs.
Thomas Heatherwick, who also designed the Olympic cauldron and London's new Routemaster bus, defended the scheme, and said politics must not get in the way.
"Money has been spent to get this far. It is ready to go, and it is important that our society doesn't show that we suddenly have no confidence in ourselves... that we don't suddenly seem like, 'Yep, we've had a political turmoil, now we suddenly close up and we're just going to go backwards.'"
"There's all sorts of people who want to get their little agenda... How can it possibly be a bad thing to stitch the city together better, to create new public space that we have never had before, new views for all of us."
The Garden Bridge was first proposed in 2012 and is expected to open in 2018. However, given the delays already experienced by the project, this date has been thrown into doubt. The Garden Bridge Trust has previously said the bridge will take 32 months to build.
Mr Heatherwick said it was important that all sides "hold their nerve".
"This project will be finished three years from now and we'll be walking across there with our children, with our grandmothers... The best view of the city is from the centre of the river, where the buildings get out of the way."
There is more on this story on BBC Newsnight at 22:30 on BBC Two - or you can catch up afterwards on iPlayer.
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1MDB is at the centre of a global corruption investigation.
The local units of Standard Chartered and UBS, Southeast Asia's biggest lender DBS and Falcon Bank were all found to have "lapses and weaknesses in anti-money laundering controls".
Standard Chartered, DBS and UBS said they were cooperating with authorities.
Falcon Bank was not immediately available for comment.
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Singapore prosecutors have also seized $177m (£134m) in assets linked to 1MDB, half of which belong to a Malaysian financier facing many of the fraud allegations.
The US government said on Wednesday that $3.5bn was "misappropriated" from 1MDB and that "the Malaysian people were defrauded on an enormous scale".
US prosecutors are now looking to seize $1bn in assets linked to 1MDB, which includes plush properties in New York and Los Angeles and a private jet.
Mr Najib and 1MDB have consistently denied any wrongdoing.
Singapore is one of several global authorities investigating alleged fraud at 1MDB, which was set up by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in 2009.
The country's financial regulator said in a statement on Thursday investigations into 1MDB began in March 2015.
"They revealed extensive layering of transactions and subterfuge aimed at disguising the nature of certain activities and fund flows," the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said.
"In some instances, shell or unauthorised companies domiciled in various jurisdictions were used to conceal the true beneficiaries of the funds."
"Standard Chartered takes financial crime compliance very seriously," a spokesperson told the BBC.
"We have strengthened our anti-money laundering controls and processes and will continue to play an active role in the fight against financial crime."
"Egregious financial crime is highly sophisticated and intentionally designed to evade systems and controls," a DBS spokesperson said. "We take our anti-money laundering obligations seriously".
UBS also said it was constantly enhancing its anti-money laundering processes.
"In this case, UBS self-reported the suspicious transactions and is working closely with regulators to address this matter," a spokesperson for the bank told the BBC.
Singapore is trying to maintain its reputation as a corruption-free international finance and banking hub and is taking a stern stance towards any illicit fund flows.
Swiss bank BSI was kicked out of the city in May for "serious breaches" of Singapore's anti-money laundering rules in its business dealings with 1MDB.
Switzerland has since launched a criminal investigation into the private bank.
Certain financial institutions were "used as conduits" for a "complex international web of transactions," MAS said on Thursday.
A local money changer and remittance agent that had "weak management oversight" is also facing potential penalties.
Out of the four banks identified, MAS said Falcon Private Bank had "substantial breaches" of its anti-money laundering laws, including a failure to report suspicious transactions.
However, MAS said the oversight and management of certain key client relationships were done out of the bank's head office in Switzerland.
It was billed as a massive expansion of Britain's casino industry by the Blair government, but soon hit the buffers.
Plans for the largest, a super casino in Manchester, were dropped in 2007 following a public backlash.
Licences were created for a further 16 casinos - eight large and eight small.
Of the larger casinos, only three have opened, netting the local authority areas millions of pounds in revenue and donations, a BBC investigation has found.
Work has not started on casinos in Great Yarmouth and Middlesbrough while Southampton City Council has yet to approve an operator. Hull's casino is not currently going ahead, while a casino in Leeds is under construction.
Some councils have received money from operators either voluntarily or as a condition of their licence, with Newham alone paid £4.7m since 2011. The authority has used the money to fund job creation schemes and community organisations.
£4,690,588 Newham Council funds job creation and good causes with casino money
£1 million Upfront payment from Global Gaming Ventures to Leeds City Council
£675,000 Milton Keynes Council gets an annual donation from The Casino MK
£230,000 Solihull Council is using casino cash for employment and transport projects
Sir Robin Wales, Mayor of Newham, said: "After hearing from our residents that they supported the opening of a casino, as long as it provided regeneration, jobs and community benefits, we welcomed Aspers to the borough in 2011.
"We set the bar high and used planning powers to negotiate an arrangement which would benefit the people who live in the borough."
"One of our requirements was that the casino had to have a robust responsible gaming policy."
Professor Jim Orford, professor of clinical and community psychology at the University of Birmingham - and also the founder of Gambling Watch UK - said he was concerned councils might come to rely on the funding.
"Local authorities, as we know, are under financial constraints, but that must not make them dependent on the casino enterprise," he said.
"Any financial arrangements between councils and casinos needs to be properly publicised and properly debated."
Of the other casinos, Milton Keynes Council receives £675,000 a year and was given a £1m upfront payment from Global Gaming Venture. It will use the cash to mitigate any "potential harmful effects" of the casino.
Solihull Council has received £230,000 from the operator of the new Resorts World complex. The majority will go on a local employment scheme.
A spokeswoman for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said: "The government granted eight small and eight large casino licences across the country, following the Gambling Act 2005.
"However, it is ultimately up to those local authorities that were awarded those licences if they decide to have a casino."
Great Yarmouth - The Edge leisure complex, worth £30m, will go at the southern end of the town's Golden Mile, and it is expected to create 1,000 jobs. The owners of Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach were awarded planning permission was granted in May 2011.
Albert Jones, owner of the Pleasure Beach, said: "We have until April 2017 and we're back on track."
Hull - Apollo Resorts and Leisure Ltd was awarded permission to develop Clarence Flour Mills as a casino in 2011. The site is being developed by the same company as a Radisson Blu hotel and the city council said it was 'currently not aware of any plans to build a casino'. Neither Apollo nor Manor Property Group were available for comment.
Leeds - Global Gaming Ventures Ltd won the Leeds licence in May 2013. The casino is planned for the city's £150m Victoria Gate development. The council required an upfront payment of £1 million, and is due around £450,000 a year after opening. It is expected to open next year.
Middlesbrough - Stockton-based Jomast Developments was given approval in 2012 and intended to start work in 2013 on a £25m development at the vacant Gurney House. It is meant to create 300 jobs, but it has not yet appointed an operator.
Milton Keynes - The Casino MK, owned by Aspers, opened in September 2013. The company agreed to make a donation of £500,000 a year to the council to support new initiatives for the community and £175,000 to use "in support of vulnerable gamblers".
Newham - Aspers Casino, Westfield Stratford City, opened in December 2011 and promised 440 jobs. It has paid Newham Council £4.7m to date.
Solihull - Genting Solihull, opened October 2015. It promised 1,700 construction jobs and 1,000 full-time equivalent. It is part of the £150m Resorts World Birmingham, with bars and restaurants, 50 shops, a cinema, spa and hotel.
Southampton - Southampton City Council has not yet chosen which company will get the licence for its large casino. A decision is due early in 2016. It had been looking at three sites - Watermark WestQuay, Leisureworld in West Quay Road and the Royal Pier development.
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Bath and North East Somerset - GGV was announced as the operator in 2012. Work at the former Saw Close Clinic and Gala Bingo Hall is expected to be finished in 2017.
Dumfries and Galloway - Stranraer was in line for a small casino at its former ferry terminal site.
East Lindsey - Applications for the small casino licence will be invited "in due course".
Luton - Four bids were received in 2012. The licence went to the existing Grosvenor G Casino last year.
Scarborough - The licence was awarded in February 2012 to Nikolas Shaw Ltd, operator of the Opera House Casino in Scarborough, but it is still operating under the terms of its original licence. A spokeswoman said it intended to convert to a small casino "as soon as the government amends the ratio of slots per gaming table".
Swansea - The city and county council never awarded the licence.
Torbay - The council has shelved the idea of a small casino entirely.
Wolverhampton - Casino 36, owner of the existing Rubicon Casino in Temple Street, was granted the licence in 2013 and made a £36,000 voluntary donation to Wolverhampton City Council for counselling programmes and community initiatives.
A couple with two children needed to each have an income of £20,024 for a minimum income standard, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said.
This was £263 lower than a year earlier, it said, but those on the minimum wage still fell short.
They had a shortfall of £74 a week on the foundation's measure.
The JRF gathered information from focus groups to set a benchmark for an acceptable standard of living.
Among those features is the view that all working age households would consider a computer and home internet connection as essential.
The group said that lone parents with one child needed an annual income of £26,725, down from £27,073 in 2014.
Both groups saw an income shortfall among families reliant on benefits, it said.
Single people were the only group to see their minimum income requirement fail to fall. In 2015, it stood at £17,102, up slightly from £17,072 in 2014.
Rent rises for these people were swallowing up cuts in taxation and falls in the cost of some items, such as food, in the stores.
Julia Unwin, chief executive of the JRF, said: "After seven years of declining living standards, the pause in rising costs is a very welcome respite.
"But many low-income households are still much worse off than in 2008, leaving them struggling to make ends meet and reliant on benefits to top up their incomes."
The 5ft (1.5m) boat, named Crimson Tide, had been released thousands of miles away across the Atlantic by students in New Jersey.
The boat was launched in South Carolina by Morristown-Beard School on 1 December 2012 to test the effect of tides and the weather.
Paris Broe-Bougourd came across the boat while fishing on 16 February.
On the deck were images of pupils from a class at the school.
He contacted the school students who had left contact details on the boat.
The fisherman said: "I found it about two and a half miles south of Guernsey.
"We read all the information on it and discovered where it had come from."
The boat has GPS for tracking and it had a sail that had snapped off.
Mr Broe-Bougourd said: "I am going to repair all the damage, put a new sail on it and take it to the north of the island and set her off again.
"I have spoken to the school and they asked me to let it go.
"It's more interesting that it is still out there rather than keep it as a souvenir."
Teacher Lisa Swanson said: "We were using the boat as a way to study the physical geography of the Earth, the currents and the weather.
"We could see on the GPS that the boat wasn't moving any more.
"The students heard about the storms you have had and feared the worst."
She said the school hoped to exchange information about the project with a Guernsey school.
"We had put in goodies, a flash drive and a T-shirt into the boat, but those have been lost," she said.
"We hope it will go south to the Canaries and then back to us eventually.
"It will be quite an adventure."
Derek Sheerin, 24, was found dead in the east end of Glasgow in September 1994.
Officers from Police Scotland and the PSNI detained the man in Derry on Tuesday morning.
The suspect has been taken to Glasgow for questioning.
Det Ch Insp Michael Harvey has appealed to people in Derry who have any information about the death to contact detectives at Maydown using the non-emergency number 101, or by calling Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Smith scored 13 goals as Folkestone won the Ryman League South Division last season and becomes Millwall's fifth signing of the transfer window.
"Harry has the attributes to be a very good footballer but he has a lot to improve on," boss Neil Harris said.
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It suggests 44.9% of 20 to 30-year-olds are homeowners - the last time it fell to this level was in 2013.
It comes as economists predict strong property price growth in 2016.
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors expects prices to increase by around 6%, while rents will see a 3% annual rise.
The rises are being driven by demand for new homes outstripping supply, Rics said, with other experts predicting even bigger rises in certain property hotspots outside London.
Labour's figures, which include shared ownership and are based on analysis of Labour Force Survey figures, show home ownership among the under 30s reached its peak in 1999, when it was 62.7%.
It has been in steady decline since then, with the biggest falls coming after the 2008 financial crash.
Just 32.5% of young people had bought their home with a mortgage or loan in 2015, compared with 51.4% in 1999.
There has been a slight increase in the number of homes being bought outright or as part of a shared ownership deal, the figures suggest.
Labour's shadow minister for young people, Gloria De Piero, said: "For many young people, all they wanted this Christmas was a home of their own.
"But soaring house prices, eye-watering rents and a lack of decently paid jobs are keeping young people off the property ladder.
"Let's hope the prime minister makes it his new year's resolution to help generation rent to get on in life."
A spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said anyone who aspires to own their own home should have "the opportunity to do so".
"That is why we recently announced the biggest, boldest and most ambitious plan for housing in a generation with a doubling of the housing budget," the spokesman added.
"Furthermore, our initiatives have helped nearly 270,000 people to buy since 2010 and our Help to Buy ISA can boost the savings of young people by 25% towards their first home."
Robert Gardner, chief economist at Nationwide Building Society, said rising wages and growing numbers of people in work were expected to boost the housing market.
But he added: "The main concern is that construction activity will lag behind strengthening demand, putting upward pressure on house prices and eventually reducing affordability.
"Overall, we expect UK house prices to rise by 3% to 6% over the next 12 months."
Mr Gardner said that it is not clear if house price growth in London and the South will continue to outstrip the rest of the country, with some experts saying buyers were seeking value in other parts of the country.
First-time buyers could also find themselves competing with buy-to-let landlords at the start of the year, as investors race to beat the April deadline for stamp duty increases, experts said.
"I think the whole feminist role model thing is something adults are obsessed with, and children aren't," she said at the Hay literary festival, according to the Daily Telegraph.
"Children just like to read about people doing cool things in cool places."
Skelton has just published her first book, Amy Wild: Amazon Summer.
The story was inspired by her trip down the River Amazon in 2010, when she kayaked 2,010 miles for Sport Relief.
She set a world record for the longest solo journey by kayak, although that has since been superseded.
She admitted that Amy Wild, the girl who stars in her book, was based on her.
"She is ballsy and bolshy and out there, because I think it's all right to be a girl and be brave and have strong opinions and go after stuff," she said.
"People ask me, is she a feminist role model? And I say no.
"This isn't a book for little girls, this is a book for families and anybody who has a little bit of a taste for adventure.
"I guess Amy is a strong female character, and the main character, but all of it centres around the relationship with her brother."
Children's laureate Malorie Blackman also spoke about the characters targeted at young readers during a panel discussion at Hay.
She said books for young girls too often featured princesses and characters dressed in pink, while boys were presented with "dinosaurs and robots".
She said: "Even that is sending a message. We need to be much more careful about the messages we're giving our very young children."
The 47-year-old tweeted "I'm in", joining a field of 14 others in his party competing for the 2016 election.
"I'm running for president to fight and win for the American people," he said in a video released on Monday.
He formally announced his run for US president at an afternoon event in Milwaukee.
The governor defeated a recall election and clashed with labour unions in his home state, and cut taxes by nearly $2bn (£1.3bn).
In addition to siding with business groups in Wisconsin, he has also legalised carrying concealed weapons, introduced further restrictions on abortions and made photo identification a requirement to vote.
In his announcement speech, Mr Walker promoted his legislative achievements as governor of Wisconsin including lowering taxes and passing voter ID and anti-abortion measures.
"If our reforms can work in a blue state like Wisconsin, they can work anywhere in America," Mr Walker said.
Scott Walker enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination in an enviable position. For most of this year he's been the frontrunner in Iowa, which is the first state to vote in 2016. He's also among the leaders in New Hampshire, making him the only Republican candidate with a realistic chance of starting the primary season with back-to-back wins.
Mr Walker's appeal has been as a candidate who energises grass-roots conservative Tea Party activists while, as an incumbent governor of a moderate state, is still acceptable to the party's establishment.
The challenge for the Wisconsinite will be to continue to bridge that gap as the ideological components of his party are courted with more focused appeals by his competitors. If he can post strong results in solidly conservative Iowa and independent-minded New Hampshire, he'll have demonstrated that he can achieve such a feat - and could be well on his way to the nomination.
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The Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust went into administration on 16 April after a report concluded it was not "clinically or financially sustainable".
Critical care, maternity and paediatric services should also be cut, the proposals unveiled by Trust Special Administrators (TSA) say.
The trust's two hospitals would come under two other trusts.
Stafford Hospital will be part of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent while Cannock Hospital will become part of the Royal Wolverhampton Trust.
The proposals include:
The proposals will now go to a public consultation, which will end on 1 October.
They will then go to health regulator Monitor before being forwarded to the Health Secretary to make the final decision by the end of the year.
If approved, the proposals will be implemented by 2018.
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust provided healthcare for people in Stafford, Cannock, Rugeley and the surrounding areas, covering a total population of about 276,500 people.
By Dominic HughesHealth correspondent, BBC News
This will be the first foundation trust to be dissolved.
It's the financial pressures on the trust that have led to where we are today. But the financial pressures that have led to the probable dissolution of the Mid-Staffs Foundation Trust are not unique to this hospital.
The hospital serves a relatively small population, meaning not enough patients are walking through the door.
It also struggles to recruit doctors and nurses to come and work at a hospital with such a dreadful reputation.
That too has led to further costs as the hospital employed expensive temporary staff to make up the numbers.
But the squeeze on finances across the NHS in England means many smaller district general hospitals are looking down the barrel of similar money problems to Stafford.
So the kind of measures seen here may be a blueprint for what happens elsewhere.
In April up to 50,000 people took part in a march from Stafford's town centre to the hospital, protesting at plans to downgrade Stafford's services.
A similar number of people signed a petition, which was sent to ministers, calling for the hospital not to lose any of its services.
Support Stafford Hospital campaigners have also tied hundreds of blue ribbons to lamp-posts, bollards and trees in the town to highlight their campaign.
BBC health correspondent Dominic Hughes said there were cheers from the dozens of campaigners who had gathered outside the press conference when it was announced Stafford Hospital would be keeping its accident and emergency services.
Rowan Draper, from the Support Stafford Hospital campaign, said there had been some "obvious proposals" such as dissolving the trust, but it was "very disappointing" the maternity and paediatric units would be going.
He said: "After the Francis Inquiry and other reports I have read, at no stage were they to do with the issues.
"But now expectant mothers and babies are paying the price for bad management."
Stafford Hospital was the focus of a major public inquiry after it was found poor care may have led to a higher-than-expected number of deaths as a result of maltreatment and neglect.
The Francis Inquiry highlighted "appalling and unnecessary suffering of hundreds of people" under the trust's care, with some patients left lying in their own faeces for days, forced to drink water from vases and given the wrong medication.
Julie Bailey, who set up campaign group Cure The NHS after her mother Bella died at Stafford Hospital, said working closer with the University Hospitals of North Staffordshire would be a "good thing for Stafford Hospital and everyone who relies on it".
She added: "Evidence shows that specialist centres, such as the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, have the safest outcomes for patients."
The administrators said they did not believe other local hospitals would be able to cope with the extra pressure if Stafford's accident and emergency department was completely shut.
All existing services provided at Cannock Chase Hospital will continue with the aim of extending them where possible, the TSA said.
Reaction to Stafford Hospital plans
Administrator Alan Bloom said: "We are doing this because services will become unsafe if no changes are made.
"I think people's worst fears might have been three to six months ago that we wouldn't even have a hospital here today, let alone the level of acute services and A&E services we are going to have.
"It may be a little bit further to travel, it may be a little inconvenient but we are genuinely recommending this on clinical as well as financial grounds."
He said he accepted it had taken a long time to publish the proposals but he did not accept it had taken too long.
The administrators' report said the trust "cost far too much to run compared to the income it receives".
It said an overspend of £20m was predicted for 2013-14 and if "capital costs, for example, equipment is included, the funding needed will rise to £36m".
Stafford MP Jeremy Lefroy said it was "very good news" for Stafford residents that the hospital would retain its accident and emergency department.
But, he added: "Where we still have much work to do is over maternity and children's services.
"Stafford's maternity department is very good and needs to be retained. I will continue to fight for its retention."
Campaigners had also been fighting to stop Cannock Hospital from closing after the health trust went into administration.
Lynn Worthington, 57, a nursery nurse from Cheadle, Stoke-on-Trent said she was "stunned" by the decisions.
"To think there will not be any children born in Stafford is shocking.
"This will destroy a whole town."
Peter Baker, 66, a bank worker from Creswell, said: "It's the thin end of the wedge, it's not what the people want."
Cannock MP Aidan Burley said it was "good news" the hospital in his constituency had been saved.
The Conservative MP added: "It represents a victory for all of us who campaigned to keep it open and for it to be properly managed and more fully utilised."
Shadow health minister Lord Hunt said he believed more could have been done to save the trust.
He said: "I feel really sorry for the people of Stafford because they are going to lose some of their essential services like maternity and critical care.
"It does seem that some of the reasons are financial and I think the great pity is the government has spent £3bn in the last year on an unnecessary reorganisation."
A spokesman for the Department of Health said they encouraged patients, staff, residents and the general public to give their views about the proposals.
He added: "We will, of course, carefully consider the recommendations when we receive them."
Rather than focus on what the owner sees, Prof Hirotaka Osawa's kit shows computer-generated eye animations in place of the wearer's real ones.
Special lenses let the user see out or take a secret nap if they prefer.
The professor said the glasses could be used to simulate emotional reactions when users are distracted or busy.
He added that the idea of creating an "emotional cyborg" was inspired by the work of an American sociologist who had coined the phrase "emotional labour" to refer to the use of facial expressions and body movements to show feelings.
This, Prof Osawa noted, could be a requirement for nurses, waitresses, teachers, therapists and others working in interaction-intensive professions.
"Our developed society requires workers to behave more socially," he told the BBC.
"AgencyGlass aims to support such kinds of emotional labour by extending users' social abilities with technology, just as robots already support our physical labours and computers support our mental activity."
The glasses feature two OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screens, which are controlled by either a smartphone or PC via a Bluetooth wireless connection. This computer is also connected to a camera to take readings from the wider environment.
On the glasses themselves. gyrometer and accelerometer sensors are fitted to one arm to monitor the user's behaviour, while a battery sits on the other arm to power the device.
If the user nods, the glasses show a blink.
If they shake their head, the eyes blink several times.
If they incline their head, the eyes look upwards.
If the computer's facial recognition software detects someone looking straight at the wearer, the computer-generated eyes move and gaze back at them.
Although these are relatively simple expressions, the professor said they allowed others to feel they were "cared" about, while freeing the user of the need to "control their emotions".
The professor is well aware how odd his prototype looks.
In a humorous promotional video he even shows himself using AgencyGlass to appear alert at a meeting in his Tsukuba University office when in fact he is sleeping.
But others agree that with some more work the kit could have real-world uses.
Dr Nadia Berthouze suggested the glasses could be used to tackle the problem people from Western and Eastern cultures sometimes have at recognising each other's emotional states.
"People can misinterpret expressive signals." explained University College London's reader in affective interaction and computing.
"The equipment could be developed to become a facial-display translator between two cultures where facial expressions are different.
"If you ask: 'Would someone buy the glasses the way they look now?' The answer, I'm sure, is no. The eyes are too funny.
"But the idea could be explored."
In the meantime, Prof Osawa said he intended to expand his research into emotional cyborgs by creating another display to mimic a wearer's smile.
"An earlier study suggests that the human mouth is more effective at influencing [the way people interpret] emotion than human eyes in Western culture," he explained.
He added that he hoped to unveil the smile display in October.
Americans James Hahn and Ryan Moore share the lead on six under.
England's Justin Rose is three under, while Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy is level despite posting a triple-bogey seven on the 12th - his third hole.
World number one Jason Day said he will continue playing after learning his wife was involved in a car accident.
The Australian wrote on Twitter: "After the completion of my round, I was informed my wife Ellie our children Dash and Lucy and friend Katie were involved in a traffic incident near our RV.
"Their car was hit by a bus and Ellie was taken to the hospital for precautionary measures."
Casey, 39, had eight birdies and three bogeys en route to his 66 and is tied for third with America's Brian Stuard, Venezuela's Jhonattan Vegas and Fabian Gomez of Argentina.
Casey told pgatour.com he was "feeling good about the game".
He added: "I must admit the way I struck the ball today was reminiscent of how I used to strike it a few years ago."
The Championship is the second of the four that make up the season-ending FedEx Cup.
The tournament features the top 100 players in the world. The top 70 after this weekend will progress to next week's BMW Championship, where the field will be whittled down to 30 for the Tour Championship on 22-25 September.
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Many streets were left under deep water after the torrential downpour,
More than half Aberdeen's expected July rain fell in just a few hours.
The council said staff should be commended for their efforts to combat the problems, which included more than 600 sandbags being distributed throughout the city.
Council leader Councillor Jenny Laing said: "Our teams worked extremely hard yesterday afternoon, through the night and into today to protect properties and keep people safe on the roads. They should be commended for their efforts.
"Our partners in Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service are also to be thanked for their work too in helping people out during the floods.
"We can appreciate that flooding causes huge problems and inconveniences to residents and businesses which is why there are plans in place to alleviate the problems working in partnership with Scottish Water."
Narrative verdicts into the victims' deaths at Lakanal House in Camberwell in July 2009 were returned.
Southwark Council and London Fire Brigade (LFB) were criticised.
A lack of fire resistance around doors meant the fire could not be contained for long enough.
Dayana Francisquini, 26, and her children, six-year-old Thais, and Felipe, three, were among the victims.
Helen Udoaka, 34, her three-week-old daughter Michelle and 31-year-old Catherine Hickman were also killed.
They all lived on the 11th floor.
Southwark Council was responsible for a "serious failure" over materials used in Miss Hickman's flat that were below the required standard for fire safety, the jury found.
They went on to state that firefighters could have concentrated more on rescuing people rather than putting out flames.
The jurors also found LFB personnel who took emergency calls from some of the victims failed to react to the situation when they told them to stay where they were.
It would have been possible for them to escape without assistance, according to the jurors.
The jury said the LFB should have advised Mrs Francisquini to get out with her children once it was clear how smoke-logged her flat had become.
The jury said the LFB also failed to prioritise the rescue of Miss Hickman in flat 79.
Confusion over the layout of the building and flat numbers prevented firefighters getting to her quickly enough, the jury said.
In fact, residents could have got out of the building via communal balconies leading onto the main stairway, the inquest heard.
Coroner Frances Kirkham has written to communities secretary Eric Pickles and Southwark Council with a list of recommendations.
In her letter to Mr Pickles, she has recommended the government publishes national guidance on fire safety for residents in high-rise buildings and urged local authorities to install sprinkler systems.
In her letter to Southwark Council she has recommended that it reviews its policies concerning fire risk assessments of its high-rise buildings, that it trains staff and liaises with emergency services about access to property.
During the inquest jurors heard detailed information about the layout and structure of the tower block and how emergency services dealt with the fire.
Questions were raised over why some residents were told to stay in the building and some to leave, and over whether some firefighters knew the layout of the block.
The fire started in a faulty piece of electronic equipment in flat 65, and spread to flat 79 where Miss Hickman lived with her boyfriend Mark Bailey.
She had previously asked about how to escape in the case of a fire. Smoke and flames also spread to flat 81, where the other five victims were sheltering.
Firefighters said the huge blaze involved the first case they had seen of flames spreading downwards in a building.
Pathologists said Miss Hickman died from inhalation of fumes and burns, and the other five from inhalation of fire fumes.
Following the verdicts Councillor Ian Wingfield, deputy leader and cabinet member for housing at Southwark, said: "The Lakanal fire on 3 July 2009 was a dreadful tragedy and one of the darkest days in Southwark's recent history.
"Our sympathies are, as always, with the families, who have lived through this ordeal a second time at the inquests, and all those affected by the fire.
"On behalf of Southwark Council, I apologise unreservedly to the families of the deceased and the former residents of Lakanal for the failings of the Council that have been identified through this process.
"The Council has put fire safety and improvements to our housing stock at the top of our priorities. First and foremost was the creation of a dedicated housing department with clear accountability.
"Over £48m has been allocated to the council's fire risk assessment programme and associated fire safety works across the borough. In particular, all similar properties have an up to date fire risk assessment that is available to the public, and we are spending £326m making all our council homes warm, dry and safe."
London Fire Commissioner Ron Dobson said: "This was a tragic fire and I would like to express my personal sadness and offer condolences from all at the London Fire Brigade to the families and loved ones of those who died on 3 July 2009.
"From the outset we have worked with the police to investigate the cause of the fire and have welcomed the opportunity that these inquests have provided to help find out what happened.
"We will now consider the jury's verdict and the recommendations that the coroner has made."
A Department for Communities and Local Government spokesman said it would "carefully consider the recommendations" and "respond shortly".
The flight from Paris to Cairo plunged into the Mediterranean Sea on 19 May, killing all 66 people on board.
Automated electronic messages sent by the plane had shown that smoke detectors went off in a toilet and in the avionics area below the cockpit, minutes before the plane disappeared.
The recorded data are consistent with those messages, investigators said.
The voice and flight data recorders, known as black boxes, were recovered from a depth of about 3,000m (9,800ft) in the Mediterranean.
The second black box, the cockpit recorder, is still being repaired in Paris.
The Egyptian investigation committee also said that part of the front section of the aircraft's wreckage "showed sign of high temperature damage" and soot.
No distress call was made from the plane prior to the crash. The cause remains unknown.
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A parade through the streets of Manchester will be held on 17 October, and there will be another event in London the following day.
Wiggins' representatives said his absence was not unusual as he has not attended such an event since 2004.
The 36-year-old has also pulled out of a race in Abu Dhabi later this month.
Organisers of the Abu Dhabi Tour expressed their "surprise and disappointment" that the 2012 Tour de France winner would not be competing in the four-day race, which starts on 20 October.
Wiggins, Britain's most decorated Olympian, is at the centre of controversy surrounding the use of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs).
The issue of TUEs, which allow athletes to use banned substances if they have genuine medical need, has been in the news since a number of Olympic athletes had their private data stolen from a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) database by a group of hackers calling themselves The Fancy Bears.
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Wiggins has denied any wrongdoing, insisting he was not trying to gain an "unfair advantage" from being allowed to used a banned steroid before major races.
The Briton was granted a TUE to take anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
UK Anti-Doping officials have visited British Cycling headquarters as part of an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing in the sport.
Wiggins plans to race next on the track, in the London Six Day, between 25 and 30 October, and the Ghent Six Day later next month.
Britain exceeded their Olympic medal target in Rio, finishing second in the medal table with 67 medals, including 27 golds.
In the Paralympics, Britain also finished second in the medal table with 147 medals, 64 of them gold.
The 28-year-old was jailed for six years in March 2016 after being convicted of sexual touching and grooming.
He was turned down leave to appeal his conviction and sentence last year but has now launched a second bid.
His case is due to be heard at the Court of Appeal on 28 February.
The former Sunderland midfielder will be asking the court for permission to appeal against his conviction and sentence.
His sister, Faye Johnson, who has led a campaign to have his conviction overturned, tweeted: "Pleased that we now have a date for Adam's appeal against conviction and sentence. I hope that justice can finally be done for my brother."
Johnson's trial at Bradford Crown Court heard that he had kissed and sexually touched the schoolgirl in his Range Rover, in a secluded spot in County Durham.
The ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) has won a huge majority in parliament following the 23 August election, according to official results, meaning he will succeed Jose Eduardo Dos Santos.
Under Mr Dos Santos, there was one golden rule for anyone who wanted to survive politically in Angola: Do not make your ambitions known.
President Dos Santos remained in charge by making sure that any potential challenger was quickly sidelined.
Joao Lourenco, 63, known as JLo, who was born to a family involved in anti-colonial politics, learnt that lesson the hard way.
In 1998, the liberation war veteran and Angolan Armed Forces general was elected MPLA secretary-general - a sign that his political fortunes were on the rise.
Three years later, when President Dos Santos hinted that he might be ready to resign the presidency, Mr Lourenco made known his interest in the top job.
But the MPLA victory, early in 2002, in a 27-year civil war against the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), served to relaunch Mr Dos Santos' presidency, and any talk of retirement was soon forgotten.
The following year at the 2003 MPLA party congress, Mr Lourenco was demoted.
In 2012, as Mr Dos Santos approached 70, the succession issue became more pressing.
When the president elevated his cousin, Manuel Vicente, to become vice-president, some foreign observers saw this as the anointing of Mr Vicente as a successor.
However, Mr Lourenco, would have known better - that the MPLA would never endorse a political outsider like Mr Vicente as president, and that a man with no military pedigree was a risky choice in a country where the security forces lurk in the shadows of politics.
Mr Lourenco, on the other hand, could be confident that he himself had both the party and the military credentials, and that this was enough to earn forgiveness for his lack of caution a decade earlier.
Sure enough, his appointment as defence minister in 2014 signalled his rehabilitation.
And his election in 2016 as MPLA party vice-president left no doubt that he would succeed the by now ailing Mr Dos Santos.
But Mr Dos Santos's long-held suspicion of potential rivals has made it nearly impossible for Mr Lourenco, or anyone else, to show initiative or cultivate a following.
This makes it difficult to know what to expect from the next president of one of Africa's biggest oil producers.
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While Mr Lourenco is only 12 years younger than President Dos Santos, he has been forced in the past few months to reinvent himself as a bringer of generational change.
The man born in 1954, schooled in the military and in the mysteries of the political culture of the old MPLA, has suddenly discovered social media.
He rarely looks entirely comfortable in his Facebook photos, even when relaxing at home with his wife, the former government minister and World Bank official Ana Dias Lourenco.
Although not naturally charismatic, Mr Lourenco's down-to-earth image is in sharp contrast to the affected manners of the equally uncharismatic Mr Dos Santos.
After the MPLA's final election rally, Mr Lourenco was filmed walking among the crowd, and showing young voters how to make their cross on a sample ballot paper.
Although the incident was choreographed for the TV cameras, Mr Lourenco displayed more of a common touch in one minute than his predecessor had managed in decades.
He looks set to take control of a state in which President Dos Santos' relatives and loyalists remain in key positions and Mr Dos Santos himself remains in the kingmaker role as MPLA chairman.
Mr Lourenco will, however, have the support of those who see the corruption of the Mr Dos Santos regime as a liability to the party's future.
The MPLA is under unprecedented pressure. During the post-2003 oil boom, the government did little to diversify the economy away from its reliance on oil.
Consequently the slump in the oil price since 2014 has led to a foreign currency squeeze, job losses and soaring food prices in a country where most people were already struggling to make ends meet.
Once he takes over as president, Mr Lourenco needs to consolidate an independent support base within the MPLA.
And the sooner Mr Dos Santos quits as party leader, the better for Mr Lourenco.
In the end, the health of Angola's long-time leader, who has been undergoing cancer treatment for at least a year, could prove crucial.
The business was its convenience store offshoot - known as M Local - before it was sold last September.
My Local has 1,650 staff in some 130 stores. New owner Greybull Capital lined up administrators on Tuesday.
Separately, Sir Philip Green plans to offer jobs to 1,000 workers who staff Arcadia concessions inside BHS, such as Dorothy Perkins and Wallis.
The news follows the collapse of BHS earlier this month, which put 11,000 jobs at risk.
Morrisons and Sir Philip have drawn up the separate plans to safeguard jobs after seeing their former businesses teeter towards closing.
Morrisons said in a statement: "If no buyer is found, and stores close, we will welcome our former colleagues back to a job at Morrisons."
A guaranteed job offer applies to those that worked at the chain when it was owned by Morrisons, although anyone hired in the interim will be considered.
The supermarket said it was "saddened and disappointed" by the news and said it wanted to "help our former colleagues who now work for My Local".
It was sold to investment firm Greybull for £25m in a deal fronted by retail veteran Mike Greene, who appeared on Channel 4 show The Secret Millionaire.
The chain has struggled to compete in the cut-throat grocery sector, which is embroiled in a bitter price war.
KPMG has been appointed as administrator for My Local. It will try to sell the company as a going concern, but if that is not feasible, it may sell the individual stores off in batches, or they may be closed down.
Sir Philip's plans for concession staff still leaves thousands of other BHS employees fearing for their jobs.
Last week, the billionaire apologised to BHS workers for the company's "sad" demise during a parliamentary hearing.
He has come in for criticism for the £400m in dividends taken out of the firm during his 15-year ownership, his management of the pension scheme, and the sale of BHS to former bankrupt Dominic Chappell, who had no retail experience.
The 163-store chain is in the process of being wound down by administrators.
Pushed for a Yes or No answer on whether they supported the benefits cap, Liz Kendall and Mary Creagh said yes - though the former acknowledged there would be problems in London where high property prices have lead to high spending on housing benefit.
Jeremy Corbyn was unequivocally against.
But to heckles both Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham declined to give a Yes or No response.
Mr Burnham said he agreed with the principle that you shouldn't be better off out of work than in it - but he would have to see how the policy was implemented.
Ms Cooper said there had to be changes to the cap to reflect areas of high rents.
Under Labour's new leadership individual trade unionists have to sign up as 'affiliated supporters' if they want a vote.
Unions have a target of signing up 250,000 members which would give them parity in the contest with fully paid up members and a new category of registered supporters who can join at a cut price rate.
So it wasn't surprising that even the Blairite Liz Kendall emphasised she was a GMB member who - like her colleagues - would reverse any new laws perceived as anti-union.
But the candidates didn't know the apprentice rate of the minimum wage. Jeremy Corbyn was closest by far -£2.75 to the actual rate of £2.73
Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham said less than £3.
On the EU, differences were tactical not strategic - with all candidates saying it was right to stay in. But only Mary Creagh said she would share a platform with David Cameron if he argued for a Yes vote.
Mr Burnham wanted to see a distinctly Labour 'Yes' campaign while Liz Kendall said she would take part in wider movements.
Asked by a GMB member if shadow cabinet members had been in the toilet when the last manifesto was agreed, Mr Burnham revealed he wasn't as involved as he wanted to be but still argued it was the best manifesto he had ever stood on.
Liz Kendall said the "painful truth" was Labour didn't have a compelling vision at this year's general election and if they stuck to the same approach they would lose again.
Ms Cooper emphasised her experience and authority but said her party would only win if it stuck to Labour values rather than swallowing the Conservative manifesto. She also said it was time to smash the final Labour glass ceiling and elect a leader who was a woman.
Mr Corbyn believed Labour should have been more avowedly anti-austerity and needed an alternative economic strategy.
Ms Creagh said she was a "fighter but recognised that while people trusted Labour to run schools and hospitals the party wasn't trusted to run the economy.
Councillors are being asked to approve Wholebake's plan for a second unit in Corwen, near to Ty'n Llidiart estate.
The company, which has a storage unit in Wrexham, makes natural food bakery products and already employs 120.
The planning committee report highlights concerns from Corwen residents about the site's suitability.
A planning meeting will decide whether to give the factory the go-ahead on Wednesday.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the alert at Triangle Business Park, in Pentrebach was raised just before 04:50 BST.
About 30 firefighters initially attended the blaze.
Five firefighters and two officers remained at the site using cooling jets to make the machinery safe, a fire service spokesman said.
The change in question is the introduction of goal-line technology (GLT), which was approved by world governing body Fifa and the International Football Association Board - the body that determines the laws of the game - back in the summer.
The aim of GLT is to tell whether the ball has crossed the goal-line in incidents where the referee and his assistants are unable to see for sure.
From a shortlist of 11 different companies and technologies, Fifa has given licences to two separate firms, the UK-based but Sony-owned Hawk-Eye, and Germany's GoalRef.
With Fifa yet to decide which system it will use for the 2014 World Cup, and national football leagues across the world also yet to choose between the two, the stakes are very high.
Especially when you consider the level of money involved. While the two companies are reluctant to provide exact figures, the cost of installing their systems in a football stadium have been estimated at about £250,000 for Hawk-Eye and £150,000 for GoalRef.
When you multiply those figures by the number of professional football teams around the world, you are reaching rather large amounts of money. And that is before you add the follow-on annual servicing costs.
This week GLT has been discussed at Soccerex, the global convention of football business and finance, which is being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
With the panel including senior figures from both Hawk-Eye and GoalRef, and senior Fifa official Christoph Schmidt, it was confirmed that Fifa would be testing both systems at the 2012 World Club Cup tournament, which starts next week in Japan.
Mr Schmidt said that after evaluating their performance in Japan, Fifa would then make its choice. Many national football authorities are then expected to follow its lead.
With the two firms said to be neck-and-neck, Japan will be their equivalent of a nerve-wracking penalty shoot-out.
But before exploring what was said at Soccerex, it is worth pausing to take a closer look at the two rival systems.
Hawk-Eye uses seven cameras focused on each goal. With the cameras fixed to the stadium roof, they give a 3D picture of the ball's exact location.
It is a system that has been used by both the sports of tennis and cricket for a number of years.
GoalRef by contrast, uses a system of electro-magnetism, with sensors both inside the goal posts and the match-day balls.
Each system connects to wrist bands worn by the match officials, and can alert them in under a second whether the ball crossed the goal-line.
It is important to stress that Fifa will not require any league around the world to install GLT - it will remain voluntary.
However, the top professional leagues in each country are all expected to bring in the technology, such has been the desire to eradicate incorrect goal decisions, both from fans, and clubs concerned by the potential financial implication of losing vital games - such as relegation deciders - because of refereeing mistakes.
Speaking at Soccerex, Hawk-Eye inventor Paul Hawkins said he relished the battle with GoalRef.
"Football is a great game because of the competition, and all businesses face competition," he said.
"We have different technological approaches, and both of us have been working slowly and steadily.
"If both of us keep our heels clean, it should be a fair fight."
Thomas Pellkofer, operational manager at GoalRef, also said that his company welcomed the healthy competition, and he highlighted the effective simplicity of its system.
"There is a sensor in the balls, but no electricity, it is completely passive," he said.
"The ball is exactly the same for the players, it is seamless integration."
Yet while GoalRef and Hawk-Eye have been chosen by Fifa from an initial short-list of 11, the remaining nine companies, and other competitors, could still have their systems approved by Fifa in the future, Mr Schmidt confirmed.
He said: "The market is open to any technical companies if others come to the market."
Mr Schmidt added that this would only be a good thing, because further competition would bring down prices.
So even with Fifa set to shortly choose either GoalRef or Hawk-Eye, it could end up then switching to a different provider of GLT in the future.
With each company only getting an initial licence for two years, this level of uncertainty is said to be putting off some football leagues from making their choice.
One official at the English Premier League told the BBC on condition of anonymity that it didn't want to be in a position where its clubs install one system at significant expense, only to then have to change it a number of years down the line.
The question of which company triumphs in the GLT marketplace could ultimately prove as controversial as the simple issue of whether the ball crossed the line has been until now.
The German tabloid Bild is serialising excerpts from Himmler's wartime diaries, recently discovered in Russia.
One day, Himmler wrote, he had a massage before ordering the execution of 10 Poles. And he says he enjoyed a snack at Buchenwald concentration camp.
He also told the SS to train dogs that could "rip people apart" at Auschwitz.
Historians will publish the diaries in a book next year, with background notes.
Himmler was in Adolf Hitler's elite circle, and had the official title "Reichsfuehrer SS". He commanded the death squads who murdered Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners-of-war, Roma and others categorised as "racially inferior".
The diaries are being studied by the German Historical Institute Moscow. They cover the years 1938, 1943 and 1944 and were found at a Russian defence ministry archive in Podolsk, a town just south of Moscow.
Historians had earlier examined Himmler's diaries from the years 1941, 1942 and 1945 - but they were unaware of the missing ones until recently.
The find is seen as highly significant and has been compared with the diaries of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
German researcher Matthias Uhl said he was struck by Himmler's enormous concern for his elite SS, family and friends - while meticulously implementing mass murder.
The government says it will take stronger measures to pursue people - including those living overseas - who are believed to be avoiding repayment.
Universities Minister Jo Johnson said: "As more loans are issued to new students each year, it is vital that the repayment process is robust."
The majority of borrowers met their repayment obligations, he acknowledged.
The crackdown comes after the National Audit Office, the Public Accounts Committee and the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee called for more action to improve the repayment process.
In a written statement to the Commons, Mr Johnson said: "We will do more to support borrowers who seek to meet their loan repayment obligations and, in the interests of fairness to both the taxpayer and to borrowers that meet their obligations, we will be tougher on those who do not.
"We will take stronger action to trace borrowers including those overseas, act to recover loan repayments where it is clear that borrowers are seeking to avoid repayment, consider the use of sanctions against borrowers who breach loan repayment terms and, if necessary, prosecute.
"This approach is fair for borrowers and good for the effective management of public money, providing value for the taxpayer and helping to ensure that the student finance system remains on a sustainable footing.
"We will keep the strategy under review to ensure that the repayment system continues to meet these objectives, and we will report annually on progress."
Universities in England and Wales can charge students up to £9,000 a year for tuition, and undergraduates can take out a loan from the Student Loans Company (SLC) to cover these fees.
The SLC tracks earnings and alerts employers once graduates are eligible to start repaying.
Employers then deduct the correct amount from salaries and pay the loan on behalf of employees. The self-employed though are responsible for paying the correct amount.
Students who took loans out after 2012 start repaying their loan when they earn £21,000 a year or more.
This sum was to increase in line with average earnings, but now the government has frozen the point at which graduates start repaying at £21,000.
"If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. That is all I am telling you," he said in an interview with UK paper Financial Times.
Pressed on whether he thought he could succeed alone, he replied: "Totally."
Mr Trump was speaking ahead of a scheduled visit from Chinese President Xi Jinping this week.
"China has great influence over North Korea. And China will either decide to help us with North Korea, or they won't. And if they do that will be very good for China, and if they don't it won't be good for anyone," Mr Trump told the FT.
Asked if he meant "one-on-one" unilateral action, Mr Trump said: "I don't have to say any more. Totally."
He did not give any further details on what action he would take.
Mr Trump's brief comments, published just days before the key meeting with Mr Xi at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, are the latest in a series of warnings over North Korea's nuclear development.
There are fears that Pyongyang could eventually develop the ability to launch long-range nuclear missiles capable of striking the mainland United States.
During a trip to Asia in March, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said pre-emptive military action was an option "on the table".
A month earlier, Defence Secretary James Mattis warned that any use of nuclear weapons would be met with an "overwhelming" response.
China - which is North Korea's only international ally - has taken action in light of the reclusive nation's latest missile tests.
In February, it banned coal imports from North Korea until the end of 2017, cutting a major source of cash income for Pyongyang.
But Mr Trump is expected to pressure China's president to do much more at their meeting this week - and he has implied that the issue of trade could be used as leverage.
The president told the Financial Times that "trade is the incentive. It is all about trade." But he said he did not plan to discuss tariffs during the meeting.
At the end of March, he signed two executive orders to deal with the US trade deficit, reviewing current rules and foreign trade abuses.
White House officials insisted China was not the focus of his orders - but it is the largest source of the US trade deficit, accounting for about $347bn (£276bn) a year, out of a total of $502bn (£400bn).
And Mr Trump himself tweeted that "the meeting next week with China will be a very difficult one in that we can no longer have massive trade deficits".
Mr Trump has not said how he will negotiate trade with China while also pressuring them to influence Pyongyang.
Analysts say China has maintained its support for Pyongyang as it fears a complete collapse of the North Korean regime could lead to Korean unification, with US soldiers based in a country with a land border with China.
It is thought that China is also concerned at the prospect of millions of North Korean refugees entering its borders.
But for every individual competing in a Grand Slam tournament, there are many more plying their trade at events that struggle to find space in local newspapers, let alone a global audience of millions.
Scott Clayton from Jersey is one of those players.
He is a and as a 14-year-old won the prestigious Road to Wimbledon tournament.
But the youthful promise shown by the current British number 106 does not guarantee anything in an ultra-competitive sport.
Now 20, he currently has a world ranking of 1,181 in singles, but has reached a career-high 568 in doubles after winning two Futures titles with fellow Briton Richie Gabb in Turkey earlier this month.
Despite that, the realities of the tennis circuit are all too harsh for him.
"Financially the sport is very tough, you're travelling the world paying for flights and hotels.
"Right now it's the bank of Mum and Dad that's helping me out a lot," said Clayton, who has played in Turkey, Canada, the United States, Qatar and Cyprus in the last 12 months.
"In tennis right now, the level where I'm at, the prize money is not great.
"It's nothing compared to what your expenses are, you're far from breaking even, but you have to go through those stages to get to the higher stages of professional tennis where the money is," he told BBC Radio Jersey.
Winning an International Tennis Federation circuit Futures doubles title brings prize money of just $620 (£382) to share, hardly enough for the flight, let alone the week-long hotel stay.
The money is better in singles, with a winner pocketing $1,440 (£888), but Clayton has never progressed past the last 16, and the $172 earned (£106) just about covered his taxi rides to and from the airport.
Despite the financial hardship, there is little time for Clayton to supplement his income in other ways.
"A standard day for me is training five to six hours including the gym and on court stuff - the last thing your body can handle after that is to do a job," he said.
"Right now this is my job, unfortunately the payment isn't great.
"If I do have some spare time I try and give hits to kids or lessons just for a bit of extra money."
So why bother?
Well, the money might be poor, but it is the ranking points that players travel all over the world for and points eventually equal prizes - the higher your ranking, the better level of tournament you can enter and the more points you win.
It is a virtuous circle for winners, but not if a player hits a run of bad form or injury.
Clayton which could not have come at a worse time.
He had just beaten his highest-ever ranked opponent, France's current world number 326 Enzo Couacaud, in a tournament on the Wirral before he had to take time out for surgery.
"It was a big setback that I wasn't playing," said Clayton.
"I had a good training block in January and then had a career-high singles ranking win when it started getting worse and I needed the operation.
"I returned in June for the grass court season and had a lot of close matches where I could have won and at least I was creating the chances."
But has his chance to make it big in tennis already passed?
Rafael Nadal turned 19 just days before winning his first French Open in 2005, Novak Djokovic was 20 when he won the Australian Open in 2008 and Roger Federer was 21 when he won Wimbledon for the first time in 2003.
"The average age of a player the top 100 is about 28, so I feel I've got a few years left," Clayton insisted.
"The players that have won big tournaments in their teenage years are the phenoms like Nadal.
"Nick Kyrgios, who's a year younger than me, made the quarter-finals of Wimbledon, which is an amazing achievement, but I don't think you'll see many more cases like that.
"The sport's getting very physical, you've got to be a serious athlete now to be competing with those top guys.
"My main focus is to keep pushing that ranking up, but ultimately just getting better. If I can get better on the court then the ranking will follow."
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The 18-year-old, who can play in defence or midfield, made his full debut last season for the U's.
Carroll started three league games towards the end of the campaign as Oxford finished eighth.
"I've loved my time at the club," he said. "The boss, coaches and players have been fantastic and I want to be part of what's happening here."
The blasts, near mosques, are thought to be the deadliest attack in Lebanon since the end of the civil war in 1990.
War in neighbouring Syria has raised sectarian tensions between the city's Sunni Muslim and Alawite communities.
The blasts came a week after a car bomb in a Shia district of the capital Beirut killed 27 people.
Prominent Sunni Muslim cleric Sheikh Salem Rafii could have been the intended target of the latest attacks, BBC Arabic reports from Beirut. He was unharmed.
By Yolande KnellBBC News, Beirut
Local television channels here are showing dramatic security camera footage from inside the al-Salam mosque. At 12:16, as worshippers were sitting quietly inside listening to the preacher, a powerful explosion shakes the building.
Since the uprising against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011, there has been concern that violence could spill across the border and exacerbate Lebanon's sectarian divisions.
Now there is growing evidence that is happening.
The latest attacks will increase tensions in Tripoli between the Sunni Muslim majority, which supports opposition fighters in Syria, and its Alawite community that remains loyal to the Syrian president.
These blasts come exactly a week after a bombing in southern Beirut killed more than 20 people. The suburbs hit in that attack were a stronghold of the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah, that is also allied with the Syrian government.
These are worrying times for the Lebanese.
The cleric is opposed to Lebanon's militant Shia Hezbollah group and has previously urged young Lebanese men to join opposition fighters in Syria.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the attacks and called for calm and restraint. Meanwhile the UN Security Council called for "people to preserve national unity".
The first bomb hit the al-Taqwa mosque shortly after Friday prayers ended. Minutes later, the second blast struck the al-Salam mosque in the Mina area.
It is not clear if Sheikh Salem Rafii was at the al-Taqwa mosque, although some reports say he was giving a sermon.
In a TV interview after the blast he called for restraint. "We do not want to destroy the country. We want to safeguard the country and preserve Tripoli and its people," he said.
"We should not rush towards reacting. God willing, there is enough time to hold consultations, investigate the matter and know the results."
Ambulances rushed to the scene of the blasts and a pall of black smoke covered the area.
"It was as if there was an earthquake, the whole city seemed to be shaking," a local resident told Lebanon's Daily Star newspaper.
Television pictures showed cars on fire and people trying to carry the wounded to safety.
Bodies could be seen on the ground and windows were broken on surrounding apartment blocks.
The preacher at the al-Salam mosque - the site of the second explosion - is also an opponent of the Syrian government and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, Associated Press reports.
No group has said it carried out the latest attacks.
In a statement reported by Lebanon's National News Agency, Hezbollah strongly condemned the blasts.
The group said the attacks aimed to "sow seeds of strife among the Lebanese and drag them into bickering under a sectarian guise".
Outgoing Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and President Michel Suleiman also condemned the attacks, calling on citizens to unite against violence.
A spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said: "The secretary-general calls on all Lebanese to exercise restraint, to remain united, and to support their state institutions... in maintaining calm and order in Tripoli and throughout the country, and in preventing the recurrence of such destructive actions."
In a statement, the UN Security Council "appealed to all Lebanese people to preserve national unity in the face of attempts to undermine the country's stability".
The council "stressed the importance for all Lebanese parties to... refrain from any involvement in the Syrian crisis".
Tripoli, a city of nearly 200,000 people and Lebanon's second largest, is one of the country's most volatile sectarian fault lines, with a small Alawite population living in the midst of a Sunni majority.
The Alawite community tends to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with Sunnis mostly backing the rebels fighting him.
The bombs come a week after a massive car bomb rocked a Shia district of Beirut, leaving 27 people dead. The area hit contained Hezbollah strongholds.
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Kenya Film Classification Board banned the Oscar-nominated film in January for its "extreme scenes of nudity, sex, debauchery, hedonism and cursing".
But many Kenyans have already watched it on pirated copies sold in small DVD shops for about $0.57 (£0.35).
Those arrested could face a fine of up to $1,160 or several years in jail.
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Eva Mbuni, corporate communications officer at the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB), told the BBC that at least 30 traders had been arrested in less than a month as part of an ongoing crackdown on the distribution of restricted and unclassified films.
"We are doing this for the sake of our children and our women," Ms Mbuni said.
"What we are seeing is more and more films being produced portraying our women and children badly.
"Are we [only] showing them for sexual gratification?"
BBC Africa's Emmanuel Igunza says the back street sale of pirated DVDs is a thriving and lucrative business in major cities across Kenya.
Most of the traders due to be arraigned in court are from the capital, Nairobi, and Mombasa, Nakuru and Eldoret. They could be fined or be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison.
Film distributors and major cinema halls in Kenya have appealed against the decision to ban the Wolf of Wall Street, which has been nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards. Its lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio is up for the best actor award.
"The movie could have been allowed, if the distributors had edited out some of the parts we were uncomfortable with," said Ms Mbuni.
"But they refused our advisory to them and we had no choice."
KFCB is a government body charged with classifying films for public viewing and has powers to regulate the distribution of those it deems unfit.
World Hurdle runner-up Alpha Des Obeaux was the evens favourite - but another British raider spoiled the party.
One Track Mind (10-1) was never too far off the pace and Sheehan set sail for home before the final bend.
Admirable mare Jennies Jewel was second while Shaneshill fell at the final flight under Ruby Walsh.
One Track Mind galloped all the way to the line to take the prize by two and a quarter lengths.
Alpha Des Obeaux was ultimately well beaten in third.
Successful trainer Greatrex said: "This race was the plan for most of the season.
"He is a brilliant jumper and will go chasing next season I would have thought.
"When he went to challenge a fair way out, I knew we were in business."
Douvan finished his excellent season in style with victory in the Ryanair Novice Chase.
The six-year-old, under Ruby Walsh, went off the 2-9 favourite, led from the first fence and never looked troubled.
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
"What an outstanding future prospect Douvan looks for the two-mile championship division, in which Sprinter Sacre has excelled over the past few months since his return from the wilderness.
"The winner was completely imperious here as he led from start to finish, and if anyone says he put a foot wrong, well they're being pretty picky.
"When asked what they thought of the challenge Douvan would provide next season, a member of the 'Sprinter' entourage simply grimaced and walked away.
"This is a very special horse - and he's only six."
Two miners who worked at Thoresby colliery, Nottinghamshire, have been diagnosed with pneumoconiosis after CT scans paid for by the UDM. Both had the all-clear after X-rays at work.
The union and a group of MPs have called on the government to fund CT scans for all ex-miners.
UK Coal is yet to respond to the BBC.
The Union of Democratic Mineworkers paid for five former miners to have CT scans, which show the lungs in much greater detail, and two found they had pneumoconiosis.
Union president Jeff Wood accused UK Coal of failing its workers by not offering the scans.
"They said the cost was too much and they didn't think it was necessary because, on the advice from their medical advisers, the plain view X-rays were sufficient," he said.
When Ray Nunn and Crawford Hunter worked at the Thoresby pit, they, like all other workers, were offered chest X-rays every three to four years, which they said always came back "satisfactory".
The last X-ray they had at Thoresby was in 2013, whereas their CT scans were performed late last year.
The pair, both 51, who were made redundant when the colliery closed last summer, said they felt "let down".
Mr Hunter, who started at the pit in 1989, said "When I got the message, I was doing Christmas shopping in Nottingham.
"It gutted me really because I wasn't expecting it. It was a very sombre day - I was just devastated."
Mr Nunn, who was a miner for 35 years, said he had suspicions the X-ray tests were not good enough.
Mr Wood said he had suspected for many years that plain view X-rays were not of good enough quality to pick up the early signs of the disease.
"Of the small number we've tested, 40% have pneumoconiosis," he said.
"Of the 120,000 former miner workers alive today - how many of them have got pneumoconiosis?"
Nottinghamshire MPs Alan Meale and Mark Spencer have sent a letter signed by 25 cross-party MPs calling on the government to pay for CT scans for all living ex-miners.
The government and UK Coal have yet to respond to the BBC's requests for comments.
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The hosts beat India by nine runs at Lord's in front of a sell-out 26,500 crowd, the second biggest in Women's World Cup history.
More than 50 million people worldwide watched the group stages.
"What a tournament it has been - the support, the cricket and everything about it," said Knight.
Anya Shrubsole took 6-46 - the best figures in a World Cup final - as India collapsed from 191-3 to 219 all out in pursuit of England's 228-7.
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"Women's cricket has gone through the roof since 2009," she told BBC Sport.
"This is a watershed moment, to be playing at Lord's in front of a sell-out crowd in a World Cup final.
"You just don't think those things are going to happen. It's unbelievable."
England coach Mark Robinson said: "It has captured the imagination of everybody as the tournament has gone on.
"Hopefully, the women's game will go from strength to strength. It is getting the recognition, getting its proper place. People take it seriously and give it respect."
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The superb Shrubsole took five wickets in 19 balls to hasten India's collapse, sealing England's fourth World Cup title by bowling number 11 Rajeshwari Gayakwad with eight balls to spare.
"Anya Shrubsole, what a hero. I thought about taking her off and I'm really glad I kept her on," said Knight.
"It's been an extraordinary game. To win with some of my best mates, I'm absolutely delighted."
India needed only 38 runs from 43 balls before Shrubsole dismissed Punam Raut for 86 to spark a collapse of seven wickets for 28 runs.
"One of the great things about this team is we never give up," said Shrubsole. "It is a fitting final of what was a brilliant World Cup.
"There was a huge amount of pressure. It's without doubt the most significant spell I've ever bowled."
Shrubsole and team-mate Tammy Beaumont said they had never experienced such a passionate crowd.
"I've never played in a game where you can't hear the person who's 15 metres away from you," said Shrubsole.
"Trying to get Heather's attention, I was having to scream at her because the crowd made that much noise - pretty much from start to end."
Beaumont, who was named player of the tournament after topping the batting charts with 410 runs, said: "I have lost my voice. I was trying to scream over the crowd.
"It almost felt like half England on one side and India on the other. I don't think that atmosphere will be replicated in a number of years."
Knight added: "At times I had to pinch myself and concentrate on the game.
"The noise when we got the last wicket was a really special moment. It was incredible to be part of."
India skipper Mithali Raj said her side "panicked" as they lost seven wickets for 28 runs in the space of seven overs to miss out on a first major trophy.
"There was a time when the match was in the balance. It wasn't easy for England but credit to them - they kept their nerve," she said.
"I would like to tell the girls I am very proud of them. They didn't make any match look easy for the opposition."
Wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor was one of five England players - along with Knight, Shrubsole, Jenny Gunn and Laura Marsh - who were part of England's World Cup-winning squad in 2009.
She returned to the team at this World Cup after taking a break from the game last year to deal with anxiety problems.
"It has been a rollercoaster. To be part of this team is incredible," Taylor said.
"It was a case of getting healthy. It was pot luck to be back for this World Cup. This is amazing."
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Niall Quinn drilled in the opener and then crossed for Kirk Millar to head the second before half-time.
Joe Gormley marked his return to Cliftonville by scoring twice as Barry Gray celebrated his first match as boss with a 6-3 victory over Ards.
Coleraine had Steven Douglas sent-off but still won 3-1 at Dungannon while Glentoran beat Ballinamallard 2-1.
On Friday night, last season's runners-up Crusaders beat Ballymena United 4-1.
Linfield's victory was never in doubt once Quinn drilled a low left-foot shot beyond Carrick keeper Harry Doherty in the 16th minute at Windsor Park.
David Healy's double winners, unbeaten in domestic competition since early January, went 2-0 up though Millar and could have made it three after the break but Jordan Stewart's tame penalty was saved by Doherty.
Cliftonville, boosted by the return to the club of record scorer Gormley after a spell at Peterborough, had an early scare at home to Ards when Jonny Frazer gave the visitors an early lead.
But Gormley's double, two more from Jay Donnelly, a Chris Curran strike and a Scott Davidson own goal saw new boss Gray get off to a winning start at Solitude.
Former Warrenpoint manager Gray was appointed in May after Gerard Lyttle left to take charge of Sligo Rovers.
Coleraine, third last season, were drawing 0-0 at Dungannon when their defender Douglas was sent-off for a second yellow card offence.
But Oran Kearney's team went 2-0 up through Ciaron Harkin and Stephen O'Donnell before Ryan Mayse pulled a goal back for the Swifts.
Dungannon keeper Andy Coleman was sent-off for bringing down Brad Lyons late on and stand-in Jarlath O'Rourke had no chance as Ian Parkhill fired in a spectacular third for the Bannsiders.
Two goals by top striker Curtis Allen gave Glentoran their 2-1 win away to Ballinamallard United.
But Ballinamallard furiously protested that Allen had netted the 87th-minute winner with his hand.
The hosts had taken the lead through a Ryan Curran penalty but Allen levelled before the break.
Marc Griffin scored twice on his debut to help Glenavon edge Warrenpoint Town 3-2 at Milltown.
Griffin fired twice early on to give the Lurgan Blues a two-goal lead before Point rallied back through Darren Murray.
The former Cliftonville striker headed past Jonathan Tuffey before firing a second from the penalty spot, having been fouled by Simon Kelly.
Bobby Burns smashed a great strike in from the edge of the box to give Gary Hamilton's side the points.
The move comes after Ms Jolie asked for full physical custody of all the children, who are aged eight to 15.
Ms Jolie cited "irreconcilable differences" when she filed to end the marriage on 19 September.
Reports suggest that Mr Pitt is being investigated over an incident with his eldest son Maddox on a plane.
A child welfare agency in Los Angeles is examining what happened during the incident on a private flight in mid-September, US media say.
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The actors have reached a temporary agreement so the Fight Club star can visit his children while the welfare investigation continues.
California divorce courts generally favour joint custody, but the outcome of the plane row could affect the judge's decision. The actors may also hammer out a deal privately to avoid the matter being aired in public.
Mr Pitt's custody request was included in his response to Ms Jolie's divorce petition. He revealed that the pair separated on 15 September, one day after the alleged plane altercation.
Mr Pitt and Ms Jolie have been together since 2004 but only wed in August 2014, at their children's urging. They grew close while filming the 2005 film Mr & Mrs Smith, in which they played a couple in a stagnant relationship.
Their union was Mr Pitt's second marriage, after a divorce from Friends star Jennifer Aniston, and Ms Jolie's third after Billy Bob Thornton and Jonny Lee Miller.
The couple have six children together - Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, who are adopted, and biological children Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne.
Mr Pitt, 52, and Ms Jolie, 41, married privately at their French estate in Provence. Their children served as ring bearers and helped illustrate Ms Jolie's white Versace dress with their drawings.
Both actors are known for their philanthropic work away from the screen.
Academy Award winner Ms Jolie became a special envoy for the United Nations in 2012, and is a passionate advocate for refugees. She has also raised awareness of breast and ovarian cancers after going public with her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.
Meanwhile, Mr Pitt built homes in New Orleans for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and has made sizeable aid donations to Haiti through the estranged couple's charity, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
The report - by a taskforce set up by NHS England - said around three-quarters of people with mental health problems received no help at all.
Ministers agreed more needs to be done, committing £1bn extra a year by 2020.
The government says this will help treat a million more people a year.
The funds are to come out of the £8.4bn the government has promised to the health service during this Parliament and comes on top of extra money already announced for children's services.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "We should be frank. We have not done enough to end the stigma of mental health.
"We have focused a lot on physical health and we haven't as a country focused enough on mental health."
1 in 4
people experience problems each year
75%
receive no help
£105bn cost to economy
£9.2bn spent by NHS a year
15-20 years shorter life expectancy for those with severe problems
Mental health care is sometimes called the Cinderella service of the NHS. Over the years it has been neglected, marginalised and under-funded. The taskforce's report acknowledges this.
So will the recommendations have the necessary impact? Ministers and NHS bosses have all said they're fully committed to it.
But similar things were said in 2011 when the coalition launched its mental health strategy. And, as the BBC reported on Sunday, that didn't stop investment being cut.
With money so tight in the NHS, the nagging fear is that despite the promises being made history could still repeat itself.
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Currently £9.2bn a year is spent on the condition - less than a tenth of the NHS budget - despite one in four people experiencing a mental health problem each year.
The result is that an estimated three-quarters of people go without any help, with the taskforce's report acknowledging that services were so bad that lives have been "put on hold or ruined" and "thousands of tragic and unnecessary deaths" have been caused.
The review also said more attention needs to be paid to rising suicide rates.
NHS England believes the strategy will help to ensure that another one million people receive support - whereas at the moment fewer than two million people do so.
It said the investment promised will help pay for:
It said that together these measures would help reduce the demand on specialist inpatient wards in hospitals and therefore help tackle the much-criticised practice of sending people long distances for treatment.
Paul Farmer, the chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, who led the taskforce, said the strategy should act as a "landmark moment" for mental health care, which was currently "very patchy".
"We are saying to the NHS, to government, to industry, to local leaders and to the public that mental health must be a priority for everyone," he said.
While the extra funding was crucial, he added that some stigma around mental illness "still prevails, right the way inside the health service, as it does in society", and this needed to change.
NHS England boss Simon Stevens said he was "fully committed" to implementing the recommendations.
But Royal College of Psychiatrists president Prof Sir Simon Wessely warned it would take "sustained work" to end the "decades of inequality".
And Prof Sheila Hollins, of the British Medical Association, pointed out such promises had been made before.
"Those suffering from mental illness need to see these pledges fulfilled."
Meanwhile the Welsh government said spending on mental health had been ring-fenced since 2008, with investment topping £600m this year.
The current annual allocation to mental health in Northern Ireland is £247m.
The Scottish government said it had made a commitment to invest an additional £150 million over a five year period in improving access to mental health services.
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Armstrong, 19, scored 20 goals in 40 games during a loan spell at League One side Coventry City last season.
Jackson, 22, failed to make a senior appearance for the Premier League side.
The former England Under-19 international played in 35 games for League Two side Hartlepool last season, and joins for an undisclosed fee.
Of Armstrong, Tykes boss Paul Heckingbottom told the club website: "His talent and goal-scoring abilities are clear to see as he was excellent in League One last season scoring a tonne of goals.
"We've started the season in great form, scoring a lot of goals and I have no doubts that Adam will make an instant impact and excite the fans."
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A "technical baccalaureate" is to be introduced showing young people's abilities in maths, literacy and a high level vocational qualification.
This will be a performance measure for schools and evidence of credible skills for students to show employers.
Skills minister Matthew Hancock said the technical baccalaureate would be a "mark of achievement".
But Labour's education spokesman Stephen Twigg said: "Seven months after Labour announced plans for a technical baccalaureate, the government is today trying to catch up."
The "Tech Bacc", launched on Monday by Mr Hancock and Education Secretary Michael Gove, is intended to reinforce the value of technical and vocational training and qualifications taken by 16 to 19-year-olds.
It is aimed at teenagers who might want qualifications for jobs in areas such as information technology, construction, retail, hospitality and digital media.
It will not be another separate qualification, but will be evidence that a young person has a particular set of employer-friendly skills.
The Tech Bacc will require students to have three elements - qualifications in maths and literacy and a "high quality" vocational qualification.
These vocational qualifications could be in anything from engineering to hairdressing, but will be taught at a level of difficulty which is meant to show that pupils are able to carry out "complex and non-routine" skills, on a par with A-levels.
These so-called Level 3 vocational qualifications were taken by about 185,000 students last year.
There is a consultation taking place to decide which vocational qualifications should be retained - after complaints that there were too many insubstantial qualifications, which carried little weight with employers.
For schools and colleges, the Tech Bacc will become a league table performance measure from 2017, in the way that schools are measured by the percentage of pupils who have achieved academic English Baccalaureate subjects.
A proposal for a Tech Bacc has previously been put forward by Labour's education spokesman, Stephen Twigg.
Responding to the government announcement, he said that Labour's version would have been a "gold standard" available to all pupils.
"David Cameron and Michael Gove have spent the last three years undermining technical education - damaging the quality of apprenticeships, downgrading the engineering diploma and narrowing the curriculum so skills are side-lined.
"The government should be judged on their actions so far, not on their words today."
The idea of a Tech Bacc has also been supported by former education ministers Labour's Lord Adonis and the Conservatives' Lord Baker.
Neil Carberry, the CBI's director for employment and skills said this was a "big step in the right direction".
"Including the Tech Bacc in existing league tables will help put vocational subjects on a par with academic A-levels.
"Business prefers this approach, rather than creating another new qualification which would struggle for recognition - like the Diploma did. We hope this will prove to be a staging point towards our ultimate goal of rigorous vocational A-levels."
Christine Blower, head of the National Union of Teachers, said that "vocational qualifications should be part of a wider 14-19 integrated system of education where the emphasis is on the opportunity to study general education, specialist areas and vocational learning. This constant tinkering with 14-19 education perpetuates unnecessary divisions."
Skills Minister Matthew Hancock said: "We want an education system in which everyone can reach their potential.
"Our reforms to post-16 qualifications, including the introduction of the new Tech Bacc will do that. They will incentivise the development of high-quality courses and incentivise schools and colleges to offer the courses that get young people on in life.
"We expect all bright students who want to go into technically-skilled jobs or apprenticeships to aim for the Tech Bacc."
Kaymer, 31, has not won since his US Open triumph at Pinehurst two years ago which followed his Players Championship victory a month earlier.
The German's best Irish Open finish is a share of 10th at Adare Manor in 2008.
Tournament host Rory McIlroy will also be joined in the field from 19-22 May by recent Masters winner Danny Willett.
Soren Kjeldsen will attempt to successfully defend the Irish Open title after winning at Royal County Down last year while other Ryder Cup hopefuls in the field include Spain's Rafa Cabrera Bello, English trio Matt Fitzpatrick, Andy Sullivan, Chris Wood plus Austrian Bernd Wiesberger.
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Cabrera Bello, Kjeldsen, Fitzpatrick and Sullivan all currently occupy automatic qualifying places in the European points list for the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine in late September.
Kaymer played played at the K Club in the 2007 European Open.
"Although it maybe wasn't my best week on the course, I can remember being really impressed by it," added the former world number one, who clinched his first major win at the US PGA Championship in 2010.
"The Irish people love their golf and really get behind the players, so it should make for a great atmosphere, especially with such a strong field there."
McIlroy will be joined at the event by other Irish major winners Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington and Graeme McDowell while other big names in the field include Shane Lowry and Lee Westwood.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) rejected the claim, saying missile deployment as part of security measures for the Games was legitimate and proportionate.
Residents of Fred Wigg Tower in Leytonstone, east London, have applied for permission for a judicial review at the High Court.
A judgement is expected on Tuesday.
The residents' barrister, Marc Willers, said their block could become the "focus of a terrorist attack" to make an "evil statement".
Mr Willers told Mr Justice Haddon-Cave: "It is the unprecedented siting of a military base or missile site in peace time on English soil that brings us to this court."
Of the residents, he said: "They have a fully justified fear that installation or deployment of the missile system on the roof of the Fred Wigg Tower gives rise to the additional risk that the tower itself may become the focus of a terrorist attack.
"That fear is not just genuine and legitimate but justified given the nature of the forthcoming occasion - the Olympic Games - and given the nature of the deployment and the current threat level, which is said to be substantial."
Mr Willers filed documents to the court calling for the residents to be moved out of their homes and compensated during the Olympics if the missiles are set up.
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He suggested building a tower or gantry on Wanstead Flats to house the missiles.
Mr Willers also warned that part of the missile falls away when fired, claiming it could drop on to a passer-by or set a building on fire.
The MoD plans to deploy either Rapier or High Velocity missiles at six sites as part of security measures for the London Games.
David Forsdick, appearing on behalf of the MoD, said the decision over where to position the missiles was taken at the "highest levels after rigorous scrutiny".
He said it was signed off by the prime minister, deputy prime minister, home secretary and defence secretary in "defence of the realm".
He rejected the allegation that the block could become a focus of terrorism.
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He told the court: "The MoD, intelligence agencies and the Metropolitan Police do not consider there is any credible threat to the Fred Wigg Tower from terrorism."
He said that view was supported by a witness statement from Dr Campbell McCafferty, head of UK counter-terrorism at the MoD.
The judge hearing the application said the case was "urgent" and hopes to give a judgment on Tuesday.
Mr Willers said it was now probably too late for a full consultation process to be ordered.
The residents want an injunction preventing the siting of the missiles until their legal challenge is heard.
The defence secretary is accused by the local residents' association of breaching Article 8 and Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
These protect an individual's right to a private life and peaceful enjoyment of their home.
But Mr Forsdick said the missile deployment was "legitimate and proportionate", and the MoD was not legally obliged to relocate residents or offer them compensation.
The missiles, including Rapier and High Velocity systems, will be in place from mid-July, the MoD confirmed last week.
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 aircraft, which arrived back at the base on Monday, could be scrambled at short notice.
The Glasgow club must pay €7,000 (£6,250) following the incident during the first-round match on 29 June.
Rangers won the game 1-0 in Glasgow but were beaten 2-0 in the return leg in Luxembourg.
The home leg marked the Scottish Premiership club's return to European competition after a six-year absence.
In his heart of hearts Barclay thought it was over for him at Test level. He thought he was done. The mood music coming from Vern Cotter and his management team more or less confirmed it, but Barclay couldn't bring himself to make an announcement and throw in the towel.
He hung on more in hope than expectation and now he has his reward.
Consider the journey. Cotter brought five back-row forwards to the World Cup and Barclay wasn't one of them. Cotter parachuted in a sixth during the tournament and Barclay was overlooked again.
On Saturday, against England, he will play blind-side. Only a few short months ago he was, at best, fifth choice in that position. Ryan Wilson was ahead of him. So were Josh Strauss, Alasdair Strokosch and Blair Cowan. The vibe was that Cotter would sooner have moved heaven and earth than move Barclay into contention, but here he is.
Strokosch's retirement has helped, so has Wilson's indifferent form and Strauss' lack of game-time. Barclay warranted a start even if all those guys were around, though. He's been playing number eight for his club, Scarlets, and he's been playing well. Not just in the weeks before this selection, but for months and years.
The prodigal has returned and not before time. He's in and Scotland now go to war in the back row with two open-side flankers - Barclay and John Hardie - as against England's two blind-side bruisers - Chris Robshaw and James Haskell.
The breakdown was a recurring theme when Cotter spoke on Thursday at Murrayfield, not just the personnel he is deploying but the coach he has brought in to add "ideas and detail" to that critical phase of play - the ever-impressive Richie Gray, previously of Gala and South Africa and now of Scotland. The return of another prodigal, if you will.
Apart from Barclay's omission at the expense of Cowan - who started against Australia at the World Cup - there were no surprises in Scotland's team, no nasty shock as regards the excellent Mark Bennett, who mercifully for the home attack, is fit to play.
Everything else is as you would expect and everything on the day is as obvious as hell. This England team will bring grunt on a grand scale to Murrayfield. Eddie Jones has not picked an imaginative team, but a big team, a team to establish physical dominance and to batter Scotland into submission.
Cotter knows it and spoke of "combining energy forces" to try to combat it. "Physicality is something we've been working on over the last year or so," he said. "We have to have total clarity in what we're doing. They (England) will want to dominate us but I don't see why we shouldn't take them on at their strong points."
The days before a Six Nations opener are always blue-sky days in Scotland. Hope has survived through the years despite the kickings. It's an extraordinary thing, this optimism in the face of such failure. It begs the question of what this rugby nation would be like if it ever had real momentum to bite on.
There's newfound hope despite a whitewash last time round. Despite all sorts of things, to be honest.
Bennett, Finn Russell and Jonny Gray have never won a Six Nations match. Tommy Seymour has never won a Six Nations match at Murrayfield. Greig Laidlaw has three wins from 20 in the championship, Richie Gray five from 22, Ross Ford eight from 45. Scotland have not scored a try against England at Murrayfield since 2004. They have only scored two tries against England at Murrayfield in Six Nations history.
That hope, though. It's not unfounded, far from it. Scotland possess an attack that can do damage if it has the platform. They have better men in place this year to establish that platform than they've had for some years.
WP Nel is a big addition to the front row, Hardie a key influence in the back row. Gray, the coach, has been microscopic in his analysis of Scotland's defensive breakdown. Gray's arrival has allowed Matt Taylor more freedom to focus on fixing the weaknesses in defence.
Centre Matt Scott said that the attention to detail has never been as high. "When we came into camp we identified defence as an area we needed to improve. We saw that Ireland only conceded two tries in last year's Six Nations (it was actually three). By contrast, we conceded into double figures (11). We can't be conceding 25-30 points in games and expect to win."
That's the big puzzler for Scotland. Can their defence hold out? They shipped 40 points against Ireland at the end of last year's Six Nations and 30-plus to South Africa, Samoa and Australia at the World Cup. In the biggest games they're making life so difficult for themselves.
Scott said something else that resonated. He spoke of learning lessons, not just in defence, but in terms of handling emotion. He went back to the last Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield, a 20-0 drubbing in 2014.
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"The boys were so geed-up before that game," he recalled. "We were tear-ing up in the changing room before the game and I remember thinking I was going to go out and have an amazing game. I thought I was invincible. It was a surreal feeling of being helpless on the pitch. That's when the emotion can over-ride things and affect your play.
"We were way off the mark. We couldn't get our attack structure going. It just felt like we were 15 individuals on the pitch. It was an awful experience.
"I think we've learned from that, learned to say, 'Yes, it's a Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield and there's going to be fire and brimstone but we have to take a step back and put our cool heads on."
Barclay is one of those cool heads - an experienced leader in a team that still doesn't know enough about winning. They get another chance on Saturday. Despite everything, hope springs.
Officers found the bag, full of ??10 and ??20 notes, in Lower Sundon, Bedfordshire, in the early hours of Friday.
Officers tweeted: "Did you lose a bag of money and drugs? Please come to police HQ where we'd love to chat."
A number of people commented, with one replying: "Wait, if I come and collect it, you won't arrest me, right?"
The tweet, posted by officers from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire road policing unit, was described as the "best ever" by some of their social media followers.
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The officers' post included a photograph of the dark-coloured bag containing the cash and plastic bags of drugs.
Another tweet said: "Can you leave it where you found it please. I'll come and collect it later this evening."
Kenton Cool, 42, last week became one of the first foreigners to reach the mountain's summit in two years.
Avalanches that followed an earthquake in Nepal made conditions treacherous, claiming the lives of at least 18 climbers last year.
"She's a beautiful mountain," Mr Cool said.
Mr Cool made it to the top with fellow adventurers Robert Richard Lucas, Mexican David Liano and three Nepalese guides.
It was his 12th successful climb of the world's highest peak, and 36-year-old Liano's sixth.
Speaking after his return, Mr Cool, who lives in Quenington, Gloucestershire, said: "My wife Jazz says that Everest is my mistress and I go back to her every year.
"I do adore the place. She's a beautiful mountain and I will keep climbing [her] until I fall out of love."
Growing up in Uxbridge, west London, he told how his family lived in a bungalow with no hot water or flushing toilet.
"My father was unemployed for most of my childhood," he said.
He started mountaineering while studying at Leeds University, despite being told he would never climb again after falling from a rock face in North Wales and shattering both heel bones.
"Adventure and climbing have really defined who I am and what I stand for," he said.
"If you truly believe in your dreams then very little can get in the way."
Mr Cool said the latest ascent - which he completed on 12 May - was the best of all his climbs.
"Every time you go to Everest, it's slightly different," he said.
"This time the ascent was amazing, with a cloudless sky. You couldn't ask for better conditions.
"Every time you go to the mountain you've got to approach it in the same manner. You've got to be very respectful, you have to be fully prepared."
The explorer now hopes to climb Everest, along with the the world's second and third highest peaks - K2 and Kangchenjunge - on a single trip, travelling overland between them by Land Rover.
"Nobody's ever linked them together.
"A lot of my colleagues are saying it can't be done."
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"As a consequence of Mr Warner's resignation, all ethics committee procedures against him have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained," said a Fifa statement.
Warner was suspended pending an investigation into bribery allegations.
He and fellow Fifa member Mohamed Bin Hammam are alleged to have paid bribes of £600,000 to Caribbean associations.
Chuck Blazer, general secretary of the Concacaf federation Warner had been president of, alleged that violations of Fifa's code of ethics occurred during a meeting organised by Bin Hammam and Warner in May.
In a statement, Warner said: "I am convinced, and I am advised by counsel, that since my actions did not extend beyond facilitating the meeting that gave Mr Bin Hammam an opportunity to pursue his aborted bid for the Fifa presidency, I would be fully exonerated by any objective arbiter.
"I have, nonetheless, arrived at the decision to withdraw from Fifa affairs in order to spare Fifa, Concacaf and, in particular, CFU and its membership, from further acrimony and divisiveness arising from this and related issues."
The Fifa executive committee, the Fifa president and the Fifa management thank Mr Warner and wish him well for the future
Warner also told Bloomberg press agency he felt he had been "hung out to dry" and insisted the giving of gifts has been part of Fifa culture during his 30 years in the organisation.
"It's not unusual for such things to happen and gifts have been around throughout the history of Fifa," he said. "What's happening now for me is hypocrisy."
He added: "I have lost my enthusiasm to continue. The general secretary that I had employed, who worked with me for 21 years, with the assistance of elements of Fifa has sought to undermine me in ways that are unimaginable.
"This is giving the impression that Fifa is sanitising itself. I've been hung out to dry continually and I'm not prepared to take that."
Blazer's allegations were preceded by claims made in parliament by the former head of England's failed 2018 World Cup bid, Lord Triesman, about irregularities in the bidding process for the 2018 World Cup.
Triesman, who was also former chairman of the Football Association, accused Warner and three other Fifa Executive Committee members of improper conduct during England's 2018 World Cup bid.
According to Triesman, in exchange for voting for England to host the World Cup, Warner had asked for cash to build an education centre in Trinidad and to buy World Cup television rights for Haiti.
The 68-year-old had been the longest-serving member of Fifa's executive committee, and a Fifa statement continued: "Fifa regrets the turn of events that have led to Mr Warner's decision.
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"His resignation has been accepted by world football's governing body, and his contribution to international football and to Caribbean football in particular and the Concacaf confederation are appreciated and acknowledged."
In May, Fifa opened "ethics proceedings" against Warner and Bin Hammam but Warner insisted he was not guilty of a "single iota of wrongdoing".
Football's governing body then suspended Warner and former Fifa presidential candidate Bin Hammam on 29 May, pending an investigation into claims they had offered bribes to members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).
Despite claims by Bin Hammam that Fifa president Sepp Blatter was aware of payments made to the CFU, and that he too should be investigated, Fifa's ethics committee stated that "no investigation is warranted" of Blatter.
Following Bin Hammam's suspension, Blatter went on to run unopposed in the Fifa presidential election, despite efforts by the FA to have the election suspended amid the corruption allegations that had engulfed the sport's world governing body.
Blatter was re-elected for a fourth term after receiving 186 of the 203 votes, after 17 member associations supported the FA's request for a delay.
With my withdrawal from service in international football, I shall, henceforth, be concentrating exclusively on my lifelong commitment to the service of the people of Trinidad and Tobago, currently as chairman of the major party in our governing coalition and as a cabinet minister in the government of our republic
Despite the controversy that has surrounded Fifa and Warner since May, the governing body's statement concluded: "Mr Warner is leaving Fifa by his own volition after nearly 30 years of service.
"The Fifa executive committee, the Fifa president and the Fifa management thank Mr Warner for his services to Caribbean, Concacaf and international football over his many years devoted to football at both regional and international level, and wish him well for the future."
Warner thanked Fifa in his statement and added that he would now commit himself to serving the people of his native Trinidad and Tobago.
"I am gratified that Fifa has acknowledged my service to international and regional football over several decades," he said.
"It is also a special source of satisfaction to me that during my tenure, capacities and facilities in the Caribbean were upgraded to levels that enabled the region to host several Fifa World Cup finals.
"I sincerely hope that the Caribbean Football Union will continue to fight above its weight in Fifa and Concacaf affairs.
"With my withdrawal from service in international football, I shall, henceforth, be concentrating exclusively on my lifelong commitment to the service of the people of Trinidad and Tobago, currently as chairman of the major party in our governing coalition and as a cabinet minister in the government of our republic.
"I shall continue to encourage the youth of the Caribbean and the world to deepen their involvement in football, which has lifted so many young people out of hopelessness and risk to personal achievement, while bringing glory to their respective countries."
That means winning their four-team group and progressing to the Super 10 stage - anything less is failure.
Achieving their goal is no easy feat, because Bangladesh are firm favourites to top Group A while Oman and the Netherlands provide tricky opposition.
If they do reach the Super 10 then high-profile encounters against hosts India, Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan will follow.
And the Irish love nothing more than taking a big scalp in major tournaments.
Ireland possess two new weapons for the group games in Dharamsala - and both are in the bowling department.
The return of paceman Boyd Rankin to Irish colours after his 2012 switch to England provides a potent spearhead to their attack.
And Sri Lanka great Chaminda Vaas, who claimed 400 one-day wickets in a stellar career, has been drafted into the Irish set-up for the tournament.
Ireland skipper William Porterfield is delighted to have Rankin and Vaas on board for their Super 10 bid.
"It's great to have Boyd in the squad again and he has found it easy to fit back in - it's like he was never away," said the opener.
"Any team would like a 6ft 8in plus bowler performing the way he has been and Boyd's experience and professionalism is so beneficial to our younger bowlers.
"Chaminda's stats speak for themselves and the big advantage is his vast experience of playing in sub-continent conditions.
"He's also played here at Dharamsala in the IPL and his bowling is a similar pace to many of our own players.
"His advice is invaluable and we're delighted to have him in the camp going into Wednesday's opener against Oman."
Porterfield is a man in form, with an unbeaten 75 in Thursday's victory over Hong Kong followed by 31 against Zimbabwe in the final warm-up game on Saturday.
However, a six-wicket defeat against the Zimbabweans highlighted the challenge facing Porterfield and new coach John Bracewell.
Ireland are attempting to make the second phase of the World T20 for the first time since 2009 and Porterfield is clear on what is required.
"We need to win all three games, it's as simple as that," added the Warwickshire batsman.
"Oman are first up - they are no pushovers and it's a form of the game they really enjoy.
"Bangladesh are favourites but they lost to Hong Kong in the last World T20 while we were defeated by the Netherlands, so anyone can beat anyone.
"Getting to the Super 10 stage in Bangalore and Calcutta is all we're talking about, it's our sole focus and we are determined to get there."
The MRI machine reveals the fibres which carry all the brain's thought processes.
It's been done in Cardiff, Nottingham, Cambridge and Stockport, as well as London England and London Ontario.
Doctors hope it will help increase understanding of a range of neurological disorders and could be used instead of invasive biopsies.
I volunteered for the project - not the first time my brain has been scanned.
In 2006, it was a particular honour to be scanned by the late Sir Peter Mansfield, who shared a Nobel prize for his work on developing Magnetic Resonance Imaging, one of the most important breakthroughs in medicine.
He scanned me using Nottingham University's powerful new 7 Tesla scanner. When we looked at the crisp, high resolution images, he told me: "I'm a physicist, so don't ask me to tell you to whether there's anything amiss with your brain - you'd need a neurologist for that."
I was the first UK Biobank volunteer to have their brain and other organs imaged as part of the world's biggest scanning project.
More recently, I had my brain scanned while playing computer games, as part of research into the effects of sleep deprivation on cognition.
So my visit to the Cardiff University's Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) held no particular concerns.
The scan took around 45 minutes and seemed unremarkable.
A neurologist was on hand to reassure me my brain looked normal.
My family quipped that they were happy that a brain had been found inside my thick skull.
But nothing could have prepared me for the spectacular images produced by the team at Cardiff, along with engineers from Siemens in Germany and the United States.
The scan shows fibres in my white matter called axons. These are the brain's wiring, which carry billions of electrical signals.
Not only does the scan show the direction of the messaging, but also the density of the brain's wiring.
Another volunteer to be scanned was Sian Rowlands who has multiple sclerosis.
Like me, she is used to seeing images of her brain, but found the new scan "amazing".
Conventional scans clearly show lesions - areas of damage - in the brain of MS patients.
But this advanced scan, showing axonal density, can help explain how the lesions affect motor and cognitive pathways - which can trigger Sian's movement problems and extreme fatigue.
Prof Derek Jones, CUBRIC's director, said it was like getting hold of the Hubble telescope when you've been using binoculars.
"The promise for researchers is that we can start to look at structure and function together for the first time," he said.
The extraordinary images produced in Cardiff are the result of a special MRI scanner - one of only three in the world.
The scanner itself is not especially powerful, but its ability to vary its magnetic field rapidly with position means the scientists can map the wires - the axons - so thinly it would take 50 of them to match the thickness of a human hair.
The scanner is being used for research into many neurological conditions including MS, schizophrenia, dementia and epilepsy.
My thanks to Sian, Derek and all the team at CUBRIC.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the new combination would not affect prices or quality of "hot pies, cold pies, sausage rolls, pasties and slices" in the £1bn sized market.
The two own brands such as Pork Farms, Millers, Walls and Bowyers.
As well as branded goods, they supply own label products to supermarkets.
Pork Farms already makes Kerry's Walls and Millers brands under licence.
The deal was first proposed in August last year.
Chris Peters, group managing director at Pork Farms Group, said: "The CMA's decision marks the start of an incredibly exciting new time for our business and our employees."
He said the deal would allow it to expand the product range.
He also said it would mean changes to the way it operated: "Our priority is to move ahead to integrate the Spalding and Poole businesses into the Pork Farms Group.
"We will now take stock of our entire business, taking into account our employees', customers', owners' and suppliers' needs... in what is an exciting and pivotal time in the UK chilled food market."
A judge told Peter Anthony Young, 58, of Hunter's Way, Ardglass, that he had "deliberately taken advantage'' of the major glitch in the bank's system almost four years ago.
It meant customers could withdraw funds from ATM machines without affecting their balance.
Following a check, the bank discovered the money had been withdrawn by Young.
A prosecution lawyer told Downpatrick Crown Court that on 22 June 2012, Ulster Bank had "experienced a computer malfunction in its system''.
"Following a check, Ulster Bank discovered that Young, who was one of its customers, had £11,000 withdrawn from his account on that day,'' said Ms Ivers.
The judge was told there had been 22 separate withdrawals of £500 on the day in question.
The prosecution lawyer said the bank made repeated attempts to contact Young without success before eventually reporting the incident to police as "fraudulent''.
The PSNI started an investigation and Young voluntarily attended a police station and admitted making the withdrawals, telling police he had "spent the money on drink''.
The prosecution lawyer said the accused, who was a customer of the Ulster Bank, had "made no effort to pay back the funds'' and the outstanding balance he owed now stood at £10,908.40.
A defence lawyer described it as an "unusual case'' and said that when Young was interviewed by police in September 2014 he made "frank admissions'' to his crimes.
"Reading between the lines from the court papers, it appears Mr Young was in the company of other people drinking with them that day and when he was taking money out it became apparent to him and the others that there was a fault with this machine," he told the court.
"This was always going to come home to him.
"He is not in the least blaming others.''
The defence lawyer said that Young's life had "taken a downward spiral'' following the death of his mother in 1991 and said that by the age of 34 he was an alcoholic, homeless and "living on the streets of Belfast''.
The lawyer added that the father-of-five was now a recovering alcoholic, who was attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, was part of a church group and was also attending a rehabilitation programme.
The defence lawyer said Young could be made the subject of a community order which "would leave something hanging over his head that would remind him not to stray from the straight and narrow again''.
"I would urge the court to give him a chance to continue to improve himself,'' the lawyer added.
The judge said Young had gone to the machine on one occasion to withdraw £500 on the day in question.
"He chose to return to this machine a further 21 times to withdraw the money when he knew he did not have the funds in his account," he said.
"He knew full well what he was doing and he deliberately took advantage of the defective ATM."
The judge said Young, who is living on social security benefits, had not repaid any money he had stolen from the Ulster Bank.
"I don't believe I could deal with this case by way of a suspended sentence. The least sentence I can impose is one of four months in custody.''
The screening at Wellington's Embassy Theatre will take place two weeks ahead of the film's release on 14 December.
Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson said it was fitting to hold the premiere "where the journey began."
Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit is set 60 years before the Lord Of The Rings trilogy of films.
In An Unexpected Journey, Bilbo Baggins attempts to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from Smaug, the dragon.
The film's cast includes Sherlock's Martin Freeman, who takes on the lead role of Baggins.
Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett and Sir Ian McKellen, who all starred in Jackson's Oscar-winning trilogy, also appear in the movie.
British actor Andy Serkis has reprised his motion-capture animated role of Gollum.
The film is split into two parts, with the second instalment - The Hobbit: There And Back Again - due for release in December 2013.
The 3D movies were shot at a rate of 48 frames per second, compared with the industry standard of 24 frames.
Following a preview of unfinished footage at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas in April, some critics claimed it "looked like a made-for-TV movie".
Jackson admitted: "It does take you a while to get used to," adding, "Ten minutes is sort of marginal, it probably needed a little bit more."
He wrote the screenplay with partner Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Mexican director Guillermo del Toro.
She broke Serena, 32, in the sixth game of the final set to beat her for the first time in five years.
Venus, ranked 26 in the world, will play Agnieszka Radwanska after the third seed overcame Ekaterina Makarova 7-6 (7-1) 7-6 (7-3) in Montreal.
Defending champion Serena later tweeted of the result: "Big sister taught little sister a lesson."
Venus said: "I think for both of us, what's so unique about the situation is that we're both very good players.
"We both know when we walk out there, it's not like you're guaranteed a win. I think that's what makes it challenging for both of us."
Serena still leads 14-11 in the head-to-head with her sister, who she played for the first time on the professional circuit 16 years ago,
Ahead of the final, Radwanska, who has won her last two matches against Venus, said: "She's definitely on fire. Definitely she's playing amazing tennis this week.
"She beat a lot of good players on the way to the final, especially Serena. It's not going to be the easy one."
The win in Canada will be a boost to Venus, 34, in her build-up to the final Grand Slam of the year, the US Open, which starts at Flushing Meadows on 25 August.
The Consumer Electronics Show - known as CES - will start on Thursday and finish on Sunday.
At the show, companies will show off some of their latest exciting gadgets.
It is extra special as it's the event's 50th anniversary this year.
The first ever CES was originally held in New York back in 1967 and more than 17,000 people attended.
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People come to CES from around four in every five of the world's countries
According to the Consumer Technology Association, there will be 1,745 companies from the UK going along to the show this year and around 177,000 people are expected to head to the show.
Here's some of the bits of technology to look out for at this year's event...
One gadget being shown at CES is an interactive speaker called Lunii, which lets you make up your own bedtime stories.
The user chooses where the story takes place, who's in it and what they do - and then the speaker reads the story out.
VR headsets are still hugely popular and lots of new ones are currently being developed and shown off at CES.
One company called Fove has made a headset which allows you to control a game using just your eyes, as it can track where you are looking.
CES fact
One month after CES 1969, the first man walked on the moon, meaning more people became interested in science and technology
There's lots of new tech at CES which use voice and movement control instead of pressing buttons.
A French company called Bixi will be showing off a device that lets a person control their tablet or smartphone by waving their hand.
For example, you could use it to change the volume of your music by waving your hand down.
Many people like to use technology to help them to stay healthy and lots of these gadgets are expected to be on show at CES.
One company from Israel will be displaying its device called the TytoHome which works a bit like Baymax from Big Hero 6.
This gadget allows families to take health measurements, like heart rate and breathing patterns, and send the information to the doctors.
The idea is that it could mean fewer people would need to make the trip to see the doctor in person.
One company from London will be launching a robot called Olly, who you can talk to and ask questions.
The interesting thing about it is it behaves differently depending on who it's with!
This is just some of the technology that will be on display at CES.
We'll have more updates on what other exciting gadgets will be at the show later this week.
The development with Llangollen Hotels has led to the immediate closure of the Wynnstay Arms in Wrexham and the Fantastic Fun Houses in Mold and Wrexham.
Staff at the hotel and children's play centres were sent home on Thursday.
Ms Booth's other hotels and the Mclaren's Leisure Complex in Oswestry will continue trading as normal.
A spokesman for Ms Booth said she is using her own money to ensure all staff have been paid.
"Following a winding-up petition issued by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, Llangollen Hotels expects to be placed in administration later today or tomorrow," said the spokesman.
"This has necessitated the immediate closure of leased premises as a default on rent is unavoidable."
He added that all deposits and bookings were safeguarded whilst the company works with auditors KPMG to find a long-term solution.
In 2009, Ms Booth appeared in BBC Wales fly-on-the-wall documentary series Hotel Stephanie showing her cope with the day-to-day problems of managing six hotels in north east Wales during the recession.
In recent months she has been linked with a takeover of Wrexham football club, before withdrawing from the process in May.
She took over the Wynnstay Arms, which is a well-known Wrexham landmark, in April 2010. The new proprietor "guaranteed" the workforce their jobs would be safe.
Promising to spend at least £1m in the first year, Ms Booth said she wanted to restore the historic Grade II listed hotel to its "past glories".
The Georgian building, formerly known as the Eagles Inn, was where the Jacobite society, the Circle of the White Rose met in the 18th Century, including members of the prominent Williams-Wynn family of Wynnstay.
The Football Association of Wales was founded at a meeting at the hotel in 1876, and there is a plaque to mark the occasion.
The facade of the hotel is protected, after a campaign to save it from demolition in the 1960s.
After a generation of violence that ravaged a lot of Belfast's traditional architecture, 2012 has seen the opening of two special buildings.
The new Titanic Belfast has received much of the limelight this month. But a couple of stones throw away, on the other side of the River Lagan, sits the Metropolitan Arts Centre - a more understated example of Belfast's brave new architecture.
Simply known as the MAC - the distinctive piece of modern architecture, will give visitors a real chance to experience world-class art in all forms.
Located directly behind one of Belfast's oldest landmarks, St Anne's Cathedral, the newest addition to the city will give people more of a reason to venture further from the more traditional tourist spots.
From the outside, the building looks deceptively small. But walk inside from the Exchange Street West entrance and suddenly the size of the main atrium reveals the real scale of the MAC.
On the right hand side is the Sunken Gallery, currently home to Dublin-based artist Maria McKinney's exhibition - a restructured version of an earlier work, Somewhere But Here, Another Other Place. The display is made up of a number of second-hand tables stacked imaginatively to fill the gallery which visitors are invited to explore.
Built with Belfast brick and Antrim basalt, Chairman Len O'Hagan describes the MAC as being "unapologetically Belfast". Indeed, enormous feature windows turn the city itself into a living gallery.
Walking up the central staircase a piece of art appears to burst through a window tucked into the top of the building - Mark Garry's, The Permanent Present. Four hundred copper strands in all the colours of the rainbow drape down from the high ceiling to the first floor.
In one of the galleries, celebrated Chicago-born artist Robert Therrien displays his work. Named Table and Four Chairs, his work is simply that, an enormous table with four chairs that visitors can interact with.
The second gallery hosts the hottest attraction at the MAC. Alongside paintings by the world renowned L.S. Lowry sits the work of Belfast's William Conor. Born in 1881, the son of a wrought-iron worker, Conor was commissioned by the British government in World War I to produce official records of soldiers and munitions workers.
The centre's celebrity ambassador Sean Bean thinks that the MAC "puts Belfast and the arts on the world stage".
Chairman Len O' Hagan finds it hard to disagree:
"Because it is a wonderful, world-class building. Now we have the ability and the confidence of major lenders to give us pieces," he said.
The building also has two theatres. The larger, a 350 seater venue is tucked away on the bottom floor underneath the stairs beside a row of intimate snugs facing a very modern bar.
Exiting the MAC, you can see St Anne's Square has had new life breathed into it. The ivory white surrounds feel something like a continental courtyard complete with a number of new cafés and restaurants.
It is safe to say that the MAC certainly adds something a little bit different to Belfast - a renewed energy and sense of pride around a city with high hopes of being able to take a place at the top tables of the European cultural scene.
Timm Klose's error gifted Albion the lead as Lasse Vigen Christensen nicked possession and squared for fellow Fulham loanee Cauley Woodrow to tap in.
City levelled when Steven Whittaker's wild shot deflected in off Cameron Jerome for his 11th goal of the season.
But Kightly grabbed a stylish winner, flicking the ball past Russell Martin before lifting a shot over John Ruddy.
Norwich came into the game on a six-game unbeaten league run, but were let down again by their poor away record.
The Canaries have lost nine times away from Carrow Road in the league this season, only Forest and Rotherham having conceded more Championship goals on the road.
Both Burton goals came against the run of play, but the hosts could have won by a greater margin, with Lloyd Dyer blasting over and Martin clearing as Jackson Irvine prepared to pounce.
Nigel Clough's side, who have conceded in 16 consecutive league matches, protested strongly against City's sole goal, claiming Jerome had handled.
Yet the Canaries, who had 64% possession in an often scrappy game, felt they should have had a stoppage-time penalty when Wes Hoolahan was bundled over.
Burton's third win in five league matches lifted them to 20th, four points clear of the bottom three, while Norwich slipped to seven points off the play-off places in seventh.
Burton manager Nigel Clough: "That's right up there with our best results this season, especially in the context of where we find ourselves in the league playing against a very good side as we did today.
"It was just about pure hard work and the desire to stop the opposition playing. The two goals are great quality from our point of view, especially the second one.
"It was the work-rate today that did it and I thought that was outstanding. There was a real desire at the end to see it through and get the three points."
Norwich boss Alex Neil: "It's hugely disappointing. We got into good areas at times, but the final ball wasn't good enough when we got it in there.
"We had most of the game and Burton's centre-forward (Cauley Woodrow) gets man-of-the-match.
"When we scored we looked as if we are going to go on and win the game.
"We gave the ball away in a stupid area from our own throw-in and then didn't defend well enough."
Match ends, Burton Albion 2, Norwich City 1.
Second Half ends, Burton Albion 2, Norwich City 1.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Luke Murphy.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match John Mousinho (Burton Albion) because of an injury.
Foul by Timm Klose (Norwich City).
John Mousinho (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by John Mousinho.
Attempt blocked. Mitchell Dijks (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonny Howson with a headed pass.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Shaun Barker replaces Lasse Vigen Christensen.
Attempt missed. Luke Varney (Burton Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Marvin Sordell.
Attempt missed. Jonny Howson (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Norwich City. Kyle Lafferty replaces Alex Pritchard.
Attempt missed. Lloyd Dyer (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Luke Varney with a cross.
Steven Whittaker (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luke Varney (Burton Albion).
Substitution, Burton Albion. Luke Varney replaces Cauley Woodrow.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by John Mousinho.
Substitution, Burton Albion. Lloyd Dyer replaces Michael Kightly.
Substitution, Norwich City. Josh Murphy replaces Yanic Wildschut.
Foul by Alexander Tettey (Norwich City).
Marvin Sordell (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Alex Pritchard (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cameron Jerome.
Mitchell Dijks (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lasse Vigen Christensen (Burton Albion).
Foul by Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City).
Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Alex Pritchard (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Cameron Jerome with a headed pass.
Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Cameron Jerome (Norwich City).
Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Burton Albion 2, Norwich City 1. Michael Kightly (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cauley Woodrow following a fast break.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Tom Naylor.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Tom Flanagan.
Attempt blocked. Cauley Woodrow (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Michael Kightly.
Goal! Burton Albion 1, Norwich City 1. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Steven Whittaker.
Attempt missed. Steven Whittaker (Norwich City) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cameron Jerome.
Attempt missed. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alex Pritchard with a cross following a set piece situation.
Russell Martin (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Tom Flanagan (Burton Albion).
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The 19-year-old joins on a four-and-a-half-year deal until June 2021.
The England Under-20 international, who has scored seven goals in 25 games this season, becomes the most expensive signing from League One.
Lookman said: "It feels great to be an Everton player. As soon as I heard about Everton's interest I knew this would be the right place for me."
Charlton had hoped Everton would loan Lookman back to them for the rest of the season but he is seen as someone who could quickly play a part at Goodison Park under manager Ronald Koeman.
"Everton has a big history and I was also attracted by the manager," Lookman added.
"When you look at what he did at Southampton, and what he does with young players in terms of developing them, that was a big attraction.
"It was great playing in the Championship last season and for the last six months in League One but I feel like I'm ready to make the step up to the Premier League."
Koeman said: "Ademola is a big talent and, at 19 years old, he has a big future in the game. I'm really happy that we've been able to bring him here to the club."
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Mewn erthygl yn y Sunday Times mae Mr Hammond yn ysgrifennu na fydd o'n cymryd agwedd "ddryslyd" gyda'r gyllideb.
Fe fydd Mr Hammond yn cyflwyno ei gyllideb i Dy'r Cyffredin ddydd Mercher.
Ond mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi annog Llywodraeth y DU i roi "terfyn ar ei pholisi cyni niweidiol a darparu'r ysgogiad ariannol' er mwyn gwella hyder yn yr economi.
Mewn llythyr at Brif Ysgrifennydd y Trysorlys, amlinellodd yr Ysgrifennydd Cyllid, Mark Drakeford, ei bryderon am "fwriad Llywodraeth y DU i fwrw ymlaen â thoriadau gwerth £3.5 biliwn i wariant cyhoeddus yn 2019-20."
Dywedodd y gallai toriadau o'r fath olygu gostyngiad pellach o £175 miliwn yng nghyllideb Cymru.
Yn ôl Mr Hammond dydi'r gwaith o gael gwared ar y diffyg ariannol "heb ei gwblhau eto".
Mae'n dadlau, er bod yr economi wedi profi i fod yn gadarn, mae yna ddal angen disgyblaeth ariannol wrth i'r DU baratoi ar gyfer Brexit.
Dadl Mr Drakeford yw bod toriadau o'r fath yn wrthgynhyrchiol.
"Mae'n amser i Lywodraeth y DU roi diwedd ar ei pholisi cyni niweidiol a darparu'r ysgogiad cyllidol y mae ei angen i wella hyder yn yr economi a chefnogi gwasanaethau cyhoeddus hanfodol,
"Rwy'n annog Llywodraeth y Deyrnas Unedig i gymryd camau yn y Gyllideb hon i gynyddu'r cyllid ar gyfer iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol i gydnabod y pwysau sylweddol y mae'r gwasanaethau hyn yn ei wynebu."
The men were accused of taking part in a massacre of more than 500 civilians in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in 1944.
But a court in Stuttgart said it could not prove the men, who were part of an SS unit, played a role in the deaths.
The decision brings to a close the 10-year investigation into the massacre.
The 17 men, eight of whom are still alive, were part of the 16th SS Reichsfuehrer division of the German army deployed in Italy during the war.
In 2005 an Italian court convicted 10 officers from the division in absentia of taking part in the massacre, which Italian authorities said left 560 civilians dead, including more than 100 children.
But German prosecutors said they were unable to prove that any of soldiers still alive were guilty of murder or accessory to murder - the two charges on which the statute of limitations has not run out.
The countries were involved in a row with Fifa because they wanted to wear the symbol of the poppy during matches.
The poppy is a symbol that is often worn around Armistice Day on 11 November.
Armistice Day is a day every year when the United Kingdom, and other countries, remember those who have lost their lives in war.
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland wanted to wear armbands with poppies on, or have poppy displays on the field or in the stands.
But Fifa said that nations are not allowed to display any political, religious or commercial messages.
However, the UK's football teams ignored Fifa.
England and Scotland players wore armbands featuring the poppy when they met at Wembley on 11 November.
Wales and Northern Ireland's games had poppy displays on the pitch or in the stands to mark the event.
Fifa have fined all four countries for breaking the rules.
England have been fined £35,311, Scotland and Wales £15,694 and Northern Ireland £11,770.
Argyle fan Kevin May was at the clubs' FA Cup tie on 8 January when he received a text with the news.
His son Daniel, 25, was quadriplegic, blind and had cerebral palsy following an operation he had as a baby.
Liverpool brought the unnamed men to Home Park for Wednesday night's replay, along with a special banner.
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Bearing the slogan "RIP Daniel May You'll Never Walk Alone", it was unfurled at the cup tie.
Fans from both sides also joined a minute's applause in the 25th minute, to mark Daniel's age.
Mr May, from Plymouth, described the two men who looked after him during the Anfield clash as his "guardian angels".
Speaking about the special welcome organised by Liverpool, Mr May said: "I had a lovely time with them."
He said before the meeting that it would be "poignant, very nice, and very sad", but he was "determined to focus on the positives, with many thousands of people thinking of my boy Daniel".
"Home Park is where I go to worship and for them to be thinking of Daniel is beyond words," he said.
Mr May was told on the phone that Daniel had died as he watched the first cup game alongside thousands of Plymouth supporters.
The distraught dad, who was taken to a quiet room away from the crowd after receiving the news, later thanked a policeman and staff at Anfield for their support.
His message led to a fundraising campaign led by a Liverpool fan Anthony Grice to pay for the banner in memory of Daniel, who lived in Surrey with his mother.
Mr May said he would take the banner to Daniel's funeral on 7 February.
The Aberdonian finished joint third in the qualifying event at Walton Heath in England, where the top 15 were able to seal a spot at the major.
"I played in the US Open in 2007 with Tiger Woods and Geoff Ogilvy," Ramsay told BBC Scotland.
"And I'm very eager to get back and show that I've moved on from where I was."
Compatriot Russell Knox had already qualified for this season's event because he won a PGA Tour event last year.
"Anytime we get to represent Scotland, especially in the bigger tournaments at the majors, is a proud moment," said Ramsay.
"I'm proud to be in the US Open representing Scotland.
"The US Open is the perfect platform to showcase that I'm capable of mixing it with the best guys out there.
"I feel like I've got a lot more game, a lot more shots and a lot more mental toughness now."
England's Aaron Rai topped the field at Walton Heath with a 14-under-par total for his two rounds, one shot ahead of China's Haotong Li.
Ramsay, who shot two rounds of 66, was tied with Alexander Levy of France one shot further back.
Welshman Bradley Dredge, Ireland's Paul Dunne and English trio Andrew Johnston, Eddie Pepperell and Matt Wallace also qualified.
A diner at Shajan on Longsight Road in Lancashire's Ribble Valley claimed the rodent - later found to be a water shrew - was in their 17 September meal.
Shajan denied wrongdoing and cooperated with the council's environmental health team, which found it "unlikely the rodent had been in the ingredients or cooked due to [its] size".
Damages are sought from eight diners.
It is not known how the water shrew - with a trauma injury on its back possibly caused by a mouse trap - came to be in the curry.
Examination of the shrew's mouth cavity and stomach contents did not reveal any colouration from the spices used in the cooking of curries, the investigation added.
It concluded: "It was obvious [the shrew] would have been spotted during the preparation, cooking, or service of the food."
Potentially defamatory posts were made on social media after the incident, which have since been removed.
A solicitor representing the restaurant confirmed civil action for damages was being taken against eight diners who were part of the group in which the claim was made.
Michael Corrigan added: "We're also contacting police asking them if they could consider whether a criminal offence has been in effect here."
The Indian restaurant's owner Mohammed Ali said he was "relieved" to see "the truth will always come out".
Ribble Valley Borough Council said, like all food outlets, the Shajan Restaurant receives regular environmental health inspections and has had a maximum five-star rating since the introduction of the National Food Hygiene Rating Scheme in 2012.
The 28-year-old had reportedly jumped down onto tracks at the end of a tunnel near Ludlow station in Shropshire, but had underestimated the drop.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said the man had a serious chest injury but was conscious and breathing when medics managed to reach the location.
He was taken by train to the station and then put in an ambulance.
The ambulance took him to a waiting helicopter which then flew him to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Birmingham, for emergency care.
The man fell at about 10:15 GMT and several trains were delayed as a result.
An ambulance service spokesman said: "Due to their location and the difficult terrain, staff decided to use a train to safely transport the patient back to the station.
"This was a protracted and complex case due to its location, but the patient received seamless treatment thanks to excellent team work between different ambulance teams and the station staff."
Warren Gatland's side will take on the All Blacks in a three-game Test series, as well facing Chiefs on 14 June.
"The way they play, the speed of the ball, numbers in contact, it's a completely different game," North said.
"Which is why it is such a hard task to try and match that with what we play up in the northern hemisphere."
North says it has been beneficial for Wales to arrive in New Zealand ten days ahead of the first Test against the three-time world champions, following a long season which included a World Cup campaign last autumn.
"It's a huge task for us. We know that especially after a long season as well, but to come and play the world champions at home was always going to a massive task," North told BBC Wales Sport.
"We needed some time to get over the jet-lag, which is a nightmare, recharge and then turn our minds to the first test on Saturday. It's been good for us and good for the boys to have this time here.
"A three test series in such a short period is going to be tough but we're all ready for it."
Armed with the task of beating the All Blacks after 26 unsuccessful attempts, it will prove a formidable task for North his teammates, but he is looking forward to the challenge.
"We've got to try and contain and defend really. It'll be good so see where we are at the end of it," North added.
"The team have been working hard now for more than a year what with the World Cup and now we've come here.
"It's a huge challenge and to win here would be a huge achievement for the team."
Too many empty seats and increasing competition from mainland Chinese carriers contributed to the poor results, the airline said.
The net loss of HK$575m ($74m; £60.1m) for 2016, was down from a HK$6bn profit the previous year.
It is only the third time the company has posted a full-year loss since it was founded in 1946.
The airline's shares fell by 7% in early trading, but then recovered.
Cathay Pacific is facing fierce rivalry from mainland Chinese and Middle Eastern airlines that are expanding rapidly in the region.
Carriers such as Air China and China Eastern are offering more direct services from the mainland, making it less attractive for passengers to travel via Hong Kong.
The airline said "intense competition" from those rival carriers contributed to sales dropping by 9.4%.
Demand for lucrative business and first class seats had also gone down, said chairman John Slosar.
Passenger yield - the average fare paid per mile per customer - is a closely watched indicator of an airline's financial health.
For Cathay Pacific that figure fell by 9.2% in 2016, while yield on cargo services fell by 16.3%.
Mr Slosar warned that 2017 would be similarly "challenging".
In January, the airline announced a major restructuring programme which would see jobs axed, although it remains unclear how many roles will be affected.
"Our organisation will become leaner," the carrier said in a statement to the Hong Kong exchange on Wednesday.
Fire crews were called early on Saturday as a shed and fence were alight at the Highbridge Caravans site.
A Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said the blaze posed significant danger to firefighters, because of gas cylinders on site.
It is believed the fire quickly spread to the caravans. The fire brigade received more than 60 emergency calls.
The yield on the UK's 10-year gilt dropped below 1.25% for the first time. The yield on the German equivalent also sank to a record low.
More buyers cause bond values to rise and yields to fall, hitting annuity rates, pension fund income, and debts.
Analysts see it as a "pessimistic" sign.
"The low yield on government bonds paints a pretty pessimistic picture of the global economy, and suggests we are set for an extended period of low or negative inflation, and weak economic performance," said Hargreaves Lansdown analyst Laith Khalaf.
Investors have been worried about a weakening Chinese economy, the outlook for US interest rates, and the UK's pending EU referendum vote. Investors typically buy bonds because they provide a long-term, predictable and - crucially - a secure income stream.
But yields have been falling for months. This time last year, the UK 10-year gilt yield was 2%.
Also on Thursday, the 10-year German Bund yield fell to a record low of 0.027%, while in the US, the yield on 10-year notes fell 1.671%, the lowest for three months.
Jason Simpson, fixed income strategist at Societe Generale, said gilt yields could fall further.
He added that trading in the bond market has been thin recently because investors were probably "sitting on their hands" ahead of the referendum, with the small number of trades exacerbating the size of moves in the market.
Mr Khalaf said: 'While all eyes have been on the EU referendum campaign, gilt yields have been slipping, fast.
"The US Federal Reserve is backing away from interest rate rises following wavering employment data, and in Europe the central bank is pumping billions of euros into the bond market every month in the form of quantitative easing, both of which have served to drive yields down."
The demand for higher yields helped the US government raise $20bn on Wednesday from the sale of 10-year notes. The bond issue reportedly received record demand from investment funds and foreign central banks.
"The auction process shows large bidder participation. Those bidders are mostly international buyers who need the yield," said Tom Tucci, head of Treasuries trading at CIBC in New York.
Arthur Collins, 24, is accused of 14 counts of grievous bodily harm with intent and one of throwing corrosive fluid on a person.
Twenty people were hurt when they were doused with a substance at the Mangle E8 club in Hackney on 17 April.
Mr Collins and a 21-year-old man are due on trial on 9 October.
Andre Phoenix of Clyde Road, Tottenham, is charged with seven counts of throwing a corrosive fluid with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
No pleas were entered when both men appeared via videolink at Wood Green Crown Court.
Confirming the date for their trial, Judge Peter Ader told the men "there will be other hearings, but you will be (attending) via videolink."
Mr Collins of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, who is also the father of Ms McCann's unborn child, only said the word "yes" when the judge spoke to him at the end of the hearing.
He and Mr Phoenix are next due to appear at the same court on 13 June.
Mr Gargan, 48, was suspended following allegations of data protection breaches and inappropriate behaviour with women.
A panel found him guilty of misconduct - but cleared him of gross misconduct.
Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens said Mr Gargan's suspension would be lifted and a phased return to work prepared.
In a statement, Mr Gargan said he accepted the panel's findings and apologised that his actions had "fallen below the standards expected of a chief constable".
"I am pleased that the more serious gross misconduct allegations were found not to be proven, including any allegation of inappropriate advances towards female colleagues," he said.
"I am relieved and very pleased that my suspension is at an end."
Mr Gargan, who has been suspended on full pay since May 2014, faced 10 charges of gross misconduct and three charges of misconduct. The PCC said he was found guilty of eight charges at a level of misconduct.
There was insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges over the alleged data protection breaches.
The chair of the Avon and Somerset Police Federation, Kevin Phillips, said there would be "an awful lot of concerned police officers".
Mr Phillips added: "The people who have stood up and said something should be protected and can't be victimised.
"I have no doubt whatsoever that they will have concerns and they will be looking over their shoulders."
Panel chair Dorian Lovell-Pank QC will now write a report of its findings and will recommend any sanctions Mr Gargan should face under police regulations.
The panel met behind closed doors even though Ms Mountstevens wanted the proceedings held in public.
The children, aged five and seven, were at their Bedfordshire school when they revealed their parents had bought them the toys, in March 2016.
The school told police and the two boys were questioned. Their mother says they have since been having nightmares.
The local council has accepted the children were discriminated against.
Central Bedfordshire Council has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum in compensation.
Speaking to the BBC, the boys' mother, who has asked to remain anonymous in order to protect the identity of her children, told how she was called in to school and spent a couple of hours waiting for her children.
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The mother, who is of Indian Hindu heritage, was told one of the boys had been speaking Arabic and talked about attending a mosque, yet she said none of the family spoke Arabic and the children did not go to mosques.
The guns they owned were bright green and orange and made from plastic.
"I was told they had displayed signs that were worrying in terms of being reasonable indicators of being involved in terrorist activity," she said.
"They had no other reason to believe they had any signs of extremism other than the colour of their skin.
"I understand that [terrorism] is a problem, but this is a rather blunt instrument with which to tackle it.
"There are some residual effects - both boys have suffering nightmares. My younger boy fears he might taken away. We are trying to help them move on."
She said she felt her family's reputation "had been trashed".
The school, which is understood to have called the police under the government's Prevent Strategy, would not comment on the case and instead referred the BBC to the local education authority, Central Bedfordshire Council.
The authority said the school had not followed "council procedures".
"We accept the boys were discriminated against and have apologised to the family."
Bedfordshire Police said: "We were called to reports of concern for safety and two officers attended - this was not in a 'Prevent' capacity but routine police attendance and the officers were only present for a short time."
The boys have since been moved to another council-run primary school.
The Pole Intentions classes in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire were criticised after three girls did a demonstration on ITV's This Morning.
But instructor Zoe Hardy said they were about sport, and not sexual.
The International Pole Sports Federation has said classes like this help train future athletes.
"Children are our future pole sports athletes and just like any sport we need to train our athletes from a young age," a spokesperson said.
The federation has included children in the World Pole Sports Championships for the last three years, and has its own Youth Pole Sports Coaching course.
"In order for us to be a recognised sport we have to have the same as other sports, so having children included is what any sport would have and we are no different," said the spokesperson.
Similarly, Pole Sports UK said the participation of children should be "celebrated", not criticised.
"We are actively trying to encourage people outside of the industry to see past the immediate connotations surrounding the term 'pole dancing' to recognise that pole sports is so much more," it said in a statement.
Psychologist Kerry Nixon is among people to have criticised the classes.
"Pole dancing is inextricably linked to sexuality," she said.
"The whole notion of pole dancing historically goes hand in hand with a sexual aspect of dance so therefore it is linked and we can't get away from that."
But Miss Hardy said if adults perceive the activity as being a sexual thing it is "in their own head".
"Now we are moving on and away from the strip clubs to a different kind of pole performance, which is a sport," she said.
Lorraine Handbury, whose 11-year-old daughter goes to the Nottinghamshire classes, said there is no "provocative dancing" involved.
"She used to compete in gymnastics so to me it's no different to that, it's just the bar is a different way," she said.
"They have to wear shorts because you have to be able to hold on with your skin."
Conglomerate HNA Group owns Hainan Airlines and is led by billionaire Chen Feng.
HNA has offered 53 Swiss francs a share for the Swiss firm, an offer which has been backed by Gategroup's board.
The transaction is expected to be completed in July if the deal is approved by regulators.
In a statement, Gategroup chairman Andreas Schmind said: "The offer reflects the fair and adequate value and quality built by Gategroup.
"It makes strategic sense that our company will become part of HNA, one of the leading providers of airport and aviation services worldwide."
HNA Group is the parent company of Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines, the fourth biggest operator in China. The big three - Air China, China Eastern and China Southern - are all state-owned airline groups.
HNA also owns a number of subsidiary airlines including Hong Kong Airlines, Lucky Air and China West Air. In addition, the conglomerate's portfolio includes business interests in real estate and it also owns several retail brands in China.
Between this year and last year, HNA has spent more than $6bn buying companies in the aviation industry.
The company's chairman is attempting to cash in on continued interest in air travel in the Asian region.
In September last year, a unit of HNA purchased an Irish aircraft leasing firm Avolon Holdings for $2.5bn.
In November, HNA spent $2.8bn to acquire airport luggage handler Swissport Group from PAI Partners SAS.
According to industry research, China is forecast to become the world's biggest passenger market by 2034, surpassing the US.
As China's economy slows down, big corporate honchos are looking to hedge their bets by placing their funds outside of China. The Chinese currency, the yuan, has been on a weakening trend recently, partly as a result of what many see as a deliberate move by China to allow its currency to weaken so as to boost exports.
That means if the yuan continues to weaken, it will become more expensive for Chinese firms to buy assets overseas - which may be one reason why you're seeing such a flurry of activity in such a short period of time.
Expect more acquisitions by Chinese firms in the year ahead, but also expect more bumps ahead too.
It's a trend that's set to continue, but will almost certainly run into political trouble ahead of the US elections as a bigger spotlight is shone on China's attempts to snap up overseas assets.
They say pickpocket gangs, four or five strong, have become a regular presence, mingling with tourists visiting the tower and stealing what they can.
Every day there are several victims, particularly among Asian visitors.
Chinese tourists in particular are reputed to carry a lot of cash.
The management of the Eiffel Tower said it was sorry for the disruption and that it was working closely with Paris police to try to reinforce security.
The tower is normally open every day of the year, but sometimes closes briefly for bomb threats or strikes.
Workers at the Louvre staged a similar walkout in 2012, complaining of a rising problem of pickpockets in the Paris museum's galleries.
According to numbers released on Thursday, Paris authorities said violent theft was down 25% and pickpocketing was down 23% in the first four months of 2015, compared with the same period last year.
The North Lowther Energy Initiative is a partnership between Buccleuch and 2020 Renewables.
It would see the turbines constructed to the north west of Wanlockhead.
Buccleuch chief executive John Glen said the proposals were part of a "wider renewable energy and land use strategy" for the area.
The scoping report details the layout of the turbines and could pave the way for a full planning application.
"The submission of the scoping report to Scottish ministers marks the latest stage in the consultation process with local residents and stakeholders," said Mr Glen.
"We have received much valuable feedback which has already informed the design process and we hope this will continue to be built upon now and in the subsequent environmental impact assessment."
Alan Baker, managing director of 2020 Renewables, said the proposed design of the project had "steadily evolved" following initial feasibility studies and subsequent public consultation events.
"The feedback received has helped us arrive at a point where we believe we can develop a project that delivers for the local community as well as on environmental and energy targets," he said.
"There is an opportunity for further refinements to the scheme before a formal planning application is made and we will ensure that all future feedback is taken into account during these next stages."
Prosthetic limbs, a living room carpet and even a box of maggots are some of the things Jean Scott has witnessed people leaving behind on First Glasgow buses over the years.
The 59-year-old is shortlisted for an Unsung Hero title in the UK Bus Awards.
The event highlights the achievements of those working in the bus industry.
In total, 97 finalists have been selected from more than 250 entries across 19 categories and winners will be presented with their awards at a ceremony next week.
Ms Scott, who has worked for more than 37 years in the bus industry, said: "You wouldn't believe what I've seen over the years.
"I remember when I opened a fisherman's bag and discovered tubs of worms which I later released in the park. Once we even managed to return a lost suitcase to Australia.
"Being nominated for this award is very humbling, I just love doing my job and I get great satisfaction returning as many lost belongings to our customers as I possibly can."
Fiona Kerr, managing director for First Glasgow, said: "We're delighted that Jean has been shortlisted for this prestigious award. It's clear recognition of her hard work and dedication to reuniting our customers with their lost property items."
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said they had information to suggest one of those arrested "could undertake violent actions in France".
But he played down French media reports that an attack was imminent.
France remains on high alert after the jihadist attacks in Paris in November that killed 130 people.
More than 100 people were wounded in a series of shootings and suicide bombings that targeted a concert hall, major stadium, restaurants and bars over the course of a Friday evening.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attacks.
French media earlier reported that three men and a woman were detained at dawn in the 18th arrondissement of Paris and the nearby northern department of Seine-Saint-Denis.
They said at least one of those arrested had a prior conviction and had been under house arrest since last month, under new rules imposed after the November attacks.
Mr Cazeneuve confirmed that the authorities had concerns about one of those arrested, saying the suspect was thought to have ties with IS in Syria.
"This person was arrested this morning along with people linked to him," he said.
But he warned against jumping to the conclusion that an attack was imminent, and said such arrests were commonplace.
The Paris prosecutor's office said computer equipment seized during the dawn arrests would be analysed.
The arrests come a day after French police officers, alongside Belgian officers, were involved in a raid on a house in Brussels, that ended in a shoot-out with at least two suspects.
One of the suspects was killed, and later identified as Algerian national Mohamed Belkaid. His body was found alongside Salafist (ultra-conservative Islamic) literature and Kalashnikov ammunition, prosecutors said.
Ernest Turner was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur for his part in the D-Day landings in a presentation in Ilkeston.
He said he was rather embarrassed by the ceremony and, if he was younger, would prefer to fight on the beaches.
A French representative said they owed their freedom to those involved.
The 90-year-old Derbyshire man said: "It was rather embarrassing really [with all the people there]. I would rather be in action if I'm honest. If I was younger [the beaches] wouldn't worry me."
Talking about his role in the D-Day landings, he said: "I was a gunner on 25 pounders - which was a very small field gun.
"I came as a re-enforcement, and when the 43rd [Wessex] Division arrived I was allocated to them and stayed with them until the end of the war."
Asked about his emotions at the time, he added: "I never thought of anything else, other than just doing what I had got to do."
A letter from the French Embassy informing Mr Turner that he was to receive the country's top honour said: "We must never forget those, like you, who came from Britain and the Commonwealth to begin the liberation of Europe by liberating France.
"We owe our freedom and security to your dedication."
The invasion of France in 1944 was a massive undertaking involving tens of thousands of troops and months of careful planning.
On 6 June Allied forces, carried on the largest armada ever seen, landed on five beaches in Normandy, many facing fierce resistance from the Nazi occupiers.
An estimated 4,413 Allied troops were killed in the operation but 11 months later Nazi Germany was defeated.
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The club say it's "the largest profit since the foundation of the football club in 1909".
United - currently bottom of the Scottish Premiership - sold Ryan Gauld, Gary Mackay-Steven and Stuart Armstrong during the accounting period.
Net debt was reduced to £1.28m. Turnover was up 4% to £5.82m but there was an operating loss of £799,000.
Debt had stood at £7.3m in 2007 while the latest profit represents a £2.7m increase on the previous year.
"It is noted that the club continues to spend more than it generates in income," the club added.
"The operating loss for the year was £799k and only successful player trading can sustain such losses.
"Much work continues to be done on identifying and implementing reductions in operating expenses and the value of this work should be reflected in forthcoming results."
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That's after her party, the Conservatives, did worse than people expected in the general election.
Jeremy Corbyn made the speech after being voted the MP for Islington North in London.
Brandon Vandenburg was found guilty on five counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery.
Vandenburg, 23, was a student at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
He was first convicted last year alongside teammate Corey Batey, but the original verdict was thrown out when a juror was found to be a rape victim.
In a retrial, the jury took four hours to find Vandenberg guilty. He was also convicted on one count of unlawful photography.
Four former players were charged in the case but only two were accused of raping and sexually assaulting the woman.
Batey was convicted again in April. The two men now face a minimum of 15 years in prison.
The verdict comes amid controversy over a six-month sentence given to another college athlete, Brock Turner, for the sexual assault of an unconscious woman at Stanford University.
Vandenburg's lawyers argued that he was too drunk to be responsible for his actions. But CCTV footage showed the defendant carrying the victim into a hotel room along with several teammates.
The trial also featured graphic videos and photos that were taken by the players with their phones. Vandenburg's lawyers admitted in court that the images were "disturbing".
The victim, then a 21-year-old neuroscience student, testified that she had no memory of the event.
She said Vandenburg told her when she woke up that she had got drunk and sick and he had taken care of her.
Prosecutors suggested in court that she was under the influence of a date-rape drug.
Parallels have been drawn between the sentence in the Stanford case and the minimum sentence faced by Vandenburgg and Batey.
Dmitry Gorin, a Los Angeles criminal defence lawyer and former prosecutor specializing in sex crimes, told the Associated Press: "It does seem like an extreme disparity, but I would say this.
"With these sex crimes, the facts are very important, the details are very important, and the law punishes the conduct differently depending on what conduct can be proven.
"In the Stanford case, they did not prove rape."
Currently 35 part-time students are on six degree courses taught by 18 part-time tutors, all practicing artists.
The tutors said they had not been consulted over plans to withdraw the courses in their present form.
A university spokesman said it was conducting a wide-ranging review.
He said this is to "be able to face the challenges in the higher education sector in the years ahead".
"As part of that review the university is considering new ways of providing education for adults and fine arts programmes," he added.
Bangor University is "anxious to see these programmes continue" and in talks with the local tertiary college Grŵp Llandrillo Menai as they are "exploring ways of providing the courses".
Wanda Zyborksa, a tutor on the fine arts course, told BBC Radio Wales: "We hope they will reverse the decision."
Fourteen pupils from Portadown College, County Armagh, aged between 14 and 17, were assaulted on Sunday.
Five were treated in hospital but the school's principal said none of them was seriously injured.
Greater Manchester Police described the incident as a 'brutal' attack.
Insp Fahar Zaman said: "This was an unprovoked attack on some young people who were visiting our city.
"It is very disappointing that the memories they are left with will be of this brutal attack.
"We are working with the Trafford Centre to gather evidence and we are following some positive lines of enquiry to find those responsible."
He said said police were treating the matter "very seriously" and were appealing for witnesses to get in touch.
The students had travelled to the city as part of the school's annual trip to attend football matches in Manchester.
Craig, one of the pupils who witnessed the assaults, told the BBC that "at least 40" local youths attacked his school group as they left a shopping centre.
"We were just walking out of the Trafford Centre to go to the bus and a group of people from Manchester, who were all about the same age as us, came behind us and just started a fight basically.
"We were completely outnumbered and they just started a brawl."
He said one of the students from his school sustained a broken elbow in the attack and others were treated for concussion.
The pupils had just attended a football derby between Manchester United and Manchester City.
The principal of Portadown College, Simon Harper, said the teenagers who required hospital treatment were all discharged the same night and have since travelled home to Northern Ireland.
He said he had spoken to the teachers who had accompanied the students on the trip and was satisfied that emergency procedures had been followed.
The chair of the school's Board of Governors, Peter Aiken, said the attack was "traumatic" for the pupils.
"On Sunday evening, they were returning to their bus to go back to the hotel when they were set upon by a group of youths and unfortunately there were nine students on the receiving end of this incident.
"After the incident the police were involved, the students were taken to the police station.
"There were nine students, five needed hospital attention, they were subsequently released and allowed to join the rest of the school party."
Mr Aiken said school staff who were with the pupils "immediately contacted parents and college management and the college policy and procedure was put into play".
He added that the school authorities "honestly don't know at this stage" why the students were attacked and said they would be guided by the police in regard to a possible motive.
"I understand that Greater Manchester Police have been looking at CCTV and will be taking the investigation forward.
"Some of the children have been traumatised by the attack and I hope they will be able to get over this regrettable incident."
The pair, dubbed "fashion icons" by the Chinese media, last met in March 2014 and their fashion styles have been widely compared in Chinese publications.
As a nationally renowned former folk singer, Chinese media have often paid attention to Ms Peng's fashion sense over the years. But given Michelle Obama's "undeniable" sense of style, the media say what both women wear "will be closely watched".
The two first ladies are expected to visit the National Zoo on Friday to look at the giant pandas.
Much was made of Michelle Obama's sense of style during her last visit to China in March 2014. Popular news portal Sina devoted a full page to what both first ladies wore, with the headline banner: "This March, a first lady fashion storm will be blowing in. Are you ready for it?"
Many popular Chinese fashion magazines, including Self, carried images of their outfits.
The China Daily newspaper said the pair had "much in common", were "symbols of glamour" and stood "uneclipsed by their more powerful husbands".
As a folk singer, Peng Liyuan was famous long before her husband came to power.
The Hong Kong daily, South China Morning Post, said recently that "her fashion style has made her a global sensation" and her fan club on popular microblog Sina Weibo - which has over a million followers - keeps a close eye on what she wears to diplomatic events.
When Ms Peng wore a striking red dress to China's 70th World War Two anniversary parade this September, a "political clothing expert" in the Hong Kong's pro-Beijing newspaper Ta Kung Pao said her decision to wear a "classic Western-style dress" rather than a traditional cheongsam "sent a signal - that China is an international community not restricted to Chinese tradition".
And when she visited Seattle, thousands of netizens commented on her outfit. "Mother Peng's style has become the benchmark" said one user, generating more than 200 likes. Others said she looked like a "goddess" and her clothes were "really beautiful".
As Michelle Obama is already recognised in the US for her fashion sense, China's media have started to weigh in on who will win in the fashion stakes.
Fashion magazines are eager for a sartorial rematch between the two.
The South China Morning Post has described their forthcoming meeting as a "much-anticipated fashion face-off", triggering a huge online response.
Popular Chinese website Tencent News describes Ms Peng's fashion sense as "elegant and refined" while Ms Obama's style is "undeniable", noting that she has "repeatedly been the face of American fashion magazine covers". It also highlights the fact that both women made the prestigious Vanity Fair international best dressed list in 2013.
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Reuters reports the world's largest oil exporter was aiming to raise up to $8bn, but high demand led the Finance Ministry to increase the amount.
It is the first time it has gone to the international markets since the early 1990s when Iraq invaded Kuwait.
The country's oil income, its main source of revenue, fell 23% last year.
The loan, which is expected to be finalised at the end of the month, will help Saudi to reduce its reliance on domestic banks and gauge international demand for its debt.
It could also open the way for Saudi to issue an international bond.
The move comes just days after a meeting of the world's leading oil exporters to discuss capping production ended without agreement.
Saudi Arabia appeared willing to only freeze output if all Opec members agreed, including Iran.
But Iran maintained it would continue the increase in oil production it has followed since economic sanctions were lifted earlier this year.
The oil price has fallen almost two thirds since June 2014, driven by a combination of oversupply and competition from US shale oil producers.
Saudi Arabia's budget deficit soared to $98bn (£65.7bn) last year on the back of falling crude prices.
To help make up for the shortfall, the country has cut public spending and increased tax, fuel and energy prices.
Saudi Arabia is not the only Gulf country to seek help from abroad due to the low oil price.
Earlier this year Qatar secured a $5.5bn loan, while Oman borrowed $1bn from overseas.
The Saudi central bank did not reply to requests for comment.
When the computer virus struck on Friday 47 trusts were affected and seven had to close their doors in A&E to ambulances.
Some routine surgery and GP appointments were also cancelled across the NHS in the aftermath.
Services are returning to normal, but some places are still having problems.
The ransomware program demanded a payment worth £230 to unlock the affected computers.
Hackers wanted their payment in the virtual currency Bitcoin, which is harder to trace.
At the time Prime Minister Theresa May said it was not an attack targeted at the NHS.
She said it was an international attack with a number of countries and organisations affected.
National incident director Dr Anne Rainsberry said: "Patients are no longer being diverted away from hospital accident and emergency units and, while there is still some disruption in a small number of areas, most patients are being treated as normal.
"We are grateful for the hard work of staff at trusts and GP practices who are still suffering IT issues but have found ways to work around this, as well as the patience of people who have been affected."
Over six decades, his distinctive voice and towering presence saw him much in demand for a variety of roles.
He successfully combined classical theatre with television and Hollywood blockbusters.
The death of his character in the film Alien has often been voted as one of cinema's most memorable moments.
John Vincent Hurt was born on 22 January 1940 in the town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.
His father, originally a mathematician, had taken holy orders and when Hurt was five, became parish priest at Woodville on the Derbyshire-Leicestershire border.
His parents were reluctant to let him mix with local children, thinking them common, and although the family lived close to a cinema he was not allowed to go to see films.
His first taste of acting came at his prep school in Kent, an establishment Hurt later described as "so high Anglo-Catholic it was flying".
He played the part of a girl in a production of Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird, a tale of two children seeking happiness with the aid of a fairy.
"I felt an extraordinary feeling that I was in the place that I was meant to be," he recalled.
Hurt later revealed that he had been sexually abused by the school's headmaster.
When he was 12 his father was appointed to a church in Grimsby, and the family moved to Lincolnshire.
His parents, keen to see him in what they considered a respectable job, suggested he become an art teacher and he spent a short time at St Martin's School of Art in London
Money was a constant problem and on occasion, he persuaded some of his friends to pose nude and sold the portraits.
One of his subjects, then completely unknown to him, was Quentin Crisp, whom Hurt would later portray.
In 1960 he gained a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a move that finally won his parents round and set him off on an acting career.
He fell in love with French cinema while studying in London, once going to see Jules et Jim every Sunday for seven weeks.
His somewhat bohemian existence persuaded him to become an agnostic, something that shocked his parents.
However, his brother's almost simultaneous announcement that he was becoming a Catholic rather took the sting from his parents' concerns over Hurt's lack of belief.
"That was the blackest day in the family history ever; that was my brother joining the antichrist."
When he finally graduated, he walked straight into a small role in a 1962 film, The Wild and the Willing, which earned him the princely sum of £75 a week.
Hurt began performing on the London stage and married actress Annette Robertson, although the union lasted less than two years.
His first significant film role was as Richard Rich in A Man for All Seasons, Fred Zinneman's biopic of Thomas More, based on the play by Robert Bolt.
While the part of Rich was not a major one, the success of the film - it won six Oscars - pushed him into the spotlight.
Five years later he was nominated for a Bafta, as Timothy Evans in 10 Rillington Place, the true story of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history.
Evans, wrongly hanged for the murder of his daughter, was the sort of vulnerable character that would become something of a speciality for Hurt.
For a time he gained something of a reputation as one of acting's hellraisers, mixing with Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris.
He finally won a Bafta in 1975 for his portrayal of Quentin Crisp, in The Naked Civil Servant, an ITV adaptation of Crisp's autobiography,
His depiction of the colourful Crisp, who flaunted his homosexuality at a time when gay sex between men was illegal, won much praise.
"It changed the business's perception of me as a performer," he later said. "I was warned not to do it - they said you'll never work again, it was such a dodgy subject at the time."
Crisp himself expressed delight at Hurt's performance. "I told Mr Hurt it was difficult for actors to play victims, but he has specialised in victims."
He went on to reprise the role in 2009 in a dramatisation of Crisp's second autobiography, An Englishman in New York.
Other impressive performances followed. He played the tyrannical Roman emperor Caligula in the BBC adaptation of I, Claudius.
And in 1978 he narrowly missed out on an Oscar for his role as heroin addict Max in Alan Parker's controversial film, Midnight Express.
A year later he played a crew member in Alien, becoming a host for the eponymous creature.
The scene where the tiny creature bursts out of his chest has often topped the polls of the scariest moments in film.
In what many consider his greatest role, he played the hideously deformed Joseph Merrick in the film The Elephant Man.
Wearing prosthetic make-up that took eight hours to apply, Hurt excelled in the heartbreaking role of an intelligent man imprisoned in a body that repelled other people.
"Merrick was made into a freak," Hurt said. "A lot of my career is tied up with victims, people who are ostracised."
Tragedy struck in 1983 when his partner of 16 years, Marie-Lise Volpeliere-Pierrot, died after a horse-riding accident.
The following year, Hurt married American actress Donna Peacock.
That year Hurt again played a victim, this time Winston Smith in a film adaptation of George Orwell's 1984.
Critics were almost unanimous in their praise, with Roger Ebert declaring: "John Hurt, with his scrawny body and lined and weary face, makes the perfect Winston Smith."
Over the following decades Hurt's workload remained prodigious, although he played fewer leading roles.
He was a convincing Alan Clark in a BBC adaptation of the philandering politician's diaries, and a memorable Control in the film version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
His distinctive voice, "alternately honey and acid and sometimes a mixture of the two", as one critic put it, was much in demand.
Among the characters he voiced were the rabbit, Hazel, in Watership Down, and the Great Dragon in the BBC children's programme Merlin.
In 2013 he appeared in Doctor Who as the War Doctor, a hitherto unseen incarnation of the character.
Hurt's career saw him appear in more than 120 films as well as numerous stage and television roles. He was as much at home in the theatre as he was in front of a camera.
While many of his contemporaries picked and chose the roles they would play, Hurt cheerfully took anything that came along, no matter how small.
The film critic and historian Geoff Andrew asked Hurt how he managed to regularly turn in such memorable performances.
"The only way I can describe it is that I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine.
"How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe."
Hurt is survived by his two sons and his fourth wife, of 12 years, Anwen Rees-Myers, a former actress and classical pianist.
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Sir John Hurt was one of Britain's best-known and most versatile actors.
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Cilliers, 29, won six Springboks caps in 2012 and joins from Montpellier.
McGuigan, 22, has played 59 first-team games for the Falcons having graduated from their academy, while 25-year-old Brady leaves Sale after six seasons.
Meanwhile, Jono Kitto, 23, George Catchpole, 23, and Jack Roberts, 24, have signed new deals at Welford Road.
The contract extensions for the Tigers trio sees them remain with the Premiership side beyond this season, but the length of all six deals have not been disclosed by the club.
Former Sharks and Stormers forward Cilliers is the third South African to join Leicester recently, with former Springboks captain Jean de Villiers making the move in December, while wing JP Pietersen arrives next season.
"At 29, he is coming into his prime as a prop and we look forward to seeing him getting down to work here in preparation for next season alongside guys like Marcos Ayerza, Dan Cole, Tom Youngs, Logovi'i Mulipola and Fraser Balmain," said Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill.
Cockerill is also pleased to add "dynamic" talent McGuigan to the front row, but the hooker's departure from Kingston Park was criticised by Falcons boss Dean Richards.
"Over the last few years we have invested a great deal into George's development and had high hopes for his future progression at the club and his development into an international player," said Richards.
"So it is disappointing to hear that he no longer wishes to be part of what we are building at Newcastle Falcons."
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Leicester Tigers have signed Sale winger Tom Brady, Newcastle hooker George McGuigan and South Africa prop Pat Cilliers for next season.
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Russia's direct intervention in the Syrian war has consolidated President Bashar al-Assad's position and ensured that regime change will not happen any time soon. It has also transformed the tactical environment in which the Israeli Air Force operates.
Russian combat patrols and sophisticated radars and air defences potentially limit Israel's freedom of action in the airspace over Syria.
So the Israeli prime minister and Russian president have much to discuss. Indeed they have frequent meetings - Mr Netanyahu rushed off to Moscow soon after the Russian military intervention in Syria was announced in 2015, and he was back there again last April. The regularity of these contacts underscores the importance of this "odd-couple" in Middle Eastern diplomacy.
Of course, Moscow's view of the Middle East has always mattered to Israel. Russia remains a permanent member of the UN Security Council. It has been the chief military backer of key regional players like Syria.
And it is of course the original home of hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens who emigrated there from the Soviet Union. Many of them retain strong ties to Russia.
Russia has, for the time being, supplanted the United States as a key player in crisis management in Syria (accepting that direct intervention in a war is a "generous" interpretation of the phrase "crisis management").
Moscow has signalled that it intends to be in Syria for the long-term. It plans to expand its small naval base in the country and its air base looks more and more like a permanent fixture. The country's future will be influenced by key external players like Turkey and Iran but it is the Russians whom the Israelis believe can be persuaded to take on board Israel's strategic concerns.
Israel has largely been indifferent to the fate of President Assad. It has been largely concerned about what happens in the border region near the Israeli-held Golan Heights. Its fear has been that extremist groups would infiltrate the area or that local forces would declare their support for so-called Islamic State.
This is the case, for example, with the Yarmuk Martyrs Brigade - a local militia that holds the territory facing Israeli forces in the southern part of Syria near its border with Jordan.
Now with the fall of Aleppo to Syrian government forces - backed by the Russians and crucially the Iranians - Israel's strategic concerns are growing. On a trip to the Golan just a few weeks ago, senior Israeli military commanders told me of their concern that pro-Iranian groups like Hezbollah or other Shia militias could take over the border region, opening up a new front between Tehran and Israel.
Battle lines in a future war between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organisation could extend from the Mediterranean coast along the Israeli-Lebanon border and well into Syria too, making it a much more extensive and destabilising conflict.
So Mr Netanyahu's chief message to Mr Putin will be that, in any putative peace deal in Syria, pro-Iranian forces should ideally be sent home or at the very least compelled to keep away from the border area.
Their talks may also have a military dimension. Israel is eager to maintain its military co-ordination with Russia to avoid encounters in Syrian air-space. (Something similar to the arrangement that operates between the US and Russia over northern Syria).
Israel is eager to prevent sophisticated weapons systems being delivered to Hezbollah. It carries out periodic air strikes against warehouses or weapons convoys and these strikes do not seem to have been especially hindered by Russia's military presence next door.
A good proportion of these weapons of course are Iranian-supplied, and Israel hopes that Moscow can act as a break on Tehran's growing influence in the region. Iran's broadening role has recently been a key element of the dialogue between Mr Netanyahu and the new Donald Trump administration as well.
But it is the Russians who are the active players on the ground, hence the deepening and complex diplomatic dance between Israel and Moscow.
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Russia is now more important than ever in Israel's strategic calculations.
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Aarons, 20, has scored three goals in 18 appearances for the club since joining in 2012 after a spell at Bristol City.
The England Under-20 man came on as a second-half substitute in their opening game of the season against Fulham.
"It's something that was always going to happen, but it's nice to get it done," he said.
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Newcastle United winger Rolando Aarons has signed a new five-year contract with the Championship club.
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The 27-year-old left-back made 29 appearances for Torquay last season in his second spell with the Gulls.
Rowe-Turner previously had spells in the National League with Luton Town and Kidderminster Harriers.
The Leicester City youth product is the third defender signed by Chester this summer following the arrivals of Andy Halls and John McCombe.
They will help plug the gap left by star youngster Sam Hughes' six-figure departure to 2016 Premier League champions Leicester City this week, on a three-year deal.
Midfielder Paul Turnbull and strikers Harry White, Nyal Bell and Ross Hannah have also signed for the Bumpers Lane club, taking the number of new signings to seven.
The RFU has reported a rise in numbers playing and watching the game since the World Cup was held in England in 2015.
But those new to the sport need educating on behavioural standards, according to rugby development director Steve Grainger.
"We are starting to see some challenges in touchline behaviour," Grainger told BBC Radio 5 live.
"As we bring a different demographic into the game and broaden the number of people that come into the game, I think you inevitably get that."
While rugby union has long vaunted its values around respect towards match officials, Grainger believes verbal abuse from parents and coaches on the touchline at the amateur end of the game is a bigger problem than players' dissent.
"Traditionally a lot of kids that have come into the sport have come in because their parents have been involved in the sport, so you have a culture there," he said.
"As we broaden that, we are bringing in parents who themselves have had no exposure to rugby."
Grainger says education is key if rugby union is to stamp out the growing problem.
"Rugby clubs are very well equipped to deal with that," he said.
"It's important we welcome [new parents] into rugby - they are our future coaches, referees and club volunteers - and we need to bring them on board with what the laws of the game are, and what the culture and the values of our great game are."
Emergency services were called to Zoe Colleran Hair and Beauty on Croxteth Hall Lane at 01:45 BST following reports that a white Ford Transit truck had crashed into the shop.
The front of the building collapsed and adjoining properties have been damaged.
Merseyside Fire Service said it was investigating the cause of the fire.
Three fire engines attended the blaze, which spread from the shop to the first-floor flat above it and also damaged four adjoining bedsits.
The road outside the shop has been closed while investigations continue, Merseyside Police said.
Ramsey, 52, had been in temporary charge at Loftus Road with director of football Les Ferdinand after Harry Redknapp quit to have knee surgery.
QPR confirmed the appointment on Friday night with Ramsey working alongside first-team coach Kevin Bond and goalkeeping coach Kevin Hitchcock .
Ferdinand will 'oversee the trio' and also be involved in training.
Ferdinand said: "He will have a huge part to play in the long-term future of this club at all levels, and we are confident that Chris, supported by the backroom staff, will be able to deliver our goal of Premier League survival."
Ramsey was brought to QPR by Ferdinand in October 2014 and appointed the club's academy manager after a decade as head of player development at Tottenham Hotspur's academy.
The former England under-20 manager worked closely with former Spurs boss Redknapp and will continue to be involved in the running of QPR's Academy.
On Tuesday QPR chairman Tony Fernandes said he had got his "dream manager".
It is not clear if he was referring to Ramsey or a potential permanent successor to Redknapp for next season.
In a statement on QPR's website, Fernandes said: "A lot has been written and said about the position, including by myself, but the decision has been taken to defer the permanent appointment until the end of the season.
"We spoke to many individuals who were interested in the role, one of whom I was quoted on as being a dream, but none of them were right to take the club forward at this time for a variety of reasons, whereas we firmly believe Chris is."
Former Tottenham head coach Tim Sherwood was contacted about the job, while Derby manager Steve McClaren and Real Madrid assistant Paul Clement were also in the frame - although Fernandes dismissed media reports as wide of the mark.
Ex-Swansea City manager Michael Laudrup, currently in charge of Qatari side Lekhwiya, ruled himself out of taking over at QPR in the short term.
Former QPR striker Kevin Gallen says the appointment of Ramsey represents an embarrassing turnaround for Fernandes after his "dream manager" message on Twitter.
"I think the comment he made on Tuesday has made him look a little foolish," Gallen told BBC Radio 5 live.
"It's obvious his dream manager wasn't Chris Ramsey and, now he is the manager until the end of the season, he has had to backtrack."
QPR lost 1-0 to Southampton in Ramsey's first game as interim boss, but they ended an 11-game losing run away from home on Wednesday with a 2-0 win over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light.
Redknapp resigned on 3 February, saying he needed "immediate surgery" on his knee and it would be "better for someone else to take over" because he could not "give 100%" to the job.
The 67-year-old led QPR to promotion to the Premier League last season via the Championship play-offs.
He was suspended from office in December pending a probe into his alleged ties with the former governor of the rich mining province of Ancash.
Ex-governor Cesar Alvarez is in jail while on trial for alleged corruption.
Mr Ramos is accused of covering up for Mr Alvarez while he was head of an auditing department.
Mr Ramos said the allegations were part of "a plot and conspiracy against me". He has five days to appeal against the decision.
A commission which oversees the judiciary voted five to one to fire Mr Ramos.
It said it had found links between Mr Ramos and Mr Alvarez, who is on trial for allegedly granting public work contracts in exchange for bribes.
Investigators said Mr Ramos had arranged to have prosecutors investigating Mr Alvarez fired.
Pablo Sanchez, who has been acting as interim attorney general since Mr Ramos was suspended, is expected to take over the post.
The sacking of the attorney general comes just six weeks after the prime minister was forced to step down over allegations that the country's intelligence services had spied on politicians, journalists and businesspeople.
Analysts say the scandals have hurt President Ollanta Humala, whose approval rating has plummeted to 24%, according to a poll conducted last month.
Flights had to be halted for three 30-minute periods so staff in the control tower could comply with rest breaks despite the shortages.
One passenger complained his plane was delayed by 90 minutes.
The National Air Traffic Services (Nats) apologised for the inconvenience but warned there would be a similar situation on Sunday.
Nats said "staff sickness" had caused the issues in Southampton's air traffic control tower.
A Nats spokesman added: "To ensure we complied fully with the safety regulations around controller rest breaks, this resulted in a stop to inbound and outbound flights for three short periods of time."
Brian Fearn, who is travelling to Malaga, said: "[There are] 150 very frustrated hot and bothered passengers on Flybe destined for Malaga are still on the ground 1.5 hours after scheduled departure with no news when we can get off or get away."
The Nats spokesman said: "We worked with the airport to ensure we kept the disruption to a minimum."
The researchers said the oceans' lowest reaches had untold riches that could benefit mankind enormously, but not if the harvesting were done destructively.
The scientists called for a "new stewardship" of the deep sea.
This would require effective ecosystem management and sustainable methods of exploitation.
The researchers said the fishing sector had already initiated some very damaging practices, such as the widely criticised use of heavy-rolling, sea-floor nets, but that there was still time for other sectors to take more sensitive approaches.
This includes the imminent development and spread of industrial-scale deep-sea mining.
The ocean floor is being targeted as a source for a range of metals and minerals.
Part of this is driven by the insatiable appetite for modern technology devices like cell phones and hybrid cars.
The battery in a Toyota Prius hybrid car, for example, requires more than 10kg of lanthanum.
Large tracts of sea bed have now been licensed to permit the prospecting of manganese nodules, cobalt crusts, massive sulphides to produce copper and zinc, and even phosphates to make fertilisers.
Some of these licences are certain to turn into full-mining permissions this decade.
"The deep ocean is a vast repository of resources, and looking over the long term - the next hundreds of years, say - we almost surely are going in there to mine," said Prof Lisa Levin, a biological oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in San Diego, California.
"Even if some deposits are not currently economically viable, they probably will be in 50 years from now.
"What we're trying to say is that we need to do this in a responsible way, and if we are going to extract these resources, we need to do it with the least amount of harm to ecosystems, and now is the time to start thinking about how we do that," she told BBC News.
The researchers made their call for a new stewardship mentality at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Mining of the deep ocean has been talked about since at least the 1970s, but the advance in underwater robotics and rising commodity prices have brought the notion much closer to reality.
The International Seabed Authority has so far issued 19 prospecting licences, covering a combined area about the size of Mexico.
These licences are held by governments and big contractors, such as Lockheed Martin, which operates in the aerospace, defence and civil sectors, and more requests are pending.
Initial surveys have indicated that some of the metal reserves could be very lucrative, producing materials such as copper that would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars on the London Metal Exchange. But before the extraction can begin, thorough environmental assessments had to be done, said Prof Cindy Lee Van Dover, the director of the Duke University Marine Laboratory, in Beaufort, North Carolina.
"The most effective time to do environmental management is before the mining begins. That mining has not yet commenced, and if we want to get really progressive environmental regulations, we need to do it now," she argued.
"That environmental management needs to be informed by science, and that science needs support from international and national agencies to make it happen. It's not cheap to work in the deep sea."
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People referred for assessment by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) should be seen within 28 days.
NSPCC Cymru said it was a worrying picture.
The Welsh Government said there had been a 44% decrease in people having to wait for six months, compared to 2015.
Des Mannion, the head of service for NSPCC Cymru, said that, while some improvements had been made, it was clear there were still problems.
"These figures lay bare the true scale of delays in accessing mental health services for children and it's a worrying picture," he said.
"It does seem pretty shocking that we're having some young people waiting for more than six months for their first appointment. That can't be good.
"Investment in these sort of services for children and young people is actually money that's well spent both in terms of outcomes for them but also in terms of preventing them needing further intervention support in their adult lives."
Another charity has also expressed concern about the delays.
Changing Minds is a project run by Newport Mind for 14-25 year olds in Newport. It works on early intervention strategies for these young people but said the delays had increased pressure on services.
Project manager Jules Twells said: "I think because CAMHS is struggling with the resources it has, what tends to happen is that when people are on their waiting list, they need additional support so we're getting the referrals that CAMHS and primary mental health care should be dealing with.
"It's putting a strain on our referral mechanisms because we can't support the early intervention because we're dealing with the treatment of mental health issues."
Abi Larcombe, 17, has suffered with mental health issues since she was about 11.
She only received support from mental health services after she tried to take her own life.
"I knew I needed help but I was refusing to acknowledge that there was an issue. I didn't want to accept the fact I was ill," she said.
Aneurin Bevan health board said: "We have had a backlog of cases due to us having experienced a shortfall of clinical staff available to undertake first assessments.
"However, since 2015-16 we have addressed this issue with the provision of additional clinical sessions and a successful recruitment programme which occurred as a result of additional investment by the Welsh Government."
Betsi Cadwaladr health board said its team had seen an increase in demand but it expected to meet its target of seeing 80% of first referrals within 28 days by the end of January.
Powys Teaching health board said that no-one had waited for more than six months since October 2015.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Statistics show that in the 12 months to October 2016 there has been an increase of 16% in the number of referrals to CAMHS, compared with the previous 12-month period.
"Comparing the data from October 2015 with October 2016, there has been a 31% decrease in those waiting over four weeks and a 44% decrease in those waiting over 26 weeks."
The tiger was killed when it caught hold of the guard who was tying a buffalo calf as a bait to a tree in the Bandipur forest range, officials said.
The animal, described as a "man-eater" by authorities, had attacked another man about a month ago, they said.
There are about 1,700 tigers left in the wild in India.
It is estimated India had 100,000 tigers a century ago, but their numbers have declined sharply since then, due to poaching and rapidly shrinking habitats.
With increasing human encroachment into their reserves, tigers often compete for resources with nearby villagers, leading to conflict.
The latest incident took place on Wednesday when more than 60 forest department personnel along with their colleagues from the Special Tiger Protection Force were sent to capture the tiger.
As tigers tend to return to the same spot, the team tied a goat as a bait at the place where the animal had killed and partially eaten a 55-year-old farmer, forest officials said.
The tiger evaded the bait but left behind enough pug marks for the forest department officials, armed with tranquilisers and bullets, to remain on the track.
The tiger was killed in a rather dramatic manner when it pounced and caught forest guard Shiv Kumar.
"It was when Shiv Kumar was trying to tie the bait that we suddenly heard the tiger's growl and the guard's shriek. That's when our sharpshooter Sushil Kumar shot the animal," Ravi Ralph, chief wildlife warden of Karnataka, told BBC Hindi.
Mr Kumar was taken to a hospital where his condition is described as "out of danger".
Last year, in the Doddabetta Forest range near the town of Ooty in Tamil Nadu, forest workers shot dead a tiger blamed for killing three women over two weeks.
Wildlife experts say most attacks on people are chance encounters gone wrong, and victims of such attacks are rarely dragged away as prey.
But a series of attacks on people in quick succession is a tell-tale sign of a man-eater at work.
Fewer than 85 humans are killed or injured by tigers every year in India and the country's strong animal welfare lobby has been campaigning that "man-eaters" should be captured rather than shot.
Forest officials, however, say sometimes prompt action is crucial in saving lives.
Bertrand Piccard piloted the plane for a final time, steering it safely from the Egyptian capital Cairo to the UAE.
He has been taking turns at the controls with Swiss compatriot Andre Borschberg, with the mission aiming to promote renewable energy.
It brings to an end a voyage that began in Abu Dhabi on 9 March last year.
"The future is clean. The future is you. The future is now. Let's take it further,'' Mr Piccard said, arriving into Abu Dhabi to cheers and applause.
The 17-stage journey covered some 42,000km, taking in four continents, three seas and two oceans.
The longest leg, an 8,924km (5,545-mile) flight from Nagoya in Japan to Hawaii, US, lasted nearly 118 hours and saw Mr Borschberg break the absolute world record for longest (time duration) uninterrupted solo flight.
It was just one of 19 official aviation records set during the global adventure.
Mr Piccard and Mr Borschberg have been working on the Solar Impulse project for more than a decade.
The pair had hoped to complete the challenge last year but progress was not quite swift enough to get the best of the weather in the Northern Hemisphere's summer.
And when battery damage was sustained on that epic five-day, five-night passage over the western Pacific in June/July 2015, the decision was taken to ground the effort for 10 months.
Solar Impulse is no heavier than a car, but has the wingspan of a Boeing 747. It is powered by 17,000 solar cells.
Its experimental design presents a number of technical difficulties, with the plane being very sensitive to weather conditions.
Indeed, the passage from Cairo was very bumpy for Mr Piccard as he battled severe turbulence above the hot Saudi desert.
The cockpit is about the size of a public telephone box, with the pilots having to wear oxygen tanks to breathe at high altitude and permitted to only sleep for 20 minutes at a time.
LEG 1: 9 March. Abu Dhabi (UAE) to Muscat (Oman) - 772km; 13 Hours 1 Minute
LEG 2: 10 March. Muscat (Oman) to Ahmedabad (India) - 1,593km; 15 Hours 20 Minutes
LEG 3: 18 March. Ahmedabad (India) to Varanasi (India) - 1,170km; 13 Hours 15 Minutes
LEG 4: 18 March. Varanasi (India) to Mandalay (Myanmar) - 1,536km; 13 Hours 29 Minutes
LEG 5: 29 March. Mandalay (Myanmar) to Chongqing (China) - 1,636km; 20 Hours 29 Minutes
LEG 6: 21 April. Chongqing (China) to Nanjing (China) - 1,384km; 17 Hours 22 Minutes
LEG 7: 30 May. Nanjing (China) to Nagoya (Japan) - 2,942km; 1 Day 20 Hours 9 Minutes
LEG 8: 28 June. Nagoya (Japan) to Kalaeloa, Hawaii (US) - 8,924km; 4 Days 21 Hours 52 Minutes
LEG 9: 21 April. Kalaeloa, Hawaii (US) to Mountain View, California (US) - 4,523km; 2 Days 17 Hours 29 Minutes
LEG 10: 2 May. Mountain View, California (US) to Phoenix, Arizona (US) - 1,199km; 15 Hours 52 Minutes
LEG 11: 12 May. Phoenix, Arizona (US) to Tulsa, Oklahoma (US) - 1,570 km; 18 Hours 10 Minutes
LEG 12: 21 May. Tulsa, Oklahoma (US) to Dayton, Ohio (US) - 1,113 km; 16 Hours 34 Minutes
LEG 13: 25 May. Dayton, Ohio (US) to Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (US) - 1,044 km; 16 Hours 47 Minutes
LEG 14: 11 June. Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (US) to New York (US) - 230km; 4 Hours 41 Minutes
LEG 15: 20 June. New York (US) to Seville (Spain) - 6,765km; 2 Days 23 Hours 8 minutes
LEG 16: 11 July. Seville (Spain) to Egypt (Cairo) - 3,745km; 2 Days 50 Minutes
LEG 17: 23 July. Egypt (Cairo) to Abu Dhabi (UAE) - 2,694 km; 2 Days 47 Minutes
An investigation found Geoffrey Marcy repeatedly violated the campus sexual harassment policies.
The inquiry was prompted by complaints from students about Mr Marcy from as early as 2001.
He is one of the world's top experts on the planets outside of Earth's solar system.
Mr Marcy has publically apologised for his behaviour, which the university found included unwanted massaging, kissing and groping, in a letter.
"While I do not agree with each complaint that was made, it is clear that my behaviour was unwelcomed by some women," he wrote in the 7 October letter.
"It is difficult to express how painful it is for me to realise that I was a source of distress for any of my women colleagues, however unintentional."
Initially, the university only reprimanded Mr Marcy for his behaviour. However, students and staff criticised that decision and called for Mr Marcy to be fired.
A petition which reads "I support the people who were targets of Geoff Marcy's inappropriate behaviour and those who have spoken publicly about it. I agree that sexual harassment has no place in our community" is signed by more than 2,500 people.
A group of 268 astronomers and physicists wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times after it published an article it felt was overly sympathetic to Mr Marcy and his wife, who has defended his actions.
He said there was no reason for the yuan to keep depreciating in value and that China would not let international speculators dominate market sentiment.
Mr Zhou's remarks come as Chinese markets prepare to reopen on Monday after a week-long New Year holiday.
Efforts to defend the yuan have eroded China's foreign currency reserves.
At $3.23tn (2.84tn euros; £2.2tn), China still has the world's biggest reserve of foreign currency holdings.
But that has declined by $420bn over six months and stands at the lowest level since May 2012.
In January alone, the reserves plunged by $99.5bn as the People's Bank of China sold dollars in an effort to shore up the value of the yuan.
Mr Zhou's comments came in an interview published in the Caixin financial magazine.
"International speculative forces have recently focused on shorting China," the People's Bank of China governor told the magazine, without giving further details.
He dismissed fears that China's currency reserves were declining too fast, saying: "It is normal for foreign reserves to rise and fall as long as the fundamentals face no problems."
The Chinese economy posted growth of 6.9% in 2015, its slowest rate since 1990. Fears of an economic slowdown have caused some investors to move their money out of China in search of better returns elsewhere.
However, Mr Zhou said China would not tighten its capital controls as a result. "Capital outflow and capital flight are two different concepts," he added.
The Chinese authorities fear a rapid devaluation of their currency, as it could destabilise the economy.
Many Chinese businesses hold debt in dollars and managing those debts with a severely weakened yuan could cause problems and some companies to fail.
So China has been trying to engineer an ordered devaluation of the yuan, but that is proving hard to deliver.
Investors have been trying to pull funds out of investments priced in yuan and speculators have been betting on further falls in the currency.
To stabilise the situation, China has been selling dollars and buying yuan.
And it has been using other tactics, including curbing currency speculation and ordering offshore banks to retain their reserves of yuan.
The Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (SBNI) was tasked with improving protection for children.
But the authors of a report on its work raised concerns that it spent too much time on the "wrong issues".
They added that "tensions" existed among senior board members.
Alarmingly, among the 11 recommendations from the review panel is a warning that all agencies must ensure the board is notified of cases where a child has died or been significantly harmed.
That suggests vital information was not being shared in some fatal cases.
While the report said fault does not lie with those working directly with vulnerable children, the finger of blame is being pointed to those at the top of the board.
The review said concerns were being raised by many involved in social work but no-one appeared to be listening.
There appeared to be some tensions at the top of the strategic board, but children were still being protected, said the chairwoman of the Northern Ireland Association of Social Workers.
"On the ground, multi-agency work in between police, medics, social workers, education works well," Marcellla Leonard told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
The review was led by Prof Alexis Jay OBE, who led the Rotherham abuse inquiry.
She was appointed as the new chairwoman of the inquiry into child sex abuse in England and Wales on Friday.
Although the review of the SBNI was completed in February 2016, it was only published on the Department of Health's website last week.
Several health professionals involved in the panel and affected by its workings only became aware of the review's recommendations when they were contacted by the BBC.
The SBNI was established in 2012.
At the time, then Health Minister Edwin Poots said the previous child protection committees had been criticised for lacking focus, a strategic perspective and a legislative basis.
But according to this review, little has changed in spite of the board having the protection of children as its core purpose.
"Perhaps the most troubling concern was the lack of structured focus on the multi-agency aspects of child protection," Prof Jay said in her review.
"The board now needs to restate its core role of ensuring that work to protect children is properly coordinated."
The review also covers Operation Owl, which related to 22 child sexual exploitation cases identified by police in 2013.
These cases related to children and young people who had gone missing from care in Northern Ireland and who the police said "may be at risk".
At the time, the SBNI conducted its own review and criticised the authorities for not doing enough.
The board has said the sheer scale of Operation Owl distracted them from their normal business.
But Prof Jay said it was not the review that distracted the board, but the way in which its members chose to handle it.
Throughout the 59-page report, a picture emerges of a disjointed organisation that was experiencing serious governance issues from the top.
That, according to the report, was affecting how health professionals were attempting to deliver care to vulnerable children on the ground.
In 2014, after two years of operating, cracks had started to appear.
After being contacted by members of the panel who had concerns about how the board was operating, the BBC approached the board seeking clarification.
But the questions were dismissed and the BBC was told the board was operating effectively.
The review said all was not well within months of the board coming together, and refers to "low staff morale" and "anxiety" amongst staff.
The SBNI is the responsibility of the Department of Health.
In a statement, it said Health Minister Michelle O'Neill has accepted Prof Jay's recommendations and has written to the board's chair requesting they are implemented without delay.
The French side led on two minutes when City's Carli Lloyd handled in the box and Saki Kumagai converted the penalty.
Kosovare Asllani quickly slotted in the hosts' equaliser but Dzsenifer Marozsan soon put Lyon deservedly back in front.
France striker Eugenie Le Sommer added a third after the break to put Lyon in command for the second leg on 29 April.
Champions League debutants City, bidding to be the first English women's team to reach a European final since 2007, almost pulled one back late on but Abbie McManus' effort was palmed onto the woodwork.
The French league champions, who have featured in five of the past seven Champions League finals - winning three - could have won in Manchester by a bigger margin.
Both sides went into the game having kept 13 clean sheets in their past 16 games, yet the match started at a frantic pace, with three goals in the opening 16 minutes.
Lyon had an effort from France captain Wendie Renard cleared off the line even before Japan's Kumagai calmly tucked in from the spot after World Player of the Year Lloyd's handball.
Toni Duggan's fine through ball allowed Sweden's Asllani to level but the visitors were a constant threat and Marozsan quickly drilled in for 2-1 and substitute Le Sommer added further damage from a tight angle in the second half.
Women's FA Cup finalists City - Britain's first Women's Champions League semi-finalists since Birmingham City in 2013-14 - won the English title and League Cup in 2016 and could still theoretically win five trophies in the space of nine months.
But Lyon will now reach 1 June's final in Cardiff if they avoid conceding three goals or more in the return leg in France next Saturday.
Manchester City Women: Bardsley, Bronze, Stokes, Houghton (c), Asllani, Scott, Duggan (Stanway 83), Lawley (Christiansen 81), McManus, Walsh, Lloyd.
Subs not used: Hourihan, Middag, Beattie, Ross, Parris.
Lyon Feminines: Boudhaddi, Renard (c), Kumagai, Majri, Houara-D'Hommeaux, Morgan (Le Sommer 56), Marozsan, Hegerberg, Buchanan, Abily, M'Bock Bathy.
Subs not used: Gerard, Hamraoui, Thomis, Petit, Henning, Seger.
Attendance: 3,614
Glasgow, Belfast and Manchester will host 'Home Series' ranking events, alongside the current Welsh Open.
The tour prize money will also increase from £8m this season to £8.5m in 2015-16 and £10m in 2016-17.
"There will always be players who criticise, depending on how it affects them, that's human nature," said Hearn, who took control of snooker in 2010.
"I need to think about the development of the sport. There will be casualties."
The prize money has increased from £3.5m since Hearn took over and he has now outlined plans to expand the sport further.
The 'Home Series' will see the introduction of Scottish, Irish and English Open tournaments, alongside the Welsh Open, which was established in 1992. If a player wins all those events, he will receive a £1m bonus.
All events apart from the World Championship with see a 128-person draw, but the showpiece 32-competitor event at the Crucible will be unchanged with regard to format, seedings and qualifying.
The winner of the world title will receive £500,000 from the 2017-18 season onwards, with this year's victor set to receive £300,000.
He was Alistair Sloss of Ruskey Road in the village.
Mr Sloss's death is being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland.
In a statement, the HSE said its "deepest sympathies are with the man's family at this most difficult time".
DUP MLA Keith Buchanan said the man's death was "another tragic loss within the farming community".
"The local community's in shock. Any small rural area, everybody knows everybody else," he said.
"The amount of farmers across Northern Ireland and across the country working at slurry at this time of year, unfortunately these things can and will happen.
"Hopefully the message will come through to take more time and be cautious."
Ulster Unionist MLA Sandra Overend said: "To hear of another local farming accident brings a clench to my stomach.
"I was so saddened to hear of the tragic death of Alistair Sloss yesterday evening and I immediately thought of his family who are suffering their greatest sadness; my heart goes out to them."
Wesley Aston of the Ulster Farmers' Union said the "tragic news" of Mr Sloss's death showed there could be no complacency around the issue of farm safety.
"Just a couple of days ago, we got encouraging news from the Health and Safety Executive about how much we had made progress in reducing farm deaths," he added.
"Unfortunately to receive this tragic news last night just shows that we can't be complacent and it is important that we do take every action that we can to avoid such events happening in the future."
The blaze broke out at Reading Lake Hotel, Pingewood, which is close to the M4, at about 11:40 GMT.
It is believed the fire started in the roof of the building, next to the 33-acre (13-hectare) lake, but an investigation is under way.
Ten fire engines were sent to the scene but there were no reports of any injuries.
A group of boys had thrown eggs at windows before one boy was chased by a man and punched so hard in the face he needed stitches.
The assault happened at about 20.00 on Saturday night in Old Kilpatrick, Clydebank.
The boy was taken to a Glasgow hospital where he received stitches to an eye wound.
The suspect is described as white, in his 40s, of "chubby" build with stubble on his face and dark hair, according to Police Scotland.
The boy was with friends in the lane between Harris Drive and Old Dalnottar Road when the man chased and assaulted him.
The suspect then ran off in the direction of Old Dalnottar Road.
Police believe that the suspect came from one of the houses involved.
Det Con Nicola McGowan said: "Whilst we are not condoning the egg throwing - that in itself was dangerous and upsetting for the householders - it's no excuse to hit a child in the face so hard they had to get stitches."
Police have appealed for witnesses.
The head of the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) has told BBC Wales he believes the problem will get worse.
People are being turned away by funeral directors because they cannot afford deposits, leaving councils to foot the bill for so-called "pauper funerals".
BBC Wales' Week In Week Out programme found Welsh councils have increased charges by 168% in the last 10 years.
This is three times the rate of inflation recorded the Office of National Statistics over the same period.
On average it now costs well over ??800 to buy a grave in Wales.
Last month a report found the average cost of a cremation in the UK was ??2,720 and a burial was ??3,462.
Joanne Sunter, from Portmead in Swansea, said she was turned away by four funeral directors because she was unable to pay a deposit of hundreds of pounds up front.
"I was heartbroken. My mother was in a mortuary rotting and none of these people would help me," she said.
"I just wanted to put her to rest as did my brother and sister and the rest of the family."
Funeral directors like Clive Peterson in Cwmbran blame local councils saying increased charges for services associated with burial and cremation are the reason funerals have become so expensive.
"There doesn't seem to be any control," he said.
"For instance we've had notification in recent times that Caerphilly District Council are putting up the burial fees up by 18% plus inflation, every year for the next five years."
A public health funeral consists of a simple service after which the deceased is either cremated or buried in an unmarked grave which could potentially be reused three or four times.
At least one such funeral - traditionally held when there is no remaining next-of-kin - takes place in Wales every week.
But Week in Week Out has found councils are dealing with more cases where families simply cannot afford to pay or because funeral directors have turned them away.
The programme asked every council and local health board in Wales, through a freedom of information request, how many public health funerals they dealt with on an annual basis from 2001 to 2010.
Due to reorganization not every health board was able to respond but the figures gathered suggest numbers had doubled over the decade.
Steve Thomas, chief executive of the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA), said: "I'm not surprised by that, and I suspect we will see a growing trend towards this.
"Now it's not a trend any of us would welcome, but it does it reflect the nature of society and probably the problems we have in the economy at the moment."
Week In Week Out: The Cost Of A Welsh Funeral will be broadcast on Tuesday, 11 October at 22:35 BST on BBC1 Wales.
18 August 2017 Last updated at 11:18 BST
There are plans for the bell to be silent for four years while repair work is done.
But not everyone is happy about it.
The plans aren't set in stone yet but we thought it would be a good opportunity to tell you a bit more about Big Ben.
Here is our 60 second guide.
BBC Sport reported in June that Ronaldo was left upset after being accused of tax fraud and wants to leave Spain.
A move back to United, whom he left for a then world record £80m in 2009, has been mentioned as a possibility.
However, when asked about the likelihood of the move, Mourinho said it cannot happen due to the "economic difficulty" of doing the deal.
Mourinho was asked about signing Portugal captain Ronaldo after his side had beaten LA Galaxy 5-2 in the first match of their pre-season tour of the United States on Sunday.
"I am not going to get my club to waste time on players who are mission impossible.
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"Ronaldo is such an important player for his club. A player of great economic power. We have not been able to find any reason that could have made us think that Ronaldo could leave."
Mourinho added that he did not believe another Real Madrid player, striker Alvaro Morata, will end up at Old Trafford either.
"It is a shame," he said.
"He is a player who made it to the first team with me and I have a special liking for. I enjoyed watching his evolution in Juventus and Madrid.
"But we have not reached an agreement with his club and I don't think he can end with us."
The 19-year-old from Strabane spent three years with Spurs and part of their development squad.
He was released by the White Hart Lane club in June.
McDermott will compete with regular keeper Ger Doherty and understudy Eric Grimes for a place in Kenny Shiels' Derry side.
City are currently third in the Premier Division and their next match is away to fourth-placed Shamrock Rovers on Friday, 4 August.
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The 17-year-old finished with four medals in Romania after an all-around gold, vault silver and bars bronze.
"I've hit 12 out of 12 routines and to come away with four medals is absolutely crazy," she said.
British gymnasts leave the championships with six medals, after James Hall won all-around bronze and Courtney Tulloch took rings silver.
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Downie qualified for every final in Cluj and only failed to win a medal on the beam, where she finished fourth.
"I'm definitely very happy with these championships. It couldn't have gone much better for me," she added.
"I'm pretty knackered to be honest. Coming in to today was the most tired I've felt.
"But I think the crowd and adrenaline and what I'd done the last couple of days just pushed me on."
And she said the disappointment of missing out on a medal at the Rio Olympics had spurred her on.
"I took a break, came back and was just ready to go again," said Downie.
"I've worked so hard, I've pushed my fitness, and it's paid off here. I couldn't be happier."
Also on Sunday, Hall narrowly missed out on his second medal of the championships, coming fourth in a high-quality high bar final.
Elsewhere, Claudia Fragapane fell off the beam to finish eighth, while on the floor a big step-out left her in seventh.
Dom Cunningham placed sixth in the men's vault final.
Ambulance call-outs to prisoners have doubled in four years.
And the Prison Officers' Association blame psychoactive substance use for the rise.
The Ministry of Justice said it was committed to making prisons "places of safety and reform".
Figures were obtained for Cardiff, Swansea, Parc in Bridgend and Usk prisons by BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf programme.
They showed ambulance call-outs doubled from 202 in 2012-13 to 406 in 2015-16.
Between 1 April - 31 December last year, there were 281 callouts.
The union's Glyn Travis described a type called spice leading to more cases of self-harm, suicide and prisoners being found unresponsive in their cells.
"A prison population is like any community, you've got young, old... you've got people who are dependent on medication, who are dependent on drugs," he said.
"But what we're seeing is that we're getting a more violent and volatile prison population.
"We believe that one of the underlying causes of that is the accessibility of what people call legal highs."
One of the new ways prisoners are getting access to drugs is people on the outside using drones.
"They hover above a cell window and a prisoner quite simply puts his hand out of the window and catches the package," said Mr Travis.
In 2016, the UK government made the substances illegal although they are still entering the prison system.
Mr Travis said the situation was being exacerbated by a reduction in the number of front line prison staff.
"I would say that prisons are in absolute turmoil - like the rush hour of the tube stations in London on a daily basis.
"You have prisoners milling around with very few staff to supervise them and disorder and ill-discipline can very quickly break out and come to a problem."
Paramedics told BBC Wales that incidents were also stretching their resources - with a callout taking far longer than one to somebody's home.
The Welsh Ambulance Service's Richard Lee said: "When we respond to patients in a prison there are security requirements which we comply with in order to enter or leave the scene which obviously take longer than entering a residential address."
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "We have taken immediate action to stabilise the estate and help tackle the drugs, drones and phones that undermine security.
"We are also investing £100m annually to boost the frontline by 2,500 officers.
"These are long-standing issues that will not be resolved in weeks or months but our wholesale reforms will lay the groundwork to transform our prisons, reduce reoffending and make our communities safer."
The Department of the Environment has received a letter asking for more information following complaints to the commission.
The complaints were made by Friends of the Earth and other organisations 15 months ago.
The department has 10 weeks to provide the information.
The commission then has 10 weeks to decide whether it is satisfied with the answers.
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has given sand companies until the end of June to stop dredging from the bed of the lough.
It is internationally recognised as an important bird habitat and has been given special protection area status under European rules.
Mr Durkan had been criticised by environmentalists for a failure to act to protect it.
News about the commission's letter emerged in response to an assembly question by Green Party leader Steven Agnew.
In response, Mr Durkan said the commission was seeking clarification "on allegations relating to a number of environmental matters, including reference to the Lough Neagh special protection area".
"Lax environmental regulation and poor planning could lead to Northern Ireland facing big so-called infractions, or fines," said Mr Agnew.
Mr Durkan said he would seek to show that "compliance has been achieved, or prioritise any actions necessary to the satisfaction of the commission".
He added that he and his department were taking "all steps necessary to minimise the risk of any infraction penalties".
James Orr of Friends of the Earth said his organisation had raised issues about systematic and persistent failures by the government in fulfilling their legal obligations to the environment.
He claimed important EU directives on habitats and environmental impact assessments had not been properly implemented.
The plan was one of two alleged terror plots recently uncovered by authorities, who made several arrests across Sydney on Saturday.
The suspects were allegedly aided by the so-called Islamic State (IS).
The other plot involved building and setting off a device that could release toxic gas in a public enclosed space.
Police said the plans had been "completely disrupted".
Australian Federal Police (AFP) Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan said this was "one of the most sophisticated plots that has ever been attempted on Australian soil".
He said two suspects had built and concealed a "high-end" military-grade explosive in a piece of luggage.
The plan was for the brother of one of the suspects to take the luggage with him onboard an Etihad Airways plane leaving Sydney airport on 15 July. The brother was not aware of the bomb, said police.
But for some reason the plan was aborted at the last minute, and although the piece of luggage was taken to the airport, it was not checked in. The brother then boarded the flight - whose destination has not been specified - without the luggage.
"There is a bit of conjecture [about] why it did not get through the baggage check-in, but I want to make it quite clear - it never got near [security] screening," he said.
Police say the suspects had assembled the bomb using parts that were sent in one package from Turkey via air cargo, which was arranged by a senior IS figure.
One of the suspects had been in contact with that figure since April.
Police said that when the bomb plot failed, the two suspects started on a second plot which involved creating an improvised chemical device designed to release hydrogen sulphide, or "rotten egg gas".
However, Mr Phelan said the plan was not close to fruition when police intervened on Saturday.
He said police had recovered components and chemicals.
Mr Phelan did not name a possible target for the device.
The two suspects - Khaled Khayat, 49, and Mahmoud Khayat, 32 - appeared via video link in a Sydney court on Friday charged with "preparing for, or planning, a terrorist attack".
The pair did not apply for bail during the brief hearing, which was adjourned until 14 November.
If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of life in prison.
The men were arrested along with two others on Saturday when police raided properties in the Sydney suburbs of Lakemba, Punchbowl, Surry Hills, Wiley Park and Bankstown.
One man was released without charge on Tuesday. The fourth man remains in police custody, where he can be held without charge until Saturday.
Hywel Griffith, BBC News, Sydney
Australia has been touched by the threat of terror several times - most often by so-called home-grown or lone wolf dangers.
What makes the latest alleged plots different is that they are believed to have been co-ordinated abroad, with an IS controller giving instructions over the course of three months.
Police have repeatedly stressed how sophisticated they believe these plans had become, alleging that IS successfully managed to send military-grade explosives into Australia.
That creates a very different dynamic for the intelligence services, who will need to assess whether they can realistically intercept items being flown into the country.
While the security forces have been widely praised for their work in disrupting this alleged plot, they will be keenly aware of how the terror threat is continuing to evolve.
The nation's official terror warning level remains at "probable" - the third level on a scale of five.
"This is the 13th time, because of the excellence of our law enforcement agencies, that we have been able to stop a terrorist attack from occurring on Australian soil in the past three years," Justice Minister Michael Keenan said on Friday.
To date, there have been no mass casualty terror attacks on Australian soil.
Last year, Australian police said they foiled a major terror attack planned for high-profile locations in Melbourne on Christmas Day.
The £28m "managed realignment" at Medmerry in West Sussex has seen the building of 7km (four miles) of new sea walls up to 2km inland.
By letting the waters in, the Environment Agency says the risk of flooding for hundreds of homes will be reduced.
The surrendered land will become a wetland habitat for many species.
The sea has long been a threatening presence on the flat land of the Manhood Peninsula that juts into the English channel on the coast between Portsmouth and Worthing.
Caravan parks in Selsey and Bracklesham Bay have been flooded a number of times in recent years, as the shingle defences have yielded to the surging seas.
Since 2011, the Environment Agency have been working on a plan that they believe curbs that threat.
The project is billed as the country's largest ever coastal flood realignment scheme, but it has required the destruction of the existing sea wall at Medmerry and giving back to the sea some of the land nearest to the coast.
"We have made a hole in the sea wall," the Environment Agency's flood and coastal risk manager, Andrew Gilham, told BBC News on a visit to the site.
"But before doing that we've actually built 7km of new defences further inland from the coast. What we've been able to create here is an area that can absorb the energy of the waves and reduce the flood risk to people."
Although the new walls are much closer to local communities, the Agency says homes are much better protected as a result, with the development able to withstand a once in a thousand year flood.
The change is partly being forced on the Agency because of EU legislation that requires compensation for the loss of wildlife habitat through development. The Medmerry scheme makes up for the loss of similar conservation areas in and around the Solent.
"It is not politically driven," said Mr Gilham.
"But the benefit of creating the habitat here is not only to reduce flood risk in this area but also to reduce flood risk to communities in Portsmouth and Southampton.
Abbotts Hall Farm is owned by the Essex Wildlife Trust and managed retreat was pioneered there in 2002.
Located on the Blackwater estuary, a wall keeping out the waters was breached to create 80 hectares of wetlands and intertidal habitats.
According to Karen Thomas from the Environment Agency it has been a huge success, particularly in mitigating the flood risk further up the river in populated areas.
"It's a really great site to take the pressure out of the tide. On big surge tides it is not going up and overtopping other defences," she said.
The new marshland is an important breeding ground for birds and for 10 different fish species.
"What we are trying to do here is create sites of sustainable wildlife so that people and animals have this in the future as a legacy," said Ms Thomas.
"If we weren't able create habitat here we wouldn't be be able to do those defences."
The scale of the £28m development is enormous. Between the new earthen walls and the sea stand 183 hectares of land that the Agency says will rapidly become a saltwater marsh, with potentially huge benefits for wildlife in the area. It will be managed by the RSPB.
"Even in construction, we're seeing lots of migratory birds using this area," said Andrew Gilham.
"It is already starting to be used by the wildlife. It's a massive nature reserve and a massive opportunity on the south coast."
Local people are hoping that letting the sea in will not only protect their homes but boost the local economy as well.
Alan Chamberlain is the estate manager of the newly renamed Medmerry Park holiday village. His business, located next door to the new habitat, is actually below sea level.
"In the past we have been very close to flooding, and now we've got a one-in-one-thousand-year protection, one of the best in the country actually," he told BBC News.
"For us it's a win win, it will encourage visitors to the site, birdwatchers and those interested in nature."
The new development is facing its first big test on the day it opens as it will see one of the highest tides of the year. But the Environment Agency are fully confident it will pass with flying colours.
Medmerry is one of a number of managed realignment projects that the Environment Agency are involved in. Andrew Gilham says it's part of a new approach.
"Rather than fighting it, we are working with nature," he explained.
"It's an important change in approach, you can only keep building bigger and bigger defences for so long. We have to ask if we can make better use of public money.
"Certainly the habitat we are creating here is important to the broader ecosystem and the broader economy of the country by encouraging people to visit remote areas."
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Research published by business advisers BDO indicated that Edinburgh led other cities with year-on-year growth of 12%.
Glasgow was close behind with growth of 8.3%, while revenue in Inverness remained almost static.
BDO said "very difficult" conditions reported in the Aberdeen economy were reflected in the figure for hotel revenue declining by 43%.
The problems in Aberdeen dragged down the Scotland-wide figure, which was down 1.8%. The UK average was a decline of 1.5%.
Alastair Rae, BDO's head of audit practice in Scotland, said: "The hospitality sector in Edinburgh and Glasgow had an excellent March with considerable revenue increases in both cities.
"The early Easter and the Six Nations rugby helped Edinburgh increase revenues from leisure activities while Glasgow benefited from a number of concerts and events during the month. For Inverness the month was a 'steady as she goes period' with little change in occupancy or revenue."
But Mr Rae warned: "For Aberdeen's hospitality sector the situation remains very difficult.
"The considerable drop in revenue remains quite stark and is obviously linked to the double digit decline in occupancy.
"Although Aberdeen's revenue is falling from a very high figure a 43.0% drop in year-on-year numbers is a concern."
The European Space Agency has taken a decision this week to reserve a rocket to launch the Sentinel-1 radar satellite in 2013.
It should be followed into orbit by further satellites in 2014.
But the European Union, which owns the programme and will fund its operation, has stalled on the financing.
It means - at the moment - that Sentinel-1 would get into space with only a few months of guaranteed budget to sustain its observations of the planet.
Nonetheless, the council of Esa, which has been meeting in Paris over the past two days, is confident the money issues can soon be resolved.
"The council has asked the executive to go ahead, to start all the activities that will make a launch possible next year, between October and the end of 2013," explained European Space Agency (Esa) spokesman Franco Bonacina.
"We cannot wait; if we wait, we risk losing our launch slot and that could end up costing us more money," he told BBC News.
Sentinel-1 would ride into orbit on a Soyuz rocket from the Sinnamary spaceport in French Guiana. The spaceport's operator, Arianespace, needs a year's notice that a satellite will be ready to fly so that it can plan a launch schedule.
Without a reservation being made now, Sentinel-1's flight would almost certainly be bumped to 2014.
The radar mission will be engaged in wide range of land and ocean surveillance tasks, such as oil-spill monitoring and earthquake hazard assessment.
Until recently, this data was provided by the Envisat spacecraft. But its sudden failure in orbit in April has put some urgency behind the desire to launch its successor.
Sentinel-1 is just the first in a series of orbiting sensors for the multi-billion-euro project intended to inform European policies to deal with global change, and to help enforce EU law.
This venture, known as Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES), is a European Commission initiative on which Esa is acting as the technical adviser and procurement agent. Simply put, Esa is building GMES for the EU.
But the EC is currently in dispute with its own member states over the future financing of the endeavour.
The commission, which is the executive arm of the 27-nation bloc, had wanted GMES funded as an intergovernmental venture, in which the big participating states would cover most of the costs.
The EU's member nations, on the other hand, demanded GMES be included inside the union's next multi-annual budget (2014 to 2020) to provide the project with continuity and certainty.
The European Parliament felt the same way, and Denmark, which currently holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, has just told the Commission that GMES's position in the multi-annual framework should go into negotiation.
"This has helped ease concerns and convince everyone that these issues will soon be sorted out," Mr Bonacina said. "And of course the Envisat users are desperately waiting for something to replace the satellite they have lost."
However, the Esa council decision to go ahead and reserve a Soyuz is not a hard decision to actually launch Sentinel-1, and if the EU fails to fix a satisfactory budget then the programme will be plunged into crisis.
The sums involved in GMES financing are considerable. Already, the EU and Esa have committed 2.3bn euros (£1.9bn) to the construction of a fleet of spacecraft, and it is envisaged a further 5.8bn will be needed to carry the project operationally through to the end of the decade and plan for its ongoing maintenance.
The Sentinels represent the biggest commitment to Earth observation from any geopolitical bloc.
Sentinel-2 will be an optical imager, focusing on land changes. Sentinel-3 will carry instruments to measure sea-surface topography, and ocean and land surface temperature. Sentinels 4 and 5 are sensors dedicated to the study of atmospheric chemistry and will be hosted on Europe's meteorological satellites.
The other significant development to come out of the Esa council meeting concerned Europe's ExoMars programme.
This involves two missions to the Red Planet that are planned to launch later this decade.
Esa is currently trying put in place the technical and financial arrangements that will permit these missions to proceed. Changes were required when the US space agency (Nasa) withdrew from the projects last year.
Esa's council noted the efforts of its executive to find a full budget for ExoMars (it is short by several hundred million euros) but took no formal decision on the future of the programme.
It is expected a sum of about 80m euros will be released to industry later this month to enable the building of the spacecraft to continue. The situation will then be reviewed again at the end of the year.
The 2016 mission would put a satellite in orbit around Mars to study its atmosphere. It will also have a small landing demonstrator that will do some very short-lived science on the surface of the planet.
In 2018, a rover would then be sent to land on Mars and search for signs of past or present life.
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Officials in the Canadian city say that the project is necessary in order to replace old infrastructure in the sewage treatment system.
The operation has drawn the ire of people in Canada and in the US who have concerns that the river will be polluted with condoms and nappies.
The dump was delayed during the recent Canadian election.
Officials began releasing the raw sewage into the river just after midnight local time (05:00 GMT) on Wednesday, and say it could last about a week.
Citizens are being asked not to flush medication, condoms or tampons down the toilet while the operation goes on.
The diversion of the raw waste is needed so that workers can replace a snow chute - a large opening that funnels water from melting snow to a facility used to treat the sewage.
Officials at the city of Montreal have said the dump will have little effect on the fish population and will not affect the quality of drinking water for citizens.
The plan was approved by Canada's new environment minister on the condition that a host of conditions including extensive monitoring were abided by.
However, the plan has drawn ire on both sides of the US-Canada border.
Mathieu Traversy, a provincial legislator of Parti Quebecois, said cities were concerned that riverbanks would be marred by "diapers, condoms and syringes".
Across the border, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has asked the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to intervene.
For its part, the EPA has said it has no regulatory authority over the river, which lies entirely in sovereign Canadian territory.
The previous record, $525m (£352m), was set by Jurassic World in June.
The seventh instalment of the nearly 40-year-old space saga opened with a record-breaking $248m (£167m) in the US and Canada.
JJ Abrams' film has also achieved the largest four-day weekend total in British and Irish cinemas with £34m.
That sum is almost 28 times more than its nearest rival, the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy Sisters with £1.2m.
The Force Awakens' takings were almost £15m more than the £19.3m that saw Jurassic World claim the record for the largest four-day weekend in the UK and Ireland earlier this year.
But it cannot claim to have had the biggest opening ever in British and Irish cinemas - a record currently held by the most recent James Bond film, Spectre.
That film's £41m first-week tally, however, was based on seven days of takings as the film opened on a Monday.
The new Star Wars film also set a new opening night record in the US and Canada.
The Force Awakens made $57m (£38.3m) on Thursday night, beating the previous record of $43.5m (£29.2m) held by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
Analysts say the space saga could become the biggest-selling movie of all time.
The latest film returns to "a galaxy far, far away" some 30 years on from the action of 1983's Return of the Jedi.
It sees original trilogy stars Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher reprise their Han Solo and Princess Leia roles alongside younger franchise newcomers.
"Our sole focus has been creating a film that delivers that one-of-a-kind Star Wars experience, and director JJ Abrams, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and the Lucasfilm team have outdone themselves," Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said.
John O'Dowd accused both dissident paramilitaries and some within the security services of being "conflict junkies".
He raised concerns that some informants may, in certain circumstances, be protected from prosecution.
Police acknowledge MI5 has informants working within dissident groups.
However, senior officers say the security service's role is only to gather information.
However, Mr O'Dowd said: "Twenty-five years ago, when people said there was collusion between the state and paramilitaries, they were accused of 'provo propoganda'.
"It is now clear that it was not propaganda and it cost people their lives.
"I think, now, there is a responsibility for us to challenge the security services to ensure their staff and their agents are not operating these organisations.
"There is a common cause between conflict junkies, whether they be under the banner of republicanism or in MI5."
Police believe dissident republicans were responsible for a bomb attack in Lurgan earlier this month which, they said, was intended to kill.
Officers were lured into an area close to Mr O'Dowd's constituency office by reports of a suspicious object. As they were examining it, a second device exploded.
Assistant Chief Constable Will Kerr, head of the PSNI's crime operations department, said: "Intelligence is critical for every single facet of policing.
"But it is subject to such a heavily regulated statutory regime that the things that are alleged by some of those commentators simply could not happen and do not happen,"
ACC Kerr said he was concerned that phrases like "war junkies" and "conflict junkies" were being used by elected representatives.
"We need to be very careful about the language we use in Northern Ireland because what we do not want to do is to give these small unrepentant, unrepresentative groups a legitimacy or a justification for an attempt to kill local police officers," he said.
"You can never justify that."
This week, police searches in Londonderry focussed on what the police described as "dissident terrorist activity".
There are several different dissident republican groups, but their total membership is thought to be small.
However, there are areas where they have small pockets of support and there is a concern that some organisations may try to take advantage if Northern Ireland enters a period of political instability.
Both unionist and mainstream republican politicians have said that Stormont's future is in question because of rows over welfare reform, budgets and troubles-related issues.
"I would think that people involved in that would naturally want to exploit any kind of weakness that is appearing in the (political) set-up in the north of Ireland," said Cait Trainor who calls herself a dissident republican.
Ms Trainor made it clear that she is not involved with any violent or paramilitary groups, however she did not expressly condemn their recent actions.
"I do not think that trouble or bombs going off is a good thing - I would never sit here and say that," she said.
"But, ultimately, what I think is a worse thing is the ongoing occupation of Ireland."
All of Northern Ireland's main political parties and the police have repeatedly said that it is important to highlight the positive changes in Northern Ireland as a result of the peace process.
They have warned that support for dissident groups threatens that progress.
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Scottish Renewables found 921 million litres of waste water and sewage were flushed down toilets and plugholes in Scotland every day.
It said water in UK sewers can be as warm as 21C (69.8F).
The group claimed heat pumps and waste water recovery systems could harness that energy potential.
It added that capturing warmth contained in discarded water could prevent more than 10,000 tonnes of harmful CO2 entering the atmosphere every year.
The statistics were produced for the renewables group by Scottish Water subsidiary Scottish Water Horizons.
Stephanie Clark, policy manager at Scottish Renewables, said: "These new figures show the enormous scale of the energy we are literally flushing away every day.
"Water which is used in homes and businesses collects heat from the air around it, as in a toilet cistern, or is heated, as in dishwashers and showers.
"That's in addition to the energy that it gains from the sun when stored in reservoirs.
"Technology now exists which allows us to capture that energy and waste heat can play an important role in helping us reach our challenging climate-change targets."
Donald MacBrayne, from Scottish Water Horizons, said he believed heat in waste water was a valuable commodity.
He said: "Water that is flushed down the drain from homes and businesses represents a significant source of thermal energy.
"Usually, this heat is lost during the treatment process and when treated effluent is returned to the environment.
"By tapping into this resource using heat recovery technology we can provide a sustainable heating solution which brings both cost, carbon and wider environmental benefits.
"With almost 32,000 miles of sewers pipes across Scotland and more than 900 million litres of waste water treated every day, the opportunities presented by heat recovery are significant."
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Scotland's sewers contain enough heat to warm a city the size of Glasgow for more than four months a year, according to a renewable energy group.
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Meat-eating was an environmental problem, with farming creating an estimated 28% of global greenhouse gases, the body-builder and movie star told BBC News.
Asking people to go totally vegetarian would be too demanding, he said.
It would better to suggest giving up meat once or twice a week, he added.
When asked how young men would achieve a body like The Terminator - the cyborg assassin in the film of the same name - without steak, he said many successful body-builders avoided meat.
"You can get your protein many different ways," he told BBC News.
"I have seen many body-builders and (weight) lifters that are vegetarians.
"My friend recommends stop eating meat. I think that's a good idea but people won't buy in.
"People will buy in to stop eating meat one or two days a week - you have to start slowly. It's a very big challenge but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be done."
Most public debate on climate change focuses on industry, but emissions associated with meat-eating are causing increasing concern.
Producing 1kg of meat protein is calculated to take between 3 and 10kg of vegetable protein.
Emissions from farming, forestry and fisheries have nearly doubled over the past 50 years and may increase by another 30% by 2050, according to the United Nations.
Most of the emissions from meat farming come from belching livestock and nitrogen fertilisers.
Mr Schwarzenegger tackled the steak issue after an address to a packed hall of students at Paris's leading political science institute, Sciences Po.
His audience in the French capital hung on the words of a man old enough to be their grandfather, and applauded his optimism that climate change could be tackled.
As governor of California, Mr Schwarzenegger took on the oil and gas giants to cut carbon emissions through renewables.
He said his successor, the Democrat Jerry Brown, had increased his level of ambition - and the next governor would want to trump that.
He said it was pointless trying to persuade people to give up things they wanted, like big cars or jets. What was needed was technology to allow people to live the lives they want to live - but in a way that does not pollute.
When asked about the promises from all the leading Republican Presidential hopefuls to scrap President Obama's climate laws, he said if he were in Washington he would make climate change a non-party issue through strong leadership.
The message clearly appealed to his audience, although some did not appear totally convinced.
On his earlier visit to the UN climate conference in Paris, he urged national governments not to ignore the role in tackling emissions that could be played by sub-national governments at the level of states, regions and cities.
Last week, the C40 group of mega-city mayors met in Paris to share ideas on cutting emissions. They say the movement towards the low-carbon economy is much deeper and wider than it has been in the past.
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Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says people should go meat-free one or two days a week to protect the climate.
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The 63-year-old Frenchman missed the final month of the season because of heart problems.
He had been expected to leave his post after undergoing tests this week.
Doctors advised that he will require further time to recuperate and Villa officials were said to be concerned a return to the dugout could cause further health issues.
In a statement, Houllier, who left his role as technical director at the France Football Federation (FFF) to take over at Villa, did not rule out the possibility of returning to the game.
He said: "I am extremely disappointed that I will not have the opportunity to manage Aston Villa next season.
"My health has improved considerably since I was taken ill on 20 April. I now intend to take the next few months to concentrate on recuperating fully before I may return to football.
"I was very much looking forward to the prospect of my first full season as Villa manager and returning for pre-season training.
We have already embarked upon the process which will lead to the appointment of a new manager
"It has been an honour to manage this great club and I wish everyone connected with Aston Villa every success for the future."
In 2001, during his spell in charge of Liverpool, he had open heart surgery after suffering from chest pains during a home match against Leeds.
Houllier returned to take up the managerial reins at Anfield and remained there for another three years before he was sacked.
After leaving Liverpool, he led Lyon to two French titles before joining the FFF in 2007.
He was enticed back into management by Villa in September last year, signing a three-year deal.
But in April he was admitted to hospital with chest pains and Gary McAllister stepped in to help steer Villa away from relegation trouble.
One of Houllier's major decisions during his time at the club was to pay Sunderland £18m for striker Darren Bent, and the England international proved a good acquisition as he scored nine goals in 16 games to help ease Villa's relegation worries.
"It is sad for me to see Gerard go. He signed me and invested a lot of money in me," said Bent.
"He showed a lot of faith in me.
"But your health comes first and, if he's not well enough to come back, then he needs to take a break."
Villa chief executive Paul Faulkner said: "I would like to thank Gerard for his considerable efforts over the past nine months and for the dedication, commitment and work ethic he has demonstrated as Villa manager.
"We regret the circumstances of Gerard's departure and, naturally, we wish him well in his continued recovery.
"I know I speak for everyone associated with Aston Villa in expressing our hope that Gerard will return to full health as quickly as possible and we wish him all the best for the future.
"As a board we are very conscious of the need to ensure that the club is prepared fully to meet the demands of the new season.
"To that end, we have already embarked upon the process which will lead to the appointment of a new manager."
Everton manager David Moyes, Fulham boss Mark Hughes, former England coach Steve McClaren and former Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti have been linked with the post.
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Aston Villa have confirmed the departure of Gerard Houllier as manager after only nine months in charge.
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Johnathan Brown, from Basingstoke died when his black Peugeot 208 was involved in a collision with a red Ford Fiesta on the M3 near Micheldever.
In tribute the 30-year-old's family said: "He loved life and always made you smile when you were feeling down".
The crash happened between junction 8 at Winnal and junction 9 at Dummer on 7 September.
In a statement, his family said: "He would always put people first before himself, he had a heart of gold. Heaven has claimed back one of its angels.
"We will always hold him in our thoughts everyday."
Hampshire Constabulary is continuing to appeal for witnesses following the crash.
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The find, published in the journal Nature, pushes back the arrival of the first humans in what is now the UK by several hundred thousand years.
Environmental data suggests that temperatures were relatively cool.
This raises the possibility that these early Britons may have been among the first humans to use fire to keep warm.
They may also have been some of the earliest humans to wear fur clothing.
The discoveries were made in Happisburgh, in the north of Norfolk. At the time there was a land bridge connecting what is now southern Britain with continental Europe.
There are no early human remains, but the researchers speculate that the most likely species was Homo antecessor, more commonly - and possibly appropriately - known as "Pioneer Man".
Remains of the species have been found in the Atapuerca region of northern Spain, and dated to 0.8-1.2 million years ago. So the species could well have been in Britain at around that time, according to Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.
"If the climate was good and the land bridge was there, there's no real reason they couldn't have come (to Britain) as far back as 1.2 million years ago," he told BBC News.
Pioneer Man was much like our own species in that it walked upright, used tools and was a hunter gatherer.
But physically the species looked rather different. It had a smaller brain, strong brow ridges and big teeth, with some primitive features such as a flat face and no prominent chin on the lower jaw.
The discovery raises many new questions, such as how these creatures dealt with the cold winters that existed at the time. Scientists have also speculated that they may have used shelters and clothing.
It also raises the possibility that Britain was the first place where fire was used in a controlled way for warmth.
"Although we don't have the evidence for fire or of clothing to get through the winters up here, I think they must have had some extra adaptations," said Professor Stringer.
"I think the evidence suggests that they were living at the edge of the inhabited world in a really challenging environment and indeed they were real pioneers living here in Britain, nearly a million years ago," he said.
The research was led by Dr Nick Ashton of the British Museum, London, as part of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) project.
"The discovery is immensely surprising because we are dealing with an incredibly early date," Dr Ashton said.
He added that the environmental data that indicated the relatively low temperatures was "even more surprising".
"It's unusual to find humans in such a cool climate this far north at this very early date," he said.
This area of Norfolk was quite a different place one million years ago.
"The [River] Thames was flowing through this area. And at the site we have sediments laid down by the Thames," he explained.
Pioneer man was eventually wiped out by an Ice Age. These occurred about every 100,000 years, and each time that happened Britain was depopulated.
As conditions became more benign, a new group of humans arrived.
There were at least eight different waves of people that came in and died out before the last wave, which is the one that survives today.
The Lady Glovers will make their top-flight debut in April following their promotion as WSL 2 champions in 2016.
Their opening game will take place at their Huish Park home, against Liverpool Ladies, on 23 April.
Yeovil will then play their games at Taunton Town FC and Bridgwater Town FC.
Richard Barrington, sent off for his part in the incident, was cleared of dangerous charging by a Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel.
Prop Barrington, 27, is now free to play again immediately, while Barritt, 30, is suspended until 31 January.
An RFU statement said Barritt's ban was in line with new high-tackle laws.
Centre Barritt had initially tackled Parling high and Barrington followed up with a shoulder into the head of the 33-year-old England international, who was carried off on a stretcher.
Under the new interpretation of the high-tackle rules, which came into effect on 3 January, Barrington was sent off by referee Ian Tempest.
However, the panel at Tuesday's hearing in London judged Parling was already unconscious from Barritt's tackle and fell into the contact with Barrington.
"The incident arose out of the specific dynamic of Mr Parling falling unconscious into what would have otherwise been a legitimate contact by Mr Barrington," the RFU statement added.
"In line with the new sanctions a mid-range entry of six weeks was imposed on Mr Barritt reduced to three weeks in light of mitigation including his guilty plea."
Barritt will now miss Saracens' Champions Cup games at Scarlets on Sunday and at home to Toulon on 21 January.
He is also banned for the Anglo-Welsh Cup visit to Scarlets on 27 January, although Sarries tend to rest a number of first-team players in the competition.
A bitter feud for Brazil's 1987 football championship has finally been laid to rest by judges.
Brazil had competing leagues back then and the Supreme Court has ruled that Sport Recife, and not Flamengo, be deemed the overall champions.
The judges said this was the final whistle on the matter, but the clubs' Twitter responses begged to differ.
Sport Club do Recife said that 1987 was "indisputably ours, again... In court, once more, Sport beat those who ran away."
Flamengo wrote "in the field, on the ball, always Flamengo. Champions of Brazil 1987".
At the time, a dispute led to two leagues running at the same time - a breakaway competition that was won by Flamengo and the traditional Campeonato Brasileiro organised by Brazil's football confederation, which was taken by Sport.
The confederation tried to get the two to play off for the overall title but the Rio-based Flamengo, one of the biggest clubs in the country, refused.
So Sport took the slot in the Copa Libertadores, South America's Champions League.
The panel of five judges gave Sport a 3-1 victory. One of the justices abstained as his son was linked to a Flamengo lawyer.
But the judges were clearly unhappy that the ball had been put in their, erm, court.
Justice Luis Roberto Barroso voted to split the title between the clubs, saying: "There is no place worse than the judicial system to discuss sports."
Andy Goode kicked two penalties for the hosts early on but flanker Dewald Potgieter crossed to give the Warriors a 7-6 lead at the break.
Kiwi winger Bryce Heem added a second try as Worcester played with the wind.
Falcons prop Rob Vickers crossed on his 200th appearance, but Craig Willis missed the vital conversion.
Worcester's last Premiership away victory was also at Kingston Park when they won 17-12 in March 2014 - and this is their first-ever league double over the Falcons.
After a 13-game winless run was ended by beating Sale Sharks, Dean Ryan's team have now won two of their last three games to move above Newcastle into 10th and are nine points above bottom-of-the-table London Irish.
Newcastle fly-half Goode, who amassed 823 points in three years with the Warriors, was taken off late on and his replacement Willis could not convert Vickers' 72nd-minute try - the first Falcons conversion missed at Kingston Park in 2016.
Although Dean Richards' side's six-game winning streak at home came to an end with defeat by Worcester, their losing bonus point leaves them just one point behind the Warriors in 11th.
Newcastle director of rugby Dean Richards:
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"We just didn't perform and were about 60% efficient in what was a pretty boring game, which is very disappointing. They took their chances and we didn't.
"We tried hard in the last 10 minutes but it was a pretty poor game between two sides who looked as if they were both trying to lose the game.
"We won by a point against Northampton and we lost by a point this time. It's disappointing that we didn't play to our potential."
Worcester director of rugby Dean Ryan:
"I'm just pleased for the lads. They had the courage to go out play for the win.
"To come back from that late try and get a result says a lot about this team.
"The win is a relief. Let's not talk about momentum. If you win two or three that's momentum. We've broken Newcastle's momentum which is important and it puts the pressure back on them."
Newcastle: Hammersley; Tait, Harris, Powell, Watson; Goode, Young; Vickers, Lawson, Vea, Wilson, Robinson, Welch (capt), Latu, Hogg.
Replacements: McGuigan, Rogers, Hatakeyama, Botha, Chick, Takulua, Willis, Socino.
Worcester: Pennell; Heem, Wynand Olivier, Mills, Vuna; Heathcote, Hougaard; Rapava Ruskin, Bregvadze, Schonert, O'Callaghan, Barry, Dowson, Potgieter, van Velze (capt).
Replacements: Annett, Leleimalefaga, Johnston, Sanderson, Betty, Baldwin, Lamb, Symons.
Referee: Wayne Barnes.
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He is no stranger to delivering stirring political speeches, having starred as Tony Blair in dramas about the former prime minister.
But Michael Sheen seemed to have struck a chord with some social media users with hundreds lauding him as an upcoming face in politics himself after delivering a rousing speech at a march pleading politicians "by God, believe in something".
Addressing marchers as they stood in the rain, he criticised politicians for being "too disconnected".
The St David's Day in Tredegar march was held to celebrate the founder of the NHS, Aneurin Bevan.
The 1 March event was organised by 999NHSTredegar in conjunction with the People's Vote for the NHS.
Quoting Bevan at length Sheen delivered a passionate defence of the health service.
Sheen asked: "Do we want to be a society where each person is recognised? Where all are equal in worth and value. And where that value is not purely a monetary one. A society that is supportive, that is inclusive and compassionate."
He added: "At a time now, when people mistrust politicians as being too professional, too disconnected, no longer representing the voice of the people they have been elected to serve but more likely to represent the voice of wherever the money is. No longer standing for anything meaningful, or inspired by strongly held beliefs."
Footage of his speech took social media, in particular Twitter by storm, with some people calling for him to enter politics.
Celebrities including Sheen's girlfriend comedienne Sarah Silverman, writer Caitlin Moran, author Mark Haddon and best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman took to Twitter in support of the actor.
Port Talbot-raised Sheen has starred as Tony Blair alongside Helen Mirren in film The Queen, and also in The Deal and The Special Relationship.
The father-of-one, who now lives in Los Angeles, joined the march after visiting Tredegar for his BBC Wales programme Valleys Rebellion looking at political disillusionment in Wales.
He is the latest in a long line of celebrities to dip their toes into politics.
Comedian Eddie Izzard has previously stated his desire to run for London Mayor as Labours candidate or as an MEP or MP in 2020.
In America Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor of California for seven years after being elected in 2003.
Austrian-born Schwarzenegger, a former Mr Universe, world-class bodybuilder and Hollywood action star, stormed into office as the 38th governor of California in a special recall election.
In today's political climate, where politicians are careful, tentative, scared of saying what they feel for fear of alienating a part of the electorate; where under the excuse of trying to appear electable, all parties drift into a morass of bland neutrality; and the real deals, the real values we suspect, are kept behind closed doors - is it any wonder that people feel there is very little to choose between?
Bevan said: "We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down."
So when people are too scared to say what they really mean, when they're too careful to speak from their hearts, when integrity is too much of a risk, it's no surprise that people feel disengaged with politics.
There is never an excuse to not speak up for what you think is right. You must stand up for what you believe. But first of all - by God, believe in something.
Then BBC journalist Martin Bell announced 24 days before the 1997 general election he was leaving the BBC to enter politics.
His legendary fight for the safe Conservative seat at Tatton, on an independent, anti-corruption ticket, made him a symbol of the revolt against perceived sleaze in the governing Conservative Party. He won the seat with an 11,000 majority.
Describing himself as an "accidental MP", Martin Bell was persuaded to run again in the 2001 election, this time for Brentwood and Ongar, in Essex - another constituency where the sitting Conservative MP, Eric Pickles, was at the centre of controversy. He did not win the seat on that occasion.
On a more local level Rhys Hutchins, formerly of Newport rap group Goldie Lookin' Chain (GLC) became a Labour councillor in the city's St Julians ward in 2012.
He said at the time: "It just opened my eyes to the fact that we can make a difference, people can run for council, get in and make a difference."
But celebrities regularly find themselves involved in politics, without standing for office.
In 2014, a collection of celebrities including Matthew Rhys, Damien Lewis, Katherine Jenkins, Bryn Terfel and Colin Jackson recorded messages of welcome to US President Barack Obama as he prepared to visit Wales for the Nato summit.
The 19-year-old put in a man of the match performance after an assist for Charlie Austin's early goal.
But the academy graduate confessed his pass across goal into Austin's path may have been a mis-hit shot.
"The chance fell to me really," he told BBC Radio Solent. "It might have been a shot, but I'll take the assist."
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Sims was only told he would be starting against the Toffees on the day of the game, something he believed helped settle his nerves.
"I felt relaxed really and I settled into the game really quickly with the assist obviously helping," he added.
"I wanted to impress on my debut, but most importantly, I wanted to keep it simple to begin with and work my way into the game. But, I think everyone out there today was brilliant which really helped me.
"I know what my game is and I just played how I have been playing for the under-23s and that's why I've been given my chance."
In the next few days, the 30-year-old from Stonehaven will begin his solo, unassisted and unsupported journey across Antarctica in an attempt to become the first Scot - and youngest Brit - to do so.
As he made his final preparations in Chile, we found out what is going through his mind… and what is on his sledge.
In February, 2014, Luke went to his doctor after experiencing severe headaches and problems with his vision.
The following day, he was given 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. It turned out he had a rare, non-cancerous, enterogenous cyst.
The surgeons operated on him for five hours. They removed a large part of the cyst, but a small section remains.
While in the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, he met cancer sufferers and was inspired by them to finally do something he had always wanted to attempt - venture to the South Pole.
Inspired by Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen, and following his experiences in hospital and the heartache of losing his uncle to cancer, he will raise money for Marie Curie on his long walk across the ice.
His fundraising target was £25,000, but before he even sets foot on the edge of the world, he has already raised more than £31,000.
A few weeks ago, Luke visited a Marie Curie Hospice in Edinburgh and met some of the residents receiving palliative care.
"I met a softly-spoken older lady who was terminally ill," he said. "It was incredibly humbling. She listened to my story in absolute silence, then handed me £20. I was struggling to hold back the tears.
"It made all the effort, all the work that has been put into this trip so far, worthwhile.
"It will be my motivation when I am taking steps on the ice. During the hard points, those are the things that will drive me forward."
Luke plans to drag 110kg (17 stone) of his equipment across 730 miles of snow and ice for 35 days, experiencing temperatures of -50C and winds of 100mph.
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 skiis, with everything he is taking being dragged behind him.
So what do you take on such a momentous journey? A tent, of course, along with compass, a repair kit, a medical kit, a satellite phone to check in, seven pairs of gloves, some bloomers to combat the constant head wind, and "goodie bags" of skittles, chocolate and coconut cubes to keep him going.
Every day, he will consume packets of freeze-dried food - ranging from Thai chicken to spaghetti carbonara - which he will cook on a stove.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who has offered support to Luke's trip as patron, is one of the Edinburgh finance worker's heroes and his autobiography, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, will find a place on the sledge, along with Robert MacFarlane's The Wild Places.
Luke has downloaded hundreds of music tracks and podcasts, including Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, from BBC Radio 4 and Radio Lab.
His fiancée Hazel and her family have also had an input. She has recorded a video message from their friends for Luke to watch while he is in the wilderness, and has made sure he has some company in the form of a fluffy penguin. A 21-year-old bottle of Springbank whisky, given by Luke's future father-in-law, is another welcome addition.
"She will be able to plan the wedding while I am away", jokes Luke. "I'm sure everything will be sorted and I can just turn up."
Luke has trained for months for the trek in Norway, Greenland and at the University of Glasgow's special "cold chamber".
In recent weeks, he has dragged tyres around Edinburgh's Blackford Hill, with some curious onlookers donating money after discovering his plans.
While on the South Pole, it is estimated Luke will consume 6,500 calories but burn off about 10,000 each day. He has had the pleasurable experience of "fattening up"'.
Luke has put on 8kg (a stone) in the past two months, and hopes to put on another 2kg in his final week in Chile by eating "three hot dogs a day with avocados and cream, burgers, and taking advantage of the buffet breakfast in the hotel".
If all goes to plan, Luke will spend Christmas Day on his own in the South Pole. A guaranteed white Christmas for sure, but how will he mark it?
"I will listen to 'Lonely This Christmas' as I tuck into my freeze-dried Thai chicken, while everyone else enjoys Christmas dinner.
"I also have a yellow Marie Curie Santa hat and some Christmas cards that I am taking with me to open."
As well as an extra special festive season on the ice, Luke has another momentous event to look forward to.
"Half way, I will get to change my underwear and my socks which will be an exciting day for me. Probably after day two, I will be looking forward to that day."
Luke is keen to make sure everyone can follow his progress on his charity trek. He flies out on Saturday to the Union Glacier camp in Antarctica, and then on to Hercules Inlet as soon as possible to begin the journey.
He will carry a device which will allow him to post to Twitter and Facebook, and his location will be tracked by satellite so people can see where he is.
It has been set up by Marjorie Summerfield, who runs The Pet Rescue Welfare Association, in Dyserth.
She said there had been a rise in the number of people unable to feed their pets, which she believes is down to austerity measures.
"If we can intervene before a pet has to be rehomed, surely that's better for the animal and their owner," she said.
Ms Summerfield, who also runs a veterinary practice, said the service was not means tested and would "rely on people's honesty".
All they need to show is a utility bill with an address to access the service.
"This is the first one I'm aware of in the country," she said. "I'm hoping that other areas eventually will have little branches like ours in other communities.
"If you ring any rescue centre they're getting at least four or five calls a day from people saying 'I'm having to rehome my pet because I can't afford to feed it'.
"Some might say, if they can't afford to feed it then should they have a pet? But if you've had a pet for years but have had your [work] hours dropped or lost your job or your home, what are you meant to do?"
Donation points will be set up in Tesco and Dudley & Friends pet shop in Prestatyn.
The project will also recruit volunteers to help sort donations and deliver packages to people who are unable to visit the pet food bank in person.
The Grade II-listed South Parade Pier in Southsea, Hampshire, was shut in 2012 when Portsmouth City Council deemed it at risk of collapse.
Owners South Parade Pier Ltd said work to make the structure safe was completed at the end of last year.
An amusement arcade is expected to open at the front of the pier on Good Friday, the company confirmed.
South Parade Pier Ltd, which bought the structure in 2014, said it had also agreed terms to open a fish and chip shop in May and a 275-seat restaurant in August, creating 50 new jobs.
The amusement arcade is expected to employ 22 new staff.
It is also hoped a cafe will open in the summer, with further plans for an ice cream parlour, shop, rides, a "showbar", zip wire and chartered boat trips.
South Parade Trust, which previously raised concerns over delays in reopening the pier, welcomed the news.
"Everyone in Portsmouth will be delighted to walk out over the sea again," chairman Leon Reis said.
Pier owners Tommy Ware said it would bring "much-needed employment opportunities".
A dangerous structure order was served on the previous owners.
A council spokeswoman said this had now been lifted on the section with buildings on it, as well as 15m (49ft) beyond. The remainder is still considered unsafe.
South Parade Pier opened in 1879, but was destroyed by fire in 1904 and rebuilt in 1908.
In 1974 it was again wrecked by fire during the filming of the Ken Russell movie Tommy and part of the superstructure was rebuilt.
Furthermore, it has ruled that nothing less than an act of Parliament will do.
That means that MPs and members of the House of Lords will get to vote on whether it happens. They will also get the chance to try to amend the bill as it passes through the various legislative stages.
In principle, this could delay the process. However, in practice it is thought unlikely that Theresa May's end of March deadline will be missed.
The government wanted to trigger Article 50 using the Royal Prerogative, which is a set of powers that used to be held by the monarch but now reside with government ministers.
That would have meant it could have done so at a time of its choosing and without consulting Parliament at all.
The decision that it must specifically pass a bill is significant. Some other procedures would have meant fewer stages in Parliament and no chance to make amendments.
A full bill means that both houses of Parliament must agree and amendments are possible.
To become an act of Parliament a bill must pass several stages in both the Commons and the Lords. That often takes months of debate, but it doesn't necessarily have to. Emergency legislation can be passed within a single day if everyone agrees it is urgent.
The bill to trigger Article 50 won't be that quick, but it needn't take too long. For one thing, it is likely to be a very short bill with only one or two clauses.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said that his MPs should not seek to block Article 50. Ken Clarke is expected to be the only Conservative who will vote against it. So the numbers look to be in place to ensure a smooth passage for the bill in the House of Commons.
But more MPs may back attempts to amend the bill, for example, by adding conditions about the sort of Brexit the government should negotiate.
In principle, the House of Lords could be different. The government does not have a majority and many peers remain strongly opposed to Brexit.
However, there is recognition that Parliament voted overwhelmingly to hold a referendum and that the referendum delivered a clear, albeit close, result. Members of the House of Lords, who are not elected, realise that any attempt to frustrate Brexit could be regarded as undemocratic.
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The country's Europe Minister Humza Yousaf announced the news following a meeting with the Scottish government's refugee task force.
Arrangements are now being put in place to cope with housing, transport, health and social services needs.
Millions of people have been displaced because of the civil conflict in Syria which began more than four years ago.
Earlier this year, the UK agreed to take 20,000 refugees over a five year period from the camps surrounding the Middle East country.
Mr Yousaf said Scotland's response to the humanitarian crisis had been "phenomenal".
He believed local communities would play a "crucial role" in the integration of the refugees.
The MSP added: "It is a great symbol of our compassion that Scotland is expected to take a third of refugees arriving before Christmas, while making up only 10% of the UK population.
"Scotland is a caring and compassionate country and we have worked with our partners to provide a welcoming environment for those refugees."
Andrew Roger, a former Darwin resident, was convicted after police found a stash of drugs in his East Java home.
Lawyers for the man are said to be planning an appeal, arguing that he deserved sympathy and rehabilitation because he was a regular drug user.
Prosecutors, however, will appeal for a longer sentence, having reportedly sought a jail term of 16 years.
Indonesia has some of the toughest anti-drug laws in the world.
Indonesian police found marijuana, crystal meth and various pills in the man's home at Surabaya, according to the Australian Associated Press.
The court heard Roger found it "impossible to function as a human being" if he did not smoke at least six grams of marijuana a day.
He is also said to have suffered from anxiety, panic and insomnia without the drug. He has been in Indonesian custody for eight months.
According to media reports, Roger's lawyers argued that a jail sentence would victimise his family, which includes five children from two relationships.
The man told the court he was funding medical treatment for the youngest of the children, a 12-year-old boy suffering from kidney disease.
The case comes soon after Myuran Sukumaran, an Australian citizen sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia, lost an appeal for clemency.
Sukumaran was convicted in 2005 as part of the so-called "Bali Nine" drug gang, along with another Australian citizen, Andrew Chan, who is also on death row.
Currently, people have to go via another Channel Islands customs post - either Guernsey, Jersey or Alderney - to meet immigration and customs laws.
The suggestion of a joint role has been made in a review of policing in Sark.
The island currently has two voluntary part-time officers for the 600-strong population.
Supt Nigel Taylor, from Guernsey Police, is assisting the Sark authorities with the review.
He said: "There are opportunities for a dual-warranted individual... to carry out the functions of customs and policing providing the necessary training is in place.
"[We're] exploring all the options to make sure it's cost effective policing in Sark, but it's also fit for a modern day society."
The Guernsey Border Agency and the island's police force have been united under a head of law enforcement, but no plans to merge the two organisations have been released.
Adopting a measured, upbeat tone, the Republican president spoke of a "new chapter of American greatness".
Mr Trump condemned recent vandalism of Jewish cemeteries and a shooting in Kansas that left an Indian man dead.
His primetime address sought to bolster his low approval ratings after a bumpy start to his fledgling presidency.
At the outset of Tuesday night's hour-long speech, Mr Trump tackled recent suspected hate crimes, saying "we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its very ugly forms".
On immigration, he dangled the intriguing possibility of a major policy shift towards a goal that eluded his two predecessors, insisting that "real and positive" reform was possible.
That line came hours after he told news anchors off the record at a White House lunch that he might be open to granting legal status to undocumented immigrants.
In his remarks on Capitol Hill, the president also talked tough on the issue, pledging to make US communities safer "by finally enforcing our immigration laws".
He defended his early actions in office, touting his moves to withdraw the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and order work to start on a US-Mexico border wall.
It was a conventional presidential address, delivered conventionally. Any other year, that would be unremarkable.
In the age of Trump, however, where the ordinary seems unlikely, Tuesday night's proceedings proved decidedly unexpected.
Many of the ideas were the same - the calls for increased border security, the denunciation of illegal immigrants, the pledge to rebuild the US by buying American and hiring American, the warning that US allies must pay their fair share - but the delivery was smoother. For once, Donald Trump's delivery was spoken, not shouted.
As is typical of such addresses, the text was light on policy and marinated in cliches and political pabulum, touching on most of Mr Trump's agenda in vague generalities.
The president did lay down some markers, however, particularly on priorities in the upcoming healthcare overhaul, the size of his infrastructure spending plan and, at least elliptically, his support for border taxes.
In the end Mr Trump did no harm and may have helped ease the concerns of Republicans rattled by a rocky start to his administration. Now Congress has to turn those promises into reality. Even with this speech, it will not be an easy task.
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But the most thunderous ovation of the night came when a war widow wept as Mr Trump paid tribute to her husband.
Navy Seal Ryan Owens died in a controversial US raid on a suspected al-Qaeda base in Yemen, days into Mr Trump's presidency. Some 25 Yemeni civilians, including children, were also reported to have been killed, leading to questions over the operation's readiness and effectiveness.
The navy seal's father refused to meet President Trump when his son's body was returned home last month.
"Ryan's legacy is etched into eternity," Mr Trump told the grieving Carryn Owens, who sobbed and looked upwards.
It was one of the rare moments when lawmakers on both sides of the aisle applauded.
Despite the president's appeal for both parties to "unite for the good of our country", Democratic lawmakers mostly sat in silence or openly laughed at parts of the speech.
Mr Trump's feel-good rallying cry for national unity, some noted, was in stark contrast to his doom-laden inauguration speech of a month ago.
In his concluding remarks, the president - whose political honeymoon has been soured by acrimonious spats with the media - said "the time for trivial fights is behind us".
Among US First Lady Melania Trump's special guests in the gallery were three California residents whose relatives were killed by people in the US illegally.
At least a dozen Democrats brought as their guests young undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children.
Former Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear delivered the Democratic rebuttal to the speech, accusing Republicans of planning to "rip affordable health insurance" from Americans and being "Wall Street's champion".
In a Fox News interview broadcast earlier on Tuesday, Mr Trump gave himself an overall "A plus" for effort, adding that "in terms of messaging, I would give myself a C or a C plus".
According to a CNN/ORC poll of about 500 speech watchers, 57% said they had had a very positive reaction to President Trump's Congress address, with seven out of 10 saying they believed his policies would move the US in the right direction.
His popularity, however, has hit a historic low for modern presidents after a month in office - just 44% of Americans think he is doing a good job, according to RealClearPolitics.
Mr Trump's young presidency has been overshadowed by missteps including a high-profile court defeat to his controversial travel ban and the firing of a top aide.
Retro Computers has received £417,375 ($542,000) from an Indiegogo campaign.
But former directors Paul Andrews and Chris Smith said they had been unable to answer backers' concerns and were now "publicly distancing" themselves.
The company accused Mr Andrews and Mr Smith of developing a rival product.
A company with a similar name, Retro Games Ltd, has a website registered to Mr Andrews.
It has also attempted to crowd-fund a retro computer device - although its is based on the Commodore 64 - but failed to meet its target.
Mr Andrews and Mr Smith said in a statement they had had no control of the Spectrum company, Retro Computers, since their resignation in April.
However, the pair do retain a joint 50% shareholding.
Mr Andrews and Mr Smith said they had received many emails from the project's backers questioning the production status of the Vega+ handheld console but had not been able to get answers from the company.
In a joint statement, they said: "Andrews and Smith therefore feel they have no choice but to publicly distance themselves from Retro Computers Ltd, and make it very clear that as they have no knowledge, control or say in anything that has happened in the company since they resigned on 8 April 2016, they are unable to answer any questions relating to the company or its projects."
Their resignation followed "irreconcilable differences" between the two men and company chairman Dr David Levy.
On its crowd-funding campaign page, Retro Computers is urging concerned backers leaving comments to "trust us for a little while longer".
Dr Levy said: "The current team at Retro Computers Ltd has been and is focusing its efforts on the completion of new and better software for its forthcoming product, the Vega+, and is making every effort, supported by the factory, to deliver the first production run of the Vega+ by the end of next month, as originally planned."
BBC News approached Mr Andrews and Mr Smith for a comment.
The Vega+ is not yet on the market, but promises to sport a colour LCD display and 1,000 pre-installed games.
It is currently set to launch in September 2016, with an initial price tag of £100.
It is based on the ZX Spectrum, a home computer released in 1982, which has been widely credited with launching the UK IT industry.
Sir Clive Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Research, endorsed the Indiegogo campaign, which was launched in February.
He lives in Hong Kong, an area governed by Britain until 1997, which is now meant to be an autonomous region of China.
But critics say the Chinese government is trying to erode the controls agreed when power was transferred, and many like Joshua are protesting against this.
"People should not be afraid of their government," he says, quoting the movie V for Vendetta, "The government should be afraid of their people."
But his political activism started before this wave of protests.
Aged just 15, he and some friends set up a group called "Scholarism" aimed, he says, at giving students a political voice.
In a recent interview with a Hong Kong newspaper he explained why.
"Even though students are under-age, non-professional and lack social status, they still have a role to play in intervening government policies."
And his movement has had an immediate impact on Hong Kong politics.
In 2012 the group lead a rally of 120,000 students, helping to overturn a pro-China national education programme by occupying the government's headquarters.
Leaders were forced to shelve the plans, designed to teach pupils about the "advanced, selfless and united" Chinese Communist Party.
Now, two years later, he is leading protests against a decision that China chooses any candidate standing for election in Hong Kong.
In 2007 China promised Hong Kong residents they would be granted "universal suffrage" - where everybody has the vote.
This has happened but there's a catch. Voters in the region can only select from a list of candidates selected by leaders in Beijing.
China says granting direct, open voting would cause a "chaotic society".
Wong says Hong Kong is only "semi-democratic", and calls on his fellow students to "care more" about politics.
He believes students are the perfect people to spread that message because they are, by their nature, "idealistic".
His message is clear, he wants a free society where everyone has the chance to nominate and vote for potential candidates to Hong Kong's chief-executive. Simply, he wants democracy.
He says peaceful protests are the ideal, but sometimes it's necessary to resort to "civil disobedience".
So, he and his fellow students are blocking central Hong Kong by refusing to go to lessons and instead, gathering in the streets.
The initial protests were planned by the Occupy Central movement for this week, but their members have joined protests early.
"Rather than encouraging the students to join, we are encouraged by the students to join," said Benny Tai, one of the three main organisers of the Occupy movement.
"We are touched and moved by the work of the students."
Wong has now been officially identified as a threat to the security of the ruling Communist Party.
He was one of 78 people arrested after leading a charge at the government headquarters and he was held, without charge, for more than 40 hours.
The government said releasing him would compromise further investigations, but a court disagreed. They said his detention was legal, but holding him for longer was illegal.
Despite letting him go, police have said they still reserve the right to prosecute, or re-arrest him.
With a fear that mobile networks may be shut off, and in another act of defiance, Wong told his supporters to download an app called Firechat.
The app allows users to communicate without internet access, and has been downloaded more than 100,000 times since Sunday.
Despite leaving police custody tired and bruised, Wong has vowed he'll return to his fellow protesters to "join the fight".
And he gave this rallying cry to his supporters: "You have to see every battle as possibly the final battle - only then will you have the determination to fight."
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Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis first met his French counterpart before visiting Brussels, while colleagues headed for the European Central Bank.
The EU and IMF will not release €7.2bn (£5.3bn; $8bn) until they are satisfied with Greek plans for economic reform.
The EU has now slashed its 2015 growth forecast for Greece from 2.5% to 0.5%.
The Greek government is desperate to reach a deal with its international creditors before a scheduled €1bn debt interest repayment to the IMF on 12 May, but the two sides have yet to agree on labour reforms and pensions.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he doubted whether a deal could be reached in time for a Eurogroup meeting on 11 May.
"I'm somewhat sceptical whether that'll be possible by Monday. But I'm not ruling it out," he said.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the phone on Monday night, but a Greek official said only that they had exchanged views on the relevant issues.
As his government pushed for a compromise, EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said that "in light of the persistent uncertainty", revising the forecast for Greece's growth had been unavoidable.
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Mr Varoufakis was recently removed from Greece's negotiating team amid reports that eurozone counterparts were unhappy with his abrasive style.
But he played a key role in the Greek diplomatic campaign on Tuesday, first meeting French Finance Minister Michel Sapin in Paris before talks with Mr Moscovici in Brussels.
Acknowledging the awkward relations with his EU counterparts, Mr Varoufakis said communicating was difficult: "There are many of us and we can't discuss amongst one another."
Later, in Brussels, he said it was important that the "good progress that has been made is solidified and it yields very quick successive moves in the direction of bridging the remaining part of the gap".
Euclid Tsakalotos, who took over as lead negotiator last week, and Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis were due to meet ECB head Mario Draghi in Frankfurt later.
As Greek ministers launched their push for a deal, officials in Athens told Reuters that they were willing to move ahead with two big asset sales - a €1.2bn deal with German operator Fraport to run regional Greek airports and the re-opening of bidding for a 51% stake in the biggest Greek port, at Piraeus.
The tycoon's refusal to rule out a third-party run drew boos from the audience on Thursday night.
And he stood by offensive comments he has made in the past about women.
The 10 candidates in Cleveland, selected by Fox News on the basis of recent national polls, provided a frank and bruising exchange of views.
Facing some tough questions from the debate moderators, the candidates tried to stand out in a crowded Republican field.
Key moments included:
Mr Trump stumbled on his past support for a national healthcare system but his most uncomfortable moment came when moderator Megyn Kelly challenged him on his views about women.
"You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals," she said.
He answered by joking that he only said that about actress Rosie O'Donnell and stating that political correctness was one of the country's biggest problems.
The crowd became hostile when Mr Trump said he would run as an independent, an admission that enraged Mr Paul. "He buys and sells politicians of all stripes," said the senator.
One of the loudest rounds of applause was for Mr Rubio when he mocked Hillary Clinton, who leads the Democratic field.
"First let me say, I think God has blessed us. He's blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find one."
On Thursday, the Democratic Party announced it would hold its first debate in Nevada in October, hosted by CNN.
By next summer, each party will have a presidential nominee who will do battle in the race for the White House. Votes will finally be cast in November 2016.
About 1,000 grassroots activists packed a ballroom in an Atlanta hotel to watch the Republican debate, and they went home thrilled with the performance.
The verdict from the crowd wasn't difficult to pick up. Moderates like John Kasich and Jeb Bush didn't do anything to win them over - even eliciting boos on occasion - while conservative darlings like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio garnered positive reviews, even if they had limited opportunities to really shine.
Donald Trump was generally seen as an amusing sideshow. "He's not a real Republican," said Tarya O'Neill from Madison, Wisconsin. "I hope people know that now". Sandy Rabe of Cincinnati, Ohio, said she liked some of the things he said, "but I hope he doesn't become president".
Rabe added that she wished Carly Fiorina, the former business executive, had got a chance to show her stuff on the stage. She is roundly considered to have dominated the earlier debate among lower-tier candidates.
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The Republican field is one of the largest in recent years. Seven other candidates took part in an earlier debate that featured several attacks on Mr Trump.
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry said the former reality show presenter was running a campaign based on celebrity, while former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina mocked him over his Clinton ties.
While the debates were going on, Ms Clinton was in Los Angeles for a campaign fundraising event attended by several celebrities, including reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her husband, musician Kanye West.
Ms Kardashian tweeted a picture of her and her husband posing with Mrs Clinton, saying: "I got my selfie!!!"
"All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago," Mr Obama said.
Mr Obama worked there as a community organizer and also represented the area as an state senator.
The plan for the $600 million project beat out a rival proposal from Hawaii, the president's birthplace.
The library will store his papers and help frame his legacy as president.
Long the centre of Chicago's black community, the South Side has struggled with poverty and high crime rates.
The president's foundation wants the library to give the South Side an economic boost. The University of Chicago will be a major contributor to the Centre, which will be entirely funded by the Obama Foundation.
Nearby the future library is the University of Chicago, the Illinois Institute of Technology and multiple museums.
"Not only will we be able to encourage and affect change locally, but what we can also do is to attract the world to Chicago," said Mr Obama in a video released on Tuesday.
The video accompanying the announcement profiled residents of the South Side who are working to build the community up.
One University of Chicago study from 2014 found that the annual economic impact of the Centre could be $220 million per year, mostly due to an influx of new visitors to the city.
First lady Michelle Obama was raised in the South Side and the couple first met in the neighbourhood.
"I'm thrilled to be able to put this resource in the heart of the neighbourhood that means the world to me," Mrs Obama said in the video. "Every value, every memory, every important relationship to me exists in Chicago. I consider myself a South Sider."
Glasgow University has taken over the 14-acre site of the old Western Infirmary.
It said it planned to create a research and innovation hub and new buildings for social sciences, health and engineering.
An estimated 2,500 jobs will be created during the construction period.
The extension to the university's Gilmorehill campus will see a central square linking to Byres Road, and commercial opportunities in the form of restaurants, bars and a hotel.
Glasgow University principal Professor Anton Muscatelli said: "We hope to use the new site as a catalyst to attract and grow the very best academics, to attract the very best students and to ensure that Glasgow continues to be one of the top universities in the world."
The university moved from High Street to the Gilmorehill site in 1870.
A clause was signed stating that if the hospital, which opened in 1874, ever ceased to be a hospital then the university could buy back the site.
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce chief executive Stuart Patrick said: "What is especially impressive is the ambition the university has to create what is effectively a new district in the west end".
South Kiosk in Felixstowe posted on Facebook it would give parents "five lenient minutes to ask the child to stop screaming" before stepping in.
It received hundreds of comments and has since deleted its page.
Owner Kim Christofi said she was child friendly but some parents "left me with no option but to have a quiet word".
The seafront outdoor cafe is frequented by families and is next to Martello Park, which has a children's play area.
It had a five-star rating on Facebook based on reviews left on its page, but this had plummeted to two stars within hours of Ms Cristofi's post on Sunday morning.
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The post was shared more than 500 times and had some 600 comments, many of which said it was not the cafe's place to discipline children.
"I would never bring my child with special needs anywhere near here," said one.
"Having a tantrum is part of their development," said one mother, "the parents may be ignoring the child for a reason and I strongly suggest you just let them get on with it."
Another comment said: "Good status to put up before school holidays - NOT!!!"
Ms Cristofi said she had no regrets about the post, which she believed had been misunderstood.
"Children are very much at the heart of our business," she said.
Describing a typical incident, she said: "You'll get a family arrive and for some reason the child will start screaming, throwing a hysterical tantrum.
"We hope the parent will step in, but in the latest incident that didn't happen and the child was really embarrassing herself.
"The parents left me no option but to have a quiet word. We ask them 'would they stop screaming, would they like a drink and colouring book?'"
She added that other customers look to her do something and often thank her once the offending family has left.
"I'm specifically talking about really unruly children, destructive behaviour - smashing up the toy box, knocking down the chairs."
Some listeners to Radio Suffolk came out in support of the cafe.
"If the parents are chatting away and ignoring it, I don't think it's unreasonable for someone else to have a word," said one.
Others said they felt she should speak to the parents, not the child.
"Children with autism can have meltdowns which can look like tantrums, but nothing is going to stop that child, least of all some stranger telling them off."
Ellen Finnegan died in a fire at her flat above her father's butcher shop in Castlewellan on Saturday.
A special prayer service was held at her school, Assumption Grammar in Ballynahinch, on Sunday.
About 200 pupils, friends and staff gathered at the school for the service.
Many of her friends wept throughout the service.
Marcelle Orsi, head of the senior school in Assumption, said: "Ellen was quite simply a very warm, loving, generous student.
"She lit up any classroom that she entered, indeed any room that she came into."
Ellen died on the third anniversary of her mother's death.
She was due to sit her final A-level exams and had been offered a place at Liverpool University.
The blaze broke out in the bedroom of the flat in Lower Square in the town at about 04:00 GMT on Saturday.
Despite efforts by paramedics to revive her, Ellen died at the scene.
It is not yet known how the fire started.
Father Conor McCarthy, who led the prayer service at Ellen's school, said the community was stunned by her death.
"To have such a tragedy occur, is really heart-stopping and it stops everyone in their tracks," he said.
"There's very little sense that we can make of such a tragedy, Ellen having been so young and to have died so suddenly and in such a tragic fashion.
"We can't make sense of it, but we can just be with one another and be assured of the presence of the Holy Spirit accompanying us at this very difficult time."
Assumption Grammar School is arranging counselling for current and former pupils affected by Ellen's death.
The man went into the Tesco Express on Cogges Hill Road, Witney and climbed over the counter before stealing an undisclosed amount of cash.
The raid happened at about 22:45 BST on Saturday. No customers were in the store at the time.
The offender was white and wearing a black balaclava, dark clothing and gloves.
Police are also investigating two other robberies and are keeping an "open mind" whether all three are linked.
Last Wednesday night a man armed with a syringe stole money after jumping over the counter at Tesco Express in Fettiplace Road, Witney.
While on Sunday evening a robber with a screwdriver stole cash from Co-op in Shipton Road, Milton-under-Wychwood.
No-one was hurt in either incident.
More than £9.2m was spent by the BBC charity on 159 active projects in every county in Wales last year which helped 20,000 disadvantaged children.
Singer Wynne Evans hosted a night of entertainment and fundraising from Swansea University's Great Hall.
"It's a truly staggering amount," said Jemma Wray, the charity head in Wales.
Yes, Hillary Clinton's lead in pledged delegates and total votes, as well as her vast advantage among the "superdelegate" party officials and officeholders, means she likely will accrue the necessary support on Tuesday to be the nominee even before polls close in California.
But the Sanders campaign is asserting that a win on the west coast, where surveys show the race is close, will fuel his efforts over the coming weeks, setting the stage for a showdown with Mrs Clinton on the floor of the Democratic convention in July.
At a press conference in Los Angeles on Saturday morning Mr Sanders emphasised this point, urging the reporters in attendance to refrain from calling Mrs Clinton the presumptive nominee.
"I have heard reports that Secretary Clinton has said it's all going to be over on Tuesday night," Sanders said. "I have heard reports that the media, after the New Jersey results come in, are going to declare that it is all over. That simply is not accurate."
The Vermont senator's pitch is that, unencumbered by Mrs Clinton's low approval ratings and controversy surrounding her use of a private email server while at the State Department, he's the better candidate to run against Republican Donald Trump in the autumn general election.
His team points to numerous opinion polls showing that he performs better in hypothetical presidential matchups than Mrs Clinton. (Clinton's team counters that his numbers are inflated because he's largely stayed above the fray on the campaign trail.)
After Tuesday, when all but the District of Columbia will have held their nomination contests, Mr Sanders will no longer be able to make that case to most American voters.
His goal, then, will be to convince enough superdelegates - who are not officially committed to a candidate until they cast their ballots at the Democratic convention - to switch their support to him. A win in California, the nation's most populous state, would feature prominently in his closing arguments.
"At the end of the nominating process no candidate will have enough pledged delegates to call the campaign a victory," Mr Sanders said. "They will be dependent upon superdelegates. In other words, the Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention."
It's a long-shot strategy. California success hardly helped Mrs Clinton in 2008, when Barack Obama - with the support of superdelegates - defeated her in that Democratic nomination race. And unlike Mrs Clinton eight years ago, Mr Sanders is running an outsider's anti-establishment campaign that hasn't exactly generated a lot of enthusiasm among the Democratic power players and long-time party stalwarts who comprise the bulk of the superdelegates.
It's the only play Mr Sanders has left, however.
According to polls, Mr Sanders' California supporters understand the precarious nature of their man's campaign. A CBS survey found 43% of them are voting for him because "he still has a good chance to win the nomination". The rest are doing so primarily "to help influence the direction of the party".
For Sanders' true believers, however, the cause is far from lost. As the sun set over the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, they gathered for an evening of music and speeches in the shadow of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. For them, the nomination is still within reach - and California holds the key.
A victory there would give the Democratic National Committee something to think about, said Los Angeles resident Bruce Purcell, who was one of the estimated crowd of 14,000 in attendance on Saturday night.
Such a result "would add tremendous momentum and change the narrative," Jugo Romero, a 25-year-old project co-ordinator, asserted, "especially for all those superdelegates who committed to Hillary before any votes were cast."
He added that although he would support Mrs Clinton if she does eventually become the nominee, she should be careful not to declare victory too soon.
"It would further alienate Bernie supporters who are still on the fence on supporting her."
For other Sanders backers, it is already too late for Mrs Clinton.
"If it's between Clinton and Trump, I don't know who's more dangerous," Anna Little, sporting a "feel the Bern" T-shirt, said. "I'm not going to vote for either of them." She added that she may back the Green Party in such an eventuality, but she is convinced a Sanders win in California will help superdelegates "wake up to their consciences".
Her friend Lynette Gracey agreed.
"I just don't see how she'd be much of an improvement over Trump," she said. "Trump's a dangerous guy, but so is she. Look at what she's condoning. Look at who's funding her campaign."
As the Democratic race approaches its conclusion, and Mrs Clinton's lead has become increasingly secure, a litany of party elders have quietly and not-so-quietly urged Mr Sanders to find a way to gracefully exit the race and instruct his followers to fall in line behind the former secretary of state.
Over these last few frenzied days of campaigning in California, however, there appears little indication of an impending denouement.
"I'd love for him to keep fighting," said Alexis Bristor, a 25-year-old television editor. "It's no fun to give up. It's like any kind of a team - you don't just give up when you're 50 down."
In a revolution, which is what Mr Sanders calls his campaign, there is never a final defeat. Only eventual triumph delayed.
"Any objective analyst of the current campaign understands that the energy and the grass-roots activism of this campaign is with us, not Hillary Clinton," Mr Sanders said in San Diego Sunday night.
It's not that Mr Sanders and his most dedicated supporters aren't going down without a fight. It's that they're not going down at all.
The 24-year-old, capped 15 times by Wales, may require surgery after damaging the medial ligament in his left leg during the Scarlets' 27-26 Boxing Day defeat by Ospreys.
"He's got a bit of a tear and he'll see a consultant to get an accurate view," said Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac.
"With any luck, it's just a rehab job."
Ball received treatment during the Boxing Day derby, but completed the match.
The Australia-raised lock last featured for Wales in the 54-9 World Cup win over Uruguay.
Wales begin their Six Nations campaign in Ireland on 7 February and conclude it with a home match against Italy on 19 March.
Flanker John Barclay will miss the Scarlets' match against Cardiff Blues on New Year's Day because of a forearm injury that will keep him out for two to three weeks.
"It's unfortunate. Jake Ball and John Barclay are two of our experienced players so it's a double blow really," said Pivac.
"The good news is that John Barclay's injury isn't as serious as we first thought so hopefully he isn't sidelined for too long.
"We thought he may have ligament damage but he's just got a really bad knock."
Scarlets back Liam Williams will start running next week as he continues his return from a foot injury.
The 24-year-old wing or full-back had surgery after he was injured during Wales' 15-6 World Cup defeat by Australia.
"It's good to see him out of the boot and up, starting a running programme, but we need to make sure we get it right," Pivac said.
"We don't want to expose him too early, we are obviously aware that there is a Six Nations around the corner so we'll do everything we can to get him right to play for us and for Wales.
"He's a fit person normally and is good with his diet so if anyone can get back a week or two early, it's probably Liam."
About 200 of the large arachnids were packed in tubs in the back of the van, the Central Motorway Police Group said.
Officers drew straws on who should investigate, a spokesman said.
The van was stopped at a junction near West Bromwich on the M5. A spokesman said the spiders were healthy and had been on their way to what officers said was a "reptile show".
The van was allowed to continue on its journey.
Some major issues remain in play, as the work of Parliament continues to be dominated by the pinging and ponging of assorted bills between the Lords and Commons, as MPs tie up the legislative loose ends of the 2015-16 session.
In the last few days of this parliamentary year, peers, who have inflicted defeat after defeat on the government, on bill after bill, must decide whether to back down, accept concessions, or continue to resist the will of the Commons - and the action could well stretch into the following week.
The result is a rather fluid parliamentary timetable, with plenty of space kept available to deal with the latest rounds of ping-pong, as the two Houses seek agreement on the outstanding legislation.
Expect occasional bouts of ping-pong to be dropped into the agenda of either House at short notice. There's even talk of some early starts for MPs and peers the following week, if the ping-pong is still dragging on.
Something else to watch for is the start of a Commons "punch the bruise" strategy by pro-Leave backbenchers, to raise the issue of the cost of the EU - and the implications for bread and butter services like schools and hospitals - at every possible occasion. It will start at departmental question times, and in the next few weeks the aim is to raise the questions in debates in Westminster Hall and the Chamber, whenever they can.
Here's my rundown of what we know, so far, about next week's business, starting with the unsurprising fact that neither House will sit on Bank Holiday Monday.
The Commons opens at 2.30 pm with Business, Innovation and Skills questions - and 3.30pm will, as usual, be the likely moment for any ministerial statements or urgent questions.
Next on the agenda is a Ten Minute Rule Bill from the Green MP, Caroline Lucas. Her Transparency and Accountability (European Union) Bill aims to "establish an independent commission of inquiry to examine improving parliamentary and other public scrutiny of ministerial mandates and outcomes in relation to European Union institutions, policies and legislation". Essentially this is an attempt to set out a Green agenda for reform of the EU.
Then MPs give their reaction to Lords amendments to the Housing and Planning Bill, which might well take quite some time; there have been 13 outright government defeats on the bill - not to mention a number of equally significant concessions made by ministers to avert defeat.
One technical point is that this will be the first ping-pong vote held under the new English Votes for English Laws (EVEL) system, which will mean that, to be accepted, any Lords amendment will need a "double majority" of both all MPs present, and of MPs for English constituencies. This will be counted via iPads, so I hope the software works.
Beyond that, the political question now is whether the government will reject the lot, or seek some compromises. There's rumoured to be some wiggle room on the most sensitive political issues - the "pay to stay" provisions, which require people on higher incomes to pay higher rent, if they want to remain in social housing, and the plan to finance social housing tenants' right to buy, by selling off high value council properties.
But there are also issues in play on planning regulations and environmental standards for homes and drainage. There may be some interesting phone calls over the weekend.
There's a very topical debate first thing in Westminster Hall (9.30am-11am ) where the Conservative MP Nigel Mills will lead a discussion of the forthcoming Anti-Corruption Summit, which David Cameron will be hosting on 12 May. Mr Mills, a former tax advisor, is also the co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Anti-Corruption Group, and was calling for a public register of companies using tax havens well before the emergence of the Panama Papers.
Other subjects to be debated include the effect of UK foreign policy on Libya (11am-11.30am); asylum seeker dispersal policy - Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk is concerned that his constituency is seeing a disproportionate number of asylum seekers placed there, and will call for a more equal distribution (11.30am-1pm) and delays between death and burial or cremation (1pm-1.30pm).
In the Lords (2.30pm) the main debate is on issues faced by black and ethnic minorities in the workplace. But there's also the opening of nominations for the next Lord Speaker, following the decision of the incumbent, Lady D'Souza, to stand down in the summer. There's a debate on house governance issues in the Lords, the following week, which may provide a mini-hustings for the candidates.
The Commons opens (11.30am) with International Development questions, followed at noon by Prime Minister's questions. Then, Labour's Tom Blenkinsop has a Ten Minute Rule Bill to ensure terms and conditions for construction building 50mgwt power stations are protected - he says there are abuses on some sites.
The main debate will be on a Labour motion, to be announced, and there will also be a backbench debate on education funding in London.
Backbenchers outside London (mainly but not exclusively Conservatives) have waged a long and successful campaign to rebalance the funding formula for schools in England, which they have long argued are under-funded in comparison to schools in the capital. So successful have they been that London MPs have obtained a Backbench Business Committee debate on education funding in London, to air their anxieties that their schools stand to lose funding.
The day's Westminster Hall debates cover UK relations with the Gulf (9.30am-11am); and sentencing for knife crime (4pm-4.30pm) where the Conservative Will Quince will focus on stopping "soft sentences for people who commit a crime using a knife". He will call for stricter sentencing guidelines. Finally Daniel Kawczynski will lead a debate on Anglo-Russian relations (4.30pm-5.30pm).
In the Lords (at 3pm) the main event will be the next round of ping-pong on the Housing and Planning Bill. It is worth noting that the various government defeats on the bill were mostly by majorities of 50 votes or more - sometimes a lot more - and that some of those defeats took place after the dinner break, which is significant because peers often drift off at that point.
The fact that they didn't suggests they won't simply fold on all issues, at the first whiff of Commons grapeshot.
There will also be a debate on discussions with Disability Rights UK and Disability Benefits Consortium on identifying a mobility criterion in the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) led by the Lib Dem Baroness Thomas of Winchester.
Commons opens (9.30am) with Environment, Food and Rural Affairs questions, followed by questions to the MPs who speak for the Church Commissioners, the Public Accounts Commission and the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission. Then comes the weekly Business Statement from the Leader of the House, Chris Grayling.
The day's main debate - chosen by the Backbench Business Committee - is on the contribution of faith organisations to the voluntary sector in local communities from the Conservative Fiona Bruce and Labour's Stephen Timms. Fiona Bruce tells me the aim is to highlight the "very considerable contribution" by faith organisations in supporting the most vulnerable people and helping community cohesion.
In the Lords (from 11am) peers should quickly deal with the third reading of the Armed Forces Bill, where amendments are unlikely. Then, they turn to three drinking-related Statutory Instruments. First up, a motion to approve the Draft Licensing Act 2003 (Her Majesty The Queen's Birthday Licensing Hours) Order 2016, and then two SIs on different aspects of the Draft Pubs Code.
And there will also be a short debate examining the case for a new generation of polytechnics to address the technical skills gap.
Neither House sits on Friday.
The 33-year-old Scotland captain made 97 appearances for the Baggies after joining from Manchester United in 2015.
"This is a new challenge for me now and I like to think I respond well to new challenges," Fletcher told Stoke's website.
Fletcher will officially join Mark Hughes' side on 1 July when his contract at The Hawthorns expires.
The Scot, who recovered from chronic bowel disease ulcerative colitis to resume his career in December 2013, made 342 appearances for United but started only five times for the club after Louis van Gaal took over as manager in 2014.
He was granted a free transfer to join West Brom and was handed the captaincy by boss Tony Pulis shortly after his arrival at the club.
Pulis said: "Of course there is a disappointment in seeing 'Fletch' move on and we wish him well.
"I was happy that we made him a fair and competitive offer but, as is his right, he has chosen to accept another opportunity.
"He has been my captain since he came into the club and he has led the team superbly. But that is football and we move on. Nothing stays the same forever and the game moves on."
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Experts say the area would have suffered from flooding around the 3rd to 4th century AD so banks would have been created to protect the city.
Cotswold Archaeology carried out the dig prior to building work starting on the city's new transport hub.
Archaeologist Andrew Armstrong said it "was clear" that flooding has always been an issue in Gloucester.
The findings revealed that residents of the Roman city of Glevum used discarded bricks and stones from demolished buildings to reinforce the southern bank along the River Twyver, which was likely to be used as a flood defence.
No buildings or settlement were found during the investigation, so it is believed the ground would have been too boggy and not suitable for construction.
This suggests the White Friars Carmelite monastery did not extend as far as the bus station, and was entirely around the junction of Station Road and Market Parade, Mr Armstrong said.
The team dug three 10ft (3.2m) trenches to find out if any important archaeological remains survived beneath the city.
Gloucester City Council's Paul James said: "The history of our city always amazes me.
"It's fascinating that all those years ago Gloucester flooded and people who lived here used bricks and stones from once standing buildings to protect their town."
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In the early hours of the morning, 70 firefighters and 10 fire engines attended the scene as flames burst from the top of the Market Hall building - next to the iconic railway bridge at the heart of the North London destination.
The top three floors of the former Pickfords stables and Grade II-listed horse hospital were engulfed in the blaze that took London Fire Brigade almost three hours to bring under control.
And as the traders arrived to the smoky remains of where they had once sold their creations, there was upset and confusion around how it could have happened.
Anna Sionek has been selling her artwork in the hall for four years and was devastated at what she may have lost.
"Every piece I had in there was handmade by me," she said. "That is my business, my livelihood, and I am very upset.
"But it is not just me who will suffer - it is the people we employ. They depend on us and now I don't know what we are going to do."
The famous market started in the 1970s with just 16 stalls and grew from a Saturday afternoon event to a seven-day-a-week shopping experience, with more than 1,000 places to shop, eat, drink and dance into the early hours.
Due to the hard work of the fighters - who were still on the scene come lunchtime - the blaze was stopped from spreading to nearby buildings, no-one is believed to have been hurt and much of the market remains safe.
One woman who runs a food stall near the entrance said: "We are going to be opening today and lots of the market is safe, so we are very lucky and very grateful."
But for those who worked out of the hall, this was their patch - a part of a larger community that they love dearly.
"This place is my heart and soul," said Laetitia Dupont, who has lived in Camden for 10 years and set up her stall selling lamps and jewellery just 18 months ago.
"Even if the things I sell survived the fire, they won't have survived the smoke and water.
"The firefighters are doing everything they can, but it is devastating for the people who work here."
This isn't the first time that Camden stall holders have been hit by fire.
On 8 February 2008, the famous celebrity haunt The Hawley Arms was severely damaged in a blaze, along with six shops and 90 market stalls.
And in 2014, some 600 people fled a blaze in the Stables Market, which saw the whole area destroyed and sold to new developers.
Ozgur Kaya, who works on a jewellery stall in the building, now fears for the market hall's future.
"We must protect this market," he said. "It is so unique and there is nothing left like this in London.
"Whether your stall was inside or not, it is so important to all of us and we really hope it will be back up and running soon, how it was."
The sense of community around the incident is palpable.
Jordan Lemon works on an Italian leather stall on the ground floor of the building - so his stock is safe - but he wanted to offer his support.
"There are people in tears that have lost everything," he said. "These are their jobs and their businesses.
"I wasn't even going to be working today, but when I heard the news, I wanted to come and be here for people."
Two fire investigation teams are trying to get to the bottom of what caused the blaze.
But, for the meantime, those world-famous traders will have to wait until the smoke clears to find out whether their future is bright.
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Mrs Clinton - who has seen her national opinion poll lead shrink in recent days - targeted her Republican rival's temperament and attitude to women.
Mr Trump said she would be followed into the White House by criminal investigations.
He has gained ground on Mrs Clinton in some swing states, polls suggest.
Thursday's campaigning included a rare appearance by Mr Trump's wife Melania.
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In her first speech since July's Republican convention, the former model spoke about being an immigrant and a mother and said her husband would "make America fair".
She also vowed, in a speech in the Philadelphia suburbs, to lead a campaign against cyber-bullying if she becomes first lady, and to combat a culture that has "gotten too mean and too rough".
She made no reference to her husband's record of name-calling on social media.
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Mr Trump has gained ground on Mrs Clinton in a number of swing states, including Florida and North Carolina, according to polls. Some national tracker polls are now suggesting the two candidates are neck-and-neck.
The Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project estimates Mrs Clinton's odds of winning the necessary 270 Electoral College votes on Tuesday at about 90%, down from 95% last week.
The momentum appears to be with Mr Trump, who has joked about having to stay on message, as the final weekend of campaigning approaches.
He has capitalised on a new FBI investigation into a Clinton aide's emails.
"Here we go again with the Clintons - you remember the impeachment and the problems," Mr Trump said at a rally in Jacksonville, Florida, his fourth appearance in the state.
"That's not what we need in our country, folks. We need someone who is ready to go to work."
Later, at a night-time rally in North Carolina, he delivered a speech on defence in which he said he could not imagine Mrs Clinton as commander-in-chief.
Mrs Clinton continued to focus on Mr Trump's character, telling a rally in North Carolina: "He has spent this entire campaign offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters.
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She added: "If Donald Trump were to win this election we would have a commander-in-chief who is completely out of his depth and whose ideas are incredibly dangerous."
President Barack Obama has been working almost as hard as Mrs Clinton, as he attempts to rally support among young voters and African Americans.
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Pacquiao is being sued in Nevada after being accused of lying about the shoulder injury he suffered pre-fight.
The Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) says Pacquiao, 36, did not declare the problem, but the Filipino claims a treatment plan was agreed with United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada).
He could face a fine or suspension.
Pacquiao is being sued by two people in Nevada who have alleged the boxer defrauded ticket buyers, television viewers and gamblers.
They have opened lawsuits just hours after the NAC accused the fighter of being dishonest by not declaring his injury on a pre-fight questionnaire - which has also led to suggestions he could face a charge of perjury.
The state attorney general's office is investigating.
However, Pacquiao's adviser Michael Koncz said he took "full responsibility" for the "inadvertent mistake".
"Number one, Manny didn't check the box," Koncz said. "I checked it. We weren't trying to hide anything. I just don't think I read the questionnaire correctly."
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Pacquiao blamed his injury for his points defeat to undefeated Mayweather, 38, claiming it stopped him using his right hand.
His camp claimed Usada had been notified of his treatment and plans for an anti-inflammatory shot on fight night.
But Usada was only charged with monitoring anti-doping issues and NAC officials prevented the injection, saying they had not been told about Pacquaio's shoulder issue.
No date has been set for surgery to repair the "significant tear" and although Pacquiao will face up to a year out, ESPN claims Mayweather is open to a re-match in 12 months time.
Mayweather scored a unanimous points victory in the four-belt unification bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the win extending the American's unbeaten record as a professional to 48 fights.
He has said he intends to retire after one more fight, possibly in September, with Britain's Amir Khan among the potential opponents.
To those unversed in the long-running politics surrounding the race, this will sound like shocking and worrying news. To long-time observers, it will be met with a wearisome sigh - "oh no, here we go again".
The future of the British Grand Prix has been in doubt for as long as many people in Formula 1 can remember. The current contract, signed at the end of 2009 for a 17-year period, was meant to end that. But it has done anything but. The devil was in the detail.
Silverstone desperately wants to host the British Grand Prix but it cannot do it at any price
F1's former boss Bernie Ecclestone had a difficult relationship with Silverstone. Baiting them, criticising the track, its owners the British Racing Drivers' Club and pretty much anything to do with the race was something of a sport for him.
For Ecclestone, this was rooted in Silverstone's inability to pay him the money he wanted to host the race. Not benefiting from the largesse of a government, the BRDC has to make the event work financially, and as Ecclestone's fees went up, that became increasingly difficult.
That is still the core of the problem.
The current contract - signed at the end of a tedious few years of speculation and machinations concerning the future of the race - was for £12m in the first year, 2010. But it has a 5% annual escalator in it. So this year, the race is costing £16.9m. By 2019, it will be £18.6m, and by 2027, the final year of the deal if it were to run its course, £27.5m.
These numbers are massively less than some circuits are paying - for example, Bahrain pays at least $40m (£31m) a year; Russia $50m (£38.7m); Azerbaijan a reputed $75m (£58m).
But those races all have one thing in common - they are funded by authoritarian governments keen to promote their country to the world. Silverstone is a private members' club that has to run a viable business.
Silverstone desperately wants to host the British Grand Prix but it cannot do it at any price. The BRDC has a responsibility to protect the track in the interests of British motor racing. It cannot do that if it goes bankrupt because of the F1 contract.
Negotiations with the new owners of F1, who took over from Ecclestone in January, are still ongoing but have pretty much reached an impasse. F1, now owned by US group Liberty Media, has said it cannot renegotiate an existing contract. If it did, after all, the next thing would be they would have a whole bunch of other tracks knocking on their door demanding the same thing.
It has been leaked to Reuters that the F1 Group offered to take the race over for five years - saving Silverstone some money. But that only looks like largesse if you don't look very closely. It still leaves Silverstone with a contract from 2023-27 that it cannot afford.
So the circuit is set to end the contract and hope it can renegotiate a new one on better terms.
The BRDC knows this is a risk but it is a risk it cannot afford not to take.
So then the question becomes, what does F1 do next?
You can forget right off the bat any suggestion that any other permanent circuit in Britain could host the race. There is none suitable for a start - and none that could afford it either.
F1 chairman Chase Carey and commercial boss Sean Bratches have made it clear they value Silverstone highly and that they see the British Grand Prix as an irreplaceable part of the F1 calendar. But that does not mean the race has to be at Silverstone.
They have also talked about wanting races in "destination cities". That is usually a reference to a desire to have further events in the US in places such as New York and Los Angeles. But it could just as easily apply to the UK. After all, very few cities rival London for global cachet and appeal.
But the practical issues preventing a grand prix in London are immense - air quality, noise pollution, traffic complications, location, planning and, of course, money. Who would fund it? Where would the cash come from?
Carey and Bratches are highly accomplished businessmen but it would take some kind of miracle to resolve all those issues.
In reality, surely, if there is to be a British Grand Prix after 2019, it has to be at Silverstone. But there will likely be a whole load of hot air and headaches before it is finally sorted out.
"Positive Train Control" is a digital system that allows trains to communicate with each other and can automatically stop or slow the train if danger is detected.
"We feel that had such a system been installed on this section of track, this accident would not have occurred," said accident investigator Robert Sumwalt of the National Transportation Safety Board.
The system monitors regional speed limits, works zones and other operational data using Wifi, GPS, and radio transmissions according to the Association of American Railroads.
A human engineer remains in control of the train but can be overridden by Positive Train Control (PTC) if sensors on the train and along the track notice that the train is moving too fast or heading into a danger zone.
Investigators in Philadelphia report that the derailed train, which killed at least eight people, was travelling at more than 100 mph (160 km/h) when it entered a curve - over twice the speed limit for that stretch of rail.
Congress mandated in 2008 that railways be equipped with PTC after a head-on collision between two trains in California that investigators determined was caused by the engineer running past a stop signal while texting on his mobile phone.
December 2015 is the deadline to outfit more than 600,000 miles of US railways with PTC, but experts say that it is unlikely that the deadline will be met for one reason - a steep price tag - about $10bn (£6.35bn).
The Philadelphia railway, as well as those that carry passengers or hazardous materials, are required by Congress to equip the technology.
Amtrak, which operates the Philadelphia commuter railway, has so far equipped about 400 miles of track with PTC sensors.
Completing PTC installation would require training for 180,000 employees, new equipment added to 22,500 locomotive, and 30,000 new wireless antennae, according to the Association of American Railroads.
"A national-wide PTC system built, installed, tested, and approved on this scale simply cannot happen by the 2015 deadline," they claim.
A Spanish train derailment in 2013, which occurred while the engineer was in control of the steering, prompted authorities to install automatic braking at the curved section of the track where the crash occurred.
Across the Middle East and beyond, many are pondering Mr Trump's declarations in the heat of the campaign, his still sketchy comments in sit-down interviews, and his first choices for his team in White House Inc.
Last week's Sir Bani Yas Forum in Abu Dhabi, an annual gathering of foreign ministers and prominent regional experts, provided a snapshot of the uncertainties and ambiguities before Mr Trump formally takes charge on 20 January.
A respected US commentator derided a businessman without experience in governing who "discovers our policies while speaking." He summarised Mr Trump's foreign policy thinking as "contradictory impulses."
Others urged everyone to "give him time."
"He likes to do deals, so there could be opportunities," remarked an Arab ambassador.
So unpredictable is the man about to assume the mantle of the world's most powerful president that one policy expert warned "he could open hotels in Iran or go to war with Iran".
The region presents the property tycoon turned President-elect with a number of complex deals to try to strike: end a devastating war in Syria; resolve a destructive conflict in Yemen; untangle the geopolitical knots which harden these tensions and are threaded through parallel wars against so-called Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaeda-linked groups.
Mr Trump has already cast his eye on the most elusive agreement of all - an Israeli Palestinian peace accord.
"That's the ultimate deal," he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview shortly after his electoral victory. "As a dealmaker, I'd like to do... the deal that can't be made."
But its the nearly six-year-long conflict in Syria which is likely to be his first test.
In his latest and most extensive interview, with a group of New York Times editors and reporters, the president-elect seemed to hint at greater engagement than his so far single focus on defeating IS. But it was still bereft of details or depth.
When asked what he would do about the Syria conflict he replied: "I can only say this: we have to end the craziness that's going on in Syria."
Then, intriguingly, he asked to go off the record about "one of the things that was told to me."
Over the past year, Mr Trump repeatedly said he would team up with Russia and its ally President Bashar al-Assad to take on IS. Ending extremist groups' control of territory in Syria and Iraq is also one of President Obama's principle aims, which is now making progress.
But Mr Trump has been publicly nailing his colours to a different mast.
"I'm not saying Assad is a good man, because he's not," Mr Trump told The New York Times in an interview earlier this year. "But our far greater problem is not Assad, it's ISIS," he said, using an alternative name for IS.
As for the US-backed rebels, he's said "we have no idea who these people are".
"Wait until he gets his first intelligence briefing," cautioned one Western analyst at the Forum hosted by the UAE's Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed.
"Will he really want to abandon the rebels, especially when he realises that Russia spends more time attacking them, rather then IS?"
Mr Trump has made no secret of his admiration for strongmen including Russia's President Vladimir Putin, arguably the most influential dealmaker now when it comes to crises like Syria.
Before Mr Trump's electoral victory, I asked a senior State Department official which options for Syria would be presented to the next administration.
The response: "It depends on what kind of relationship we want with Russia."
A Russian expert at the Abu Dhabi Forum predicted that Hillary Clinton's defeat meant a step back from what could have been "a kinetic collision in Syria."
He said President Putin and Mr Trump speak the "same language," but could still be pulled apart by conflicting interests.
And Mr Trump will face stiff resistance in the US Congress, where prominent Republicans like Senator John McCain denounce the Russian and Syrian bombing as "barbaric".
There are wars within wars in Syria. Strengthening the Putin-Assad axis would also bolster Iran, a country Mr Trump repeatedly warned he would "get tough with".
Turkey's President Erdogan may also be the kind of authoritarian leader Mr Trump is drawn to, but he also has strong red lines in neighbouring Syria, most of all stopping the advance of Syrian Kurdish groups the US is now relying on to fight IS in northern Syria.
The president-elect has also threatened to tear up "bad" deals, including Iran's nuclear agreement, which limits Tehran's nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
"Only someone who wants to send us into an unknown world would tear it up," remarked a senior Gulf Arab official.
It's Iran's influence and interventions across the region that most Arab states, and Israel, want to stop. President-elect Trump is likely to find support in the Republican-dominated Congress to move in that direction.
For now, most Arab leaders appear to be keeping an open mind about the man soon to lead their most important foreign ally.
They've been bitterly frustrated by President Obama's reluctance to intervene more forcefully in Syria, and his efforts to ease Iran's isolation.
Syria's opposition leaders and activists are still hoping Mr Trump will revise his first simplistic draft of his Syria policy.
"If he wants a partner to fight IS, he will find one in us," former opposition spokeswoman Bassma Kodmani told me in a recent interview.
But for some activists, there's a growing worry that nearly six years into a punishing war, ending President Assad's rule will become even less of a priority for the US. The Syrian leader has already said Mr Trump could possibly be "a natural ally."
Once in office, a president-elect who says he makes decisions by instinct will be held in check by what's often invoked as the "system:" US lawmakers; the security establishment; vested interests and new views across his administration.
What is, for many, a surprising ascent to power is likely to keep bringing surprises.
The 23-year-old Denmark international signed a three-year deal last summer after moving from Aalborg for an undisclosed fee, but he now moves back to the Superliga club for a season.
He made six substitute appearances for Villa, scoring once against Sheffield United in the FA Cup.
His agent revealed in May Helenius was not in Villa's plans for next season.
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The exhibition game saw France great Thierry Dusautoir and his fellow back row Roger Wilson kicking conversions in their final games before retirement.
Ulster debutants Mark Keane and Callum Patterson both scored first-half tries.
But two tries from both Waisea Nayacalevu and Chris King helped the Baa-Baas fight back as they outscored Ulster by seven tries to four.
Ruan Pienaar was joining Wilson in making his final Ulster appearance before he heads to Montpellier to join a club that will be coached by Vern Cotter, in charge of the Barbarians in Thursday's game.
Pienaar, devastated to be leaving Ulster after seven years with the province, came off after 35 minutes but by that stage the Baa-Baas' bulk had already swung the game in the visitors' favour.
Three of the Barbarians' four first-half tries came after line-out mauls as the damp conditions in Belfast made slick handling an unrealistic prospect.
The visiting tourists were able to produce more running rugby as space began to open up in the second half and Nayacalevu and Tekori both ran in scores more in keeping with the Baa-Baas' proud history.
Out-of-favour Ireland centre Stuart McCloskey barged over for Ulster's first try in the sixth minute and his clever chip set up debutant wing Keane to score another touchdown five minutes later.
But former All Black hooker Corey Flynn rumbled over a reply in the 20th minute as the Barbarians pack began to bully the opposition.
After scores from centre Nayacalevu and prop King put the Baa-Baas 17-14 ahead, youngster Patterson finished off an Ulster line-out maul to restore the home side's lead only for prop King to drive over for another try in first-half injury-time.
A break from Pienaar's replacement Paul Marshall set up to Alan O'Connor to put Ulster ahead again after the resumption.
However as the Baa-Baas again began to overpower their opponents, the pressure yielded a penalty try and Nayacalevu's second score in a five-minute period to put them 36-28 ahead.
Marshall fumbled a glorious chance to reply in the 68th minutes with the line gaping after Dave Shanahan's perfect pass and Tekori's late score at the other end confirmed the Barbarians' win.
Ulster: Nelson; Keane, Patterson, McCloskey, Gilroy; Herron, Pienaar; Warwick, Herring, Ah You; Browne, O'Connor; Rea, Ross, Wilson. Replacements: Andrew, McCall, Kane, Mulholland, Henry, P Marshall, Shanahan, Smith, Lutton.
Barbarians: Goode; Smith, Nayacalevu, Fruean, Agulla; Madigan, Kockott; King, Flynn, Ross; Willemse, Albacete; Tekori, Dusautoir, Isa. Replacements: Hibbard, Pelo, Johnston, Thrush, Masoe, Fotuali'i, James, Buttin.
Stop Killing Cyclists laid 21 cardboard "coffins" on Blackfriars Road to represent the riders killed in London since the group began in November 2013.
Organisers of the No More Coffins event want TfL to invest 10% of its budget on improving cycling infrastructure.
TfL said it was investing nearly £1bn on measures that would improve safety.
Eight cyclists have been killed in the capital this year, seven of them in incidents involving HGVs. The death toll in 2014 stood at 13.
The campaign group was set up after six cyclists were killed in the capital in one month, November 2013.
Nicola Branch, co-organiser of the protest, said: "We want 10% of the TfL budget to be spent on cycling infrastructure. At the moment it is only 1.4% of their transport budget and that's nowhere near enough.
"As cyclists we are the canary in the coalmine, you sort out the problem of cycling deaths first and then all the other deaths fall into place."
As part of the protest scores of cyclists lay down with their bikes on the road in a "die-in" near the coffins. Several cyclists also spoke before the event, which is in its third year.
Among the protesters was Vicky Lebreck, 25, from London, who said she was trying to "get my life back together" after her leg was amputated after her pelvis was crushed by a lorry in a crash in December last year.
"I don't think it should be a possible outcome that a mistake made by a driver means people cycling on London's roads should be dying or having dramatic injuries."
Leon Daniels, Managing Director of Surface Transport at TfL, said: "We are investing nearly £1 billion in upgrading the existing Cycle Superhighways with greater segregation, introducing major new segregated cycle routes and backstreet quiet routes, and overhauling dozens of junctions both on our roads and on borough roads, to give more protection to pedestrians and cyclists."
The 26-year-old will be available for all three competitions, but will not be able to play against his parent club.
In 12 first-class games for Somerset and Surrey, Burke has scored 274 runs, with a highest score of 79, and taken 23 wickets at 28.13.
"It is important for us to have depth and James is highly talented," head coach Pierre de Bruyn said.
"James will add strength to our batting and bowling, and he is also a dynamic fielder."
Leicestershire finished seventh in County Championship Division Two last season, and they were knocked out in the group stages of the One-Day Cup and T20 Blast.
Now he has come up with the idea of making a portable, electronic, version of his youthful practice wall.
But this is one that can be transported in a flight case and features a number of different electronically monitored games.
Using the Sokka unit basically involves kicking a ball against a flat playing surface containing a number of electronic sensors that monitor accuracy and technique.
It can be set for a number of different games - with names such as Block It, Pass and Receive, and On the Spot - designed to hone different aspects of a player's skills.
A price tag of £99,000 will get you three portable units - featuring six playing surfaces, as well as a Mercedes van and other necessary kit to transport and set up the equipment for use at your playing location.
And, as the former Liverpool, Hamburg, Southampton, Newcastle United and England player reveals, the unit has been a long time in the development pipeline.
"After I retired I went to New Zealand in 1985 and went to do a coaching session as a guest," he says.
"I saw kids doing things in a really different and enjoyable way, not just, 'Go there, do this'. I like football to be enjoyable too.
"So this is where we are 35 years after then - with what we believe is doable. It has just taken us time to get it all spot on.
"After initially thinking we would just have static units, for the past year we have been trying to make them really transportable."
That has been achieved by manufacturing a double-sided playing surface which folds neatly into a standard aircraft flight case, and can be wheeled away after use.
Production is based in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, and Keegan has been joined by two other shareholders in the venture. But he stresses it is his idea and his company.
The former England captain also devised the theme of the Soccer Circus business, in conjunction with Scottish entrepreneur Peter Barr and engineer Clive Mockford.
The Soccer Circus team spent more than £5m in the research, development and delivery of the concept, which is centred on a series of football skill games.
The first site opened in Glasgow in 2006 and has since been joined by two other outlets; at the Centre Parcs complex near Penrith, Cumbria, and one in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The former star, who started his career at Scunthorpe, is also a popular after-dinner speaker on the sporting and business circuits.
The 62-year-old was arguably the first successfully media-savvy footballer, as famous for his Brut adverts with Henry Cooper, pop singles, and curly perm haircut as he was for his successful playing career.
He won the three League titles, two Uefa Cups, the FA Cup, and the European Cup with Liverpool, before becoming one of the first players of the 1970s to move overseas where he won the German Bundesliga with Hamburg..
"I have never been scared to do something new - I did the adverts, I did the record, I moved abroad, I have always been one of those people who say, 'Why not?' rather than 'Why?'" he says.
"I am very lucky in that I enjoy meeting people, it is a great help in life, not just business.
• Born in Doncaster in 1951
• Debut for Scunthorpe United in 1968
• Signed for Liverpool in 1971
• Moved to Hamburg in 1977
• Returned to England with Southampton in 1980
• Moved to Newcastle United in 1982
• Retired from playing in 1984
• Played 63 times for England, scoring 21 goals
• Managed England and Newcastle United (twice), Fulham, Manchester City
• European Footballer of the Year in 1978 and 1979
"People come and ask for a picture and I am always happy to do that, but you can tell the ones who are also really interested in what we are doing [with Sokka]," he says.
He says that the beauty of his design is that, as well as being portable, it can also be installed as an interactive sporting attraction in a club's museum or shop.
"Interactive stuff is what kids want now, not to see an old football shirt of Kevin Keegan's," he says.
"If you visit a football museum and there is a club legend's score on Sokka that you might be able to beat, then that is something different, more exciting," he says, adding that the appearance of the units can be tailored to customers' needs.
And, although the concept has only recently launched, he says there has already been healthy interest both from within the UK and in other parts of the world.
The court ruled unanimously that the 1970 law applied only to "tangible" material sent through the post.
Charles Lee Warren faced up to three years in prison.
Mr Warren was arrested after he texted the photo in October 2012 and the woman went to the police.
The obscenity law under which he was prosecuted makes it a felony to send unsolicited material depicting nudity or sexual conduct unless the "envelope or container" in which it is sent bears a warning in "at least eight-point boldface type".
The arguments in the case were heard in front of the Georgia high court in November.
On Monday, the court said the case was not being dismissed merely because electronic text messaging did not exist in 1970 when the law was passed.
"The specific prohibition is clearly aimed at tangible material that is delivered in a tangible manner... and because appellant did not send anything through the mail, he did not violate this prohibition," reads the opinion, which overturned a lower court's decision.
"This conclusion is reinforced by the fact that the imprinted notice on the envelope or container must be in 'eight-point boldface type' and must say that the 'container' should be 'returned' to the sender if the addressee does not want to 'open' it."
The state has no other law governing these types of cases, a spokeswoman for Georgia attorney general's office told the Reuters news agency.
Legislation has been proposed in Georgia to amend the law to include pictures transmitted electronically, but it has not been passed.
According to prosecutors, Mr Warren's penis was tattooed with the phrase, "STRONG E nuf 4 A MAN BUT Made 4 A WOMAN", Reuters reported.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said after meeting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif he was struck by the "very different tone".
But Mr Kerry said Iran still had questions to answer.
Substantive talks with Iran on its nuclear programme are due to take place in Geneva from 15 October.
They will involve the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the US, Russia, Britain, France and China - along with Germany, known as the P5+1.
The US-Iran meeting in New York represented the highest-level direct contact between the countries in six years. Diplomats from the P5+1 were also present.
By Jeremy BowenBBC Middle East editor, New York
Iran has a new president, Hassan Rouhani, and rather than provoke walkouts like his predecessor, he has come to the UN to try to change sceptical minds.
He said he wanted relations with the West based on moderation, peace and wisdom. He said his talks here had convinced him the atmosphere had changed.
The meeting between Iran and the P5+1 started the hard work that will be necessary to get a deal. Both sides said it went well.
If Hassan Rouhani can deliver what he has been saying in New York - and if the world's big powers can reciprocate - than there's a real chance to make progress on the slow-burning but highly dangerous standoff about Iran's nuclear plans.
One of Iran's missions at the UN this week has been to get long-term recognition for its belief that it is a regional power, with its own legitimate security interests.
President Rouhani has managed to create a change for the better in the atmospherics and, considering the outlook in the Middle East is so dismal and dangerous, that has to be a good start.
New tone, old differences
Mr Kerry said he was pleased that Mr Zarif "put possibilities on the table", but said a lot of work remained to be done and that Iran would have to answer questions about its nuclear programme.
"One meeting and a change in tone, which was welcome, doesn't answer those questions yet," he said.
Mr Zarif called the talks "constructive" and said the diplomats had made progress on resolving international issues in a manner that respected the rights of the Iranian people.
"I am satisfied with this first step," he said. "Now we have to see whether we can match our positive words with serious deeds so we can move forward."
Mr Zarif insisted Iran's nuclear programme was "nothing but peaceful" and pledged to prove it to the international community.
The Iranian foreign minister called sanctions against Iran "counterproductive" and added he hoped all bilateral, unilateral and multilateral sanctions would be lifted in the near future.
Likewise, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said afterwards the tone and spirit of the meeting were "extremely good".
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said there was an agreement to "go forward with an ambitious timeframe".
However, Iran's new envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Reza Najafi, expressed caution on Friday, saying: "This is the first meeting, so nobody I guess should expect that in just one day we can solve our problems."
New Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said he wants to reach a deal on the nuclear dispute in three to six months.
Q&A: Iran sanctions
Iran's key nuclear sites
But the Americans have said there will be no major concessions on sanctions until the Iranians take concrete steps to reassure the world they are not seeking nuclear weapons.
Earlier, President Rouhani told the UN General Assembly that no country should possess nuclear arms.
Iran has been negotiating over the nuclear issue since 2006 with the P5+1.
Since Mr Rouhani's election in June, Iranian officials have reached out to the West, saying they want to address concerns over Iran's nuclear programme.
On Tuesday, Mr Rouhani told the General Assembly that he was prepared to engage in "time-bound and results-oriented" talks.
On Thursday, he called for stricter controls on nuclear weapons as part of a global effort to eventually rid the world of them.
"No nation should possess nuclear weapons, since there are no right hands for these wrong weapons," he said, speaking on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement at the General Assembly.
The P5+1 have asked Iran to halt production and stockpiling of uranium enriched to 20% - a step away from achieving a nuclear weapons capability.
They also demanded Iran shut down the Fordo underground enrichment facility.
In return, they offered to ease the sanctions that have severely affected Iran's economy.
US President Barack Obama has welcomed the new Iranian president's more "moderate course".
He told the UN on Tuesday that the US wanted to resolve the nuclear issue peacefully, but was determined to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
Mr Rouhani has said he is fully empowered by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to negotiate on the issue.
The BBC's Bridget Kendall, who is at the UN, says President Rouhani has signalled a sharp departure from the foreign policy and the tone of his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose bombastic pronouncements at the UN in the past resulted in walk-outs.
When Andrew O'Neill, 25 and formerly of Skelmersdale in Lancashire, arrived in Wigan town centre on 19 April to "meet" 14-year-old "Alex" he was instead attacked and filmed by a group of men.
O'Neill admitted attempting to meet a girl under 16 and was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court to 12 months.
A man arrested on suspicion of assault and blackmail was bailed last month.
The 25-year-old is due to answer to police bail in June.
An earlier hearing at Wigan Magistrates' Court heard O'Neill had booked a hotel room.
He lost two teeth after being attacked when confronted.
O'Neill managed to escape and report what happened to police, who arrested and charged him with attempting to meet a girl under 16 following grooming.
Meet Singh Kapoor was found dead in the container being transported from Belgium to Tilbury in August 2014.
Mr Kapoor, his wife and two sons were among 35 Afghan Sikhs in the container, Basildon Crown Court was told.
Northern Irish lorry drivers Stephen McLaughlin, 36, and Martin McGlinchey, 49, deny conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants into the UK.
The court heard that the refugees were believed to have fled Kabul after suffering persecution, and were living illegally in Belgium and France.
Jurors were told the two men were part of a team responsible for arranging the transport logistics of the operation, allegedly organising for the container to be sent from Dover to France so it could be picked up by an innocent man before being loaded with illegal immigrants on a Belgian industrial estate.
Michael Goodwin, prosecuting, told the court the plan was foiled when port workers in Tilbury heard the screams of those in the container.
After the operation was sprung, he said, Mr McLaughlin, from Limavady, Londonderry; and Mr McGlinchey, of Coalisland, County Tyrone; frantically tried to cover their tracks, destroying mobile phones and Sim cards which might implicate them.
Mr McGlinchey sold a car he thought could link him to two co-conspirators, while Mr McLaughlin booked a short family holiday.
Mr Goodwin said the pair were motivated by financial gain, and that the "very considerable risks" involved meant they would have made a lot of money if the plan had been successful.
The trial continues.
The Perseid meteor shower appears in our skies every August, but is expected to peak overnight.
For the first time since 2007, the shower will coincide with a new moon - making viewing conditions particularly favourable, weather permitting.
The peak time is expected to be between 23:00 BST and 04:00 BST.
The best places to see the meteors in Northern Ireland are expected to be counties Down, Armagh and Fermanagh, as well as south Antrim.
Andy McCrea, of the Irish Astronomical Association, explained what people could hope to see.
"They can expect to see what are called shooting stars. Shooting stars are not really stars at all, in fact they're little grains of dust that hit the atmosphere at very high speeds, so they vaporise and they leave a trail.
"Those meteors are called the Perseid meteors, so you should expect to see a meteor roughly every 10 minutes if you live in a built-up area.
"If you can get away to a nice dark site, you should see one every minute."
The Perseids are pieces of Comet Swift-Tuttle; each August, the Earth passes through a cloud of the comet's debris.
"Last year conditions were similar to this year and I was able to see five or six," Mr McCrea said.
"The benefit this year is we don't have a full moon or anything like that, so the moon's out of the way and that allows the sky to be darker and we stand a better chance of seeing meteors.
"They're best seen in the wee small hours, so if it's dark, if it's clear, put it off until as late as you possibly can and you stand a better chance of seeing the meteors."
BBC Northern Ireland weather presenter Cecilia Daly said that cloudy skies over Northern Ireland on Tuesday night stopped most people from seeing the meteors.
"This coming night, skies will be clearer across the island and this coincides with peak shower activity," she said.
"It is difficult to say when the best of the clear skies will be, but southern and eastern counties stand the best chance of catching sight of the dazzling show. Prime viewing is after 11pm, so keep scanning the skies for cloud breaks."
Astronomy Ireland is urging people to count the number of meteors they see every 15 minutes and send the results to its website.
"This will help us tell if the shower is getting weaker or stronger as the years pass," said David Moore, editor of Astronomy Ireland's magazine where the counts will be published.
An added bonus for sky watchers is that Saturn is also currently visible above Northern Ireland.
"It'll be visible as a fairly bright star, but low down in the sky in the south-western part of the sky - it's been there for most of the summer months," Mr McCrea said.
"Through a telescope Saturn's spectacular, but you'll see it with the naked eye tonight."
The shooting happened at the Second City Suite in Sherlock Street, in the city centre, on Saturday evening.
The victim, aged 30, is in a stable condition in hospital, the West Midlands force said.
Two men, aged 18 and 22, have been arrested on suspicion of assault and two others, aged 26 and 31, remain in custody on suspicion of firearms offences.
Det Supt Tom Chisholm said: "This is a fast-paced inquiry, we have spoken to a number of witnesses and there is CCTV coverage in the area.
"I would urge anyone who has not yet spoken to us and has information which would assist to come forward as soon as possible."
Officers have cordoned off the area around Sherlock Street and Hurst Street and are examining the CCTV footage.
The Colin Bloomfield Melanoma Appeal total now stands at £133,730. The extra money will be used to provide UV sun meters in public places for the first time in the UK.
The 33-year-old, from Shropshire, died on 25 April from skin cancer.
He wanted to prevent other people from being affected by the disease.
His mother Alison Bloomfield thinks the money raised in his name will help to do that.
£133,730
raised for the appeal so far
£45,000 target Colin Bloomfield originally hoped to raise
200 schools in Derbyshire and East Staffordshire benefiting from the appeal
"I think it's absolutely fantastic and I can't believe it's gone to so many people's hearts," she said.
"I think what we all have to realise is actually there's no cure as yet for melanoma so the best way to deal with it is has got to be prevention.
"It's dreadful to lose your only son at 33 to something which is preventable."
She said her son was "quite a modest guy" but would have been "overwhelmed" by the amount of money raised if he were still alive.
"If we can prevent this particular disease, which is on the up, I think we have turned a corner and we may just stop other people going down the same route and making a mistake," said Mrs Bloomfield.
The appeal is closing on 31 December and the Colin Bloomfield Shade and UV sun meter at Markeaton Park will be in place next spring, in time for the summer.
Other locations for the sun meters are yet to be decided.
Wales face the world champions in the first of three Tests next Saturday.
He says Wales celebrating a win after 26 defeats would "show how big the gap is if you're going to make a big deal out of beating them once".
Warburton also says any team-mate who believes Wales cannot win is "not the right guy to come on the tour".
Wales have not beaten the All Blacks since wing Ken Jones gathered flanker Clem Thomas' cross-kick to score the decisive try in Cardiff in 1953.
Warburton wants Wales to emulate England's 2003 World Cup winners, who beat New Zealand at Twickenham in November 2002 and won against them down under in a June, 2003 rematch ahead of taking the global crown.
"I wouldn't want to make a big deal out of beating them once," said Warburton.
He added: "Once isn't good enough really. You want to be regularly competitive with these teams."
Wales were regarded as Europe's strongest team at the 2015 World Cup as they reached the quarter-finals.
But they finished second behind rejuvenated England in the 2016 Six Nations.
New Zealand are top of World Rugby's rankings, with Wales in sixth while England - in fourth - are the only northern hemisphere team above Warren Gatland's men.
While Warburton expects his side to take on Steve Hansen's team in a positive frame of mind, he accepts the All Blacks "are massive favourites".
"They've been the world's best team for a long time now and they will be the best team we've played against, probably, in the last three or four years," he explained.
"The feeling of victory is what motivates you."
The match in Auckland will be the All Blacks' first since beating Australia 34-17 in the World Cup final.
Steve Hansen's side are going through a rebuilding phase, with Richie McCaw, Dan Carter, Ma'a Nonu and Conrad Smith among those to have retired from Test rugby.
But Warburton cites McCaw's open-side successor Sam Cane as an example of New Zealand's production line.
"They'll lose experience, but they'll never lose talent," said the Cardiff Blues open-side who is fit after a shoulder injury.
"Sam Cane for example - he's on 30 caps, he's captain of the Chiefs and he's filling Richie McCaw's boots and he's one of the best open-sides in the world already."
Fuel duty has been held at 57.95p per litre since the March 2011 Budget.
In his Autumn Statement, Mr Hammond also revealed plans for investment in transport, including £1.1bn for English local networks.
And he pledged £390m for work on low emission vehicles and the development of connected autonomous vehicles.
Fuel duty remains the biggest component of the price of diesel and petrol. Motorists also pay 20% value added tax on those fuels.
It was last increased in January 2011 from 58.19p to 58.95p a litre and cut by a penny in the Budget two months later.
Mr Hammond said: "This will save the average car driver £130 a year and the average van driver £350 a year.
"It is a tax cut worth £850m next year and means the current freeze is the longest for 40 years."
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Drivers could also find their journey times cut after the chancellor announced investment of £220m to "address traffic pinch points on strategic roads".
He also promised £110m for an Oxford to Cambridge Expressway as well as East West Rail to create "a transformational tech-corridor" to link "the world-class research strengths of our two best-known universities".
In addition, the government will invest £450m to trial digital signalling on the railways to "achieve a step change in reliability and to squeeze more capacity out of our existing rail infrastructure".
Mr Hammond added: "Reliable transport networks are essential to growth and productivity so this Autumn Statement commits significant additional funding to keep Britain moving now and to invest in the transport networks and vehicles of the future."
He said the money for low emission vehicles would "build on our competitive advantage" in the field.
The chancellor added that the Department for Transport would continue to work with Transport for the North to develop detailed options for the Northern Powerhouse rail system.
Celtic boss and fellow Northern Irishman Brendan Rodgers was moved to describe him as "talented, bright, a good coach who works with players well and can stimulate a group".
And O'Neill's bold, high-risk decision to make five changes for the Ukraine match was hailed as a tactical masterstroke.
"If it had been Jose Mourinho or Roy Hodgson, he would be hailed as a magician," NI and Kilmarnock forward Josh Magennis reflected afterwards.
But after winning that match 2-0, O'Neill now faces his biggest challenge - plotting the downfall of world champions Germany on Tuesday.
A draw in Paris might be enough for the boys in green, although it is possible NI could progress even if they lose to Germany, as long as results in other groups go their way.
So how should O'Neill play it at the Parc des Princes?
Despite working miracles with a squad containing just five Premier League performers, 46-year-old O'Neill has not been immune to criticism.
His team's policy of containment in the 1-0 defeat by Poland led to suggestions he had been too cautious in Nice.
The manager admitted his unfancied side failed to make a mark in that opening Group C match, and a different approach was anticipated for Thursday's game against Ukraine.
However, no-one expected five changes, or that O'Neill would drop top scorer Kyle Lafferty for a match Northern Ireland had to win.
The players brought in all played vital roles in the Lyon success, and the boss was completely vindicated.
Striker Lafferty will probably be on the bench again, ready to come on should Northern Ireland fall behind.
QPR's Conor Washington deserves to keep his place up front while support man Jamie Ward produced his best performance in 24 appearances in a green shirt on Thursday night.
"Washington's pace made us look much more dynamic. He was excellent at holding the ball up and taking the pressure off the back four," said Hibernian manager Neil Lennon, who captained Northern Ireland and won 40 caps between 1994 and 2002.
"He was aggressive, powerful and full of running, which was a big, big plus, and he got Northern Ireland up the pitch - he won the free-kick which we scored the first goal from - so more of the same would be great. We need that to happen against Germany too."
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One change O'Neill may ponder is a recall for experienced Derby County midfielder Chris Baird as an anchorman to play in front of the defensive quartet of Aaron Hughes, Gareth McAuley, Craig Cathcart and Jonny Evans.
Much of Northern Ireland's success is down to a solid defence. They have had five clean sheets in seven matches, and have conceded just one first-half goal in their past 21 games.
Boss O'Neill believes a Germany team beaten by Poland and the Republic of Ireland in qualifying, and recently by Slovakia in a warm-up fixture, have weaknesses to exploit. But the priority has to be keeping things solid at the back.
"We will have to get our organisation absolutely spot on at the back but I am confident that will happen," added Lennon.
"Michael O'Neill is so meticulous with his preparations for every game.
"Defensively over the last couple of years we have been absolutely superb. We have defenders who enjoy defending and are used to being under pressure and not seeing much possession, which is going to happen against Germany. Our usual mentality is ideal for this match.
"What might help is that Germany do not look quite as strong as usual in attack, but they are still very dangerous - they won the last World Cup without a recognised striker."
And Lennon, working for the BBC at the tournament, believes O'Neill will stick with the back four which served him so well against Ukraine.
In the opening fixture, O'Neill went for a back three, plus two wing-backs. But, such was Poland's early dominance, it effectively became an enforced five-man defence.
"Having a four-man defence means we will offer a bit more up front," adds Lennon, who spent most of his club career with Leicester City and Celtic.
"The balance of the team looked far better against Ukraine than it did against Poland.
"We know we are not going to be dominant in possession but it is important we use the ball well when we get it and play in Germany's half as much as we can."
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Germany are renowned for working their way into tournament finals. At the last World Cup in 2014 they were held to a 2-2 by Ghana, but went on to be crowned global champions for a fourth time.
"I know they have not set the tournament on fire just yet but you know Germany are always a determined team and they are probably a slow burner at Euro 2016," says Lennon.
"They are going to get better and, without having played fantastically well, they are sitting on four points already."
Coach Joachim Loew, in charge of Germany for 10 years, has predicted his side will not slip up in Paris.
"We want to win, we will win and we will top the group," promised the 56-year-old. "I think we will then play in Lille for our round of 16. I don't know any other way."
Should Loew's team lose, though, it would be Northern Ireland's finest footballing hour, eclipsing that famous 1982 night in Valencia when Billy Bingham's side beat World Cup hosts Spain.
When it comes to taking relatively unknown players to a higher level, the astute O'Neill has form.
Just five years ago, he was manager of Shamrock Rovers when the Dublin club became the first from Ireland to reach the group stages of the Europa League.
Having that on his CV did no harm when O'Neill put his name forward as Nigel Worthington's successor in December 2011.
Northern Ireland's qualification and their win over Ukraine will have placed the manager on the radar of English clubs.
Despite agreeing a four-year contract with O'Neill recently, Irish Football Association chiefs know their manager could well land a new job on the back of this tournament.
And it does not stop there. Some of O'Neill's players could reap rewards with eye-catching displays in France.
Lafferty, an outcast at club level with Norwich but so important in qualifying, will be anxious to get back on the pitch - and for Northern Ireland to qualify for the next stage.
Veteran defender Hughes, 36, is currently without a club, but has made his mark in a surprise but successful recall to the national side.
"Over the years, NI have had plenty of players who probably haven't had great club careers but have been brilliant for their country," observes former Celtic manager Lennon.
"They seem to have a knack of playing brilliantly for their international team - [former Preston and Leeds striker] David Healy is the prime example of that."
And it is not just O'Neill and his players who would benefit from beating the three-time European champions. The Irish FA estimates it would bank £2m with victory and qualification for the last 16.
Probably the most interesting stat for me was that regular pay - excluding bonuses - saw a 2.2% increase in February and a 1.8% rise in the three months to Feb. And for the first time since serious records began, that headline rise is the real rise - because CPI inflation is 0%.
It is striking that fears of employers significantly shrinking pay rises with the disappearance of inflation have not materialised: there is no sign in the UK of so-called bad deflation (which of course means the Bank of England remains on course to push up interest rates, rather than cut them).
Here is the thing: regular pay has been growing at a faster rate than inflation since last October, after years of lagging inflation. And what is more, pay rises in the private sector, which provides more than four-fifths of all employment, are even greater, at 2.6% in one month and 2.2% over three months.
Also, the employment rate of 73.4% is the highest since comparable records began in 1971. And the unemployment rate of 5.6% is down from 8% in early 2010 and is only a fraction higher than it was before the great crash and recession: it was 5.2% in February 2008.
This combination of jobs growth and pay rises is just what David Cameron and George Osborne hoped and prayed would happen when they set the UK on a path of austerity, both massively shrinking public sector employment - from more than 21% of all UK jobs in 2010 to 17.4% today - and freezing public-sector pay.
They assumed they would receive an electoral reward for being tough on the deficit - the record 10% gap between public spending and tax revenues - so long as real pay rose a good few months before polling day and unemployment fell.
So if the economy is delivering the fruits promised by Cameron and Osborne, why no dividend for them?
The conventional explanations, that all the new jobs are going to foreigners or are insecure part time jobs, are not backed up by the stats.
So for example of the 567,000 created over the past year, 281,000 were full time jobs for men and 167,000 were full time jobs for women. Part-time jobs were only a fifth of all new jobs.
Also 61% of the new jobs went to UK nationals.
What's more, the evidence suggests pay rises are translating - on average - into the first rises in real living standards for years, after taking account of inflation, benefits and taxes.
That said, maybe the average is misleading.
It is probable that the rises in average pay - both the headline rate and the real rate of disposable income - are disguising an uneven distribution of rises, such that those who have been in employment for longer and on higher pay are getting the lion's share of the improvement in living standards.
But even if that is the case, it still does not quite explain why voters are not giving more of a hearing to the Conservatives (and are almost completely deaf to the Liberal Democrats).
Four wins, four bonus points, a bucket of tries. Top spot in the Pro12. Easy.
Saturday at the Sportsground in Galway was like entering a different dimension. This was rugby, but not as Glasgow have known it against their most recent, and most compliant, opposition. What they ran into in the west of Ireland was a lot of rain and whole pile of belligerence.
Glasgow scored seven points - their lowest total in a Pro12 game since October 2013. They lost for the first time in 10 games.
Their discipline went at critical times and it hurt them almost as much as those howitzer hits that kept coming at them from a Connacht side that had a voracious appetite for work and a thunderous quality in the collisions.
"All the big games we've won have come down to physicality," said Connacht coach Pat Lam in the aftermath of victory. "It's about the way we impose ourselves."
"That came through in bucketloads against Glasgow. There's a blank canvas now, though. The weather conditions might be different the next day. The game could be a total contrast. Glasgow are a phenomenal team."
To explain the Cinderella story that is this Connacht side you have to look at the record books going back a dozen years. They were even lucky to be alive back then given that the IRFU wanted to kill them off.
From 2004 to 2015 Connacht never finished above seventh in the table. Now they're taking down the champions in front of a packed, and tumultuous crowd, including the president of the country, Michael D Higgins, and the newly elected Taoiseach, Enda Kenny. Both are Connacht men. Both were waving the flag as Glasgow fell on Saturday.
This was brutal rugby. Both sides wanted to play but the rain made it impossible.
How much of a gauge it will be for the semi-final depends, in part, on what kind of day it is. If it's dry and the ground is hard then the game will be completely different. Both these teams want to take risks and make things happen. Saturday's grunt-fest in the wet didn't suit either of them.
What was compelling about it, though, was that Glasgow met a version of themselves in Galway. For some of them, it must have been like looking in a mirror.
The Sportsground had a similar edge to it as Scotstoun, the same kind of numbers, the same kind of intimacy, the same kind of railing against decisions that went against their team, the same kind of joy at victory.
The team inspired the supporters and the supporters inspired the team. The bond between them reminded you of what it's like in Glasgow these days. It was powerful.
Connacht dug deep, hit hard and won out. We've seen this kind of thing so often in Glasgow's own place - a team being lifted by the noise of their home crowd and dragging themselves across the winning line.
Connacht's reward is a rematch with Glasgow in the semi-final in a fortnight. Back to the dog track we go in the knowledge that an away team has never won a Pro12 semi-final. Twelve attempts and twelve losses. That's the kind of history that Glasgow are trying to break now.
That curious run of failure for the away semi-finalists will be part of the narrative ahead of the knockout tie, though Gregor Townsend was of a mind to play it down a tad.
"Last year, we played Ulster at Scotstoun in the final game of the league proper and we beat them convincingly," he said. "A week later, we played them at Scotstoun in the semi-final and they were all over us for 50 minutes.
"If all these home wins in all these semi-finals were by 20 points then I'd say that home advantage was a massive factor, but last year we only won our home semi by two points and Munster only won theirs by three. The year before that we had Munster in a home semi and beat them by a point. Leinster won their home semi by four points."
It's true that a lot of these games have been settled by a single score. Five of the last six Pro 12 semi-finals - and seven of the 12 - have been won by four points or less.
Why does the home team keep on winning tight matches? Townsend accepts that the crowd can make the difference.
"We had a lot of support in Galway but when they have 7,000 people then that's an advantage. We didn't cope as well as we should have. We learned a lot about ourselves.
"We have to be more disciplined and more accurate. Connacht are really well-coached, they show innovation, they've got character and they defend well. We've just got to be better."
Townsend said that the big thing that his team took away from the west of Ireland was a sense of "determined disappointment."
Saturday would have hurt them physically and mentally, but it wasn't a knockout blow. We get to see the heavyweights collide again in a fortnight.
The 25-year-old has scored 13 tries in 65 appearances for Trinity since joining in 2015 from Hull FC.
"It is good to get my future sorted for the next two years," Arundel told Wakefield's official website.
Head coach Chris Chester added: "It gives us some really good competition in the outside backs and the contract is a reward for his consistency."
A two-minute silence was observed, before the Queen laid the first wreath at the Cenotaph in central London.
More than 10,000 military veterans and civilian representatives marched past the monument.
Services also took place at memorials across the UK, in Commonwealth countries and at bases abroad.
The crowds gathered in central London stood quietly as Big Ben struck 11:00 GMT.
By Nick HighamBBC News
It is a familiar scene, a tradition inaugurated in 1919 and faithfully repeated ever since, a ritual that scarcely changes.
It is one I have watched many times on television.
But only when you stand in Whitehall do you fully grasp the way the silence and solemnity continue for several minutes more, while the Queen and other members of the Royal Family and the service chiefs lay the first wreaths of poppies at the foot of the Cenotaph.
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The beginning and end of the silence was marked with the firing of a round by the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, using a 13-pounder World War One gun.
The monarch then laid her wreath at the foot of the monument, the focal point of the UK's Remembrance Sunday events since World War One, bowing her head after paying her respects.
On a sunny but crisp autumn day, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry laid wreaths.
Prime Minister David Cameron was next to pay his respects, followed by Labour leader Ed Miliband and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
Former prime ministers Sir John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, along with London Mayor Boris Johnson, also took part in the ceremony, as did military and emergency service chiefs and representatives from Commonwealth countries.
The assembled marchers - who for the first time included representatives of a World War Two unit known as "Churchill's Secret Army" - then set off down Whitehall.
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Among those who marched past the Cenotaph for the first time, were 41 members of the British Resistance Movement - known as Churchill's Secret Army or the Coleshill Auxiliaries - volunteer fighters charged with going underground to continue the fight in the event of a German invasion of Britain in World War Two.
John Brunel Cohen, a D-Day veteran, was among those who gathered in London.
"The whole parade is very thought provoking, evocative and emotive," he said. "To march through the streets of London cheered by thousands is an experience however often you've done it."
Col Matt Jackson, who was attending his first service at the Cenotaph, said the experience was "hugely humbling".
"During the two-minute silence, you could see the thought process behind everybody about what they were doing and the remembrance and what it obviously meant to a number of individuals," he said.
"You couldn't hear a thing, other than the leaves in the background."
Kerry Ashworth, whose son James was killed in Afghanistan last year and was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery, said it was a special day.
"The job that they do is so hard and so tough and when somebody loses their life, it's just one little thing that you can do just to remember them for a few minutes," she said.
They issued the warning at a rally outside Bangkok - the first staged by the "red shirt" movement near the capital since violent clashes broke out in November.
Opponents of Ms Yingluck and her party have filed legal cases against her.
Months of anti-government mass protests have failed to unseat her.
Speaking to a crowd of tens of thousands, Jatuporn Promphan, the chairman of the pro-government United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), said judicial institutions were trying "to take over power without elections".
"What we are most concerned about - that we want to warn all sides against - is a civil war, which we do not want to happen," he said.
"It will happen if there is a coup and democracy is stolen."
Ms Yingluck is facing mounting legal cases - including charges of neglect of duty and abuse of power - that correspondents say could see her removed from office in coming weeks.
Meanwhile anti-government protesters have continued their own demonstrations from their headquarters in Bangkok's central Lumpini Park.
The government called an election in February, but that was obstructed by protesters.
Since then Thailand has been in a state of paralysis, reports the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
Ms Yingluck's party has won the last five elections, but her opponents argue that Thailand's democracy is so deeply flawed that it must be reformed before another election can be held.
Another factor driving the conflict is acute anxiety over the ailing health of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, our correspondent adds.
The red shirts at Saturday's rally openly showed support for his son Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn. He is the designated heir but some among the traditional elite are believed to oppose him.
The Swiss, 32, broke Raonic in the first game and went on to win 6-4 6-4 6-4 in one hour and 42 minutes.
He will take on top seed Novak Djokovic in Sunday's final, after in four sets.
Federer is trying to win his 18th Grand Slam title, and his first since beating Andy Murray at Wimbledon in 2012.
Fifteen years after making his first appearance at the All England Club, Federer has the chance to extend the record he has already set for major victories and break new ground for Wimbledon titles in the men's game.
"That was a big victory," said the Swiss, who lost in the second round last year. "I really had to focus on every point. I know that is always the case at this stage but it was hard.
"I had to be very careful on my service games and I knew there were only going to be a few chances on his serve, but I am very, very happy.
"I played some great tennis under pressure at times because I didn't play well here last year, and I expect a lot of myself. In the second week I have played better as the week has gone on.
"Now I can look forward to another great match with Novak."
Raonic had made history just by reaching the last four, as the first Canadian man to do so, but suggestions the 23-year-old was ready to strike a blow for the younger generation proved misguided.
The difference in experience was vast, with Federer playing in his 35th Grand Slam semi-final and unbeaten in eight previous Wimbledon semi-finals.
Moving superbly, attacking the net when possible and patiently waiting for his chances on the return, the Swiss looked as sharp as ever on the familiar ground of Centre Court.
Raonic topped the standings for aces going into the semi-final, hit the second-fastest serve of the tournament at 141mph and dropped serve just twice.
But despite lacking his opponent's raw power, Federer had only been broken once and he offered up just a single break point as he dominated the match.
He got a huge boost with an immediate break following a double fault and an error from Raonic, and calmly served his way out of trouble at 4-3 on his way to clinching the set.
There was the expected flow of huge Raonic serves as the second set sped by, before Federer made his move at 4-4.
A sweeping backhand down the line put the pressure on at 0-30 and Raonic succumbed with a wayward smash, allowing Federer to arrow another backhand winner.
The pattern repeated itself at 4-4 in the third, when Raonic opened with a double fault and soon found himself at 0-40, thumping a forehand over the baseline on the second break point.
Federer drew a gasp from the 15,000 spectators with an unexpectedly rash forehand drive-volley when trying to close out the match, but a forehand into the corner brought up match point and a big serve finished the job.
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On Wednesday, Apple said modifying its software to help the FBI access data on San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook's device would be "dangerous".
Mr Rigby's uncle Ray McClure said the company was "protecting a murderer's privacy at the cost of public safety".
But a number of tech leaders and privacy advocates have backed Apple.
They include Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai who tweeted that requiring companies to enable the hacking of their customer devices "could be a troubling precedent".
Whatsapp's founder Jan Koum added that he admired Apple's chief executive Tim Cook, and added: "Today our freedom and our liberty is at stake."
Mr McClure, who contacted the BBC after reading Apple's statement, said he thought Apple's approach was "short-sighted".
In December, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik were shot after killing 14 people in California.
US officials said Malik pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State in a social media post on the day of the shooting.
Apple had been ordered to help the FBI circumvent security software on Farook's iPhone, which the FBI said contained crucial information.
But the company said it would oppose the court order because it "set a dangerous precedent".
"Valuable evidence is on that smartphone and Apple is denying the FBI access to that information," Mr McClure told the BBC.
"If a court issued a warrant in the UK or United States to search somebody's house, you wouldn't stop them, you would allow them in - why should a smartphone be any different?
"If Mr Cook has no sympathy for terrorists, why is he stopping the FBI accessing those phone records?"
Apple has not indicated whether fulfilling the court order would be physically possible.
In an open letter on Wednesday, Tim Cook said Apple did cooperate with law enforcement.
"When the FBI has requested data that's in our possession, we have provided it," he wrote.
"We have also made Apple engineers available to advise the FBI... we have worked hard to support the government's efforts to solve this horrible crime. We have no sympathy for terrorists."
The company said it would oppose the court order because it would create a "backdoor" in the security of its operating system.
"In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone's physical possession," the company said.
But Mr McClure said companies were forgetting about the victims of crime, and the families of those killed.
"I would hate to see on the streets of London another murder like happened to Lee Rigby, I'd hate to see another attack like happened in Paris," he said.
"How many victims of crime are not getting justice because of Apple's stance?"
However, privacy advocates have backed Apple's position.
"The FBI's request, which would in practice require Apple to rewrite its operating system to weaken security protections, would set a very dangerous precedent," said Sherif Elsayed-Ali from Amnesty International.
"Such backdoors undermine everyone's security and threaten our right to privacy.
"This isn't an issue about reading a known terrorist's texts - it's about how the functionality could be abused in other ways."
Greg Nojeim from the Centre for Democracy and Technology agreed: "If the order stands, Apple and other technology companies could be ordered to build backdoors - essentially defects - into other devices, rendering them insecure and vulnerable to attack by law enforcement and by others as well."
In its statement, Apple said: "The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers.
"We can find no precedent for an American company being forced to expose its customers to a greater risk of attack."
Mr McClure said he appreciated the value of encryption but that some companies had taken things too far.
"I'm not saying take encryption off the iPhone, but there has to be a balance," he told the BBC.
"Where there is a legally obtained warrant for information we should be helping the authorities get that information.
"That can also clear an innocent person too, it works both ways."
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Vicky Jacobs, from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, told BBC Look North they found the distressed cat on Wednesday and worked to free it.
She said the animal was unharmed, but the incident showed how littering could endanger pets and wildlife.
The orders include about 180 low-floor double-deckers for Stagecoach's regional networks, as well as about 60 single-deck vehicles and 40 midibuses.
There are also 34 coaches for the Perth-based group's UK Bus, Scottish Citylink and megabus.com operations.
Falkirk-based coach maker Alexander Dennis and its subsidiary Plaxton will produce more than 300 of the vehicles.
Northern Ireland-based Wrightbus will make most of the others.
The new vehicles, all of which are designed to meet Euro 6 emissions standards, will be introduced in the 2017-18 financial year.
Each will be fitted with CCTV and USB charging points. Most will also have wi-fi installed.
The latest announcement takes Stagecoach's total orders of new buses and coaches to more than £1bn in the past 11 years, the company said.
Group chief executive Martin Griffiths said: "We are continuing to re-invest money from fares in state-of-the-art, cleaner, greener vehicles, digital technology and smart ticketing to deliver an even higher standard of service.
"These latest vehicle orders are an important part of our strategy to encourage even more people to take the bus."
The 30-year-old joined from Brighton in 2014 but handed in a transfer request this month and said on social media he had been "let down by the club".
Leicester have reportedly rejected a bid from Sunderland with Ranieri saying he does not want to sell the striker.
Ulloa has started only one league match this season and has scored one goal.
The Argentine, who has 18 months left on his contract, started seven league games last season as Leicester won the Premier League for the first time.
In an interview with Sky Sports, he said: "I am sad about the current situation because it's been two wonderful years here.
"But now in my situation, with me not being part of the plans, I feel that the best way forward is that I leave and I can be happy somewhere else.
"The manager has been telling me for the last three months that if an offer of £4m or £5m was arriving he would help me to leave.
"My understanding is that there are offers bigger than that which are not being considered. Today he tells me he wants me to stay. If I stay at the club it's going to affect my future and my career."
The Leicester website said Ulloa would not be available for Tuesday's league match at Burnley (19:45 GMT kick-off) because of injury.
Ulloa joined Brighton from Spanish side Almeria in January 2013 and scored 26 goals in 58 appearances in all competitions before he became Leicester's record signing, moving for £8m on a four-year deal.
He started 29 league games in his first season with the Foxes, scoring 11 times, and added six more goals in last season's title-winning campaign.
However, the arrival of Islam Slimani for a fee believed to be a club-record £29m has limited his chances.
Ranieri said: "We don't want to sell him. Also I don't want to because I have just Slimani as a target man and I need another target man.
"I want Leo here and I hope he can be calm and understand my position. Of course he's not happy and I understand him.
"The club know my idea very well and also Leo knows very well my idea. He is a fantastic player, a fantastic man and I believe in him."
Scientists made the discovery by studying the fossil of a pregnant plesiosaur.
Experts have long been puzzled over whether or not the creatures laid eggs - but that's now been cleared up.
Other species that give birth to live young one at a time, such as whales and dolphins, are known to be caring and sociable parents.
It's thought that plesiosaurs were the same.
Study leader Dr Robin O'Keefe from Marshall University in America said: "Scientists have long known that the bodies of plesiosaurs were not well suited to climbing onto land and laying eggs in a nest.
"This fossil documents live birth in plesiosaurs for the first time, and so finally resolves this mystery."
Plesiosaurs lived in water, had long necks and four flippers, and some could grow to 15 metres long!
The company's chief executive Alexei Miller says the change was because Kiev has failed to pay its bills.
He said its current debt to Russia stood at just over $1.7bn (£1.02bn).
Russia had previously offered Kiev a subsidy, but the recent political crisis in Ukraine has led to a deterioration in relations.
Mr Miller says the price of Russian gas for Ukraine has gone up to $385.50 per 1,000 cubic metres in the second quarter of 2014 from the previous rate of $268.50.
It will mean Ukraine paying more than the UK for gas, having previously paid less, according to calculations by ICIS, the energy price-reporting agency.
Its research shows the from 1 April Ukraine will pay 25.40 euros (£21.04, $35.04) per megawatt hour for gas.
That compares to 21.17 euros per megawatt hour in the UK and 18.51 euros per megawatt hour that Ukraine previously paid.
"It's now cheaper for Ukraine to buy elsewhere," ICIS European gas market analyst Tom Marzec-Manser said. What would stop state energy company Naftogaz doing so was the very limited pipeline capacity it had with the EU that could pipe gas eastward, he said.
Smaller pipelines from Hungary and Poland served the country, but were not able to supply enough, enabling Russia to charge more than prices in the UK and the rest of Europe, he said.
The move marks the end of a discount Russia agreed to give Ukraine in December. The deal came after talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's then President Viktor Yanukovych, in which Russia also said it would buy $15bn-worth of Ukrainian government bonds.
That agreement meant the cost of Russian gas supplied to Ukraine was slashed from more than $400 per 1,000 cubic metres.
The news comes as Nato foreign ministers prepare to discuss ways to help Ukraine in the first meeting of ministers from the 28 member states since Russia's takeover of Crimea caused a diplomatic crisis.
Ukraine's interim government last week said it will raise gas prices for domestic consumers by 50% to secure an International Monetary Fund (IMF) aid package.
Ukrainians are accustomed to buying gas at heavily subsidised rates. But the IMF has made subsidy reform a condition its deal worth as much as $18bn.
The IMF is also asking Ukraine to crack down on corruption and end central bank support for the Ukrainian currency.
Ukraine's interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has told parliament the country was "on the edge of economic and financial bankruptcy".
The US Senate and House of Representatives have both passed legislation backing a $1bn loan guarantee to Ukraine.
Russia's economic power lies in its key natural resources - oil and gas. The energy giant Gazprom is close to the Russian state and critics say it is little more than an economic and political tool of the Kremlin. NTV, a national television network, is also owned by Gazprom.
Steven Schumacher put the home side ahead with a spectacular free-kick on three minutes before Jobi McAnuff grabbed a second on the hour.
While Grimsby began the day on the back of four wins in six games, their out-of-form hosts - who had lost five of their last six League Two matches - struck first.
And it came in some style as Schumacher placed the ball 30 yards out before producing a stunning free-kick that Dean Henderson was powerless to stop.
Omar Bogle passed up two similar set-piece opportunities at the other end, while Matt Godden hit high and wide with Stevenage's next best chance.
Upon the restart, Grimsby pushed and probed for a leveller.
But with 62 minutes on the clock, a mix-up between Henderson and Zak Mills gift-wrapped McAnuff a chance, and he took full advantage with a lobbed finish.
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Match ends, Stevenage 2, Grimsby Town 0.
Second Half ends, Stevenage 2, Grimsby Town 0.
Substitution, Stevenage. Michael Tonge replaces Tom Pett.
Steven Schumacher (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamey Osborne (Grimsby Town).
Tom Pett (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Andrew (Grimsby Town).
Substitution, Stevenage. Dale Gorman replaces Ben Kennedy.
Foul by Steven Schumacher (Stevenage).
Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Matt Godden (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Charlie Lee (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town).
Josh McQuoid (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Josh McQuoid (Stevenage).
Brandon Comley (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Josh McQuoid (Stevenage).
Shaun Pearson (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Tom Pett (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Brandon Comley (Grimsby Town).
Foul by Matt Godden (Stevenage).
Shaun Pearson (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Akwasi Asante replaces Andrew Boyce.
Substitution, Stevenage. Josh McQuoid replaces Jobi McAnuff.
Matt Godden (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Collins (Grimsby Town).
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Ben Davies replaces Zak Mills.
Luke Wilkinson (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. Adi Yussuf (Grimsby Town) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Charlie Lee (Stevenage).
Shaun Pearson (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Stevenage. Conceded by Andrew Boyce.
Foul by Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage).
Brandon Comley (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Stevenage 2, Grimsby Town 0. Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box to the high centre of the goal.
Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by Charlie Lee.
Charlie Lee (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Scott Vernon (Grimsby Town).
24 March 2015 Last updated at 06:44 GMT
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The emergency services were called to the scene on Cowbridge Road East, Canton, at about 15:50 BST.
South Wales Police said the girl was taken to the city's University Hospital of Wales with suspected head injuries.
The road was closed in both directions, but had reopened by 19:30 and There have been no arrests.
The Welsh Ambulance Service sent a rapid response vehicle and an emergency ambulance to the scene.
Brazil and Argentina's associations were fined 35,000 (£27,248) and 20,000 (£15,565) Swiss francs respectively by world football's governing body.
Mexico's association has been fined 10,000 Swiss francs (£7,781).
The fines were "for incidents involving discriminatory and unsporting conduct by fans, including homophobic chants".
A Fifa statement said the chanting took place during recent qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup but did not specify which games.
Meanwhile, Albania's football association has been fined 100,000 Swiss francs (£77,945) for several incidents during their World Cup qualifying defeat away to Italy on 24 March, "including the use of pyrotechnics which led to the suspension of the match for several minutes".
Italy's association has been fined 15,000 Swiss francs (£11,701) for incidents during the game, which the home side won 2-0.
The use of pyrotechnics by supporters and an overcrowded stadium against China resulted in Iran's football association receiving a 50,000 Swiss francs (£39,015) fine.
The football associations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland and Montenegro have been fined 26,500 Swiss francs (£20,680), 17,500 Swiss francs (£13,656) and 15,000 Swiss francs (£11,701) respectively for various incidents involving the use of pyrotechnics by fans.
World powers agreed plans in London to support and train Somalia's army and police to take over duties currently performed by the African Union.
But the country's president said unless a UN arms embargo was lifted the conflict would go on for 10 more years.
The UN secretary general said drought was Somalia's "most pressing priority".
UN chief Antonio Guterres called for an additional $900m (£700m) to allow aid agencies to tackle the severe drought facing the country, taking his total appeal to $1.5bn.
He added the conference at Lancaster House attended by more than 40 nations had created an opportunity to take Somalia out of "decades of conflict, of poverty and of terrible suffering".
Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who took office in February, hailed it as a "historic day" for his country.
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who co-hosted the conference, said by acting "early and decisively" the famine threatening Somalia could be avoided.
"For this to happen aid agencies must be free to go wherever necessary with safety and without hindrance to distribute food aid to all those in need," Mr Johnson said.
But he said it was not the time to lift the arms embargo because of fears weapons could end up in the wrong hands.
It has been in place since Somalia collapsed into civil war in the early 1990s.
Islamist group Al-Shabab, part of al-Qaeda, has a strong presence in many rural parts of Somalia and often stages attacks in the capital, Mogadishu, and elsewhere.
Opening the meeting, UK Prime Minister Theresa May said the "challenges that face Somalia affect us all".
She said: "If Somalia is a foothold for terrorist groups like al-Shabab and Daesh [the so-called Islamic State group], if global trade is hijacked by pirates or if millions are continually displaced in a desperate bid to escape poverty and drought, the impact of instability in Somalia is felt across the whole region and the wider world."
US defence secretary James Mattis, EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini, the presidents of Kenya and Uganda, the prime ministers of Ethiopia and Turkey, and the foreign ministers of Egypt, Germany, the Netherlands and Qatar also attended the conference, the third such meeting on Somalia to be held in London since 2012.
The visitors had resumed on 149-8, although Sussex knew they only required one more wicket as Liam Norwell was unable to bat because of concussion.
Steve Magoffin (2-18) bowled Jack Taylor, who top-scored with 56, as Gloucestershire were dismissed for 158.
The hosts were two runs short of making Sussex, who took a maximum 24 points from the match, bat again.
Norwell was struck on the helmet by a Chris Jordan bouncer during Gloucestershire's first innings and did not play any further part in the match.
Sussex captain Luke Wright told BBC Sussex:
"I'm so pleased for Steve Magoffin, it's been tough, pitches have been hard for him. I've never seen him work so hard in training, he's a great example to the younger bowlers.
"The balance of the side hasn't been right this season but having David Wiese I feel we now have that balance and in the last two games we are batting deeper.
"We feel confident that if we can put pressure on the sides above us, who knows what might happen with two or three games to go."
Thomson, from Gosport, had to be rescued by helicopter off his vessel Hugo Boss, after it began taking on water earlier off the Spanish coast.
He had been competing in the double-handed Transat Jacques Vabre race from Le Havre to South America with co-skipper Guillermo Altadill.
The IMOCA 60 yacht had suffered damage two days ago forcing the team out of the race.
They were heading for La Coruna when high seas and strong winds forced them to set off their emergency beacon.
In a statement Hugo Boss said both sailors had been taken back to land safe and uninjured.
Thomson was hoping to race the new yacht in the coveted Vendee Globe round-the-world race in November 2016.
King suffered eight broken ribs and a collapsed lung in November while on a regular training ride in south Wales.
She was in intensive care for two days and in hospital for a further eight.
"I've spoken to Steve Peters, who has helped me overcome the fear," the 24-year-old told BBC Radio Solent.
King, who won gold in the team pursuit at London 2012, returns to cycling this weekend after five months out at the Tour of the Reservoir in Northumberland.
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Peters, who was a key factor in Britain's extraordinary track cycling success at the last two Olympic Games in Beijing and London, has also worked with Tour de France winners Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome.
He has also been involved with England's football team, as well as world snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan.
"I'm really looking forward to racing now - I feel really ready," added King.
"I've come really far and to be honest I don't think it's much of a factor, I just need to get stuck in and get into it. It's time to put the accident behind me and just move on with the season. I don't want to dwell on it."
King said Peters had encouraged her to view the crash as a "freak accident" and "not think about the possibility of crashing".
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 the 2014-15 funding year, and believes she has a better chance of getting into shape for the track for the 2016 Olympics by spending a season on the road.
"Ultimately it's about getting back into the team pursuit squad for Rio," she added. "Targets for the year are the women's tour, national road race and a couple of the tour series I'll also target.
"It will be a case of proving myself at the track nationals and going into the World Cup season. That will be the key and where I'll be hoping to put some markers down."
The body was found in the River Loughor, between Garnswllt and Pontarddulais, at about 13:10 GMT on Thursday.
Dyfed-Powys Police said the family of Gary Dunn, 38, has been informed along with the coroner.
Mr Dunn, who was last seen in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, has been missing since 12 December 2016.
It lasted 103 days, and left an estimated 250,000 British soldiers dead or injured with 400,000 dead, wounded or missing on the German side.
It is claimed that of the one million men killed in World War One, a quarter of them lay in the few square miles around the sleepy Belgium backwater of Ypres.
It was here that the Allied forces dug in deep from 1914 onwards, in a bulge of land known by its military term as the Ypres salient.
It means a location surrounded on three sides by the enemy.
It was a stalemate of constant shelling, poison gas attacks, snipers - and most of all mud.
While the German forces occupied the concrete defences on higher ground, the British troops and their allies were forced to make the best of Flanders' fields - cutting trenches into slabs of bog, scurrying, like the rats that shared their makeshift shelters, on duckboards across the mud and shell craters.
The British were determined to break the stalemate, and break out of the Ypres salient.
On 31 July at 03:50, in darkness, the whistles blew and the men of the 38th Division - the Welsh battalions - went over the top.
The first day of the Battle of Passchendaele saw three Welsh soldiers win Victoria Crosses for their actions - one awarded posthumously.
Cpl James Llewellyn Davies, who was originally from Ogmore Vale in Bridgend county, died from wounds sustained during an all out attack on 31 July.
As part of the 13th Battalion, he took part in the Battle for Pilkem Ridge.
His citation in the London Gazette reads: "For most conspicuous bravery during an attack on the enemy's line, this non-commissioned officer pushed through our own barrage and single-handed attacked a machine gun emplacement, after several men had been killed in attempting to take it.
"He bayoneted one of the machine gun crew and brought in another man, together with the captured gun.
"Cpl Davies, although wounded, then led a bombing party to the assault of a defended house, and killed a sniper who was harassing his platoon.
"This gallant non-commissioned officer has since died of wounds received during the attack."
He is buried in Canada Farm Cemetery, which was a first aid dressing station in 1917.
Before his death, the father-of-three wrote to his wife Elizabeth, stating: "We are about going over. Don't vex, as I hope to go through it all right, and if I do not you will know that I died for my wife and children and for my King and country."
His widow and their eldest son were presented with the medal in October that year by King George V. The medal is now held on display at the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum in Caernarfon.
Aged 23 in the summer of 1917, Sgt Ivor Rees from Felinfoel in Carmarthenshire, was already battle hardened when he arrived at the Ypres salient. He had been with the 38th Division at Mametz Wood during the First Battle of the Somme in 1916.
He was with the 11th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, part of the 115th Brigade, which was to form the reserve force in the push to Pilkem Ridge.
By 10:00 they had reached the Steenbeek river, but across the way at a gite the Germans had a reinforced blockhouse and two pillboxes pinning them down.
His citation reads: "For most conspicuous bravery in attack. A hostile machine gun opened fire at close range, inflicting many casualties.
"Leading his platoon forward by short rushes, Sjt Rees gradually worked his way round the right flank to the rear of the gun position. When he was about twenty yards from the machine gun he rushed forward towards the team, shot one, and bayoneted another.
"He then bombed the large concrete emplacement, killing five and capturing thirty."
He was promoted to Company Sergeant Major in September, and survived the war to return home to civilian life in Wales, working for Llanelli Borough Council, dying in 1967, aged 73.
A memorial stone to commemorate his bravery is being unveiled in Llanelli on 31 July.
Sgt Robert Bye was the first of only two VCs ever won by the Welsh Guards. The regiment was only formed in 1915, and the miner from Penrhiwceiber in the Cynon Valley joined in April of that year.
On the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele the Welsh Guards were part of the 3rd Guards Brigade attack on the left flank.
The force encountered heavy fire from a series of blockhouses hidden in wooded areas, and the 27-year-old slipped from shell hole to shell hole to outflank their positions.
He then put three bombs into the pillboxes to silence the guns. It is estimate he was responsible for the death or capture of 70 German soldiers.
His VC citation reads: "For most conspicuous bravery. Sjt Bye displayed the utmost courage and devotion to duty during an attack on the enemy's position.
"Seeing that the leading waves were being troubled by two enemy blockhouses, he, on his own initiative, rushed at one of them and put the garrison out of action.
"He then rejoined his company and went forward to the assault of the second objective. When the troops had gone forward to the attack on the third objective, a party was detailed to clear up a line of blockhouses which had been passed.
"Sjt Bye volunteered to take charge of this party, accomplished his object, and took many prisoners. He subsequently advanced to the third objective, capturing a number of prisoners, thus rendering invaluable assistance to the assaulting companies.
"He displayed throughout the most remarkable initiative."
The soldier survived the war, and later became a Sergeant Major in the Sherwood Foresters, serving in World War Two. He died in 1962.
A memorial service to remember his actions is taking place at the Ynysangharad Memorial Park in Pontypridd, in Rhondda Cynon Taff, at the commemorative paving stone there to his memory.
The Battle of Pilkem Ridge was the opening foray in what became the 3rd Battle of Ypres, or as it is better known - the Battle of Passchendaele.
Within a few short days, the Welsh division had sustained 3,000 casualties and lost hundreds of men.
Among them, the Welsh poet Hedd Wyn - Ellis Humphrey Evans - hit by a shell as the 15th Royal Welsh Fusiliers advanced on a landmark known as Iron Cross.
Back home the newspapers boasted: "No troops, in fact, in all the battle did their job more thoroughly or with greater dash than the Welsh.
"They had a rather trying time in the trenches before the attack, but it only hardened them and made them keener when the attack took place, and the Germans never had a chance."
But the reality was a short lived victory, with a heavy price to pay.
"The British casualties up to noon yesterday were 25,000," General Sir William Robertson told Prime Minister David Lloyd George at the War Cabinet briefing on 2 August.
"We had captured Pilckem Ridge. We had achieved all our objectives and something more on two-thirds of the front, and on the remaining third we had captured the first and second but not the third line."
There were counterattacks to come, and the wettest summer in living memory meant the advance faded away.
On 6 August, the 38th Division was relieved from holding the frontline.
But the 3rd Battle of Ypres still had many more battles to fight - and thousands more lives to claim.
The 36-year-old Australian took his season's tally to 50 wickets for the fifth successive summer but not before Worcestershire had totalled 306.
Skipper Daryl Mitchell (75) and Ben Cox (69) both made half-centuries.
West Indies paceman Miguel Cummins then burst in to take 3-19 to reduce Sussex to 50-4 at the close of play.
On his Worcestershire debut against Essex at Chelmsford last week, bowling largely to Alastair Cook and Tom Westley, Cummins sent down 28 overs and took 0-114.
But after removing Fynn Hudson-Prentice caught behind with the final ball of his first over, he struck again five balls later to clean bowl Craig Cachopa and also trapped Oliver Robinson in the day's final over.
Vice-captain Joe Leach added to his tally of 53 wickets for the season by trapping Chris Nash for 23.
Sussex bowler Steve Magoffin told BBC Sussex:
"Fifty wickets in the season is the benchmark for every new-ball bowler, so to get there for a fifth season in a row is an achievement I am very proud of.
"It's been hard work. At the start of the season wickets were very flat and 50 looked a very long way off. But the coaching staff and the other guys have always been very supportive and in the last month or so it's been nice to get rewards.
"This is a new-ball wicket. Worcestershire bowled very well at us. Once the ball goes soft it does get easy to bat on and we've got players capable of putting partnerships together."
Worcestershire's Ben Cox told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"It's been a strange day because things have happened in clusters. We lost a couple of early wickets then Daryl Mitchell and Joe Clarke put together a really good partnership before we lost four wickets very quickly.
"My plan after tea was to try to attack Danny Briggs. I just tried to either hit over the top or find the gaps and it worked.
"Getting 306 is a decent effort on that wicket. Then, when we bowled under the lights, it did a bit more off the pitch and Miguel Cummins bowled superbly."
A draft Wales Bill offering more powers to Wales is to be published on Tuesday.
Mr Crabb claimed some politicians were looking for "a great big scrap" ahead of the 2016 assembly election.
Labour AM Mick Antoniw said his party may oppose a bill which did not give "constitutional clarity" on power-sharing between Wales and Westminster.
The UK government is proposing a "reserved powers" model where powers are assumed to be devolved unless they are listed as Westminster responsibilities.
The Welsh government is in favour of the principle but First Minister Carwyn Jones has claimed the current proposals could "restrict the powers of the people of Wales".
Mr Crabb denied this, promising the assembly's additional powers over energy, transport, and "to call itself a Parliament and to be a Parliament if it wants".
"In what sense can anyone possible argue that this is actually reducing the powers of the Welsh government and the Welsh Assembly? That charge simply carries no weight whatsoever," he told Sunday Politics Wales.
The Welsh secretary also rejected a call by the first minister to delay the bill in order to "get this right rather than rush it".
"What we're not going to do is suddenly pause the whole thing because it suits the political interests of some of those in Cardiff Bay, who basically want to have a great big scrap over this in the run up to the Welsh elections in May," he said.
Mr Antoniw told the programme he had fundamental concerns whether the bill would provide "constitutional clarity" and may not be "fit for purpose".
"We might end up having to oppose an inadequate bill if that situation was to arise," he said.
The draft Wales Bill will be open to consultation before a final version is due to be presented in February.
Sunday Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales on Sunday, 18 October, at 11:00 BST.
Environmental groups said digging and dredging has had a serious impact on coastal ecosystems.
A temporary ban was imposed late last year, but campaigners allege dredging has continued.
Singapore has imported more than 72 million tonnes of sand from Cambodia since 2007, according to UN figures.
That figure conflicts with the Cambodian government's numbers, which say Singapore imported just 16 million tonnes in the period.
Singapore has expanded its landmass by more than 20% since its independence in 1965, and considers reclamation a key strategy for accommodating a growing population.
Sand is essential to reclamation, but on recent projects Singapore has begun experimenting with techniques that would require less sand.
The country's reclamation projects are built by private contractors, who must adhere to sand import rules that include environmental protection measures.
A spokesman for Cambodia's Ministry of Mines and Energy, Meng Saktheara, said the new, permanent ban was in response to environmental concerns.
"Their worries are right that the risks are massive, so the ministry decided to ban sand exports and large-scale sand dredging," he said.
Other countries have previously imposed various types of sand export bans.
Malaysia imposed a ban on exports in 1997, while Indonesia announced a ban on exporting land sand to Singapore in 2007.
Environment groups are hopeful that the ban will put a stop to the trade, which they say has been causing environmental damage for years.
"I think it will make a difference. It will not be easy for the sand mining companies to continue exporting," said Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson, an activist with the group Mother Nature.
Media and activist attention on the trade would now make it difficult for companies to flout the rules, he added.
Ms Randerson, a UK government minister in the Wales Office, was speaking to mark the launch of Wales Tourism Week.
Last year, 84 million tourism day visits were made by British residents to Wales, spending £2.5bn.
And there were 121,400 employed in the tourism sector - 9,000 more since 2010.
"Wales has some of the best beaches, landscapes, castles and cuisine in the UK," said Ms Randerson.
"We need good roads and a strong rail network for the industry to continue to thrive.
"The UK government has already invested in the rail infrastructure but we need to work in partnership with Welsh businesses and the tourism industry to make the improvements needed to grow our economy in the future."
There are plans for a £1bn motorway relief road for the M4 in south Wales along with a metro system serving Cardiff and south east Wales, while there have been calls to improve the A55 in north Wales.
The London Paddington and Swansea train line will also be electrified.
Luke Berry gave Cambridge a great start as he charged down County keeper Scott Loach's clearance and the ball flew into the far corner of the net.
County levelled when Haydn Hollis met a Liam Noble free-kick.
Ben Williamson got the winner after a goalmouth scramble before Noble was sent off for a foul on Darnell Furlong.
The victory leaves Cambridge five points off the play-off places with two games to go.
Derry's side must hope that they win their final two matches and AFC Wimbledon, who occupy the final play-off place, take no more than one point from their remaining three fixtures.
Twenty eight percent of Welsh MPs are women compared to a total of 32% in Westminster as a whole.
Two of the four Welsh seats to change hands on Thursday went to women, making 11 of Wales' 40 MPs female.
Of those 10 are Labour MPs and one Plaid Cymru, while the Conservatives are yet to see a woman candidate elected as an MP.
It is in contrast with the Welsh Assembly where 42% of its 60 members are female, so why is the picture so different?
Diana Stirbu, senior lecturer in public policy at London Metropolitan University said: "I think there are a couple of factors - one is that the assembly has a different system that has an element of proportional representation.
"The other is that the Labour party and Plaid Cymru took positive action to put forward women for seats in the first three Assembly terms.
"To an extent they have moved away from taking that positive action now.
"But because the Welsh Assembly was a new place it meant they were allowed to be a bit more progressive in putting women forward."
In the general election, seven of the 40 Welsh seats were uncontested by women.
Labour had more women candidates than any other party - 16 out of 40 - with eight defending seats and eight challenging.
The Conservatives and Lib Dems had 13 apiece - all of who were unsuccessful in winning their constituencies.
But Labour candidates Anna McMorrin and Tonia Antoniazzi won Cardiff North and Gower respectively from the incumbent Conservative MPs.
"With Westminster elections the problem is that the only party that is really serious about it is the Labour party," said Ms Stirbu.
"Progress in women MPs being elected in Wales has only been down to them.
"All parties have increased the number of candidates they put forward, but it is important where you place the candidates too.
"You can see that by the fact it has been another election where the Conservatives failed to get a Welsh female MP elected."
Five of the 11 female MPs were elected by a margin of more than 10,000 votes.
Jac Larner from Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre said: "I think it is the success of the Labour Party in Wales - when the Labour party are doing well there are always more women, whether it is in the assembly or Westminster.
"The assembly has a very impressive record on women's representation as a whole - it was discussed all over the world when it was the first to achieve 50/50 representation.
"That is because the Labour Party had so many AMs and took some positive action such as twinning constituencies, so if a male candidate was put up in one, a female had to be nominated in the other."
The 11 MPs representing the country is a big increase on 20 years ago, when just four from Wales were women - all of them Labour.
And all of the main parties in Wales (excluding UKIP) have seen significant increases in the proportion of women candidates they have fielded since 2001.
Wales' first female MP was Megan Lloyd George - whose father, David Lloyd George, was the only Welshman to have become prime minister.
She became the first woman MP in Wales in 1929 when she won the Anglesey seat for the Liberal Party aged 27.
Michael Molloy, 18, died in the crash as he travelled home to Liverpool from Bestival on the Isle of Wight in 2012.
An inquest found the crash was caused by his coach's worn-out tyre.
The "Tyred" campaign, launched by Michael's mother Frances, calls for a ban on tyres more than 10 years old on buses, coaches and minibuses.
The crash on the A3 in Surrey also killed 23-year-old Kerry Ogden from Maghull and coach driver Colin Daulby, 53, from Warrington, Cheshire.
Mr Molloy, a musician from Woolton, had recorded a single, Rise and Fall, which later entered the charts.
Mrs Molloy said: "I am determined that no other families should suffer the pain that we have.
"I couldn't believe that there are no legal requirements on the age of tyres for public service vehicles and I'm sure most parents would be concerned to know that their child could be travelling on a bus with dangerously old tyres fitted.
"We need people to get behind the campaign by writing to their MPs asking for a change in the law and ensuring that they always ask coach operators what their policy is on the age of tyres they use on their vehicles."
The campaign has been supported by politicians, including former shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle and Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram.
Stefan Hay, chief executive officer of the National Tyre Distributors' Association, said: "Tyres are a critical safety component and the only thing keeping a vehicle safe on the road.
"Regular tyre maintenance is essential for safety of both drivers and passengers.
"Unfortunately, as 27% of drivers state that they do not maintain or even check the safety of their tyres, it is clear that we have a big problem."
In January 2014, Merseypride Travel, which operated the coach, had its licence revoked by the Traffic Commissioner.
The island council says Solo Promoters Ltd has asked the authority to waive its hire fee for part of the venue.
A council report says: "There is a real risk that unless Solo can reduce its costs and or increase ticket sales that the event may be cancelled."
The council is considering reducing its fee by £42,000.
The authority said an increase in the number of major festivals had led to falling tickets sales at most established events, with some being cancelled.
It said: "Solo has made it clear that unless costs can be reduced the event may not be viable to stage in 2017."
Solo currently pays £55,000 a year for the hire of Seaclose Park in Newport.
A council meeting on 13 October will consider reducing the fee to £13,000 in exchange for giving Solo more responsibility for security and other duties.
The authority said the cost of the duties was £42,000, equivalent in value to the fee reduction.
The revised terms would not apply if ticket sales exceeded 45,000, excluding day tickets.
The report added that Solo had been unwilling to provide its detailed accounts for the event for "reasons of commercial confidentiality".
The Isle of Wight Festival, which was re-established in 2002, is thought to generate about £10m a year for the local economy, the council said.
Solo Promoters Ltd has been approached for comment.
Adm Thad Allen said oil giant BP needed to do better at getting money to people and businesses affected by the spill.
Some 11,000 barrels of oil were being trapped by a containment cap, he said.
President Barack Obama defended his response to the spill, using some of his toughest language yet. He said he had frequently consulted with experts in order to learn "whose ass to kick".
"I was down there a month ago before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf," he said in an interview with the NBC network.
"I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers so I know whose ass to kick," he added.
The president - who has come under criticism that he has not shown enough leadership or anger over the disaster - told Americans they would "get through this crisis", despite the damage to the economy.
Mr Obama told reporters he was committed to seeing the Gulf region restored to a condition better than it was before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank on 20 April, killing 11 workers.
The leaking wellhead is currently spewing out between 12,000 and 24,000 barrels of oil per day.
Meanwhile, Adm Allen, the coordinator of the clean-up operation, told reporters it would take "a couple of months" to clear the oil slick from the surface of the Gulf.
But, he said: "Long-term issues of restoring environments and habitats will be years."
He said that while BP had nearly doubled the amount of oil being funnelled from the leaking wellhead since Friday, it was now "trying to increase that production rate, close the venting valves and move to a greater capacity".
He said BP was hoping to move a second production platform into the area to increase the amount of oil that could be siphoned off.
Adm Allen added that BP was also preparing a bigger rig to process a greater capacity of oil in severe weather. Hurricane season in the region opened last week.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs warned, however, that collecting oil through the containment cap fixed over the leaking well remained a risky operation.
BP said on Monday that the cost of its response to the disaster in the Gulf had reached about $1.25bn (£860m).
This number does not include $360m (£248m) for a project to build six sand berms to protect Louisiana's wetlands from the spreading oil, BP has said.
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill has been found on beaches and wetlands along more than 100 miles (161 km) of coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.
An observation flight spotted a sheen of oil 150 miles west of Tampa, Florida, on Sunday.
Tar balls continued to wash ashore on Monday in Pensacola, Florida, and the popular tourist town of Panama City, in the same state, expected oil to reach its beaches within 72 hours.
"We have just entered the area of uncertainty for about half of our beach," said Dan Rowe, president of the Panama City Beach Convention and Visitors' Bureau.
He added: "We are still hoping tar balls don't show up here, but we are putting the contingency plans in place and everyone is out there looking at the beach and inspecting it."
Both BP and the US government have been criticised for their responses to the spill.
According a survey released on Monday by ABC and the Washington Post, nearly three out of four Americans say that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a major disaster, and the majority of those surveyed want legal action to be taken against BP and its partners.
Eight in 10 people surveyed criticise the way BP has handled the spill, and 51% of people say they feel strongly that the federal government should pursue criminal charges against BP and the other companies involved in the disaster.
Nearly seven in 10 gave the government's response to the spill a negative rating.
The US states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida have so far been affected in the six weeks since the spill began.
Houthi rebel artillery pounded residential areas near the city of Taiz, witnesses said.
However, the capital Sanaa and central Yemen are understood to be quiet.
Before the truce was due to begin, clashes were reported at a major air base north of Aden after government allies took the nearby town of Sabr.
The Saudi-led coalition said it would halt air raids at midnight (20:59 GMT) to let much-needed humanitarian aid in.
But a Houthi spokesman said the rebels would not adopt a position on the move until they were officially informed.
Earlier reports suggested that the Houthi leader, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi, had pledged to continue the fight.
A correspondent with AFP news agency also reported sporadic gunfire in the northern outskirts of Aden barely an hour after the unilateral truce came into force. Rebels there are trying to halt the advance of loyalist forces who have retaken the port city.
On Saturday, the coalition said it would suspend bombardment for five days but that it reserved the right to respond to "military activity or movement" by Houthi rebels.
The unexpected ceasefire was announced after Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi wrote to Saudi's King Salman asking for a break, to allow humanitarian supplies to be delivered.
It came after strikes in Taiz province, which reportedly killed 120 people, including civilians.
Aid agencies say a blockade on Yemen has worsened the humanitarian crisis which is gripping the country.
More than 80% of Yemen's 25 million people now need some form of aid.
The Saudi-led coalition has been bombing Houthi militia and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh since 26 March.
The UN has warned the coalition that indiscriminate bombing of populated areas is against international law.
A week-long truce brokered by the UN failed earlier this month.
At least 1,693 civilians have been killed in fighting in Yemen, with almost 4,000 people wounded. The UN said the majority of casualties were caused by air strikes.
Houthis - The Zaidi Shia Muslim rebels from the north overran Sanaa last year and then expanded their control. They want to replace Mr Hadi, whose government they say is corrupt. The US alleges Iran is providing military assistance to the rebels.
Ali Abdullah Saleh - Military units loyal to the former president - forced to hand over power in 2011 after mass protests - are fighting alongside the Houthis.
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi - The president fled abroad in March as the rebels advanced on Aden, where he had taken refuge in February. Loyal soldiers, Sunni Muslim tribesmen and Southern separatists have formed militia to fight the rebels.
Saudi-led coalition - A US-backed coalition of nine, mostly Sunni Arab states says it is seeking to "defend the legitimate government" of Mr Hadi.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - AQAP opposes both the Houthis and President Hadi. A rival affiliate of Islamic State has also recently emerged.
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Norovirus. has been confirmed on three wards, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board confirmed.
Individual rooms have also been closed on wards at Deeside Community Hospital and a Chirk Community Hospital.
The health board has asked parents to avoid bringing young children onto wards.
It has also asked people to avoid visiting hospitals if they have suffered from diarrhoea, vomiting or an upset stomach during the previous two days.
NRW is investigating suspected oil pollution in the Neath Canal, Resolven.
It is thought to have been caused by a leak from a domestic heating oil tank in the area and nearby residents are being asked to check their tanks and pipes for damage.
Environment officer Owen Caughlin said the leak could also cause the water quality to suffer.
The 27-year-old joined the Iron on a short-term deal in October and has made nine appearances in all competitions.
The former Aston Villa and Hibernian man was without a club for the first two months of the season after leaving Blackpool last June.
Scunthorpe, who face Chesterfield in the FA Cup third round on Tuesday, are currently 18th in League One.
But these are the two protagonists in the next battle over fracking in the UK. There can only be one winner.
Earlier this year, councillors in Lancashire rejected Cuadrilla's application to drill a handful of shale gas exploratory wells. There would be too much noise and the impact on the landscape would be too great, they said.
The decision did not go down well in Downing Street.
For the Conservative government has made it abundantly clear it wants to see fracking in the UK as soon as possible - hence the raft of new licences issued on Thursday.
"Shale gas is a fantastic opportunity for the UK," says a Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) spokesman. By its reckoning, the industry could be worth billions of pounds, creating more than 60,000 jobs and increasing the UK's energy security.
For this reason, the government will do everything it can to help clear the obstacles to widespread fracking.
It has already removed many. For example, if local councils take too long deciding on fracking applications such as Cuadrilla's, it will take the decision out of their hands after 16 weeks.
It has also changed the rules on property rights - fracking companies no longer need permission from landowners to drill horizontally deep underground. And just this week, ministers pushed through plans to allow fracking under national parks.
Perhaps most importantly, the government has decided to invoke long-held powers to decide planning appeals on matters deemed of national importance.
So Cuadrilla's appeal against Lancashire County Council's decision will not be decided by a planning inspector, but by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Greg Clark.
No prizes for guessing which side he'll come down on, say environmentalists.
No wonder energy expert Prof Paul Stevens at the Chatham House think tank says he's "quite sure central government will approve [Cuadrilla's application]".
But this doesn't mean we're about to see fracking wells springing up across the UK - far from it.
For a start, the planning process remains incredibly onerous. Cuadrilla, for example, first received a fracking licence in 2008 - those companies awarded licences later are just embarking on a very long and trying journey.
And even Cuadrilla still has a long way to go. If the company wins its appeal, as seems inevitable, there is still a huge amount of work to do.
The company will have to meet planning conditions and build the fracking site - by its own reckoning drilling could commence towards the end of next year, at best.
Then follows an extended period of what is known as flow testing, the results of which are unlikely to be known before 2018 - late 2017 at a pinch.
If the results are positive, then Cuadrilla needs to submit a planning application for commercial production, rather than exploratory drilling. This effectively means that "planning permissions and permitting have to be sought again," says Cuadrilla's chief executive Francis Egan.
This involves obtaining permits from a bewildering number of bodies, including the Environment Agency, the Mineral Planning Authority, the Health and Safety Executive, the Oil & Gas Authority and Decc.
If everything goes to plan, Mr Egan says "the likelihood is that commercial production would begin at the end of this decade".
The so-called dash for gas is clearly a complete misnomer.
Court referral
But planning is just one of many obstacles to fracking in the UK - even if all frackers gain all the necessary permits to drill, there is no guarantee we'll see meaningful amounts of shale gas production in the UK.
For a start, the economics of shale gas may not stack up given the low price of gas. In Europe, the gas price is linked to the oil price, and many experts believe the oil price will remain low for many years.
Meanwhile the question of property rights has not been fully resolved - associated horizontal drilling may be fine, but fracking companies still need permission from landowners to set up site.
If landowners don't agree, the government currently doesn't have the power to force them, although any stand-off "could be referred to the courts for a judge to decide", according to Decc.
Then there are questions about the geology itself.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) estimates there is about 1,400tn cubic feet of shale gas in the Bowland Basin in the north of England and the Midland valley in Scotland.
This is enough to meet UK gas demand for more than 400 years based on current consumption, but not all of it can be recovered.
In the US, recovery rates vary between 8% and 29%, but we simply don't know the equivalent figure for the UK, according to Ed Hough at the BGS.
Given that both the rock type and the depths at which the shale can be found are similar, frackers are understandably optimistic, but until multiple test wells have been sunk, no-one knows whether significant quantities of shale gas can be produced.
But by far the biggest hurdle fracking companies must overcome is public opposition.
We had a taster when protesters tried to stop Cuadrilla drilling a test site in the West Sussex village of Balcombe in 2013.
But we could be in for far worse, according to Prof Stevens, who argues that any government decision to over-rule local authorities would be "an absolute gift to the anti-shale lobby.
"It would make Balcombe look like a Sunday picnic. We could see serious civil disorder and unrest with troops [on the streets]. We're not talking Orgreave incident [levels], but not far off.
"The vehemence felt is so strong it would be virtually impossible to carry out sensible operations."
The ensuing chaos would, he argues, force other gas companies to question whether to proceed, meaning "to all intents and purposes, the shale gas revolution is dead".
And he is not alone - the wider gas industry itself has said there will be no US-style revolution in Europe.
Perhaps most tellingly, some energy consultancies are no longer keeping a close eye on fracking.
"There is no interest in market forecasting as so many believe it is not going to happen," says John Williams at Poyry Management Consulting. The company's last report on fracking was in 2013.
"We could easily see no fracking at all in the UK."
So despite the best efforts of both the government and shale gas companies themselves, including the multitude of new licences being issued, fracking in the UK is far from a foregone conclusion.
The Dons host Apollon on Thursday evening in the first leg of the third qualifying round.
And 20-year-old Reynolds, who has been with Apollon for 10 years, says the Pittodrie men are in for a tough test.
"We have players that can definitely hurt Aberdeen, but we need to take our chances," Reynolds told BBC Scotland.
"We have a very strong team, our centre-back Valentin Roberge was in the Sunderland team three years ago, so he was playing in the Premier League.
"We have Alex da Silva, a Brazilian who has had a very good career and is technically very good. Our striker Anton Maglica is also a very good player.
"We need to go to Aberdeen and play our way, the way we have been playing the last couple of seasons.
"We like to build from the back, we're a possession-based team and when we don't have the ball we press to get it back. We like to keep the ball and try to make our opponents run."
Reynolds moved to Cyprus with his family after his father was posted there on military service. Having been with the Hibs Academy at the time, the Easter Road outfit helped him join up with Apollon and he signed a professional contract when he was 17.
The Scot has been immersed in Cypriot football and reckons the Dons will suffer if they take Apollon lightly.
"When I come home and mention Cypriot football, it's obviously really underrated," added Reynolds, who has had a loan spell at AO Ayia Napa and has featured 12 times for the Apollon first team.
"No-one really knows about it but last year APOEL went to the last 32 [of the Europa League], beating Athletic Bilbao and eventually being knocked out by Anderlecht.
"We know Aberdeen are a very good side so it will be very difficult to get a result, but we are confident and hopefully we can do something in the tie."
Reynolds, a Rangers fan who was named after Ally McCoist, has been impressed with what he has seen from Aberdeen in recent seasons.
And he revealed he could be seeing them more often with a loan move to Scotland a possibility.
"I had confirmation that I can come for a loan so my agent has been looking back home and is speaking to a few clubs on my behalf," he added. "You never know, I could be back in Scotland sooner than I thought."
Aberdeen, who reached the third qualifying round by winning 2-0 in Bosnia over Siroki Brijeg for a 3-1 aggregate victory, go to Cyprus for the return leg on 3 August.
She was struck a number of times in the face and stomach and received hospital treatment for her injuries, according to the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ.
A police (garda) spokesman said a man in his 30s was arrested after the attack at Dolphin House, East Essex Street, Dublin on Friday afternoon.
He was taken to Pearse Street Garda Station for questioning.
Games company ImmersiveMinds spent more than 125 hours and used more than three million virtual bricks on the 1:1 scale map of the islands.
St Kilda lies about 40 miles (64km) west of North Uist, the nearest inhabited place to the archipelago.
The last islanders left the main island of Hirta in 1930 after life there became unsustainable.
People only now live on Hirta on a temporary basis to work at the military site, or on wildlife conservation projects.
The Minecraft version of St Kilda has been made to help mark Tuesday's World Heritage Day.
The map is available for public download to allow gamers all over the world to explore the archipelago's history, heritage, stories, people and landscapes.
Nick Smith, heritage manager at Western Isles' local authority Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, said: "This is a really exciting way to use technology so that people can discover a remote and difficult to access place."
The team from ImmersiveMinds worked closely with Jonathan Wordsworth, the St Kilda archaeologist with The National Trust for Scotland, to ensure that this digital world is as accurate as possible.
The virtual build features abandoned blackhouses, boats and underground structures called souterrains.
Swedish-based Minesto has been granted permission by Natural Resources Wales to anchor one of the devices in the sea near Holyhead.
It came after the impact on wildlife was deemed to be "not significant".
If successful, the company said it would add more kites to power about 8,000 households in total.
Developers said it would be the first full-scale operation of its kind in the world, following ocean testing off Northern Ireland.
The technology uses tidal currents to force water through a turbine as the underwater kites - known as Deep Green devices - "fly" through the sea.
The marine licence gives the green light for a 0.5MW kite, but Minesto hopes more will later be added, until the 10MW site is fully operational.
The site - four miles (6.5km) off Anglesey - was chosen because it would not interfere with shipping lanes and to minimise the impact on other sea users.
An environmental impact assessment also concluded there would not be a significant impact on fisheries, marine mammals, sea birds, marine archaeology and cultural heritage.
Ylva Sörqvist Hultgren, site development manager at Minesto, said: "This first step of implementing our unique technology in commercial scale is obviously an important one, and it is therefore satisfying to have reached this milestone."
The kite is expected to be installed later this year but electricity generation for use on the National Grid is not expected to happen before 2019 at the earliest.
Eleanor Smart, senior permitting team leader for Natural Resources Wales, confirmed a marine licence had been granted for one underwater kite.
"We scrutinise applications such as this to make sure the licences we issue protect the environment and other activities in the marine environment," she said.
"The information we have shows that this proposal does not pose an unacceptable threat to the environment.
"If the developer wants to place more of these devices on the sea bed in this area, they will need further permits from us before they can go ahead."
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The visitors dominated the first half but Celtic held firm, and even passed up a good chance when Scott Sinclair sliced over from close range.
However, Lars Stindl drove in the visitors' first goal after Andre Hahn robbed Toure of possession.
Hahn made it two when he raced past Toure to score following the Ivory Coast defender's poor pass.
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The Germans came here without some stellar names, most notably chief goalscorer Raffael and one of their most creative players, Thorgan Hazard. Both missed out through injury, a bout of misfortune Celtic would have hoped to exploit.
They were unable to. Too many Celtic players were out of sorts, in their passing, their concentration, their aggression. They were out-played and out-fought. Celtic were lucky to lose by only two goals.
Gladbach did something Manchester City could not when they were here a few weeks back - they kept Celtic down and kept their vast support largely hushed. If two of their most dangerous players were absent, they had others.
Ibrahima Traore, Tobias Strobl and, most tellingly, the excellent double act of Stindl and Hahn, moved it quickly and found space time and again. They got in behind their hosts and asked all sorts of questions.
Traore had a shot saved wonderfully by Craig Gordon, then Jonas Hofmann forced another stop from the Celtic goalkeeper. Just after, Hahn had a decent effort, then Strobl caused some bother.
Celtic could not hold on to the ball and could not do anything with the ball they kept. This was the polar opposite of the thrill-fest against Manchester City.
Gladbach's dominance continued after the break. They were pacy and intelligent and far too much for Celtic. Eventually, they found their ruthlessness in front of goal, too.
Toure had a double meltdown. For the first, he tried to see a ball out for a goal-kick only to be ransacked of possession by Hahn, who managed to scramble a pass to Stindl, who shot past Gordon.
Later, after Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers had made his move by bringing on Leigh Griffiths to play alongside Moussa Dembele, Gladbach scored again. Toure gave it away and Hahn took advantage, motoring through on the Celtic goal and finishing brilliantly.
Given that Gladbach were missing four key first-team players, this was Celtic's chance to secure a precious victory, a win that would have put them in the box seat for a third-place finish in the group - and Europa League football beyond Christmas.
That hope is withering now. Celtic's away record in Europe is horrendous, and when Celtic go to Germany the probability is their hosts are going to have their injured men fit again. If they cannot beat a diminished Gladbach in Glasgow, what chance of overturning this loss on the road?
After the giddy highs of that classic against Manchester City, this was a return to sobriety for Rodgers' team.
Match ends, Celtic 0, Borussia Mönchengladbach 2.
Second Half ends, Celtic 0, Borussia Mönchengladbach 2.
Attempt blocked. Nico Schulz (Borussia Mönchengladbach) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Oscar Wendt.
Substitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Patrick Herrmann replaces André Hahn.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Tobias Strobl.
Substitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Nico Schulz replaces Ibrahima Traoré.
Foul by Callum McGregor (Celtic).
Christoph Kramer (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. André Hahn (Borussia Mönchengladbach) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lars Stindl.
Attempt blocked. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Patrick Roberts.
Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by André Hahn (Borussia Mönchengladbach).
Goal! Celtic 0, Borussia Mönchengladbach 2. André Hahn (Borussia Mönchengladbach) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner.
Foul by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic).
André Hahn (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Celtic. Patrick Roberts replaces James Forrest.
Substitution, Celtic. Leigh Griffiths replaces Tomas Rogic.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Jonas Hofmann (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Tobias Strobl.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Julian Korb.
Attempt blocked. Tomas Rogic (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Callum McGregor.
Offside, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Ibrahima Traoré tries a through ball, but Jonas Hofmann is caught offside.
Substitution, Celtic. Callum McGregor replaces Nir Bitton.
Offside, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Jannik Vestergaard tries a through ball, but André Hahn is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Nir Bitton (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Tomas Rogic.
André Hahn (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic).
Attempt blocked. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! Celtic 0, Borussia Mönchengladbach 1. Lars Stindl (Borussia Mönchengladbach) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the centre of the goal. Assisted by André Hahn.
Attempt missed. Tobias Strobl (Borussia Mönchengladbach) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by André Hahn following a corner.
Corner, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Conceded by Erik Sviatchenko.
Attempt missed. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mikael Lustig with a cross.
Second Half begins Celtic 0, Borussia Mönchengladbach 0.
First Half ends, Celtic 0, Borussia Mönchengladbach 0.
Attempt missed. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Tomas Rogic with a through ball.
Foul by Jannik Vestergaard (Borussia Mönchengladbach).
Tomas Rogic (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
André Hahn (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic).
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Two second-half mistakes from Kolo Toure gifted Borussia Monchengladbach a Champions League victory at Celtic.
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The 25-year-old became the most expensive player in history when he joined PSG from Barcelona for 222m euros (£200m).
He set up Edinson Cavani for his side's opener on Sunday before scoring the final goal in a 3-0 victory.
"People think that leaving Barca is to die, but it's the opposite," he said.
"I'm more alive than ever. I play, I am very happy and football is the same. Only the country, the city and the team change, but football is the same."
He started the game on the left side of an imposing three-man attack, with Cavani and Angel di Maria.
PSG dominated the game and took the lead early in the second half when Ikoko's misjudged back-pass found his own net.
Cavani then converted after latching on to Neymar's superb pass into the box before the two swapped roles, with the Uruguayan setting up his Brazilian team-mate for a close-range finish.
"It is always very important to score, not just in the first game," added Neymar.
"This is a great challenge for me as a person, but we have a great team.
"The main thing was to win. The team played well and I played well.
"We are trying to improve all the time and we'll get to know each other even better yet. But it is easy to play with players of such quality."
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Brazilian striker Neymar said he feels "more alive than ever" after marking his Paris St-Germain debut with a goal and an assist at Guingamp.
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The object of the game is to put the ball in your opponents' net (a goal, worth three points) or, failing that, between the posts and above the crossbar (for one point).
Matches last for 60 minutes, using a ball resembling a soccer ball, which you can either kick or hand-pass (striking the ball with your open hand or the side of your fist).
Gaelic football shares a number of features with Australian Rules football, and the two sports play annual international matches using a hybrid set of rules.
Gaelic football builds your stamina, agility and awareness in the same way as rugby and football, while hand-eye coordination is also developed.
Players can only move four steps with the ball, so the whole team can expect to be heavily involved in each game.
Junior versions of the game are non-contact, but physicality is a key aspect of adult Gaelic football.
As a predominantly Irish sport, opportunities to play Gaelic football are plentiful in Ireland.
The Gaelic Athletic Association, which runs the sport, offers beginners' camps for children aged seven to 13, and also provides a searchable map of clubs throughout Ireland.
Gaelic football in England, Scotland and Wales is overseen by the Provincial Council of Britain GAA, which maintains a list of clubs and can also be contacted via Twitter.
The Ladies Gaelic Football Association runs a Gaelic4Girls programme culminating in a National Blitz Day aimed at offering new, young players the chance to try the sport. Gaelic4Mothers is also offered across Ireland,
Looking to standardise the rules of similar games being played in Ireland in the 1880s, a man named Michael Cusack convened the first meeting of what would become the Gaelic Athletic Association.
Croke Park, the home of the game in Dublin, was purchased in 1913 and named after Archbishop Thomas William Croke, the first patron of the GAA.
By 1958, Wembley Stadium was being used to host annual exhibition games of Gaelic football in England - more than 40,000 spectators came to watch in 1962.
The New Croke Park, with a capacity of 82,300, opened in 2003 and the GAA celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2009.
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Finance company BluMarble lent Dean Holdsworth's Sports Shield the money to complete a takeover with chairman Ken Anderson's Inner Circle Investments.
However, in March, Anderson bought former Bolton striker Holdsworth's shares to become the majority owner of the League One club.
A High Court date has been set for 22 May.
Bolton have said they are aware of the proposed action, but stated it was a matter for Sports Shield and would not comment further.
Wanderers will secure automatic promotion and an immediate return to the Championship if they beat Peterborough at home on Sunday.
A draw is also likely to be enough to confirm a top-two finish, as third-placed Fleetwood would need to win against Port Vale by an eight-goal margin.
The highest court ruled that current laws preventing members of the same sex from marrying violated their right to equality and were unconstitutional.
It gave parliament two years to amend existing laws or pass new ones.
Wednesday's landmark decision came as the LGBT community faces increasing persecution in the region.
In a press release following the ruling, the court said that "disallowing two persons of the same sex to marry, for the sake of safeguarding basic ethical orders" constituted a "different treatment" with "no rational basis."
The court concluded that "such different treatment is incompatible with the spirit and meaning of the right to equality" as protected by Taiwan's constitution.
Taiwanese couple: 'We're just like any other parents'
The court's ruling means Taiwan's parliament will have to amend existing laws or pass new legislation.
But it's still unclear how far parliament will go.
The LGBT community hopes legislators will simply amend the existing marriage laws to include same-sex couples, which would grant them the same rights enjoyed by opposite-sex couples, including in cases of adoption, parenting and inheritance - and making decisions for each other in medical emergencies.
However, they fear parliament won't do that and will instead pass a new law that recognises same-sex marriages but gives them only some rights, not equal treatment in all matters.
Religious and parents groups opposed to gay marriage say they will lobby parliament not to pass any laws on legalisation. They argue such an important matter that affects the whole of society shouldn't be decided by just a few grand justices, but by the people in a referendum.
Both sides will now focus their attention on persuading the legislators.
Self-ruled Taiwan, over which China claims sovereignty, is known for its liberal values and holds the biggest annual gay pride event in the region.
Momentum for marriage equality has been building since last year, when President Tsai Ing-wen, who is openly supportive of the move, came to power.
But the debate has prompted a backlash, with mass protests by conservatives in recent months.
Now that the 14-judge panel has ruled in favour of the legal challenge, the parliament, known as the Legislative Yuan, will begin the process of amending the laws.
It can either legalise same-sex marriage or introduce new separate civil partnership legislation.
If legislators fail to meet the court's two-year deadline, it said same-sex couples could register to marry based on its ruling.
A bill to legalise same-sex marriages is already making its way through parliament, but that process has slowed because of opposition from traditionalists, who do not want Taiwan to become the first place in Asia to allow such weddings.
Mark Sands, 50, pleaded guilty to sending the "grossly offensive" threat on Facebook against Caroline Ansell, MP for Eastbourne and Willingdon.
Factory worker Sands, of Upperton Gardens in Eastbourne, wrote he would stab Ms Ansell "to death," Hastings Magistrates' Court heard.
He is due to be sentenced on 12 April at Brighton Magistrates' Court.
The hearing was told Sands had posted on Facebook: "If you vote to take £30 off my money, I will personally come round to your house... and stab you to death."
In a statement read in court, Ms Ansell said the threats were "chilling" and she had now closed her personal Facebook account.
Her statement said: "It felt like a brush with something sinister."
Speaking after the hearing, she said she felt Sands' threat was "very real".
It had been difficult to tell her children about the threat on her life, she added.
"How do you find the words to make it okay?" she said.
The 40-year-old made his first-class debut in 1993 and has made more than 800 appearances for the county.
Trescothick played 76 Tests, 123 one-day internationals and three Twenty20 matches for England.
"I'm really enjoying my cricket and I still have the hunger to succeed," Trescothick told the club website.
"I have made no secret of my desire to carry on playing for Somerset for as long as I can.
"It's a really exciting time for the county at the moment with the talent that we have coming through and I can't wait to see what happens in the next 12 months."
The 2017 season will be the 25th that Trescothick has been involved with the first team.
The Trussell Trust, which runs over 420 food banks across the UK, says many children risk going hungry over the six-week break from school.
It says demand for emergency parcels for children rose significantly - by more than 4,000 - last July and August.
The government said it was helping families meet the cost of living.
Figures from the Trussell Trust show 67,506 three-day emergency food supplies were provided for children by its network in July and August 2016, compared with 63,094 in the May and June - an increase of 4,412 parcels.
The trust says nearly half (47%) of those 67,506 parcels went to primary-school-age children and over a quarter (27%) to children aged four and under.
It says, while it welcomes the government's decision to keep free school meals for infants in England, more must be done to help struggling families during the holidays.
Samantha Stapley, operations manager for England at The Trussell trust, said: "Over a third of all the food distributed by food banks in our network consistently goes to children, but these new figures show five- to 11-year-olds are more likely than other children to receive a food bank's help.
"This highlights just how close to crisis many families are living - as a nation, we also must address the reasons why families with children are referred to food banks in the first place.
"We welcome the government's decision to maintain free school lunches for children during term time - the next step must be to help families during the holidays.
"Food banks are doing more than ever before, but voluntary organisations alone cannot stop primary school children facing hunger."
A spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: "Employment remains the best route out of poverty.
"Record numbers of people are now in work, and we're helping millions of households meet the everyday cost of living and keep more of what they earn.
"We've doubled free childcare to help parents into work, and continue to spend over £90bn a year on support for those who need it, including those who are bringing up a family or on a low income.
"Budgeting advice and benefit advances are also available for anyone who needs more help."
Rebecca Minnock went on the run from her home in Highbridge, Somerset, with her son Ethan for 17 days after a court ruled he should live with his father.
The 35-year-old was in the Oxford area when she made contact with Avon and Somerset Police on Friday.
Police said no arrests had been made following the boy's return.
Ethan's father, Roger Williams said: "Ethan is safely back in my care now."
Police said both Ms Minnock and Ethan were found "safe and well" and would now receive "the support they need".
"This will be a matter for the family courts now," the spokesman added.
Judge Stephen Wildblood QC, the High Court judge dealing with the case, confirmed there would be a hearing at Bristol Crown Court on Monday.
Speaking to the Daily Mail before she handed herself in, Ms Minnock said she hoped the decision about her son would now be reconsidered.
She told the paper: "I feel that my time has run out now. My only regret would be the trouble that my family have gotten into, all the police efforts and time I've wasted."
Ms Minnock said her son believed he had been on holiday because they had been having "normal, fun times together", such as going swimming and visiting parks.
She said she decided to come out of hiding after Ethan asked to see family members.
Nicholas Cusworth QC, a family law barrister, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Ms Minnock's decision to breach the court order would be taken into "very serious consideration" in future legal proceedings.
"The court will have to decide how to take forward the relationship he has with both his parents," he said.
"In circumstances where the court makes an order designed to protect the best interest of a child, for one of that child's parents to undermine that court order deliberately... inevitably will mean the well of trust the court has towards her is going to be at a low ebb at the moment.
"It'll be up to her to demonstrate that she can be trusted in future."
Ms Minnock has been engaged in a two-year legal battle with Mr Williams over contact with their son.
In February, a district judge found she had fabricated allegations against him in order to "frustrate contact" with his son.
A social worker reported that Ethan was not "emotionally safe" with his mother, and Ethan had been staying with his father four nights a week since February.
Earlier on Friday, Ethan's grandmother was sentenced to 10 days in prison for lying in court about the pair's disappearance.
Louise Minnock, 52, was convicted of contempt of court for hiding the fact they were driven to Cheltenham by her partner Andrew Butt, who was jailed for 28 days for contempt.
American Ward, 32, won the battle of the unbeaten fighters by 114-113 on all three ringside scorecards in Las Vegas.
Ward landed some good punches but withstood pressure from Kovalev, 33, who was unhappy with the US judges.
"I agree they support their boxer but honestly, this is sport. Don't make it like politics," he said.
Asked whether he would face Ward again, Kovalev replied: "Sure - and I'll kick his ass."
But Ward felt he was worthy of his 31st professional victory.
"In a tight fight, he's going to feel like he got robbed. I'd have been been disappointed. But we got the belts tonight," he said.
"That was the first time in my career I got dropped. I'm pleased with the way I responded."
Kovalev's promoter Kathy Duva said she would use the rematch clause in the contract for a second fight.
"He won the first six rounds so I don't know how he could lose a decision,'' she said.
The clash between the skilful Ward and hard-hitting Kovalev was billed as the fight of the year, and lived up to expectations.
Ward had said he could finish the former super-middleweight champion early, but was left on the canvas in the second round by a stinging right-hander.
He eased his way back into the contest and landed a good left in the seventh round which jolted Kovalev.
Ward won all of the last six rounds on two scorecards, and five of six on a third , to inflict his opponent's first defeat in 32 fights.
"It was a fight of my life,'' said Kovalev. "I am disappointed in the judges' decision. He got maybe a few rounds, I agree with that. I kept control. I lost maybe three rounds the whole fight.''
The judges appeared to favour Ward's counter-punching against the aggressive style of Kovalev.
"We were a little careless with that knockdown in the second round, but we landed the cleaner punches,'' said Ward's trainer Virgil Hunter.
On the undercard, two-time Olympic gold medallist Claressa Shields made her professional debut, winning a decision over Franchon Crews in a four-round super middleweight fight.
The collapse, in Barrow-upon-Soar in Leicestershire on 1 August, caused severe disruption for rail passengers heading to and from London.
It reopened to pedestrians three weeks later but required further work before being deemed safe enough for vehicles.
Network Rail said it had been a "huge project" to repair the bridge which is due to reopen on 27 March.
The firm said the work involved removing 200 tonnes of debris, restoring the brick parapet wall, reconnecting gas and water mains and resurfacing the road.
Area director Gary Walsh said: "Work to repair old bridges such as this one are complicated and can run into unforeseen challenges."
Further repairs will be carried out on the bridge later in the year.
The town's planning committee voted unanimously against the proposals for 38 terraced, semi-detached and detached houses.
Carlisle-based Story Homes had applied to build in a field adjoining the Grade I listed abbey precinct wall.
The company's development planner David Hayward said the wrong decision had been made.
"We feel Barrow needs new homes, it needs new executive homes, we had the evidence telling us that," he said.
Paul Littlewood, who led a campaign against the plans, said it was "not against Story Homes and it was certainly not against development in the town, it was just this site".
The company has not decided whether it will appeal against the decision.
Tribal elders had gathered at the home of Obaiduallah Shinwari to celebrate his brother's release from months of captivity by the Taliban.
The released brother and his father are among 14 people injured in the attack.
It comes ahead of a second round of efforts to restart peace talks with the Taliban. They have denied the attack.
Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar province, where two districts are controlled, or at least influenced, by the Islamic State group - a rival of Taliban.
The Afghan government has been locked in a bloody conflict with Taliban militants for more than a decade.
Key Afghan, Pakistani, Chinese and US officials met last week for talks aimed at establishing a roadmap for peace between the Afghanistan government and the Taliban.
However, the Taliban, who are divided by factional infighting, did not attend that session.
Peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban collapsed last year, after news emerged that Taliban leader Mullah Omar had in fact died in 2013.
His deputy Mullah Mansour was declared leader in July - but a number of senior Taliban commanders refused to pledge allegiance to him and a faction opposed to him was set up under Mullah Mohammad Rasool.
The Taliban has launched several high-profile attacks in recent months.
In December, the militant group launched an attack on the strategic district of Sangin. It later seized and blew up the police headquarters and governor's compound.
And in September, the Taliban briefly overran the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, in one of their biggest victories since 2001.
Phil Burleigh's late try gave Edinburgh back-to-back wins and clinched the 1872 Cup, but Townsend could only praise the effort his players put in.
"The effort both teams put in showed how much this meant to them," he said.
"I have to praise the players' efforts to get back from three points behind to get the win, but it wasn't meant to be today."
With seven minutes left, Alan Solomons' team trailed to a Mark Bennett try and six points from Duncan Weir to three penalties for Sam Hidalgo-Clyne.
Burleigh's score put Edinburgh 14-11 in front and Glasgow piled on pressure in the game's dying embers but could not break the home defence.
Edinburgh go fourth, while Pro12 holders Glasgow remain eighth.
"Fair play to Edinburgh, that's two weeks now they've taken their opportunities. It's a sign of a confident team," Townsend told BBC Scotland.
"We look at that second half and we didn't kick on from what we did in the first half."
Edinburgh had won the first leg 23-11 on Sunday, but Townsend was happy with the response of his side and called for more of the same ahead of the European Champions Cup game with Racing '92.
"We've got a hard working group that will work hard to get better," he said.
"We'll have to take on the lessons we learned this week because next week's going to be even tougher."
The 28-year-old midfielder follows defenders Aaron Hughes and Lennard Sowah in joining Ian Cathro's side in the January transfer window.
Martin started his career at Monaco and has played in England and Switzerland.
"I hope to have a lot of success with this club," Martin told the Hearts website.
"The facilities here are amazing and the club has amazing potential. I've played in the UK in the past and I've known about Hearts and the Scottish league for a long time."
The France Under-21 cap played for Middlesbrough in the Championship in season 2011-12 and has scored a total of 19 goals in 128 club appearances. His contract with Lillestrom expired on 1 January.
Hearts visit Raith Rovers on Sunday in the fourth round of the Scottish Cup, before resuming their Premiership campaign away to leaders Celtic on 29 January. Cathro's men are fourth in the division.
The modelling assessment says that Antarctic melting alone could contribute more than a metre to sea level by the end of this century.
By 2500, according to the study, the same source could cause levels across the world to rise by 13m.
The authors say that rapid cuts in carbon emissions could limit this risk.
In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that, without any restrictions on carbon emissions, the seas around the world likely rise by up to 98cm by 2100.
However, the IPCC estimates contained a minimum contribution from Antarctica.
Other analyses since then have projected bigger increases, with a recent study suggesting that the oceans were rising faster than at any time in the past 2,800 years and by 2100 they could be up to 1.31m higher.
The exact level of Antarctica's impact on these projections has been vigorously debated. Late last year, a research paper suggested that projections of a contribution of a metre or more were not plausible.
But this new study argues that by 2100 the world could see 1.14m of sea-level rise from Antarctica alone.
The scientists say that their model is able to provide a more accurate prediction because it incorporates the impacts of some physical processes for the first time.
While other models have focussed on the impact of warmer waters melting the ice shelves from below, this new study also includes the effect of surface melt-water and rain trickling down from above and fracturing supporting ice, hastening its slide to the sea.
The model also calculates the impact of the disintegration of floating ice shelves. If this happens, it will reveal walls of ice so tall that they cannot support their own weight.
The scientists involved expect that these extra factors will kick in over the coming decades, as warming from the atmosphere (not just from warmer waters below) becomes the dominant driver of ice loss.
"One reason that other models didn't include the atmospheric warming is because it hasn't started to happen just yet," said co-author Dr David Pollard from Penn State University, US.
"In Antarctica, around the edges at sea level, it's just beginning to get up to the melt point in summer.
"With that warming, the flanks of Antarctica will start to melt drastically in about 50 to 100 years - and then it will start to kick in according to our model."
The authors believe that they have demonstrated the accuracy of the new model by correctly replicating sea-level rise in warm periods, millions of years into the past.
"Recently, we looked at the long-standing problem posed by geological evidence that suggests sea level rose dramatically in the past, possibly up to 10 to 20 metres around 3 million years ago, in the Pliocene," said Dr Pollard.
"Existing models couldn't simulate enough ice-sheet melting to explain that."
If the world continues to emit "business as usual" levels of carbon dioxide over the coming decades, the scientists argue that sea-level rise will be double what has already been estimated for the coming 100 years.
"If these processes do kick in and they end up being as important as we think that they could be, then they really do have a big impact," said Prof Robert DeConto from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
"West Antarctica is responding very soon in these simulations and that ends up having a big impact on North America in particular."
Other researchers have praised the development of the new model for including impacts such as surface melt water and ice-cliff collapse, but they are uncertain about the conclusions.
"I have no doubt that on a century to millennia timescale, warming will make these processes significant in Antarctica, as well as Greenland, and drive a very significant Antarctic contribution to sea-level rise," commented Prof David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey.
"The big question for me is, how soon could this all begin, and could it be early enough to drive substantially higher sea levels by 2100? I'm not sure, but these guys are definitely asking the right questions."
The authors believe that there is "good news" in their report. If global emissions of carbon are curtailed significantly then the extra factors that substantially boost Antarctic melting will be avoided.
Seas will continue to rise, but not at the runaway rates suggested by this paper, which has been published in the journal Nature.
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David Cumming, head of equities at Standard Life Investments, said that HSBC was being put at a "competitive disadvantage" by "ever-increasing capital requirements".
"Logically, we would be supportive of a move if they chose to do that," he told Radio 4's Today programme.
Standard Life owns 1% of HSBC.
Mr Cumming said a UK exit would result in "better growth, earnings and dividend prospects unless the regulator changes tack".
The warning came as the Bank of England prepared its latest set of stress tests, designed to assess whether lenders could withstand another financial crisis.
HSBC said earlier this year that it was considering moving its headquarters out of the UK.
At the time, the bank said the decision was sparked by "regulatory and structural reforms" since the financial crisis.
HSBC has said it will make a decision on a possible move away from London by the end of the year.
The bank has not yet said where it may consider moving to, although many expect Hong Kong to be high on the list.
It has had its headquarters in the UK since 1992, but makes most of its money overseas, with Asia accounting for about 80% of its profit.
HSBC has threatened to exit the UK before. In 2010, it said it might move from London if the UK government decided to break up big banks.
Brent crude fell 27 cents to $114.79 a barrel, after reaching $115.71 on Thursday, the highest since September 2013.
Oilfields south of Baghdad, which export at least 2.5 million barrels per day of oil, are still unaffected.
But the fighting in the north poses a risk to supplies, while foreign oil companies are beginning to pull out staff.
Paul Horsnell, head of commodities research at Standard Chartered bank, said: "The market has priced in existing geopolitical risk."
Global spare capacity in oil production is at about 2%, he said, meaning that a spike in demand of more than 2% will outstrip production.
Islamist-led militants and pro-government forces are engaged in fierce battles for the Baiji oil refinery and Tal Afar airport in northern Iraq.
Baiji, Iraq's biggest refinery, is surrounded by the rebels, who say they have seized most of Tal Afar airport.
The fighting comes a day after the US said it would send some 300 military advisers to help the fight against the insurgents.
Investors may be concerned that what happened in Libya may be mirrored in Iraq, Mr Horsnell said.
Following Libya's war and the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi, production recovered, but then eventually petered out, as a weak government and continued skirmishes disrupted production.
"Libya has shown weak central government has found it hard to maintain the flow of oil," Mr Horsnell added.
As for where oil might go next, he said: "I don't think there's a lot of political risk in the current price."
Consumers already pay "several hundred" US dollars for a barrel of petrol, a lot of which is tax and duty, so this increase is unlikely to have a major impact at the pump, he said.
The island has a rich cycling history having staged Britain's biggest festival, International Cycle Week, for almost 70 years until 2003.
Cyclefest, scheduled for May 2016, will see professional cycling return to the island for the first time in 13 years.
Organisers said the festival will celebrate the island's "unique culture, environment and terrain".
The three-day festival will include the opening stage of the Pearl Izumi Tour, which features the UK's leading professional teams.
A Tour spokesman said: "The Isle of Man is a hotbed of cycling talent.
"Having an Isle of Man stage on our Tour can only add value to the event and hopefully inspire future generations of Manx talent."
"We were proud when they approached us to headline their festival."
The festival will also include a 'mass participation' ride, mountain bike challenge and Sportive on the Isle of Man TT course.
This year, including household names such as Mark Cavendish and Peter Kennaugh, eight Manx cyclists were selected for the Great Britain Olympic Development squad.
Director of Cyclefest, Paul Phillips, said: "We are trying to create a standout experience that can capitalise on the growing popularity of cycling and make a significant contribution to the local economy."
Organisers are also working with the Isle of Man Cycling Association, who are currently bidding to bring the British Cycling National Road Championships to the island the same year.
It could be an "epic year for cycling on the Isle of Man", said Phillips.
The 30-year-old rejoined Blues, his boyhood club, in June 2015 after leaving Leyton Orient and has made 21 first-team appearances.
His early experience came during loan spells at Alfreton, Halifax, Oldham and Macclesfield.
After leaving Birmingham in 2010, he played for both Burton and Derby.
Shell is sponsoring the competition, which will challenge teams to map a 4km-deep, 500-sq-km area of sea floor using autonomous robots.
The award, which is valued at $7m (£4.6m), will have to be claimed before the end of 2018.
Previous ocean incentives put up by the X Prize organisation have helped develop oil clean-up solutions and sensors to monitor ocean acidification.
The new challenge was announced at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco - the largest annual gathering of Earth scientists.
The motivation is the lack of high-resolution maps of the ocean bed. More than 90% of the sea floor has not been surveyed in detail.
X Prize technical director Dr Jyotika Virmani said much remained to be discovered about our planet.
"It was a Caribbean sponge that gave us AZT, the compound used in AIDS treatments. There are many more medical benefits just waiting to be discovered, but we have no idea because the oceans remain largely unexplored," she told BBC News.
Although technologies already exist to survey the seabed at 4,000m down, the particular rules of the Shell Ocean Discovery competition will make even current experts in the field scratch their heads.
The entrants will have to deploy their solutions from land or from the air; they cannot use a ship or even be in the survey area at the time.
So, no cable can be used to remotely operate vehicles; they will need to be fully autonomous.
There will be two rounds to the competition.
The first, to be held in 2017, will be undertaken at a shallower depth of 2,000m, and require teams to make a bathymetric map of at least 20% of a 500-sq-km zone of seabed in roughly 6-8 hours.
The top 10 teams will then go forward to the second round, which will be held at the full competition depth of 4,000m. At least 50% of this area will have to be mapped in 12-15 hours.
A scanning resolution of 5m per pixel is demanded. The teams will have to return high-resolution pictures from the deep as well, of a target specified by the organisers.
Control and communications in the dark at 4,000m will be tough enough, never mind the consideration of pressure, which will be about 40 megapascals - nearly 6,000 pounds per square inch.
"Four thousand metres is certainly challenging and we're looking forward to seeing some very innovative technologies," said Dr Virmani.
X Prize CEO Dr Peter Diamandis added: "What we're going to see will be more autonomous; it's going to be smaller; it's going to be cheaper; it's probably going to be swarm in nature. This is what we're seeing because of the proliferation of cellphone technology. Robots are getting much more capable."
$1m of the $7m will be reserved for the team that can demonstrate new chemical and biological underwater sensors. To win this, the group will need to "sniff" a target to its source in the survey zone. That prize is sponsored by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
"Right now we can bring seawater to a lab and detect what chemical and biological signatures are in there. We're looking to develop pioneering, breakthrough technology to do that in situ," Dr Virmani told BBC News.
This is the third ocean-related X Prize. The California-based organisation plans two more under its Ocean Initiative, which is "designed to identify our oceans' grand challenges and what we can do to solve them".
The most famous X Prize saw a privately developed rocket pane fly into space. Other competitions still in progress seek to put robots on the Moon and to develop Star-Trek-style "tricorders" to monitor people's vital signs.
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There hasn't been an official gift list, but speaking to a schoolboy at an event, Prince William said his son had been given 'far too many' presents.
The problem for the little Prince is that usually people don't buy him normal toddler gifts, like building blocks or colouring-in pens, but special 'official' gifts from countries or organisations.
Prince George got this adult-size surfboard from the Mayor of the famous Manly Beach in Australia. During the trip to Australia, the royal visitors attended a surf life-saving carnival. Perhaps a bucket and spade might've been more fun?
Another one from Prince George's trip to Australia. He loved this bilby from Taronga Zoo in Sydney... until he got bored of it and threw it away before he'd even left the zoo!
Getting cooler - how about a personalised skateboard, complete with boxing kangaroos for those flashy 360s? Sadly he couldn't walk at that point, let alone skate.
It's not the average toddler's street-wear, but in 2014, the Canadian government gave Prince George a leather pilot's flying jacket. It's very Top Gun - all he needs now is a pair of aviator sunglasses and a motorbike....
At last something any child would like! When Prince George was born, the former Prime Minister David Cameron and his family bought him a collection of Roald Dahl books. 'Witches' very nice of them, isn't it?
Rather than sending flowers for George's christening, one of Prince Charles' friends, Count Tibor Kalnoky, gave Prince George an entire field in Transylvania. It's unknown if there was a swing or playpark on it but given where it is, the Royals will be hoping there are no spooky castles or graveyards anywhere nearby...
They told officials that the boat capsized when many migrants moved to one side as a rescue ship approached.
Monday's sinking is among the worst migrant tragedies in the Mediterranean.
Aid agencies say not enough is being done to save the lives of the rising number of people trying to cross the sea to Europe.
Up to 20,000 people fleeing poverty and conflict have made the perilous crossing to Italy since the start of the year, similar to the same period in 2014, a year when a record 170,000 reached the country's shores.
Almost 10,000 people have been picked up in recent days, and more boats are heading for the Italian coast.
The Italian coast guard rescued about 140 people from the boat that capsized on Monday. Survivors say more than 500 people were on board when it sank.
Joel Millman, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) quoted by Reuters news agency, says that at least a third were women and children.
"When the men on the deck became restless and started moving about because a rescue boat was beginning to approach them, the boat capsized and water flooded the hull," he said. "Women and children died immediately."
More than 500 people have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean since the start of the year, 30 times more than in the same period last year.
If the toll from latest tragedy is confirmed, the number of deaths for the year would rise to 900.
The warmer weather means calmer seas off the coast of Libya - and more migrants trying to make the journey to Italy.
The coastguard here warns that with clear skies expected the next few days hundreds will attempt the crossing. Most are from sub-Saharan Africa. They pay people smugglers £500 (700 euros; $740) for a place on crowded and underpowered boats.
In Misrata the morgue is already full of corpses of drowned men and women who were washed up on nearby beaches.
Libya, with two rival governments and facing a threat from hundreds of Islamic State fighters, is in turmoil. It is unable to secure its own borders, much less stop those already there from heading to Europe.
Clear skies spell death for migrants
Meanwhile the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said unprecedented numbers of refugees were arriving in Greece's Dodecanese islands - off Turkey's south-western coast.
MSF said about 100 new migrants were landing on the islands every day. It urged Greek and EU officials to do more to receive them.
UNHCR spokesman Federico Fossi told the BBC there was no indication that the numbers risking their lives to come to Europe would drop soon.
"There are still people fleeing from wars and persecution in countries such as Syria, dictatorships in countries such as Eritrea," he said.
He called on the European Union "to step up a strong search and rescue mechanism" to save people's lives.
As many as 3,500 migrants died while trying to cross the Mediterranean last year, officials say, as record numbers tried to reach Europe.
Late last year the Italian government scaled back a maritime rescue operation launched in response to another tragedy, in which 366 migrants died off the island of Lampedusa.
There were concerns that the Mare Nostrum mission was encouraging migrant crossings, and a more limited EU border security operation took over.
Since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has been without a stable government allowing trafficking networks to thrive.
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A few weeks earlier, they had also agreed to give the government in Athens two more years to cut its overspending.
That decision came as Greece's parliament approved a budget for 2013 that involves 9.4bn euros of spending cuts, a budget that triggered mass public protests in Athens.
The delay in releasing the latest bailout money was largely due to wrangling between eurozone lenders and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over whether and by how much to cut Greece's debt, which will inevitably grow even more if Athens continues overspending for longer than previously planned.
Why is Greece in trouble?
Greece was living beyond its means even before it joined the euro. After it adopted the single currency, public spending soared.
Public sector wages, for example, rose 50% between 1999 and 2007 - far faster than in most other eurozone countries. The government also ran up big debts paying for the 2004 Athens Olympics.
And while money flowed out of the government's coffers, its income was hit by widespread tax evasion. So, after years of overspending, its budget deficit - the difference between spending and income - spiralled out of control.
Moreover, much of the borrowing was concealed, as successive Greek governments sought to meet the 3%-of-GDP cap on borrowing that is required of members of the euro.
When the global financial downturn hit - and Greece's hidden borrowings came to light - the country was ill-prepared to cope.
Debt levels reached the point where the country was no longer able to repay its loans, and was forced to ask for help from its European partners and the IMF in the form of massive loans.
In the short term, however, the conditions attached to these loans have compounded Greece's woes.
What has been done to help Greece?
In short, a lot.
In May 2010, the European Union and IMF provided 110bn euros ($140bn: £88bn) of bailout loans to Greece to help the government pay its creditors.
However, it soon became apparent that this would not be enough, so a second, 130bn-euro bailout was agreed earlier this year.
As well as these two loans, which are made in stages, the vast majority of Greece's private-sector creditors agreed to write off about three-quarters of the debts owed to them by Athens. They also agreed to replace existing loans with new loans at a lower rate of interest.
In the latest agreement, Greece's lenders have found ways to shave an extra 40bn euros off Greece's debtload.
However, in return for all this help, the EU and IMF insisted that Greece embark on a major austerity drive involving drastic spending cuts, tax rises, and labour market and pension reforms.
These have had a devastating effect on Greece's already weak economic recovery. The latest Greek budget predicts that the economy will shrink by 6.5% this year and by a further 4.5% in 2013. Greece has already been in recession for four years, and its economy is projected to have shrunk by a fifth between 2008 and the end of this year.
Without economic growth, the Greek government cannot boost its own tax revenues and so has to rely on aid to pay its loans.
Many commentators believe that even the combined 240bn euros of loans and the debt write-off will not be enough.
Why did it take so long to agree the latest tranche of aid?
Despite Greece approving its tough budget for 2013, the next tranche was not released immediately as there was no agreement among Greece's lenders on how to make the country's debt sustainable.
Eurozone finance ministers agreed earlier this month to give Greece two more years - until 2016 - to meet the deficit reduction targets that are a condition of the bailout loans.
The key to releasing the next tranche of bailout loans was to reach agreement on how to make Greek debt sustainable again. Greece's debt is currently forecast to hit almost 190% of GDP next year.
The IMF made clear that it would only consider the debts sustainable if they could be brought down to 120% of GDP by 2020. The IMF will not lend money to a country whose debts it does not deem sustainable.
Under the compromise, Greece's debts are now expected to fall to 124% of GDP by 2020.
This will be done by cutting the interest rate on existing rescue loans, returning profits earned by the European Central Bank on Greek debts it owns, and helping Greece buy back its private-sector debts at their currently depressed market prices.
It will not involve any write-off of the bailout loans owed by Greece - something that Germany and other lenders said would be unacceptable.
The money will not be released until 14 December, in order to allow national parliaments in eurozone countries time to approve the deal.
What happens next?
When Antonis Samaras's New Democracy won the general election in June, he insisted Greece did not need a further bailout but wanted a two-year "breathing space" to meet the tough budget targets attached to the bailout from the EU and IMF.
Greece has now been granted the extra time, but major problems remain and the financial markets are still nervous.
If Greece's economy continues to contract sharply, the country may not be able to cut its overspending as much as planned, and may ultimately be unable to repay its debts, meaning it will need further help. If the rest of Europe is no longer willing to provide it, then Greece may be forced to leave the euro.
There is, of course, the possibility that the Greek people, fed up with rising unemployment and falling living standards, will make it impossible for the government to continue even with the slower rate of austerity that is now planned.
Why does this matter for the rest of Europe?
If Greece does not repay its creditors, a dangerous precedent will have been set. This may make investors increasingly nervous about the likelihood of other highly-indebted nations, such as Italy, or those with weak economies, such as Spain, repaying their debts or even staying inside the euro.
If investors stop buying bonds issued by other governments, then those governments in turn will not be able to repay their creditors - a potentially disastrous vicious circle.
To combat this risk, European leaders have agreed a 700bn-euro firewall to protect the rest of the eurozone from a full-blown Greek default.
Moreover, if banks in the weaker eurozone countries that are already struggling to find enough capital are forced to write off even more loans they have made - something that becomes more likely if the eurozone economy falls deeper into recession - they will become weaker still, undermining confidence in the entire banking system.
Eurozone banks may then find it even hard to borrow, and therefore to lend, potentially sparking a second credit crunch, where bank lending effectively dries up, hurting the economy further.
This problem would be exacerbated by savers and investors taking money out of banks in vulnerable economies, such as Greece, Portugal and Spain, and moving it to banks in safer economies such as Germany or the Netherlands.
These potential scenarios would be made immeasurably worse if Greece were to leave the euro. The country would almost certainly reintroduce the drachma, which would devalue dramatically and quickly, making it even harder for Greece to repay its debts, and setting an even worse precedent.
Evans, who replaced Adam Murray as manager in November with the club in 18th, has taken the Stags to seventh and two points outside the play-offs.
The former Leeds United and Rotherham United boss said he had offers to manage at a higher level but was lured by the stability at Mansfield.
"I didn't want to go to a firefight," Evans, 54, told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"I wanted to go in somewhere that was really secure and somewhere that would back it. I am absolutely loving it."
Evans could have remained at Championship level and was also heavily linked with the then vacant managerial job at League One Charlton Athletic.
But he is convinced he made the correct decision despite dropping two divisions from his last role at Leeds.
Saturday's win over Barnet was their sixth in eight unbeaten matches since the 1-1 draw against Doncaster on New Year's Eve.
The Stags made eight signings in the January transfer window - something Evans said was vital if they wanted to challenge for promotion.
"We said we would organise the football club structurally and we needed support in the transfer window," he added.
"If we didn't change it in the transfer window we would probably be in a battle at the bottom. You are fortunate when a chairman gives you his blessing, but he also asked us to balance it.
"We have got eight out and eight out and probably levelled the money up from a business point of view. The chairman will be pleased because he has got a better product."
Jess Ryan, 25, must spend a minimum of 25 years in prison while Jack Ryan, 22, must serve at least 21 years.
The brothers, from Toronto Road, were found guilty of murdering George Dagg, 53, and sentenced on Monday.
After the sentencing at Newcastle Crown Court Mr Dagg's sons called the brothers "callous and cowardly".
The court heard Jess Ryan stabbed Mr Dagg in the back of the leg in Sunderland on 2 June with the help of his brother Jack after an argument.
Mr Dagg's sons, Marlon and Robert, said: "They have ripped our whole family apart and taken away someone we love who we can never get back and that's something we now have to live with for the rest of our lives.
"Our father had his back turned and was walking away when he was stabbed from behind - this is callous and cowardly as our father was defenceless and unarmed."
The Dagg brothers also thanked the community of Plains Farm, where Mr Dagg lived, for supporting them and giving evidence against the Ryans.
They also joined Northumbria Police in criticising the Ryan brothers for initially blaming another man, who has subsequently died, for the murder.
Det Insp Mark Ord, from Northumbria Police's major crime team, said: "Mr Dagg was walking away from Jack and Jess when he was stabbed once in the thigh which caused a catastrophic loss of blood and resulted in his death a few days later in hospital.
"This was a senseless attack by the brothers."
Mr Ord also praised the Dagg family for their "strength, courage and dignity" shown throughout the trial.
And almost half said they were embarrassed at not being able to speak the local language while away.
But 80% of more than 1,700 people questioned for the British Council felt it was important to learn some phrases.
"Trying out a few words is the perfect way to get started," said Vicky Gough, British Council schools advisor.
The Populus survey found 37% of British holidaymakers always tried to speak a few words in the local language but 29% said they were too scared to try.
It also found that 36% felt guilty at asking locals to speak English, while:
A minority (15%) admitted to being so unwilling to try pronouncing words from other languages that they would only eat in British or fast food restaurants while overseas, rather than sampling local cuisine.
A similar number said they preferred staying in self-contained resorts to avoid local culture.
"It's great that many of us are willing to have a go at speaking the local language while overseas," said Ms Gough.
"It's a meaningful gesture that will help you get the most from your holiday.
"But too many of us are still relying too heavily on English alone. And, if this means we're missing out on holiday, imagine the effect that our lack of language skills is having on the UK more widely.
"The reality is that having more of us being able to speak at least a little of a foreign language is good for the UK's long-term competitiveness, particularly as the country comes to reposition itself on the world stage.
"Speaking other languages not only gives you an understanding of other cultures but is good for business and for life too.
"Trying out a few words or phrases on holiday this summer and encouraging our young people to do the same is the perfect way to get started."
Around one in six of those polled said they could speak a foreign language to a high standard and just over a third could hold a basic conversation.
Previous research by the British Council, the UK's international culture and education organisation, has found that the UK has a shortage of people able to speak the 10 most important world languages, which is likely to hamper the country's future prosperity and global standing.
"What election madness!" tabloid Bild exclaims in a banner headline, while the a report in Sueddeutsche Zeitung predicts: "These elections will change Germany."
Several papers believe Ms Merkel and her Christian Democrats are "paying the price" for her liberal policy on immigration.
"The refugee crisis has re-shaped the party landscape," an editorial in Die Welt says, adding that not everyone in her party will forgive her for putting its interests behind those of "Europe and her country too".
A commentary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung agrees, saying Ms Merkel was "punished" for her course.
"Merkel stood in none of the federal states where people went to the polls on Sunday," it says, "but everywhere was a vote on her policy".
But - reaching for Biblical allusions - it adds that it is more likely "for a camel to go through the eye of a needle" than for Ms Merkel to change her mind.
A commentary in Bild, however, rejects the idea that the result is a rejection of Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door policy, despite her Christian Democrat party's "crushing defeat".
It points out that the pro-immigration Social Democrat and Green premiers of two states - Rhineland Palatinate and Baden Wuerttemberg - gained votes.
The Tageszeitung agrees. Under the front-page headline "85% stay cool", it points out that the "overwhelming majority" have voted for parties that support Ms Merkel's course.
"The winners of these elections are fear, exclusion and authoritarianism," a commentary in the paper concedes.
But it adds that the rise of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany is largely the result of the mainstream parties' "confusion and loss of trust" in their own programme, in their own supporters and even in Germany.
A commentary in business paper Handelsblatt says the results are a "wake-up call" for Germany's mainstream parties - the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats.
It adds that the crisis goes beyond the refugee issue, and that neither of the two seems able to provide answers to people's concerns about the impact of technology on jobs, tough global competition, security fears and low interest rates.
"It's a warning signal for a society that is deeply rattled and disappointed with politics," it says. "Business as usual is not an option."
In the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, a commentary adds that the vote is a "look into future of German democracy": The continued decay of the old party landscape, the "browning" - a reference to the Nazis' brown shirts - of the former East.
But it argues that the successes of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany are "no cause for hysteria", and that it could itself soon enough suffer from the new electoral volatility.
"Everything is in flux - the apparently safe is no longer safe," it concludes.
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The Scot, 28, came fifth in the 200m breaststroke final at the British trials in Glasgow on Friday, with only the top two considered for selection.
Jamieson has endured a difficult two years, including suffering a heart scare and losing to rival Ross Murdoch in his home Commonwealth Games.
"My body just can't take the intensity any more," Jamieson told BBC Sport.
Andrew Willis was the surprise winner of the 200m in Glasgow, with Craig Benson second and Commonwealth champion and pre-race favourite Ross Murdoch third.
Jamieson added: "Over the last couple of years there have been psychological challenges because I've been struggling for confidence, but I know my body well enough to know when it's responding and when it's not.
"I love to push myself to the limit and I'm not able to do that any more."
Jamieson was the highest-placed British swimmer at an otherwise disappointing London 2012.
He became the face of the sport and was named as an ambassador for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the city of his birth.
Jamieson admitted he became "obsessed" with the pursuit of perfection and his intense work ethic led to an irregular heartbeat which required a defibrillator to resolve.
He also suffered with a chronic back problem in the build-up to the Glasgow Games and considered quitting the sport after losing to Murdoch.
Jamieson returned to the sport in late 2014, but missed out on selection for GB's record-breaking 2015 World Championships.
"I'm absolutely gutted, but that's two full years now that I've been quite a long way off my best," he said.
Jamieson finished in two minutes 10.55 seconds on Friday, almost two seconds outside the qualifying mark of 2:08.52.
"I've achieved the qualifying time seven or eight times in my career, but perhaps being so far away from that now makes it almost easier to accept," he said.
Jamieson, who will take time to decide on his next move, added: "London was such a special event and if I could go back and do it again then I'd love to.
"I wanted it to be the catapult so I could go on and dominate that event, but if I'd chilled out a bit more and reflected on that then perhaps the last few seasons may have gone differently.
"The standard in Britain is so high right now and whoever represents us in the breaststroke events in Rio will have a fantastic chance of a medal."
World champion Adam Peaty and Commonwealth bronze medallist Willis have secured Rio breaststroke places, while Murdoch and Benson remain in contention to make the GB squad.
A fall of 0.5% in the first three months of the year takes the UK economy's ability to create wealth back below the level of 2007.
If an economy cannot create wealth efficiently, then the debates about government spending, public sector pay and austerity become all the harder.
If an economy cannot create wealth, then tax receipts - the mainstay of government income - weaken.
There is plenty of data which suggest that the government's inability to "balance the books" is not because targets to reduce spending have been missed.
Rather, it is down to disappointing tax income because economic growth is weak.
Poor business performance and falling real incomes appear to be leading to a stagnating economy.
How motivating is work when at the end of the year you are earning, given the impact of higher inflation, less than you were at the beginning of the year?
Demotivated workforces tend not to work more efficiently.
And if productivity is falling and labour costs are rising, as they are, then that leads to a profits squeeze.
And means that the prospect of pay rises recedes - creating something of a vicious circle and going someway to explaining why wage growth is falling.
This is Philip Hammond's headache.
I interviewed Lord Adair Turner, the former head of the Low Pay Commission, yesterday and he made a rather startling - but correct - admission.
"The UK over the last 10 years has created a lot of jobs, but today real wages are below where they were in 2007," he said.
"That is not the capitalist system delivering its promise that over a decade or so it will raise all boats, and it is a very fundamental issue.
"There is something about the economy which - left to itself - will proliferate very, very low paid jobs."
Until that is solved, our productivity problem, our wealth problem, will continue.
Ananya Vinay from Fresno correctly spelled the word marocain - a type of dress fabric - to defeat Rohan Rajeev, 14, from Oklahoma.
The rivals had correctly spelled words including cheiropompholyx, durchkomponiert and tchefuncte as each waited for the other to slip up.
But Rohan misspelled the word marram and Ananya got two words right to win.
She said she felt "amazing" after her victory, adding: "It was just fun to see how far it would go."
Here are some of the words Ananya and Rohan grappled with during their 45-minute spell-off.
Marocain - a heavy crepe fabric whose name is derived from the French word for Moroccan
Marram - a Scandinavian-derived word for a type of beach grass
Cheiropompholyx - a type of eczema affecting the skin of the hands and feet
Durchkomponiert - a German-origin word used to describe a song that is not based on repeated sections
Tchefuncte - relating to a Native American tribe that lived in Louisiana from 600 BC to 200 AD
Her father Vinay Sreekumar said she had a "deep passion for reading".
Ananya - the thirteenth Indian-American in a row to win the spelling bee - said she planned to split the $40,000 prize money with her seven-year-old brother and put her share in an account for her college education.
More than 11 million youngsters aged between six and 15 from all 50 US states, US territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam and countries such as Japan and Jamaica had entered the competition.
The youngest-ever competitor, Edith Fuller of Tulsa, Oklahoma, who turned 6 in April, was eliminated from the competition last week.
As you enter the small town near Croydon in south London, it is hard to avoid the missing person leaflets plastered on shop windows, lampposts and trees.
The leaflets also stare out from the front windows of local estates.
Just outside the tram station stop - where Tia is believed to have been heading when she went missing last Friday - volunteers are stopping every car, bus and lorry to thrust leaflets into people's hands.
Jo Brown, a family support worker at the local Baptist church, said: "I've never known a community like it, everyone is pulling together.
"Even children with Asbos (anti-social behaviour orders) are helping out."
Tia was last seen at her grandmother's home in the Lindens. Police officers are busy at work there searching for clues.
However, the main hub of activity is about two miles away at The Octogen Centre, near the tram stop.
Paul Wellecombe, a volunteer who runs the Pathfinders centre, said within 15 minutes of them posting a message on their Facebook page asking for help on Saturday, some 20 people were knocking on the centre's doors offering help.
"We've had a brilliant response although I'm not surprised," he said.
"New Addington has had a bad reputation but this shows how close the community is - everyone pulls together when needed."
He said about 500 people - both local and from the wider community - have helped out.
Gemma Notridge, a local 31-year-old mother of two children aged five and eight, said: "It is sad that something like this happens for people to get together.
"I helped out on Sunday by handing out leaflets but I thought it was unfair to drag my two children around so I've done what I do best and that's bake."
She said the volunteers were "working flat out" and not eating because of it.
"I've baked some shortbread for them to snack on," she said.
"It sounds silly, but I don't know what else to do."
People stream in and out of the small building to pick up bundles of leaflets.
According to Mr Wellecombe, more than 75,000 have been handed out. They have printed so many that their photocopier has broken. People have also donated printers to them.
Karon March, who lives locally, was handing the leaflets out on her day off as a duty manager at Iceland.
She said: "I'm expecting my first grandchild. I hope that if something like this happened to one of mine, then the community would come together to search for them.
"I'm so proud to know this area comes together in crisis and in the good and bad."
In Central Parade, posters have been stuck prominently on the shop windows.
The Co-op store, where Tia was seen the day before she went missing, has helped with the search by photocopying thousands of leaflets. The photocopier there has also broken.
Ian Lorimer, a local self employed chauffeur, said: "I'd say 99.9% of the volunteers don't know the family at all and that's the magic of it."
The chief executive of one of the world's biggest carmakers said the two US companies were "incredibly serious" about their automotive ambitions.
He said their move into driverless technology and electric vehicles could be "disruptive" for manufacturers.
Mr Marchionne commented on the tech giants' plans at the Geneva Motor Show.
He said it is always a good thing when someone new wants to shake up the industry, "but when you're the guy whose life is being disrupted, it's not necessarily a good feeling," he added.
Apple has several hundred people working on a car project, called Titan. The company's vast resources made it a potential tough competitor, although Mr Marchionne said he'd like to talk Apple about working on potential projects.
However, he said that neither Google nor Apple should "underestimate carmakers' ability to respond and adapt" to new competitive challenges.
Among Fiat-Chrysler's brands are Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Maserati, and Mr Marchionne says these companies are key to driving future profits.
Those brands arguably have greater immunity to what he calls the "disruptive interlopers" from Apple and Google, he said. "Why would you buy a Ferrari and not want to drive it?"
Meanwhile, the Fiat chief said the European car industry recovery continues to gain hold. He had been among the most pessimistic of motor industry chiefs about European sales, speaking of a "bloodbath" and "hell".
But he said: "The market is not as tough as it used to be. We're not fighting tooth and nail for the last dollar." The fall in the value of the euro was helping exports, and stimulus action by the European Central Bank was working, he said.
But he warned that conflict over the Russian-Ukraine situation risked setting back recovery. The economic consequences may yet "spill over into western Europe", he warned.
Passengers on a British Airways flight from Prague and an Icelandair plane told of their relief after landing safely at Heathrow following the strikes on Wednesday.
One described "a white flash" while others said they felt a "crack" and "bang" as bolts hit the aircraft.
BA said planes were built to cope with lightning strikes and their jet would be inspected before resuming service.
Liz Dobson, a charity worker, told the Evening Standard: "It came out of the blue. There was a really loud bang and a white flash. Not really what you want on a plane.
"The lightning hit the wing."
Catherine Mayer, who is co-founder of the Women's Equality Party, was returning from Iceland.
She tweeted: "The plane got hit by lightning. Big flash and bang. #blimey."
She told the BBC how passengers sitting next to her looked distressed and frightened.
Icelandair confirmed that flight FI454 had been struck.
"The aircraft was of course inspected after landing for safety reasons, and as the lightning did not cause damage, the aircraft was returned to service later last night," said a spokesperson for the airline.
A spokesman for BA said: "Lightning strikes are fairly common and aircraft are designed to cope with them."
On average, commercial planes are struck by lightning about once a year according to Cardiff University's "lightning lab" in the UK, a recently established laboratory where Airbus conducts lightning tests.
The Cumbria 2015 Flood Appeal, which was launched on 5 December, has now doubled its target to £2m.
The fund is being run by the Cumbria Community Foundation which has pledged £50,000.
The foundation said grants would help flood victims with cleaning, emergency repairs, clothing, food and basic furniture.
Stephen Carruthers, from Bury, is accused of 18 offences of making indecent photographs of a child and one of failing to surrender to custody.
He was arrested earlier this month after being admitted to a French hospital.
The 43-year-old is due before South Lakeland magistrates in Kendal, Cumbria, later.
Mr Carruthers was originally arrested in March 2014 at an address in Ambleside.
Police said a computer recovered at the scene allegedly contained 5,332 indecent images of children.
After being interviewed he was given bail to re-attend the police station but failed to return.
An investigation by US regulators found that the Japanese company charged African American and Hispanic owners higher interest rates on car loans.
Regulators found that they paid on average $250 more than white customers regardless of their creditworthiness.
Honda said in a statement that it "strongly opposes any form of discrimination".
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Department of Justice said that American Honda Finance Corp, the company's loans arm, would change its pricing and compensation system to reduce the potential for discrimination.
Despite the settlement, Honda said that it disagreed with how the two regulators determined discrimination, but "we nonetheless share a fundamental agreement in the importance of fair lending".
American Honda Finance Corporation (AHFC) does not make loans directly to consumers, but receives loan applications through car dealers. Those dealers have the discretion to vary a loan's interest rate after an initial price Honda sets based on creditworthiness.
The $24m that Honda will pay will go in to a fund to compensate affected borrowers.
Car loans are the third-largest source of household debt in the US, after mortgages and student loans.
AHFC will also pay $1m into a car finance education program for minority borrowers, the regulators said.
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Gaelic football is one of the most popular sports in Ireland - a fast-paced game played between 30 players on a field larger than a football pitch.
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Bolton Wanderers have been issued a winding-up petition over an unpaid £5m loan, BBC Radio Manchester reports.
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It introduced a Browser Choice Screen pop-up in March 2010 as part of a settlement following an earlier EU competition investigation.
But the US company dropped the feature in a Windows 7 update in February 2011.
Microsoft said the omission had been the result of a "technical error".
But competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said the action was unprecedented, adding he wanted to deter any company from the "temptation" of reneging on such a promise.
In theory the watchdog could have fined the firm 10% of its global annual revenue, which would have totalled $7.4bn based on its 2012 report.
"We take full responsibility for the technical error that caused this problem and have apologised for it," a spokesman for Microsoft said following the announcement.
"We provided the Commission with a complete and candid assessment of the situation, and we have taken steps to strengthen our software development and other processes to help avoid this mistake - or anything similar - in the future."
One lawyer said the ruling was also intended to send out a message to others.
"The European Commission is sending a firm signal in this first case of its type that it will not tolerate failure by a company to comply with the commitments it gave to settle an antitrust infringement procedure," said Tony Woodgate from Simmons & Simmons.
"These 'commitments decisions' are currently the European Commission's favoured mechanism to close abuse of dominance proceedings, saving enforcement resource and allowing for a speedy resolution."
The case dates back to 2007 when Opera - a Norwegian web-browser maker - complained Microsoft was stifling competition on PCs by bundling Internet Explorer with its operating system.
Microsoft initially argued that the move benefited users, but after the European Commission issued a preliminary report suggesting the firm had abused its position, the company agreed to offer a choice of browser until at least 2014 to avoid risking a fine.
However, this option was missing from its Windows 7 Service Pack 1 released in 2011 and it continued to be absent for 14 months.
During that time, Microsoft reported it was still complying with the agreement.
After the EU was alerted to the problem, it contacted Microsoft, which subsequently issued an apology suggesting its engineers had accidentally missed the issue.
It also acted to restore the facility. But the move was not enough to prevent an eight-month follow-up investigation by the commission into what punishment was needed.
At a press conference in Brussels, Mr Almunia said Microsoft's lack of compliance represented a "serious breach" and was the first time a firm had failed to meet such a commitment.
He explained that he preferred negotiated settlements, rather than extended legal battles, when tackling competition complaints in the fast moving IT sector.
But he added that Microsoft's willingness to co-operate with the EU's subsequent investigation had acted as a mitigating factor when determining the level of the fine.
"I hope this will make companies think twice before they ever thinking of breaching their international obligations," said the commissioner.
Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer and the former head of its Windows division Steven Sinofsky have already had their most recent bonuses docked, in part because of the browser affair.
Opera told the BBC it was "happy to see that the Commission is enforcing compliance with the commitment, which is critical to ensuring a genuine choice among web browsers for consumers".
However, one industry watcher suggested there were still unresolved issues,
"While it's highly likely that it was a technical mistake that broke the browser choice facility the fact that it remained broken for 14 months raises significant questions about Microsoft's ability and willingness to comply with the voluntary agreement with the EU," said Chris Green, principal analyst at the consultants Davies Murphy Group Europe.
"At the same time the situation also raises concerns over the EU's ability to actually monitor the outcomes of antitrust agreements."
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Alonso will miss the race on 28 May to compete in the Indianapolis 500, with the full support of both McLaren and the team's engine partner Honda.
"I'm thrilled to be making a one-off return," said Button, 37, who retired from F1 at the end of last season.
"I couldn't think of a better place to make that return than my adopted home grand prix - Monaco."
The 2009 world champion has spent the winter in California training for Ironman triathlons, his long-time passion.
He will learn a lot very quickly but with the amount of talent he has I wouldn't be surprised if he pulls it off
He signed a contract with McLaren last autumn that committed him to replacing any race driver not able to take part in a grand prix this year.
As part of that contract, the team also has an option to sign him to race in 2018.
Button described Monaco as a "tricky street circuit" but said the McLaren may be "more suited" to the venue than the "faster circuits" Alonso and team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne have driven on so far this season.
"I've won the race before, in 2009, and it's one of my all-time favourite racetracks," he added.
McLaren will be credited with any points won by Button. Both the team and Alonso have yet to win a point this season and are unlikely to be in the shake-up for either title.
Alonso said: "To be honest, if we were fighting for a world championship, we cannot afford to lose a 25-points possibility. Yet we are not in that position, unfortunately."
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier believes Button is fit enough to cope with rigours of racing in Monaco.
"Jenson spent 17 years in F1. He drove these levels of downforce before and, having gone through the differences in technicalities of driving this year's car and last year's car, we agreed that it would be better to spend a couple of days in the simulator than to test in Bahrain on a different circuit in completely different conditions from Monaco.
"He is fit and ready."
Nigel Mansell, another British former world champion, believes Button will do well at Monaco.
Mansell, 63, was the F1 champion when he won the IndyCar series in 1994.
"Jenson is a great world champion and a class act," he told BBC Radio 5 live. "He's probably fitter and more hungry now than he has been for many years.
"He loves Monaco, he's a tremendous driver, and he'll do exceedingly well."
Mansell said the key to succeeding at Monaco was being "incredibly fit and patient", and that Button might "surprise McLaren and himself".
He added: "They are in safe hands with Jenson. He knows the team and they know him very well. The last thing they need is a rookie doing one race, causing problems and crashing the car."
Mansell has no doubt Alonso has the talent to succeed in IndyCars and says he is joining "a great team".
The Spaniard, 35, will race for the Honda-powered Andretti team on 28 May, and the car will be branded a McLaren.
He said he had long held an ambition to win the so-called 'triple crown' of Monaco, the Indy 500 and Le Mans.
"The switch for Alonso will be learning the Indy circuit," said Mansell.
"You have to have the car carefully balanced because if it has any oversteer then it's an accident waiting to happen.
"He will find racing over Indianapolis over 500 miles is fascinating. He will learn a lot very quickly but with the amount of talent he has I wouldn't be surprised if he pulls it off."
Mansell described his time in the United States as a "wild-west experience".
"It's incredible to go across to America and experience that," he said. "It will be fascinating as a racing fan to watch everything unfold next month.
"It's so exciting for racing fans. I think the crossover is wonderful."
Mr Pickles has issued new guidelines reminding local authorities in England of their legal powers to deal promptly with illegal traveller sites.
The Local Government Association said councils were prepared to take "swift and robust action" in such situations.
The Gypsy Council said more legal sites need to be created for travellers.
Mr Pickles said his move would give a stronger voice to local residents and councillors to challenge council officials.
But Joseph Jones, chairman of the Gypsy Council, accused the government of "reinforcing negative stereotypes" about travellers.
"It's creating tension, it's a negative thing to do," he told Sky News.
"Local authorities already know how to manage unauthorised encampments, they don't need the government to tell them how to do it.
"This latest statement Mr Pickles has put out doesn't have anything new in it. It doesn't have any new powers or anything like that.
"It just seems to me like a bit of grandstanding."
The chief executive of the Irish Travellers Movement, Yvonne MacNamara, told Radio 5Live the focus on enforcement "will not solve the problem" of illegal sites.
Mr Pickles said the recently scrapped Equality and Diversity in Planning guidance discouraged councils from taking enforcement action.
The guidance for local councils and landowners covers unauthorised traveller sites, protest camps and squatters on both public and private land.
It also deals with the problem of the clear-up operation on such sites.
Mr Pickles said: "I want all councils to be ready to take action straightaway to stop illegal camps and unauthorised sites starting in the first place. Decisive action early on saves money and unnecessary upset for local residents.
"We've strengthened councils' powers so they have the confidence to take decisive action. Too often council officers wash their hands and say nothing can be done. This is not the case.
"The public want to see fair play with planning rules enforced consistently rather than special treatment being given to certain groups."
Councils needed the political will to uphold the law, Mr Pickles added.
Speaking ahead of the announcement, Prime Minister David Cameron said: "The same law should apply to everybody and just as you can't suddenly change your house without permission, you can't suddenly set up an encampment without permission."
Powers available to local authorities include temporary notices to remove unauthorised caravans, pre-emptive injunctions that protect vulnerable land in advance, and possession orders to remove trespassers from land.
A Local Government Association spokesman said: "Councils across the country are providing authorised, legitimate sites and services for travelling communities.
"People who live nearby need to be given a say on whether land is appropriate for travellers and that is precisely what the planning process is there to do.
"Local authorities take swift and robust action against anyone who breaks the rules by setting up camp on land without permission."
One of the biggest evictions in recent years was in 2011 at Dale Farm in Essex after a hard-fought battle through the courts.
Police and bailiffs moved in following a 10-year dispute between travellers and Basildon Council in green belt land.
About 85 families lived on 51 illegal plots which did not have planning permission, covering half of the traveller site.
It's been painted on the banners and faces of thousands of protesters who are angry at the way the government's dealt with the disappearance of 43 students.
The group were on their way to a political rally in the city of Iguala seven weeks ago, when police attacked them.
Campaigners claim the government has done nothing to help find them.
The 43 were reportedly handed over to a drugs gang.
Thirty-eight burnt corpses have been dug up near to the place they vanished. However, forensic tests have so far been inconclusive and have given the families no answers.
Even though more than 100,000 have been killed or "disappeared" in Mexico over the last decade, it's this case which is causing international outcry.
Newsbeat has spoken to a Mexican student living in London about life back home and how she feels about the missing 43.
"Hi, I'm Pau and I'm 26. I've lived in Mexico City all my life.
"We don't feel safe. There is the risk of kidnap every day, you can't take public transport because someone might attack you with a gun.
"The police, the government and the drugs gangs are all together like one team and we feel that nobody is protecting us," she says.
Pau was shocked when she heard about the missing students and hopes their deaths will start a revolution.
"It means that if you want to protest to ask for your rights, for freedom, you are going to be disappeared or kidnapped.
"It's too much. We are tired of living in fear. The government tries to pretend that everything is ok, but no, not really. Everybody's tired."
Pau's student visa will run out soon and she will have to go back to Mexico.
She is worried about what happens when she does.
"When I go back I will live in a much more closed way. I will be on the side of the protestors but I will be frightened," she explained.
Demonstrators have also called for a nationwide strike. Protests have also taken place in other parts of Mexico and abroad.
"We have one way to claim our rights. If we are afraid and don't say anything this will continue," says Pau.
"We have the courage to do it no matter what," she added.
The Mexican government has accused some of the protesters of trying to "destabilise" the state and says they will do all they can to find the students and bring justice for their families.
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Andrew Soar, 32, of Loughborough, Leicestershire, was killed during the six-lap senior TT race on 10 June.
Coroner John Needham said Mr Soar, who won the Manx Grand Prix in 2014, lost control of his bike at an area of the course known as Keppel Gate.
Mr Soar suffered severe brain injuries and died at the scene.
Race records show the IT technician averaged a speed of about 120mph during the race.
A witness said that his bike, number 53 in the race, hit the embankment before "kart wheeling down the road".
Mr Needham said: "Andrew was an experienced rider who knew the course well, this sad racing incident was entirely unforeseen.
"He was in the prime of his life and died following his passion".
Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected with water levels reaching "roof-high" in some areas, Thailand's interior ministry said.
Transport services, including flights, have been disrupted and rescue efforts are under way to reach those stranded.
The unseasonal downpour is expected to continue for at least two more days.
The flash floods have also damaged hundreds of schools and toppled power cables across southern Thailand.
Residents in villages across the region are using inflatables, such as rubber rings, to cross submerged roads.
Meanwhile, the airport in Nakhon Si Thammarat province has been forced to close after the area received a record 162mm (6.4 in) of rain on Friday, officials said.
An official for Thailand's Meteorological Department told AFP news agency that the situation was "very bad", adding that it was still "raining heavily" in the south.
In response to the crisis, the Thai navy has stationed its largest ship in the South to act as a floating command centre, dispatching aid using helicopters and small boats.
Last month, aerial footage showed flood damage to parts of southern Thailand with only rooftops visible above the flood waters. Supplies were being delivered to residents by boat.
The downpour in Thailand is unseasonably heavy for this time of year, with the country usually dry between November and January.
It comes at an unfortunate time for the Thai economy, which relies heavily on tourism, with this being peak holiday season.
In 2011, devastating floods in southern Thailand displaced thousands of people in more than a third of the country's provinces, resulting in more than 600 deaths.
The population of Dingwall is little more than 5,000 but Staggies chairman Roy MacGregor recalls the backing they had at the 2010 Scottish Cup final.
"It was a Highland gathering," he told BBC Scotland. "There was an exodus to Glasgow that day.
"It felt like a family wedding. We're hoping for something the same this time."
County, who lost to Dundee United at Hampden in that 2010 final, have been given 7,000 tickets to sell, while Hibs have around 25,000.
"We'd like to get more tickets and, provided we sell our allocation, we can," explained 62-year-old MacGregor.
"We're encouraging people to buy them early, to make sure you are there."
The Staggies sit fifth in the top flight and are also in the last eight of the Scottish Cup, where they host Dundee United next weekend.
Manager Jim McIntyre delivered the club's second major final by beating Ayr United, Falkirk, local rivals Inverness CT and Celtic.
"We set ourselves the goal of finishing in the top six and to get to, certainly, a cup semi-final," said MacGregor.
"We've surpassed that and now it's about keeping focused. On three fronts, it's a job-and-a-half for Jim.
"If we are lucky enough to pick up silverware that would be a bonus. It would be part of the history of the club, part of the progression.
"Winning silverware means you are taken more seriously.
"The rest of Scotland has sat up and taken notice, particularly over the last couple of years, with probably more than half of the clubs in the Premiership from north and east of Perth. I think that's a statement in itself.
"We're proud to be there but we don't take anything for granted."
Prior to Saturday's 3-0 home defeat by Dundee United in the league, the Dingwall club paid tribute to the team of 1966-67, who won the Highland League for first time and met Rangers in the Scottish Cup.
"As a 12-year-old boy on the terrace at Victoria Park, that's what gave me the bug," remembers MacGregor.
"It's quite difficult to take in how far we have come in those 50 years.
"For people my age they have seen progression from the Highland League to the Premiership and now two cup finals.
"For a young fan, it's the beginning of a journey. Where will the next 25 years leave Ross County? Can we get into Europe? Can we win something regularly?
"I'm not sure where the journey is going to end but it's great to be part of it."
Georgina Callander was among 22 people killed when Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb following an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.
Her mum Lesley said the 18-year-old had been awarded an unconditional place at Edge Hill University in Lancashire.
Georgina was interested in paediatrics from the age of 11, she said.
The student, from Chorley, was in her second year of studying health and social care at Runshaw College in Leyland and had recently passed her driving test when she was killed.
Speaking as students across the country received their exam results, her mother Lesley said: "It made her very happy - the thought that she was off to uni to do what she loved.
"She was so excited about it because she'd wanted to do that since she was about 11.
"It is obviously sad for us because we were so excited for her when she got the news that she was off to uni, but we are just so proud of what she achieved."
The album, released in January 2011, sold 8.3 million copies last year, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said.
Overall music revenues were up 0.3% to $16.5bn (£10.9bn) - the first year of industry growth since 1999.
Paul Williams, the head of business analysis at Music Week, said the rise was "very significant".
"After many, many years of decline the graph is finally heading northwards again," he said.
"It underlines the efforts the music industry has been putting in and the results it's now getting in reinventing itself in the digital era."
The IFPI's annual Digital Music Report also showed that digital revenues grew by 9% last year and now account for 34% of total revenue.
Carly Rae Jepsen's hit Call Me Maybe was the best-selling single of 2012, with 12.5 million units sold globally.
1. Adele - 21 (8.3m units sold)
2. Taylor Swift - Red (5.2m)
3. One Direction - Up All Night (4.5m)
4. One Direction - Take Me Home (4.4m)
5. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (4.4m)
Source: IFPI
Adele outsold her nearest rival, Taylor Swift's Red, by some three million copies.
Former X Factor contestants One Direction had the third and fourth best-selling albums around the world with their first two records Up All Night and Take Me Home, with 4.5 million and 4.4 million copies sold respectively.
There were two other British acts in the top 10 - Rod Stewart's Merry Christmas, Baby was at number seven and Grammy winners Mumford and Sons' Babel was at nine.
Gotye's mega-hit Somebody That I Used To Know was the second biggest-selling single globally, with 11.8 million purchases.
Psy's YouTube smash Gangnam Style sold 9.7 million units, with Fun's We Are Young just behind on 9.6 million.
The IFPI's report also showed that download sales represented around 70% of overall digital music revenue.
Paul Williams, head of business analysis, Music Week magazine
"I think it's more than a blip. What you've got is an entirely different recorded music industry, compared to the last time the figures went up annually, because we now have a market which is very heavily digital.
"In some markets, including the US, more than half of recorded music sales occur digitally, whether it's downloads or streaming.
"In big parts of the world, there were no revenues coming in at all really. Now those very important emerging markets like Russia, Brazil, India and China show the industry is at least starting to see some revenues there."
Subscription streaming accounts for 10%, while mobile ringtones and ad-funded services like YouTube and Vevo made up the difference.
Although the music industry was showing signs of recovery, the IFPI said there were still "major hurdles that need to be addressed to unlock the huge potential for further growth".
It said internet piracy still had a seriously impact on the industry, estimating that nearly a third of all internet users regularly access unlicensed sites to download music.
The organisation recommended that companies stop advertising on illegal music sites and urged search engine providers to prioritise search results relating to legal services.
"Our markets remain rigged by illegal free music," said IFPI chief executive Frances Moore.
"This is a problem where governments have a critical role to play, in particular by requiring more co-operation from advertisers, search engines, ISPs and other intermediaries.
"These companies' activities have a decisive influence in shaping a legitimate digital music business."
Now, we have our answer: we're going.
Not geographically, for the UK won't float off into the Atlantic; and not any time soon, for unpicking four decades of knotty agreement can't be done instantly.
But for those of us in the business of reporting politics, particularly the relatively uneventful, peaceful, democratic breed of the beast, we're inured to the inevitable consequence of that predictability: most of the people, most of the time are barely paying the blindest bit of notice.
And that is rational. The stable transfer of power from one relatively centrist, relatively benign government to another doesn't rivet many, and the soap opera of its leading characters has its rivals on Manchester's cobbles and in London's East End.
Every five years or so, this "normal" is briefly shaken. A big political decision comes along, and a window opens; the conversations I spend my life having at Westminster become mainstream, as a decision is taken - and then the window slams shut again.
But this is a moment far bigger than even that; today really is different; the sort the next generation will be taught about after that module on the Tudors and Stuarts.
Make no mistake - a giant brick has been lobbed into the political pond. The ripples, nay waves, of the thunderous splash it is causing are washing away a generation's worth of assumptions.
By definition referenda divide; they force a binary choice. They extinguish compromise.
But the absence of a referendum on a topic that divides does little to hide that division either.
In its aftermath, a people cheer; a people mourn.
And so they would, in reverse, if the decision had been the equal, but opposite of what happened.
But those waves in that pond have drenched a particular, but amorphous and ill-defined blob - the so-called establishment; in politics, in business, in the arts and in sport.
It is they who look soaked with grief, despite the 17.5 million smiles on the faces of their fellow countrymen.
As a correspondent in Brussels some years ago, the UK always felt like the embarrassing uncle at the Christmas party; the invite obligatory, the jokes crude, the patience of others tested.
Crotchety, crabby and cantankerous was the default position; ebbing and flowing only marginally as governments at Westminster changed.
In that context, this result shouldn't seem that surprising.
The awesome astronaut safely touched back down to Earth yesterday with two Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, after living on board the International Space Station.
Jeff has spent a total of 534 days in space, meaning he now holds the record, for the most time living in space of all American astronauts.
This latest mission to the ISS is Jeff's fourth time in space, and his third long-duration stay on the space station.
He is a flight engineer and has been on four spacewalks since his first mission into space in 2000.
However, Jeff still has a long way to go to beat the world record holder Gennady Padalka.
The Russian cosmonaut has spent a whopping 879 days in space, that's nearly two and a half years!
Firefighters were called to the West Raynham site at about 17:00 BST on Tuesday.
Crews fought the blaze with compressed air foam as gas cylinders were present at the site.
The East of England Ambulance Service treated the man, aged in his 40s, who suffered minor burns to his hand and face.
He was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, for further care.
Prime Minister David Cameron made the former Saga director a Tory peer so she could become a pensions minister.
But The Huffington Post website revealed Baroness Altmann had been a Labour member for the first four months in her new role and had been offered a vote in the party's leadership contest.
The peer was not available for comment.
She is understood to have renewed her Labour membership in March, weeks before the general election, despite working as a "business champion" for older people for the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition.
A spokeswoman for the minister said she "has taken an interest in all three parties" because of her previous role as director of over-50s group Saga and had previously acted as an adviser to former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair.
"She is now only a member of the Conservatives," added the spokeswoman.
The Labour Party, which has been under fire recently over the verification process for people wanting to take part in its leadership election, expelled the Tory minister as soon as the anomaly was discovered.
A Labour source claimed the Conservatives did not carry out "even basic checks" on their ministerial appointments.
But a Conservative representative suggested it was Labour that should be embarrassed for offering a well-known Tory minister a vote in its leadership election.
Malahide will host Sri Lanka on 16 and 18 June, and Pakistan on 18 and 20 August.
Ireland have lost both their completed ODIs against Sri Lanka, while their only win in six attempts against Pakistan came in the 2007 World Cup.
Ireland also face South Africa on 25 September and Australia on 27 September, with both games in Benoni.
The following year at the party's conference, he said: "The quiet man is here to stay and he's turning up the volume."
As it turned out, he didn't last that much longer as leader, but in the years that followed he bounced back to become a respected and influential figure in the party and the government.
Whatever you think of his welfare reforms, there is no arguing with their ambition, or with his passion and dedication to the brief as seen from his resignation letter to the prime minister.
Yes, there must already have been tensions, given that he was one of the handful of cabinet ministers to declare they were campaigning for the UK to leave the EU in the forthcoming referendum, against the side favoured by David Cameron.
But his resignation, at the culmination of a 48-hour post-Budget row about plans to cut back the amount being planned to be spent on a disability benefit, still came as a bolt from the blue at Westminster.
But who is Iain Duncan Smith? Here is a look at his background, written by Mary Ann Sieghart for BBC Radio 4's Profile programme in 2010:
At the 2010 Conservative Party conference, Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, was introduced as a round peg in a round hole. The man who was a failure as party leader had at last found his niche.
His department accounted for about a third of public spending, and welfare reform was at the heart of the government's plans to tackle the deficit and balance the books.
He had not only reinvented himself, but had won the admiration of his party.
It was Iain Duncan Smith, or IDS as he is widely called, who was credited with moving the Conservative Party back to the centre ground on poverty and public services.
This was not what you might have expected from a pin-striped former Guards officer on the right of his party.
So what sort of man is he?
The Tory MP Bernard Jenkin, who was his campaign manager when he became leader in 2001, points out that IDS is "not emotionally available. For someone who is so closely associated with compassion he is personally very old-fashioned you might say".
But IDS can be funny. He is a talented mimic and - as befits the youngest of five children - is happy to be teased.
But he does sometimes rub people up the wrong way.
Mr Duncan Smith, now 61, had a very stable childhood with an old-fashioned and Christian upbringing.
His father was a highly-decorated fighter pilot who downed 19 enemy planes during World War Two. His mother was a ballerina and his great-grandmother was Japanese, from Samurai stock.
His most formative memory is of watching his much-admired father with tears streaming down his face at Winston Churchill's funeral. He had never seen his father cry before.
At 14, Mr Duncan Smith was sent to HMS Conway, a boarding school on Anglesey for boys aiming to join the Navy.
Clive Plummer was a schoolmate and remembers that: "We didn't have any cleaners, so brushing parade decks, cleaning classrooms and dorms were all managed by the cadets. So in managing teams, you would make sure that not only were the most able utilised but also the less gifted.
The young Iain was not particularly academic, but he was very sporty. He won the national schools' triple jump and came second in javelin.
He later joined the Army and went to Sandhurst, but not university. Michael Mitchell met him while he was serving in Germany and says that he was not like your average Guards officer. He read widely, wrote poetry and painted.
He was also mischievous.
"He was best man at my wedding in Belgium," Mr Mitchell said.
"At Belgian weddings the bride, groom and parents have to stand in a line and receive guests for two, three hours, and I had a call of nature and asked Iain to stand in my place. And when people asked: where's Michael? He'd say - 'ooh, the last time I saw him he was walking down the road with his suitcase', or he'd say: 'Madam, are you sure you're at the right wedding?' Typical Iain - wanting to inject fun into something."
But no-one then thought he had political ambitions.
IDS left the Army against his father's wishes after just six years, and joined the defence company GEC-Marconi. His Conservative Party biography claimed he was a director, which was not correct. And his own biographical notes said he studied for a degree at Perugia University, when he only did a language course in that city.
In 1982, he married Betsy, daughter of Lord Cottesloe. They have four children.
IDS entered the Commons in 1992, in Norman Tebbit's old seat of Chingford and Woodford Green.
As a Eurosceptic, he rebelled over the infamous Maastricht treaty, knowingly risking his chance to get a promotion to government. He told his former press secretary Nick Wood: "I'll fight for what I believe and if I don't get a job - so be it."
The then Prime Minister John Major never did give IDS a job, but when William Hague became party leader he appointed the Maastricht rebel to shadow defence and then social security.
It was a surprise to everyone when he ran for the Tory leadership in 2001. It was perhaps even more of a surprise that he won, having reached the run-off by only one vote.
He defeated the runner-up, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kenneth Clarke, only because he was more sceptical on Europe.
He really was the accidental leader. Tim Montgomerie, who went on to run the Tory activist website, ConservativeHome.com, wrote speeches for him and eventually became his chief of staff. He says that, as leader, IDS was "completely unprepared. He had no staff, no infrastructure, no worked-out agenda".
Mr Duncan Smith knew that the Tories had to shake off the image of being the so-called "nasty" party. His response was to shift the focus towards public services - like health and education - and tackling poverty.
A formative experience was a trip to the sink estate of Easterhouse in Glasgow.
Mr Montgomerie remembers that "on that cold grey day when he visited Easterhouse and was taken round by a Baptist minister, and stopped in a stairwell where he saw paraphernalia of drug abuse next to a child's teddy - something came together.
"Something suddenly clicked," Mr Montgomerie adds. "He realised here was his personal mission and a mission for the Tory party."
His problem though, was that he was struggling to connect with the political establishment.
He did try, such as when he told the Tory conference in 2002: "There are those who do not know me yet, who will come to understand this. When I say a thing I mean it. When I set myself a task I do it. When I settle on a course I stick with it. Do not underestimate the determination of the quiet man."
Labelling himself "quiet" was not considered a masterstroke in political rhetoric.
Stuart Wheeler, then one of the Tory party's biggest donors, threatened publicly to withdraw his funding unless IDS went.
"As leader I think he was a disaster," he said.
"He lacked gravitas and came over as weak. He was a bad communicator. One read that he was high-handed with his staff and that his office was shambolic. He'd lose important papers down the back of sofas."
In the end, Mr Duncan Smith's own MPs forced him out through a vote of no confidence.
Enoch Powell once said that all political careers end in failure, but for Duncan Smith, failure came in the middle of his career instead.
For after losing the leadership, he decided to devote himself to improving the lot of the poor.
He set up the Centre for Social Justice, whose work became the cornerstone of Conservative policy on welfare reform, and which he himself is now putting into practice in government. It has already caused controversy, with opponents claiming the poor will be hardest hit by the government's spending cuts.
But it remains his belief that the best way to alleviate poverty is to get people off benefits and into work. By all accounts it was a huge surprise to him to get the call offering him the Work and Pensions Secretary job after the 2010 election.
There has always been a sense of tension between his department and the Treasury - he had to win a bruising battle with the Treasury right at the start to get the go ahead for universal credit.
The on-going effort to introduce Universal Credit has been a constant while he's been in his job. His resignation cites the "enormous strides" made but suggests that those tensions with the Treasury have been more heated than thought.
A BBC correspondent in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, says members of Myanmar's minority Rohingya Muslim community are streaming through crossings, without being stopped.
The UN now estimates that 58,000 refugees have made it across.
Violence erupted in Myanmar's Rakhine state just over a week ago.
Refugees accuse the Myanmar security forces and Buddhist mobs of burning their villages.
The Myanmar government says their security forces are responding to an attack last month on more than 20 police posts by Rohingya militants.
Subsequent clashes have sent civilians from all communities fleeing.
Another 20,000 Rohingya are thought to be stuck along the Naf river, which forms the border.
Aid agencies say they are at risk from drowning, disease and venomous snakes.
Campaigning group Human Rights Watch has released new satellite imagery from Myanmar which they say shows that more than 700 homes have been burned down in one Rohingya village.
Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch's deputy Asia director, told the BBC: "As far as we can tell the destruction took place on the 25th [August] in the morning, and it appears to have been complete and total. Approximately 99% of the buildings are destroyed in that village."
Rakhine, the poorest region in Myanmar, is home to more than a million Rohingya. They have faced decades of persecution in the Buddhist-majority country, where they are not considered citizens.
There have been waves of deadly violence in recent years. The current upsurge is the most significant since October 2016, when nine policemen died in attacks on border posts.
Until then there had been no indication of an armed insurgency, despite the ethnic tensions.
Both the attacks in October and on 25 August were carried out by a group called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa).
It says its aim is to protect Muslim Rohingya from state repression in Myanmar. The government says it is a terrorist group.
The military also carried out a crackdown after the attacks in October that led to widespread allegations of rape, murder and torture. Tens of thousands of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh then.
The UN is now carrying out a formal investigation, although the Burmese military denies wrongdoing.
Mefloquine (or Lariam) can have side effects, and has been linked to depression, anxiety and hallucinations.
Air Marshal Paul Evans said all anti-malarials caused side effects and individual risk assessments were carried out before prescribing.
But there have been calls for the government to reassess Lariam's safety.
Air Marshal Paul Evans, surgeon general of the UK defence medical services, told the BBC's Today programme that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was following national UK guidelines from Public Health England, which says there is no evidence the drug impairs function, although it advises pilots and divers not to take it.
He said there was no evidence that weapon-handling would be damaged by taking the drug.
He also said care was taken to assess service personnel before anti-malarial drugs were prescribed.
AM Evans explained: "We do individual risk assessments, we discuss with the individual where they are going in the world, the sort of operation they are undertaking and we look at their past medical history.
"The most appropriate anti-malarial is chosen... for that individual."
He said he recognised that mefloquine does have side effects, and that they could be serious, but he said all anti-malarial drugs caused side effects and mefloquine should not be singled out.
And he dismissed suggestions that the armed forces had a stockpile of mefloquine which they were forced to use up as "rubbish".
He said the drug helped protect people against malaria, a life-threatening disease.
However, medical experts from the UK, US and Australia have said the evidence suggests Lariam should not be given to soldiers serving in environments where they need to be fully alert.
A growing number of service personnel also want Lariam to be withdrawn.
In the US, the drug is banned from use by Special Operational Forces because of its potential side-effects.
Dr Remington Nevin, a former US army doctor, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, told the Today programme that the drug was "neurotoxic" and that there were better and safer options for the military to use, because of the risk of "permanent disability".
In a recent letter to Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, the defence select committee asked what the government was doing to reassess the safety of the drug in the light of recent concerns about its safety.
It wants to know how many servicemen and women have complained about side effects after taking mefloquine - which can include suicidal thoughts and psychotic episodes.
In August, Conservative MP Johnny Mercer, a former Army officer and Afghanistan veteran, called on the government to stop prescribing it until further research was carried out.
There are a number of different types of tablets that protect against malaria.
Mefloquine, or Lariam, is one example.
Others include doxycycline (Vibramycin-D) and atovaquone plus proguanil.
Any medicine can have side effects and you may need to take a short trial course of tablets before you travel to check this.
Ask your doctor, nurse or pharmacist providing travel health services which type of tablets you and your family need.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has grown from a small huddle in the 1970s, when it was started by the academic Klaus Schwab, to hosting more than 3,000 participants, of which 1,200 are chief executives or company chairs and more than 50 are world leaders.
This year, the likes of Matt Damon, Will.i.am and Shakira will be jostling for pole position against Bill Gates, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Theresa May.
Donald Trump's fast-approaching reign as US president, the Brexit vote and climate change are likely to be among the big themes.
As you can imagine, there are lots of meetings, surrounded by varying degrees of secrecy. The public ones - which anyone can attend. The closed ones - which only those participants with a white badge can attend (i.e. they've paid to attend the conference or have been invited) and then the private ones that you don't even know have happened. Those are where the big deals are discussed, behind closed doors.
Well, in addition to all the talking there is a lot of partying - and mostly you don't have to pay. Companies who are attending the conference put on dinners and drinks to provide a networking opportunity for their clients. So yes there is food and drink on tap, but they're not exactly parties to write home about. Unless chief executives shaking their thing does it for you.
Occasionally a big name band - such as The Killers - will appear to liven things up. But it's hardly Glastonbury - still mostly men in suits loitering around some canapes.
Maybe. But the idea behind the gathering is to spark ideas and conversations - it doesn't pretend to solve them there and then. Perhaps the best-known outcome is Turkey not going to war with Greece in the 1980s when tensions escalated. The former Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal had met his Greek counterpart Andreas Papandreou in Davos and felt he could trust him.
More recently, the Brics New Development Bank - an alternative to the World Bank and the IMF launched last year - was conceived during a conversation between economists Lord Stern and Joseph Stiglitz in Davos in 2011.
Well, you either have to be invited - and to do that, assuming you're not a world leader or chief executive, you probably need to be running a socially minded company or NGO. Or you can get your company to pay CHF27,000 (£19,000), plus membership of the World Economic Forum and a very expensive hotel.
One famous venture capital firm spends at least £500,000 keeping its investors happy at the event.
If you haven't got that kind of money, you can still just turn up in a camper van, as some people plan to, and attend the fringe events.
It's amazing the lengths people will go to to get a within a snowball's throw of the rich and famous. Planning starts months in advance and is carefully co-ordinated. You can get what's known as a "hotel badge" which does not give you access to the conference itself, but gets you past hotel security where the parties are held.
Well, for the businesses that go, it's easier than flying all around the world to see your clients. Here, they're all in one place.
For the hangers-on, at the very least you get to meet other ambitious hopefuls.
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It's busy - the day usually starts with a breakfast invite for 7am and, if you're lucky, ends in the early hours at a party.
It's cold - ski gear is ideal. But of course this is a conference and as soon as you get inside it's really warm so finding the appropriate clothing can be tricky. Many people carry a change of shoes in their bag and, as the fashion pages say, it's all about layers.
Surprisingly few people actually indulge - and I'm told the slopes are mostly empty. By the weekend, some delegates venture up there - the head of OECD think-tank, Angel Gurria, can usually be found gliding down the mountain.
The Republic of Ireland full-back, 28, was injured following a challenge from Wales' Neil Taylor in a World Cup qualifier on 24 March.
Taylor was sent off for the tackle and has been banned for two matches.
"I'm a fighter and there's a part of me that's looking forward to this challenge," said Coleman.
After successful surgery, Coleman spent a month with his family in his hometown of Killybegs in Ireland, where he was visited by Everton manager Ronald Koeman and captain Phil Jagielka.
On Wednesday, Coleman returned to Everton's training ground at Finch Farm for the first time.
Speaking to evertontv, he added: "I've started with very small exercises in the gym. I've been doing some walking in the pool and aqua-jogging.
"It's just good to be back in and around the club and feeling like a professional footballer again.
"It was great to be around my family and friends back home but I've been itching to get back. It's small steps but I'm ready to work.
"I'm really enjoying it and looking forward to the challenge ahead because it's going to be tough but I've had tough journeys before and this is just another one."
After a 22-hour journey to Baikonur in Kazakhstan, we had a 4am start. We were escorted into the cosmodrome, a collection of scruffy, space buildings in the desert.
Then the hangar door opened, revealing the huge, red booster rockets looming in dark.
The sun started to rise, and it was like a curtain had lifted, showing the incredible vast landscape of the desert steppe with the Space rocket crawling through it.
We filmed the astronauts as they emerged in their spacesuits in the dark, holding the Olympic torch. They climbed onto the same bus that Yuri Gagarin used on the day he became the first man to launch into space.
Then, with every cameraman looking for the perfect spot, there was a last dash to the platform overlooking the launch pad.
The Soyuz rocket stood glistening in the sunrise.
Fifteen minutes before launch, I had two cameras set up. One for the live position and my main camera for our correspondent.
One minute to go
Daniel Sandford stepped in front of the main camera and we had one last rehearsal. This "piece to camera" had to be a "one-take wonder" with perfect timing.
Blast off. I saw a huge amount of smoke and flames, but there was no sound. We were 1 km away. The rocket started to move. Boom! The sound had finally reached us, and Daniel started talking. I zoomed out to bring him into the picture.
The rocket was moving fast out of shot so I panned up off Daniel, chasing the flaming rocket up into the blue sky. A perfect take. That was what we came for.
In less than a minute, the rocket was just a burning speck. The torch, strapped inside the capsule on top of the rocket was heading out of the atmosphere.
Dr Adriano Reis e Lameira from Durham University recorded and analysed almost 5,000 orangutan "kiss squeaks".
He found that the animals combined these purse-lipped, "consonant-like" calls to convey different messages.
This could be a glimpse of how our ancestors formed the earliest words.
The findings are published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.
"Human language is extraordinarily advanced and complex - we can pretty much transmit any information we want into sound," said Dr Reis e Lameira.
"So we tend to think that maybe words evolved from some rudimentary precursor to transmit more complex messages.
"We were basically using the orangutan vocal behaviour as a time machine - back to a time when our ancestors were using what would become [those precursors] of consonants and vowels."
The team studied kiss squeaks in particular because, like many consonants - the /t/, /p/, /k/ sounds - they depend on the action of the lips, tongue and jaw rather than the voice.
"Kiss squeaks do not involve vocal fold action, so they're acoustically and articulatory consonant-like," explained Dr Reis e Lameira.
In comparison to research into vowel-like primate calls, the scientists explained, the study of consonants in the evolution of language has been more difficult. But as Prof Serge Wich from Liverpool John Moores University, a lead author in the study, said, they are crucial "building blocks" in the evolution of language.
"Most human languages have a lot more consonants than vowels," said Prof Wich. "And if we have more building blocks, we have more combinations."
The scientists recorded and analysed 4,486 kiss-squeaks collected from 48 animals in four wild populations.
With thousands of hours of listening as the apes communicated, the researchers found that the animals embedded several different bits of information in their squeaks.
The team compared this to how we might use more than one word to convey the same meaning - saying "car" but also "automobile" and "vehicle"
"They seemed to make doubly sure that the message was received, so they would send the same message with different [kiss squeak combination] signals,"
The scientists say their study suggests that, rather than a concerted effort to form complex words, it might have been this "redundancy" - forming different sounds that had the same meaning, in order to reinforce a message - that drove early language evolution.
Dr Reis e Lameira added: "It's a way of making sure you don't end up in a game of Chinese whispers."
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The constitution provides for freedom of expression and the government generally respects this right. There is a "free and vigorous" press in cities and towns, says US-based NGO Freedom House.
State-run TV arrived with the launch of Botswana Television (BTV) in 2000. Satellite pay TV is available.
Radio is an important medium. Press circulation is mostly limited to urban areas.
There were around 167,000 internet users by December 2011 (Internetworldstats.com).
Osmani Primary School in Tower Hamlets was named in 1986 after General Muhammad Osmani - one of the leaders in Bangladesh's war of independence.
But the state school wants to alter it to the more "neutral" Vallance Primary to reflect changes in the population.
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition against the move.
The petition was set up by parent Kalam Choudhury who told BBC Asian Network it was "an issue of our history and out heritage and culture".
Doros Ullah, a former Tower Hamlets councillor, accused the school of "trying to take away the identity of the Bangladeshi community".
The 2011 census showed the Bangladeshi community was the largest ethnic group in Tower Hamlets.
But rising house prices and the growth of London's financial centre has led to sharp rises of other ethnic groups in the area.
The school has said the name change would reflect these changes to the local community.
"We thought Vallance Primary is a neutral profile that doesn't deter potential parents from coming into the school and stopping this perception that it's a faith school," chair of governors Mike Tylor said.
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs, who wants the school to remain Osmani Primary School, has successfully lobbied governors to consult parents before a final decision is made. A date has not yet been set.
"Until very recently the East End was a place where people would make their arrival in the UK. It had cheap housing, and it had plenty of jobs in relatively low skilled industries," he said.
"Now the jobs have gone. The cheap housing has gone but it still has very strong communities who attract people. But the role of the East End as the traditional first point of call - the sort of Ellis Island of London if you like - is now substantially over. And it's quite wrenching."
The trial has heard that Haris Mohammed attacked Tom Webb after one of his friends made a comment about a young woman being "fit".
The 22-year-old died shortly after being stabbed in the heart in Derby city centre on 19 January.
The killer claimed he acted in self defence after Mr Webb swung a bottle at him, but the jury rejected this.
He will be sentenced on 29 July.
Rachel Webb paid tribute to her son outside court.
"Tom was everything to me," she said.
"I have no mother, I have no father, I have no other children, no husband or partner. Tom was my entire family and I'll miss him, but I have his memory."
When asked how she felt about Mohammed she said: "I feel for his family."
Michael Auty QC, prosecuting, said Mr Webb was "entirely innocent" and Mohammed had no reason to attack him.
"Haris Mohammed had no need to become involved at all," he said.
"Neither he nor anyone else was in any danger. And yet he led others off in pursuit of Thomas Webb.
"He wanted confrontation. He wanted to demonstrate his power."
The trial at Nottingham Crown Court heard Mr Webb had been with two friends in the city centre, buying food and drink from Tesco in St Peter's Street.
After they left Tesco, one of the group made the remark about a young woman walking past being "fit", meaning attractive.
One of Mohammed's friends overheard the comment and told him about it.
Mohammed, who had been in McDonald's, then decided to pursue Mr Webb's group as part of what Mr Auty described as "an angry mob".
"Haris Mohammed could have walked away at any time. He could have stayed in McDonald's," said Mr Auty.
"For no reason at all, save to exude an aura of menace and power to those meekly trailing along in his wake, he must, at the very least, have had the intention to cause some really serious bodily harm."
He used a butterfly knife with a blade about seven centimetres long to stab Mr Webb.
The weapon was later recovered from within a McDonald's cup found in the raised planter where Mohammed had been in the immediate aftermath of the killing.
Det Ch Insp Dave Cox, who led the investigation said: "Not only is a family grieving for the loss of a young man, another family will now be grieving for a teenager who will undoubtedly spend a long time behind bars."
Eight others were wounded in the attack, a statement said.
A Rwandan military spokesman called the incident "deplorable".
Those dead served under the UN's mission in CAR, deployed to support the country's fragile transitional government.
The country descended into sectarian violence in 2013 when the predominantly Muslim Seleka rebels seized power, prompting reprisals from Christian militia.
An investigation was under way into the incident, which took place in the CAR's capital Bangui, said Brig-Gen Joseph Nzabamwita.
"We suspect terrorism without ruling out mental illness to be the cause," he said.
He says Dikran Tahta at St Albans School opened his eyes to maths, which he describes as the "blueprint of the universe".
"My handwriting was bad, and I could be lazy. Many teachers were boring. Not Mr Tahta," said the physicist.
Prof Hawking was speaking ahead of this weekend's award of the Global Teacher Prize.
The award-winning scientist has recorded a video commending his teacher, who died in 2006.
"His classes were lively and exciting. Everything could be debated. Together we built my first computer, it was made with electro-mechanical switches," said Prof Hawking.
"Thanks to Mr Tahta, I became a professor of mathematics at Cambridge, a position once held by Isaac Newton."
Prof Hawking said that "behind every exceptional person, there is an exceptional teacher".
His video message comes ahead of the announcement of the winner of the Global Teacher Prize, with a prize of $1m (£704,000).
The competition, run by the Varkey Foundation, has one UK entrant in the final top 10.
Colin Hegarty, a maths teacher from London, has reached the final shortlist alongside teachers from countries including Kenya, Pakistan and the US.
Whether it's failing to answer questions, breaking promises or just generally being rowdy, it appears politicians don't rank highly for you in the trust stakes.
Ahead of our debate in Leeds tonight you've been using the hashtag #ToWinMyTrust to tell us how you feel.
You can see what other people are saying by clicking here. Here's our round up of the rest.
Election 2015 latest: #Newsbeat in Leeds - the big trust debate as it happened
PMQs or Prime Minister's Questions has a poor reputation when it comes to politicians acting like "kids in a playground."
It's one half an hour a week in the House of Commons where MPs get to ask the prime minister a question. Usually very loudly.
A "disrespectful, unpassionate, football match," is how Keesha, 21 and from London, described it.
Anna and Keesha aren't alone.
Also on Twitter, Dafydd MacLennan (@daffydmac) says "#ToWinMyTrust politicians need to stop slagging each other off and concentrate on how THEY can create positive change."
Echoing this, Bethany Lila (@bethanylila) tweets: "#ToWinMyTrust stop putting down other parties to better yourselves, rely on the strength of your own policies, not the weakness of others."
Neil Underwood (@underwood_81) says they need to "stop bickering like children, answer questions directly".
Over 63,000 people have signed a petition to "make changes to PMQs to rebuild trust in politics".
Polling company YouGov say that people who like PMQs describe it as "humorous" and "interesting" whereas those who don't say it's "embarrassing" and "cringey".
People want them answered. Some tweeted saying politicians were dodging giving real answers.
Isabel Hardman (@isabelhardman), a journalist from political magazine The Spectator said: "Politicians not saying 'I've given you a very clear answer' when they haven't would be a start."
"Answer the question you were asked, instead of answering the question you wish you were asked" says Pete Clark.
Watch: That "answer the question!" from Newsbeat's debate in Leeds
When you're a politician, it seems saying you're being clear doesn't always come across well.
On Twitter Jamie (@jamie4england) says "never, ever begin a sentence with 'let me be clear' or 'well look, we're perfectly clear on this'".
"Be principled" - that's what Thomas Johnson (@thomasjohnstn1) says on Twitter.
Politicians should "demonstrate that they're acting in the interests of the people who elected them."
Also on Twitter, Dom Hewitson (@_frankzappa) says "#ToWinMyTrust I want equality whether you're from Chester le Street or Chelsea, we should all have the same opportunities".
They should "stop making promises you've no intention to keep" says Mark Everclear (@markeverclear) and "blaming circumstances after you're elected is a cop-out" says Phil Taylor (@pstni).
Some felt that it was one rule for politicians and another for them.
On Twitter, Martin Holland (@martinholland7) said it was "impossible" for politicians to win his trust.
Bert (@hawkkyaa) says politicians are "all the same breed" but Ellie Jones (@elliejones1993) says "we are all human so admit your mistakes and tell us honestly what your going to do about them!"
In Newsbeat's recent survey of young people, the NHS came out as the top priority. The cost of everyday items and controlling immigration came second and third.
"Care for the elderly should be free" says Sharon Kirkbride (@kirkbridesharon) and the "the current erosion of the justice system" should stop says Cameron Stocks (@cameronstocks_).
Ian Howell(@ianhowell88) says "funding for the NHS and social services need to be increased".
Other tweeters asked politicians to "lower the voting age" and provide more "help for first time buyers".
Listen: What politicians must do #ToWinMyTrust
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Mata called for high profile players to sign up to the cause in the same week Neymar signed for Paris St-Germain for a world record £200m (222m euro).
Bayern Munich's Hummels said: "This is a chance for football to improve our world, and I wanted to be part of it."
The defender, 28, joined the German champions in May 2016, for around £30m.
"I feel we could be doing more to connect the increasing revenues in football to some kind of deeper purpose," he added.
"Through the 1% pledge, we're building a bridge between football and its social impact around the world."
Mata is raising money for Common Goal, run by the organisation streetfootballworld, after being shocked by the poverty he saw on a visit to Mumbai, India.
The 29-year-old Spaniard is aiming to create a 'Common Goal starting XI', made up of 11 players who each donate 1% of their wage to the charity and he said Hummels was the "perfect team-mate".
"He really gets what we're trying to achieve. The fact that a World Cup holder - at the peak of his career with one of the biggest clubs on the planet - has chosen to make the pledge shows the power and magic of what we're doing."
Several years on and having come through the club's academy, the 20-year-old midfielder is a regular for the Lions, who are now managed by Harris.
Thompson helped the side to four wins in April, which secured Millwall a place in the League One play-offs and has seen the midfielder named the Football League's young player of the month.
"I have been watching Millwall since I was a little boy. My dad has been taking me since I was about four," Thompson told BBC Radio London.
"I remember going down to ask Neil for a photo and an autograph. I've still got it at home. He hasn't seen it but he knows it happened. It was a great time for me."
After making his first-team debut as a substitute in the League Cup last season, Thompson has established himself in the Millwall first team this term and has made 33 appearances in all competitions, scoring twice.
"At the start of the season I wasn't in the team much but to get in there and express what I am about, it has all paid off," he said.
"It has all been a bit of a blur and I haven't really thought about it too much. It is an unbelievable feeling to be awarded such a prestigious award."
Millwall were relegated from the Championship last season after five years in the second tier, but they have a chance to secure an immediate return via the play-offs.
"As a supporter, seeing the team doing well is a great feeling," Thompson added.
"Last year wasn't the best for the club but this year we have pushed on a lot and become a good team. The finish to the season has been great and to get in the play-offs has been a massive achievement."
Harris, who led the Lions to a fourth-placed finish, says Thompson has "come a long way in a short space of time" since his league debut in August.
"He plays with a spirit which epitomises our club," the 38-year-old said.
"He plays like a fan in a football shirt, but one with real quality. He has been a big part in driving us forward in the last few months.
"I am extremely proud of him and I'm sure he'd be the first thank his team-mates for putting him in a position to win this trophy.
"Ben is an excellent professional at a young age and he is enhancing his game all the time."
Thompson was in the stands as Millwall lost the FA Cup final in 2004, and has also watched the Lions in several play-off campaigns - including their win over Swindon which secured promotion to the Championship in 2010.
Former Australia international Tim Cahill was among Thompson's favourite players while growing up and he still describes Harris, who scored 138 goals in two separate spells with the club, as "a legend".
Thompson added: "He still takes part in training sometimes and he can put the ball in the top corner from 20 yards. You think 'he's still got it'.
"It's great to have him as manager. He has been a massive help to me. He has been there every step of the way and he gives me a lot of guidance.
"Watching players like the manager and Tim Cahill growing up and then going on to play for the club I support is a massive achievement."
The season could end on a high for Thompson and Millwall, with the Lions facing Bradford in the semi-finals of the play-offs.
They travel to Yorkshire for the first leg on Sunday before the return at The Den on Friday.
"I have been quite comfortable and the team have not been too nervous," Thompson said. "The more senior players have experienced it before so I just need to go into it and keep focus."
Harris added: "Ben will want to drive us on to promotion this year and ply his trade in the Championship next year.
"He has done extremely well at this level over a period of games. We won't be getting carried away but he has a bright future."
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But 70% of British Catholics polled expect the Pope's visit to help the Catholic Church in the UK.
Nearly half thought he should drop his insistence on clerical celibacy.
And 52% of the 500 Catholics surveyed ahead of the Pope's visit on Thursday said the sex abuse scandal had shaken their faith in the Church's leadership.
Two-thirds also thought women should have more authority and status within the Church.
The poll, conducted by ComRes - a member of the British Polling Council - surveyed a random sample of 500 Roman Catholics across the UK between 6 and 9 September 2010.
Commenting on the results, Andrew Hawkins, ComRes chairman, said: "Overall there is a sense of strong support for the Pope's visit but disquiet both about some aspects of Papal teaching and the perception of the Catholic Church in wider society having been harmed."
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In response to the question, "Do you feel your Catholic faith is generally valued by British society today, or not?" 57% answered that it was "not valued" compared with 30% who said it was, and 13% who said they did not know.
The poll results also suggest that a large number of Catholics think that the Pope should drop his insistence on clerical celibacy. Just under a half of those polled, 49%, said the celibacy rule should be relaxed, compared to 35%. A further 17% were uncommitted.
And 62% of those questioned say women should have more authority and status in the Catholic Church.
"Interestingly, the scores for men and women are exactly identical although older generations are least inclined to agree," Mr Hawkins said.
The BBC's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott said the findings seemed to reveal some of the tensions between a Church anxious to preserve ancient traditions, and a secular society that finds them increasingly hard to understand.
Dr William Oddie, former editor of the Catholic Herald, said he was not surprised by the survey, but felt that celibacy should remain "the norm" amongst Catholic priests.
"I do think that our clergy have this particular quality because of their celibacy," he said.
"That doesn't mean to say that I don't know several married priests who are very effective, and so on. It isn't an impossibility - but I think it will be kept as the normal rule."
The head of Catholicism in England, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, believes the celibacy policy will remain.
He said: "My personal view is that I don't think it is likely to change.
"Clearly within our Catholic community in this country we have a small number of married priests - those who have been priests in the Church of England, and have then received ordination in the Catholic church.
"That is by way of exception."
Pope Benedict XVI is due to arrive on 16 September for a four-day visit, which has already sparked controversy over its cost and relevance.
On this first visit by a pope to the UK since John Paul II in 1982, the pontiff will go to Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Birmingham.
A series of sex abuse scandals have rocked the Catholic Church around the world in recent years, with the Church further accused of maintaining a culture of secrecy.
Pope Benedict's supporters say he has been the most proactive Pope yet in confronting abuse.
Earlier this year he apologised to victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland, and later went on to promise "action" over child abuse by priests.
But some survivors say they still carry the psychological scars and that the Church should do more to fulfil its duty to them.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Southwark, Peter Smith, told the Sunday programme on BBC Radio 4 that the scandal had "rocked the whole Catholic community."
"We all felt shamed and humiliated by what has been done by priests," he said.
"It's been an utter breach of trust."
But Archbishop Smith said Pope Benedict had strengthened the laws of the Catholic Church to help combat abuse by priests and made it clear that he wanted to tackle the problem.
"He thinks it's dreadful, an evil thing to do and he wants it rooted out of the Church," he said.
Police were called to a break-in at a house in the Shiregreen area of the city on Monday.
The victim is in "a serious and potentially life-threatening condition" in hospital after suffering gunshot injuries.
The men, aged 24 and 25, have also been detained on suspicion of aggravated burglary and remain in custody.
South Yorkshire Police said it appeared to be "an isolated incident".
Det Insp Paul Wilson said: "We are continuing to follow up a number of lines of enquiry and I would like to reassure members of the public that although incidents like this are alarming, thankfully they are rare, and we continue to use all available resources to investigate and identify those responsible."
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Peter Robinson told Stormont's Finance Committee Frank Cushnahan introduced him to the Pimco investment fund.
Nama said it was not made aware, either by Mr Cushnahan or any other source, about the meeting in May 2013.
Mr Cushnahan resigned as a Nama adviser in November 2013 to work for Pimco.
He was in line to receive a £5m fee if Pimco's bid for the portfolio had been successful, the Irish Parliament has been told.
The bid collapsed in March 2014 when Nama learned of Mr Cushnahan's role.
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The National Asset Management Agency, or Nama, is the Republic of Ireland's state-owned so-called 'bad bank', set up to take control of property loans made by the country's banks before the property crash in 2008.
Last year, Nama sold its entire portfolio of Northern Ireland loans to US investment firm Cerberus for £1.24bn.
Nama said that Mr Cushnahan never made any disclosure of an interest relating to Pimco or its possible interest in bidding for the portfolio.
It added that members of its Northern Ireland advisory committee were under an obligation to "disclose any pecuniary or beneficial interest in, and material to, any matter that fell to be considered by the committee".
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The files, including advice given to then-President Francois Mitterrand, will be able to be viewed by researchers and victims' groups.
The mass killings in 1994 claimed more than 800,000 lives, mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
France has admitted making mistakes over the genocide but denies Rwandan claims of complicity.
Last year France pulled out of 20th anniversary commemorations after the Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, renewed allegations France played a direct role.
The violence was triggered by the death of President Juvenal Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu who was killed when his plane was shot down.
The genocide came to an end after Mr Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) - a Tutsi-led rebel group - defeated government troops later that year.
Bishop James Jones chaired the Hillsborough Independent Panel, whose report led to the quashing of the 1989 tragedy's inquest verdicts.
The cleric will be honoured later at a ceremony in the city.
Bishop Jones, 68, was made Knight Commander last year for his services to the Hillsborough Inquiry.
He is now adviser to the Home Secretary on Hillsborough.
Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor Roz Gladden, said the bishop had been "a towering figure in Liverpool life for almost two decades", and had spoken up on behalf of those with no voice.
"We all owe him a huge debt of gratitude for his work leading the Church of England in the city and latterly chairing the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which shed light on what really happened during and after the disaster," she said.
Bishop Jones, who served as Bishop of Liverpool from 1998 to 2013, said the city had never wavered in its support for the Hillsborough families.
"To become a freeman of this city is a permanent reminder to me of the way the families have fought and been vindicated in their struggle for truth, justice and accountability," he said.
As chair of the Hillsborough Independent Panel he supervised the disclosure of documents relating to the 1989 disaster, which resulted in the deaths of 96 people attending the Liverpool v Nottingham Forest FA Cup Semi-Final.
The panel's report led to the quashing of the original inquest into the tragedy and the opening of fresh inquests, which concluded in 2016 the fans were unlawfully killed.
Last year the council gave a posthumous Freedom of the City to the disaster's 96 victims as well Professor Phil Scraton, who led the Hillsborough Independent Panel's research team, and Kenny and Marina Dalglish - who represented the football club at the time.
All flights to and from the resort were stopped on Wednesday because the British government wanted to make sure the airport was as safe as possible.
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There are currently 20,000 British tourists on holiday in Sharm el-Sheikh.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has now ordered that all Russian passenger flights to Egypt be stopped until the cause of the crash is established.
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Jolly Tumuhirwe, 22, was charged in court with the torture of a girl of 18 months. A video of the assault caused outrage when it was posted online.
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Martin succeeds Jim Shaw, who has held the post since November 2010, following his election on Tuesday evening.
He has previously held the positions of Deputy President, Vice President and Treasurer of the organisation.
"I am honoured to have been elected and look forward to serving the football community across NI," said Martin.
"It has been a remarkable few weeks for the international team in France and my aim will be to help the Association build on that success and to help grow the game at all levels," he added.
Linfield FC board member Jack Grundie was elected to the role of first Deputy President at the meeting, with Crawford Wilson, former President of the County Antrim FA, was elected as the second Deputy President.
Martin was voted in as one of the IFA's deputy presidents in 2013, having failed to be voted into the position in 2011 after failing a suitability assessment.
That aspect of the criteria for occupying senior office in the organisation has since been removed.
Martin initially resigned in the wake of the sacking of former chief executive Howard Wells in 2010 but returned to the Association on the back of a unanimous vote at a meeting of the IFA Council three years ago.
Wells' dismissal cost the association £500,000 in an unfair dismissal case and both Martin and former president Raymond Kennedy were subsequently removed from their positions under pressure from the then Sports Minister Nelson McCausland, who deemed the organisation not fit for purpose.
The BBC has obtained records of 92 hotel stays by West Midlands and East of England ambulance services chief Anthony Marsh.
They included 20 nights at a four-star hotel that cost the taxpayer £4,514.
The ambulance services said Mr Marsh's combined role actually saved £130,000 in public money.
Mr Marsh, chief executive of the West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS), took on the part-time role as head of the troubled East of England Ambulance Service (EEAS) in January this year.
He works three days a week for EEAS and two days for WMAS.
The combined role brought a salary increase of £50,000.
His new role was criticised earlier this month by health minister Dr Dan Poulter, the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, who described the salary package as "unacceptably high" and said it sent a "very bad message" to front-line staff.
A Freedom of Information request has found Mr Marsh's expenses included 20 nights at the £215-a-night Pullman St Pancras.
This forms part of the more than £13,000 in expenses Mr Marsh has claimed for hotels between July 2013 and now.
He has also claimed more than £10,000 in taxi and car costs and more than £6,000 on train fares.
An ambulance services spokesman said: "Like every ambulance service chief executive in England, Mr Marsh spends time in London meeting MPs, other stakeholders, officials from NHS England and working on national projects through the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives.
"As he is currently representing two ambulance services, this work is being delivered more effectively and efficiently for the taxpayer.
"Mr Marsh is currently running two ambulance trusts; he does not receive the salary of two chief executives saving the taxpayer approximately £130,000 on the cost of having a substantive chief executive in each ambulance trust. By comparison, within the same two areas, there are 11 chief fire officers and 10 chief constables.
"As Mr Marsh works several days a week in the East of England each week, it would not make sense to have him travel down on a daily basis and therefore requires accommodation. This is governed by NHS guidelines. The lowest cost is always sought for his overnight accommodation such as using standard government negotiated rates."
Batting first, they slumped to 15-3, but 21-year-old Duckett and skipper Alex Wakely (53) put on 123 as the 2013 winners recovered well to reach 161-8.
England opener Alex Hales went for a second-ball duck as Notts fell short on 153-9 despite Andre Russell's rapid 39.
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Despite heavy rain overnight and during the morning in Birmingham and a poor forecast, the groundsmen, helped by Edgbaston's excellent drainage, ensured play got under way just 30 minutes late at 11:30 BST.
After the three early wickets, one a disastrous run-out of opener Adam Rossington four balls in, Duckett played a Twenty20 innings of high quality.
The England Lions batsmen mixed reverse sweeps, including a maximum over point off Samit Patel, scoops over the wicketkeeper's head and shots down the ground to bring up his half-century off 28 balls.
By the time he was bowled by Jake Ball in the 16th over, Duckett had struck 12 fours and two sixes, and made sure the Steelbacks would have a decent score to defend.
Nottinghamshire's innings began in a similar fashion, also falling to 15-3, including flat footwork from Hales as he was bowled by a Rory Kleinveldt inswinger.
West Indies all-rounder Russell, who took 3-20 with the ball, bludgeoned three huge sixes in his brief cameo which was ended by Rob Keogh's stunning diving effort on the leg-side boundary.
Chris Read gave Notts some hope with a 20-ball 30 to take the chase to the final couple of overs, but once he holed out to the long-on boundary off Steven Crook (3-28), the Outlaws knew they must wait for at least another year to lift the domestic T20 trophy for the first time.
His death at the age of 106 came on the same day 76 years ago when the train carrying the largest number of children - 241 - departed from Prague.
The reluctant hero worked to find British families willing to put up £50 to look after the boys and girls in their homes.
His efforts were not publicly known for almost 50 years.
More than 370 of the children he saved have never been traced and do not know the full story.
"One day my father called my brother and me and he said, 'sit down boys, you're going on a long journey'," said John Fieldsend, now 84.
Born in Germany, Mr Fieldsend's original name was Hans Heinrich Fiege.
His family fled to the Czech Republic when the Nazi persecution of the Jews began, prior to the outbreak of World War Two.
"As the train was leaving my mother took her wristwatch off, passed it through the window and simply said, 'remember us'."
Lia Lesser, 84, now lives in Birmingham but was originally taken in by a woman who lived on the Isle of Anglesey.
"We didn't know we wouldn't see our parents again," she said.
"I think they must have known there was a good chance they wouldn't see us again, and they were very brave to let us go."
"I never knew how my mother arranged it, she never talked about it," said Zuzana Maresova, who was born in Prague and later returned there.
She said her mother gave her a book about flowers and said, "you're going to a place where these flowers grow".
"That's all I knew," she said.
The humanitarian goals of Winton, who was born in the Hampstead district of north London in May 1909, were helped by a 1938 Act of Parliament that permitted the entry to the UK of refugee children under the age of 17, as long as money was deposited to pay for their eventual return home.
He set up an office in a hotel in Prague where he was quickly besieged by families desperate to get their children out before Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia.
"There was a long queue and at the end of the queue was a small office, and we got some forms to fill in," said Ruth Halova, who was born in Prague.
"Within three months we got the names of foster parents who were prepared to take us in, and mine were a Mr and Mrs Jones from Birmingham."
The 90-year-old added: "There was a steam engine, the old wagons were made of wooden planks.
"Everybody got this label on cardboard with a piece of string with a number [on it], and then we were shoved into the carriages."
Winton, who lived in Pinkneys Green in Maidenhead, until his death, worked with relief organisations to set up the Czech Kindertransport, just one of a number of initiatives attempting to rescue Jewish children from Germany and the Nazi-occupied territories.
He organised a total of eight trains from Prague, with some other forms of transport also set up from Vienna.
Ms Maresova said: "We were rather excited because we thought it was some kind of adventure."
However, she added the image of all the parents' "pressed faces to the windows and tears running down their faces, and wondering why they're crying", had remained with her all her life.
Mrs Lesser said: "The only thing I had was a pendant with a picture of Moses on one side, and on the other were the Ten Commandments, and that's the only piece of jewellery that I brought with me.
"Apart from that I had a Czech storybook... I had no dolls, teddy bears or anything like that. I just had two suitcases with clothes in."
"The next thing I remember was being handed over to a gentleman who couldn't speak Czech," said Ms Maresova of her arrival in England.
"He had a paper with all sorts of questions in English and Czech.
"Whenever he wanted to ask me something he pointed: 'Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something? Do you want to drink something? Do you want to use the toilet?'"
Mrs Lesser said: "In the early days I corresponded with my parents and then we corresponded through the Red Cross, and then eventually the letters stopped.
"I think that's when they were in Auschwitz."
When the war ended she said realised they had "perished".
Mr Fieldsend received a letter just after the war, in 1946, and said his first thought was: "Hooray, they're alive."
"My mother wrote: 'When you receive this letter the war will be over... we want to say farewell to you - to our dearest possession in the world, and only for a short time were we able to keep you'," he said.
The letter went on to list other members of his family who had been "taken".
In the letter, his father wrote: "We are going into the unknown with the hope that we shall yet see you again when God wills."
Mr Fieldsend described the letter as "fantastic", adding: "What wonderful parents I had."
Ms Halova was lucky to be reunited with her mother after the war and described it as "the answering of my biggest prayer".
Milena Grenfell-Baines, 85, who now lives in Preston, Lancashire, was born in Prague and taken in by a family in Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester.
Her parents also survived the war but how she got on the train "remained a mystery" for many years, she said.
It was not until 1988, when Sir Nicholas's wife Grete discovered a scrapbook in their attic containing a mass of documents, including the names of the rescued children, that his heroism became known.
That year he was reunited with some of the rescued children, now adults, on the BBC's That's Life programme.
"It was an amazing surprise, but no more so than to Mr Winton who had come to the studio, totally unprepared that he was going to be confronted by us," said Mrs Grenfell-Baines, who had been invited to the TV studio without being told why.
Ms Halova described Winton as "an exceptional human being", adding: "We loved him from the first moment - who wouldn't love Nicky?
"He took so many risks and it was such a brilliant piece of organising," said Mr Fieldsend of Winton's efforts.
"I just thought it was amazing that a single human being could save 669 children and nobody knew about it," she added.
"Nicky, I am so proud to be one of your very many children."
Winton, whose work has been likened to that of the "saviour" of Jewish prisoners Oskar Schindler, was knighted by the Queen in March 2003.
A year earlier he was reunited with hundreds more of the children he saved, including Labour peer Lord Dubs and film director Karel Reisz.
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Leonard Cheshire Disability, which provides voluntary services to people with disabilities, said the reporting of such crimes was "surprisingly low".
Last year, 70 disability hate crimes were reported, an increase of 100%.
The organisation said there were several reasons why people failed to report such crimes, and it was not just the victim's responsibility to do so.
A series of billboards highlighting the issue is being unveiled.
The group's director, Tonya McCormac said: "We are launching this campaign to encourage everyone to recognise disability hate crime and for victims and witnesses to come forward and report these incidents.
"We started our disability hate crime advocacy service, the first of its kind in the UK, as a response to major concerns expressed to us by disabled people.
"Despite an estimated one-in-five people in Northern Ireland having a disability, the reporting of disability hate crime remains alarmingly low."
Ms McCormac said the reasons people failed to do so included communication barriers, access issues, fear, and previous poor experiences.
"While victims have become reluctant to report such crime, society has become reluctant to notice," she said.
"If victims and witnesses of disability hate crime don't report or notice the issue, victims will continue to suffer in silence."
The initiative is being supported by Justice Minister David Ford.
"By its very nature, hate crime is repugnant to every right-thinking person. Hate crime is carried out by bullies who target people they wish to intimidate," he said.
"Directing hate crimes at people who may be vulnerable due to having a disability must be condemned without equivocation.
"Leonard Cheshire Disability is to be commended for this campaign which provides support for disabled people to ensure their voices are heard and the crimes committed against them highlighted.
"That's why I'm pleased to be able to offer some funding towards this thought-provoking campaign."
Thousands of people have condemned the photograph, which was originally posted by Ricky Rogers on his Instagram site.
It shows two men pretending to surf on the turtle on the beach in Fraser Island, Queensland. The caption on the post read: "Surfed a tortoise on zee weekend.. gnarly duddddeeeee."
More than 10,000 people shared the picture when it was re-posted by wildlife photographer Matt Wright, who commented: "When your brain is the size of a peanut, your thought process is ridiculous. Share this around and let's see if we can get this fool a nice hefty fine."
Some people who shared Mr Wright's post included a link to Mr Roger's Facebook account, encouraging others to voice their criticism directly.
However, the security settings on the page have since been increased so they can no longer be accessed by people he does not know. It appears his Instagram account has also been closed. We haven't therefore been able to independently verify the picture.
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Services has said there is some evidence to suggest the turtle was dead when the photograph was taken but the pair could face a fine if they are found to have interfered with a natural resource.
A spokesman confirmed that rangers were taking the matter seriously and investigating further.
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The inquiry is looking into allegations of an alleged incident at Laburnum Court in Lower Broughton, Salford.
The home cares for up to 68 elderly people and provides specialist care for residents who have dementia.
Four Seasons Health Care, which runs the home, said its manager had reported a relative's concerns to authorities.
A spokeswoman for the Wilmslow, Cheshire-based company, which runs 400 homes across the UK, also said: "When concerns were raised by a relative about the conduct of a member of staff towards a resident the home manager notified Care Quality Commission, safeguarding and the police so that the concern could be investigated in an unbiased and transparent way.
"We are also co-operating actively in a separate police investigation that was initiated after a member of staff and a resident discovered apparent financial irregularities at the home."
Salford City Council said it is "confident appropriate measures" are in place at the home, adding that it will work closely with all relevant agencies.
"The investigation is in the early stages so we cannot comment further at this stage."
Greater Manchester Police said it was "called to a care home in the Salford area on 7 April following reports a resident had been assaulted".
A recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission rated the home as requiring improvement.
The group says new findings about the virus make it "unethical" for the games to go ahead in an open letter to the World Health Organization.
They call on the WHO to revisit its guidance on Zika, which is linked to serious birth defects.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said in May it sees no reason to delay or move the games due to Zika.
The outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease began in Brazil a year ago, but now more than 60 countries and territories have continuing transmission.
While Zika's symptoms are mild, in the letter the experts say it causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and may also cause a rare and sometimes fatal neurological syndrome in adults.
The letter is signed by 150 international scientists, doctors and medical ethicists from such institutions as Oxford University and Harvard and Yale universities in the United States.
They cite the failure of a mosquito-eradication programme in Brazil, and the country's "weakened" health system as reasons to postpone or move the Olympics in "the name of public health".
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"An unnecessary risk is posed when 500,000 foreign tourists from all countries attend the Games, potentially acquire that strain, and return home to places where it can become endemic," the letter says.
The biggest risk, it adds, is if athletes contracted the virus and returned home to poor countries that had not yet suffered a Zika outbreak.
They also express concern the WHO has a conflict of interest through its partnership with the IOC.
The Rio Olympics take place between 5-21 August.
The WHO, which has declared the Zika virus a global public health emergency, is yet to comment on the letter.
Several public health experts had previously warned that having hundreds of thousands of people arriving in Rio will speed up Zika's spread and lead to the births of brain-damaged babies.
But on Thursday, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose advice is quoted approvingly in the letter, said the threat did not warrant halting the games.
"There is no public health reason to cancel or delay the Olympics," Dr Tom Frieden said.
He however urged the US to act more quickly to prevent pregnant women contracting Zika, amid congressional deadlock over the release of $1.9bn (£1.3bn) in funding.
Ethan Couch's family money didn't just buy him the best defence, it was his defence.
When Couch, 18, appeared before a Texas court in 2014, his lawyers argued that he suffered from affluenza, an unusual - and not medically recognised - condition in which a gilded upbringing is said to prevent the sufferer grasping the consequences of their actions. And it worked.
Couch's controversial excuse ranks alongside a long list of unusual and creative criminal defences offered up over the years. Here are five of the most notable.
When San Francisco official Dan White shot dead the city's Mayor George Moscone and pioneering gay supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978, he faced a possible death penalty.
But White walked away with an eight-year sentence, and ended up serving only five. He was acquitted of murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter, despite shooting the men in cold blood.
How? The defence that got him off the hook went down as one of the most famous in US justice history, and became just as widely misunderstood.
White's lawyers argued diminished capacity, based on his bouts of depression. The defence described how he turned in the days before the murder to junk food, including the US snack cake Twinkies.
The junk food was a symptom of White's state of mind, they said, but he went down in history as the man who got off a murder charge because he had eaten sugary snacks the night before.
Driving at four times the limit doesn't usually leave you with too much room for manoeuvre with the police.
But one unnamed 35-year-old schoolteacher stopped in New York State had charges against her dropped after her lawyers told the court that her digestive system sometimes converted food into alcohol.
The condition, called auto-brewery syndrome, causes high levels of yeast in the intestines to ferment high-carbohydrate foods, doctors say.
"She can register a blood alcohol content that would have you or I falling down drunk, but she can function," her lawyer Joseph Marusak told the Buffalo News newspaper.
In 1980, Sandie Craddock, a London barmaid, stabbed a co-worker to death. She was charged with murder but convicted of manslaughter, and her defence was a first.
Craddock, who had a long list of prior convictions, argued that her mood had been significantly affected by her period.
PMS - or pre-menstrual syndrome - has been used as a criminal defence in the UK several times since, and in 1995 the American Psychiatric Association added it to its list of real depressive disorders.
When Heather Specyalski was charged with causing a fatal car crash in Connecticut in 1999 she had to prove she wasn't behind the wheel.
Ms Specyalski surprised the court when she said she couldn't have been driving because she was, in fact, performing oral sex on the driver, who died.
Her lawyer noted that the driver's trousers were found to have been loosened before the crash, and Specyalski was acquitted.
"A defendant has a right to offer a defence no matter how outlandish, silly or unbelievable one might think it will be," said Superior Court Judge Robert Holzberg.
John Hinckley appeared in court in 1981 on one of the most serious charges you can face in the US - attempting to kill the president.
Earlier that year, Hinckley opened fire at Ronald Reagan, wounding the president and three others.
Part of Hinckley's defence argument was that he was inspired by the film Taxi Driver, starring Robert De Niro and Jodi Foster. He said he had watched the film 15 times and identified with De Niro's character.
He also told the court he had become fixated with Foster and shot the president to get her attention. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
A security source told the BBC the flag was flown from a bridge in the eastern Muthanna district on Tuesday night.
Anti-IS graffiti has also appeared on walls recently, as locals protest against the occupation of their city.
Mosul has been under IS control since 2014, but Iraq's government is planning to launch an offensive to recapture it.
Commanders say it could begin by the second half of October.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the US was prepared to send more "trainers and advisers" to assist Iraqi troops during the battle.
Mr Abadi said they would not play a combat role, and that their number would be "reduced immediately after the liberation of Mosul".
One US official told the Associated Press that about 600 additional troops would be sent as the operation ramped up.
Mr Abadi met US President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden last week on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, though it is not clear whether they agreed to the deployment there.
Gen Joseph Votel, who oversees US forces in the Middle East, said in July that he expected to send additional troops to Iraq.
Some 4,600 US military personnel are already there as part of a multinational coalition against IS, providing air support, training, and advice to the Iraqi military, which was routed by IS militants in June 2014 as they overran much of northern and western Iraq.
Pro-government forces, including Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia-dominated paramilitary fighters, have retaken almost half of the territory since then.
But for Mosul, the largest occupied city in the "caliphate" proclaimed by IS, is likely to be the biggest yet.
The United Nations has warned that the humanitarian impact could be "enormous", and possibly affect up to 1.2 million people living in and around Mosul.
A "technical difficulty" at Bilston Glen in the early hours of the morning meant 999 and 101 calls had to be diverted to other centres.
The control room took the initial call after the fatal M9 crash, which police failed to investigate for three days.
Police Scotland confirmed the fault at the centre had now been resolved.
A tweet from Unison, the union which represents many police staff in Scotland, said the call centre had been taken out of action at 03:30 on Tuesday, but Police Scotland said the public would not have noticed any difference in the level of service.
Ch Supt Alan Speirs said: "I can confirm that in the early hours of Tuesday 15 December 2015 the Service Centre at Bilston Glen experienced a technical difficulty which resulted in 999 and 101 calls being diverted to other regional service centres. The issue has now been resolved and the system is working normally.
"Police Scotland has robust and tested plans in place for eventualities such as this and I am pleased that they worked extremely well.
"There was no interruption to the emergency and non emergency services and no delays in calls being answered or officers being dispatched."
Staffing shortages at Bilston Glen were highlighted after an HM Inspector of Constabulary (HMIC) report into the M9 crash in July in which Lamara Bell and John Yuill died.
Ms Bell, who was discovered critically injured in the crashed car, had been in the vehicle next to her dead partner Mr Yuill for three days. She died later in hospital.
Police Scotland admitted they did not investigate a report they had received about the crash until three days after it happened.
In the report, HMIC Derek Penman said Bilston Glen had insufficient staff and that this had resulted in poor call-handling performance, although he noted the force had made "considerable efforts to address this".
The Scottish government said in September it would delay plans to two close police call centres in Aberdeen and Inverness in line with the recommendations made by HMIC.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said he had become aware of the problem when a member of the public told him their 101 call had not been answered.
He said the public should be given more information about how to communicate with the police when the system is down.
Scottish Labour's justice spokesman Graeme Pearson said the shut down of Bilston Glen "suggests a failure to learn the lessons of the HMICS report into call handling, which exposed systemic, fundamental failings because of the SNP government's botched reforms of our police service."
Margaret Mitchell of the Scottish Conservatives said it was particularly concerning that Bilston Glen had been out of action at one of its busiest times of the year.
"This would be hugely concerning at any time but especially in the run up to Christmas and New Year, one of the busiest times of the year.
She added: "Furthermore the fact it happened at Bilston Glen control room, which was the control room involved in the tragic M9 crash case, makes complete nonsense of the cabinet secretary for justice's standard response that 'it's all sorted now'."
Moshoeu had been suffering from stomach cancer and lost his battle against the disease on Tuesday.
The midfielder won 73 caps and will be particularly remembered for starring in Bafana Bafana's 1996 Africa Cup of Nations-winning team.
Neil Tovey, captain of the 1996 team, told BBC Sport: "It is very, very sad. He was a tremendous footballer - similar to Lionel Messi."
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Moshoeu's career began in 1987 with local side Giant Blackpool and he went on to play for eight other teams including Kaizer Chiefs and Turkish giants Fenerbahce.
He first played for South Africa in 1993 - a year after their return from a decades-long ban because of apartheid - and, incredibly, he was still part of the Bafana Bafana team at the 2004 Nations Cup at the age of 38.
Moshoeu carried on playing professionally for four more years before finally hanging up his boots when he was 42.
Tovey added: "He was an extreme athlete, a very balanced footballer. He was nimble and could drop a shoulder to send a whole defence in one direction and he would go in the other direction.
"He is up there as one of the best South African players. And for someone to finish their professional career at the age he did, that says a lot. He lived his life the correct way."
South Africa Football Association president Dr Danny Jordaan said: "Our deepest condolences to his family and friends for their loss, hope they find strength in these difficult times. The passing on of this legend saddens us.
"Shoes was a genius on the field, an intelligent man off it. He was humble and always willing to give advice. He will be remembered for almost single-handedly defeating Ghana in South Africa's path to lifting the 1996 Nations Cup title. We have certainly lost a hero."
Abdul Abbasi was jailed for two years and four months for reversing at speed and knocking down 65-year-old Rehana Abassi on Redmire Close, Hull, in October.
The 33-year-old, of Thorndale, Hull, was convicted in March of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
At a Court of Appeal hearing, his sentence was reduced to 16 months.
His six-year driving ban was also cut to two years by judges Sir Andrew Smith and Geoffrey Marson QC.
At his trial, heard at Hull Crown Court, Abbasi was cleared of attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm.
The court heard the taxi driver had struck his mother as she went to the boot of the car after a disagreement.
He then crashed into a parked car some 10 to 15 metres behind him before driving off at speed with the boot still up and his mother still under the vehicle, the court was told.
Mrs Abbasi was in hospital for two weeks with serious injuries including broken ribs but has since forgiven her son, the court heard.
The court was told the jury was "not satisfied" that he knew his mother was behind the car when he reversed into her.
Sir Andrew told the court that Abbasi, who had no previous convictions and no previous record of bad driving, was "mentally fragile' and a "decent man who lost control under pressure".
Those close to him had been concerned about his mental wellbeing in the past but he had not engaged with mental health professionals.
Dave Small was voluntarily interviewed by officers from West Mercia Police after they were alerted to "concerns" over his social media posts.
A property in Redditch was also searched, police said.
The force stressed Mr Small was not arrested but it would pass an evidence file to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Mr Small, who sits on Redditch Borough Council, was expelled from UKIP on Wednesday.
He was initially suspended after allegedly calling African migrants "scroungers" and Clare Balding and Sir Elton John "perverts".
In an interview with BBC Hereford and Worcester he denied being racist but admitted he was homophobic.
Iago Falque put the hosts in front after 15 minutes as he burst clear down the right and picked out the bottom corner with a left-footed strike.
The striker then turned provider, sliding in Marco Benassi to finish one-on-one against Ciprian Tatarusanu.
England keeper Hart saved Borja Valero's deflected strike but could not prevent Khouma Babacar's late header.
The win follows last week's 3-1 victory over Roma as Torino extended their unbeaten run to four games.
Elsewhere, AC Milan fought back from 3-1 down to beat Sassuolo 4-3 thanks to three second-half goals, including a stunning volley from 18-year-old Manuel Locatelli.
Match ends, Torino 2, Fiorentina 1.
Second Half ends, Torino 2, Fiorentina 1.
Foul by Nenad Tomovic (Fiorentina).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Antonio Barreca (Torino) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Daniele Baselli following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Afriyie Acquah (Torino) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Torino. Conceded by Matías Vecino.
Attempt blocked. Adem Ljajic (Torino) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrea Belotti.
Corner, Torino. Conceded by Carlos Salcedo.
Davide Astori (Fiorentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrea Belotti (Torino).
Foul by Khouma Babacar (Fiorentina).
Luca Rossettini (Torino) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Torino. Daniele Baselli replaces Marco Benassi.
Attempt missed. Antonio Barreca (Torino) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Josef Martínez (Torino) header from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Antonio Barreca with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Andrea Belotti (Torino) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marco Benassi.
Goal! Torino 2, Fiorentina 1. Khouma Babacar (Fiorentina) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Hrvoje Milic with a cross.
Attempt missed. Davide Zappacosta (Torino) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Afriyie Acquah.
Attempt blocked. Adem Ljajic (Torino) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mirko Valdifiori.
Foul by Carlos Sánchez (Fiorentina).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Mauro Zárate (Fiorentina) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mirko Valdifiori (Torino).
Carlos Salcedo (Fiorentina) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Carlos Salcedo (Fiorentina).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Josef Martínez (Torino) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Adem Ljajic.
Corner, Torino. Conceded by Carlos Salcedo.
Attempt blocked. Adem Ljajic (Torino) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrea Belotti.
Foul by Matías Vecino (Fiorentina).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Carlos Salcedo (Fiorentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrea Belotti (Torino).
Foul by Carlos Salcedo (Fiorentina).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Torino. Josef Martínez replaces Iago Falque.
Attempt saved. Andrea Belotti (Torino) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Iago Falque with a cross.
Attempt missed. Hrvoje Milic (Fiorentina) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Nikola Kalinic with a headed pass.
Borja Valero (Fiorentina) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The hosts took the lead when Mani Dieseruvwe, who joined the Stags on loan from Chesterfield this week, sent Matt Green through to coolly finish.
Pompey levelled before the break when Ben Davies' corner deflected off Ryan Tafazolli's legs and into his own net.
Neither side could find a winner, but Portsmouth came close when Scott Shearer saved Michael Doyle's strike.
Portsmouth stay sixth, with a three-point cushion on eighth-placed Wycombe, while Mansfield are 13th, seven points off the play-off places.
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Portsmouth manager Paul Cook told BBC Radio Solent: "I'm very disappointed with the game, very disappointed with how we played, very disappointed with us in general, but that's where that team's at.
"I think anyone who's watched us all season now could probably say it's a typical Portsmouth performance.
"My job is to make these players better, see us finish the season in whatever position we finish - which hopefully will be a position that there's still something to play for at the end of the season - and we build from there."
The Mercedes drivers were in a league of their own as Hamilton beat Rosberg by 0.319 seconds, ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo.
There were tense moments for Hamilton after he had his first pole lap time deleted for exceeding track limits.
But he nailed it on his final lap as Rosberg failed to get close at Silverstone.
The result sets up a mouth-watering battle between the two Mercedes in the race, which starts at 13:00 BST on Sunday and is live on the BBC Sport website and Radio 5 live.
They have been given a "final warning" by their Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff after their crash together on the final lap of the Austrian Grand Prix last weekend and risk being dropped from a subsequent race or heavy fines if they do it again.
Rosberg heads into the race 11 points clear in the championship.
Hamilton thanked the crowd for their support after they had cheered him around the track and said: "The penultimate lap was a very good lap and was unfortunately taken as I touched the kerb and it just pulled me further [wide].
"So a lot of pressure for that last lap. I couldn't let the guys down."
Verstappen, who out-qualified Ricciardo for the first time since being promoted to Red Bull at the Spanish Grand Prix back in May, was 1.026 seconds behind the Mercedes and 0.305secs clear of Ricciardo.
But the Red Bull has shown strong race pace and may be in the mix in the race.
Ferrari, though, are having a torrid weekend.
Kimi Raikkonen, who was re-signed for 2017 on Thursday evening, and Sebastian Vettel qualified fifth and sixth, but Vettel will start 11th because his gearbox failed in final practice - which resulted in his second five-place grid penalty for an illegal gearbox change in as many races.
The top 10 was completed by Williams's Valtteri Bottas, Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz, Force India's Nico Hulkenberg and McLaren's Fernando Alonso, who was eighth before his best lap time was deleted for exceeding track limits at the final corner.
His team-mate Jenson Button, who has not been on Alonso's pace all weekend, was eliminated in first qualifying.
The 2009 world champion, who had a new floor that Alonso tested on Friday fitted for Saturday morning, was 0.5 seconds slower than the Spaniard after his rear wing came loose at Turn Eight yet McLaren decided not to send him out for a second run.
He was demoted by Renault's Kevin Magnussen and Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat. Button said he did not go out again as they thought Magnussen would have his fastest time deleted for exceeding track limits but the stewards decided to take no action on the Dane and Button was out.
Magnussen's English team-mate Jolyon Palmer qualified 18th for his first home grand prix.
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The enclosure at Sea Life London Aquarium, in Lambeth, includes two pools, a waterfall and underwater jets.
The penguins were moved to Edinburgh Zoo in February while their London home was refurbished.
Some of the group remain in Edinburgh to raise chicks born at their temporary Scottish home.
Jamie Oliver from Sea Life London Aquarium said: "Whilst they were up there, they had a successful breeding season. They've all laid eggs and the chicks have now hatched and there's no way we'd want to split the chicks from their parents."
The force has become the first in the world to recruit birds to tackle the increasing number of drones invading the Dutch skies.
"It's a low-tech solution to a hi-tech problem," police spokesman Dennis Janus said.
Despite concerns raised by animal rights group, the police say the birds are not in any danger.
A number of tests have been conducted since January and police seem confident about the programme.
The eagles will now be deployed whenever drones are believed to be posing a threat to the public or flying close to airports or sensitive areas.
"The eagles see the drones as prey and intercept them as they are flying, before landing where they feel safe with the drone still in their claws," Mr Janus told AFP.
About 100 officers will be trained to work with the eagles.
After successful trials, Dutch police bought four sea eagle chicks. They are now five months old.
As the police wait for their birds to mature, they will be using eagles supplied by a specialist company, Guard From Above.
The Dutch "flying squad" is expected to to be active next summer.
The museum was alerted after it found fake tickets were used on several occasions by Chinese tourists and guides during August, a source told Agence France Presse.
The same source said Belgian customs had, around the same time, found 3,600 fake tickets for the Louvre hidden in a package sent from China.
The Louvre is a top tourist attraction.
Housing famous art works such as the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo, it is one of the French capital's most visited sites and attracts some nine million people a year.
The first counterfeit tickets to be found on 12 August were quickly found to be forgeries.
"The ticket's texture was strange to touch and the general quality of the paper used wasn't good. The ink appeared to have run," a museum source told the Parisien newspaper.
But then some seized two days later were found to be of "very good quality, perfect clones of our tickets".
A criminal complaint was filed with the police on 15 August.
"We uncovered several more fake tickets in the following days, but we have not intercepted any since 26 August," a source told AFP.
"We are being very watchful because these tickets are valid for a year."
A judicial official was quoted as saying that several tour guides had been questioned in connection with the case but that no charges had been filed.
Valere Germain headed home the opener soon after the break to put the hosts, chasing their first title since 2000, into the lead.
Falcao slid home Benjamin Mendy's cross to make it 2-0 and turned home Thomas Lemar's ball to seal the win.
Paris St-Germain moved above Nice into second with a 3-1 win at Dijon.
Thiago Silva and Edinson Cavani scored in the final 10 minutes for Unai Emery's side, after Dijon's Julio Tavares had equalised Lucas Moura's opening goal in the first half.
Both PSG and Nice are three points behind Monaco, who are the second team in Europe to have scored 100 goals in all competitions this season. They were narrowly beaten to the mark by Barcelona - who played earlier in the day.
Elsewhere, former Arsenal and Middlesbrough forward Jeremie Aliadiere scored his first Ligue 1 goal in almost three years as bottom club Lorient won 1-0 at Lille.
The winner from Aliadiere, who returned to the club for a second spell last summer after two years in Qatar with Umm Salal, gave Lorient a first away victory in Ligue 1 since last April.
Match ends, Monaco 3, Nice 0.
Second Half ends, Monaco 3, Nice 0.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Paul Baysse.
Wylan Cyprien (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nabil Dirar (Monaco).
Valentin Eysseric (Nice) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Alassane Pléa with a through ball.
Substitution, Monaco. Kylian Mbappe-Lottin replaces Falcao.
Foul by Alassane Pléa (Nice).
Fabinho (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Monaco. Nabil Dirar replaces Bernardo Silva.
Dalbert (Nice) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Djibril Sidibe (Monaco).
Attempt missed. Arnaud Souquet (Nice) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Jean Michael Seri.
Corner, Nice. Conceded by Danijel Subasic.
Attempt saved. Alassane Pléa (Nice) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dalbert with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Alassane Pléa (Nice) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dalbert.
Foul by Wylan Cyprien (Nice).
João Moutinho (Monaco) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Monaco 3, Nice 0. Falcao (Monaco) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Thomas Lemar.
Attempt missed. Alassane Pléa (Nice) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jean Michael Seri.
Attempt blocked. Younès Belhanda (Nice) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Balotelli.
Substitution, Monaco. João Moutinho replaces Valère Germain.
Jean Michael Seri (Nice) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Falcao (Monaco).
Attempt blocked. Mario Balotelli (Nice) right footed shot from long range on the left is blocked.
Mario Balotelli (Nice) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Bernardo Silva (Monaco).
Corner, Nice. Conceded by Thomas Lemar.
Offside, Nice. Wylan Cyprien tries a through ball, but Mario Balotelli is caught offside.
Younès Belhanda (Nice) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Fabinho (Monaco).
Attempt missed. Younès Belhanda (Nice) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Alassane Pléa with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Alassane Pléa (Nice) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Valère Germain (Monaco) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Bernardo Silva with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Paul Baysse.
Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Monaco) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Nice. Younès Belhanda replaces Malang Sarr.
Malang Sarr (Nice) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bernardo Silva (Monaco).
Goal! Monaco 2, Nice 0. Falcao (Monaco) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner. Assisted by Benjamin Mendy with a cross.
Sir Bernard recently said an official policy to automatically believe victims had caused confusion among detectives investigating historical allegations.
He said there was a danger this meant complainants would always be believed.
But in a letter, the chief inspector of constabulary Sir Tom Winsor called Sir Bernard's comments misleading.
He said the policy was used for the purpose of recording a crime, rather than how claims should be investigated.
In 2014, Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary (HMIC) issued guidance which said "the presumption that a victim should always be believed should be institutionalised".
Speaking at a BBC event, Sir Bernard said it was time to "reformulate" the policy, so police showed empathy towards alleged victims but kept an open mind as they tested claims.
He went on to tell BBC Radio 4's Today programme that police had become "hung up" on the word "belief" and it had "confused officers".
He added there was a "grave danger" that "we will always believe any complaint that is made and that's not wise for any good investigator, nor as it would be for any journalist".
However, in a letter sent to the Met chief on 11 February, Sir Tom said the guidance was "conspicuously explicit" that the presumption of believing complainants was for the purpose of recording a crime once it had been reported to police.
It did not suggest complainants should be believed throughout the investigative process, he added.
He said: "In saying what you said on the Today programme, without qualification or context, and accepting the misapprehension on the part of the interviewer that the institutionalisation of belief should go much further than the simple administrative act of recording a crime, I regret you may have increased the risk that officers and others may not understand the position.
"Rather than dispel uncertainty, I fear you may have intensified it."
The Met's Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Mark Simmons, said it was "far from the truth" to suggest Sir Bernard was "confused" or had a "misapprehension on that issue".
He added: "I think the issue more significantly is in these really difficult areas where you go into the heart of some of the issues of vulnerability for some of the people who suffer these offences.
"They're complex matters to investigate and we need to make sure we get to the truth, but no, I'm pretty clear and I think all our people are, the commissioner is not confused about the approach we should be taking."
A review into the Met's policing procedures, which will be led by an ex-judge, is due to scrutinise the force's handling of investigations including Operation Midland - which is looking at claims that boys were abused by powerful men from politics, the military and law enforcement agencies in the 1970s and 80s.
The review follows criticism of the handling of cases involving former military chief Lord Bramall and the late Lord Brittan, a former home secretary.
Lord Bramall, who was told last month no action would be taken against him, later called for a review into the way cases were investigated.
Sir Bernard has apologised to the widow of Lord Brittan, who died without knowing a rape claim against him, which he denied, had been dropped.
But First Minister Carwyn Jones has not yet confirmed whether he will support the bill - which overhauls devolution.
The Wales Bill promises a simpler constitutional set up, but its detractors say it may reduce the assembly's powers.
The UK government is to hold back the bill's process through Parliament until the vote is considered.
Ministers in London have already made some concessions over the Wales Bill during its passage in the House of Lords.
As well as agreeing to devolving teacher's pay, the government has also agreed to consider giving Wales the power to ban fixed-odds betting terminals.
Mr Jones told AMs, in a document laid in the assembly, that he could not yet confirm whether the Welsh Government will support giving consent to the bill through the vote - known as a legislative consent motion (LCM).
He said he wanted to see the UK government's proposals for report stage - the next stage of the bill's journey through the House of Lords - and the terms of a financial deal between the UK and Welsh governments before he confirmed the Welsh Government's intent.
The Welsh and UK governments are currently negotiating on how Wales' funding would change once AMs begin to use tax raising powers.
It is convention that AMs approve of legislation that affects devolved functions in the assembly through LCMs.
The Wales Office declined to comment, though it said Lord Bourne had told peers that the UK government will not proceed to the third reading stage of the lawmaking process in the Lords - which follows report stage - until the LCM had been considered by the assembly.
Her children, three-year-old Zach and seven-year-old Emily, were already asleep.
That night someone cut phone lines, then poured petrol through the letterbox and started a fire which roared through the house.
It killed her daughter and left Mrs Salvini and her son with burns and traumatised.
The severed phone lines delayed rescue by the emergency services.
Now 23, her son Zach Salvini says his experience of the fire is his earliest memory.
He said: "I remember my mum frantically swung the door open, it was like a wall of something hit her, a wall of white.
"I remember my mum screaming 'Emily' over and over again."
Mrs Salvini said the fire "blew, pounced into the room".
She could not even see flames, but instead "hot sheets of pale yellow, sheets of white".
She managed to climb out of the window of her home and protect her son, as roof tiles dropped off the building.
Emily, who was sleeping in another room in the house, was already dead from breathing in smoke and from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Police have never found the person responsible for the blaze.
In the weeks leading up to the attack in Reading, Mrs Salvini's father, who babysat his grandchildren on Thursdays, had his tyres slashed.
Ten days before the arson attack, Mrs Salvini's phone lines were cut, and had to be replaced.
But she had lived happily as a single mother in the Caversham area of the town with Zach and Emily.
Now she is hoping a fresh appeal to the public will solve the 20-year-old mystery of who started the fire.
"I think it's really important for my whole family, it's important for Zach, it's important for them to know, but most of all it's important for Emily," she said.
"She was my beautiful little princess."
Mrs Salvini spoke of her love for her first born child. She had her when she was "young, newly-wed and straight out of uni".
"I was living in Italy with Marco, Emily and Zach's dad," she said.
"I couldn't speak a word of Italian, and there I was aged 23 up a mountain on Lake Garda, with this wonderful baby girl and I fell in love with her straight away."
Appealing once again for information, she said: "I hope this will spark someone's memory.
"It could be the thing that could result in us finding out who did this, who did this horrific thing?"
The Venezuelan's sponsor - national oil company PDVSA - pays the team a reputed $50m (£35m), but the money is several weeks overdue, sources say.
Maldonado, 30, will be replaced by former McLaren driver Kevin Magnussen if the payment is not made soon.
Renault have taken over the Lotus team and need confirmed drivers in time for a major media launch in early February.
British novice Jolyon Palmer is Renault's other driver for the 2016 season, which starts in Australia on 20 March.
A Renault spokesman said: "It's speculation at the moment. We have a contract with Pastor. That is the current situation.
"Who knows what could happen by Australia but, at the moment, we are going forward with Pastor and Jolyon."
Maldonado's manager, Nicolas Todt, was not available for comment.
Magnussen was given a tour of the Renault factory in Oxfordshire last week in full view of the whole team.
Insiders believe the situation has been leaked as a tactic to try to put pressure on PDVSA to pay the money it owes, but the Venezuelan economy is struggling as a result of a huge drop in oil prices.
Maldonado owes his position in F1 to former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who arranged for the sponsorship as a means of boosting the country's prestige.
Chavez died in 2013 but Maldonado's funding has continued under current president Nicolas Maduro.
Maldonado has won one race - the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix for Williams - in an F1 career that has been notable for its volatility.
His propensity for incident has led to the nickname 'Crash-tor' and has even spawned a satirical website devoted to his accident record.
Renault was reluctant to keep Maldonado for 2016, but he was signed by Lotus before the takeover was complete.
Magnussen, 23, is a free agent having been released by McLaren following a year as their reserve driver in 2015.
The Dane raced for the team in 2014 as team-mate to Briton Jenson Button and was second on his debut in Australia that year.
He is regarded as one of the most talented drivers without a current place on the F1 grid for 2016.
Journey times between Lincoln and Nottingham are currently slower than they were 100 years ago, according to campaign group Rail Fair.
In a letter from Secretary of State Patrick McLoughlin, funding for three years has been confirmed by the Department for Transport.
It is hoped the improved service will start running in May 2015.
Planned improvements
Earlier this year, Rail Fair - which claims the line is the "worst in the UK" - started a petition calling for the government to take action over proposals to improve the service.
Robert Jenrick, Conservative MP for Newark, said: "It is absurd that you could travel faster along this key line in 1909 than you can today.
"The line has been neglected for years. That is now changing and Newark and neighbouring communities will receive the east-west service they deserve."
In his letter, Mr McLoughlin said: "The department will continue to work closely with East Midlands Trains to ensure the service enhancements are operational and available to passengers from May 2015."
It is understood the government will contribute more than £1m to the estimated £2.1m scheme, with the rest of the costs being met by a "consortium of local authorities", the DfT said.
Mr Woodford was fired last October after he questioned dubious payments made by the firm.
After initially denying the accusations, Olympus eventually admitted that it had hidden $1.7bn (£1.1bn) of losses over 20 years.
Mr Woodford was said to be asking for $60m from a tribunal in London.
But after a night of negotiations, Mr Woodford's lawyer told the employment tribunal judge that they had reached a settlement - likely to be worth millions - and that final agreement would depend on ratification by the Olympus board at a meeting on 8 June.
"I am not at liberty, under the terms of the agreement, to go into any detail," Mr Woodford said.
"But I genuinely hope that in the interests of Olympus, they can move forward and also that I can."
He was the first foreign boss appointed at Olympus and was fired two weeks into the job after persistently warning about corruption at the upper levels of the company.
Mr Woodford had written six letters to directors of the firm because of his concerns over business methods at Olympus
Since the accounting scandal came to light, the company's shares have plunged, its board resigned and the US, UK and Japanese prosecutors are investigating the company.
Mr Woodford said he would celebrate the settlement by going sailing.
It has called on Highland Council to block the construction in Glen Etive.
Mobile operator EE wants to put up the 10m mast beside the road running through the glen near the southern end of Buachaille Etive Mor.
The body representing mountain users said EE's proposal would leave some views in the area "utterly ordinary".
In its objection, it said a number of alternative locations could be used in the glen, which would use the backdrop of the hills to make the visual impact less severe.
Its submission states: "As an organisation representing those who enjoy a range of outdoor activities, we recognise the importance of effective mobile telecommunications, especially in the context of safety in the hills.
"However, we believe that in the case of this proposal, viable alternatives are available to the developer. We object to the proposal and would urge EE and BT Group to think again."
Mountaineering Scotland chief executive David Gibson added: "Glen Etive is an iconic, beautiful glen within a National Scenic Area: one which offers visitors a fantastic experience of the true wild nature of Scotland's mountains.
"The mast and infrastructure would render some views utterly ordinary."
In a statement issued by EE it said: "Providing mobile coverage in Glen Etive is critical for search and rescue, the new Emergency Services Network and visitors to the area, and we welcome the feedback from Mountaineering Scotland and other parties as we develop our plans for providing mobile coverage in the area."
The host was speaking at a charity event in London, where he was auctioning what he described as his "last lap" on the Top Gear race track.
"I don't know when I did my last ever lap of the track, before the BBC sacks me," he said.
An investigation into Clarkson's current suspension following a "fracas" with a producer is still ongoing.
A report over the incident is due to be handed to director general Tony Hall next week, who will consider the evidence and "set out any further steps".
The Roundhouse Gala on Thursday saw Clarkson offer to drive someone round the Top Gear track as part of an experience offered during the auction.
"I didn't foresee my sacking, but I would like to do one last lap," he said.
"I'll go down to Surrey and I'll do one last lap of that track before the [BBC] sack me.
"And I'll drive somebody around in whatever I can get hold of when I'm sacked, so it's probably an Austin Maestro."
The presenter gave an expletive-filled description of BBC bosses, adding Top Gear had been "a great show" but it had been ruined by the corporation.
The BBC said it would "not be offering further commentary" on any issues involving Clarkson until the current investigation was concluded.
The presenter was suspended from Top Gear on 10 March, following an alleged altercation with producer Oisin Tymon.
All remaining shows in the current series of Top Gear were pulled following the incident.
An online petition calling for the star's reinstatement - set up by political blogger Guido Fawkes - has accrued almost one million signatures since the presenter's suspension.
It was delivered to New Broadcasting House on Friday.
The petition was delivered by a man dressed as Top Gear test driver "The Stig" who arrived at the BBC's London HQ in an armoured vehicle bearing the words "Bring Back Clarkson".
Clarkson publicly thanked his supporters on Twitter following the petition's delivery.
He said: "Many many thanks to all of the people who have called for my reinstatement. I'm very touched. We shall all learn next week what will happen."
Mr Adams, who joined the company from Singapore-based Tiger Airways in 2013, said that for personal reasons it was the right time to go.
He will remain in the post until April. Loganair has started the process of finding his successor.
Chairman David Harrison said: "Stewart has been an extremely hardworking chief executive and he has provided strong leadership."
The Scottish airline flies under Flybe livery and operates 31 routes across the Highlands and Islands as well as other parts of the UK.
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Last year, festival-goers were caught up in lengthy queues and traffic gridlock around the T in the Park site at Strathallan.
The organisers' new transport plan includes separate roads for buses and cars at the venue.
A bus station will also be created at a new location for next month's festival.
Ian Martin, transport manager at T in the Park, said: "We've made some major changes to our transport plans and we strongly advise people take the time to plan their journey.
"Our main message is that bus is best. You'll be able to relax while the driver gets you to the festival safely, quickly and closest to the site.
"We are confident in the set-up for 2016 and would remind fans that T in the Park is Scotland's biggest festival, so an element of patience will always be required, but waiting times will be of a normal level for an event of this scale."
He added: "Please be respectful of the local community and, if you are driving, leave time for toilet stops at service stations. Remember there is a strict drink-driving limit in Scotland, so don't risk it."
Due to temporary road closures, organisers have warned that satellite navigation systems will be "wrong" and have asked drivers to follow event signs.
Calvin Harris, the Stone Roses and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are scheduled to headline the three-day festival.
Griffiths had not netted in four games, including Scotland's win over Denmark, and missed a penalty before his brace.
"There's been talk of me hitting a barren spell and a few reporters giving me a bit of stick," he said.
"My all-round game's about scoring goals; if I'm not scoring I'm disappointed."
Griffiths, 25, feared another frustrating outing beckoned when Scott McDonald levelled after his opener at Fir Park.
Motherwell goalkeeper Connor Ripley denied Celtic on several occasions before allowing Griffiths' shot to squirm through his legs and re-establish the visitors' advantage.
The result put the champions eight points clear of second-placed Aberdeen, who were beaten at Hearts on Friday, at the top of the Scottish Premiership.
"When Motherwell pegged us back, I thought it was going to be one of those afternoons," said Griffiths. "The goalie was terrific and it's unfortunate he's made a mistake for my goal."
Griffiths was booked for removing his shirt after scoring his first and said his animated reaction was the culmination of pent-up frustration.
"There was so much anger in that celebration, partly because I set such high standards for myself, and a lot of belief as well," added the striker.
"The last three weeks haven't been good enough by my own standards, especially Wednesday night [in the 0-0 draw with Dundee], my first touch wasn't good enough, and I was criticised and rightly so."
Plans include a "duty of quality" for health boards and replacing community health councils with stronger bodies for patient voices.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said it would "ensure our health and social care services are fit for the future".
A consultation will now run for the next three months.
The plans in a White Paper were published jointly by Mr Gething and social services minister Rebecca Evans.
They also include:
It follows criticism by an influential international body - the OECD - which claimed health boards and social care services in Wales were not working well enough together.
The OECD also wanted a better system of inspection and regulation within the NHS and social care in Wales.
Mr Gething said he believed the proposals would "make a real difference" by putting people at the centre of how health and care services are delivered.
"It will also enable health and social care organisations to work together and across boundaries to ensure they deliver the very best care for people across Wales," he added.
Mr Igga has been speaker of parliament and a commander in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the ex-rebel group that now runs the country.
He succeeds Riek Machar, who was sacked by the president last month following an apparent power struggle.
South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of conflict with Sudan, making it the world's youngest country.
Numerous armed groups remain active in the oil-rich country.
After his dismissal, Mr Machar said he planned to challenge Mr Kiir for the leadership of the SPLM so that he can run for president in the 2015 election.
The entire cabinet was dismissed at the same time as Mr Machar on 24 July, and replaced this month with a smaller team.
Mr Kiir is from the Dinka community, which is the largest in South Sudan, while Mr Machar is from the second-largest group, the Nuer, some of whom have complained about Dinka domination.
Correspondents say Mr Kiir's choice of vice-president may be a way of shoring up support from Mr Igga's large Bari community in South Sudan's Central Equatoria region ahead of the elections in 2015.
Wickham, 22, appeared to elbow Belgian defender Vertonghen in the face during a tussle at a second-half corner.
Vertonghen, whose team won 3-1, was substituted after the incident, which was missed by referee Martin Atkinson.
Wickham has until 18:00 GMT on Tuesday, January 26 to respond to the charge.
Results are expected on 5 June, and there are few doubts that the former defence minister Abdul Fattah al-Sisi will win comfortably.
The only other candidate is veteran left-winger and former presidential contender Hamdeen Sabahi.
Why is the election being held early?
The army ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi after mass protests last July, and went on to outline a "roadmap" to democracy that provided for presidential elections two years ahead of schedule.
A parliamentary poll was meant to come first, but the interim government reversed the order in January.
Parliament will be elected later this year, once the president is firmly in power.
The new constitution of January 2014 limits the president to two consecutive four-year terms.
Mohammed Morsi is now on trial accused of inciting the murder of anti-government protesters, murdering prison officers during a 2011 escape from jail, espionage and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts.
What are the candidates' programmes and support base?
Mr Sisi has set out an ambitious plan to develop agriculture, housing, education, impoverished areas and employment.
He is vague on how the massive funds required would be raised, apart from calling for hard work from all and lower profit margins for state and private companies.
He campaigns under the slogan "Long live Egypt!" and says his win would mean the Muslim Brotherhood is "finished" as a political force.
Mr Sisi enjoys the support of several big businessmen, as well as a broad range of political parties from the Islamist right to the moderate left.
Hamdeen Sabahi, a leading left-winger since the 1970s, offers an alternative to young voters who favour a civilian candidate over a military one.
Under the slogan "We will pursue our dream", he promises to combat corruption and incompetence while promoting civil rights.
Like Mr Sisi, however, he says he will not re-legalise Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, which was banned as a terrorist group.
The parties and movements that back Mr Sabahi are overwhelmingly left-wing.
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Is the vote likely to be free and fair?
Two factors work against this. First, the election comes amid security and political turmoil.
The Muslim Brotherhood is continuing to protest against the removal of President Morsi, and the authorities have responded with a violent crackdown on the Brotherhood and its supporters.
Hundreds have died in clashes with security forces since last summer and hundreds of others face jail or even death sentences, prompting further protests.
Second is the overwhelming support Mr Sisi receives from the mainstream media, which are already portraying him as the next occupant of the presidential palace.
Furthermore, the Muslim Brotherhood's own media within Egypt have been banned, so this major opposition voice is restricted to online television and news portals hosted abroad. These do not have anything near the reach of the mainstream media.
Who is monitoring the polls?
Major Western monitoring groups are not observing the vote.
The US Carter Centre says it will not take part, though the European Union says it will monitor the poll across the country.
The Arab League will send 100 monitors, and the African Union will also send a mission despite having suspended Egypt from membership last year.
Who is calling for a boycott?
Several but not all Islamist parties have announced that they will boycott the vote, though some have endorsed Mr Sisi.
The Muslim Brotherhood regards Mr Morsi as the legitimate president and refuses to recognise the new election.
The pro-Morsi National Alliance to Support Legitimacy describes the vote as a "farce", and the Salafist Front has called it "illegitimate".
The political arm of the Gamaa Islamiya (Islamic Group), the Building and Development Party, says most of its members also favour a boycott.
The secular 6 April Youth Movement - prominent in the uprising against Hosni Mubarak - has also called for a boycott, saying the elections were just a way of "enthroning" Mr Sisi.
What problems will the new president face?
At home, the new president will have to tackle severe political, economic, security and social problems.
The public expects the president to deal with unemployment, inequality and corruption, but restoring security may be his single greatest challenge.
Abroad, the new leader will seek to maintain friendly ties with the US and the West, while trying to improve relations with those countries that supported Mr Morsi - Turkey and Qatar and, to some extent, Iran.
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The New Chapel Unitarian and Free Christian in Denton, Tameside, agreed the move at its annual general meeting.
Jean Clements, the church's worship leader, proposed the change after meeting a couple who had a transgender child.
The church was moved to make a change in order to help those in the same situation.
Mrs Clements said: "I felt saddened by the fact that this family were being shunned by many mainstream churches.
"However, when the family came to New Chapel, the congregation welcomed them with open arms. "
Mrs Clements described her congregation as "a multi-generational community who are very willing to accept change and progress" and said the Unitarian Movement stands for freedom, reason and tolerance.
New Chapel stressed it is for other Unitarian Chapels within neighbouring districts "to decide for themselves whether they wish to offer similar services".
The church said the transgender services would be "very similar" to an adult baptism.
"While I am being congratulated for our progress on this particular matter, I would like to thank one courageous girl for inspiring me to think carefully about this issue in the first place," Mrs Clements added.
Derek McAuley, the chief officer of the church's General Assembly, said it is "quite possible" other churches would follow suit.
The Unitarian church was the first to allow divorced people to remarry and has been receptive to interfaith marriages.
Fermanagh were relegated on a dramatic last day when Carlus McWilliams scored with the last kick of the game to give Derry a one-point victory.
The win at Brewster Park was not enough to save Derry, though, as they went down on points difference.
Galway and Kildare will meet in the Division Two final on 9 April.
Down had looked doomed, but they saved themselves from relegation when Jerome Johnston's late point salvaged a draw at Pairc ui Rinn.
The Mourne county finished the seven-match league campaign on five points, the same as Clare and Derry.
Fermanagh had looked to be well on the way to securing their survival as they recovered from conceding a first-minute goal to lead Derry by four points.
Conor McAtamney got that goal after just 15 seconds when Niall Loughlin flicked on straight from the throw-in.
It was a second McAtamney goal after the interval which hauled the Oak Leaf county level and they edged ahead through Enda Lynn.
James Kielt landed three points for Derry before being red-carded for a striking offence.
Sean Quigley converted seven frees and a 45 but it was a hugely disappointing end to the Division Two series for his Fermanagh team as McWilliams scored with a hopeful effort right at the end.
Green, 30, was released by the Stags after being told he was not a part of manager Steve Evans' plans.
Ex-Leyton Orient forward Palmer, 25, ended last season on loan at Luton.
Ginnelly, 20, played 13 games during a loan spell with Lincoln last season and has joined on a season-long deal.
Lincoln won the National League title in 2016-17 and earned promotion to League Two after a six-year absence.
Speaking about the addition of Green, Imps boss Danny Cowley told the club website: "Technically he's a really good footballer. He can play up front in a pair, or play on his own so he gives a bit of flexibility and versatility."
On Palmer, Cowley added: "Physically he's unbelievable, he's mobile, and has a desire to score goals. He gives us an alternative option and gives us the opportunity to switch formation too.
"We are delighted to be able to extend the loan of Josh. We thought he bought into what we are and the pressing game we like to play. He's got real talent, pace and he's got a good end product."
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According to a version of the text seen by the BBC, the cable says Mr Trump's temporary ban on refugees as well as nationals from seven Muslim majority countries will not achieve his aim of protecting Americans from terrorist attacks, and will likely be counterproductive.
The memo is set to be filed through the State Department's "dissent channel," a way for employees to register policy disagreements with the Secretary of State and other top officials.
While dissent cables are not that unusual, a State Department official has told the BBC that this document has garnered "hundreds" of signatures, which would be "unprecedented."
And while the dissent channel is meant to provide an avenue for protest without fear of reprisal, there are strong indications that this administration might not see it that way.
Asked about State Department criticism of the immigration ban, the White House Spokesman Sean Spicer said if "these career bureaucrats" had a problem with it, "they should either get with the programme or they can go."
The draft dissent cable argues Mr Trump's Executive Order will be ineffective because of the "vanishingly small" number of terror attacks committed by foreign nationals admitted to the US on a visa.
It warns that the ban will increase anti-American sentiment; that it will have an immediate and clear humanitarian impact; and that it will sour relations with the countries on the blacklist - Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Libya - as well as much of the Muslim world.
Going even further in a personal and moral appeal, the draft says the ban "stands in opposition to the core American and constitutional values that we, as federal employees, took an oath to uphold," such as equality and an abhorrence of discrimination on race, religion, sex or national origin.
Mr Spicer said the criticism was blown way out of proportion. He repeated Mr Trump's assertion that barely more than 100 people out of 325,000 travellers had been detained and held for questioning at US airports after the executive order was issued.
It's not clear, though, how many other people who were expecting to travel to the US in the near future using previously valid visas have had their plans upset by the changes.
Mr Spicer called the move to set up extreme vetting measures for refugees and certain categories of immigrants "common sense steps" to ensure "the safety of America."
While acknowledging that the dissent channel was an established way for State Department career officers to express themselves, he added that "if someone has a problem with that agenda, than that calls into question whether or not they should continue in that post."
The dissent channel was instituted in the early 1970s as an outlet for diplomats frustrated by US policy in turbulent times.
The very first cable was filed by the former Ambassador Jack Perry protesting the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam in 1972, on the eve of the Nixon-Breszhnev summit.
In an early analysis of dissent in the foreign service, author Kal Bird notes that this had no impact on the Nixon-Kissinger Vietnam policy, and that precisely because few dissent cables ever changed policy, they came to be seen as a tool of "desperate last resort."
He cites two cases of foreign service officers who were given poor work evaluations as a penalty for speaking out.
The most recent use of the dissent channel was in June last year, when more than 50 diplomats sharply criticised the Obama administration's policy in Syria.
They urged Mr Obama to authorise military strikes against Syrian government forces in order to stop their violations of a ceasefire in the civil war, and to back up US diplomacy with a "judicious use" of force.
This would have been a radical change in the US approach.
Then Secretary of State John Kerry heard them out.
The policy didn't change and the diplomats remained frustrated, but they continued in their jobs.
Comber-based TG Eakin Limited exports its products to more than 40 countries.
The company said the new posts would pay "well in excess of the average Northern Ireland salary".
The new extension, if given the go-ahead by Ards and North Down Council, would be the firm's second increase in floor space in as many years.
"We want to continue to invest in our premises at Ballystockart and bring jobs to the area," said managing director Jeremy Eakin.
"We need to recruit highly-skilled people in areas such as research and development, global sales and engineering."
TG Eakin Limited currently employs more than 70 people.
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany found that the birth rate in 28 European countries dropped as unemployment rose.
People under 25 have been particularly affected, along with those living in southern European countries like Spain.
The relationship between the economy and fertility has long been discussed, but remains controversial.
Researchers at the MPIDR said their study proved that "the extent of joblessness in a contemporary European country does in fact have an effect on birth rates".
"The financial crisis hit Europe at a time when birth rates in many countries had just began rising again," said demographer Michaela Kreyenfeld.
She said upward trends in some countries had come to a halt while in others, birth rates declined.
In Spain, the total fertility rate - the number of births per woman - fell nearly 8% between 2008 and 2011 as unemployment went from 8.3% to 11.3%.
A setback also occurred in Hungary, Ireland, Croatia and Latvia, the study said.
Formerly growing birth rates slowed in countries such as the Czech Republic, Poland and the United Kingdom.
But in Germany and Switzerland, where labour markets have weathered the crisis comparatively well, there was almost no change in the number of children born.
Europeans under the age of 25 have especially restrained from having children in the face of rising unemployment rates, the research shows. However it notes that many may be postponing having a family rather than deciding not to have one at all.
The study says a 1% increase in unemployment rates causes fertility to fall by nearly 0.2% among those aged 15 to 19, and 0.1% between 20 and 24.
But rising unemployment did not cause birth rates to change for those over 40.
"Fertility plans can be revised more easily at younger ages than at ages where the biological limits of fertility are approaching," said Ms Kreyenfeld.
The 26-year-old quit the Milwaukee Yamaha team two days before racing starts and now rides the Buildbase BMW Superbike he rode to victory last year.
Dunlop secured four wins at both of the last two TT meetings and is sure to figure strongly in every class.
He is set to begin his campaign in Saturday's six-lap Superbike race.
Dunlop had been suffering mechanical issues with the new Yamaha R1 machine at the North West 200 and TT practice.
He will now ride his own superstock spec BMW in the Superstock race and a 600cc Honda in the Supersport events, as well as wearing the Buildbase BMW livery in the Superbikes.
Among those expected to challenge Dunlop's superiority are his brother William and Tyco BMW team-mate Guy Martin, both chasing their first TT successes on the Mountain Course.
The pair have expressed satisfaction with the Northern Ireland team's switch to the German manufacturer, with the elder of the Dunlop brothers hailing his machinery for this season as "the best I have ever had".
William should be a leading contender in his favoured Supersport class aboard a 600cc Yamaha, with the much-in-demand Martin switching to a 675cc Smith's Triumph for the two smaller capacity outings.
New Zealander Bruce Anstey is likely to feature at the top end of the leaderboard on his fleet of Padgett's-prepared Hondas, a year after setting a new absolute lap record at 132.298mph, a speed which he believes could have been better but for losing a few crucial seconds.
John McGuinness and Manxman Conor Cummins fly the flag for the official Honda outfit in the two 'big bike' events, with the Morecambe man, a 21-time winner, keen to make up for lost time after a broken scaphoid hindered his efforts 12 months ago.
Meanwhile Yorkshire's Ian Hutchinson, the only man to achieve five victories in one week back in 2010, displayed a welcome return to form after years of serious injury with a couple of podium finishes at last month's North West 200.
The Bingley man spearheads the Paul Bird Motorsport Kawasaki challenge in the Superbike and Superstock events, but is another who moves to a Yamaha for the two Supersport races.
Two-time winner Gary Johnson crashed out while pushing for the lead in the Superstocks last year, but will have high hopes of adding to his tally of victories on board his GBMoto Kawasakis and Mar-Train Racing 600cc Yamaha.
James Hiller retains his ride under the Quattro Plant Kawasaki awning, while Michael Rutter continues his partnership with Bathams BMW for the blue riband class.
Among those seeking a first podium place are Cookstown Burrows Engineering recruit Jamie Hamilton and Lee Johnston, who campaigns BMW and Triumph bikes with backing from his 'day job' employers East Coast Construction.
Last year's Lightweight victor Dean Harrison represents the official Yamaha UK entry in the blue and white Mar-Train colours, while Dan Kneen breaks new ground as Anstey's team-mate in the Padgett's outfit.
Australian Cameron Donald also rides in the Padgett's livery in the 600cc jousts, but is Norton-mounted for the Superbike and Senior races.
Peter Hickman became the fastest-ever newcomer by lapping at an average speed of over 129mph last year and is fit to return to the saddle after being forced to sit out the North West 200 through injury.
His fellow Lincolnshire man Ivan Lintin will have high hopes after sealing a deal to ride for the RC Express Kawasaki outfit, while Keith Amor and Ryan Farquhar are back in the 1000cc classes following their partial return to the track last year, after initially retiring in 2012.
Farquhar also takes in the Supertwins category and is expected to be one of the main challengers for the top step of the rostrum.
Aggar, 32, began rowing after an accident left him paralysed in 2005.
He won Paralympic gold in the arms-shoulders single scull in Beijing in 2008 and took bronze in Rio last year.
"Rowing has shaped my life in so many ways. I will miss being alongside the team as they push towards Tokyo," said the four-time world champion from London.
Up to 60 cattle were spotted walking along the track and going into a tunnel between Hever and Ashurst in Kent.
Network Rail said it closed all lines while animals were escorted on to the platform at Hever railway station. The cows have now been removed and are safely back in the fields.
Trains between Oxted and Uckfield were cancelled or delayed by up to 30 minutes.
Francesca Ryan tweeted the picture of the herd with the caption: "Holy cow!"
She said: "I was pretty shocked as it's not the normal view when waiting for your train."
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued an improvement notice to the Kent and Medway Mental Health Trust.
It found the trust, which cares for more than 50,000 patients each year, failed to carry our basic safety checks, such as fire drills.
It has been ordered to make improvements by 31 July.
The trust was investigated after it was late reporting a number of "serious incidents" affecting patients and staff, which are supposed to be reported within 15 days.
In 2014 one incident took 425 days to report to the HSE. Another - described as a dangerous occurrence - took 112 days.
A whistleblower has also provided documents to BBC South East Today, which show evacuation drills in the Homeopathic Hospital, in Tunbridge Wells, have not been carried out since 2003.
A trust spokeswoman said: "The safety and wellbeing of patients is our number one priority.
"We have a number of measures in place including staff training."
It's a trust that cares for more than 50,000 of us every year and employs more than 3,000 people - it's a big, complicated organisation.
But it has been in the news for other issues. Sending people out of the county because they didn't have enough beds and there's currently a case before the Nursing and Midwifery Council for poor care.
The improvement notice said the trust "failed to conduct" its undertakings to ensure the health, safety and welfare of employees and patients.
Teresa Murray, a councillor on Medway Council who works closely with the trust, said she had not been told about the notice.
She said: "They've been through a rocky time in the last couple of years - they made cuts and they've had a lot of changes.
"I'm disappointed because this indicates that everything in the garden isn't rosy and there are still things that need improving."
In the footage, men wearing uniform throw an unarmed man over a cliff. They then shoot his motionless body.
An interior ministry spokesman said that if the video was authentic those responsible must be brought to justice.
Human rights groups say they have received numerous witness reports of torture and executions in Mosul.
Iraq's prime minister declared victory over IS in the city on Monday, after a nine-month battle that left large areas in ruins, killed thousands of civilians and displaced more than 920,000 others.
Troops are still clearing parts of the Old City, where as many as a couple of hundred militants may be hiding, according to commanders of the US-led coalition that supported the operation.
The BBC was unable to verify the authenticity of the video appearing to show the extrajudicial killing of a detainee, or say when or where it was filmed.
But Human Rights Watch said it had verified the location with satellite imagery.
The US-based group added that the video was one of four featuring alleged abuses that were posted online on Tuesday and Wednesday by an Iraqi man who regularly published information regarding security and military activities in and around Mosul.
Belkis Wille, senior Iraq researcher at Human Rights Watch, told the BBC: "In the final weeks of the battle for west Mosul, the pervasive attitude that I have observed among armed forces has been of momentum, the desire to get the battle wrapped up as quickly as possible, and a collapse of adherences to the laws of war."
Numerous witnesses had reported not only a significant increase in the torture and extrajudicial killing of IS suspects by armed forces, but also a feeling among personnel that they no longer needed to conceal such actions, she said.
"These reports have been met with congratulations from Baghdad on the victory, only further fostering the feeling of impunity among armed forces in Mosul."
At the end of June, Human Rights Watch published a report detailing allegations from four witnesses, who said they had seen Iraqi forces beat unarmed men and boys fleeing the fighting in Mosul and also obtained information about Iraqi forces killing unarmed men.
One witness said that he had seen two Counter-Terrorism Service personnel take down the corpse of a suspected IS militant that had been strung up to an electrical pole, and stone the body before taking a few photos of each other posing with it. Later, he added, a CTS fighter showed him a video of a detainee being shot dead.
The Swedish newspaper Expressen also cited an Iraqi federal police officer as saying that he had decapitated at least 50 men with knives and beaten others. The article said the officer had backed up the claims with photos and videos.
Human Rights Watch has also said that Iraqi forces are detaining and holding thousands of men and boys in inhumane conditions without charge, under the guise of screening them for IS-affiliation.
On Thursday, the group reported that at least 170 families of alleged IS members had been sent to a closed camp in Bartella, east of Mosul, for "psychological and ideological rehabilitation".
Local authorities in Anbar, Babil, Diyala, Nineveh and Salahuddin provinces were also demanding the eviction of families thought to have ties to IS, it said.
A film-maker and photographer is sharing his passion for wild swimming in Scotland's cold rivers, lochs and seas.
Calum Maclean, from Inverness, makes films and vlogs of his swims and posts them online and also to the website, BBC The Social.
His efforts to seek out new places to explore is also the feature of a new series of TV programmes to shown on Gaelic language channel BBC Alba from this week.
For Into the Water (Dhan Uisge in Gaelic), Mr Maclean was filmed at locations in the Highlands, islands and Argyll.
They included Loch Maree in Torridon, Sanna in Ardnamurchan and a swim between Seil and the island of Luing in Argyll.
Before attempting challenging swims at sea, Mr Maclean checks information on tides and currents, and draws on local boatmen's knowledge of the waters.
The wild swimmer said: "I never jump straight into cold water - so always acclimatise for a minute first.
"It's the first 90 seconds that take your body to get used to it, to help avoid cold water shock."
He added: "Like I say in one of the programmes, I always assess first: how deep is it, how cold is it, are there hidden dangers under the surface such as rocks or branches?
"Also, where can I get out, is there a current, or a rip tide?
"And though I sometimes swim alone - I am experienced at it, and I know my limits. I always get out before you feel cold."
However, Mr Maclean said there are also places in Scotland where most people should be able to swim safely.
Mr Maclean said: "There's a boom in wild swimming at the moment.
"It's very popular now in Scotland and England - in fact all over the world; groups are forming on social media to help people find out about the best natural swimming pools and go swimming together.
"I think the reason it's so big now is because it becomes addictive - you go once and then you've just got to go again."
In a phone call with Sergei Lavrov, Mr Kerry said the US held Russia responsible for the use of incendiary and bunker bombs against the city.
The US state department said it was making preparations to suspend talks.
Aleppo has come under heavy aerial bombardment since the end of a ceasefire a week ago.
In response to Mr Kerry's phone call, the Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Evgeny Zagaynov, said the "trend" of Russia being blamed for the attacks in Syria must stop.
"It's become a sort of unfortunate tradition that the majority of strikes on civilian facilities in Syria, without checking it ... is blamed on Damascus or Russia,'' he said.
But Moscow said on Wednesday they would send diplomats to Geneva to talk to the US about normalising the situation in Aleppo.
"On orders of the Russian president, we are ready to continue joint work with our American partners on the Syrian issue," the defence ministry said in a statement.
Some 250,000 people are trapped in the rebel-held east of the city. They are under siege from Russian-backed Syrian government forces, which have launched a fierce campaign to recapture the area. The bombardment has been among the worst in the history of the five-year conflict.
The US has accused Russia of taking part in strikes on civilian targets and possibly committing war crimes.
The two nations have been locked in talks in an attempt to revive a fragile peace agreement, but the US said last week that Russia had openly lied to the UN about its intentions.
At least 96 children have been killed and 223 injured in eastern Aleppo since Friday, according to the UN children's agency Unicef.
"The children of Aleppo are trapped in a living nightmare," said Unicef deputy executive director Justin Forsyth on Wednesday. "There are no words left to describe the suffering they are experiencing."
More than 170 people have been killed in east Aleppo since the beginning of the recent offensive, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group.
Air strikes continued to hit Aleppo's besieged eastern neighbourhoods on Tuesday night. Local medical workers said that two major hospitals were put out of service by the bombardment.
International medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) tweeted to say that both hospitals were out of service. Adham Sahloul, a spokesman for the US-based Syrian American Medical Society, which supports the two hospitals, said the two attacks took place at the same time, suggesting they were deliberately targeted.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon denounced the reported attacks on the two hospitals as "war crimes".
Addressing crowds in St Peter's Square in Rome on Wednesday, Pope Francis decried the bombing of Aleppo, saying those responsible for killing civilians would have to answer to God.
Aleppo, once Syria's largest city and its commercial and industrial hub, has been divided roughly in two since 2012, with President Bashar al-Assad's forces controlling the west and rebel factions the east.
In the past year, government troops have gradually broken the deadlock with the help of Iranian-backed militias and Russian air strikes. Earlier this month, they severed the rebels' last route into the east and placed its 250,000 residents under siege.
Children in Aleppo have made up a large proportion of casualties from air strikes, according to aid groups. At least 100,000 children remain trapped in the eastern part of the city.
In the government-held west, 49 children were killed by rebel shelling in July alone, the New York Times reports, citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
On Tuesday, the US pledged to provide an extra $364m (£276m) in humanitarian aid to people affected by the Syrian war.
The World Health Organization (WHO) meanwhile called for the "immediate establishment of humanitarian routes" into Aleppo, where hospitals are running out of supplies and rubble-strewn streets are preventing ambulances from getting through.
Other countries in Europe are already using similar measures as they struggle to cope with the number of migrants and refugees arriving.
The new law gives the Danish authorities "the power to search clothes and luggage of asylum seekers... with a view to finding assets" to cover expenses such as food and accommodation, according to a government statement (in Danish).
Police can seize cash over 10,000 kroner (€1,340, $1,450) as well as any individual items valued at more than that amount, such as watches, mobile phones and computers.
Wedding rings and any other items of sentimental value are exempt.
Savings and money in bank accounts will not be seized, a spokeswoman for the immigration ministry told the BBC.
As a main rule, money and valuables will be confiscated on arrival, she said. Assets discovered at a later stage during the asylum seeker's stay may also be taken.
However some experts have questioned how this will enforced.
While the seizing of assets has dominated international headlines, legal experts and human rights groups have voiced more alarm over measures making it harder to obtain family reunions and residency permits.
Amnesty International has said refugees fleeing war would face "an impossible choice" if the waiting period to apply to bring over their family was increased from one year to three.
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Switzerland has had a law enabling the authorities to confiscate assets belonging to asylum seekers for 20 years.
Migrants are required to declare their assets on arrival, and anything over 1,000 Swiss francs ($1,000; €900, £700) can be taken. Objects of emotional value are never seized, the government says.
In 2015, the Swiss authorities collected a total of 210,000 Swiss francs from 112 people. Most of this was cash.
As the vast majority of asylum seekers are destitute, assets are confiscated from only a small number, the government says.
It was forced to defend the policy last week following criticism of the Danish proposals.
In the Netherlands, asylum seekers are supposed to declare their assets, and deductions can be made if this exceeds €5,895 for an individual or €11,790 for a family.
They also have to pay levies on their income towards their stay, once they are allowed to work.
A report in the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad found asylum seekers had paid nearly €500,000 towards their living costs since the start of 2013.
Meanwhile in Germany, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann has reportedly said cash and valuables worth more than €750 can legally be seized in his state - one of the main entry points for migrants arriving in the country.
"The practice in Bavaria and the federal rules set out in law correspond in substance with the process in Switzerland," German newspaper Bild quoted him as saying.
In the neighbouring German region of Baden-Wuerttemberg, asylum seekers can only keep money and valuables worth €350 (£265), the report said.
The new law has been compared by some commentators to the confiscation of valuables from Jews during World War Two.
But Denmark's right-wing government has defended the move, saying it brings migrants in line with Danes who have to sell valuables to qualify for social benefits.
Denmark expects to receive around 20,000 asylum seekers in 2016, compared with 15,000 last year, the integration ministry told BBC News.
However, some politicians have said the move is "purely symbolic" in order to deter migrants from travelling to Denmark in the first place.
It comes amid heightened tensions over the migration crisis in Europe, with recent opinion polls suggesting 70% of Danes rank immigration as their top political concern.
Prime Minister Rasmussen's Venstre (Liberal) party won the June 2015 election after promising an "immediate slowdown" of refugees.
Despite being a member of the EU, Denmark has opted out of most of the bloc's asylum rules.
The country's immigration minister has repeatedly insisted that "Denmark's immigration policy is decided in Denmark, not in Brussels".
However, Denmark is bound by the UN Refugee Convention, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has warned that the latest plans risk violating these standards.
In a letter to Ms Stojberg, the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, Nils Muiznieks, also said the issue of delaying family reunions raised "issues of compatibility with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights which protects the right to respect for one's family life".
The bill "could also infringe on the rights of children to live within their family environment, as prescribed by the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child".
But the concerns were dismissed by government ministers.
"Those are his personal views," AFP news agency quoted Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen as saying. She said the Council of Europe had not started a legal case against the move.
Sunderland had been given permission to speak to the management team as they seek a replacement for David Moyes.
The Dons said on their website they were "pleased to confirm" the duo "have elected to remain at Pittodrie until at least the summer of 2019".
And McInnes, 45, said: "I feel there is so much still to be done here at Aberdeen."
Scot Moyes resigned as Black Cats boss following their relegation from the Premier League.
The two clubs agreed compensation, allowing the English side to speak to former Scotland player McInnes, who previously managed in England with Bristol City.
He started his management career at St Johnstone, where he also played, having featured for Greenock Morton, Rangers and West Brom as a midfielder. His two international appearances came in 2002.
McInnes replaced Craig Brown as Dons boss in 2013 and the following year led the club to their first trophy in 19 years by winning the League Cup final against Inverness Caledonian Thistle on penalties. In 2015, the Pittodrie manager and Docherty signed new contracts until 2019.
Aberdeen have finished second to Celtic in the Scottish Premiership three years running and were also runners-up to Brendan Rodgers' side in the Scottish Cup and League Cup in 2016-17.
Since May's 2-1 Scottish Cup final defeat, first-team regulars Ryan Jack, Niall McGinn and Ash Taylor have left the Dons under freedom of contract while winger Jonny Hayes is nearing a move to Celtic.
"We have improved season on season and that is not something I'm planning on changing," said McInnes.
"While we have lost players from last season, they will be replaced by signings of similar quality and our first challenge is to reach the group stages of the Europa League after coming so close in each of the last three seasons," McInnes explained.
"The recent investment in the club from Dave Cormack, who has rejoined the board, now puts us in an even healthier situation financially and that will allow us to be in a position to take the club to the next stage."
And chairman Stewart Milne added: "Given what Derek has achieved here, there is inevitably going to be interest from other clubs and in making the decision to stay, he has demonstrated how much Aberdeen Football Club means to him.
"I make no bones about it, it would have been a massive blow to lose Derek at this time.
"We are in the process of rebuilding a strong squad to ensure we continue our on-field progress, we need to deliver the new training and community facilities and subsequently the new stadium."
1300s - Tutsis migrate into what is now Rwanda, which was already inhabited by the Twa and Hutu peoples.
1600s - Tutsi King Ruganzu Ndori subdues central Rwanda and outlying Hutu areas.
Late 1800s - Tutsi King Kigeri Rwabugiri establishes a unified state with a centralised military structure.
1858 - British explorer Hanning Speke is the first European to visit the area.
1890 - Rwanda becomes part of German East Africa.
1916 - Belgian forces occupy Rwanda.
1923 - Belgium granted League of Nations mandate to govern Ruanda-Urundi, which it ruled indirectly through Tutsi kings.
1946 - Ruanda-Urundi becomes UN trust territory governed by Belgium.
1957 - Hutus issue manifesto calling for a change in Rwanda's power structure to give them a voice commensurate with their numbers; Hutu political parties formed.
1959 - Tutsi King Kigeri V, together with tens of thousands of Tutsis, forced into exile in Uganda following inter-ethnic violence.
The assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana (r) sparked the 1994 genocide
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1961 - Rwanda proclaimed a republic.
1962 - Rwanda becomes independent with a Hutu, Gregoire Kayibanda, as president; many Tutsis leave the country.
1963 - About 20,000 Tutsis are killed following an incursion by Tutsi rebels based in Burundi.
1973 - President Gregoire Kayibanda ousted in military coup led by Juvenal Habyarimana.
1978 - New constitution ratified; Habyarimana elected president.
1988 - Some 50,000 Hutu refugees flee to Rwanda from Burundi following ethnic violence there.
1990 - Forces of the rebel, mainly Tutsi, Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) invade Rwanda from Uganda.
1991 - New multi-party constitution promulgated.
1993 - President Habyarimana signs a power-sharing agreement with the Tutsis in the Tanzanian town of Arusha, ostensibly signalling the end of civil war; UN mission sent to monitor the peace agreement.
1994 April - Habyarimana and the Burundian president are killed after their plane is shot down over Kigali; RPF launches a major offensive; extremist Hutu militia and elements of the Rwandan military begin the systematic massacre of Tutsis. Within 100 days around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus are killed; Hutu militias flee to Zaire, taking with them around 2 million Hutu refugees.
Around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the 1994 massacre
Rwanda: How the genocide happened
1994-96 - Refugee camps in Zaire fall under the control of the Hutu militias responsible for the genocide in Rwanda.
1995 - Extremist Hutu militias and Zairean government forces attack local Zairean Banyamulenge Tutsis; Zaire attempts to force refugees back into Rwanda.
1995 - UN-appointed international tribunal begins charging and sentencing a number of people responsible for the Hutu-Tutsi atrocities.
1996 - Rwandan troops invade and attack Hutu militia-dominated camps in Zaire in order to drive home the refugees.
1997 - Rwandan- and Ugandan-backed rebels depose President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire; Laurent Kabila becomes president of Zaire, which is renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo.
1998 - Rwanda switches allegiance to support rebel forces trying to depose Kabila in the wake of the Congolese president's failure to expel extremist Hutu militias.
2000 March - Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu, a Hutu, resigns over differences regarding the composition of a new cabinet and after accusing parliament of targeting Hutu politicians in anti-corruption investigations.
2000 April - Ministers and members of parliament elect Vice-President Paul Kagame as Rwanda's new president.
2001 October - Voting to elect members of traditional "gacaca" courts begins. The courts - in which ordinary Rwandans judge their peers - aim to clear the backlog of 1994 genocide cases.
2001 December - A new flag and national anthem are unveiled to try to promote national unity and reconciliation.
2002 April - Former president Pasteur Bizimungu is arrested and faces trial on charges of illegal political activity and threats to state security.
2002 July - Rwanda, DR Congo sign peace deal under which Rwanda will pull troops out of DR Congo and DR Congo will help disarm Rwandan Hutu gunmen blamed for killing Tutsi minority in 1994 genocide.
2002 October - Rwanda says it has pulled the last of its troops out of DR Congo, four years after they went in to support Congolese rebels against the Kabila government.
2003 May - Voters back a draft constitution which bans the incitement of ethnic hatred.
2003 August - Paul Kagame wins the first presidential elections since the 1994 genocide.
2003 October - First multi-party parliamentary elections; President Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front wins absolute majority. EU observers say poll was marred by irregularities and fraud.
2003 December - Three former media directors found guilty of inciting Hutus to kill Tutsis during 1994 genocide and receive lengthy jail sentences.
2004 March - President Kagame rejects French report which says he ordered 1994 attack on president's plane, which sparked genocide.
2004 June - Former president, Pasteur Bizimungu, is sentenced to 15 years in jail for embezzlement, inciting violence and associating with criminals.
2005 March - The main Hutu rebel group, the FDLR, says it is ending its armed struggle. FDLR is one of several groups accused of creating instability in DR Congo; many of its members are accused of taking part in 1994 genocide.
2005 July - Government begins the mass release of 36,000 prisoners. Most of them have confessed to involvement in the 1994 genocide. It is the third phase of releases since 2003 - part of an attempt to ease overcrowding.
2006 January - Rwanda's 12 provinces are replaced by a smaller number of regions with the aim of creating ethnically-diverse administrative areas.
2006 November - Rwanda breaks off diplomatic ties with France after a French judge issues an international arrest warrant for President Kagame, alleging he was involved in bringing down Habyarimana's plane.
2006 December - Father Athanase Seromba becomes the first Roman Catholic priest to be convicted for involvement in the 1994 genocide. The International Criminal Tribunal sentences him to life in prison.
2007 February - Some 8,000 prisoners accused of genocide are released. Some 60,000 suspects have been freed since 2003 to ease prison overcrowding.
2007 April - Former President Pasteur Bizimungu is released from jail three years into his 15-year sentence after receiving a presidential pardon.
2007 October - Inquiry launched into 1994 presidential plane crash that sparked the genocide.
2007 November - Rwanda signs a peace agreement with Democratic Republic of Congo under which the latter will hand over those suspected of involvement in the 1994 genocide to Kigali and to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
2008 January - French police arrest former Rwandan army officer Marcel Bivugabagabo who is on list of war criminals wanted for trial by the Rwandan government.
2008 February - A Spanish judge issues arrest warrants for 40 Rwandan army officers, accusing them of genocide, terrorism and crimes against humanity.
2008 August - Rwanda accuses France of having played an active role in the genocide of 1994, and issues a report naming more than 30 senior French officials. France says the claims are unacceptable.
2008 September - President Paul Kagame's Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) wins large majority in parliamentary elections.
2008 October - Rwanda decides all education will be taught in English instead of French, officially as a result of joining the English-speaking East African Community.
2008 December - One of Rwanda's most famous singers, Simon Bikindi, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for inciting violence during the genocide.
UN report accuses Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo of directly helping Tutsi rebels fighting in eastern DR Congo. Rwanda denies supplying aid and child soldiers.
Theoneste Bagosora sentenced to life imprisonment at UN tribunal for masterminding genocide.
2009 January - Former Justice Minister Agnes Ntamabyariro is jailed for life by a Kigali court for conspiracy to plan the genocide and speeches inciting people to take part.
2009 February - Rwandan troops leave the Democratic Republic of Congo five weeks after entering to attack Hutu rebels.
UN war crimes court finds former army chaplain Emmanuel Rukundo guilty of genocide, sexual assault and kidnapping during genocide, sentences him to 25 years in jail.
2009 March - Rwandan MP and governing party member Beatrice Nirere found guilty of genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment in a traditional gacaca community court.
2009 November - Rwanda is admitted to the Commonwealth, as only the second country after Mozambique to become a member without a British colonial past or constitutional ties to the UK.
France and Rwanda restore diplomatic relations, three years after they were severed over a row about responsibility for the 1990s genocide.
2009 December - Rwanda is declared free of landmines - the first country to achieve this status.
2010 February - French President Nicolas Sarkozy visits to mark reconciliation after years of mutual recrimination over the genocide.
2010 April - Opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, who planned to run against President Kagame in the August elections, is arrested.
2010 June - Ex-army chief of staff Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, a former ally turned critic of President Kagame, is wounded in a shooting while in exile in South Africa.
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2010 August - President Kagame wins new term in elections.
2010 October - UN report into 1993-2003 conflict in DR Congo says Rwandan forces took part in attacks on Hutu civilians which - if proven in court - could amount to genocide.
2010 December - Exiled military officers General Kayumba Nyamwasa and Colonel Patrick Karegeya form new political party - Rwanda National Congress.
2011 February - Opposition leader Bernard Ntaganda, accused of stoking ethnic tensions, is sentenced to four years in jail. Rights groups criticise the ruling.
2011 June - Former family minister Pauline Nyiramasuhuko becomes first woman to be found guilty of genocide by an international court.
2011 September - Former presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire goes on trial accused of genocide denial and working with a terrorist group.
2011 December - Hutu rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana becomes the first suspect brought to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to be freed after finds rules that there is insufficient evidence for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
2012 June - Rwanda shuts down "gacaca" community courts that for 10 years tried those accused of involvement in the 1994 genocide.
2012 July - The US, Britain and the Netherlands halt aid to Rwanda over UN accusations that it is fuelling a rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo by training rebel troops. Rwanda denies the charge.
2012 October - A Rwandan court sentences opposition leader Victoire Ingabire to eight years in jail on charges of threatening state security and "belittling" the 1994 genocide.
2012 December - The UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) convicts former government minister and key organiser of the 1994 genocide Augustin Ngirabatware to 35 years in prison.
2013 February - The ICTR overturns the 2011 genocide convictions of former ministers Justin Mugenzi and Prosper Mugiraneza, to the dismay of Rwandan prosecutors.
Opposition leader Victoire Ingabire (r) was jailed following a trial she says was politically motivated
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2013 September - French court frees former army deputy chief-of-staff Laurent Serubuga, turning down an extradition request on the grounds that genocide and crimes against humanity were not punishable by law in Rwanda in 1994.
2013 September - Parliamentary elections. Governing RPF party gains a resounding victory.
2014 January - Leading opposition figure Patrick Karegeya dies in exile in South Africa, which becomes embroiled in a diplomatic row with Rwanda.
2014 March - Former Rwandan intelligence officer Pascal Simbikangwa is becomes the first man to be convicted in France in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
2014 October - Rwanda suspends BBC broadcasts in the Kinyarwanda language because of a film questioning official accounts of the 1994 genocide.
2015 February - An official inquiry in Rwanda calls for criminal and civil proceedings against the BBC over a documentary which questioned official accounts of the 1994 genocide. The BBC rejects the inquiry's findings.
2015 April - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda holds its last hearings, 10 years after opening, and having convicted 93 individuals in connection with the 1994 genocide.
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Scotland Yard said the male cyclist rowed with the female driver, who was in a small dark car, on Victorian Grove on 10 February at 21:15 GMT.
He then rode off along the road but was struck by the same car near the junction with Ormsby Place.
The 38-year-old remains in an east London hospital with serious injuries.
Police have appealed for anybody with information about the crash to contact them.
Holders Lightning earned a 56-run win over the North West Warriors at Bready helped by George Dockrell's three wickets and Andrew Balbirnie's 44.
Leinster hit 153 and after reducing the Warriors to 42-6, eased to victory.
The Northern Knights clinched a nine-run DL win over debutants the Munster Reds in a rain-affected game at The Mardyke in Cork.
At Bready, Johnny Robinson hit three sixes in an unbeaten 37-ball 38 but it was too little, too late as the Warriors were dismissed for 97.
Ireland spinner Dockrell produced figures of 3-20 with Eddie Richardson (3-11) and Kevin O'Brien (2-14) the other main wicket-takers.
Earlier, Balbirnie top-scored with 44 from 31 balls to get Lightning off to a strong start before three Andy McBrine wickets had the game evenly poised at 92-6.
However, Lightning added 60 in the last seven overs with Dockrell (29 not out) and Max Sorensen (23) making vital contributions.
In Cork, Adam Dennison (33) and Graeme McCarter (25) led the Knights out of the traps as they raced to 82 for 2 in just eight overs.
They were pegged back by a superb spell from Stephan Grobler (3-12) which saw them faltering at 124-8 after 15 overs when the rain came.
On the resumption, Munster needed a DL adjusted 122 to win, but despite a quite brilliant 59 from 40 balls by Jack Tector, he received little in the way of meaningful support before play was halted by bad light with Munster 92-8 after 13 overs.
That meant the Knights were declared nine-run winners.
The next action in the competition is on Monday, when the Warriors host Knights in a 50-over game at Strabane, followed by the maiden first-class match between the same opponents at Eglinton on Tuesday.
Hanley Energy Inter-Provincial Trophy results
Leinster Lightning beat NW Warriors by 56 runs
Leinster Lightning 153-8 (20 overs): A Balbirnie 44, G Dockrell 29 no, S Singh 27, M Sorensen 23; A McBrine 3-19)
North West Warriors 97 all out (17 overs): J Robinson 38 no; E Richardson 3-11, G Dockrell 3-20, K O'Brien 2-14)
Northern Knights beat Munster Reds by 9 runs (DL) at The Mardyke
Northern Knights 124-8 (15 overs): A Dennison 33, G McCarter 25, S Grobler 3-12, H Tector 2-18, M Neville 2-22)
Munster Reds 92-8 (13 overs): J Tector 59, J Mulder 2-8, G Kidd 2-25)
US authorities proposed the fine on Tuesday, saying that the firm, SkyPan International, flew 65 such flights over more than two years.
The fine would be more than 100 times larger than the previous biggest punishment.
The company said it has not had time to review the proposal in detail.
The proposed fine was so large, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told the Associated Press (AP), because it had asked SkyPan to stop the flights, but the firm continued anyway.
In a statement, the FAA said that 43 of the flights were in the heavily restricted Class B New York airspace without air traffic control clearance.
The airspace is usually around airports and stretches from the ground up to a maximum of 10,000ft. It is often shaped like an inverted pyramid.
"Flying unmanned aircraft in violation of the Federal Aviation Regulations is illegal and can be dangerous," said FAA Administrator Michael Huerta. "We have the safest airspace in the world, and everyone who uses it must understand and observe our comprehensive set of rules and regulations."
It said that the firm operated the aircraft in a "careless or reckless manner so as to endanger lives or property" during the flights, which allegedly took place between 21 March 2012 and 15 December 2014. The FAA further alleged that, on all 65 flights, the aircraft lacked the proper airworthiness certification.
SkyPan is a Chicago-based firm that specialises in aerial photography. Its production co-ordinator Karl Brewick told the AP that it had not had a chance to review the fine proposal and had no immediate comment. The firm has 30 days to respond to the FAA's proposed fine.
The previous largest fine for drone operations was $18,700 (£12,200), which was proposed in September against Xizmo Media, a New York video production company, the FAA said.
On Wednesday, the day after its announcement, an FAA official was due to face questioning by a House of Representatives committee on what the agency was doing to address safety hazards created by drones flying too close to manned aircraft.
FAA officials have said they are receiving multiple reports daily of drones flying in the vicinity of airports and airplanes, Associated Press reported.
Between November 2014 and August 2015, the agency received more than 700 reports by pilots of drone sightings, although questions have been raised about whether some reports involved birds mistaken for drones. Most of the flights appeared to be unauthorised.
Following Khan's unsuccessful foray into the middleweight division, a match between him and IBF welterweight champion Brook seemed natural.
But Khan said Brook is not a big enough name and they simply do not get on.
"Eddie Hearn [Brook's promoter] keeps saying Brook is a big draw, but he's not," said Khan.
"I respect him, he's got a world title, but he's not a big name. He's gone down his route, I've gone down my route and I don't like him.
"I want to fight the biggest names, leave a great legacy and I've only got a few fights left.
"I was out-boxing Canelo for six rounds, so I can go straight into another big fight. So I don't think the Kell Brook fight will happen."
Bolton's Khan and Sheffield's Brook have been circling each other for years and when the latter won a world title in 2014, a match-up seemed inevitable.
However, despite not owning a world title himself since 2012 and losing for a fourth time on Saturday, Khan has always insisted Brook is not at his level.
Instead, Khan, 29, is likely to take a rematch with American Danny Garcia, the WBC welterweight champion who knocked him out four years ago.
Despite being knocked out in brutal fashion by Avarez in Las Vegas, Khan gave a good enough account of himself to make a match against Brook compelling.
But Brook, 30, will have to look elsewhere for his next payday, with a unification bout against WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas most likely.
Brook tweeted "I'm here, all-British showdown" after Saturday's fight, but said on Monday that it "wasn't safe" for him to fight Khan.
"He's had some bad knockouts. I punch just as hard as Canelo. It would just be a matter of time before the same thing happened," Brook said.
Meanwhile, Khan tipped Gennady Golovkin to beat Alvarez if that fight happens later this year.
Alvarez, who fought Khan at a catch-weight of 155lb, says he is willing to fight Golovkin at the natural middleweight limit of 160lb.
Kazakhstan's Golovkin, who has 32 knockouts from 35 fights, is the WBA and IBF middleweight champion, while Alvarez owns the WBC belt.
"On boxing skills alone, Canelo is very beatable," said Khan, who was knocked out by Alvarez in the sixth round in Las Vegas.
"Golovkin is a very good boxer and a big guy as well, so he'll be able to deal with Canelo's pressure and size.
"That fight should happen, Canelo needs to fight someone his own weight. But I think Golovkin would edge it."
Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in the Budget that the rate for Class 4 NICS would rise from 9% to 10% in April 2018, and to 11% in 2019.
That compares to 12% currently paid by employees.
"The difference in National Insurance Contributions is no longer justified," Mr Hammond said.
Self-employed people have traditionally paid lower NICS than employees, as they receive fewer state benefits.
But the chancellor said the self-employed now had equal access to the new state pension. He also said that the government would consult on parental benefits, some of which self-employed people cannot claim.
The chancellor said all self-employed people who earned less than £16,250 would be better off.
Around half of the 4.8 million workers registered as self-employed earn less than £13,000, according to the think tank the Resolution Foundation.
As a result it said most such workers - such as low-paid hairdressers - will be better off by 2019/20.
source: Resolution Foundation
But the rise, which will cost those affected an average of 60p a week, was criticised by entrepreneurs.
"Increasing National Insurance rates for the self-employed could be a further step by the government to penalise those who are taking risks and starting a business," said Lucy-Rose Walker, the chief executive of Entrepreneurial Spark.
Others said it was unfair that the self-employed would have to pay more, when they do not receive the same level of state benefits.
"Self-employees are subject to a lower national insurance contribution because they do not receive the same entitlements and benefits as their employed counterparts - such as holiday and sick leave," said Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of tax at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Those paid less than £16,250 will be better off because of a planned abolition of a different class of NICS - Class 2 - in April 2018.
Under Class 2 NICS, self-employed workers pay 2% on qualifying earnings between £5,965 and £8060, amounting to £2.80 a week.
The increase in the NICS rate will raise £145m a year for the Treasury by 2021-22.
Matthew Taylor, head of the Royal Society of Arts, is due to produce a report on how the self-employed are taxed later this year.
He has already said that the Treasury is missing out on millions of pounds, as a result of the workers who have been designated as self-employed.
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President Vladimir Putin said Russia would put more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles into service this year.
It is part of a wide-reaching programme to modernise the country's military.
The move comes after the US proposed increasing its military presence in Nato states in Eastern Europe.
Tensions are high over Russia's role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that the statement from Mr Putin was "confirming the pattern and behaviour of Russia over a period of time - we have seen Russia is investing more in defence in general and in its nuclear capability in particular".
He said: "This nuclear sabre-rattling of Russia is unjustified, it's destabilising and it's dangerous.
"This is something which we are addressing and it's also one of the reasons why we now are increasing the readiness and the preparedness of our forces."
He added that "what Nato now does in the eastern part of the alliance is something that is proportionate, that is defensive and that is fully in line with our international commitments".
US Secretary of State John Kerry also expressed concern over President Putin's announcement, saying the decision was in contravention of the Start agreement designed to destroy nuclear weapons in the former territories of the Soviet Union.
"It could well be posturing with respect to negotiations because of their concerns about military moves being made by Nato itself," he said.
But "nobody should hear that kind of announcement from the leader of a powerful country and not be concerned about what the implications are," he added.
Following Mr Stoltenberg's comments, Mr Putin said that Russia would be forced to aim its armed forces at any countries that might threaten it.
Earlier, Mr Putin said the weapons would be able to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defence systems.
Nato and Western leaders accuse Russia of sending soldiers and heavy weapons, including tanks and missiles, to the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Russia has repeatedly denied this, insisting that any Russians fighting there are "volunteers".
Russia has increased its defence spending substantially under Vladimir Putin, and is in the midst of a massive modernisation programme, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow.
The missiles are hi-tech replacements, not additions to Russia's nuclear arsenal, but the nod to the US is clear, our correspondent says.
All numbers are approximate estimates
Source: Federation of American Scientists
Inside their apartment, south of Gaza City, the children of the Abu Shaban family are studying for their end-of-year exams by candlelight.
"We have no electricity when we teach our children," says Suniya, their mother. "This problem will affect their grades a lot."
"The children are worried about the candles," she adds. "We know they're dangerous but we can't afford batteries for lights or back-up power."
"The refrigerator and most of our electrical appliances have burnt out because the power comes and goes so much. We're constantly chasing after electricity."
Gaza has long struggled with an energy shortage, but recently the situation has got much worse. Mains electricity is switched off for 16 to 20 hours a day.
Behind the crisis is an escalating political power struggle between the Islamist group, Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority (PA), dominated by the rival Fatah movement.
Hamas seized control of Gaza almost a decade ago - a year after it won legislative elections - ousting forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas.
So far, all attempts at reconciliation have failed.
Now, Mr Abbas's West Bank-based government appears to be piling on financial pressure as it tries to reassert its authority over the Strip.
It has cut the salaries of more than 60,000 civil servants in the impoverished territory by a third, a step it blames on decreasing foreign aid.
Gaza's only power plant, which runs on diesel, was shut down last month after the PA scrapped a tax exemption, more than doubling the price of the fuel.
The plant had been producing about 60MW of power a day, about 30% of the energy normally available.
Now, the PA says it will no longer honour any invoices for an additional 125MW of electricity supplied by Israel.
Its latest moves come amid fresh efforts by the United States to revive the moribund Middle East peace process. President Donald Trump is expected to visit Israel and the West Bank next week.
The US, European Union and Israel, among others, consider Hamas a terrorist group. Israel and Egypt tightened a blockade of Gaza after the Hamas takeover in 2007.
"The Americans and mainly the Israelis have been accusing President Abbas of being weak, [saying] he has no control over the Gaza Strip and is therefore no partner for peace," says Mkhaimar Abusada, a political science professor at al-Azhar University - Gaza.
"He wants to restore his power over Gaza, to be taken more seriously."
The lack of energy is forcing hospitals here to cancel non-emergency surgeries.
The United Nations has donated some fuel for generators.
It is also helping desalination plants to continue running, but at just 15% of their capacity. The reductions mean water supplies are reduced.
Wastewater in Gaza is not being treated properly and pumped out to sea. That means some raw sewage is being discharged just off the coast.
"The UN can only alleviate some of the humanitarian suffering of those who are most vulnerable," says the UN Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov. "We cannot foot the bill for the electricity in Gaza."
Mr Mladenov warns the "very grave" situation could become "catastrophic" if power from Israel is stopped.
A spokesperson for Cogat, Israel's military co-ordinator for civilian activities in the Palestinian Territories, says: "In the absence of the PA, payments for electricity in Gaza can be made through the international community or private entities."
The payments amounts to $11.1m (£8.6m) a month.
The Strip gets some power from Egypt but supplies are often disrupted because of unrest in the Sinai peninsula.
Previously, Qatar and Turkey, both major donors to Gaza, have given diesel.
Mr Mladenov says he is working hard to pass on the message to "all sides" that a political settlement is needed.
"The only reasonable political solution is in fact, to work on returning Gaza to the legitimate Palestinian Authority, the government," he adds.
President Abbas wants Hamas to dissolve a committee it recently set up to manage affairs in Gaza.
He is pushing for the PA to take control of border crossings and government offices and help set up a unity administration that can prepare for new elections.
Meanwhile, Hamas rejects Mr Abbas's efforts to take greater control of Gaza.
Damaging rivalry between the main Palestinian factions looks set to remain a potential stumbling block for peace efforts.
Many of Gaza's almost two million residents are hoping for a short-term solution.
They point out that the holy month of Ramadan is approaching, when observant Muslims fast from dawn until sunset. Seasonal temperatures are also rising.
But for now they are being left in the dark over what happens next.
Alexander Woodside, 37, had disappeared on Friday while on an external work placement.
He was traced to the Kirkcaldy area in the early hours of Sunday and taken back to Barlinnie.
Woodside was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998 after being convicted of the murder of 16-year-old John Hampson in a Glasgow street.
People on the Smiler ride were trapped 25ft (7.6m) up at an angle of 45 degrees for up to four-and-a-half hours when two carriages collided on Tuesday.
It was 11 minutes before emergency services were called.
The theme park is estimated to be losing up to £500,000 every day since closing.
The worst injured were textile design student Joe Pugh, 18, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire; his girlfriend, Leah Washington, 17; Daniel Thorpe, 27, a hotel assistant manager from Buxton, Derbyshire; and Vicky Balch, 19, of Leyland, Lancashire.
Mr Thorpe is being treated at University Hospital Coventry and the other three are being treated at Royal Stoke University Hospital.
Alton Towers said it was reviewing its closure decisions on a daily basis.
Theme park bosses were informed of the accident on Tuesday at 13:57 BST, but ambulance crews said a 999 call was not made until 14:08 BST.
Alton Towers said one of its first responders was soon on the scene and security staff would have called 999 as soon as an assessment had been made.
Crews from West Midlands Ambulance Service arrived on the scene at 14:35 BST and they called the fire service at 14:41 BST.
Fire crews were not initially requested by Alton Towers but the park's staff did put their own call in requesting their assistance at 14:45 BST, the fire service said.
Since opening two years ago the £18m Smiler rollercoaster, which boasts a world-record 14 loops, has been closed twice because of safety concerns.
An Alton Towers spokeswoman said two hotels, including an indoor water park in one of them, and woodland lodges, remained open, but the theme park was closed.
The park said that anyone with pre-booked tickets would be able to visit Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures, Warwick Castle or Legoland Windsor as an alternative.
Charles Brooke Pickard, 43, disappeared from Castlecove on the Ring of Kerry in April 1991.
The man was arrested in County Kilkenny on Thursday evening.
RTÉ reports that he is based in Northern Ireland, but is known to travel to the Republic of Ireland.
Several people saw Mr Pickard being abducted by up to five men close to his home. He was then driven away in his own van.
It was found burnt out at Shronaloughnane Forest three weeks later. No trace has ever been found of Mr Pickard.
New information led police to excavate a site in September of this year at Derrennageeha, Ballaghisheen Pass, Waterville, close to where his van was found.
Mr Pickard, who was originally from Leeds, moved with his wife from England to Ireland in the mid-1980s and bought a farm in Castlecove. He was the father of four children.
They say the information will help in the fight against schistosomiasis, an infection caused by a parasitic worm that lives in streams and ponds.
The disease affects millions of people a year in sub-tropical and tropical regions.
More than 100 researchers from around the world have unlocked the DNA secrets of a snail that transmits the parasite.
They say it will help in the understanding of the snail's biology, including new ways to stop the parasite spreading to people.
"Having the knowledge means we can progress at a much faster pace at understanding the disease and reducing the number of people infected," said Dr Joanna Bridger of the University of Brunel, a co-researcher on the study.
The snail (Biomphalaria glabrata) is found in South America.
Related snails are responsible for transmitting the parasite in sub-Saharan Africa, where most cases occur.
People become infected when larval forms of the parasite - released by freshwater snails - penetrate the skin in contaminated water.
In the body, the larvae develop into adult worms, which live in the blood vessels and release eggs.
Some of the eggs are passed out of the body to continue the parasite's lifecycle.
Others become trapped in body tissues, causing damage to organs.
There is no vaccine for schistosomiasis and current control measures involve mass administration of the drug, praziquantel.
Scientists now hope to develop new treatments, perhaps by disrupting the snail's mating habits.
The information will also be useful in tracking snail populations that differ in how they transmit the parasites.
"This work provides several inroads for control of Biomphalaria snails to reduce risks of schistosome (re) infection of endemic human populations, an important component of the WHO strategy aimed at elimination of the global health risks posed by schistosomiasis," said the researchers in the journal, Nature Communications.
The research was led by Prof Coen Adema from the University of New Mexico.
Several UK research teams were involved, including the universities of Brunel, Aberdeen, Aberystwyth, Westminster, Kingston, Oxford, and the Natural History Museum.
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Uncapped seam bowler, 25, Ball has been been named in England's 12-man squad for the first Test against Sri Lanka at Headingley which starts next Thursday.
Newell told BBC Radio Nottingham: "A lot of people think its come quickly.
"But Jake has been working away diligently through club cricket and into our academy and second team."
Ball, whose uncle is former Notts and England wicketkeeper Bruce French, has taken 19 wickets so far this season and impressed while on England Lions duty in the United Arab Emirates last year.
He made his debut for Notts against the MCC in March 2011 and has played a total of 27 first-class matches, taking 84 wickets at an average of 25.63.
Newell added: "Over the last 15 months he has made huge strides and had a very successful winter with the England A team too.
"I have called Jake a slow-burner in the past. It took him a number of years to really push through. The winter before this one he worked very, very hard in the gym and made himself stronger.
"People noticed he was bowling quicker and added to that he is a very skilful bowler.
"Hard work in the gym and nets has really paid off. He established himself in our side last year in all forms of cricket as a number-one pick and he has kicked on from there again."
Newell said Ball has benefited from being around fellow bowler Stuart Broad, who along with opener Alex Hales, completes a trio of Notts players in the England set-up for the three-match Test series.
Newell said: "Stuart has been around our team for the last three or four weeks preparing for this Test series, so that has been a great opportunity for Jake to pick his brains, as well as people like Jimmy Anderson and the bowling coach Ottis Gibson.
"Jake's a good learner. He listens and he learns and if things will work for him he takes them on board
"He is in an environment where there is lots of experience and he is someone who will thrive on that.
"He is a very popular lad. He is a lovely kid, very modest, very quiet and with a subtle sense of humour. I am sure he will go well with England."
Police were called to the area at 10:30 BST after a suspected World War One or World War Two device was found on the foreshore on the River Thames.
Cordons were in place for 40 minutes. The area has been reopened.
Police said they would return to the area at low tide to remove the device.
Tshibola made 10 appearances for Villa last season, with a further four during a loan stint with Nottingham Forest.
Dons boss Robbie Neilson told the club website: "Aaron will bring great experience, energy and power. He's a Championship-calibre player."
Tshibola added: "At this time in my career, playing games is the most important thing for me."
Villa signed Tshibola on a four-year contract for an undisclosed seven-figure fee in July 2016.
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Rhys Healey's header gave Newport a 10th-minute lead on his full debut.
Adam McGurk almost equalised when his free-kick hit the crossbar, and Cambridge were eventually back on terms when Uche Ikpeazu fired in from Newport old boy Medi Elito's long ball.
And Cambridge claimed all the points when Luke Berry drove the ball home after a scramble.
The result sees County drop into the bottom two - ahead of Cambridge on goal difference.
Newport manager Warren Feeney said: "It's the story of our season to be honest.
"We can't keep giving the goals we're giving away. We can work at things all week but when you cross that white line that's the disappointing thing.
"But listen, I take full responsibility for everything.
"You can stand here and say this or say that, but the results don't lie. When we get up tomorrow it will say 2-1 to Cambridge."
Match ends, Newport County 1, Cambridge United 2.
Second Half ends, Newport County 1, Cambridge United 2.
Foul by Reece Grego-Cox (Newport County).
Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Josh Coulson replaces Uche Ikpeazu.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Harrison Dunk.
Foul by Rhys Healey (Newport County).
Brad Halliday (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Dan Butler (Newport County).
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Scot Bennett.
Goal! Newport County 1, Cambridge United 2. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal following a set piece situation.
Foul by Sean Rigg (Newport County).
Medy Elito (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Josh Sheehan (Newport County) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Max Clark (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Josh Sheehan (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Max Clark (Cambridge United).
Substitution, Newport County. Josh Sheehan replaces Mark Randall.
Attempt missed. Kyle Cameron (Newport County) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Greg Taylor.
Foul by Scot Bennett (Newport County).
Medy Elito (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Reece Grego-Cox (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Reece Grego-Cox (Newport County).
Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Kyle Cameron (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Kyle Cameron (Newport County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Max Clark (Cambridge United).
Attempt missed. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Newport County. Marlon Jackson replaces Jon Parkin.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Joe Day.
Attempt saved. Adam McGurk (Cambridge United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Reece Grego-Cox (Newport County) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Mark Randall (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Goal! Newport County 1, Cambridge United 1. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) header from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Medy Elito following a set piece situation.
Foul by Kyle Cameron (Newport County).
Adam McGurk (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Rhys Healey (Newport County) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Cryptoy was created by three industrial placement students and tells the story of four historical cyphers, including the German Enigma code, cracked at Bletchley Park during World War Two.
The free app for Android tablet devices also encrypts messages using the codes.
GCHQ says it is hoping it will help to encourage teenagers to be the next generation of cyber security experts.
Cryptoy also showcases the substitution and vigenere cyphers, and the shift, which dates back to Roman times.
A spokeswoman for Cheltenham-based GCHQ said the app is intended as a "fun teaching aid" to help 14-16 year olds studying at the Key Stage 4 level learn something about code making and code breaking.
She said it aims to encourage them to become interested in associated disciplines such as mathematics, as well as problem solving and the necessary programming skills to create such an app.
"All of this is extremely relevant to today's world where information security is increasingly important and where we need young people to study the subjects necessary," she added.
The app was initially produced by the industrial placement students for the Cheltenham Festival cultural event last year.
The GCHQ spokeswoman said the agency was keen where possible to be open about some aspects of its work.
The BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones said the public should have no qualms about downloading the app.
Cryptoy will be available to download directly from Google Play or through the GCHQ website. It is understood that a version for Apple iPads will not be available until next year.
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Lucca, a 12-year-old German Shepherd, suffered injuries including the loss of a leg during a search for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in 2012.
She will receive the medal at Wellington Barracks in London later.
The Dickin medal, founded in 1943, is awarded by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) charity.
Lucca was trained by US Marine Corps as a search dog to sniff our munitions and explosives, and according to the Marines, protected the lives of thousands of allied troops.
On her final patrol Lucca discovered a 30lb (13.6kg) IED and, as she searched for additional explosives, a second device detonated.
She instantly lost her front left leg and suffered severe burns to her chest.
Her previous handler Corporal Juan Rodriguez recalled the moment she was injured: "The explosion was huge and I immediately feared the worst for Lucca.
"I stayed with her constantly throughout her operation and her recovery. She had saved my life on so many occasions - I had to make sure that I was there for her when she needed me."
Lucca, who is now retired, completed over 400 missions in Iraq and Afghanistan during six years of active service.
She lives in California with her handler, Gunnery Sergeant Chris Willingham, but has been flown to London for the medal ceremony.
Lucca's Dickin Medal will be presented by the PDSA director general, Jan McLoughlin, who praised her "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty".
Her award will bring the total number of PDSA Dickin Medals awarded to animals in military conflict to 67. Since its introduction it has been awarded to 31 dogs, including Lucca, 32 World War Two messenger pigeons, three horses and one cat.
Karl Scarr, 52, set up a sanctuary in Tangier in 2012 after visiting the country and realising "cruelty and abuse [were] considered normal".
He built the large kennel he currently shares with all the dogs while his own home is being built.
The former zoologist is working with other charities and schools to improve animal welfare in Morocco.
Despite having no electricity or running water, Mr Scarr, originally from Cherry Hinton, has managed to nurse more than 1,000 animals, rehoming many of them.
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Le Sanctuaire de la Faune de Tangier (The Wild Animal Sanctuary of Tangier, or SFT) prides itself on never turning a stray away.
But this means space is tight and Mr Scarr currently shares his bed with Khan, a bullmastiff which is "second in command", but he considers himself the "leader of the pack".
However, being the leader does not mean Mr Scarr has an easy life.
In order to care for the dogs and 300 other stray or maltreated animals, he gets up in the early hours and each day begins with shovelling 30kg (66lb) of excrement.
Mr Scarr is campaigning to change welfare legislation in Morocco and his work promoting sterilisation, vaccination and adoption is now being shared with other animal charities in the country.
"The sanctuary has become the focal point for a major campaign for change to animal protection laws in the country, which is hugely exciting," he said.
He has also helped develop a new "animal spotter" app which he hopes will encourage people to contact the charity when they see maltreated or stray animals.
Meanwhile, Mr Scarr said he plans to contact Guinness World Records as he is sure no-one else has ever lived in the same room as 150 dogs.
It has become the fastest-selling games console in the Japanese firm's history, with 2.7 million units bought in March - the first month it was available.
But Nintendo's profit estimate of 65bn yen ($583.9m; £453m) for the year to March 2018 was below market forecasts.
Like other console makers, Nintendo is having to counter the rise of the smartphone as a tool for gaming.
And because - unlike Sony and Microsoft - Nintendo relies on games and consoles for almost all its sales, it is arguably more vulnerable to this trend.
Nintendo said it was aiming to sell 10 million units of the Switch by March 2018 - which would make it the firm's biggest hit since the Wii launched in November 2006.
"I was relieved by a strong start of the Switch," said Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima
"If the 10 million target is achieved... that means the sales momentum would be close to the Wii."
He batted away criticism that the profit forecast was too low, saying that the money spent marketing the Switch was eating into profits.
The Switch looks like a tablet computer with Joy-Con controllers that attach to its sides, and can be played both on televisions and as a standalone device.
It launched with a just handful of games, with some critics saying there were too few.
But the popularity of one game - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - is believed to be a driver for many of the sales.
Soon after the launch, thousands of owners of Switch complained about dead or stuck pixels creating distracting and annoying dark squares on their screens.
A deflected Iain Vigurs shot opened the scoring, with Brad McKay then heading hom from an Alex Cooper corner.
Cooper then added the third after John Baird picked him out in the box in the 62nd minute.
Nine minutes later, Vigurs scored his second of the day with a glancing header.
The win lifts the Highlanders up to seventh place in the table, while Brechin remain in last place with just one point from four games.
Match ends, Brechin City 0, Inverness CT 4.
Second Half ends, Brechin City 0, Inverness CT 4.
Jake Mulraney (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jake Mulraney (Inverness CT).
Willie Dyer (Brechin City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Charlie Trafford (Inverness CT).
Liam Watt (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Brad McKay (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Isaac Layne (Brechin City).
Substitution, Brechin City. Chris O'Neil replaces Jordan Sinclair.
Attempt missed. Riccardo Calder (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. John Baird (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Riccardo Calder (Inverness CT).
Aron Lynas (Brechin City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Jake Mulraney replaces Connor Bell.
Paul McLean (Brechin City) hits the left post with a header from very close range.
Foul by David Raven (Inverness CT).
Kalvin Orsi (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Hand ball by Joe Chalmers (Inverness CT).
Substitution, Inverness CT. Riccardo Calder replaces Alex Cooper.
Goal! Brechin City 0, Inverness CT 4. Iain Vigurs (Inverness CT) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Liam Polworth following a corner.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Sean Crighton.
Delay in match Connor Bell (Inverness CT) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Connor Bell (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Brechin City. Conceded by Coll Donaldson.
Substitution, Brechin City. Ally Love replaces Finn Graham.
Foul by Iain Vigurs (Inverness CT).
Liam Watt (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Iain Vigurs (Inverness CT) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Willie Dyer (Brechin City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Alex Cooper (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Alex Cooper (Inverness CT).
Kalvin Orsi (Brechin City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Brechin City 0, Inverness CT 3. Alex Cooper (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Charlie Trafford (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Dale (Brechin City).
Substitution, Brechin City. Liam Watt replaces Euan Spark.
Attempt saved. Connor Bell (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Hand ball by Alex Cooper (Inverness CT).
Mrs Cox was killed in her Batley and Spen constituency in June.
Voters in Witney will also elect a new MP to replace Mr Cameron, who stepped down from Parliament on Monday weeks afters resigning as PM in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU.
The writs for both by-elections were moved in the Commons on Thursday.
Mrs Cox, 41, who was the first sitting MP to be killed since 1990, won the seat with a comfortable majority of 6,057 at the 2015 general election ahead of the Conservatives in second, and UKIP in third.
The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and UKIP have said they will not take part in the Batley and Spen contest out of respect for Ms Cox's memory.
The English Democrats and Liberty GB have said they will.
Witney has been one of the Conservatives' safest seats, with Mr Cameron securing a 25,155 majority at the last general election.
Although he was never the actual president of Panama, he was the key figure from 1983 to 1989 - and a key US ally in Central America for four decades.
His connection with the United States dated back to the 1950s, when according to various accounts, he was recruited as a CIA informant while studying at a military academy in Peru.
Noriega, now 77, eventually became a prized American "asset" in a region that was becoming politically hostile to US interests in the wake of the Cuban Revolution.
He rose within the ranks of the Panamanian armed forces to become a key supporter of Gen Omar Torrijos, the military ruler who signed a treaty with the US to restore the Panama Canal zone to Panamanian sovereignty in 1977.
After Gen Torrijos's death in a mysterious plane crash in 1981, Noriega became the power behind the scenes as head of the security services.
The US relied on Panama as a regional listening post and Noriega obliged with unfaltering support for the Contras in Nicaragua, and in the fight against the FMLN guerrillas in El Salvador.
At the same time, he began to play an increasingly repressive role internally in Panama, especially after the assassination of Hugo Spadafora, a political opponent who was found beheaded in 1985.
Noriega allegedly played a role in the mid-1980s Iran-Contra affair, which involved the smuggling of weapons and drugs to aid US undercover efforts to support the anti-government forces opposing the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
However, the US became increasingly suspicious of Noriega amid indications that he was selling his services to other intelligence bodies, not to mention drug-trafficking organisations.
These tensions became public in 1988 when Noriega was indicted in a US federal court on drug-trafficking charges.
He was also accused of rigging elections in 1989.
By mid-December that year, ties had deteriorated so far that President George H W Bush launched an invasion, ostensibly because a US marine had been killed in Panama City, although the operation had been months in the planning.
Noriega sought refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City. The US tactic to flush him out was to play deafening pop and heavy metal music non-stop outside the building.
By 3 January 1990, it had worked and Noriega surrendered. He was flown to the US with prisoner of war status to face charges of drug-trafficking, money-laundering and racketeering.
His trial there was an international spectacle that revealed titillating details of his personal life.
At the time it was said he wore red underwear to ward off the "evil eye".
In 2007, he concluded his sentence after 17 years of confinement and public silence in a Miami federal jail.
But his legal troubles were far from over and he remained in custody.
In 1999, Noriega had been convicted in absentia in France of using $3m in proceeds from Colombia's Medellin drug cartel drug trade to buy property there.
In March 2010, the US Supreme Court agreed to a French request extradite him to Paris, where he faced a new trial for money-laundering.
Noriega, who denied the charges, was found guilty and sentenced to seven years.
His legal odyssey took another turn on 23 November when a French court approved a request from Panama to send him back home, where he was convicted in absentia of murder, corruption and embezzlement.
He refused the chance to appeal the decision and flew out of Paris on 11 December, escorted by a team of Panamanian officials and a doctor.
Jones, 26, has been signed on a two-year-deal after Crawley Town withdrew their offer of a new contract.
Wilson, 31, has agreed a similar deal with the Latics, after ending a four-year spell with Colchester United.
Meanwhile, full-back Connor Brown, 21, who has made 58 appearances for Oldham, has signed a new one-year-contract.
Jones, who signed for Crawley Town in 2012, began his career at Tranmere and has since played almost 300 professional games.
He told the club website: "I want to excite the fans and give Oldham a good season next year. I want to score goals, get assists and make things happen."
Wilson, a former Colchester captain, has scored 22 goals in 387 appearances during a career which has also included spells with Bristol City, Cheltenham and Stoke City.
The Spanish firm reported a profit of 654m euros for the three months to 30 April, meaning staff shared a 42m euro bonus pot.
Sales rose by 14% to 5.5bn euros.
Zara started offering online sales in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam in the quarter and plans to follow suit in India later this year.
Online growth has helped Inditex to consistently outperform rivals such as H&M in recent years as its fast-fashion model allows it to quickly replicate the latest runway trends into stores in weeks.
While the company also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti and Bershka, Zara accounts for two thirds of group sales.
Inditex opened 30 stores in the quarter and now has 7,385 outlets in 93 countries.
Societe Generale analyst Anne Critchlow said positive currency effects meant she expected profits and margins to rise this year at Inditex.
Meanwhile, US department store chain Neiman Marcus said it had ended talks about a partial or full sale of the retailer, which has a $4.8bn debt mountain.
Its sales have been hit by stiff competition from the likes of Zara and H&M as well as Amazon.
Neiman Marcus reported its fourth consecutive quarterly loss on Tuesday of $24.9m, compared with a $3.8m profit for the three months to April last year, as like-for-like sales slipped nearly 5%.
World number 11 Kim joined Webb, who carded a 70, on six under par after a birdie on the 18th completed a 69.
Webb, 42, is seeking an eighth major title, with her last coming in 2006, while Kim, 24, is aiming for a first.
Overnight leader Christie Kerr dropped to third place, two shots back, after a round of 73.
England's Georgia Hall is the best-placed Briton on level par, six shots adrift, with compatriot Bronte Law and Scot Carly Booth 10 shots behind on four over. Charley Hull plummeted to 12 over after a third-round 80.
Booth, one of three Scots who made the cut, carded a 75 to go with earlier rounds of 75 and 70, after a painful triple bogey on the 15th hole.
"The weather was pretty brutal to be honest," said the 2012 winner. "I played OK today apart from my four-putt from five feet.
"I had a triple on the 15th which was just stupid but apart from that it was good golf.
"I rushed the putt and my head went a little. It's just one of those; you have to forget about it now.
"I'll kick myself for a little bit, but tomorrow is a new day."
Catriona Matthew, looking for a third Scottish Open victory, posted a 76 to finish on eight over, while Sally Watson carded a 77 for 10 over.
"As a resilient nation, we will carry on," he told Americans on the eve of the anniversary of the attacks.
Events are being held to commemorate the victims, amid warnings that al-Qaeda is behind a new "credible but unconfirmed" threat to Americans.
Nearly 3,000 people died on 9/11 in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
On Sunday, Mr Obama will travel to all three sites.
"Thanks to the tireless efforts of our military personnel and our intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security professionals, there should be no doubt: today, America is stronger and al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat," President Obama said in his weekly address.
"Yes we face a determined foe, and make no mistake - they will keep trying to hit us again. But as we are showing again this weekend, we remain vigilant," he said.
"Across the Middle East and North Africa a new generation of citizens is showing that the future belongs to those that want to build, not destroy."
'Worst day of my life'
Security has been tightened in New York and Washington after the reported threat in the run-up to Sunday's anniversary. US officials believe al-Qaeda may have sent attackers, some of them possibly US citizens, to bomb one of the cities.
Counter-terrorism officials reportedly received a tip-off from a CIA informant last week. They are still trying to corroborate the reported threat.
Events commemorating the anniversary of the attacks are scheduled throughout the weekend.
On Saturday thousands of people in New York joined hands to remember those killed.
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"Every year, I kind of, don't handle it, but it's the 10th year and so I felt like it was important to make a statement," one woman, Juliet Di Frenza, told Reuters.
"It was the worst day of my life."
On Sunday, President Obama will visit the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon and a memorial ceremony in Shanksville, Pennsylvania - where the fourth hijacked plane, United 93, came down.
He will be joined in New York by former President George W Bush.
Police in New York are carrying out spot checks in the city's subway and have tightened security on roads, bridges and tunnels.
Checkpoints have been set up across Manhattan where police are scanning for radiation and stolen licence plates, causing serious traffic congestion around the city.
Members of the public are being asked to report abandoned or suspicious vehicles.
On Friday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the threat was being taken very seriously by state and federal authorities.
Counter-terrorism officials were particularly concerned by the threat because documents seized during the raid on Osama Bin Laden's Pakistan compound in May showed al-Qaeda was considering strikes to coincide with the anniversary, Mrs Clinton said.
Reports suggest that intelligence gathered in Pakistan points to a possible car or truck bomb attack against New York or Washington.
US TV network ABC News has reported that three individuals - one a US citizen - entered the US in August aiming to carry out an attack.
Reuters news agency has reported US officials as saying the threat could be linked to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri - Osama Bin Laden's deputy, who took over leadership of the group after Bin Laden was killed by US soldiers in Pakistan in May.
They said care plans for some men at risk of suicide and self-harm remained unacceptable.
The Criminal Justice Inspection (CJI) said the cases required urgent attention.
It added that important lessons have not been learned from inquiries into deaths of prisoners in custody.
The prison service said the criminal justice system is not equipped to deal with people with serious mental health problems.
Inspectors said progress has been made since a report in May 2015 which described Maghaberry as being in a state of crisis and labelled it one of the most dangerous prisons in western Europe.
The latest in a series of of follow up reports published on Tuesday welcomed "the drive, determination, innovation and creativity shown by the leadership team and staff to stabilise the prison and improve the outcomes for those committed to their care".
It said healthcare and educational provision is improving.
The day-to-day regime is described as stable and reliable, with fewer restrictions around movement and activity than during previous inspections.
The inspection team also praised efforts to tackle the drugs problem within the prison.
But that progress does not extend to the management and care of vulnerable prisoners.
This is an issue CJI and others have raised before.
Nine months ago, CJI chief inspector Brendan McGuigan told the BBC he was frustrated at the lack of action over recommendations made two years previously.
He has again raised issues.
"I am concerned that despite the critical reports into deaths in custody and serious self harm, some important lessons have not been learnt," said Mr McGuigan.
"I probably do sound like a broken record on this issue, but this is about the lives of prisoners and their lives count just the same as everybody else's."
He added: "These are extremely vulnerable people who deserve the care and attention, and I believe that for as long as people are being sent to the prison, then that responsibility lies on the prison service.
"The management and delivery of effective Northern Ireland Prison Service care plans for some men assessed to be at risk of suicide and self-harm remains unacceptable and requires urgent attention."
The chief inspector said further work was required by the wider criminal justice and healthcare systems to provide alternatives to custody for highly vulnerable prisoners.
Last November, the then justice minister Claire Sugden told the BBC a dedicated secure facility in Northern Ireland for people with serious mental health problems would be considered as part of a review of care for vulnerable prisoners.
The review was to be carried out by the departments of justice and health.
Since the collapse of the Northern Ireland Assembly, that review has been on hold.
However, Mr McGuigan said he was frustrated at the lack of progress because Maghaberry was not an appropriate environment for people with serious mental health problems.
"I haven't seen any progress in relation to to that so I am extremely disappointed," he said.
"It's a wasted opportunity.
"Maghaberry Prison does not provide a therapeutic environment."
The head of the Northern Ireland Prison Service, Ronnie Armour, welcomed the positive aspects of the report.
"By and large the report paints a very positive picture," he said.
"It is encouraging that the inspectorate is no longer using words like 'crisis' or 'unstable', in fact they're saying the opposite."
He accepted that more needed to be done to improve the care of vulnerable prisoners, and said the prison service had an action plan with implementation targets.
Mr Armour also agreed that prison was not an appropriate place for people with mental health problems.
"There is also now a wider recognition in judiciary and inspectorate that the criminal justice system is not equipped to deal with people who suffer mental health difficulties," he said.
"This is not an issue which the prison service can resolve alone but we can and will contribute to work as recommended by the inspectors."
The 19-year-old is yet to make his debut for the Clarets, but has scored 16 goals in 16 appearances for the club's development side.
He is the second Burnley player to join the struggling League Two side on loan this month after defender Luke Hendrie made the move last week.
Both players could make their debuts against Newport on Saturday.
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And he admits to hitting rock bottom after leaving the game, saying the constant criticism of the man in the middle can have a lasting effect on mental health.
"The external pressures that referees and match officials are put under, from all stakeholders - from owners, to players to coaches, to fans - I think what people don't understand is that inside that uniform there is a human being that does make mistakes," Smith told the BBC 5 Live Rugby League podcast.
"They think it's unacceptable for a match official to make mistakes. That pressure that's placed on them can have a mental health impact."
Smith, 51, says he had real problems when he left the Rugby Football League 18 months after a career that included 12 years as a top-flight referee.
And he adds it took him eight to 10 months to turn his world around, with the assistance of the game's mental-health charity State of Mind.
"When I left the RFL, I suffered some mental issues. I really started to struggle. I felt I'd lost my identity," he says.
"I'd refereed in Super League for 12 years and when you are under that type of intense pressure both on and off the field to perform, it effected my mood swings during and after the game and through to the next appointment.
"But, when you're actually performing at a professional level, you just get on with it because you have got the next match to come.
"It's incredibly lonely. You speak to players and they have the comfort of their team-mates. And, even though we have touch-judges and the match officials' department, when you are out there it is still a very lonely and isolating place.
"At times you can feel incredibly lonely."
Smith is now using his experience to help others tackle their mental health issues.
He has become a presenter with Offload - an offshoot of State of Mind, which was set up by mental health experts and ex-players after popular Great Britain international Terry Newton took his own life seven years ago.
"It gets like-minded men to offload their mental health issues in a safe, secure and non-judgemental environment," says Smith. "It's absolutely fantastic.
"Some of the tweets we get back are amazing. People have said we're making a massive difference and they had contemplated taking their own lives before they got on this programme.
"It's incredibly rewarding."
The whole game united in support of State of Mind this weekend, with the entire round of Super League matches dedicated to its mental health message. Players wore T-shirts bearing its slogans during warm-ups, and the charity's representatives set up information posts outside each ground.
Danny Sculthorpe is one of the former players involved with State of Mind. He contemplated suicide when he left Bradford after a training injury left him unable to play.
It led to him losing his house and being unable to support his wife and two young kids.
"I couldn't get the thought of suicide out of my mind," he says.
"I did the typical bloke thing for months and months - I didn't tell anyone. I thought it was a sign of weakness. But what I have come to learn is that if you can talk about your problems and admit you're struggling, you're more of a man than if you keep it to yourself."
Sculthorpe, 37, is one of the main State of Mind presenters.
"The RFL got me loads of help - they got me talking to a counsellor," he says. "It sounds too good to be true, but talking beat the medication. Medication worked for me, but it was talking that saved my life."
State of Mind began its work at rugby league clubs, but now delivers presentations throughout the country, to what Sculthorpe describes as typical alpha-male groups.
"It's amazing, unbelievable," he says. "As soon as you go in and mention mental health, people switch off. But the reality is everyone has mental health, just as they have physical health.
"When we start telling our stories, they are getting it. If a rugby league player can speak about how they're feeling then anyone can.
"We did a construction site 12 months ago, down in London. The day after, seven blokes went in to HR and said they were struggling and needed to get help.
"On construction sites you're five times more likely to die from suicide than an accident on site."
State of Mind has also targeted schools. One recent presentation led to a teenage boy opening up about his depression and getting treatment through counselling.
"We went back to speak to the teachers a month later. A week before, the parent of the young lad went in to say thank you for getting State of Mind in because she had got her son back," said Sculthorpe.
One of the charity's co-founders - mental health nurse Malcolm Rae - says its success is mainly down to using the experiences of the players, but that carefully chosen language helps breaks down barriers.
"One of the barriers to blokes seeking help is stigma," he says.
"So we particularly used language like 'help a mate' or 'feel good, play better'. And we use phrases like mental fitness instead of mental illness. Language is so important in engaging with people."
Rae believes State of Mind could now be replicated in other sports.
"I think this is a world first," he says. "The rugby league community and the RFL deserve every credit for enabling this to happen.
"The Department of Health's recent revised policy on suicide prevention, and the Parliamentary Select Committee both commended rugby league and State of Mind and feel we are the benchmark for other sports."
Former referee Smith says working with the charity is helping his continued recovery.
"I'm in a great place at the moment," he says.
"Every time I present for State of Mind or Offload, it's like my own therapy class. You're picking up little ways of coping and moving forward."
Met Office statistics show that an average of 760mm (2.5ft) of rain fell across the country in December, January and February.
This resulted in a spate of floods which inundated homes and caused chaos on the roads and railways.
December was the wettest month recorded while January and February saw much higher rainfalls than normal. Argyll was the wettest area.
It had 1,055.7mm (3.5ft) of rain over the three months.
"It's been a truly remarkable winter in Scotland," said a Met Office spokeswoman.
"Winter was the second-wettest across the UK as a whole and it turned out to be the warmest on record for England and Wales.
"But Scotland endured the worst rain it has ever seen - and these records go back to 1910."
Scotland's two wettest winters have happened in the last three years. The rainfall total of 756mm (2.5ft) for 2015/16 exceeded the previous record for winter 2013 /14 of 744mm (2ft).
More than 100 homes were evacuated in Hawick, Roxburghshire, on 5 December as torrential rain swept in ahead of Storm Desmond.
Tayside and Perthshire also endured flooding events, with the River Tay peaking at levels not seen for a decade.
In the new year, Storm Frank resulted in bridge pillars on the West Coast Rail Line being almost washed away. The damage took almost two months to repair.
February's rainfall total of 147.2mm (6in) was 13% up on normal. January's figure of 257.5mm (10in) showed a rise of 45% of the average for the month while December's 351.4mm (14in) was more than double the amount usually experienced that month.
The Met Office spokeswoman added: "While the three-month period was remarkable for its rainfall, it must be remembered that it followed on from a very wet November as well.
"Winter also brought less sunshine in each of the three months we call winter. In January, Scotland got just 63% of the sunshine hours it would normally expect."
The coldest temperature of winter was Minus 14.1 Celsius (6.6F) recorded at Braemar, Aberdeenshire, on the morning of 14 February.
There is also a risk of snow and wintry conditions at Easter.
Starting with a live text commentary on Friday, the BBC Sport website will provide comprehensive coverage from Germany, Spain, Italy, France and beyond.
You can expect regular live text commentaries rounding up all the action throughout the season, as well as more news stories, match previews and reports, all of which will be found on our new European football index.
On the radio, BBC World Service is live across Europe, bringing you the latest news, results and interviews from the top football leagues.
You can tune in on weekdays from 15:30 GMT (16:30 BST) on Sport Today and on Saturday Sportsworld from 14:00 GMT (15:00 BST).
The live text commentary will focus on Pep Guardiola's league debut as Bayern Munich coach, with the Bundesliga champions hosting Borussia Monchengladbach.
Bayern won their first eight league games last year and will want to make a strong start again.
In France, champions PSG are also in action on Friday as they travel to face Montpellier - champions in 2012.
Like Bayern, PSG also have a new coach in charge this season, with former Manchester United defender Laurent Blanc replacing Carlo Ancelotti, who has moved to Real Madrid in place of Jose Mourinho.
Champions League finalists Borussia Dortmund begin their Bundesliga campaign at Augsburg, while big-spending Monaco will be hoping to get their French league campaign under way in style at Bordeaux.
There are two more Bundesliga games on Sunday, with matches in the Dutch Eredivisie and in Belgium all weekend.
Both of those leagues are under way. In the Netherlands, champions Ajax began their title defence with a 3-0 win against Roda last Friday, while, in Belgium, Genk lead the way after two matches.
Domestic football has yet to resume in Spain, Italy, Turkey and Portugal.
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In a poll of more than 1,000 members of the Institute of Directors (IoD), 52% said excessive pay packets were eroding people's trust in big companies.
More than half of those surveyed also agreed performance-related pay should be deferred by up to three years.
The poll was carried out on behalf of the High Pay Centre think tank.
The High Pay Centre was formed following a report by the High Pay Commission in 2011, which argued that the high salaries of UK executives were "corrosive".
The commission, set up by a pressure group, said the disparity between what top executives and average workers earn had been growing for 30 years.
In 2013, new rules were introduced, forcing listed firms to give shareholders a binding vote on directors' pay.
A firm's remuneration policy now requires the approval of more than 50% of shareholders for a policy to pass.
However, the seven-figure pay cheques awarded to British business bosses have continued to make the headlines in recent months.
In November, the IoD denounced a proposed £25m pay package for the new head of oil and gas giant BG Group, Helge Lund, as "excessive" and "inflammatory", while shareholders in the firm threatened a revolt.
Meanwhile, the salaries awarded to the chief executives of Britain's biggest banks have drawn public anger.
Last week, HSBC revealed that its boss, Stuart Gulliver, was paid £7.6m in 2014, while chairman Douglas Flint's total pay increased to £2.5m.
Antonio Horta-Osorio, the chief executive of Lloyds, which was bailed out by the government at the height of the financial crisis, is set to receive a total remuneration package of £11m.
And the boss of Royal Bank of Scotland - another bailout recipient - announced last week that he would not receive a bonus after the firm reported a loss of £3.5bn for 2014, although his pay could still total almost £3m.
The director of the High Pay Centre, Deborah Hargreaves, said the think tank's findings showed that "outside the boardrooms of big corporations, ordinary small and medium-sized business owners are as appalled by the culture of top pay as anybody else".
"When big business leaders rake in seven or eight-figure pay packages every year, including massive bonuses regardless of company performance, we are clearly seeing a corporate governance failure, rather than a fair and functional free market.
"Ordinary workers, customers and wider society, not to mention shareholders, are being ripped off."
Granite Noir is being held from Friday until Sunday.
Guests include crime writers Christopher Brookmyre, Stuart MacBride and Denise Mina, as well as authors from Scandinavia.
The festival has been organised by Aberdeen Performing Arts (APA), the Belmont Filmhouse, Aberdeen City Council's Library and Archive, and freelance writer Lee Randall.
APA chief executive Jane Spiers added: "We're thrilled to be launching this new festival in the city and we're particularly proud to be heralding Scottish talent, as well as welcoming some masters of Nordic Noir.
"Sales of Nordic Noir books are soaring and the genre has also become incredibly popular on television, with programmes such as The Bridge, Wallander and The Killing gaining mass followings.
"There will be something for everyone, from crime novel enthusiasts through to those just discovering the genre, from aspiring authors to young creatives who love to put pen to paper."
A 77-year-old woman and her two adult sons were found dead in their home on Friday.
They were discovered with slit throats and blunt force wounds, but there was no sign of a break-in.
Police think the deaths may be connected to Friday's "blue moon", an unusual astronomical event.
A "blue moon" is a nickname for a second full moon within one calendar month. They can occur once every three years.
No arrests have been made, but police said they had identified a person of interest in the case.
Police described the crime scene as "very complex" and said the bodies had been positioned.
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said the victims - Voncile Smith, John William Smith and Richard Thomas Smith - were known to be "very reclusive, very secretive''.
Richard Smith worked at a nearby military base, but Mr Morgan said the case was unrelated to "national security elements".
The 69-year-old has been given the title 'First Team Management Consultant' at Rodney Parade.
Lawrence has managed over 1,000 league games in his career and he said he was delighted to join the Exiles.
"I have undertaken this type of role on several occasions and will be there for Michael to offer advice and guidance when needed," said Lawrence.
Lawrence will now link up with Flynn and assistant boss, Wayne Hatswell, until the end of the season as County look to avoid relegation from the Football League.
Since taking over after the sacking of Graham Westley, Flynn has had a reasonable start with two wins and a defeat, but the Exiles remain seven points from League Two safety ahead of tonight's game against Luton.
Flynn said he welcomed the arrival of Lawrence.
"I'm over the moon that Lennie's agreed to come on board," said Flynn.
"I'm always learning and if I can't learn from someone who's managed over a 1,000 times in the Football League then I won't be able to learn from anyone.
"Not only will Lennie be important for my development, he'll also be helpful to the board as he brings with him a wealth of football knowledge."
Lawrence has managed a host of clubs down the years including Charlton, Middlesbrough and Cardiff City.
Most recently he returned to the Welsh capital to act as assistant manager to Paul Trollope during his ill-fated spell in charge of the Bluebirds.
Lawrence said he was looking forward to working with Flynn at Newport, adding: "I met Michael at the FAW UEFA Pro license course and when approached I was delighted to offer some support."
John Charles Erskine, 70, of Caterham, is accused of indecently assaulting a woman over the age of 16.
The alleged offences took place in the Redhill area while Mr Erskine was working as a detective inspector in Surrey, a force spokeswoman said.
The allegations arise out of an investigation following claims that were made in 2014.
Mr Erskine was charged after consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, she added.
He is due to appear at Guildford Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
Artist Pippa Robinson said the aim of the project was to "enable women to articulate the reality, rather than the ideal of motherhood, in their own words".
The stories have been collected from a wide range of families, some with five generations of women, over two years.
Over the past two years Ms Robinson has gathered stories from women across Bristol.
She said: "The stories take in themes including absent mothers, mending broken relationships, emergency Caesareans, and being a young mother."
Mother in the Mother is on at the Knowle West Media Centre until 14 April.
Harriet, 35, lost her mother at the age of 13 when she died suddenly from a brain haemorrhage. She said her father "never really got over the loss" and died in 2006.
She said: "Of course I deeply miss both my parents, and in becoming a mother myself there are endless times where I wish I could just pick up the phone and chat to my mum.
"Knowing that my mum lives on in my boys is an amazing thought for me too. I feel so sad that they won't know their granny in person, but she is very present in our lives, in pictures, stories, and through other family members."
Chantelle, 26, has three children and said her "transition into motherhood was very emotional". She first became a mother at 18 and said she had "very little support" and suffered with post-natal depression.
She said: "But during my recovery I found my identity as a woman, a mother, reborn, and embraced my new role.
"Mine and my mother's relationship has always been quite strained but over the last years has gone from strength to strength. It's grown in strength. She has been supportive at times and she is a doting nanny.
"Motherhood is not what I expected, it's not the stress, mess and toddler tantrums I thought it would be. It's fun, enchanting and every day I learn something new."
Charlotte, 43, has two children and said her own childhood had been "overcome with fear" because her mother is "an addict and chronic alcoholic".
She said: "I loved my mother so very much. I was overlooked and grew up with great longing. She was loving, kind and cuddly but not consistently so.
"I think she is a lovely narcissist - if there can be such a thing. The way I was mothered has definitely affected the way I mother. I constantly feel I am not giving, being, doing enough.
"Since becoming a mother I have felt both a little more compassionate towards my mother and a little more angry. Being a good mother is such a momentous task, one that is of great value to another little vulnerable human being and one that requires and deserves great commitment."
Ella, 35, has two children and said becoming a mother herself helped to "resolve a 20-year battle of miscommunication" with her own mother.
She said: "Somehow the mother of my childhood got muddled, distorted, lost and misunderstood over time. But finally we resolved.
"We found each other. Motherhood brought us together again. It reopened the channels of communication between us."
Joy, 60, has two children aged 35 and 31, and two grandchildren.
She said: "My relationship with my mother was difficult. I wanted to be close to her but it was as though we both had this barrier stopping us from getting too close.
"I was very, very conscious of the wish to not be the cold mother that my mum had been. But I did find myself acting in ways that my mum had and it was difficult to break the patterns that were deeply ingrained in me.
"When my mum got dementia, all the pain and anger of both her childhood and mine erupted like a volcano.
"Since having grandchildren, I have a deeper understanding and compassion for my mum, my daughter and for myself."
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Muamba, 24, collapsed and suffered a cardiac arrest on 17 March during Bolton's FA Cup quarter-final tie with Tottenham Hotspur.
"While the news is devastating, I have much to be thankful for," Muamba told the club website.
"I thank God that I am alive and I pay tribute once again to the members of the medical team who never gave up on me."
Muamba had travelled to Belgium earlier in the week to have minor heart surgery, which was said to have been routine and had no bearing on whether the player would return to action.
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But Muamba says he received advice during his time there, prompting his retirement.
"Since suffering my heart attack and being discharged from hospital, I have remained utterly positive in the belief I could one day resume my playing career and play for Bolton Wanderers once again," said Muamba in a statement.
"As part of my ongoing recovery, last week I travelled to Belgium to seek further medical advice from a leading cardiologist.
"But the news I received was obviously not what I had hoped it would be and it means I am now announcing my retirement from professional football."
The news comes just six months after he suffered his cardiac arrest, with doctors saying he was "in effect dead" for 78 minutes.
Dr Leonard Shapiro - cardiology consultant to the FA
"We all were very happy he was able to be resuscitated and made a recovery into normal life, but it was always going to be unlikely that he would get back to playing football.
"It would be very difficult for him to return to the high levels of fitness needed to be a professional footballer."
He was given 15 defibrillator shocks before his heart started beating again, taking 48 minutes between collapsing and reaching the London Chest Hospital, and a further 30 minutes once at the hospital.
Muamba then spent around four weeks in intensive care, before being discharged from hospital on 16 April.
He then returned to the Reebok Stadium before Bolton's match with Tottenham on 2 May, to thank the Bolton supporters.
Muamba began his career at Arsenal and moved to Birmingham City, before spending four years at Bolton.
"Football has been my life since I was a teenage boy and it has given me so many opportunities," he said.
"Above all else, I love the game and count myself very lucky to have been able to play at the highest level."
Bolton manager Owen Coyle - who chatted with Muamba just three days after the midfielder's collapse - paid tribute to him and said the club will support him.
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"We have spoken with Fab and he knows we will always support him in whatever he wants to do and that we will always be here for him," said Coyle.
"He is obviously massively disappointed that he won't be able to carry on his career, but everyone has seen what a fighter and strong person he is in mind and body.
"We know that he will go on to achieve great things and within all this disappointment, the most important thing is that he is here, alive, today."
Bolton chairman Phil Gartside also said he was simply thankful for Muamba being alive.
He said: "To have Fabrice here and with us is truly amazing and we are all very thankful for that.
"The most important thing is that Fabrice and his family have the rest of their lives ahead of them."
Fifa president Sepp Blatter wrote on Twitter: "Have just read about your retirement. It's very sad for you and I wish you all the very best."
Football Association chairman David Bernstein was also among the well-wishers, saying: "His recovery has been miraculous and a great tribute to all who have been involved.
"I would like to wish him the very best for the future and I know that the thoughts of the entire football family will be with him."
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Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, said the White House would "wait and see" in case the blast turned out to be a hoax.
The FBI is investigating what Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton has called "a criminal act of terrorism".
Critics pointed out Mr Trump quickly responded after London's terror attack.
Congregants were arriving for prayer early on Saturday when the explosion went off at the Dar Al Farooq Islamic Center in a Minneapolis suburb.
No one was injured in the attack, but the imam's office was heavily damaged and windows were shattered.
FBI officials said the blast was caused by an improvised explosive device.
Mr Trump has yet to issue a statement on the attack, but Mr Gorka defended his boss during an MSNBC interview on Tuesday, saying the administration would wait for a full investigation.
When MSBNC's Stephanie Ruhle pressed Mr Gorka, noting that the president had taken to Twitter in previous attacks before full details were available, he said: "Sometimes an attack is unequivocally clear for what it is.
"When somebody shouts, 'Allahu Akbar', as they're stabbing a police officer, it's pretty clear it's not a case of the mafia robbing a bank, wouldn't you say so?"
He also said "fake hate crimes" have occurred before and the White House should wait for more information.
"Hold your horses, count to 10 and the president will do what he deems fit," Mr Gorka said.
But the president's silence on the attack has drawn criticism from groups including the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes," spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times.
"We are wondering why President Trump has not tweeted about this," Asad Zaman, director of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, told BuzzFeed News.
"He seems to want to tweet about security and terror issues."
The Department of Homeland Security released a statement on Sunday saying that its acting secretary, Elaine Duke, was "aware" of the incident and the agency was in contact with investigators.
"The Department of Homeland Security fully supports the rights of all to freely and safely worship the faith of their choosing and we vigorously condemn such attacks on any religious institution," the statement read.
"We are thankful that there were no injuries, but that does not diminish the serious nature of this act."
Some Twitter users also called on Mr Trump to speak up about the mosque bombing.
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An estimated 3.3 million Muslims live in the US, around 1% of the population, according to a recent Pew Research Center report.
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The former Leyton Orient boss took the Cardiff to the brink of play-offs despite wage cuts, enforced player sales and a transfer embargo.
Yet Slade's position is being scrutinised as owner Vincent Tan mulls over some key summer decisions - with the decision due soon after their final game of the season against Birmingham City.
The manager's unpopularity with many fans could feature heavily on Tan's mind as he deliberates on whether the man who has stabilised the ship can actually take the club forward.
Some would consider it miraculous that Slade kept Cardiff's battle for the Championship play-offs alive until the penultimate game of the season.
Their hopes were finally dashed with the 3-0 defeat by Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough, as the Owls claimed the final play-off spot.
Cardiff will finish no lower than eighth this season compared with 11th last term.
This was achieved against a backdrop of wage reductions and the loss of leading scorers Kenwyne Jones and Joe Mason in January when a transfer embargo was slapped on the club for breaching Financial Fair Play rules.
The previous season he was forced to reduce the bloated squad he inherited from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Slade appears to have operated in conditions akin to having one hand tied behind his back, and yet the doubts over his ability never disappeared.
The hangover from the row over Tan's decision to switch the club's colours from blue to red - and then back again - appeared to affect Slade's early popularity early in his reign.
However, a visit from the owner in January not only bolstered Slade's position as manager, but appeared to placate the dissenters.
Cardiff attracted just over 15,000 for their important home win over Ipswich Town on 12 March, but a ticket offer ensured a club-record 28,680 were present to see them beat promotion chasing Derby on 2 April.
Despite a hibernation, the doubts over Slade re-emerged.
An almost inexplicable decision to "rest" consistent midfielder Stuart O'Keefe in the defeat against Fulham drew much criticism.
A perception he was reactive rather than proactive over substitutions has also attracted fans' disapproval, especially the belated entrance of Kenneth Zohore in the 2-1 defeat at Brentford.
His unwillingness to use young talent like Wales international Declan John has also drawn the ire of the fans.
But it's results that might ultimately have sealed his fate. One win in six league games since the victory over Derby on 2 April culminated in the dispiriting defeat by Sheffield Wednesday.
Fans who travelled to Hillsborough complained on the BBC Radio Wales Sport's phone-in of a meek, cautious performance when a win was needed to keep the season alive.
Slade can rightly point to the six sides above Cardiff having greater spending power.
Now it is up to Tan to decide whether Slade's "progress" is enough to justify him being given another shot at getting Cardiff back to the Premier League.
Slade's position is only one of the questions Tan has to answer this summer.
The indications are fans who want Tan to splash the cash this summer may be disappointed. Coming out of the transfer embargo will help, but a spending spree seems unlikely.
That could help Slade's prospects because he has shown he can keep the club away from the danger zone on a tight budget.
If Tan was to commit to spending big, then a manager proven at Championship level with a record of achieving promotion would have seemed an obvious target.
Cardiff fans have always wanted West Bromwich Albion's Welsh head coach Tony Pulis and would still want him if he was to leave The Hawthorns.
The fact that Slade was not Pulis is one of the reasons why they did not take the current boss to their hearts.
If Pulis is not an option, Tan could consider a manager with more presence and with a better track record of promotion or he could decide on a young, hungry coach.
Craig Bellamy, who is diligently educating himself to prepare for management, would be hugely popular with the fans, but whether Tan could cope with such a fiercely independent character is open to doubt.
The dressing room reaction would be interesting but Bellamy would undoubtedly help sell season tickets.
While Tan's ultimate quest is to find someone to take the club forward, change is a risk.
But after the failure to hit the target of the Championship play-offs this season - Tan might feel too many fans the club has worked hard to attract back will not accept the status quo.
Last week, the High Court backed Beth Warren's case to stop the sperm being destroyed by April 2015.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority kept the door open to appeal, but now says it accepts the verdict.
Her husband had the sperm frozen before starting cancer treatment.
But 32-year-old Warren Brewer, a ski instructor, died of a brain tumour in February 2012.
The couple, who were together for eight years, married in a hospice six weeks before his death and she subsequently changed her surname to Warren.
Mr Brewer had repeatedly made clear that his partner, now 28, should be allowed to use his sperm in the event of his death.
But he had not been given the opportunity by the fertility clinic to store the sperm for a prolonged period.
The case went to the courts, but in her judgement, Mrs Justice Hogg said: "The evidence indicates that both Mr Brewer and his wife were in agreement. He wanted her to have the opportunity to have his child, if she wanted, after his death."
She ruled that it was "right and proper, and proportionate" to allow the sperm to be kept until at least April 2023.
Mrs Warren, from Birmingham, said she was "over the moon" and "elated" with the decision.
But the HFEA immediately said it was seeking leave to appeal against the decision.
Sally Cheshire, from the HFEA, said: "Seeking leave to appeal may have appeared unsympathetic to Mrs Warren's very regrettable situation, but we owed it to future patients to think carefully about the implications of a complex legal judgement.
"We didn't want Mrs Warren's deserving and highly unusual case to pave the way for other cases where the wishes of the deceased patient are much less clear.
"Fortunately, we think we can guard against any such cases without having to appeal."
The organisation said it would write to fertility clinics to ensure they kept clear records of patients' wishes.
Mrs Warren's lawyer, James Lawford Davies, said: "It is unfortunate that it was ever necessary for Beth to go to court in circumstances where Warren's wishes were so clear.
"Along with the rest of the legal team, I am delighted for Beth and very pleased that her two year struggle has at last come to an end."
Or, as a farmer, remotely monitoring the health and yield of crops on a daily basis over huge swathes of land.
Perhaps as an aid agency, effortlessly estimating the flow of human traffic across borders over the course of a week.
And for business retail analysts, estimating the footfall of a retail chain by counting the sheer number of vehicles in its car parking lots across a region.
These are just some of the countless possibilities conceivable when our world is observed from on-high every day or week, rather than the years it can currently take to completely update our planet's imagery on services such as Google Earth.
Soon these possibilities will translate into reality, as a new image-focused space race is steadily gathering pace.
Rather than being conducted by nation-states or mega-corps, it is being played out by Silicon Valley tech start-ups doing what they do best - defying conventional thinking to disrupt an entire industry.
Their goal is to reveal an unprecedented understanding of activity conducted on Earth by taking and analysing pictures of our planet in its entirety.
The new building blocks of this revolution are tiny - a fleet of shoebox-sized "cubesats" - cheap, miniature satellites, developed over the past decade in universities to aid space research.
From a characteristically untidy San Francisco start-up office no larger than a family home, Planet Labs' 40-strong team of 20 and 30-somethings is making the largest constellation of satellites the world has ever seen - 131 planned in the next 12 months, to give a comprehensive snapshot of Earth almost daily, with pictures sent back for analysis within hours.
"We're basically leveraging billions of dollars that has been spent in consumer electronics to advance space exploration and the capabilities of satellites to help people on the planet," says British co-founder and chief executive Will Marshall.
In February the first few in its initial batch of 28 were ejected out of an airlock on the International Space Station. These cubesats - called "doves" in line with their peace-harbouring ambitions - are now sending back their first images from low-Earth polar orbit, passing over Earth at five miles a second.
The pictures are detailed enough to pick out individual trees (although not individuals, addressing objections from privacy advocates) - which will give an unparalleled insight into activity on the planet's surface.
The company says its mission is ultimately to democratise access to information about our planet. "Instead of seeing a hole in the Amazon a few months after trees have been taken down there, we can see it as it's happening", says the Planet Labs co-founder.
Although the company plans to give away valuable data to NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and other suitably worthy causes in line with its humanitarian aims, Planet Labs sees no contradiction in being first and foremost a profit-making concern, backed by venture capital and already attracting paying customers.
A makeshift clean room separated by plastic sheeting from the main office is where off-the-shelf components from camera lenses to solar-charged batteries are assembled into the finished product sheathed in solar panels.
The entire package measures just 10cm (4in) by 10cm by 30cm. "Nowadays we put more capability into these little satellites than you can possibly imagine - into something just a few kilos much more capable than a satellite a few years ago that was 10 tonnes," says Mr Marshall.
With only basic manoeuvring capabilities and cheap sensors these cubesats clearly do not conform to the same rigour as conventional satellite-construction - but then again, the cost of a cubesat satellite failure comes is in at thousands of dollars, not hundreds of millions.
"If we lose a satellite, it's a bad day in the office but not a catastrophe," Mr Marshall says.
But this revolution in satellite imaging is not confined to still pictures.
Other start-ups, such as Skybox and Canadian Urthecast, are focusing their efforts on high-definition video, with far bigger fridge-freezer-sized satellites equipped with more powerful telescopes capturing far more detail than those capable in mere cubesats.
At a resolution of just over 1m per pixel, the most powerful on-board telescopes can track single cars travelling along a road, or groups of people gathering.
Skybox's first satellite of a planned fleet of 24 launched in December.
Flying in low-Earth orbit around Earth 16 times a day, it is now relaying 90-second black-and-white clips, which, cloud-cover permitting, allow unprecedented analysis of movement on Earth.
"If you show someone a still image of an area they can gain some understanding of what's happening," says Skybox founder Julian Mann. "But if you show someone even a few seconds of video we intuitively understand more."
The use cases here for deep analysis are compelling - everything from natural disaster relief to supply-chain monitoring of commodities or broadcast news coverage of conflict zones.
Urthecast delivers its so-called "ultra-HD video" in colour - and plans to open up its platform to individual consumers to be able to observe their own backyards.
There is no doubt as to the potential these systems offer.
But they also leave the door open to misuse of the technology - not for the benefit of our planet or humanity but for self-centred interests ranging from corporate espionage to greater control over rebel insurgency.
Thomas Immel has spent two decades as a scientist at the Space Science Laboratory at UC Berkeley.
"These new capabilities open up a Pandora's box," he says.
"Some applications may well be harmful or controversial.
"What is clear is that 10 years from now we'll be having another argument over the next implementation of technology that we can't even imagine."
Some consequences may be easier to predict - like attracting the attention of bigger technology firms.
Skybox is already rumoured to be in early-stage acquisition talks with Google, which bought drone start-up Titan aerospace earlier this year, following hot on the heels of Facebook's purchase of UK-based drone maker Ascenta.
Silicon Valley's behemoths clearly have stellar ambitions of their own - and the newfound opportunities presented by Earth-observation may well prove too tempting to resist.
You can see more about space technology on this weekend's episode of Click.
The following link provides the show's broadcast times in the UK and on BBC World News.
The lammergeier vulture was seen on 12 May perched on rocks near the bridge, then flew east before heading west.
If confirmed as a wild bird, it will be the first time the species has been spotted in Britain.
The same bird is also thought to have been seen on Dartmoor, Devon and in Belgium.
It is thought that fewer than 10,000 pairs exist in the wild worldwide, and it is most commonly found in Ethiopia.
Dale Kedward filmed the lammergeier as he was walking his dog.
He said: "It looked like something prehistoric. I thought it was going to pick up my dog, it was that big."
The bearded vulture, which has a wingspan of up to 9.3ft (2.83m), lives and breeds in high mountains in southern Europe, the Caucasus, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Tibet.
The species was wiped out in Europe, but has been successfully reintroduced to the Spanish Pyrenees and the Swiss and Italian Alps.
However, according to the Gwent birding website, the bird spotted in Monmouthshire had no obvious signs of the bleached flight feathers common to reintroduced birds - which would suggest that it is wild.
The 27-year-old midfielder signed a one-year deal to become the Fir Park outfit's fifth summer arrival.
"The vision he set out was very exciting, with a great group of guys and a good family club but with great ambition," Rose told MFC TV.
"I can't wait to get going and give my all for the club."
Rose spent one season with Coventry, where he played alongside another of Motherwell's summer signings, midfielder Gael Bigirimana.
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An Australian midfielder, Rose arrived in the UK after spending three seasons in the MLS with the Seattle Sounders.
"I can't wait to play here in front of our fans and give my all for the club," Rose added.
"I'm looking forward to working with Stephen Robinson."
Robinson and Bigirimana are part of a squad overhaul by Robinson, with goalkeeper Trevor Carson, attacking midfielder Craig Tanner and striker Alex Fisher also moving to Fir Park.
Robinson is keen to strengthen his squad further, and hopes to add another goalkeeper to the squad, as well as recruiting more defenders.
"I'm delighted that we've managed to secure the signature of Andy Rose, he's yet another fantastic coup for the club and one of my primary targets," the Motherwell manager said.
"Andy not only brings a physical presence to the middle of the park but he brings energy and drive and I'm very encouraged by the squad we're building here this summer."
"We've also secured the signing of a left-sided defender who has Championship and League One experience and will do pre-season with us before we announce the signing."
Doctor Raslan Fadl was cleared of all charges alongside the father of Suhair al-Bataa, a lawyer in the case said.
Suhair died in June 2013. Her doctor denied carrying out FGM on her, and blamed her death on an allergy.
The practice of FGM was banned in Egypt in 2008 but is still widespread.
More than 90% of Egyptian women aged under 50 have experienced it, according to government statistics.
Campaigners against FGM - in Egypt and abroad - hoped this prosecution would serve as a deterrent. They pushed hard to get the authorities to bring the case, and hoped to see jail terms handed down. The legislation banning FGM in Egypt allows for sentences of up to two years.
After both defendants were acquitted, activists said the case would put more girls at risk.
"The verdict is disappointing and it's a problem," said Manal Fawzy, of the Childhood and Development Association, an NGO campaigning against FGM in southern Egypt. "Now it will be easy for any doctor to perform such surgeries."
The verdict was issued in written form by a judge who did not give his reasons. Activists say most cases of FGM never even get to court and the illegal practice continues around the country.
On Twitter, the prominent Egyptian feminist and commentator Mona Eltahawy said the verdict was "a disgrace", coming as it did on the 25th anniversary of the signing of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
This was the first time a prosecution relating to FGM had been brought to trial.
Women's rights activists, who saw the trial as a significant step forward, expressed dismay at Thursday's verdict.
"It is awful that after what seemed to be strong moves towards a positive outcome, Suhair has not been given justice," said Suad Abu Dayyeh, a representative for the NGO Equality Now, which pressed for the trial to be brought.
"We can only hope that the strong commitment by the Egyptian government to finally take FGM seriously will result in further moves in the right direction and we will now discuss next steps with the local lawyers."
Prosecutors alleged that Suhair al-Bataa, who lived in small farming community on the outskirts of the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, died after being forced to undergo FGM by her father.
However, her doctor said the cause of death was an allergy to penicillin.
The judge in the Nile Delta town of Aga acquitted both men without giving his reasons.
Correspondents say that while some Egyptians are fighting for the practice to be eradicated, others justify it in the name of religion.
Speaking to the BBC earlier this year, her relatives defended the practice of FGM, and insisted no-one was to blame for her death.
They are being observed by Met Police detectives who arrived in Faro earlier.
Among the witnesses due to be questioned over the next three days is British ex-pat Robert Murat.
Mr Murat, who is not a suspect, was first questioned when three-year-old Madeleine went missing from the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz seven years ago.
He was cleared of any wrongdoing and won substantial damages from British newspapers over how he was portrayed at the time.
Along with Mr Murat and his wife, police are expected to question two other British people and seven Portuguese citizens.
Last month, Mr Murat told the BBC: "My conscience is clear and I have no problem speaking to the police again."
The BBC has learnt that of 10 people of interest that British police have requested be interviewed by Portuguese police in Faro, three are being questioned on Tuesday, four on Wednesday - including Mr Murat - and three on Thursday.
The 11th person is a woman who is currently in the UK and will be questioned there at a later date.
Some of the interviewees are former employees of the Ocean Club where the McCanns were staying when Madeleine went missing, BBC correspondent Christian Fraser said.
He added that police would be looking for "inconsistencies" with any answers witnesses gave seven years ago.
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In Portuguese law, if officers suspect an individual's involvement in a crime but are not in a position to arrest or charge, they are given "arguido" status - giving them the right not to answer questions and to legal representation.
Police from the UK have supplied more than 250 questions for Portuguese police to ask the 11 witnesses.
A huddle of camera crews and photographers surrounded Det Ch Insp Redwood as he walked up the narrow cobbled street outside the police station in Faro.
He was repeatedly asked questions but didn't make any statement about the case.
After years of rumours and suspicion, some residents in Praia da Luz, the resort where Madeleine went missing, feel the focus on the case has gone on for too long.
A few "Stop" road signs in the area now have graffiti that reads: "Stop McCann Circus".
Earlier this year detectives from London flew to the Algarve to assist with searching scrubland near the resort where Madeleine disappeared. They did not uncover any evidence.
The Met's Operation Grange was set up in 2011 after Prime Minister David Cameron asked the force to "bring their expertise" to the inquiry following a request from Kate and Gerry McCann.
Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas said Portuguese police would now be "tracing, interviewing and eliminating" witnesses and suspects.
"What the British police are doing is going through all the documentation they've had from the Portuguese, as well as what they've collected themselves," he told BBC News.
"But of course this is problematic because it's not a British inquiry and there is real sensitivity. It's almost like treading on egg-shells because... another force is coming in and saying 'we don't think you did the inquiry very well, we think we can do it better'."
He said the British police involvement had now cost £8m and ideally a permanent team of officers would work hand in hand with their Portuguese counterparts.
"The sad reality is that until we know what's happened and either an offender has been caught or Madeleine has been found, we aren't any further forward," he added.
Vorm, who has made one Premier League appearance this season, is in for Ajax's Jasper Cillessen (broken nose).
Van Ginkel last played for the Dutch in August 2013 and is a straight swap for injured Ajax captain Davy Klaassen.
Wesley Sneijder pulled out of the squad on Saturday with a hamstring injury.
The Galatasaray midfielder captained the Dutch in their 3-2 defeat by France on Friday but picked up the injury in the first half.
Tuesday's game against England, who beat Germany 3-2 in Berlin on Saturday, kicks-off at 20:00 BST at Wembley.
Leeds climbed to fourth above Reading, who lost 3-0 to Brighton.
Wood, given lots of space as Wednesday appealed unsuccessfully for offside, poked in from inside the penalty area.
Owls striker Jordan Rhodes had a chance to equalise after Souleymane Doukara fouled Sam Hutchinson, but Green pushed his spot-kick onto the post.
Wednesday remain sixth, five points above seventh-placed Fulham, who drew 2-2 at Cardiff City on Saturday.
A game of few chances was settled by a simple finish by Wood, who has found the net in 21 separate competitive games for Leeds this season.
And it is still possible that the New Zealand striker could score league goals against all 23 Championship clubs during 2016-17, having already netted against 16 different opponents so far this term.
Meanwhile, visiting forward Rhodes has scored only once in six appearances since his loan move from Middlesbrough in January.
Leeds head coach Garry Monk:
"We were playing a very good side in Sheffield Wednesday. I thought they put some pressure on but we dealt with it extremely well.
"I can't remember them having any shots on goal apart from the penalty so that was very pleasing.
"The pressure that's there to win these types of games, both teams on the same points, a derby game. I thought we handled the pressure really well today and I'm very pleased with the players."
Sheffield Wednesday boss Carlos Carvalhal:
"We didn't lose today because we didn't try. We fought a lot and created a big chance with the penalty.
"We win together and we lose together. The responsibility is not too any one player. Individual mistakes are part of the game and we must understand them. It is normal in football."
Match ends, Leeds United 1, Sheffield Wednesday 0.
Second Half ends, Leeds United 1, Sheffield Wednesday 0.
Attempt blocked. Chris Wood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ronaldo Vieira.
Chris Wood (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Leeds United. Souleymane Doukara tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.
Liam Bridcutt (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Stuart Dallas (Leeds United).
Souleymane Doukara (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday).
Substitution, Leeds United. Stuart Dallas replaces Pablo Hernández.
Offside, Sheffield Wednesday. Ross Wallace tries a through ball, but Steven Fletcher is caught offside.
Hand ball by Gaetano Berardi (Leeds United).
Foul by Pablo Hernández (Leeds United).
Glenn Loovens (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Leeds United. Ronaldo Vieira replaces Eunan O'Kane.
Attempt missed. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Adam Reach.
Chris Wood (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Glenn Loovens (Sheffield Wednesday).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Pontus Jansson (Leeds United) because of an injury.
Eunan O'Kane (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday).
Foul by Kyle Bartley (Leeds United).
Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Luke Ayling.
Foul by Gaetano Berardi (Leeds United).
Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Glenn Loovens.
Attempt blocked. Kemar Roofe (Leeds United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Leeds United. Kemar Roofe replaces Hadi Sacko.
Eunan O'Kane (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Eunan O'Kane (Leeds United).
Adam Reach (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Barry Bannan replaces Almen Abdi.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Steven Fletcher replaces Jordan Rhodes.
Offside, Leeds United. Eunan O'Kane tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Eunan O'Kane (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Kyle Bartley (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday).
Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card.
But defenders Ben Richards-Everton and Ryan Williamson remain sidelined.
Defender Scott McMann returns to the Accies squad after illness.
Gramoz Kurtaj faces a late fitness test following an ankle problem, fellow midfielder Ali Crawford is likely to miss out again through injury, while four other players remain sidelined.
Georgios Sarris continues his recovery on the sidelines after knee surgery, while fellow defender Jesus Garcia Tena and midfielders Greg Docherty and Darren Lyon miss out.
Dunfermline lie sixth in the Scottish Championship, while Hamilton are second bottom in the Premiership.
Dunfermline Athletic manager Allan Johnston told his club website: "The pressure is all on Hamilton as the Premiership club to go and win the game.
"They probably don't deserve to be in the position they are just now. They have put in a lot of good performances this season and maybe not got the rewards they deserved at times.
"Hamilton have a lot of quality going forward and are well established in the Premiership now.
"We know that it is going to be a hard tie and we are going to have to play a lot better than last week, probably at our best, to get a result.
"With the players that we have got, we are capable of causing any team a problem, especially going forward.
"It is a chance for our boys to go and compete against a Premiership club. The last time we got into the quarter-finals was 2009, so it would be a great achievement.
"When you look at the clubs that are likely going to be left, it is a magnificent chance to get through to progress further in the cup."
Hamilton Academical defender Blair Adams: ""It is my first taste of the Scottish Cup and I am looking forward to it.
"Obviously I played on Saturday and had 60 minutes on Tuesday, so I have settled in quick and am just hoping to start on Saturday as well and get a good run in the team.
"Of course I have heard of Dunfermline, but I can't stand here and say I know much about them.
"I am just sort of getting to grips with the league and even my own team-mates as well, so I can't say that I know much about them.
"But we won't be taking them lightly because they are in the Championship here.
"Everyone wants to have a good cup run. It is a good opportunity to progress into the quarter-finals on Saturday so we are looking forward to it."
Mold Crown Court heard how Przemyslaw Zylinski was set upon in Connah's Quay, Deeside, in May 2016.
Chad Stagg, 20, of Connah's Quay and Daniel Butler, 19, of Flint, admitted wounding with intent and were sentenced to four-and-a-half and four years youth detention respectively.
Stagg's father Anthony Stagg, 52, admitted wounding and was jailed for 27 months.
The court heard how Mr Zylinksi tracked down some of the culprits via Facebook and passed their names to police.
He and another Polish man were set up as they made their way home from a take-away shop on 27 May.
They were repeatedly told to "go back to their own country" before being spat upon and then viciously attacked.
Butler was armed with a weapon, possibly a hammer, the court was told.
Others arrived in a Mercedes van and joined in the attack. They had been wrongly informed that Mr Zylinksi had assaulted someone earlier.
Mr Zylinksi said he thought he was about to be killed when he was chased, ended up on the ground in the middle of the road, looked up and saw an unknown man brandishing a machete.
The attack only ended when a taxi arrived.
Judge Niclas Parry said Mr Zylinksi had been caused "serious and significant injuries", adding that it was a serious but depressing case and "another example of a racist society".
In a victim impact statement, Mr Zylinski said that he still had nightmares about what had happened.
His friend had also been attacked that night but it was not known by whom and no one had been charged.
Defending barrister Oliver King, said Chad Stagg, who also admitted charges of racially aggravated common assault and a racially aggravated public order offence, had "bravely" pleaded guilty to a serious offence.
It was not pre-meditated and it was clear his client was "beered-up" and had no weapons, he said.
He added that Butler came from a good family but had gone off the rails.
The court heard that Anthony Stagg, who had previous convictions for 145 offences, was on licence at the time.
He became involved in the attack after leaving his home when he heard his daughter Toni Ann Stagg screaming.
She had previously admitted a racially aggravated public order offence and was placed on a 12-month community order.
The company said "verified reports" of "bad behaviour" would lead to players being silenced, temporarily suspended or banned from the game completely.
Abusing other gamers over voice-chat or deliberately wasting time in games were examples of bad behaviour, it said.
One reviewer said it would make the game more "welcoming" as an e-sport.
"The gaming community has improved, but there are still some toxic elements," said Ellen Rose, co-editor of the gaming channel OutsideXtra.
"It's too easy online to do, and say, what you want and not get any consequences for it.
"Cracking down on that so it's a more fun experience for everyone - especially for newer players - is really good."
Blizzard highlighted several behaviours that would be affected by the tighter rules, including in-game spam messages.
"In Overwatch, you can make your character say hello, and people press it a million times - it's extremely annoying," Ms Rose told the BBC.
"There's also match inactivity. Sometimes you are in a game and you turn around and there's someone who is just standing there and not playing.
"That's called AFK - away from keyboard. This person goes away for a cup of tea, and it lets the team down."
The company said it would also issue tougher penalties for people who deliberately tried to spoil the game for others, known as griefing.
"You also get people who go into matches just to annoy other people because they think it's funny," said Ms Rose.
"One character, Mei, has an ice wall she can bring up, and some people set up ice walls to trap other players on their own team - or stop them getting a line of sight to shoot."
"Stamping out that sort of behaviour is a good thing."
Blizzard is pitching Overwatch as an e-sports title and in July announced the first seven team owners for a forthcoming league.
The company believes the tournament could eventually prove more lucrative than the UK's Premier League - football's highest-earning competition.
"I went to an event and watched Overwatch played as an e-sport, and you really get into it," said Ms Rose.
"It's less gruesome and violent than other shooters - so it's slightly more accessible. It's [age] rated 12 - and not many other shooters are a 12.
"It's sensible of them to make sure it's a welcoming place, so it gets more people into the game, and more people trying out e-sports."
Presently, players can report bad behaviour only when playing on a PC.
Blizzard admitted it was "frustrating" that the feature was missing for console players and said it was "committed to bringing a reporting system to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One".
"With PC it's easier - with a keyboard, it's quicker to write a report," Ms Rose told the BBC.
"But it would be good to bring reporting across to consoles. It's important to make sure everyone on all platforms feels safe."
It was the British number one's second defeat in Austria, having only reached the main draw as a 'lucky loser'.
In a second set of nine breaks, Konta rallied from 0-40 when Brengle served for the match at 5-4 and again from 15-40 two games later before succumbing.
Heather Watson reached the quarter-finals of the Hong Kong Open, beating Chinese Taipei's Lee Ya-Hsuan.
The 23-year-old British number two, ranked 61, won in three sets, 6-0 6-7 (5-7) 6-4, and will face 2009 US Open champion Sam Stosur in the last eight.
It is Watson's first quarter-final since winning in Hobart in January.
For Konta, at a career-high ranking of 47, it was only a fourth defeat in 27 matches since Wimbledon. Her loss to world number 105 Klara Koukalova in qualifying was her first to a lower-ranked player since May.
El Khayati's curler sealed a defeat that left the Addicks 10 points adrift of safety with five games left.
Jordan Cousins looked to have earned the visitors a point when he fired in from the edge of the box on his left just after the hour mark.
Matt Phillips had earlier given Rangers a fortuitous lead with a cross-shot.
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The visitors went into the game on the back of a two-match unbeaten run, but found mid-table Rangers too tough to handle.
Seb Polter and Tjaronn Chery had chances before Phillips' opener, while Jose Riga's side were limited to Callum Harriott's shot off the bar.
Cousins scored against the run of play, but Ademola Lookman and Igor Vetokele passed up great chances to put Charlton in front.
And El Khayati's strike lit up Loftus Road and ensured a miserable trip back to south-east London for the seemingly doomed Addicks.
QPR manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink:
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"At times you need a bit of luck and your keeper to be smart. I must say that Alex Smithies won us the game today.
"I am happy for Nasser but more happy for the team that we stuck at it, kept going, and in the end we finished them off even though we needed help from our keeper.
"I must say we put ourselves in that difficult situation as we had the chance to score and make it 2-0, and if you take that you go on and score three or four.
"If that chance goes in it kills Charlton's spirit. But it gave them more 'animal' to carry on."
Charlton boss Jose Riga:
"At the end of the match, conceding a goal like that when you have the possibility yourselves to win is cruel.
"It was a good performance. Okay, the first half was more complicated and we conceded a goal, but the reaction was good.
"It's a sad story. The only hope is that the Charlton fans can see again that the side was really competitive, with not just good spirit, but a style of play.
"When you do your job as we did today, at least your own feeling is that you have done your job."
The city will be the first in the US to introduce such a programme.
Why are city authorities doing this, how will it work and how much will it cost?
New York City council voted unanimously on Tuesday for a series of measures to provide menstrual hygiene products free of charge in public schools, prisons and homeless shelters.
The bills are not yet law as Mayor Bill de Blasio needs to enact them, but he is a supporter, he says, "because tampons and pads aren't luxuries - they're necessities".
The measures were sponsored and promoted by city councillor Julissa Ferrares-Copeland, who says "periods have been stigmatised for too long".
She said she was happy to be known as the "period legislator".
Supporters of so-called menstrual equity say that the cost of tampons and pads is a burden on low-income women and girls.
Not having access to enough products to manage menstrual bleeding effectively is "associated with both health and psycho-social issues, particularly among low-income women", according to NYC council.
"Unlike toilet paper - which is freely available in public and school restrooms, funded by city budgets and viewed as essential to everyday health and sanitation - those living in poverty are left to access tampons and pads on their own," campaigner Jennifer Weiss-Wolf wrote.
None of New York's city councillors voted against the measures.
Commentators on Mayor Bill de Blasio's Facebook post announcing the move were mostly positive, saying the measures were "fantastic" and would help women.
"I know what it's like to be a young girl and not have the monthly essentials, it's embarrassing and degrading and I missed school because of it," wrote one woman.
That said, there were some dissenters. One poster wrote that it was "insanity" for tax dollars to go towards this. "Mayor don't worry about free pads, instead fix them roads," wrote another commentator.
The bill on school provision requires feminine hygiene products to be provided at no cost to students in the toilets of public schools which serve female pupils in sixth to 12th grade (aged approximately 11 to 18).
While many schools apparently already offer free products via the nurse's office, some students are put off this by embarrassment or time constraints:
"A young girl should not have to tell her teacher, to then tell her counsellor, to then be sent to the nurse's office, to then be given a pad to then go back to the bathroom while a boy is already taking his exam in his classroom," said Ms Ferrares-Copeland.
The scheme was trialled in 25 schools in the city, in which dispensers were installed in school toilets.
According to a New York Magazine report on the scheme, dispensers will come with a timer mechanism so people cannot just press the lever again and again and empty out all the supplies.
The new law requires the city's department of corrections to provide all female inmates with feminine hygiene products as soon as practicable upon request.
While it is reportedly already common practice for NYC prisons to provide inmates with tampons and pads, in many jurisdictions, women prisoners have to buy them with their own money.
Restricted access to sanitary protection can lead to the products being bartered on the prison black market, as dramatised in Netflix's Orange is the New Black.
Former Connecticut inmate Chandra Bozelko wrote about having her period in prison for the Guardian. She explains that the supplies provided worked out as about 10 pads per woman per month (note to those who don't menstruate - that is unlikely to be enough).
The issue of sales tax or VAT on feminine hygiene products is separate, and not under New York City's control. At the state level, New York senators recently voted to get rid of sales tax on pads and tampons so New York is set to join five other US states which do not tax sanitary products as luxury items (there are five other states which do not levy sales tax at all).
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Victoria Cilliers, 40, suffered "multiple serious injuries" during a 4,000ft (1.2km) jump at Netheravon Airfield in Wiltshire in April 2015.
Emile Cilliers, 36, pleaded not guilty to three charges relating to his wife when he appeared at Salisbury Crown Court.
He was released on bail and the case adjourned for a date yet to be set.
Mr Cilliers, of Aldershot, Hampshire, also denied a charge of damaging a gas fitting belonging to his wife, thereby recklessly endangering life, between 28 and 31 March last year.
Adjourning the case, Judge Keith Cutler told the defendant the trial would "likely" take five weeks and begin in May or next summer.
The 21-year-old came through the club's youth system and has made a total of 94 appearances for the Addicks since his debut in August 2013.
"It's a good feeling to secure my future," he told the club website.
"I've been here for a very long time and I'm proud to come from this academy. It's my home, I feel part of the club and I want that to continue."
Cousins, who has represented England at Under-20 level, will now remain at The Valley until the summer of 2019.
Meanwhile Charlton forward Piotr Parzyszek has joined Danish Superliga side Randers on a season-long loan.
The 21-year-old Poland Under-21 international, who moved to south-east London in January 2014, spent last season with Belgian club Sint-Truiden.
It will be built on the site of the force's old offices in Ripley, north of Derby, after plans were approved.
Both organisations said it would save money in the long term and lead to improvements in the way they worked together.
Building is due to start in April next year with work expected to be finished by February 2017.
Derbyshire police said their current buildings were coming to the end of their useful life.
Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Charles admitted that while new headquarters were initially more expensive than repairing the old ones, it would allow further savings in the future.
He added: "Sharing headquarters with the Fire and Rescue Service in this way will allow both our organisations to adapt more easily to change and improve our ways of working, including making best use of technological advancements that are so important to efficiency."
Roland Hosker, chairman of the Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service (DFRS) panel, said: "DFRS's current headquarters is no longer fit for purpose and restricts the opportunities to develop new and more efficient ways of working. "
The existing building, at Burton Road, Littleover, is being sold to help fund the new project.
Additional funding is being sought from government transformation grants for "joint blue light" schemes.
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They were beaten 2-1 by Portugal on Sunday, having lost their opening fixture 6-0 to England.
But Signeul's side can still qualify if they beat Spain by two goals and England see off Portugal on Thursday.
"We know we have quality in the team and everything is possible," Signeul told BBC Scotland.
Ranked 17 places above Portugal, Scotland were expected to win in Rotterdam but despite clawing the match back to 1-1 in the second half, Ana Leite's goal secured three points for the Portuguese.
Lana Clelland and Caroline Weir both hit the woodwork in the match, with Signeul later bemoaning her side's lack of luck in the tournament in the Netherlands.
The Swede, however, hopes Scotland's fortunes may be changing after things went in their favour when England beat Spain 2-0 later on Sunday in Group D, keeping their qualification hopes alive.
England took an early lead that they protected until netting a late second, but Spain were awarded a penalty at 1-0 only for the referee to change her mind.
"Maybe our luck changed with that penalty that was called last night and pulled back. Good for us but bad for Spain," Signeul said.
"We need a bit of luck - Scotland scoring an early goal like England did against Spain would be great."
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The task facing Scotland is a sizeable one as they have not beaten Spain in five attempts. They lost 4-3 on aggregate in a play-off to reach Euro 2013, with Spain's Veronica Boquete scoring with the last kick of extra time.
"Their youth squads have been very successful, constantly in finals since 2010-11, so they are much better now," Signeul added.
"But we go out there and be brave, think about how we set up.
"We will need to step up and deny them a goal or it will be too difficult to come back."
Hayley Lauder returned to action for the Scots on Sunday but Rachel Corsie picked up a knock and striker Jane Ross will not recover in time.
Tamir Rice, whom the officers appeared to believe was much older, was shot twice and later died in hospital.
Cleveland police has released audio recordings and video of the incident.
His family has released a statement appealing for calm and thanked the police for releasing CCTV footage of events leading up to the shooting.
The CCTV video shows Tamir Rice pointing the toy gun at a passer-by from the playground where he was shot, which prompted a 911 emergency call.
Recordings of radio communications reveal a police officer at the scene describing Tamir Rice as aged "maybe 20" after the shooting.
A separate recording appears to confirm the officers were not told the gun might be fake.
The family of Tamir Rice said that they believed that their son's death could have been avoided.
In a statement, the family said: "The video shows one thing distinctly: the police officers reacted quickly."
They called for a thorough investigation of events and asked people in their community to remain calm and "protest peacefully and responsibly".
Cleveland police said on Wednesday that the family had given permission for CCTV recordings of the shooting to be released.
The footage shows Tamir Rice walking around a playground with a replica gun clearly in his hand.
Minutes later, a police car drives up and stops immediately next to him.
Chief officer Edward Tomba said that the car door was open when the officers arrived, and that they had ordered the 12-year-old to show his hands three times as the car pulled up alongside.
The boy was then shot and fatally wounded.
In a recording immediately after the incident, a police officer is heard saying: "Shots fired, male down, black male, maybe 20."
A recording of the call from the operator to police officers as they were dispatched to the scene appears to confirm that there was no mention of a replica gun.
The operator describes the incident as "a black male sitting on the swings, keeps pulling a gun out of his pants and pointing it at people".
An audio recording of the 911 emergency call had previously revealed that the caller had said the gun was "probably a fake" on two occasions, before adding he was not sure whether it was "real or not".
They were ordered down by a Belfast court on Friday, after they carried death threats against a Catholic man.
His lawyer had been critical of the length of time it took the social media giant to act.
He had threatened to take further legal action if they were not removed by 09:00 GMT on Tuesday.
The sites were Loyalists against Short Strand and Loyalist Peaceful Protests Updater.
The sites had provided information about street protests being held in Northern Ireland.
They have been ongoing since a decision was taken by councillors on 3 December to limit the number of days the union flag flies at Belfast City Hall.
In his ruling at Belfast High Court, the judge ordered that the man's picture and details about him should be prevented from appearing on any other web pages controlled by Facebook.
The flag dispute is now in its seventh week.
Some of the protests have been followed by rioting in which more than 100 police officers have been injured.
"I told Carlos Slim that he should clean both of his rear mirrors, because I would not warn him on which side I was going to overtake him," he told the BBC then, with a grin.
He was the eighth richest man in the world according to Forbes. His business empire spanned oil, energy, ports and mining. It was growing fast, like the Brazilian economy at the time, with the arrival of the big demand for commodities from China.
Now things have dramatically changed for Mr Batista.
His EBX Group is highly in debt, the markets seem to have turned on him and his personal fortune has suffered a dramatic drop, going from $34bn to $2.9bn in just over a year.
Analysts believe his vast ambition may have been his undoing.
Mr Batista, the son of a former energy minister, became a millionaire at a very young age. He had returned to Brazil in the early 1980s after dropping out of a university in Germany, and started a business buying gold from suppliers in the Amazon and selling it to shopkeepers in Rio de Janeiro.
He went on to buy gold mines in Brazil and Canada and a silver mine in Chile, and soon became famous for his flamboyant lifestyle. He was fond of speed boats and married a former Playboy model.
The transition from millionaire to billionaire happened in 2001, when he formed the EBX group out of six companies, mostly in the energy and maritime sectors. His firms benefited from China's enormous appetite for commodities.
Mr Batista's charisma, which he says was honed by his experience as an insurance policy salesman in his youth, was thought to be crucial in his companies' ability to attract investment.
"He fulfils the stereotype of a salesman when trying to get his projects financed and when it comes to attracting investors," says Sergio Lazzarini of the INSPER Business School in Sao Paulo.
In recent years Mr Batista became a key figure in Brazilian public life. His companies won huge public investment to carry out infrastructure projects.
No other city in Brazil felt Mr Batista's influence more than Rio de Janeiro. He carried out refurbishments on many landmarks in the city, and recently won a bid for the administration of the iconic Maracana stadium, where the 2014 World Cup final will be held.
But Brazil's economy has cooled in recent years, and foreign demand for commodities has dropped off.
Investors became edgy last June when his oil company OGX announced that production had fallen below expected levels. OGX recently went on to say that it may now stop its activities in the Tubarao Azul oil field by 2014.
The firm, which was once seen as the jewel in the crown of his empire, lost 90% of its value in a year.
Mr Batista's business model "was exaggerated in every sense", says Mr Lazzarini. He says the firms built optimistic targets on unrealistic estimates.
"Businessmen tend to be optimistic by definition, but there was too much of that in this case," he says.
"It became very difficult for him to keep focus on several business areas."
EBX Group's shares have lost $60bn in value since peaking last year.
And market confidence was shaken even further last week when Mr Batista stepped down as head of the board of his energy company MPX, which is still seen as the best placed amid the current uncertainty.
Media reports suggest that MPX could be sold to raise money to pay off debts from other companies in the group, meaning he could lose control of the companies he founded.
Although he has even had to sell his plane, an Embraer Legacy, for $14m, Mr Batista remains defiant that he is capable of getting his business back on track.
How Mr Batista is dealing with his apparent failure to become richest man on Earth remains a mystery.
When asked about the issue, his son, Olin, a 17-year-old DJ, replied: "My father is sad seeing how the value of his shares is plummeting."
A woman was beaten up - this is the price Angolans pay for dissent.
Mr Marques might pay a far higher price for criticising seven army generals, whom he has accused of complicity in killings, torture and corruption in Angola's diamond fields.
They, in turn, have accused him of criminal defamation and are suing him for $1.2m (£800,000).
If found guilty, Mr Marques could go to prison for nine years.
For the generals, $1.2m is peanuts. They are part of Angola's tiny elite, which revolves around the 72-year-old president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, and which has become rich on the country's oil and diamond wealth.
Since four decades of conflict ended in 2002, Angola's economy has skyrocketed, albeit from a low base.
According to the auditors Ernst and Young, it was the world's fastest growing economy from 2000-10.
But wealth and power have stayed largely in the hands of a very few families, who come closer that anything else I have seen on the continent to an African nobility.
The book that has landed Mr Marques in so much trouble, Blood Diamonds: Corruption and Torture in Angola, alleges the army and private security companies have been involved in burying miners alive, executing them en masse, and forcing them to leap to their deaths from speeding vehicles.
Mr Marques says the miners were made to jump off at intervals "so as to scatter the evidence of their deaths".
The generals deny these allegations.
Blood Diamonds shows how blurred the lines are between business, politics and violence.
It alleges members of the president's inner circle occupy several positions at once, serving simultaneously as top officials in the military, shareholders in diamond mining companies, and co-owners of the private security firms hired by the mining companies to secure the diamond fields.
The Angolan elite lives in a world almost entirely disconnected from the rest of the country's population of 20 million.
Its playground is the Ilha, a stretch of sand that curves out from Luanda, dotted with luxury villas, beachside restaurants and glitzy nightclubs.
The rich and the beautiful sip $60 cocktails, as gleaming Porsches purr past, the wrists of their drivers heavy with Rolex watches.
Prices are astronomical. It is as if they have been set deliberately high to enable people to show off just how wealthy they are.
Why else would supermarkets charge up to $100 for a watermelon, $200 for a chicken?
Looking out at Luanda from the Ilha, it is hard to believe this is the capital of a country that a little more than 10 years ago was fighting a vicious civil war.
Shiny white super-yachts luxuriate in the blue of the sea.
A swarm of new skyscrapers lines the horizon. One of the multi-million-dollar penthouse apartments has a helicopter landing pad.
It is here one starts to hear whispers of the name "Isabel": "This nightclub belongs to Isabel," "This is Isabel's restaurant," "That business is Isabel's, so is that one, that one, and that one."
Isabel is the eldest daughter of President Dos Santos.
Worth an estimated $3.4bn, she has been described by Forbes magazine as Africa's richest woman.
Meanwhile, an estimated 70% of Angola's population survives on less than $2 a day - 90% of Luanda's population lives in slums.
A great deal of energy is spent trying to remove the poor from the sight of Angola's hyper-rich. Their shacks are bulldozed regularly.
The Chinese have built for them a new satellite city called Zango, dozens of kilometres from Luanda.
Its multicoloured tower blocks rise up from the scrubland, as if it had been dropped from outer space.
It is the urban poor that most worries the Angolan elite.
The security forces have moved swiftly to crush a growing number of small anti-government protests.
I met slum-dweller Mbanza Hamza, who has chosen to stand up to the authorities.
He has a large dent in his skull to show for it.
"Men came in the night and beat me with clubs," he says. "They wore plain clothes but I know who sent them."
Money is the most effective tool for dealing with resistance. The government makes sure local beer stays cheap - it costs less than $1 a bottle.
It sponsors football clubs and pop concerts, and encourages churches; anything to distract the poor.
Free drinks and T-shirts were enough to make sure that, on the eve of an opposition protest, a huge "pro-government" march was held.
Third largest economy in Africa, with a GDP of $121bn in 2013.
China's principal trading partner in Africa, and the USA's second.
Classed as a "Low Human Development" country, coming 149/187 in the UN's Human Development Index for 2014.
Child and maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world - about one child in five doesn't surviving to the age of five, maternal mortality is 610 per 100,000 live births (UNICEF).
Luanda: Most Expensive City in the World for Expatriates (Mercer Cost of Living Survey, 2014).
$32 billion went missing from Angola's oil accounts between 2007 and 2010 (IMF).
98% of bridges (more than 300), 80% of factories and schools, 60% of hospitals and most of roads destroyed in civil war (Economist Intelligence Unit).
63.7% of Angola's population is under 25 years old (Unicef).
Is Angola a ticking time-bomb waiting to explode?
The government can no longer use the war as an excuse not to do more about health, education and the redistribution of wealth.
It has brought in the Chinese to build roads and railways, but the population is starting to expect more than infrastructure and peace.
It is unlikely cases such as that of Mr Marques will lead to significant international pressure on Angola to do more about human rights and corruption.
During his 35 years in power, President Dos Santos has developed remarkable cunning in playing off one foreign power against the other, just like he does in domestic politics.
But the president is not immortal.
The question is whether his, as yet unappointed, successor will have the skills to keep money and power "in the family", while using fear and temptation to defuse the frustrations of the poor.
The new deal will keep the 25-year-old at the Kingspan Stadium until at least the summer of 2019.
It is believed Jackson turned down offers from other clubs, with Northampton and Bristol understood to have made advances.
Jackson has become Ireland's main understudy to first-choice fly-half Johnny Sexton.
The Belfast man started Ireland's first two matches in this year's Six Nations when Sexton was out injured.
Sexton returned for Saturday's win over France, with Jackson coming on as a late replacement.
Jackson made his Ulster debut in February 2011 and has scored 831 points in 118 matches.
He has played 22 times for Ireland since his international debut against Scotland in 2013.
"I believe that the pillars for success are in place here at Ulster with a quality squad and management team," said Jackson.
"I am hugely excited by the challenges that lie ahead and I'd like to thank everyone who has helped me to this point in my career."
Director of rugby Les Kiss said there had been a lot of interest in Jackson from big European clubs and that the negotiations had been "far from straightforward".
"Paddy is the type of player that we can build the team around and it's important that we have home-grown talent at the forefront of what we are trying to achieve," said Kiss.
"His ability and leadership will be critical for us in the future."
The Sky Blues, who are six points off the top six after two wins in a row, still have a mathematical chance of making the League One play-offs.
"We'll be looking to give the fans what they deserve," said 26-year-old Rose.
"We need to give them a few more wins and we're looking forward to that."
Melbourne-born Rose came off the bench to score his first Coventry goal as he grabbed the winner in Tuesday's 1-0 victory over Bradford City to keep their promotion hopes alive.
Regardless of whether City can sneak into the play-offs, Rose wants a return to the kind of form that saw the Sky Blues go 11 games unbeaten earlier in the season.
"We need to live up to the success the team had earlier in the season," Rose told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire.
"The fans haven't been getting enough of that, we need to make sure they go home happy.
"We'll really challenge for promotion next season but, six points out with three games to go, who's to say we can't do it - stranger things have happened."
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An investigation by the New Zealand Herald newspaper found Apple's local unit paid about NZ$37m ($26m; £21m) in taxes since 2007 in Australia instead.
Apple New Zealand's parent company is registered in Australia and the two countries have a treaty where tax is only paid in one jurisdiction.
Apple said the arrangement was legal.
"Apple is the largest taxpayer in the world and we appreciate and respect the role taxes play as necessary and important in our society," the company said.
"We follow the law and pay tax on everything we earn, wherever we operate. Apple aims to be a force for good and we're proud of the contributions we've made in New Zealand over the past decade."
Some tax experts have called the arrangement unusual given that Australia's corporate tax rate of 30% is higher than New Zealand's.
Apple has been criticised by politicians including New Zealand Green Party co-leader James Shaw.
"It is absolutely extraordinary that they are able to get away with paying zero tax in this country," he told the NZ Herald. "It looks like their tax department is even more innovative than their product designers."
New Zealand revenue minister Judith Collins recently announced plans to strengthen tax laws.
The technology giant has been under scrutiny in recent years for its tax practices around the world.
In 2014 it was revealed that Apple shifts much of its international profits offshore to Ireland, which has a corporate tax rate of just 12.5%.
However, the European Commission found the final tax paid by Apple amounted to a rate of less than 2%, which the Commission declared illegal.
Apple is engaged in a major legal battle with the European Union after it was ordered to pay a record 13bn euros in retroactive taxes to Ireland. It is appealing against the decision.
Apple said "the vast majority" of its taxes were paid in the US, where its "products and services are created, designed and engineered".
The company reported record quarterly revenues in the last three months of 2016 following strong sales of the iPhone 7.
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Antoin Duffy, 39, his cousin Martin Hughes, 36, and Paul Sands, 32, had denied plotting to kill Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair and Sam McCrory in Scotland.
They were convicted in July following a nine-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow, where Duffy and Hughes were also convicted of terrorism charges.
Duffy was jailed for 17 years, Hughes for 11 years and Sands for 10 years.
Two other men, Craig Convery and Gordon Brown, were found guilty of organised crime charges.
Convery was jailed for nine years and Brown for six years.
Jailing the men, judge Lady Scott said the murder plot had involved "considerable planning" by all three and that they had been "excited participants" in the offences.
The court heard that Mr Adair and his best friend Mr McCrory were both former members of prohibited Loyalist terror organisations the UDA and the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF).
They were involved in the Good Friday agreement in 1998, and both have been living in Ayrshire for a number of years.
Duffy, originally from Donegal, who had been living in Scotland, was the driving force behind the murder plot.
Described as passionate about a united Ireland, he believed the peace agreement had sold out the Republican movement.
Duffy initially planned operations from his cell in Castle Huntly open prison having been jailed in 2010 for brandishing a loaded handgun in a Glasgow nightclub during a dispute with a bouncer.
Every four weeks, when he received home leave back to his flat in Old Castle Road, Glasgow, Duffy talked to criminal associates in a bid to obtain weapons.
He also enlisted his cousin, Martin Hughes, and recruited fellow prisoner Paul Sands - a Facebook friend of Mr McCrory - who knew about McCrory's daily routine.
What the men did not know, however, was that MI5 had learned of their plans and had authorised the bugging of Duffy's flat and Hughes' car.
The surveillance began in 12 December 2012 and was later handed over to Police Scotland.
The court heard that Duffy believed Mr Adair and Mr McCrory were responsible for ordering the murders of dozens of innocent Catholics during the Troubles.
Evidence was presented that he wanted to shoot Mr McCrory using a pistol or revolver and then quickly target Mr Adair using an AK 47, which he dubbed "the big fella".
In a bugged conversation he was heard boasting to his girlfriend Stacey McAllister: "I'm trying to get a war started and get as many guns and explosives as I can."
A recording was also played from a conversation in Hughes' Mercedes Jeep, which travelled from Glasgow to the Ayrshire home of Mr McCrory on 1 October 2013.
On the tape Sands said: "There are so many places you could hit this guy. It's unbelievable."
There were then discussions about cameras at a nearby school and shops and the best vantage points to get their target.
Duffy went on: "We'll just drive up to him and...blast him. In his ear.
"There 's an AK that could possibly be getting made available for us with armour piercing rounds."
Duffy's cellmate in Castle Huntly, Edward McVeigh, 27, revealed that Duffy hated Adair and talked of shooting him as he walked his dog or trained at the gym.
He said that Duffy was a Republican sympathiser who claimed he was a member of the Real IRA.
The trial also heard that Duffy even approached Celtic player Anthony Stokes in the Brazen Head pub in Glasgow on 1 September, asking him to get his father to pass a message on to someone in Ireland to obtain weapons.
Regulars reacted furiously to this and Duffy was thrown out of the pub.
Duffy's defence lawyer claimed that he was a drug addicted fantasist with mental health issues.
Hughes' lawyer said he had not agreed to murder anyone while Sands' lawyer branded him "a total idiot".
The jury, however, did not believe the three men's claims and convicted them of conspiracy to murder.
Speaking outside the court after sentencing, Mr Adair said: "The severity of the sentence reflects the seriousness of the charges and I am just delighted that justice has been done today."
He added: "They deserve every minute of it."
Lindsey Miller, procurator fiscal for counter-terrorism, said: "Duffy and his co-accused planned on conducting two public assassinations in the west of Scotland.
"There is no doubt that their plan was viable, and they went to great lengths to gain access to weapons and to attempt to avoid traces of their movements.
"We are pleased that these individuals and the weapons have been taken off our streets."
Det Ch Supt John Cuddihy from Police Scotland's Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism Unit said: "Make no mistake; the intent of those who have been sentenced today was to carry out a murderous terrorist attack on the streets of Scotland.
"There is no doubt Police Scotland officers have saved the lives of two men and prevented significant negative community impact across Scotland and further afield."
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Cook was run out in bizarre fashion on 190 as he moved to avoid Virat Kohli's throw before making his ground.
The captain had earlier shared a stand of 173 with Jonathan Trott (87), while Kevin Pietersen added a belligerent 54.
And, with Matt Prior and Graeme Swann adding an unbroken stand of 56, England closed on 509-6, a lead of 193.
"England haven't got quite as many runs as I would have liked but if the lead is 200-odd it may tempt India to go for it a bit more. If they are positive, it opens up a channel for England because they may give us a bit more chance of getting them out. There are plenty of runs around but if the odd ball turns you can take wickets. If England bowl like they did in the first innings, they have a very good chance of winning."
The late flurry pushed England towards a position from which they can earn a 2-1 lead in the four-match series and potentially secure a first victory in India since 1985.
The swift progress of the seventh-wicket pair was also in contrast to the rest of the day, as India's bowlers stuck to their task well to prevent the tourists accelerating away in the opening two sessions.
However, on a pitch that remains good for batting despite increasing signs of turn and uneven bounce, wickets were usually only the result of batsman error and England will want further runs to be added by Prior on the fourth morning to feel confident of not facing a tricky final-innings chase.
The wicketkeeper was characteristically busy at the crease to punish a tiring India attack, building on the platform set by Cook and Trott earlier in the day.
With England resuming on 216-1, the second-wicket pair made steady progress through the morning session, seeing off the new ball in the process.
Cook, who had scored an England record 23rd Test century on day two, was less fluent on his return and was reprieved on 152 when Ishant Sharma put down the simplest of return catches.
Trott had struggled in the first two Tests of the series but showed more authority than his captain, driving in front of square on both sides of the wicket and regularly sweeping the spinners.
It was, however, the Warwickshire man who was first to go, getting a thick edge when left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha found some sharp turn, with wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni taking a good catch.
With India seemingly now out of ideas on how to dismiss Cook as he approached 550 runs for the series, the home side eventually removed the visiting skipper in the most unusual way.
Returning to the non-striker's end as Kohli fielded off Pietersen at square leg, Cook took action to avoid a shy at the stumps before grounding his bat.
However, the throw hit directly with Cook still short of the crease and, after the umpires consulted, he was given run out for the first time in his first-class career.
That was Pietersen's cue to accelerate either side of tea - dancing to strike Ojha for a straight six before the break and hitting the same bowler for three successive fours afterwards.
Ian Bell tried to match his partner's intent, but was caught behind wafting at Sharma, with Pietersen then falling lbw as he attempted to sweep Ravichandran Ashwin.
After Samit Patel's breezy 33 was ended by an edge to slip off Ojha, India may have had hopes of running through an England tail elongated by the absence of Stuart Broad.
But Prior, sweeping and cutting, raced to 40 in a 46-ball stay that included an imperious pull for a maximum off Sharma.
And, in tandem with Swann, he took advantage of some weary bowling to push England's lead towards 200.
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We are using archive pictures for this Test because several photo agencies, including Getty Images, have been barred from the ground following a dispute with the Board of Control for Cricket in India, while other agencies have withdrawn their photographers in protest.
Known as MyShake, it can sense an earthquake even when the cell device is being carried in a pocket or a bag.
The researchers want users to download the app, in the first instance, to help test and improve its capabilities.
But ultimately the idea is that recruited phones will be part of a network that not only gathers data but also issues alerts.
Destructive ground motions take time to move out from the epicentre of a large tremor, meaning people at more distant locations could receive several seconds' vital warning on their phones.
"Just a few seconds' warning is all you need to 'drop, take cover and hold on'," said Prof Richard Allen from the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory.
"Based on what social scientists have told us about past earthquakes, if everyone got under a sturdy table, the estimate is that we could reduce the number of injuries in a quake by 50%," he told BBC News.
Prof Allen has a paper about MyShake in this week's Science Advances journal, but he has also been demonstrating it here in Washington DC at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The app relies on a sophisticated algorithm to analyse all the different vibrations picked up by a phone's onboard accelerometer.
This algorithm has been "trained" to distinguish between everyday human motions and those specific to an earthquake.
The achieved sensitivity is for a Magnitude 5 event at a distance of 10km (6.2 miles) from the epicentre.
In simulations, the app detects a quake correctly in 93% of cases.
All this is done in the background - much like health apps that monitor the fitness activity of the phone user.
Once triggered, MyShake sends a message to a central server over the mobile network. The hub then calculates the location and size of the quake.
False positives are filtered out because the server is connected to existing seismic and GPS monitoring stations, and - if the public take up MyShake - thousands of other phones.
"We took the data from our traditional network gathered during the 2014 La Habra earthquake near Los Angeles, and downgraded its quality to something similar to what might be recorded on your smartphone, and then we applied the MyShake algorithm blindly to that data," Prof Allen explained.
"The system triggered rapidly and accurately, and that's really given us the confidence to now take MyShake out to the public for its big, real test."
For this release, MyShake is available for Android devices; an iOS version is very likely to come in the future. And to be clear, enrolled phones will not be receiving alerts of earthquakes - not yet.
Prof Allen is a leading figure behind ShakeAlert, the earthquake early warning system now in development for California.
Only a few such systems exist in the world.
They work on the principle of being able to detect the faster-moving but not-so-damaging P-waves in a seismic event ahead of its S-waves, which cause most destruction.
California has several hundred state-of-the art seismic stations in the ShakeAlert system, and during the 2014 South Napa earthquake an eight-second warning of shaking was delivered to trial participants in downtown San Francisco. This included the city's metro system, BART, which wants to be able to slow its trains ahead of the biggest tremors.
The phones enrolled to MyShake would eventually get such warnings as well (see this dramatisation).
"The MyShake approach can contribute to and enhance earthquake monitoring in those parts of the world that have traditional seismic networks, like California. But perhaps even more importantly, because we can do a lot of this 'in the cloud', MyShake could help provide earthquake early warning in locations that have no traditional seismic network - places such as Nepal or India where we get very damaging earthquakes."
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But Victorino Chua, 49, told a jury at Manchester Crown Court the suggestion was untrue.
The Filipino father-of-two denies murdering three patients and poisoning 18 others at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, in June and July of 2011.
Earlier this week a 13-page handwritten letter was read to the court.
Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, returned repeatedly to the letter as he cross-examined the defendant, citing the words Mr Chua had written in the "deeply personal" document, found by police at the nurse's home after his arrest for murder.
Mr Chua, of Churchill Street, Stockport, said he wrote the letter after a counsellor suggested he use it as an "outlet" for his anger and frustration.
But Mr Wright suggested the reason why he wrote "if I go, I go straight to hell" was as an admission of guilt.
"The reason I suggest is because of what you had done and were prepared to do," the prosecutor said.
Mr Chua replied: "Like what?"
Mr Wright continued: "Like contaminating products in the hospital. Like altering the prescription charts of patients.
"Like administering insulin to patients who were not diabetic and non insulin dependent. Like these things, Mr Chua?"
The defendant replied: "No, that's not true."
Mr Chua said he was writing about "evil thoughts" not deeds.
The prosecution alleges Mr Chua used a hypodermic needle to puncture saline bags and ampoules and inject them with insulin between June 2011 and January 2012 and that they were used unwittingly by other nurses leading to a series of insulin overdoses and three deaths.
Mr Chua, is accused of killing Tracey Arden, 44, Arnold Lancaster, 71, and Alfred Weaver, 83,
The trial continues.
Hewitt, 32, is eight years older and ranked 60 places lower than 2009 champion Del Potro.
Elsewhere world number one Novak Djokovic saw off Germany's Benjamin Becker to reach the third round.
In the women's draw, defending champion Serena Williams won in straight sets.
The world number one swatted aside Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova 6-3 6-1 in one hour and 14 minutes in the early hours of the morning, to set up a meeting with fellow American Sloane Stephens.
before overcoming Argentina's Leonardo Mayer in four, while Czech fifth seed Tomas Berdych also won.
Li Na (Chn) [5] bt Laura Robson (GB) [30] 6-2 7-5
Match report
Novak Djokovic (Srb) [1] bt Benjamin Becker (Ger) 7-6 (7-2) 6-2 6-2
Djokovic, the 2011 champion, saved two set points in the opener before coming through 7-6 (7-2) 6-2 6-2.
"Today was tricky conditions and the first hour I wasn't able to play as well as wanted. After that I felt more confident," said Serb Djokovic, who has reached at least the semi-finals of every Grand Slam event since losing to Jurgen Melzer in the quarter-finals at the 2010 French Open.
His third-round opponent is Portugal's Joao Sousa, who overcame Finn Jarkko Nieminen in a five-set match lasting just short of three hours.
Sloane Stephens (US) [15] bt Jamie Hampton (US) [23] 6-1 6-3
Stephens, 20, will play Serena Williams in the last 16.
Stephens criticised Williams in a magazine interview in May, saying that their relationship had deteriorated since she beat her compatriot in the Australian Open quarter-finals.
But Stephens is now happy with how she and Williams get on. "I think that's all old news now and we've moved on," she said.
"We are competitors, we are co-workers so it is definitely tough, but I think now we are in a good place," she told ESPN.
Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) bt Juan Martin Del Potro (Arg) [6] 6-4 5-7 3-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-1
Hewitt, who lifted the 2001 US Open title as a 20-year-old, beat world number six Del Potro in their most recent meeting at Queen's in June.
"I don't know how many years I have left to play and I was hankering to get out on this court again and put on a show," Hewitt said.
"A couple of years ago, I had a few foot surgeries and I didn't know if I would ever play tennis again. But it's a hell of a lot of fun coming out to play and I cherish every match."
Del Potro, who hit 70 errors in the match, stated after the match that a long-standing wrist complaint was "not the way I'd like".
Hewitt will play Russian world number 102 Evgeny Donskoy in the last 32.
"I hit with him a couple of days ago,'' Hewitt said of his third-round opponent. "First time I'd ever seen him.''
Serena Williams (US) [1] bt Yaroslava Shvedova (Kaz) 6-3 6-1
Williams, 31, is aiming to become the oldest US Open women's champion by winning her fifth title at Flushing Meadows.
She praised Stephens' play ahead of their keenly-anticipated fourth-round encounter.
"It's going to be tough, Sloane is playing so well," she said.
"I'm always so happy for her. She's doing great. I'm really proud of Sloane. It's going to be a really good match."
Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) [3] bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Rus [32] 6-4 7-6 (7-1)
It might have been a straight-sets win for third seed Radwanska, but the 2012 Wimbledon runner-up needed nearly two hours to beat Pavlyuchenkova.
If she wins her next match, against Russian 24th seed Ekaterina Makarova, Radwanska will become the only woman to reach the last eight at all four Grand Slams this year.
Tomas Berdych (Cze) [5] bt Denis Kudla (US) 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-3) 6-3
Berdych in the quarter-finals of last year's event, before being
Andy Murray (GB) [3] bt Leonardo Mayer (Arg) 7-5 6-1 3-6 6-1
Match report
Tommy Haas (Ger) [12] bt Yen-Hsun Lu (Tai) 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-3)
"It's always about being smart, about how you train and what you do off the court," said the German of still competing at the age of 35. "If your body allows you to do all that stuff, then it's really up to you in many ways."
Ekaterina Makarova (Rus) [24] bt Sabine Lisicki (Ger) [16] 6-4 7-5
Lisicki, who beat Serena Williams en route to the Wimbledon final earlier this year, is still yet to get beyond the fourth round in any of the other three Grand Slams.
Florian Mayer (Ger) bt Donald Young (US) 7-5 6-3 6-4
Mayer came out on top in a match that saw 10 breaks of serve, setting up a third-round clash with defending champion Andy Murray.
Carla Suarez Navarro (Spa) [18] bt Jie Zheng (Chn) 6-2 6-4
Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) [21] bt Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukr) 7-5 6-1 6-3
Angelique Kerber (Ger) [8] bt Kaia Kanepi (Est) [25] 6-0 6-4
Jelena Jankovic (Srb) [9] bt Kurumi Nara (Jpn) 6-4 7-6 (7-5)
Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) [9] bt Ivo Karlovic (Cro) 7-5 7-6 (10-8) 6-4
Sara Errani & Roberta Vinci [1] bt Daniela Hantuchova & Martina Hingis 6-3 7-5
Hingis, who was making a return to Grand Slam tennis as a wildcard after retiring in 2007, double-faulted on the final two points of the match.
The 32-year-old, who has won five Grand Slam singles titles during her career, also lost in the mixed doubles. She and India's Mahesh Bhupathi were beaten 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-5) by Sweden's Robert Lindstedt and Taiwan's Chan Yung-Jan.
"God, give me a break," said the Swiss, when asked if she had considered making a singles comeback after her doubles return.
"No, I haven't given any more thought to it. I have a hard time covering half the court and trying to be there. Full court is completely different ball game."
Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray (GB) [12] bt Ryan Harrison (US) & Robert Lindstedt (Swe) 6-3 6-4
Jamie Murray (GB) & John Peers (Aus) bt Feliciano Lopez (Spa) & Andre Sa (Bra) 6-7 (7-9) 7-5 7-5
Treat Huey (Phi) & Dom Inglot (GB) [16] bt Daniele Bracciali (Ita) & Lukas Dlouhy 6-3 6-3
Sandra Klemenschits (Aut) & Andrea Klepac (Slo) bt Vera Dushevina (Rus) & Heather Watson (GB) 6-1 7-5
Laura Robson had a worried look on her face after defeat by Li Na, and it was down to an imminent trip to the dentist to have her wisdom teeth removed. "All the other girls in the locker room are telling me their horror stories," she said. "Oh yeah, I pulled my gauze out and it was just blood. So that's not too nice."
Novak Djokovic has been quizzed as much about his diet as his tennis in week one, and day five was no exception. "The toughest for me [to give up] was definitely chocolate. My father is addicted to chocolate in a way. Was. Not any more. During events I don't have milk chocolate. If I have chocolate I have cacao or dark chocolate - a very little bit."
Li Na is struggling to believe the quality of her own serving, after 11 aces against Laura Robson took her to 21 for the tournament - more than any other woman. "After the match my team said I had over 10, I said 'No like eight or something', my husband said, 'I think even less, maybe six.'"
Sloane Stephens has plenty of confidence off court as well as on. "It's tough to have friends on tour, but I don't lack in the social department. I have some good friends. That's not an area that I struggle in."
"Belgium is a very good team," says Andy Murray when asked to give his opinion about the Scottish football team's next World Cup opponents. "A lot of good, young players. I think they're kind of sort of dark horses for the World Cup. I think they're very, very good. I wouldn't expect Scotland to beat them."
"Everybody has their own issues," says Jamie Hampton when asked about the psychology of tennis. "The girls differ from the guys. Girls are a little bit more emotional. We'll just leave it at that."
Howard Gayle, 58, was born in Toxteth and made his Reds debut in 1977.
He said he had to decline the nomination, for his Show Racism the Red Card campaign work, as his ancestors would be "turning in their graves".
The Cabinet Office said it did not comment on individual cases.
The former footballer wrote on Facebook: "Most of you who are on my FB page are aware of the work that I do tackling racism and the work I do for Show Racism A Red Card. And for that work yesterday I was nominated for a MBE."
He added: "Which unfortunately I had to decline the nomination for the reason that my ancestors would be turning in their graves after how Empire and Colonialism had enslaved them.
"This is a decision that I have had to make and there will be others who may feel different and would enjoy the attraction of being a Member of the British Empire and those 3 letters after their name, but I feel that It would be a betrayal to all of the Africans who have lost their lives, or who have suffered as a result of Empire."
As well as representing England at Under-21 level, Gayle played for Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Birmingham City, Halifax Town, Sunderland, Newcastle United and Stoke City.
Facebook users reacted to the post, saying "respect" and calling the former Liverpool star a man of principle.
Paul Al-Naqib wrote: "So sad that a history of oppression can still have a negative effect today... years after.
"You are a good honest man... many crumble and forget their morals when presented with their pieces of silver. You'll always be Sir Howard Gayle of Tocky to me."
Kenny Norton added: "You don't need an MBE to be the person you are. Well done Howard."
Kevin Edgar wrote: "Takes a lot of mental strength and self belief that Howard. Standing up for what you believe has real dignity too."
The UK honours system is overseen by the Cabinet Office Honours and Appointments Secretariat.
Fans who buy a ticket before the end of May will receive 25% of their money back if the club sell less than 15,000 tickets by the end of July or 50% if they sell more than that amount.
Leeds have not finished in the top six of the second tier since 2006.
The Elland Road side can not finish in the play-off places this season.
The club said in a statement: "We are more determined than ever to gain promotion from the Championship and are fully committed to doing everything we can to return this great club to the Premier League in 2016-17.
"With the full support of our fans, we believe we can achieve this goal next season."
Leeds have not played in the top tier of English football since relegation from the Premier League in 2004.
Head coach Steve Evans said on Monday that he believed he was the right man to lead the club back to the top division.
Scot Higgins, 19, started his youth career at Celtic before moving to Dens Park and made four appearances for Dundee last season.
Former Republish of Ireland Under-21 player Power, 29, leaves English League Two club Lincoln City, where he made over 250 league appearances.
Both players have agreed two-year contracts with the Rugby Park club, with Power's move subject to clearance.
"It feels good to be here, as it's a club that's definitely going in the right direction," Higgins told Kilmarnock's website.
Manager Lee McCulloch said Higgins fits Kilmarnock's philosophy of developing young players.
"He came through Celtic's academy, which has seen many impressive young players come through," said McCulloch.
"For the second half of last season he gained experience at Dundee and through time will only get better, which is only a good thing for this club."
And Power said: "I've heard a lot about the town and the club's history and I can't wait to get started. The manager spoke about his visions for this club and it was an easy decision to make."
McCulloch said he watch Lincoln's run to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup last season and said of Power: "Alan played in all of those games and was the cub captain.
"He has an aggressive style of play, has a hunger to get better, and has great experience that he can pass on to the younger kids."
Kilmarnock begin their league campaign at home to St Johnstone on 5 August.
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Kirsty Williams spoke out despite comments backing the idea from Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander.
Mr Alexander, a Liberal Democrat, said he was "keen to see local, market-facing pay introduced across the UK".
His comments came in a letter to First Minister Carwyn Jones released under the Freedom of Information Act.
But Ms Williams said: "We are strongly and firmly opposed to the introduction of regional pay in Wales.
"Welsh Liberal Democrats do not believe that regional pay will stimulate the local economy; in fact the introduction of regional pay would be disastrous for Welsh workers and the Welsh economy."
She said Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Business Secretary Vince Cable had spoken out against the idea of regional pay.
"I have been lobbying the UK government to stop the introduction of regional pay and I will continue to put pressure on them so that regional pay is not introduced," said Ms Williams.
All parties in the assembly, including the Welsh Conservatives, have
expressed concern
at the idea of differential pay rates around the UK.
In his Budget in March, Chancellor George Osborne said local factors, such as the cost of living and private sector pay rates, should be taken into account in future when awarding salaries.
Mr Clegg said last month that no decision had been made.
Bergdich has joined from Spanish side Real Valladolid for an undisclosed fee and has signed a four-year deal with the Championship club.
The left-back, 26, spent the second half of last season on loan at Genoa.
Ceballos, 22, was a free agent after his release by Tottenham earlier this summer and has agreed a three-year deal at The Valley.
The Spaniard did not feature for Spurs after joining from Barcelona in the summer of 2011 but spent the 2013-14 season on loan with Portuguese Primeira Liga side Arouca.
Bergdich, who spent three years with Lens before moving to Valladolid in 2013, has won 17 caps for Morocco.
"Cristian is a very technical player, who has a lot of quality and skill," Addicks boss Guy Luzon told the club website.
"We identified Zakarya as a player who possesses a lot of pace on the left side of the pitch."
The duo become Charlton's fifth and sixth signings of the summer, following the arrivals of Patrick Bauer, El Hadji Ba, Simon Makienok and Ahmed Kashi.
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The National League side need the money after signing a 99-year lease to regain control of the Racecourse Stadium home.
But Bircham has denied that finances will impact on their on field goals.
"We've secured Gary's budget. The first thing we do is get that sorted. We've protected that, we've ring fenced that. Bircham told BBC Wales Sport.
He continued, "It's a budget that's competitive. It starts at the same level as last year then we work on the same principle.
"If Gary takes us beyond budgeted games, in other words the FA Cup or FA Trophy or whatever means of income he may secure like the transfer of a player, we'll then be in a position to offer him more.
"I want to reassure the fans that we have a competitive budget. Our target will always be promotion, or at least the playoffs. Gary's well aware of that target and that target stands."
Wrexham missed out on the National League play-offs in Mills' first season in charge and next season will be their ninth year outside of the Football League.
The club have so far made seven signings this summer, including the return of defender Martin Riley from Tranmere Rovers.
Mills is keen to add further new faces before the start of the campaign in August and is still awaiting news on contract offers to existing squad members Connor Jennings and Simon Heslop.
Wrexham are instead hoping to plug the gap in finances with a rise in season ticket prices, the first rise in four years, and are currently on track with sales.
"There is a shortfall that we need to balance this year and that figure we've talked to the fans about that," Bircham added.
"It's around £200,000 and we need their support with that. But moving forward it will bring great commercial streams that will benefit the football club.
"It also brings big responsibilities, significantly heavier work load, but it's wonderful to have an asset particularly our great stadium which is so historic and means so much to the fans.
"We'll see great benefits towards the end of next season."
The Welsh region are level with Exeter at the top of Pool Two after their 19-16 home win over the French side.
But Ospreys struggled to subdue Bordeaux, who were reduced to 14 men for most of the second half.
"Potentially you could say it was indifferent at certain points of the game," admitted 30-year-old Jones.
"There were a lot of unforced errors early on and we probably tried a bit too hard at certain times, two things we can control."
The Bordeaux trip on Saturday falls at a crucial time of the season for Ospreys.
They follow that match with a trip to neighbours and Pro12 leaders the Scarlets on Boxing Day, before hosting Newport Gwent Dragons on New Year's Day.
"It's the business turning point of the season," added Jones, speaking during an Ospreys squad visit to Swansea's Morriston Hospital.
"When we go into the New Year, we'll see where we end up off the back of the Christmas derbies and going into the final rounds of the Champions Cup.
"It's a tough turn of the year, but hopefully it can set us up for the back side of the season."
Flanker Justin Tipuric added: "We've started the month off well but it gets harder and harder now.
"We've got to go away to Bordeaux, the best-supported team in France and try to get a result."
Jones and Tipuric were part of an Ospreys contingent handing out presents and posing for photos on the children's ward at Morriston Hospital, while other members of the squad were at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend.
"There are a lot of boys in the squad that want to do it, we've got a lot of fathers in the squad," said Jones.
"It's nice to get round and see people to try to put smiles on faces, to give out Santa hats and gifts.
"It's not just to see the patients and give them a smile and help them on the road to recovery, but also the families, and the doctors and nurses who do a great job."
The tournament was set to replace the Champions Trophy, a one-day competition that was last held in 2009.
"I am disappointed it is not going to take place sooner," said International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat.
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) described the announcement as "a setback for Test cricket".
The Test Championship, due to involve the top four teams in the ICC rankings, had been planned as a way of reviving international interest in the five-day format.
England currently lead the rankings, with South Africa second, India third and Australia in fourth.
Lorgat added that the proposed 2017 Championship, also scheduled to be held in England, would be "the first opportunity" to resurrect the tournament.
The delay comes because of a lack of "support and consent" from the ICC's broadcast partner.
England were originally awarded the 2013 Champions Trophy, which would have made way in the international cricket calendar for the Test Championship.
Lord's was set to be the venue for the final of Test Championship, but after missing out on welcoming the touring New Zealand team for a five-day game, the ground may only host one Test in 2013.
MCC head of cricket John Stephenson said: "The club's priority, given there will be a gap in the calendar in 2013, will be to secure the best possible major matches it can for Lord's to supplement the Australia Test and the New Zealand one-day international being played that year."
The picture, titled Misty Minster, beat more than 250 other entries to the international contest.
The competition for photographers with Down's syndrome was launched in partnership with the Shifting Perspectives project led by photographer Richard Bailey, one of this year's judges.
Alongside him were actress and writer Sally Phillips and GlaxoSmithKline's director of UK corporate contributions, Katie Pinnock.
When asked about his winning photo, Kenward said, "This is York Minster taken on a foggy, snowy morning. It is a mysterious, moody picture."
Joint second place was awarded to Emily Buck, with her photo The Old Tree, and Edward Phippen, with Sunrise, Gorges du Verdon.
Emily Buck said: "Me and my dad went walking one day and thought it would make a good picture with the blue sky in the background."
The winner took home a Canon EOS1200D and a canvas print of his winning image.
Here are some other entries that made the shortlist.
You can find out more about the work of the UK Down's Syndrome Association on their website.
David Mundell said discussions with the Scottish government were at an early stage but should not be pre-empted.
He was speaking in the closing minutes of the committee stage of the Scotland Bill which will transfer more powers.
A cross party group of pro-Life MPs who argued in favour of devolving the law won the backing of the SNP. Labour opposed the move.
Mr Mundell said that there was "no reason" why the Scottish Parliament should not be able to decide on "an issue of this significance".
But he said the government did not consider the amendments to the Scotland Bill legislation "appropriate at this moment."
This was the fourth and final day of line-by-line scrutiny of the Scotland Bill in the Commons, with MPs voting on a series of opposition amendments to the legislation.
Ministers have been criticised by opposition MPs for failing to accept any amendments so far, but Mr Mundell pledged to reflect and return with improvements to the bill at report stage.
The bill will give further control to the Scottish Parliament over areas including taxation, VAT revenues and welfare.
A cross-party amendment, signed by three Catholic MPs - Liberal Democrat John Pugh, Tory Fiona Bruce and Labour's Robert Flello - proposed that abortion law be transferred to Holyrood.
The move was considered by the Smith Commission on further devolution, but was not included in its final list of recommendations.
Veteran Tory Sir Edward Leigh, who sits alongside the three MPs on the all-party parliamentary pro-life group, said Scotland has its own point of view which should be reflected in the Scottish Parliament, particularly on "moral maze" issues such as abortion.
The Gainsborough MP, who moved a separate amendment which would devolve powers on abortion and surrogacy, genetics, embryology and other health areas, said any "self-respecting parliament" should be allowed to deal with such issues.
He said he tabled his own amendment because he wanted to know why Scotland could not have the power to change abortion law in the country.
Mr Pugh said the proposal to devolve abortion law was "modest and rational".
The Lib Dem said the Scottish Parliament had already proven it could debate moral issues of this scale rationally and based on evidence.
He said: "The Smith Commission was minded to make abortion a devolved matter and this proposal aligns the Bill with the original intentions of the Smith Commission.
"A similar level of devolution is already available in Northern Ireland and gives the Scottish Parliament the same rights as with regard to euthanasia and every other health matter."
Shadow Scotland secretary Ian Murray said Labour would oppose the devolution of abortion law.
He said: "We believe a woman's right to choose should be determined by robust medical evidence and not by where you live. There is no reason why a woman in Edinburgh should face a different experience to a woman in Exeter.
"Many would argue the system we currently have in place needs to be improved but this is best achieved within a UK framework and should be a debate separate from the constitution."
The SNP backed the proposal to devolve abortion law, with Glasgow South MP Stewart McDonald saying it would give Scotland the opportunity to strengthen a woman's right to choose.
He said: "I want this power not just because I want all powers to come to Scotland but I want to improve and protect a woman's right to choose and to access quality healthcare.
"I believe we can do that and I want to make progress on it at the earliest opportunity, that is my motivation."
Among other issues discussed during the Commons debate were powers over the Crown Estates.
Former Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael called for powers over Crown Estate land to be devolved directly to local island communities so they could generate more income from them.
Scotland's foreshore, seabed, fishing rights and other urban and rural state assets are currently managed by the Crown Estate, accountable to Westminster with revenues sent to the UK Treasury.
The bill will devolve its revenues and accountability to the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood.
But Mr Carmichael said the land around islands would be better managed by local communities and so the powers should be devolved directly to them.
Moving his own amendments, the Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland said: "It is I think manifestly the case that the seabed is a resource which is something which could be better managed and would be better managed if it were to be managed by the communities that were most directly affected.
"That would I think actually generate more income."
Scottish Secretary Mr Mundell gave an "absolute commitment" to reflect on "genuine amendments" proposed by opposition parties.
But he disagreed with Mr Carmichael's proposals, saying it would be wrong to dictate to the Scottish Parliament what it should devolve to local communities.
On the abortion proposals, he said: "Discussions are at an early stage and accepting this amendment would pre-empt those discussions but as has been said a number of times in this debate, there is no reason why the Scottish Parliament should not be able to decide an issue of this significance because it has demonstrated it's ability to do so on numerous other significant issues."
He went on: "Now we've got a series of amendments which have been laid before parliament over the four days.
"I'm giving an absolute commitment that we will reflect on those amendments and that we will come back at report stage to this House with amendments to the bill."
Austfonna on Norway's Svalbard archipelago covers just over 8,000 sq km and had been relatively stable for many years.
But the latest space data reveals a marked acceleration of the ice in its main outlet glacier to the Barents Sea.
The research was presented in Brussels on Thursday to mark the launch of the EU's new Sentinel-1a radar spacecraft.
This satellite has been in orbit barely a month but is already being tasked with a range of science observations and other duties.
European Commission officials are keen to showcase the platform's capabilities before it goes into full service, including what it can do at high latitudes.
Radar is particularly useful in these regions. It senses the surface whatever the weather conditions and even in the darkness of polar winter.
Scientists had suspected the Arctic's Austfonna Ice Cap was losing substantially more ice through its major drainage glacier at Cap Mohn, and asked if Sentinel-1a could take some pictures.
"We've observed Austfonna with various satellite radar datasets over the past 20 years, and it hasn't done very much," explained Prof Andy Shepherd from Leeds University, UK.
Copernicus uses a range of technologies to get a broad picture of the health status of the planet
"But we've now looked at it again with the new Sentienl-1a spacecraft, and it's clear it has speeded up quite considerably in the last two or three years. It is now flowing at least 10 times faster than previously measured."
That previous measurement was done using the German national TerraSAR-X radar mission.
The speed of a glacier is judged by how far prominent features such as a big crevasse travel in time.
An "ice cap" is much smaller than an "ice sheet", a term that more properly describes the huge frozen masses covering Greenland and Antarctica.
An ice cap does, however, share a similarity with its bigger cousin in that it too has glaciers flowing away in many directions.
The Earth's ice caps and glaciers have become a key focus for scientists because these are the ice fields that appear to be experiencing the greatest change currently.
"Although ice caps and glaciers contain less than 1% of the world's ice, they contribute around 50% of the sea-level rise due to ice melting," explained Prof Shepherd.
A detailed report on Austfonna and the probable causes of the speed-up is being prepared for publication in a science journal.
Prof Shepherd's team said the quality of the Sentinel data was very impressive, especially since the satellite was still in the process of drifting towards its final operational orbit.
It augured well for future studies of the cryosphere - research that will be boosted further when a carbon-copy Sentinel is launched in 18 months to hasten the acquisition of imagery.
The European Commission used Thursday's event to highlight a variety of other scientific and operational applications for Sentinel-1a data.
These included making rapid charts for mariners to warn them of nearby icebergs, and keeping watch over the seas for illicit oil spills.
Europe has committed some 7.5 billion euros to the end of the decade to launch a fleet of environmental monitoring satellites.
They are all called Sentinels but will have specific roles, viewing the Earth using a range of observing techniques.
The spacecraft will gather scientific data but also information the European Commission needs to design and enforce community-wide policies.
The Sentinels and the applications that stem from their data fit within what the EC calls its Copernicus programme.
Its scope and financial outlay makes it the biggest civilian Earth observation project ever envisaged.
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Details of the length of Wynter's deal with the Stones have not yet been disclosed.
The 23-year-old made 20 appearances in all competitions for League Two side Colchester last season.
Former Crystal Palace trainee Wynter could make his Maidstone debut against Maidenhead on Saturday, 5 August.
Sixty-six out of 152 trusts raised the alarm as mounting bed shortages led to large numbers of patients experiencing trolley waits and delays in A&E.
Data leaked to the BBC earlier this week suggested only one trust hit its four-hour A&E target.
But now official figures have revealed more about the scale of the problem.
The number of major alerts, which used to be known as red and black alerts, is the highest of the winter.
And performance against the four-hour target appears to have sunk to its lowest level since the target was first introduced in 2004.
Major alerts are raised when hospitals are struggling to see patients quickly enough.
To cope, hospitals have to start calling in extra staff, cancelling routine treatments, such as knee and hip operations, and diverting ambulances away from their hospital - this happened at 39 A&E units.
The ultimate step is a full closure of A&E, but none took this step, the NHS England update showed.
Using the official data and leaked figures, the BBC can now reveal:
Weston Area: Nearly half of patients attending the Somerset hospital spent more than four hours in A&E last week with bed occupany hitting 100% on some days - well above the 85% "safe threshold". The trust said it had been a difficult week and it had opened extra "escalation" beds to help.
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals: The trust runs three hospitals and following the new year bank holiday it declared a major alert. It spent the rest of the week on level three status. Nursing director David Melia said the trust had been doing all it could "to alleviate the pressures" by opening up extra beds and putting more doctors on the wards.
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals: The trust has been on major alert status since December 30 hovering between level three and four, the highest level. The trust said it was having to prioritise the sickest patients and, as a result, some people were having to wait longer. Just over 74% of patients were seen in four hours last week.
John Radcliffe Hospital: Bosses have cancelled all non-urgent operations as part of its response to a week-long major alert. Data suggests one in five patients are waiting over four hours in A&E.
Dr Chris Moulton, of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, who works at Bolton Hospital, which ran out of beds at one point last week, said: "It has been a really difficult week for everyone. We are in the middle of what is probably the most challenging period for the past 15 years.
"Despite what ministers say, this is not just isolated to one or two cases as the latest figures show. And it is not just in England, elsewhere in the UK our members tell us they are under real pressure."
In Northern Ireland, nearly four in 10 patients waited more than four hours in A&E during the Christmas period. Hospitals also reported having to temporarily close A&E units to ambulances.
In Wales data is only available for September, but even that showed nearly one in five patients were waiting longer than four hours.
Scotland is performing better. In the Christmas and new year week 92% of patients going to major hospitals were seen in four hours.
Chris Hopson, chief of executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, said the health service was in an incredibly vulnerable position.
"Thanks to the heroic work of NHS staff, the majority of trusts are managing to keep their heads above water - just.
"But the pressure on our hospital, ambulance, community and mental health services is unsustainable, and the resilience of the system to cope with unexpected shocks, such as flu outbreaks, is impaired.
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Cotterill took over in 2013 and won the League One title and the Johnstone's Paint Trophy in his second season.
The 51-year-old has previously managed Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, Notts County, Burnley, Stoke, Cheltenham Town and Sligo Rovers.
He leaves City, who host leaders Middlesbrough on Saturday, in 22nd position, two points from safety.
The team have failed to win in seven matches.
Assistant manager John Pemberton and Wade Elliott, boss of the club's under-21 side, will take interim charge.
It is only 256 days since Cotterill led Bristol City to their first league title since 1955.
Club chairman Keith Dawe said last season's success "will live in the memory for a long time" but added: "Sadly, since the highs of last March and May things have not gone our way on the pitch.
"The club's aspiration is to ultimately become a Premier League club and this decision has been made to achieve our overall strategy for growth and player development."
Cotterill had held a news conference earlier on Thursday to look ahead to Saturday's game against Boro.
He had discussed the club missing out on the signing of Bolton striker Zach Clough.
Scientists will underline, with greater certainty than ever, the role of human activities in rising temperatures.
But many governments are demanding a clearer explanation of the slowdown in temperature increases since 1998.
One participant told BBC News that this pause will be a "central piece" of the summary.
Researchers from all over the world work with the IPCC to pore over thousands of peer-reviewed studies and produce a summary representing the current state of climate science.
Its previous report in 2007 was instrumental in helping the panel share the Nobel Peace Prize that year.
A new Summary for Policymakers on the physical sciences, the first of three parts that make up a report to be released over the next 12 months, will be published in Stockholm on Friday.
It will focus on the science underlying changes in temperature in the atmosphere, the oceans and at the poles.
New estimates will be given for the scale of global warming and its impact on sea levels, glaciers and ice sheets.
In its last report in 2007, the IPCC stated that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal" and that "most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th Century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations" - in other words, humans burning fossil fuels.
In the latest draft summary, seen by the BBC, the level of scientific certainty has increased.
The panel states that it is 95% certain that the "human influence on climate caused more than half the observed increase in global average surface temperatures from 1951-2010."
But since 2007, there has been a growing focus on the fact that global average temperatures haven't gone above the level recorded in 1998.
This slowdown, or hiatus as the IPCC refers to it, has been leapt upon by climate sceptics to argue that the scientific belief that emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere increases the temperature of the planet, is wrong.
Scientists have attempted to explain the pause in a number of ways, with many arguing that the Earth has continued to warm but that the heat has gone into oceans.
The most recent report suggested that a periodic cooling of the Pacific ocean was counteracting the impact of the extra carbon in the atmosphere.
But there is no certainty and little agreement among scientists on the mechanisms involved.
And this week, when the scientists will go through their summary line by line with officials from 195 governments, the pause is likely to be the focus of heated debate.
Prof Arthur Petersen is the chief scientist at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and part of the Dutch delegation that will review the IPCC report.
"Governments are demanding a clear explanation of what are the possible causes of this factor," he told BBC News.
"I expect that this will be a central piece of the summary."
There are likely to be tough negotiations between the parties throughout the week, with governments having already submitted around 1,800 comments on the draft.
Any changes to the text will need to be approved by the scientists, who will want to make sure that they are consistent with the underlying reports. This could lead to some tense moments.
"I wouldn't say there is a reluctance of the authors to take up such an issue as the pause, but they want to do it in a proper way," said Prof Petersen.
"There will remain a tension between how much you can deliver based on the peer-reviewed science and what the governments would like to have."
In the draft report, the panel agrees that "the rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998-2012) is smaller than the trend since 1951".
The effect of this slowdown means that the future temperature range predicted by the IPCC will be wider than in 2007, and with a lower starting point.
Many sceptical voices believe this is a recognition that the IPCC modelling process has been too sensitive to carbon dioxide, a claim given some credence by the text of the draft which states that some models have "too strong a response to increasing greenhouse gas forcing".
But Prof Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, who is a vice-chair of the IPCC, rejects this idea.
"To take that out of context, if that change is confirmed this week, and to present it as a big change in the opinion the IPCC has on climate sensitivity, is ridiculous," he said.
"Most climate scientists wouldn't say that the 15-year period is a good reason to question the overall quality of models."
There is a feeling among many scientists involved with the process that this report will be more complicated and cautious than in 2007.
In the wake of that year's report, a small number of embarrassing errors were detected in the underlying material. The organisation's reputation was also questioned in the Climategate rumpus.
"Overall, the message is, in that sense more conservative I expect, for this IPCC report compared to previous ones," said Prof Petersen.
"The language has become more complicated to understand, but it is more precise.
"It is a major feat that we have been able to produce such a document which is such an adequate assessment of the science. That being said, it is virtually unreadable!"
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Kevin McGurty, from Gretna, died in November 2013. It is thought he had a heart condition.
A hearing at Dumfries Sheriff Court was told a fatal accident inquiry would take place between 7 and 11 March.
It heard that Mr McGurty had died shortly after midnight while he was in custody.
The claim: The cost of borrowing for the UK government is at record low levels. The government should take advantage of this to improve the UK's economic performance.
Reality Check verdict: The yield on UK government bonds has been falling to record lows, making borrowing cheaper, despite the recent cut in the UK's credit ratings. Borrowing to invest has the potential to reduce the need for future borrowing, but that's not guaranteed and it could further damage the UK's credit.
He's right about the cost of borrowing. The yields on 10-year UK government bonds have indeed been at record lows in trading over the past week, and that's a good indicator of the sort of amount the government would have to pay to borrow money.
You can only tell what will actually happen when there is a bond sale, as there was on Tuesday morning.
The government sold £2.5bn of bonds maturing in five years, at a record low yield.
The low bond yield is in some ways a bit surprising, as the downgrades from the ratings agencies S&P and Fitch mean they reckon that lending money to the UK government has become less safe.
But, in fact, what has happened is that the yield on government bonds has fallen because in uncertain times people look for relatively safe investments, such as government bonds.
It's not just the yields on UK government bonds that have been falling. The Swiss 50-year government bond has a negative yield for the first time, meaning that investors are prepared to pay to be able to lend money to the Swiss government. German government bonds also have negative yields, while US 10- and 30-year Treasury bonds are also at record low yields.
The rate of interest the government pays on its debt is important because the UK is currently in debt to the tune of £1.6 trillion (excluding holdings in public sector banks), so a small rise in interest rates would be very expensive for the public finances. The amount the country borrows each year (the deficit) has been falling, but the total debt has kept rising.
The Office for Budget Responsibility says that an extra one percentage point on the government's cost of borrowing would cost the exchequer an extra £8bn in 2019-20.
It is also likely, given the recent falls in the value of the pound, that inflation will rise, which will increase the amount the government has to pay on loans linked to the inflation rate.
Chancellor George Osborne has been saying since taking the job in 2010 that it is important to have a plan to balance the books because otherwise investors will lose confidence in the UK economy and the rates of interest the government has to pay will rise. Mr Osborne has now abandoned his target to balance the budget by 2020.
So would extra borrowing at cheap rates be good news for the economy in the long term? It could be.
Mr Crabb was campaigning on a platform of borrowing £100bn to invest in infrastructure, which would probably increase the amount the government was spending on servicing debt, even if the rate of interest fell slightly.
But his plan was that doing so would increase productivity. Investing in infrastructure is supposed to improve productivity because, for example, better transport links mean goods get to market more quickly.
Greater productivity would increase the amount of money the government raises through taxes.
Also, employing people to create the infrastructure would stimulate the economy.
So if the borrowed money were invested well, it could make it easier for the government to reduce the amount it borrows in the future, when the cost of borrowing might be higher.
But it would depend on the government being able to increase borrowing without damaging investors' confidence.
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Nerijus Gudelevicius, 34, of Westlea, Swindon, enticed fellow Lithuanians to the UK and made them work long hours collecting charity clothing bags.
Police said he confiscated their passports, housed them in substandard conditions and paid them a pittance.
Gudelevicius was convicted of two charges of trafficking and jailed for two years at Salisbury Crown Court.
Judge Tim Mousley QC told Gudelevicius he made two people's lives "a compete misery" and "exploited them by deceiving them".
"They took your promises at face value. You exploited their ambition by a cruel but carefully planned deception," he said.
Det Supt Tom Straker from Wiltshire Police said the force was "extremely pleased" with the sentence, which "sends a clear message to those criminals who trade in human lives".
"Wiltshire Police will always treat human trafficking as a priority and vigorously investigate such incidents, along with our partners," he added.
The day has finally arrived! Euro 2016 is set to begin and Jenny is in Bordeaux, at the largest fan zone in France, where thousands of people are expected to watch the opening match between France and Romania on Friday evening.
Leah is in Marseilles at the Stade Vélodrome where the lawnmowers are out and last minute preparations are underway.
Dozens of firefighters tackled the blaze, which broke out overnight on the roof of the riverside mansion in the centre of the French capital.
The building was being renovated after its purchase by a Qatari prince in 2007.
Located on the World Heritage-listed Seine embankment, the mansion was once home to the 18th Century philosopher Voltaire.
It took six hours for the fire brigade to put out the blaze, which started in an area below the rooftop which emergency services found difficult to access.
A large portion of the roof has been destroyed. A spokesman for the fire service, Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Le Testu, said 650 square metres (7,000 sq ft) of the roof had gone, along with a section of a central staircase. Some of the brickwork on the front of the building has collapsed.
Renowned fresco ceiling paintings by Charles Le Brun in the Gallery of Hercules were also "severely damaged by smoke and water", Lt Col Testu said.
About a dozen neighbours were evacuated, and one firefighter was slightly injured.
The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, said the fire had shocked and saddened him. In a statement, Mr Delanoe said the city authorities would monitor renovation works at the building, which he described as a "significant part of Paris's heritage".
Renovation plans by the owner, Prince Abdullah Bin Abdullah al-Thani, brother of the Emir of Qatar, sparked concern from conservationists keen to preserve the historical architecture.
"It really is a catastrophe because we fought for the frescos of the Gallery of Hercules to be preserved in the renovation project and now everything has gone up in smoke or been drowned," neighbour Sophie Pons told the AFP news agency.
The building was acquired in a state of disrepair.
The Shanghai Composite was down 0.4% at 3,321.87 after opening more than 3% lower, while the Hang Seng also changed direction to head up 0.1% to 21,342.09.
Trading in Shanghai was suspended early on Monday after it triggered a new circuit breaker mechanism.
But regulators said on Tuesday it may restrict stock sales to stem falls.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission said that it would consider restricting the proportion of shares that major shareholders could sell during a given period of time.
Analysts said investors were waiting to see if Beijing could stem the latest selling in Chinese stocks and whether more measures would be introduced.
But Bernard Aw, market strategist at trading firm IG said Beijing was arguably more concerned about economic growth than the stock market.
"Furthermore, it could look really bad if they have to throw in more measures when they are in the process of withdrawing the rescue measures," he said in a note.
The circuit breaker rule that suspended trading nationwide for the first time on Monday was created after sharp falls last summer and was meant to curb market volatility in China.
Monday's 7% fall spooked global markets.
Overnight, US benchmark indexes lost up to 2% as concerns grew that the dive in the Chinese stocks was the start of another volatile period after last summer's dramatic market rout.
The addition of escalating tensions in the Middle East on oil prices also dented investors' confidence.
Oil prices were flat after rising as much as 4% on the brewing dispute between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
South Korean shares also headed higher after a senior finance ministry official said that the government would take action to stabilise the market if needed, following Monday's steep plunge.
The Kospi was up 0.7% to 1,932.69 points.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index also recovered losses to head up 0.2% to 18,494.76, but Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 1% to 5,220.60.
Midfielder Williams headed Reading in front after just 15 seconds.
Hal Robson-Kanu found the USA international unmarked as he netted the club's third-fastest ever goal.
Nick Blackman made sure of the points with a late penalty with his eighth goal in as many games after he was fouled by Fernando Amorebieta.
Boro, five points clear in second before kick-off, were caught cold straight from the start at the Madejski Stadium.
Robson-Kanu lofted a ball across the area to the on-running Williams and Dimitrios Konstantopoulos was unable to tip it over the bar.
Reading, beaten just once in their last nine league games were full of confidence. Orlando Sa, returning from suspension, was denied a second goal as his shot was blocked on the line by Daniel Ayala.
Boro went close to an equaliser as Stewart Downing shot through a crowded penalty area only to be denied by Ali Al-Habsi.
Downing threatened again before the break, shooting just over from outside the box.
The visitors grew in confidence and continued to push for a leveller in the second half. Grant Leadbitter had the best chance as he watched a shot go just wide after the hour mark.
But just as nerves increased among the home crowd, Steve Clarke's side settled the game with two minutes left.
Blackman, among the nominees for Championship player of the month for September, was tripped by Amorebieta and referee Keith Stroud pointed to the spot.
Konstantopoulos went the wrong way and Reading had sealed their fifth win of the season.
Reading manager Steve Clarke told BBC Radio Berkshire:
"That was two good teams playing against each other today. We got the key moments in the afternoon and to get in front early changed the whole dynamic of the game.
"Middlesbrough would have come here thinking they could pick us off and contain us. In the first half, even though we didn't create as many chances, the best ones came to us.
"Defensively our shape was good and I sacrificed Nick Blackman a bit today, asking him to do a more defensive job.
"He did that really well and got his reward with the penalty at the end."
Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka:
"The main thing we had to do was not concede a goal in the first minute, but we did - within 20 seconds.
"Reading are a very organised team and we knew that if we conceded a goal, it would be difficult to equalise.
"We have still had a good run but we are disappointed because we wanted to win the eighth, ninth and 10th games in a row.
"I know it's impossible to win every match but it's still frustrating. I don't know why we started so badly."
Match ends, Reading 2, Middlesbrough 0.
Second Half ends, Reading 2, Middlesbrough 0.
Offside, Reading. Chris Gunter tries a through ball, but Orlando Sá is caught offside.
Goal! Reading 2, Middlesbrough 0. Nick Blackman (Reading) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Fernando Amorebieta (Middlesbrough) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Reading. Nick Blackman draws a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Ola John.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Albert Adomah replaces Grant Leadbitter because of an injury.
Substitution, Reading. Aaron Tshibola replaces Hal Robson-Kanu.
Attempt missed. Kike (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Grant Leadbitter.
Offside, Middlesbrough. Fernando Amorebieta tries a through ball, but Kike is caught offside.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Jordan Obita.
Emilio Nsue Lopez (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Orlando Sá (Reading).
Attempt missed. Carlos De Pena (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Emilio Nsue Lopez with a cross.
George Friend (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nick Blackman (Reading).
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Daniel Ayala.
Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Orlando Sá (Reading).
Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Oliver Norwood (Reading).
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Emilio Nsue Lopez replaces Tomas Kalas.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Carlos De Pena replaces Diego Fabbrini.
Foul by Daniel Ayala (Middlesbrough).
Orlando Sá (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Clayton.
Kike (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Hector (Reading).
Attempt missed. Oliver Norwood (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough).
Oliver Norwood (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Reading. Ola John replaces Lucas Piazon.
Attempt missed. Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Fernando Amorebieta.
Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lucas Piazon (Reading).
Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Williams (Reading).
Attempt missed. Orlando Sá (Reading) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Hal Robson-Kanu with a cross.
Sarah Haynes used her year-end speech to accuse Ravenswood School of peddling an unrealistic image of perfection.
The speech was posted to YouTube and provoked strong responses, both positive and negative, on social media.
The school said the coverage was "unfortunate" but that a legal case meant it could not comment.
Ms Haynes' sister reportedly left the school mid-year after an alleged bullying incident. Ms Haynes, 18, referred to this in the speech she made last Wednesday, but denied her criticism was part of a "vendetta".
"For a large part of this year I was hurt, betrayed and very much began to hate certain things and people within the school," she said.
She said that her speeches were "censored" after she became school captain and complained that the school appeared to provide some students with more opportunities than others.
"Some people work hard and get noticed and good on them. But some people work hard, struggle, and get overlooked.
"It seems to me that today schools are being run more and more like businesses, where everything becomes financially motivated, where more value is placed on those who provide good publicity or financial benefits."
The school issued a statement saying elements of the speech were the subject of an ongoing court case. Local media reported this involved Ms Haynes' sister.
It called the speech and subsequent media attention "unfortunate" as it distracted from the celebrations of final-year students.
"As this relates to a matter before the Courts, it is not possible for us to comment on the specifics other than to say this relates to a disagreement about disciplinary action taken against a number of students following an incident of alleged bullying," the statement said.
"Ravenswood has an overriding obligation to provide a safe and respectful learning environment for every student - and all our girls have the right to feel valued.
"This applies not only to the way girls behave towards one another but also to allowing their freedom to express individual opinions in speeches or otherwise."
Debate over the merits of the speech spilled onto Ravenswood's Facebook page, where one commenter called the speech "disgusting" and urged people to "learn the back story".
But the majority of comments was positive and heaped praise on Ms Haynes.
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England tightened their grip on the third Test against India, although Alastair Cook missed out on a double century on day three in Kolkata.
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Australian Lleyton Hewitt claimed the biggest scalp of the US Open men's draw so far as he beat sixth seed Juan Martin del Potro 6-4 5-7 3-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-1 in four hours three minutes.
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Leeds United have promised to give fans who buy a season ticket for 2016-17 a refund of up to 50% - if the club fail to reach the Championship play-offs.
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Kilmarnock have signed defender Daniel Higgins and midfielder Alan Power.
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Regional pay in the public sector would be a disaster, says the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats.
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Charlton Athletic have signed Morocco international Zakarya Bergdich and midfielder Cristian Ceballos.
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Wrexham chief executive Don Bircham has said that manager Gary Mills' transfer budget will not be affected by a shortfall of £200,000.
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Ospreys captain Alun Wyn Jones has warned his team must improve if they are to complete a Champions Cup double over Bordeaux-Begles.
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The first Test Championship, expected to take place in England in 2013, will not now be played before 2017.
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This photograph of York Minister by David Kenward has been revealed as the winner of this year's My Perspective competition, run by the UK Down's Syndrome Association (DSA).
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The Scottish Secretary has hinted that the UK government may be willing to devolve abortion law to Holyrood.
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Melting at one of the largest ice caps on Earth has produced a big jump in its flow speed, satellite imagery suggests.
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National League side Maidstone United have signed defender Alex Wynter after his contract with Colchester United was cancelled by mutual consent.
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More than four in 10 hospitals in England declared a major alert in the first week of the new year as they encountered unprecedented pressures.
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Steve Cotterill has been sacked as manager of Championship strugglers Bristol City.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is meeting in Sweden to thresh out a critical report on global warming.
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An inquiry is to be held into the death of a 43-year-old man in custody at Annan Police Station more than two years ago.
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Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb told BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday that the price of borrowing was at "record lows", and that if he became prime minister he would take advantage of this to invest in infrastructure.
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A man who trafficked people to the UK and forced them to work for him in Swindon has been jailed.
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A fire has damaged the landmark 17th-Century Hotel Lambert in Paris.
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Mainland Chinese shares recovered early losses amid volatile swings, following Monday's suspension of trading, which led to a global equities sell-off.
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Reading climbed to third in the Championship and ended Middlesbrough's five game winning streak with goals from Danny Williams and Nick Blackman.
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The head girl of one of Australia's most prestigious girls' schools has sparked debate with a speech accusing it of putting profits before students.
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This is the level, according to the Bank, "below which it cannot be set" - the lowest practicable official interest rate.
But on this important issue the website is behind the thinking of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, which sets Bank Rate as its main tool to keep inflation on target.
Because just over a month ago, the Bank's governor said that if low inflation were to begin to depress expectations of inflation and wage growth, the MPC could "cut Bank Rate further towards zero".
And with inflation well below the 2% target at zero, the Bank's chief economist, Andy Haldane, has said - as a personal rather than institutional view - that there is a meaningful chance that Bank Rate will be cut.
So what has happened to demonstrate to the Bank that 0.5% is not the practicable minimum?
Partly it is the example of central banks - the European Central Bank and those of Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark - whose official rates are negative: banks that place funds with them are having interest deducted from their deposits, rather than receiving interest.
Their rates are less than zero.
The other contributor to the fall in the effective lower bound is the recovery of Britain's banks.
This matters because the nearer Bank Rate approaches zero, the bigger the squeeze on the profits banks earn from borrowing and lending.
Think of it this way. Competition between banks should bring down the interest rate on loans when Bank Rate is cut towards zero. But savings rates would be kept by competition above zero.
So the gap between the interest rate paid and received by banks would narrow: the profits on this most basic of banking activities would fall.
Also the windfall received by banks from all those interest-free deposits the banks hold would be significantly cut.
The thing is that in March 2009 when Bank Rate was reduced to its record low of 0.5%, the Bank of England figured banks needed to rebuild their capital and strength by generating a certain level of profit on lending and borrowing.
So it matters that Mark Carney now reckons the banks can cope with the profit squeeze that would come from a reduction in Bank Rate.
That said, if the Monetary Policy Committee were to decide that a Bank Rate cut is necessary, the Bank could not be confident that all banks and building societies would sail on untroubled.
Small uncomplicated banks and building societies, very reliant on borrowing and lending rather than fees and revenue from other activities, might not look desperately viable.
Which carries an important industrial implication.
If the worst happened - deflation and prolonged economic stagnation - which necessitated years of zero or negative interest rates, it is difficult to see how the British tradition of "free" in-credit banking could survive (though proper deflation would have much more serious consequences than that).
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The Bank of England's website says that the "effective lower bound" for the interest rate it sets, Bank Rate, is the current rate of 0.5%.
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But the head of the IAAF, athletics' world governing body, wants to know what they intend to ask him.
The Culture, Media and Sport select committee has asked Coe to return for further questioning after hearing evidence it believes "undermines" what he told them when appearing last year.
Writing to the committee chairman, he said he "will do what I can to help".
But he added: "I believe I have a right to understand the nature of the further information you are seeking."
Coe said previously he was unaware of allegations of state-sponsored doping by Russian athletes, and cover-ups involving officials at the IAAF, until they were revealed in a documentary by German broadcaster ARD on 3 December 2014.
He had received emails detailing some of the allegations earlier in the year but told the committee he had passed them on to be dealt with and had not read them himself.
However, the man who sent those emails - former London Marathon chief David Bedford - told the committee earlier this month that he had contacted Coe about the matter in August that year then spoke to him about a related matter in November.
That prompted committee chairman Damian Collins to ask Coe to come back for further questioning because Bedford's evidence "raised clear and important questions" about Coe's knowledge of the allegations.
Fellow panel member, Conservative MP Nigel Huddleston, said the answers "undermined" Coe's version of events.
An IAAF statement followed which questioned whether Bedford's evidence offered anything new to the inquiry, adding Coe has "no further information he can provide" - suggesting he would not be returning to give evidence.
Coe has now written to Collins to say that is not the case, saying: "I will do what I can to help the select committee further."
However, he added: "It is not clear to me what these unanswered questions are."
In a reply, Collins said: "David Bedford told the committee that in his view you were aware of the allegations. We wish to pursue this discrepancy."
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Lord Coe says he has not refused to answer further questions from MPs investigating doping in sport.
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The hosts scuppered a handful of early chances and were made to pay by Dunfermline when Nicky Clark diverted Jason Talbot's low shot into the net.
Andy Geggan's innovative volley doubled the Pars' lead before the break.
Profligacy prevented Dunfermline adding more in the second half and Ayr's Jamie Adams saw a header tipped over by Sean Murdoch.
The need for an out-and-out striker at Somerset Park is clear for Ian McCall, with the Ayr manager desperate to add to his forward options.
There was no shortage of creativity from them, though, with Alan Forrest, Gary Harkins, Nicky Devlin, Kevin Nisbet and Adams presented with decent chances to score.
Dunfermline missed their fair share of openings, too, but crucially found the net twice.
Clark registered his eighth goal of the season inside the box when he turned in a trundling shot from left-back Talbot.
Geggan's effort was spectacular, first controlling a high ball from a corner before hooking it into the far top corner in style.
Pars' defender Lee Ashcroft watched his goal-bound shot cleared off the line by Ayr's Robbie Crawford and substitute Gavin Reilly blasted over when well-placed late on.
A minute's applause was conducted before kick-off as a dedication to young Ayr United fan Ciar McPherson, who died recently.
Ayr United manager Ian McCall declined when asked to do an interview for BBC Radio Scotland.
Dunfermline manager Allan Johnston: "We have managed to build on the poor start [to the season] we had. We've picked up lately and it was a commanding performance today.
"There were parts that were really scrappy in the first half but once we got a hold of the ball and started passing I thought we looked a good team.
"I thought we should have scored a couple more but that final bit of quality was lacking sometimes.
"The first goal was a cracker. A couple of one-two's then we end up getting the ball wide after five or six passes. The ball in the box falls to Nicky and like all good strikers he was in the right place at the right time.
"We've managed to bring in a good addition in Callum Morris, who comes in on Monday and will help our defence. But we've been defending far better recently - that's two clean sheets in two games."
Match ends, Ayr United 0, Dunfermline Athletic 2.
Second Half ends, Ayr United 0, Dunfermline Athletic 2.
Attempt missed. Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Farid El Alagui replaces Michael Moffat.
Foul by Paul Cairney (Ayr United).
John Herron (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Nathaniel Wedderburn.
Substitution, Ayr United. Michael Donald replaces Alan Forrest.
Hand ball by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United).
Attempt missed. Gavin Reilly (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Joe Cardle replaces Kallum Higginbotham.
Paul Cairney (Ayr United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Paul Cairney (Ayr United).
John Herron (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Michael Rose (Ayr United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Michael Rose (Ayr United).
Michael Moffat (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Paul McMullan (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Robbie Crawford (Ayr United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Robbie Crawford (Ayr United).
Paul McMullan (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Gavin Reilly replaces Nicky Clark.
Substitution, Ayr United. Michael Rose replaces Jamie Adams.
Foul by Gary Harkins (Ayr United).
Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Jason Talbot.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Conrad Balatoni.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Lee Ashcroft.
Attempt missed. Patrick Boyle (Ayr United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Jason Talbot.
Nicky Devlin (Ayr United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United).
Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Ayr United. Brian Gilmour replaces Kevin Nisbet.
Attempt missed. Alan Forrest (Ayr United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Patrick Boyle.
Attempt blocked. Alan Forrest (Ayr United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Robbie Crawford (Ayr United).
Attempt missed. Gary Harkins (Ayr United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
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Dunfermline extended their unbeaten run in the Championship to seven games with a comfortable win against Ayr.
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Jon Thompson has been appointed chief executive; he is currently Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence.
Edward Troup, who has been responsible for tax policy and strategy and also oversees large tax settlements at HMRC, becomes its executive chair.
HMRC has recently attracted criticism from MPs. The current chief executive Dame Lin Homer steps down in April.
Last November, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee issued a critical report, arguing HMRC must do more to ensure all tax is paid.
"It beggars belief that, having made disappointing progress on tax evasion and avoidance, the taxman also seems incapable of running a satisfactory service for people trying to pay their fair share," committee chair Meg Hillier said.
HMRC's customer service was considered "so bad" it could be leading to lower tax collection, the committee said.
And earlier today HMRC was criticised over its tax agreement with Google.
The Public Accounts Committee said the £130m settlement "seems disproportionately small", compared with the size of its UK business.
The committee said it was not possible to judge whether the agreement had been fair to taxpayers, because of the lack of transparency over details of the settlement and how it was reached.
In response HMRC said it "does not settle for a penny less than is due under the law from multinationals. Last year we brought in an additional £7bn by rigorously enforcing the tax rules that apply to large businesses."
Commenting on the new appointments, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said in a statement that he was "pleased" that Mr Troup and Mr Thompson had agreed to their new roles:
"I am confident that Edward's wealth of experience in tax, including most recently as Tax Assurance Commissioner, and Jon's operational and financial expertise, most recently as Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence, will prove to be a huge asset to HMRC as it improves its customer service and continues its vital work to clamp down on tax avoidance and evasion."
Labour MP Margaret Hodge, who was formerly chair of the public accounts committee, tweeted that the appointment of Mr Troup was "good news for big biz, bad news for ordinary taxpayers".
She referred to a comment made by Mr Troup in 1999 when he said: "Taxation is legalised extortion and is valid only to the extent of the law."
Dame Lin was awarded a damehood in the New Year's honours.
She joined HMRC in January 2012, having served as permanent secretary at the Department for Transport.
Earlier this month, during a hearing before MPs over Google's tax deal, Dame Lin said she did not consider herself an "deep expert" on tax.
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The government has appointed new bosses at the UK tax authority HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
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He had a great time until it was ready to leave.
Staff from the zoo guided him out safely back into the wild.
Its investigations focused on residential homes and institutions operated by the state, churches, and the charity Barnardo's.
There were many reasons why children of that era found themselves in residential care in Northern Ireland.
Many were orphaned, some were abandoned or living in extreme poverty.
Others came from dysfunctional family settings and were victims of violence, abuse or neglect in their own homes.
Some were in the juvenile justice system, while many were born to unmarried mothers.
The latter was a matter of great public shame at that time, especially in the eyes of an austere, sometimes harsh and dominant Catholic Church on both sides of the Irish border.
Whatever their reasons for being in care, the system let countless children down.
The public hearings, over two-and-a-half years, bore witness to accounts of grim and sometimes gruesome abuse, cruelty and neglect.
The sexual, physical and emotional abuse was perpetrated by individual men and women working in the homes and institutions.
It was also inflicted by visitors and, in many cases, children inflicted sexual, physical and emotional abuse on each other while in care.
The accounts of 333 people were heard at the public hearings - 246 gave evidence in person and a further 87 statements were read into the record.
The statements were recorded because the former residents in question were often too unwell to attend.
Poignantly, in some cases, the former residents had died before getting the chance to tell the inquiry about what happened to them as children.
The spectre of middle-aged or elderly former child residents taking the witness stand at the inquiry was a chastening experience.
Sometimes frail, often traumatised, their individual accounts were very different. Yet, there was a constant narrative of early-age suffering and lifelong pain and anguish.
Many of the accounts of sex abuse and beatings were staggering in terms of the vile and brutal nature of what happened to the children.
The repeated evidence painted an image of a harrowing, dark and bleak period of childcare in Northern Ireland, from 1922 to 1995.
Countless children living loveless, lonely lives in frightening environments.
In many cases, separated from their parents at an early age, and separated from their siblings in care.
Despite lifetimes spent searching, some brothers and sisters were never reunited with each other or with their parents.
Those who came forward to give evidence blamed many people for their damaged childhoods.
Some blamed their own parents for abandoning them in the first place, most blamed the people working in the state, church and Barnardo's' institutions.
Others held the Stormont government of the time, welfare agencies, and wider society to account, for turning a blind eye to the needs and welfare of vulnerable children in care.
Even though the inquiry was specifically designed to examine child abuse in the homes and institutions, some former residents came forward to defend some Catholic residential homes being investigated.
These witnesses paid tribute to nuns and Christian Brothers who cared for thousands of deprived children and praised these institutions for giving them a chance in life.
Another aspect of the public hearings which provided more troubling testimony was the investigation into a Child Migrant Scheme, operated by the British government, which sent children from across the UK to Australia in the middle of the 1900s.
From Northern Ireland, 131 children, some as young as five, were sent to Australia from Catholic, Protestant and local authority childcare homes.
The experiences of 50 of them were heard by the inquiry, mostly via a videolink.
Most recalled being promised a better and happier life in Australia. However, many said they endured further hardship and abuse during their new lives on the other side of the world
The inquiry was also told that the Australian government wanted children who were "white and of good health".
In a letter, sent in 1947, it complained to the authorities in Northern Ireland of being sent "substandard children" and introduced an IQ test to the scheme.
The accounts of these migrant children, and the children who remained in local homes and institutions, have now been recorded in the official history of Northern Ireland.
It's a record that speaks to a dark and unforgiving period in the care and treatment of vulnerable children and young people.
The Briton had triumphed in the 800m freestyle on Thursday in Israel and followed that up with a thrilling win over Hungary's Katinka Hosszu.
The 25-year-old from Wales clocked a time of three minutes 58.81 seconds, beating Hosszu by 0.03 seconds,
There was also a silver for Chris Walker-Hebborn after he finished joint second in the 50m backstroke.
Walker-Hebborn and Italy's Simone Sabbioni both clocked 23.09 behind Poland's Tomasz Polewka (22.96).
It means GB finish the meeting with 11 medals - two golds, seven silvers and two bronzes.
Carlin had gone out strongly in her race behind Hosszu and Femke Heemskerk of the Netherlands and was second at the halfway point before taking the lead at the 250m mark.
Hosszu edged ahead with 50m left but Carlin finished strongly to get the better of her rival and add to the bronze she won at the World Championships in Kazan in August. Her team-mate Hannah Miley finished sixth.
In 2015 the Labour-run city council agreed the libraries should no longer be funded and managed by the authority as part of budget savings.
Volunteers will staff the buildings, while the books and equipment remain owned by the council.
The council claimed it would help create a "sustainable future" for the city's libraries.
A council report recommended saving six libraries and axing Burgess Road, Cobbett Road, Millbrook, Thornhill and Weston libraries unless community-led initiatives could be set up.
The move was intended to save about £285,000 per year.
The proposals faced opposition with an estimated 150 people staging a silent protest through Southampton in March 2015.
The Friends of Cobbett Road Library, along with the newly-formed Burgess Road Library Action Group and Thornhill Community Library group, will staff their respective libraries.
The YMCA will provide library services in Weston, while in Millbrook resources will be moved into an NHS children's centre.
Satvir Kaur, cabinet member for communities, culture and leisure said: "Unlike many other local authorities, despite severe budget cuts, no library buildings will be closing in Southampton."
Sunderland have agreed compensation with Aberdeen as they seek a replacement for David Moyes following their relegation to the Championship.
Having been sacked by Bristol City in 2013, McInnes has restored his reputation with a successful four-year spell in charge at Pittodrie.
"If he does go down to Sunderland I'm sure he'll do well," Lambert said.
Aberdeen's new major shareholder Dave Cormack insisted the club would "move heaven and earth" to keep their manager at Pittodrie, but Lambert says the lure of Sunderland will prove too strong to resist for McInnes.
"The lure is too big," the former Colchester, Norwich, Aston Villa and Blackburn manager told BBC Scotland. "The profile for yourself is big as well. I'm sure if Derek goes down to Sunderland his own profile will rise as well. He'll want to do that after the job he's done at Aberdeen.
"If he does go there it's not as if you're taking a small club, you're talking about a club with history behind it, a huge fan-base, big stadium, great training ground, it's got everything behind it. For him to turn it down would be a massive thing for Aberdeen.
"He had his little blip [at Bristol City] which everybody goes through. You lose a job, go into another one, make a success of it and people start to think we'll take him again. He deserves his chance at it. He's done really well at Aberdeen."
Sunderland were relegated last season after a 10-year stay in the Premier League, and Lambert warns that McInnes will be met with a fan-base expecting promotion straight back up to the top flight if he takes the reins at the Stadium of Light.
"It's a brilliant club. Massive fan-base and the problem will be the expectancy level to go straight back up. If he handles that, which he will do because he's done great at Aberdeen, then you've got a chance.
"He's not a novice. When he first came down to Bristol City that [lack of experience] was maybe a wee bit difficult for him. But fair play to him, he's kept going at it and he comes across really well. That's important."
Lambert left his post as manager of Wolves at the end of the season after just seven months in charge at Molineux. The former Celtic and Borussia Dortmund midfielder departed after a disagreement with the club's hierarchy on who has the final say on player transfers.
Should McInnes leave for Sunderland, Lambert has no interest in taking over at Pittodrie or indeed return to manage anywhere in Scotland in the near future.
"I've been in England since 2005 and I've had some great moments and some hard moments which every manager goes through. I've had some great times, worked with some great lads so I'm happy," Lambert said.
"Ok I'm not doing anything at the minute, but there are one or two things that people have asked me to do and I'll look at that. I don't see myself coming back up [to Scotland]."
Several members of Sport Wednesbury staff running activities in the West Midlands town did not have appropriate checks in place, Sandwell Council said.
It said it had now arranged for its youth service to run activities.
Sport Wednesbury said every staff member used was currently in possession of an enhanced DBS check.
The Disclosure and Barring Service replaced the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) scheme in England and Wales.
Sport Wednesbury had won the contract to run classes for a second time this year.
But council cabinet member for leisure services Richard Marshall said: "It came to the council's attention that several members of Sport Wednesbury staff running summer holiday activities at Brunswick Park did not have the appropriate DBS checks in place.
"These are a safeguarding requirement when working with children and should have been arranged by the organisation running the activities in line with their own child protection policy."
Mr Marshall said the council had to make sure "all safeguarding rules are met" and it acted as soon as it "became aware of this issue".
He said: "We have now made arrangements for the council's youth service to continue running the activities for children to enjoy for the rest of the summer holidays."
Asked how many days staff without checks had worked and how many children they had come into contact with, the head of Sport Wednesbury, Richard McVittie, said he could not answer because he was in discussions with the council.
Mr McVittie said in his view it was not clear that any activity requiring a person with a DBS check had been carried out by someone without one.
He said every member of staff used, paid or unpaid, was currently in possession of an enhanced DBS check.
Scott Dawson, 37, from Southampton, entered the water off Seaview shortly before 07:30 BST on Tuesday.
The non-stop swim saw him navigate the island anti-clockwise. He completed the 60-mile (96.6km) route in just over 26 hours.
Money raised will go to support the work of the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and Meningitis Now.
During the swim Mr Dawson was passed boiled eggs, beetroot brownies and chocolate from a fishing net.
The father-of-two said he kept his mind occupied by doing sums in his head.
"Numbers go round and round, and before I know it, someone is stopping me to eat and drink", he said.
Record-breaking round-the-world yachtsman Brian Thompson navigated the route, describing it as an "epic challenge".
Only four people have completed the feat - the last successful attempt was by Anna Wardley in September 2013.
Sarah Rochira said more needs to be done to support them.
The Welsh government said it was "committed to supporting all victims of domestic abuse".
Ms Rochira said there were unique issues for older people in abusive relationships and the support in place is not always appropriate.
"If you have been married for 30, 40 years and the option you are given is going to a refuge or perhaps a care home, I'm not sure if many people would see that as being an acceptable alternative, particularly if they've learnt to live with the abuse," said Ms Rochira.
Domestic abuse of the over-60s has been ignored, she added, and "it is only now, I think, that we are really beginning to understand both the extent and the nature of domestic abuse faced by older people".
Charity Safer Wales, which specialises in tackling the problem, has called for designated refuges for older victims or specific rooms for them in existing women's refuges.
Between April and November, it has had 25 referrals from Cardiff, mostly from the police, GPs and self-referrals.
The charity's Margaret Smith said: "I think back in the day, older women, they tended to put up with the abuse. It was a taboo subject, people didn't talk about it.
"And there weren't places for older women to go and sometimes their grown up children would not support them. They would even blame them for the break-up of the relationship and blame them for the abuse."
Ms Rochira said the nature of the abuse can be very different for older people.
"We know, for example, that many older people will have been a victim of abuse for a very long time - maybe 10, 20, 30 years," she said.
"There might not be any physical abuse going on anymore because by then they will be victims of cohesive control. So for many of them a look will be enough because they know what will follow."
She also said there could be more than one abuser within a family and experts have said there were cases where the children or the grandchildren were the perpetrators and removing them from the homes is not necessarily the appropriate response.
"We've got some really good research… with Aberystwyth University just starting looking at how we can provide better family support and mediation."
Next year, the Welsh government will launch a national training framework as part of the Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015 and guidance has been developed for frontline staff on how to spot this type of abuse.
The national adviser on tackling domestic violence, Rhian Bowen-Davies, said this would "enable professionals to better recognise and respond" and these developments were "absolutely key" in keeping older people safe.
Ms Rochira said success will not be measure by strategies and policies, but "when people, and for me older people, are not the victims of domestic abuse".
The Welsh government said it was committed to supporting all victims and service provision should be tailored to their needs, which was "reflected clearly" in this year's act.
A spokeswoman added: "In line with the requirements of the act, we have developed a national training framework which addresses all forms of violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence and introduces, for the first time, a national training standard for public service workers on these issues."
The Turkish foreign minister said it had summoned the US ambassador, John Bass, and asked for an investigation.
During the key visit, a brawl erupted between protesters and Turkish security personnel, injuring 11 people.
Police called it a "brutal attack" on protesters, but Turkey blamed the violence on pro-Kurdish demonstrators.
Meanwhile, US State Department spokesman Heather Nauert said "the conduct of Turkish security personnel... was deeply disturbing".
"The State Department has raised its concerns about those events at the highest levels," she added.
The incident happened on Tuesday outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, hours after Mr Erdogan met US President Donald Trump.
Video footage of the clash showed men in suits charging past police to kick and punch protesters.
"A written and verbal protest was delivered due to the aggressive and unprofessional actions taken, contrary to diplomatic rules and practices, by US security personnel," the Turkish foreign minister said in a statement.
The "lapses of security", it added, "were caused by the inability of US authorities to take sufficient precautions at every stage of the official programme".
US officials have already summoned the Turkish ambassador over the violence, which was described by Washington police as a "brutal attack on peaceful protesters".
But the Turkish embassy said the demonstrators were linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), and had aggressively provoked Turkish-Americans gathering to greet the president. They in turn had acted in self-defence.
The incident drew an outcry among US lawmakers, and Senator John McCain called for the Turkish envoy to be expelled.
At the close, the FTSE 100 index was down 70.7 points, or 1.1%, at 6,044.9.
Sterling dropped 0.2% against the dollar to $1.4231 and fell 0.5% against the euro to €1.2612.
Meanwhile, the "volatility index" for the pound - a measure of investors' uncertainty - has hit the highest levels since the 2008 financial crisis.
Opinion polls at the weekend suggested the Leave campaign was ahead of the Remain team, and figures from betting exchange Betfair indicate the implied probability of the UK staying in the EU has fallen to 64%, down from 78% a week earlier.
Investors were also cautious ahead of a US Federal Reserve's meeting later this week.
"Financial markets are in a clear risk-off mode once more this week," said Joshua Mahony, market analyst at IG.
"The Brexit-shaped shadow that looms over markets is also joined by a [Fed] meeting this week, which while predictable by action, is less certain by tone. There is a high likeliness that at a time where risks are so high, market sentiment will continue to drive volatility for the next 10 days."
However, Deutsche Bank said a Leave vote would not necessarily hit UK shares. Both the German bank and JP Morgan remained "overweight" on UK shares, helping the FTSE fall less sharply than continental stock markets.
"In the case of a Leave vote in the UK referendum... we expect UK equities to outperform the European market, given the likely [sterling] depreciation in such a scenario," Deutsche analysts said in a note.
Shares in BT Group fell 2.8% after analysts at Berenberg cut its price target for the telecoms giant.
In the FTSE 250, G4S shares fell 5% after it emerged that the gunman responsible for the Florida nightclub massacre was one of its employees.
Ocado was the biggest loser on the 250, down 8.1%, with analysts citing Amazon's expansion into the UK grocery market as likely to provide unwelcome competition for the online food delivery business.
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The Ghanaian walked off the pitch against Italian team Pro Patria after he was racially abused by their fans.
His actions come after Liverpool's Luis Suarez and Chelsea's John Terry were sanctioned for using racist language.
Boateng, 26, said: "A player who does something wrong, who is racist, can never play for the club again or can never play in the country again."
The former Portsmouth player admitted walking off the pitch in January during a mid-season friendly against the lower-league club was "not the right thing to do".
But, ahead of a meeting with Fifa president Sepp Blatter, who praised Boateng's actions, the player believes it sent a "big message" to racists in football.
Asked if more black and ethnic minority players should be in positions of power, Boateng replied: "If it's more multi-cultural, it gets more people and more countries involved and these things can help.
"Let's hope that soon there's going to be a black [Jose] Mourinho and Pakistani [Pep] Guardiola."
Liverpool's Uruguayan striker Suarez was given an eight-match ban and a £40,000 fine by the Football Association after being found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra in October 2011.
Eleven months later, Chelsea captain John Terry was suspended for four matches and fined £220,000 for racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand, although Terry was cleared of the same offence in court.
And Boateng said football authorities needed to be stricter in their punishments for fans and players.
"Money doesn't really hurt, it's not the subject that can hurt you so much," Boateng told BBC Sport.
"Kevin-Prince Boateng's principled stance was a watershed moment for football and has forced its authorities to get tough and introduce a new sanctions regime.
"New penalties under consideration by the game's custodians include points deductions, relegation or exclusion from major competitions for errant teams.
"Fifa and Uefa both argue that football is simply a mirror on society and they can't be blamed for its ills.
"But after years of punishing teams and players financially there is widespread agreement that the penalties must be substantially increased if the game is to effectively deal with an issue many thought had been consigned to the past.
"If there's a fan who has done something wrong and he can never come to the stadium again, that is something that can hurt you because you're a fan and you love the sport.
"Or a football player who does something wrong, who is racist, and can never play for the club again or can never play in the country again. These are the things that hurt and I think this is the right way to go. [It needs to be] very strict, very hard and make it very clear."
That stance has already been backed by Fifa, with new anti-racism chief Jeffrey Webb believing tougher penalties like relegation and exclusion from major tournaments need to be introduced.
Webb also said he had plans to meet the perpetrators and victims of racism in English football.
Uefa fined Serbia £65,000 after England Under-21 players were the subject of racist abuse in a Euro 2013 play-off, while the European governing body has imposed fines on Italian team Lazio for racist chanting this season.
Boateng's AC Milan team-mate Mario Balotelli has also recently been racially abused by fans of rival team Inter during the Milan derby, with the club being sanctioned by Serie A officials.
Reflecting on his walk-off in January, Boateng added: "If I look back I know it wasn't the right thing to do because we are professionals, we are entertainers, we have to entertain the people and we are paid to be on the field.
"So maybe it's not the right thing to do but someone had to do it. It is not that I woke up one day and said 'I want to be that one'. I just did it out of emotions and I think it was a big, big signal and a big message.
"From that signal, from that message, we can move on and go in the perfect, right direction to fight against [racism]."
Languages Minister Alasdair Allan said an additional £250,000 would also be made available to develop Gaelic learning in early years at the site.
Highland Council expects work to start in 2015 and the school to cost £8.3m to construct.
Mr Allan said there was "growing interest" in Gaelic in the Highlands.
She faces down the much larger bull, hands on hips, and was commissioned to highlight gender inequality.
But now a New York artist has taken a stand against the new arrival by adding a third statue - a urinating pug.
Alex Gardega's creation - now removed - took aim at the little girl's left leg.
He told the New York Post the Fearless Girl statue was "corporate nonsense" devised to promote the fund managers who commissioned it.
"It has nothing to do with feminism, and it is disrespect to the artist that made the bull," he said. "That bull had integrity."
He said he had consciously done a sloppy job on his dog statue, dubbed Pissing Pug, to reinforce his point.
"I decided to build this dog and make it crappy to downgrade the statue, exactly how the girl is a downgrade on the bull," Gardega said.
The sculptor removed his piece about three hours after installing it, saying he did not want it to be stolen - and did not have permission to leave it there.
But the pug's brief appearance generated a large and occasionally heated debate on social media.
Some felt that the urinating pug was offensive, delivering an anti-feminist message - while others agreed with the artist that Fearless Girl was not art, but a marketing ploy.
Some, however, simply lampooned the entire exchange between artistic types.
Arturo Di Modica, the Italian-born artist who created the bull, was dismayed by the appearance of the girl statue. He has argued that its presence changes the artistic meaning of his work.
Di Modica is now suing State Street Global Advisors, who installed the rival artwork, for trademark and copyright infringement.
The imposing bull sculpture appeared as guerrilla art in 1989, without any city permits.
It was meant to represent the "strength and power of the American people" in response to the market crash in 1987.
Gardega has had no contact with either Di Modica or Kristen Visbal, who made Fearless Girl.
Thus far, neither has commented on the canine interloper.
Experts describe the early research as a "major advance" in this field.
The study, in the Lancet Neurology, suggests the prototype test could help in the hunt for new treatments.
Huntington's disease is an inherited and incurable brain disorder that is currently fatal.
About 10,000 people in the UK have the condition and about 25,000 are at risk.
It is passed on through genes, and children who inherit a faulty gene from parents have a 50% chance of getting the disease in later life.
People can develop a range of problems including involuntary movements, personality changes and altered behaviour and may be fully dependent on carers towards the end of their lives.
In this study, an international team - including researchers from University College London - looked at 200 people with genes for Huntington's disease - some of whom already had signs of the disease, and others at earlier stages.
They compared them to some 100 people who were not at risk of getting the condition.
Volunteers had several tests over three years, including brain scans and clinical check-ups to see how Huntington's disease affected people's thinking skills and movement as the condition became more severe.
At the same time scientists looked for clues in blood samples - measuring a substance called neurofilament light chain (NFL) - released from damaged brain cells.
They found levels of the brain protein were high in people with Huntington's disease and were even elevated in people who carried the gene for Huntington's disease but were many years away from showing any symptoms.
And researchers found NFL levels rose as the condition worsened and as people's brains shrank over time.
Dr Edward Wild, at UCL, said: "Neurofilament light chain has the potential to serve as a speedometer in Huntington's disease, since a single blood test reflects how quickly the brain is changing.
"We have been trying to identify blood biomarkers to help track the progression of Huntington's disease for well over a decade and this is the best candidate we have seen so far."
Researchers suggest it could be more rapid and cheaper than current methods of measuring the progress of the disease, such as invasive tests of spinal fluid and brain scans.
And they say the blood test could be particularly helpful when checking if new treatments show any signs of being able halt the progress of the condition.
Commenting in the Lancet Neurology, Prof Christopher Ross and Prof Jee Bang of John Hopkins University described the study as "remarkable".
They added: "The study represents a major advance in the field of Huntington's disease and neurodegeneration in general…"
But they cautioned that it was important to carry out further, larger trials to confirm the results.
Scientists working on the original study agreed that further experiments were needed to fully understand the pros and cons of the test, before it could be of any help to patients.
They have launched a larger trial.
Cath Stanley, chief executive of Hungtington's Disease Association, said: "This is a ground breaking piece of research that takes nearer to having a better understanding about Huntington's disease."
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Joshua defends his IBF heavyweight title against American Eric Molina in Manchester on Saturday.
But that fight has been overshadowed by Whyte's undercard match with Chisora, who threw a table in Wednesday's melee.
"This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight," said Joshua.
"Boxing is a gladiatorial sport, it's fight or flight, so you're going to get it [bad behaviour]. You saw it at the press conference with Tony Bellew and David Haye, guys are just going to attack each other sometimes.
"Throughout the history of boxing, you have had these type of incidents. It's good. People want to see a bit more.
"It's just not me. I've been there with Dillian [Joshua beat Whyte in 2015 after an ill-tempered build-up], we didn't get along and I wasted a lot of energy. I didn't flip any tables but one more button pushed and I might have."
The British Boxing Board of Control has decreed that the match between Whyte and Chisora will go ahead, but Whyte's British title will not be on the line and Chisora has been handed a two-year suspended ban and a £25,000 fine.
Joshua, 27, is making the second defence of the title he won in April, when he knocked out Charles Martin in two rounds.
The Briton is undefeated in 17 professional contests, has yet to be taken the distance and is confident of another knockout in front of a host of heavyweight rivals at the Manchester Arena.
Wladimir Klitschko, who Joshua is expected to fight next spring, will be ringside, as will former world champion Haye and WBC champion Deontay Wilder.
American Molina, 34, is challenging for a world title for a second time, having been knocked out in nine rounds by Wilder last year.
Molina is a big underdog and says the only way he can possibly beat Joshua is via a knockout, which he admits is his only plan.
"It won't go the distance, get that idea out of your mind," said Molina.
"Am I going to outbox him for 12 rounds? No. What's my only chance to win? To knock him out. So for 40 days, that's what I trained for.
"Working on technique? I haven't got time for that. Even if I'd had 80 days, I wouldn't have trained for that, I'd still have trained for the knockout."
As well as boxing, Molina teaches disabled children in his home town of Weslaco, Texas, which he plans to do full-time after he has hung up his gloves.
He said: "After I was beaten by Chris Arreola [Arreola knocked him out in one round in 2012], I worked with special needs kids. For five years I worked 60 hours a week, ran in the morning, trained after school and sparred on the weekend.
"I did that before I fought Deontay Wilder. So you'll never hear any excuses from me, I will just find a way.
"Whatever happens on 10 December, I'll be back there one day, I feel like that's what I'm destined to do.
"But at the moment I'm living my dream to become world heavyweight champion and willing to give it everything I've got."
Dillian Whyte v Dereck Chisora (heavyweight contest)
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Katie Taylor v Viviane Obenauf (super-featherweight contest)
Callum Smith v Luke Blackledge (British super-middleweight title)
Scott Quigg v Jose Cayetano (WBA 'international' featherweight title)
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Luiz Ortiz v David Allen (heavyweight contest)
Marcus Morrison v Harry Matthews (middleweight contest)
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Sir Terry wrote to Sir David in 1965, at the age of 27, asking to be considered for work at the BBC.
But Sir David, who was controller of BBC Two at the time, declined the request.
He wrote back to say the network already had chief announcer who was from Dublin.
Sir David now says he has no recollection of the exchange.
The initial letter, published in this week's Radio Times, Sir Terry said that he "should like to extend the sphere of my television activities".
He added that he wished to see whether "the success which I have enjoyed in Ireland can be translated to British television".
At the time, Sir Terry was working for the Irish Broadcaster RTE.
He admitted within the letter that his main reason for writing it was "simply ambition", adding that he hoped Sir David would be "receptive enough of new ideas and personalities".
But Sir David replied: "We do not have any vacancies for anyone with your particular talents and experience."
He went on to draw attention to a chief announcer on BBC Two - Denis Tuohy - who he said was from Dublin but is actually from Belfast.
"We would feel, other things being equal, that we should look for someone from a different part of the country if we were to make an additional appointment," he wrote.
When Sir David was informed by the Radio Times of the exchange, he said: "Good Lord, he wrote to me asking for work? I don't remember this at all."
The natural history presenter said he received more than 10,000 letters a year during his stint as a BBC executive.
Sir David added that, despite meeting Sir Terry many times in subsequent years, the Irish presenter never mentioned the rejection letter.
But the 89-year-old stands by his decision.
"I think it was a perfectly reasonable answer. To have had two Irishmen presenting on BBC Two would have looked ridiculous."
He added: "This is no comment whatsoever on Terry Wogan's talents. It's just that I couldn't have had two Irish presenters."
After the rejection, Sir Terry turned to radio and, in 1966, was offered a job presenting Midday Spin on the BBC Light Programme - which later became BBC Radio 2.
In later years Sir Terry would go on to present the hugely successful breakfast show on the network, serving a total of 27 years fronting the flagship programme.
Sir Terry Wogan died last week at the age of 77 after a "short but brave battle with cancer".
At the start of the final group matches on Saturday, Nigeria, Ghana and Mali were all vying for the two semi-final places.
Nigeria started quickly against Kenya in Limbe and scored with their second attack after just two minutes of play as Ngozi Okobi fired home on her first start of the tournament.
Four minutes later, Nigeria doubled the lead as Faith Ikidi headed the ball into the top corner beyond the reach of Kenya goalkeeper Vivian Akinyi from a free-kick swung in from the left.
Kenya did not give up and did their best to push forward and had some chances from set-plays to threaten the Nigerian goal without really troubling keeper Alaba Jonathan.
But it was Nigeria who continued to create chances with Asisat Oshoala (pictured) looking dangerous as she looked to add another goal to the four she scored against Mali in the opening Group B match.
Kenya came out and did their best after the break and even dominated for a short period of time but it was Nigeria who extended their lead in the 53rd minute.Okobi pushed the ball into the area and Oshoala ran in behind the defence and calmly clipped the ball across the keeper into the net.
Officially, the Arsenal striker now has 6 goals at the tournament despite the goal against Ghana going in off Portia Boakye.
Nigeria's fourth came in the closing minutes as Desire Oparanozie beat a Kenyan defender to fire home from the edge of the six-yard area.
In Yaounde, Mali created several scoring chances and Ghana were struggling to take control of the match but it was the Black Queens who took the lead just before half-time.
Linda Eshun hooked the ball over the head of the Mali keeper after the defence failed to deal with a ball in from the right.
Ghana doubled the lead as Portia Boakye raced onto a long through ball behind the Mali defence and she unselfishly set up Samira Suleiman who had the simple task of side-footing the ball home.
Ghana's third came from the penalty spot as their only overseas-based player, Elizabeth Addo, who plays in Sweden, scored from the penalty spot for the third match in a row at the tournament.
Binta Diarra pulled a late goal back for Mali but it was not enough for the Lady Eagles.
Both semi-finals will take place on Tuesday with Group B winners Nigeria continuing the defence of their crown against South Africa in Limbe and Group B runners-up Ghana facing hosts Cameroon in Yaounde.
The unprecedented payment comes after a legal battle with women who say they were duped into relationships with officers who were spying on them.
Scotland Yard says it "unreservedly apologises for any pain and suffering".
The woman told BBC News she had received psychiatric care after learning the officer's real identity.
The Met's payment is part of an agreement for her to drop her legal action alleging assault, negligence, deceit and misconduct by senior officers.
The force faces further possible claims from other women who say they were tricked into relationships with Special Demonstration Squad officers.
The SDS ran long-term undercover operations designed to infiltrate protest groups, including animal rights organisations.
One of its key officers, former Special Branch detective Bob Lambert, used the pseudonym Bob Robinson, and was tasked with infiltrating the Animal Liberation Front.
During that operation in the mid 1980s, he formed a relationship with a 22-year-old activist called Jacqui - even though he was already married with children. In 1985 she gave birth - but when the boy was two years old, the father vanished.
Jacqui only discovered the real identity of her son's father in 2012 after he had been outed by other campaigners.
Scotland Yard had refused to confirm or deny whether Bob Lambert was an SDS operative, despite his own admissions to journalists, until it was forced to change its position in August.
Mr Lambert has not responded to BBC requests for comment on the settlement - but he has previously said that wanted to apologise to women with whom he had relationships and that he had made some "serious mistakes".
Speaking to BBC News and the Guardian newspaper, Jacqui said that the Metropolitan Police's refusal to admit the truth had added to her personal pain and contributed to a mental breakdown requiring treatment at a clinic. She said that she would have rather have had less compensation and more truth.
Jacqui said: "The legal case is finished but there is no closure for me. There is the money, but there is no admission by the police that what they did was wrong, there is no meaningful apology and most importantly there are no answers.
"I don't know why I was singled out by the police to be duped into an intimate sexual relationship with Bob Lambert. I don't know if he was paid overtime to be with me during the 14 hours of labour I went through giving birth to our son. I feel violated."
In March, a police review of allegations of undercover misdeeds said sexual relationships between undercover officers such as those in the SDS and their targets were inappropriate and a "gross abuse" of their position.
In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: "The MPS unreservedly apologises for any pain and suffering that the relationship with Bob Lambert, an undercover officer, has had on this woman. We recognise the impact that the revelation that he was an undercover police officer must have had both on her and her son.
"From the outset we have dealt with this lengthy case with professionalism and sensitivity, completely understanding the gravity of the circumstances. We regret if this necessarily complex process has added to her distress. the MPS has never had a policy that officers can use sexual relations for the purposes of policing. "
There are 12 other legal claims relating to undercover officers still being fought.
But Jules Carey of Bindmans lawyers, acting for Jacqui, said the legal battles so far suggested Scotland Yard wanted to maintain a "never say never" stance to sexual relations after the Met's lawyers argued there could be a hypothetical extreme situation where such a tactic was needed.
Mr Carey said: "The Metropolitan Police are prepared to criticise the conduct of an individual officer, Bob Lambert. They are even prepared to be critical of the unit he was from - but they refuse to condemn the practice itself.
"It is time for the commissioner of Metropolitan Police to publicly commit to seeing the end of this shameful and abusive practice".
Fellow former SDS officer Peter Francis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that sex was "used by almost everybody who was serving in that unit".
He added that undercover officers were "expected, not ordered" to "engage in relationships" and that while there was no policy on becoming involved in sexual relations, there was "no policy saying that you couldn't either".
The scammers claim they are selling their right-hand drive car after returning to Sweden following working in Northern Ireland.
The bogus sellers engage their victims by text and email only.
A link in an online advertisement opens up a fake logistics company for delivery.
One victim, Ian, lost £4000, despite carrying out a number of checks during the process.
He spoke to one person, who was posing as a representative of a fake delivery firm.
He sold his own car to be able to afford the second hand car he spotted in an online advertisement for less than the price he paid the scammers.
Ian told BBC Radio Ulster's On Your Behalf programme it was a "devastating" blow for him and his family.
"It has left us penniless," he said.
He has shared details of the incident with the Metropolitan Police in London.
Bill Molloy from Trading Standards said other people have lost money in similar scams.
The street artist's latest work, believed to be a comment on the UK's impending exit from the European Union, appeared in Dover on Sunday morning.
Since its unveiling, the words "The Clash" have been daubed between the rungs of the workman's ladder.
Dover District Council said it would be monitoring the artwork, on York Street, using CCTV.
A council spokesman said: "We are aware of the continuing interest around the artwork attributed to Banksy.
"The building is not owned by Dover District Council, and we have no other plans to take action to protect the artwork at this time."
In 2014, a Banksy mural of a woman staring at an empty plinth was painted on a wall in Folkestone was vandalised with an obscene image.
It was shipped to the USA to be sold, but was returned to Folkestone in 2015 after a lengthy High Court battle.
Ownership was disputed between an art charity and the bosses of an arcade where the graffiti appeared.
The Folkestone Creative Foundation said they thought the Dover Banksy would be impossible to sell due to its size, and the cost of removal.
The owners of the building have yet to comment.
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The total includes a $203m fine after UBS pleaded guilty to the charge it rigged Libor benchmark interest rates.
US and UK authorities are expected to hand out penalties to major banks totalling about $5bn related to the foreign exchange investigation.
Details of these settlements are expected to be announced later.
The £40 bet was placed earlier this week at Ladbrokes in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
The first six predictions all came in, leaving a £1m payout resting on an 8-1 shot in the Commonwealth Cup.
But the punter's final horse - Bound for Nowhere - came fourth behind winner and race favourite Caravaggio.
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Before the race, the punter had already beaten these odds:
Nicola McGeady, from Ladbrokes, said the punter had made "incredible predictions" during the week.
The 25-year-old was on the fringes of the first-team last season and has been plagued by a calf injury this campaign.
Wagstaff started in the 1-0 defeat by West Brom in the FA Cup third-round replay, after a cameo role in the win over Middlesbrough on Saturday.
"It is nice to get back on the pitch because that is what I have missed," Wagstaff told BBC Radio Bristol.
"I don't want to just be sitting around doing nothing. I have been training hard, working hard to get back in the team and got my chance."
Wagstaff completed 85 minutes against the Premier League side before being substituted.
Before Tuesday, his last start - which was also in the FA Cup - came against Doncaster Rovers on 13 January, 2015.
"It has been a tough season for me personally but I have kept myself going and tried to keep myself fit," the ex-Charlton midfielder added.
It claims the Tory authority, which was planning a 15% council tax hike, was given special access to the top levels of government in a "sweetheart deal".
The rise, which was to deal with its social care funding shortage, was then dropped in favour of a 4.99% increase.
A government spokesman has denied there was any "special deal" for the council.
Documents released by the government, and similar records released by the council, detailing behind-the-scenes discussions indicated ministers were offering "some extra funding" from 2018 shortly before the council abandoned the proposed 15% rise, which would have sparked a referendum in Surrey.
The BBC also obtained a leaked recording of council leader David Hodge saying he had struck a deal with the government.
Labour's shadow social care minister Barbara Keeley has now written to Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood asking him to look at whether "the ministerial code had been broken".
"There was an incredibly high and unusual degree of contact between Surrey County Council, particularly the leader, and government ministers," she said.
"And the government ministers in the case of Surrey include the chancellor and the health secretary.
"This degree of contact that is indicated in all these documents and the tape is very unusual - most council leaders can't even get the time of day with cabinet ministers," she said.
"Why did the leader of Surrey County Council get continual access to meetings with the chancellor and the communities secretary to discuss his council's funding problems while council leaders from Salford and Hull cannot get such meetings?" Ms Keeley asked.
She said she was also asking Sir Jeremy to look at the fact that the council has "the biggest increase in share of [social care] funding over the next three years" as announced in last week's Budget.
A government spokesman said: "As we have repeatedly made clear, there was no special deal for Surrey County Council and they will not receive any extra funding that would not otherwise be provided or offered to other councils.
"To imply the opposite is simply untrue."
After the 9-6 win over Scarlets, the coach turns his attentions to a derby double header in the Pro12.
But captain Jonny Gray and Mike Blair picked up concussion in Wales, while Rob Harley was taken to hospital.
"We know that if we win all our games then we'll be in a very good position and could qualify," said Townsend.
"We know we have three massive games ahead of us - Racing and Northampton away then Racing at home."
With Northampton and Racing 92 drawing 9-9 on Friday, Glasgow are now only three points behind the French side and one adrift of Saints with a game in hand over the English side.
"If Racing had won that, they would have been clear favourites for the group, but it means everybody is quite close now," Townsend told BBC Scotland.
"We've played three games and we've got a game to catch up and it will be a tough one away to Racing, but we're back in the mix."
Townsend was "proud" that his side had overcome the Pro12 leaders in terrible conditions and despite playing part of the match with two players off the field following yellow cards.
"We made it difficult for ourselves, but we've done that before this season," he said. "We've done it before going down to 13 men.
"The important thing was what they did to win the game. They showed a lot of determination, a lot of courage.
"They were putting bodies on the line, there were a few injuries, and they showed great character and showed how much that game meant to them."
Townsend reported that forward Harley has a dislocated thumb, but it has still to be decided if it will require surgery.
Centre Alex Dunbar will also be assessed after picking up a "hamstring twinge".
Glasgow next face Edinburgh in the first leg of the 1872 Cup on 27 December in front of what is expected to a crowd of more than 20,000.
"It is fantastic to play Edinburgh over Christmas and New Year," added Townsend.
"We are playing for a trophy against our closest rivals back-to-back in front of big crowds, so it will be great to have this change of focus.
"We will be determined to win that trophy back, but we know Edinburgh are better than they were last year.
"We have been working on how we can beat this Edinburgh defence because it has been the number one defence in the league this season."
Five shots were fired at The Living Room from a motorbike at about 22:15 BST on Wednesday, Greater Manchester Police said.
One man suffered a "minor" injury, but it was not as a result of the shooting at the bar in Deansgate.
The trio are being questioned in police custody.
A charity fundraiser for the Christie cancer hospital was being held at the venue at the time, though it is not thought to be linked to the shooting.
Boxer Ricky Hatton was among those attending the event at the bar, his spokesperson confirmed.
Det Insp Geoff Machent said he believed the "shocking incident" was a "targeted attack that does not pose a direct threat to the wider community".
Anyone with information is asked to contact police.
Reports emerged in late summer in the US and South Korea of the phone exploding during or after charging.
On 2 September, Samsung issued a global recall, saying it had been difficult to work out which phones were affected among the 2.5 million Note 7s sold.
Samsung said 90% of those swapping had chosen to replace their device with an updated version of the same model.
Samsung said it had worked with its suppliers to ensure the replacement devices followed the "highest quality manufacturing and quality assurance processes".
The device is due to go back on sale from 28 October, but that date is subject to a full completion of the exchange programme.
Meanwhile, a software update for all existing Note 7 devices has reset the maximum battery charge to 60% as a precaution.
David Lowes, chief marketing officer for Samsung Electronics Europe, said: "Our message of safety first is getting through to Galaxy Note 7 owners, who are doing the right thing by exchanging for a new device quickly and safely.
"We have worked hard to bring replacement Galaxy Note 7 phones to Europe so we can ensure the safety of our customers and minimise their inconvenience."
"For our remaining customers, we urge them to act now, exchange the device and get a brand new Galaxy Note 7 today."
The rescuers and volunteers at Farewell Spit, Golden Bay, managed to shepherd many mammals into deeper water, only for them to again run aground.
Conservation officials believe they have one last chance to refloat the whales on the high tide.
If that fails, the mammals may have to be put down.
The rescuers are now trying to keep the distressed whales comfortable by pouring water over them.
Those mammals who died are believed to have suffered great physical and emotional trauma.
Local conservation ranger Mike Ogle said it is the biggest beaching incident in 10-15 years.
"Because there's just so many whales, there are a couple of spots where a lot would gather together and that's kind of problematic from the aspect that you can't get in there, it's just too dangerous," he said.
Farewell Spit has been the location of many whale beachings.
Experts say its shallow waters seems to confuse whales and hinder their ability to navigate.
Once they are stranded, whales can suffer from dehydration and sunburn.
Pilot whales can grow to about 20ft (6 metres) and are the most common species of whale in New Zealand's waters.
Andrew Lamason from the Department Of Conservation said it could take days to refloat the whales and even then there would be no guarantees they would survive.
"We've had plenty times in the past where the pods have gone out to sea and turned around and come back again," Mr Lamason said. "We're preparing for a big few days."
Scientists do not know what causes groups of whales to beach themselves.
For some, the memories of the France '98 World Cup remain vivid.
But there is now a generation of Scotland fans who fear they may never see their team appear on one of international football's greatest stages.
One of the contributing factors has been the steady decline in the production of young Scottish talent. There was a time when Scotland's kids could not just mix it with the top countries, but beat them.
It was 35 years ago that Scotland won the Uefa European Under-18 Championship, the country's only piece of major international silverware at any level.
"Scotland at that stage were always quite competitive in the under-age national teams," said Andy Roxburgh, who coached the side at the tournament in Finland in 1982, with Walter Smith as his assistant.
"I don't think we went there thinking, 'we're going to win the trophy'. This was to expose the players to international competition."
Roxburgh may not have had ideas of lifting the trophy, but despite being without Aberdeen's Neale Cooper and Eric Black, the likes of Gary Mackay, Dave Bowman, Paul McStay and Pat Nevin ensured the squad was not short on quality.
"I said I couldn't go because my finals [exams] were at roughly the same time," said Nevin, who was playing for Craig Brown's Clyde at the time.
"Then we worked out that if we got to the final - which we probably wouldn't - my first exam was the next morning. So I said, 'It'll probably be ok, we'll never reach the final'."
Any raised expectations following wins over Albania and Turkey were tempered by the identity of Scotland's final group opponents.
"I sent Walter Smith to watch Holland in their second match so we knew what we were facing," Roxburgh said.
"When Walter came back he said: 'We've no chance.'
"They had Marco van Basten up front and we all know what happened with him.
"We thought there's only one thing for it - usual Scottish mentality, we'll just have to fight. We go a goal down but we fight back in a positive way, we equalised and in fact we finished really strongly.
"We only needed a draw and on we went."
A 1-1 draw with the Dutch was followed by a 2-0 win over Poland that took the Scots into the final against Czechoslovakia.
"It was a really difficult game," said Nevin. "I can't remember the other goals but I remember mine.
"We had a free-kick outside the box and the idea was someone was to pass to someone else who was to lay it off for someone else to shoot. The lads got utterly confused by it.
"The ball landed at my feet with four defenders just sprinting straight at me. I dribbled through and put the ball away to score. Anybody watching would have thought it was a technically organised piece of football but it was nothing of the sort."
Goals from John Philliben and Gary Mackay either side of Nevin's strike earned Scotland a 3-1 win and the title of under-18 champions of Europe.
"It got massive publicity back here in Scotland," said Nevin, who was named player of the tournament.
"We knew nothing about the buzz back home. I probably should have told my girlfriend I was going. I told her I was away studying and there I am on the back page of the papers.
"We had a lot of right good players. It was damned obvious that Paul McStay was going to make it and do well."
Fresh from defeating Europe's finest, the Scots geared up for a tilt at a global title the following year.
"This team, having won the Euros, then went to Mexico for the youth World Cup," said Roxburgh who, as manager, led the senior international team to qualification for the 1990 World Cup in Italy and the 1992 European Championship in Sweden.
"We had all our players back and we added the likes of Steve Clarke and Brian McClair.
"We play in front of 87,000 in the decisive group match against Mexico and win 1-0. Stevie Clarke scored the only goal and he told me much later on, 'That was the night I realised I could be a top professional player'.
"A large number of the group, in fact more than you would normally get, went on to have top professional careers and played for the national team. That to me was the success," added Roxburgh, whose side lost 1-0 to Poland in the quarter-finals in '83.
One player from the '82 squad who Roxburgh felt should have achieved more in the game was Stirling-born midfielder Ally Dick.
"Ally Dick was a very gifted schoolboy player," said Roxburgh. "He played for Tottenham in the Uefa Cup final and then Johan Cruyff, no less, signs him for Ajax.
"He does really when but then gets injured and he never really realises his full potential, although if you look at his record it's quite remarkable. But he never made the national team or anything like that and I think that's mainly down to injury."
Even in the immediate aftermath of the '82 Euros victory and a creditable run in the youth World Cup the following year, Roxburgh was already fearing this moment represented a high watermark rather than a precursor to more success.
"At that time we were really beginning to see the end of street football," he said. "Brazilian kids play with the ball all day long. In Scotland there was a history of that too, particularly through street football.
"The next thing was the opportunity to play. Schools football was a key. In the mid-1980s the teachers went on strike and I remember the schools FA telling me the numbers playing went from 45,000 to down to something like 10,000. It took them years to try to build it back up. I don't know if they ever did.
"I know in the '90s the idea of youth development academies, many of the top Scottish clubs didn't really embrace that. They learned later on that maybe they should."
Nevin agrees with Roxburgh - who he says was "ahead of the curve" in his coaching - that the decline of street football has mirrored the downturn in the Scottish national team's fortunes.
He also wonders whether Scotland missed an opportunity to build on the 1982 success, given the Dutch side they knocked out in the group stage featured several players - including Van Basten - who won the 1988 European Championship.
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"I remember at the time thinking we were a good group and if some of us make it then that's good enough," said Nevin, who would go on to play for Chelsea and Everton and win 28 caps for Scotland.
"And then you look at what the Dutch did. They went miles ahead of where we went.
"A lot of us made it to the top level in England, in Scotland, and made it to international football, which is good. But we seemed to hit this ceiling at under-18s, under-21s. We used to get to the semi-finals and finals of top international tournaments then we hit this ceiling.
"I'm kind of saddened because we had a wee opportunity to push on a little bit further. But we qualified for Worlds Cups and Euros all through that period and maybe for the size of our nation, that's where we should have been."
Dominic Hare said the World Heritage Site in Oxfordshire would increase its contribution to the local economy and be the "economic lifeblood of the area".
Plans to build 300 homes on fields owned by the palace have already been approved, despite local opposition.
The 18th Century estate is the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.
Mr Hare said: "We believe there is no possible vision for a future successful and flourishing Blenheim which does not depend on a flourishing and successful set of communities around it - and the same is true in reverse."
He added that the aim was to "act boldly, with a considered and long-term view of prosperity - for Blenheim and for the communities we support and who support us".
Mr Hare described the 10-year development programme as a "huge undertaking".
Other plans include:
Recent work has included the restoration of its North Steps, whilst 27 homes and new offices have been built in Bladon.
Blenheim Palace was originally built to celebrate Britain's victory over the French in the War of the Spanish Succession and was completed in 1733.
It is the residence of the Duke of Marlborough and was designated as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1987.
It opened to the general public in 1950 and has also raised money by being a popular site for filmmakers, featuring in the James Bond film Spectre, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Cinderella, and Transformers: The Last Knight.
Barry Solomon, 42, was discovered in a house in Kemble Square in Downhill, Sunderland on Saturday night.
Three youths arrested in connection with the death have been released on bail. A 39-year-old woman who was also arrested has been released "under investigation", without bail.
A cordon is in place at the property. Officers have appealed for witnesses.
Nigel Dodds, of the DUP, Sinn Féin's Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt, the SDLP's Mark Durkan and Alliance leader David Ford participated.
They discussed social affairs, tactics, and who each party would support in the event of a hung parliament.
There was discussion around same sex marriage and Asher's Bakery cake case.
The debate was broadcast as part of the BBC Newsnight programme and hosted by Evan Davis.
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The five-year "translocation" scheme involves transferring six week-old chicks from sustainable populations in Scotland to Poole Harbour, Dorset.
It is being led by the Birds of Poole Harbour, Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation and Wildlife Windows charities.
Ospreys historically bred across all of the UK but populations "drastically declined" in the Middle Ages.
The birds of prey are annual visitors to Poole Harbour as they migrate between their winter-homes in West Africa and breeding grounds in Scotland and at Rutland Water in the east Midlands.
Over the past eight years, efforts by the RSPB in Poole Harbour to encourage the birds to stay and breed have proved unsuccessful.
Roy Dennis and Tim Mackrill, of the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation, said translocation was the "next logical step".
Once collected the chicks will be held in large holding pens in Poole for up to three weeks, before being released at the end of July and provided with fresh fish on artificial nests.
They will then migrate to West Africa in August before hopefully returning to Poole.
However, they are not expected to start breeding there until 2020 at the earliest.
Similar work has also taken place in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland.
The most recent inspections across 22 homes found 42% of key "themes" were failing to reach "good" standards.
They were judged to be unsatisfactory (1%), weak (13%) or adequate (28%).
Scottish Borders Council has set up an improvement team led by Tweeddale councillor Catriona Bhatia to look at ways to address any failings.
At the time of a study carried out by the local authority there were 22 care homes for older people in the region - 17 independently owned and five council run.
They can accommodate 662 people - and in January 2014 a total of 509 places (77%) were taken.
The most recent Care Inspectorate gradings at the homes did show an improvement on previous checks.
However, a report to councillors said that the design of some buildings and the remoteness of some of their locations presented particular challenges.
The number of adult protection investigations has also shown an increase with the figure almost doubling between 2012 and 2013.
The council said it was confident it responded to all adult protection issues in a "robust manner".
Paul Henry, 52, from Old Basford, in Nottingham, was seen dumping 14 tyres in a lay-by in February last year.
When Henry was questioned about the fly-tipping offence he replied: "It's not me, it's my twin brother", Nottingham Magistrates' Court heard.
Henry denied the offence, but was convicted after a trial. He was ordered to pay almost £800 in costs and tagged.
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During the 10-month investigation Henry also attempted to divert council wardens by giving old addresses.
At the trial, a witness said he saw Henry throwing black items out of a van into a ditch in Mapperley.
Gedling Borough Council's Rachael Bryant, who worked on the investigation, said: "When he said 'It's not me, it's my twin brother, we get muddled up all the time', I couldn't believe it.
"We've had some excuses on our rounds, but this was the first time someone had tried to say they were their own twin."
Councillor John Clarke, leader of the borough council, said: "This is a great example of a member of the public standing up against fly-tippers.
"If it wasn't for the testimony of the witness and the excellent investigative work of our wardens, we would have struggled to get a conviction."
The boy climbed through a fence before falling and then appeared to be dragged across a moat in the enclosure by a gorilla, named Harambe.
Staff members shot the animal dead, sparking a furore over whether the mother should be held accountable.
Prosecutor Joe Deters said the mother was not to blame for the incident.
He said the child had "scampered off" while the mother had been looking after her three other children.
She "did not act in any way where she presented this child to some harm", Mr Deters said.
After the prosecutors' decision was announced, the woman's family said: "The family is very pleased... it is what we expected.
"This is one more step in allowing us to put this tragic episode behind us and return to our normal family life."
The mother had faced abuse online by people who blamed her for the death of the 17-year-old gorilla.
An online petition calling for her to be held accountable for the gorilla's death received about half a million signatures, and a Facebook group called Justice for Harambe was set up.
Cincinnati Zoo plans to reopen its Gorilla World exhibit on Tuesday with a higher barrier in an attempt to prevent any more accidents.
In an article published to mark his 87th birthday, Fidel Castro said he didn't expect to survive the stomach ailment and live for so long.
"I was far from imagining that my life would extend for another seven years."
Mr Castro had been in power since the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
The long article was only published by official newspaper Granma on Wednesday, a day after his birthday.
Mr Castro left office for treatment in 2006 but only formally resigned as commander-in-chief and president of Cuba in February 2008.
"As soon as I understood that it would be definitive, I did not hesitate to cease my charges as president," he said in the article.
Mr Castro also revealed that Cuba had received weapons from North Korea in the early 1980s.
The North Korean weapons shipment was provided after Soviet leader Yuri Andropov warned that his country was no longer prepared to step in to defend the communist-run island.
"He told us that if we were attacked by the United States we would have to fight alone," wrote Mr Castro.
The Soviet Union renewed its commitment, however, to continue providing weapons to the island.
But Cuba decided to gather weapons from "other friends" to arm "one million Cuban fighters."
"Comrade Kim Il Sung, a veteran and exemplary soldier, sent us 100,000 AK rifles and accompanying ammunition without charging a penny," writes Mr Castro.
The North Korean leader, who was succeeded by his son, died in 1994.
The revelations come as a team of United Nations experts investigate an incident in the Panama Canal involving a North Korean ship carrying an undeclared shipment of weapons from Cuba.
The ship was seized last month on suspicion of carrying drugs, but Panamanian officials found weapons - including two Soviet-era combat jets - stashed under bags of sugar.
Cuba came forward saying the "obsolete weapons" were being sent to North Korea to be repaired.
Panama called in the UN to investigate if the shipment breached sanctions imposed on North Korea over its nuclear programme.
McHugh will have a scan in Letterkenny Hospital on Wednesday.
The Kilcar man underwent treatment at Ulster University Jordanstown campus on Monday which included a session in the campus' hydro pool.
2016 Allstar McHugh has been Donegal's most impressive performer during the Football League.
Such have been his recent displays, some people now view McHugh as being as crucial to Donegal's fortunes as captain Michael Murphy.
At this stage, McHugh has not been ruled out of Donegal's final Division One round robin game against Mayo in Castlebar.
A Donegal victory this weekend will guarantee them a place in the Division One final if Monaghan fail to beat Dublin at Clones.
However, Donegal will face a Mayo side needing a draw to ensure they retain their Division One status.
A Mayo defeat will see them going down if Cavan defeat already-relegated Roscommon at Dr Hyde Park.
Dublin set a new league and championship record of 35 games unbeaten when they hammered Roscommon last weekend and Jim Gavin's side will be expected to avoid defeat at St Tiernach's Park.
McHugh is understood to have sustained the injury which his foot got caught a rut on the Ballyshannon pitch.
David Burke, 37, left St Andrew's hospital in Northampton on Friday afternoon with another patient, who has since been found in Birmingham.
Mr Burke was thought to be in the West Midlands area, possibly Birmingham or Coventry, the West Midlands force said.
It said people were advised not to approach him but to call police. Mr Burke has been described as white, 5ft 7in tall and being of stocky build.
He was wearing a yellow and black horizontal striped T-shirt and blue tracksuit bottoms with yellow stripes down the side.
The ferry was carrying 476 people when it sank last April. More than 300 died, most of them students on a school trip.
The boat's captain has been jailed for 36 years for gross negligence. The disaster was also blamed on corrupt management and an inexperienced crew.
Victims' relatives are demanding an independent inquiry into the sinking.
Their demands have intensified in the run-up to the anniversary of the disaster on 16 April.
The disaster triggered nationwide grief followed by outrage, and led to severe criticism of safety standards and of the government's handling of the rescue operation.
On Wednesday, the government said it will also give nearly $700,000 to the families of the teachers who died.
The families of other victims killed when the ship went down will receive up to $550,000, depending on their age and income.
Relatives of the dead are expected to receive further money from public donations and insurance payments.
Those who survived the accident will also be offered government compensation for their injuries and loss of income.
The captain of the Sewol, Lee Joon-seok, was among 15 crew members to be tried last year over the sinking, one of South Korea's worst maritime disasters.
Prosecutors had charged him with homicide and called for the death penalty, but judges acquitted him on that charge.
The accident was blamed on a combination of illegal redesigns, the overloading of cargo and the inexperience of the crew member steering the vessel.
Crew members did not secure cargo which moved when the vessel took a tight corner, toppling the ferry. Lee was filmed leaving the sinking ship while many passengers remained inside. During the trial, he apologised for abandoning them.
The chief engineer of the ferry, identified by his surname Park, was found guilty of murder and jailed for 30 years.
Thirteen other crew members were given jail sentences of up to 20 years on charges including abandonment and violating maritime law.
A separate trial was held for employees of the firm that operated the ferry, Chonghaejin Marine Co.
The owner of the company and billionaire businessman Yoo Byung-eun disappeared after the disaster and was eventually found dead.
Several of his relatives were later jailed for embezzlement.
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Wales will face Austria, ranked 11th in the world, in Vienna early next year in the third qualification match.
All three teams in the group will be able to attend the European Championships in Luxembourg next year
The qualification matches offer the chance to get a higher seeded spot in the competition.
Education Minister Leighton Andrews says the exams will provide a national picture of how pupils are performing.
He says it will mean teachers can help those falling behind earlier.
Last year, Wales lagged behind England, Scotland and Northern Ireland in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
Mr Andrews says the exams, taking place over the next fortnight, will make it easier for teachers to identify pupils' individual strengths and weaknesses.
The reading test will include a statutory "core" test and optional test material, and the numeracy test is split into two parts.
The first numeracy exam, being sat this year, is a series of questions to assess basic numeracy skills such as addition, multiplication and division.
The second test of numeracy, which will be introduced next May, will assess pupils ability to solve problems involving numbers they are likely to face in everyday life.
Mr Andrews said: "We know from the international PISA assessment in 2010 and from reports by [school inspection body] Estyn that literacy and numeracy standards in Welsh schools need to improve.
"Up until now, schools have used their own tests to assess how learners are progressing but, because schools have used different tests, there is no clear, national picture of how learners are really performing.
"We are now moving to a system of testing that is clear, consistent and rigorous and will help teachers to identify learners' individual strengths and weaknesses and intervene earlier if they feel a learner is falling behind."
Mr Andrews said the Welsh government was providing £700,000 for schools for the extra costs of conducting the exams.
The Welsh government stopped standard assessment tests in schools 2004.
But does it point the way to the future - perhaps not a future we might welcome, but a sign of the way the world is heading?
Syria has become a bear pit - the terrible destructiveness of any civil war (they last on average seven years) compounded by the self-interest of other international actors.
In a recent special edition of The World at One devoted to the conflict, most of the participants expressed a deep gloom about the prospects for an early end to the war - indeed to any end.
I can't remember who said it so I can't credit them for their wise words, but someone recently observed that one of the problems with this civil war is that, even if some of the nations involved actually desire peace, it is not their first priority.
The United States and the rest of the West want the destruction of the so-called Islamic State, and would like President Assad to be replaced by a democratic opposition.
Turkey worries about refugees and a Kurdish state and seems ambivalent towards Sunni movements.
For Iran and Saudi Arabia, it is another front in a struggle to be the main regional superpower - itself refracted through a sectarian conflict being fought in many of the nearby nations, where Sunni and Shia identities have become sharper and harsher.
But it is Russia that is the key and the core.
There's quite a debate about what President Putin wants. Some say a warm-water port, some that he can't lose an ally, others that he wants to defeat a "colour" revolution.
Or that it is about projecting Russian power in the world - and some who agree with that add that such a project is really all about burnishing his image at home.
The Cold War may have ended more than a quarter of a century ago, but the global rebalancing that followed is still happening.
The United States is still the world's foremost superpower but the brief time when it was the unquestioned heir to the end of history has long gone. Some will argue its moral self-confidence was squandered in the sands of Iraq - others that it is a lack of will on the part of the current president.
It's true that President Obama has absolutely no appetite for such confrontation, nor for wading knee-deep into another unwinnable occupation of an Arab country.
But don't hold your breath for a big change after the election.
Hillary Clinton might step up military intervention, while Donald Trump is more difficult to read - friendly towards Russia, against intervention, but pledged to destroy IS. But whatever the campaign rhetoric, I would hazard a guess the next president will only be different on the margins to the current one.
It is fashionable to castigate President Obama for flaccidly allowing Assad off the hook.
It's a point of view many politicians, military people and diplomats share, so we hear it often. But it is at least arguable that President Obama not only understands the mood of the American population, but the limits of what even a determined superpower can actually achieve, having examined the evidence of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
There's no better take on Obama's world view than Jeff Goldberg's masterful discussion highlighting in particular his scorn for the "playbook in Washington that presidents are supposed to follow", which dictates a military solution to every crisis.
The president adds in his interview: "What I think is not smart, is the idea that every time there is a problem, we send in our military to impose order. We just can't do that."
But this leaves the "liberal interventionism" which followed Rwanda and Bosnia in abeyance.
This is not just about will. It is about a changing world, a rebalanced world, where East versus West is not the only game in town.
Syria is a sign of not just a world where the US has lost its appetite and its confidence to play sheriff to the world, but one that is increasingly multipolar.
The Philippines' recent hesitation about patrolling the South China Seas alongside the US navy indicates that it wants a good relationship with the growing superpower on its doorstep.
While China may project more regional power in nearby waters than it used to, it is still averse to projecting military power to interfere with other nations' internal affairs. It does not burn with a universalist's desire to right wrongs.
Russia only occasionally attempts the same moral pretensions that always seem to go with US military action and is rarely believed when it does. But it is every bit as assertive as the US once was.
Perhaps creating disorder is easier than imposing order. Probing along the borders of Nato and the European Union, occupying the Crimea, preventing the westernisation of the "near abroad", Syria is simply the latest manifestation of Putin's projection of military power.
Beyond the actual cost of the operation, he has few fears.
We talk glibly of the "global community" but it is hard to see what it means.
The UN becomes a cockpit for angry accusations, and forlorn hopes, rather than resolution. Not quite in the league of the League of Nations, but certainly where heads butt, rather than get banged together.
On the Security Council, China and the United States have most of the guns and much of the financial clout.
But it is Russia - dreaming of the power and the glory of the Soviet Union era - which is determined to recreate some simulation of that empire's reach and influence, provocative and short-term, with no clear strategic aims. (The UK and France may still fitfully dream of past imperial grandeur, but merely provide a bit more muscle to America's lost causes.)
No-one I have spoken to can explain to me why Russia will not get its way in Syria and, by extension, how President Assad could be removed from power, unless President Putin wills it.
This may not be a desirable state of affairs but, unless I am missing something profound, it is the state of the world in which we live.
The message left some students confused and others worried about "racial stereotyping".
The London School of Economics, where some 25% of undergraduates are of east Asian origin, says the email was a due to "technical problem".
"The email was sent to all students and did not target students from any particular background."
The email confirms that Kung Fu Panda "has accepted an unconditional offer of admission" to the LSE.
The university says it was sent out to about 200 students before the mistake, due to a mail-merge error, was spotted.
"I thought it was some kind of racist joke at first, but it turned out to be some sort of test," Christy Pang, a history student, told the Tab student newspaper.
Another asked the LSE's freshers' website: "Am I the only one who the LSE confused for a certain 'Panda Tiger Aa-Kung Fu' studying social policy?"
One student said that at first he thought his application had been messed up: "However, I couldn't imagine anyone being named Mr Panda Tiger Test Test Aa-Kung Fu, so I ignored it."
However one student was on holiday in China when he received the email and said that while he could "certainly see the funny side", he was worried "by the flagrant racial stereotyping which the LSE have seemingly refused to apologise for in their vague follow-up email".
Others were disappointed that the university spotted the mistake and sent out a follow-up apology email within 20 minutes.
"Everyone needs a good laugh once in a while," said one, while another added: "Shame the apology came through so soon, they take themselves way too seriously."
An LSE spokeswoman said: "A welcoming email that LSE sent out to some successful applicants contained an error as a result of a technical problem with coding in the database used.
"This meant that the email did not pick up some of the fields correctly.
"For example, instead of inserting the applicant's name, the email included the name from a test record which is 'Kung Fu Panda'.
"The use of this 'name' merely reflects that a member of staff who set up the test record is a fan of the film.
"The email was sent to all students and did not target students from any particular background."
The university says that other test names used include Piglet, Paddington, Homer, Bob and Tinkerbell.
The killings, in Saihat in Eastern Province on Friday, come two days after the start of Ashura commemorations, a holy occasion for Shia Muslims.
A group claiming links to Islamic State (IS) said it carried out the attack.
The interior ministry said a gunman opened fire at random before police intervened and shot the attacker dead.
Later, a group calling itself Islamic State-Bahrain State said that one of its "soldiers" had attacked "a Shia infidel temple" with an automatic weapon.
The group warned that "infidels will not be safe in the island of Mohammed".
Correspondents say the name of the group appears to be a reference to the historic area of Bahrain, which once encompassed parts of what is now Saudi Arabia.
Other, smaller attacks against the Shia community in the east of Saudi Arabia were also reported on Friday evening.
The Shia community in the kingdom is increasingly being targeted. Most live in the oil-rich east, and many complain of discrimination.
In May, IS said it had carried out a deadly bomb attack outside a Shia mosque in the city of Damman.
A week before, more than 20 people were killed in the village of al-Qadeeh when an IS suicide bomber struck during Friday prayers at a Shia mosque.
That attack was the first to be claimed by a Saudi branch of IS.
Hardline Sunnis regard Shia Muslims as heretics.
Saudi Arabia, which is part of a US-led coalition against IS in Syria and Iraq, has previously been threatened by IS.
The Saudis are also leading a coalition of Arab states in an air campaign against Shia rebels in Yemen.
In the Ashura commemorations, Shias mourn the death of Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad who is venerated by Saudi Arabia's minority Shia community.
The Pontypridd-born singer arrived at the team's London hotel on the eve of the game to make the presentation.
He later tweeted: "A jersey and a wish for Good Luck tomorrow!"
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Whoever wins Saturday's game will boost their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals from Pool A, which also includes Australia, Fiji and Uruguay.
Jones sang his hit Delilah ahead of Wales' famous 32-31 Five Nations Championship win at Wembley in 1999 - the day Scott Gibbs ran in a late try, converted by Neil Jenkins to seal victory.
The All Black could make his debut for French side Pau against Dragons in the European Challenge Cup on Saturday.
The 34-year-old could line up alongside another All Black in fly-half Colin Slade.
"Our players are excited about the fact that Conrad Smith, Colin Slade etc will possibly be playing," Jones said.
"They want to play against those guys and it's a tough challenge for Smith coming into a new team, even though we know what quality he has."
Smith joined Pau on a two-year deal after he helped New Zealand beat Australia to retain the World Cup in October.
Slade, 28, also linked up with Pau following the World Cup and made his debut earlier in December.
Dragons boosted their European Challenge Cup quarter-final hopes with a comfortable 22-0 victory over the French side last Saturday.
They are top of Pool 2 after three matches, one point ahead of Sale Sharks, but Pau and Castres both have a game in hand.
Dragons will be without wing Tom Prydie, who will have a scan on a knee injury he suffered during Saturday's win at Rodney Parade.
Lock Andrew Coombs, who has not played since April, is having another injection to try to resolve continuing knee problems.
Prop Boris Stankovich remains on the injury list with a rib injury but should return for the Christmas period.
Daloni Carlisle, from Kent, is passionate about encouraging women to talk about their bodies so that they recognise the symptoms of a cancer which is affecting more and more women, particularly the over-50s.
She says it's all about using the right vocabulary and being open with friends.
"In 2013, before I was diagnosed, I would not have had a conversation about my periods. I just didn't talk about them.
"But we need to know what's normal and what's not normal with our bodies and that should start with conversations among women."
Daloni was diagnosed when she'd just turned 50 after experiencing prolonged bleeding.
"I'd never heard of womb cancer, it was simply not discussed. Most women have heard of ovarian and breast cancer but there was nobody talking about womb cancer."
She assumed it was the menopause starting and by the time she was referred to a gynaecologist, the cancer was already advanced. Massive surgery was required, followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
It was a brutal, horrendous experience which took a year to recover from, she says.
Womb cancer is just one of five gynaecological cancers that start in the female reproductive system, but it is the most common - and rates are expected to rise by 56% by 2030.
There is a clear link between rising levels of obesity and womb cancer in the UK, driven by fat cells which trigger the growth of the lining of the womb. Being over 50 years old and having diabetes and hypertension are also known risk factors.
As a result, the Eve Appeal charity has set up a dedicated phone line to provide advice and information on women's cancers.
Tracie Miles, a gynaecological cancer nurse specialist, is delivering the new service, called Ask Eve, and she says making women more aware of the symptoms to look out for is her most important task.
But many years of working with women from diagnosis through treatment to follow-up has taught her that embarrassment prevents many women talking about changes to their patterns of bleeding.
And that often means they are good at ignoring signs of abnormal vaginal bleeding - after the menopause or between periods.
Most womb cancers occur in women who have gone through the menopause, around their 50s, so they will have seen their periods tail off, Tracie says.
"Women are used to having periods, then not having them, so a bit of bleeding or discharge and they tend to shrug their shoulders and say, 'It's probably nothing.'"
She tells the story of a woman who only went to see her GP after noticing specks of blood on her white knickers.
"Usually she wore black ones, and would never have noticed if she hadn't treated herself to some white ones after going through the menopause," she says.
Source: Cancer Research UK
Tracie's wish is that women become a little more aware because womb cancer is eminently treatable and curable.
"Just look when you pull your knickers down. It is something we do every day."
The standard treatment for womb cancer is surgery to remove the womb (hysterectomy). If it is picked up early enough, there is no need for radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
Prof Martin Widschwendter, head of the department for women's cancer and consultant gynaecological oncology surgeon at UCL's Institute for Women's Health, says spotting those signs is easy compared with ovarian cancer, for example.
"Bleeding in post-menopausal women is very unusual and a very early sign of womb cancer so GPs will refer straight away. With a clear diagnosis at stage 1 there is a very good prognosis."
Daloni's tumour returned towards the end of 2015 and she has since had more internal radiotherapy treatment.
Fit and healthy with a full head of hair, she is enjoying life again - but she is also realistic.
"The reality is it's going to be back, but I can either live in a catastrophic future that hasn't happened yet or live for today."
In the meantime, she feels very strongly about encouraging younger and older women to talk about their gynaecological health so that they are aware of what's happening with their bodies.
"It's not easy to talk about - and it's good to know that there's someone out there who will help you talk about it."
The Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) said the WannaCry attack took hold because routine software updates were ignored or put off.
The security breach disrupted GP surgeries, dental practices and other primary care centres.
SBRC said the attack was a "wake-up call" for businesses of all sizes.
It has recommended a number of preventative measures it says all firms should follow.
The centre is funded by a range of private and public partners, including the police, Scottish government, major banks and private investors.
SBRC recommendations include:
• Check that all Microsoft updates have been applied. If your IT is managed by external specialists, be sure to ask these questions as soon as possible.
• Microsoft issued a patch to close the vulnerability that allows this virus to spread in mid-March. This update is called Microsoft Bulletin MS17-010.
• All machines running Windows operating systems that have not had the security patch issued in March are vulnerable.
• Make sure any anti-virus software that is being run is kept up-to-date and regular scans are being run on your system.
• If you have an IT supplier, check they are conducting regular backups of all your systems and that these are not connected to your network.
• Check if your network uses the SMBv1 protocol, which helps computers share files and documents across a network. This protocol is outdated and newer versions are available.
SBRC's chief ethical hacker, Gerry Grant, said: "Thousands of computers were infected with the ransomware - and it was able to have such an impact because routine preventative measures had not been taken.
"We can't recommend the practice of habitually updating systems enough, however disruptive or inconvenient at the time - as soon as those updates become available.
"It can be too easy to put this off and click the 'remind me tomorrow' option. Unfortunately it can take a highly publicised attack such as this to affect behaviour.
"We say it so often, but the prospect of a cyber-attack can be incredibly daunting for the less tech-savvy and the temptation can be to bury heads in the sand.
"In reality, the simplest of measures such as those outlined in the Cyber Essentials scheme will put off the vast majority of criminal hackers - who tend to cast a wide net."
Police said he was attacked from behind with a knife or a "similar weapon" near Karma Lounge bar in Allerton Road at about 21:45 BST on Saturday.
The man was taken to hospital where his condition is described as stable and improving.
Det Ch Insp Natalie Perischine said it was a "senseless attack".
"This was a shocking attack on a man during a busy Saturday night in Allerton," she said.
His attacker is described as white, aged in his 20s, with short red hair. He was wearing a black padded jacket and dark coloured trousers and trainers.
The Public Accounts Committee said there was a lack of consistency in funding and levels of support.
The MPs called for a "better understanding" of what worked to close the gap between rich and poor pupils.
A Department for Education spokesman said the government was committed to tackling "educational inequality".
Closing the "attainment gap" for disadvantaged pupils should be a "cornerstone of education policy", said Meg Hillier, who chairs the committee.
The Public Accounts Committee, which scrutinises the value of public spending, said there were early signs that pupil premium funding was making a positive difference.
But it called for a "step change" in increasing efforts to prevent poorer pupils from losing out at school.
Ms Hillier said without closing the attainment gap, poverty would continue to "pass down through generations".
"There needs to be a better understanding of why disadvantaged pupils from different backgrounds can perform so differently," she said.
The report highlights how underachievement seems to be more deeply entrenched for some pupils, such as those in deprived coastal areas.
In contrast, it said that Chinese pupils had high levels of attainment "irrespective of their level of disadvantage".
Pupil premium funding has provided £6bn support for poorer pupils between 2011 and 2015.
But the committee wanted more sharing of how pupil premium money could be used most efficiently.
And it highlighted differences in school funding, which could mean that "some schools receive about £3,000 a year more than others per disadvantaged pupil".
The committee also said it was "very concerned" that the rollout of universal credit did not include a clear mechanism for identifying children eligible for the pupil premium.
Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, supported the committee's call to "encourage schools to use evidence-based interventions to make sure the pupil premium is being spent in the most effective ways".
He said the funding system should be designed to reward schools that succeeded in helping disadvantaged pupils.
Christine Blower, head of the National Union of Teachers, said "in many cases pupil premium funding has been used to plug gaps that have occurred as a result of squeezed budgets".
Head teachers' leader Brian Lightman said pupil premium funding was making a positive difference.
"Nevertheless, it remains clear to everybody that much more still needs to be done on this critical issue and the highest ambition of school leaders is to close the disadvantage gap further," said Mr Lightman, ASCL general secretary.
Labour's shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said: "Ministers obviously still have their heads in the sand."
A Department for Education spokesman said: "It is encouraging that this report recognises the extent to which the government has been able to narrow the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.
"We are determined to ensure every child, regardless of background, is given an education which allows them to realise their full potential, and we are committed to do more to tackle educational inequality."
The win drew the 31-year-old Manxman level with Frenchman Bernard Hinault's tally - only 34-time stage winner Eddy Merckx of Belgium is ahead of him.
There was initial confusion at the end as Greipel celebrated before Cavendish was named winner of the 223.5km stage.
Defending champion Chris Froome finished safely in the peloton, while Peter Sagan retained the race lead.
Two-time winner Froome moves up to fourth overall, 14 seconds behind world champion Sagan.
He was delivered to the line by his Team Sky squad on a day devoid of stress for the favourites for overall victory.
Colombia's Nairo Quintana, twice a runner-up to Froome, double winner Alberto Contador and Italian hope Fabio Aru also all finished in the main bunch.
"Who thought when I started cycling that I would have my name mentioned in line with Bernard Hinault and Eddy Merckx. It's pretty amazing," said Cavendish, who added that he thought he had won despite Greipel's celebration.
"I know when I win and lose a photo finish and I thought I had it but I still had to wait," he said.
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"It was so hairy in the finish but we planned it and I knew I had to come from behind. I wanted to be behind Greipel. After I didn't win the first stage last year I was anxious, a bit like Andre today.
"My team-mates were phenomenal again. Bernie Eisel and Mark Renshaw did a fantastic job."
The Dimension Data rider, who is competing in his 10th Tour de France, picked up his first win on stage five in 2008.
Since then, he has steadily accumulated 27 more, including stage one of this year's race, to equal five-time Tour winner Hinault's tally.
Cavendish will never win the Tour de France because he will always lose time in the hillier stages, as happened on Sunday's second stage, but he will be remembered long after he is gone for his remarkable feats.
Sprint rivals Greipel and Marcel Kittel are the closest active riders to Cavendish; the Germans have won 10 and eight stages respectively.
Tinkoff rider Sagan spent much of the day on the front of the peloton chatting to fellow riders, enjoying his first ever day in the race leader's yellow jersey.
When the pace increased in the final 40km or so, he followed the wheels of his team-mates before finishing fourth in the sprint for the line to ensure he retained the overall lead.
"Today was a very relaxing day for us because in the breakaway there was only one rider," the Slovak said.
"He went slow, we went slow also in the group, it was nice. I was thinking in one moment that we would take a coffee, we had time. I saw a bar but afterwards there was no time."
The pace was largely pedestrian after French rider Armindo Fonseca made a solo break in the first metres of the race and the peloton allowed him to build up a lead of more than 11 minutes.
"There is a chance of crosswinds on stage four that can split the peloton as we head south across the flat lands."
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Tommy Voeckler, a veteran of 14 Tours de France, asked the permission of the peloton before setting off in pursuit of Fonseca, who rides for Fortuneo Vital Concept, with around 90km of the stage remaining.
The Direct-Energie rider, 37, quickly bridged what had become a five-minute gap but the break was never likely to succeed.
The duo were finally caught in the final 10km as the teams of the sprinters jostled for the best position on the run-in to Angers.
Tuesday's fourth stage is the longest of the race at 237.5km and takes the riders from Saumur to Limoges.
A sprint finish is again expected. There is a slight uphill kick to the finish line but should Cavendish be victorious he will move second on his own on the all-time list.
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Stage 3 result:
1. Mark Cavendish (GB/Dimension Data) 5hrs 59mins 54secs
2. Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto) Same time
3. Bryan Coquard (Fra/Direct Energie)
4. Peter Sagan (Svk/Tinkoff)
5. Edward Theuns (Bel/Trek)
6. Sondre Enger (Nor/IAM Cycling)
7. Marcel Kittel (Ger/Etixx - Quick-Step)
8. Christophe Laporte (Fra/Cofidis)
9. Daniel McLay (GB/Fortuneo)
10. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned/LottoNL)
General classification after stage 3:
1. Peter Sagan (Svk/Tinkoff) 14hrs 34mins 36secs
2. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra/Etixx - Quick-Step) +8secs
3. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +10secs
4. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) Same time
5. Warren Barguil (Fra/Giant) +14secs
6. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar)
7. Roman Kreuziger (Cze/Tinkoff)
8. Tony Gallopin (Fra/Lotto)
9. Fabio Aru (Ita/Astana)
10. Daniel Martin (Ire/Etixx - Quick-Step)
The Right Reverend Trevor Willmott said it should never be "acceptable for children to be sprayed with teargas".
He also called on Christians to hold a minute of prayer for the situation.
The French authorities said no children were affected by tear gas, but the BBC's Peter Whittlesea said families were present during the clearances.
In a statement, Bishop Willmott said there were no "easy answers" or "quick fixes" to the migrant crisis but God had stood in the "crowd enveloped by teargas" on Monday.
"As different interests compete across Europe, questions of security, stability, shelter and safety clash violently. And when they do, those that suffer most are those who are most vulnerable.
"It should never be acceptable for children to be sprayed with teargas."
Demolition teams moved through the southern sector of the Calais camp, known as the "Jungle", earlier in the week as part of the French government's move to relocate the migrants from makeshift huts to nearby shipping containers.
On Monday, riot police fired tear gas after people resisted and threw rocks.
Gilles DeBove, of the Calais Police Union, said no children were tear gassed and the "police response was justified".
He added: "Police were trying to destroy unused cabins. Migrants and activists wouldn't move - they could've died if we hadn't used tear gas. Does the Bishop of Dover therefore this it's fair for migrants to throw rocks at police? Or to deliberately start fires in the Calais Jungle?"
At least four people, including activists from the UK-based No Borders group, were arrested during Monday's unrest, police said.
Squads armed with with shields, batons, helmets and tear gas were met with little resistance on Tuesday.
Many migrants fear they will be required to claim asylum in France, not Britain.
French authorities estimated that about 1,000 migrants were affected by the eviction plan but aid agencies put the number of people living there as much higher.
Those living in the camp, mainly from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa, hope to cross the Channel to the UK, often using people traffickers to try to enter illegally.
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He said cutting the higher rate from 40% to 35% to attract entrepreneurs would cost £75m a year, saving those earning £50,000 about £400.
Cutting the basic rate to 19% would cost £180m a year, and save someone earning £25,000 around £70 a year.
Welsh Labour said tax cuts would not boost business by themselves.
On Wednesday, Chancellor George Osborne said control of some of the income tax levied in Wales can now be devolved without a referendum.
The sharing of tax powers between ministers in Cardiff and London would mean the Welsh government controlling £3bn of taxes a year by 2020.
But Mr Davies told BBC Wales Welsh Labour ministers would be "frightened" of power over income tax as they "wouldn't know what to do with it".
First Minister Carwyn Jones has said the devolution of some power over income tax was right "in principle" but his government needed more details on the plans and timescale involved.
Mr Davies said the new income tax powers were an "historic change" that would ensure the Welsh government was "finally accountable to the people it serves".
"Not only do I want to see a change to the higher rate of tax - to stimulate job creation and boost economic growth in Wales - it's also crucial to look at changing the basic rate, guaranteeing additional money for even more workers," he said.
"It's time to utilise the powers that can make a real difference to Welsh families and Welsh businesses and - while Labour sweeps these possibilities under the carpet - we are already working hard to ensure lower tax and higher take-home pay."
Responding for Labour, Torfaen AM Lynne Neagle dismissed the thinking behind cutting the higher rate of income tax.
"On its own this proposal will do nothing to help entrepreneurs in Wales looking to start a new business," she said.
"If the Tories were serious about helping start-ups then rather than cutting income tax for Wales' highest earners they would join our calls on David Cameron and George Osborne to honour their promises on infrastructure investment and electrification."
Plaid Cymru finance spokesman Alun Ffred Jones said his party's tax plans "would depend on when income tax is expected to be partially devolved".
But he added: "Plaid Cymru looks forward to a new era for Welsh politics where a combination of different tax levers can be used innovatively, and we are encouraged that finally the government has yielded to Plaid Cymru demands."
In 2013, Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams said she wanted to lower the basic rate of tax from 20p to 18p, if Wales gained tax varying powers.
The Conservatives have come out of the blocks first saying that not only would they like to take five pence off the higher rate, but a penny off the basic rate as well.
And when it comes to the inevitable question of where they would find £200m to cover the lost revenue, they point to policies such as abolishing free prescriptions and tuition fees.
Whatever the merits of these policies, the point is that it changes the dynamic of assembly politics in that for the first time a party can go into an assembly election with a pledge to put money in people's pockets.
In the meantime there is still deep suspicion among Labour ranks.
The Pontypridd MP and shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith is keen to remind everyone of the brutal reality of public spending in Wales: the tax take is £16bn while public spending is £32bn, in other words it is dangerous for Wales to separate itself from the other wealthier parts of the UK when it comes to major sources of revenue like income tax.
Officially the Welsh government is saying it has no problem in principle but it wants to see more details of the guarantees from Westminster to protect spending.
Labour at the assembly has always been lukewarm to the idea of devolving income tax as they cannot see in what circumstances the powers would be used, put the rate up and high earners may leave while a reduction would leave the Welsh government coffers short.
The Conservatives say a degree of accountability will mean AMs have a stake in the growth of the economy and as a result lead to better policies.
On Wednesday, Mr Osborne also promised spending per head on devolved services in Wales would not fall below 115% of spending per head in England.
Welsh ministers said their budget would fall in real terms and they needed more details on that minimum funding pledge.
O'Keefe, who returned early from Australia's tour of Sri Lanka because of a hamstring injury, was ejected from a Sydney hotel on Saturday.
"I failed to uphold the high standards expected of a New South Wales and Australian cricketer and apologise to all concerned," said the 31-year-old.
"I take full responsibility for my actions and accept the sanction."
As well as being fined A$10,000 (£5,850), O'Keefe must attend counselling.
Australia are 2-0 behind in the Test series against Sri Lanka with only one match remaining.
There is also a five-match one-day series and a two-match Twenty20 series.
The 34-year-old, who also had spells with Watford, Leeds United, Birmingham City and Stoke City, left Bury in May.
The Essex club, who play in the seventh tier, also signed former Republic of Ireland and Wolves defender Kevin Foley, 32, on Monday.
They join ex-Premier League pair Paul Konchesky and Jamie O'Hara at the club, who play in the seventh tier.
Former England defender Konchesky and ex-Tottenham midfielder O'Hara joined the ambitious side - who play three divisions below the English Football League - last season.
As well as Pennant and Foley, the club have also announced the signing of former West Ham United youngster Leo Chambers, 22.
Billericay owner-manager Glenn Tamplin recently revealed he has spent £2m on the club since taking over in December 2016, as he aims to reach the EFL within five years.
Pennant played in the 2007 Champions League final for Liverpool, while Foley made 175 league starts for Wolves between 2007 and January 2015.
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The body with "multiple serious injuries" was discovered close to Ten Acres Lane, Newton Heath at about 17:00 BST on Tuesday, police said.
The cause of the man's death is currently unknown and detectives are trying to establish his identity.
He is described as white, of medium build, with scruffy facial hair, aged in his 40s or 50s with black clothing.
Det Ch Insp Lewis Hughes said: "His body was found at one of the busiest times of the day where a lot of people may have seen something that they don't realise could be key to this investigation.
"Every piece of information is vital in helping us build a full picture of how he died.
"We are appealing for anyone who may know anything about this man's death, to come and speak to police as soon as possible."
Jade Rabbit arrived on the Moon in December 2013 in the Chang'e-3 space mission, and has been exploring the surface in search of natural resources.
It made China the third country to reach the Moon after Russia and the US.
It has also been an active social media. Its final message said: "The Moon has prepared a long dream for me."
The rover is named after Yutu, the pet rabbit of the Chinese Moon goddess Chang'e, in turn the namesake of the lunar mission.
Designed to survive just three months, it had been operating for more than two years, lasting longer than Russia's 1970 Moon rover Lunokhod 1, which lived a total of 11 months.
The Jade Rabbit's main objective was to achieve China's first soft-landing on the moon, as well as to explore the surface.
On micro-blogging site Weibo, the rover's official first-person account has a following of over 600,000 fans.
It has kept them updated with news of its discoveries, as well as cute cartoons about its antics.
In February 2014, it briefly went quiet during a lunar night, but after recovering from mechanical difficulties posted the message: "Hi, anybody there?"
But in a message sent on Sunday it said: "This time it really is goodnight," the rover said
"There are still many questions I would like answers to, but I'm the rabbit that has seen the most stars."
"The Moon has prepared a long dream for me, I don't know what it will be like - will I be a Mars explorer, or be sent back to Earth?"
China's space agency confirmed Jade Rabbit's demise on Wednesday and netizens have been mourning his loss.
"Good night Jade Rabbit, I hope you have beautiful carrot-filled dreams. We are all proud of you," said one user on Weibo.
"I'll fly to the Moon to bring you home!" said one another. "You'll be able to sleep comfortably in a museum then."
"Sweet dreams. One day we will be reunited in a dream filled with a million stars and beautiful scenery. But for now, your dream has already been achieved," was another Weibo user's parting note.
"Goodnight, sleep well," another user simply said.
"I don't know why I'm so heartbroken. It's just a machine after all," said another netizen.
Jade Rabbit joins 60 American and Russian space vehicles, three Apollo buggies and two golf balls - hit by astronaut Alan Shepard - left behind on the Moon.
China sent its first astronaut into space in 2003, and since then has taken huge advancements, including the deployment of an experimental space station.
It will next year attempt to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon that would return to Earth with samples.
Theatre producer Richard Jordan wrote in The Stage that the audience on the play's final night in the West End had left him "despairing".
He described how one couple ate chicken nuggets while others took photos and videos.
But Harington told The Guardian he did not feel audiences were "disrespectful in the slightest".
He said: "I am afraid that if the theatre is going to die of anything it will be from exactly this type of stereotyping and prejudice aimed towards a new and younger generation of theatregoers."
The Game of Thrones star said that during the 10-week run at Duke of York's Theatre he had counted only one time that he heard a phone ring in the audience.
"Of course pictures were occasionally taken, as unfortunately cannot be avoided in any audience anywhere today, but on the whole it was not a huge amount and definitely not off-putting as a performer. I found our audiences to be hugely enthusiastic, energised and responsive."
Directed by Jamie Lloyd, the reworking of Christopher Marlowe's 16th century play saw Harington's Faustus become a Las Vegas illusionist after selling his soul to the Devil.
Jordan had written in his opinion piece: "My night at Doctor Faustus will rate as possibly the worst West End audience I have ever encountered.
"Munching certainly seemed to be the order of the day. The couple to my left ate their way through a large tub of popcorn during Act I, while the couple on my right chomped through a packet of crisps.
"It was like listening to eating in Dolby Stereo, and sadly at the expense of being able to properly hear the lines being spoken on stage."
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The 21-year-old, who can also play on the wing and outside centre, has made seven Pro12 appearances for Leinster.
Kelleher has represented Ireland at U18, U19 and U20 level and travelled as part of last summer's Emerging Ireland squad to Georgia.
"It's great to have someone with Cian's versatility joining our squad for next season," said Connacht coach Pat Lam.
Kelleher also came on as a replacement for the Ireland XV side that played the Barbarians at Thomond Park last year.
He added: "As a full-back who can also play on the wing and outside centre, his arrival will bring more competition and depth in the backs as we prepare for Champions Cup rugby.
"I was really impressed when I first saw Cian play for Lansdowne and Ireland U20s a couple of seasons ago.
"He showed real X-factor qualities with some of the tries he scored as well as those he set up for his team-mates.
"With the way we train and play the game I have no doubt he will be able to showcase his ability on the Pro12 and Champions Cup stage to chase his big goal of representing Ireland."
The former 110m hurdles world record holder was nominated for services to sport.
An Olympic silver medallist in 1988, Mr Jackson was also a two-time world and Commonwealth champion and four-time European champion.
Cardiff-born Mr Jackson, who now works as a BBC athletics pundit, will receive his fellowship in October.
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The Dons fell behind to Steven Lawless's excellent strike but scored in quick succession through Andrew Considine and Simon Church to win 2-1.
McInnes's side climbed to within a point of Premiership leaders Celtic.
And the Pittodrie boss insists it was important his side kept the "doubters" at bay.
"It's ridiculous to even question my team's bottle and character," said McInnes after the match at Firhill.
"For nearly three seasons now we've had enough big games that we've won when the pressure's been on.
"We were up against it [at 1-0 down] and we had to show quality, determination.
"[Andrew] Considine being up there for the equaliser just shows you, his determination to get on the end of it, and then the quality of [Barry] Robson's corner kick, and [Simon] Church getting across his man giving us another goal.
"Everybody played their part and it was a big performance, a big win. Everyone would have been doubting us at 1-0 down and it was important we didn't doubt ourselves.
"That's why I love this team, it's a pleasure to manage them when you see the determination they showed.
"It delights me to see Shay Logan sprint by Andrew Considine to get the ball out of the net to start the game again.
"We know the importance of winning, but it's important the players keep the wherewithal to stay calm, focused and be confident to get the job done."
McInnes lauded Partick Thistle's performance, insisting they will finish in the top six this season.
Their next game is against Celtic, who now have a game in hand over Aberdeen, and McInnes believes the Jags can trouble the league leaders.
Alan Archibald is more concerned about securing Partick Thistle's safety than the outcome of the title race, and he felt his side played well enough to not lose against the Dons.
"That was very sore, we merited at least a point," Archibald said.
"The boys are in a bit of shock, because after we scored we were fine, we didn't look under any pressure. I didn't see a goal coming.
"We've been strong all season defensively, but we didn't stop the cross into the box and the set play is disappointing, you expect the boys to do their job. We put so much into the second half, but the difference is taking your chances.
"We did the hard bit, we got the goal, a wonder goal, but we'll need to build on it.
"We've got the champions on Saturday and that's the pick-me-up. If we play like that again we'll give them a game."
South Norwood Animal Rescue and Liberty (Snarl) discovered the ginger cat in a garden in London Road, Thornton Heath, on Saturday.
It was the fourth cat found killed in south and south-east London in a week.
Snarl believes the cat was the victim of a killing spree being perpetrated by "one suspect who is highly mobile".
The charity, which is also linking the death of a fifth cat in Frimley, Surrey to the other four, is asking people living between Luton and Brighton to be vigilant.
In a statement about the latest killing, Snarl said: "The cat had been dead in the garden for two days before being reported to the police by local bus drivers, who we would like to thank as they called the police.
"Enquiries revealed that the cat, who was decapitated, was well known in the area, normally in the company of another ginger stray, who appears to have gone missing."
The owners of Buddy, who was found dead on Friday, said they were "absolutely distraught at the manner of his death".
Snarl is appealing to owners to keep their cats in at night, warning that "no place is safe".
It is also urging owners to "keep an eye" on their pets during the day, as abductions and killings have taken place in the daytime.
The charity is asking for anyone who spots cat bodies or body parts to get in touch.
Passing over London, Tim photographed the bright lights of the capital and said: "I'd rather be up here... but only just!"
Tim's shared photos of the other countries he's seen, as well as his view of the aurora borealis, but this is the first time he's shared photos of home.
One of his images shows the channel between France and England, as well as the capital cities of the UK, France and Belgium all sparkling brightly in the dark.
When Tim saw the south of England, he tweeted to say: "Hey, I recognise that place!".
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World and Welsh Open champion Ron Long narrowly beat 2013 winner Kevin Waltham at this year's contest on Windermere.
Mr Long skimmed 70m (230ft) against Mr Walton's 69m (226ft) in the All England Stone Skimming Championships.
Organiser Julius Barratt said windy conditions prevented record-breaking skims but it was a "thrilling finish with last year's winner Kevin Waltham battling it out with Ron Long".
The winner of the previous three championships finally managed the extra metre to win the medal, Mr Barrratt said.
The event, at Fell Foot Park, is run by South Cumbria Rivers Trust to raise funds for conservation.
The rules say stones no more than three inches wide must be sourced from the area and must bounce on the water a minimum of three times before sinking.
Last year Mr Waltham, from Newcastle, won the men's class with a skim of 77m (250ft) while Mr Long came second with 75m (245ft).
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Yarnold won the overall World Cup title last season, but had not competed since claiming gold in Sochi in February.
She finished her two runs in a combined time of one minute 51.16 seconds, with Canada's Elisabeth Vathje second and Janine Flock of Austria third.
"I knew I had to bring my best and fortunately I did," said Yarnold.
The 26-year-old slider recently experienced her first crash during a training run in Germany - something she attributed to 'complacency' after her recent domination of the sport.
Despite the absence of now retired Olympic silver medallist Noelle Pikus-Pace and World champion Shelley Rudman, who is pregnant, Yarnold showed no signs of overconfidence.
The Bath-based athlete led by 0.30 secs at the halfway stage before securing victory by 0.77 secs with a solid second run on the track she also claimed gold on last season.
"With it being early in the season I was a bit apprehensive that I wouldn't be fast enough," admitted Yarnold.
"There have been so many retirements, but the younger athletes are so good and that is pushing me to go quicker."
Team-mate Rose McGrandle finished an impressive sixth, while World Cup debutant Laura Deas was 12th.
Latvian Martins Dukurs took the victory in the men's skeleton event, but it was a difficult day for Britain's Dom Parsons and Ed Smith who finished 14th and 18th respectively.
In the men's season-opening two-man bobsleigh competition Britain's Lamin Deen and breakman Jordan Smallin were 16th in a race won by German duo Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis.
Saturday will see the women's two-man and men's four-man bobsleigh events take place in Lake Placid.
A huge survey by the United Nations looked at people's health, family lives and jobs, amongst other things, to measure how happy they are.
According the the results, the top ten happiest countries are Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden. America came in at number 13, and the UK at number 23.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, from the team behind the report, said that the results showed that even if a country is richer, it doesn't mean it's going to be happier, and countries shouldn't focus too much on money as the way to make people's lives better.
"There is a very strong message for my country, the United States, which is very rich, has gotten a lot richer over the last 50 years, but has gotten no happier," he said.
Ros Altmann called on the government to use tax breaks to help people save for care in later life, as she said the cost of funding provision was pushing the NHS in England to breaking point.
She said she warned other ministers of looming problems last year.
The Department of Health said it was significantly raising the funds local authorities have access to for care.
Lady Altmann, who was pensions minister under David Cameron, said the chancellor should use Wednesday's Autumn Statement to offer incentives to help families "recognise the need" to prepare for care costs.
"This should have been done years ago, but successive governments have failed to offer any help," she said.
"Government spends billions on private pensions tax breaks, and there is a state pension to provide a base level of support, but there are no incentives to set money aside for care costs."
What is the Autumn Statement?
Cuts in social care funding in England have been blamed for a sharp increase in the number of patients stuck in hospital beds because care cannot be arranged elsewhere.
Lady Altmann, who left her government post in Theresa May's reshuffle in July, said the NHS cannot carry on picking up the pieces of a "broken care system".
"Care has been left to cash-strapped councils keep who keep cutting provision," she said.
She suggests a new ISA to help people save for care could be introduced and firms could offer "eldercare vouchers" along the lines of the childcare voucher scheme, which attracts tax relief.
Lady Altmann told the BBC she had sent a memo around Whitehall when she was appointed after the May 2015 general election, warning that the issue of care costs could cause significant social and economic distress.
The Department of Health said local authorities in England had been given powers to raise extra money for social care through higher council taxes, and other funding would be available from next April.
A spokesman said: "This government is committed to making sure older people throughout the country get affordable and dignified care.
"We are significantly increasing the amount of money local authorities have access to for social care, by up to £3.5bn by 2020.
"Our care Act also introduced the biggest reforms to social care in over 65 years to make support more consistent across the country."
The Italian's Eleonora Sports company bought a 75% stake from GFH in 2014.
Cellino officially became the majority shareholder after winning an appeal against the Football League's decision to block the takeover.
"The club is delighted to confirm that Leeds United Football Club is now 100% owned by Eleonora Sport Limited," said a statement from the Elland Road club.
Last month BBC Sport revealed that Italian businessman Andrea Radrizzani has been in talks over buying a major stake in Leeds United. Those negotiations are continuing.
Adam Pope, BBC Radio Leeds
"GFH Capital were the Middle Eastern bank who bought the club from Ken Bates.
"GFH Capital, according to the last accounts, were owed £17m by Leeds United so it is fair to assume this debt has been restructured in a way that is positive for Leeds United whilst allowing GFH Capital to exit."
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Reus fired in off the crossbar in the 32nd minute and then drilled in a second just eight minutes later.
Mesut Ozil's penalty made it 3-0 and Miroslav Klose scored the fourth.
Half-time substitute Toni Kroos struck with two before home sub Andy Keogh headed Ireland's goal in stoppage-time.
It was a miserable night for the Republic and the media critics are likely to show no mercy on manager Giovanni Trapattoni after this display.
The veteran boss, though, has to lift his men as they are away to the Faroe Islands in another qualifier on Tuesday.
Uncharacteristically, the Irish showed little fight against the Germans after the first two goals had gone in, and thousands of the full house had left the Aviva Stadium well before the end.
The Republic had kicked off their Group C campaign with a lucky, last-gasp 2-1 victory away to Kazakhstan. But their luck ran out as they were crushed by the ruthless Germans.
After a quiet start, Germany gained more and more possession.
They could have had a penalty in the 30th minute when John O'Shea seemed to pull back Reus but the German midfielder was booked for diving instead.
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However, the goal quickly followed as Reus fired past Westwood right-footed off the underside of the bar.
It took the German footballer of the year just eight minutes to double his tally, this time accepting full-back Jerome Boateng's pass and rifling a classy left-foot shot into the bottom corner.
The contest looked as good as over, but worse was to follow for the home fans.
Darren O'Dea brought down Klose in the box on 54 minutes and Ozil sent Westwood the wrong way from the spot.
It was 4-0 with 58 minutes gone when Klose ran on to Bastian Schweinsteiger's defence-splitting pass and rounded Westwood before rolling the ball into the empty net from a tight angle.
The Republic capitulated again three minutes later when O'Shea's weak clearance fell perfectly for Kroos to help himself with a skidding shot inside the post.
Kroos deepened the wounds with seven minutes remaining, drilling home from 22 yards with the Republic in disarray.
Keogh's goal at the end will have done nothing to lift spirits on a depressing night for the Republic of Ireland.
Full Time The referee blows for the end of the match.
Assist on the goal came from Robbie Brady.
Goal! - Andy Keogh - R Ireland 1 - 6 Germany Andy Keogh finds the net with a headed goal from inside the six-yard box. Rep of Ireland 1-6 Germany.
Inswinging corner taken left-footed by Robbie Brady from the right by-line,
Andy Keogh takes a shot. Manuel Neuer makes a save.
Toni Kroos takes a shot. Comfortable save by Keiren Westwood.
Thomas Muller crosses the ball.
A cross is delivered by Thomas Muller.
The ball is sent over by Jerome Boateng, clearance by John O'Shea.
Keith Andrews has a direct shot on goal from the free kick.
Booking Holger Badstuber receives a yellow card.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Jonathan Walters by Holger Badstuber.
Substitution Simon Cox goes off and Robbie Brady comes on.
Mesut Ozil provided the assist for the goal.
Goal! - Toni Kroos - R Ireland 0 - 6 Germany Toni Kroos grabs a goal from just outside the area to the bottom right corner of the goal. Rep of Ireland 0-6 Germany.
Jerome Boateng takes a shot. Keiren Westwood makes a save.
Free kick taken by Bastian Schweinsteiger.
Booking Shane Long shown a yellow card.
Foul by Shane Long on Holger Badstuber, free kick awarded.
Jerome Boateng produces a cross, clearance made by John O'Shea.
The referee blows for offside against Andre Schurrle. Keiren Westwood takes the free kick.
Shot from just outside the area by Keith Andrews misses to the right of the target.
Bastian Schweinsteiger gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Darren O'Dea. Free kick taken by Keiren Westwood.
Andre Schurrle takes a shot. Darren O'Dea gets a block in.
Substitution Andre Schurrle replaces Miroslav Klose.
James McCarthy concedes a free kick for a foul on Thomas Muller. Free kick taken by Bastian Schweinsteiger.
Andy Keogh sends in a cross, clearance by Per Mertesacker.
Substitution Andy Keogh on for Aiden McGeady.
Jerome Boateng crosses the ball, Darren O'Dea makes a clearance. Mesut Ozil takes a short corner.
Substitution (Germany) makes a substitution, with Lukas Podolski coming on for Marco Reus.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Mesut Ozil by Shane Long. Free kick taken by Holger Badstuber.
Short corner taken by Miroslav Klose.
Assist on the goal came from Mesut Ozil.
Goal! - Toni Kroos - R Ireland 0 - 5 Germany A goal is scored by Toni Kroos from just outside the penalty area to the bottom left corner of the goal. Rep of Ireland 0-5 Germany.
Corner taken short by Marco Reus.
Assist by Bastian Schweinsteiger.
Goal! - Miroslav Klose - R Ireland 0 - 4 Germany Miroslav Klose finds the back of the net with a goal from inside the area to the bottom left corner of the goal. Rep of Ireland 0-4 Germany.
Unfair challenge on Jerome Boateng by Simon Cox results in a free kick. Bastian Schweinsteiger takes the free kick.
The assist for the goal came from Miroslav Klose.
Goal! - Mesut Ozil - R Ireland 0 - 3 Germany Mesut Ozil scores a placed penalty. Rep of Ireland 0-3 Germany.
Darren O'Dea gives away a Penalty for an unfair challenge on Miroslav Klose.
Handball decision goes against Marcel Schmelzer. Free kick crossed right-footed by Aiden McGeady from right wing.
Corner taken by Aiden McGeady from the right by-line, clearance made by Per Mertesacker.
Substitution Shane Long replaces Keith Fahey.
Stephen Ward delivers the ball, Jonathan Walters takes a shot. Clearance by Per Mertesacker.
Marco Reus takes a shot. Blocked by Toni Kroos.
Inswinging corner taken left-footed by Mesut Ozil from the right by-line, Headed effort from deep inside the penalty area by Miroslav Klose misses to the left of the goal.
Free kick crossed right-footed by Marco Reus from left channel, Darren O'Dea manages to make a clearance.
Booking Darren O'Dea goes into the referee's book for unsporting behaviour.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Darren O'Dea on Toni Kroos.
The second half kicks off.
Half Time The half-time whistle blows.
Substitution Toni Kroos comes on in place of Sami Khedira.
The offside flag is raised against Jonathan Walters. Free kick taken by Per Mertesacker.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Miroslav Klose on Seamus Coleman. Free kick taken by Seamus Coleman.
Jerome Boateng provided the assist for the goal.
Goal! - Marco Reus - R Ireland 0 - 2 Germany Marco Reus gets on the score sheet with a goal from just inside the area to the bottom right corner of the goal. Rep of Ireland 0-2 Germany.
Thomas Muller produces a right-footed shot from outside the penalty box and misses right.
Marcel Schmelzer provided the assist for the goal.
Goal! - Marco Reus - R Ireland 0 - 1 Germany Goal scored by Marco Reus from inside the six-yard box high into the middle of the goal. Rep of Ireland 0-1 Germany.
The assistant referee flags for offside against Jonathan Walters. Free kick taken by Holger Badstuber.
Booking The referee shows Marco Reus a yellow card for unsporting behaviour.
The ball is crossed by Sami Khedira.
The ball is sent over by Thomas Muller, blocked by Stephen Ward.
Corner taken right-footed by Marco Reus to the near post, clearance made by John O'Shea.
Drilled right-footed shot by Sami Khedira. Darren O'Dea gets a block in.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Marcel Schmelzer by Aiden McGeady. Holger Badstuber restarts play with the free kick.
Sami Khedira delivers the ball.
Jerome Boateng produces a cross, clearance by Seamus Coleman.
The ball is swung over by Thomas Muller.
Miroslav Klose takes a shot. Darren O'Dea gets a block in.
A cross is delivered by Thomas Muller, clearance by John O'Shea.
Marco Reus produces a cross, Header from deep inside the area by Thomas Muller goes over the bar.
The ball is delivered by Sami Khedira, clearance by Darren O'Dea.
Jonathan Walters is ruled offside. Holger Badstuber takes the free kick.
Unfair challenge on Aiden McGeady by Marcel Schmelzer results in a free kick. Free kick taken by Keiren Westwood.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Seamus Coleman on Marco Reus. Direct free kick taken by Holger Badstuber.
Marco Reus gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Darren O'Dea. Keiren Westwood restarts play with the free kick.
The referee blows for offside against Jonathan Walters. Free kick taken by Per Mertesacker.
Jonathan Walters fouled by Per Mertesacker, the ref awards a free kick. Keith Fahey takes the free kick.
Marco Reus takes a inswinging corner.
The ball is swung over by Thomas Muller, clearance made by Stephen Ward.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Simon Cox by Thomas Muller. Free kick taken by Keiren Westwood.
Simon Cox gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Sami Khedira. Direct free kick taken by Holger Badstuber.
Keith Andrews has an effort at goal from outside the area missing to the wide left of the goal.
Miroslav Klose gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on James McCarthy. Direct free kick taken by Simon Cox.
Centre by Stephen Ward.
Short corner taken by Aiden McGeady.
Unfair challenge on Jonathan Walters by Marcel Schmelzer results in a free kick. The free kick is swung in right-footed by Aiden McGeady, clearance by Marcel Schmelzer.
The game begins.
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It commemorates the moment the guns fell silent at the end of the first world war on the 11 November 1918.
Silence fell at 11:00 GMT to remember servicemen and women killed in battle.
Wreath-laying events have been taking place at war memorials across Northern Ireland.
Belfast Lord Mayor Brian Kingston said it was good to see a large turnout for the ceremony at city hall.
"I was very impressed by the number of people who came along for the Armistice Day two minutes silence at 11am," he said.
"There must have been around 1,000 people here in the Garden of Remembrance beside city hall.
"We see that people, very much, do want to show their appreciation and their understanding for those who served for freedom and democracy that we enjoy today."
Another ceremony was held at the Diamond in Londonderry.
Among those attending was Economy Minister Simon Hamilton.
"I think you're seeing in Northern Ireland increasing numbers of people coming out on the 11th of November and on Remembrance Sunday to pay their respects to those who laid down their lives in the past," he said.
"I think it's one of the great signs of progress that we've made in the last number of years that people are now, on all sides of the community, recognising the sacrifice that both Catholics and Protestants made during the Great War and in other conflicts as well."
Justice Minister Claire Sugden attended a ceremony at Hydebank Wood to remember 32 serving prison officers murdered in Northern Ireland.
"I consider it to be a privilege to be able to attend today's service and meet some of the widows and close relatives of prison service staff who lost their lives in the line of duty," she said.
Sussex Police applied to the High Court for copies of the interviews, alongside results of tests on aspects of the accident. Both requests were refused.
However, footage filmed by onboard cameras was handed over.
A Hawker Hunter plane crashed into spectators and motorists on the A27 in August 2015, killing 11 people.
Det Ch Insp Paul Rymarz said the force was pleased the court had granted access to "some of the material" it was seeking for its investigation.
"We understand that legally this case is without precedent in England and Wales and we accept the reasons why our request has not been granted in full," he said.
"We remain committed to finding answers for the families and friends of those who died."
Sussex Police applied to the High Court for the disclosure of records, which are given a protected status in law, in July.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas and Mr Justice Singh refused the application earlier, except in relation to the film footage from within the aircraft.
Mr Justice Singh said the footage had "significant potential value" for the police investigation.
A spokesperson for the AAIB said: "The AAIB is not able to release protected air accident investigation records of its own accord. Only the High Court can allow for their release.
"We note today's judgment and will now release the film footage to the chief constable of Sussex Police."
The dead included Navy Seals, Afghan commandos, US Air Force personnel, a dog handler, the Chinook crew and a civilian interpreter.
The 30 US deaths are the largest single American loss of life in the conflict.
On Sunday another four Nato soldiers were killed in two separate attacks in Afghanistan.
France has confirmed that two of its soldiers were among the dead - they were killed during an operation in the Tagab valley in Kapisa province, north-east of Kabul, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said in a statement. Five other French soldiers were injured.
Nato has not confirmed the nationality of the other two soldiers but said they were killed in an attack in the south.
The Chinook helicopter went down in a district of Wardak province, west of Kabul, early on Saturday.
Officials, witnesses and the Taliban have said it was shot down by insurgents during a combat mission.
The presence of at least 17 of the Seals has led to speculation that they were involved in a highly significant operation, such as targeting a high-ranking figure in the insurgency.
Source: BBC and news agencies
US sources have said they were from the same Navy Seal unit, known as Team Six, which killed Osama Bin Laden in May, but are "unlikely" to be the same personnel.
American officials have refused to confirm the cause of the crash on the record but some have told news agencies they believe the Chinook was shot down.
Afghan officials in Wardak province said a Taliban rocket hit the craft. A local resident who saw the incident told the BBC that he saw the Chinook catch fire and crash after a rocket hit it.
The Taliban claimed they shot the helicopter down as it was involved in a raid on a house in Wardak where insurgents were gathering.
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says it is rare for the Taliban to shoot down aircraft.
The Taliban say they have modified their rocket-propelled grenades to improve their accuracy but that may not be true, our correspondent says.
The top US military officer, Adm Mike Mullen, said it was too soon to say what brought it down.
The team that killed Bin Laden
"Information is still coming in about this incident. I think it's important that we allow investigators to do their work before jumping to too many conclusions," the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
President Barack Obama paid his condolences to the Americans and Afghans killed in the crash.
"Their deaths are a reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices made by the men and women of our military and their families, including all who have served in Afghanistan," he said in a statement on Saturday.
The US is relying more on special forces to fight the war against insurgents in Afghanistan, carrying out night raids against key leaders and conducting surveillance operations.
After last year's increase in troop numbers - credited with some success in reducing Taliban activity in southern Afghanistan - some withdrawals have begun. The goal is for all foreign combat forces to leave the country by the end of 2014.
There are currently about 140,000 foreign troops - about 100,000 of them American - in Afghanistan, fighting the Taliban insurgency and training local troops to take over security.
The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force has begun the process of handing over control of security in some areas to local forces. Bamiyan became the first province to pass to Afghan control in mid-July.
Christine Mann died in hospital in Corfu on Saturday after suffering two strokes.
She had mistakenly taken out an insurance policy which did not cover her six-month long holiday.
Her family, of Mowmacre Hill, had been told they would have to raise £3,700 to bring her back to the UK.
Ms Mann's niece Leanne Gowing, 31, said: "It is absolutely amazing news, my grandfather is in tears because he is so relieved.
"It is nice to finally have some good news."
Ms Mann's 85-year-old father, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, had to return to Leicester alone from their yearly holiday. They should have returned on 28 October.
She had bought an annual mutli-trip travel insurance policy at the beginning of their six-month break in May, but the policy only covered a single trip for up to 30 days.
Direct Travel Insurance said: "As we now believe a genuine mistake was made we will pay the cost of bringing Ms Mann home.
"However we stress that it is important that when taking out any form of insurance that customers take care and shop for a policy that meets their specific needs."
The family said they hoped Ms Mann's body could now be flown home next week.
Because she was carrying a European Health Insurance Card, her medical expenses were covered for two weeks while she was in the Greek hospital.
The man was taken to hospital suffering serious head injuries after the fight on Holborn Way, Mitcham at around 19:20 GMT on Monday. He died two days later.
Another 26-year-old and a 29-year-old remain in hospital. Their injuries are not thought to be life threatening.
A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and is in police custody.
Five others were held on suspicion of violent disorder and bailed.
The Met Police described the fracas as involving "a large number" of men.
The research found that Scotland had one of the best environments and infrastructure for outdoor play among the 38 nations that took part.
But it was ranked joint worst for exercise, and for the amount of time children spend in front of screens.
The study found parents were often reluctant to allow children to play outside.
Competition from sedentary and screen-based activities was also a major factor.
However, the Active Healthy Kids Report Card praised Scotland's policies on encouraging physical activity, which were ranked joint second-highest of the 38 countries.
The Scottish government, which has questioned the report's methodology, has pledged that every school pupil in Scotland will benefit from at least two hours per week of physical education in primary school, and two periods in S1 to S4.
More than 800 primary schools across the country have also introduced the daily mile scheme, which sees pupils walk or run a mile every day in addition to PE classes.
The report also found the availability of facilities such as gyms, leisure centres and parks in Scotland was high by international standards.
It is the second time the study has been carried out - with this year's results similar to those published in 2014.
The global study was led in Scotland by Prof John Reilly of Strathclyde University, who said Scotland still seemed to have a culture of low activity.
He said: "Scotland has one of the world's very best natural environments, facilities offering ideal conditions for physical activity and much has been done to develop policies which encourage children to take part.
"A lack of freedom for children to play, combined with a wide range of sedentary alternatives, are a major barrier to children becoming more active.
"In the case of Scotland, it could be said that we have built it but they have not come."
Prof Reilly said it was "completely understandable" that parents want to protect their children as much as they can.
But he said giving children more freedom to play, especially outdoors, can help to build their confidence, autonomy and resilience.
They can also learn to solve problems, develop skills and learn their limits.
Prof Reilly added: "There are examples of this issue being dealt with in other nations. In Slovenia, for example, primary schools offer access to nearly 80 minutes of in-school, professionally-supported physical activity each day.
"In Denmark, it is compulsory to receive 45 minutes of physical activity per school day."
What the report says
Physical activity and exercise: Scotland is joint last with Chile, Estonia, Qatar, China and the UAE.
Sedentary behaviour and screen time: Scotland is joint last with Venezuela, Canada, Estonia, South Korea and China.
Policy in relation to physical activity: Denmark came first, while Scotland is joint second with Finland, Sweden, Canada, Wales and Colombia.
Responding to the study, public health minister Aileen Campbell, said the Scottish government wanted to do more to challenge sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity levels among young people.
She added: "We have concerns over some of the methodology used in calculating physical activity levels within this report card, but welcome the acknowledgement that Scotland has excellent facilities and infrastructure in place for physical activity.
"A massive investment in school sport has seen an increase in children doing two hours or periods of PE from less than 10% in 2004/5 to 98% in 2016. This is backed up by £50m investment in the Active Schools programme and £132m of investment in facilities since 2007.
"In addition, Scotland's national play strategy aims to ensure that all children and young people can access play opportunities in a range of settings which offer variety, adventure and challenge."
The nations assessed in the study were graded, from A to F, on nine common indicators: Overall Physical Activity; Organised Sport Participation; Active Play; Active Transportation; Sedentary Behaviours; Family and Peers; School; Community and the Built Environment, and Government Strategies and Investments.
The findings will be presented at the International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health in Bangkok.
He was speaking at a youth mentor training event at Mackie Academy in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, as part of The Diana Award set up in memory of his late mother.
She died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997 when Prince Harry was 12.
Prince Harry said the colour sergeant at Sandhurst helped him.
He told the pupils: "I was at a stage in my life when I was probably lacking a bit in guidance.
"I lost my mum when I was very young and suddenly I was surrounded by a huge number of men in the army.
"He was someone who teased me at the right moments and gave me the confidence to look forward, to actually have that confidence in yourself to know who you are and to push forward and try to help others."
He said he had not revealed the sergeant's name as "he wouldn't want me to".
Prince Harry, 32, also met recipients of The Diana Award, including Jamie McIntosh, 17, from Edinburgh, who received the award for writing a book to help teenagers deal with grief after the death of his mother, Monica, to breast cancer.
He told the prince he decided to write the book after looking for help and finding nothing aimed at helping teenagers through loss.
Prince Harry praised him, and said: "That's what's it all about, it's trying to stop other kids in your position having to go through what you had to go through and now your book is going to help everyone around you.
"If anybody around me ever has any grief, especially close family, you feel as though you can help because you've got the experience and that's what mentoring is all about."
The school was the first of three stops on his first official visit to Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire on Tuesday, focusing on mentoring and the importance of sport as a means for helping youngsters to develop.
The network has had a string of hits over the last 12 months, with programmes including Gogglebox, First Dates, Catastrophe and Humans.
Adele's Nicki Minaj rap on Carpool Karaoke - the popular feature on The Late Late Show with James Corden - won TV moment of the year.
BBC One comedy Peter Kay's Car Share won new programme of the year.
Channel 4's chief creative officer Jay Hunt said: "It's a huge thrill for everyone for the channel to win this prestigious award for the second time in three years.
"It's a tribute to the superlative work of brilliant independent producers working with our talented commissioning team."
British television writer and playwright Sally Wainwright, whose credits include Happy Valley, won the outstanding achievement award.
BBC Three documentary Reggie Yates's Extreme Russia, which was broadcast before the channel moved online, won factual programme of the year.
The Last Panthers, a collaboration between Sky, Sundance TV and French channel Canal+ was crowned best international co-production.
The show was written by Jack Thorne, who also wrote Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which is currently playing in London's West End.
American crime drama The People vs OJ Simpson, which was broadcast on BBC Two in the UK, won the programme choice award.
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hDaniela Musca slapped the woman twice in the face at Collamere Nursing Home in Lostwithiel, Cornwall in January 2014, a Nursing and Midwidery Council panel heard.
Ms Musca, 47, claimed the woman had hit her in the face beforehand.
But the panel agreed her response had been "excessive" and ordered her to be removed from the nursing register.
Ms Musca had told the panel: "I've asked this lady if she needs my help. Suddenly she punched me in the face.
"It wasn't my intention to abuse this lady."
However, a colleague at the home told the panel she "could not believe her eyes" when she saw Ms Musca slap the woman, and shouted at her to leave her alone.
The panel heard Ms Musca had been convicted of assault in February 2015 at Bodmin Magistrates Court following the incident.
No one from Collamere Nursing Home was available for comment.
Motorists called 999 after spotting the HGV driving north on the southbound carriageway at 01.30 GMT.
The vehicle performed three u-turns including one at the toll booths before it was stopped on the slip road, the Central Motorway Police Group said.
The incident happened between junction T4, Shenstone, and Weeford Plaza. The driver has been arrested.
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Roedd y datblygwyr, Cwmni Datblygu Blaenau'r Cymoedd, yn dweud y byddai tua 6,000 o swyddi yn cael eu creu yn un o ardaloedd mwyaf difreintiedig Cymru.
Ond ddydd Mawrth, fe wrthododd yr Ysgrifennydd Economi, Ken Skates, honiad y cwmni am nifer y swyddi, gan ddweud fod y ffigwr yma wedi ei "or-chwyddo".
"Mae'r nifer yn nes at 100 o swyddi uniongyrchol, gyda 500 o swyddi anuniongyrchol, a thua 500 o swyddi i adeiladu'r trac rasio," meddai.
Ychwanegodd y byddai'r gost o warantu'r cynllun yn rhy uchel, ac y byddai'n effeithio'n uniongyrchol ar gynlluniau gwariant eraill y llywodraeth.
Dywedodd Mr Skates: "Er mwyn rhoi syniad i chi o faint yr arian, mae e gyfateb â 10 ysgol newydd tebyg i un Ysgol Bae Baglan ym Mhort Talbot, Canolfan Gofal Dwys Arbenigol fel yr un sydd wedi ei gynllunio ar gyfer Cwmbrân, neu 5,000 o dai fforddiadwy mewn cymunedau ar draws Cymru."
Yn ystod cyfarfod o'r cabinet fore Mawrth, clywodd gweinidogion y bydd parc busnes ceir yn cael ei adeiladu yn ardal Glyn Ebwy yn lle'r trac rasio.
Mae'r prosiect wedi bod yn un dadleuol o'r cychwyn, gydag archwilwyr yn dweud fod "methiannau sylweddol" yn y ffordd roedd arian cyhoeddus wedi ei reoli, a'r llywodraeth yn gofyn am ragor o wybodaeth gan y datblygwyr.
Cafodd y cynllun gwreiddiol ar gyfer y trac rasio ei chyhoeddi yn 2011.
Bryd hynny fe wnaeth Llywodraeth Cymru ddweud y byddan nhw'n cyfrannu £2m tuag at y prosiect, gyda rhybudd y byddai'n rhaid i weddill yr arian ddod o ffynonellau preifat.
Ond fe wnaeth y datblygwyr ofyn am £50m, yn ogystal â gwarant ariannol gan y llywodraeth ar gyfer cost y cynllun.
Ar ôl i'r llywodraeth fynnu yn 2016 na fyddan nhw'n gwarantu holl gost y cynllun, fe wnaeth y datblygwyr ddychwelyd gyda chynllun newydd.
Mae'r prosiect wedi rhannu barn yn wleidyddol, gyda rhai yn ei alw'n "risg enfawr" ac eraill yn credu ei fod yn "gyfle unwaith mewn canrif".
Codwyd cwestiynau ynglŷn â dichonoldeb y cynllun, yn ogystal â'r effaith ar yr amgylchedd.
Cafodd ymchwiliad i ddefnydd arian cyhoeddus ei gynnal gan archwilwyr, ac fe wnaethon nhw ganfod "diffygion" cyllido, gyda £9.3m o arian cyhoeddus wedi ei wario ac £1m wedi mynd i gwmni prif weithredwr y datblygiad.
Gyda'r oedi'n parhau, mynnodd y llywodraeth ar ddechrau'r flwyddyn y byddai'n rhaid i'r datblygwyr ddangos fod ganddyn nhw gefnogaeth ariannol os oedd y cynllun am fwrw yn ei blaen.
Ym mis Mehefin dywedodd Ysgrifennydd yr Economi, Ken Skates y byddai penderfyniad yn cael ei wneud yn fuan, a hynny wedi iddo fynnu na fyddai'n "torri corneli" wrth asesu'r cais am gefnogaeth ariannol.
Yr wythnos hon fe wnaeth swyddogion o Lywodraeth Cymru ymddangos gerbron pwyllgor o Aelodau Cynulliad oedd yn ymchwilio i wariant y llywodraeth ar y prosiect.
Daeth hynny wedi i ffrae godi pan wnaeth dau swyddog dynnu allan rhag rhoi tystiolaeth mewn sesiwn flaenorol.
Dywedodd Brian Morgan, athro mewn entrepreneuriaeth ym Mhrifysgol Met Caerdydd, fod risg gyda'r rhan fwyaf o fuddsoddiadau preifat ond bod hefyd "risg os oes dim byd yn cael ei wneud".
"Mae pobl wedi cael llond bol o'r diffyg buddsoddi a'r diffyg rhagolygon ar gyfer twf busnes yn y rhan honno o Gymru, a nawr yw'r amser i weithredu," meddai.
Beirniadu'r penderfyniad mae'r gwrthbleidiau.
Yn ôl Adam Price, llefarydd Plaid Cymru ar yr economi bod hi'n "syfrdanol" ei bod hi wedi cymryd "saith mlynedd a dros £9m o arian cyhoeddus i ddod i'r penderfyniad".
Dywedodd bod y llywodraeth wedi "gwrthod y cynnig mwyaf ar gyfer buddsoddiad preifat yn hanes Cymru."
Dweud y bydd trigolion Blaenau Gwent wedi "siomi" gyda'r newyddion mae Russell George, llefarydd y Ceidwadwyr ar yr economi.
Ychwanegodd bod hi'n achos o bryder bod un o swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru wedi dweud wrth bwyllgor Cynulliad fod y prosiect yn "barod" i'w chyflawni.
Ond mae'r Aelod Seneddol Ceidwadol David Davies wedi cefnogi'r llywodraeth gan ddweud ar twitter bod Ken Skates wedi gwneud y penderfyniad iawn "yn sgil craffu manwl ar y cynllun busnes."
The club's current home at the 11,450-capacity Vitality Stadium is leased from property company Structadene.
Chief executive Neill Blake said the club would "not be held to ransom" over a price to purchase the ground or "develop a ground they do not own".
Bournemouth, in their second top-flight season, hope to have a new stadium built in time for the 2020-21 season.
"We feel we have no other option but to find a new site," Blake added. "We are working closely with Bournemouth Borough Council to identify a suitable location."
The Cherries have played at their current ground, formerly known as Dean Court, since 1910, but it was sold to Structadene in 2005 in a sale-and-leaseback deal.
The council has previously stated it would not welcome a "significantly bigger stadium" in the Kings Park area of the town.
Its chief executive Bill Cotton said it will do "all it can to help the club in their search for potential sites".
A planning application to expand the ground's South Stand, increasing capacity by 3,000, is due to go before the council's planning committee in January.
Former Ireland captain O'Driscoll played in the first two games for the British and Irish Lions, but was left out for the deciding match last July.
Lions coach Gatland came in for fierce criticism, but the team he selected won the third Test in Sydney 41-16.
"I do not have any animosity," said O'Driscoll on Tuesday.
"What happened, happened and I do not have any ill will towards Warren.
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"I think, when it was raw afterwards, your emotions are a bit different and time does heal all wounds.
"What I will look towards is trying to be involved in a team that potentially can beat his team.
"But that is next week - we have a game this week."
O'Driscoll was speaking at an Ireland pre-Six Nations media conference in Dublin ahead of Sunday's opening game at home to Scotland.
His appearance in front of journalists this week is an indication that he is unlikely to face the media again next week in the run-up to the game against Gatland's Wales side.
The legendary Ireland centre's thoughts on Gatland appear to have softened since last summer.
In September, the 35-year-old admitted he was still hurting over his surprise omission.
"When you are left with disappointment that way, you can't but feel a little bit of resentment," he said.
On Tuesday, O'Driscoll made it absolutely clear that this Six Nations was definitely his last.
"Nothing has changed. Just because it is the last one, it doesn't add any more incentive. As a professional, you are expected to deliver.
"It is about treating the competition for what it is - a brilliant one and a difficult one to win."
So far, the only company to have publicly expressed an interest is Liberty Steel, owned by Sanjeev Gupta.
Thousands of workers in England and Wales risk losing their jobs if a deal cannot be struck.
However, the BBC understands that a City investment firm will agree to buy Tata's Scunthorpe plant on Monday.
Greybull Capital has been in talks to buy the business for several months and is expected to invest up to £400m.
The move would safeguard more than 4,000 jobs but workers are being asked to accept a pay cut and less generous pension arrangements.
Meanwhile, Mr Gupta said in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph that he felt there was "a very clear opportunity to turn things around, make money and create a sustainable business".
But he added: "I feel passionately about this and would like to do it, but I am not married to it.
"It is too big a deal for us to get wrong. It could put the whole company at risk."
Tata is known to want a quick sale. Business Secretary Sajid Javid said last week after talks in India that Tata had told him it would allow a "reasonable amount of time" for the sale process.
He added that he expected other interested parties to come forward once the formal sale process had begun.
Sajid Javid was meeting Tata chairman Cyrus Mistry for the first time since the firm announced the sale a week ago.
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Mr Javid, who was on a business trip to Australia when Tata first announced it was planning to sell its UK steelworks, is under pressure over his handling of the crisis.
The business secretary has admitted he was caught unaware by Tata's announcement, telling the BBC that while he had known the firm was reviewing its UK operations, the firm had gone "much further than we expected".
Unions have accused the business secretary of "taking his eye off the ball" and have called for him to stand down if a buyer for the steelworks is not found.
Tata Steel directly employs 15,000 workers in the UK, across plants in Port Talbot, Rotherham, Corby and Shotton, and supports thousands of other jobs.
German Group ThyssenKrupp has also been reported to be interested in acquiring part of Tata's UK steel operations.
Tata Steel has said there is "no fixed timeline" for the sale process, but has stressed that urgency is needed to avoid "a long period of uncertainty" for employees and customers.
The steel industry crisis has been driven by falling prices and a global oversupply. In the UK, high energy costs and cheaper Chinese imports have exacerbated the issue.
The body was found on Monday during a planned search by Gardaí (Irish police) investigating the disappearance of 29-year-old Linda Christian.
Ms Christian has been missing from Blanchardstown since 24 June.
Gardaí have not yet made public the identity of the body which was discovered in undergrowth in Coolmine Woods shortly after 14:00 local time.
The scene, between Clonsilla Road and Snugborough Road, was cordoned off and the state pathologist was notified.
According to Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Gardaí have committed "all of the resources of a murder inquiry" to the case as they await confirmation of the cause of the woman's death.
Tipuric, 27, has not played since suffering concussion playing for Wales against Italy on 19 March.
The 2013 British and Irish Lion missed Wales' summer tour of New Zealand as a result of the injury.
Ospreys will be without a number internationals who did play on the tour, including Alun Wyn Jones, Rhys Webb, Dan Lydiate and Dan Biggar.
Tipuric fell heavily at a lineout in the 64-17 Six Nations win over Italy and missed the remainder of the 2015-16 season.
He returned to training with the region in early July and said at the time: "I'm feeling healthy and enjoying pre-season."
Ospreys (v Belgium): Dafydd Howells; Tom Williams, Joe Thomas, Jonathan Spratt (Capt), Keelan Giles; Luke Price, Matthew Aubrey; Gareth Thomas, Hugh Gustafson, Rhodri Jones, Rhys Jones, Rory Thornton, Josh Cole, Justin Tipuric, Rob McCusker.
Replacements: Alex Dunham, Rowan Jenkins, Ma'afu Fia, Mitchell Walsh, Tyler Ardron, Joe Bearman, Tom Grabham, Josh Matavesi, Ashley Beck, Morgan Williams.
He failed to win sufficient support among delegates at the annual party congress, clearing the way for incumbent General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to remain in post.
Correspondents say the political career of Mr Dung, who oversaw 10 years of economic reform, is in effect over.
The new leadership of the Communist Party has yet to be finalised.
The congress concludes on Wednesday.
Mr Dung's name had been put forward by delegates to be a member of the next central committee, giving him a chance to challenge Nguyen Phu Trong.
But the party congress voted on Tuesday to accept the prime minister's decision to withdraw his nomination after he failed to win enough backing among the 1,500 delegates.
"Dung is not on the list," a government source told the AFP news agency late on Monday.
The decision brings weeks of political infighting to a close. Agreement on the party leadership is traditionally reached well in advance.
Conservatives, led by Mr Trong, are concerned that Vietnam is abandoning its socialist past under Mr Dung.
During his 10 years in office Mr Dung has driven the reforms which have seen Vietnam grow quickly as it has been integrated into the global economy.
However, conservatives have criticised the speed of the reforms and rising corruption.
The Communist Party congress is held every five years in the one-party state.
Behind closed doors, the 1,510 members will nominate the party's general secretary and the next president and prime minister.
Mr Dung is seen as modern, and friendly towards the US. He has also gained popularity domestically with strong anti-China rhetoric when it comes to disputed territory in the South China Sea.
Mr Trong is seen to be more friendly towards China - Vietnam's largest trading partner.
UN diplomats said they had been told by sources in the capital, Juba, that the death toll was between 400 and 500.
South Sudan has seen two days of clashes following a reported coup attempt against President Salva Kiir.
Fugitive opposition leader Riek Machar has denied government accusations that he tried to seize power.
"What took place in Juba was a misunderstanding between presidential guards within their division, it was not a coup attempt," he told the Sudan Tribune, a Paris-based news website, in an interview published on Wednesday.
Mr Machar, a former South-Sudanese vice-president who fell out with President Kiir in July, said he had no knowledge of or connection with any coup attempt.
President Kiir has said a group of soldiers supporting Mr Machar had tried to take power by force on Sunday night, but were defeated.
Amid continuing clashes on Monday and Tuesday, the government said 10 senior political figures, including a former finance minister, had been arrested.
Details of the fighting have been sketchy, but a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on Tuesday was told that the clashes were "apparently largely along ethnic lines".
French UN ambassador Gerard Araud, who holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council, said up to 20,000 people had taken refuge in the UN mission in Juba.
He said the council had received only "patchy information" in a briefing given by UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous.
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"Some reports are speaking of hundreds of casualties. For the moment we can't confirm this, but in any case it is a heavy toll," Mr Araud told the BBC.
He said the conflict had "the potential of a civil war" between the two main ethnic groups, the Dinka and the Nuer.
However, the governor of Unity State, Simon Kun Pouch, was quoted on the government website as saying that the conflict had nothing to do with tribes.
"There are people out there saying what has happened is between the Dinka and the Nuer tribesmen. We the leaders of this country would want to state here that this is not true," he said.
"If you see the people going with Dr Riek [Machar], some are Dinkas, some are Chol, Nuer and other tribes," he added.
The US has ordered all its non-emergency embassy staff to leave the country immediately.
President Kiir said the clashes began when uniformed personnel opened fire at a meeting of the governing party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM).
Fighting then continued into Monday when the government said it was back in full control.
However, fresh gunfire erupted on Tuesday near the presidential palace and many other areas of Juba.
Government officials say they are hunting for Mr Machar, who is believed to be in hiding.
Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth told the BBC that his whereabouts have been unclear since the start of fighting on Sunday.
He said Mr Machar - who leads a dissident faction within the SPLM - was thought to have escaped with some troops.
On Tuesday, the government said former Finance Minister Kosti Manibe, former Justice Minister John Luk Jok and former Interior Minister Gier Chuang Aluong were among the 10 people arrested.
Many were members of the cabinet that was sacked in its entirety in July.
South Sudan has struggled to achieve a stable government since becoming independent from Sudan in 2011.
The independence referendum was intended to end a decade-long conflict, led by the SPLM, against the north.
But the oil-rich country remains ethnically and politically divided, with many armed groups active.
The league leaders took a two-goal lead within nine minutes thanks to headers from Mario Mandzukic and Chiellini.
Czech youngster Patrik Schick pulled one back for Sampdoria on 57 minutes on his first Serie A start.
Miralem Pjanic smashed home for Juve and Chiellini headed home a fourth from a cross by Juan Cuadrado, who had also set up Mandzukic's opener.
Second-placed Roma remain within two points of Juve after beating Sassuolo 3-1.
Edin Dzeko scored twice to become the first player to score 10 Serie A goals this season.
Match ends, Juventus 4, Sampdoria 1.
Second Half ends, Juventus 4, Sampdoria 1.
Attempt missed. Sami Khedira (Juventus) header from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Leonardo Bonucci.
Kwadwo Asamoah (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luis Muriel (Sampdoria).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Dennis Praet (Sampdoria) because of an injury.
Luca Cigarini (Sampdoria) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alex Sandro (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luca Cigarini (Sampdoria).
Goal! Juventus 4, Sampdoria 1. Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Juan Cuadrado with a cross following a set piece situation.
Mario Lemina (Juventus) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ricardo Álvarez (Sampdoria).
Foul by Alex Sandro (Juventus).
Fabio Quagliarella (Sampdoria) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Luis Muriel (Sampdoria) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Luca Cigarini.
Substitution, Juventus. Kwadwo Asamoah replaces Miralem Pjanic.
Sami Khedira (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Milan Skriniar (Sampdoria).
Foul by Mario Lemina (Juventus).
Ricardo Álvarez (Sampdoria) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Juan Cuadrado (Juventus) because of an injury.
Foul by Juan Cuadrado (Juventus).
Dennis Praet (Sampdoria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Sampdoria. Jacopo Sala tries a through ball, but Fabio Quagliarella is caught offside.
Juan Cuadrado (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dennis Praet (Sampdoria).
Attempt missed. Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Miralem Pjanic with a cross.
Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Vasco Regini.
Attempt saved. Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Miralem Pjanic with a through ball.
Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luis Muriel (Sampdoria).
Attempt blocked. Fabio Quagliarella (Sampdoria) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Luca Cigarini.
Substitution, Sampdoria. Filip Djuricic replaces Edgar Barreto.
Foul by Juan Cuadrado (Juventus).
Vasco Regini (Sampdoria) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Juventus. Mario Lemina replaces Claudio Marchisio.
Attempt missed. Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Alex Sandro.
Attempt missed. Luis Muriel (Sampdoria) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Edgar Barreto.
The council is to stop directly providing the services to save £2.8m in the next financial year, rising to £4.5m a year until 2021.
More than 16,000 people have signed a petition against the cuts.
A group of campaigners protested outside the council meeting at which the savings were approved.
The authority said its research showed only one out of every five young people in Staffordshire had used a county council-funded youth facility.
Cabinet member for community safety, Mark Sutton, said the authority wanted to focus more on "community-based activities".
"Young people simply no longer want to attend a traditional youth club," he said.
"This fresh approach is about improving services in the community and increasing access to schemes such as the Duke of Edinburgh which really support young people's aspirations around education and jobs."
The clubs could be closed down or run by other organisations, the council said.
The Unite union said 50 full-time and 350 part-time workers could be made redundant.
Protester Alex Hilton said: "The impact for young people will be detrimental.
"This service has helped me and many of my friends find work and helped with other issues whether through youth clubs or one-on-one counselling.
"It's a real shame because we're now going to see a limit put on how people grow up and move into the working world."
The council said it needed to save £109m from its overall budget over the next five years.
Irish coach Joe Schmidt revealed O'Brien sustained a grade two hamstring tear in the weekend defeat by France.
Wing Dave Kearney is "very likely" to miss the game with a shoulder injury.
Mike McCarthy and Jared Payne are doubts but fly-half Johnny Sexton is set to be available after suffering a "whip-lash" injury in Paris.
Ireland's defeat, in a bruising Stade de France encounter, came with a high injury toll.
Kearney sustained an AC joint injury while McCarthy was stretchered off with concussion and will go through the return to play protocol.
Schmidt said the the Leinster lock will also be assessed by a specialist due to the "nature of the impact".
Ulster centre Payne has a grade one hamstring strain and will be monitored ahead of the Twickenham clash against the Six Nations leaders.
Sexton provided some good news for Schmidt, who said the Leinster player was "feeling a lot better" 48 hours after being forced off injured.
Schmidt added on Monday that he felt "huge disappointment and frustration" following the Paris loss which leaves the reigning champions in fourth place.
The US rating agency said mounting political turmoil and the difficulties faced by President Dilma Rousseff's government in tackling growing debt was behind the decision.
Brazil was awarded an investment-grade rating by S&P in April 2008, when the country's economy was on the rise.
However, sliding commodity prices and austerity have created a recession.
Ms Rousseff's left-wing government had imposed austerity measures in a bid to avoid such a downgrade.
S&P downgraded Brazil - Latin America's largest economy - sooner than had been expected.
The move - a major setback for Finance Minister Joaquim Levy's attempts to shore up public finances - is likely to rock the Brazilian stock market on Thursday.
S&P cut Brazil's rating from BBB-minus to BB-plus, which denotes substantial credit risk.
The outlook on the new rating remains negative, which means further downgrades could soon follow.
Most analysts had forecast Brazil would eventually lose its hard-earned investment grade - as all agencies signalled future downgrades.
But few expected it to come as early as this year. Standard & Poor's was the first to do it; now everyone will be watching how Moody's and Fitch react.
Brazil has faced a string of very bad economic news recently. The current recession is expected to be deeper and longer than expected, with no recovery in sight before 2017.
And then there is politics.
President Dilma Rousseff's main solution - an austerity programme aimed at getting inflation under control - has been under attack from all sides, including allied parties and officials within her own government.
To ordinary Brazilians, who are already suffering with rising unemployment and prices, this news could not have come at a worse time.
Andre Leite, an analyst at TAG Investimento, said that Brazil's rating was now lower than Russia.
"If another rating agency also lowers Brazil, then very probably we're going to see institutional investors obliged to pull their money out," he said.
The government said last month that that the economy was officially in recession.
S&P said: "The political challenges Brazil faces have continued to mount, weighing on the government's ability and willingness to submit a 2016 budget to Congress" that met economic targets.
"The negative outlook reflects what we believe is a greater than one-in-three likelihood of a further downgrade due to a further deterioration of Brazil's fiscal position," the agency said.
Planning minister Nelson Barbosa said the country would recover its investment-grade status when the economy returned to growth.
He said the government was working on new proposals to balance its accounts and revising programs to tackle the budget deficit.
"Brazil will continue to honour all its obligations," he said.
Rex Tillerson said Russia's actions had damaged the relationship, but added it's not "useful to just cut everything off over one single issue".
The US will respond by 1 September to Russia's expulsion of 755 staff from the US embassy in Moscow, he said.
US intelligence agencies believe the Kremlin tried to help Donald Trump.
Moscow vehemently denies any efforts to influence the US election, and retaliatory sanctions passed by Congress last month - against President Trump's wishes - have sparked a tit-for-tat.
Mr Tillerson told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov there was now "serious mistrust between our two countries and that we simply have to find some way to deal with that".
After speaking to Mr Lavrov on the sidelines of the ASEAN meeting in the Philippines, he said: "We have our differences, we're going to have to continue to find a way to address those."
He said he met Mr Lavrov to "help them understand how serious this incident had been and how seriously it damaged the relationship."
Mr Tillerson also indicated that the two countries may be able to come together to begin discussions on violence in Eastern Ukraine.
The comments by the former CEO of Exxon Mobil come less than a week after US President Donald Trump signed into law the new legislation that imposes sanctions on Russia for both election meddling and military actions in Crimea and Ukraine.
The law also prevents Mr Trump from lifting sanctions or returning Russian diplomatic compounds in the US that were seized by the Obama administration in retaliation for the alleged meddling.
The president has failed to singularly point the finger at Moscow for the hacking of Democratic Party emails during the final stages of the election campaign.
And he has condemned the investigations, which are also looking at whether his campaign team colluded with Moscow, as a witch hunt.
After signing the bill, Mr Trump decried it, arguing that it limited his ability to negotiate with Russia.
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Not that long ago in terms of time but a relative eternity in the lives of these two clubs.
That semi-final was the strangest kind of procession for Ronny Deila's team. On the face of it, a 2-0 victory might suggest that it was relatively close, when it was not.
A two-goal deficit might hint that the gap between them at that point wasn't that large, when, in reality, it was.
Everybody knew the score. Rangers avoided a humiliation, but there was no denying the difference in class and feel-good. The clubs were worlds apart.
Now that the sides have been drawn together in the semi-final of the Scottish Cup, back at Hampden in mid-April, the starting pistol has sounded on the countdown. It will be exhaustive, as ever.
When the draw was made, you didn't know what to reach for first - the telephone or the tin hat. Both will be useful in the six-week build-up to this thing.
While Glasgow football's own version of a Victorian Odditorium begins to unfold, it's safe to say that the managers of the three other clubs left in the draw will be relieved.
Mixu Paatelainen, of Dundee United, will be left in relative peace between now and then to focus on trying to perform a grand feat of escapology from the foot of the Premiership.
His team will face either Alan Stubbs' Hibernian or John Hughes' Inverness Caledonian Thistle, who drew on Sunday and will replay on 16 March.
Paatelainen and one from Stubbs and Hughes will have a low-key journey to their own semi-final compared to Deila and Mark Warburton.
As the semi-finals approach, they may gripe a little about not getting the same profile as Rangers and Celtic, but they surely won't envy Warburton and Deila and the unending circus they are about to be pitched into.
Quite a lot has changed for Rangers and Celtic since Hampden in February last year, when Leigh Griffiths and Kris Commons scored the decisive goals.
Rangers, in those dog days, were being managed, in the short-term, by Kenny McDowall, a guy who spent most of his brief time in the Ibrox hot seat fumbling around for the ejector button.
There was rancour and mayhem off the pitch and confusion and failure on it. In their 10 games preceding the Celtic semi-final, Rangers drew with Alloa Athletic at Ibrox in the Championship and then lost to them in the Petrofac Cup. They also lost to Hearts, Queen of the South and Hibs - on a cumulative score of 8-0.
Ally McCoist had gone on gardening leave. The team that played Celtic had Steve Simonsen in goal with Ian Black, Kyle Hutton and Fraser Aird in the midfield.
After they got beaten by Celtic, their next two games were against Raith Rovers at Ibrox in the Scottish Cup and against Hibs in the Championship, again at Ibrox. They lost both of them.
Then they had a win against Raith Rovers followed by five successive draws - Falkirk, Cowdenbeath, Queen of the South, Livingston and Alloa. Stuart McCall was in charge by then - their third manager of the season.
Celtic, meanwhile, were motoring nicely. Their win over Rangers was of one of eight in a row. That run was only stopped by Inter Milan, in the Europa League knockout stages.
Deila's side drew a thrilling first leg 3-3 at home and were admirable in defeat at the San Siro, their 1-0 loss coming late, despite playing with 10 men for much of the night after Virgil van Dijk's red card.
Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay-Steven had just come in from Dundee United. Things looked promising for Deila, but things changed, in both sides of the city.
Now it is Celtic's manager who is unpopular and a little haunted. Now it is Celtic who are faltering in the league and drawing the heat from their supporters. Now it is Celtic fans who are calling for change in ever louder numbers.
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Their own team, against Rangers last year, had Van Dijk and Jason Denayer in the heart of the defence where now uncertainty rules.
The midfield had Stefan Johansen, on his way to the player of the year award. Johansen has been a shadow of his previous self this season.
Celtic had Griffiths, but they also had Anthony Stokes and John Guidetti. Now they have Colin Kazim-Richards and Carlton Cole. Kieran Tierney is the one upgrade on 13 months ago.
They have signed vast amounts of players - particularly midfield players - but their policy is unfocused and team is unconvincing. Deila has admitted he doesn't know what his best starting line-up is.
The gap between Rangers and Celtic has narrowed, but until they meet, we won't know what kind of margin we're talking about.
What you can say about the Ibrox club is that the mad turbulence has gone - save for the odd intervention by shareholder and Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley - and that peace reigns.
Warburton has brought authority. He has improved the team in all departments. They haven't had many setbacks this season, but it's instructive to look at what they did after each one.
The wounding 3-1 League Cup loss to St Johnstone at Ibrox in September was followed by five straight wins. November and December were testing months - a loss to Hibs, draws with Livingston and Morton and then another loss to Falkirk had some of us wondering about their mettle - but then they beat Hibs 4-2 and won 11 of their next 13 games and drew the other two.
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Warburton has instilled character where before there was huge mental weakness. He has seen off Hibs in the Championship race and, on Saturday, his players thundered past Dundee and into the Scottish Cup semi-final.
They put four goals on Paul Hartley's team, who sit fifth in the Premiership and who had, just three days before, taken a draw, and almost a win, from Celtic Park.
Celtic, and not Dundee, remain the acid test of Rangers' improvement, but the test doesn't look as exacting as it was 13 months ago.
That's the hunch. We'll know more about the truth of that after the craziness of the build-up ends and the football finally begins.
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It's been a shade over 13 months since Rangers and Celtic last met - in the League Cup semi-final at Hampden on 1 February 2015.
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They face Cowell's Britain's Got Talent co-star David Walliams alongside his X Factor colleague Cheryl Fernandez-Versini in a new TV judge category.
Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Geordie Shore and Celebrity Juice will compete for the new multichannel prize.
The awards will take place on 21 January at the O2 in London.
Acting stars Dame Maggie Smith, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Lancashire and Sheridan Smith are up for best drama performance for their roles in Downton Abbey, Sherlock, Happy Valley and Cilla respectively.
Downton, Sherlock and Cilla also go head-to-head for best drama, alongside Doctor Who.
NTA favourites Ant and Dec are nominated in the entertainment category for Saturday Night Takeway and I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, along with Through the Keyhole and Celebrity Big Brother.
Gogglebox is among the runners for best factual show, while X Factor, Strictly Come Dancing, The Voice UK and Britain's Got Talent will do battle for best talent show.
Ratings hit Mrs Brown's Boys takes on Benidorm, Outnumbered and The Big Bang Theory in the coveted comedy category.
Dermot O'Leary will present the awards live on ITV.
Last year's winners included Doctor Who, Coronation Street and Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs.
The NTAs are voted for by the public.
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The Great British Bake-Off's Mary Berry is pitted against X Factor's Simon Cowell at this year's National Television Awards (NTAs).
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The former Paralympic gold-medallist swimmer also claimed another place for GB Para-canoe at next year's Rio Games.
Likewise, Rob Oliver sealed a Rio spot for Britain in the KL3 class with a silver in his final in Milan.
GB disability athletes have now booked four places in Brazil next September.
The victory for Chippington was her ninth Para-canoe world title since she switched to the sport from swimming.
Starting in Seoul in 1988, the athlete, who suffers from a condition affecting the spinal cord, competed in five consecutive Paralympic Games as a swimmer, winning two golds in Atlanta in 1996.
"This has been the toughest of them all with a lot of pressure in the lead up to it," Chippington told BBC Sport.
"Getting the boat place for Rio is another weight off my mind and I'm pretty proud of myself to have qualified the boat."
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Jeanette Chippington won Great Britain's second gold medal at the Canoe Sprint World Championships with victory in the Para-canoe KL1 200m final.
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Ricardo Quaresma scored the winning spot-kick after Jakub Blaszczykowski's effort was saved by Rui Patricio.
Robert Lewandowski had fired Poland ahead in the second minute with teenager Renato Sanches equalising via a deflected strike.
Portugal's semi-final opponents will be either Wales or Belgium.
Remarkably, Portugal have reached the last four without winning a game in normal time following three draws in a group in which they finished third and an extra-time win over Croatia in the last 16.
No side has ever got this far in a European Championship without winning a match inside 90 minutes.
Portugal have also only led a match for 22 minutes during the whole tournament, while Poland have not trailed for a single minute.
However, for a second dour and conservative knockout game running, Fernando Santos' side did what was required when it mattered.
Neither goalkeeper came close to saving the first three penalties from either side.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Sanches and Joao Moutinho all scored excellent penalties for Portugal, with Lewandowski, Arkadiusz Milik and Kamil Glik following suit for Poland.
However, after Nani had put Portugal 4-3 ahead, Patricio dived full length to his left to palm away Blaszczykowski's effort with one hand.
Lukasz Fabianski got his fingertips to Quaresma's decisive effort but could not prevent it finding the roof of the net.
For much of the game, the overriding image of Ronaldo was of him slapping his thigh and screaming towards the French sky in frustration.
Barring a few exceptional moments - his two goals against Hungary and assisting Quaresma's winner to see off Croatia - this has been a disappointing tournament for the finest European player of his generation.
He was barely recognisable from the figure who has terrorised defences across the continent for more than a decade as a series of scuffed and miscued strikes took him from 31 to 36 efforts for the tournament without an addition to his two group-stage goals.
Worst of all was a couple of air shots - one from a low Nani cross, the other following a chipped ball over the defence and into the box by substitute Joao Moutinho.
He should have had a first-half penalty, when he was clumsily shoved in the back in the box by Michal Pazdan, but his anguished appeals were waved away by referee Felix Brych.
However, he led from the front in the shootout, firing home the first penalty with aplomb and remains in the tournament, unlike Poland's own star man.
Having scored 13 goals in qualifying and 42 in 51 appearances for club Bayern Munich in 2015-16, Lewandowski had spent much of Poland's four games prior to Thursday being frustrated, through both fair and foul means from opponents - he is the most fouled man in the tournament.
It was only a matter of time, though, before a striker of his class made an impression on the tournament, although few would have imagined Portugal to be so accommodating so early in Marseille.
Southampton full-back Cedric Soares was at fault, allowing a cross-field ball to evade him and reach Kamil Grosicki, whose low cross was struck home first-time by his captain with just one minute and 40 seconds on the clock.
It is the second fastest goal in Euros history - beaten only by Dmitri Kirichenko's 65-second strike for Russia against Greece in 2004 - and ends a 645-minute goal-drought for Lewandowski in the finals of this competition.
Now brimming with confidence, the 27-year-old then beat Pepe to the ball in the box but saw his low shot saved by Patricio as Poland took the game to their opponents in the first 25 minutes.
Unfortunately, they were unable to build on this, offering precious little in attack and relying instead on a resolute defence that has conceded just twice in five games (two of which have gone to extra-time) to see give them through to the shoot-out.
It has been some year for Sanches.
The teenager only made his first-team debut for Benfica in November, but since then he has made his international bow, claimed a Primeira Liga winners' medal and agreed to join Bayern Munich for £27.5m.
He now has a full-debut international goal to his name, making him - at 18 years and 316 days - the youngest goalscorer in the knockout stages of a European Championship.
Picking up the ball wide right he played a superb one-two with Nani before finding the net with a well-struck shot from the edge of the box that took a deflection off Grzegorz Krychowiak.
However, barring an extra-time pitch-invader, this was to be the last real moment of excitement until the shootout.
Portugal goalscorer Sanches: "It is a wonderful moment for the team and for me for scoring. We have been working very hard and we have been doing our best. People criticise us but we don't care because we are in the semis."
Poland coach Adam Nawalka: "It's definitely a tough moment for us. The players put a lot of heart into this match and played bravely throughout this tournament. We haven't lost a match - we were knocked out on penalties. We have to look with optimism to the future and the European qualifiers. There will soon be time for detailed analysis but this defeat hurts."
Wales and Belgium face each other in Lille on Friday to decide Portugal's last-four opponent in Lyon on Wednesday, 6 July.
Match ends, Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(5).
Penalty Shootout ends, Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(5).
Goal! Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(5). Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Penalty saved! Jakub Blaszczykowski (Poland) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(4). Nani (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Goal! Poland 1(3), Portugal 1(3). Kamil Glik (Poland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Poland 1(2), Portugal 1(3). João Moutinho (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Poland 1(2), Portugal 1(2). Arkadiusz Milik (Poland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Poland 1(1), Portugal 1(2). Renato Sanches (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Goal! Poland 1(1), Portugal 1(1). Robert Lewandowski (Poland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal! Poland 1, Portugal 1(1). Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Poland 1, Portugal 1.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Poland 1, Portugal 1.
Attempt missed. Lukasz Piszczek (Poland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Bartosz Kapustka (Poland) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tomasz Jodlowiec.
Arkadiusz Milik (Poland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danilo Pereira (Portugal).
Corner, Portugal. Conceded by Artur Jedrzejczyk.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match (Poland).
Corner, Poland. Conceded by Pepe.
Grzegorz Krychowiak (Poland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by João Moutinho (Portugal).
Attempt missed. Jakub Blaszczykowski (Poland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Tomasz Jodlowiec.
Attempt blocked. Bartosz Kapustka (Poland) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked. Assisted by Arkadiusz Milik.
Second Half Extra Time begins Poland 1, Portugal 1.
First Half Extra Time ends, Poland 1, Portugal 1.
Attempt saved. Nani (Portugal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cédric Soares.
Foul by Tomasz Jodlowiec (Poland).
João Moutinho (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Arkadiusz Milik (Poland) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jakub Blaszczykowski.
Grzegorz Krychowiak (Poland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nani (Portugal).
Attempt missed. Nani (Portugal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.
Substitution, Poland. Tomasz Jodlowiec replaces Krzysztof Maczynski.
Attempt blocked. Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Renato Sanches.
Substitution, Portugal. Danilo Pereira replaces William Carvalho.
Attempt blocked. Renato Sanches (Portugal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.
First Half Extra Time begins Poland 1, Portugal 1.
Second Half ends, Poland 1, Portugal 1.
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Portugal reached the semi-finals of the European Championship for the fourth time in five tournaments with a penalty shootout victory over Poland.
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The trial heard Sulaiman Sillah, of Bateman Road, Leicester, had argued at a party with Lauric Lebato, of north London, in February.
The fight continued in Albion Street and Sillah, 20 chased Mr Lebato, aged 22, before stabbing him in the stomach.
After being found guilty of murder, Sillah was sentenced to a minimum of 24 years.
Sillah was also found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm and possessing an offensive weapon in relation to a separate, unconnected attack in the city in December 2016.
Sheriff Adekunle Oluwa, 20, of Upperton Road, Leicester, was also found guilty by the jury of violent disorder in connection with the February fight and was jailed for 30 months.
Det Ch Insp David Swift-Rollinson, of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit's Major Crime team, said: "Lauric's family, girlfriend and friends have been left devastated by Lauric's death.
"For them, no sentence the judge can impose will bring him back, but I hope the jury's verdicts will help them to put the events of that day behind them."
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A man has been jailed for a knife murder during a street fight in Leicester.
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The articles caused a storm of protest in Britain: the Russians were claiming journalists and editors at the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the BBC worked directly with MI6.
The Soviets' evidence for all this? A cache of documents they claimed were MI6 memos, and which looked to have been photographed with a miniature spy camera.
One showed a table listing each publication, the journalist or editor MI6 had as its contact there, their codename and the codename of their MI6 "handler".
Another discussed the procedure for the BBC to broadcast prearranged tunes or sentences that could be used by MI6 officers in the field to prove they were acting on behalf of the British government.
At the time, the claims were dismissed as nonsense by all the newspapers and journalists concerned. The head of the BBC's External Service - later renamed the World Service - called the articles "a fantastic example of secret police propaganda".
It is true that during WWII the BBC had broadcast coded messages to British secret agents behind enemy lines, and that some journalists had worked with MI6 in producing propaganda. But could such activities have really continued into the post-war peacetime period?
When examined by BBC Radio 4's Document programme, the format, language and tone of the documents all rang true, but establishing whether they were genuine was not simple: MI6 never discusses its operations or declassifies files and all the people named are dead.
But a clear consensus emerged among espionage historians and former correspondents contacted by the programme: despite all the denials, the memos were genuine.
"These are genuine MI6 documents," says Stephen Dorril, author of a history of MI6, adding that former MI6 officer Anthony Cavendish had told him before his death that the organisation used journalists in the Cold War.
A clue as to how the Russians got hold of them lay in the date of one of the documents - September 1959.
The memos were most likely passed to the Soviets by George Blake, a KGB agent working within MI6, Mr Dorril believes.
At the time, Blake was often the night duty officer at MI6 headquarters in London, and he would roam the corridors with his Minox camera photographing every file he could find, before passing the films to his KGB controller.
Prof Christopher Andrew, MI5's official historian and an expert in Soviet espionage techniques, suggested an even more intriguing theory.
Blake might have originally photographed the documents and passed them over, but the Russians could then have consulted the greatest double agent of all time, Kim Philby, about how they should be used.
Before he had defected to Moscow in 1963, Philby had been under suspicion by MI6 and had been working part-time as a journalist for the Observer and the Economist in Beirut.
Philby had been employed at the Observer by the paper's editor, David Astor - who was one of those named by the Soviet press as an MI6 asset.
Mr Astor always denied he was a member of MI6, but the circumstances which led to him being named suggest Philby's involvement.
"What Philby was very good at was identifying those things which would be, from the point of view of the British public, the most effective propaganda," Prof Andrew said.
Izvestia's allegations created a brief media storm in the UK in late 1968, but the denials were effective enough that the charges made little impact on how the British public viewed Fleet Street.
Radio 4: Document
But at least some of the journalists and editors named by the Russians did have links with MI6.
Phillip Knightley, the Sunday Times journalist, said it was well known among the press pack that his colleague Henry Brandon, who was named by Izvestia, worked for MI6.
Mr Knightley also said that one of the others named by the Soviets, the Daily Telegraph's managing editor Roy Pawley, had arranged journalistic cover for MI6 officers.
He said Mr Pawley was "notorious" in Fleet Street for his MI6 connection.
The historian and biographer Sir Alistair Horne also confirmed to Document that he had run three agents for MI6 while working for the Daily Telegraph in Germany in the 1950s, and that Mr Pawley had been aware of his role.
"A whole new generation has the impression the Cold War wasn't serious," Mr Horne told Document. "For those of us who lived through it, it was. We felt we were at war."
The BBC's official historian Jean Seaton said the claim that the BBC had broadcast prearranged messages during the post-war period was "very plausible".
The Soviets naturally put the worst slant possible on the memos, but in the main they were telling the truth: during the Cold War, MI6 did have a network of journalists and editors embedded in the British press.
According to Stephen Dorril, the documents offer a rare glimpse into the workings of MI6, and open up a new field of research.
"We really need to go back and look in detail at some of the key events of the Cold War," he says. "Look at the newspapers, see what was planted, who were the journalists, and what was it they were trying to put out and say to the British public."
Document will be broadcast on Monday 4 March at 20:00 GMT on BBC Radio 4.
It will be the first tournament after the expansion from 32 teams to 48 and, if successful, would be the first time a World Cup has been shared by three hosts.
The proposal would be for the USA to host 60 matches, with 10 games each in Canada and Mexico.
The decision on who will host the event will be made in 2020.
That is three years later than originally scheduled because of corruption allegations surrounding the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar.
The USA staged the 1994 World Cup, which had the highest average attendance in the tournament's history, while Mexico was the first nation to host the event twice, in 1970 and 1986. Canada hosted the 2015 women's World Cup.
US President Donald Trump has promised to build a border wall between the USA and Mexico but Sunil Gulati, president of the US Soccer Federation, said Trump is "supportive" of the bid and had "encouraged" it.
"The United States, Mexico and Canada have individually demonstrated their exceptional abilities to host world-class events," added Gulati.
"When our nations come together as one - as we will for 2026 - there is no question the United States, Mexico and Canada will deliver an experience that will celebrate the game and serve players, supporters and partners alike."
European and Asian countries cannot bid for the 2026 World Cup due to world governing body Fifa's rotation policy, which means the previous two host confederations - Europe in 2018 and Asia in 2022 - are excluded.
The new-look tournament will begin with an initial round of 16 three-team groups, with 32 qualifiers going through to the knockout stage.
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Fifa's executive committee is no longer responsible for the final say on which country is awarded a World Cup.
Instead, it will establish a shortlist before the 209 member nations of Fifa cast a vote for their preferred choice.
The 2026 tournament will be the first to be decided under the new system.
Michael Moffat scored two for the hosts, but missed twice from the spot late-on, blasting the first over before the retaken attempt was pushed on to the post by goalkeeper Darren Hill.
Gavin Swankie and Andy Ryan had twice put ninth-placed Forfar ahead.
Thomas O'Brien was sent off in stoppage time for violent conduct before Moffat failed to claim a treble and victory.
Callum Warrilow, from Leicestershire, was travelling north at Barrowby on the A1 near Grantham when he was struck by a car on 13 September.
Kenneth Wallace, 53, of Church Lane, Stibbington, Cambridgeshire, is charged with three offences including causing death by dangerous driving.
He is due to appear at Lincoln District Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
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Mr Wallace is also charged with failing to stop and failing to report a road accident.
It means Monday was the deadliest day for Philippine troops since President Rodrigo Duterte was elected in May.
Abu Sayyaf is one of the smallest and most violent jihadist groups in the southern Philippines.
Its name means "bearer of the sword" and it is notorious for kidnappings and attacking civilians and the army.
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An army spokesman was quoted by Inquirer.net as saying that the soldiers were killed while fighting about 70 Abu Sayyaf fighters near the southern city of Barangay Maligaya.
At least five soldiers were wounded in Monday's fighting.
President Duterte ordered troops to eradicate Abu Sayyaf militants last week after they beheaded a kidnapped villager whose family was too impoverished to pay a ransom.
Officials said Monday's troop losses came after the army killed about 21 Abu Sayyaf gunmen, including an influential commander, on Friday and Saturday in fighting triggered by the beheading.
On Sunday eight Islamic militants linked to so-called Islamic State (IS) were freed from jail by at least 20 fighters from the Maute group who turned up at the Lanao del Sur jail in the southern city of Marawi to release them.
The Maute group has carried out several bombings and kidnappings in the southern Mindanao region.
The Philippines has faced separatist movements for decades in Mindanao, which is majority Muslim - the rest of the Philippines is mainly Roman Catholic.
The Maute group carries the black flag and insignia of IS, and has attacked troops, beheaded a soldier and beheaded two local workers earlier this year.
Several armed groups in the Philippines have pledged allegiance to IS, although the country's military says there is no evidence of active co-operation with foreign militants.
The BBC has learned the former Liverpool manager, 43, met club representatives for several hours in Scotland on Wednesday.
Earlier, Celtic's biggest individual shareholder Dermot Desmond said the club had interviewed "in excess of six" candidates.
And the Irish businessman described the Northern Irishman as "a great manager".
"We're excited about the managers we've interviewed and we've discussed," Desmond said. "Hopefully in the next few days we will decide, and enter negotiations."
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Asked whether Rodgers was one of those interviewed, Desmond replied: "I can't tell a lie.
"He's a great manager. He's proved it at Liverpool and I think he's a worthy candidate for Celtic - as all the other candidates are."
Ronny Deila's two-year tenure at Celtic ended with Sunday's 7-0 win over Motherwell.
Under the Norwegian, the club won consecutive Premiership titles, taking their current run of Scottish top-flight crowns to five, with the previous three won under Neil Lennon.
However, they have not reached the group stages of the Champions League since Lennon's time in charge.
Rodgers and Scottish former Celtic defender Malky Mackay, 44, have spoken to the club about the vacancy.
Both started their managerial careers at Watford - Mackay had a spell in charge of Cardiff City, while Rodgers was at Reading and Swansea City before joining Liverpool.
Mackay was sacked by Wigan Athletic six months before Rodgers was let go by Liverpool in October.
Four other former Celtic players - David Moyes, Roy Keane, Paul Lambert and Lennon - as well as former West Brom boss Steve Clarke have also all been strongly linked with the job.
Celtic had released a statement saying there was no preferred candidate and that they would take their time over the appointment.
J W Ledford Jr has been taking a drug for nerve pain which his lawyers say may change his brain chemistry and expose him to "unconstitutional pain".
Ledford was convicted of the 1992 murder of his neighbour.
A judge dismissed his lawsuit on Friday but the lawyers say they will appeal. The execution is scheduled for Tuesday.
The lawyers said in court papers that Ledford had taken the drug gabapentin for more than a decade.
They cite experts who say long-term exposure to gabapentin alters the brain in such a way that the lethal injection drug pentobarbital cannot be relied upon to make him unconscious and devoid of sensation or feeling.
"There is a substantial risk that Mr Ledford will be aware and in agony as the pentobarbital attacks his respiratory system, depriving his brain, heart, and lungs of oxygen as he drowns in his own saliva," the court papers said.
They said this would violate Ledford's rights under the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution, which prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment".
However, the US Supreme Court requires that an alternative method of execution be offered.
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Only three states allow for firing squad as an alternative to lethal injection - Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah.
Georgian law allows no alternative. Other methods of lethal injection are no longer available as manufacturers of many drugs have prohibited their use for capital punishment.
This has led Ledford's lawyers to argue that his "dilemma illustrates why [the Supreme Court] standard is unworkable".
Lawyers for the state of Georgia said there was "no substantial risk" of severe pain and questioned the timing of the lawsuit.
"Plaintiff has waited until the eve of his execution to suddenly claim that he has been treated for pain with medication that will allegedly interfere with his execution," they said in court papers.
"If plaintiff really thought the firing squad was a reasonable alternative he could have alerted the state years, instead of five days, before his execution."
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) envisages a smart energy revolution with more cables linking the National Grid to mainland Europe.
NIC also says the UK needs to store much more energy from intermittent renewable like wind and solar.
Fridges, freezers and washing machines could play a part, they say.
Experts believe it is the first step to a full-scale "Internet of Energy", with web-enabled home appliances like freezers and washing machines linked to the grid.
Here's how it would work: At a time of peak demand, an energy firm's computer will contact your smart freezer to ask if power can be switched off for a few minutes to allow your neighbour to use some of the energy to cook dinner.
Your well-insulated freezer will stay cold without electricity for a while, so it will agree to power down.
You will be rewarded with a credit on your energy bill.
Multiplied across thousands of homes, smart energy means the grid will need fewer power stations than it was planning to meet peak demand.
The system is already operating with firms like the hotel chain Marriott, which allows its aircon systems to be switched off to save power when electricity demand peaks. The aircon stays cool because of the volume of cold water in it, so guests don't notice.
On the other hand, at times the grid is awash with energy - at night, or when it's very windy or sunny.
In these times of energy plenty, a computer will contact your web-enabled washing machine or dishwasher to ask if they want to turn on to benefit from cheap power.
This is known as demand flexibility - and the infrastructure commission says it must be supported by government.
Lord Adonis, chairman of the commission, said: "Our existing power stations are closing down and their replacements will be radically different as we de-carbonise supply to reduce emissions.
"This represents an enormous challenge, but it leaves the UK uniquely placed to benefit from exciting innovations set to transform the global electricity market.
"The UK can lead the world in harnessing these innovations. We do not call for new subsidies or significant public spending, but rather a level playing field through fairer regulation and a better managed network to allow these exciting new technologies to compete.
"If we get this right, a Smart Power Revolution could save consumers £8bn a year."
The commission wants to see more ideas for storing energy - like using liquid air or pumped hydro power.
The commission's report will be welcomed by many in the energy industry.
The head of the World Energy Council, Christophe Frei, told BBC News there would be two huge advances in energy in the 21st Century: solar power - and the internet.
"Everyone knows about solar power," he said. "But people haven't yet grasped the transformative potential of information systems on the internet to maximize the efficient use of electricity."
The new flexible systems adopt the approach laid out by the technology guru Amory Lovins decades ago.
He proposed that a megawatt of energy saved - which he christened a NEGAwatt - should be rewarded just as highly as the power generated.
Academics warn that the flexible energy revolution must be enabled because with the future need for cars powered by electricity and homes heated by electricity to save carbon emissions, the existing grid won't cope unless there is change.
Professor Phil Taylor from Newcastle University said: "If you unravelled the National Grid it would stretch to the moon and back. We can't afford to renew it even if we wanted to."
He said he welcomed the report, which may accelerate moves already in the system. The government has a working group on flexible demand, and the regulator Ofgem has forced electricity providers to show how they will roll out smart energy.
"This report is progressive," he said. "It's the right way to go - delivering savings through flexibility rather than more infrastructure."
A report for the commission by Goran Strbac from Imperial College concluded that if there's enough flexibility in the system, it can prove cheaper than nuclear power or carbon capture and storage technology.
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A presidential source said Mr Macron's thinking did not "lend itself" to a question and answer session.
The comments, quoted by Le Monde, are likely to be seized on by Mr Macron's critics who portray him as arrogant.
Mr Macron had never stood for election before the presidential race.
The former investment banker has enjoyed a meteoric political rise and his new party, La République en Marche (Republic on the Move), is set to dominate parliament.
Bastille Day, on 14 July, marks the date in 1789 when a mob stormed a prison in Paris, helping to start the French Revolution.
It is a long-standing tradition that the president will be interviewed by the press during the day, but it seems Mr Macron has other ideas.
Le Monde quotes the source as saying that the president did not "baulk" at speaking to the media.
However, "his 'complex thought process' lends itself badly to the game of question-and-answer with journalists", the paper notes.
It is not clear exactly on which subjects Mr Macron felt his thoughts might bamboozle journalists.
Needless to say, the reported remarks brought a strong response on social media.
"Not-making-this-up dept: Macron doesn't do Q&A w/ journalists because his thoughts are much 'too complex'," tweeted Politico writer Pierre Briançon.
"Infatuation with Macron is showing cracks," tweeted Paris-based writer Matthew Fraser.
This year's Bastille Day has already attracted international attention after US President Donald Trump accepted an invitation to attend.
Mr Macron has sharply criticised his US counterpart over his decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord.
Their first meeting on 25 May in Brussels was notable for a handshake which saw them grip each other's hand so firmly that their knuckles turned white.
Mr Macron later said the handshake was "not innocent".
A senior Israeli official told the BBC that the claims, reported in the Wall Street Journal, were "utterly false".
The Journal said the White House had been particularly angered that Israel allegedly sought to share confidential details with US lawmakers and others.
Many Republicans in Congress are opposed to a deal with Iran.
Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the US Congress that a deal being discussed could "pave Iran's path to the bomb".
The US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China are seeking an agreement to curtail Iran's nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
They fear Iran wants to build a nuclear bomb - something Iran denies.
Israel is not a party to the negotiations although it feels particularly threatened by the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran.
Israel's deep concerns about any emerging deal on Iran's nuclear programme are well known, as are the tensions this is placing on ties with the US administration.
After Benjamin Netanyahu attacked President Obama's Iran policy in an address to the US Congress this month, the White House organised a series of snubs. It extended no invitation to the Israeli prime minister to meet Mr Obama in Washington and suggested the Israeli government was not trustworthy. There was also a leak about new limitations on intelligence sharing.
Despite the strong denials from Mr Netanyahu's office this article will only add to strains with Israel's key ally.
Outgoing Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has also dismissed the report as "incorrect and inaccurate". He told Army Radio: "Clearly, Israel has various security interests, and clearly we have our own intelligence. But we do not spy on the United States. There are enough participants involved in these negotiations, including Iranians, first and foremost."
The sides aim to reach a framework deal by the end of March.
According to the Journal, Israel began eavesdropping on the talks last year and also acquired information from confidential briefings with US officials and diplomatic contacts in Europe.
The White House uncovered the operation, the report said, when US intelligence agencies spying on Israel intercepted messages among officials that could only have come from closed-door talks.
But it was Israel's sharing of inside information with US lawmakers and others that particularly angered the White House, the report quoted an official as saying.
"It is one thing for the US and Israel to spy on each other. It is another thing for Israel to steal US secrets and play them back to US legislators to undermine US diplomacy," the unnamed official said.
A White House official told the BBC there was nothing to say on the matter at this time.
Speaking to the BBC, a senior official in Mr Netanyahu's office said: "These allegations are utterly false.
"The state of Israel does not conduct espionage against the United States or Israel's other allies. The false allegations are clearly intended to undermine the strong ties between the United States and Israel and the security and intelligence relationship we share."
The report comes amid tense relations between the White House and Israel.
Mr Netanyahu angered Washington in his recent re-election campaign when he said he would not allow a Palestinian state if he was returned to office.
He later tempered his statement, saying he did want a two-state solution, but that "circumstances have to change".
Guidolin, 60, was appointed in January on a six-month contract after Alan Curtis' temporary spell in charge, with the club in the relegation zone.
The Italian has led them to 11th place - 12 points clear of the bottom three, and they could finish in the top half.
"Francesco fully deserves the chance to continue his good work into the new campaign," chairman Huw Jenkins said.
"He was prepared to come into the club at such a difficult time and put himself in a pressure situation with the club fighting for survival.
"It's going to be another challenge for everyone, but we are looking forward to seeing how far he can take this squad of players over a full season.
"There has obviously been a lot of speculation over recent weeks about a possible change of manager, but the board has been impressed with the way he has quietly gone about the job of improving performances and results since January."
The Italian members of Guidolin's backroom staff, Gabriele Ambrosetti and Diego Bortoluzzi, have also been offered new contracts.
Swansea - who host Manchester City in their final game on Sunday - won seven matches and drew three of Guidolin's 15 games in charge.
The former Udinese and Monaco head coach had previously said he wanted to continue in the role but would only discuss his future once Swansea had ensured safety.
Swansea had hovered above the Premier League relegation zone for long periods of the campaign, but the 3-1 win against Liverpool on 1 May ensured a sixth season in the top flight.
In March Guidolin was taken to hospital hours before Swansea's 2-1 win at Arsenal and also missed the 1-0 win over Norwich after receiving treatment for a chest infection.
Former Swansea boss Brendan Rodgers, ex-Chile manager Marcelo Bielsa and former Derby County manager Paul Clement had all been linked with the job.
Rodgers - who left to manage Liverpool in 2012 - disclosed in January that he had been approached by Swansea to succeed Garry Monk, who was sacked in December.
But the Northern Irishman said that he wanted to take a break from football until the summer.
Americans Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien are in talks about taking a "controlling interest" in the club but chairman Jenkins had said a deal would not affect Swansea's managerial plans.
The Oscar-winner made his name playing tough cowboys and heroic soldiers in films including The Alamo, True Grit and The Green Berets.
But in a State Assembly vote several legislators objected to having a day commemorating his birthday due to his "disturbing views towards race".
The resolution was lost by 36-19 votes.
Republican State Assemblyman Matthew Harper had put forward the proposal, following a Texas resolution commemorating Wayne's birthday passed last year. Wayne died in 1979, aged 72.
Assemblyman Luis Alejo was among those against the proposal, citing a 1971 interview the actor made with Playboy where he was quoted as saying: "I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people."
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez also cited the same interview where Wayne defended white Europeans' encroachment on Native American land.
"Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves," the actor said.
Wayne's support for the anti-communist House Un-American Activities Committee and the far right John Birch Society were also brought up.
After the defeat Mr Harper said the proposal failed due to "the orthodoxy of political correctness".
"Opposing the John Wayne Day resolution is like opposing apple pie, fireworks, baseball, the Free Enterprise system and the Fourth of July," he said.
Assemblyman Travis Allen was among those who supported the proposal, saying Wayne "stood for those big American values that we know and we love".
And Assemblyman Donald Wagner pointed out others had been honoured despite controversies in their past, mentioning President Franklin Roosevelt who had been honoured despite his internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two.
The John Wayne Day row comes a week after it was announced the face of former US president and slave owner Andrew Jackson would be removed from the front of the US $20 bill and be replaced by freed slave and anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman.
Also this month Princeton University announced it would keep former President Woodrow Wilson's name on one of its buildings despite calls to remove it because he was a segregationist and held racist views.
The university decided that President Wilson's accomplishments deserved to be recognised along with his faults.
Thefollow-uphas been made without input from the group's co-founder, who suffered a mental breakdown following publicity generated by the film.
The film-makers pledged to include more context in the latest video.
The first film profiled Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army, a militia operating in several African countries which has kidnapped thousands of children, forcing girls to become sex slaves and boys to fight as child soldiers.
Some criticised the video for oversimplifying a complex issue. Uganda's Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi said that the video wrongly gave the impression that the country was still at war.
Titled Kony 2012: Beyond Famous, the new release begins with the huge media reaction to the initial release, highlighting the mainstream media coverage the video gained across the US.
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This film is a huge improvement on the first version. Still very slick, it uses African voices to make the case for ending the threat from Joseph Kony. As the former Ugandan presidential candidate Norbert Mao puts it: "Let those who are the professors write their books and create academic awareness. But this one grabs your gut and shakes you until you are forced to pay attention."
The campaign says it has already chalked up achievements: two resolutions in the US Congress signed by nearly 100 members. Without this kind of pressure political support for the US special forces tracking Kony could easily evaporate. It's claimed that since the first film was shown another 57 people have been abducted by his murderous group - the Lord's Resistance Army.
The need for action is real and immediate, even though the campaign is somewhat vague about whether it wants Kony dead or in custody. But who can argue with the basic message: "The human connection extends around the world?"
But it quickly switches focus to Africa, with more voices from Uganda than were featured in the emotive first release.
That film struck a chord with a younger generation not often engaged with the traditional news agenda.
"This generation has responded to the call to make Joseph Kony famous," the group said, promising to take the "next step" on 20 April.
"Part II gives a closer look at the Lord's Resistance Army, the international efforts to stop them, the progress that has already been made, and what we can all do to help," the group said.
Some US senators claimed to have been alerted to the problem by their children amid the popularity of the first release.
"All three of my kids, in different context and different times have said: 'So what are you doing about Joseph Kony and the LRA?"' Senator Chris Coons told the Associated Press.
Mr Coons is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations African affairs sub-committee. He has travelled to Africa to hear about the issue firsthand.
A recent report from the US Pew Research centre concluded that the first film represented a new way for young people consume news.
It found that 40% of 18-29 year-olds had heard about the video, compared with 20% of 30-49-year-olds and 18% of 50-64-year-olds.
The younger age group was also far more likely to have viewed the video. The majority had heard about it via social networks such as Twitter.
"The 30-minute video... provided striking evidence that young adults and their elders at times have different news agendas and learn about news in different ways," the report said.
Invisible Children's co-founder Jason Russell is currently in hospital after he was found semi-naked and screaming at traffic in the streets of San Diego.
He made himself the focus of the first film and came in for some heavy criticism from other advocacy groups and aid agencies.
Many criticised the Kony 2012 project for prescribing a "colonialist" approach to the issue of the LRA without empowering Africans to fix their own problems.
James McCafferty was released from prison in March and Police Scotland had been searching for him since 25 April.
A police appeal said Mr McCafferty was known to visit the Stobswell and Hilltown areas of Dundee and may have been sleeping rough.
"There was phlegm everywhere," said former England captain Rio Ferdinand, recalling one particular changing-room rant.
"It was against Bayern Munich. I didn't agree with some of his decisions and I was screaming in the tunnel.
"I sat down and he came over and absolutely unloaded on me," he said.
Several former Manchester United players, including David Beckham and Lee Sharpe, have revealed in the past what it's like to be on the receiving end of Sir Alex's temper.
But in an interview with Radio 1 Breakfast's Nick Grimshaw, where Ferdinand also tried out his news reading skills, he admitted the Scot has a caring side too.
"He had moments of rage like that, but at times what set him apart was the compassion he's got as well.
"If there was anyone ill in anyone's family he always find time and send flowers."
But it seems Sir Alex, Ferguson, who won 38 trophies in his 26 years at United, was less sympathetic when it came to his players' after-hours activities.
"I was injured in the first game I played in a pre-season game," Ferdinand said.
"Those first six weeks and I was going out because I wasn't playing. Just after I came back he said 'Rio how are you enjoying Manchester?' I said 'yeah it's good gaff I've just been to a few restaurants, a few quiet nights in.'
"He let me finish and went 'listen son, if you want to play for this football club for a long time, cut the rubbish out.'
"I thought, well he's the mafia. Everyone's telling him where I've been, what I've drunk and how much I've paid for stuff. It was unbelievable.
"He probably employed someone on social media when it all came out to make sure he was abreast of everything."
Sir Alex brought Ferdinand to Old Trafford from Leeds for £30m in 2002.
But the defender almost never turned out in a United shirt.
"I had offers to stay in London to go to Chelsea, but I needed to go to Leeds and leave London so I didn't go to every party I was invited to. I loved it when I was younger."
"It's different when you've got kids now. You get the fear factor of getting a hangover. I don't want that!"
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The Oscar-winning actor stars as a suicidal man who has travelled to Japan to kill himself in The Sea of Trees.
Heckles and boos were heard at Friday's press screening, but McConaughey said, "People have as much right to boo as to ovate."
The film is directed by Gus Van Sant, whose film Elephant won the coveted Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2003.
The Sea of Trees has its public premiere on Saturday.
Reviews for the film, which also stars Naomi Watts and Ken Watanabe, have also been fairly negative, with the Guardian's one-star review calling it "a fantastically annoying and dishonest tear-jerker".
Speaking to journalists on Saturday, Van Sant said: "I read one review this morning and it was very definitive, I was imagining everyone was the same as this person so I thought, 'Now we know where we stand,' which was kind of nice."
Referring to the 2003 festival, he continued: "There was apparently some kind of fight after the Elephant screening, like fisticuffs over whether it was good or bad, which I thought was interesting."
The new film is also in competition for this year's top prize which is announced on 24 May.
He said his comments were not about the "whole Australian team".
Prior to the first Test, Kohli had said he was "really good friends with all these guys off the field".
But at a post match conference after India won the series on Tuesday, he said: "No, it has changed. You won't hear me say that ever again."
The Indian captain tweeted on Thursday, after his comments received widespread coverage in both Australian and Indian media.
Meanwhile, former Australian cricketer Brad Hodge has apologised for suggesting Kohli was saving himself for the "cash-rich" Twenty20 cricket.
India won the Test final against Australia without the skipper, who sustained an on-field shoulder injury.
"You would think that your captain would get out there and get amongst the fight," Hodge said in a TV interview.
The backlash threatened to eclipse his season opener for the Indian Premier League coaching the Gujarat Lions.
During the series, Kohli said Australia captain Steve Smith "crossed the line" by trying to get help from his dressing room with the decision review system.
India were thrashed by 333 runs in the opening Test, but levelled with victory in the second.
During that game, Smith was caught looking for assistance as he considered reviewing an lbw decision, which is banned. Smith described his actions as "a bit of brain-fade".
Kohli injured his shoulder as he dived to save a boundary during the drawn third Test, and Australian Glenn Maxwell was accused of mocking him later in the match.
Without Kohli, India went on to win the fourth Test, during which the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) put a video on its website of a spat between all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and Australia wicketkeeper Matthew Wade.
"I have sort of been very intense in my own little bubble, and at times I have let my emotions and actions just falter a little bit throughout this series and I apologise for that," said Smith.
"That's a big stride for me moving forward and something I can really learn from and continue to grow as an individual and as a leader."
Smith said he was "a bit disappointed" the BCCI had posted the video of Jadeja and Wade.
He added: "It happened between both sides throughout the series. I think usually what's said on the field stays on the field."
That it remained airborne was at least partly down to a $1bn bail-out from its home government in Quebec.
An additional $1.5bn was raised from selling a stake in Bombardier's train division.
It employs 74,000 people in 28 countries - Northern Ireland is home to around 7% or 5,500 of its staff, all working in aerospace.
A major source of trouble has been its gamble on the C-Series, a first shot at the larger passenger plane market dominated by Boeing and Airbus.
The project has cost at least $5.4bn - $2bn more than anticipated.
A three-year delay in getting the C-Series into service has damaged an order book gathering dust since September 2014.
Positive industry reaction to the aircraft's performance data appeared lost as Boeing and Airbus did discount deals to gobble up orders from airlines.
At the same time, global market conditions have wobbled Bombardier's business jet market, with demand falling in the likes of Russia and China.
Armed with a turn-around plan, but warnings of reduced profits, 2016 was billed as a year of transition.
The strategy is now known to include job cuts.
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The move will see Stormers player Kleyn link up with his former defence coach at the province, Jacques Nienaber, who has joined Munster's backroom team.
Munster's new director of rugby, South African Rassie Erasmus, said Kleyn, 22, is a "hugely exciting prospect".
"I've seen his development first hand and with Jacques' extensive knowledge of him we are all up to speed on how Jean can contribute," said Erasmus.
"A naturally athletic player we believe he will add further value to the pack and we look forward to welcoming him to Munster."
Kleyn, who is 6ft 8in, made his debut for Western Province in 2012 before beginning his Stormers career two years ago.
The lock has made 17 appearances for the Stormers in addition to playing 22 times for Western Province.
More than 25,000 received their A-level and AS-level results on Thursday.
Students in Northern Ireland have again outperformed their counterparts in England and Wales.
In the full A-level, 29.3% of students achieved A or A* grades, a drop on last year's 29.9%.
The overall pass rate in Northern Ireland this year is up by 0.1%, with 98.2% of students achieving grades A* to E.
Girls have continued to outperform boys in gaining A* grades, but the gap is closing.
The number of girls taking so-called STEM subjects - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - at A-level has seen a notable increase.
There was a significant rise of 8.6% in the number of students taking A-levels in mathematics, with 10.6% more entries from girls.
It is now the most popular subject, accounting for one in 10 A-level entries.
Biology, religious studies, history and English complete the list of the top five most popular subjects.
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Justin Edwards, the chief executive of the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA), the Northern Ireland awarding body, said the growth in students choosing to study mathematics was encouraging.
"Mathematics provides access to a wide range of educational pathways and careers," he said.
"While entries in this subject have grown across all three countries, in Northern Ireland that growth has been notably strong."
There are many options available for students, according to Christine Kelly of the Careers Advice Service.
"Some young people may decide university is not for them and they might want to take a gap year or defer for a year," she said.
"There are also lots of other options in further education colleges; HNCs, HNDs, foundation degrees, BTEC Nationals and apprenticeships.
"Some employers offer school leavers' programmes, so there is a multitude of options out there."
Education Minister John O'Dowd said STEM subjects were in demand by employers and he welcomed their increased uptake by female students.
"Seeing the relevance of course choices for the future is vital in keeping young people engaged and motivated to achieve," he said.
Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry said his department's careers service was available to offer guidance at "this milestone (that) often presents a crossroads in a young person's career development".
CCEA has set up an examinations helpline that offers advice and guidance for students who have received results.
Fergal McFerran, the president of the National Union of Students and Union of Students in Ireland, called on university tuition fees to be scrapped so more students could access higher education.
"Tuition fees can be a barrier to participation in higher education in Northern Ireland," he said.
"I believe that it is to the benefit of our society as a whole as well as to the economy here if we were to move to a fairer system, away from tuition fees."
Temporary traffic lights have been in place on the A30 in Sherborne since 3 May due to culvert drainage works.
However, Dorset County Council said an investigation found "large amounts of material have been lost from the roof of the culvert, leaving it vulnerable to collapse".
A section of the road will close at the end of the month, it added.
A spokeswoman said it was not yet clear how long the closure would be in place.
"Now that we are aware of the condition of the culvert we cannot walk away from it," she added.
The drainage works on the A30 Newell, at the junction with the B3148 Marston Road - which is a major route through the county between Shaftesbury and Yeovil in Somerset - were originally expected to be completed by 17 June.
Original stars Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewan Bremner and Robert Carlyle are all returning for the new film.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Boyle confirmed that the shoot was planned for "May/June".
The film, loosely based on Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting follow-up Porno, could be released later next year.
Boyle said filming of the sequel might be as tight as the first, which was shot in less than two months.
Miller and Carlyle both star in US TV shows - CBS's Elementary and ABC's Once Upon a Time respectively.
"They only get this little window off, so either you wait for the contract to run down, which could be as late as three years, or you kind of try and do it in this window," Boyle said.
"But all four lads are back in."
The original Trainspotting was made on a shoestring budget of just £1.5m.
The sequel's budget will be bigger but still relatively modest.
"We're doing it for less than $20m, and that'll give us control of the film so we can make the film we want to make," Boyle told the Hollywood Reporter.
"That's as much as you can get without being answerable to anybody. You can sort of get on with it without much interference. Although we could have raised a lot more money for this, we didn't, so we're trying to keep some sense like we kept the original."
Boyle is hoping Film4, who produced the original, will get on board.
He admitted there were reservations among the cast about making a sequel.
"The actors were understandably worried about its reputation and not wanting to let people down or to just be cashing in," he said.
"So actually the script, which John (Hodge) has written, has been put under a very fierce spotlight by everyone, and it's a good one.
"Everyone's attitude is that it'll be an honourable addition and an interesting addition to the original film. We're very positive that we believe it can happen and it's coming true."
The 21-year Calder, who had a spell on loan to Dundee in 2015, has signed a two-year contract.
Elsdon, a fellow cap at under-17 level for England, will stay at Caledonian Stadium for an initial six months.
The 20-year-old Boro defender has yet to break into the first team with the English Championship club.
But he played three times last season for Middlesbrough Under-23s in the Football League Trophy.
Calder came through the youth ranks at Riverside Stadium but also failed to make a first-team breakthrough.
He played 11 times for Dundee in the Scottish top flight, starting three games, during his six-month spell at Dens Park.
Calder subsequently had two loan spells with Doncaster Rovers, starting 16 times and coming off the bench 16 times for the League Two outfit.
He finished last season being farmed out to Lincoln City but played only once for the National League side.
Caley Thistle manager John Robertson has now made six signings as he reshapes the squad following relegation from the Scottish Premiership under Richie Foran last season.
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Matt Lockley, 28, was found not guilty of interfering with a crew member during his flight from Brisbane to Bali in April.
He had reportedly banged on the pilot's cockpit door, demanding entry. He was handcuffed and arrested on landing.
The judge found that he was suffering from a medical condition at the time.
The incident, on 25 April, caused a hijack scare after the pilot sent a distress signal to Indonesia's airport authorities.
Indonesian troops boarded the flight after it landed at Bali airport and arrested Mr Lockley.
Virgin later said the incident was "no hijacking", but a "miscommunication", and that Mr Lockley was drunk and acting aggressively.
Mr Lockley later said he had experienced a panic attack and mistook the cockpit door for a toilet.
His lawyer said he had also been anxious because he thought someone had tampered with his luggage.
Brisbane magistrate Judith Daley ruled that Mr Lockley was suffering from a medical issue, and that there was not sufficient evidence to suggest he intentionally knocked on the cockpit door.
Speaking after the verdict, Mr Lockley told reporters he was "very relieved".
"It was a big misunderstanding, I never tried to get in anywhere," he said.
Residents of Northfield Farm Road, in Edinburgh, used a ladder to rescue one man and firefighters brought another man to safety at about 03:30.
One man was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for treatment. The other was treated at the scene, along with a woman, for smoke inhalation.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation
Station Manager Alex Hume said: "We sent three appliance from Marionville and McDonald Road.
"On arrival an adult male had been rescued from the rear, assisted by neighbours utilising a ladder.
"Fire crews utilised six breathing apparatus and a high-pressure hose reel to enter the building and extinguish the fire and check the surrounding properties in the stair.
"Two other residents also received medical treatment and oxygen for smoke inhalation, and one adult male was removed to Edinburgh Royal for further treatment."
The top court gave few details in its announcement, but said the centre would help China become a "maritime power".
Beijing is locked in disputes with its neighbours over claims in the resource-rich South China Sea, with tensions raised in recent months over China's aggressive land reclamation.
It has also squared off with Japan over the Diaoyu or Senkaku islands.
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The announcement of the new centre came from Chief Justice Zhou Qiang on Sunday during the ongoing annual meeting of China's parliament.
"(We) must resolutely safeguard China's national sovereignty, maritime rights and other core interests," he said, without giving further details on the centre and how it would work.
However the authority of any such centre is unlikely to be recognised by the many neighbours with whom China has territorial disputes.
China claims a large swathe of the South and East China Sea, creating multiple overlaps with areas claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Japan.
The Philippines currently has a case lodged against China at the UN's Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
It says the "nine-dash line", which China uses to demarcate its claims, is unlawful under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which both countries have signed.
Beijing has refused to participate in the tribunal, saying the court has no power to rule on the matter.
Tensions have increased as China continues to build artificial islands, airport runways and facilities on disputed reefs, prompting calls from the US for a halt in such activities.
Opponents have accused Beijing of militarisation but China says such construction is within its rights and any building is for civilian purposes.
The intruder stole cash, car keys and other property from the house in Sydney on Sunday afternoon.
The homeowner, a 68-year-old man, used a compound bow to challenge the thief as he tried to steal a car.
The robber fled the vehicle and jumped a fence but was shot in the backside as he ran to a parked getaway car.
He managed to use the vehicle to escape. It was not immediately clear from reports how serious his injuries were.
Police forensic officers will examine the scene at Wattle Grove, in the city's southwest.
The bow and arrow were seized as evidence.
Australian laws do not always favour the homeowner when an intruder is injured or killed, taking into account whether a person acted in self-defence or used "excessive force".
Compound bows are not banned in New South Wales and do not require a licence or permit.
Officers said 84 incidents of rape or attempted rape were reported from April 2014, compared to 35 the previous year.
Posters offering support to victims have been released urging more men to come forward in a new campaign led by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and abuse charity, Survivors Manchester.
A police spokesman said they believed a large number of crimes go "unreported".
Sexual assault reports have also risen from 69 to 93 over the same period.
Duncan Craig, from the charity, said: "We need to work together to break the silence that surrounds the rape and sexual assault of men, so those affected can get the support they deserve."
The posters feature "real men rather than models" after an online appeal for volunteers, he added.
Prime minister and Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras stood down on Thursday, paving the way for new elections.
The move came after he lost the support of many of his own MPs in a vote on the country's new bailout with European creditors earlier this month.
Greek media reports say 25 rebel Syriza MPs will join the new party, called Leiki Anotita (Popular Unity).
The party will be led by former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who was strongly opposed to the bailout deal, reports say.
A list of MPs joining the party published by the Ta Nea newspaper showed that the parliamentary speaker Zoe Konstantopulou and former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis were not among its members.
Both had opposed a new bailout deal, with Ms Konstantopulou highly critical of her former ally Mr Tsipras.
Specialists at Great Ormond Street Hospital said eight-month-old Charlie Gard has irreversible brain damage and should be moved to palliative care.
His parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard, from London, had wanted to take him to the US for a treatment trial.
They said they were "devastated" by the decision but intended to appeal.
Their solicitor, Laura Hobey-Hamsher, said they could not understand why Mr Justice Francis had not "at least given Charlie the chance of treatment".
She said the couple would take further advice on challenging the ruling once their legal team had studied it.
They have three weeks to lodge an appeal.
Hospital bosses said they would continue to provide life-support treatment until a decision about an appeal had been made.
In his judgement, Mr Justice Francis said he made the decision with the "heaviest of hearts" but with "complete conviction" that it was in the best interests of the child.
He paid tribute to Charlie's parents for "their brave and dignified campaign on his behalf" and "their absolute dedication to their wonderful boy, from the day that he was born".
The judge, who had visited Charlie in hospital, added: "I know this is the darkest day for Charlie's parents...my heart goes out to them.
"I only hope in time they will come to accept it is in Charlie's best interests to let him slip away peacefully, and not put him through more pain and suffering."
Charlie, who was born on 4 August, has a disorder called mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare disease which affects the genetic building blocks that give energy to cells.
It causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage.
His parents, of Bedfont, west London, had told the Family Division of the High Court they wanted to give their baby "one chance of life".
In their bid to fund the treatment abroad they set up a crowdfunding campaign which has raised in excess of £1.25m from more than 80,000 donors.
A GoFundMe spokesman said it will "be speaking privately to the family" about what would happen to the money raised.
Mr Gard was "shaking and visibly very upset" as he waited for the judgment, BBC News correspondent Helena Lee, who was in court, said.
When the judge ruled the treatment could be withdrawn, he shouted out "no".
Both he and Ms Yates broke down in tears and buried their heads in their hands.
They left the court building without listening to the judge's full reasoning behind his judgement.
During five days of evidence, Mr Justice Francis heard competing arguments over what should happen to Charlie.
Debra Powell QC, representing hospital bosses, had told the court a number of "world-renowned" experts agreed the child should not be given long-term life support as his "quality of life" is "so poor".
Barrister Victoria Butler-Cole, who was appointed to represent the eight month old, said proposed treatment in the US was "purely experimental" and continuing his life support would only "prolong the process of dying".
But the parents' barrister, Sophia Roper, argued Charlie would not suffer significant harm if he was taken to the United States and should be given a chance to improve.
She also claimed his parents' wishes should carry "great weight".
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A statement from Great Ormond Street Hospital, released after the ruling, said its doctors had sought "multiple external opinions as to whether therapy could improve Charlie's chance of survival or quality of life" but "the consensus... was that it would not".
"Our focus now is to work with Charlie's family to plan for the next stages in Charlie's care," it said.
"Within the context of the state of emergency, this education institution has been closed and its property has been given over to the treasury," it reads.
Above the signature is the red seal of a notary. Run by or close to the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, it is one of the almost 1700 schools closed down in the past fortnight, now labelled a breeding ground for terrorism.
From education to the military, judiciary to NGOs, police to private businesses, the post-coup purge has been staggering.
Among the media, 131 outlets will be closed. In the military, 1,700 officers have been discharged, including almost half of Turkey's admirals and generals.
Nearly 16,000 people have been detained. Even some 250 cabin crew at Turkish Airlines have been dismissed: all suspected backers of the coup or of Fethullah Gulen.
The scale of the clampdown has drawn criticism from Western governments.
But to grasp what is happening requires an understanding of the Gulen movement: a man whose followers have spread through Turkey's institutions for the past four decades.
Fethullah Gulen emerged in the 1960s as an Islamic preacher within a constitutionally secular Turkey.
His advocates call him a guru of moderate Islam tinged with humanitarianism, delivering his ideology through a network of high-achieving schools in Turkey and about 140 countries.
Critics say he has built a dangerous cult that has infiltrated all corners of the Turkish state - a fifth column that has shown its true colours in this latest coup attempt.
Members of his movement were embedded until recently within virtually every institution.
A leaked diplomatic cable from the US ambassador to Turkey in 2009 read: "The assertion that the [National Police] is controlled by Gulenists is impossible to confirm but we have found no one who disputes it."
A grainy video of the cleric emerged in 1999 apparently calling on his followers to "move within the arteries of the system, without anyone noticing your existence, until you reach all the power centres… You must wait until such time as you have got all the state power".
Mr Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the US since 1999, says his words were manipulated.
Some of those who have reported on the shadowy network over the years have faced lawsuits, such as the journalist Ismail Saymaz.
"The Gulen structure aims to surround the state from within and take over", he tells me.
"They're not armed militants but cloak themselves as judges, teachers, police, MPs and businessmen.
"Right-wing governments have used the Gulenists against the secular military - the movement got its biggest power during Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rule."
The Erdogan-Gulen alliance was indeed strong: an Islamist pair reshaping a once fiercely secular Turkey.
But as Mr Erdogan's conservative AK Party became entrenched in power, rivalry grew.
When a series of leaked phone calls in 2013 appeared to implicate Mr Erdogan and his inner circle in corruption, the Gulenists were blamed.
They were painted as a "parallel state", who had also struck years earlier, when the movement was widely believed to have fabricated evidence in the so-called "Ergenekon" and "Sledgehammer" cases: two sham trials accusing hundreds of military officers of plotting a coup.
The convictions were eventually overturned.
Naval captain Ali Yasin Turker was among those sentenced during Sledgehammer.
He spent 33 months in prison before the conviction was crushed.
"The media close to Fethullah Gulen carried out an operation against us, violating our right to a free trial", he says.
"His followers were in the police and judiciary but they didn't have enough in the military so they were trying to replace us with their own."
So did the military purge during Ergenekon and Sledgehammer pave the way for this latest coup?
"Certainly. If they hadn't been able to get rid of us then and put their own followers in the military, they wouldn't have been able even to think about a coup, let alone carry it out."
Many of the so-called Gulenists left Turkey in recent days or weeks, fearful that they would be arrested.
We tracked down Abdullah Bozkurt, a former journalist from Zaman, once Turkey's most-read newspaper and the biggest Gulen media outlet.
He moved abroad this week and denounces a "witch-hunt targeting every critical, dissenting and opposition journalist - whether thought to be affiliated with Gulen or not".
"How could you plot a coup through a media organisation?" he asks.
"This is collective punishment without any evidence. The government is simply killing alternative narratives and intimidating people not to ask serious questions."
I ask what it means to be a follower of Gulen.
"It's an intercultural, interfaith dialogue. I don't believe this is the infiltration of Turkey. Where do you expect students from his schools and universities to go? They needed to find jobs in the public and private sector."
And what of allegations that the movement is a sect, a sort of Turkish Opus Dei?
"I don't believe in that nonsense", he says.
"You hear all sorts of rhetoric from the government blaming the Vatican or America or other conspiracy theories. They have a track record of shifting responsibility. The Gulen movement is a perfect scapegoat."
Opposition to the attempted coup has united Turks - but punishment or purge is uprooting almost every part of society.
President Erdogan appears vindicated in his constant talk over the years of an "enemy within". But criticism still continues that the clampdown is going too far.
The Turkish government is demanding Fethullah Gulen's extradition from the US - but Washington says it's still waiting for evidence that he's involved.
He and his supporters say there is none, insisting they are a peaceful interfaith movement.
But the attempted coup has largely turned Turkish society against them and the calls are loud to flush out the Gulen influence once and for all.
The Oil and Gas UK Business Outlook warns of a major drop-off in production from 2020 without the investment.
It also forecasts a further fall in total capital investment for the next two years.
However, Oil and Gas UK said there were some signs of optimism as efficiencies push down the cost of producing oil.
'Kept under control'
Chief executive Deirdre Michie said: "Confidence is slowly returning to the basin.
"The revival is led chiefly by exploration and production companies which may collectively see a return to positive cash-flow for the first time since 2013, provided costs are kept under control and commodity prices hold.
"However, this is unlikely to translate immediately into reinvestment or increased activity.
"The challenges for the basin ahead, particularly for companies in the supply chain, are still considerable."
The Business Outlook replaces the annual Activity Survey which provided an assessment of the state of the industry from some of its key players.
It reveals that the average cost of producing a barrel of oil has halved from its highest level in 2014 to $15.30.
Much of that cost reduction has come through job losses.
Investment, against 2014 levels, has almost halved and exploration activity "remained depressed" with just 22 wells drilled in 2016.
More positively, exploration and production companies are expected to return to profitable cash-flow as long as the oil price remains at about $55 per barrel.
But there is a risk that the supply chain will come under further pressure unless new projects are sanctioned on time.
The report said the oil and gas industry still supports 330,000 job across the UK but that number has not been revised as part of the business outlook.
But despite "remarkable" improvements, Gary Doherty said the NHS in north Wales was "not where it should be".
The Betsi Cadwaladr chief executive said performance in some areas remained unacceptable.
It was put under Welsh Government supervision two years ago over serious concerns about patient care.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething published a series of milestones which need to meet by November to be considered to be taken out of special measures.
Mr Doherty, who took over in February 2016, said the health board had made "progress in every single area," suggesting it was on course to meet its deadline.
"My judgement is we've made progress I wanted us to make and we needed to make," he said.
A final decision will be made jointly by senior Welsh Government officials, the Wales Audit Office and Healthcare Inspectorate Wales.
Mr Doherty in particular praised:
The health board is also implementing a plan to centralise complex vascular surgery on the Glan Clwyd Hospital site.
It is still committed to providing most services at each of its three main hospitals, while drawing up plans to deliver "sustainable services" in acute and emergency care, as well as emergency surgery.
However, the health board's most recent performance report showed it ranked worst in Wales on patients spending longer than 12 hours and the numbers of patients waiting more than nine months for planned treatment.
On Wednesday, we reported that Mr Doherty believed there was still a "very big gap" in terms of meeting expectations in mental health care, although a new mental health strategy has recently been published.
This is set against the scandal involving care of dementia patients on the now-closed Tawel Fan ward at Glan Clwyd Hospital.
WHAT NEEDS TO IMPROVE?
One of the reasons Betsi was put into special measures was the perception it had lost the trust of patients and was not listening sufficiently to the public's views. The health board has since been involved in a series of consultation events in communities.
Dr Chris Stockport, a Prestatyn GP and area medical director, believes being put in special measures forced those working in the health service to "be brave" and think of new ways of doing things.
"The degree of scrutiny on the health board has undoubtedly been uncomfortable," he said.
"But it's undoubtedly been necessary and has allowed people to make some fairly brave decisions which perhaps historically we may not have made - myself included."
Mr Doherty said special measures had been a "catalyst for change" and the health board was "moving on to where we want to get to".
George Kerevan posted a message on Twitter during a Commons speech by Mr Benn's son, Hilary, where he spoke passionately in favour of airstrikes.
Alex Salmond later said in a radio interview that Mr Benn would be "birling in his grave" at the speech.
Tony Benn's granddaughter Emily said the comments were "deeply offensive" and "simply not true".
In messages posted on Twitter, the Labour councillor asked both men to retract their statements.
Fellow SNP MP Stewart McDonald said it was "repulsive" for anyone to use the phrase "spinning in his grave".
A number of tweeters used the words following Mr Benn's Commons address, before Mr Salmond used a version of it in an interview with LBC.
The shadow foreign secretary was given a standing ovation from parts of the Conservative and Labour benches after delivering a 14-minute long speech backing military intervention.
The speech and the applause which followed drew criticism from a number of SNP MPs.
East Lothian representative George Kerevan posted: "Benn summing up for Labour but voting with Tories. Benn's father must be turning in his grave."
Emily Benn, Tony Benn's granddaughter and Hilary's niece, posted a reply to Mr Kerevan, saying: "Your last sentence is deeply offensive and simply not true. I hope you examine your conscience and retract it."
Although Mr Kerevan did not reply to Ms Benn, he did later note that Mr Benn had made "a great speech", adding: "Bet on Benn as a replacement for Corbyn."
Ms Benn directed a similar message at Mr Salmond following his interview.
Glasgow South MP Mr McDonald posted on Twitter: "I voted differently to Hilary Benn. Using his father's death to make a political point - 'spinning in his grave' - is repulsive."
He also said: "Hilary Benn and I disagree, but he gave a respectful and powerful case for what he believes in."
The government motion to approve airstrikes in Syria was approved by 397 votes to 223. All SNP MPs voted against the motion, while Labour was split on the issue.
Although Tony Benn spoke strongly against military intervention in the Commons on a number of occasions, he served in the Home Guard during World War Two and later enlisted in the Royal Air Force, where his father and brother also served.
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Family Dollar said the offer could face competition issues and "did nothing to address" the matter.
The company said that it would continue to pursue a merger with a third discount chain, Dollar Tree.
Family Dollar and Dollar Tree had already agreed a merger before Dollar General launched a rival bid this week.
US dollar stores expanded fast during the economic downturn. But many have faced competition from stores such as Wal-Mart, and Family Dollar has been closing stores and struggling financially.
Howard Levine, chief executive at Family Dollar, said the board had "unanimously concluded that [a deal with Dollar General] is not reasonably likely to be completed on the terms proposed".
But Dollar General suggested Mr Levine's support of Dollar Tree was motivated by self-interest as he would have lost his job if Dollar General had won the bid.
Under Dollar Tree's proposal, Mr Levine would remain Family Dollar's boss.
The move under Dollar General would have been good for shareholders but "perhaps not for Mr Levine personally," said the spurned company.
Rick Dreiling, chief executive of Dollar General, made the comments in a letter to Family Dollar's board on Wednesday.
Many Family Dollar stores are in deprived areas. It has a big presence in Texas and the eastern US.
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The Twaddell Avenue protest has been ongoing since July 2013.
It began after a Parades Commission determination not to allow a return leg of an Orange parade to pass a section of the Crumlin Road.
In a statement, the Ballysillan lodge said it will continue to apply for an evening parade past the Ardoyne shops.
Released on Friday evening, the statement criticised some of the groups involved in recent attempts to resolve the standoff.
However, it said the lodge had been left with no choice but to suspend the protest.
This does not mean the protest is over.
Two other north Belfast lodges, Ligoniel and the Earl of Erne, who had backed a proposed deal to end the Ardoyne parade dispute, will continue their protest.
The County Grand Orange Lodge of Belfast said it respects the decision by Ballysillan "to suspend their participation in any further protests regarding securing a homeward parade along the Crumlin Road".
However, speaking after a parade on Saturday, the County Grand Master of the Orange Order in Belfast, George Chiddick, insisted the protest will continue until a resolution is found.
That means the protest camp at Twaddell, which was set up in 2013, will remain open.
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said any move towards ending nightly protests at Twaddell Avenue was "to be welcomed".
"People in the area will be relieved at any such move," he said.
"Sinn Féin has been consistent in our support of inclusive dialogue involving local communities and parade organisers in order to arrive at a resolution to these issues."
Talks aimed at resolving the dispute involving Ligoniel and the Earl of Erne lodges and a nationalist residents group, the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association (CARA), are expected to resume within a matter of weeks.
The group had staged an illegal protest outside the presidential residence in the capital, Kigali, police said.
Protests outside Mr Kagame's home are extremely rare, correspondents say.
The opposition accuses him of running an authoritarian regime since he took power in 1994.
However, his supporters and Western governments credit him with ending a genocide that killed some 800,000 people before his rebel forces seized power in Rwanda.
The BBC's Jean Claude Mwambutse reports from Kigali that those who were arrested came from the little known Intwarane group, which is not recognised by the official Roman Catholic church.
Police chief Emmanuel Gasana said the group was arrested as it was heading towards Mr Kagame's home in Kigali's wealthy suburb of Kiyovu.
Rebel military leader Igor Strelkov was quoted as saying his forces had beaten off columns of government armour attacking from the south and west.
Pro-Ukrainian sources in the city of 425,000 people reported skirmishes.
At least 15 civilians were killed in Luhansk and the neighbouring Donetsk region on Sunday, reports say.
Germany and Russia have urged direct talks between Kiev and the rebels.
Meeting briefly in Rio de Janeiro before the World Cup final, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the talks to be held by video link, Mrs Merkel's office said in a statement (in German).
The two leaders agreed that the situation in Ukraine was "tending towards a deterioration", a Kremlin spokesman said.
Pro-Russian separatist rebels have been fighting the government in Kiev since declaring independence in Luhansk and the neighbouring region of Donetsk in April.
Talks in Rio between Mr Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko were cancelled after the Ukrainian leader announced he would not be attending the final after all.
A Ukrainian presidential source told Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper that an armoured unit was trying to relieve troops who had been blockaded for weeks at Luhansk airport.
Strelkov (the nom-de-guerre of Igor Girkin) said the rebels had beaten off two government armoured columns numbering between 40 and 70 tanks.
The rebels had fought artillery skirmishes with the Ukrainian army "along the front", he said.
According to a report (in Russian) on the local anti-rebel news website Informator, Ukrainian forces entered the village of Sabivka, just west of Luhansk, on Sunday. Shooting broke out and local residents took shelter in cellars, it said.
Another local pro-Ukrainian news website, 0642.ua, also reported fighting in Sabivka, quoting an unnamed local woman.
Fighting was also reported around 17:00 (14:00 GMT) just south of Luhansk, in the villages of Heorhiivka and Rozkishne, by the Luhansk news website sxid.info.
An Luhansk anonymous blogger, who tweets as @journal1st_88, wrote of hearing explosions, sirens, shooting and planes flying overhead in Luhansk.
Nine civilians were killed on Sunday in a suburb of Donetsk and six in various incidents in Luhansk, reports say.
The government began an "anti-terrorist operation" in April to crush the rebellion in the eastern regions.
On Friday, it suffered one of its heaviest losses when an armoured column was hit by rebel rockets near the Russian border in Luhansk region and at least 19 soldiers were killed and about 100 injured.
A rocket attack on the Donetsk city suburb of Marinka on Friday night killed at least four people, with the rebels and government blaming each other.
And earlier on Sunday, Russia warned of "irreversible consequences" after a man was allegedly killed on its side of the border by a shell fired from Ukraine.
The incident reportedly happened when a shell hit the courtyard of a residential building in a small Russian border town, also called Donetsk. The Ukrainian government denied firing on Russian territory.
More than 1,000 civilians and combatants are believed to have died in the fighting since April.
The victim, Oliver Tetlow, from Harlesden, was killed in the shooting in Church Road on the night of 9 March. Police believe he was not the target.
A 29-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder on Friday in the Shepherd's Bush area.
Earlier in the day, police arrested an 18-year-old in Harlesden on suspicion of robbery. Both men are in custody.
The shooting in Harlesden, at the junction with Colney Road, is being investigated by police as gang-related but Mr Tetlow's death was a "tragic case of mistaken identity", the force said.
The victim was shot multiple times and an automatic weapon appeared to have been used, police said, but the firearm has not been recovered.
Det Ch Insp Mark Lawson said: "The investigation to identify and arrest those responsible for this senseless murder is moving at a very fast pace, and I would like to thank everyone who has so far come forward and spoken to the police."
Police said the killer was in a dark-coloured vehicle which travelled along Church Street towards Harlesden Town Centre after the shooting.
The 23-year-old suffered the injury in the Vikings' Super League opening day loss to Huddersfield Giants where he had to leave the game.
Kevin Brown moved to Warrington over the winter while Joe Mellor suffered a serious knee injury in pre-season to limit Widnes' options at half-back.
Gilmore came through the academy at Widnes and is contracted until 2018.
Anthony Green, 38, of Huddersfield, was caught trying to arrange a bout involving his dog, Crumb, during an RSPCA investigation in May last year.
The charity said it had found messages on his mobile phone from another convicted dog fight organiser.
At Kirklees Magistrates' Court, he was banned from keeping all animals for life, except pigeons.
Green, of Riddings Rise, kept pigeons as part of his occupation and there were no issues with their welfare, the RSPCA said.
The charity carried out a series of warrants as part of an intelligence led inquiry with the police into organised dog fighting activity. At the time, Green was already serving a 12-year ban.
He was sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty to five charges including two of breaching an animal banning order, attempting to cause an animal fight to take place and two animal welfare offences.
Green was also ordered to pay £920 costs and an £80 victim surcharge.
His older brother Jonathan Green, 42, of Keldregate, was also sentenced after admitting an animal welfare offence.
He was banned from keeping all animals for 10 years and ordered to pay £350 costs, £150 fine and £20 victim surcharge.
Ch Insp Ian Briggs, of the RSPCA's special operations unit, said: "Not only did Anthony Green disregard his ban on keeping dogs, he admitted trying to use his dog to fight another in what would have been a despicable act of premeditated cruelty.
"Dog fighting is an extreme form of deliberate animal cruelty and cases like this are amongst some of the most serious offences we investigate."
Groups in Harrogate and Scarborough are too afraid to meet openly.
Support groups advertise by word of mouth but youth leaders say this means LGBT teenagers are not getting the support they need.
The 'Growing Up in North Yorkshire' report carried out by the County Council surveyed Year 10 pupils.
Just under 20,000 pupils were surveyed by the Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee with 1,195 (6%) identifying themselves as LGBT.
In the report, only 66% of LGBT pupils said safety at their school was "very good or good", compared to 81% of their peers.
Among LGBT girls 54% said they had self-harmed, compared to 16% of their peers.
Nationally, more than half of LGBT pupils have experienced direct bullying.
County councillor Val Arnold said: "The two local LGBT youth groups within North Yorkshire meet in covert locations, afraid to hold their meetings in open due to their real fears of physical or verbal attacks on their way to or during the meetings."
At a secret group in Harrogate, one girl told BBC Radio York she was bullied for being bisexual.
She said: "One time I was sat on top of a railway track in Bilton on a bridge and if one of my mates hadn't been walking past, I don't think I'd be here right now."
Simon Rodgers, a volunteer youth worker in Yorkshire schools, said: "I think this is a sad indication, this idea of a 'secret club' sounds like the 60s, 70s and 80s when gay people had to meet in secret."
A member of a youth group cited in the council report. said: "I was left stranded, my school didn't want to know, neither did my parents, so the youth advice centre has been my home since I was 11."
Ms Arnold said the report's findings would help schools tackle bullying targeted against sexual identity.
As a result, the council has pledged to encourage more organisations to sign up to an anti-bullying pledge, train all its staff working with young people in handling LGBT issues and increase access to LGBT youth groups.
The 24-year-old joined the Brewers in the summer from the reserve side of Borussia Dortmund on a one-year contract and has scored once in 25 appearances for the League One leaders.
His only goal came in November's 5-1 win over Colchester United.
Oldham are currently 22nd in League One, three points from safety, and face Sheffield United on Saturday.
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The man, 32, was descending the peak when he fell from Swirral Edge into Brown Cove shortly before 14:00 GMT on Saturday.
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team, the Great North Air Ambulance and HM Coastguard took part in the rescue.
The walker, from the south of England, is the third person to fall on the peak since the start of 2016.
A spokesman said: "Whilst many of the Lakeland Fells are without snow, Helvellyn remains covered in hard icy snow on many of its ascents and descents.
"Walkers and climbers should be adequately equipped for full winter conditions on Helvellyn."
The man was airlifted to Newcastle's RVI hospital with serious injuries.
Oxfordshire County Council has proposed a zero-emissions zone for all vehicles from 2020, to improve air quality.
John Tanner, board member for Cleaner, Greener Oxford, said the city council would "oppose any idea" that meant people could not drive into the city.
The Road Haulage Association also called the proposals unworkable.
A low-emissions zone is currently in place in the city centre for buses.
Oxfordshire County Council wants to apply a zero emission zone to all vehicles on a number of roads, with the zone expanding over time as electric vehicle technology develops.
Mr Tanner said a "blanket ban" was problematic, especially with the likes of the Westgate shopping centre redevelopment including a large underground car park.
"The idea of banning cars from the city centre is just ridiculous. We've got to look at who the culprits are in producing the pollution.
"They are the buses, and to some extent the lorries and the taxis, they're certainly not the ordinary car, although I think we want to encourage people to use electric cars.
"What the city council will support the county council on is reducing emissions over time."
Nick Payne, of the Road Haulage Association, argued newer lorries were cleaner than cars.
He added: "If you stop lorries coming into the town what you'll have is a multitude of vans and what that will create is even more traffic chaos.
"There are electric lorries around but their range is 45 miles. [This isn't going to work], not the way technology is today."
But Dr Penny Woods, from the British Lung Foundation, said she thought the proposals were ambitious and "really positive".
She said: "We need real action if we are going to clean up the air we breathe, especially for the people who are most vulnerable to the effects of dirty air."
A spokesman for the county council said a total ban on petrol or diesel vehicles from 2020 would only apply on "a small number of roads in the very centre of Oxford".
He added that if technology had not advanced enough by then the council would change its timescales.
The county council will debate the proposals in September, after which there will be a consultation if they are approved.
The country's value of exports fell by 12.9% in January from a year earlier, supporting concerns that the slowdown in China - one of the country's most important trading partners - is continuing to hurt demand.
Imports, meanwhile, fell by 18%.
The figures leave the world's third biggest economy with a deficit of 645.94bn yen ($5.65bn; £3.95bn).
Expectations were for a fall in exports of just over 11% and a drop in imports of 16%.
Investors seemed to shrug off the latest trade data, however, with the benchmark Nikkei 225 rising more than 2.5% in early trading. But analysts said the numbers were not a good sign for the future of the economy.
"Japan's January trade figures were woeful [and] this is more fodder for those who think Japan's economy is a disaster waiting to happen," said Chris Weston from IG Markets.
Japan's economy has been struggling, and analysts have said the government must shore up growth in its exports in order to support future economic expansion.
For every 1% that Japan's economy grows, between 0.5 and 0.7% comes from exports.
On Monday, the country posted a contraction in economic growth for the final three months of 2015, adding to a string of setbacks for the government's economic reform policy.
Between October and December, it shrank by 0.4% compared with the previous quarter.
In a surprise move last month, the country's central bank cut its interest rates to below zero for the first time ever in an attempt to boost growth. The cut was implemented this week.
"We need to guard against the rot of greed," delegate Simon Clarkson told the ATL annual conference.
There were 900 heads, in all kinds of state school, paid over £100,000, according to the most recent figures.
Mr Clarkson called for all schools to publish the pay ranges of senior staff.
Speaking in a debate on transparency in education at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers' annual conference, Mr Clarkson said that if large salaries were defensible "no one should mind them being made public".
"When schools were under local control it would have been unthinkable as well as impossible that a head teacher of even a group of schools could earn more than a director of education, let alone the secretary of state for education, let alone the prime minister," Mr Clarkson told the conference.
Figures last year suggested that 41 head teachers were earning more than the prime minister's salary of £142,000. This was up from 31 the previous year.
Mr Clarkson, a delegate from Leicestershire. suggested that some executive head teachers and heads were now able to look at their budgets and decide how much to pay themselves.
The conference voted in favour of the motion that every school should publish its staffing structure and pay ranges of all teaching staff, including senior leadership salaries and those of executive head teachers. "Let me remind you whose money is being used to do this - ours," said Mr Clarkson.
"Let me remind you who this money should be spent on - the children and young people in our care.
"So I call for senior leadership salaries, including the salaries of executive head teachers to be published by schools."
"Once, the accountability was provided for by local authorities," said Mr Clarkson.
"County council offices up and down the country, elected members and council officers made sure that schools both kept to the rules and served the needs of their local communities."
Schools and colleges are facing cuts, despite government assurances it has protected budgets, the conference in Liverpool has heard.
Schools may be getting the same budgets as last year but costs are rising, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers annual conference was told.
"How many times have you heard that education funding is protected?" asked delegate Robin Bevan.
"It is not true, but it is the current educational mantra".
Schools and colleges are having to pay increased pensions and national insurance contributions for staff out of their budgets, while other costs, such as utility bills are also rising, said Mr Bevan.
Miguel Angel Jimenez Blanco's body was found near his home in a town in the south-western state of Guerrero.
He had led search parties after the disappearance of 43 students in the nearby town of Iguala last year threw light on hundreds of other missing people.
Guerrero is a region plagued by gang and drug violence.
At least 15 people were killed there over the weekend.
Mr Jimenez Blanco's body was found in the taxi he owned in the small town of Xaltianguis.
He had been part of an organisation which had supported the search for the students in the hills around Iguala. He had also helped dig up a number of graves of murdered people that were found during the search for the students.
He had helped organise a group called The Other Disappeared, mostly women who meet every Sunday to search the hills for the remains of their loved ones.
The search parties started in November last year, a few months after the 43 students were abducted and presumably killed in Iguala on 26 September.
Since the group began work, it has found 129 bodies, which were handed over to the authorities for identification.
In a BBC interview, Mr Jimenez Blanco said that after Iguala, 300 families had come forward saying they had missing relatives too.
"We have been saying from the start that this area is a cemetery," he said at the time.
David Cienfuegos, government secretary of the state of Guerrero, told the BBC many families had stayed silent for decades for fear of retribution.
"Many crimes linked to the disappearance of people need a statement to the police so the case can be taken up.
"In the last decade in Guerrero there have been few statements taken because the families are afraid. They fear the police themselves are involved in the disappearances."
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, one of Miguel Jimenez Blanco's friends, Mario Vergara, whose brother went missing last year, said that he motivated hundreds of families.
"He taught us how to search and how to push and every day he would give us the energy to carry on."
The case of the missing 43 students promoted a national and international outcry. The parents of the students and many other Mexicans still reject the government's version of events.
The administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto has insisted the students were killed by gang members on the orders of corrupt local police.
The bodies were then burnt, and the remains dumped in a river, but so far only one student has been identified.
The case highlighted hundreds of other people missing in Guerrero - Mexico's most violent state.
Guerrero is a major opium-producing state and a battleground for a number of different criminal gangs.
More than 20,000 people are missing across the whole country.
Scarlets beat Sale 28-11 in Phillips' return to Wales while Sale face the 2014-15 champions at home on Friday.
"We weren't there at all [at Scarlets], but we play against Toulon and that's a massive fixture for us," Phillips said.
"There were some positives and if we take that into next week, we've a good home record so maybe we can do well."
Phillips signed for Sale in summer 2016 following a five-year spell playing domestic rugby in France with Bayonne and Racing 92 and knows Sale's next opponents well.
"Toulon are a great team, they've got stars and it's a great test for us really," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"It's a chance for us to show what we can do and hopefully we can play a bit better than against Scarlets."
After half a decade playing rugby outside of Britain, Phillips is pleased to return and is enjoying his time in the English Premiership.
"I love the club and the boys have been great. I've been settling really well, there's friendly people and it's a great place to live so I've been enjoying that aspect of it and hopefully we can be successful on the field and that will make life much easier," he continued.
"Every game is tough [in the Premiership]. Every team is stacked with stars and really physical and it's a great league to be in to test yourself. I've enjoyed it so far and hopefully we can be successful and win our home games and see what we can do."
Local media reports suggest that the nation's attorney general is set to launch an investigation into the prime minister's actions.
Israeli media have reported allegations that he has received significant gifts or "favours" from businessmen.
But Mr Netanyahu denies the claims, saying there is nothing to uncover.
He said rumours of impropriety will turn out to be as false as previous claims against him have been.
"All these scandals have turned out to be baseless and so will the allegations being published in the media now," he said in a statement.
It has been claimed that the police asked the prime minister's office to schedule a suitable date for questioning.
However, neither the justice ministry nor the attorney general have confirmed the details contained in media reports.
Opponents of Mr Netanyahu have called for an investigation into his affairs following a series of scandals in recent months - none of which have resulted in charges.
Last month, an investigation was opened into the purchase of new submarines from Germany, after it was claimed that Mr Netanyahu's lawyer represented the company during negotiations.
Earlier this year, convicted French fraudster Arnaud Mimran claimed he had donated hundreds of thousands of euros to Mr Netanyahu's 2009 election campaign - something the prime minister denies.
He has also been accused of wasting public money, including $127,000 (£102,000) on a customised private bedroom on a single flight to the UK.
Similar allegations have followed the prime minister since his original term in office two decades ago.
In the year 2000, Israeli police recommended that criminal charges be brought against Mr Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, after an eight-month investigation into whether he had kept official gifts that should have been handed over to the state after he left office.
At the same time, they were also accused of charging the government for the services of a contractor who did private work for them.
All those charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence.
Bob Higgins of Litchfield Road, Southampton, has been charged with 65 counts of indecent assault.
Hampshire Constabulary said the offences related to allegations involving 23 teenage boys dating back to the 1980s and 90s.
The 64-year-old is due to appear at Southampton Magistrates' Court on 20 July.
It will use the money to help it compete against its larger rivals Zoopla and Rightmove, which currently dominate the market.
OnTheMarket.com is owned by over 2000 estate agents, including Savills, Knight Frank and Strutt & Parker.
It has previously accused Zoopla and Rightmove of charging too much for advertising properties on the internet.
"For consumers and agents alike, we are committed to creating a genuine agent-controlled alternative challenger business and brand to the two leading incumbent portals," said Ian Springett, chief executive of the parent company Agents' Mutual.
The money will be spent on a "heavyweight" advertising campaign on television, and in digital and print media.
OnTheMarket's members will vote on 6 September whether to go ahead with the float, which if successful would value the company at between £200m and £250m.
The offer will be open to institutional investors only.
Ceballos had been released from prison last year and placed under house arrest for health reasons.
In a statement, the interior ministry said he was planning to escape this month.
It said Ceballos had planned to coordinate acts of violence at an opposition demonstration planned for 1 September.
He was arrested in March 2014 for inciting violence during protests against food shortages, high inflation and rampant crime.
The opposition said his arrest was an effort to quash dissent and described Ceballos as a political prisoner.
The Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, says he is a criminal who sought to destabilise the country, and denies Venezuela holds political prisoners.
Ceballos is the former mayor of the western city of San Cristobal, an opposition stronghold.
More than 40 people from both sides of the political divide died in the protests.
One of the journalists was filming his show on Facebook Live when he was shot.
The footage showed his broadcast interrupted by gunfire and a panicked woman shouting "Shots! Shots! Shots!".
Police said the shooting happened on Tuesday in San Pedro de Macoris, east of the capital Santo Domingo.
The two journalists killed were presenter Luis Manuel Medina and radio producer Leo Martinez.
A woman was also injured and is undergoing surgery, said local authorities.
The arrested men have not been charged and police say they do not know the motive.
"The investigations have begun and we will try, with all the means in our powers, to reach the truth," Attorney General Jean Rodriguez told the local press.
In August 2015, two US journalists were shot dead during a live TV report in Virginia.
Pc Timothy Edwards sold 38 stories and pieces of information to Anthony France over three years and was paid more than £20,000, the jury was told.
Mr France, 41, from Watford, denies aiding and abetting a police officer to commit misconduct in public office.
The trial is part of the Metropolitan Police's Operation Elveden.
The operation is investigating alleged illegal payments to police and officials.
Zoe Johnson QC, prosecuting, said Mr Edwards, 49, an officer in the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command based at Heathrow Airport, accessed police computer systems and passed on details of "both the victims and perpetrators of crime".
She told the court: "This is not a case of whistle-blowing in a noble cause."
Ms Johnson described Pc Edwards' conduct as an "abuse of power" and asked: "If you were a victim of crime would you expect a police officer to sell your name and address to The Sun?"
Ms Johnson told jurors to "brace" themselves before reading out the first headline of one of the stories allegedly sold by Pc Edwards: "Sexual Healing - BA man quits over squelchy stilettos fetish."
The story, published in July 2008, concerned a BA engineer who was caught on CCTV at Heathrow Airport parading up a makeshift catwalk in high heels, the court heard.
Ms Johnson told the jury that Pc Edwards committed a "grievous abuse" of his power in looking up details of the incident even though no charges were made against the BA employee.
He was paid £850 for the story, she said.
In March 2010, Mr France wrote a front page story under the headline, "Heathrow Sex Scandal - Scanner Glamour Ding Dong".
Pc Edwards was allegedly paid £1,200 for the story about a member of airport staff abusing his access to new body scanners to "ogle" a female colleague's breasts.
The victim reported the incident to police at Heathrow and days later Pc Edwards read the crime report containing the victim's personal details and her address, the court heard.
One of the journalist's colleagues later called on the victim at home and Ms Johnson said the woman had been "very distressed".
Jurors were told the story turned out to be inaccurate and the Sun printed an apology, also accepting it was an invasion of the victim's privacy.
Mr France is accused of aiding and abetting Pc Edwards to commit misconduct in a public office between March 2008 and July 2011.
The trial continues.
Leroy Parry, 24, sank his teeth into the bicep of PC Gareth Phillips for nearly a minute.
Swansea Crown Court heard it took seven officers to restrain him.
Parry, from Waunarlwydd, was jailed for 20 months after admitting affray, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and three assaults on police.
PC Phillips described it as the worst violence in his 14-year police career, and said he had to punch snarling Parry three times before he let go of his dog-like bite.
The court heard Parry has been addicted to drug Spice for five-and-a-half years and was having withdrawals when he carried out the attack.
It happened during a disturbance in Swansea city centre on 7 April.
Prosecutor Tom Scapens said the officer described the pain as "excruciating from the outset".
Mr Scapens said: "He could feel this bite through a long sleeve work shirt and two fleeces.
"He said Leroy Parry was 'animal-like'.
"He was in so much pain he was going into shock."
The court heard the officer looked at his arm when he got into the police van.
Mr Scapens said: "Looking at it made him feel physically sick."
Parry later apologised to officers, telling them he was "clucking for Spice".
The drug Spice is the name commonly used to describe a laboratory-created cannabis substitute. It is banned in many countries, including the UK.
It has been blamed in recent months, along with another variant called Black Mamba, of turning users into "zombies" collapsing in the streets around Wrexham bus station in north Wales.
The court heard Parry had convictions for some 41 offences and a history of assaulting police officers.
Speaking after sentencing, Insp Mark Davies said Parry had carried out a "vicious attack".
"Nobody can justify this level of violence for somebody just doing their job," said Insp Davies.
"This incident demonstrates the very real potential dangers that officers face on a daily basis.
"When an officer leaves the station, they simply do not know what they might have to deal with at any given time."
A Commons committee has written to Transline Group, stating the agency "lacked credibility" in its evidence to the Sports Direct inquiry.
MPs also raised concerns about working conditions for agency staff at the company's headquarters in Shirebrook.
Transline said they were "astounded" by the findings.
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The group, who are under investigation by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, also suggested the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee were being "biased" against them.
However, BIS committee chairman Iain Wright MP said Mr Ashley needed to address "poor contractual terms" set out by agencies.
He said: "[Mr Ashley] could start by cutting his ties with Transline Group, who have not been candid or credible in their evidence to the BIS and, as we heard in our evidence sessions, have deducted money from low-paid workers without proper explanation or justification."
He added that the Newcastle United owner needed to fix poor contractual terms and make "a real improvement" to the working conditions of warehouse staff.
At the company's annual meeting last week, Sports Direct executives, including the billionaire owner, faced calls for widespread changes to the way the company is run.
Mr Ashley said he would walk away from the company if he failed to rectify it over the next 12 months.
In July, MPs accused the retailer of not treating its workers like humans and claimed its working practices were similar to those of a Victorian workhouse.
Pat Lam's men made a great start with full-back Tiernan O'Halloran getting the opening try in the 13th minute.
Winger Niyi Adeolokun scored a superb touchdown midway through the half to give Connacht a 15-0 interval lead.
Matt Healy scored Connacht's third try on 57 minutes with Sean Cronin giving Leinster some hope 10 minutes later.
With Connacht having picked up some injuries, it looked like they might come under serious pressure.
But the men from Galway, with skipper John Muldoon making his 275th appearance, had done more than enough to secure the long-awaited and much sought-after silverware.
Connacht had never been in the Pro12 final before and they made the most of their historic opportunity, playing adventurous, running rugby to telling effect.
For Leo Cullen's Leinster, a record fifth win in the competition must wait for another day.
They could only muster a Jonny Sexton penalty and the late Cronin try as they failed to rise to the occasion in front of a record final crowd of almost 35,000.
Connacht had booked their place in the play-offs by topping the league table but few gave Ireland's least successful province much hope against the Dublin powerhouse.
O'Halloran sprinted home for the opening try after Healy had made great ground. US Eagles fly-half AJ MacGinty nailed the conversion for 7-0, before Adeolokun extended the lead.
MacGinty pulled his attempt at the extras wide but made amends with a penalty soon after.
Leinster badly needed the first score after the break, and got it through a Sexton penalty.
Connacht hooker Tom McCartney almost got through, only to be held up after Sexton's last-gasp tackle.
But that only delayed the inevitable, with Connacht's third touchdown coming after 57 minutes when MacGinty saw the space in behind the Leinster defence and measured his grubber kick with precision for Healy to run on and dot down.
Leinster finally grabbed a try when Cronin ran in with 13 minutes left.
Connacht: O'Halloran, Adeolokun, Henshaw, Aki, Healy, MacGinty, Marmion, Loughney, McCartney, Bealham, Dillane, Muldowney, McKeon, Heenan, Muldoon, J. Cooney.
Replacements: O'Leary for O'Halloran (68), J. Cooney for Marmion (60), Ah You for Loughney (68), Heffernan for McCartney (71), Browne for Dillane (61), O'Brien for McKeon (41), Robb for J. Cooney (65).
Not used: J. Cooney.
Leinster: R. Kearney, D. Kearney, G. Ringrose, Te'o, Fitzgerald, Sexton, Reddan, J. McGrath, Strauss, Ross, Molony, M. Kearney, Ruddock, Murphy, Heaslip.
Replacements: Madigan for D. Kearney (75), Kirchner for Te'o (60), L. McGrath for Reddan (57), Dooley for J. McGrath (71), Cronin for Strauss (41), Furlong for Ross (41), Conan for Molony (62).
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales)
China will move to a market determined exchange rate, but gradually. He said "there will be no shock therapy".
Mr Zhou was speaking in a BBC World News debate at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington.
Tensions have been rising for months over China's currency policy.
In the last few days, the phrase "currency war" has been used. The IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has used it, although in the BBC debate he said "war" was probably too strong a word.
China holds down the value of its currency, the yuan or renminbi, by intervening in the markets, buying dollars and other currencies. To critics, the result is an artificially low yuan, which gives an unfair advantage to Chinese industry.
Mr Strauss-Kahn has some sympathy for that complaint. In the BBC debate, he said the Chinese currency is undervalued.
This is part of a long standing IMF view that the global economy is unbalanced.
China, and some other countries, save and export too much. The reverse is true of the US and others. Changing China's exchange would contribute to rebalancing the world economy by making China's exports less competitive.
But nobody at the debate thought a currency reform would be a "silver bullet" that would fix all the problems. The US and others need to take their own steps to save more.
Mr Strauss-Kahn said that China should move away from its export-led approach to economic growth.
That means encouraging an economy that is more dependent on spending by Chinese consumers. It would, he said, create millions of jobs in China and, as a consequence, millions of jobs outside the country.
What bothers Chinese officials is the possibility that moving quickly on the exchange rate might hit export businesses, and lead to many job losses. That is the kind of shock therapy that Mr Zhou wants to avoid.
Christina Romer, a former economic adviser to President Obama, said that the Chinese currency is one issue. But there are more. She had one specific example.
China should put in place a healthcare system, so that people save less - because they wouldn't have to worry about paying for treatment. They would then buy more products from the rest of the world.
This BBC debate aired the issues. China's exchange rate policy is an important one and the rest of the world wants change.
Chinese officials, in this case no less a figure than the central bank governor, say it is coming. But it still looks like it will be at their own pace - a time scale that is far too slow for their critics.
At the very least, a war of words over currency will be with us for a while yet, probably several years.
CHAN is played between national teams made up exclusively of players who are active in their national championships.
Togo does not have a league so its football federation cannot arrange licenses for its home players.
Saintfiet told BBC Sport: "We cannot select our best squad. This competition is not contested on a fair basis."
(Ties played over two legs, home and away, except in Northern Zone)
Togo are set to face Niger this weekend in the first leg of their Zone West B qualifying tie, with the return leg set for a week later. The victors will progress to the finals in Rwanda in 2016.
"We cannot win the match against Niger," Saintfiet said.
"Niger qualified in the past for the Africa Cup of Nations and CHAN, they have most of their A national players in their local league with only about five players playing abroad.
"Togo has more than 50 players abroad, has no local league and the players have have not played a competitive match for 11 months.
"If you are realistic and you understand football then you know that, even considering how good our players could be, it is not a fair competition against Niger.
"It would be a miracle if we won."
Also in Zone West B, heavyweights Ghana and Ivory Coast go head-to-head for a place at the finals, and Nigeria take on Burkina Faso.
Elsewhere, the Northern Zone is played in a mini-league format, featuring Morocco, Libya and Tunisia - the sides face each other home and away and the top two finishers in the table go through.
The 15 teams to reach the finals, joining hosts Rwanda, will be known by 25 October.
Swansea-born Sprake made more than 500 appearances during 11 years at Leeds United, and was a First Division title winner in 1969.
He also won a second division winner's medal in addition to the League Cup in 1968 and two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups.
Sprake, who won 37 caps during a 12-year career with Wales, joined Birmingham City in 1973.
Leeds United sent its "condolences and support to the Sprake family at this difficult time".
Sprake's former Leeds and Wales team-mate Terry Yorath said "football had lost a good man."
"He was such a character both on and off the field," Yorath told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"He was the most natural goalkeeper I ever played with but he never practiced, that was the amazing thing about him.
"He didn't really work at his game and if he'd had worked at his game he would have been even better."
The party leader added he was "happy" with his shadow cabinet after last week's reshuffle, which had brought greater "diversity" to his front bench.
One of those sacked, Pat McFadden, had "distorted" his views on terrorism and the Paris attacks, Mr Corbyn added.
He also said party members would have a say on whether to back renewal of the UK's nuclear weapons programme.
Parliament is expected to vote later this year on whether to give the go-ahead for a new generation of submarines to carry the Trident missiles.
Mr Corbyn - who opposes Trident but faces opposition within Labour to changing the party's pro-Trident policy - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme a serious debate was needed on the purpose of nuclear weapons in the 21st Century and what role "Britain could play in bringing about a nuclear-free world".
Asked whether he would have to go if Labour's policy to renew Trident did not, he replied: "You are creating a crisis that does not exist.
Labour had an existing policy, Mr Corbyn said.
But he also had "a mandate I received as leader".
"Renewing Trident fundamentally goes against the spirit of the non-proliferation treaty," he said.
But the policy would be reviewed by the shadow cabinet and Labour's National Executive.
And that review would be "comprehensive" and would consider the "protection of skills and jobs".
"I want the members to have a big say," Mr Corbyn added.
But the National Executive would decide whether that would be through a vote at Labour's annual conference or a ballot of all members.
"Let's get the debate out there first," Mr Corbyn said.
He did not say whether he would attend an anti-Trident rally next month, adding: "Let's see what happens."
In his first major broadcast interview since last week's reshuffle, Mr Corbyn defended his changes, which saw pro-Trident former defence spokesmen Maria Eagle moved to culture and two of his critics - Mr McFadden and Michael Dugher - sacked.
"A reshuffle is never easy," he said.
"And there is never a good time to do it.
"We have a shadow cabinet that is strong.
"We have a team which is strong.
"We have widened the shadow cabinet to represent the diversity of the country and the Parliamentary Labour Party.
"I am happy with it.
"We are moving on."
Mr Corbyn had been criticised by some in his party for not being more emphatic in his condemnation of terrorists in the wake of the Paris attacks and for appearing to link the atrocities to the actions of the West.
But the Labour leader said his position had been misconstrued.
"I am absolutely not in favour of terrorism of any sort," he said.
"It is absolutely appalling and disgraceful that civilian life should be taken by random acts of terrorism as happened in Paris."
Mr Corbyn said the French government had been in no way responsible for the attacks, but there needed to be a greater understanding about how so-called Islamic State had come into being and who was funding and arming the militant group.
Asked whether as prime minister, he would authorise a drone strike to kill an alleged terrorist if it was believed they posed a direct threat to Britain, he said: "I would want to see the evidence of it, obviously, what difference it would make by doing that, what the chances are of capturing somebody - I suspect very, very low in those circumstances - so action could be taken."
Documents emerged on Monday suggesting Labour fears its annual income could fall by £6m as a result of legal changes to the way it receives funds from the trade unions.
The Trade Union Bill, being debated in the Lords on Monday, would require Labour-affiliated union members to "opt in" to paying a levy to the party.
And Labour believes three million fewer members of the biggest unions would agree, impacting on its structure.
But Mr Corbyn said the party was in good shape in the country at large and had proved successful in fighting the government over cuts to welfare, policing and local government.
"What I am trying to do is represent a very broad swathe of people's opinions around Britain who felt very put off by the politics of the past and the similarities of the economic strategies of the main parties," he said.
"This is a party which is very determined and very strong, and don't underestimate the huge activity of the hundreds of thousands of people who have joined the Labour Party and are active in communities."
She has come under political pressure after the leader of her SPD coalition partner revealed he had twice asked her if German companies had been spied on.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere will testify before MPs on Wednesday.
Mrs Merkel said she too would be prepared to give evidence.
"I will testify and answer questions where necessary and that would be in the parliamentary inquiry if desired. I'm happy to do that," she told Radio Bremen.
However, she stopped short of agreeing to provide a list of "selectors" - the IP addresses, internet search terms or mobile phone numbers handed by America's National Security Agency (NSA).
Many other documents would be provided to MPs, she said. However, Germany was talking to the US about the affair, she said, and only after that could any decisions be made.
Earlier this week her coalition partner, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, publicly called for a "thorough inquiry", and said he had twice asked Mrs Merkel if the BND had targeted German companies on behalf of the NSA.
Twice she denied it, he said, adding that he had no reason to doubt the chancellor had answered correctly.
The BND has worked with the US for years, but it is now clear that the targets went far beyond potential terrorist threats.
Its monitoring station at Bad Aibling was reportedly used to spy on the French foreign ministry and presidential palace as well as the European Commission, Austrian federal agencies and Airbus group.
Austria filed a legal complaint on Tuesday against "an unnamed party" in response to the reports.
Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said there was no evidence yet but it was "not far-fetched to suspect that Austria was also spied on".
Her German counterpart, Thomas de Maiziere, who has come under pressure to resign over the affair, gave evidence on Tuesday to a parliamentary committee that controls the intelligence services.
"As chancellery chief of staff in 2008 I knew nothing about search terms from the US side or... similar things for the purpose of industrial espionage in Germany," he told reporters after the closed-door meeting.
"No company names were mentioned. There is no substance to the allegations made against me," he added.
The scandal has caused cracks in the so-called grand coalition between Mrs Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats and the centre-left SPD.
But Mrs Merkel said in her interview that "we're working very, very well together in the coalition. You don't need to worry about that."
For NHS England - and its Care.data project - that point was reached on Tuesday.
When you have a group of bodies as disparate as the British Medical Association, privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch and the Association of Medical Research Charities united in their condemnation, you know you have a problem.
The organisation has defused the problem for now by agreeing to delay the data-sharing project by six months.
But how did it get to this point? After all, the concept of the giant database has the backing of almost the entire medical community, many charities and some of the most influential patient groups.
When it is compiled, Care.data will be a giant database of medical records showing how individuals have been cared for across the GP and hospital sectors.
Researchers believe the information will be vital in helping them develop new treatments as well as assessing the performance of NHS services.
The records will be pseudonymised, which means the identifiable data has been taken out. Instead, it will just contain the patient's age range, gender and area they live in.
However, researchers can apply for those safeguards to be lifted in exceptional circumstances, such as during an epidemic. This will need the permission of the health secretary.
While the furore over the scheme may have only exploded into life since Christmas, the actual idea has been 25 years in the making.
Since 1989, the NHS has been collecting data on hospital stays, known as hospital episode statistics (HES).
This has proved invaluable. For example, HES data played a role in uncovering both the Bristol heart and Mid-Staffordshire scandals.
It also provided some of the evidence that led to the introduction of targeted bowel cancer screening in 2006.
The idea with Care.data is to expand this database to include what happens to patients when they are under the care of GPs.
The belief is this could help researchers develop new treatments and improve the monitoring of performance.
But most would argue none of this was communicated by NHS England.
Instead, the organisation focused its attention on a leaflet drop of every household in England.
The problem was many people could not recall getting them - a BBC poll last week suggested as many as two-thirds of the public had not seen them come through their letterboxes.
It is not clear exactly what happened here. NHS England says it agreed a deal with Royal Mail that they would hit 99% of households - the industry-considered standard for national mailouts - and the leaflets would not be nestled inside other mail.
But reports have emerged of them being found tucked inside pizza menus and other junk mail.
NHS England is now in discussions with Royal Mail to find out what happened.
A video animation was also produced (the video is on the right), but it went only on YouTube and NHS England's website.
There was no national TV campaign.
Nor was a press conference called to launch the marketing campaign.
That is unusual for a project on this scale.
Officials at the Department of Health, which until a year ago was in charge of the day-to-day running of the NHS, have told me they would never have run it like this.
Questions have also been asked about why a decision has yet to be taken about what some consider the most controversial aspect of the project - the sharing of data with private companies.
This will not be decided until a meeting in March. It meant the public were being asked whether they wanted to opt out without knowing who was going to get access to their largely anonymised medical records.
Unsurprisingly, there is now a lot of soul-searching at NHS England.
The organisation admits it made mistakes - particularly in not doing enough to explain the benefits of Care.data.
Some of the explanations offered are understandable. For example, there was a desire not to spend too much on marketing at a time when front-line budgets are being squeezed.
However, the challenge now for NHS England is to work out how they can move on.
One suggestion is that big money should be spent on a TV and radio campaign - although this could be seen as a "hard sell".
Some believe personalised letters should be delivered to households instead of the generic leaflets.
NHS England is also likely to explore the possibility of getting other organisations, such as patient groups and well-known charities, involved in explaining the scheme.
But the fear now inside the organisation - and among the many supporters of Care.data - is that the concept has become so tarnished that whatever is done now will be wrong.
He told journalists travelling on Air Force One to France that it also needed to be transparent, to offer border guards visibility into Mexico.
He also reiterated his desire the final design would involve solar panels.
Building the wall, and having it paid for by Mexico, was one of Mr Trump's key campaign promises.
Now, almost six months into his presidency, it seems he is acknowledging some of the geographical and practical difficulties of such a construction.
On the flight to Paris from Washington, Mr Trump told reporters that a wall along the whole 2,000-mile (3,200km) US-Mexico border might not be necessary.
"You have mountains. You have some rivers that are violent and vicious," he said.
"You have some areas that are so far away that you don't really have people crossing."
Instead, all that was required was "anywhere from 700 to 900 miles of see-through wall".
There is already about 650 miles of see-through fencing along the border. It was built under President George W Bush and cost an estimated $7bn (£5.4bn).
Mr Trump said it was vital the new construction was transparent to protect border guards from drug traffickers.
"As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don't see them," he said.
"They hit you on the head with 27kg of stuff? It's over."
Drug traffickers have used catapults and other innovative methods to transfer their illegal cargo, says the BBC's Will Grant in Mexico.
However, tunnels are far more common, and it is certainly not clear that any border guards have been injured in the way that Mr Trump described, our correspondent adds.
Speaking to journalists, Mr Trump also confirmed he was still confident that the wall would involve vast solar panels. Last month he told supporters at a rally in Iowa that the panels would provide cheap energy and help to pay for the controversial wall.
During his campaign, Mr Trump insisted he would make Mexico foot the bill, but President Enrique Peña Nieto has dismissed the idea.
In his proposed budget unveiled in March, Mr Trump allocated $1.4bn for wall construction in the ongoing fiscal year, with another $2.6bn for the 2018 budget year starting on 1 October.
However, Congress did not approve any funding for wall construction this year - only cash for repairs to the existing fencing.
Mr Trump has now asked for $1.6bn towards the project, which is expected to cost up to $25bn.
In April, US Homeland Security chief John Kelly said it was doubtful that a wall along the full border would ever be built.
"It is unlikely that we will build a wall from sea to shining sea," he said, adding that his department would look to build barriers in places that made sense.
This week, one of Northern Ireland's most popular beaches was overrun with people going for a jog with their dog.
Almost 250 furry competitors (and their humans) took part in the 5km run, which just happened to fall on what certainly felt like the warmest day of 2017 so far.
There were breeds of all kinds - from Great Danes to Bichon Frise, they were all welcome at Waggy Races.
The event was dreamt up by Ruth and Neil Robinson, who were inspired by Crufts.
"We got a Samoyed puppy and Neil and I both run, and take her out with us.
"We thought it would be brilliant if this was a sport but we didn't think it existed. Then we were watching Crufts and saw that they had a race called Canicross," Ruth said.
"There was nobody in Ireland doing it, so we thought we should just set it up ourselves. We did our first race in 2014 and we've been going ever since.
"There's lots of dogs, lots of barking, lots of people.
"It was runners who had dogs who came on at the start, then it was the agility people, then the casual runners, and word just seems to have spread."
This is the biggest event they have had so far, with a mix of walkers and runners taking part.
But the big stars of the day were the dogs, and none bigger than Jack Russell Dexter, who may be better known for his Crufts performance under his official name, Shy Ted.
He ran alongside his owner, Louise Smart, who said he is used to a bit of competition.
"Dexter qualified for Crufts and came fifth overall in the small dogs two weeks ago. We were sixth in the ladies at Waggy Races, so a bit slow, but he's had a lot of treats recently from my husband," she said.
"I'm a member of a dog club and a running club, so to get out here and do both our hobbies in a big group is fantastic.
"Small dogs don't pull you as hard, you have to put a bit more work in but they enjoy it just as much. Right to the end, Dexter's pulling to get me across the finish line. He loves it and screams with excitement on the start line!"
The fastest dogs were awarded medals for coming first, second, or third in their category.
Ciara Toner and her dog Lara took the women's top spot.
"Running with a dog, if you're holding a lead, can restrict your arm movements. It doesn't help if she's going backwards or running slightly behind you as well," she said.
"I run a bit faster on my own but she's just getting a bit old. She had a great day and just got a treat there so she's a happy pup."
In the male category, Casper came in with the fastest time with his owner, Brian Kinsella.
"I'm delighted to come down to have this race on our doorstep," said Brian.
"It's great for Casper to come out and meet all these other dogs. He does run with me for about 20-30km a week so he does a fair bit, and it showed. It paid off, all the training."
The 21-year-old, who underwent gender tests at the 2009 World Championships after winning gold, ran a time of one minute 59.58 seconds in Pretoria.
"It's a weight off my shoulders and I'm very happy with my time," she said.
I possibly can go quicker, tonight was just my third race of the season.
Semenya was suspended for 11 months by the International Association of Athletics Federations but was cleared to return to the track in July 2010.
She won silver at last year's World Championships in Daegu despite a back problem.
Semenya also reached her first qualifying mark in South Korea but the South African Olympic committee requires athletes to meet the qualifying time twice.
"I just ran my own race and it went OK, it's best that way and I enjoyed it, that's why I qualified," she added.
"I possibly can go quicker, tonight was just my third race of the season, and I hope to go below 1:57 in Europe.
"But it depends on my training, which needs to strengthen me up for the Olympics. I need to last and one race does not mean anything."
Many on social media say the work looks more like former Republic of Ireland captain Niall Quinn than Ronaldo.
The statue was revealed at a ceremony to name the island's airport after him.
Portugal's president and the prime minister flew to the island to unveil the tribute to the player outside the terminal entrance.
President Rebelo de Sousa said Ronaldo "projects Madeira and Portugal across the world far more than anybody else".
The 32-year-old is a local hero in Madeira, where he is seen as a rags-to-riches success. He already has a museum about him in his hometown of Funchal.
The player later said on Twitter: "Happy and honored to have my name given to the Madeira airport!"
Ronaldo is not the first footballer to have an airport named after him. Belfast airport was named after former Manchester United player George Best in 2006, a year after he died.
The president told supporters at a "Make America Great Again" rally in Phoenix, Arizona, that the opposition Democrats were being "obstructionist".
During the 80-minute speech, he also took aim at the media, blaming them for giving far right groups "a platform".
But he selectively quoted his initial response to violence at a far-right rally that left one woman dead.
He omitted the much-criticised claim that "many sides" had to shoulder the blame for violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
President Trump wants Congress to finance his controversial plan to build a "big, beautiful" wall along the United States' border with Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants.
But Republicans will need the support of Democrats to secure funding for the wall in a government spending bill, which they are unlikely to get.
In his speech, Mr Trump said the Democrats were "putting all of America's safety at risk" by opposing the wall. He said immigration officers who worked in the area said it was "vital" to stem the flow of illegal immigrants.
He said that, if it came to it, he would risk a government shutdown - which is what happens when legislation funding the federal government cannot be passed by Congress and non-essential services stop. This will happen on 1 October if a bill cannot be agreed.
"Now the obstructionist Democrats would like us not to do it, but believe me if we have to close down our government, we are building that wall," Mr Trump said, adding that "the American people voted for immigration control".
President Trump attacked the media in the campaign-style speech, saying reporters had misrepresented his "perfect" words in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, where Heather Heyer was killed after a car ploughed into a crowd of people protesting against far-right demonstrators including neo-Nazis.
He accused "truly dishonest people in the media and the fake media" of "trying to take away our history and heritage" because, he said, they "don't like our country".
He quoted his first public response to the violence on 12 August, which was criticised by both Republicans and Democrats for not explicitly condemning the far-right.
"This is what I said on Saturday: 'We're closely following the terrible events unfolding in Charlottesville, Virginia,' - this is me speaking. 'We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence.' That's me speaking on Saturday, right after the event," he said.
But his full quote was: "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides."
Separately, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has criticised the US for what it said was a "failure at the highest political level" to reject "racist violent events".
Referring to Charlottesville, the committee said it was issuing a rare "early warning", which has been used in recent years in countries including Burundi, Iraq, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast.
While Mr Trump's comments were met with cheers inside the conference centre, anti-Trump protesters who had gathered outside the rally clashed with police after the rally had finished.
Police used pepper spray after the protesters threw bottles and rocks.
Reacting to the speech, the former National Intelligence director James Clapper told CNN that he was questioning Donald Trump's "fitness" for office.
"I also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it," he said, adding he found the rally "downright scary and disturbing".
Ruben Gallego, a Democratic Party congressman in Arizona, said it was was the worst-ever speech by a US president. "It was all about him, it was not about the country," he told the BBC.
But Trump supporters were pleased.
"President Trump did an amazing job tonight. His message is uniting our great nation!", tweeted Ryan Fournier, the head of Students for Trump.
White Nationalist Richard Spencer tweeted: "Trump has never denounced the Alt-Right. Nor will he."
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The debate has ranged across the implications of Brexit for cross-border trade, the consequences of the political vacuum at Stormont and, rather less predictably, whether it is OK for one party leader to call another a "blonde".
In addition, the campaign has been interrupted twice as local politicians paid their respects to the victims of terror attacks in Manchester and London.
The March assembly election was a bruising experience for Arlene Foster, with Sinn Féin closing the gap on the DUP, and unionists losing their Stormont majority.
When the DUP kicked off its Westminster campaign, its leader appeared determined to maintain her discipline.
There was no repeat of the "crocodile" remarks which had energised Sinn Féin's base in the spring, and there was a charm initiative aimed at Irish language activists.
This seemed to indicate potential flexibility ahead of the talks due on the other side of polling day.
But others in the DUP quickly hardened the line against an Irish Language Act.
Then we had "Blondegate" - that unfortunate decision by the DUP leader to play a word association game about Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill with a reporter from the Sunday Independent.
When I talked to Michelle O'Neill for BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Politics, she seemed in unforgiving mood.
That applied both to the "blonde" comment and her party's red line on not sharing power with Mrs Foster until the inquiry into the Renewable Heat scandal has run its course.
"There are ways and means" she told me, for the DUP "to put forward someone who can go into an executive". So, no sign of pre-talks wriggle room there.
More recently, Mrs O'Neill has accused the DUP of setting its own preconditions - pointing to a series of tests for restoring Stormont included in the DUP manifesto.
Sinn Féin is piling its resources into places like Fermanagh South and Tyrone and South Down, where it hopes to make gains.
The DUP, likewise, is pushing hard in areas like South Antrim and South Belfast.
By contrast, the erstwhile official Stormont opposition appears in mortal danger, with both the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists under serious pressure across the board.
Hanging on to what they hold seems the height of their ambition.
The SDLP stresses that its MPs will take any seats they win and fight Brexit on the floor of the Commons, while the Ulster Unionists have also majored on the need for all constituencies to have representation, rather than electing abstentionist Sinn Féin MPs.
But perhaps wanting to avoid another "vote Mike, Get Colum" moment, the new Ulster Unionist leader, Robin Swann, avoided my invitation on Inside Politics to advise his supporters to back the SDLP in a seat like Foyle, where the UUP is not standing and Sinn Féin might run the SDLP close.
Mr Swann is so new to the UUP leader's job that no one is likely to call for him to go even if his party has a second bad election in a row.
But what about Colum Eastwood? In many ways the SDLP had a lucky assembly election in March, experiencing a slight fall in its vote yet hanging on to the same number of assembly members (MLAs).
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On a good day for Arlene Foster, the DUP might make gains at the expense of both the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists.
On a bad day, it could face a re-run of Alliance's 2010 upset, when Naomi Long unseated the then DUP leader Peter Robinson.
With no unionist pact operating in East Belfast this time, nothing can be taken for granted.
On a very bad day for the DUP, its current Westminster leader Nigel Dodds - who is benefiting from a pact - could be under pressure from Sinn Féin's new kid on the block, John Finucane.
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That said, like the March results, the Westminster count could prove dramatic.
Then it is back to Stormont Castle and the talks table where the balance of the negotiations will no doubt be influenced by the public's second verdict on their politicians in the space of three months.
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Jason Betts, 38, was found unconscious with a head injury at his flat in Celestine Road, Yate, on 5 March last year and died later in hospital.
Nathan Skeen, of Ermine Road, Lewisham, was found guilty of manslaughter and actual bodily harm following a five-week trial at Bristol Crown Court.
The 29-year-old will be sentenced at a date to be fixed.
At an earlier hearing, Nixon Apire, 31, of Great North Road, Barnet, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent.
Avon and Somerset Police said the two men had been responsible for assaulting Mr Betts for "well over a week before his death".
In that time, he was stabbed in the leg, had cigarettes stubbed out on his face and was hit over the head with a bottle and a glass.
But Det Supt Andy Bevan said it was in a subsequent assault carried out by Skeen that Mr Betts suffered the fatal injury.
"Jason was a vulnerable man who had significant health and drug addiction issues," he said.
"Skeen and Apire callously took advantage of Jason's vulnerability and coerced him into selling class A drugs on their behalf in the Yate area.
"They had a suffocating control over Jason and when they felt he owed them money, they exacted their revenge by assaulting him."
Mr Courts, 37, said he was "hugely honoured" to be selected by local Tories for the 20 October by-election.
The Greens have chosen Larry Sanders - brother of US Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders - as their candidate.
Mr Cameron announced he was quitting as an MP last week, having resigned as prime minister in July.
Mr Cameron, 49, has represented Witney since 2001, becoming Conservative leader in 2005 and prime minister in 2010.
He announced this month he would step down as an MP as he did not want to be a "distraction" for new PM Theresa May.
Mr Cameron won a 25,155 majority in 2015 in Witney, which has been held by the Conservatives since 1974.
The Sun had reported that Mr Cameron's former aide Natasha Whitmill was tipped as the "favourite" to succeed him, but Mr Courts won the selection process on Thursday.
Mr Courts, a West Oxfordshire district councillor since 2014, praised Mr Cameron as "a brilliant MP and public servant" and said it was "vital" that the constituency continued to have a "strong local voice in Parliament".
Mr Cameron said there had been a "strong shortlist of local candidates" adding: "I'm delighted Robert Courts has been chosen."
Standing for the Greens is Mr Sanders, who stood in the neighbouring Oxford West and Abingdon constituency in 2015, coming fifth.
The 81-year-old emigrated from his native New York in the 1960s and was leader of the Green group on Oxford County Council between 2005 and 2013.
His younger brother Bernie is known for taking on Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for US President.
The Lib Dem candidate for the seat is Liz Leffman while Duncan Enright, who came second to Mr Cameron in 2015, will stand again for Labour.
The by-election will be held on the same day as a by-election in Batley and Spen, prompted by the killing of Labour MP Jo Cox.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said it was a "huge step" ahead of Sunday's game in Cardiff against Israel where victory will ensure a trip to France.
Wales manager Chris Coleman has urged fans to get "carried away".
Supporter Abigail Davies from Swansea told BBC Radio Wales she had even bought a book to start learning French.
Another fan was caught on camera jumping for joy at the moment Gareth Bale scored while watching the game at a pub in Denbighshire, as the team took another step towards securing a place in the final stages of a major tournament for the first time since 1958.
Ex-Wales captain Kevin Ratcliffe said he believed the team had "surely" done enough to secure their place.
"I'm a bit envious of them. I'd love to be part of that. We have a world class squad."
In tweets praising Republican candidate Ben Carson, Mr Murdoch wrote: "What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide?"
After criticism on Twitter, he later tweeted: "Apologies! No offence meant. Personally find both men charming."
Mr Murdoch, 84, is founder of the global News Corporation empire.
His company owns Fox News Channel and The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal in the US, and Sky News and The Sun and Times newspapers in the UK, among others.
He is ranked as one of the world's most powerful people.
Mr Murdoch has previously tweeted his admiration for Mr Carson, a 63-year-old retired neurosurgeon who is one of 15 hopefuls vying to become the Republican candidate for the US presidency in 2016.
A few days ago, he tweeted: "Everywhere pundits keep underestimating Ben Carson. But public understand humility as admirable, listen to the multi-faceted strong message."
Previously, he has said of him: "Maybe the one to beat. Irreproachable on background, achievements, character, vision."
He took to Twitter again on Wednesday.
Shortly after, he tweeted again:
President Obama, throughout his presidency, has tended to be cautious about race, leaving others to attach racial meaning to his presidency, the BBC's Nick Bryant in New York has written.
This week's New York magazine quotes members of the African-American community as saying they wish he had done more to tackle racial problems.
Mr Carson caused controversy last month when he said a Muslim should not run for president because Islam was inconsistent with the US constitution.
In early August the National Urban League, a black civil rights organisation, gathered in Florida for its annual conference - and attendees and speakers grappled with the upcoming 2016 election and the role that black voters will play. Some of the talk could prove encouraging for Republicans.
"We are a part, as black voters, of a coalition that we've given everything to and can't ask anything from," Van Jones, an environmental activist, lawyer and former Obama adviser, said during a panel on the presidential race.
"As long as that's our position, we're going to continue to be mistreated within our own party."
Blacks have been supportive of other Democratic priorities, such as immigration reform, the environment and gay rights, but are being ignored on matters that concern their communities, he believes.
"The Obama era of black silence on issues that are important to us is over," Jones said.
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Swansea are thought to want to sign two or three more players, with Hull's Sam Clucas a major transfer target.
Last season's top scorer Llorente is not yet fit and sat out Saturday's 4-0 home loss to Manchester United.
"If we can service Fernando up front with crosses, he is a different type of player for us," Fernandez said.
"If he's ready and he can join us he can help... we need to score to take points, to win games."
Swansea have failed to find the net in the Premier League so far this season, after beginning their campaign with a 0-0 draw at Southampton.
Llorente, who scored 15 goals last season, could play some part in the trip to Crystal Palace on Saturday, 26 August, having broken his arm during a family holiday in the summer.
Midfielder Ki Sung-yueng is also sidelined after having knee surgery in July and is expected to be out for at least another two months.
But following fellow midfielder Sigurdsson's £45m sale to Everton, Swansea have the funds to strengthen before the transfer window closes.
"We need to work hard and hope players come in or recover from injury and can help to make a better squad," added Fernandez, who captained Swansea against United.
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"We expect two or three new players to come in. We need to better, to create more chances, to play more football. We need to work in the training ground.
"Of course Gylfi is a great player, who last season scored nine goals and 13 assists - those are high numbers - so we need to find a player in that position who can do the same."
Swansea had hit United's crossbar early and with 10 minutes remaining only trailed to Eric Bailly's 45th-minute opener.
But as the Welsh side went in search of an equaliser they conceded three goals in just three minutes and 41 seconds, as the visitors exploited the space to devastating effect.
"I think the result was harsh on us," Fernandez added.
"They were very good on the counter-attack and took advantage of our changes in the second half.
"There are no excuses for us, we need to continue to work hard. But I think we played well in large parts and we should take positives from that."
Before next weekend's trip to Selhurst Park, Swansea go to MK Dons on Tuesday night in the EFL Cup second round.
Police said Tufan Sarker, a unionist linked to the governing Awami League party, was among those detained.
A manhunt is under way for Mr Sarker's wife, Asha Khatun, who is accused of beating the 16-year-old and her mother and shaving their heads.
The photos caused outrage in Bangladesh and authorities were urged to act fast.
Mr Sarker, 25, was charged on Friday by police from the Bogra district with raping the girl and threatening to kill her, officials said.
"He threatened to kill her and her mother if she would dare to talk to anyone about the incident," local police spokesman Sonaton Chakroborty told AFP news agency.
Another officer said that Mr Sarker was the local leader of the labour wing of the Awami League, which came to power eight years ago.
The other three men arrested are accused of abetting the rape.
Photos of the alleged victim and her mother under police protection at a local hospital spread quickly online, shocking the Bangladeshi public.
The alleged victim, whose identity has not been disclosed, said Mr Sarker's wife suspected she had engaged in a relationship with her husband.
"They shaved my entire head. I repeatedly apologised but they didn't listen. They even beat my mother and shaved her head," she told local media.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said that, on average, consumers will save just £26 a year.
MPs also warned that the technology could be out of date by the time the roll-out is complete.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said smart meters will lower bills and make switching easier.
Installing the meters - which begins in earnest next year - will cost £215 per household, or £10.6bn.
Customers will be charged an annual amount on their bills to cover the cost, peaking at £11 a year in 2017.
The £26 annual figure would be the net saving, after the installation costs have been taken into account.
"Despite consumers footing the bill, they can on average make a saving of only 2% on the average annual bill of £1,328 by the time the roll out is complete," said Margaret Hodge, the chair of the PAC.
"Even this is conditional on consumers changing their behaviour and cutting their energy use," she added.
The Committee also said that some of the technology is likely to be out of date by the time it is installed.
At the moment the meters carry an in-house display, which tells consumers how much energy they are using at any given time, and how much it is costing.
The idea is that will encourage consumers to use less electricity and gas.
But the MPs said customers could receive similar information on smart phones.
That could make the in-home displays "redundant," said the committee.
DECC said there would be no up front charge to consumers for having a smart meter installed.
Energy minister Baroness Verma said: "Smart meters put power into the hands of consumers, bringing an end to estimated billing and helping people understand their energy use.
"The nationwide rollout is part of the Government's complete overhaul of the UK's energy infrastructure which will revolutionise the market and support the development of smarter electricity grids.
"It will help reduce consumer bills, enable faster, easier switching and give households control at the touch of a button," she said.
The project has already run into delays, and has been criticised elsewhere as a waste of money.
Dozens protested in Westminster after the government said it would not appeal against the dropped prosecution of an alleged bomber John Downey.
Last month, a judge ruled he could not be tried because of the guarantee.
A campaign group for victims of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings called on ministers to challenge the judgement.
Last month, a judge ruled the trial of Mr Downey, who denied killing four soldiers in the 1982 Hyde Park bombing, could not proceed because of a letter sent in error to Irish republican paramilitary suspects.
Peter Hain, then-secretary of state for Northern Ireland, has said the letters were "necessary" for the success of the peace process.
Members of the Justice4the21 campaign group travelled from Birmingham to Westminster and said they wanted the government to "make the situation right".
One member, Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was killed in the 1974 bombings, was at the protest.
"We want there to be a full, public, judicial inquiry where witnesses are compelled to give evidence," she said.
"The whole country should be in uproar about this and they should be demanding the government appeal this judgement.
"When we found out about these letters we all felt like we had been stabbed in the back by our own side; we felt physically sick."
Attorney General Dominic Grieve confirmed the government did not plan to challenge the court's decision.
Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson had threatened to quit unless a judicial inquiry into the matter took place.
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Rangers said on Friday they had accepted the resignations of Warburton, assistant David Weir and head of recruitment Frank McParland.
Warburton denies he resigned and has employed the services of the LMA in England to claim compensation.
"When money is concerned, it can be real messy," said Alex Smith.
Warburton, 54, had a contract at Ibrox until 2019.
And Smith, the former Scottish Cup-winning manager of Aberdeen and St Mirren, told BBC Scotland that Warburton will be "very emotionally upset" by the manner of his departure.
"It's a very unusual situation but one that has to get sorted out very quickly and as cleanly as possible," he said.
"They have to get the financial situation sorted in a tidy way and as soon as possible so that the new manager can come in with a clean slate.
"The manager would have to detach himself from the actual conversations and the meetings because he's very emotionally upset at this stage of his life and it's better for somebody to come in in a cool and calculated way and discuss the situation with Rangers."
The LMA states on its website that among its key aims are the wish "to protect the rights and privileges of its members" and "to represent the interests of the professional football managers to The Football Association, Premier League, Football League and all the game's other governing bodies and stakeholders".
Asked how his organisation would deal with a case such as Warburton's, Falkirk technical director Smith replied: "We would get our lawyers to take up the case.
"They would find out all the facts from both sides and try to come to a reasonable conclusion to tidy it all up.
"Nobody gains by it dragging on and somebody being selfish at one end. They have to get together and sort it out for both parties."
There were walk-outs and boos at its screening earlier but it has still earned some glowing reviews.
Gosling plays a drug smuggler in Bangkok who is compelled by his mother to avenge his brother's death.
Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian gave the film five stars but said it might "have people running for the exits."
The film reunites Gosling with director Nicolas Winding Refn, who won the best director prize at Cannes for their 2011 collaboration Drive.
Bradshaw praised Refn's "bizarre infernal creation".
"An entire created world of fear, really is gripping. Every scene, every frame, is executed with pure formal brilliance," he wrote.
Speaking to reporters at Cannes, Refn said he felt powerless to resist a compulsion to depict violence on screen.
"Art is an act of violence," he said on Wednesday. "Art is about speaking to our subconscious and our needs at different levels."
Gosling did not attend Cannes this year, being currently in Detroit directing his first movie How to Catch a Monster.
Cannes director Thierry Fremaux read a letter from the Canadian actor at the film's press conference apologising for his absence.
"Can't believe I'm not In Cannes," Gosling wrote. "I was hoping to come but I'm on week three shooting my film in Detroit. Miss you all.
"Nicolas, my friend, we really are the same persons in different dimensions. I'm sending you good vibrations.''
Kristin Scott Thomas is cast against type in the film as Gosling's garishly dressed American mother.
"Watching her in Only God Forgives is like waking up to discover your much-loved pet cat has morphed overnight into a saltwater crocodile," wrote the Daily Telegraph's Robbie Collin.
"Kristin Scott Thomas easily upstages Ryan Gosling's near-catatonic turn," wrote Variety's reviewer.
Scott Thomas admitted to reporters that the film was "really not my thing," admitting she did not enjoy watching films "where this kind of violence happens".
But she said she took the role to be able to work with Winding Refn and play a "wild, savage person".
The film, out in the UK on 2 August, is one of 20 in the race for the festival's Palme d'Or prize.
The trio, including Richard Dart, a convert to radical Islam who has featured in TV documentaries, were sentenced to additional monitoring in the community after their jail terms.
They had argued during their appeal that the punishment was unfair.
But the Court of Appeal has ruled the sentences were justified because of the dangers the men posed.
It means a string of sentencing hearings for Syria-related terrorism offences, which had been on hold pending the ruling, can now go ahead.
The three men had all admitted preparing for acts of terrorism.
Each was given an extended sentence - meaning a jail term plus additional monitoring on licence in the community - last April.
Dart, from Weymouth, sought training in Pakistan and then discussed plans to attack Royal Wootton Bassett, the town that was the focal point for the repatriation of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, with others in the UK.
The other two men, Zahid Iqbal and Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, from Luton, had prepared for a possible attack on Luton's Territorial Army base.
Dart received a six-year extended sentence, meaning he must serve at least two-thirds in jail before he can be considered for release on licence.
At the end of those six years, he will be subject to a further five years of monitoring under licence in the community.
He would face the risk of being sent back to jail if he committed another offence during that time.
Iqbal and Ahmed received extended sentences of just over 16 years - comprising an 11-year jail sentence plus an extra five on licence.
Rejecting their appeals at the Royal Courts of Justice, Lord Justice Pitchford said the judges who sentenced them had followed the appropriate procedures to assess each man as posing an ongoing danger to society.
Dart, who changed his name to Salahuddin al-Britani, became involved in extremism after moving from his home town in Dorset to east London.
His beliefs were brought into the spotlight in 2011 as part of a BBC television documentary My Brother The Islamist, by his stepbrother Robb Leech.
This was followed by a second documentary, My Brother the Terrorist, earlier this year.
Gerald Thompson, 51, who was prosecuted by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, was fined £150 but with costs it totals more than £550.
Thompson, of Glendale Street, Burslem, will be paying it back at £10 a week.
His defence was that he could not get his bin out of the back door and would have had to take it through his house, so he left it on the road.
Thompson, who has lived in the house since May last year, was charged with failing to comply with a requirement imposed by a waste collection authority.
When he first moved in, residents kept their bins permanently outside their homes but in January, the council issued warnings asking them to keep them inside the boundaries of their properties and fined those that refused.
New policy meant the bins could only be on the street between 07:00 and 19:00 on the day of collection.
But he said his back door and gate were both jammed after bad weather last year so he could not access an alleyway along the back of his terraced house and did not like to wheel it though his house.
He was fined £80 which he refused to pay. The council issued a further penalty notice and then took him to court.
Outside the North Staffordshire Justice Centre, he described the verdict as "crazy".
"What is this world coming to?," he said.
"How can somebody be convicted for leaving as bin outside the house because they don't want to live with that bin?
"Living with a bin inside our house makes it smell, especially a green wheelie bin."
The city council said it did not take decisions to prosecute lightly, and only did it as a last resort.
"In the time it's taken us to get from where we first initially contacted him to actually taking this action there were options he could have discussed with us and we could have helped him to actually tackle his landlord maybe, address the problem with the rear gate, no need to take this before the courts," a spokesman said.
Tompion Platt, from pedestrian campaign group Living Streets, warned wheelie bins could be awkward obstacles for people using the pavement.
He said: "Our streets should be easy and accessible to walk in and leaving items, such as wheelie bins out on pavements, can act as an obstruction, especially for those who are blind or partially sighted, parents with buggies and people in wheelchairs.
"At best this is a nuisance and at worst, can put people's safety at risk by forcing them into the road."
The two men were among 16 who suffered burns during the attack at the Mangle E8 venue in Sidworth Street, Hackney, at about 01:10 BST on Monday.
A 20-year-old woman, who was also injured, said the men were "two black guys, but their faces were turned white because of the acid".
No-one has been arrested.
The injured men, aged 29 and 24, are in a serious but stable condition in a specialist burns unit in Essex.
The witness, who asked not to be named, said she had not see any argument or fight in the club but "in the space of two minutes people went from dancing to the acid being thrown".
"I was standing by the bar and then I got hit by something that at first felt like water but then my arms started blistering," she said.
A 25-year-old woman who suffered burns to her foot said people in the "packed" venue suddenly started shouting "go, go, go" and "let's move, let's move".
She said the acid had caused a "red circle" around her toes around the size of a 50p piece, which caused a strong "stinging" pain.
"It is scary because you just go out to have a good night and you realise how close it could have been to being a lot worse," she said.
Two Australian sisters who were also injured told the BBC they thought someone had "bombed the club" after they smelt gas.
Former Premier League footballer Jamie O'Hara said his cousin, who was in the club, had suffered blisters all over her head.
"Innocent people get injured for the sick act of violence," he tweeted.
Three cast members of the reality TV show The Only Way Is Essex - Jamie Reed, Jade Lewis and Chloe Meadows - were also reportedly among the hundreds evacuated from the LoveJuice event.
A London Fire Brigade spokeswoman said an "unknown corrosive substance" had been thrown.
"It was identified by a pH paper test as a strong acidic substance," she said.
Some witnesses have criticised security saying sufficient searches had not been carried out at the event but the club's owners have not commented.
The company behind the event tweeted it was co-operating with the police investigation.
Col Mikolaj Przybyl was defending a military investigation into media leaks related to the air crash that killed the Polish president in 2010.
He asked reporters to leave so that he could take "a break".
Upon hearing a loud thud, the reporters returned to find him on the floor with a pool of blood around his head.
Mr Przybyl, who was in his office in Poznan, western Poland, is now in hospital in stable condition. His life is not in danger, according to hospital officials.
One of the reporters present told Polish television: "We heard a loud thud and we went back into the room thinking one of the cameras had fallen over. Then we saw the prosecutor motionless on the ground in a pool of blood, his military gun beside him."
In television pictures of the news conference, Col Przybyl is seen reading out a statement to reporters: "During my entire service as a civilian and later military prosecutor, I have never brought shame to the Republic of Poland and I will protect the honour of an officer of the Polish armed forces and prosecution. Thank you, please give me a five-minute break, I need to rest."
He then walks out of shot and the sound of a gun being cocked can be heard followed by a loud bang.
At the news conference, Mr Przybyl had denied prosecutors in Poznan, western Poland, had eavesdropped on journalists who were investigating the crash, AFP news agency reports.
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has said in a statement he was "concerned" about the incident and had asked the head of the national security bureau to monitor the situation.
The plane taking then President Lech Kaczynski's delegation to a memorial service for the victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre of Polish officers by Soviet secret police crashed in thick fog in Smolensk, western Russia, on 10 April 2010.
As well as MR Kaczynski, his wife and 94 senior officials also died when the jet tried to land.
Investigators blamed pilot error.
Clive Stafford Smith said various US government officials had told him Mr Aamer was going to be released in June.
He has never been charged or been on trial and, since 2007, has been cleared for release twice by both President George Bush and Barack Obama.
The UK Foreign Office said his case remained "a high priority".
Mr Stafford Smith said: "I have heard from various sources, which are very reliable I hope, that he is to be released in June.
"But of course we've had promises before and the worst thing one can do is, both for Shaker and for his wife and children, to promise something that may not happen. But there's no good reason why it wouldn't happen."
President Obama's pledge to close the high-security prison camp in Cuba is the primary reason behind Mr Aamer's likely release, Mr Stafford Smith said.
"And he can't do that unless he gets rid of the 57 people who have been cleared at least - and Shaker has been cleared for eight years now.
"But it's also down to the incredibly good work by so many people, like Andrew Mitchell who visited the US with three other MPs. I have letter here with me from Shaker where he's incredibly grateful for that. So many people have done so many great things to help him and I think that's had a great impact."
Mr Aamer was detained in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2001. US authorities allege he had led a unit of Taliban fighters and had met former al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden.
But Mr Aamer has maintained he was in Afghanistan with his family doing charity work.
The Saudi national has permission to live in the UK indefinitely because his wife is a British national. They have four children and live in London - he has never met his youngest child.
Mr Stafford Smith explained: "In Shaker's case, the proof in the pudding is that he was cleared by the Bush administration and cleared by the Obama administration. So if they clear him and all six of the national security agencies say he should be released, then it's quite hard to make the argument that he's guilty of something.
"The world is insane. I go to Guantanamo and see a place where still half of the prisoners who are there have been cleared for release. What other prison is there in the world where 50% of the prisoners are told 'you're free to go but you can't go."
Earlier this month, four cross-party MPs - former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell, Jeremy Corbyn, David Davis and Andy Slaughter - met senior officials in Washington to try and secure Mr Aamer's release.
"We're hopeful we advanced the case. We spoke to a number of senior senators who were as perplexed as we are about why it was taking so long for him to be released for transfer back to the United Kingdom," Mr Mitchell told Victoria Derbyshire.
"Our prime minister asked for him to be transferred earlier this year on his visit to the United States and it is incomprehensible that the United States would treat its oldest ally and staunchest friend in this very cavalier way."
In a statement the Foreign Office said it continued to raise Mr Aamer's case "at the highest levels".
"The US authorities have now prioritised this case for review and we welcome President Obama's continuing commitment to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay," it added.
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Martin Green, 60, from Ventnor Rise in Sherwood, Nottingham, said he had reported the leak several times to Severn Trent over the years.
However, despite searching for it, engineers cannot point out exactly where the problem is.
The company said it was not responsible because the leak was on private land.
It added the leak was somewhere within the property boundaries of four homes meaning it could be under a garden, conservatory or even a house.
Mr Green said: "If the water board can't find it, what chance does anybody else have?"
He said he had been aware of the issue since he moved in 23 years ago because he can hear it when it is quiet.
"Over the years I have reported it to Severn Trent and they have not really been interested."
Following a recent engineer's visit, it was found the pipe was losing just under 1,000 litres an hour. Mr Green and his neighbours have not had to to pay for this water.
"From that we received a letter from them saying we had 28 days to repair the leak or they would be taking legal action, which I think is absolutely despicable."
Who is responsible when there's a water leak?
According to Severn Trent's website, the company is responsible for any mains pipes and assets, which are normally located on the road or footpath..
Whereas the customer is responsible for pipes on private land.
A Severn Trent spokesman said: "We repaired the pipe [in 2014] as a gesture of goodwill, but the homeowner would have been told that this leak was their responsibility.
"If the leak is not fixed, we will write to the homeowner and eventually send an enforcement notice. This then allows our contractors to go onto the property and repair the pipe.
"The homeowner will then be invoiced for the repair."
In the age of catch-up TV and super-fast mobile internet, where many of us are turning to watch our TV, they also provide a mobile signal to millions. They can be taller than skyscrapers, older than The Beatles, and some of them look a bit like the Eiffel Tower.
Nicknamed South London's Eiffel Tower, the Crystal Palace transmitter beams television pictures to 12 million sets across London and the South East.
Ronan O'Gorman has been working on transmitting stations for nearly 30 years and has climbed the 719ft (219m) tower more than 100 times.
He said: "It takes six minutes for an electric lift to take you 130 metres up, the rest you have to climb yourself. So in total it takes about 35 minutes to climb.
"It's an adrenaline rush. Once I climbed it and there was very low cloud, we were above it all in bright sunshine and I could see the shadow of the tower on the cloud beneath us."
The tower, like many others, is not just used to beam TV signals. "All the phone companies are there," Mr O'Gorman said.
It is built on the ruins of the Crystal Palace, the Victorian exhibition centre that burned down in 1936. To preserve the beauty of the site, the buildings that house much of the technical equipment had to be put underground.
"You can't extend the underground buildings obviously, it is very difficult to keep the old technology working as you put in the new stuff," the 50-year-old said.
Shropshire rambler Peter Carr admits he has "no feelings" about the Wrekin transmitter. That is a far cry from 1975, when the tower was finally built.
The Wrekin Preservation Committee, as historian George Evans recalls, was set up in protest at plans for the tower. "We told each other how dreadful it was and wondered what to do about it," he remembers.
But despite protests the tower was built on the Wrekin, after the BBC had looked at putting it on the nearby Stiperstones ridge.
The transmitter sits on the 1,335ft (407m) high Shropshire landmark called The Wrekin, and beams TV pictures to the majority of the county and part of Staffordshire.
Mr Carr's group walk across the county and it would seem they, and other ramblers he has met across the country, no longer have issues with transmitting towers.
"Open-cast mining, pylons, wind farms and solar farms... but transmitter towers never even feature," said 67-year-old Mr Carr, chairman of the Shropshire Area ramblers.
"They are less intrusive than wind turbines."
Opened in 1949, the longest serving television transmission facility in the UK sits in north Sutton Coldfield.
Beaming pictures to Birmingham and about seven million people across the West Midlands, it is the second most important tower in the country in terms of viewers served.
"If you think of the small coaxial cable that you plug into the back of your TV," said senior engineer Martin Byrd, "the ones that connect into our transmitters are the size of your leg."
The technology behind the towers has got smaller in the 65 years since the facility Mr Byrd oversees opened. But, with the addition of more and more TV and radio channels and high definition, there is still plenty of kit to look after.
Although it is one of the tallest structures in the area, it is not used by the phone companies. Surprisingly they use a second, smaller mast nearby.
Arqiva, the company that manages the TV transmitter, admitted there was "debate" over whether it was the longest continuously transmitting site in the world.
The history of the company, formed from many others, has made it difficult to say definitively whether or not it could claim that title.
The transmitter at Emley Moor stands overlooking the Pennines and West Yorkshire. For people from those parts, catching a glimpse of it on a long journey lets them know they are nearly home.
"Everyone has a view of the mast. On the M1 I see it, on the train I see it; intrinsically it's something to do with coming home," Chris Marsden, of the Huddersfield Civic Society explained.
Built in 1971, the 1,083ft (330m) Grade II listed concrete tower is the tallest self-supporting structure in the UK. It is taller than any of the skyscrapers in London, including The Shard.
Given its extraordinary height, the transmitter also makes a perfect site for the mobile phone companies to use it to provide the area with signal.
But despite its height, the tower has not imposed on locals, according to Kirkheaton resident Sandra Harling.
"It was lit up for the Tour de France and it was absolutely fantastic," she said.
"We've got used to it, and besides it looks much better than the first one."
The Emley Moor site has housed three transmitting towers since it opened in 1956, the second of which collapsed in strong winds on 19 March 1969.
Large amounts of ice stuck to the guy rope that held the 1,256ft (385m) mast up, causing it to come crashing down under the extra weight.
The mast crashed through the roof of the Emley Moor Methodist Church, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reported, but two men inside were unharmed.
Granville Clay, 79, remembers trying to visit the site of destruction and said: "I couldn't get anywhere near the site, the road was blocked off because the mast landed in it.
"It was quite remarkable there were no injuries."
Officers said they have "drawn a blank" since finding the body in woodland off Peartree Avenue, Southampton, on Monday.
The man was wearing a sweatshirt from Zimbabwe, Hampshire Constabulary said.
He also had a tattoo on his upper right arm, drawn in "blue/black" ink, of an eagle's head with its mouth wide open.
The man was 6ft 3in (1.9m) tall, of "proportionate build", aged between 40 and 60, with a full head of greying hair.
His sweatshirt, described by police as grey, sports a badge showing a bird next to the words Mahenye Safari Lodge, Cona-re-zhou, Zimbabwe.
He was also wearing tracksuit bottoms bearing a Monster logo, and a pair of trainers.
It has not been possible to determine the man's ethnicity, and he does not match the description of anyone reported missing, the force said.
Launching an appeal for the public's help, Det Con Mark Blake said: "We are hoping that someone must know who this man is - someone must be missing him.
"He could be from anywhere, we just don't know."
The right-back, who has penned a two year deal, started his career at Hearts and moved to Old Trafford in 2005 for a fee in the region of £50,000.
He then had spells with Preston North End and Stevenage Borough.
"This is a great opportunity to play for a big club and to be part of something memorable," the 26-year-old told the Hibs website.
"I'm honoured to be Alan's first signing - he comes across really well - and now I can't wait to get started.
"Our first competitive game of the season is against Rangers in the [Petrofac Training] cup and then two games later we've got an Edinburgh Derby, so there is plenty to look forward to"
Boss Stubbs says Gray, a former Scotland under-21 international, will be joined by more new faces as Hibs gear up for the Scottish Championship campaign.
"David is a quality player with plenty of experience and a first-class attitude," he said.
"Hopefully his arrival will be the first of many new signings at the club over the next few weeks."
He told MPs that negotiating an exit would be the civil service's most complex and important task for decades.
Allies of Jeremy Corbyn have insisted he will not resign in the wake of the Brexit vote, accusing MPs seeking to depose him of "subverting" democracy.
The Labour leader faces a motion of no confidence in him on Tuesday.
A secret ballot on Mr Corbyn's leadership will be held after nearly 40 of his shadow ministerial team resigned.
The result, however, will not be binding on the Labour leader and allies of Mr Corbyn has insisted he will stand in any subsequent leadership election if an alternative candidate puts themselves forward.
UK financial markets have remained volatile in the wake of the Brexit vote, with sterling plunging to a 31-year low against the dollar, and some share trading temporarily halted.
The UK has also lost its AAA credit rating after it was downgraded by Standard and Poor's. The country was also downgraded from AA+ to AA with a negative outlook by ratings agency Fitch.
EU leaders say they will not hold informal talks with the UK until it officially notifies them of its exit.
Mr Cameron is to stand down as prime minister by October, and has triggered a Conservative leadership contest, while Mr Corbyn is facing a revolt in his shadow cabinet with members questioning his performance in the referendum campaign.
The PM told MPs he did not take back the warnings he made during the campaign about the consequences of leaving the EU, saying it would be "difficult" with "challenging new negotiations" ahead.
While "all of the key decisions" would wait for his successor, he said there was work to be done in the meantime, and a new EU unit had been set up in Whitehall to "bring together expertise".
He defended the decision to call the referendum, saying MPs had backed it by a margin of six to one, and said the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments would be "fully involved" in the negotiations.
He also condemned "despicable" racist attacks that have been reported since the referendum result, saying they must be stamped out.
Mr Corbyn has been accused of lukewarm support for - and his office of actively trying to undermine - Labour's campaign to remain in the EU. He took to the despatch box amid a mass resignation of members of his shadow cabinet.
In a message for the critics in his own party - more than 30 of which have resigned in the past 36 hours - he said: "Our country is divided and the country will thank neither the benches in front of me nor those behind me (where Labour MPs sit) for indulging in internal factional manoeuvring at this time."
Mr Corbyn said the outcome of the referendum showed "many people feel disenfranchised and powerless", saying communities had been "let down, not by the European Union but by the Tory government".
He called for reassurances that levels of EU funding that had been pledged would be protected, and attacked the Leave campaign which he said had "made claims they knew to be false".
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said he would continue fighting for the UK to remain a member of the EU, while the SNP's Angus Robertson said his party had "no intention whatsoever of seeing Scotland taken out of Europe".
Scotland voted overall for Remain, and the Scottish government has suggested a second independence referendum could be needed to retain its status in the EU.
After a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi emphasised the need to process the UK's exit as quickly as possible and focus on the challenges facing the remaining 27 states.
For one week, 164 healthy volunteers were asked to wear a wrist sensor that tracked their normal sleep habits.
They were then given nasal drops containing rhinovirus and quarantined in a hotel for five days under close observation to see how many got a cold.
The findings support the theory that poor sleep blunts immunity.
The US study, published in the journal Sleep, looked only at sleep duration, not sleep quality.
Getting broken sleep did not appear to make any difference - just quantity of sleep per night.
The results suggest that people who get little sleep each night are more likely to catch a cold than those who clock up more than seven hours a night.
Lead researcher Dr Aric Prather, from the University of California San Francisco, said: "Short sleep was more important than any other factor in predicting subjects' likelihood of catching cold.
"It didn't matter how old people were, their stress levels, their race, education or income. It didn't matter if they were a smoker. With all those things taken into account, statistically sleep still carried the day."
Poor sleep has been linked to other illnesses and obesity.
Dr Prather has previously said that sleep may limit the effectiveness of vaccines.
Experts say most people need about eight hours of good-quality sleep a night to function properly - but some need more and some less.
The 27-year-old has signed a three-year deal at Loftus Road and becomes the club's sixth signing of the summer.
Director of football, Les Ferdinand, said the club fought off Premier League sides for the player's signature.
"He had offers to earn much more money elsewhere," said Ferdinand.
"He's chosen QPR because he feels he can progress here as a player and that's fantastic."
Chery scored 15 goals in 34 appearances in the Eredivisie last season.
"Playing in England has always been a dream of mine," he said.
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They are competing in seven disciplines ranging from wrestling to swimming.
But their path to Rio from the poorest nation in the Americas was anything but smooth.
Some of Haiti's athletes had to seek donations or pay themselves for their training and preparation as the Olympic Committee of Haiti (COH) struggled to find the necessary funds.
Just days before the opening ceremony, COH President Hans Larsen said that he was still looking for financing from the private sector to cover expenses and debts.
The COH had requested $250,000 (£190,000) in funding, a pittance compared to the $18m the neighbouring Dominican Republic allocated to its Olympic Committee.
But the government only gave it $70,000.
Haiti's Bank of the Republic stepped in and provided $15,500, but the hole in the budget remains considerable.
Even Haiti's flag bearer, wrestler Asnage Castelly, had to ask for donations.
Castelly, who lives in the United States and teaches wrestling in Springfield, Massachusetts, was seeking $10,000 but his appeal raised a mere $1,914.
But his initiative impressed COH President Larsen who said the wrestler was "a symbol of Haiti's sports" and who suggested it may have swayed the committee to choose Castelly to carry the flag at the opening ceremony.
The uniforms worn by the delegation during the ceremony were also donated.
They were given to the team by the Haitian tourism ministry.
During the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the ministry financed an exhibition to promote tourism in Haiti and attract visitors in the wake of the 2010 earthquake which devastated the country.
This year, officials informed Haiti's Olympic Committee that they just did not have the funds to mount a similar venture at the Rio Games.
But now that they are in Rio, Haiti's athletes are, in the words of judoka Josue Deprez, "ready to kick some butt".
Deprez, who works as a fitness and judo coach in Miami, posted pictures of himself and his children saying he was ready to roll.
Swimmer Naomy Grand'Pierre, too, feels fortunate to have made it to Rio.
The student at the University of Chicago failed to meet the automatic qualifying time but was informed to her delight by the International Swimming Federation that she would still be able to compete in Rio.
She and fellow swimmer Frantz Dorsainvil were chosen under the federation's universality rule, which allows countries where no swimmer has achieved the qualifying standard to nominate one man and one woman to compete at the Olympics.
Triple jumper Samyr Laine was not so lucky.
Originally listed by the Haitian government as one of the athletes going to Rio, he failed to qualify.
Asked on Twitter if he was going to Rio, a disappointed Laine answered "unfortunately, no," on 28 July.
Haiti has only won two Olympic medals in its history, a silver in the long jump in Amsterdam in 1928 and a bronze in shooting in the Paris Games of 1924.
But the country's Olympic committee president Hans Larsen is optimistic - he has said he expects Haiti to bring back at least one medal from Rio.
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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the risk to public health was very low and there is not said to be a food safety issue.
Some 6,000 birds will be culled from Tuesday morning and a 10km (6 mile) exclusion zone is in place.
The exact strain has not been confirmed but the H5N1 form, deadly to humans, has been ruled out by Defra officials.
In a statement to the Commons, Environment Secretary Liz Truss said there were tried and tested methods for dealing with the disease, which were "working".
She said there would be compensation paid to farmers adversely affected by the outbreak.
The virus spreads between birds and, in rare cases, can affect humans.
The case is the first in the UK since 2008, when chickens on a farm in Banbury, Oxfordshire tested positive for the virus.
On Sunday, an outbreak of a highly contagious strain of bird flu was discovered at a poultry farm in the Netherlands.
The Dutch government has imposed a three-day nationwide ban on the transportation of poultry and eggs.
Officials say the strain, H5N8, is very dangerous for bird life and could potentially affect humans, although people can only be infected through very close contact with the affected birds.
EU officials, meeting in Brussels, have said the British case is "most likely" linked to the current outbreak in the Netherlands and a recent outbreak in Germany. They also believe migratory birds heading south for winter are responsible.
The exclusion zone around the farm in the village of Nafferton in East Yorkshire prevents all poultry and poultry waste being transferred in or out of the area.
Farm workers dressed in blue protective overalls and face masks could be seen on the premises, leaving and entering the six low sheds containing the ducks.
Gary Lavis, chairman of Nafferton parish council, said a problem was first noticed about a week ago when egg production began dropping and more ducks were dying.
He said he was particularly concerned about the potential effect on the local wild bird population, with a mere [lake] in the village and an RSPB reserve nearby.
Defra said the flu strain had been identified as the H5 virus, stressing that it was not the H5N1 strain.
A spokeswoman said: "We have confirmed a case of avian flu on a duck breeding farm in Yorkshire - the public health risk is very low and there is no risk to the food chain.
"We are taking immediate and robust action which includes introducing a restriction zone and culling all poultry on the farm to prevent any potential spread of infection."
Public Health England said it was assisting Defra in the investigation.
BBC News health editor Hugh Pym said there has never been a case of human bird flu in northern Europe.
The sight of Defra officials, clad in protective clothing and planning the cull of 6,000 ducks is something no farmer wants to see.
But this community wants this virus stopped in its tracks here at the duck farm in Nafferton.
There are 2.5 million farmed birds in East Yorkshire alone, spread over 50 units. They include 500,000 ducks and more than one million hens. All of them are vulnerable to this highly contagious strain of avian flu.
The six-mile exclusion zone around the infected farm was enforced from first light and could last for weeks. Within the zone the movement of all poultry is completely prohibited - a biosecurity measure which in itself will already be having an impact on local businesses.
But perhaps what will worry farmers most is the suspected source of this outbreak. It is not believed to be the industry's supply chain but rather the droppings of wild birds, migrating in their thousands across Europe, with no regard for exclusion zones and completely beyond anyone's control.
The UK's chief veterinary officer told the BBC it would be a few days before the exact strain would be known.
Nigel Gibbens said the disease can be spread when poultry are moved, through the cages used to transport them and the people who work with the birds.
"It can also be spread by the wild bird population and that happens quite regularly," he said.
"There's a number of routes and we are looking to do as much as we can to find out the source and eliminate any further risks."
The farm's bio-security was good, he added, and they were checking other poultry farms within the exclusion zone. But he warned that more cases could follow.
"Because there's a wild bird risk we need farmers and their vets all over the country to be alert to possible disease in their farm that they can't explain, draw those to our attention so we can investigate quickly," he added.
Chris Dickinson, the National Farmers Union county adviser for Yorkshire, said farmers needed to maintain good hygiene measures and check their stock to help prevent a spread.
He said: "It is obviously a worry for poultry farmers but I just ask farmers to keep up high levels of biosecurity and Defra will inform us of their findings in the coming days."
BBC business reporter Chris Johnston said the UK's poultry industry was big business, accounting for 14% of the EU's total production - second only to France.
Chickens make up 93% of the total number of birds reared on British farms, with turkey accounting for 4% and ducks making up just 3%, he added.
British Poultry Council chief executive Andrew Large reiterated the message from scientists that the risk to the general public from bird flu was negligible.
"Consumers should continue to support British poultry meat, assured that there is no risk in eating cooked poultry, and that is a message echoed by the Food Standards Agency and the World Health Organization," he said.
Analysis
by Michelle Roberts, health editor, BBC news website
There are many types of bird flu, and most are harmless to humans. Some strains, like H5N1 and H7N9, can potentially spread from birds to people if there is prolonged close contact.
Even then, the virus is unlikely to spread from person to person and there is no evidence that cooked poultry can infect people.
The ultimate concern is that a bird flu virus will one day mutate and acquire the ability to spread in people.
The most infamous pandemic - the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed millions - probably came from birds.
Prof Wendy Barclay, from Imperial College London, said avian influenza viruses can be "devastating" for the poultry industry.
"Two of the subtypes of avian influenza, H5 and H7, are particularly feared because they can carry unusual sequence motifs that make them highly pathogenic in the birds, killing almost every infected bird in a matter of days," she said.
"Sometimes avian influenza viruses can infect people, so it will be important for those dealing with infected bird carcasses to wear appropriate protective equipment.
"However, only a small subset of avian influenza viruses infect humans. Without undergoing further mutations these infections do not pass from person to person."
Two strains of bird flu, H5N1 and H7N9, have caused serious concern in recent years.
H5N1 has a mortality rate of about 60% within infected humans, according to the World Health Organization. The UN's public health arm recorded 377 deaths from H5N1 in 15 countries by July last year.
H7N9 was first detected in China in 2013 and has led to dozens of deaths.
VisitScotland said the top five words used by tourists to describe Scots they met were "friendly", "helpful", "welcoming", "nice" and "warm".
And 82% of visitors agreed local people added to their holiday experience.
The survey of nearly 6,000 tourists last summer is the biggest of its kind VisitScotland has produced.
While landscape and scenery remained the number one reason why people visited Scotland (49%), the nation's reputation for friendly people was cited by 15% as a major draw.
Visitors also said the people of Scotland were an important source of information for things to see and do during their stay, with about half (49%) talking to local people for advice.
Perhaps surprisingly, climate also featured in the list of top reasons why tourists chose to visit Scotland, with 5% travelling to enjoy the weather.
Nine out of ten visitors said they would recommend Scotland as a holiday destination, while six out of ten felt Scotland was a country worth visiting more than once.
Top ten words visitors used to describe people they met in Scotland:
• Friendly - 50%
• Helpful - 25%
• Welcoming - 12%
• Nice - 6%
• Warm - 5%
• Interested - 3%
• Kind - 3%
• Open - 3%
• Happy - 2%
• Fun - 2%
Tourism Minister Fergus Ewing said: "Scotland's people are its greatest asset, especially in an industry like tourism where - as this survey shows - our warm welcome, and friendly approach, have helped to define and enrich the experiences of thousands of visitors across the length and breadth of the country.
"The latest survey highlights the huge draw of Scotland's jaw-dropping scenery, our vibrant culture and rich history, while also confirming the important role that everybody, from those in the industry to passers-by in the street, plays in ensuring all our visitors leave with fond memories, having enjoyed their stay to the utmost."
Last month VisitScotland launched a new £4.25m tourism campaign aimed at promoting the "spirit of Scotland".
The organisation came up with seven traits it believed could be found within the characters of the people and landscapes of the country - warmth, humour, guts, spark, soul, determination and fun.
Using the hashtag #ScotSpirit the organisation hopes to encourage people across the world to share what Scotland means to them.
The first incident involving six cars occurred at about 08:30 on the A9 near Allangrange between the Tore roundabout and Kessock Bridge.
Four cars were caught up in the second accident an hour later at North Kessock, just south of the first crash.
Police said no-one was thought to have been seriously injured.
The southbound carriageway was closed for nearly two hours.
Traffic Scotland has suggested that sun glare may have been a contributing factor in the incident at Allangrange. There were similar conditions on Monday morning.
On Monday eight cars were caught up in two crashes that happened within minutes of each other on the same stretch of the A9.
A woman was injured when six cars collided before 09:00 near the road's Munlochy junction, north of Inverness.
Two cars were involved in the second incident near the scene of the first accident. One of the cars caught fire but no-one was hurt.
The accidents shut the southbound carriageway for several hours.
Insp Neil Lumsden, head of trunk roads policing in the north of Scotland, said a low lying sun had been a contributory factor in both Monday and Tuesday's accidents.
He told BBC Radio Scotland: "In situations of reduced visibility, which drivers have experienced over the last two days, drivers should reduce their speed and extend the distance between themselves and vehicle in front.
"This will not only give drivers time sufficient time to react to what is happening in front of them, but it will also allow them to extend their braking distance."
Kevin Rose hit a Vauxhall Corsa before mounting a pavement in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, in November 2013.
He struck pedestrian Lucy Brown, 18, of Prestatyn, killing her instantly.
Mr Rose, 57, of Guildford, in Surrey, denies causing death by dangerous driving, and an alternative charge of causing death by careless driving.
The prosecution told Caernarfon Crown Court on Monday that Mr Rose maintained he had taken a swig of coffee from a flask while stationary, then as he drove along the road he started to cough.
He was said to have stated: "It's almost like something got stuck in my throat. That's the last I can remember."
But the prosecution claimed Mr Rose took a mouthful of coffee while he was driving, saying liquid was found in the driver's footwell and was splashed between the steering wheel and dashboard.
He lost consciousness after coughing caused him to faint, brought about by him drinking coffee while driving, the prosecution added.
Forensic accident investigator Brian Grocott told the court evidence showed Mr Rose had not braked as he hit Miss Brown.
Forensic scientist Andrew Davidson, who also gave evidence, said coffee stains discovered after the crash revealed the cup was most likely being held by the driver around the steering wheel-area rather than the central console.
He also ruled out the possibility it could have spilt from a cup holder in the centre of the dashboard.
The trial, which has been adjourned until Wednesday, continues.
Dr Williams, who is now the chairman of the charity Christian Aid, said the rhetoric in the media which suggested the UK was "full" was "unfounded".
"The UK must not turn a blind eye to this crisis. We must do more," he said.
The government said it had pledged to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020 - and about 1,600 had already arrived.
Dr Williams, who made his comments ahead of Refugee Week which begins on Monday, said the refugee crisis was the biggest displacement of people to Europe since the Second World War.
"Desperate people who have been driven out of their homes by war are being forced to make dangerous journeys in search of sanctuary. Yet many countries are closing their borders and putting up barbed wire," he said.
"The UK must not turn a blind eye to this crisis. We can and must do more to respond."
He said the UK had a proud history of offering refuge to those in need, welcoming Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s and Kosovan refugees in the late 1990s.
"The rhetoric in the media is one that suggests that the UK is 'full', and that those arriving on our shores are a drain on our economy," he said.
"Not only are these assertions unfounded, but they fail to recognise the positive, life-affirming contributions that generations of refugees have made to British society - and that we ourselves are changed by welcoming the stranger."
Dr Williams, who was appointed the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002 and stood down in 2012, said the charity Christian Aid was founded on the belief that "all people would live together as neighbours".
The charity wants the government to take on "far higher" numbers of refugees and accelerate the resettlement of the 20,000 Syrian refugees it has agreed to accept.
Syria has been embroiled in a bloody armed conflict for nearly five years. More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed, and 11 million displaced from their homes - more than four million have already left the country.
A Home Office spokesman said: "Last month the UK announced we will resettle unaccompanied migrant children registered in Greece, Italy or France before 20 March, where this is in their best interests.
"It will mean the UK can focus on the most vulnerable children already in Europe - without encouraging more to make the journey.
"This builds on the further announcement that 3,000 vulnerable children and family members will be resettled direct from the Middle East and North Africa."
Syrian refugees are arriving in the UK under the government's Vulnerable Persons Relocation (VPR) scheme.
The Home Office also highlighted the fact that the government had pledged £2.3bn in humanitarian aid to Syria and its neighbouring countries.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
My wife Kim is expecting our first child and it's really nice that when I get home I'm not stressing about tennis, but interested in helping her as much as I can.
She has always been great about supporting me throughout my career but the next couple of weeks are going to be stressful, with a lot of big matches.
That means getting to spend time together now is especially nice, because Kim's quite far along and we have something more important to talk about and distract us - or distract me - from the tennis.
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There is certainly plenty of tennis to think about with the Davis Cup final following straight after the ATP World Tour Finals.
The switch of surfaces, from indoor hard court in London to clay in Belgium, means everything from my training to my schedule to my daily routine is different this year.
I practised on clay at Queen's Club for a few days last week and so I've been coming to the O2 Arena very early in the morning, just to get on the centre court, because I find the conditions there are completely different from the smaller practice courts outside.
I only had a few days to adjust and I wanted to get as much time as I could on that court so my timing is as good as it can be.
It was a little bit off for a couple of games in my first match on Monday and my returning could have been better, but to beat a guy like David Ferrer in straight sets is always encouraging and physically I felt good, so I'm happy about that.
If I hadn't played in London I would have gone into the Davis Cup final without any matches for several weeks, and even though the surface is different, taking on the best players in the world must be great preparation for such a big event.
There have been changes off court as well this year with the players staying at the Savoy Hotel for the first time - it's really, really nice.
I got told a useless bit of information actually - apparently it's on the only street in the whole country where you drive on the wrong side of the road. I don't know why, and it could be nonsense, but that's what I was told.
I've stayed there every night since Thursday and travelled to the O2 by boat, but on Monday I headed home for a night. That means I missed my brother Jamie again - I haven't seen him since the tournament started.
He's been at home every night I've been at the hotel, and the night I go home he's at the hotel. This is the first time he's qualified for London and he's had an amazing year, I'm very proud of him, but I'm sure he's avoiding me!
I've spoken to a lot of the players and people in tennis about being a parent - when I talk to anyone it's what I end up chatting about - and everyone is extremely positive about having kids.
All the players do things their own way: some of them like to travel with their children, some travel together occasionally, some never do it at all. It's an unusual life and you just have to find what works for you.
I'm sure we will travel together as a family sometimes but Kim doesn't come to lots of the tournaments anyway just now, and I would imagine that I'll spend a little more time at home at certain times of year in future.
In the past, maybe even when I wasn't hitting balls I would head over to Miami early for a training block and train in the gym. In future I might use that week to stay at home, train at the gym here and head over when my tennis starts to pick up.
I'm sure there will be a few changes to the way I've always done things but that will be my priority from now on, ahead of tennis. It's an exciting time on and off the court at the moment and I'm looking forward to every bit of it.
Andy Murray was talking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery.
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The FA backed Infantino in Friday's Fifa election, in which he polled 115 votes to succeed Sepp Blatter.
Dyke told the BBC's Sportsweek the FA had not bid for recent tournaments because they "did not trust the system" in place at Fifa under Blatter.
But he added: "I do think if the opportunity comes up we should bid."
He continued: "If we think it is a fair system and England wants to bid - for men's or women's tournaments - we should bid.
"There are a couple of men's tournaments coming up, which are the men's European Championship in 2028 and the World Cup in 2030.
"I don't suppose you can have both so we would have to decide which one to bid for. And as long as it is done openly and fairly, unlike what happened last time, we would have to decide as a country if we want to go for it."
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England lost out to Russia in bidding for the 2018 World Cup.
In October last year, Blatter suggested there had been an agreement in place for Russia to host the event - before the vote took place.
The bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments is the subject of an ongoing Swiss criminal investigation, which began alongside a US inquiry following the arrest and indictment of several top Fifa executives by the US Department of Justice on corruption charges.
As well as appointing a new president on Friday, Fifa also passed key reforms to help make it a more transparent and accountable organisation.
A senior Fifa source said Infantino will be paid less than the soon-to-be-appointed chief executive, and neither will get as much as Blatter, who was paid around £4m a year according to some reports, which have not been denied by Fifa.
Blatter quit in May amid allegations that led to a six-year ban from football, which he is contesting.
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A Fifa source said that while all payments to Blatter had ceased, he is being allowed to keep his company Mercedes until his appeal process is complete. Blatter is also renting a Zurich apartment from Fifa on commercial rates.
His resignation prompted the extraordinary congress at Fifa, which has been engulfed by claims of widespread corruption since summer 2015.
Dyke was pleased at the result of the election, where lawyer Infantino secured 27 more votes than closest rival Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa.
"[Infantino is] very competent, very organised, very together. Not a showman, but good fun. He has got a lot of qualities and it will be very good for Fifa," he said.
"It's been a corrupted organisation for a very long period of time. There's a big job to be done. But at least we've got a reform programme and at least we've got a president in whom we can trust.
"The reason we wouldn't deal with a Blatter Fifa is because we didn't think we'd win. And there was so much bad blood from the last time we tried - at government level as well as at the FA level.
"It was almost impossible to deal with him."
Any future plans for England to bid for future tournaments will be dealt with by a future FA chairman as Dyke leaves the association this summer.
Kelly Brewster, from Sheffield, died in the attack at the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on Monday.
Her uncle Paul Dryhurst said 32-year-old Ms Brewster had "heroically shielded" her 11-year-old niece from the blast in the foyer.
Her partner Ian Winslow confirmed on Facebook Ms Brewster had been killed.
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Mr Winslow wrote: "Not sure how this works but it isn't good news.
"Kelly Brewster wasn't one of the unidentified hospital patients.
"She has sadly passed away in the terror attack yesterday.
"Kelly really was the happiest she has ever been and we had so many things planned together.
"My daughter Phoebe will be absolutely devastated like we all are."
Ms Brewster, a former City School pupil, who worked for Irwin Mitchell Solicitors and insurance company Aviva, had been to the Ariana Grande concert with her sister, Claire Booth, and her sister's 11-year-old daughter.
The family say Ms Booth and her daughter were both being treated in hospital.
Close friend Alix Bingham said she was struggling to come to terms with news of Ms Brewster's death.
"It hurts every time I see her face on TV or on Facebook, it brings it back home that it had really happened and it's not something I can wake up from," she said.
"She was amazing. She was one-in-a-million. She was so happy and loving. She loved life and everyone in it. She was very close to her sister and absolutely loved both her nieces."
Neighbour Irene Mcilhagga said: "I can't get over it. I can't even think about it.
"I've known her since she was a little girl.
"She was very kind. She would help anybody."
The Saddlers led 2-0 at half-time after Kieron Morris' low 11th-minute right-foot shot was followed by a deflected strike from Rico Henry.
Former Saddlers defender Mat Sadler headed home Andy Mangan's cross on the hour to pull one back.
But, despite an improved second-half display, Town remain at risk.
With two matches left, they could still be overhauled by two of the bottom four clubs - Blackpool and Doncaster Rovers.
Saddlers boss gets right reaction
Walsall interim boss Jon Whitney made four changes following Saturday's 4-0 defeat at Bradford City, the Saddlers' biggest of the season, dropping Liam Kinsella, Andy Taylor, Sam Mantom and Jordy Hiwula.
It had the right effect in a much improved first-half display capped by two goals - both rewards for surging runs.
Morris glided along the edge of the box before turning to plant a low right-foot shot into Jayson Leutwiler's bottom-right corner.
His third goal of the season - and second in three games - was followed on the stroke of half-time by Henry's jinking run inside from the left flank, before his shot took a big deflection and bobbled over the line beyond the despairing Leutwiler. It was also his third goal of the season but his first since September.
After Sadler headed powerfully home from Mangan's superb hanging right-wing cross, substitute Ian Black's deflected shot then looped off Henry onto the top of the bar - but Shrewsbury got no nearer
The final shake-up
In the battle for the second automatic promotion place, Burton are up next at home to faltering Gillingham, before Walsall host Fleetwood in a televised lunchtime game on Bank Holiday Monday.
On the final day, the Saddlers are at Port Vale, while Burton are at relegation battlers Doncaster.
Shrewsbury's final two matches are at home to managerless Peterborough this Saturday before a final-day trip to Swindon.
Walsall boss Jon Whitney told BBC WM:
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"It got a bit tense but we deserved to win overall. These players can handle pressure. I believe in them.
"We were so disappointed on Saturday but we're resilient. We showed character and we're still in with a chance of automatic promotion.
"It would have been a lot easier for Burton if we'd got beat tonight, but we've made it a bit more nervy for them now."
Shrewsbury manager Micky Mellon told BBC Radio Shropshire:
"I was disappointed with the first-half performance but I take responsibility for that. I pick the shape and the personnel.
"We need to manage the fuel tanks inside their heads. A few looked a bit chuggy but the big positive on the night was the energy we added. The second half was miles better.
"We looked a real threat after the break and we can count ourselves a little unlucky not to get something. But we move on now and get the lads ready for a massive game on Saturday."
McGeady joined North End on loan in August and has contributed four goals and eight assists in the Championship.
The 30-year-old winger has one year remaining on his contract with Everton, but Grayson has made it clear he would like to keep McGeady in the long-term.
"We'd like to [keep him], and I think Aiden has made it clear he would like to stay," he told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"The problem is that he has a year left at Everton. But we'll do as much as we can to make sure he's a Preston North End player next year.
"Do we go and sign him on a long-term contract, or do we try to get him on another season-long loan? Negotiations will happen with Everton because we would be foolish not to ask the question.
"It is something that will take care of itself, probably at the back-end of the season, but it's something that we would like and I'm sure the supporters would too, because he's been exceptional for us."
Republic of Ireland international McGeady began his career at Celtic and played for Spartak Moscow before joining Everton in 2014.
He spent four months of the 2015-16 season on loan at Sheffield Wednesday and has found form at Deepdale this season, featuring in each of Preston's last 13 Championship games as they picked up 21 points from a possible 39 and move up to eighth place.
The fleet included fishing boats and coastguard ships, Japan says, and three vessels appeared to be armed. Officials have protested to Chinese diplomats.
The reported incident occurred near the Japan-controlled disputed islands, known as the Senkaku islands in Japan and the Diaoyu islands in China.
Beijing has been increasingly assertive about waters it believes are Chinese.
In a separate incident on Saturday, Chinese state media said fighter jets and bombers had completed a patrol of airspace above islands in the South China Sea, as part of combat training.
These islands are also disputed, but last month an international tribunal dismissed most of Beijing's claims in that sea.
China said it would ignore the decision.
A Japanese foreign ministry spokesman said the fleet's despatch to the East China Sea islands was a unilateral escalation of tension in the area.
How uninhabited islands soured China-Japan ties
Less than a decade ago, Tokyo and Beijing talked of jointly exploiting the resources of the East China Sea, the waterway that separates the two countries.
But since then tension has increased, particularly over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, which are uninhabited.
Over recent years, China has sent an increasing number of ships towards the islands, in what appears to be an attempt to test Japan's resolve to defend them.
The 34-year-old was in a Honda Civic travelling on the A6 towards Carnforth in Lancashire near Tarn Lane when it happened earlier.
Her three-year-old son, who had been in the car with her, was not hurt. Neither was the 57-year-old driver of the lorry.
Lancashire Police is appealing for anyone who witnessed the crash at 09:00 BST to contact the force.
It is a year since Ken Cresswell, 57, John Shaw, 61, Michael Collings, 53, and Christopher Huxtable, 34, were killed when the boiler house came down.
Relatives are due to visit the site where a memorial will be held later.
RWE Npower planned to have it cleared by the end of 2017, but an expert said the collapse had delayed it until 2019.
A minute's silence will be held at the site at 14:00 GMT.
Mark Coleman, chairman of Coleman & Company, which employed the four victims, said: "Today is the saddest of days. It is exactly one year since the tragic events at Didcot claimed the lives of Chris, John, Kenny and Mick."
Speaking on behalf of the families, lawyers Irwin Mitchell said: "The families want to know why this terrible event occurred and we will support them in getting the answers they deserve."
Thames Valley Police said the investigation, which the HSE are also involved in, is continuing on-site.
Det Ch Insp Craig Kirby said: "To date more than 1,300 statements have been taken, over 2,600 physical and documentary exhibits have been collected, along with 60,000 still images and video footage."
RWE NPower has not announced a new demolition contractor and said there was currently no timescale for work being completed.
An Npower spokeswoman said "due diligence" and consultations with various agencies would have to be completed again once a new firm was appointed.
Mark Anthony, editor of Demolition News magazine, said at the moment the site was "in limbo".
Debris from part of the building brought down in a controlled explosion in July still remains, and the three cooling towers and a chimney also need to be demolished.
The four deceased demolition workers were employed by Coleman and Company, which withdrew from its contract in September.
The coal-fired facility was closed in March 2013 after 43 years of service, and a major incident was declared on 23 February.
The last of the bodies was not discovered until September and the cause of the collapse is being investigated jointly by police and the Health and Safety Executive.
Mr Cresswell and Mr Shaw, both from Rotherham; Mr Collings, from Teesside; and Mr Huxtable, from Swansea; will be remembered at the site with the laying of flowers and a period of silence.
Mr Anthony said it was "too early to know what went wrong" and any prosecution resulting from the collapse might not be concluded until 2020.
RWE Npower said a new contractor should be in place "within weeks" but there was currently no timescale for work to be completed.
Bonhams said it was a new world record for the artist, surpassing the previous figure of £31,000 set at the auctioneers in 2002.
The work, called "A Scottish Triptych: Nightshift, Departure, Saturdays", depicts Glasgow in the 1980s.
It has been exhibited in Glasgow, Berlin and San Francisco, where it was bought by the exhibition's organiser.
The painting has been in California ever since.
Bonhams head of Scottish art Chris Brickley said: "A Scottish Triptych: Nightshift, Departure, Saturdays is an astonishing work of great depth by one of Scotland's greatest living painters.
"There was a lot of pre-sale interest in this piece and I'm not surprised that it was sold for such a high price."
The auctioneers said the three panelled picture, or tryptych, was one of the most significant Scottish post-war figurative artworks to have come onto the market in recent years.
Ken Currie was born in 1960 and graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1983. He is one of the generation of artists known as the New Glasgow Boys.
Aslef's Simon Weller said there was an "utter lack of trust" between his union's members and Southern.
Paul Cox, of the RMT union, questioned Aslef's leadership after the latest result, accusing its bosses of being "out of touch with reality".
The RMT is due to hold talks with Southern later, ahead of a planned strike this weekend.
The RMT talks follow the rejection of a proposed agreement to the long-running row over driver-only operated trains by members of drivers' union Aslef.
The narrow 51.8% vote against a settlement set back hopes of ending the deadlock which has caused travel misery for passengers.
On 8 April - Grand National weekend - 2,000 RMT members for Southern rail, Merseyrail and Northern rail plan to walk out for 24 hours.
Speaking on BBC Surrey earlier, Mr Cox said: "What is surprising is Aslef are going to go back and start talks again.
"Their members are quite clearly telling them they have problems with this driver-only-operated operation.
"They want them to do something about it, not to keep fiddling around and keep tweaking a deal that's been rejected twice."
Mr Weller said: "We are trying to ensure there are second people on the train, safety trained, safety critical, to make sure that everyone has a decent service."
The year-long row is over the Southern giving drivers responsibility for operating the doors, and changing the role of guards to on board supervisors which is a less safety-critical role.
The rail firm claims it always aims to keep the supervisor on board as a second member of staff, apart from in exceptional circumstances.
The deal negotiations have focused on reducing those exceptions.
A guitar master from northern Mali, Samba Toure returns with his singular brand of Songhai blues.
Toure earned his stripes with the kora genius Toumani Diabate and the late Ali Farka Toure.
His new album Gandadiko, meaning Land of Drought or Burning Land, has a smouldering epic feel, featuring howling guitar riffs, the spiky ngoni (traditional West African lute) and emotive keening of the bowed one-string djerka.
The over revved, loping camel-gait rhythms evoke his arid homeland.
His lyrics, powerful and revealing, go behind the headlines and tell of the devastating reality of the social and political aftermath of Mali's recent traumas and the Islamist militant takeover of the north.
The hopeful sounds cushion the cautionary tales and astute observations of his songs, such as Touri Idje Bibi (Black Fruits) where he sings: "Oh earth, forgiveness, oh river forgiveness,
"Every day we offend you."
One of the few Africans to stamp his mark on the global salsa market, Ricardo Lemvo and his Makina Loca band offer a lush tropical offering with their new album.
La Rumba Soy Yo was a three-year recording adventure, a labour of love taking place across three continents and four countries - the US, Canada, France and Angola.
The Salsa star, raised in DR Congo, looks to his Angolan roots for inspiration - seamlessly mixing in kizomba and semba rhythms with the soukous guitars that augment his trademark upbeat Congolese-Cuban rumba.
The infectious dance of the track E Moyo exemplifies the steamy street party feel of the album.
Lemvo and Makina Loca have played around the globe over the years, hopefully this release will help them fulfil their long-held dream of touring Africa and Cuba.
Laurette La Perle is an up and coming singer-songwriter from DR Congo, who also harbours dreams of touring far and wide with her forthcoming album.
Young and ambitious, she is already a multi-award winner, scooping up gongs including the Okapi Awards Best Song of the Year and Best Central African Female at The All Africa Music Awards in 2014.
La Perle was surrounded by music as a child, and received vocal training at a local Kinshasa church choir - her launch-pad into the world of musical competitions.
Now she infuses her distinctive brand of urban rumba-laced soukous with R&B.
La Perle's lyrics fearlessly probe where others might fear to tread.
Twist, the single from her next album, is a tangled tale of love - a soap opera involving two women and a man.
It is not the age-old story, the twist is that the two women are also having an affair - with each other.
Ghanaian reggae singer Rocky Dawuni remains faithful to his mission to spread the message of love and unity.
The songs on his sixth album, Branches of the Same Tree, are an appealing blend of the sounds and rhythms of the black diaspora, which he calls Afro-soul.
Dawuni's music grows from the steady roots of reggae, then delves into the treasure trove found in music of black origin, including New Orleans funk, Brazilian samba and Afrobeat.
He is a passionate humanitarian activist from northern Ghana, whose world vision is expressed in his uplifting, thought-provoking songs.
Dawuni's pan-African vision finds him building bridges and making fans around the continent.
The track Nairobi features Kenyan dub poet Oneko Arika and was written when he visited the Kibera slum just before the 2013 elections.
It was a gesture of solidarity during a time of ethnic and political tension.
"I wrote it as a love song for a city, country and people," he said.
Mayu Tomita, 20, received nearly two dozen wounds to her neck and chest.
Police arrested Tomohiro Iwazaki, 27, at the scene. He is reported to have said he was angry because Ms Tomita returned a gift he had sent her.
The singer had reportedly complained to police about the fan last month.
Japanese media says she contacted police after Mr Iwazaki started posting obsessive comments about her on Twitter and other social media sites.
When police arrested him after the attack, he is reported to have told them that he ambushed her at the station and asked her about the gift.
"I lost my temper because she didn't clearly answer," he reportedly said.
Ms Tomita had been working as a pop star and actor while completing her college studies.
In 2014, two teenage members of Japanese girl group AKB48 were attacked by a man wielding a saw at one of the band's regular meet-the-fans events.
It became a unified country once more in 1975 when the armed forces of the Communist north seized the south.
This followed three decades of bitter wars, in which the Communists fought first against the colonial power France, then against South Vietnam and its US backers. In its latter stages, the conflict held the attention of the world.
The US joined the hostilities in order to stem the "domino effect" of successive countries falling to Communism.
Population 89.7 million
Area 329,247 sq km (127,123 sq miles)
Major language Vietnamese
Major religion Buddhism
Life expectancy 73 years (men), 77 years (women)
Currency dong
President: Tran Dai Quang
Tran Dai Quang was elected to the largely ceremonial post of president in January 2016.
Secretary-general of the Communist Party: Nguyen Phu Trong
The Communist Party holds the real power in Vietnam. It appointed Nguyen Phu Trong as its secretary-general in January 2011, replacing Nong Duc Manh, who retired after 10 years in the post.
He took over as Vietnam faced mounting economic problems, including rising inflation, a growing trade deficit and a weakening currency.
Born in 1944, he also previously served the Communist Party's chief political theorist.
Nguyen Phu Trong is seen as a conservative.
Prime minister: Nguyen Xuan Phuc
Nguyen Xuan Phuc was elected to the post of prime minister by parliament in April 2016, after being picked to succeed outgoing leader Nguyen Tan Dung at the Communist Party's congress in January.
Mr Phuc, 61, pledged to improve the business climate and crack down on corruption.
Unlike his charismatic predecessor, he is seen as a team player and a technocrat ready to stick to the party line.
The Communist Party has a strong grip on the media.
Media outlets and journalists risk sanctions for broaching sensitive topics and for criticising the government. But some press titles and online outlets do report on corruption in official circles.
There were 41 million internet users by the end of 2013, out of a population of 94 million (Internetworldstats.com)
1859-83 - France slowly colonises Indochina.
1940 - Japan takes control of Indochina.
1945 - Ho Chi Minh proclaims independence and establishes the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1946 - French seek to regain control. Anti-French resistance war - or the First Indochina War - spreads across country.
1954 - Vietnam is partitioned between North and South. Conflict between the two rival states rages for the next two decades, in what is known as the Vietnam War or the Second Indochina War. The US is heavily involved in support of the South.
1975 - Southern cities fall one by one until communist forces seize Saigon.
1976 - Vietnam is reunified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Hundreds of thousands flee abroad, including many "boat people".
1979 - Vietnam invades Cambodia and ousts the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot.
It is second on the Rough Guides' list of "must see" destinations, which also includes Uganda, Bolivia and India.
The travel company said a Highland road trip along the North Coast 500 was one of the main reasons to visit Scotland.
And in the year the first Harry Potter book marks its 20th anniversary, it said there was no better excuse to visit some of the locations made famous by the magical films.
"Wildlife, whisky and a wonderfully warm welcome make Scotland a perennially popular destination, but in 2017 there are even more reasons to visit," Rough Guides added.
Rough Guides sings the praises of the North Coast 500 in its appraisal of Scotland.
It the 500 mile route as a "rugged road-trip route through the Highlands, past isolated bothies, white-sand beaches and top-notch surf spots".
VisitScotland has recently credited the route with boosting tourist numbers to Scotland's north west mainland coast.
1. India
2. Scotland
3. Canada
4. Uganda
5. Bolivia
6. Nicaragua
7. Portugal
8. Finland
9. Namibia
10. Taiwan
The travel company also recommends Scotland's food and drink scene to visitors.
It describes Glasgow as "one of the best places to head for culinary experimentation" and it highlights the work of Scottish microbreweries - and the fact that their products can be found at even the most remote pubs.
Rough Guides added: "If you're the type to eschew beer for butterbeer, the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book makes a great excuse for a trip.
"Hop on the Jacobite steam train (also known as the Hogwarts Express) for a magical journey over mountains and freshwater lochs, hang out in JK Rowling's charming Edinburgh haunts, or hike out to the site of Hagrid's hut in awe-inspiring Glen Coe."
Last year Hull was named one of the top 10 cities to visit in 2016.
Tom Rainey and Lawrence Walters, both aged 23, left New York on 3 May in their boat Yves, bound for Britain.
They landed in Salcombe, Devon, after rowing for about 3,800 miles and were welcomed by hundreds of well-wishers.
The Ocean Rowing Society described the route as the longest and most difficult of the Atlantic crossing records.
Team Ocean Valour is raising funds for the Brain Tumour Charity, in memory of Mr Rainey's father who died from the disease.
The pair, who survived capsizes and huge waves, also set an unexpected world record on route after they rowed 112.5 nautical miles (129 miles) in 24 hours at the end of May, breaking the record by nearly 10 nautical miles.
The first thing they did after they got out of the boat was to eat a bacon sandwich. Their on-board food would have run out on Wednesday,
Mr Walters, from Hampshire, said the sandwich and a cup of tea was "all I had been dreaming of".
Mr Rainey, from Devon, said it was "scary the first time" the boat capsized but the pair then "got used to it".
They said everyday they thought they would not make it home and it was "so hard to fathom that we would actually get here".
Mr Rainey's mother, Anne, said: "Words won't tell you how overjoyed I am. They deserve all the recognition."
Both world records, for being the youngest pair to row the Atlantic from west to east to mainland Britain, and rowing the most miles in 24 hours, have been confirmed by the Ocean Rowing Society.
The virtual reality experience allows the viewer to get up close and personal with The Garden of Earthly Delights by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch.
John Durrant created the film for the 500th anniversary celebrations of the painter's life.
From the back of a fish, the viewer moves through the Garden of Eden into temptation before ending in Hell.
Mr Durrant used computer technology to cut out the trees, flowers, fantastical animals and images of torture from the three paintings which make up the original work.
These were then animated and given a 3D feel so the viewer is taken inside the painting.
Bosch's original oil on wood work is housed in Madrid's Prado Museum and is too fragile to be moved to his home town for the year of celebrations.
Lian Duif, director of the Bosch500 festival, said the film "gives fans an authentic experience".
The Bosch VR film, which took six months to create, is designed to be seen using a Google Cardboard viewer with a smartphone and headphones, but can also be watched on a tablet.
Mr Durrant is co-owner and director of BAFTA winning studio Burrell Durrant Hifle, which made the virtual reality film of a Siegfried Sassoon poem for War of Words.
Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights
16th Century Dutch painter Bosch is known for fantastic imagery and complex details
The Garden of Earthly Delights is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest Renaissance paintings
The original work measures 13ft (11.8m) by 7ft (6.4m)
The painting is a triptych, consisting of a square middle panel flanked by two rectangular wings that close over the centre as shutters.
It depicts Bosch's view of the world with Paradise on the left, a garden of earthly pleasures in the centre and a vision of hell on the right
When the hinged panels are closed they show God creating the world as a black and white flat Earth enclosed within a bubble
The idea is that when the painting is opened the opulence and richness of the colours within will be a shock
The fountain, in Victoria Square, has not been working since 2013.
Installed in 1993, it was given a £300,000 refurbishment in 2010, £70,000 was spent on repairs in 2009, and about £40,000 in 2006.
Birmingham City Council said it wants to make the square "as attractive as possible" until it is fixed. Planting is due to be completed in mid-July.
A full feasibility study is due to begin in January 2016, to work out what is wrong with the fountain and how much repairs will cost.
John Fleming believes the challenges facing referees are greater than ever but insists a good relationship exists between managers and top officials.
Fleming was speaking exclusively to BBC Scotland at the referees' winter training camp in Spain.
"There's many occasions in the six years I have been in here when referees have been really down," said Fleming.
"They have been down because they feel as if the criticism they are getting is way over the top, and I would agree with that."
Without naming individuals, Fleming says he is sometimes angered by comments made by pundits when it comes to refereeing decisions.
"I will never be obstructive to working with the media, but there is a line that can be crossed and it has been crossed several times," he said.
"It is very frustrating. Sometimes I get angry, especially if the comments made are not technically sound. Especially if they are personalised, which they have been recently.
"That becomes very frustrating when the individual making the comments has not had the common courtesy to perhaps contact me prior to it just to find out if what they are saying is factually correct.
"My door is always open, the phone line is always open."
Although Fleming has issues with recent media comments he says his relationship with managers is more positive.
"I have a good relationship with the SPFL Managers and coaches and other managers and coaches in Scotland, and I want to protect that," he added.
"The only way I can do it is to speak to them. Speak to them after matches, and accept the decision was wrong. Accept it was a big error. It was a clear important mistake as we phrase it in refereeing.
"And on the other hand I will tell them if the referee is right.
"It is up to me to coach the managers and the players to say [in this example] the referee is correct, and here is the reason why he is correct. So you either adopt the practice to combat that, or the referee will be correct and penalise you going forward."
The 37-year-old Tooting-born former Crystal Palace, Birmingham City and Republic of Ireland striker was released at the end of the season by League Two club Exeter City.
Morrison scored more than 150 goals in his 18 years in league football, as well as nine in 36 internationals.
But he scored just one league goal in 17 months with the Grecians.
He has now been picked up by a Redditch side operating at the seventh tier of English football, led by former Aston Villa and Walsall striker Darren Byfield.
Nottingham-based Morrison said that the key motivation behind his move is the his friendship with Byfield, who left Solihull Moors to take over as Redditch boss last month when previous manager Liam McDonald left for Hednesford.
"I'm only doing this for Darren," Morrison told BBC Hereford & Worcester. "I don't need the money. I'm totally motivated. I've come to try and win things. I've not come here just for a jolly-up."
Redditch have been at this level of English football since being relegated from Conference North to the Southern Premier in 2011, following financial troubles.
They lie a division below neighbours Kidderminster Harriers and one above reformed Hereford FC. But, as part of a £900,000 redevelopment, they have laid down a 3G plastic pitch.
Morrison becomes their fourth signing in 24 hours following the signing of former Harriers defender Duane Courtney and the return of Reds pair Jamie Spencer and Jordan Jones to their home-town club.
Essex Police said it was issuing court summonses to motorists following a three-lorry collision at Thurrock at 04:40 BST on Thursday.
Officers said drivers were slowing down on the opposite carriageway to look at the crash scene - known as 'rubber-necking'.
Charges will include careless driving or using a mobile phone while driving.
One of the lorry drivers involved in the crash was trapped in his cabin but his injuries were "not serious", police said.
There were tailbacks of up to 12 miles on the anti-clockwise carriageway, which was closed until 14:00.
Adam Pipe, casualty reduction manager for Essex Police, said officers dealing with the crash were "shocked and disappointed" by the behaviour of other drivers.
"Although vehicles were passing slowly, the offending drivers were distracted and could easily have caused further crashes that could have caused injury or added to delays," he said.
"This shows no respect for the casualties and the emergency services working to free the injured driver and to clear the damaged vehicles.
"Filming crashes and putting images straight on to social media can also lead to the families of crash victims finding out what has happened to their loved ones before they can be traced and contacted by police officers."
Kenya's The Star and South Africa's The Citizen said they regretted any offence caused to Muslims.
Kenya's media regulator has summoned The Star's owner after accusing it of breaching decency. It did not single out the cartoon.
In Senegal, the government has banned Charlie Hebdo's distribution.
A second Kenyan newspaper, Business Daily, has also published the French satirical magazine's cover.
In its Thursday morning edition, the Star said many Muslim readers had complained over a "small reproduction" of Charlie Hebdo's cover on Wednesday.
Apologising, the paper, Kenya's third biggest, said it "sincerely regrets any offence and pain caused by the picture".
The government-appointed Media Council of Kenya said in a statement that it was "incensed by the persistent publishing of offensive stories and pictures by the Star newspaper".
It has summoned The Star's owners to a meeting to explain the "unprofessional" conduct of its journalists before it decides on action.
This could include the withdrawal of the accreditation of the newspaper's journalists. The Star has not commented on the council's statement.
Kenya has suffered multiple attacks from al-Shebaab militants, who called the Charlie Hebdo attacks "heroic".
South Africa's The Citizen said it apologised to all who were offended by it reprinting the cartoon.
"We deplore those killings, as we do any attempt to enforce censorship through violence," an editorial said.
In Senegal, which has a majority Muslim population, the government has banned Charlie Hebdo's distribution.
The country has close links with France, the former colonial power, and French newspapers are widely available.
The magazine's cover shows the prophet weeping while holding a sign saying "I am Charlie", and below the headline "All is forgiven".
Twelve people, including some of the magazine's best known cartoonists, were killed last week by militant Islamist gunmen who said they were avenging a 2005 depiction of Prophet Muhammad.
An interior ministry statement reported on the Senegalese news agency APS said it was banning the distribution of Charlie Hebdo by "all means".
The ban includes French newspaper Liberation, which also carried the front cover.
Analysis: Abdourahmane Dia, BBC Africa, Dakar
Senegal's bestselling newspaper, L'Observateur, described the ban on Charlie Hebdo as a "bluff" by President Macky Sall, who was widely condemned for taking part in the Paris march on Sunday. It questioned how he could have marched in Paris for press freedom, only for his government to then ban the magazine's edition depicting Prophet Muhammad.
The government has to walk a fine line between taking a stance against terrorism and not showing support for a publication seen by many Senegalese Muslims as anti-Islamic.
Although many people condemned Mr Sall for taking part in the march, prominent Muslim cleric Serigne Modou Kara defended him, saying his attendance was necessary because of the close ties between France and Senegal.
Meanwhile, a campaign group has called for a march in Dakar on 24 January under the slogan "I am African" in response to "I am Charlie", to highlight the plight of Africans who are are victims of violence, especially Nigerians under attack from militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
The issue of depicting the Prophet Muhammad
Muslim media anger at new cartoon
With President Yahya Jammeh's dramatic rejection of his electoral defeat - a week after agreeing to step down - it might seem like we are back to square one.
For more than two decades, Mr Jammeh has ruled by the pervasive use of fear. But after tasting victory, many Gambians have lost that fear and feel that it is game over for Mr Jammeh, who no longer seems to have the backing of the entire army.
I feel confident that come January, The Gambia will have Adama Barrow as its newly inaugurated president and that for the first time in 12 years, I will be able to return home. Many others in my situation are also hoping to do so.
Mr Jammeh has been ruthless when it comes to his critics and especially so if the media has dared to reflect opinions of which he does not approve.
His government has been accused of arrests, torture and in some extreme cases, the killing of perceived enemies.
I can attest to this.
When I was working for the BBC, my house was burnt down and I was forced to flee in 2004. The government was apparently unhappy with my series of reports on a number of unexplained disappearances and allegations of the widespread torture of political detainees.
I also survived two abduction attempts while living in Dakar, Senegal, after I demanded an investigation into the case of two Gambian nationals who were allegedly kidnapped by Gambian security operatives in the Senegalese capital.
Numerous coups have been foiled and dissent crushed and until recently, only a handful of Gambians were prepared to risk everything to join the resistance to such an autocratic rule.
The change began on 14 April when a group of young people, led by Ebrima Solo Sandeng, the firebrand youth leader of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP), organised a peaceful march in The Gambia's biggest city of Serrekunda - demanding electoral reforms.
As expected, a few minutes into their demonstration, security forces descended on them and arrested some of them.
They were alleged to have been brutally tortured. And by midnight disturbing reports started making the rounds that Mr Sandeng had been killed by state security agents.
This jolted a rather docile and laidback opposition into action.
The UDP leadership came out in full force, demanding that the authorities release Mr Sandeng dead or alive.
They too were quickly arrested and thrown into the back of waiting military trucks and transported to detention facilities.
With many of the key opposition leaders behind bars, President Jammeh thought he had disabled his main critics ahead of the polls.
But he had misread the mood. What was intended to diminish credible opposition to his government turned out to be the most effective means of galvanising people.
Gambians mustered the courage to organise daring daily protests at the court hearings for opposition members and the divided opposition had a unity of purpose.
A coalition was formed and its political machinery was lubricated by a vocal diaspora that provided funding and logistical support to the opposition on the ground.
People became more and more agitated and the fear factor started disappearing.
Nonetheless, the Gambian leader was confident of victory and he, along with most Gambians, was surprised that the election rules and political environment constructed to pave the way for his victory failed.
A once-submissive population filled the streets with euphoric scenes never seen before in The Gambia.
Mr Jammeh's subsequent U-turn may have been prompted by an interview given by a senior opposition official earlier in the week that the outgoing president would face prosecution for alleged crimes committed by his regime.
It perhaps points to opposition coalition's political naivety.
And should they take office, it is not going to be smooth sailing given that current unemployment stands at more than 50% - most of them young and educated.
But it is truth and reconciliation that could turn out to be key - everyone has a horror story to tell about a loved one, a friend, a neighbour or a distant relative.
There are many unanswered questions regarding secret killings and unexplained disappearances.
But The Gambia will heal faster if we muster the courage to forgive each other, even if we do not forget.
Living in a country where people nurture hatred for each other is a dangerous recipe for further conflict. We cannot afford to focus on the past.
But a new campaign group hopes to capitalise on the "disarray" in the opposition's ranks to regain ground.
The organisation, Modern Britain, held a packed fringe event at the party's conference in Birmingham.
One of the panellists, former minister Helen Grant, offered a blunt verdict on her party's record, warning it would "let down millions of people" and miss out on black and minority ethnic (BME) voters in 2020 unless it properly addressed issues of racism, integration and community cohesion.
She said government policy on these issues had become "completely intertwined" with counter-terrorism and extremism, causing suspicion which was undermining its policies.
In 2015, the Conservatives secured an estimated 21% of BME voters - a record high. But according to Modern Britain, this increase was mainly limited to Indian and Bangladeshi communities, with Labour remaining the "dominant force" amongst other groups.
Ms Grant, a sports minister and a justice minister in the last Parliament, focused on the EU referendum, and the "dramatic increase" in hate crime since the result was announced.
"In the last few months I have heard of more reports and references to use of the N word than I have in the last 35 years," she told delegates.
It was as if the Brexit result "legitimised the unacceptable", she said.
"Politicians need to work much, much harder to rebuild trust in the black and minority ethnic community," she said.
"The relationship wasn't brilliant before the campaign. But the damage done during the campaign and following the campaign should not be underestimated."
She said "great care" was needed to ensure Brexit was not at the expense of the UK's diversity.
Ministers should spend much more time outside Westminster, she said, and while not everyone who complains about immigration was a racist, racism is "alive and kicking above and below the radar".
Leading Conservative MEP Syed Kamall disagreed with people "going on about" Brexit, describing the UK's departure from the EU as a "huge opportunity".
"We need no lessons from any other EU country when it comes to tolerance," he said.
The Tories are "way behind" Labour in some communities, Mr Kamall said: "But let's be quite clear what diversity is.
"Diversity is not replacing white Etonians with black Etonians.... or white millionaires with Asian millionaires," he said to murmurs of approval from the audience.
"It's about making sure we have people from all backgrounds in this party."
Rather than gestures and photocalls, he said the Tories should "be part of the solution" for example by setting up free English lessons for migrants.
The liveliest debate came when an audience member raised Zac Goldsmith's campaign - branded divisive and racist by critics - for London mayor in May.
"Stupid question," said one man in the audience.
"No, we have to learn the lessons," replied another.
Ms Grant said Mr Goldsmith was a "really good man" but said his campaign had "done an awful lot of damage".
"If Zac was sitting here now he would agree with us as well, that given the time again he would probably do things differently," she said.
Mr Kamall agreed, saying the way the campaign attempted to target different communities was "awful".
"I think we have to be very careful about the way we target voters," he said, warning against treating all minority groups in the same way.
Key to the Tories' chances, the panellists agreed, was reaching out in a "non-patronising way" to different areas.
"We know what we need to do," said Ms Grant. "We just need genuine political will, genuine leadership and we need a little bit of money."
North Wales Police said the man, who was in his 50s and from the Lancashire area, was airlifted to hospital after crashing on the A487 in Pantperthog, near Machynlleth, on Saturday.
He died at Swansea's Morriston Hospital on Friday morning.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash.
Police have appealed for witnesses and the coroner has been informed.
This was a Chelsea that employed a 'catenaccio' tactical system - a counter-attacking style which became popular in Italian football where teams dig deep, hope for one or two chances to score, take them and then close the game down again.
It worked perfectly against Tottenham as Marcos Alonso converted both of their shots on target.
Chelsea's Italian manager Antonio Conte was forced into playing catenaccio because of the Blues' problems with personnel.
Their title win last season was spearheaded by the attacking trio of Diego Costa, Eden Hazard and Pedro - but with Costa's situation still unresolved, Hazard out injured and Pedro only fit enough for the bench, Conte had to do something different.
I'm not sure this is a tactic Chelsea will employ regularly over the rest of the season.
But they just didn't have the personnel to play in a more attacking way against Spurs, so they said they would do it this way and ended up getting the result they wanted against the team who were their nearest challengers last season.
You could see from the moment the Chelsea team was announced what Conte was trying to do.
He decided to play 3-5-2 with Alvaro Morata up top and Willian just behind, as opposed to the 3-4-3 formation they usually play, and he used centre-back David Luiz as a holding midfielder.
N'Golo Kante and Tiemoue Bakayoko - who was making his debut after signing from Monaco this summer - were in alongside him, meaning they were playing with three defensively minded players in central midfield.
Every time Tottenham's Dele Alli tried to go into those areas in the hole just behind striker Harry Kane, Luiz was almost always there. And if he wasn't, then Kante was there. Or Bakayoko was there.
Chelsea changed to a three to keep the middle solid and not let anything through there. Alli did nothing and Christian Eriksen also had a difficult time because there were too many bodies to get through.
That forced Tottenham out wide and Chelsea defended well from all the crosses.
Spurs produced 23 of them from open play, but only two were successful in finding a home shirt. That's because Chelsea had enough bodies to cope and head them away because of their organisation and discipline - which all came from the way Conte set his team up.
When I played in AC Milan's dominant team of the late 1980s and early 1990s, most opponents played like that against us because we were a successful side who had lots of attacking talent.
It is difficult because you can't get through and they just wait for you. You need to be patient.
Spurs had difficulty in finding holes. They had one moment in the first half when Harry Kane hit the post but for the rest there was not much danger for Chelsea.
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Tottenham needed luck and they got it when the goal finally came through Michy Batshuayi's own goal.
Spurs had 68% possession over the 90 minutes but they still couldn't create a lot. They couldn't find a solution to get through Chelsea.
So how should they have done it? You have to open them up by stretching them by making runs.
If Kane makes runs behind the Chelsea wing-backs then they go back and the Spurs full-backs are free. If you make runs you have a chance of breaking them down.
There was a lot of hype around this game as the biggest of the early Premier League season, but I didn't find it an interesting match to watch.
That's because Chelsea played a lot of long balls as soon as possible to Alvaro Morata, hoping he could hold the ball and from there score a goal.
Chelsea only had 32% of the possession and a passing accuracy of just 69% - their second lowest under Conte.
A game like this is not for Morata.
The Spain striker is a fantastic player when the ball is played into the box, but he is not a counter-attacking player. He is a player who loves to play around the box - that's what he did for Juventus and that's what he did for Real Madrid.
He is not a player who will receive long balls, hold it up and keep it for you. He is a link player, a clever player, but he needs people around him to get the service.
Chelsea only provided that on a couple of occasions and both times he nearly scored. The first - a free header from six yards when he was picked out by Cesar Azpilicueta - should have been a goal. It was a huge miss for him.
If Chelsea play a more attacking system then he can be the man to replace Costa, whose future is still unclear. He is not the same kind of player as Costa who, as we know, is a more physical kind of striker.
But they need to use Morata in a way which suits his qualities. On Sunday it was too difficult for him.
One of Chelsea's biggest priorities before the transfer window closes on 31 August is finding a solution to the Costa situation. It is a bad thing for both parties.
We hear Costa is off training somewhere in Brazil - that is no good for him, for the club or for anyone. Somebody from Chelsea needs to go to Brazil, apologise and see if he'll come back.
If he won't return then you have to find the best solution for the club. But this was a mistake by Conte, and I hope he learns from it.
Really, the only solution now is that Conte and Costa meet face to face. Of course, you don't have to like each other, but you do need to respect each other. If Costa wants to leave because he says he feels humiliated, I wouldn't be surprised by that.
I'm not in the locker room so I don't know what exactly is happening there. Maybe he provokes all sorts and says he wants to leave, or maybe there is just not a good understanding between him and Conte. There are a lots of things that could be happening.
But to send him a text telling him to move is strange. Something happened that led to the decision that he had to leave Chelsea.
In terms of new signings, I think they need more depth in midfield and maybe also up front. They need an attacking midfielder because they already have Kante, who is defensive, and Bakayoko, who is a bit of both. They need a little bit more creativity.
Ruud Gullit was speaking to BBC Sport's Jonathan Jurejko.
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The Red Devils reached the final of the competition on Saturday by beating Everton 2-1 at Wembley.
Van Gaal, 64, had been expected to leave at the end of the season - one year before his contract expires.
"I'm not looking at anything other than this competition," the Dutchman said when asked about his future.
"We live in the present. For the future, I discuss this with my board."
Progressing to a record-equalling 19th FA Cup final means Manchester United, fifth in the Premier League, have the chance to end a disappointing season with a trophy.
They had to work for their win against Everton, who finished strongly before Anthony Martial struck the injury-time winner.
Van Gaal felt his side should have won by a more comfortable margin, but he accused referee Anthony Taylor of making decisions that "changed the game".
After Marouane Fellaini's opener, Everton were awarded a penalty midway through the second half when Timothy Fosu-Mensah was adjudged to have fouled Ross Barkley.
David De Gea saved Romelu Lukaku's spot kick but the Toffees equalised through Chris Smalling's own goal.
"The referees are deciding the game and not the players any more," Van Gaal told BBC Sport.
"I think we deserved to go to the final. I think the referee... we didn't have any fouls in our benefit. He changed the match I think."
The left-hander made 208 off 251 balls, including 26 fours, and shared a stand of 171 with skipper Alex Wakely (73).
Kent fought back well after the home side reached 347-4, taking the last six wickets for 37 runs to trail by 154.
But their second innings began disastrously as Rory Kleinveldt claimed 4-8 and they were 15-4 at stumps.
Daniel Bell-Drummond edged the South African's first delivery to the wicketkeeper, before Sean Dickson and Joe Denly went to successive deliveries in his second over.
And play ended three balls early after James Tredwell, one of two nightwatchmen at the crease for Kent, was caught behind.
Should they lose the match, leaders Essex would only need six points from next week's game against Glamorgan to secure the sole promotion place from Division Two.
However, the day was dominated by Duckett, who boosted his chances of an England call-up this winter with a superb innings lasting just 15 minutes short of six hours.
Essex's Nick Browne is the only other batsman to have made two double hundreds this summer - both of them against Derbyshire.
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The 25-year-old, who returned in February after 10 months out, limped off during his team's 2-2 draw at City.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger said he was "worried" about the injury, adding that Welbeck would have a scan on Monday.
England coach Roy Hodgson will name his 23-man squad for this summer's tournament in France on 12 May.
Welbeck sustained a left knee injury in April 2015. He eventually had surgery on it in September.
"The first signs look like lateral meniscus," said Wenger after Sunday's match, which saw the Gunners twice come back from a goal down to claim a draw that strengthens their hopes of securing a top-four spot at City's expense.
"He looks down, and he's not a guy who likes to go off. I'm a bit worried. I don't want to say about the Euros - let's be a bit more optimistic."
England will already be without one Arsenal player this summer after midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain suffering his second knee injury of the season this week.
However, another England international, Jack Wilshere, made his second appearance of the campaign at the Etihad, coming on in place of Welbeck to continue his comeback after undergoing surgery on his fibula in September.
"I feel good. That was just what I needed, a game of that intensity with the pressure," said the 24-year-old.
"I don't want the season to end - I'm just getting started, I feel fresh, hopefully I can get more minutes next week and then we'll see what happens."
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The software is being used to help movie makers cut the costs of planning action sequences.
The technique has already been used to "pre-visualise" scenes that were later filmed for the blockbuster Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
The team at Abertay believe it could significantly reduce the costs of preparatory work in the film business.
Technology lecturer Matthew Bett explained how "pre-visualisation" works.
Directors are able to position virtual cameras and change lenses to work out the best way to film an action sequence.
"It's a digital process of creating assets for the film, creating sets, creating camera shots mocking up, in a computer-generated way, a very early representation of what the film will be and look like," he said.
"That allows budgets to be fixed, allows directors to give creative input to the film at that stage, and allows the rest of the production to fall into line."
The team say they have succeeded in using relatively cheap games technology to do the job currently being done at huge expense in Hollywood.
"We're taking a piece of games technology and using it in place of some very expensive custom hardware that is being used by the film industry to achieve virtual production techniques," Mr Betts said.
The Cobblers took the lead when Nicky Adams crossed in for Jack Whatmough to put the ball into his own net.
The hosts had Kieron Freeman sent off for a challenge on John Joe O'Toole but restored parity a minute later when Kal Naismith fired from 25 yards.
James Collins sealed victory for the visitors when he tucked home David Buchanan's cross from close range.
Because the result meant they finished sixth, Portsmouth will now play Plymouth in the play-offs.
Paul Cook's side will play at Fratton Park on 12 May in the first leg before the reverse fixture at Plymouth's Home Park on 15 May.
Northampton's victory means they have gone 24 games unbeaten in League Two, as they finish the season 13 points clear at the top of the League Two table.
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Portsmouth assistant manager Leam Richardson told BBC Radio Solent: "It is a 2-1 defeat, it is not in good taste.
"Obviously going down to 10 men so early in the second half doesn't help. With 11 men on the pitch we would have expected a different result.
"There were two good teams on the pitch, we are playing against the champions so you have got to give them every credit."
It is predicted to take around 32% of the vote, ahead of the Socialists with 28%.
Former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who leads GERB, said the party had the "duty to form a government".
Official results are expected on Monday but Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova has already conceded victory.
Sunday's election was the third in four years.
Mr Borisov, 57, resigned as prime minister after his party lost the November 2016 presidential election.
A caretaker administration took over after parliament was dissolved in January and will remain in place until a new government is formed.
Mr Borisov said GERB would endeavour to form a government quickly with coalition partners.
The Socialists have ruled out being part of any power-sharing agreement with GERB.
Bulgaria joined the European Union in 2007 and is one of its poorest member states. It is also a member of Nato.
The Socialists had pledged to improve ties with Russia if they were elected.
The idea to develop huge unmanned aircraft comes from Facebook's Connectivity Lab, set up by company founder Mark Zuckerberg.
The aim is to make the internet available to two-thirds of the world's population who can't currently get online.
They say expanding internet access would create another 140 million jobs.
And they say it could help lift 160 million people out of poverty, and reduce child mortality.
The lab's engineering director Yael Maguire revealed the drone plan at the 2014 Social Good Summit in New York.
He didn't actually use the word "drone" but said that unmanned "planes roughly the size of a commercial aircraft, like a 747" would serve as huge connectivity hubs and could one day stay up in the air for months, even years, at a time.
Maguire explained: "In order for us to fly these planes we actually have to fly above the weather, above all airspace. That's between 60,000 and 90,000 feet. Routinely, planes don't fly there, and certainly not drones."
He said the aircraft will be much lighter, adding that one of the models being worked on by the Connectivity Lab is the length of "about six or seven Priuses, but is the weight of four of the tires of a Prius".
To continuously provide wi-fi coverage the planes will be powered by the sun.
Maguire added that the aircraft could be tested in the US as early as next year, although the strict rules around unmanned aircraft could slow down that process.
Facebook is not the only tech firm exploring the use of drones.
Google is known to be building and testing autonomous aerial vehicles to use for goods deliveries at its secret development centre, Google X, in California.
Google is also looking at balloons to bring internet access to remote parts of the world.
DHL has begun delivering by drone to a remote island in Germany.
And Amazon has created "Octocopters" to deliver parcels to its customers in the US.
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Chris Coleman's side arrived at Cardiff airport at about 14:15 BST before heading to their team hotel.
Despite losing 2-0 in their crunch match against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Saturday, they qualified for Euro 2016 after Israel lost to Cyprus.
Gareth Bale called it the best defeat of his life.
Midfielder Aaron Ramsey added: "What a great moment for Welsh sport. What a moment for making history. We have finally made it to a major tournament."
Coleman added: "Wow. I can't explain how this feels. I'm disappointed we lost but I know what's coming."
His side went into the match in Zenica needing just a point to reach next summer's Euro 2016 in France, after drawing with Israel last month.
Wales knew they had the insurance of this Tuesday's home game against an Andorran side without an away win in their competitive history.
The final fixture of a momentous campaign, the match at the Cardiff City Stadium has now been earmarked as the opportunity for Wales fans to welcome home their heroes and celebrate their achievement.
The football success came after the Wales rugby team lost to Australia at Twickenham.
Wales had already qualified for the World Cup quarter-finals but missed out on a more favourable tie as a result of Saturday's 15-6 defeat.
They will now face South Africa in the next round.
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"We continue to go to school here as we went to school 100 years ago," says the 36-year-old entrepreneur.
"The same heavy backpack, the same blackboard with the same chalk."
And that heavy backpack is what Mr N'Doufou is hoping to lighten by introducing a bespoke tablet computer made specifically for schools in Ivory Coast.
Two years ago, he came up with Qelasy, Africa's first educational tablet. "We thought about how to build a digital backpack; a tablet that will replace books, textbooks, notepads."
The idea is simple; transfer a country's entire education curriculum onto a digital format, along with sounds, animations and interactivity, and you no longer need a satchel crammed with school books.
The 36-year-old teamed up with a designer and then managed to find an investor to build a prototype.
This month his Qelasy tablet is going into schools for the first time. "This is a day I've been waiting for," Mr N'Doufou says.
The Ivorian government will be introducing the tablets to 5,000 students in public schools, while some private schools in both Ivory Coast and Morocco will be running pilot projects.
They have also had interest from Ukraine, Macedonia, Senegal, Nigeria and France. "My dream is to reach all the schools in the world for a better education," he says.
The tablets will also be available in shops at a cost of $232 (£143), before tax.
Qelasy's headquarters in an upmarket area of Abidjan, Ivory Coast's largest city, are not quite Google but they are certainly impressive. There is a built in sound studio along with a 3D animation design suite, complete with the latest technology.
In the studio, two members of the team are busy recording the Ivorian children's book, "Father Christmas loves attieke", a traditional Ivorian dish.
"The idea is to make reading more fun, so we use funny voices and music," says Mr N'Doufou. "We also do audio books because it helps children with the pronunciation."
At the weekly meeting Mr N'Doufou introduces the Qelasy team; "the brightest technology brains in the area," he says. It's not hard to find tech savvy people in Abidjan; the Ivorian web community here is strong.
People speak both French, the national language of Ivory Coast, as well as English. "We're now looking to do an Arabic version because we want to reach Mauritania, Algeria and Middle Eastern countries," says Mr N'Doufou, adding they also want to do one in Spanish.
The team are discussing the details of the upcoming Qelasy launch. Their dream is for every classroom in Ivory Coast to be using Qelasy tablets.
"Children are struggling to get access to books," he says. "With digital, schools in villages can access the best courses in the world."
At the moment the tablets are all made and assembled in China, but Qelasy's vision includes setting up a factory in Ivory Coast. "It's our dream," says the entrepreneur.
"I'm passionate about education because I would like our country, our continent to take the place that it should have in the world and without education it's not possible."
Back at Mr N'Doufou's children's school, some of the students are trying out Qelasy.
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The entrepreneur stands at the front of the classroom demonstrating how the teacher would use the tablet.
"This tool is very easy. With one finger you can access almost anything," he says as he displays how he has complete control over every student's tablet, with the ability to see exactly what they are doing.
"I love the tablet because actually we can learn lots of things," says eight-year-old Olivera Daplet, who then goes on to read one of the online books out loud.
"I prefer Qelasy because it's lighter and we don't need a big bag," says Dominque Grah Thipourah, also eight, adding that it is the music and the animations she loves the most.
"For Ivory Coast to be an emerging country it must have children using technology," says school principal, Marie-Loure Kindo Assandoi, who's considering introducing Qelasy into her school next year.
"Technology is not the future," she says. "It's already the present."
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Police said the men, who appeared to be armed with a firearm, stole more than £20,000 from the Santander Bank in Cowgate, Kirkintilloch on Monday.
Two G4S security guards were carrying the cash inside the bank when the men forced their way in at 18:05.
The robbers then made off in a dark VW Golf, which was later found burnt out in Bishopbriggs.
Police said no-one was injured in the incident.
The suspects are described as white with local accents. They were all wearing dark clothing and balaclavas to try and shield their faces. The men were also wearing dark shoes and gloves.
As they made their getaway, the men drove the VW Golf up Glasgow Road towards the city.
The car was later found burnt out in Glenburn Gardens, Bishopbriggs at about 21:10.
Officers are checking reports that a man, wearing grey clothing, was near the car before it was set on fire.
Det Insp Alasdair Barlow said: "I am appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time of the incident to contact us, perhaps you noticed the suspects either prior to, or just after.
"We understand the suspects got into a black VW Golf which was then driven erratically and recklessly along Glasgow Road.
"I'm sure this is something other motorists and members of the public will have noticed.
"This car was then recovered burnt out in Bishopbriggs so I'm appealing to local residents in that area to think back and consider if they saw this car and any of its occupants.
"If you have any information or if you have any dash cam footage, which perhaps captured the car, please do contact us. Your information could prove vital in our investigation."
Police said they were carrying out door-to-door inquiries and high visibility foot patrols would also be taking place.
Area risk consultant for G4S Cash Solutions Duncan Watson described it as a "brazen attack".
He added: "Fortunately our colleagues have not suffered any serious injuries but understandably have been shaken by the attack.
"We are working closely with Police Scotland and I would urge anyone who may have been nearby and seen this attack to get in touch with the police or dial 101 so that those behind it can be brought to justice."
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For many locals, it's unpretentious and inviting, with old sofas and low lighting - a place to meet friends in the evening or stop by for coffee during the day.
Now, its glass windows are pockmarked with bullet holes and the pavement outside is stained with blood.
Just before 21:30 on Friday, as part of a co-ordinated series of terrorist attacks across Paris that saw 129 people killed, a man opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon on the crowded bar.
He then crossed the road and targeted diners sitting on the terrace of Le Petit Cambodge, a small restaurant serving Cambodian and Vietnamese food.
At least 12 people were left dead and the brutality of the attacks has left the tight-knit local community reeling.
"We come every day to this bar because it is friendly, it is simple," Alexandra Damien, a regular, told the Press Association outside Le Carillon on Saturday. Flowers and candles were placed there in memory of those killed.
Two of her friends died at the bar.
"Coming here is normal for us, so we have no idea why they [terrorists] were touching this kind of place. People told me they were coming in with shotguns.
"This is horrible. It is touching a neighbourhood. We're like a small village. It's a small place, we don't need to go out of our area because we have everything,"
The bars and restaurants in this canal-side area are packed on a Friday night.
The shootings targeted so-called "soft targets" packed with fun-loving young people - bars, restaurants and the nearby Bataclan concert venue, where a rock band were playing. That fact has left many Parisians rattled.
"I'm not scared to go out in this area now, because you can't just stay at home as this would mean to 'ceder a la peur' [give in to fear]," Cora Delacroix, 24, who lives nearby, told the BBC.
"But it's terrible, because I feel like now you can be attacked everywhere. For the [January] Charlie Hebdo attack, it was more specific, it was against our freedom of speech and against symbols. But there, in a random place, that's frightening."
Ahmed Naeem, a 39-year-old filmmaker, said he and his friends were still in shock.
"These places are the places we visit every week... streets we walk every day. I've seen dozens of gigs at the Bataclan, eaten at the Petit Cambodge, sat outside Le Carillon on so many nights," he told the Associated Press.
One question ordinary Parisians like Marie Cartal are asking is: why target them?
She lives above the Casa Nostra restaurant in the 11th arrondissement, where five people were killed by a gunman.
"It was really shocking. It was the first time in my life I saw someone dying in front of me," she told the BBC.
"I mean people there were just sitting outside having a drink. They were not politicians, they were not particularly engaged. They were just enjoying the beginning of the weekend. So, why?"
Taylor's 7-4 loss at Birmingham's Barclaycard Arena was followed by an impressive 7-1 win for world number one Van Gerwen over James Wade.
Four players - Gary Anderson, Adrian Lewis, Wade and Wright - can still claim one of the remaining two spots.
Anderson needs one point from his final two games to qualify for the last four.
A win over Wright would have booked the defending champion's place in London on 19 May, but he was held to a 6-6 draw by Wright.
Lewis is three points clear of fifth-placed Wade and requires one more win to seal a play-off place following his 7-2 success against Robert Thornton, while Anderson's 7-5 defeat of Raymond van Barneveld ended the Dutchman's hopes of qualification.
Peter Wright 7-4 Phil Taylor
Raymond van Barneveld 5-7 Gary Anderson
Adrian Lewis 7-2 Robert Thornton
James Wade 1-7 Michael van Gerwen
Peter Wright 6-6 Gary Anderson
The Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority say they want to "discourage irresponsible risk-taking and short-termism".
Under the new rules, senior managers could have their bonuses clawed back for up to 10 years in misconduct cases.
FCA boss Martin Wheatley said the rules were part of a wider campaign to "embed an accountable culture in the City".
They were "a crucial step to rebuild public trust in financial services", he added.
The new rules - which follow a near-year long consultation - apply to banks, building societies and some investment firms.
The main rule changes mean:
But the Bank of England said buyouts of unpaid bonuses by new employers would not be banned, although managers would not be able to receive the money any sooner than if they had stayed at their former company.
Andrew Bailey, the Bank's deputy governor for prudential regulation and head of the PRA, said: "Effective financial regulation involves creating appropriate incentives to encourage individuals to take greater responsibility for their actions.
"Our intention is that people in positions of responsibility are rewarded for behaviour which fosters a culture of effective risk management and thus promotes the safety and soundness of individual institutions."
Mr Lee had been out of the political limelight for years when he died but his authoritarian model, which brought stability and wealth, remains. Yet economic success and globalisation have presented Singapore with new challenges, such as a widening income gap and a new generation who are demanding greater political participation.
Which elements of his model might Singapore move away from and which are here to stay?
Exceptionalism
"We knew that if we were just like our neighbours, we would die. Because we've got nothing to offer against what they have to offer. So we had to produce something which is different and better than what they have," said Mr Lee in a 2007 interview.
A tiny island with no resources except its people, Singapore's population had to be better educated and speak better English than regional counterparts - so English was taught as a first language, and the government invested in schools and education subsidies for the poor.
In a region where corruption is endemic, Singapore had to offer clean government and an attractive business environment. It also had to be flexible - reinventing itself to stay relevant, whether as a manufacturing hub or later as a financial and green technology centre.
Such thinking remains integral. Today, Singapore is consistently ranked one of the least corrupt, safest, and most business-friendly countries in the world.
"We thrive by being different in a purposive way. We make good governance a necessity and an imperative, we are very open economically," says Singapore Management University law academic Eugene Tan.
Government knows best
"We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think," said Mr Lee of his government in 1986.
Under Mr Lee's model, the government took care of running the country and delivered progress in return for citizens' obedience.
His People's Action Party (PAP) remains dominant. The government still controls the media with strict laws, dominates key business sectors through government-linked companies, and rules the unions.
But a younger, more educated generation are calling for greater political diversity. In the last election, while the opposition won only six seats in parliament due to the first-past-the-post system, the PAP secured only 60% of the popular vote - its lowest ever.
Tough state control is being challenged in some areas. One example is gay rights, with a growing public movement urging an end to a law that effectively outlaws homosexuality.
The explosive growth of an internet-savvy generation, meanwhile, has allowed debate over national issues to expand - in turn, the government has sought tighter regulation.
Devadas Krishnadas, chief executive of Future Moves, a strategy consultancy which advises governments and businesses, says "the population feels restless for a change".
"The tricky part for present political leaders is deciding where, how much and how fast to change... their main task is to develop a coherent road map to a new political destiny."
Elitist model
"It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and give the people the inspiration and the drive to make it succeed. In short, the elite," declared Mr Lee in 1966.
He believed a mandarin class should run the country. This gave rise to Singapore's meritocratic model, where regardless of race or class, anyone good enough could make it to the top.
Singaporeans have long accepted this system. But many worry about social mobility and point to the fact that the proportion of students getting into top schools who come from wealthy educated families is increasing.
Some feel that elite technocrats have become more indifferent to their needs and the PAP lacks the view of the "man of the street".
The government has since conducted more public consultations, made policy shifts on contentious issues such as immigration and retirement savings, and pumped in resources to less well-funded schools. The PAP has also promised to refresh its ranks with more from the grassroots.
Addressing problems would get easier "if the PAP can shake off some of its elitist instincts and anxiety about being held to greater account by citizens", says Garry Rodan, politics and international studies professor at Murdoch University.
Racial harmony and bilingualism
"Crucial (to Singapore) is interracial, interreligious harmony. Without that, quarrelling with one another, we are doomed," said Mr Lee in a 2011 interview.
Singapore has four major races and ten official religions. Scarred by race riots in the 1960s, it maintains strict hate speech laws and racial quotas in public housing - which the majority live in - to prevent ethnic enclaves from developing. Incidents where people are caught using racist language always elicit public outrage.
Mr Lee also believed it necessary for Singaporeans to remain connected to their cultural roots and speak their "mother tongue", such as Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil. To this day, every Singaporean studies a second language in school.
These policies have "significant buy-in" from the current leadership, and are likely to continue as they have preserved stability in Singapore and ensured a more nimble workforce, says Mr Tan.
'Tight-fisted' welfare
"The principle is that you must work. We are not going to pay you for lying around," said Mr Lee in 2011 about welfare supplements. He had a strong aversion to the welfare state and thought it encouraged laziness.
Citizens are expected to shoulder much of the burden of taking care of themselves and their families. There is no national minimum wage, and Singaporeans are forced to save for retirement instead of receiving pensions. While subsidies and handouts exist, some believe the amounts are insufficient.
The system, which results in a lean government, has its fans. But with increasing inequality there has been greater concern for the poor, disabled and elderly, and calls for more social spending.
The government has responded with tentative moves towards universal healthcare coverage and greater support for the elderly.
"The greatest challenge facing Singapore in this era is to reconcile participation in a highly competitive globalised economy with a more equitable distribution of resources," says Professor Rodan, who adds that it can afford to do so given its sizeable financial reserves.
Nigeria's intelligence agency said it had seized firearms during a raid on his properties in July.
Mr Dasuki pleaded not guilty to the charge and was given bail.
He is the first senior official of the former government to be charged since President Muhammadu Buhari was inaugurated in May.
Mr Buhari is the first opposition candidate to be elected president in Nigeria.
The judge ordered the agency to return Mr Dasuki's passport to the court as part of his bail conditions.
Mr Dasuki appeared calmed and relaxed, reports the BBC's Nasidi Adamu Yahya from the court.
Some associates of former President Goodluck Jonathan were present in solidarity to the retired army officer, he says.
President Buhari replaced Mr Dasuki and other security chiefs in July in a renewed effort to end a six-year insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
This has been a swift change of fortune for the man who was an extremely powerful figure in the immediate past administration.
As the National Security Advisor, he oversaw the fight against Boko Haram and as a sign of how influential Col Dasuki was, it was on his advice that this year's elections were postponed - a move which some believed was aimed at buying time to give Mr Jonathan a boost.
Apart from the accusation of possessing illegal weapons, Mr Dasuki may have bigger problems ahead.
He may be asked to help explain where the $5bn (£3.3bn) annual security budget went, especially as it became clear that for some time the Nigerian military did not have the weapons it needed to fight the jihadists.
Some Nigerians accuse President Buhari of pursuing a personal vendetta. Thirty years ago Sambo Dasuki was reportedly amongst a group of officers who arrested Gen Buhari who was then the military head of state.
He has however denied that he was present when the arrest took place and Mr Buhari was toppled.
Sarah McManus, 29, is said to be among those hurt on the "tower jump" at the Flip Out Park in Chester.
The personal assistant, from Oswestry, Shropshire, said she fractured her spine jumping into a foam pit from a 13ft (4m) high platform in January.
A spokesman for Cheshire trampoline park said the tower jump has been replaced by another attraction.
Miss McManus, who is taking legal action against the park, said: "I followed the instructions on the sign and landed in the seated position as suggested, but when I hit the foam I heard a crack in my back and felt like I'd been winded.
"I was barely able to breathe and couldn't shout for help, so I had to throw some of the foam sponges in the air to get attention."
She added: "I was eventually fitted with a back brace that I wear daily and only remove to shower and sleep."
Following her injury, three other people all reportedly suffered back injuries on the same attraction.
One was student George Magraw, 21, from Ellesmere Port, who fractured his spine at the park in February.
Cheshire West and Chester Council has launched an investigation into the park.
The council said two other people were injured on the same day as Mr Magraw.
A spokesman for Flip Out Chester said: "Since opening in December, more than 200,000 people have visited Flip Out Chester and we have an excellent safety record.
"Safety is our number one priority and we strive to ensure that everyone who visits can enjoy all of the activities in a safe environment.
"We are investigating these claims to establish exactly what happened."
Andrew Murnin and wing-back Aaron McKay both lose out after picking up knocks in last weekend's win over Kildare.
Murnin netted Armagh's crucial goal before a hamstring injury led to him being replaced by Ethan Rafferty.
Tyrone are unchanged while Monaghan also stick with the side that beat Down for their contest with Dublin.
The only Tyrone switch comes in the substitutes with Cathal McShane replaced by Frank Burns.
Jack McCarron and Conor McCarthy made hugely impressive contributions as Monaghan substitutes last weekend but the side picked on Thursday night remains the starting line-up which took to the field against the Mourne County.
As ever, there is always the possibility that Malachy O'Rourke will make changes before Saturday evening's throw-in.
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Tyrone cruised to provincial glory and they are firm favourites for the Dublin date with their Ulster derby rivals.
Armagh lost their Ulster opener against Down but have battled through the qualifiers to make the last eight.
Harte has resisted making changes despite impressive substitute displays in the 2-17 to 0-15 win over Down in the Ulster decider last month.
Ronan O'Neill came off the bench to score two late goals while Declan McClure caught the eye after being introduced in midfield.
Armagh recovered after their two-point defeat by Down in early June to chalk up qualifier wins over Fermanagh, Westmeath, Tipperary and Kildare.
The game will bring back memories of battles between the sides from the last decade, which included the Red Hands' 2003 All-Ireland final win.
Dublin, meanwhile, will be even stronger favourites for their tie against O'Rourke's side.
Armagh: B Hughes; J Morgan, C Vernon, P Hughes; B Donaghy, M Shields, J McElroy; S Sheridan, N Grimley; R Grugan, C O'Hanlon, A Forker; J Clarke, G McParland, S Campbell.
Tyrone: N Morgan; A McCrory, R McNamee, C McCarron; T McCann, P Hampsey, P Harte; C Cavanagh, C McCann; D Mulgrew, N Sludden, K McGeary; M Bradley, S Cavanagh, M Donnelly.
Dublin: S Cluxton; P McMahon, C O'Sullivan, M Fitzsimons; J Cooper, J Small, E Lowndes; B Fenton, J McCarthy; C Kilkenny, C O'Callaghan, J McCaffrey; P Mannion, P Andrews, D Rock.
Monaghan: R Beggan; F Kelly, D Wylie, R Wylie; C Walshe, K Duffy, K O'Connell; D Hughes, K Hughes; G Doogan, D Malone, S Carey; R McAnespie, D Freeman, C McManus.
After a first half of few chances, Cedric Bakambu's header clipped the Reds upright shortly after the break.
Liverpool went closest when Roberto Firmino's low shot hit the post.
The Reds looked set for a creditable draw in Spain until they switched off to allow substitute Adrian Lopez to tap in Denis Suarez's low cross.
Despite the dramatic winner, the Europa League semi-final still remains delicately poised before next Thursday's return leg at Anfield.
The winners will face either Spanish holders Sevilla or Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk, who drew 2-2 in their first leg, in the Swiss city of Basel on 18 May.
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Liverpool have not reached a European final since losing to AC Milan in the 2007 Champions League showpiece, but a stoic display at La Liga's fourth-placed team looked set to leave them a home win away from ending that barren run.
However, the Premier League side lost their defensive discipline in the final few seconds - and it could prove crucial.
Left-back Alberto Moreno wandered up field, leaving the space for former Manchester City youngster Suarez to exploit before squaring to Lopez for the easiest of finishes.
BBC Radio 5 live summariser and former Reds defender Mark Lawrenson said: "Where did the left-back disappear to? Injury time at 0-0 in a Europa League semi-final - and he's probably 70 metres up the pitch.
"0-0 would have been a very good result. All of a sudden because of one aberration you're under pressure for the second leg."
Liverpool will have to score at least twice to go through in 90 minutes at Anfield, but Villarreal know an away goal would mean the Reds then need a minimum of three.
Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool side were installed as favourites to win Europe's secondary club competition after their thrilling quarter-final win against Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund.
Publicly the 48-year-old German insists there has been no thought about the possibility of reaching the final - but winning the trophy will cap an encouraging debut season with a place in next season's Champions League.
His predecessor, Brendan Rodgers, named an inexperienced side in the Reds' opening two matches in the competition, but Klopp has chosen stronger teams since arriving in early October.
However, he decided to play without a recognised striker at Villarreal, leaving England international Daniel Sturridge on the bench throughout - and the Reds offered little attacking threat.
Wales midfielder Joe Allen wasted the best chance in a tight first half, side-footing straight at home keeper Sergio Asenjo early on.
Further opportunities were rare, although Brazil forward Firmino - playing as Liverpool's most advanced player - thumped an angled 12-yard drive against the base of the right post.
Liverpool were playing their first match since inquests concluded 96 Reds supporters who died as a result of a crush in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed.
Villarreal paid tribute to the victims by providing a banner - bearing the number 96 and Liverpool club slogan 'You'll Never Walk Alone' - for their fans to hold up before kick-off.
"We were very saddened by the Hillsborough tragedy and we planned events to show the solidarity and support which our club and our fans have with Liverpool and those who were affected," said the Spanish club.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp:
"Of course I'm not too happy with the goal we conceded in the last second. Counter-attacking in the 92nd minute makes not much sense - but it is only the first leg.
"It is 1-0 and they have to come to Anfield where we know how strong we are. We had our moments, we defended really good. This race is not over.
"If we had enough players around the box it was no problem but they played this one chip ball over Kolo [Toure], I don't know where Alberto [Moreno] was in this moment but that was the only big mistake we made in this game and they scored with it."
Villarreal manager Marcelino:
"Until the final whistle you can score or concede a goal and this time we were lucky enough to score in the very last minute.
"We managed a good result but we don't know if it will be enough or not until the end of the tie.
"It was not an unfair result and we didn't beat Liverpool by being lucky."
Seventh-placed Liverpool return to Premier League action with a visit to 15th-placed Swansea on Sunday.
The Reds look unlikely to earn Champions League qualification through the Premier League, sitting nine points behind fourth-placed Arsenal with four matches left, although they do have a game in hand on the Gunners.
Villarreal are better positioned to earn La Liga's final qualifying spot, holding a four-point advantage over Celta Vigo with three matches remaining.
Match ends, Villarreal 1, Liverpool 0.
Second Half ends, Villarreal 1, Liverpool 0.
Goal! Villarreal 1, Liverpool 0. Adrián (Villarreal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Denis Suárez.
Substitution, Liverpool. Christian Benteke replaces Roberto Firmino.
Attempt missed. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Villarreal. Conceded by Dejan Lovren.
Corner, Villarreal. Conceded by Simon Mignolet.
Attempt saved. Cédric Bakambu (Villarreal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Denis Suárez.
Attempt missed. Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jordon Ibe with a cross.
Foul by Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool).
Samu Castillejo (Villarreal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Allen (Liverpool).
Adrián (Villarreal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Liverpool. Alberto Moreno tries a through ball, but Jordon Ibe is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Villarreal. Mateo Musacchio replaces Eric Bailly because of an injury.
Delay in match Eric Bailly (Villarreal) because of an injury.
Offside, Liverpool. Joe Allen tries a through ball, but Adam Lallana is caught offside.
Substitution, Villarreal. Adrián replaces Roberto Soldado because of an injury.
Offside, Liverpool. Kolo Touré tries a through ball, but Roberto Firmino is caught offside.
Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Roberto Soldado (Villarreal).
Substitution, Villarreal. Samu Castillejo replaces Jonathan dos Santos.
Lucas Leiva (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Roberto Soldado (Villarreal).
Dangerous play by Kolo Touré (Liverpool).
Roberto Soldado (Villarreal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lucas Leiva (Liverpool).
Tomás Pina (Villarreal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by James Milner with a through ball.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jaume Costa (Villarreal) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Jaume Costa (Villarreal) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Lucas Leiva (Liverpool).
Roberto Soldado (Villarreal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Mario (Villarreal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Roberto Soldado.
Foul by Dejan Lovren (Liverpool).
Roberto Soldado (Villarreal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Dejan Lovren (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alberto Moreno.
A planning application is being drawn up for the Abbey Shopping Centre and the Charter multi-storey car park.
The plans will see the council-owned 40-year-old retail space updated and the dated street area improved.
Subject to planning permission being granted, work on the overhaul could begin on the shopping centre in January 2012.
Councillor Richard Gibson said: "This deal means that over the next few years there will be more and better shops. This will attract more people to the town, providing more jobs and greater prosperity."
A second phase of plans will see the Charter multi-storey car park demolished and redeveloped.
It will be replaced with a large supermarket and 400-space car park, library and a day and medical centre.
The Irish Republic came second, then Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
The survey suggested more people were likely to perform charitable acts this year compared with 2010, but less likely to give money.
The CAF said the "global economic crisis" was the likely reason for the slight fall in charitable donations.
The group said the richest countries were not necessarily the most likely to give to charity - only five nations that are in the World Bank's top 20 economies by GDP appear in the latest CAF giving index top 20.
In terms of percentage of population, Thailand was the most generous, with 85% of Thais making regular charitable contributions. The UK was the second most generous, with 79% regularly giving to charity.
Countries were ranked in terms of the monetary donations and charitable acts of their people.
The email was sent to medical students at the Free University of Brussels (ULB).
"From an aesthetic point of view," it read, " it is better for young women to wear a dress or skirt, and a nice revealing neckline."
Men were told simply to wear a suit for the event next month.
"Of course, ladies, this advice is not obligatory," the email added.
But mandatory or not, the suggestion caused an outcry on social media.
The university later released a statement on Facebook and Twitter, on behalf of its medical faculty, to apologise to all students who had received the message.
The advice was inappropriate and went against the university's values, it said.
A screen grab of the original email had been shared on a light-hearted Facebook page, ULB Confessions, which interrupted its usual stream of jokes and memes to express outrage at the "little scandal".
Hundreds of students responded, accusing the university of being sexist.
The ULB Confessions page also published a response it had received from a student: "No one has the right to tell you how you should feel in your skin. Nobody has the right to tell you how to dress. No one has the right to tell you how to play your role as a woman. No one has the right to take away this freedom that has been (and is still being) obtained with such difficulty."
The email was most likely sent by a woman as the secretariat did not include any men, the dean of the medicine faculty, Marco Schetgen, told Belgian news outlet RTL.
"No, it's not a hoax," he said, confirming the email had been sent out but adding that it had shocked him too when he found out.
Lara Mason, 29, spent 30 hours crafting the sponge statue which stands at just under 3ft (91cm).
A Tyrannosaurus Rex, a levitating cake and Yoda from Star Wars are among the eye-catching entries at the Cake International competition being held at the NEC near Birmingham.
Mrs Mason won gold in previous years for her cakes of actress Jennifer Lawrence and Captain Jack Sparrow.
Mrs Mason, from Walsall, West Midlands, said: "The feedback from the judges was they loved what I did.
"But they wanted to see what I could do on a smaller scale because when it's life sized and you put it on the table, they can't see all the smaller details and the most important part on a human sculpture is a face.
"I thought I'd do a child. He's the most famous child in the world and especially cute as well and very, very current."
Mrs Mason won a gold in 2013 for recreating Johnny Depp's Pirates of the Caribbean character, Captain Jack Sparrow.
Mrs Mason also struck gold last year with a cake of Jennifer Lawrence's Game of Throne character Katniss Everdeen.
There were more than 1,000 competition entries on show from cake decorators from across the globe.
Rose Macefield from Coseley, in Dudley, created a Jurassic Park inspired scene with a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex's head emerging from a jungle.
A gravity defying creation from Christine Jensen of Penzance in Cornwall saw Star War's Yoda controlling a levitating cake.
Emma Jayne Morris from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff in Wales made Angelina Jolie's character from the film Maleficent.
Stephen Anthony Hough, 58, is also on trial for the sexual assault and manslaughter of Janet Commins, 15.
Mold Crown Court heard Janet's body was found in a field in Flint on 11 January 1976 by three children playing hide and seek.
One man has already served a sentence after admitting Janet's manslaughter, but he insists he did not kill her.
Prosecutor Mark Heywood QC told the jury Janet died "as a result of her neck and her external airway being compressed and blocked during that sexual assault".
Janet had made plans to go swimming on 7 January, but her mother said she did not look well so could not go.
Jurors were told she left her house without her parents knowing and left them a note saying she would be back by 20:30 GMT.
She left the pool just after 19:30 and told a friend she was heading straight home - jurors heard she was spotted with two boys at about 20:10.
The court heard the boy who reported seeing them said one of them was a thin, fair-haired boy and the other was an older-looking boy aged about 17 and they were laughing and joking with Janet.
Her father Edward Commins reported his daughter missing at about 23:00 that night and her body was found four days later.
The court heard Janet was killed during a sexual assault and there were signs her body had been left lying face down "for some time" before being moved to where it was found.
Mr Hough was questioned at the time as his grandparents' house overlooked the area where Janet's body was concealed.
He said he was stealing petrol from a vehicle in Flint that night and was subsequently fined for the offence.
The jury was told that during the original investigation, a man called Noel Jones, then 18, "told his girlfriend that he had killed a young girl".
He was questioned by police and written statements said he admitted raping Janet and she died during the struggle.
However, in a subsequent statement, he said his friend Michael Orford was with him and he also raped Janet.
Jones denied murder but admitted manslaughter and served six years of a 12-year sentence but no evidence was offered against Mr Orford.
Mr Heywood said: "He [Jones] never challenged the circumstances of his conviction, but he asserts that he always knew that he was innocent and he only confessed due to the pressure that he felt placed upon him at the time.
"The prosecution say that when you have considered all the evidence in this case, there is support for Jones's claim that he was not Janet's killer and, in all the circumstances, you can be sure that Stephen Hough was."
In 2006, a review of the scientific evidence in the case was carried out and DNA from a man was identified from samples taken from Janet's body.
In 2016, Mr Hough's DNA was taken by police in an unrelated matter and a match was found, prompting his arrest.
The trial continues.
21 November 2016 Last updated at 16:50 GMT
Isabelle Solly's mum Kay passed out at their home when no other adults were present.
Isabelle got hold of her mum's phone and called the emergency services - something paramedics said had "astonished" them.
Paramedic Matt Cooper, who arrived at the scene, said: "It would have been quite scary for a child but she did extremely well staying on the phone until we arrived."
Isabelle's mum, Kay, regained consciousness, and tests discovered nothing serious was wrong with her.
After being invited to bat by Warwickshire at The Oval, Surrey reached 327-3 at the end of day one.
After sharing a first-wicket stand of 154 with Rory Burns (71), Stoneman, 29, went on to complete the first Championship century of the season.
The Bears, back under Ashley Giles' command, got through just three times.
It was some form of revenge for Surrey, who were well beaten by the Bears at Lord's when the two sides last met at the One-Day Cup final in September.
After Surrey went to lunch on 133-0, the visitors finally claimed their first wicket when left-hander Burns was caught behind off persevering left-armer Keith Barker.
Stoneman's former team-mate at Durham, Scott Borthwick, who was also making his Surrey debut, was second out after a 76-run second-wicket stand when he drove loosely to slip at the start of a new spell by Oliver Hannon-Dalby.
After adding a further 84 for the third wicket with former Warwickshire batsman Kumar Sangakkara (47 not out), Stoneman was getting close to the career-best 187 he made for Durham against Middlesex at Chester-le-Street in June 2014.
However, he was finally dismissed three overs after Warwickshire had taken the new ball, also caught behind as he tried to drive on the up at Chris Wright, having faced 267 balls.
Surrey debutant Mark Stoneman told BBC Radio London:
"I must admit I was pretty nervous for the first half hour or so, adjusting to my surroundings and to the expectation I have put on myself to do well for Surrey but I eventually got into a nice rhythm and took it from there.
"I had a gut feeling Warwickshire might put us in. There was a bit of dampness early on and they have got a strong new-ball attack so the key for us was to build partnerships.
"Rory Burns and I get on away from cricket and, although we're different players, we seem to complement each other. We built from there really."
Warwickshire first-team coach Jim Troughton told BBC WM:
"You have to give credit to their guys, particularly Stoneman. They batted really well. In the first session we gave them too many opportunities to score but they didn't let us settle either.
"We came back after that and, in the final session, it was important that we didn't capitulate.
"There is no heavy roller which could be a factor later on but there aren't too many indentations and there's no reason why we shouldn't bat well on that pitch as well."
Wales has the highest incidence of skin cancer in the UK, with exposure to the sun's harmful UV rays the main cause.
Swansea Singleton Hospital consultant Avad Mughal had the idea, as a trustee for the charity Skin Care Cymru.
Signs will go up on beaches in Swansea and Gower as Wales is expected to enjoy one of the hottest days of the year.
"While I was on holiday in west Wales last summer I was looking out at people on the beach and realised they were my future workload, so what could I do to make it smaller?" said dermatology consultant, Dr Mughai.
"We have signs telling people not to bring dogs on beaches or to pick up litter, so why not have one reminding them to put on sun block?"
Dr Mughal added that children in particular are at risk because damage to their young skin could lead to them developing cancer later in life.
Skin Care Cymru, which is dedicated to helping anyone with a skin disease in Wales, is now in talks with other Welsh councils to put up the signs at their beaches too.
The campaign is being backed by Hollywood and Welsh screen star Matthew Sheen and rugby referee Nigel Owens, as well as the Abertawe Bro Morganwg University Health Board.
Health board occupational therapist Janine Evan added: "Last year alone, we treated 10 adults and 17 children for sunburn - and we know there are many more who'll have been seen in A&E or treated by their GP.
"We want to do all we can to help spread this important message and remind people about what they do to avoid getting burnt and the long-term damage it can do."
Placed in a shoe, the device captures the energy of moving micro droplets and converts it into electrical current.
Kinetic charging is already used in some low power devices such as watches and sensors.
The University of Wisconsin team published its study in the journal Nature Communications.
"Humans, generally speaking, are very powerful energy-producing machines," said Professor Tom Krupenkin from the university's mechanical engineering department.
"While sprinting, a person can produce as much as a kilowatt of power."
That, according to the scientists, is more than enough to power a standard mobile phone.
Although similar methods exist for low power electronics, up until now there was no practical mechanical to electrical conversion technology that could provide such high levels of output, Prof Krupenkin explained.
"What's been missing is the power in the watts range," said Dr Ashley Taylor, a colleague of Prof Krupenkin.
"That's the power range needed for portable electronics."
On a larger scale, power-generating mats have been installed under the floors at two Tokyo train stations to capture the vibrations of the thousands of commuters.
The recovered energy is used to power a number of appliances, including the stations' automatic doors.
The new personal mechanism uses a principle known as "reverse electrowetting" - converting the energy of moving microscopic liquid droplets into an electrical current.
Once placed in a shoe, the device - which consists of thousands of these electrically conductive droplets - is able to generate electrical energy.
There is enough power, according to the researchers, to charge a standard mobile phone or laptop.
Getting the energy from the device to the handset presents another challenge.
One way is to plug a USB cable into the shoe - probably not the most practical option.
A more sophisticated solution suggested by the University of Wisconsin team is to have the electricity-generating device connected to a shoe-bound wireless transmitter. This would take care of the power hungry part of a mobile phone's job - making radio contact with remote base stations.
Signals could be passed between the unit and the user's handset by more efficient short-range systems such as bluetooth or wifi.
The two scientists now aim to commercialise their technology at the company they have recently founded - InStep NanoPower.
Dr Patrick Joseph-Franks from the National Physical Laboratory who has also researched ways to harness energy that is otherwise wasted called the research a step in the right direction.
"When you want to charge something like a mobile phone, you want to be generating the energy locally, and the fact that you're walking around is probably the most obvious means of getting that," he said.
"Whether it's better than [carrying] some efficient solar cell on you somewhere, I don't know."
The protectionist tone of the 2016 campaign is a watershed, and it could have profound political as well as economic consequences for the wider world.
Donald Trump has been an opponent of free trade deals all his public life, and the protectionist message has been central to the populist campaign that has made him the presumptive Republican nominee.
"We are like the piggy bank that's been robbed," he told a rally in Indiana this month. "We cannot continue to allow China to rape our country."
Mr Trump's stand is mirrored at the other end of the ideological spectrum.
The self-styled socialist Bernie Sanders said earlier this year: "Since 2001 we have lost 60,000 factories in America, a lot of those having to do with disastrous trade agreements. If elected president I will fundamentally re-write trade agreements in this country."
Even Hillary Clinton has trimmed her sails to the prevailing protectionist wind. As secretary of state during Barack Obama's first term she supported the TPP; now candidate Clinton says she is "learning" about the treaty and "I'm not in favour of what I have learnt about it".
TPP: What is it and why does it matter?
The Trump Protectionist Party
Are Trump and Sanders right about trade?
The economic realities behind those political positions are evident in places like Steelton, in Pennsylvania.
Steel gave the town its name and has been its economic heart since the 1860s, but today vast tracts of the steelworks running along a bank of the sleepy Susquehanna River are silent, and the main street is pock-marked with empty shops and boarded-up offices.
I met one stout survivor who was in no doubt where the blame belongs; "imports of foreign steel really is what's killed the steel mill," Al Quigley, of Quigley's Restaurant, told me.
Mr Quigley set up shop here in 1952; in those days, he says: "Steelton had probably about 6,000 workers and they ran three shifts, seven days a week," while today the mill operates with "about 600 men and they operate two shifts and don't work weekends".
Popular anger about the loss of manufacturing jobs now has a precise target; in 2001 China joined the World Trade Organisation, and its vast economy which, back then, was heading for double-digit growth rates, became a full member of the world trading system.
Everyone knew that would mean some economic adjustment, but classical free trade theory holds that although imports do cost jobs in places like Steelton, exports will generate new ones - and competition keeps prices low, so, over time, everyone gains.
However, a recent study from the top-flight research organisation the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has turned up evidence that the real story is rather different; it found that traditional manufacturing areas which have been hit by Chinese competition since 2001 take much longer to recover than anyone imagined, and that many of the jobs are never replaced.
"It's important to recognise that unlike medical services or retail, manufacturing is very geographically concentrated", says MIT's Dr David Autor, "so that kind of magnifies the pain. It's something that people experience directly if they are… working in those industries, but also indirectly if they live in those communities".
The president of Pennsylvania's Manufacturers' Association, David Taylor, is one of those mainstream Republicans who resent the way Donald Trump has, as he sees it, hijacked his party.
"I have been banging this drum for going on 15 years now," he says, "and it's a story that no one has wanted to hear - national leaders have utterly failed to take action... I loathe Mr Trump. But unfortunately this issue, which is very salient, has been left on the table for a demagogue like him to take advantage of."
In fact, protectionism has a long Republican pedigree; the party split over the issue in the 1870s and 1880s - just as the British Tories split over trade a little earlier in the 19th Century - and has been closely associated with protectionist ideas for most of its history.
The notorious Hawley-Smoot Act of 1930 - which was widely blamed for deepening the Great Depression by sparking a trade war - was sponsored by Republican lawmakers and signed by a Republican president.
And protectionism has often been associated with another powerful word in the American political lexicon; isolationism.
"These phenomena go hand-in-hand", says Dr Bill Garston, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Washington's Brookings Institution.
Dr Garston characterises the current mood among Americans like this: "We use American force and we spend trillions of dollars, forfeit thousands of lives. We have nothing to show for it.
"We try to practise diplomacy and with people who just take advantage of us. And then our engagement with the global economy has turned out to be excellent for corporations and the governing classes, but not so excellent for everyone else."
The smart money in Washington says that once Hillary Clinton is elected - and that is still, by any sober analysis, the most likely outcome in November - she will revert to her free-trading instincts and swing back behind the TPP.
But she certainly isn't going to do that in the heat of the campaign, and because of the way the wider trade debate has swung towards protectionism, trying to force votes on the TPP early in her presidency would be risky.
It is likely that at the very least there will be a substantial delay before the treaty is ratified by the US, and some free-trade champions fear that will create space for the world to stumble into a new trade war.
Carla Hills, who served as the US Trade Representative under President George Bush senior, say TPP "is crucial to American leadership," and warns that if it does not go through "it will be tit for tat, back to the law of the jungle".
Ambassador Hills' warning is echoed by MIT's David Autor, who remains a believer in free trade, despite his influential research into the high price that American workers have paid because of Chinese competition.
"The global economy was extremely integrated until the eve of World War One, and then all of a sudden that was shut down", he says, "it [a trade war] would be disastrous, but that doesn't mean it can't happen."
Analysis is on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 30 May at 20:30 GMT. Or you can listen online or download the programme podcast.
It blamed falling sales in Europe for the decision.
The company said a third of the 3,500 employees at the South Marston site would work a four-day week from September.
A spokesman said staff would not lose out because they were employed on flexible contracts that guaranteed they would be paid for a 37-hour week.
He said that the production of the new CR-V from September, and a new 1.6-litre diesel engine by the end of the year, meant that Honda was still forecasting a production volume in the UK of almost double the 2011 figure.
Jim D'Avila, regional officer for the Unite union, said: "The recession is biting deep and big successful companies like Honda are struggling to maintain a sensible level of production to retain everyone's employment.
"Something governmental has to happen otherwise people's jobs are going to be at risk long-term."
Here are some of the things we spotted along the way.
When 100,000 people sang "boink", Craig David was all over it.
The star celebrated his improbable, but amazing, career resurgence by throwing a huge party on the Pyramid Stage, full of his greatest hits (and quite a few other people's too).
Afterwards, fans said Craig should have been given Glastonbury's coveted Sunday afternoon "legend's slot".
But sadly that will never happen... He chills on Sunday.
There might have been extra security at Glastonbury this year, but the police weren't about to let that dampen the spirits.
If anything, the boys and girls in blue were determined to keep the Glastonbury spirit alive and kicking.
There was also this business with the mounted police and a false horse's head. The stuff of nightmares.
On Wednesday, as temperatures reached 34C, we sat on the hill opposite the Park Stage when, all of a sudden, everyone broke into a spontaneous round of applause. Five minutes later, it happened again. And again.
It took us about half an hour to work out that, every time, they were celebrating the sun disappearing behind a cloud.
"I've done myself an injury," said Dua Lipa, as she limped into the BBC compound after a performance at the John Peel stage that was as packed with hits as it was people.
"I've mashed my tailbone," she grimaced. "It was already bruised after I fell off a jet ski. Then I went on stage and danced like I'd never danced before. All sorts of crazy stuff. Now I can barely walk."
Get well soon, Dua!
One reveller had a very creative solution to their bad hair day.
In 1998, when the Foo Fighters played their first ever Glastonbury, half of the audience walked away to watch England v Colombia in the World Cup - a match where David Beckham scored one of England's two goals.
Fast forward 19 years, and the band headline the Pyramid Stage with Beckham watching from the sidelines.
That makes the score 1-1. But what happens next?
It wasn't just Beckham watching from the sidelines. We spotted Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and Game of Thrones star Kit Harington hanging out at the festival.
We also spotted Margot Robbie, Cara Delevingne and off-duty musicians Chris Martin and Rita Ora who, judging by her Instagram, arrived in a helicopter.
Most surprising of all was Bradley Cooper - who turned up on the Pyramid Stage and played guitar (albeit silently) while filming a sequence for the upcoming remake of A Star Is Born.
He then introduced a set by country singer Kris Kristoffersen, who starred in the 1976 version of the film alongside Barbra Streisand.
We had the privilege of watching up-and-coming pop star Sigrid soundcheck for a live session on BBC Radio 1. As you can see above, her acoustic rendition of Don't Kill My Vibe was nothing short of stunning.
Unfortunately, when it came to the broadcast, the Norwegian was interrupted by Jools Holland and his Big Band, who launched into a thunderous set on the nearby Pyramid Stage.
Sigrid persevered; eyes screwed tight, delivering a delicate and heartfelt performance against the boogie woogie barrage.
"That was weird," she told us afterwards. "I could hear the whole show behind me. I really had to concentrate. Thank goodness I had headphones!"
Everywhere you went, the chant broke out: "Ohhhh, Jeremy Corbyn." We heard it between bands, we heard it in the healing field, we even heard it at the silent disco.
But most of all, we heard it during his appearance on the Pyramid Stage. The Labour leader delivered a well-received speech - but he forgot the one thing he was supposed to do: Introduce US hip-hop band Run The Jewels onto the stage.
Speaking to the BBC afterwards, they didn't seem to mind.
"He said a lot of things that resonated with the common man," said Killer Mike. "I was very impressed. Old G can talk."
"I can see all of you!" shouted Katy Perry to the hordes who came to see her at the Pyramid Stage. "Even that security guard in the neon, way in the back by that blue flag with the X."
That would be the Saltire, Katy. The flag of Scotland.
Mind you, how many of you know the flag of Katy's home state, California? (It's got a grizzly bear on it, FYI).
Dave Grohl's signature DG-335 Gibson guitar will set you back about £4,500 - but you can play Glastonbury after a visit to your grocer, as we discovered when we met Finnish musician Vicky O'Neon.
"Hey, mumzy, look at your boy now," beamed Stormzy, as he surveyed the massive crowd who turned up for his set on The Other Stage.
They included one Katherine Perry, who told the rapper she had "delayed the helicopter" to catch his set.
"[I'm] just a massive fan," she added on Snapchat.
After posing for photographs with the star backstage, Stormzy took to Twitter to express his disbelief at how the whole night went down.
"So happy right now, thank you to every single person that came and saw me," he wrote.
"Chris Martin came to speak to me after. What an inspiration. And Katy Perry came as well! What a dream. We thank God."
Then, apropos of nothing, he added, "Before I forget, Dynamo is the greatest magician on the planet."
Whatever you say, Stormzy.
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board had the highest and second highest-paid locum - at £159,000, BBC Wales learned via a Freedom of Information request.
The total spend on non-permanent workers by the trusts and health boards that responded rose from £64m to £137m (a 113% increase) since 2013-14.
British Medical Association Cymru said better planning was "urgently needed".
NHS Wales Employers said there was "always a requirement" for locums agency staff to provide cover and flexibility in the health service.
The request for information asked all health boards to list their five highest-paid locums and their total spend on non-permanent doctors and agency workers in each of the last three years.
In 2015-16, Betsi Cadwaladr's highest paid locum received more than £137,000, Powys Teaching Health Board's received £116,000, while Velindre NHS Trust paid one locum £70,000 for the year.
Hywel Dda University Health Board refused to disclose how much its highest-earning locum received.
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Cwm Taf and Cardiff and the Vale said they did not hold the information.
The percentage of each health boards' labour spend that went on non-permanent staff last year ranged from 3.69% (Powys Teaching Health Board) to 6.31% (Betsi Cadwaladr).
BMA Cymru Wales Council chairman Dr Phil Banfield said while problems recruiting doctors contributed to the rise in locum spending, some of it stemmed from "bad workforce practices and poor planning".
"The attractiveness of a career as a locum could be seen as a response to the unattractiveness of a permanent position in the NHS currently, where doctors are dealing with excessive workloads and a lack of flexibility over their working patterns," he said.
Dr Banfield said Wales must not move away from using temporary staff to cover for staff illness and peaks in demand, to an "over-reliance on locums covering posts".
"We urgently need improved workforce planning by health boards to ensure that clinical care is not affected by doctor shortages that could be foreseen and therefore allowed for," he added.
BMA Cymru Wales GP chairwoman Dr Charlotte Jones said the figures showed practices were "struggling to find cover to plug the staffing gaps they face".
"Increasingly, GP practices are facing longer-term vacancies because of the recruitment problems gripping general practice," she added.
She said a recent BMA survey showed that 82.1% of GPs were worried about the sustainability of their surgeries.
"We want to work with the Welsh Government to begin addressing these issues so that patients have equitable access to high-quality services across Wales."
The spending on agency staff is a symptom of the problems the NHS is facing in hiring, training and retaining its workforce.
Only last week, the Royal College of Physicians warned of a "looming crisis" over recruitment and workload.
It also means financial pressures.
The Health Foundation think tank recently highlighted how this could also have a negative impact on the NHS in trying to keep its finances in order.
The Welsh Government has a campaign to make Wales an attractive place to live and work for both GPs and hospital staff.
Not solving the recruitment issue leaves health boards in a Catch 22 position.
If they restrict or control services on the grounds of cost they will be criticised by patients who value these services close to their homes.
But if they spend on locums to fill the gaps in rotas they will equally be criticised by those who might ask if it is public money being well spent.
But Richard Tompkins, director of NHS Wales Employers, said there is "always a requirement" for locums to work in the health service.
"They are used to cover longer-term gaps, when staff may be off for maternity leave or long-term sickness, or to make sure that we can maintain safe services when cover is needed at short notice.
"Maintaining the quality of patient care is our priority and agency and locum staff can provide an essential means of increasing staffing levels to help manage short-term peaks in demand."
£183,000
Aneurin Bevan Uni Health Board
£159,000 Aneurin Bevan
£144,000 Aneurin Bevan
£137,000 Betsi Cadwaladr
£133,000 Aneurin Bevan
A spokesman for Aneurin Bevan University Health Board: "We have an active recruitment programme in place to fill vacancies in the health board.
"We also have a number of medical training initiative schemes with the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges, which are designed to allow a small number of doctors to enter the UK from overseas for a maximum of 24 months before they return to their home countries.
"The figures provided in response to the Freedom of Information request included doctors on fixed term contracts used to replace substantive posts, or to cover a pressing senior vacancy for periods of up to one year. As often as possible these individuals are actively recruited into permanent contracts.
"Wales-wide factors such as unfilled training posts in some specialties are currently resulting in an increased demand for short term ad hoc locum cover, which is action we need to take in order to continue providing safe services of the highest quality."
The Welsh Government said it recognised there were "real challenges" around the recruitment and retention of some medical staff, but this was not "unique to Wales".
A spokeswoman added: "We know the use of agency and locum staff has increased across Wales, however they continue to represent a small proportion of our frontline health staff."
The Welsh Government is investing more in the health service now than ever before - including an extra £300m, in 2016-17, with a further £265m of revenue funding planned for 2017-18, she added.
"We are working with the NHS to address the use and cost of using agency staff across NHS Wales and reduce overall demand for agency staff across all health boards and trusts," she said.
Salman Abedi detonated the home-made bomb, with metal nuts used as shrapnel, at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.
Abedi was not part of a larger network, the head of the North West Counter Terrorism unit has said.
Ch Supt Russ Jackson said others may have been "aware or complicit" in the attack that killed 22 people.
He said further arrests may follow.
More than 250 people were hurt in the blast and have injuries ranging from paralysis and loss of limbs to internal and facial injuries, he said.
Abedi was walking around Manchester city centre with the bomb before he detonated it, but police do not believe he had any target other than the Arena in mind.
The bomb had a "devastating" impact and gouged out a section of the concrete floor.
Ch Supt Jackson confirmed officers want to interview the bomber's younger brother, Hashem Abedi, who continues to be held by special deterrence forces in Tripoli.
He would not comment on whether officers had travelled to the country, but said the force was engaged with the Libyan authorities and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Who was Salman Abedi?
Who were the victims?
Briefing reporters at the headquarters of Greater Manchester Police on Thursday, Ch Supt Jackson said it was "hard to get inside [Abedi's] head" in terms of how he was radicalised.
"Salman Abedi travelled to Libya a number of times in his life. What we are looking at is the number of ways he learned the skills to build the device," he said.
Abedi left no note or video explaining his actions, he said.
Ch Supt Jackson said officers were still searching for a blue suitcase in a landfill site, and this was a "key line in the inquiry".
The investigation was expected to continue for "many, many months to come", he said.
It will not be quick, as police have 16,000 hours of CCTV footage and 755 statements to analyse, he added.
"Significant forensic evidence" was also found in a Nissan Micra in Rusholme, Greater Manchester.
Police earlier said Abedi may have used items stored in his car "to help assemble the device" he used to kill.
Ch Supt Jackson said "digital exhibits" containing more than three million files and 15 terabytes of data have also been recovered.
Asked if Abedi was involved in gang activity in Manchester, Ch Supt Jackson said he may have known "people who would be identified as being in gangs", but there was no suggestion of a link to gang activity in the attack.
Police are not looking for any particular suspects.
Ch Supt Jackson said people who were arrested then released without charge had "not reached the threshold" [for further investigation].
"It should be noted that terrorism offences do not carry the option of bail. They can only be released without charge."
Forensic officers who were working at the arena in the days after the attack laid roses next to name plates at each spot where the 22 victims were killed, Ch Supt Jackson revealed.
Youth coach and referee Hugh Stevenson, who is now dead, has been accused of a series of child sex offences.
Pete Haynes told BBC Scotland he had been sexually abused by Mr Stevenson.
It has now emerged Mr Stevenson continued coaching despite authorities knowing of the allegations.
The Scottish Youth Football Association (SYFA) has suspended former coach and official Mitch Agnew pending an investigation into the handling of any complaint from the Haynes family about Mr Stevenson.
Mr Haynes, 50, told the BBC that he had been groomed by Mr Stevenson with the promise of big time football and a trip to a cup final, then repeatedly abused between 1979 and 1982.
The Scottish Football Association (SFA) has apologised to Mr Haynes.
Police Scotland has confirmed the old Strathclyde Police force investigated Mr Stevenson in 1993 and again in 1996.
The BBC has learned the complaint in 1996 was by a different boy, and that a third boy may have made a similar complaint to police prior to Mr Haynes.
So far, neither the Crown Office nor Police Scotland has been able to confirm this, or explain why none of the cases appear to have proceeded to trial.
Now, it has emerged that Mr Stevenson, who died in 2004, continued to coach youth football for several years after the alarm was raised, including with Paisley amateur side Ferguslie United and Cowdenbeath.
Kevin Hutchison, 39, played with Ferguslie United from 1993-95, and confirmed that Hugh Stevenson was one of the coaches.
Mr Hutchison said he had not been the victim of any abuse from Mr Stevenson.
He said: "I played for Ferguslie United from 1993-1995 and Hugh was the manager. I was never a victim of abuse from [him].
"He also had an unofficial capacity with Cowdenbeath youth team, where he would scout players. He had full access to the changing rooms, again in 1993- 95 possibly 1996. To anyone observing you would have thought he was part of the coaching staff."
Mr Hutchison said Mr Stevenson had an official Cowdenbeath jacket.
He added: "He would regularly transport boys around the country.
"I find it abhorrent that Hugh Stevenson was allowed to coach and manage youth football in the very same years that Pete Haynes came forward to both the SFA and the police."
Gordon McDougall, who was chairman of Cowdenbeath from 1991-2007, said it "disgraceful" that Mr Stevenson continued to work in youth football after allegations were made to the SFA.
He added: "It is something that would not have happened if we had been aware in any way at all and you just cannot believe that it would be allowed to happen.
"Surely efforts should have been made to make people aware throughout football that this person was at large, as it were."
On Monday, as a result of allegations submitted by the BBC, Mitch Agnew, who was part of the Ferguslie Utd coaching set-up in the 1990s, and is a long serving senior figure in the SYFA, was suspended pending an investigation.
The BBC understands the SYFA, which is an affiliate of the SFA and based at Hampden Park, suspended him from his position whilst it investigates whether any allegations about Hugh Stevenson's abuse were properly handled.
Mr Agnew initially told the BBC he thought Mr Stevenson left the team in the late 1980s - but later confirmed both their coaching roles with Ferguslie continued well into the 90s.
In a statement, he denied ever being made aware of any allegations about Mr Stevenson.
He said: "There has been no attempt by me to mislead anyone. When asked about something that is alleged to have happened over 20 years ago timescale is difficult. Hugh Stevenson was not a member of the age group I was involved in.
"He ran age groups younger than mine but he had left Ferguslie United before I did in 1996.
"I was not informed of any investigation by police and had I been informed would have assisted them with their inquiries and would have asked him to leave the club."
Hugh Stevenson was on the official list of SFA referees between 1964 and 1983.
He was assistant referee in at least four international matches, including the England v Wales home international at Wembley in 1977.
He was associated with Eastercraigs Boys Club in Glasgow between the late 1960s and mid 1980s before being asked to leave for attempting inappropriate contact with a boy at another club.
This week, another man came forward to speak of an alleged sexual assault by Mr Stevenson, dating back to 1968 whilst he was at Eastercraigs.
The man, now in his 60s, said he fought Stevenson off, and said the coach had made him promise not to tell any of the others.
He said: "I now regret that. Perhaps if I spoke up he might have been stopped sooner."
In a statement, Stewart Regan, chief executive of the SFA, said: "Since the Scottish FA launched its confidential hotline in partnership with NSPCC and PFA Scotland, we have worked to ensure all disclosures are handled appropriately and delivered to Police Scotland."
"We can also confirm that we have been informed by the Scottish Youth FA that it has suspended a member of its staff."
Det Ch Supt Lesley Boal, head of public protection at Police Scotland, said: "Searching records held by legacy forces, many of which are not held electronically, can be a lengthy and challenging process and it is not always possible to quickly confirm details of previous policing activity which may in some instances date back decades.
"Police Scotland is continuing to receive information and reports about non recent child sexual abuse in football through a number of routes, including the NSPCC helpline.
"The exposure of the scale and scope of child sexual abuse only strengthens Police Scotland's absolute commitment to child protection and to look into/ investigate reports we are receiving now."
Additional reporting by Liam McDougall and Selena Jackson
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A delayed annual report on Turkish prospects for EU membership says there have been serious setbacks in the past two years on freedom of expression.
It also says the independence of the judiciary had been undermined and that new laws run against EU standards.
The report's publication comes at a time when the EU needs Turkey's help in trying to control the refugee crisis.
It also follows parliamentary elections in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained the majority it lost in June.
Responding to the report, Turkey's ministry for EU affairs called the comments "unfair and excessive", adding that they do not "duly reflect Turkey's reforms in these fields".
"Such comments overlook the balance between freedom and security which is a must for democracies where rules of law prevails," it added.
President Erdogan has stressed his support for a constitution centred on a strong presidency - something he says will be achieved in the next four years.
The report had been pushed back by several weeks because sensitive negotiations on the refugee crisis were taking place with leading Turkish officials, including the president, shortly before the 1 November elections.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels says the Commission's report seems to pull few punches.
Although Mr Erdogan himself is not named in the report's key findings, there are fairly direct criticisms of Turkey's powerful president, our correspondent reports.
After several years of progress on freedom of expression, the report warns of "serious backsliding" over the past two years.
"Ongoing and new criminal cases against journalists, writers or social media users, intimidation of journalists and media outlets as well as the authorities' actions curtailing freedom of media are of considerable concern," it says.
Changes to Turkey's internet law, allowing the authorities to block websites without a court order, were a significant step back from European standards, it adds.
The report says there has also been a severe deterioration of its security situation and that it is imperative that peace talks resume with the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated a terrorist group by the Turkish government and the EU.
Hundreds have been killed in fighting between Turkish security forces and PKK fighters in the country's east and south-east since a ceasefire collapsed in July.
Since the election, Mr Erdogan has pushed forward with plans to "liquidate" the PKK and to hold a referendum on a new constitution with increased presidential powers.
However, the AKP, with 317 seats in the 550-seat parliament is short of the 330 seats needed to hold a referendum.
The European Commission warns that the escalation in violence has given rise serious concerns over human rights violations, and that anti-terrorism measures taken in that context need to be proportionate.
It also says that the independence of the judiciary and the principle of separation of powers have been undermined since 2014, with judges and prosecutors placed under strong political pressure. The government's active pursuit of shadowy forces known as "deep state" is highlighted.
The influence by the executive in the investigation and prosecution of high-profile corruption cases continues to constitute a major concern for the Commission, which considers Turkey's track record inadequate in the fight against corruption.
Turkey applied for EU membership in 1987 and accession negotiations began in 2005, but only one of the 33 "negotiation chapters" has since been completed.
Duncan Tomlin, 32, from Oxfordshire, was restrained on 26 July 2014 and put in a police van in Ryecroft, Haywards Heath, where he became unresponsive.
He was taken out of the van and given CPR, but died later in hospital.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it had passed files on the sergeant and four PCs to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
It added that there may also be a case to answer for gross misconduct against the five officers.
IPCC commissioner Jennifer Izekor said it would await a CPS decision and would in the meantime "engage in discussions with Sussex Police about the gross misconduct recommendations".
The father of Mr Tomlin, who was living in Burgess Hill at the time, welcomed the decision to refer the case and said the five officers should now be suspended.
"We consider that it is vital for ensuring continuing public trust in the police that these officers are not allowed to remain on any form of active duty whilst the CPS consider if charges should be brought," Paul Tomlin said.
"We call on the chief constable of Sussex Police to now suspend all five officers concerned."
A Sussex Police spokesman said: "This remains an ongoing IPCC investigation and we are unable to comment on the specifics of the incident in Haywards Heath.
"Our thoughts and condolences remain with Mr Tomlin's family and friends.
"We are working closely with the IPCC in support of their investigation and we await the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service as to whether any charges will be brought against the officers."
The girl was walking with her mother before she was snatched, at Morrisons in Blackburn, Lancashire, at about 15:00 on Thursday.
The man initially carried her away down a travelator but then put her down and she was able to run back to her mother.
A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction after the incident at the Railway Road store.
Det Insp Tim McDermott, of Lancashire Police, said the incident was "distressing" for the family and the motives for what happened were "unclear".
Some panels landed on the fourth storey of John Lewis and others on Station Street, which police then shut.
No-one was hurt and there was no damage to property on the street below the department store, a West Midlands Fire Service spokeswoman said.
A spokesman for Grand Central said "adverse weather conditions" meant the tiles had become loose.
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Dave Ladkin photographed workers at the top of the building shortly after the panels came off and questioned whether strong winds or poor construction was to blame.
Grand Central shopping centre sits above New Street Station and opened in September, several days after passengers began using the redesigned railway concourse.
It cost about £750m to redesign the railway station and construct the shopping complex in place of the old Pallasades Centre.
In a statement, Grand Central said: "Due to recent adverse weather conditions, a small number of tiles from the roof of Grand Central Birmingham became loose.
"Although no-one was hurt, for precautionary measures, Station Road was temporarily closed while contractors on-site made safe the area to ensure that no further damage occurs."
The 28-year-old, capped six times by his country, made 50 appearances for Darmstadt after joining in 2015.
But the midfielder was unable to stop his side from being relegated from Germany's top flight this season and has moved Norwich on a three-year deal.
He will officially join on Friday, subject to governing bodies' approval.
Norwich head coach Daniel Farke, who himself moved from Germany to Carrow Road in May, told the club website: "I've followed Mario's path for several years.
"He's a really smart technical player with a brilliant left foot. He will bring a lot of quality passing and special creativity to the team.
"In addition to that, he's a really good character and a very nice guy who will fit into Norwich. I'm really looking forward to working with him."
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BBC News looks at some of the highlights along the way and gauges reaction from people along the route.
The first stage on 5 July departs from Leeds Town Hall, a suitably imposing symbol of Victorian civic confidence to send the cyclists on their way.
Keith Wakefield, leader of Leeds City Council, said: "I've never had so many people contact me to say how unbelievable this is for them in their lifetime being able to see one of the biggest sporting events in the world."
From there the cyclists make their way a few miles north to Harewood House, a grand 18th Century country house whose grounds, designed by landscape architect Capability Brown, are now more widely known as the location for ITV's long-running soap Emmerdale.
Tour de France officials were entertained at Harewood during Yorkshire's bid to host the event.
Mike Schafer, chief executive of the Harewood House Trust, said: "We will work hard to help showcase the beautiful county of Yorkshire to the world - this is an opportunity for us all and we look forward to July 2014."
The route then takes in the market town of Ilkley, whose cycling club has more than 1,000 members and claims to be the fastest growing in the UK.
Katherine Church, a member of Ilkley Cycling Club, said the town was an "obvious choice".
"It's just beautiful. The roads are amazing, the climbs are incredible, the scenery is spectacular, there's lots of different challenges. It's just going to be brilliant."
Keighley and Ilkley MP Kris Hopkins said: "I have no doubt that it will also encourage people of all ages to dust off their bikes, pull on their helmets and get pedalling."
Moving into the Yorkshire Dales National Park, the Tour will pass through the villages of Rylstone, home to the Calendar Girls, Kilnsey with its spectacular limestone crag and Aysgarth, close to the stunning Aysgarth Falls.
Councillor John Weighell from North Yorkshire County Council said: "I'm absolutely thrilled to see the Tour take in some of the most stunning scenery in the Yorkshire Dales.
"Just to have the Tour for almost a full day is wonderful news for the economy and for tourism in North Yorkshire."
The first day ends at the spa town of Harrogate where the weary competitors may be tempted to revive their spirits at the refurbished Turkish Baths or with a cuppa at the famous Betty's tea rooms.
Betty's spokeswoman Paula Kaye said: "We are extremely excited about the news that the sprint finale of the first day of Le Grand Depart will be in Harrogate."
Day two of the 101st Tour gets under starters orders at York racecourse.
Clerk of the course William Derby said: "In our history we have hosted the Queen, the Pope, Royal Ascot, The St Leger, the Olympic Torch and now the Tour is coming to the city, it's exciting news.
"We know that a season at York Races generates £58m for the local economy so can understand how an event like the Tour could well generate double that amount for the region over the weekend alone."
On its way south the route then wends its way through the Pennines, taking in Haworth, known worldwide as the home of the Bronte sisters, and Holmfirth, the filming location for BBC sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine.
The Pennine leg includes the challenging ascent of Holme Moss, a moor rising to 524m (1,719ft) just within the Peak District national park.
Matthew Dixon, a member of nearby Bradfield Parish Council, said: "Bradfield and the surrounding areas has stunning countryside that will provide a breathtaking backdrop to the Tour de France. Village folk are already very excited at the prospect."
Stage two will end in Sheffield where Marco Mori, from La Squadra cycling club, said: "It's fantastic news, especially for those who've been involved in cycling all their lives.
"There's a lot to look forward to, and even beforehand the teams will be over here checking out the route - we'll be seeing team riders, team cars."
From Yorkshire the Tour moves to the east of England with the third stage beginning in Cambridge on Monday 7 July.
The city, famous for its university, is also a hub of science and technology and is often referred to as the cycling capital of the UK.
Councillor Martin Curtis, Cambridgeshire's "cycling champion", said: "For me, this news cements Cambridgeshire's reputation as a place which has cycling in its DNA, with thousands of people getting on their bikes every day."
Colin Bedford, who runs March Veteran and Vintage Cycle Club in the city, said: "Our club has been involved in three Tours de Britain and fingers crossed we might be asked to put on a display to entertain the crowd for the Tour de France, which honestly would be the bee's knees."
It is then on to the relative tranquillity of Epping Forest, where Chris Whitbread, leader of Epping Forest District Council, said riders could enjoy "many historic gems" before heading to the capital.
"I would love for them to come to my home town of Epping obviously, but there's the forest, of course and Waltham Abbey," he said.
In London, the route takes in the Olympic Park and a final sprint to The Mall.
The HBO sci-fi series has 22 nominations in total, while comedy show Saturday Night Live also has 22.
Stranger Things and Feud: Bette and Joan are up for 18 each, followed by comedy Veep with 17.
Among the other British nominees, Ewan McGregor, Riz Ahmed and Matthew Rhys have two nominations each.
Other big names on the list include Oscar winner Viola Davis, who is nominated for How To Get Away With Murder, and Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon - both for Big Little Lies.
Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange, who played Bette Davis and Joan Crawford respectively in Feud: Bette and Joan, both get nods.
There's a posthumous nomination for Carrie Fisher for her guest role in Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe.
Benedict Cumberbatch is nominated for Sherlock: The Lying Detective.
His competition for best lead actor in a limited series or movie includes Robert De Niro, who's shortlisted for playing fraudster Bernie Madoff in The Wizard of Lies.
The Crown and The Handmaid's Tale - which had been expected to be among the top drama contenders - both have 13 nominations.
They include nods for their female stars Claire Foy and Elisabeth Moss, both nominated in the best lead actress category.
Thandie Newton is up for best supporting actress in a drama series for playing a robotic brothel madam in Westworld, which is based on Michael Crichton's 1973 film of the same name.
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Best lead actor in a drama series
Best lead actress in a limited series or movie
Best lead actor in a limited series or movie
Best lead actor in a comedy series
Best lead actress in a comedy series
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Five of the seven nominations for best drama series have gone to new shows, including NBC's This Is Us, which is the first show from a major broadcast network to be in that category since 2011.
The new season of HBO's Game of Thrones isn't nominated because it is starting too late to be eligible this year.
Despite that, HBO had the highest overall tally with 110 nominations, followed by Netflix with 91 and NBC with 60.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Stephen Colbert on 17 September.
The full nominations are on the Emmys website.
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Counties are allowed to field two overseas players in Twenty20 games, with up to four registered for that competition, although only two can be registered at any one time, and registrations must be for a minimum of 10 days.
Only one overseas player is permitted in the County Championship and One-Day Cup competitions.
Kolpak contracts are signed by foreign players, using a European Court ruling to avoid counting against the quota of one overseas player per club.
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Other news: The county have announced a new coaching set-up, with ex-captain Kim Barnett as director of cricket, supported by Twenty20 specialist coach John Wright, first XI support coach Steve Stubbings and development coach Mal Loye. AJ Harris has left his post as academy director, while seamer Tony Palladino has taken a player-coach role. Durston's departure leaves a vacancy as limited-overs captain.
Other news: Durham were relegated to Division Two over financial issues but have agreed a £3.74m rescue package with the local council. Keaton Jennings has become One-Day captain following Stoneman's departure, with Paul Collingwood continuing to lead in the Championship and T20 Blast.
Other news: Ravi Bopara has relinquished the limited-overs captaincy, with Ryan ten Doeschate now leading in all formats.
Possible signings: Hampshire are reportedly interested in Worcestershire all-rounder Moeen Ali, who will be out of contract at the end of the summer, though Warwickshire are favourites for his signature and Middlesex are also rumoured to be interested.
Other news: Hampshire were reprieved from relegation because of Durham's financial problems. Craig White has replaced Dale Benkenstein as head coach. Overseas signing Bailey will skipper the County Championship side once he arrives in May, with club captain James Vince still leading in limited-overs cricket.
Possible signings: Kent have been linked with New Zealand pace bowler Adam Milne as a Twenty20 overseas signing, after a move for fellow seamer Duanne Olivier was reportedly blocked by Cricket South Africa.
Other news: Head coach Jimmy Adams has stepped down and been replaced by his assistant Matt Walker, who will be assisted by ex-South Africa paceman Allan Donald - although former Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie will fill the assistant coach role on an interim basis while Donald awaits a UK visa. Min Patel and Jason Weaver have been appointed second XI coach and high performance director respectively, replacing Simon Willis who has taken a role with Sri Lanka.
Other news: Director of cricket Ashley Giles has left to return to Warwickshire. He has been replaced by his former coach and ex-captain Glen Chapple as head coach, assisted by Mark Chilton. Cricket Australia have blocked all-rounder James Faulkner returning to Old Trafford as an overseas player for Twenty20 cricket.
Other news: Elite performance director Andrew McDonald has left the county, to be replaced by assistant Pierre de Bruyn. Former Derbyshire elite performance director Graeme Welch will be his assistant, with former batsman John Sadler as 2nd XI coach. Clint McKay has taken over as limited-overs captain from Mark Pettini.
Possible signings: Middlesex are reportedly interested in Worcestershire all-rounder Moeen Ali, who will be out of contract at the end of the summer, though Warwickshire are favourites for his signature and Hampshire are also rumoured to be interested.
Other news: Ex-New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has joined as Twenty20 head coach, with McCullum replacing Dawid Malan as T20 captain.
Other news: Ex-England batsman James Taylor has joined as a coaching consultant, with former Northants captain David Sales taking a part-time coaching role.
Future departures: Championship captain Chris Read will retire from cricket at the end of the season.
Other news: Former England head coach Peter Moores, who has worked as a coaching consultant at Trent Bridge since June 2015, will took over as head coach from 1 October. He will work alongside director of cricket Mick Newell, with Paul Franks as assistant head coach and Ant Botha as assistant coach.
Possible signings: Director of cricket Matthew Maynard has hinted that he wants an overseas signing who would be available for the entire T20 Blast campaign, rather than re-signing Chris Gayle for a third stint.
Other news: Rogers will return as a batting coach and player mentor for the first half of the season. Tom Abell has succeeded Rogers as Somerset's County Championship captain.
Possible signings: Ex-Leicestershire batsman Angus Robson has joined on what the county describes as "a season-long trial" in which he will be registered to play for the 2nd XI and in the Sussex Premier League, as he looks to earn a full contract.
Other news: Ed Joyce will only play part of the County Championship season after signing a central contract with Cricket Ireland. Former captain Mike Yardy has been appointed batting coach. Chief executive Zac Toumazi left the club at the end of 2016 and has been replaced by former England rugby union international Rob Andrew.
Possible signings: Worcestershire all-rounder Moeen Ali, who will be out of contract at the end of the summer, has been heavily linked with a return to Warwickshire, though Middlesex and Hampshire are also reportedly interested.
Other news: Ashley Giles has returned to Edgbaston from Lancashire as sport director, replacing Dougie Brown, while Jim Troughton has moved up from assistant coach to become first-team coach.
Possible signings: The county may bring in a short-term overseas replacement while Hastings is with Australia's Champions Trophy squad in June.
Possible departures: England all-rounder Moeen Ali, who has two seasons to run on his contract, which runs out at the end of the 2018 season, has been heavily linked with a return to Warwickshire, although Middlesex and Hampshire are also reportedly interested.
Other news: Joe Leach has replaced Daryl Mitchell as captain. The county had indicated that they would seek a replacement for Hastings for the first half of the season after he suffered a knee injury, but he has reported fit for the start of the campaign.
Future departures: Seamer Ryan Sidebottom will retire at the end of the 2017 season.
Other news: First XI coach Jason Gillespie left at the end of the 2016 season and has been replaced by club captain Andrew Gale. Gary Ballance has been named captain in all three formats of the game, meaning Alex Lees also steps down as limited-overs captain.
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Rostami, 25, lifted 217kg with his last attempt in the clean and jerk to break his own world record and beat China's Tao Tian.
Tian equalled Rostami's clean and jerk lift, missing out on gold by just one kilogram.
Gabriel Sincraian of Romania won bronze, lifting a combined 390kg.
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The 25-year-old played eight games for the Raiders in 2016, who lost in last weekend's play-offs last four.
He returns for a second spell in Super League, having played 10 games for Catalans Dragons in 2014.
"Sam will bring a wealth of experience and a good kicking game," said Wildcats head coach Chris Chester.
"He is a great signing for the club, a big coup and a number of Super League clubs were chasing his signature."
Williams discussed Chester's methods with Raiders teammate Josh Hodgson, who played under the Trinity coach at former club Hull KR.
"I have heard good things from Josh on his coaching and I am now excited to be a part of it and am looking forward to what the future holds," he added.
Dairy farmers have warned they will go out of business if they do not receive higher prices for their milk.
The price paid to farmers is about 19p a litre but they say they need about 27p a litre to break even.
Ms O'Neill said she would continue to lobby Europe to address the issue.
She will lead a delegation in the coming weeks to meet the EU farm commissioner Phil Hogan.
He has, so far, resisted calls for the EU to raise the milk "intervention price".
"What we need to see is intervention at a European level, particularly in relation to price intervention that would allow the market to bottom out which would allow us then to start to build again," Ms O'Neill said.
"Phil Hogan can continue to live in an ivory tower if he wishes but this is a global problem. It's not just a problem for farmers in Northern Ireland, it's a problem right across the board on a European level."
UUP MEP Jim Nicholson has brought a report before the European agriculture committee which was endorsed by members and will be voted on by parliament.
In the report, Mr Nicholson calls for the intervention price of milk to be raised - that is the base price that the EU pays, regardless of market conditions.
"So far, the door has been slammed in our face by saying yes, there is a problem. But it's not a crisis so we have got to continue that battle and that is what I will do," he said.
Ms O'Neill said her staff had been working with farmers in Northern Ireland to address "cash flow pressures".
"They've been working right throughout the spring and the summer around looking at training events, looking at specific issues around cost control, benchmarking, business management, so helping farmers with practical things on the ground and what they can do in relation to their own costs," she said.
"I would encourage all farmers who are in difficulty to speak to dairy advisors."
The Stormont agriculture committee is being recalled on Thursday to discuss the crisis, and farmers are planning a protest.
DUP MLA Edwin Poots, who sits on the committee, said the dairy industry was traditionally a sector which had "steady prices" and "reasonable profit".
"Over the course of this past number of years, we've had huge fluctuations in prices and the dip, on this occasion, has been extremely long and extremely deep and farmers are being hit like never before," he said.
"Dairy farmers, traditionally, have borrowed much more extensively from the banks and consequently there is a significant danger should nothing be done to actually support the dairy industry at this time.
"As a result of that, many farmers, without assistance, will end up going bankrupt and we'll see considerable numbers of farms in our newspapers up for sale by the latter end of this year."
John Henning from Danske Bank said "inevitably" there was "more pain to come" for dairy farmers.
"We're making those phone calls, we're calling out to see those dairy farmers to identify where there are cash flow difficulties and working with those farmers to help get them through the current difficulties," he said.
"We've developed the dairy support package to help those farming customers through the inevitable cash flow difficulties which will follow the current milk price.
"Analysts are generally positive about the longer term outlook for the dairy sector and we share that optimism, but increasingly the industry recognises that agriculture is really operating in a global environment."
There are more than 2,500 dairy farms in Northern Ireland.
English Heritage has hidden 1,066 arrows at castles, forts, stone circles and stately homes.
Finders win one of 1,066 prizes - one is a sleepover at Dover Castle.
The search started with an arrow placed on the battlefield in Sussex on "the very site where William beat Harold", chief executive Kate Mavor said.
The hunt continues until all the arrows, which also have red feathers and a unique code, have been found.
Ms Mavor said: "1066 is the most famous date in English history and the Battle of Hastings was arguably the most important battle in our history, the results of which had consequences for every corner of England."
Other prizes include a private tour of Stonehenge and tickets to English Heritage's re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings in October.
The battle, which happened on 14 October 1066, is being marked with a series of events including recreating the march of King Harold's army from Yorkshire down to Battle, near Hastings, and his clash with the Normans.
The conflict saw the deaths of the country's last Anglo Saxon king, Harold Godwinson, and much of England's nobility and enabled William, Duke of Normandy, to claim the English throne.
This year, English Heritage will also open up the roof of the Great Gatehouse at the abbey founded at Battle by William of Normandy, who went on to be known as William the Conqueror.
Ex-Forest striker Holt played with the 21-year-old at Hibernian last season.
Cummings scored 23 goals in 39 appearances as Hibs won the Scottish Championship title.
Holt told BBC Radio Nottingham: "He gets in fantastic positions. Nine out of 10 times, when he gets an opportunity you'll back him to score."
Cummings has joined the Championship side on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee and Holt expects him to transfer his talents to England's second tier..
"He's a goalscorer," Holt added. "When the ball comes in the box he comes alive.
"He has scored bagfuls. He has stuff to work on but he is only young.
"He has worked a lot more on taking the ball and bringing the team up the pitch. That's where he will get better and better. And if he can add to what he can do then he has a good career ahead of him."
"He needs to test himself again. It's a great move. That club is a sleeping giant and if he can do what I know he can do then the fans will like him.
"I knew Forest was on the radar for him. It's a club that was fantastic for me. I loved it but it needs to be pushing get to the Premier League. Bringing in players who are hungry can only be good for the club.
"He scores goals for fun. Fans will have to give him a bit of breathing space because of where he has come from, but I am sure when he does find his feet the fans will take to him."
The Dragons are already guaranteed a place in the last eight, but a win would secure top spot in Pool Two and a home quarter-final tie.
Sale, two points behind in the table, can also win the pool with a victory.
"We've got an opportunity to go through as one of the top teams and that's our aim," said Jones.
"We want to keep that momentum going so let's have a go. We've got everything to gain and nothing to lose."
Dragons beat Sale 30-12 in the opening pool game, capitalising on the English clubs' decision to field a weakened team at Rodney Parade.
The Sharks have won every game since, and will be favourites to win the return leg that will secure top spot. If they lose, they could still make it through as one of the three best-runners up.
"They will be a full tilt. It's important to them that they get through to the last eight," added Jones, who spent seven years as a coach at Sale.
"They've got one foot in the quarter-final so they'll be going all-out to win and we'll be doing everything we can to quality top.
"I'd like them to qualify as well being a former club, but for us we want to be as high as we can."
Dragons prop Shaun Knight was at Gloucester last season when they won the Challenge Cup, but was not in the squad for the final when they beat Edinburgh.
"It's nice going into the game knowing we've got a quarter-final, but the best chance to play in the semi-final, is a home game," he said.
"The Sale game is a must-win game because of that, irrespective of other results.
"We had a good victory over Sale at Rodney Parade, this will be a tougher test, but they are always tough."
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Team-mate Kristian Thomas posted 15.0 early on in Switzerland but was beaten into second when Wilson scored 15.3 on the last routine.
City of Leeds gymnast Wilson said: "That feeling was incredible. You train your whole life for moments like that."
On Saturday, GB won silver in the team final in Bern behind Russia and ahead of the hosts Switzerland.
Wilson and Thomas had scored 15.033 to go through to the high bar final as joint-best qualifiers.
Thomas, up second, had watched several gymnasts stutter before Wilson came through at the end to snatch gold with a near-flawless routine.
Wilson added: "All the better to do it alongside Kristian, who's helped me so much the last two years on the senior circuit.
"I'd hit that routine twice very well this week so I knew I could do it.
"I felt the nerves today, definitely, but I got through it and I can't be happier."
For Thomas, it was a happier ending to a frustrating day having finished fourth earlier in both floor and vault finals.
There was an uncharacteristic error from Louis Smith on the pommel as the world silver medallist's hand slipped and he fell off the apparatus to also finish fourth.
In other finals, Courtney Tulloch gave another fine showing on rings to come joint fourth, while Dan Purvis was eighth on the floor.
The event is the last major competition before the Rio Olympics team selection is announced on 12 July.
Public Health England (PHE) said the confirmed case of psittacosis, which is normally an infection of birds, can cause severe health issues in humans.
The birds were taken to a pet shop when the owner was unable to look after them.
Symptoms in humans include fever, chills, cough, fatigue, muscle and chest, pain, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
Other symptoms include headaches, sweating and abnormal intolerance to light.
Sick birds may show signs of sleepiness, shivering, weight loss, breathing difficulties and diarrhoea but not all will show these signs.
PHE said psittacosis is caused by the bacterium chlamydophila psittaci and spread either by airborne transmission or by handling infected birds.
It is found particularly in parrots, parakeets, budgerigars and cockatiels but can affect other birds and some poultry.
As a precaution, people with concerns relating to birds they have purchased between 28 May and 3 June are advised to contact their vet to discuss their birds' health.
Between 25 and 50 cases of psittacosis are laboratory confirmed in England and Wales each year.
But Mike Wade, from PHE, said instances of people suffering severe illness as a result of infection from this bacteria are rare.
He said in humans symptoms usually appear after 10 days but can take up to 30 days to present themselves.
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Many sides are fighting each other, but one group, called Islamic State, has shocked the world by using extreme violence against anyone who doesn't agree with their views.
It is fighting to gain more power in Syria, and has now taken control of the ancient city of Palmyra.
Rising out of the desert, the site contains the ruins of a great city, which Unesco and others consider one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world.
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Boparan Private Office said it would secure the jobs of 2,000 workers in Norfolk and Suffolk when it acquired the company in 2016.
Unite union officer Steve Harley said employees "feel betrayed".
Bernard Matthews said it would "focus on what we're best at" by closing chicken production at its Norfolk headquarters in Great Witchingham.
Jobs were also lost in a restructure of its head office.
Food tycoon Ranjit Boparan bought Bernard Matthews from investment company Rutland Partners in September.
Shortly after the purchase, Unite, which represents 550 people at Great Witchingham and Holton in Suffolk, said it received assurances Boparan Private Office would process chickens as well as turkeys.
Mr Harley said his members now "felt very let down".
A Bernard Matthews spokesman said the company avoided some job losses by redeploying people within the business.
He added: "These changes will enable the business to focus on what we're best at and allow us to make things happen with agility and pace."
Cardiff forward Warburton is out with the shoulder injury that has sidelined him since he suffered it against Ospreys on 30 April.
Gloucester's Ross Moriarty will win his sixth cap at blindside flanker, with Lydiate switching to openside.
Lock Alun Wyn Jones features after a heel injury, but prop Paul James has failed to recover from a calf injury.
Fellow prop Samson Lee and centre Scott Williams are fit after missing the end of the Pro12 season.
Sunday's game is a warm-up for Wales' three Tests against world champions New Zealand in June, a tour for which Warburton has been named captain.
Lydiate captained Wales in their 67-14 win over Italy in their final game of the Six Nations in March.
"Dan led us exceptionally well in our last match so deserves to continue with those duties this weekend," said head coach Warren Gatland.
"When you look at the summer series ahead, this is a really important match for the squad.
"It will be an important hit-out for both teams and as ever it will be an important Test match as it's England v Wales at Twickenham."
British and Irish Lions second-row Jones and loose-head James both missed Ospreys' Pro12 run-in, with James having eye surgery in April.
Tight-head Lee missed Scarlets' final game of the season after suffering a head blow in the Judgement Day win over Newport Gwent Dragons, while team-mate Williams was also absent with a hamstring injury.
Gatland's side are without prop Tomas Francis at Twickenham as he plays for Exeter in the Premiership final 24 hours earlier, while Bristol back Matthew Morgan will also be missing as he recovers from the Championship play-off final second leg against Doncaster on Wednesday.
France-based players Jonathan Davies and Luke Charteris are unavailable too as they feature in the Top 14.
Northampton forward Teimana Harrison will make his England debut, starting at blindside flanker.
Prop Ellis Genge, hooker Tommy Taylor and centre Ollie Devoto are in line for debuts from the bench.
Players from Premiership finalists Saracens and Exeter are not included.
Wales team to face England: Liam Williams (Scarlets), George North (Northampton Saints), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins), Hallam Amos (Newport Gwent Dragons), Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Rhys Webb (Ospreys); Rob Evans (Scarlets), Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Jake Ball (Scarlets), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Ross Moriarty (Gloucester), Dan Lydiate (Ospreys, captain), Taulupe Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons)
Replacements: Kristian Dacey (Cardiff Blues), Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Rhodri Jones (Scarlets), Josh Turnbull (Cardiff Blues), James King (Ospreys), Lloyd Williams (Cardiff Blues), Rhys Priestland (Bath), Gareth Anscombe (Cardiff Blues)
Bow Group chairman Benjamin Harris-Quinney warned of "sleepwalking into a Labour government" without the tactic.
But his comments were disowned by all of the Bow Group's patrons, including Conservative grandees Lords Howe, Heseltine, Howard and Lamont.
They said people should vote Conservative "in all situations".
Polls suggest a hung Parliament is likely after 7 May, and Mr Harris-Quinney, whose comments were first reported in the Daily Telegraph, said he would prefer a Conservative majority.
But he said "few in the Conservative Party will acknowledge the reality that this is now very unlikely to happen, and without that acknowledgement we are sleep-walking into a Labour government".
He added: "We recognise the need to keep Ed Miliband out of Number 10, and the best way to do this is for Conservative voters to lend their votes to UKIP, who are best placed to beat Labour in many areas."
The Bow Group describes itself as "the United Kingdom's oldest conservative think tank" and "firmly housed in the Conservative family".
UKIP leader Nigel Farage welcomed Mr Harris-Quinney's endorsement.
But all of the Bow Group's patrons - which include former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine, ex-Conservative leader Lord Howard and ex-chancellor Lord Lamont - distanced themselves from Mr Harris-Quinney's comments.
In a joint statement they said: "As patrons of the Bow Group we believe that this country's best interests are served by voting Conservative in all situations.
"Ben Harris-Quinney does not speak for us or represent our views."
Mr Harris-Quinney was challenged over his credentials during BBC Two's Daily Politics programme, and he rejected the notion that he was only speaking for himself when he called for Tory voters to vote tactically for UKIP.
The think tank chairman, who said he was not a member of the Conservative Party, insisted that the paper was the product of a work of a number of people in the Bow Group, something which he said was customary.
But appearing on the same programme, Lord Heseltine asked, "who is this guy?", adding that he was "of no account".
"The Bow Group must have its own examination of how this guy, who is not a member of the Conservative Party, who is actively campaigning in a way that is incompatible with Conservative policy, has been able to produce this document," he said.
Meanwhile, the Independent newspaper has backed the continuation of the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition in its editorial.
The paper said a minority Labour administration reliant on the support of the SNP would be "a disaster for the country" and added: "For all its faults, another Lib-Con coalition would both prolong recovery and give our kingdom a better chance of continued existence."
The London-based Evening Standard newspaper also declared its hand, coming out in support of the Conservatives who would be "best" for the capital.
The veteran Nasa astronaut is the first woman to have commanded the ISS and already holds the record for the longest time spent in space by a woman.
This time - turning 57 while on mission - she is the oldest woman in space.
She blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday.
On board the Soyuz rocket with her are Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and French newcomer Thomas Pesquet.
They are expected to arrive at the ISS on Saturday, joining an American and two Russians already aboard. They will carry out a range of scientific investigations until May 2017.
Iowa-born Peggy Whitson, who has an advanced degree in biochemistry, worked for Nasa in several prominent medical science and research positions before being selected, in 1996, as an astronaut candidate.
She first went into space in 2002 and became the first woman to command the ISS in 2007. She will break records again when she takes charge of the orbiting lab for a second time in February.
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By the time her mission ends, she will have spent more time in space than any other US astronaut, surpassing the 534-day record set by Jeff Williams.
"The most important thing about the station is the friendships and the work we accomplish there," she told a news conference before the launch at 02:20 local time on Friday morning (20:20 GMT on Thursday).
Four officers were named as part of the inquiry after police broke new regulations while trying to discover the identity of journalists' sources.
The deputy chief constable told the justice committee he would not invite them due to "critical legal issues".
Assistant Chief Constable Ruaraidh Nicolson will appear instead.
He will be questioned by MSPs on 12 January.
Deputy Chief Constable Neil Richardson previously told the committee that officers had "misinterpreted" a 22-day-old code of conduct over intercepting communications due to a "misjudgement".
A watchdog said Police Scotland's "failures" in the case "could properly be viewed as reckless".
Following the last meeting of the justice committee on the issue, four officers were named as being part of the inquiry and invited to give evidence - Det Supt David Donaldson, Det Insp Joanne Grant, Det Supt Brenda Smith, and Ch Supt Clark Cuzen.
However, Mr Richardson wrote to the committee saying "there clearly remain some critical legal issues, and particularly those touching on matters of competence, which are not yet fully resolved".
He said "while such matters remain unresolved and outstanding" he did not feel he was properly in a position to forward the committee's invitation to the four named officers, suggesting that Mr Nicolson appear instead.
Deputy convener Elaine Murray wrote back to Mr Richardson voicing disappointment, saying the committee would consider what further steps to take.
The investigation was sparked after the Interception of Communications Commissioner ruled that Police Scotland had obtained communications data without judicial approval on five occasions.
Sir Stanley Burnton said the "failures", made while police were trying to determine a journalist's source or an intermediary, could be viewed as "reckless".
The review is understood to relate to the murder of Emma Caldwell in 2005, after a re-investigation of the case was ordered in May 2015.
Police Scotland said "robust and rigorous steps" had been taken to comply with requirements in future.
During his evidence session in December, Mr Richardson named Mr Donaldson as an "extremely experienced officer" who had "misinterpreted" the new code of conduct, which had been in place for 22 days.
He said the "very aggressive" pace of change in bringing in the new guidance could have been a factor in the "error" subsequently made.
The policeman also hit out at some press coverage of the case, saying he had been portrayed as an "archetypal villain" and saying police had been unable to respond to many stories due to the live murder inquiry.
The Northern Ireland woman, who used dozens of different aliases, died in an apparent suicide pact with her partner, named locally as Thomas Ruttle.
Their bodies were discovered in an upstairs bedroom of the farmhouse they shared at Boolaglass, Askeaton.
A police spokesman confirmed Ms Holmes was identified on Wednesday following tests at a Limerick hospital.
She had been on the run from the Police Service of Northern Ireland and had more than 20 previous convictions for fraud.
Known to have used false identities, Julia Holmes, originally from Castlederg in County Tyrone, was deported from the US in 2006, after serving a jail sentence for a $500,000 property scam in Texas.
After returning to Northern Ireland, she was jailed in 2009 for 21 months for fraud.
Two years later, she skipped bail while living in Ballynahinch, County Down.
The couple were last seen on 14 March.
He has styled himself a modest man with fewer of the ties to oligarchs that other candidates have and that has so disillusioned Filipinos.
His supporters say that with his reputation for toughness, he will rein in many of the country's problems, but his critics say he will be a step back towards the dictatorship of the past.
Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte was born in 1945 into a family closely tied to local politics.
His father was once a provincial governor, and the family had links with the powerful Duranos and Almendrases families in Cebu province, where his father was once mayor.
Mr Duterte trained as a lawyer and rose to become state prosecutor before being appointed vice-mayor of Davao in the wake of the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
He became mayor in 1988 and held the position for the maximum 10 years, before winning a seat in congress, and then returning to the mayoral office in 2001.
He built his reputation fighting some of the biggest problems facing the Philippines - crime, militancy and corruption. All three dropped significantly during his time leading Davao, making the city one of the safest in the Philippines.
Under his watch, the city built a large integrated emergency response centre and introduced a three-digit emergency number - something taken for granted in many countries but a revolution in the city at the time.
Self-styled as both a socialist and a reformist, his economic policies during campaigning have been vague.
He promised he would continue his tough stance on crime and improving public infrastructure as president,
His foreign policies are also hard to parse. He has talked of taking a less confrontational stance with China, but offered few specifics on how, other than to say he would ride a jet ski to a disputed island China controls, and stick a flag on it.
He has been clearer on the peace process in restless Mindanao, his political back yard. He wants it to include more rebel groups and address injustices Muslims there say they face.
He is most well known for off-the-cuff comments that would cause trouble for more conventional politicians.
He called the pope "the son of a whore" in a largely devout Roman Catholic country; joked that, as mayor, he should have been first to rape an Australian missionary murdered in a prison riot; threatened to kill thousands of criminals without trial - something he is accused of having sanctioned in Davao; and promised to suspend democratic rules if they get in his way.
All have burnished his image among many in the Philippines as someone who will do what is necessary to get things done, but have horrified his opponents.
Married twice, he has four children, one of whom - daughter Sara - took over as mayor for a term before he resumed office. He is now officially single, but has claimed to have several girlfriends.
A spokesman said talks between the British Medical Association and NHS Employers had been "constructive".
However, the two sides "are not able to prevent the industrial action planned".
The strike begins at 08:00 GMT across England and could affect thousands of NHS patients as junior doctors will only provide emergency care.
Earlier this week the BMA announced three spells of strike action across England, after negotiations with the government ended with no resolution.
Issues being disputed by the BMA and NHS include weekend pay.
The strike details announced are:
Acas has confirmed that talks between the BMA and NHS bosses will continue next week.
The latest round of negotiations focused on the offer made by the government in November, which would see an 11% rise in basic pay.
This would be offset by plans to cut the number of weekend hours junior doctors can claim extra 'unsocial hours' pay for.
Current rules mean that working between 7pm and 7am Monday to Friday, or any hours worked during Saturday and Sunday, attracts a premium rate of pay.
This would change with the new government proposals.
Junior doctors would receive time and a half for any hours worked between 10pm and 7am, with time and a third being paid for any hours worked between 7pm and 10pm on Saturdays or Sundays.
On-call availability allowances - ranging from 2-6% of basic pay, would also be paid to junior doctors, with additional payment for work resulting from being on call.
The government said the changes are need to create more seven-day services, but the BMA warned that they could lead to doctors being over-worked because safeguards to keep a lid on excessive hours are being weakened.
A series of protests were held across the country and 98% of BMA members who took part in the ballot backed strike action.
The missing RAF serviceman vanished while on a night out with friends on 24 September in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Volunteers combed areas near Barton Mills and Mildenhall, where the 23-year-old's mobile phone signal was last tracked.
His brother, Makeyan Mckeague, joined the search led by Suffolk Lowland Search and Rescue (SULSAR).
He said: "I live from day-to-day focussing on what needs to be done. Today it's the search.
"This focus on work and family support is getting me through the dark days."
The mystery of missing Corrie Mckeague
Mr Mckeague, from Dumfermline in Fife, was last seen walking into a bin loading bay known as the "horseshoe" at 03:25 GMT.
His mobile phone was tracked moving 12 miles (19km) away to Barton Mills after he was last seen.
It followed the same route as a bin lorry, which had made a collection in the area the morning the airman, based at RAF Honington, disappeared.
The vehicle was searched but nothing found. A landfill near Milton is set to be searched by Suffolk Police.
His mother, Nicola Urquhart, said: "He was not seen coming out of that street on foot. Two vehicles left between 01:00 and 06:00 on the morning he disappeared.
"It's logical that by misadventure or some other reason he's ended up in a bin lorry.
"The police are going to search the landfill site once it is made safe for the officers taking part.
"I don't know how long that is going to take."
Andy King, SULSAR chairman, said: "We have presumed Corrie has suffered some harm. We have searched the areas which are accessible by vehicle.
"But if other information is received we are willing to widen the search," he said.
The Sale Sharks player was arrested after a collision between his Mercedes and a Toyota in the Chelsea area of London at about 05:00 BST on 1 June.
The 28-year-old was given a breath test and taken to a police station before being released on bail.
Scotland Yard confirmed he was charged on Thursday and will appear at West London Magistrates' Court on 10 December.
There were no reports of any injuries following the crash involving Mr Cipriani's black Mercedes C63 and a silver Toyota Prius.
The player, from West Wimbledon, joined Aviva Premiership side Sale Sharks as a fly-half in 2012, four years after his England debut.
However, he was left out of the squad for this year's World Cup tournament amid a reported disagreement with attack coach Mike Catt.
The American, 23, became the youngest man to card a sub-60 round with an opening 59 in Honolulu.
He followed it up with 64 on Friday to move to 17 under par - five shots clear of Gary Woodland at the halfway point.
England's Justin Rose is among those in a tie for third on 10 under par.
Thomas, who last week won the Tournament of Champions, also in Hawaii, had six birdies and eagled the last for the second day in a row.
He told the PGA Tour's official website: "It's cool, any time you can get your name in the record books is awesome.
"I had no idea until I finished, until I signed and [someone in the scoring tent] said '123', and I was like 'man, I'd love that a couple more times in my career'."
Olympic champion Rose made seven birdies and one bogey to move to 10 under alongside American pair Hudson Swafford and Zach Johnson.
Scotland's Russell Knox is among a group of players on nine under, with world number five Jordan Spieth a further shot back.
Britt Assombalonga put Forest ahead and injured himself in the process after pouncing on a poor Dan Burn backpass.
Michael Jacobs equalised and Forest's Matty Cash hit the post before Oliver Burke restored the Reds' lead.
Wigan's Adam Bogdan saved an Apostolos Vellios penalty, and Will Grigg scored for the Latics either side of Burke's second before Lam's shot won it.
Twice it had seemed that Northern Ireland international Grigg, who scored 29 goals for club and country last season, had done enough to ensure the Latics would take a point from the City Ground, first heading home from close range before making it 3-3 after 86 minutes with a half-volley.
Philippe Montanier's Forest, who won their season opener against Burton with an equally dramatic 4-3 result, have now conceded 11 goals from five games in all competitions this season.
Both sides punished each other in an error-riddled contest which almost started with Grigg capitalising on a defensive mix-up before Assombalonga took advantage in similar circumstances moments later.
Burke's first was the pick of the goals, chesting down a ball from Chris Cohen on the edge of the area before coolly finishing with his right foot.
Substitute Vellios, who had earlier produced a volley on the turn to test Bogdan, then had his penalty easily dealt with by the goalkeeper after Craig Morgan fouled Cohen.
That allowed Wigan to hit back in a frenzied finish which was ultimately decided by Lam in injury time.
Nottingham Forest head coach Philippe Montanier: "We left it too open for Wigan to come back three times. I can accept that happening once. But to repeat it again and again, we will give ourselves more problems in the future if we do that.
"We do have the players here to change things. It is a mental issue. Our defenders take a lot of risk and when we attack we need a better balance defensively."
"I enjoy the spirit of the team and we showed our character to win. But there needs to be a balance. We have to learn quickly, because I cannot accept this."
Wigan manager Gary Caldwell: "We played well again but ultimately we did not get anything again.
"I was not very impressed to be honest. We needed to take our opportunities. We needed to defend better than we did."
Match ends, Nottingham Forest 4, Wigan Athletic 3.
Second Half ends, Nottingham Forest 4, Wigan Athletic 3.
Stephen Henderson (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Max Power (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Dan Burn.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 4, Wigan Athletic 3. Thomas Lam (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Hildeberto Pereira.
William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt blocked. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Max Power.
Attempt blocked. Oliver Burke (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Apostolos Vellios (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hildeberto Pereira.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 3, Wigan Athletic 3. William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from very close range to the high centre of the goal.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Matt Mills replaces Pajtim Kasami.
Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Davies (Wigan Athletic).
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Craig Davies replaces Alex Gilbey.
Attempt blocked. Pajtim Kasami (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Oliver Burke.
Attempt saved. Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Apostolos Vellios.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 3, Wigan Athletic 2. Oliver Burke (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Matthew Cash with a through ball.
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Craig Morgan.
Craig Morgan (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matthew Cash (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Craig Morgan (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Luke Burke.
Attempt missed. Luke Burke (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Michael Mancienne.
Thomas Lam (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Thomas Lam (Nottingham Forest).
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Cash (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eric Lichaj.
Pajtim Kasami (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Oliver Burke (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Thomas Lam.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 2, Wigan Athletic 2. William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Luke Garbutt with a cross.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Nick Powell replaces Shaun MacDonald.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Luke Burke replaces Yanic Wildschut.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Stephen Warnock.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Cash (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hildeberto Pereira with a cross.
Penalty saved! Apostolos Vellios (Nottingham Forest) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
The concrete Northam Bridge, which carries the A3024 road as a dual carriageway, needed waterproof coating.
The £1.2m works started in January and were expected to be completed in May, but the bridge has now reopened.
Jacqui Rayment, from Southampton City Council, said delays caused by the works were "absolutely necessary".
She added: "I'm sure drivers will welcome the news that we have been able to fully reopen Northam Bridge ahead of schedule.
"The bridge is a critical element of Southampton's transport and road network, which is why it was so important that this work went ahead when it did to protect the structure and ensure its future.
"Southampton and the wider regional economy is dependent on these key routes and we have avoided extensive future problems through these timely interventions."
On the first morning of the roadworks, some motorists faced delays of up to an hour as lane closures were put in place.
It's reopening was greeted with a sigh of relief on Twitter, with Mads tweeting: "Northam Bridge being reopened is a dream."
The 25-year-old from Glengormley, on the outskirts of Belfast, has a mild form of cerebral palsy.
The T38 800m champion stayed on the shoulder of Australia's Brad Scott before making a move with 600m to go.
"That race was controlled and timed to perfection," the three-time Paralympic champion told BBC Sport.
"After the 800m I spoke to my dad and coach Paddy to see what way I would race it because I knew I wasn't fit enough to go from the gun like I usually do, or even at 800m to go.
"So we thought we would try to break Brad's spirits a bit by giving him a bit of confidence and then crash it down again.
"When he was in front he was in control, but as soon as I passed him he couldn't budge and then when I put my foot down I got away from him and that was the plan. That is two finals and two perfect performances.
"Previously I had gone into big races over-thinking things but at these championships, although I was struggling mentally in the 800m, in this race I had beaten everyone in the field, so I knew I could do it. It is nice to go out and perform and show the crowd I am comfortable and enjoying myself."
McKillop's winning time was four minutes 16.20 seconds - well outside his world record of 3:59.54 - but the medals come at the end of what has been an injury-hit season and he will be hoping for a smoother build-up to next year's Rio Paralympics.
"Going into 2016, it is going to be an exciting time and I want to show I am still on top," he added. "Crowds here have been small but hopefully when it comes to Rio, hopefully there will be a carnival atmosphere around it. Brazil have got the buzz off London and hopefully we can go there and get the respect we deserve as elite athletes."
The only Briton in a final on Friday was high jumper Jonathan Broom-Edwards, who ended with silver in the T44 event behind Poland's world and Paralympic champion Maciej Lepiato.
Both men cleared 2.05m and then passed on 2.08 but Broom-Edwards, 27, missed all three attempts at 2.11 while Lepiato cleared it and then set a new world record of 2.18.
"It just didn't happen today and I'm a little disappointed considering the shape I'm in and all the hard work that's gone into the build-up into this competition," Broom-Edwards said afterwards.
"My warm-up was great - I was relaxed and not being able to pass at 2.11m messed me up a little bit, but there's no real excuses.
"I got too tense and that's something I need to work on. It doesn't justify how I jumped today, but I know what I need to do. I've just got to relax at the higher bars and do what I do in training and the warm-up."
Harley Medical Group and Transform said European regulators' failures over breast implants manufactured by French company Poly Implant Prothese had caused financial and operating issues.
The UK's regulator had acted appropriately, but lessons should be learned, the Department of Health said.
The PIP implants had been filled with industrial silicon.
Spot checks in 2010 revealed the silicon had not been medical-grade.
Last December the French government announced it was advising all PIP patients to have their implants removed as a precaution and UK clinics were deluged with calls from worried women.
The Harley Medical Group in London had used nearly 14,000 PIP implants and initially offered free replacements, but it is now charging patients £2,500 because of spiralling costs.
Managing director Pierre Guillot told BBC Radio 4's The Report programme: "We have a duty of care to our patients and to date we have performed over 1,000 replacement surgeries, in the majority of cases at no cost to the patient."
However, Mr Guillot said the PIP implant scandal had taken his company from a "reasonable profit" to one that has made a loss for two consecutive years.
"We have operating and financial capacity issues," he added.
"We cannot finance the failures of the European regulatory system to have spotted a faulty implant for 12 consecutive years.
"You have to remember that these implants were CE marked. The CE marking means that the implants are not only safe but that the medical devices are efficacious."
Organisations across Europe award the mandatory CE marks to products in the European Economic Area (EEA).
Once a product has a CE mark in one EEA country, it can be exported to all the others - individual countries do not then make their own additional checks.
So, after a CE mark was awarded to PIP implants in Germany, the UK regulator along with others in Europe accepted them as safe to use - when in fact they had rupture rates twice to six times as high as others on the market.
The EU is looking at tightening up the system of CE marks and enhancing co-operation between the different regulatory bodies in Europe.
Earlier this year, the final report into the PIP breast implants scandal concluded the gel material they contained did not pose a long-term threat to health.
The British government has now ordered a review of the cosmetic surgery industry, led by NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh.
He will examine whether there needs to be more regulation, how complaints are dealt with, and whether better clinical governance is needed.
But a report carried out by Lord Howe in May this year said there was no evidence the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), had acted inappropriately or could have uncovered the fraud earlier.
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The cosmetic surgery clinic Transform carried out some 5,000 PIP implant operations. Chief operating officer Pat Dunion told the BBC she would like the government to consider a compulsory register to record the details of all patients having breast implant operations.
"I'd be delighted if the MHRA would levy some sort of tax on implant manufacturers, and use that funding to come into facilities like Transform's, and other hospitals that provide cosmetic surgery, and take sample implants and check that they conform to the standards that they say they conform to," she said.
"I would welcome the government to start doing this now."
Sir Bruce is also considering a fund - like that offered by travel industry association Abta - that would pay out to patients in the event of anything going wrong.
Ms Dunion said: "It's a wonderful principle, but it would be difficult to see how such a scheme could be administered fairly - however, there might be different ways to do it.
"For example the government may levy some sort of charge on implant manufacturers and keep that fund set aside for some occurrence in the future."
Sir Bruce is expected to report back with the findings of his review in March 2013.
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The Mid Antrim 150 club say inclement weather this year, combined with a poor attendance at the event, has forced the decision.
The event was dogged with heavy rain prior to race day, which resulted in the paddock turning into a quagmire.
Plans are in place for the race to return in 2018 and to become a regular event on the calendar.
The race has been dogged by setbacks over the past eight years and 2016 was the first time the meeting returned to the Irish road racing calendar since 2013, due to a shortfall in finances.
The Mid Antrim was the first national road race of 2016 after being moved to a new slot at the beginning of April.
The 2017 Irish national road racing season will begin with the Tandragee 100 on 21-22 April, followed by the Cookstown 100 on 28-29 April.
The Armoy road races will be staged on 28-29 July.
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The 30-year-old Welshman is tied to Vale until June 2016, having signed a two-year extension to the contract he originally signed when he joined from Exeter City in July 2012.
"There's a few of us out of contract at the end of the season, including myself," he told BBC Radio Stoke.
"Who they want to keep is down to the manager but I want to stay," he added.
"I'm in a good place with my family. I'm settled here and hopefully I can impress the manager (Rob Page) enough to earn a new deal."
Meanwhile, Vale are still waiting on fitness reports on fellow defender Ryan Inniss, who limped off 36 minutes into Sunday's 1-1 draw with Coventry City with what appeared to be a hamstring injury.
Ninth-placed Vale, who are just three points adrift of the play-off zone following Sunday's draw with one of Duffy's former clubs, are currently up for sale.
Chairman Norman Smurthwaite is still understood to be in negotiations with three interested parties as he looks to get back the estimated £3m he has put into the club during his three years in charge, as well as the initial £1.25m he and then partner Paul Wildes paid to buy the club in October 2012.
The move to test processed beef for horsemeat was made at an EU crisis meeting in Brussels.
Owen Paterson said he was "pleased" with the plans, adding it was "wrong" consumers had bought beef products that contained horse.
Horsemeat should also be tested for the drug phenylbutazone, the European Commission said.
Under the plans, testing by the food standards authorities of each member state would begin on 1 March, and continue for three months. However, members should report back after 30 days, the commission said.
The proposals from the meeting - which involved the Irish Republic, France, Romania, Luxembourg, Sweden and Poland - will be put to an emergency meeting of the EU's Standing Committee on the Food Chain and is expected to be endorsed.
"That is why I am leaving for the Hague very shortly - to get to the bottom of an international criminal conspiracy," Mr Paterson told reporters, as he left the meeting.
Mr Paterson had pressed at the meeting for improved DNA testing of processed meat across the EU in the wake of the horsemeat scandal, which began last month.
Simon Coveney, Irish Minister for Agriculture, said after the meeting the issue was of "labelling fraud".
"We have more than enough law and regulations to deal with that fraud when we establish who is responsible for it. But I think consumers will want to see us also prioritising the labelling of processed food," he told a press conference.
He described the meeting as "proactive" and said there was a "sense of urgency" among ministers that they want something "significant done on this quickly".
Earlier, Prime Minister David Cameron promised that those who had passed off horsemeat as beef would be dealt with.
"We've agreed a tougher inspection regime, we've asked hospitals and schools and prisons to check with their suppliers that they are testing their products... if there has been criminal activity then there should be the full intervention of the law," he told MPs during Prime Minister's Questions.
He said there was no evidence products on the shelves of British shops were unsafe to eat.
Meanwhile, Victor Ponta, prime minister of Romania, where two abattoirs are alleged to have sold horsemeat purported to be beef to European food companies, said the scandal was a continent-wide problem.
He told Newsnight : "It's a European crisis because it affects the absolute right of European customers to trust the food, to trust products and know exactly what kind of food it is and where it comes from."
Referring to the allegations, he added: "We have checked all data we had up to now regarding the plants and the way the meat has been processed, and up to now haven't found any irregularities."
The horsemeat scandal began in January when Irish authorities discovered horsemeat in some burgers stocked by a number of UK supermarket chains.
Horsemeat has also been found in branded and supermarket-own ready meals, including lasagne and spaghetti bolognese. Some Findus frozen beef in lasagne, made by a French food processing company, was found to be up to 100% horsemeat.
The FSA has stressed that horsemeat does not pose a health risk to the public, however there have been concerns that if unregulated horsemeat is substituted for beef it could expose people to phenylbutazone (bute), which is not allowed in the UK food chain.
The FSA has ordered food businesses to carry out tests on all processed beef products and the first results are expected on Friday.
On Tuesday night, raids were carried out on two UK meat firms. The FSA suspended operations at both raided premises and seized paperwork.
The raided premises were Peter Boddy Licensed Slaughterhouse, in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, and Farmbox Meats Ltd, of Llandre near Aberystwyth.
Mr Boddy said he was co-operating with the FSA and officials were "welcome to visit" his premises whenever they wanted.
Dafydd Raw Rees, of Farmbox Meats, said the firm was licensed to deal with horses and it had been cutting horsemeat from the Republic of Ireland, for export to Belgium, for the last three weeks.
Walkden, 24, landed two well-timed head shots as she beat Morocco's Wiam Dislam 7-1 to win her +67kg bout.
It is Team GB's third taekwondo medal in Rio after Jade Jones claimed gold and Lutalo Muhammad won silver.
Cho, 27, lost 5-4 in an aggressive fight against Brazilian Maicon Siqueira in the men's +80kg.
Cho beat Iran's Sajjad Mardani 4-3 in the quarter-finals but lost his next bout to a last-minute head kick from Azerbaijan's Radik Isaev.
"I gave it my absolute everything but it's just disappointing not to come away with something from all the hard work me and my team have done together," Cho said.
"One of us had to lose and unfortunately that was me."
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Walkden, meanwhile, beat London 2012 champion Milica Mandic of Serbia 5-0 but lost 4-1 to China's Zheng Shuyin in a golden-point round in the semi-finals.
"I came here for gold but my coach said to me you have to go out there and fight for it," Walkden said.
"It's still an Olympic medal. In Tokyo I'll be trying to go a little bit further and try to get gold. It's only four years away."
Zheng went on to win her gold-medal bout 5-1 against Mexican Maria Espinoza while Isaev beat Abdoulrazak Issoufou 6-2.
Issoufou's silver meant Niger became the 87th nation to win a medal in Rio, a new Games record.
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Greece will receive up to €86bn (£61bn) in loans over the next three years, in return for tax rises and spending cuts.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde welcomed the agreement, but warned Greek debt had become unsustainable.
She said the country needed significant relief "well beyond what has been considered so far".
"Greece cannot restore debt sustainability solely through actions on its own," she added.
The BBC's Adam Fleming in Brussels says finance ministers will consider possibly writing off some of the country's debts in the autumn.
The first tranche of loans will be for €26bn.
This will include €10bn to recapitalise Greek banks and €16bn in several instalments - the first of which will be for €13bn and will be delivered in time for Greece to repay about €3.2bn to the European Central Bank (ECB) by 20 August.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the deal sent a message "loud and clear" that Greece will stay in the eurozone.
It comes at a political cost for Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who has faced a rebellion in his left-wing Syriza party.
More than 40 MPs voted against him when parliament decided on the bailout agreement on Friday, after all-night talks. He managed to push it through with the help of members of the opposition.
Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chaired the Eurogoup meeting where the deal was hammered out, said he was confident it would "address the main challenges facing the Greek economy".
He acknowledged that dealing with debt was an important issue, especially for the IMF, but Germany has so far been vehemently against any debt "haircut" that would cost creditors billions of euros.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told Deutsche Welle radio: "Outright debt forgiveness doesn't work at all under European law."
Mr Schaeuble added that there was "a certain amount of room to extend maturities further", but cautioned: "His room is not very big."
Germany's parliament is to hold a special session on Wednesday to decide on whether to approve the Greek bailout.
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The 17-year-old pounced in the second half to leave Chesterfield nine points from safety with four games remaining and condemn Vale to another pointless away day that leaves them in danger of going down.
Although Thorsten Stuckmann saved a low drive from JJ Hooper in the 27th minute, the first half summed up where both teams are in the table but the game came to life after the break.
Vale almost scored in the 52nd minute when Chris Eagles had a close-range shot superbly saved by Stuckmann before Chesterfield broke two minutes later and Rowley netted after Deniz Mehmet could only parry Kristian Dennis' drive.
Vale were struggling to create an opening and Chesterfield almost scored again in the 81st minute when a 25-yard drive from Dan Gardner was tipped over by Mehmet.
Chesterfield had to defend desperately in stoppage time as Vale, one point from safety with a game in hand, pressed for an equaliser but held on for a victory that leaves both clubs facing League Two football next season.
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Match ends, Chesterfield 1, Port Vale 0.
Second Half ends, Chesterfield 1, Port Vale 0.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Laurence Maguire.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Sam Hird.
Foul by Joe Rowley (Chesterfield).
Scott Tanser (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Sylvan Ebanks-Blake replaces Kristian Dennis.
Substitution, Port Vale. Scott Tanser replaces Kiko.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Liam Grimshaw replaces Dan Gardner.
Paul McGinn (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dan Turner (Port Vale).
Attempt missed. Dan Turner (Port Vale) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Paul McGinn.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Deniz Dogan Mehmet.
Attempt saved. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Paul McGinn (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale).
Sam Hird (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale).
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Thorsten Stuckmann.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Port Vale. Dan Turner replaces Anthony de Freitas.
Delay in match Tom Anderson (Chesterfield) because of an injury.
Tom Anderson (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale).
Attempt missed. Sam Hird (Chesterfield) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Joe Rowley (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nathan Smith (Port Vale).
Attempt missed. Dan Gardner (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Rai Simons (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Dan Gardner (Chesterfield).
JJ Hooper (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Tom Anderson (Chesterfield) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Nathan Smith.
Attempt missed. Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
(Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale).
Substitution, Port Vale. William Reeves replaces André Bikey because of an injury.
Delay in match André Bikey (Port Vale) because of an injury.
Paul Clark, 51, of Surrey, was charged with conspiracy and serious organised crime. He made no plea or declaration and was released on bail.
Former Rangers owner Craig Whyte, ex-chief executive Charles Green and David Whitehouse, a joint administrator with Mr Clark, faced similar charges.
They were also released on bail at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
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Rangers was sold to Craig Whyte by its former owner Sir David Murray in 2011 for a nominal sum of £1.
But the club entered administration in February 2012 after running out of cash.
Mr Whitehouse, who worked at Duff and Phelps, was appointed as joint administrator along with colleague Mr Clark.
When an agreement with creditors could not be struck to allow the club to exit administration, a sale of Rangers' assets to a consortium led by Mr Green was concluded.
He was at the helm when Rangers were allowed to join the Third Division but stepped down in 2013 following allegations that he was working in conjunction with Mr Whyte, 44.
All four men were arrested earlier this week after a police investigation into the sale of Rangers' assets in 2012.
They have been charged under Section 28 of the Criminal Justice Licensing Act 2010, which covers serious organised crime offences. They have also been charged with conspiracy.
In addition Mr Green has been charged with fraud and also an offence under Section 190 of the Companies Act 2006.
Cheltenham Borough Council said it was probing "substantial work" carried out on the listed building where the 'Spy Booth' artwork appeared in April.
Days ago vandals attacked the wall for a second time, with large drill holes appearing around the mural.
The council said it was investigating a potential criminal offence.
"Evidence is being gathered and investigations continue" said the council, which earlier confirmed no listed building consent had been sought for the house.
Listed building consent is required from the local authority, before any work is done to the fabric of a listed property.
The holes drilled in the wall around the mural could be seen a contravention of the regulations.
Gloucestershire Police said its officers were present when council officials went into the house but "purely from a public safety perspective" to ensure there was "no breach of the peace in the area".
After the holes appeared, businessman Hekmat Kaveh - who has offered funds to buy the house to ensure the mural stays in the town - said he thought an attempt was being made to remove it.
Since the end of June campaigners have been working to reverse a plan to remove and sell the mural by raising up to £1m to buy the building and the graffiti on it.
The GCHQ-themed mural remains covered in silver and red graffiti, after it was vandalised two weeks ago.
A professional art conservator has visited the mural and said it could be saved but might take months to restore.
"We've established it's possible to get the [graffiti] tags off safely without unduly affecting the materials underneath," said Tom Organ.
"Now we have to also look at the anti-graffiti coating, and assess whether that, in itself, might cause any problems in the long term."
Mr Organ added it would take "weeks if not months" to restore the mural.
Campaigners have spent months trying to keep the artwork in situ on the corner of Fairview Road and Hewlett Road, after the owners of the house claimed it had been sold and workmen arrived to remove it.
However Cheltenham Borough Council issued a temporary stop notice preventing further work from taking place on the Grade II* listed building.
Paul Bartlett used the mask to carry out three raids in as many days on shops in Sutton Coldfield in October 2015, West Midlands Police said.
On his arrest on 12 October, officers found cut-up trousers matching the material of the mask.
Bartlett admitted robbery and was jailed for 13 years after it emerged he had committed 78 previous offences.
Among those offences were 45 thefts, police said.
The raids, where cash, cigarettes and alcohol was taken, happened at One Stop and Select & Save in the town.
The 47-year-old, from Kemble Drive, Castle Vale, Birmingham, claimed in police interviews that complications during his birth meant he had a bad memory.
However, he told officers he remembered he did not take part in the robberies.
A search of the home of his accomplice, Adam Breen, 26, of Bovingdon Road, Castle Vale, uncovered a distinctive baseball cap, identical to one worn during the attacks, as well as a red-handled knife and a haul of cigarettes.
Breen was found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court and handed a prison term of five years and two months on Monday.
Insp Tom Hadley said: "These serious, violent offences left several staff members and witnesses traumatised.
"We're pleased the long jail sentences imposed reflect the seriousness of the offences."
The 24-year-old Republic of Ireland Under-21 international, who has four caps, has agreed a two-year contract.
The ex-AFC Wimbledon man has helped both the Dons and Argyle to promotions, in 2015-16 and 2016-17 respectively.
"I feel very fortunate to capture the signing of a player off the back of two promotions in as many seasons," Yeovil boss Darren Way told the club website.
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Writing on Twitter, he said he would not allow China to "do nothing" about the reclusive state.
His comments came a day after Pyongyang test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a month.
It later claimed the test proved that the entire US was within striking range of its weaponry.
On Saturday, two US B-1 bombers conducted exercises over the Korean peninsula with South Korean and Japanese planes.
The move was a "direct response" to the North's two ICBM launches, and "part of the continuing demonstration of ironclad US commitment to our allies", the US Pacific Command said.
"North Korea remains the most urgent threat to regional stability," Gen Terrence J O'Shaughnessy, Pacific Air Forces commander, added in a statement.
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On Saturday, China condemned the test launch and urged restraint on all sides.
But Mr Trump voiced frustration at Beijing's response, linking the US trade deficit with China with policy on North Korea.
"I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk," he wrote in two consecutive tweets.
"We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem!"
China, which shares a land border with North Korea, is its closest economic ally and trading partner.
President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping discussed North Korea during talks earlier this year, after which US officials said the two countries were working on "a range of options" to rein in Pyongyang.
But since then the North has carried out two ICBM tests.
After Saturday's launch, South Korea said it was concerned the North may have made "a significant advancement in technology", adding that the missile test was "unique in its time and place of launch".
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the threat to his country's security was "grave and real".
The North has repeatedly tested missiles in breach of UN resolutions.
ICBMs can reach altitudes well outside the earth's atmosphere. Using sharp trajectories with high altitudes allows North Korea to avoid firing over neighbouring countries.
Despite the ongoing tests, experts believe the North does not yet have the capability to miniaturise a nuclear warhead, fit it on to a long-range missile, and ensure it is protected until delivery to the target.
Others, however, believe that at the rate it is going, Pyongyang may overcome these challenges and develop a nuclear weapon within five to 10 years that could strike the US.
Froome will be supported by Welsh riders Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe, who will be the road captain in the nine-strong team, while fellow Briton Ian Stannard is also named.
Kenya-born Froome, 31, is the only Briton to win the Tour twice, claiming victory in 2013 and 2015.
The Grand Depart leaves Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy on 2 July.
"Every rider obviously starts every new Tour equal and what has gone before counts for nothing. This year I am hungrier than ever for success," Froome said.
Thomas, Stannard, Rowe and Dutch rider Wout Poels were all part of the squad that helped Froome to victory in last year's contest.
"There are a number of riders in other teams capable of putting in a challenge for overall victory. That's great news for cycling fans," Team Sky boss Sir David Brailsford added.
Team Sky squad for Tour de France 2016: Chris Froome, Sergio Henao, Vasil Kiryienka, Mikel Landa, Mikel Nieve, Wout Poels, Luke Rowe, Ian Stannard, Geraint Thomas.
The body of 25-year-old Conall Kerrigan from Claudy was discovered in Bank Place at around 22:20 BST on Sunday.
The police are treating his death as "unexplained."
They have appealed for anyone who may have seen him after he left the Metro Bar early on Sunday morning to contact them.
They also want to hear from people who may have noticed a fight on the city walls near the Millennium Forum.
The 25-year-old's cousin Aaron Kerrigan said he looked on him as a brother.
"If you look at his photos - just every single one of them he's smiling," he said.
"That's what he epitomised. He could bring a smile to anybody's face just by a look or a word.
"He was somebody I looked up to. It's just really difficult."
Brought up in the deprived Lincolnshire seaside town of Skegness, Mr Atherton today runs a restaurant empire which turns over almost £70m a year.
Whereas he once spent his summer holidays looking after the donkeys on Skegness' main beach, he is now a well-known personality on UK cookery TV shows, flies regularly in business class to check on his outlets in Singapore and China, and has a swanky headquarters in Soho, central London.
Mr Atherton, 43, puts his success down to two factors - "hard work and common sense".
And he is keen to stress that when in London he still makes time every day to be head chef at his first and main restaurant, Pollen Street Social, which holds a Michelin star.
"Becoming a chef transformed my life," he says.
Born in Sheffield, after his parents separated when he was four, Mr Atherton and his mother moved to Skegness.
As money was tight, they spent their first three years there living on a caravan park.
His mother eventually found a new partner and together they opened a guest house.
Yet Mr Atherton only got a bedroom in the off season, as all summer he was again relegated to a caravan in the back garden so that all the rooms could be rented out.
As soon as he turned 11, his mother and stepfather insisted he got a job so he could contribute to the household income.
"Some people say this was mean, but it taught me an important lesson in life - nothing is free. Perhaps it is a northern mentality, but it put me in good stead," he says.
And so, the young Mr Atherton spent his summer holidays getting up every day at 5am to feed, water and clean the town's donkeys. And then lead young tourists up and down the sand.
"Yes, I was a donkey boy, I did that for three or four seasons, and I loved it."
His interest in cooking started a bit later when he decided to take home economics at school "because there was a girl in the class who I fancied".
He immediately took to cooking and his mother suggested he joined the Army Catering Corps. It turned out to be a rare wrong career turn.
"I absolutely hated it," he says. "I did my basic training, but just couldn't get on. I got into some fights.
"Between my stepfather and my sergeant they decided it was time for me to leave. So I went back to Skegness with my tail between my legs."
After a few weeks down in the dumps Mr Atherton got a job in the kitchen at a local hotel, where his cooking talents soon impressed the owner.
Mr Atherton recalls: "He said I was a natural cook - it was the first time someone had ever said I was good at something.
"He also said that if I was serious about getting better I should move to London. So that's what I did, and my life just took on another form.
"I worked my way through all the top kitchens in London and then France and Spain, and that was it."
After learning his ropes in a number of prestigious restaurants, in 2001 Mr Atherton started to work for fellow celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who he says is still the biggest influence on his career.
Considered to be Mr Ramsay's "right hand man", Mr Atherton spent nine years with his mentor, most prominently as head chef at a restaurant called Maze.
Yet in 2010 Mr Atherton decided to leave and go out on his own. As newspapers reported at the time, it was not a happy parting.
"It didn't end well, but there was no malice from my side," says Mr Atherton.
"Of course I understand why he was upset, I was one of his main guys, and no-one likes to see one of his main guys go.
"But I just wanted to be free… I always wanted to be master of my own destiny."
So Mr Atherton quit, remortgaged his house to raise £500,000, and started to look for premises to open his first restaurant.
With a Singapore-based multi-millionaire friend coming on board as his outside investor, Pollen Street Social opened in London's Mayfair in 2011 to immediate rave reviews and full bookings.
Within two years the other restaurants started to follow. Those overseas are tie-ups with local partners who bring in both capital and understanding of the restaurant scene in their city.
Now with eight overseas restaurants, and more to open next year in New York, Dubai and Sydney, does Mr Atherton ever worry that he is spreading himself too thin?
He says that while people will always make the accusation, he had his team work very hard to run the business "very sensibly".
"We just use our common sense," he says. "Look after the staff, pay your tax on time, and do cash flows every single day. It is very simple mathematics. Only then can you do the fun stuff like run the restaurants."
Yet for all the time spent on the business side of things, Mr Atherton says he is still first and foremost a working chef. This he says helps keep him firmly grounded.
"I don't take the success for granted, it is really important to look after success, to cherish it."
And despite his long working hours, Mr Atherton also makes sure he reserves time to spend with his two daughters.
Such is his belief in the importance of saving time for his family that he has teamed up with retailer Notonthehighstreet.com to launch a campaign called "Dadpreneur Movement".
This aims to help shine a light on the issues and challenges facing modern working fathers.
A major incident declared at the hospital on Monday remains in force.
A meeting of the North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) heard almost all planned surgery had been cancelled.
The hospital said as well as increased demand at A&E, it had struggled to free up beds due to an outbreak of norovirus and flu.
Sally Parkin, clinical director at the CCG, said: "There are 91 cases of flu at the moment in the hospital and we have to keep patients safe, so we have to have areas that are separately nursed for patients with infections illnesses
"So at the moment we just don't have enough bed capacity for those patients and that's why we've got a bottleneck in A&E."
She said while the Royal Stoke A&E was "very busy", patients were being cared for and dealt with in a "calm and systematic way".
Last week, the University Hospitals of the North Midlands trust, which runs the Stoke Royal recorded the worst A&E figures in England, with just 61.3% of patients seen within four hours, compared with a national target of 95%.
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Tinkler, 16, will collect her English, French and Maths results from Durham High School the day after getting home.
She has become only the third British woman to win an individual gymnastics medal with her Rio exploits.
"It's starting to sink in now I've got the results when I get back," Tinkler told BBC Tees.
"I've had a lot of media interest since the event, and I keep being reminded of it. But I want to live it up here while I can.
"We're now hoping to watch a few sports, my team-mates are going to the beach and we're hoping to go to Sugarloaf Mountain before we go as well."
The Bishop Auckland athlete, the youngest member of the Team GB squad, had been juggling 30 hours of training a week with her exam studies in the build up to the Games.
"My school have been incredible, with helping me out," she added.
"I've split my GCSEs over three years. I did PE last year, and I'll finish off the rest next year."
Although Tinkler is assured of her place in Olympic folklore with her debut Games success, life among the elite competitors in the athletes' village has had a novelty value.
She said: "The other day I passed Greg Rutherford in the village and he said 'Hi, good luck for the floor final' - it was like 'Oh my gosh!'
"It was so crazy and amazing. Being a block with such amazing athletes such as Andy Murray and Greg is like 'Wow'.
"I met Tom Daley and that was incredible."
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Now one of the leading prophets of this robot revolution has told the BBC he is already seeing another side-effect of automation - the rise of politicians such as Donald Trump and the Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders.
Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots won all sorts of awards for its compelling account of a wave of automation sweeping through every area of our lives, posing a serious threat to our economic well-being. But there has also been plenty of pushback from economists who reckon his conclusion is wrong and that, as in previous industrial revolutions, the overall impact on jobs will be positive.
In London to speak at a conference on robots held by the Bank of America, he told me that he didn't think this latest technology upheaval would be as benign as in the past: "The thing is that this time machines are now in some sense beginning to think. And what that means is we're seeing machines encroach on the kind of capabilities that set humans apart."
He sees the robots moving up the value chain, threatening any jobs which involve humans sitting in front of screens dealing with information - the kind of work which we used to think offered security to middle-class people with average skills.
Look at the unemployment statistics at the moment and it is hard to detect this wave of job destruction, at least not on the scale of the 1980s when manufacturing jobs were vanishing. But Mr Ford says the impact has been felt in workers' pockets. In his presentation at the conference he put up a graph which showed American productivity rising in step with hourly wages - until 30 years ago when the two lines started to diverge. What's happened, he says, is that more of the rewards of rising productivity are going to capital - in other words to the owners of the robots - with workers left behind.
This hollowing out of the middle class, says Martin Ford, is already having an impact: "That's one of the things that is driving the political upheaval - you can tie the rise of Trump and Sanders to this phenomenon which has been going on for a long time."
Now, there are new jobs coming along as a result of new technology - think, for instance of the thousands of people working in warehouses sending out goods ordered online. But another presentation at yesterday's robotics conference was an illustration that this work may not prove very durable. One of the founders of Kiva, the robotics company bought by Amazon in 2012, showed what impact its systems were having on the retailer's business.
The firm now has 30,000 robots moving millions of products across giant warehouses, with their position and the path they travel controlled by complex algorithms. This has cut staff numbers in those warehouses by two-thirds, though humans are still needed to pick the individual products and put them in boxes. Automating that last task, it seems, will take a long time - at the moment the best robot can only pick 10 different products in 20 minutes, far behind a human picker.
But Martin Ford says over the next 10 or 20 years machine learning is going to make advances we can barely imagine: "There really isn't an endpoint to this," he says. "There's no point at which you can say it's going to get this good and no better - it's just going to get better and better."
If robots can do everything, and the rewards all flow to those who own them, he sees rising inequality, and a threat to the whole current model of capitalism. That may be an unduly pessimistic view - others see automation bringing huge improvements to our lives and offering us greater leisure time. But there's a growing consensus that the march of the robots has big implications for the global economy and policymakers need to start planning for them.
You can hear an interview with Martin Ford on Friday's edition of Tech Tent on the BBC World Service at 16:00 BST.
He conceded it would be "unpopular" in the short term but said reform of the "unsustainable" system was essential.
Labour says millions will be worse off after the cuts, while some Tory MPs are said to be uneasy about the policy.
But Mr Clarke recommended: "Get on with it. Stop looking at opinion polls and listening to nervous backbenchers."
Under the government's plans, the earnings level above which tax credits are withdrawn will be lowered from £6,420 to £3,850, and the rate at which the benefit is lost as pay rises will be sped up. The changes come into effect at the end of the year.
Ministers say the changes, estimated to save £4.4bn, are part of wider plans to raise pay and incentivise work, and they argue that the impact of the cuts will be mitigated by the new National Living Wage and higher tax thresholds.
But Labour claims three million families face losing an average of £1,000 a year.
Appearing on BBC One's Andrew Marr programme, Mr Clarke defended the reforms, arguing that it was not right for taxpayers to continue to "subsidise low pay".
"It's bold but I think it's necessary, and it will actually move us away from the very low pay levels that for some curious reason the government has been subsidising ever since the tax credit system was brought in," he said.
"My advice to George is put your tin hat on and get on with it.
"Don't put it off because in the short term it is going to be unpopular."
Mr Clarke conceded the policy would have unpredictable effects, but he said Mr Osborne was not "crossing his fingers", arguing that reforming the system now is "a judgement".
"If we are wrong, then of course we will have to pay the price because it won't work. But meanwhile, get on with it," he added.
Shadow business secretary Angela Eagle told BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics that Labour would campaign to stop the cuts, arguing that working people would be hit hardest.
The policy to cut tax credits, announced in Chancellor George Osborne's post-election Budget, was approved by Parliament in September by 35 votes - despite opposition from Labour, Lib Dem and SNP MPs.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned it is "arithmetically impossible" for nobody to lose out under the changes.
Xu Ming, 44, died of a heart attack on Friday in the central city of Wuhan, state media reported.
He rose to prominence in the 1990s alongside Bo Xilai. At one time he was listed as China's eighth richest man.
But Bo's downfall in 2012 was quickly followed by Xu Ming's own imprisonment. His death comes less than a year before his scheduled release date.
Bo Xilai was sentenced to life in prison for corruption in 2013. His wife had earlier been found guilty of murdering a British businessman.
It was the biggest scandal to hit the Communist Party in years.
Xinhua news agency said Xu Ming probably died of a "sudden heart attack".
But many social media users suggested the death appeared mysterious, particularly given that he was due to be set free next year.
"Some people feared he would expose the truth, so he died! This is proof that the same rebels and traitors still hold power," one user posted on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, AFP news agency reported. The comment was later censored.
Xu amassed his fortune in the city of Dalian, where Bo Xilai was mayor from 1993-2001, through his company Dalian Shide, a conglomerate with wide-ranging interests.
But he went missing in March 2012, around the same time Bo Xilai fell from grace.
Xu Ming testified in court during Bo's trial the following year. According to court transcripts, Xu said he gave Bo Xilai's wife Gu Kailai money to buy a villa in France, and paid for some of the couple's son's expenses.
She was convicted of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood and given a suspended death sentence.
Her husband had been a member of the Communist Party's hugely powerful 25-member politburo and was tipped to go even higher before his dramatic reversal of fortunes.
Xu Ming's trial was kept secret - the whole process from his arrest through to his sentencing was never made public.
Asad Taibzadah, 32, left St Ann's Hospital in Haringey on unescorted leave on Friday morning but did not return in the evening.
He is described as being of south Asian appearance, 5ft 6ins tall, medium build and with shoulder-length hair.
Scotland Yard said the public should not approach him but call 999 in the event of a sighting.
Waiting lists dipped below 350 patients by June this year - with most waiting under 10 weeks.
That is half the 700 waiting for heart surgery at the start of 2014 - with 290 patients in Cardiff and Swansea waiting more than six months.
Patients have also backed the initiative after their treatment.
Those surveyed after surgery gave the project a high satisfaction rating.
It saw them offered treatment at hospitals in London, Bristol and Birmingham, as a temporary measure to tackle the Welsh waiting lists.
A review by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee (WHSSC) looked at how effective outsourcing surgery had been.
It found "significant numbers" of patients had benefited and "many more no longer live with the uncertainty of very long treatment waits".
The review said the project was particularly successful in Swansea, where 126 cardiac patients on the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg list were given surgery outside Wales, mostly at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London.
The Swansea cardiac waiting list fell by around 320 patients overall, partly due to better management and improved processes.
More than 100 patients were also treated at Bristol's private Spire Hospital and at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
The decision to treat patients outside Wales came after concerns by the Royal College of Surgeons two years ago that patients were "regularly dying on waiting lists" at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
The Cardiff and Vale health board brought in a series of measures, including recruiting extra staff and introducing weekend working.
Jonathan Franks and Oscar Gobern exit too with Jim O'Brien returning to Shrewsbury Town following a loan spell.
Midfielder Martin Woods has triggered a one-year contract extension option but has been told he is free to find another club, as has Ian McShane who has one year left on his contract.
The club has also offered defender Kenny van der Weg a new deal.
Tony Dingwall has been offered a six-month deal while he recovers from injury while Chris Burke has been offered a contract as he continues his recovery from illness.
Beamish in County Durham is appealing for semi-detached houses built between 1950 and 59 to use as a design base to replicate at a new attraction.
The 1950s-style development will also include a cafe, shops, police house, cinema and recreation area.
Museum director Richard Evans said it was a "unique opportunity" for people's homes to become part of history.
The museum would like people to nominate their properties, preferably ones which were originally constructed as social housing, to be replicated at the town which is being added to the existing Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian areas.
Working with the community, the museum will ask people their stories and what they think should be in the houses.
The two houses will be replicated rather than rebuilt brick by brick like the properties in the older parts of the museum.
Mr Evans said it is "very much" about the community and "what they want" in the town.
He said: "We're extremely excited to be offering people this unique chance for their home to become part of history being recreated at Beamish.
"Our 1950s town will tell the stories of the North East's communities during an important decade of change."
The project, which has received a £10.75m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, is expected to create up to 100 jobs.
Burns's try came inside a minute as England dominated in their final match before a summer tour of South America.
Debut tries from Marland Yarde, Christian Wade and Kyle Eastmond were complemented by Billy Twelvetrees.
Rob Webber captained England in the absence of nine players away on club or British and Irish Lions commitments.
First-team regulars Owen Farrell and Manu Tuilagi were among those on Lions duty, prompting Stuart Lancaster to field a team containing nine players under the age of 24.
While the game was classed as an uncapped international, it was England's first chance to shine since their 30-3 mauling at the hands of Wales in the final round of the Six Nations.
After less than a minute, Barbarians' captain Mike Tindall was turned over close to the halfway line, allowing England to release the uncapped Yarde. He offloaded to Burns who scored the try and converted.
Two further penalties saw Burns amass 13 points in the opening 13 minutes, as England dominated the scrum, forcing their opponents into conceding possession cheaply.
Wasps wing Wade bravely collected an up and under ahead of American Takudzwa Ngwenya, with the England man conceding a five-metre scrum late in the period.
But England comfortably defended Imanol Harinordoquy's drive for the line, taking a 16-0 lead into the interval.
At the restart, London Irish wing Yarde, 20, scored a superb individual try, breaking a challenge just inside the Barbarians half to power to the corner.
Kyle Eastmond came off the bench to become the second non-capped player to score for the home side, and an end-to-end attack started by Billy Twelvetrees allowed the pacy Wade to duck two challenges and register his own debut try.
Five minutes later, Twelvetrees bundled over for his own try, to make it 40-0.
In the final 10 minutes, Schalk Brits touched down in the corner for the Baa-Baas, before Elliot Daly, who was overlooked for England's summer tour, scored late on.
England: Mike Brown; Christian Wade, Jonathan Joseph, Billy Twelvetrees, Marland Yarde; Freddie Burns, Richard Wigglesworth; Ben Morgan, Matt Kvesic, Tom Johnson; Dave Attwood, Joe Launchbury; David Wilson, Rob Webber (Capt), Alex Corbisiero
Replacements: David Paice, Joe Marler, Henry Thomas, Kearnan Myall, Billy Vunipola, Haydn Thomas, Jonny May, Kyle Eastmond
Barbarians: Elliot Daly (London Wasps); Timoci Nagusa (Montpellier, Fiji), Takudzwa Ngwenya (Biarritz, United States), Casey Laulala (Munster, New Zealand), Mike Tindall (Capt, Gloucester, England); James Hook (Perpignan, Wales), Dwayne Peel (Sale, Wales); Andrea Lo Cicero (Racing Metro 92, Italy), Matthew Rees (Scarlets, Wales), James Johnston (Harlequins, Samoa), Jim Hamilton (Gloucester, Scotland), Marco Wentzel (London Wasps, South Africa), Alessandro Zanni (Treviso, Italy), Imanol Harinordoquy (Biarritz, France), Jonathan Poff (London Wasps, New Zealand).
Replacements: Schalk Brits (Saracens, South Africa), Dean Mumm (Exeter, Australia), Duncan Jones (Ospreys, Wales), Sam Jones (London Wasps), Dimitri Yachvili (Biarritz, France), Nick Evans (Harlequins, New Zealand), Rowan Varty (DeA Tigers, Hong Kong).
Mr Healey said he had 20 nominations from fellow Labour MPs - not far short of the 35 needed to get on the ballot.
The Wentworth and Dearne MP told LabourList he wanted to give other candidates, from different wings of the party, a chance.
Mr Healey was a Treasury minister under Gordon Brown and has backed Yvette Cooper for the party leadership.
Tom Watson and Caroline Flint both have enough nominations to get on the deputy leadership ballot.
Explaining his decision, Mr Healey said: "I joined the contest for deputy leader to talk about the deeper thinking Labour must now do, and the big challenges we must face. I'll continue to do this as part of Labour's team as we rethink and rebuild to win in 2020.
"I really appreciate the strong support from those MPs who've nominated me. We know the mountain Labour must now climb to convince people that we're ready again to lead the country."
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A bright loft-style dance studio in a converted Glasgow factory may seem an unlikely venue for an employment scheme.
Yet it is here that social enterprise Street Step aims to kick-start young people's journey into work, training or education by raising their heart rates first.
Manager Carla Jack says many of the young people arrive with low confidence and motivation.
"Some of them have never worked - they've never even considered applying for a job," she says.
"After the eight week programme, they are speaking in front of groups, performing in front of large audiences, and they're also applying for loads of jobs."
Street Step currently runs sessions in Glasgow, London and Birmingham.
Jobs Growth Wales (JGW) used to offer 100% subsidy for firms to employ people aged between 16-24, but its website now says it is offering just half.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said market conditions had improved, adding that a new scheme for all ages was being created.
Welsh Conservatives claimed the move made "no sense".
The scheme, which is part-funded with EU money, was launched in 2012 and helps cover the cost of the national minimum wage for an employee. Further funding of £25m was agreed for JGW last year.
The change - which the JGW Facebook page suggests took effect on 1 August - follows a report in July which recommended ministers look at cutting the subsidy.
Mr Skates said: "We've seen remarkable economic improvements in Wales, so we've adjusted the programme accordingly to make sure there is still the growth in employment opportunities for young people.
"But we've also responded to market conditions which have improved since Jobs Growth Wales was first designed.
"So we have been pragmatic in our approach but what we are doing is creating… an all age employability programme that will give anybody who faces unemployment an opportunity to gain skilled employment."
A Welsh Government spokesman confirmed plans for a single support programme in place of JGW, ReAct and Traineeships "that will better meet the needs of those requiring support to gain, retain and progress within work".
Tory economy spokesman Russell George said it was "appalling" that the Welsh Government decided to cut the subsidy to firms "without having the courtesy to inform the public or elected members".
He called the move a "profound change... which will undoubtedly affect take-up", adding: "One minute the economy is in grave danger because of Brexit, now we're told a 50% cut to their flagship job creation scheme is necessary because firms are doing too well."
"It makes no sense."
Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards said: "Jobs Growth Wales has been marred by flaws from the beginning - from cancellation to a confused relaunch to questionable success rates.
"This latest development, snuck out by Labour in their usual scrutiny-shy fashion, shows their ineptitude when it comes to forming and implementing an effective programme for tackling unemployment and helping Welsh businesses grow."
The employment rate for young people in Wales, for the 12 months ending in March, is 52.1% - the highest it has been since the same period in 2009, when it was 53.8%.
A director of one firm using JGW suggested the cut might lead to second thoughts.
"That would make a big impact in whether we would take someone on or not," said Robert Jones, of RJ Plant and Construction in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.
"This is the first I have heard of it," he added.
Mr Jones said the six months funding "gives everyone a open outlook", allowing firms time to decide whether the candidate was "suitable for us or whether they want to work for your company" or for the industry in question.
Under the first JGW scheme, which ran from 2012 to April 2015, the Welsh Government said 14,989 job opportunities were filled.
A total of 1,311 jobs were filled up under the current programme, between its start in September 2015 and 10 June.
But a report for the Welsh Government published in July found the impacts of JGW were "primarily short term in nature".
The study said that 27 months after the initial application for a JGW vacancy there were "no statistically significant differences" between the employment rates of JGW participants and a matched comparison group.
It said that, given the "significant shift" in unemployment rates for young people, it "may be worth" ministers "reconsidering the level of investment needed", including reducing the subsidy offered to employees.
There have been some dire warnings about prospects for the British economy post-Brexit, but nevertheless the Welsh Government feels sufficiently confident about job-making prospects that it is halving the subsidy of its main support programme.
To be clear, there have been remarkably low rates of unemployment in Wales in recent months.
The latest figures show the rate has fallen to its lowest level in a decade, and is now consistently below the UK average.
The question is whether that job-creating ability will be affected by cutting a scheme which ministers in Cardiff Bay have turned into a central plank of economic development policy.
Jobs Growth Wales is not without its opponents. The main criticism is that public money is used to support jobs that were being created anyway.
It would appear that ministers are also now convinced that the private sector needs less support than it has in the past.
After an early Williams penalty, Telusa Veainu's break from deep eventually set up Brendon O'Connor to cross.
Semesa Rokoduguni caught George Ford's up-and-under superbly and broke free to get Bath back in the game.
Tom Youngs and Ed Slater both dotted down from mauls for Tigers and Williams slotted five penalties, with Tom Dunn's try Bath's only points after the break.
Welsh fly-half Williams was named at inside-centre but Freddie Burns dropped to the bench as he was feeling unwell and Mathew Tait came into the starting XV, while Bath's England centre Jonathan Joseph also missed out late on, with Dan Bowden replacing him.
In contrast to Williams' impressive display, England fly-half George Ford missed two kicks and threw a misplaced pass in the second half that led to a Tigers penalty.
Bath, who finished ninth last season, had started the campaign impressively under new director of rugby Todd Blackadder but they struggled to find any rhythm at Welford Road.
Richard Cockerill's Leicester have now won three of their opening four games and sit fourth - a place and a point behind the Blue, Black and Whites.
Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill: "The performance was pretty good. It was a proper Leicester performance, which is the first time in four weeks.
"We did not let Bath into the game and we never looked like losing. It was a really important game for us because it puts us right back in the mix.
"We had not played anywhere near how we would like. Today was a step in the right direction."
Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder: "I've no complaints about the result. It was a really good game, a really good test.
"It was an arm wrestle, probably what we needed. I am not going to complain about the result because we fronted up.
"It's just that our skill execution wasn't what it should have been at times. We probably tried too hard and it cost us."
Leicester: Veainu; Thompstone, Betham, Tait, Pietersen; O Williams, B Youngs; Ayerza, T Youngs (capt), Cole, Fitzgerald, Kitchener, M Williams, O'Connor, McCaffrey.
Replacements: McGuigan, Genge, Bateman, Slater, Evans, Harrison, Burns, Roberts.
Bath: T Homer; Rokoduguni,, Banahan, Bowden, Watson; Ford (capt), Fotuali'i; Catt, Batty, Thomas, Ewels, Attwood, Garvey, Ellis, Houston.
Replacements: Dunn, Obano, Lahiff, Stooke, Mercer, W Homer, Brew, Williams.
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Dame Helen led the business lobby group in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis between 2009 and 2011.
The CBI's current president Paul Drechsler said she was "a brilliant leader" who was "widely respected".
The Economist Group, of which she was chief executive from 1997-2008, said business had "no better ambassador".
Dame Helen, who was married with three children, had been battling cancer for several years.
She began her career in publishing at Faber & Faber, before moving to the Economist Group in 1985, where she became managing director in 1993 before taking the helm in 1997.
Her career also included boardroom roles at Rolls-Royce, Centrica and Northern Foods.
The number of high-profile city and business roles she had during her career meant Dame Helen was seen as a trailblazer for women in business.
She was also co-chair of the Hampton-Alexander review - a government commissioned review into increasing the number of women in senior business roles.
Announcing her death, the Economist said she was "self-effacing but a world-class networker".
It paid tribute to her leadership style, which "lacked fireworks and did not seek fame but deserved more recognition, for both its humanity and effectiveness".
The CBI's Mr Drechsler added: "People will remember Helen for being a great listener with a thoughtful sense of humour. She will be greatly missed by me and by everyone who knew her, both in the UK and beyond."
Darren Bonner, from Sunderland, died in hospital 17 days after being found in a field at Cresswell in July.
Richard Spottiswood, 33, of Canterbury Way in Jarrow, denied murder when he appeared at Newcastle Crown Court.
Lucy Burn, 29, of Burns Close in South Shields, entered no plea to a murder charge. Both were remanded into custody for another hearing on 14 November.
Mr Bonner, of Palmstead Road in Pennywell, was found in the field near Morpeth on 10 July.
Northumbria Police said he had died on 27 July.
Singer Sonu Nigam entertained his fellow passengers with some of his popular numbers on a Jet Airways Mumbai-Jodhpur flight last month.
The airlines said on Friday that the crew had been "taken off from flight duty" after an inquiry.
However, Nigam criticised the decision, saying it "lacked common sense".
"To suspend crew members for asking me to sing on the address system, when the seat-belt signs were off, and no announcements were to be made, is nothing less than punishing someone for spreading happiness," he said.
Nigam's mid-flight performance on 4 January was filmed by those on board, and subsequently went viral on social media.
This month, India's aviation watchdog - the Directorate General of Civil Aviation - told the airlines to suspend the crew members after conducting an inquiry, news reports said.
The watchdog said that crew members had been distracted by the performance, "thus reducing their preparedness/alertness", and that "the frequent movement of the dancing crew may have affected the aircraft's centre of gravity during flight and created turbulence", the Times of India reported.
Allowing the use of mobile phones in the air was also "against present regulation", the paper added.
Jet Airways said in a statement: "All cabin crew on the flight have been taken off flight duty for enquiry and corrective training to reinforce strict adherence to operating procedures."
Sonu Nigam's name began trending on Twitter in India on Friday, with many criticising the decision to suspend the crew members.
However, others supported the airline, saying the performance could have endangered the flight.
It is not the first time a mid-air performance has sparked controversy in India.
In 2014, the aviation watchdog asked another private airline to suspend two of its pilots because they had allowed the crew to dance to a Bollywood number to celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi.
Led by Matt Prior, Joe Root and Graeme Swann on the second day, they posted a decent score on a tough wicket and then their bowlers took charge.
The way James Anderson bowled was quite brilliant and I cannot think of a better England bowler in my time than the Lancashire paceman.
He is taking wickets in conditions that don't really suit him and he really is a special bowler these days.
England will have been worried about what Virender Sehwag would do on this pitch, but Anderson got him second ball and then he got one to swing back into Sachin Tendulkar.
Anderson started to get reverse swing as the ball got older and Gautam Gambhir did not know what was coming next when he edged an outswinger to Matt Prior.
I mentioned in my Test Match Special commentary that there is a bit of Malcolm Marshall about the way Anderson bowls - not in the pace he generates, but the way he seemingly has the ball on a string and can make it do whatever he wants.
He has an aura about him and I cannot place much higher praise on him. He needs to be protected now, and not be made to bowl too many overs, because he is crucial to England's bowling attack and he has a lot of work to do in the next year when the team plays 10 Ashes Tests against Australia.
"Anderson has such ability to move the ball in the air when no-one else can do, he is like gold dust. He's like Richard Hadlee, who was a wonderful swinger of the ball."
Another thing I noticed was the way Anderson made a bee-line for Kevin Pietersen after he had bowled Sehwag. There was talk of those two not getting along last summer, but I reckon Pietersen, who plays for the same IPL team as Sehwag, suggested that delivery to Anderson and the bowler executed the plan to perfection.
India have a lot to do in the match now, and that is also due to England's solid batting which continued into the second day.
Root was magnificent on his debut, a model of patience and good technique and I like the way he seemed unruffled by everything that went on around him. He celebrated a little when he reached his half-century and then knuckled down to carry on his job.
Prior played well too and Swann could not have timed his first half-century since 2009 much better. He showed that if you play positively you can score runs on this pitch.
Finally, I wonder if this will be Sachin Tendulkar's final match. His footwork was all over the place for his dismissal - he looked late and slow.
He left the field to silence and it had the feel of somebody playing in his final match. Only time will tell.
Jonathan Agnew was talking to BBC Sport's Marc Higginson.
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Wales took on Slovakia in the Euro 2016 tournament in France and won 2-1.
A Cardiff fanzone with a giant screen has been set up in the city's Bute Park while matches are also being shown in Swansea's Castle Square.
About 24,000 Welsh fans had tickets for the game in Bordeaux and about 700 left from Cardiff Airport on Saturday morning with some reporting hold-ups.
First Minister Carwyn Jones earlier wished the Welsh team good luck "after 58 years and so many near misses".
"Wales will be represented in a tournament watched by billions of football fans across the world this summer. It's incredible, unprecedented and completely deserved," he said.
"Pob lwc [good luck] boys, we're with you all the way."
And Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: "Qualification for the tournament is a remarkable achievement and the people of Wales are right behind the team.
"I am thrilled to be in Bordeaux for tonight's game against Slovakia to see Wales compete on the big stage."
Some fans flying into France on Saturday morning encountered delays.
A 30 minute hold-up at Bergerac airport meant fans had to wait until 14:30 BST for a train to Bordeaux which arrived about an hour before kick-off.
Meanwhile, supporters were also warned about a transport strike in Bordeaux which has affected some trams, although one from the city centre to the stadium was still running.
Officers from South Wales Police, who are working in the city, have been tweeting travel advice.
A family from Deeside living in Bordeaux told BBC Wales they were "excited" for the influx - as a lot of their neighbours think their native land is in England.
Patricia Davey said: "Wales as a country isn't really well known, sadly. You mention Wales and people look at you quizzically and say, 'where's that? That's England, isn't it?'
"I might come down and watch it on the big screen [in the fanzone]. You've got to cheer on Wales."
Steven Smeaton died after falling from the window of the property in Forester Street on 7 September 2016.
Mr Smeaton had spoken to officers hours earlier after they were called to the flat after reports of a disturbance.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner's (PIRC) launched an inquiry following the death.
It concluded that Mr Smeaton's death was "not attributable to any act or omission by officers".
The investigation report also determined that there was nothing to suggest to the police, either from Mr Smeaton's behaviour or actions, that he was considering taking his own life.
Police were called to the flat after neighbours reported hearing shouting and a child crying.
The report said: "After entering the property, they spoke to a man and a woman, both of whom were uncooperative and evasive.
"They stated they were not in a relationship and the person responsible for the disturbance had left the premises before the police had arrived.
"The woman also said she was happy for the man to remain in the flat and officers were content that the child, who was in bed, was not distressed and appeared to be safe and well."
After checking with their control room that Mr Smeaton was not wanted for any warrants and satisfied there was no domestic incident to investigate, the police officers left the flat.
The report said: "Hours later, the 33-year-old man was found dead in the street, having fallen or jumped from a window of the building."
The investigation concluded that police officers had responded to the initial call within the required 15 minute timescale.
It said their actions were "appropriate" to gain access to the flat and check on the welfare of the occupants.
Commissioner Kate Frame said: "Having investigated the initial report of a disturbance, the police officers found nothing to indicate the man was considering taking his own life and, from all the available evidence, there is nothing to suggest his death was attributable to an act or omission by the police officers."
A council report recommended the authority should not bid for the start or end of the event, but councillors opted to go forward with the bid.
The move could cost Wakefield up to £590,000 and only bring in £115,000, the report claims.
But council leader Peter Box said the potential benefits were "incalculable".
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Wakefield city centre hosted the start of the third day of the 2015 cycle race, with around 20,000 spectators in the city centre and a further 2,000 in the spectator hub at Manygates Park.
Thousands more lined the rest of the route through the district.
In 2016, the race passed through the Wakefield district, including Knottingley and South Elmsall, with a cost of more than £100,000.
Some of the race was not televised because of live streaming coverage problems.
The report said there was "currently no provision within existing council budgets".
Funding for the 2015 event came from the Leeds City Region and is not expected to be available in 2017.
Mr Box said the council met developers during the 2015 event who were now making "a huge investment in the district".
"I think it's the right thing to do on balance," he said. "We know we've got budget problems but the potential benefits for the district overall are ones we should grasp."
Hosting a start event costs around £250,000, with around £115,000 brought in from visitors. Hosting a finish costs around £300,000, with £25,000 recouped from visitors.
At least £340,000 more would be required for highway and street scene works, but this would come from the existing budget, the council said.
Tremmel, 38, who joined the Swans from RB Salzburg in August 2010, made 52 senior appearances for the Welsh club, but saw action last season confined to the Football League Trophy.
Emnes had two loan spells before signing a deal in 2014. He made just nine Premier League starts for Swansea.
He scored four goals in 37 games on loan at Blackburn last season.
Liam Shephard, Josh Vickers, Owain Jones, Tom Dyson and Tom Holland will also leave the club, while Alex Samuel has agreed to join Stevenage.
Youngsters Causso Darame and Mael Davies have signed new deals while striker Jordan Garrick, goalkeeper Lewis Thomas and full-back Aaron Lewis, have all been offered extensions.
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Jagdip Randhawa, 19, a student at the University of Leeds, from Hounslow, London, died in Leeds General Infirmary on Monday afternoon.
Mr Randhawa was injured in Albion Street, Leeds, on 12 October.
Clifton Mitchell, 21, from Derby, has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent and is due to appear at Leeds Crown Court on Friday.
A 23-year-old man who was also arrested remains on police bail.
In a statement Mr Randhawa's family said: "He was an ambitious, talented young man who had his whole life ahead of him."
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Stanley will guarantee a first-ever season in the third tier if they win at home to Stevenage on 7 May.
The Lancashire side remain two points clear of Bristol Rovers, who were 4-1 winners at York City.
Hughes tapped in from close range after Wycombe keeper Benjamin Siegrist tipped Josh Windass's free-kick onto the post.
Wycombe went close to taking an early lead when Aaron Pierre fired over from close range.
But the Chairboys' debutant keeper Siegrist, who is on loan from Aston Villa, kept them in the game in the early stages by denying Windass and Brad Halliday.
The "athleisure" trend led to an 81% increase in pre-tax profits last year to £238.4m.
Even the previously loss-making outdoor brands, Millets and Blacks, have made money for the first time since JD Sports acquired them.
But the company warned of possible inflationary pressures later this year.
Peter Cowgill, executive chairman said "JD's continued strength in its core markets is increasingly being complemented by momentum in our international development, with a net increase of 54 JD stores across mainland Europe during the year."
Like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of new stores opening, grew 10% over the year.
The company has 900 outlets are in the UK. The group opened 54 stores across Europe last year and opened a further two stores in Malaysia. The first JD store in Australia is due to open shortly.
"Whilst we must recognise that there are external influences which may impact the latter part of the year, notably inflationary pressures arising from Brexit, the board remains confident in the robustness of the JD proposition and believes that the group is well positioned for further profitable growth," said Mr Cowgill.
Jonathan Pritchard, retail analyst at Peel Hunt, said "Whilst the trainer trend tailwind has been off the Beaufort scale, JD has sailed it skilfully. Both sports fashion and outdoor exceeded expectations."
JD's share price rose 4.2% after the bumper results were published.
It has not all been plain sailing for the brand in 2016, however.
A Channel 4 undercover investigation in December quoted workers saying conditions at its Kingsway distribution centre in Rochdale were "worse than a prison". JD Sports denied allegations that it operated a "three strikes" policy before dismissing workers over minor misdemeanours such as being caught with a cigarette lighter or using mobile phones, and that workers were being underpaid.
"We were greatly disappointed to be the subject of allegations made in late 2016 about working practices in our Kingsway warehouse," the company said in its results statement.
"As the well-being of all staff is a key priority for the group and it is an area where we strive continually to improve performance, the Board appointed Deloitte to conduct an independent review of the allegations made.
"That review has now been completed and Deloitte's conclusion was that the allegations did not represent a balanced characterisation of working practices at Kingsway."
The full report has not been published. But JD Sports chief executive Peter Cowgill told the BBC that the report broadly bore out the firm's denial of wrongdoing.
"I think if you take a very, very small minority [of cases], then the tone sometimes could have been improved, but overall, the content of that facility which is open for all to see - we invite anybody, within reason, to visit it... people are staggered by the standards in that facility.
"We conducted an independent report, and that bears out what we said in the first place."
Mr Cowgill said that while safety-related rules over the use of mobile phones, lighters and matches in the warehouse would continue to apply, the term "strike", meaning a warning, had been eradicated.
The Lions' 10-game tour begins on 3 June with the first Test on 24 June in Auckland.
"I know there's talk at the moment of shortening a Lions tour, but that's from people who've never done it," McGeechan told 5 live's rugby podcast.
"The six-game preparation is so important to collective understanding."
The Lions opening fixture takes place just days after the squad arrives in New Zealand.
And the 10-match schedule has been described as "ludicrous" by leading figures in the English game.
But former centre McGeechan - who played on the Lions' successful 1974 tour to South Africa and the 1977 loss to New Zealand before leading four tours as head coach - believes the warm-up games are crucial to Test success.
"A player has to put on a Lions jersey and start with a number on his back in the first three games. He can't sit on the bench or not be involved," he said.
"You have to wear the number on your back and then you're a Lion. You're there in the position you were chosen for.
"There's the combinations that you need to put together but there's also that defining element of giving the player the opportunity, and you need all six games."
In 1974 the Lions travelled to South Africa looking for their first victory over the Springboks in 78 years.
A 27-year-old McGeechan was embarking on his first Lions tour, as a squad of amateurs led by Ireland's Willie John McBride left home for almost four months.
The tourists played 22 matches between 15 May and 27 July, and won all but the last game, which was a controversial draw - they used just 17 players in the four Tests.
"I always remember when we won the third Test, having won the series in South Africa, Willie John took us all straight to where the mid-weekers were sitting and applauded them."
"That's what came over in 1974, the time and effort that was put in by the 13 players who didn't play Test match rugby over four months."
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The 17-year-old student was crossing the A76, close to the junction to Sanquhar Academy, when the incident happened at 13:15 on Tuesday.
Police Scotland said a blue Vauxhall Corsa almost hit the pedestrian as it was overtaking a silver car while travelling north.
Officers want to speak to the driver of the Corsa, who did not stop.
The man at the wheel of the silver car pulled over and shouted at the girl.
Police have also appealed for witnesses to the incident and for the driver of the silver car to come forward.
Marks on Sandra Bland's neck suggested she killed herself, said Waller County prosecutor Warren Diepraam.
About 30 cuts on her left wrist were likely to have been self-inflicted some weeks before, he said.
Bland was found dead by prison staff on 13 July, three days after her arrest, but her family say she would not have killed herself.
A video of the arrest shows a police officer pulling over the 28-year-old for not signalling when changing lanes.
After issuing a ticket, a confrontation follows when Bland refuses to stub out her cigarette or get out of the car.
As the action moved off camera, she can be heard saying the police officer slammed her head to the ground.
But Mr Diepraam said there were only some lacerations and abrasions consistent with being handcuffed.
There were no "defensive injuries" usually found in a murder, he added.
Jail records show that Bland told a member of staff she had attempted suicide in the past.
But guards assessed her and determined she was not suicidal when she was booked into the county jail.
State officials and the FBI are investigating her death.
It also emerged that Bland phoned a friend from jail to say she was "at a loss" over her arrest.
In a voicemail obtained by the US TV network ABC, Bland said she could not understand why a traffic violation had led to her detention.
In the message to a friend she said: "I'm still just at a loss for words, honestly, about this whole process. How did switching lanes with no signal turn into all of this?"
The decision comes after the Central American nation requested a meeting at the Organization of American States (OAS) to discuss Venezuela's crisis.
Mr Maduro was speaking to other Latin American heads of state at events to mark the first anniversary of the death of the Venezualan leader Hugo Chavez.
At least 18 people have died in anti-government protests in the last month.
"I've decided to break political and diplomatic ties with the current government of Panama and freeze all trade and economic relations from this moment on," Mr Maduro told the presidents of Cuba, Raul Castro, Uruguay, Jose Mujica, and Bolivia, Evo Morales, among other leaders gathered around the tomb of Mr Chavez.
Panama's President Ricardo Martinelli expressed surprise at Venezuela's decision.
"Panama only hopes that this brother nation finds peace and strengthens its democracy," Mr Martinelli wrote on Twitter.
Panama's official statement said the country was "astonished" and called Mr Maduro's words "unacceptable".
"The measure announced by President Maduro should not become a smoke screen intended to hide reality," it read.
By Irene CaselliBBC News, Caracas
It has been a day of celebrations - but also protests.
On the one side of the capital, supporters of the government wore red during a military parade. They also gathered around the hilltop military headquarters where Hugo Chavez's remains lie.
The Cuartel de la Montana had a great significance for Chavez. That is where he led the 1992 coup that launched his political career.
At 16:25 local time, the whole of Caracas resounded with cannon fire and fireworks to mark the exact time of Mr Chavez's death.
On the other side of the city, protesters remained in the streets, vowing not to leave until President Nicolas Maduro resigns.
Barricades blocked several streets. As cannon fire resounded, banging of pots and pans could be heard in the eastern part of the city, an anti-government stronghold where protests have turned violent every night.
Earlier, thousands of government supporters and troops took part in a huge parade through central Caracas, commemorating the first anniversary of former President Chavez's death.
In other parts of the capital, anti-government protesters kept up their barricades, despite an appeal made by opposition leaders to "respect" the anniversary.
Last week, the government of Panama requested an urgent meeting of OAS member-states to discuss the unrest in Venezuela.
Venezuelans have long been complaining about high levels of crime, record inflation and shortages of some staple items.
But in the last three weeks marches initially started by disgruntled students in the western states of Tachira and Merida spread to other areas and gained support.
On Wednesday, the OAS said a meeting would take place the next day behind closed doors to decide whether or not to convene the region's foreign ministers over the issue.
Mr Maduro accused the Panamanian government of conspiring to bring down his government.
"There are moves by the United States government in accord with a lackey government of a right-wing president which has been creating the conditions for the OAS and other bodies to step towards an intervention in our country," Mr Maduro said.
The Venezuelan president also criticised OAS President Jose Miguel Insulza, who had suggested earlier that a group of observers could be sent to Venezuela – if its government and the opposition found it useful.
"Don't intervene in Venezuelan home affairs," was Mr Maduro's message to Mr Insulza.
The FTSE 100 ended down 97.25 points at 6,693 - a six week low - amid wider market jitters about the election.
Pharmaceutical companies fell. Hikma Pharmaceuticals' shares lost 6.8%.
US lawmakers have called for an investigation into whether companies colluded to set prices for insulin and other diabetes drugs.
Fresnillo, the precious metals miners, was also among the biggest fallers in the blue chip index, ending down 4.5% following a drop in metal prices,
Stock markets in France and Germany also closed in negative territory after polls showed that the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appeared to be closing the gap with Democrat Hillary Clinton.
The bookmaker Paddy Power finished as the biggest gainer in the FTSE 100, up 4.1%, after substantially raising its profit guidance for 2016.
The domestically-focused FTSE 250 index closed down 1.7% as traders digested uncertainty ahead after the High Court ruled that the Government must secure a parliamentary vote to trigger Article 50 and begin the process of Britain leaving the European Union.
Korea raced to a 2-0 lead despite the efforts of GB goaltender Nicole Jackson, who made 35 saves in total.
Leanne Ganney scored her second goal of the tournament for GB before Kim Heewon ensured victory for the hosts.
Great Britain, who face North Korea on Wednesday, lost their opening match against the Netherlands on Sunday.
"It was a very good performance from the girls and we have got a lot to be proud of," GB head coach Cheryl Smith said.
Britain also play Slovenia and Australia in the group stage in Gangneung.
Mr Farron, along with his leadership rival Norman Lamb, was one of only eight MPs left standing after May's election, which saw the party's dreams of remaining in government dashed and its presence in the Commons dramatically diminished.
In the wake of Nick Clegg's resignation, the 45-year old father of four and MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale was immediately installed as the bookies' favourite to succeed him.
The fact that he did not serve alongside the Conservatives in the coalition government and could present himself as a "clean skin" was always likely to appeal to members still trying to come to terms with one of the worst setbacks in the party's history.
Mr Farron maintains that he "did not make the cut" when Mr Clegg dished out ministerial positions in 2010. Instead, he became party president, positioning himself as a critical friend of the coalition and building up his power base within the party.
Although he endorsed the government's austerity measures, including controversial spending cuts and benefit restrictions, he frequently took aim at his coalition partners, describing them at one point as "toxic".
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Crucially, he voted against plans to raise the cap on university tuition fees to £9,000 in January 2011, a U-turn which became a defining moment for the Lib Dems and one from which they struggled to recover.
Mr Farron is popular with activists for his tub-thumping party conference speeches and easy-going manner, but he has not always been regarded with similar affection by party elders.
After suggesting the Lib Dems deserved only two out of 10 for its performance in government, he was rebuked by, among others, former leader Lord Ashdown, while former deputy leader Vince Cable very publicly questioned his judgement.
Mr Farron always insisted he had been referring to the party's handling of coalition relations and the wider politics involved rather than its achievements in power but it was taken by some as evidence of disloyalty and future ambition.
After joining the Liberal Party at the age of 16, Mr Farron - who was born and educated in Lancashire - was active in student politics at Newcastle University, becoming the first Lib Dem to head the university's Union Society.
After graduating with a politics degree in 1992 - a year in which he also stood for Parliament - he worked in higher education for Lancaster University and St Martin's College in Ambleside for over a decade before entering Parliament in 2005 at the fourth attempt.
He has put his experience of grassroots, pavement politics - learnt from years serving on Lancashire County Council, South Ribble Borough Council and South Lakeland District Council - to good effect, building the parliamentary majority in his Cumbrian seat from less than 300 in 2005 to nearly 9,000 in the 2015 general election.
A keen Blackburn Rovers supporter, Mr Farron was a once a goalkeeper in a local team. His other passions include music.
In an interview with the BBC in 2008, he named his three heroes as former Clash singer Joe Strummer, former Liberal leader Jo Grimond and the novelist, academic, and theologian CS Lewis, best known as the author of the Chronicles of Narnia but also a prolific writer of meditations on Christianity.
During the two month leadership campaign, Mr Farron has spoken openly about his faith, telling the Guardian that he had sought advice from God before deciding whether to put his name forward.
He has insisted there is no dichotomy between his political and spiritual beliefs, a position he was forced to address after it emerged that some members of Mr Lamb's campaign had conducted private polling of party members about issues related to Mr Farron's faith.
Speaking on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show last month, he said the row went to the heart of the often unspoken issue of whether it is "compatible for anybody to lead a Liberal Party and be a Christian".
Mr Farron, who was baptised at 21 and rededicated himself to God at 30, accepts some in his party regard his faith as a weakness, wryly observing that "in the US, everyone has to invent a faith to get elected" but in the UK "you're not allowed to have one".
He has taken flak for abstaining in a Commons vote on same-sex marriage last year, although he supported the landmark bill legalising gay marriage at all its crucial stages, and for recently describing a woman's decision to terminate a pregnancy as a "tragedy", although again he has clearly supported the right to choose and the current abortion law as it stands.
Before winning the leadership election - with 56% of votes cast - Mr Farron vowed to reconnect the leadership with party members and champion stances that have become unfashionable elsewhere in Westminster, such as stressing the benefits of immigration and membership of the European Union.
The party may have a mountain to climb if it is ever to get back to power but Mr Farron has signalled that he will not be content with wallowing in opposition, saying that "if you want to change the world, then you have to come first".
The woman, who asked not to be named, told the BBC Zohra Dawood "didn't like the UK" and thought England was becoming "more like America".
Ms Dawood and her sisters Khadija and Sugra, all from Bradford, went missing along with their nine children.
Earlier an Islamic State (IS) smuggler said they had now reached Syria.
Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking at a security conference in Slovakia, warned of the dangers posed by those who "quietly condone" Islamic State militants' extremist ideology.
The friend of Zohra Dawood, who wanted to remain anonymous because she said she feared for her life, said the mother told her: "I don't want my children living in this society."
The friend added: "She says she wants to live in Saudi Arabia because she didn't like the UK."
Asked if she challenged Zohra over her views, the friend said: "No because by then Zohra completely ignored us. She didn't talk to anyone. I don't know what she was thinking."
The friend also appealed for the return of the children.
"Why has she taken them into a war zone? They were perfectly happy children. We're all worried for the children," she said.
The women's brother is understood to be fighting with extremists in Syria. When asked who convinced Zohra to go to Syria, the friend said: "I think her brother - and she convinced her sisters to do the same to help their brother out."
The friend also said she was "shocked" to hear Sugra's son Ibrahim Iqbal, 14, say: "I'm going to Syria to fight."
The sisters and their children went missing after travelling to Saudi Arabia for a religious pilgrimage on 28 May.
Instead of flying home as their families expected, the group went missing and apparently flew to Turkey.
On Tuesday, two of their husbands made an emotional appeal for them to return.
But the IS smuggler told BBC Middle East correspondent Paul Wood they then split into two groups to cross the border into Syria.
He said the first group went early on Wednesday and the second on Thursday.
The information fits with the news that Zohra sent a message to her family that she was inside Syria - but did not say exactly where.
It is believed the group missed a previous flight to Saudi Arabia in March after being questioned by security officials.
The North East Counter Terrorism Unit said it was "continuing to make extensive enquiries" in order to try to bring the women and children home.
Prayers were said for the family at their local mosque in Bradford on Friday.
In his speech earlier, Mr Cameron highlighted the role families and communities can play in countering radicalisation.
He said there were some members of the Muslim community who "don't go as far as advocating violence" but who "buy into some of these prejudices" of Islamist extremist ideology.
Mr Cameron said this "paves the way for young people to turn simmering prejudice into murderous intent".
Every armed group in Syria has its own network of smugglers - and the so-called Islamic State is no different.
They move people - and sometimes cash and weapons - across the border for profit and for the cause.
Like all smugglers, IS uses a network of safe houses along the border, though the area of border open to them has been shrinking as they lose territory to a Kurdish military advance, backed by US airstrikes.
The Turkish security forces occasionally shoot, and kill, people crossing the border illegally, but most crossings are uneventful with many smugglers coming to "an arrangement" with the Turkish border guards.
Once inside Islamic State territory, however, the women and their children will not be allowed to leave.
I spoke to an activist who runs a secret network trying to get disenchanted jihadis out of the so-called caliphate.
He told me some 400 had been killed trying to leave - and that 200 women were under house arrest.
The Leicester man led China's Liang 2-0, 3-2 and 5-3 but lost three frames in a row to miss out the quarter-finals.
"He is the most boring player I have played this season," Ford told BBC Sport. "He was so slow.
"Every time he got to the table he took so long. When I did come back I felt I had not been there for half an hour."
Ford, who beat Scott Donaldson, former world champion Mark Williams and Shangai Masters champion Kyren Wilson to move into the last 16, eased into a 2-0 lead and seemed well on top.
But Liang suddenly found his form, scoring a superb 122 in frame three and a 67 in the fourth frame to go in level at the mid-session break.
Ford responded with breaks of 86, 58 and 92 to take three of the next four frames and lead 5-3.
"I didn't really get too many chances for 5-3," Ford added. "I got a chance at 5-4, a difficult black which I rattled, and I didn't really get a chance in the last frame.
"I played well but am just disappointed with the way I went out. If I had got played off the table then fair enough, but to get bored off the table is something different.
"I don't like slow play. I actually heard a few people behind me saying they were bored."
It is forecasting a 48% rise in profits in the January-to-March period, thanks to strong memory chip sales.
That would be its best quarterly profit in almost four years and shows a recovery from the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco.
The estimates are not too shabby given the corruption allegations and the embarrassment of exploding phones.
The forecast $8.8bn (£7bn) profits don't include what the company is hoping to make from its new phone, the new and improved Galaxy 8, which hits the shelves later this month.
Analysts are saying Samsung's second quarter results should even be better than the first quarter, because of the hype surrounding the Galaxy 8 and the artificial intelligence technology, called Bixby, embedded in it.
Samsung's share price has also been performing well, climbing steadily over the last few months despite all the drama the company has been facing at home.
In fact, on the whole South Korea's stock market has been doing pretty well, with foreign funds pumping in $3bn.
After the recent political crisis - which saw the president removed from office and facing possible a corruption trial herself - there are hopes that whoever replaces her will push for real reform in the biggest conglomerates, known as chaebols.
But how realistic are those reforms in a country where the top 10 chaebols own more than a quarter of all business assets?
Samsung's sales alone make up a fifth of South Korea's GDP, and for many young Korean graduates getting a job in a chaebol is the most desirable outcome after years of toiling through a rigorous education system.
In the run-up to the presidential elections in May, candidates have made chaebol reform a major pillar of their campaign promises.
But unpicking the complex and powerful hold these family-run firms have over the South Korean economy will take more than just rhetoric.
The Objective Revision Evaluation Service software has been trained by Wikipedia editors to recognise the quality of an edit based on the language and context of the change.
There are about half a million changes to Wikipedia articles every day.
Editors and ordinary users will now be able to quickly check how likely it is a proposed alteration is "damaging".
"This allows editors to triage them from the torrent of new edits and review them with increased scrutiny," the Wikimedia Foundation said in a blog.
Other projects to engage artificial intelligence (AI) in the task of evaluating Wikipedia edits have not always been well received.
Some, for instance, have automatically downgraded the input of new editors, which has been seen as problematic for well-intentioned newcomers.
ORES aims to get around this by judging purely the content of an alteration.
"The thing to note is it doesn't judge whether the facts that people are adding are actually true, because fact-checking is immensely difficult, it's looking at the quality," said Dr John Carroll, a computational linguist at the University of Sussex.
"It should help a great deal with Wikipedia," he added.
Dr Carroll own start-up, iLexir, provides software to automatically check the quality of written English in essays by foreign language students.
The Bundesliga match against Borussia Dortmund was delayed for around eight minutes and only started again after Schmidt left his technical area.
Schmidt claimed Dortmund's goal, scored by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, should not have stood.
"I was too stubborn and reacted emotionally," said Schmidt afterwards.
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The 48-year-old claimed a free-kick leading to the goal was not taken from the right place.
German referee Zwayer asked Leverkusen's acting captain Stefan Kiessling, who had conceded the foul that led to the goal, to tell his coach to leave the dug-out.
When nothing happened, Zwayer led the teams off the pitch and into the dressing rooms.
"It was certainly a mistake on my part," added Schmidt.
"However, I wish the referee had explained to me just once why I had to go to the stands."
It was the first time a Bundesliga match had been suspended in such circumstances, with Schmidt going on to watch the remainder of the game from his team's dressing room.
The result moved Dortmund to within eight points of Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich following Bayern's 3-1 win over Darmstadt on Saturday.
The top two teams meet in Dortmund on 5 March.
Leverkusen missed the chance to go third in the table as their six-match unbeaten league run came to an end.
In a game of few chances, the controversial moment came after 64 minutes when Kiessling fouled Sven Bender.
Matthias Ginter took a quick free-kick which released Erik Durm to break clear and cross for Aubameyang to side-foot in his 28th goal of the season.
Bayer Leverkusen coach Roger Schmidt: "We went behind to an irregular goal. I pointed it out to the fourth official.
Borussia Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel: "I can empathize with Roger, but better he took that position than I did.
"Emotions can sometimes boil over, but on this occasion it was a little too much."
The State Department has released satellite images of the facility which it said was used to hide evidence.
Rights groups say thousands of inmates have been tortured and hanged at the military prison outside of Damascus.
Syria has not responded to the latest claims but it has in the past strongly denied any abuse at the jail.
In February, Amnesty International said that mass hangings had taken place every week at the jail between 2011 and 2015.
The government at that time dismissed Amnesty's claims as "baseless" and "devoid of truth", pointing out that all executions in Syria followed due process.
More allegations of abuse at Saydnaya resurfaced on Monday.
"Credible sources have believed that many of the bodies have been disposed in mass graves," Acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Stuart Jones told reporters.
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"We now believe that the Syrian regime has installed a crematorium in the Saydnaya prison complex which could dispose of detainees' remains with little evidence," he said.
Evidence of the crematorium hiding or disguising mass murders at the prison will be presented to the international community, Mr Jones said.
He said that newly de-classified documentation "underscore the depths to which the Syrian regime has gone, with the continuing support of its allies, Russia and Iran".
"The facts we're presenting today are based on reporting from international and local non-governmental organisations, press reporting and also intelligence community assessments."
Mr Jones said the Syrian government had modified a building within the Saydnaya complex "to support" the suspected crematorium.
"Although the regime's many atrocities are well documented, we believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place in Saydnaya prison," he said.
According to Amnesty's report in February, which was based on the testimony of witnesses, it was estimated that between 5,000 and 13,000 people were executed at Saydnaya over five years. Scores more suffered systematic torture, it said.
Every week and often twice a week, groups of between 20 and 50 people, mostly opposition supporters, were executed in total secrecy at the Saydnaya facility near Damascus, the rights organisation said.
The report said that executions had been authorised at the highest levels of government and that tens of thousands of people have been imprisoned during Syria's six-year-old civil war.
Amnesty said such practices amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Poultry and captive birds must be housed indoors until 28 February but can be let outside after that providing "enhanced biosecurity" is put in place.
The Avian Influenza Prevention Zone was declared in December.
It followed an outbreak of bird flu among turkeys at a farm in Lincolnshire.
More than 5,000 birds at the farm in Louth were diagnosed with the H5N8 strain of avian flu.
The disease has also caused the deaths of wild birds and poultry in 14 European countries.
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing said the prevention zone, which is designed to minimise the risk of infection from wild birds, would continue to apply to the whole of Scotland, with no targeting of specific areas.
The minister said all keepers must keep their birds indoors until 28 February, or take "appropriate practical steps" to keep them separate from wild birds.
After that, the birds can be let out doors provided certain measures are put in place. These include:
There have been no known cases of bird flu in domestic poultry or captive birds in Scotland, but several have been confirmed in England and Wales.
A UK-wide ban on poultry shows and gatherings remains in force.
Mr Ewing said: "We continue to see daily reports of avian flu across Europe, including eight confirmed cases in domestic birds in England and Wales, with Northern Ireland recently confirming their first finding in a wild bird, too.
"We do not expect the risk of H5N8 to reduce any time soon, which is why we are extending the prevention zone until the end of April."
Mr Ewing also said the Scottish government would work to minimise the economic impact of the prevention zone on Scotland's free range poultry industry.
Scotland's chief veterinary officer Sheila Voas said: "The risk level from highly pathogenic avian influenza remains at 'high' for wild birds, and 'low to medium' for domestic birds.
"It is essential that keepers continue to ensure that their birds are protected from infection by practicing the highest levels of biosecurity."
She added: "Expert advice remains that consumers should not be concerned about eating eggs or poultry and the threat to public health from the virus is very low."
There were 56,725 birth registered last year, up 711 (or 1.3%) on 2013.
The number of deaths registered (54,239) was the fourth lowest number in 150 years. Only 2009, 2010 and 2011 had fewer deaths.
29,070
41,174 Marriages 1974
Marriage levels are still historically low but the number rose by 1,500 in 2014.
Of a total of 29,070 marriages registered, 367 involved same-sex couples following the introduction of same-sex marriage on 16 December.
Most of the same-sex marriages were conversions of civil partnerships as the law allowing new same-sex marriages only came in on the last day of 2014.
Same-sex marriages were fairly evenly split between male and female - 173 and 194.
50.8%
Born to unmarried parents
8.1% Born to unmarried parents in 1971
There were 863 pairs of twins and 11 sets of triplets born in Scotland last year.
The figures show that the rate for stillbirths was the lowest ever recorded in Scotland at 4 per 1,000.
The infant mortality rate (3.6 per 1,000 live births) has increased slightly compared to 2013. However, long-term annual trends show that the infant mortality rate has decreased by two-thirds over the past 30 years. In 1984 it was 10.3 per 1,000 births.
Cancer (15,803) and disease of the circulatory systems such as heart disease and stroke (15,020) were by far the biggest causes of death.
15,803
down 0.3%
4,101 Lung, trachea and bronchus
1,027 Lymphoid
976 Breast
901 Prostate
6,842
Coronary heart disease (-5.9%)
4,125 Stroke (-7.2%)
The figures showed that 1,634 died in accidents. This included 223 in transport accidents, 716 in falls and 483 who were killed by poisoning.
Martin is currently preparing for a major mountain event in North America, which will clash with the TT.
The Lincolnshire man, 34, will complete in the Tour Divide event which is regarded as being one of the world's toughest mountain biking events.
Eleven-time TT winner Ian Hutchinson will compete for Martin's Tyco BMW team at the North West 200 and the TT.
Hutchinson earned three victories at last year's Isle of Man event.
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Martin has no plans to road race prior to his Tour Divide attempt and the Tyco BMW team is not actively looking to replace the Lincolnshire rider at the North West or TT meetings.
"I'm not done with motorbikes and if I race on the roads again this year it will be with the TAS (Tyco BMW) team," said Martin, who is also a successful TV presenter.
Martin sustained five broken vertebrae, a broken sternum and several fractured ribs in a huge crash while leading the Dundrod 150 Superbike race in August.
He recovered quickly from his injuries, signing himself out of hospital just a few days later, following surgery.
Martin, who has achieved 14 Ulster Grand Prix victories, caused controversy at last year's North West 200 by strongly criticising the event's 8.9-mile course, saying he was "bored to the back teeth of riding through chicanes".
The rider's outburst, for which he later publicly apologised to race director Mervyn Whyte, led many to believe that he had raced at the 'Triangle' circuit for the final time.
Clashes erupted between protesters and police in Kadikoy Square, in an echo of protests in the city earlier this year.
In a northern town Mr Erdogan denounced people he said were setting anti-Turkish "traps" to undermine his rule.
The sons of two cabinet ministers have been charged in a big corruption probe.
The investigation has led to charges against 24 people so far. They are suspected of involvement in bribery, in connection with urban development projects and the allocation of construction permits.
Baris Guler, the son of Interior Minister Muammer Guler, and Kaan Caglayan, son of Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan, are among those detained, as is the chief executive of the state-owned Halkbank, Suleyman Aslan.
In Twitter comments on Sunday the two sons denied the accusations.
Commentators in Turkey report that the arrests and firings reflect a feud within Turkey's ruling AK Party between those who back Mr Erdogan and supporters of Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic scholar living in exile in the US.
In Istanbul protesters chanted "everywhere is bribery, everywhere is corruption". It was an echo of the Taksim Square mass protest this summer, when opposition activists chanted "everywhere is Taksim, everywhere is resistance".
Police on Sunday used tear gas and water cannon to disperse them in streets where protesters had set fire to makeshift barricades.
In the Black Sea town of Giresun, Mr Erdogan told a crowd of supporters that his Islamist-rooted AK was facing a "dark plot" by forces outside Turkey who wanted to split the country apart.
"Let our friends and foes know this. Whoever dares to harm, stir up or set traps in this country, whoever tries to touch our independence, we will come to break those hands," he said.
In the summer police fought running battles with anti-AK protesters over plans to develop Gezi Park, in the heart of Istanbul.
The controversial arrests in the anti-corruption crackdown began last week when police launched dawn raids in Istanbul and Ankara.
Mr Erdogan reacted angrily and on Thursday the head of Istanbul's police was forced from his position. More than 30 senior police officers have reportedly been sacked.
Members of Mr Gulen's Hizmet movement are said to hold influential positions in institutions such as the police, the judiciary and the AK Party itself.
Mr Erdogan's defiant message drew criticism from Turkish press commentators on Monday.
Semih Idiz in the leftist Taraf said that "as in the Gezi incidents, Erdogan thinks he can get out of this scandal by linking the issue to a conspiracy organised by internal and external powers".
Asli Aydintasbas in Milliyet wrote that "Tayyip Erdogan will probably win the fight that he has got into against the Gulen Movement by using the sanction power of the state - but then the regime that is built will be a 'Tayyip Erdogan regime' and not a democracy".
Ali H Aslan in the moderate Zaman said "Erdogan likes to take the credit when things go well and accuse his friends, partners or unrelated parties when things go badly...
"These excessive internal and external enemy fantasies, which could drag Turkey into dangerous situations and ruin the country's stability, should be abandoned."
Oskar Groening spoke at the beginning of his trial for being an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 Jews at the concentration camp.
He described his role of counting money confiscated from new arrivals and said he witnessed mass killings, but denied any direct role in the genocide.
If found guilty he could face three to 15 years in prison.
Addressing the judges, Mr Groening also said: "I ask for forgiveness. I share morally in the guilt but whether I am guilty under criminal law, you will have to decide.''
This is expected to be one of the final trials for Nazi war crimes.
Oskar Groening looked frail as he entered the courtroom leaning on a walking frame. But his voice was strong and steady as he spoke for nearly an hour.
Four survivors from the notorious death camp faced him across the room. Much of his testimony described his attempts to achieve his ambition of being an SS "executive", to work as a bookkeeper for the Nazis.
But there were haunting moments too; for a little while we saw the horrors of Auschwitz through his eyes.
The survivors watched him impassively but their younger relatives shook their heads in disbelief as he recounted his arrival at the camp as a young SS guard. He'd been plied with vodka by officers there, he said.
He even described the vodka bottles. As they drank the officers told him that the camp was for deported Jews. That those Jewish prisoners would be killed and disposed of.
Later, he pulled out a water bottle: "I'll drink from it like I drank from those vodka bottles in Auschwitz."
The nonagenarian has achieved notoriety as one of the few Germans to speak out about their role in the genocide, a decision he say he took to stop Holocaust deniers.
"I saw the gas chambers. I saw the crematoria," he told the BBC in the 2005 documentary Auschwitz: the Nazis and the "Final Solution".
"I was on the ramp when the selections [for the gas chambers] took place."
Profile: Oskar Groening, 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz'
Mr Groening, who began work at Auschwitz aged 21, has always maintained that his role as a guard was not a crime.
"If you can describe that as guilt, then I am guilty, but not voluntarily. Legally speaking, I am innocent," he told Der Spiegel in 2005.
Mr Groening served at Auschwitz between May and June 1944, when some 425,000 Jews from Hungary were brought there and at least 300,000 almost immediately gassed to death.
Charges brought against him in the 1980s were dropped because of a lack of evidence of his personal involvement.
However, following a recent ruling, prosecutors believe a conviction may be possible simply because he worked at the camp.
"What I hope to hear is that aiding in the killing machinery is going to be considered as a crime," Auschwitz survivor Hedy Bohm told Reuters news agency. "So then no one in the future can do what he did and claim innocence."
The woman collided with a car at 08:50 GMT on Broad Street, Teddington. Ambulances were sent but both were diverted to other incidents.
Lib Dem London Assembly Member Stephen Knight said he was "horrified".
London Ambulance Service (LAS) said it was "sorry" but had remained in contact with the patient until paramedics arrived at 10:27.
Writing about the incident, Mr Knight tweeted: "Horrified that a cyclist was left in the middle of the road in central Teddington this morning for over an hour before the ambulance arrived."
LAS said it had "remained in contact with the patient throughout who had lower back pain but was not in a serious condition" and it knew she was "conscious, breathing and alert".
The woman was taken to West Middlesex Hospital where her condition was described as "stable".
LAS added: "We are very sorry we couldn't be there sooner and for any distress or discomfort this may have caused but we have to prioritise patients in a serious or life-threatening condition."
The ambush took place on Thursday night at the start of celebrations marking the end of Ramadan.
Armed groups were active in the region, Ain Defla, in the 1990s.
Correspondents say although Algeria is now much more stable, gunmen with links to al-Qaeda and Islamic State operate in parts of the country, mostly in remote mountain areas.
Thursday night's attack took place in a forest in Ain Defla, 240km (150 miles) from Algiers, a police commander told Associated Press - speaking on condition of anonymity as an official statement has not yet been released.
The attack was also reported by a security source and the local media, although they gave few other details.
The minute the legendary Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was returned to his throne at the club, Celtic entered - what they thought was a relatively welcoming European double-header against the deposed and supposedly struggling Norwegian champions - with trepidation.
Molde had been left peering through the dust as Rosenborg roared into the distance to reclaim the Tippeligaen for the first time in five years.
The attitude in Trondheim is that Molde had finally been put in their place after some recent glory years with chants of "we hate Molde" reportedly heard from a Rosenborg reception to celebrate their triumph.
This has not sat well with the upstarts of Romsdal county, who have dominated the Norwegian top flight since Solskjaer's first spell in charge of a club where his legendary status is secure.
However, the 42-year-old's retaking of the reins - albeit caretaker Erling Moe continues to pick the team - has dovetailed with their extraordinary opening to Europa League Group A.
And, as Celtic found out less than a fortnight ago, Molde have left their best form until the end of the campaign as they prepare for the quick-fire return in Glasgow on Thursday.
Despite their more than disenchanting attempt at winning a fourth title in five years, Solskjaer's side has every chance of a successful late-season salvage mission.
They have only one league match remaining, this weekend at Start, with a win required to stand a chance of qualifying for European football next term.
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Even then, sixth-placed Molde need favours from others.
Firstly, slip-ups by one of Celtic manager Ronny Deila's old teams - Odd Grenlund and Viking Stavanger - are needed if they are to finish in fourth place.
If that long-shot can be attained, they will have to grit their teeth and roar on the new champions, Rosenborg, in the Norwegian Cup final against Sarpsborg later in the month.
In the eyes of many, on paper at least, these two Europa League fixtures would be the ones that would propel Celtic into the last 32.
Now it is Molde who stand on the brink of history and a European knock-out berth for the first time in their history.
Star defender Vegard Forren - who volleyed the second in the 3-1 win on match-day three - has targeted another points plundering at Parkhead in the wake of an unbeaten start to the group.
"We travel here with good confidence in the team," Forren told BBC Scotland.
"Celtic at home will always be favourites, so it's going to be a tough game, but hopefully we can come here and make it difficult for them.
"I think the pressure is on them, so hopefully we can use that to our advantage.
"We have confidence that we can come here and get three points."
To many in Norway, the fact that Forren still plies his trade in his homeland is a mystery, something that was exemplified by a classy performance against the Scottish champions.
The 27-year-old has bounced back from a short-lived spell at Southampton and is likely to play an integral part in Norway's Euro 2016 play-off games against Hungary.
Should they pull off an unlikely double over Deila's men, any points spilled by Ajax against Fenerbache in Amsterdam would propel the bottom seeds through with two games to spare.
Forren is expecting a different animal to the one that surrendered in the howling wind and rain in north-west Norway with Kris Commons' spat with Celtic assistant John Collins dominating the post-match headlines.
"I think we maybe surprised them a little at home and they, of course, will want to revenge the loss," the centre-back added.
"It's a completely different game, it's going to be tough."
Asked if Molde would be happy with a draw, Forren added: "Yeah, of course, but we're optimistic and hope for three points.
"But one point for us is good because Celtic need three."
How Deila will hope to avoid that agony as his countrymen aim to provide what some would see as a fatal blow to his long-term Celtic career.
The 23-year-old made five appearances for the Dunedin-based franchise.
Director of rugby David Humphreys said: "Joe is a talented young player who is learning the game.
"Joe is English qualified which is important and is looking forward to testing himself in our environment, developing as a player and helping Gloucester move forward."
Gloucester have made an indifferent start to the new season, lying ninth in the Premiership table with two wins and two losses from their four matches.
Shrimpers academy graduate Payne, 21, scored 17 goals in 88 games for the club, having made his professional debut in August 2013.
The League One side will be owed a compensation fee.
"In my opinion he is probably one of the most interesting young British midfielders in the country," Terriers head coach David Wagner said.
"Jack is already excellent technically and has a great record of scoring goals, but at just 21 he has lots of room to develop further.
"His desire to improve was very clear from our very first meeting and he will do that with us in the Championship."
Huddersfield finished 19th in the Championship table last season, 11 points clear of the relegation zone.
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It was the second top-of-the scale EF-5 twister in the area in 11 days, the National Weather Service said.
Last Friday's storm in El Reno, along with flooding, killed 18 people, including three storm chasers.
The other EF-5 tornado hit the nearby city of Moore on 20 May, killing 24 people and wreaking widespread damage.
Friday's massive twister avoided highly populated areas near the Oklahoma state capital, sparing lives.
"If it was two more miles this way, it would have wiped out all of downtown, almost every one of our subdivisions and almost all of our businesses," El Reno Mayor Matt White said.
William Hooke, of the American Meteorological Society, says it is only "a matter of time" before such a tornado hits a major urban centre.
"You lay that path over Oklahoma City, and you have devastation of biblical proportions," Mr Hooke told the Associated Press news agency.
Matt and Kerry Thomas, of Drayton Road in Norwich, were fined £120 by Norfolk County Council following a week-long trip to Majorca last summer.
The pair were found guilty by magistrates in Norwich of failing to ensure regular school attendance.
They were given a nine-month conditional discharge and told to pay £20 each in victim surcharge.
The court did not fine the couple or demand they pay the costs of the case, which related to their two children aged 14 and 11 years old.
In reaching their verdict, the magistrates said they were mindful this was the only holiday the parents had ever taken with their children.
Speaking outside court Mr Thomas said: "Parents should not be punished for taking their kids on holiday, especially if it is a once in a lifetime thing.
"If there is going to be a holiday tax they should call it a holiday tax."
The couple said their £1,800 holiday would have cost more than £3,000 during school holiday time.
Speaking previously to the BBC, Norfolk County Council said: "It is head teachers themselves who decide whether or not to take action about absences in their schools.
"They can choose whether or not to follow the local authority guidance."
Yn ôl Drug Aid Cymru, mae hynny oherwydd cryfder y cyffur a nifer y defnyddwyr sydd ddim yn wybodus i wasanaethau.
Dangosodd ffigyrau diweddar bod nifer y marwolaethau yn ymwneud â chyffuriau wedi cynyddu yn 2015, ar ôl gostwng am bum mlynedd.
Dywedodd Llywodraeth Cymru y bydden nhw'n ystyried yr opsiynau a'i fod yn "flaenoriaeth" gweld y ffigyrau'n gostwng unwaith eto.
"Mae marwolaethau yn debygol o gynyddu achos mae lot mwy o heroin o gwmpas, mae purdeb yr heroin wedi bod yn gryfach ac mae llawer mwy o bobl sydd ddim yn wybodus i wasanaethau," meddai Ifor Glyn, cyfarwyddwr rhanbarthol Drug aid Cymru.
"Doedden ni methu mynd i'r afael â nhw. Mae'n rhywbeth sydd yn rhaid i asiantaethau fel ni ar draws Cymru ddelio ag o."
Un ffordd o daclo'r broblem fyddai cael defnyddwyr i rannu gwybodaeth am eraill, meddai, neu sefydlu 'stafelloedd ble byddai modd i bobl gymryd eu cyffur yn saff.
Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn gwario £50miliwn y flwyddyn ar wasanaethau cyffuriau, ac fe ddywedodd llefarydd eu bod yn gwneud "popeth y gallwn ni i gyrraedd yr unigolion hynny sydd ddim ar hyn o bryd mewn cysylltiad â gwasanaethau camddefnyddio sylweddau".
Firefighters rescued Jac Davies from his home in Alltwen, near Pontardawe during the early hours of Wednesday, but he died at the scene.
His three-year-old brother was also rescued along with his sister, six, an 11-month-old brother and their mother.
Police and fire investigation officers spent the day going through the house.
10 February 2016 Last updated at 23:17 GMT
As reported in the Eastern Daily Press, Brett Day, from Beccles, has seen videos of his spray paint art on wheelie bins shared millions of times online.
People have begun to affectionately call him "Binsy" in homage to street artist Banksy.
Quitting his old job for good, he now hopes to make a full-time living out of his bin art.
"I looked in the garden when I was putting them out and I realised that they looked horrible, and I thought, 'why not try and make them a bit more pretty'," he said.
Many areas in England and Wales reached at least 20C, the Met Office said.
The East Midlands and parts of East Anglia were among the sunniest areas, while Scotland and Northern Ireland have been cooler at 16C and 15C.
Forecasters said temperatures would return to spring levels by Monday - dropping by as much as 10 degrees.
In Somerset, firefighters said they used bolt croppers and cutters to free a woman whose leg was trapped in a sunlounger.
She was also given oxygen and an ambulance was called.
In Leicestershire, a country park suffered a "devastating" fire - which may have been caused by a barbecue or a discarded cigarette butt.
Forecasters warned people not to get caught out by the sun, which can be as strong in April as in August and September.
Temperatures are forecast to cool on Monday, however.
BBC Weather presenter Tomasz Schafernaker said: "Over the next 24 hours those areas that were warmest today will experience at least a 10 degree drop.
"Today warm air was wafting in from France; tomorrow cooler air will be streaming in from the north Atlantic."
In an all-top-flight last-eight draw, 2015 winners Chelsea were handed a home tie against Sunderland, while league champions Manchester City face a trip to newly-promoted Bristol City.
Meanwhile, Liverpool will host 2015 finalists Notts County.
The ties will be played on Sunday, one week on from the fifth round, in which Arsenal beat Tottenham 10-0.
All of the last-16 ties resulted in home wins, with World Player of the Year Carli Lloyd making her Man City debut in their 1-0 victory over fellow-Women's Super League One club Reading on Saturday.
Arsenal's convincing win over third-tier Tottenham on Sunday was one of three local derbies, with Birmingham overcoming West Brom 2-0 and Liverpool seeing off Everton 2-1.
Notts County beat Yeovil Town 3-2 to reach the last eight, while Sunderland beat second-tier Aston Villa.
Chelsea knocked out six-time winners Doncaster Rovers Belles 7-0 and Bristol City eliminated Millwall Lionesses 5-0.
Winning clubs will receive £4,000 each in prize money for a victory in the quarter-finals, have earned £3,000 for progressing from the last 16.
This year's final will be held at Wembley on Saturday, 13 May.
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The 20-year-old England C midfielder joined the Cod Army on a two-year contract as a free agent this week.
Fylde say Charles signed a two-year deal with them in September 2015, but the Football Association have no record of the contract being processed.
The former Blackpool trainee was therefore free to move to any club.
"It really sticks in the back of your throat when you're suddenly informed that Fleetwood have signed him," chairman David Haythornthwaite told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"I spoke to [chief executive] Steve Curwood and [chairman] Andy Pilley and told them what I thought of the situation and it was pretty poor on their behalf to do what they have done.
"The best player doesn't suddenly become available for no reason and obviously the agent had told them about the situation and they have taken the decision."
Despite their frustration at Charles moving to another club, Haythornthwaite conceded they could have checked before this situation arose.
"Our secretary sent off the paperwork in good faith - he sent all the paperwork for the past four or five years and it's always got there - and in this case it hasn't," he added.
"We've only got the FA's word that they didn't get it and I've got Martin's word that he did send it.
"What we didn't do was to check that they'd received it because they should always send us a copy of that receipt, so we're totally at fault in that respect."
Haythornthwaite confirmed they would be looking for compensation from League One Fleetwood.
BBC Radio Lancashire contacted Fleetwood to respond to these allegations but they declined to comment.
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In 1994, she staged a sit-in at Tower Colliery, near Hirwaun, in protest at British Coal's decision to close the pit.
The miners were given the go-ahead to re-open the colliery the following year, after pooling their redundancy money to take it over.
MP for Cynon Valley since winning a by-election in 1984, following five years as an MEP, Ms Clwyd has been sacked twice as a Labour spokesperson for failing to toe the party line.
In 1988 she lost her job as shadow minister for education and women's rights after defying the whips over the Conservative government's spending on nuclear weapons.
Seven years later she was dismissed again, as opposition spokesperson on foreign affairs, for missing a Commons vote without permission from party whips after travelling to the Iraqi-Turkish border to witness the plight of the Kurds.
As a member of the International Development Select Committee from 1997 to 2005, Ms Clwyd again raised concerns about the situation in Iraq, and the then Prime Minister Tony Blair made her a special envoy on human rights there in the run-up to the 2003 invasion.
Elected chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 2005, it was suggested her perceived closeness to Mr Blair was behind her failure to get re-elected to the position the following year.
More recently, Ms Clwyd's concerted campaign over standards in the NHS began when she complained movingly in the House of Commons in 2012 about the care her husband received at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in the days leading up to his death.
An internal health board inquiry upheld many of her complaints, but not her claim that he died "like a battery hen".
Last year, David Cameron put her in charge of a review of how hospitals in England handled complaints, after an inquiry at Stafford Hospital found failings in care which it said may have contributed to the deaths of patients.
While leading that review Ms Clwyd also received numerous complaints about standards at hospitals in Wales, prompting her to become a persistent critic of the Welsh NHS.
In February 2014, she announced she would stand down at the 2015 general election, calling the decision "not her swansong" but a "pause for breath".
There followed a row over Labour's decision to use an all-women shortlist to select her successor, which was strongly opposed by the local party.
Then, in September, she said she wanted to contest the seat after all, after "many requests from Labour voters in the Cynon Valley".
But Labour has now decided she must face re-selection, saying the process of choosing a new candidate is underway and the party has to stick to the rules.
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Although she has become well known in recent years for raising concerns about the NHS, perhaps the abiding image of Ann Clwyd for many dates back two decades to the many hours she spent deep underground.
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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.
The Grantham and District Hospital unit began closing early in August, in a trial expected to last three months.
But a shortage of A&E doctors has forced United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) to keep it closed.
The trust says it is committed to reopening the unit and is trying to recruit staff.
Dr Suneil Kapadia, medical director at ULHT, said the trust needed to meet minimum staffing requirements without an overreliance on agency staff.
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"I recognise people want Grantham A&E to reopen 24/7... [but] it's important we aren't in a situation where we reopen A&E one day and then need to close it again the next week due to doctors leaving," he said.
"The reality is agency staff have the pick of places to work and can often leave a placement at short notice."
The trust said it was continuing to recruit staff both in the UK and overseas.
ULHT employs about 17 doctors across its three sites in Lincoln, Boston and Grantham, and needs a minimum of 21 to keep all of them open for 24 hours.
The trust previously took the decision to close the Grantham unit at night to enable it to maintain safe staffing levels at its two other A&E departments, both of which take a higher number of patients.
It acknowledged the decision was unpopular and added it supported the right of people to protest against it.
Campaigners have also branded plans to extend the A&E's opening times by an hour as "ridiculous".
The trust plans to open the unit from 08:00 to 18:30 at the end of March, instead of opening at 09:00.
Dame Sally Davies has written to all GPs and pharmacies to ensure they are prescribing the correct drugs after the rise of "super-gonorrhoea" in Leeds.
Her warning comes after concerns were raised that some patients were not getting both of the antibiotics needed to clear the infection.
Sexual health doctors said gonorrhoea was "rapidly" developing resistance.
A highly drug-resistant strain of gonorrhoea was detected in the north of England in March.
That strain is able to shrug off the antibiotic azithromycin, which is normally used alongside another drug, ceftriaxone.
In her letter, the chief medical officer said: "Gonorrhoea is at risk of becoming an untreatable disease due to the continuing emergence of antimicrobial resistance."
But while an injection of ceftriaxone and an azithromycin pill are supposed to be used in combination, this may not always be the case for all patients.
Earlier this year, the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) warned that some online pharmacies were offering only oral medication.
Using just one of the two drugs makes it easier for the bacterium to develop resistance.
The letter, which is also signed by chief pharmaceutical officer Dr Keith Ridge, stated: "Gonorrhoea has rapidly acquired resistance to new antibiotics, leaving few alternatives to the current recommendations.
"It is therefore extremely important that suboptimal treatment does not occur."
The disease is caused by the bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
The infection is spread by unprotected vaginal, oral and anal sex.
Symptoms can include a thick green or yellow discharge from sexual organs, pain when urinating and bleeding between periods. Often the person has no symptoms, however, but can still easily spread the disease to others.
Untreated infection can lead to infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and can be passed on to a child during pregnancy.
Gonorrhoea is the second most common sexually transmitted infection in England and cases are soaring.
The number of infections increased by 19% from 29,419 in 2013 to 34,958 the following year.
Dr Jan Clarke, the president of BASHH, told the BBC News website: "We're really pleased that the chief medical officer has stressed that gonorrhoea needs this approach to treatment due to the rapid development of resistance.
"We need to protect what we've got and we need to encourage pharmacists and general practitioners to follow first-line treatment."
Dr Andrew Lee, from Public Health England, added: "Investigations are ongoing into a number of cases of anti-microbial resistant gonorrhoea.
"Public Health England will continue to monitor, and act on, the spread of antimicrobial resistance and potential gonorrhoea treatment failures, to make sure they are identified and managed promptly."
China has banned red meat imports from Brazil, while the European Union said it would stop buying from companies implicated in the scandal.
The crisis was triggered by a huge federal police operation on Friday.
It found evidence that meat-packers had been selling rotten and substandard produce for several years.
The meat industry plays an important part in the Brazilian economy, with exports worth more than $12bn (£9.7bn) a year.
The Brazilian government has done all it could to avoid a total or partial ban on meat imports from other countries.
President Michel Temer held emergency meetings during the weekend and even invited foreign diplomats to a steak house on Sunday evening to try to reassure them.
"The Brazilian government reiterates its confidence in the quality of a national product that has won over consumers and obtained the approval of the most rigorous markets," said Mr Temer.
But the effort was in vain. China, the EU, South Korea and Chile have now announced restrictions on Brazilian meat products.
Together they accounted for nearly one third of Brazilian meat exports in 2016, O Globo newspaper reported.
Brazil is the world's biggest red meat and poultry exporter.
On Friday, federal police raided meat-producing plants and arrested more than 30 people.
The government suspended more than 30 senior civil servants who should have spotted the unhygienic and illegal practices.
They are being investigated for corruption.
Three meat-packing plants have been closed and another 21 are being investigated.
Mr Temer said the plants under scrutiny represented a tiny proportion of Brazil's meat industry.
"Only 21 units out of 4,837 in Brazil subject to government inspection are facing allegations of irregularities. And only six of them have exported in the past 60 days," said Mr Temer at a meeting with foreign diplomats on Sunday.
Operation Weak Flesh was launched in the early hours of Friday in six Brazilian states after a two-year investigation.
Federal police carried out raids in 194 locations, deploying more than 1,000 officers.
The investigators allege that some managers bribed health inspectors and politicians to get government certificates for their products.
They accuse more than 30 companies of a number of unhygienic practices. Among them are JBS, the world's largest beef exporter, and BRF, the world's top poultry producer.
"They used acid and other chemicals to mask the aspect of the product. In some cases, the products used were carcinogenic," the police said.
Both JBS and BRF said they followed high quality standards and sanitary regulations.
Prosecutors say a percentage of the bribe money was paid to two parties from the governing coalition - the PP and President Michel Temer's PMDB.
Chief executive Steve Rowe's turnaround plans will also see it open 200 new Simply Food stores as it shifts away from disappointing fashion sales.
He said M&S also planned to close loss-making shops in 10 international markets, including China and France.
The announcements came as M&S reported falling sales and profits in the six months to the end of September.
Mr Rowe said of the UK store closures: "This is about building a sustainable, more profitable business that's relevant for our customers in a digital shopping age."
He would not be drawn on job losses or which stores would close, amid warnings from trade unions that staff would be "extremely concerned" about where the axe will fall.
In total M&S said it would have about 60 fewer clothing and homeware stores in five years' time.
However, with new food outlets opening, the company will have more stores overall and "more towns will have an M&S", Mr Rowe told the BBC.
He added that customers still "love" M&S, but that it could do better.
The retailer has over 300 full-range sites, which sell clothing, homeware and food, and nearly 600 Simply Food shops in the UK.
It also plans to shut 53 international stores, including all 10 in China, half of its stores in France and all its shops in Belgium, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
That represents more than a quarter of the international stores that M&S fully owns, and will cost £150m-£200m. The company said it would start a consultation with 2,100 employees over the proposals.
Among the sites being closed is its department store on the Champs Elysees in Paris - it will be the second time M&S has closed its flagship branch in France. In 2001 M&S closed all its European stores, before returning to France 10 years later under former boss Marc Bolland.
Retail Vision analyst John Ibbotson said: "M&S's humiliating withdrawal from 10 overseas markets is... a Dunkirk moment for [the] iconic British brand."
However, others said that rather than losing face, M&S was closing the stores so as to concentrate forces on turning around the UK business.
"It's not a huge part of M&S's profits. The UK is where they should be making their money, so it's about sorting that out before turning to international expansion," analysts at Liberum said.
M&S did not have the scale, speed or fashion lines of companies like Zara-owner Inditex to succeed in some of these markets, they said.
M&S's half-year results show the problems facing Mr Rowe in the UK, who took over in April.
Clothing sales in existing UK stores fell 5.9%, while its stronger performing food business saw sales drop by 0.9%.
Pre-tax profit dropped 88% to £25.1m, from £216m in the same period a year ago, partly due to higher pension costs.
The retailer also faces a further squeeze on profits from more expensive imports caused by the fall in the value of the pound.
"Our intention is that we won't have to pass those price rises onto the consumer in the New Year," Mr Rowe told the BBC.
Investors were unsure about M&S's results and store closure plans, with shares initially rising before falling quite sharply.
Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said: "Cost-cutting will help to support earnings forecasts but this will only take M&S so far. To truly revive profits the company must get clothing and home right, and it is currently hard to argue that M&S has really found its fashion handwriting."
Liberum analysts said they had "wanted to see radical action from M&S", but that they saw Mr Rowe's plans as "medium radical".
Matthew Hopkinson, a director at the Local Data Company, said that although M&S was closing a relatively small number of stores, it would have "a big impact for the towns where they have been the High Street anchor for many years".
He also announced a national memorial day of 18 March, with events planned for Christchurch's Hagley Park.
On Sunday the treasury department said that quake recovery would cost the country NZ$15bn ($11bn; £7bn).
The death toll, at 166 so far, is expected to rise to around 200 as rescue work continues.
Rescue workers were relieved to find no dead in the rubble of the collapsed tower of Christchurch Cathedral; they had earlier pulled about 90 bodies from the Canterbury TV building.
Victims are being identified using fingerprints, DNA, dental records and other personal items such as jewellery.
The painstaking process could take months to complete, officials say, adding to the misery of relatives waiting for news.
Experts say there were cases after previous disasters and accidents overseas where the wrong body was returned to the family, compounding the grief of everyone involved.
To avoid such traumatic mistakes, the authorities in New Zealand insist their work will be meticulous.
Speaking at a news conference, Mr Key said New Zealanders must "brace ourselves" for the probable demolition of many heritage buildings as well as homes.
He said some parts of the city could not be rebuilt because of liquefaction - the weakening of the soil due to the rising of silt and water sparked by the quake.
The Earthquake Commission has begun land assessments and will begin assessing houses from this week.
A private building supply company has also begun emergency repairs to houses as part of a contribution to quake relief, Mr Key said.
Fiji tourism operators have meanwhile offered cheap flights and accommodation to quake victims in the Pacific Islands territory.
Earlier estimates of the cost of rebuilding the city were trebled in comments by Treasury officials.
"We estimate that GDP growth will be around 1.5 percentage points lower in the 2011 calendar year solely as a result of the February earthquake," the Treasury said in its monthly report.
Finance Minister Bill English said that paying for the earthquake was likely to involve "a bit more borrowing in the short term" and changing spending priorities.
Meanwhile, residents of the central zone of Christchurch were at last being allowed past police cordons to see the extent of damage to their homes.
The 70-strong UK Search and Rescue team has now left Christchurch.
Power is expected to be restored to 99% of dwellings in the city by the end of Monday.
Fixed in place on top of a spherical treadmill, a fruit fly walked on the spot while neuroscientists peered into its brain using a microscope.
Watching the neurons fire inside a donut-shaped brain region, they saw activity sweep around the ring to match the direction the animal was headed.
Mammals have similar "head direction cells" but this is a first for flies.
The findings are reported in the journal Nature.
Crucially, the compass-like activity took place not only when the animal was negotiating a virtual-reality environment, in which screens gave the illusion of movement, but also when it was left in the dark.
"The fly is using a sense of its own motion to pick up which direction it's pointed," said senior author Dr Vivek Jayaraman, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus.
In some other insects, such as monarch butterflies and locusts, brain cells have been observed firing in a way that reflects the animal's orientation to the pattern of polarised light in the sky - a "sun compass".
But the newly discovered compass in the fly brain works more like the "head directions cells" seen in mammals, which rapidly set up a directional system for the animal based on landmarks in the surrounding scene.
"A key thing was incorporating the fly's own movement," Dr Jayaraman told the BBC.
"To see that its own motion was relevant to the functioning of this compass - that was something we could only see if we did it in a behaving animal."
Hence, Dr Jayaraman and his colleague Johannes Seelig built an intricate set-up where the fly, already manipulated so that its brain cells would glow when they fired, walked on top of a freely rotating ball. They glued the fly to a metal rod, to hold it stationary, and focussed a powerful laser microscope on its brain.
For the virtual reality experiments, they surrounded the fly with screens displaying simple patterns of lines, whose movement was controlled by that of the ball.
It was time-consuming and fiddly work, for which Jayaraman praised the dexterity of his postdoctoral researcher Dr Seelig.
"We call him 'the fly whisperer' in the lab. He has a magic set of hands that allow him to do the most remarkably fine dissections, while leaving the fly comfortable enough to actually behave in its environment."
Unlike the situation in mammals, where this type of direction-sensitive cell seems to be quite scattered within the brain, the fly compass appears to be packed into a particular area called the "ellipsoid body" - which also happens to be circular.
This meant that the researchers could zoom in on this region and watch the compass in action.
"It's very seldom that you have a compass in the brain that really looks like a compass," Dr Jayaraman said.
He added that it was Dr Seelig who first saw the sweeping pattern of activity unfolding as the "needle" of the compass swung around to match the fly's own turning.
"He's an understated, Swiss guy. He came into my office and plonked this video down and he said, I think maybe there's something here.
"I looked at it and I wanted to jump up and hug him."
The researchers argue that the compass is surprisingly complex, considering the size of the brain making the calculations. As such, Dr Jayaraman said, "the fly may have a lot to tell us" about how bigger brains, including ours, accomplish similar tasks.
Prof Kate Jeffery studies head direction cells in mammals, in her own lab at University College London. She told BBC News this was a striking set of results.
"The novelty is that they're seeing a signal that isn't a simple transformation of what the sensory receptors see," Prof Jeffery said.
"These neurons are not purely visual. They're integrating information and they're abstracting something at a higher level."
To build up its representation of direction, she explained, this system must distil information from across different senses.
"It's a bit more like cognition - in a fly - which is kind of cool."
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He told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that other EU states "have a very strong interest in getting a good deal".
But he said that if the UK was only offered a "punishment deal" then it had to be prepared to "walk away".
His Labour shadow Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Davis should focus on getting the best deal, not "preparing for failure".
In his interview, Mr Davis also defended Theresa May as a "very good prime minister" - although said she was "under pressure".
When asked if it would be "catastrophic" for Brexit negotiations for there to be a Tory leadership contest, he replied: "Yes."
"Let me be absolutely plain about this, number one, I happen to think we have got a very good prime minister. I know she is coming under a lot of pressure at the moment, but I have seen her in action.
"I think she is very good. She makes good decisions. She's bold. She takes her time.
"Point number two is, I want a stable backdrop to this Brexit negotiation."
Mr Davis is heading up the UK side of negotiations, and began talks last week with his EU counterpart Michel Barnier. Of Mr Barnier, he said: "He wants a deal as much as we want a deal, I think."
Mrs May has been criticised by some for saying "no deal is better than a bad deal" with the EU.
Last week, Chancellor Philip Hammond said "no deal would be a very, very bad outcome for Britain" although he went on to say a "worse outcome" would be a deal "deliberately structured to suck the lifeblood out of our economy".
When Mr Davis was asked by Marr whether he was sure there would be a deal, he said: "I'm pretty sure, I am not 100% sure, you can never be, it's a negotiation.
Reminded of his past words that "we are guaranteed to get a deal", Mr Davis said: "You can be sure there will be a deal, whether it's the deal I want which is the free trade agreement, the customs agreement and so on - I'm pretty sure but I'm not certain."
On the prospect of no deal, he said a bad deal "would be better than a punishment deal".
"We cannot have a circumstance where the other side says that they are going to punish you. So if that happens then there is a walkaway, and we have to plan for that."
Mr Davis said he wanted to deliver an outcome "which helps both sides" and said it was likely there would be a transitional period, after the UK leaves the EU, for trade arrangements, probably of "one to two years".
Sir Keir Starmer, shadow secretary of state for exiting the EU, said "no deal is not a viable option as it would be catastrophic for British trade, jobs and security. The sooner David Davis realises this, the better.
"Instead of preparing for failure the government should be putting all their efforts into getting a Brexit deal that works for Britain - that means putting jobs and the economy first and dropping the no deal mantra."
Mr Davis also said he wanted to get a deal on the rights of EU citizens in the UK, and UK citizens living in other EU states, "through now" and to discuss the issue of how the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic will operate, although he acknowledged that it would not be concluded in the negotiations this summer.
He said the government wanted to have an "invisible border" between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic and said there was lots of "technical stuff" to start working on now - such as number plate recognition and "trusted trailer schemes".
But the Liberal Democrats' Brexit spokesman, Tom Brake, said Mr Davis "inspires about as much confidence as a drunken trapeze artist".
"It is the country as a whole that will suffer when he comes crashing to the floor.
"These negotiations will affect our lives for decades, but he's only 'pretty sure' of getting a deal. It is simply not good enough."
Meanwhile Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett has been asked to clarify Labour's position on the single market after 50 Labour politicians signed a letter to the Guardian urging the party to back staying in.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has previously said he did not think remaining a member of the single market was "feasible" and Mr Corbyn has suggested Brexit would mean an end to the UK's single market membership.
Mr Trickett told BBC One's Sunday Politics that while Labour's position is to "have access to all of the tariff-free arrangements which exist within the customs union and single market" it was not wedded to any "particular institutional form".
He said: "We are pragmatic about it. Let's see how the negotiations go. We are not going to say one thing or another in terms of institutional relationships."
The prime minister has said the UK "cannot possibly" remain in the single market as to do so would mean "not leaving the EU at all".
EU leaders have warned that the UK cannot access the single market, which allows the free movement of goods, services and workers between its members, while at the same time restricting the free movement of people.
He won 48,152 votes, a 58.9% share, in the fifth round of voting after four other candidates had been eliminated.
Ex-minister Tessa Jowell, regarded as the frontrunner going into the contest, came second with 41.1% of the vote ahead of Diane Abbott in third place.
Mr Khan, the MP for Tooting, said he would seek to represent the whole of the city and make a "real difference".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One, he said his top priority if elected would be tackle London's "housing crisis", ensuring "genuinely affordable homes to rent and buy".
Mr Khan said he would also focus on affordable public transport and confirmed he had changed his mind on the issue of a third runway at Heathrow Airport over air pollution fears, and would be campaigning against expansion.
A total of 87,884 legitimate votes were cast in the ballot, in which the other candidates were former ministers David Lammy and Gareth Thomas, veteran Labour MP Ms Abbott and transport expert Christian Wolmar.
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Mr Thomas was first to be eliminated, with his second preferences reallocated, followed by Mr Wolmar, Mr Lammy and Ms Abbott.
A breakdown of the vote revealed Baroness Jowell had won the most votes from Labour Party members in the first round, but among registered supporters - who paid £3 to be entitled to vote - she was third behind Mr Khan and Ms Abbott.
Mr Khan was also top among affiliated union members.
Commentators reacted by saying Mr Khan's victory, allied to the strong showing of Ms Abbott, increased the likelihood of Jeremy Corbyn being elected party leader on Saturday.
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said he suspected even Mr Khan - who nominated Mr Corbyn to be Labour leader - would be surprised by scale of his victory, adding that the "winds of change are sweeping though Labour".
Mr Corbyn was among a series of senior party figures to congratulate Mr Khan saying, regardless of Saturday's result, he looked forward to working closely with him "as we seek to reconnect everywhere for a better kind of politics".
Mr Khan said he had been clear that while he had nominated Mr Corbyn, he would not be voting for him and had backed Andy Burnham in the leadership contest.
Mr Khan, who was shadow justice secretary under Ed Miliband's leadership, said that growing up on a council estate in South London, City Hall had seemed "a million miles away".
He later said he would stand down as MP for Tooting if he was elected Mayor.
The Conservatives have yet to choose their candidate, with Richmond Park MP Zac Goldsmith seen as the frontrunner.
The Conservatives have run City Hall for more than seven years, with Boris Johnson combining the role of London Mayor with that of MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since his election in May.
The 28-year-old Scotland international has agreed a three-year deal and joins the Lancashire club for an undisclosed fee, thought to be about £3m.
The Clarets have also signed 19-year-old Chelsea midfielder Nathaniel Chalobah on loan until January.
Chalobah has yet to make a Premier League appearance, but has impressed during loan spells with Watford, Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough.
Boyd, who signed for the Tigers from Peterborough midway through their promotion campaign in 2012-13, has made one league appearance this season.
The deals bring the number of summer signings at newly promoted Burnley to nine.
Hull manager Steve Bruce had revealed on Sunday that the player was nearing a move to the Clarets, adding: "I wish him well. I've been in the game a long time and if all professional footballers were like George Boyd my job would be easy."
He came off the bench against Stoke last weekend and started in Hull's first Europa League qualifying tie against Lokeren, which they lost 1-0.
Burnley have yet to win a Premier League game this season, but held Manchester United to a 0-0 draw at Turf Moor on Saturday.
The fragment, which historians believe could have been part of a sword, was discovered by Michael Beirne on Coleg Gwent land at Llanbadoc in March 2014.
The mount was first reported to the National Roman Legion Museum at Caerleon.
It will now be valued and bought by National Museum Wales with Heritage Lottery funding.
Dr Mark Redknap, of National Museum Cardiff, said the mount bears two incomplete inscriptions and is believed to date back to the 15th century.
He said the motto appeared to be a version of the commonplace inscription nul si bien / nul ce bien / nul sy bien (None so good, None this good), which was "appropriate for a fine sword".
He added it was likely the surviving fragment was only 50% of the original length, which would leave room on the missing section for another motto or a shields of arms.
Mr Beirne, 39 of Newport, who has been metal detecting for 15 years, said the find had "probably been my best one".
He added: "I'd like to think that the sword, which the find may have been part of, belonged to a Welsh or English knight."
Alex Anderson, head of estates at Coleg Gwent, said an Ordnance Survey map showed the mount was found close to the assumed site of the 1405 Battle of Pwll Melyn, fought by Owain Glyndwr's men, but it may have been lost at a later date.
It will rent up to 300 prison places from the Dutch, who already lease some of their extra capacity to Belgium.
Under the agreement, prisoners will be guarded by Dutch wardens, but the director will be Norwegian.
Norway has a current jail capacity shortage despite relatively low incarceration rates.
The nation is known for treating its inmates relatively humanely. Its non-violent offenders, for instance, are often held in open prisons with the freedom to move, work, enjoy recreational facilities and focus on rehabilitation.
However, according to a government analysis in 2013, there is now a backlog of renovation works needed that will cost an estimated NOK 4.4bn (£435m) and will involve temporarily shutting some jails or prison branches.
In addition, the growing queue of convicts needing prison spaces, which currently stands at 1300, is adding pressure to the demand on detention space.
"The situation is urgent, and we must consider short-term measures. Leasing prison capacity abroad may contribute to alleviating the situation. That is why we have started talks with the Netherlands," Norwegian Justice Minister Anders Anundsen said.
However, to begin the cooperation, the two countries must first conclude a treaty. There are a number of details to resolve, including how often detainees may be visited by family and friends living back in Norway.
The Netherlands has already been housing overflow prisoners from Belgium at a prison in Tilburg in the south, near the Belgian border, under a deal the two countries signed in 2009.
Last year, Norway explored the idea of leasing prison capacity from neighbouring Sweden, but the plan was dropped over Swedish reservations at having to adjust its legislation.
Norway, whose population is around 5 million, has an incarceration rate of 72 in every 100,000 people, about a tenth of the level in the United States.
Two rival groups each want to run an amateur event, known as a sportive, in Lincoln on the same day and route in May next year.
Cyclists are now said to be confused as to which event to sign up to.
The city hosted the British Cycling National Road Championships in 2015, attracting thousands of spectators.
Lawyers have been contacted to try to resolve concerns about the staging and marketing of the events.
ITP Events has been running an event in the city, known as the Lincoln Grand Prix Sportive, for five years.
Another group wants to stage a new event, called the Lincoln Sportive, as part of the Lincoln Festival of Cycling.
Ian Pemrose, of ITP Events, said: "We've run five editions of the Lincoln Sportive. We created that event and we're just carrying on with what we do under our trademark.
"If you'd spent five years building up a business and then somebody said 'actually I want want to do that', would you do that?"
Both events are being proposed for Saturday 14 May and would run on a route starting at Yarborough Leisure Centre and ending in Castle Square.
Dan Ellmore, organiser of the Lincoln Festival of Cycling, said: "It's one of the best events I've ever seen.
"Dragging the name through the mud like this doesn't do anyone any good and is really a destructive and negative approach.
"If the ITP event goes ahead as planned on the 14th, we'll move, however it seems a little crazy to me to move a three-day weekend".
Sunday's match was called off in stoppage time after players aimed punches and kicks at each other.
Television pictures showed Gimnasia players kicking Estudiantes goalkeeper Mariano Andujar when on the ground.
It comes a week after five players were sent off during River Plate's friendly with Boca Juniors.
In this latest incident, two players - Estudiantes defender Alvaro Pereira and Gimnasia goalkeeper Enrique Bologna - had been sent off, before Estudiantes' Santiago Ascacibar fouled a Gimnasia player from behind and was given the third red card of the game.
As he left the field, Ascacibar was surrounded by angry Gimnasia players, prompting Estudiantes substitutes to run on to the pitch to intervene.
Estudiantes coach Nestor Vivas, whose side were leading 1-0 when the game was abandoned, said: "The referee can make mistakes but it was the two teams who were in the wrong."
His family said he died in Los Angeles from complications from a stroke.
He and Bacharach wrote a string of hits for Dionne Warwick, including Walk On By and I Say a Little Prayer, but also wrote for other performers, such as Tom Jones and Dusty Springfield.
Their film work included Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, which won an Oscar.
David's wife, Eunice, told the Associated Press news agency that he had suffered a major stroke in March and was stricken again on Tuesday.
"Even at the end, Hal always had a song in his head," she said.
"He was always writing notes, or asking me to take a note down, so he wouldn't forget a lyric."
David's work was performed by a huge array of artists over the decades, including Perry Como, Louis Armstrong, the Carpenters and Sandie Shaw.
On Broadway, success came with the musical comedy, Promises, Promises, based on the Billy Wilder film, The Apartment.
Including the songs, l'll Never Fall In Love Again, and Knowing When to Leave, the original cast recording was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Grammy in 1969.
The pair also turned out songs for the movies, What's New, Pussycat, Alfie and the 1967 version of Casino Royale, which each earned them Oscar nominations for best song.
In 1974 David joined the board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and served as president from 1980 to 1986. He was head of the Songwriters Hall of Fame from 2001 to 2011, and was Chairman Emeritus at his death.
The society's current president, Paul Williams, said in a statement: "As a lyric writer, Hal was simple, concise and poetic - conveying volumes of meaning in fewest possible words and always in service to the music.
"It is no wonder that so many of his lyrics have become part of our everyday vocabulary and his songs... the backdrop of our lives."
In 2011, David and Burt Bacharach were awarded the Gershwin Prize for popular song by the US Library of Congress, the first time a songwriting team has been given the honour.
Joan Barnett suffered injuries at her home in Newlands Avenue, Tunstall, and later died in hospital.
William Levi Gales, 44 and of Borrowdale Street, Hartlepool, has also been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud.
He will appear at Sunderland Magistrates' Court 26 April, alongside three others also charged with fraud.
Fifty years after From Russia With Love, freelance operatives are once again to the fore on a rap sheet covering coup-plotting, election-rigging and thinly-veiled threats against Serbia's prime minister.
The only element missing is the poison-tipped toe caps of agent Rosa Klebb.
In October, Montenegro held a general election which then-Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic billed as a referendum on the country's accession to Nato and pursuit of EU membership.
Both issues have infuriated Russia, where Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin warned that Montenegro would "regret" joining Nato.
On polling day, police arrested 20 Serbian citizens whom they suspected of plotting a coup and the assassination of Mr Djukanovic. Those detained included a former commander of a Serbian special forces unit. Serbia quickly moved to deny any involvement in the affair.
Within days, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic announced that arrests had also been made in Serbia - and that those people had connections with an unnamed third country. He also claimed that intelligence agencies from both East and West were increasing their activities in Serbia.
This put the rumour mill into overdrive - and local newspapers reported allegations that Serbia had secretly deported several Russian citizens for nefarious activities.
This was followed by the unexpected arrival in Belgrade of the head of Russia's Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, as Montenegro accused Russian and Serbian nationalists of organising the alleged coup attempt.
Just when it seemed that eyebrows could not possibly rise any higher, police discovered a cache of arms hidden close to Mr Vucic's parents' home on the outskirts of Belgrade. The temptation to see this as an attempt to intimidate the prime minster was hard to resist.
Jelena Milic, of the Belgrade-based Centre for Euro-Atlantic Studies, says that at the very least Mr Patrushev's visit indicated that Russia was trying to manage Serbia's response to the coup allegations.
"He was eager to suppress the fact that somebody was in Serbia, caught red-handed with the equipment and plans," said Ms Milic.
"So Patrushev came out of the blue to suppress the fact that little green men were caught here and they had left the country. Because it is big - it would really prove to everyone how big the hybrid approach by Russia to destabilise the entire EU is."
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Theories that Russia has turned to nefarious means of influence are given legs by its obvious disapproval of the "Euro-Atlantic path" being followed by the countries of the Western Balkans, as they head towards membership of the EU, Nato or both.
Montenegro's imminent accession means that all the countries along the Adriatic coast will be Nato members.
But Russia has plenty of supporters in Serbia.
Opinion polls suggest more people favour closer ties with Moscow than membership of the EU. Suggestions that the dark arts of the Cold War are back in play get a sceptical reception.
"I don't see the hand of Russia in all this," says Misa Djurkovic, the director of Belgrade's Institute of European Studies and author of The Illusion of the European Union.
"I don't see that it's in Russia's interests to overthrow the governments in Montenegro or Serbia. They are working with those in power. And they are most interested in their own backyard, which they are not yet capable of controlling."
"In Serbia, everything that has recently been going on was connected in the media with mafia and drug-trafficking structures. That's not, as far as I know, connected with Russia."
This analysis is certainly in line with more recent comments from Serbia's prime minister, in which he suggested his family had become the target of an unnamed organised crime figure.
But even if the more outrageous allegations remain unproven, it does appear that Russia is keen to maintain some influence in the Western Balkans.
The Russian-funded media outlet, Sputnik News, set up a Serbian-language service in 2014. Its slant on stories is distinctly pro-Moscow - and it finds a sympathetic audience among Serbians and Montenegrins who still vividly remember the Nato bombing campaign of 1999 - and romanticise a "Slavic brotherhood" with Russia.
"All our enemies in the Balkans were helped by the British, Americans, Germans and so on, and that's why people try to turn to the other side and project on that side many things that are not realistic," says Misa Djurkovic.
Among all the rumours and recriminations in the western Balkans, making a sober analysis of the precise state of the region's relations with Russia is a thankless task.
"It's very easy to fall into Balkan conspiracy theorising," says James Ker-Lindsay, an expert on the politics of southeast Europe at the London School of Economics.
"We know that Russia is trying to expand its sphere of influence in the western Balkans. So there is a certain plausibility to claims that Russia is getting involved."
"But the coup plot was incredibly amateurish. If you think that Russia was engaged in a process to overthrow the Montenegrin government, you'd think they would do it in a little more sophisticated fashion than sending over a few Serb nationalists."
In any case, none of the recent events appear to have stopped Serbia advancing its EU membership negotiations, with more "chapters" in the accession process due to open this week. James Ker-Lindsay believes that when all the skulduggery has been forgotten, economic pragmatism will dictate the region's next moves.
"There is a great deal of pragmatism in Serbian government circles. They don't want to alienate Russia, but when push comes to shove, it's quite clear that economic development is the priority - and investment comes from the EU, not from Russia."
Caixinha took charge on Monday and revealed he would be looking for an assistant with a knowledge of the Glasgow club and Scottish football.
Asked if he would be interested, Ferguson told BBC Scotland: "Of course, I've said that before.
"That's my club. That's where I was from an eight-year-old kid. I spent 20 years of my life at Rangers."
Ferguson left Rangers for a second time in 2009 to join Birmingham City and had his first taste of coaching as caretaker manager of Blackpool.
The 39-year-old resigned last month following three years with Clyde after a poor run of Scottish League Two results meant his side were destined to miss out on the promotion play-offs.
Ferguson had made no secret of the fact that he found coaching part-time players frustrating and would relish a chance to coach at a higher level.
But he insisted that "I've had no contact whatsoever" while stressing that "it is a club that means a lot to me".
Ferguson had previously said that he believed he thought he could help instil some missing passion into a side sitting third in the Scottish Premiership at the time of Mark Warburton's departure.
However, he was impressed with the 1-1 draw they achieved against leaders Celtic under caretaker manager Graeme Murty.
"I saw plenty of passion on Sunday from the team," said Ferguson.
"I don't know whether that was because there's a new manager sitting in the stand and they want to impress him.
"He would not have taken the job if there was not a bit of finance to go and get his own players, so for the next two months, those players are playing for their futures."
Caixinha, who has signed a three-year contract after leaving Qatari club Al-Gharafa, held his first news conference as manager on Monday and Ferguson liked what he heard from the 46-year-old Portuguese.
"I thought his interview was good," said the former Rangers and Scotland midfielder of the media conference.
"It is easy enough to get what Rangers is all about, but he looked like he is the fiery type of guy and I think that's what Rangers need just now.
"They need somebody who is going to go in there and fire the dressing room up."
The singer and drummer sang two songs with the middle school band at the Miami Country Day School, according to the Miami Herald.
He praised the school's musicians but admitted he was nervous about singing.
Collins announced his retirement in 2011, saying he wanted to spend more time with his young children.
At the time he said: "I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis."
His former wife, Orianne Collins Mejjati, told the Miami Herald that Collins had agreed to the school performance after being asked by their children.
He performed renditions of In the Air Tonight and Land of Confusion.
A former member of rock band Genesis, Collins went on to achieve huge success as a solo performer, including hit albums as No Jacket Required and ...But Seriously.
The winner of seven Grammy awards, he also won an Academy award for his soundtrack for the Disney animated film Tarzan.
Collins has an older daughter, Lily Collins, an actress who starred in the films Mirror Mirror and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant said he was not convinced "continuing to focus on 52 small areas is the most effective way to deliver for Wales".
Mr Sargeant told AMs a new Wales-wide approach would focus on employment, early years and "empowerment".
First Minister Carwyn Jones had already warned that some government schemes would be cut to pay for new priorities.
More free childcare, apprenticeships and a fund to boost school standards have been highlighted as Welsh Labour's key pledges ahead of next week's budget.
"I am minded to phase out the Communities First programme while establishing a new approach to meet the challenges of the future," Mr Sargeant said.
"Over the coming months, we will look afresh at how the Welsh Government can support resilient communities.
"This means communities that are empowered and engaged; communities that are ready and able to work; communities that can offer children the best start in life."
Communities First spends about £30m each year, with more than £300m spent since it was launched in 2001.
At one point it was supporting about 200 projects, before the number was reduced amid concern about its effectiveness.
In 2011, the head of a Communities First project in Wrexham was jailed for fraud after she diverted funds from the charity to herself and her family.
More recently, in 2015, it emerged that one project in Merthyr Tydfil spent most of its £1.5m budget over three years on salaries.
Plaid Cymru's Shadow Communities Secretary Bethan Jenkins said Communities First had done good work, but added: "If the goal here is the eradication of poverty, then the government needs to bring forward fresh ideas."
Welsh Conservative spokesman Mark Isherwood welcomed the rethink, saying: "With one in four people in Wales still living in poverty, it is clear the programme is not fit for purpose."
Bob Wellington, leader of the Welsh Local Government Association, said regional development efforts "have the potential to deliver better results than the targeted, area-based interventions that characterised Communities First".
Victoria Winckler, director of the Bevan Foundation think tank, told BBC Wales: "The time to end the Communities First programme has come.
"However, there are many excellent schemes run by Communities First, some of which have taken years to develop.
"Closing them down would be a further blow to communities that are already reeling from cuts to public services. The Welsh Government should transfer some of them to community ownership - a sort of social asset transfer - providing three year funding".
Orange fireworks were accompanied by a huge fanfare as Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands opened the building.
The renovation, which cost 375m Euros (£320m), had been delayed by flooding, asbestos and a cycle access dispute.
But the museum's directors have said they predict more than two million people will visit it annually.
Here is a selection of comments in the press on the refurbished building:
Many of the world's museum directors wept. Never has a national museum reopened to such scenes of fervency. The restored, extended and rejigged Rijksmuseum is a triumph of curatorial intelligence and sensitivity.
Once again - at last - the world can experience the richness of the greatest art tradition ever produced by a tiny, sea-hemmed nation: from Vermeer to Van Gogh, Rembrandt to Mondrian.
The Dutch capital is cleaning up its act. Brothels and cannabis cafes are being closed. But the most significant transformation is the renovation of the Rijksmuseum. Stand in front of the Rijksmuseum's charcoal-painted walls and look again at those Golden Age pictures of church interiors and you will find depictions of dogs cavorting, gallants chatting up maids and market stalls trading within the house of God. There will always be many shades of grey in Amsterdam.
The Rijksmuseum will reach places that other art collections do not. Such as your heart.
The long winter of discontented tourists is over. The Night Watch is back in its rightful place at the head of the Gallery of Honour. The rejuvenated Rijksmuseum is back at the heart of Amsterdam, and it is time that you came back to this most creative of cities, which decorates the map of Europe so elegantly.
The Rijksmuseum is a showcase of what this country can do when it really wants something great. Work is not yet finished; this is merely the beginning of a new era for the museum.
After 10 years of comprehensive renovations, the Rijksmuseum—the Dutch national museum of art and history, where masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer mingle with 17th-century blunderbusses and Delft blue pottery—triumphantly reopens its doors in the Dutch capital to reveal a profoundly transformed institution, whose elegant public spaces and intelligent presentation of collections are likely to serve as models for other museums around the world in years to come.
After £300 million and a veritable army of architects, builders and curators, the wait has been well worth it. This vast building has been restored to the beauty and elegance that characterised it when it opened in 1885 but re-designed to present Holland's artistic treasures in a chronological journey through centuries of Dutch history.
The Rijksmuseum, the chief curator told me, is showing only 10% of its holdings at once. It is, therefore, far more digestible than most great national museums in a single visit, but I can imagine wanting more depth after a time. I missed a room of flower paintings, for example, one of the great glories of the nation.
Still, there are great splendours here and I recommend the carved rock-crystal vessels. It's good to welcome the Rijksmuseum back.
My favourite moment of discovery, as I explore the new Rijksmuseum, is the feeling I get when I push the heavy, creaking door to enter the library. What a Harry Potter fantasy: a four-tier booklover's delight, with high, arched, stained-glass windows and a single, wobbling corkscrew staircase to link it all together. This is open to the public for the first time in its history.
Were those 10 years worth it? Definitely. Architect Pierre Cuypers's magic, combined with modern-day technical wizardry, makes the Rijksmuseum a palace of dreams.
Fernandes and two other defendants are charged with the murder of Eliza Samudio, who disappeared in June 2010. Police say she was murdered and her body was fed to dogs.
The three all deny any wrongdoing.
At the time, Fernandes was the goalkeeper for Brazil's most popular club, Flamengo.
Ms Samudio had said that the married footballer was the father of her baby.
The trial in the town of Contagem, in the state of Minas Gerais, began on Monday morning and is expected to last two weeks.
It is attracting massive media interest in Brazil where it has been compared to the OJ Simpson trial in the US.
As well as Fernandes, two others are charged with murder: Luiz Henrique Ferreira Romao, known as Macarrao, and former policeman Marcos Aparecido dos Santos, known as Bola.
Two other defendants, Fernandes's ex-wife Dayanne Rodrigues and an ex-lover, Fernanda Gomes de Castro, face charges of abduction and false imprisonment.
Other accused people are set to face trial separately.
The prosecution case is that Eliza Samudio was lured to a hotel in Rio de Janeiro on the pretext of obtaining a DNA test to prove the footballer was the father of her child.
She and her baby son were then abducted and taken to the footballer's home in Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais.
There, it is alleged, she was held captive. According to police reports, she was then strangled, her body cut up and parts were fed to dogs.
The baby was found a fortnight later in the home of friends of Dayanne Rodrigues.
Prosecutors say Fernandes did not want to accept the child as his and have to pay maintenance.
All the defendants have denied the accusations.
Fernandes was jailed for four-and-a-half years in December 2010 after being found guilty in a separate trial of abducting and assaulting Ms Samudio the previous year.
Fernandes had been Flamengo's goalkeeper since 2006 and was hugely popular with fans.
The attack took place outside a nightclub on Christmas Day.
Officers were called to a disturbance outside the venue in Sackville Street at 04:20 GMT, and bullets hit the windscreen as an officer interviewed a victim in the vehicle.
Police said the shots were fired from a car that was later found burnt out in the Great Horton area of the city. 　　
On Saturday, police stopped a car on Great Horton Road and arrested a man inside on suspicion of attempted murder.
Three other men, all from Bradford, have been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and are currently in custody.　
Another 21-year-old man who was arrested in Bradford on suspicion of attempted murder on Friday has been bailed.
The Volkswagen scandal underlined the inadequacy of standard lab tests which do not reflect the exhausts produced when driving in the real world.
But the University of Heidelberg team is now getting more reliable data by following behind city cars and buses to "sniff" their tailpipe gases.
Denis Pöhler described the set-up at the European Geosciences Union meeting.
"It's very simple. We've got a small instrument on the back seat of our car. We just suck in the air at the front of our car, taking in this plume from the vehicle in front, and get some values."
GPS tracks the location. A camera identifies the type of vehicle - motorcycle, car, lorry or bus - and the manufacturer.
The team is particularly interested in oxides of nitrogen, which are produced in the combustion process and can be a serious health hazard.
For two years, the Heidelberg scientists have been chasing motor vehicles through the streets of a number of Germany towns, with some often quite surprising results.
They have seen a lot of variability in emissions.
Yes, the newest models had, by and large, the cleanest plumes, but this was not always so.
The group would often come across high-polluting vehicles that had been built to comply with the very latest emissions standards (and before you ask: these were not all VWs).
This may indicate faults in the systems installed in these vehicles to clean up tailpipe gases.
Typically, many of the worst offenders were buses, in particular some older models.
Bizarrely, one of the buses in Mainz producing very high concentrations of nitrogen dioxide was emblazoned with a campaign urging people to get onboard in order to lower emissions.
One clear message, however, does seem to come out of the research: a relatively small number of vehicles on the road is responsible for a high fraction of total emissions.
In the case of Mainz, the plumes of 7.6% of vehicles contained more than 500 parts per billion by volume (about 1,000 microgram per cubic metre) of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). But if you could somehow take just these vehicles off the road, you would reduce emissions by 45%.
"So if you exclude only these high emitters, you have a big impact on air quality," explained Dr Pöhler from Heidelberg's Institute of Environmental Physics.
"If you were to do the same just with old cars, you would have a much smaller impact. It is really important that we focus on the small number of vehicles with very high concentrations."
Grants to organisations providing social care will be withdrawn and some voluntary groups will lose part or all of their funding under the proposals.
The city council is yet to decide on whether to freeze council tax or raise it by 1.8% to generate an extra £2m.
Labour mayor Joe Anderson said the city had "difficult times to get through".
The leader of the Liberal Democrats in the council, Richard Kemp, said any rise in council tax was "absolutely unnecessary" as the proposed increase would only raise £400,000 more than a freeze would as "the government will give us £1.5m to keep it level".
The £32m budget savings come on top of the £141m of cuts over the past two years and further cuts of £46m in 2014-15, £35m in 2015-16 and £36m in 2016-17.
Announcing the funding cuts in December, Conservative communities secretary Eric Pickles said authorities had plenty of scope to make further savings while "safeguarding vital public services" and "ending the something-for-nothing culture".
Under the council's proposals 150 jobs would be cut and a further 250 posts would be transferred to other organisations.
Mr Anderson said the council would do all it could to redeploy staff.
"We will do as much as we can to mitigate the damage to jobs," he said.
He said the budget proposals had been "a horrendous process with some extremely difficult and hard choices in order to balance the books for the next financial year, but also to prepare for the following year."
"I'm trying to apply the cuts in the fairest and best way we can but we have some difficult times over the next few years to get through."
"It is really, really tough to be contemplating reducing or withdrawing good services which are a lifeline for people.
"We've had to do it because we're having 52% of our funding taken away from us. The choice was to do that or set an illegal budget which we're not going to do."
The plans include reducing funding to adult and children's social care, selling off four of the city's nurseries and withdrawing the subsidy to Everton Children's Centre.
Some of the city's libraries and Kirkby and Allerton municipal golf courses would close under the plans.
A restructure of the library network would save £1m a year while closing the golf clubs, which are running at a loss, would save £300,000, the authority said.
Funding for sheltered housing wardens would be withdrawn and landlords asked to fund the shortfall. The council estimates this would save £1m.
The authority is also proposing to charge for alarms in sheltered housing, to save almost £500,000.
Homeless hostels at Geneva Road and Aigburth Drive are also at risk, with closures thought to save £150,000 per year.
The council's Integrated Youth and Play Service and Truancy Watch could also be cut under the plans.
Mr Anderson warned worse was to come with budget cuts until 2017.
"The simple fact is that we get 80% of our funding from the government, and the savage cut in our grant means we are the hardest hit city in the country."
"We've taken out £141m already in savings and lost 1,600 jobs and we've cut funding to the voluntary sector, for instance, already and it's so sad we have do this.
"Even what we have done now will pale into insignificance with what we have to do over the next two years."
The council has yet to decide on increasing council tax or accepting a £1.6m government grant to freeze it, which is not available beyond the next financial year. The council could raise it by 1.8% which would generate about £2m income for future budgets.
The proposals are supported by the city council's budget working group which comprises of the mayor, Liberal Democrats and Liberal Party.
Mr Kemp said the savings amounted to £21m, as £11m of extra income was "mostly government funding" which could not be included in the overall figure, and that his party had only agreed to the measures "in extremis".
He added the council was "making cuts and not having discussions [with relevant bodies] about what needs to be done".
"We would not have carried on as a member of the budget working group, because we do not believe these fundamental discussions are being held," he said.
"We will continue to make cuts unless we have intelligent discussions with users about how you can make savings."
Consultation will now start on the proposals and they will be considered by the mayoral select committee on 12 February and the cabinet on 22 February.
The Liverpool boxer was put down in the second round and suffered a bad cut to his eye in the third but recovered to trouble the American in the ninth.
Sosa won on points with the judges scoring 116-111, 117-110 and 116-112.
Briton Jamie McDonnell defended his WBA bantamweight title for a fifth time with victory over Liborio Solis.
The judges scored 116-112, 115-113 and 117-111 in the 30-year-old's favour, but the Venezuelan's early dominance suggested it was a far closer contest.
McDonnell told Sky Sports: "I never ever thought he was taking control."
Elsewhere on the card in Monaco, Briton Martin Murray won the vacant WBA Continental super-middleweight title by beating Nuhu Lawal also on points.
The German boxer, given only three days' notice after Russian Dmitrii Chudinov pulled out with a virus, was rocked by the St Helens boxer in the ninth round but recovered to complete the full 12 rounds.
Cuban heavyweight Luis Ortiz claimed the vacant WBA inter-continental heavyweight title with an victory over American Malik Scott after what was a turgid spectacle.
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Scott, 36, who made his professional debut in 2000, barely landed scoring punches and was on the canvas on three occasions. However, he fought for 12 rounds in a slow-tempo contest against an opponent who produced very few combinations.
Judges scored 120-105, 120-106 and 119-106 in Ortiz's favour, as the boxer extended his winning run to 26 straight wins.
"Malik came to survive and in my opinion he was afraid from round one," promoter Eddie Hearn told Sky Sports.
Ortiz is set to fight in Manchester on 10 December as part of the undercard to Briton Anthony Joshua's IBF heavyweight title defence against Eric Molina.
First choice Scott Fox is facing at least two months on the sidelines with knee ligament damage.
Gary Woods has been deputising, but 30-year-old Konopka could find himself in the squad to face Hibernian.
The deal is subject to international clearance, but a work permit is not required as he has a Polish passport.
New Jersey-born Konopka was released at the end of last season by Major League Soccer club Toronto having played only 22 times since joining from Philadelphia Union in 2013.
He has previous experience of European football having joined Sporting Fingal in the Republic of Ireland after starting his career with Jersey Falcons then Kansas City Wizards.
Konopka also played for Waterford United before returning to the United States with New York Red Bulls.
He recently had a trial with DC United in Florida.
Now he will vie with Woods, who is on loan from Leyton Orient, for a starting place at Hampden Park on Sunday.
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Premier League club West Ham were close to signing Barton after his release by Queens Park Rangers this summer.
But Clarets boss Sean Dyche confirmed on Thursday they had been in talks with the 32-year-old for eight weeks before announcing he had arrived at Turf Moor.
Barton said he had no hesitation in wanting to work with Dyche, adding: "He's the most impressive guy I've sat in front of for a long, long time."
The ex-Manchester City and Newcastle player had a spell on loan at Marseille during 2012-13 and earned an England cap in 2007.
"I'm delighted we have Joey on board," Dyche told the club website.
"He was very respectful when speaking about us at the end of last season and during the summer.
"He is player who is in demand and who others think highly of.
"I know there is other stuff to his life and character, but on the pitch I think everyone speaks well of him."
The club revealed that the deal was sealed after Dyche cooked lunch for Barton on Wednesday.
Barton added: "We spoke at length about football over lunch. I knew as soon as I left his house that I wanted to play for Burnley."
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The 37-year-old's five catches in Nottinghamshire's Championship win over Warwickshire took him to 998.
When Read reaches the target, he will be the first player to do so since Jack Russell in 1997.
"It's close isn't it? I am maybe thinking about it more now and willing people to find the edge," Read said.
"I probably won't do a lot. I will probably throw the ball up a little bit higher than I might normally do," he told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"But, at the same time, I am so excited by this group of bowlers. The way Jake Ball bowled against Warwickshire was brilliant.
"If he keeps that up I am sure there will be more edges coming my way."
Read's chance to become the 26th player in history to reach 1,000 dismissals will come when Notts start a Championship game against Durham at Trent Bridge on 9 September.
The former England keeper, who missed part of the season with a hamstring injury, is currently leading Nottinghamshire's batting averages, with 762 runs in 16 innings at an average of 63.50.
And he reached a milestone with the bat this week, when his 69 against Warwickshire saw him pass 15,000 first-class runs.
Read, who has three centuries this season, added: "I didn't feel it was a big thing but everyone was 'yeah, that's a lot of runs'.
"For me, we talk about landmarks, but that wasn't one I was eyeing up at all.
"I am in really good form at the moment and I have always said that when you are in form, you need to make it pay.
"There are times in your career when you have lows, you don't know where your next run is coming from, so you really need to make those times count."
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Former Rangers captain Barry Ferguson would welcome the call to be new manager Pedro Caixinha's assistant.
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Phil Collins has made his stage appearance since his retirement - by performing at his sons' school music concert.
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Communities First, the flagship policy aimed at boosting deprived communities across Wales, is set to be dropped.
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Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has reopened after a 10-year renovation, with the media hailing it "a triumph" and "profoundly transformed".
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Brazilian football star Bruno Fernandes has gone on trial, accused of ordering the killing of a former lover whose body has never been found.
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Iran's 12 vice-presidents run organisations linked to the presidency.
There has been only one female cabinet member since Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979.
The cabinet, which must be approved by parliament, also lacks Sunni members. Sunnis are 10% of Shia-majority Iran.
Masumeh Ebtekar has been named vice-president for family and women's affairs, Laya Joneydi is vice-president for legal affairs and Shahindokht Mowlaverdi is the president's assistant for civil rights.
Ms Mowlaverdi had said the all-male cabinet showed that Iran was "treading water". Both she and Ms Ebtekar were vice-presidents in Mr Rouhani's previous government.
Reformists believe the lack of diversity in the new cabinet is a sign that Mr Rouhani is bowing to pressure from Iran's religious establishment.
Lawmakers are not expected to challenge the chosen cabinet, as key roles are filled with the approval of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Mr Rouhani beat hardliner Ebrahim Raisi to the presidency in May after vowing to improve Iran's civil liberties and rebuild ties with the West.
At a conference in February titled "Women, Moderation and Development", he called for a greater female presence in politics and culture.
The only woman to hold a cabinet position in Iran since 1979 was former health minister Marzieh Dastjerdi, who served from 2009-13 under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - Mr Roujhani's hardline predecessor.
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Iran President Hassan Rouhani has appointed three women as vice-presidents and one as a civil rights assistant following criticism of his all-male cabinet.
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They had been due to play the first of three gigs at the city's SSE Arena on Tuesday.
But, as BBC News NI's Martin Cassidy reports, it was called off at the last minute when most of the audience was already inside the venue after band member Liam Payne became ill.
Most of those on the course were 17 and 18-year-olds hoping to use their mark from their studies to go to university.
Inverness College UHI said quality assurance processes were in place, adding that the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) was investigating.
A spokesman for the SQA said the nationally-available 2016 Higher Media assessment had "performed as intended".
Twenty students signed up for the Inverness College UHI-run and marked course.
Many of the students were young people in rural areas who received tuition online, but also had to make frequent visits to the college in Inverness from where they lived in places such as Lochaber.
A father of one of the students said that, following postings by his daughter on social media about her no award for her work, at least 10 others had come forward to say they had also been given a no award for their course work.
He told BBC News Scotland online that about five other people who sat the same course at Inverness College UHI last year had also been in touch to say the same thing had happened to them.
The situation meant his daughter not being able to secure a place at the University of Glasgow, but she will be able to take up an offer from another university because of qualifications she gained at school.
But her father said there were others who did the college-run media course who were less fortunate and were now "in limbo" and unsure if their course work would be re-examined and then given a mark that would allow them to take up university places.
Inverness College UHI is part of the University of the Highlands and Islands.
Diane Rawlinson, principal and chief executive at Inverness College UHI, said: "We take exam results and student success very seriously. This is evidenced by the excellent HMIE report we received earlier this year as well as the year-on-year improvements to attainment levels we have achieved in both Further and Higher education.
"As we do every year, we are undertaking a review of all published results, comparing them against those projected for each student.
"In the case of this particular course, the usual quality assurance processes were in place and the awarding body verifier recently reported 'significant strengths in the delivery and management of this award' and confirmed that 'assessment judgements were consistent with the national standards set'.
"SQA are currently investigating this matter at our request."
A spokesman for the SQA said: "We are happy that the 2016 Higher Media assessment performed as intended and it provided candidates with the opportunity to show their understanding of the subject.
"Many candidates performed strongly and we saw a slight increase in the A-C attainment rate compared to the same qualification last year.
"It was designed in line with past and exemplar papers and according to our course and assessment specifications."
Yazdani, 21, trailed 6-0 after the first period but levelled with three seconds of the match left and eventually won on countback.
His victory gave Iran its first wrestling gold at Rio 2016, adding to three bronze medals.
Geduev, a three-time European champion, had been the favourite.
Earlier on Friday he had pulled off a stunning upset when he defeated the heavily fancied Jordan Burroughs of the United States, the Olympic champion in 2012.
Azerbaijan's Jabrayil Hasanov and Turkey's Soner Demirtas won their bronze-medal bouts, beating Uzbek Bekzod Abdurakhmonov and Kazakh Galymzhan Usserbayev respectively.
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It stands in stark contrast to asteroid 2012 DA14, whose attention-grabbing but harmless pass on Friday evening GMT had been accurately predicted for months.
But take note of its name. Near-Earth objects like these have for a number of years been named starting with the year of their discovery; we only found out about this Olympic-swimming-pool-sized rock kicking around in our cosmic neighbourhood a year ago.
A month before that, one called 2012 BX34 whizzed by at a distance of 65,000km (41,000mi) - that one had only been discovered two days before.
And a few years before that, an 80-tonne space rock called 2008 TC3 ploughed into the Earth's atmosphere, largely burning up and scattering fragments over the Sudan - just 20 hours after it was discovered.
The list goes on. The point is that astronomers say that we don't know anything about 5 or 10% of the near-Earth asteroids that are larger than 1km in size - 20 times larger and radically heavier than this week's visitor. That's possible civilisation-ending stuff.
Below that 1km size, the fraction of as-yet undiscovered objects gets a lot larger.
"People think that in this day and age we've got this problem covered," said Stephen Lowry of the University of Kent. "We're far from covering this problem."
The good news is that below a certain size, depending on what they're made of, some near-Earth asteroids don't pose any danger, burning up as they pass through the atmosphere. Friday's example in Russia was not actually too far above that threshold.
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But there's still a considerable gap in our knowledge of space rocks that size and larger. The truth is, even if back in 1908 we had the current array of "surveys" that are constantly scanning the skies, we might well have missed the 100m-wide space rock that devastated a region in Siberia as large as Greater London - the Tunguska event.
"The key number is objects around a hundred or a few hundred metres," said Dr Lowry. "Those are the ones we need to be really worried about, and trying to observe the skies more so we can catalogue all of them. But we're quite a way off actually doing that."
Some help is potentially at hand - the dedicated Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System or Atlas, designed to give at least a few days' notice of impending asteroids by scanning the whole sky every night.
And as Alan Fitzsimmons of Queens University Belfast points out, the existing surveys are slowly chipping away at the problem.
"We must remember that the surveys that are going on are... doing a fantastic job, as we can tell by the fact that we're now at more than 800 new objects every year... without those, we'd know of very few of the more than 9,000 objects we have on our books," he told BBC News.
Yet, I ask, couldn't we be taken by surprise in the middle of the night by a completely devastating, completely unknown asteroid?
"Yes we could, and in fact the most likely scenario at the moment is that the next impact will occur with very little warning," he said.
Because the big ones are more likely to be known, the odds are in our favour on that one.
And any notice at all would help - thanks in large part to the contribution of amateur asteroid enthusiasts who plot out the precise paths of asteroids spotted by those surveys, we know a lot more about how to mitigate the effects of an eventual impact.
Prof Fitzsimmons recalled the situation with 2008 TC3, which hit less than a day after it was discovered.
"Although we couldn't do anything in terms of deflecting it - and didn't need to, it was only a few metres across - within a few hours the impact point and the exact time of impact were known incredibly accurately.
"What that did show us is that if we did spot one of these object on an impact trajectory, we do have the capability to assess its risk."
As Dr Lowry puts it, however, an eventual impact scenario, even if we know ahead of time, is inescapable.
"It is a mathematical certainty that one of these objects will hit at some point in the future - asteroids have been hitting Earth throughout its history, and we're fairly sure major impacts have been responsible for one major extinction," he said.
"Mankind has always had this gun pointed at its head; we're just lucky we're in a time when we have the technological capability to search for these things and try and develop a way of dealing with them.
"But don't lose any sleep about it."
Yn ôl adroddiadau, Kevin a Ruth Burke, gŵr a gwraig o bentre Hulcote ger Milton Keynes, a thri aelod arall o'r teulu, oedd yn teithio yn yr hofrennydd.
Cafodd yr hofrennydd ei ganfod ym mynyddoedd Y Rhinogydd, yn ardal Ardudwy yn gynharach ddydd Iau.
Mae Cangen Ymchwiliadau Damweiniau Awyr wedi dechrau ymchwilio i achos y ddamwain.
Roedd yr hofrennydd ar ei ffordd o Luton i Ddulyn ddydd Mercher pan gollodd awdurdodau hedfan cysylltiad ag e yng nghyffiniau Bae Caernarfon.
Bu Gwylwyr y Glannau a thimau achub yn chwilio am yr hofrennydd ar y tir a'r môr tan yn hwyr nos Fercher, a bore Iau, cyn dod o hyd iddo ger Trawsfynydd.
Dywedodd yr heddlu bod timau achub wedi bod yn gweithio mewn amodau arswydus ac mewn "tirwedd beryglus ac anodd" yn ne Eryri.
Yn y cyfamser, dywedodd Heddlu Gogledd Cymru ei bod hi'n bosib y bydd yn rhaid iddyn nhw roi'r gorau i'r ymdrechion i symud cyrff y pump fu farw am y tro, oherwydd bod y tywydd yn gwaethygu yn yr ardal.
Dywedodd yr Uwch-arolygydd Gareth Evans: "Oherwydd bod y tirwedd yn anghysbell, ac oherwydd amodau tywydd gwael a'r ffaith bod angen gwneud y gwaith yn sensitif a gydag urddas, fe allai hyn gymryd amser.
"Nid yn unig fod y gwaith yma'n bwysig i'r teuluoedd, ond hefyd i'r ymchwiliad, gan y gallai helpu i adnabod unrhyw ffactorau a gyfrannodd at hyn.
"Dydy'r cyrff ddim wedi eu hadnabod yn ffurfiol eto, ac fe allai hynny gymryd peth amser.
"Mae teuluoedd pawb oedd ar yr hofrennydd yn cael cefnogaeth arbenigol ac yn cael eu diweddaru am y datblygiadau."
The bill proposed that everyone would be on the organ donation register unless they opted out.
Ms Dobson has accused Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) of joining together to effectively kill off the bill.
She said it was a "missed opportunity".
"They have gutted it and left nothing of the bill intact," she said.
"I am not disappointed for me, I am disappointed for the army of volunteers, those people who are waiting for an organ out there, the hope they had that finally this assembly would deliver a good news story to make something happen to save lives."
DUP MLA Alastair Ross said the committee had listened to a number of medical experts in relation to the issue.
"I think what has happened is the health committee has had the opportunity to speak to the experts and examine the evidence," he added.
"Having done that, they have come to the same conclusion that I did over three years ago, that it is unnecessary and potentially counter-productive.
"I think out of all of this we need to listen to the clinicians who are working in transplant, who are working in organ donation and when they tell us that they don't want a bill like this we have to listen to them."
Sinn Féin MLA Maeve McLaughlin said "robust legislation" was needed to increase the number of organ donors.
"All parties are committed to increasing the availability of organs for people requiring transplants which are life saving and life changing," she said.
"The organ donation bill as it currently stands remains on course to achieve that objective as it places a responsibility on the health minister to promote organ donation through education and awareness raising on this sensitive issue."
Some of Northern Ireland's most senior clinicians have been warning Stormont's health committee that the bill is unhelpful and potentially damaging.
Tim Brown, a transplant surgeon at the City Hospital in Belfast, said he had an issue with a presumed consent system for organ donation.
The government offered the mutineers an immediate bonus payment of five million CFA francs (£6500; $8,400) for the 8,400 mutineers and a further two million CFA francs at the end of June.
They had previously rejected a settlement put forward by the government on Monday night.
Since Friday soldiers have been shooting in the air and setting up road blocks.
One person was killed by a stray bullet on Sunday after mutinous troops seized control of Bouaké, the country's second largest city.
The BBC's Tamasin Ford reports from the commercial capital, Abidjan, that soldiers had been terrifying residents in major cities around the country over the last few days.
The former rebels, now embedded in the army, who fought for years to get President Alassane Ouattara to power, were angry at the scrapping of a deal agreed in January to give them back pay and bonuses.
On Tuesday the government finally gave in, giving them exactly what they want, our correspondent reports.
The mutineers helped the president take office in 2011. The former rebels make up about 8,400 of Ivory Coast's 22,000-strong army.
Pro-government forces had backed off from advancing towards Bouaké, the epicentre of the mutiny, apparently because they want to avoid a fight, our correspondent adds.
On Sunday, armed forces' chief of staff General Sékou Touré vowed to end the mutiny, but the mutineers said they would fight back if loyalist troops intervened.
Mutineers at the army headquarters in Abidjan's financial district, near the presidential palace, had been shooting in the air, forcing schools and offices to shut.
Gunfire was also heard at the Akouedo barracks, in a suburb where many middle-class Ivorians and expats live.
Pro-government forces responded by closing roads in the city, while French troops were deployed to guard French-owned transport firm Bollore, a major investor in Ivory Coast.
Other areas hit by unrest included San Pedro, the biggest cocoa exporting city in the world, and Daloa, a major trading hub in Ivory Coast's cocoa belt.
The mutiny raised fears of a resurgence of the violence seen during Ivory Coast's 10-year civil war, which ended in 2011.
Pro-Ouattara forces from Bouaké swept into Abidjan at the time, helping Mr Ouattara take office after his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo refused to accept defeat in elections.
Many of the rebels were rewarded for their backing by being given jobs in the army.
Thakor, 22, was the club's leading wicket-taker in both limited-overs formats in 2015, taking 15 T20 Blast wickets and 11 in the One-Day Cup.
Elite performance director Graeme Welch said: "Shiv is another exciting young talent we have.
"He now has a big summer ahead to build on the experiences of 2015."
Thakor joined Derbyshire from Leicestershire prior to the 2015 season.
Junaid Jamshed, who quit music to join a deeply conservative Sunni Muslim group, made his remarks in a video.
Another Sunni Muslim group accuses him of blasphemy. He has since apologised.
Blasphemy allegations are hugely sensitive in Pakistan. Those convicted face a potential death sentence.
The laws on blasphemy are often used to settle scores or target members of Pakistan's minorities.
But the BBC's Shaima Khalil in Islamabad says what makes Junaid Jamshed's case so unusual is the fact that he is a high-profile, wealthy Muslim preacher.
In his video broadcast, which has since been widely shared, he appeared to make negative remarks about the Prophet's youngest wife Ayesha.
He described how Ayesha demanded attention from the Prophet and how one day she faked an illness.
The video led to another Muslim group, Sunni Tehrik, filing the blasphemy case.
Junaid Jamshed - who is called "Disco Mullah" because of his role with the Tablighi Jamaat organisation - released a further video after the incident pleading for forgiveness.
"I confess to my mistake. I did not do it intentionally," he said.
"With a clean heart I ask that Allah forgive me and I beg and beseech all Muslims to forgive me. This was not on purpose."
But the complainant, Sunni Tehrik spokesman Mohammad Mobeen Qadri, told BBC Urdu that an apology could not stop the legal process once blasphemy had been committed.
Before embarking on his religious career, Jamshed was a member of Vital Signs, a number of whose songs and albums topped the charts.
He is currently incommunicado and his whereabouts are unclear, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad reports.
"Now the case is with the investigators," Mehmood Ahmed, a police officer in Karachi, told Reuters news agency.
"We will have to arrest Junaid Jamshed and it is up to him if he moves bail and goes to court against this."
From pop star to preacher
Additional reporting by M Ilyas Khan
They found fish that were less able to produce fast burst-type swimming to evade capture were more likely to end up in trawlers' nets.
The data could help answer questions about fisheries-induced evolutionary change in fish populations, they added.
The findings appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal.
"What we were interested in, within a trawling scenario, was whether there was a variation among the fish in terms of how likely they were to be captured," explained lead author Shaun Killen from the University of Glasgow.
"We looked at what role individual physiology played in determining which fish were captured and which ones were not."
Trawling for answers
Writing in their paper, Dr Killen and colleagues observed: "Selective harvest of animals by humans probably represents one of the strongest drivers of evolutionary change for wild animals."
They added that previous studies had suggested that hunting and fishing could lead to genetic changes within wild populations.
In lab-based experiments, the team carried out simulated trawl fishing on schools of wild minnows (Phoxinus phoxinus).
"We did find that there was a lot of variation, and it was repeatable too - there were some fish that were consistently captured by trawling and there were some that were never captured," Dr Killen said.
The next question the team considered was whether this was related to any aspect of the physiology of the fish, such as their swimming performance or metabolic rate.
Dr Killen revealed: "The fish that were most able to escape a simulated trawl where the ones that where really good anaerobic athletes.
"If you think about Olympic athletes, sprinters will be the ones that have a really good anaerobic capacity whereas the long-distance runners will be more aerobic.
"We found that the ones that were capable of really fast bursts of movement were the ones most able to avoid capture."
He explained that there was a growing body of evidence suggesting fish populations that had experienced a lot of fishing pressure seemed to be maturing earlier and smaller, adding "there is a big question as to whether or not that is an evolutionary effect of fishing pressure".
The team used their study to measure the fishes' vulnerability to fishing gear.
"Think of the vulnerability as a trait of an individual animal," Dr Killen added. "If all the fish were equal in terms of how likely they were to be captured then you would not have anything to worry about."
Although the study focused on whether there was variability within the school of minnows when it came to vulnerability, Dr Killen said it did raise questions about "fisheries-induced evolution".
"Many other factors that need to be considered, but there is a reason why some fish were better swimmers than others. But what will the trade-off be?
"If you start selecting for fish to become better swimmers, they might need more energy just to live so their baseline metabolic rates might go up, they might grow slower or they might have a lower reproductive output - these are the things that we just don't know but there is bound to be some sort of trade-off."
Mr Martin, who shares the same name as the lead singer of the band, tweeted: "To the 500 Indian followers I gained in the last day I'm not in Coldplay."
He also updated his Twitter profile to read, "currently HUGE in India".
He told the BBC that a lot of his new followers are "laughing with me and a surprising amount feel sorry for me".
"A few have pointed out that me and him look similar. I don't see it, but I guess we are both skinny white men with some half baked facial hair," the British comedian said.
Mr Martin has been retweeting some of the more humorous responses he has been getting from India, including one that read: "Why do all white men look the same?"
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He says that despite his clarifications a lot of his followers seem to have stuck around.
"Pity followers I call them. But I'll take them. Since it's been in the media a few have jumped on the bandwagon. Everyone is welcome in my follower crew."
Some of them have even gone to his website and watched his stand-up clips but not everyone is a fan.
"One guy said he didn't find it at all funny but then called me 'buddy'. Quite possibly the politest online troll I've ever had," he said.
Mr Martin has more than 13,000 followers on Twitter.
The corroded flares had been dumped at the tip on St Mary's.
The bomb squad flew over earlier and detonated them, Sgt Colin Taylor wrote on the Isles of Scilly police Facebook page.
He said: "There may be some small explosions heard from at Deep Point this morning." Investigations were under way to find those responsible.
Mr Enoch, real name Mike Peinovich, has been criticised for promoting white nationalism and making disparaging comments about Jews and Muslims.
He is scheduled to speak at a nationalist convention, DingoCon, in July, according to a Facebook page called the Australian Fascist.
George Christensen, a conservative MP, has said he should be denied a visa.
"Like radical Islamic sheikhs that come here to spread messages of hate, these people should not be allowed into the country," Mr Christensen told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has the power to refuse a visa to anyone deemed "not to be of good character".
Asked whether Mr Enoch had applied for a visa, Mr Dutton's department said it did not comment on individual cases.
Australia has previously denied or cancelled visas to people including anti-abortion campaigner Troy Newman, "pick-up artist" Julien Blanc and singer Chris Brown.
He is a US writer responsible for a podcast called the Daily Shoah - a reference to the Holocaust.
The podcast has promoted white supremacy and denigrated religious and non-white groups.
The Anti-Defamation League, an anti-bigotry group, has described the website which hosts the podcast as "racist and anti-Semitic", crediting it with encouraging widespread abuse on social media.
In January, Mr Enoch's identity was revealed as Mike Peinovich, a former tech worker who lives in New York.
A convention organised by The Dingoes, an Australian ultra-nationalist group operating anonymously on the internet.
Tickets to the conference have been advertised for A$88 (£50; $65). The number 88 is reference to "heil Hitler" - as "h" is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
The Dingoes describe themselves as "politically-incorrect larrikins in our national tradition who take great enjoyment in ridiculing the grievance-mongering of our media and imported popular culture".
Mr Christensen said he regretted appearing on a podcast run by the group in February.
"It has since been pointed out to me they're extremely anti-Semitic, regularly make racial-based slurs and they subscribe to white nationalism," he told the ABC on Monday.
Its arrival was signalled by a fibre optic cable poked through a hole in the front room wall by a TalkTalk engineer just a few minutes ago. Now the needle on the speed test I'm running on my phone swings further and further to the right and gives me a spectacular reading - 319 Mbps download and an even more astounding upload speed of 243Mbps.
This kind of speed has been made possible by an experiment in York which could spark a change in direction for the UK's broadband strategy. That's certainly the ambition of TalkTalk and Sky, the two firms working with a fibre specialist Cityfibre to roll out a new fast broadband network, designed to reach 20,000 homes in the city.
Anywhere outside York, both firms are dependent for their broadband infrastructure on BT's Openreach division - which they've attacked for delivering a poor service and tying Britain into the wrong strategy. They have lobbied hard to persuade Ofcom that Openreach should be split off from BT, and we will hear the regulator's thinking on that next Thursday.
The York network is designed to demonstrate that fibre to the home - deemed too expensive an option by BT for most of the country - can be rolled out quickly and economically. The Cityfibre team are using a technique called micro-trenching to lay the cable. We watched as they cut a narrow channel down a pavement in the Huntington area of York, moving much faster than would be possible for a conventional cabling operation.
As for the customer, TalkTalk is offering a price of £21.70 a month including line rental for its ultrafast broadband, no more than its standard connection which it buys at a wholesale price from BT Openreach. Jessica North, a young mother with two small children, said the speed was attractive as the family used a number of devices and her husband did a lot of online gaming. But it was the price that was decisive in persuading the family to move from their existing supplier Virgin Media.
Now BT is going down a different cheaper route to the superfast broadband future, relying mainly on Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) where dozens, perhaps hundreds of homes are connected via a copper cable to a fibre hub in a green box by the side of the road. With York's Gigabit City trial only expected to reach about a quarter of homes, most will still be dependent on the FTTC option which offers speeds of up to 78Mbps.
I was surprised to find, however, that BT Openreach has made its own FTTP option available in York - and in the same areas that TalkTalk and Sky are building their fibre network. But that is sold by its arms-length customer BT Retail at a hefty price - about £60 per month including line rental, so I can't imagine people like Jessica North will be snapping it up.
What then can we learn from what's happening in York about the best way forward for our broadband future? At last there is some competition for BT in providing a fast broadband network, which must be good news. But while that £21.70 per month for a raging fast connection sounds great - is it really an economic price for TalkTalk and will it be available elsewhere?
I've seen a suggestion from their joint venture partner Sky that it costs £800 to hook each home up to an FTTP (Fibre to the Premises) service, so it may be a challenge to make profits in York, let alone in more rural areas. And while BT's record in using government money to roll out superfast broadband to rural Britain has been criticised, rivals like TalkTalk and Sky aren't exactly rushing to do the job.
And here's the big question - would the separation of Openreach from BT make any difference to investment in broadband in York or elsewhere? TalkTalk, Sky and some competition experts believe an independent Openreach would have more focus on its customers, and would hence make bigger and better investment decisions.
BT counters that the whole tortuous process of dividing up its business would impede progress at a crucial time in the rollout of fast broadband. It points to other countries - New Zealand, Singapore and Australia - which have tried the same kind of separation as is being proposed here and claims the results in terms of broadband rollout have been either unsuccessful or extremely expensive.
Ofcom's chief executive Sharon White has been weighing up all these rival claims, and we should find out on Thursday what she thinks of them. Whatever the results of her Strategic Review of Digital Communications, we can expect the arguments about Britain's broadband strategy to continue for years.
There was more bad news for the aerospace sector after German airline Lufthansa issued a profit warning.
Lufthansa's shares sank more than 7% in Germany, while in London British Airways owner IAG fell 3.1%.
The main FTSE 100 index closed down 34.68 points, or 0.5%, at 6,838.87.
The sell-off in the airline sector also hit Flybe, which fell 1.8% despite the carrier reporting its first annual profit for four years.
Flybe reported a pre-tax profit of £8.1m for the year to 31 March, compared with a loss of £41.1m a year earlier.
Shares in Sainsbury's rose 1%, despite the supermarket reporting a fall in like-for-like sales for the second quarter in a row.
The company said first quarter like-for-like sales excluding petrol dropped 1.1%, but the decline was not as bad as analysts had feared.
Betfair shares rose 1% after the betting exchange reported better-than-expected earnings.
Underlying earnings for the year to 30 April rose 24% to £91.1m, and Betfair said it hoped the World Cup would boost trade.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.2% against the dollar to $1.6791 and climbed 0.3% against the euro to 1.2409 euros.
Senior doctors and nurses will be able to see people for conditions like stroke and chest conditions, while GPs and emergency nurses will treat patients in the minor injuries unit.
The work is part of the hospital's £1.4m Front of House project.
Patients will get into the minor injuries unit via the old accident and emergency entrance.
The new assessment unit has been built at the back of the hospital and patients can be brought there by ambulance, referred by their GP or referred from the minor injuries unit if they need to see a senior doctor.
There was strong opposition to the plans to make changes to the accident and emergency department at the hospital when Hywel Dda Local Health Board announced it, including an unsuccessful legal challenge.
The chief executive and two others are on leave on full pay after the Wales Audit Office (WAO) declared their salary rises unlawful in 2013.
So far, more than £1.7m has gone towards their pay and another £752,000 has been spent on legal costs.
Officers are recommending councillors set aside another £263,000 if the case is not resolved by the end of June.
A full council meeting on Tuesday will be asked to approve the additional money, to cover further salary and legal costs.
It would take the total cost to the equivalent of £32 per household in the county borough.
Chief executive Anthony O'Sullivan, his deputy Nigel Barnett and head of legal services Daniel Perkins were suspended after the WAO declared their pay rises unlawful.
It was claimed they agreed to give themselves a 20% increase when most other council staff faced pay freezes.
A criminal case, involving charges of misconduct in public offices, was dropped in 2015.
An internal investigation into the three senior officers is now under way.
The final decision will be made by an investigating and disciplinary committee made up of Caerphilly councillors, which is being advised by a barrister.
A spokesman for Caerphilly council said: "The ongoing disciplinary investigation into three senior officers has resulted in additional costs to the authority totalling £2.5m to date.
"It is important to note that a portion of these costs were incurred during the police investigation which lasted over two years.
"During this time the council was advised that it was unable to undertake its own proceedings and therefore the timescales have extended beyond what was originally anticipated.
"All appropriate steps are being taken to progress this matter as quickly as possible, but the investigation must be conducted fairly and thoroughly in accordance with an agreed statutory process."
A joint UK and US team was able to create new hairs from tissue samples.
Far more research is needed, but the group said its technique had the "potential to transform" the treatment of hair loss.
The study results were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
There are baldness therapies including drugs to slow the loss of hairs, and transplants, which move hair from the back of the head to cover bald spots.
The scientists at the University of Durham, in the UK, and Columbia University Medical Centre, in the US, were trying to actually grow new hairs.
Their plan was to start with material taken from the base of a hair and use it to grow many new hairs.
But human hair has been tricky to grow despite successes in animal studies.
Whenever human tissue was taken from the dermal papillae, the cells which form the base of each hair follicle, the cells would transform into skin instead of growing new hairs.
However, the group found that by clumping the cells together in "3D spheroids" they would keep their hairy identity.
Tissue was taken from seven people and grown in 3D spheroids. These were then transplanted into human skin which had been grafted on to the backs of mice.
After six weeks, new hair follicles formed in five out of the seven cases and some new tiny hairs began to form.
Prof Colin Jahoda, from Durham University, told the BBC a cure for baldness was possible but it was too soon for men to be hanging up the toupee.
"It's closer, but it's still some way away because in terms of what people want cosmetically they're looking for re-growth of hair that's the same shape, the same size, as long as before, the same angle. Some of these are almost engineering solutions.
"Yeah I think it [baldness] will eventually be treatable, absolutely."
He added: "It's hard to say exactly how long that would take, but the fact that we've done it now should reawaken interest."
Any future therapy would involve transplanting cells which have been grown in the laboratory so safety is a concern.
There would be a risk of infection and the cells could become abnormal, or even cancerous, while being grown.
Baldness cures may not be the first application of the research. Prof Jahoda believes the findings will be used to improve the quality of skin grafts used after severe burns.
Prof Angela Christiano, from Columbia University, said: "This approach has the potential to transform the medical treatment of hair loss.
"Current hair-loss medications tend to slow the loss of hair follicles or potentially stimulate the growth of existing hairs, but they do not create new hair follicles.
"Our method, in contrast, has the potential to actually grow new follicles using a patient's own cells."
The 40-year-old, named only as Niels H under German reporting rules, was convicted of attempted murder in 2006 and murder in 2015.
His victims received lethal drug doses at units where he worked.
Relatives of patients who died in clinics where he worked had urged police to investigate further.
A commission was set up in 2014 to investigate the scale of his crimes, which could make him Germany's worst post-war killer.
The medication caused heart failure or the collapse of patients' circulatory systems.
Judges said he was motivated by a desire to win approval by resuscitating the patients he had drugged.
During his 2015 trial, he admitted applying the drug to about 90 people at an intensive care clinic in the town of Delmenhorst.
Police say the abnormalities stretch back to 2000 at another clinic in Oldenburg.
They said staff had a meeting there in 2001 to discuss the strange levels of deaths and resuscitations, but did not report the levels to police, and Niels H was able to move to the Delmenhorst clinic.
A special police commission was set up in 2014 to investigate the case.
It has been analysing hundreds of medical records and exhumed 134 bodies to test samples for drug residue.
The investigations have been made more difficult because many patients were cremated.
"The findings continue to breach any imagination," said Oldenburg police chief Johann Kuhme. "It is simply not possible to say how many people were killed."
Mr Kuhme warned the number could still rise further. The new charges are now likely to be filed at the beginning of 2018, he said.
York council said "the quality of care and welfare" of children at Little Joes in Fishergate and Heworth House in Melrosegate was being investigated.
The police, council and Ofsted are conducting an inquiry and said there was no suggestion of sexual abuse.
The nurseries' owner Lynn Drydal said she was "completely shocked".
Joe Cocker, manager of City of York Safeguarding Children Board, said several staff at both nurseries had been suspended, but would not confirm how many.
Ms Drydal said she had asked "several girls" who worked there to stay at home.
She said: "I felt best to comply with the welfare requirements regarding the safety and looking after children and also that of my staff, I have asked several girls if they would be strong, be resilient, that I am behind them 110%, but if they could just stay at home until I find out precisely what is happening."
Ms Drydal said she had not been told what the allegations were and that it had had a "horrendous" effect on her business.
She added: "I would like this investigation to be moved on so I can try and build back up the business which I have had ruined."
A joint statement from the board, North Yorkshire Police, City of York Council and Ofsted said parents had been told about the inquiry.
The statement said: "Where there is a specific concern, families have been contacted personally."
It continued: "The inquiries relate to the running of the nurseries, the quality of care and the welfare of children who attend the nurseries."
As part of the investigation, both nurseries have been visited by North Yorkshire Police, Ofsted and City of York Safeguarding Board, the statement added.
It said: "Following the visits, a number of staff members have been suspended by their employer pending further inquiries."
Parents can call City of York Council's Family Information Service, which is available between 08:30 and 17:00 on 01904 554444.
Little Joes takes children from birth to eight years old and has separate preschool, toddler and baby units. It was last inspected by Ofsted in September 2008, when it was rated "good" overall.
The nursery has a capacity for 51 children and employed nine staff at the time of the last inspection.
Heworth House was inspected by Ofsted in May this year, when it was rated "satisfactory".
It is registered to take children from birth to five years and has capacity for 30 children. It employs nine members of staff.
Mar Gudmandsson said the current debt problems in the eurozone were not due to the common currency, but rather a failure in banking regulation.
Iceland is still in recession after its banks collapsed in 2008, forcing their nationalisation.
It opened membership talks with the European Union earlier this year.
Speaking to the BBC World Service, Mr Gudmandsson said Iceland could exist both "inside and outside" the eurozone.
"There is no panacea in terms of the exchange rate regime. You can always get yourself into problems if you try hard enough," he said.
Mr Gudmandsson added that the dramatic fall in the value of Iceland's currency following the banking crisis had been "very difficult" for companies and households, and joining the euro would lessen the exchange rate risk for the financial sector.
The future of the eurozone has been questioned after the Irish Republic became the second eurozone member after Greece to seek a bailout. And some analysts say the debt crisis could worsen and spread to other members, putting the euro at risk.
But Mr Gudmandsson said he didn't believe the common currency was the problem, rather that banks were "undercapitalised... and that regulation and supervision wasn't strict enough".
The European Union has begun membership talks with Iceland, and the country is viewed as having a strong case for joining because of its already close trading and economic links with the EU.
However, it has still not resolved a dispute with the UK and the Netherlands over money owed as a result of the collapse of the Icesave online bank. The two countries want Iceland to reimburse them to the value of £3.1bn ($5bn).
While appreciating that joining the euro could have some positive effects, some in Iceland fear that EU membership could harm the country's traditional fishing and whaling industries.
Meanwhile Iceland's central bank has warned that the banking system is still burdened by large numbers of non-performing loans.
In its latest financial stability report, it says about 39% of commercial bank loans are in default, down from 42% at the start of 2010.
It also says banks should be ready for the withdrawal of deposits by foreign investors once capital controls are relaxed.
The controls were introduced following the crisis to protect the banks and to stabilise Iceland's currency, the krona.
The 20-year-old midfielder will join up with Canadian outfit for pre-season training in Arizona next week.
And he will remain based in his homeland for the campaign, which runs from March until October.
Aird made his Rangers debut in 2012 but has only featured as a substitute on four occasions for the Championship leaders this season.
"Delighted to have signed for @WhitecapsFC on loan for the season," wrote Aird on Twitter. "Looking forward to the challenges ahead. Can't wait to get started."
A boiler house was set for demolition by Coleman & Company when it collapsed in February, killing Ken Cresswell, 57, John Shaw, 61, Michael Collings, 53, and 34-year-old Christopher Huxtable.
Operator RWE NPower said it was ending the demolition contract due to an ongoing investigation.
Coleman & Company agreed it was in the "best interests of all parties".
It had been working at the site for two years before the collapse.
RWE NPower closed the coal-fired facility in March 2013 after 43 years of service, and a programme of demolition work followed.
A major incident was declared at the site on 23 February after the boiler house collapsed.
The remaining section was brought down using explosives in July, but the last of the bodies was not discovered until September.
In a statement, Coleman & Company said: "We will not be continuing with the remaining demolition and site clearance work at Didcot A Power Station.
"We agreed with site owners RWE, that this is in the best interests of all parties.
"We would like to thank RWE for their support over the last two years.
"All staff working at Didcot will be redeployed across the company, on to other major projects."
The cause of the collapse is being investigated jointly by police and the Health and Safety Executive.
An inquest into the deaths is to take place in November at Oxford Coroner's Court.
25 May 2016 Last updated at 08:15 BST
The battle took place in northern France in 1916, and became known as one of the deadliest battles of World War I.
In total, around one million soldiers were killed or wounded on both sides of the fight.
A group of kids have been remembering those who lost their lives during the Battle of the Somme by creating special memory squares with information about the soldiers.
These squares will then be turned into tiles which will create a pathway in Heaton Park in Manchester as part of their remembrance event on 1 July.
Ricky has been finding out more...
The struggling Sky Blues were on course for victory after skipper Jordan Willis converted a Chris McCann cross in the 19th minute.
While that effort did prove enough to snap a run of seven successive League One defeats, Michael Bostwick's dramatic equaliser denied Slade's side victory.
The hosts had been way below par in a game of very few chances. It took until the second minute of the second half for them to test Coventry keeper Lee Burge, who kept out a Lee Angol header.
Burge then saved a 25-yard rocket from Marcus Maddison before a brilliant block prevented Bostwick from slamming in the rebound.
Burge also held a late Ryan Tafazolli effort in a scramble before Bostwick headed in Maddison's cross to rescue Posh a point in the third minute of added time.
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Match ends, Peterborough United 1, Coventry City 1.
Second Half ends, Peterborough United 1, Coventry City 1.
Goal! Peterborough United 1, Coventry City 1. Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marcus Maddison with a cross.
Attempt missed. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ben Stevenson.
Foul by Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United).
Jordan Turnbull (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Dion Kelly-Evans.
Attempt blocked. Chris McCann (Coventry City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Dion Kelly-Evans.
Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United).
Kyel Reid (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marvin Sordell (Coventry City).
Substitution, Coventry City. Marvin Sordell replaces Marcus Tudgay.
Attempt missed. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Andy Rose.
Lee Angol (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dion Kelly-Evans (Coventry City).
Attempt saved. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Dion Kelly-Evans.
Attempt saved. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Jamie Sterry.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Shaquile Coulthirst replaces Tom Nichols.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Callum Chettle replaces Leonardo Da Silva Lopes.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Marcus Maddison replaces Paul Taylor.
Substitution, Coventry City. Jodi Jones replaces George Thomas.
Attempt missed. Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Jordan Turnbull.
Attempt blocked. Chris Forrester (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Chris McCann (Coventry City).
Michael Smith (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Sterry (Coventry City).
Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United).
Chris McCann (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Min Bahadur Sherchan, a former British Gurkha soldier, was trying to reclaim the record from Japan's Yuichiro Miura, who climbed Everest aged 80 in 2013.
Mr Miura broke Mr Sherchan's own record set as a 76-year-old in 2008.
It comes a week after Swiss climber Ueli Steck, 40, died as he prepared to climb the mountain.
Mr Sherchan died at base camp on Saturday afternoon, officials at Nepal's tourism office said. Doctors suspect he suffered a heart attack, the Kathmandu Post newspaper reported.
His long rivalry with Mr Miura - a year his junior - included a 2013 attempt to reclaim the record aged 81 that had to be abandoned after late spring weather conditions worsened.
In 2015 he was on his way to base camp for another attempt when a devastating earthquake struck the country, forcing him and many other climbers to abandon their plans.
"I want to climb Everest to set a record so that it will inspire people to dream big," he told German news agency DPA in March. "This will instil a sense of pride among old people like me."
"My climb will demonstrate that age doesn't stop you from realising your goal."
Mr Sherchan began climbing in 1960, when he ascended Mount Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh-highest mountain at 8,167m (26,795 ft), the Telegraph newspaper reported.
However he was already 72 when he thought about climbing Mount Everest. To prepare, he walked 1,200km (745 miles) across Nepal in 2003, DPA said.
He told DPA that his inspirations were famous Nepali Sherpas Tenzing Norgay - who first reached the top of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953 - and Apa Sherpa, who has climbed the mountain the most times.
Mr Sherchan's guide, Shiva Sapkota, told DPA that he had been in good physical health but had not spent time at high altitude since 2015.
The 21-year-old joined the Cod Army at the start of October and has featured in three games so far.
He moved to the Foxes in 2014 after beginning his career at Port Vale, but he is yet to make his debut for the Premier League side.
Davis, who is the son of Crewe manager Steve, is available for Fleetwood's game at Walsall on Saturday.
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The event features around 3,600 athletes aged between 14 to 18 from 204 countries.
They will compete in the same 26 sports that are represented in the current summer Olympics.
The games were the brainchild of the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, who said before the opening ceremony on Saturday that he felt like an expectant father awaiting the birth of a child.
It was a culmination of his long-term desire to create a global sporting event for young people.
For athletes like 15-year old Jeffrey Lightfoot, who was one of the torchbearers, it's a chance to fulfil a childhood goal.
The aptly named Lightfoot is the captain of the Singapore youth football team. He has been playing soccer competitively since he was seven.
"It's a once in a lifetime opportunity," he says.
"It's a very rare chance to be playing for Singapore and playing for these big Youth Olympic games, because you can only go to the Youth Olympics once in your life."
But behind the hopes of the young athletes are worries over mounting costs and how much interest there would be in these new games.
Singapore won the bid to host the games in a tight race with Moscow more than two years ago, and the government has spent nearly $290m (??186m) on them.
That's three times above the original budget of around $90m which was submitted to the IOC.
It's sparked criticism on internet blogs, one of the few places Singaporeans can voice their frustrations within the tightly-controlled city-state.
The government minister in charge of spending on the games, Vivian Balakrishnan, is unapologetic.
"If I could rewind time, with the benefit of hindsight, I should have budgeted a larger amount in the first place," he says.
"But the real question is if I knew that it was going to cost this amount, would I still have proceeded to bid for the games? The answer is a definite 'yes'."
Mr Balakrishnan, the Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports sees it as a chance to extend Singapore's image as an efficient globally connected city.
"I think this is not a trifling amount," he admits.
"But it is an amount that will give us value for money in terms of positioning ourselves, in terms of marketing ourselves, in terms of making sure we are on everyone's radar screen the next time they make an investment decision, the next time they decide to site an international or regional headquarters or the next time they decide to expand their business."
But, unlike the summer Olympics where the numbers of viewers tuning in from all around the world is more or less known, the fact it is the first time the Youth Olympic games are being held means a risk for both governments and sponsors undertaking the cost.
Ng Ser Miang, the chairman of the Singapore Youth Olympics Organising Committee admits that it was a struggle at first to find companies to spend the money because the games are a first.
"In the case of sponsors, it was slow in the take-up," he says.
"But I think once they know the concept and they understand what these youth Olympics games is all about, we had a good response.
"We managed to raise about 60 million Singapore dollars and I think what is good is that they agree that this is a case where they should promote the games more than their own products."
And that is precisely what a number of the sponsors have done.
Coca Cola says it the longest serving continuous corporate sponsor of the main Olympic Games.
And according to its public affairs director in Singapore, June Kong-Dhanabalan, the goal of the company is to "help raise the awareness and excitement of the games and make some genuine consumer connections".
For the Youth Olympics, Coca Cola has provided cash and products - including more than 1.5 million cans and bottles of its various beverages.
Ms Dhanabalan adds that Coca Cola stands behind the Singaporean organising committee's decision in going "out on a limb".
Also going out on a limb with these new games is Procter & Gamble.
Unlike Coca Cola, they are a new sponsor, having just signed up with the IOC in a 10-year deal last month.
But they had some prior experience, sponsoring Team America at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver this year.
Marc Pritchard, P&G's global branding chief, says that campaign brought in $100m of extra sales for their products, a number which met with their targets.
However they, like other sponsors, will not disclose how much was spent.
Nonetheless, he does not expect the firm to generate as large a sum from the Youth Olympics and has set no targets.
For these games, they have sponsored 25 mothers of young Olympic athletes from around the world, helping with their travel and lodging costs.
No money exchanged hands in the case of Pico, a local events management company that helped set up the many venues being used for the games, including the floating stage for the opening ceremony.
Pico did not pay a fee to be one of the games' sponsors, but did some of their contracted work for free.
"We being a home-grown Singapore company, we want to show that we are a player in this industry," says Jean Chia, the managing director.
"So it is a strategic sponsorship for us because we want to be associated with the Olympic games as well as the Olympic spirit."
It is that spirit that Singapore's government is hoping to will capture audiences around the world.
Minister Balakrishnan admits that being the first to host the games is not without its risk.
"We will have to prove that we made the right decision over the next two weeks."
In a statement, the embassy said consular services in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran would not be available.
It urged US citizens to take extra precautions when travelling in Saudi Arabia and to keep a low profile.
On Friday, the embassy warned that Western oil workers could be the target of militant attacks.
It said it had information that "individuals associated with a terrorist organisation" could be targeting people working in the oil-rich Eastern Province.
The message did not identify the militants.
Saturday's statement did not give details of any specific threat but said: "All US citizens are encouraged to be aware of their surroundings and take extra precautions when travelling throughout the country.
"The Department of State urges US citizens to carefully consider the risks of travelling to Saudi Arabia and limit non-essential travel within the country."
The last security incident in Saudi Arabia involving US citizens happened last October when a disgruntled Saudi-American, dismissed from his job at a US defence contractor in Riyadh, shot two US co-workers, killing one and wounding the other.
It has advised passengers to check with their airline for flight information.
Four fire appliances were sent to the scene after the alarm was raised at about 07:15 local time. There are no reports of any injuries.
There are no further details.
The man, who was in his 50s, collapsed on Swirral Edge leading up to the summit of Helvellyn at 10:30 BST on Saturday.
The Great North Air Ambulance joined volunteers from the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team but the man was found to be dead at the scene.
The air ambulance was also called to Helvellyn after a man in his 50s injured his knee at 15:15.
The aircrew doctor assessed the casualty in the helicopter before he was flown off the hill to a waiting mountain rescue ambulance.
New Communities Secretary Angela Constance said the government would establish the £1m a year fund to help lift people out of poverty.
She said this was part of work to "tackle the causes and not just the symptoms of poverty".
Labour attempted to press an amendment calling for a higher tax rate, but this was voted down by MSPs.
The Scottish government set out its plans to tackle poverty as part of a series of debates on "taking Scotland forward" in the early days of the new Holyrood term.
Ms Constance opened with strong words for the Conservatives, attacking the UK government's austerity programme and describing Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson as "David Cameron's best pal in Scotland".
She said the Scottish government had spent £104m in the past year alone mitigating the effects of Westminster welfare cuts.
She said "deep seated inequality and poverty" was holding Scottish people back, with 940,000 people affected after housing costs, including 210,000 children, which she said was "unacceptable" and "quite simply wrong".
In the week following World Hunger Day, Ms Constance said hunger was a growing element of poverty.
She said the government was working with experts to develop a sustainable food strategy, saying the £1m fund would enable communities across Scotland to "come together to develop empowering solutions to food poverty" and combat social isolation.
The government has also pledged to build 50,000 affordable homes over the full parliament, with 70% of them for social rent.
Speaking for the Scottish Conservatives, new MSP Adam Tomkins said "finger pointing at Westminster" would not solve anything, and insisted the UK-wide Tory policies were working and had helped the poorest.
He said there could not be a welfare system without sanctions, but insisted his party would be supportive of those who could not work.
Mr Tomkins added: "The dignity of the pay packet is much to be preferred to the indignity of a system that assumes you are not fit for the workplace."
He also hit out at SNP "centralisation" of power, saying local people should have a say in the everyday working of services.
Having secured victory with an amendment calling for a fracking ban the previous day, Labour pressed a new amendment calling on Holyrood to "recognise the need for a higher top rate of tax on the richest earners".
Alex Rowley said "eradicating poverty, inequality and deprivation" should be the mission of the Scottish Parliament and government.
He said: "We have a great opportunity to to bring about social justice for all of Scotland, let's make sure that we grasp it."
Alison Johnstone said the Greens looked forward to working with other parties across the chamber to make Scotland a fairer place to live with true equality of opportunity.
And Alex Cole-Hamilton, for the Lib Dems, said constituents looked to politicians to work together to solve inequality, saying it would do them a "profound disservice to trade blows" on the issue.
The debate centred around a motion from Ms Constance, which said parliament should "work together to create a fair and prosperous Scotland, where people flourish and have equality in opportunities".
Labour proposed an amendment which said Holyrood should "recognise the need for a higher top rate of tax for the richest earners, so this can be redistributed to tackle wider inequalities". However, members rejected this by 94 votes to 26.
Mr Tomkins also put forward an amendment calling for a broader housebuilding target of 100,000 houses, including 50,000 affordable ones, but this was rejected by 90 votes to 30.
The unamended motion was then passed by 100 votes to 20.
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Police are still hunting the driver of a van that killed 13 at Barcelona's Las Ramblas. A 14th victim died in a second attack at Cambrils.
Ministers say the jihadist cell behind the attacks has been dismantled.
But police are still hunting for the van driver and an imam missing from a mosque in the town of Ripoll.
The special Mass is being celebrated at the iconic, Gaudi-designed Sagrada Familia.
Some reports in Spanish media say the jihadist cell had intended to target the Sagrada Familia with explosives.
PM Mariano Rajoy is also attending the Mass, where there is tight security.
On Saturday the royal couple laid a wreath at the site of the attack at Las Ramblas, accompanied by Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau and Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont.
Catalonia has always been fiercely independent but the royals' presence brought shouts of "Long live the king!"
The king and queen earlier met victims of the Barcelona attack in the city's Hospital del Mar.
Later on Sunday, Barcelona FC will hold their first league game of the season, with 100,000 expected at the Camp Nou, where there will be a minute's silence.
On Saturday, Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said the jihadist cell behind the attacks, believed to be about 12 strong, had been fully dismantled, despite the continuing search for the driver.
Catalan Interior Minster Joaquim Forn was more circumspect, stressing that the police operation could not be considered over until all those suspected of being part of the cell were in custody.
Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, believed to be the van driver who escaped after the Barcelona attack, remains the focus of the manhunt.
However, there is also a search for an imam of the mosque at Ripoll, the town north of Barcelona where a number of the suspected cell members came from.
The apartment of the imam, Abdelbaki Es Satty, was raided on Saturday.
The imam apparently left the mosque abruptly in June and has not been seen since. The mosque president said he had told him he wanted to go back to Morocco.
Police sources and Spanish media say Mr Es Satty may have died in an explosion at a house in Alcanar, south of Barcelona, on Wednesday night.
Catalonia police say the cell was preparing a much larger attack and the house may have been a bomb factory.
Police have remove dozens of gas canisters from the house and have carried out controlled explosions.
El Pais says police have found biological remains of at least three people in the house but their identities are yet to be determined.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it had carried out the Las Ramblas attack, though it is not clear whether any of the attackers were directly connected to the group or simply inspired by it.
The Muslim community of Ripoll has condemned the attacks.
A notice posted on a Ripoll mosque said: "Faced with this criminal act, the Annour Islamic Community of Ripoll reiterates its complete commitment to the fight against any form of terrorism, and we hope that those responsible for this attack are arrested and taken before a judge as soon as possible."
Catalan police have set up major roadblocks throughout the region, warning people there may be significant travel disruption.
But Mr Zoido said the nation's current alert level would not be raised as there was no warning of another imminent attack.
Thursday's attack in the Catalan capital saw a van driven at high speed along Las Ramblas where it smashed into dozens of people walking along the pedestrianised avenue popular with tourists and residents.
Hours later, early on Friday, there was a second van attack in Cambrils, west of Barcelona. A woman was killed and police shot dead five suspected jihadists.
These names of the dead have so far been released:
Two unnamed Portuguese nationals are also confirmed dead.
The whereabouts of seven-year-old Julian Cadman, a dual British-Australian national apparently separated from his injured mother during the attack, remains unclear. He was widely reported to be missing.
However, the Catalan police, responding to inquiries, tweeted that they had neither been looking for nor found any missing child. The victims and the injured had all been located, they said.
Catalan emergency services gave a new breakdown of the injured on Saturday:
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King Felipe and Queen Letizia are attending Barcelona's famous Sagrada Familia to mourn the 14 people killed in vehicle attacks in Catalonia.
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He died aged 66 after collapsing on a busy stage behind his dancers at a late-night concert in Ivory Coast.
So ended the life of a man who helped take African pop to a global audience over more than four decades that saw spells of prison too.
"He was the icon of our culture, of our lifestyle," tweeted Kinshasa rapper Youssoupha. "This is a huge loss."
He was born Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba in June 1949 in Lubefu, in what was then the Belgian Congo (now part of the Democratic Republic of Congo).
According to French broadcaster RFI (in French), he got his nickname Papa because he was his mother's eldest child. He also took the name Jules Presley later in life.
His love of song can be attributed to his mother, who was a professional "wailing woman" at funerals, AFP news agency notes in its obituary.
His father wanted him to be a journalist or lawyer, RFI writes, but, after developing his trademark high-range voice in religious choirs, he made his debut in the capital Kinshasa at the end of the 1960s.
Mixing traditional African music with Western rock, he and his successive bands - Zaiko Langa Langa, Isifi and Viva La Musica - enjoyed hit after hit, including L'Esclave and Le Voyageur.
Shaping Congolese music in the 1970s and 1980s, he made soukous the most popular sound across Africa, and attracted international music figures like Peter Gabriel.
"I do not know if this is a loss for African music because the music does not die," said Eric Didia, a promoter of Congolese music in Ivory Coast and friend of Wemba who was at the morgue where his body was taken.
"People can listen to Papa Wemba songs in 50 years, in 100 years," he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Wemba was also an actor, appearing in two films, Life Is Beautiful (1987) and Wild Games (1997).
In 2004, Wemba was convicted of people-smuggling in France and spent three months in prison.
He was found to have helped Congolese immigrants illegally obtain visas by passing them off as musicians working with him on European shows.
A Belgian court convicted him of the same crime in 2012, handing down a fine of 22,000 euros (£17,143; $24,690) and a suspended prison sentence of 15 months.
Wemba had also been briefly imprisoned in Kinshasa in 1976 on suspicion of having a relationship with the daughter of a general from President Mobutu Sese Seko's army.
In Kinshasa, Papa Wemba was known for his taste in clothing and headed an organisation called the Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People, or sapeurs.
Their stylish suits and fedora hats brought a touch of glamour to Central African countries marked by poverty.
Hours after the official confirmation of his death, hundreds gathered in Matonge, his neighbourhood in Kinshasa, to pay homage.
"He is our papa," Eddy Kilonda, a young man on the verge of tears, told Reuters.
"He was not only a musician. He taught us to dress properly, to be stylish."
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The American broke down in tears after confirming she had dislocated her right patella and ruptured her patellar tendon in Thursday's fall.
The injury will require surgery, which will sideline the 32-year-old for some time.
"I will get through this and I will get back out there," she said on Saturday.
Mattek-Sands said she will fly to New York on Sunday to seek further medical advice.
"I was coming to the net and all I remember is hearing this pop in my leg. Everything is kinda slow after that," she said.
"I remember my knee feeling tight and I took a look at it and something was wrong. I just for a second thought maybe I could adjust it, and I knew it was either dislocated or broken.
"It was one of the most painful injures I've had, and I've had a few."
Rafael Nadal partially tore his patellar tendon in 2013, with a doctor at the time saying tendon recovery takes "a long time".
In an emotional video message, Mattek-Sands thanked fans for their messages of support, and praised her opponent, Sorana Cirstea.
Romanian Cirstea comforted Mattek-Sands as she lay on the court, alongside her doubles partner Lucie Safarova and Mattek-Sand's husband, Justin.
"I'm a pretty positive person naturally but there's moments when it helps to hear so many positive things from fans," she said.
"I remember Sorana talking to me and telling me it's going to be OK and I think that's amazing.
"We're all competitors on tour and yet some of these girls are my friends and in that moment, she was there as my friend, no matter that we're in the middle of a match. It means a lot to me."
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Mariano Rajoy received Artur Mas for talks in Madrid at which he told him that Spain's economic crisis had to be overcome jointly, a statement said.
Mr Mas said he was disappointed and did not rule out early regional elections.
The crisis has fanned an independence movement in Catalonia, which produces a fifth of Spain's economic output.
Last week, one and a half million people rallied in Barcelona, the regional capital, in what was seen as a show of strength for the pro-independence lobby.
Correspondents say Mr Rajoy is wary of any of Spain's regions seeking to break away amid the economic crisis.
Early elections in Catalonia could be seen as a referendum on autonomy, piling pressure on the central government.
Mr Mas went into talks with the prime minister on granting Catalonia powers to raise and spend its own taxes.
Pro-autonomy leaders argue that Catalonia pays a disproportionate level of taxes to Madrid in relation to the central funding it receives.
"Rajoy showed his opposition to the proposal for an economic accord for Catalonia because it is not compatible with the Spanish constitution," the prime minister's office said in a statement.
He told Mr Mas that the "very serious crisis [would] be overcome through joint responsibility and unity, never through division or institutional instability".
"We lost an historic opportunity in the understanding between Catalonia and the rest of Spain," Mr Mas said after the meeting.
"I would have liked to be able to say that there was room for negotiation but the head of government himself told me that he saw no way forward for the fiscal pact."
"If the negative answer to the fiscal pact is so obvious, then we will have to take decisions in the next days," he added.
Asked about the possibility of calling early elections, he said: "All options are open."
A decision on early polls could be taken as early as next week when the regional parliament holds its annual debate on the state of Catalonia.
Several Spanish newspapers said Mr Mas could call snap elections for 25 November. The Spanish constitution bars any actual referendum on independence for Catalonia, which has its own language.
Mr Rajoy's centre-right Popular Party won a resounding victory in Spain's general election in November, in a vote dominated by the debt crisis.
Ex-England international Salisbury has been appointed as new head coach of England's physical disability team.
Hunter will continue his work as coach of England's visually impaired side, now in a full-time capacity.
The ECB's head of disability cricket Ian Martin said: "This is an important step change in disability cricket."
He added: "I'm proud that we are the first international cricket board to make such a step.
"It will increase the capacity of our coaches to work with performance squads and is further evidence of the improvement and culture shift within our national squads."
Hunter recently led the England's visually impaired side to the semi-finals of the Blind World Cup in India, where they lost to Pakistan.
Salisbury's first assignment will be to prepare England's physical disability squad for games this summer as the side continues to build towards a world tournament in England in 2019.
"I am very humbled and honoured, especially knowing that we are the first two coaches in the world to be working full-time in disability cricket," he said.
"This will create an environment that puts this team at the forefront of disability cricket in England and the world."
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During a walk with his Portugal team mates he was asked a question by a journalist.
Ronaldo grabbed the journalist's mic and flung it into the lake in Lyon, France.
The three-time world player of the year, has failed to score from 22 opportunities in the two games.
Portugal enters the game in third place with only two points after drawing with Iceland and Austria so far in France.
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Hooker Herring deputised for Best on numerous occasions last season, while Trimble is Ulster's most capped player.
"Rob and Andrew are two outstanding individuals who have the respect of everyone within the organisation," said Ulster Director of Rugby Les Kiss.
"The shared captaincy model will give us more flexibility and continuity."
Winger Trimble has amassed a record 206 appearances for Ulster, having made his debut for the Irish province against Cardiff back in 2005, while Herring joined Ulster in 2012.
Best hinted that he may relinquish his position following the team's 30-18 Pro12 semi-final defeat by Leinster at the RDS in May.
"I'm delighted they have agreed to take on the captaincy. In the current landscape it's hard to guarantee that one player will be available all of the time," explained Kiss.
"Rory and I have been in discussions about this since the end of last season and we felt it was the perfect time for him to assist us in developing this new leadership structure. His experience of captaining both Ulster and Ireland last season will continue to be invaluable for us as a group.
"We have strong experience across our squad that will support Rob and Andrew by driving standards off the field and assisting with tactics and decision-making in training and in match situations."
Commenting on his appointment, Herring said: "To be able to share the captaincy with someone like Andrew is massively exciting, and together, with the support of the many other leaders in the squad, we can make strides to deliver the success that the players, staff and supporters strive for."
Trimble was equally proud to be named as captain: "To be named as captain of my home province is extremely humbling and this is without doubt one of the proudest moments of my career."
Ulster will open their new season with a Pro12 game against the Dragons at Kingspan Stadium on 2 September.
The province has been grouped with Clermont Auvergne, Exeter Chiefs and Bordeaux in Pool 5 of the European Champions Cup.
Mr Trump's starkly pro-Israel campaign rhetoric appeared to upend bedrock US positions on Middle East peace. His chaotic transition has only added to the confusion.
So far it's been like Kremlinology, says Michael Koplow of the Israel Policy Forum, an American-Jewish Organization that advocates for a two-state solution to the conflict.
He's referring to the Soviet-era practice of reading between the lines of official photographs, trying to figure out "who's on top, who's on the bottom, whether career officials worked on this or were frozen out. There's no direct chain of command so far as I can tell."
The competing cast of characters is led by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, an orthodox Jew with personal and religious ties to Israel who has not spoken publicly about his political views.
Mr Trump has also included among his advisers ideologically driven, pro-Israel figures who reject the notion of a Palestinian state and support the building of Jewish settlements on Israeli-occupied land expected to form part of that state.
His cabinet posts, on the other hand, hold more traditional views. Defence Secretary James Mattis is on record warning about the dangers to Palestinian statehood posed by continued settlement building.
"Either (Israel) ceases to be a Jewish state or you say the Arabs don't get to vote - apartheid," he said at a security forum in 2013.
And new the US secretary of state, former ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson, endorsed the two-state solution during his confirmation hearing.
The picture is complicated by continued staffing vacancies in second- and third-tier positions at the State Department and the National Security Council, which together run the nuts and bolts of Middle East policy.
The lack of direction at that level contributed to disjointed US responses on recent Israeli announcements of a settlement construction spree.
After initial radio silence from the White House, an administration official speaking to the Jerusalem Post newspaper denounced the plans as "unilateral" moves that would "undermine" peace efforts - language from a State Department draft based on long-standing US policy.
The next day the White House issued a formal statement that was gentler in tone.
"While we don't believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace," it said, "the construction of new settlements or the expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful in achieving that goal… the Trump administration has not taken an official position on settlement activity".
That ambiguity has frustrated some US officials.
Even during the transition between Republican Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Democrat Hillary Clinton, "we still produced things that said settlements are bad, that we believe in two states living side by side", said one. "We can't even say that anymore, nothing is for sure."
Ghaith al Omari, an adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team during the transition from Bill Clinton to George W Bush, counters that "upheavals are normal" in transitions, noting that high-level contacts between the Clinton administration and the Palestinians nearly vanished in the first months under Mr Bush as he formulated his policy, similar to the situation now.
This is uncomfortable for the Palestinians, he said, but "not yet a crisis", although he admitted the best they could hope for was "do no harm".
Palestinian Authority (PA) officials are extremely uncomfortable about the lack of contact, especially President Mahmoud Abbas, who famously claimed to be the first world leader President Barack Obama called when he took office.
So far this White House hasn't responded to Mr Abbas' attempts at contact, although Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported that the PA intelligence chief did meet some of Trump's advisers last week.
The key question is which parties will have the most influence in Middle East decision-making.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has no experience in diplomacy or government and has yet to name a deputy, a post that will be crucial in determining how much weight his department wields on this issue.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump has empowered two of his Jewish lawyers, Jason Greenblatt and David Friedman, both of whom have extreme right-wing nationalist views. He's named Mr Greenblatt his special representative for international negotiations, and nominated Mr Friedman as ambassador to Israel.
That doesn't mean he necessarily shares their views.
"The two lawyers closest to him happened to be religious, orthodox and right-wing on Israel. That's the coincidence," says Mr Koplow.
"But because that's who surrounds him the views that come through are very right-wing on Israel."
Mr Trump's chief White House strategist, Steve Bannon, brings in yet another dimension.
He's the former head of Breitbart News, which he has described as a platform for the alternative right, a broad movement that encompasses both extreme conservatives and white supremacists.
The website supports a hard-right nationalist position on Israel. But it has also been accused of attacking American Jews it deems not sufficiently pro-Israel.
It is not clear how close Mr Bannon will be to Israeli/Palestinian policy making. But a White House statement on the Holocaust that failed to mention Jews rang alarm bells, and prompted a rare riposte on Twitter from Israel's US ambassador, Ron Dermer.
"Israel is trying to accentuate the positive right now and not get into arguments with the administration," says David Makovsky, who advised the Obama administration on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
"But if this becomes a trend, I think Israel is likely to take a different tone."
On settlements, President Trump has moderated the tone of Candidate Trump, who said Israel should keep building.
Observers are beginning to expect a policy similar to that of George W Bush, which translated into building in settlement blocs that are expected to become part of Israel in a peace deal, but not outside them.
In this shift Mr Trump seems to have been influenced by his consultations with Sunni Arab leaders. They cannot tolerate an Israeli construction binge in the occupied territories but have quietly found common cause with Israel in a shared desire to combat the Islamic State group and to counter Iran.
It is a covert partnership on which Mr Netanyahu wants to build more overtly, and may seek US help to do so, says Mr Makovsky.
The potential for wrapping Israeli-Palestinian issues into a regional security arrangement is a long shot, although not too far from where the State Department under John Kerry left off.
And it seems to appeal to the billionaire businessman, ever seduced by the prospect of clinching the "ultimate deal".
The White House has said that Mr Trump "hopes to achieve peace throughout the Middle East".
It was a sentiment he underlined with this comment in a recent interview: "Maybe there is a chance for an even bigger peace than just Israel and the Palestinians."
Joining it will be Chubby Checker's 1960's dance hit The Twist and Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.
Each year, 25 "culturally" or "historically" significant recordings are added to the registry, established in 2000.
Garfunkel, 71, said he was thrilled and flattered to see the work preserved.
The Sound of Silence, written after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, initially flopped, only becoming a hit after it was re-edited.
Its subsequent success prompted the duo to reunite and record another album entitled Sounds of Silence in 1966, which Garfunkel said was a life changer for him and his partner, Simon.
"When you look at the little mesh, wire microphone and you address people on the other side of the mic, you hope that your performance will be special, and you hope that it will have lasting power,"
He added that he remembers thinking in the 60s that "if we do really good and give a very special performance to these great Paul Simon songs, we might last right into the next century and be appreciated".
The recording that received the highest number of public nominations for this year's registry was The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd's groundbreaking 1973 album.
The library said it was an example of "brilliant, innovative production in service of the music".
The selections, which span from 1918 to 1980 also feature recordings that capture the political climate of the period, including Jimmie Davis' You Are My Sunshine (1940) which became Davis' campaign song while running for governor in Louisiana.
It became one of the most popular country songs of all time and the state song of Louisiana in 1977.
Other recordings chosen include the soundtrack to the popular 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta and featuring the Bee Gees, which revived the disco craze and the original 1949 cast album for South Pacific.
The classical pianist Van Cliburn's Cold War performance when he won the prestigious Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition at 23 also was selected. The American musician who performed for every US president since Harry Truman, died in February.
Nyantakyi is president of the Ghana Football Association and Camara, from Guinea, is a Caf vice-president.
They will complete a seven-member African delegation at a meeting of the expanded Fifa Council on 13-14 October.
The meeting in Zurich should begin talks to expand the 2026 World Cup to 40 teams and start the bidding process.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino, who attended Caf's Extraordinary General Assembly in Cairo on Thursday, said: "Africa has a very important role in football.
"We have to move into action and let's give Africa the place it deserves in world football. Africa will benefit most from a proposed increase in the football investment program.
"It is my wish that a 40-team World cup will have at least two more slots for Africa. Caf must support Fifa to make this possible."
The election of Nyantakyi and Camara was Caf confirmed on Thursday after the pair had earned enough votes in a four-candidate contest.
Nyantakyi received one more vote than third-placed Ahmad of Madagascar in the election, which was decided by the 54 Caf member federations.
Camara and Nyantakyi will hold their seats only until 17 March, when they face re-election at the next Caf Congress, which is being held in Addis Ababa.
Also on Thursday, the assembly rejected a proposal from the Djibouti Football Federation to end the rule, introduced just four years ago, that restricted potential candidates for the Caf presidency only to members of its 15-man executive committee.
The rule has been seen as an attempt by long-serving president Issa Hayatou to hand pick his successor.
In the two weeks ending on 23 January, 28,000 people died, the Office for National Statistics figures show.
Over the previous five years, the average number of deaths for the same period stood at about 21,000.
Experts say flu could be the driving force, although the precise causes will not be known for some time.
Prof John Newton, chief knowledge officer at Public Health England (PHE), which monitors death rates, said there had been a substantial increase in the numbers since Christmas.
Although it was less apparent from the raw data, PHE's own analysis has found that - even taking the season into account - deaths among elderly people have now been significantly elevated for six weeks.
The death rate has risen by 3,700 people a week since early December. Of that more than 3,000 are accounted for by over-75s.
The usual key causes of excess winter deaths are cold weather, influenza and gastrointestinal infection.
Estimating exactly which has done what, however, will take some time.
There is evidence, however, that flu may be a crucial driver of this year's elevated deaths.
According to PHE statistics, both GPs and hospitals are spending much more time dealing with flu than they did last year, despite a similar vaccination rate among the key target groups.
Furthermore, the H3N2 sub-type - a prevalent flu virus at the moment - takes a particular strain on elderly people.
An important role for this virus is therefore consistent with a higher death rate among the elderly, who have been encouraged to get vaccinated.
This year, the proportion of vulnerable people who were vaccinated was the same as last year.
Prof Newton said PHE tries to anticipate sub-types of the virus that will be circulating to ensure it can be vaccinated against.
"This year, it is the right type," he said.
"But there can be [mutation] so that the circulating type might not be as well matched at the end of the flu season as it was at the beginning."
One explanation that senior civil servants in the Department of Health have suggested is that the death rate may also be higher because of last year's mild winter.
An unusually large number of frail people may have survived last year, but are succumbing to the flu and cold this year.
The forces that are driving the higher death rates would certainly have contributed to the problems facing A&E units, which have struggled under their heavy case loads.
But Prof Newton said the problems both in A&Es and social care are unlikely to have contributed materially to the higher death rates, noting the chronology of the surge.
"People might think perhaps that some of these deaths are the result of a failure of health care or social care. There's very little evidence of that," he added.
When Breath Becomes Air has now been shortlisted for the prestigious Wellcome Book Prize, which recognises books about health or illness.
After reading it, Gates wrote a blog post titled This Book Left Me In Tears.
In it, he declared: "This is the best non-fiction story I've read in a long time."
Kalanithi's memoir chronicles his journey from medical student to neurosurgeon, patient and father before he died while still writing the book.
It is the first posthumous work to be considered for the prize, where both non-fiction and fictional books are eligible.
The other books in contention are:
The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced on 24 April.
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The poster in a women's toilet in Leeds railway station features cancer survivor Michelle Qualtrough.
Mrs Qualtrough, from Surrey, said: "If we can all support each other it's a wonderful thing."
Network Rail said the poster, which was put up five years ago, will stay where it is after so many "heart-warming" messages were added.
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Anonymous messages scribbled on the poster include:
"Stay strong ladies and remember to talk to your loved ones you will get through it x"
"I love this! For women everywhere"
"I lost my mum and sis - do check!!"
"Big love! x"
Deborah Ward of Network Rail said: "We simply couldn't replace such powerful and heart-warming messages on a subject which affects so many women so we have kept the poster in place and have no plans to change it any time soon."
Photographs of the the poster, which advises women to check themselves for signs of cancer, have been shared on Twitter and Instagram.
Mrs Qualtrough said she was "shocked and surprised" the poster was still up as she believed the campaign had only been planned to last 12 months.
She said: "I feel very privileged people have taken time to do that, it is a good way of passing the message on."
Mrs Qualtrough was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 49 and had a total mastectomy in 2004.
Since learning of her cancer she has run two London marathons and 14 half marathons for Cancer Research UK although she had "never run a mile before I was ill".
Mrs Qualtrough, who has family in Leeds, said being a breast cancer survivor had made her more positive.
She said: "You've had cancer and you got over it, what's so scary now?"
It says the world consumes about 10% more food than it needs, while almost 9% is thrown away or left to spoil.
Edinburgh scientists say efforts to reduce the billions of tonnes lost could improve global food security - ensuring everyone has access to a safe, affordable, nutritious diet.
The scientists looked at 10 stages in the global food system.
Using data collected primarily by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, the team found that more food was lost from the system than previously thought.
Almost half of harvested crops - or 2.1 billion tonnes - were lost through over-consumption, consumer waste and inefficiencies in production processes.
The researchers found that livestock production was the least efficient process, with losses of 78% or 840 million tonnes.
About 1.08 billion tonnes of harvested crops are used to produce 240 million tonnes of edible animal products including meat, milk and eggs.
This stage accounted for 40% of all losses of harvested crops, the researchers said.
They found that increased demand for some foods, particularly meat and dairy products, would decrease the efficiency of the food system and could make it difficult to feed the world's expanding population in sustainable ways.
Meeting the demand could cause environmental harm by increasing greenhouse gas emissions, depleting water supplies and causing loss of biodiversity.
The team said that encouraging people to eat fewer animal products, reduce waste and not exceed their nutritional needs could help to reverse these trends.
Dr Peter Alexander, of Edinburgh University's school of geosciences and Scotland's rural college, said: "Reducing losses from the global food system would improve food security and help prevent environmental harm.
"Until now, it was not known how over-eating impacts on the system. Not only is it harmful to health, we found that over-eating is bad for the environment and impairs food security."
Prof Dominic Moran, of the University of York, who was involved in the study, said: "This study highlights that food security has production and consumption dimensions that need to be considered when designing sustainable food systems.
"It also highlights that the definition of waste can mean different things to different people."
The study is published in the journal Agricultural Systems.
United were keen on the France forward and were considering whether to trigger his 100m euro (£87m) escape clause.
However, a source close to United said Griezmann, 26, is no longer a priority.
It is understood the long-term injury to Zlatan Ibrahimovic has forced the club to change their priorities, with doubts over the Swede's future beyond the expiry of his contract on 30 June.
No decision has yet been made over an extension but, given he is unlikely to play until January, the odds are against him being offered a new deal.
United are now thought to be targeting a main striker rather than a number 10, believing they already have enough players to fill that role.
After his side beat Ajax to win the Europa League last week, manager Jose Mourinho said executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has had his targets "for more than two months".
Atletico have had their transfer ban upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, meaning they would not be able to replace Griezmann until January should he leave this summer.
If Griezmann is not coming to Old Trafford, who are United going to get instead?
Everton's Romelu Lukaku is an obvious one, a battering ram of a striker in the Didier Drogba mould. And United have also mbeen linked with Torino's Andrea Belotti - who has a release contract of £87m - and also Real Madrid's Alvaro Morata.
No-one from the club is saying it, but by targeting a replacement for Zlatan Ibrahimovic, United appear to be indicating the Swede has no future at Old Trafford once his contract expires on 30 June.
Billy Monger, from Charlwood, Surrey, ran into the back of another car which appeared to have stopped on the track during the race on Sunday.
The teenager had to be extracted from his vehicle at the Leicestershire track and airlifted to hospital.
A JustGiving page set up to raise money for the boy hit £300,000.
The team behind the car, JHR Developments, set up the page with the blessing of the teenager's family, with the aim of raising £260,000.
A statement on the page said: "Thousands of people have already watched the haunting footage of the crash which left Billy fighting for his life. Sadly, Billy has had amputations to both legs.
"We now need your kindness and support to help give Billy and his family the best chance to fight these injuries that will affect Billy's life so massively."
The post, signed by Steven Hunter, JHR Developments and the Monger family, said the money would be put into a trust to help him "return to a full and active life".
The Formula 4 British Championship is a motor racing series which features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers.
It is designed as a low-cost entrance to car racing, and is aimed at young racing drivers moving up from go-karting.
It replaced the British Formula Ford Championship in 2015 - a series in which successful Formula 1 drivers such as Ayrton Senna and Jenson Button won their first single-seater titles.
The victim was found with fatal injuries in Yoke Close, off North Road, Holloway, at about 20:50 GMT on Monday.
The Met Police said he was declared dead about 30 minutes later. The force said they know his identity and his next of kin have been informed.
In an unconnected stabbing, a 16-year-old boy sustained a leg injury earlier, close to Havering College in Romford.
His injuries are not life threatening.
A man, aged 18, has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) and remains in custody.
Police said they were keeping an open mind as to the possible motive for the fatal stabbing and have yet to make an arrest.
The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said the death shows the need for more stop-and-searches to tackle knife crime.
"It's got to be done sensitively, it's got to be done in accordance with the law, but we've got to take knives off the streets," he said.
According to the Met, the number of stop-and-searches in London has fallen by 66% this year.
A spokeswoman said almost one in three of all searches result in the discovery of an illegal object or the detection of a relevant crime.
Home Secretary Theresa May said last year the technique was being misused so frequently that it was damaging relations between the public and police.
George Kinsella's 16-year-old son Ben was stabbed to death in North Road in 2008, close to last night's incident.
"The kids that want to carry knives know that there is a possibility they won't be stopped and searched now, so therefore it is easier to move and carry knives about," Mr Kinsella told BBC Radio London.
Ben Kinsella's sister Brooke tweeted: "Another life lost to knife crime in Islington last night. Someone else's son, someone else's brother. Hard to have hope sometimes."
The Met's spokeswoman said there was "no robust evidence that proves or disproves that the level of stop and search is a factor" in the rise in fatal stabbings.
"However, some communities understandably feel that the fall in stop and search may have reduced the deterrent to carrying knives. We remain fully committed to doing all we can to reduce knife crime, to tackle London's gangs and take more knives and weapons off our streets and this includes use of legal powers such as stop and search. "
Updates on this and more from around London
The families of murder victims marched through central London on Sunday in a protest against knife crime.
Caroline Pidgeon, the Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate, said every school in London needed to adopt a programme to teach pupils about the dangers of carrying knives.
"Some schools don't want to engage with a knife crime programme. They think there's a stigma," she said.
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after two pupils were stabbed at a school in Dulwich last week.
An event called Mametz Wood, Poetry and Song has been taking place at the Millennium Centre on Saturday.
Around 4,000 Welsh soldiers were killed or injured in the July 1916 Battle of the Somme attack on German positions.
Cardiff University researchers have explored wartime creativity such as literature, and issues like pacifism.
The Welsh National Opera also recited wartime songs and poetry on Saturday.
Other events over the coming months include a public workshop in Grangetown, lectures and film screenings
Dr Rachelle Barlow, the cultural engagement fellow at Cardiff University School of Music, said the series provided an opportunity to engage a new audience with research relating to the war.
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The project aims to improve their confidence and self-esteem.
The choir is in rehearsal for a performance of The Passion, which will take to the stage next Easter.
Composer and conductor James MacMillan said the programme, run in collaboration with Streetwise Opera and ensemble The Sixteen, was "such a wonderful way to use the gift of music to transform people's lives and make people happy".
The council said that courts in several states had reported fraud in the campaign's preliminary petition.
The opposition, which planned to secure the required signatures for the vote next week, condemned the move, saying it would escalate the crisis.
Eight opposition heads have reportedly been barred from leaving the country.
"In adherence to the constitution, the National Electoral Council abides by the decisions ordered by the tribunals and has sent instructions to postpone the process of signature gathering until new judicial instructions are known," the council said in a statement.
Regional courts in at least four states had ruled that there was fraud during the first round in June, when the opposition collected signatures from 1% of the electorate.
To trigger a recall referendum, the opposition would have needed to get petition signatures from 20% of the country's voters - or four million people - in each of the nation's 24 states at the next stage of the process.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles warned that the authorities were now "pushing toward a very dangerous scenario in which the crisis worsens".
He later said on Twitter that he and seven other opposition heads had received court orders barring them from leaving the country.
Jesus Torrealba, the head of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), the main opposition coalition, was also barred, Mr Capriles said.
The timing of council's move is crucial because, according to the constitution, a vote to recall Mr Maduro this year would trigger a presidential election that polls indicate the opposition is likely to win.
But if the president is defeated in a vote next year, the vice-president would replace Mr Maduro and the Socialists would thus remain in power.
The opposition accuses the government of dragging its feet while not totally rejecting the recall referendum process.
Venezuela is suffering a severe economic crisis which the opposition blames on President Maduro.
He says the economic crisis and efforts to get rid of him are a capitalist conspiracy.
Mr Maduro has launched legal challenges against the referendum drive and has vowed there will be no referendum this year.
The US have not won on European soil for 21 years, while the home team count in their ranks the world's top-ranked player in Rory McIlroy and three of this year's four major champions.
But Watson, returning to the country where he won four of his five Open championships, believes his unheralded team can bring down both McIlroy and Europe's great inspiration two years ago, Ian Poulter.
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Watson, 65, said: "When you beat the stud on the other side, it gives a boost to your team.
"The bottom line is that if each of your players wins more than they lose, we win as a team. That is what I have told our team.
"Poulter, he's an 80% victor over the matches he has played in. We would like to reduce that."
Watson, the oldest captain in the contest's 87-year history, wants revenge for the shock defeat at Medinah in 2012, when they led 10-6 going into the final day's singles only to lose eight and draw one of the 12 matches as a Poulter-led Europe pulled off one of the great Ryder Cup comebacks.
Only seven of that American dozen have made it to Gleneagles, but Watson - captain when the US won at the Belfry in 1993 - said: "I have made it very clear to them that this trip is a redemption trip.
"Those players that played on that team… it's time to make amends and try to redeem yourselves from what happened in 2012. I think it's a motivation rather than a negative.
In addition to McIlroy, winner of both the Open and US PGA this summer, Europe's team contains three more of the world's top six ranked players and US Open champion Martin Kaymer.
Only once since 2002 - at Valhalla six years ago - have they lost the Ryder Cup.
"I think we're slight favourites," said captain Paul McGinley. "We're not overwhelming favourites.
"But we have been favourites before in Ryder Cups. I think our players have deserved it, and I think it's a situation to embrace."
McGinley, 47, said his side should not be "afraid" or "ashamed" of being favourites - and warned they face a "very tough contest".
He added: "The guys have worked very hard to be in the position they are.
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"Having said that, I did a bit of calculation myself when the two teams were formulated, and Tom's team's average ranking position was 16 and ours was 18. So this is not a weak American team.
"We might be slight favourites with the bookies, but the two teams are very well balanced and very close together."
Both teams arrived in Perthshire on Monday, with McIlroy one of the first on the driving range set up alongside the substantially redesigned Centenary course.
McGinley insisted there were no problems between the 25-year-old and his fellow Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell.
McDowell, 35, admitted in his BBC Sport column that the lawsuit McIlroy has filed against his management company had put a strain on their relationship, but stressed he would love to be paired with his compatriot again.
Yet McGinley may have other plans ahead of Friday morning's fourballs.
He said: "Both of them have assured me all along that there's no issues, and that's the way I've always seen it. Whether they come together or not is another story.
"Three or four months ago, I had a very strong view that they would have been, but the more I look at their statistics and the more I look at the different value I have with them, I'm thinking there may be a value in not doing it.
"But if I don't decide to play them, it would be for tactical reasons. It won't be for any other reasons.
"They have played six Ryder Cup matches and they have only won two together. It's not like these guys are written in stone."
Mr Justice Jackson said he felt the teenager had brought the case to the High Court "as a way of showing your dad how much you love him".
He told the boy he was "doing well in life" and did not believe that the move abroad would work.
He said: "I am confident that it is the right order for you in the long run."
Mr Justice Jackson, who is based in the Family Division of the High Court in London, wrote the letter to the teenager which laid down his ruling after a hearing in July.
Sam, not his real name, had applied for permission to live with his father in a Scandinavian country, which his mother and step-father opposed.
The application was later taken over by his dad.
In the letter, the judge told the boy he believed "that your feelings are that you love everyone in your family very much, just as they love you".
However, he noted that Sam's parents had "very different personalities" and the fact they found it hard to agree was "stressful for you".
In the letter, the judge said he found Sam's dad to be someone who was "troubled" and had a "lot of influence over you".
"All fathers influence their sons, but your father goes a lot further than that. I'm quite clear that if he was happy with the present arrangements, you probably would be too. Because he isn't, you aren't."
He questioned whether the idea for the proceedings came from Sam or his dad and said he believed the teenager had "brought the proceedings mainly as a way of showing your dad how much you love him".
He told the teenager: "Also, I may be wrong, but when you gave your evidence I didn't get the feeling that you actually see your future in Scandinavia at all.
"Instead, what I saw was you doing your duty by your dad while trying not to be too unfair to your mum. But you still felt you had to boost your dad wherever you could.
"That's how subtle and not-so-subtle pressure works. So I respect your views, but I don't take them at face value because I think they are significantly formed by your loyalty to your father."
The judge said Sam's dad had a "manipulative side" and has "in some ways lost sight of what was best" for his son.
He told the boy he had no confidence that a move to Scandinavia would work and hoped his dad would decide to stay in England "for your sake".
The judge said the evidence showed Sam was doing well in life in England and that he "should make the most of the many opportunities that life here has to offer you".
He went on: "If, when you finish your A-levels, you want to move to Scandinavia, you will be 18 and an adult - it will be up to you."
Mr Justice Jackson dismissed his dad's application to take Sam to live in Scandinavia and for Sam to apply for citizenship there.
He ruled that Sam would have contact with his dad on alternate weekends and any arrangement after he moved to Scandinavia alone would have to be agreed between both parents.
In the letter, he added: "Whatever each of your parents might think about it, I hope they have the dignity not to impose their views on you, so that you can work things out for yourself."
The judge finished by saying he and Sam's dad had enjoyed finding out they loved the film My Cousin Vinny - but for different reasons.
"He mentioned it as an example of a miscarriage of justice, while I remember it for the best courtroom scenes in any film, and the fact that justice was done in the end."
Sajid Javid MP, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, is content for planning permission to be decided by the local authority.
Merton Borough Council granted the Dons approval to build an initial 11,000-capacity stadium in December 2015.
The League One club are now set to redevelop Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium.
"Now, at long last, we can start planning with confidence to give AFC Wimbledon a secure future at the heart of the community the club represents," chief executive Erik Samuelson told the club website.
"After so many years in exile, the Dons are coming home."
AFC Wimbledon's plans were put on hold in March when Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, decided to review Merton council's decision to grant approval to the scheme, following objections from neighbouring Wandsworth.
However, Sadiq Khan was elected mayor in May and last month he decided to hand the decision back to Merton after a 14-day consultation.
The council's planning committee then rubber-stamped the application at a meeting on 15 September before it was referred to Javid's office.
AFC Wimbledon's plans include the construction of 602 residential units, and could see the capacity of the proposed new stadium eventually increased to 20,000.
The Dons have played at Kingsmeadow in Kingston since their formation in 2002 but see a move to Merton, and Plough Lane, as a return to their spiritual home.
The original Wimbledon FC were forced to leave their Plough Lane ground in 1991 and shared Selhurst Park with Crystal Palace until 2003, when they moved to Milton Keynes - having been given permission to relocate by an independent commission a year earlier.
The club were subsequently renamed MK Dons, while their old Plough Lane home became a residential development.
AFC Wimbledon were formed in response to the relocation and, after beginning life in the Combined Counties League, reached the Football League in 2011.
The 48-year-old, who made his debut in Barcelona in 1992, won a silver medal in Atlanta in 1996 and bronzes in Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008).
He joins cyclist Dame Sarah Storey as the most experienced GB athlete in Rio.
Munn is one of six players who were part of the 2012 squad, who missed out a medal after finishing fourth.
Terry Bywater has been selected for a fifth Games after making his debut in Sydney as a teenager.
Ian Sagar, Gaz Choudhry, Abdi Jama, Simon Brown and Ade Orogbemi all have previous Games experience with Jama, Brown and Orogbemi also part of the 2008 squad along with Bywater and Munn.
Eleven of the 12-strong squad helped GB win a third gold in a row at last year's European Championships in Worcester.
The newest member is Leigh teenager Gregg Warburton, who will be making his major senior tournament debut.
Warburton, 19, along with fellow Games debutants Harry Brown and Phil Pratt, carried the Paralympic flag into the stadium as part of the London 2012 opening ceremony. The trio previously enjoyed success at Under-23 level.
Kyle Marsh and Lee Manning complete the squad.
While GB have enjoyed success at European level, they were a disappointing seventh at the last world championships in Korea in 2014 and coach Haj Bhania will be looking for his side to make more of an impact in Rio.
They start their pool games on Thursday, 8 September against Algeria before facing Iran, Brazil, Germany and USA.
The GB women's team was announced last month.
Squad: Abdi Jama, Simon Brown, Kyle Marsh, Gregg Warburton, Ade Orogbemi, Harry Brown, Phil Pratt, Ian Sagar, Gaz Choudhry, Simon Munn, Terry Bywater, Lee Manning
That means the nominee could be picked at a so-called contested convention in the summer.
What does that involve?
Delegates are accumulated by each candidate according to the votes held at the primary contests in each state. They represent their states at the party's convention in July, which is usually a coronation of the chosen nominee. This year it takes place in Cleveland, Ohio from 18-21 July.
But a contested convention would happen if no candidate reaches the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination.
Donald Trump needs to win more than 60% of the remaining delegates to hit that magic number, Ted Cruz needs to win more than 90% of the remaining delegates. John Kasich cannot mathematically reach it.
It has not happened for the Republicans since 1976, when Gerald Ford did not have enough delegates before the convention to get the nomination. The last time a contested convention produced a candidate who went on to win in the general election was in 1932 with Franklin Roosevelt.
Selecting the actual delegates who will attend the convention is an ongoing process, completed at county and state conventions.
Usually, delegates are bound to vote for the candidate they were already pledged to on the first ballot at the convention, and a consensus emerges for a nominee.
If there is no winner on the first ballot, there will be a second and a third and so on until there is a clear winner. That is when "floor fights" can happen and back-room deals can be cut in Cleveland.
The wheeling and dealing has already started, with Ted Cruz's team trying to persuade delegates who have been chosen that they should vote for him on the second ballot.
Mr Trump's campaign has complained about how delegates were chosen in Louisiana. He won the primary, but may end up with less delegates than Ted Cruz because of the state's five unbound delegates who can vote for whichever candidate they want.
Cruz supporters have also taken up five of six slots on committees that write the rules of the Republican National Convention, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Some would say it's undemocratic, because Trump could lose out even though he got the most votes.
A staunch Trump ally, Roger Stone, has threatened to send Trump supporters to the hotel rooms of delegates who switch allegiance.
A majority of Republicans believe he should get the nomination if he has the most delegates, according to a McClatchy-Marist poll released on Tuesday.
But John Kasich argues that the delegates are honourable people who should be allowed to decide the outcome.
Yes, if the Republican national committee suspends its rule (Rule 40) that only candidates who have won eight states can be nominated.
Republicans have been floating House Speaker Paul Ryan's name, but he has repeatedly said he will not be running for president.
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has expressed willingness to be the nominee if chosen at the convention.
"I don't think anyone in our party should say, 'Oh no, even if the people of the party wanted me to be president, I would say no to it.' No one is going to say that," Mr Romney told NBC last month.
Former Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry also said he would not rule out being the nominee.
In 1952, when Adlai Stevenson won the Democratic nomination, he was the governor of Illinois and had no plans to run for president.
Different states have different rules for where Mr Rubio's delegates will go, and so far, Mr Rubio has said he wants to keep all 171 of his delegates, despite having dropped out of the race.
It's a very complicated picture.
Mr Rubio's five delegates from Alaska were divided between Mr Trump and Mr Cruz by the state party, but Mr Rubio wrote to the party and asked for them back.
In Oklahoma, Mr Rubio has not formally released his delegates, and in Minnesota, his 17 delegates will be free to back the candidate of their choice at the convention.
All three remaining Republican candidates are clamouring for Mr Rubio's delegates, but it is yet to be seen who they will end up boosting or hurting come July.
If the party upholds a rule that requires the nominee to have won at least eight state primary contests, Mr Kasich would almost certainly be cut, because he has only won his home state of Ohio so far.
Despite that, he has said repeatedly on the campaign trail that he could get the nomination in a contested convention because of his experience and electability against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Both Mr Trump and Mr Cruz have urged him to drop out so they can have his delegates.
Public Health England (PHE) wants widespread vaccination to stop flu spreading to "at risk" people.
These include pregnant women, young children, over 65s and those with conditions such as asthma and diabetes.
Last winter 904 people were admitted to intensive care with flu and 98 of them died.
Children up to the age of three were eligible for free vaccination last year, and four-year-olds have now been included.
For those aged two, three and four, this is given as a nasal spray rather than an injection.
Flu viruses constantly mutate so a new vaccine is devised each year and annual jabs are needed to stay protected.
Flu has been comparatively mild in recent years, and health officials are concerned this could lead to complacency.
Prof Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer for England, said: "Flu is a really unpleasant illness, particularly for our most vulnerable patients, and it is essential that people take steps to protect themselves during the winter months.
"I would urge those who are offered the free flu vaccination to visit their GP early in the flu season.
"I also urge all health care workers to make they are vaccinated to protect themselves, their patients and their families".
Dr Paul Cosford, director for health protection and medical director at PHE, said about 40% of pregnant women were vaccinated last year - a figure he hoped would be higher this year.
"Women can safely have the vaccine at any point during pregnancy and it can reduce the risk of complications such as pneumonia and premature birth, that can arise as a result of flu," he said.
The government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has advised offering free flu jabs to all two to 17-year-olds.
PHE is in the process of extending the coverage.
Similar vaccination schemes operate in Scotland, where two million people are to be offered free vaccination this year, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The incidents happened at Adie's Store on Bedford Road on 13 and 27 January.
Jamie Howell, of Aberdeen, faced two charges of assault and robbery when he appeared at the city's sheriff court. He made no plea and was remanded in custody.
Police Scotland earlier thanked the public for the help they received after appealing for information.
Mr McGovern died after being attacked on a night out in Omagh, County Tyrone, on New Year's Eve in 2012.
Mark Donnelly, 23, from Greencastle had pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.
He was acquitted after the prosecution offered no evidence. Mr Donnelly had previously faced three trials in connection with the teenager's death.
Mr McGovern was found dead in the County Monaghan home of a friend hours after he was attacked in a car park.
A prosecution lawyer told Dungannon Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, that the crown was "offering no evidence" on the manslaughter charge.
The judge then instructed the jury of seven men and five women to find Mr Donnelly "not guilty by direction".
"This case was due to start today for a hearing which would have lasted a number of weeks," she told the court.
"There have been developments in the case, and as a result of that, the prosecution are not offering any evidence on the charge before the court in relation to the defendant.
"I am directing you to find the defendant not guilty."
Mr Donnelly was last before the courts last June but the jury was unable to reach a verdict in the case.
That was the second time a jury had failed to reach a verdict in the case.
Another trial had to be aborted for legal reasons.
Mr Donnelly is still to be sentenced on a charge of "having fought and made an affray" on the same night during which Jason's friend Liam McWilliams had his jaw fractured outside a bar in John Street in Omagh.
He was found guilty of that charge at a previous trial.
Following his acquittal of manslaughter, Mr Donnelly was informed he will be sentenced for affray in September and was released on continuing bail.
Matthew van Rooyen, from Bridgend, said: "We have got Jeremy Corbyn as leader, whether we like it or not."
He was speaking during a debate on plans to give Welsh Labour more autonomy from the UK party.
The proposals include a seat on Labour's ruling national executive committee.
Supporters of Mr Corbyn have opposed allowing Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones to nominate the Welsh representative and want that person elected by party members.
Some delegates tried to delay a vote on the proposals, prompting a debate on whether to have a debate.
Mr van Rooyen, speaking at his first party conference, said: "What a shame it is that some colleagues are trying to block it."
The conference chairman rebuked delegates for the response they gave him: "Colleagues some individuals booing there... be respectful to the speakers, you may not agree but be respectful."
Mike Payne from GMB Wales told the conference: "It is time we stopped the prevarication, comrades, and get on with it."
Delegates will vote on the changes later on Tuesday.
Neil Woodford, who set up his own investment firm last year, said the concept was "fundamentally flawed" and he expected the "stresses and strains" in the area to continue to increase.
"In a very simple sense pretending that Greece was Germany is a fundamental error," he told BBC World News.
He also said uncertainty over Britain's EU membership could hit the UK economy.
The Conservative Party has promised to hold an in-out referendum on the UK's continuing membership of the EU if it wins this year's general election.
The referendum would be held only after David Cameron, if he is still prime minister after May, had attempted to renegotiate the terms of the UK's membership of the EU.
"The likelihood of a referendum, I think, will put a brake on external investment, international investment in the UK... it will create uncertainty," Mr Woodford told the BBC's Hardtalk programme.
Mr Woodford is considered in the industry as one of the country's best-performing fund managers.
He gained fame during his 25-year career at Invesco Perpetual, for taking a long term view on investments.
One of the best-known examples of his strategy was refusing to invest in the dotcom boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Neil Woodford made his reputation with Invesco Perpetual, but left last year to launch his own investment fund: Woodford Investment Management.
Wiggins, 30, told the San Diego Union-Tribune that the culture in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) was "very, very harmful".
The four-time All-American guard blamed the "toxic" environment for her decision to quit in 2016 after eight years with four league teams.
But another player accused Wiggins of reinforcing unfair stereotypes.
Wiggins was considering a contract extension with New York Liberty last year when she abruptly announced her retirement.
"I didn't like the culture inside the WNBA, and without revealing too much, it was toxic for me," she told the Union-Tribune.
"My spirit was being broken."
She added: "Me being heterosexual and straight, and being vocal in my identity as a straight woman was huge.
"I would say 98% of the women in the WNBA are gay women. It was a conformist type of place.
"There was a whole different set of rules they [the other players] could apply."
Wiggins - who is now training to become a professional beach volleyball player - graduated as Stanford's all-time leading scorer and was selected by the Minnesota Lynx as the No 3 pick in 2008.
Her comments stirred controversy among other league players.
The Chicago Sky's Imani Boyette posted an open letter to Wiggins about her remarks, urging her to consider other players' experiences.
"Do you understand what you've done? You've reinforced unfair stereotypes," she wrote.
"A person's orientation is their own and their business.
"Now, because of your article, it is no longer out of bounds to ask WNBA players about their sexuality.
"Do they ask any male stars in the NBA about their sexuality? Is it even a conversation?"
But Los Angeles Sparks forward and WNBA Players Association president Nneka Ogwumike said Wiggins' allegations should be taken seriously.
"Anything that impacts an inclusive culture should be taken seriously," she said in a statement.
There was a hat-trick for Nigeria's Chisom Chikatara despite only coming on as a substitute in the 57th minute.
While Alseny Camara scored with just eight minutes left on the clock to earn a point for Guinea.
The next Group C matches in Rwanda are on Friday when Tunisia play Nigeria and Niger take on Guinea.
Nigeria's coach Sunday Oliseh (pictured) was a frustrated man at the end of a scrappy and goalless first half against Niger.
Oliseh's mood was lifted moments after the break when Moses Okoro scored after a good team move.
Chikatara replaced Tunde Adeniji, who had helped in the build-up to the opening goal, with just over 30 minutes left to play.
He scored the first of his three goals 15 minutes later when he fired home from a ball played over the top by Okoro.
Niger got back into the game shortly after that when Adje Zakari Adebayor found the net with a long range effort.
Their hope was short-lived though as Chikatara scored his second just a minute later, he then spurned chances for his hat-trick before eventually getting his third in injury time.
Tunisia twice took the lead against Guinea through Etoile du Sahel's Ahmed Akaichim his opener was an acrobatic finish on 32 minutes, he then hit the bar shortly after.
Alseny Camara tapped in to level on 39 minutes, but after the break Akaichi restored Tunisia's lead with a drive.
Guinea escaped when Tunisia's Zied Boughattas headed against the bar and they completed a comeback when Camara hit his second from a corner.
While the point will be celebrated by Guinea, they will be concerned that Camara was carried from the field with three minutes remaining and they will hope he is fit to continue in the tournament.
Costa was dropped after netting just one goal in his last eight Chelsea matches and reacted angrily by tossing his substitute's bib at Mourinho.
But Blues boss Mourinho said: "For me his behaviour is normal. A top player on the bench will not be happy.
"If he wants to hurt me it would not be with a bib. I have a good relationship with him."
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Mourinho defended his decision to name Costa, 27, as a substitute for Sunday's goalless draw at White Hart Lane, despite the striker scoring the winner against Norwich last weekend.
"I think Diego is very privileged," he said. "He is the last player to be on the bench. Everyone has been on the bench - the captain [John] Terry, [Branislav] Ivanovic, [Gary] Cahill, [Cesc] Fabregas, Pedro and player of the season [Eden] Hazard.
"Diego is privileged to have been kept in the team for all these matches and today we thought our best strategy was to play with this. I am happy with my decision and the players.
"[Today] Eden could play the 90 minutes and was so good and dangerous for us, I felt he could have scored a goal."
But Mourinho said he had no problem with the attitude of Spain international Costa.
"Diego is physically fine, no problems," he said. "He works well, every day his mood is positive, he is the positive guy in the team.
"I do not expect to have a player on the bench jumping and shouting because he is not playing."
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Paul Bent captured the footage of the Nottinghamshire Police vehicle on Monday.
In it, the driver of the van can be seen holding and appearing to operate a mobile phone.
The force said the incident, alleged to have occurred in Rotherham on Monday, had been referred to its professional standards directorate.
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Much of the winnings in Pinos Puente, in Granada, came from tickets sold by the local branch of the tiny United Left political coalition.
El Gordo, the world's biggest Christmas lottery, has no single jackpot, with winnings distributed among thousands.
This year the prizes totalled €2.31bn.
Each ticket has a five-digit number, reprinted numerous times in so-called series, costing €200. Because of the price, they are divided into 10 sub-tickets ("decimo"), each costing €20.
El Gordo, Spanish for "the Fat One", is a Christmas tradition. People traditionally chip in together, participating with friends, families or workmates.
It has a huge impact for the winners, as the national unemployment rate is around 19%, even higher among the under-25s.
In Pinos Puente - a city of 13,000 people, with unemployment of 29% and a budget of €8m - 451 "decimos" of the winning 04536 number were sold, each paying €125,000.
Residents took to the streets in celebration, dancing and singing together. Many of the winners were from poor families.
A resident called Alba told El Periodico newspaper (in Spanish) that she had not had enough money to buy Christmas presents but that, now, she would be able to help her family.
Mayor Jose Enrique Medina told AFP news agency: "It is a lot of money for a town that has been punished hard. The prize money was widely distributed, it went to many families that really needed it."
The main prize went for the tickets 66513, all of them sold at a lottery office in the capital Madrid.
The number appeared in 1,650 "decimos", paying each holder €400,000.
The winners included staff from the Madrid headquarters of Spain's PSOE socialist party.
"A great end to a difficult year", the party said on Twitter.
The PSOE lost general elections in December last year and in June against the centre-right People's Party.
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Spain's annual Christmas lottery has paid out €56m ($58m; £47m) to residents of a struggling southern town where almost a third of the population are out of work.
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If Manchester United had lost to Ajax in the Europa League final, sixth place in the Premier League and an EFL Cup win would count as a failure given expectations and expenditure after he was appointed as Louis van Gaal's successor.
If United won Mourinho would be seen once more as the man who guarantees success, with two major trophies secured and a place back at European football's top table next season in the Champions League.
Mourinho and United took the winning option, overpowering a talented but lightweight Ajax to give their season and thousands of celebrating fans a warmer glow.
It also provided a city in mourning with cause for a measured and respectful outpouring of joy after 22 people died and many more were injured in Monday's terror attack at the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena.
So how important was this win for Mourinho and Manchester United?
Mourinho spoke of the "humble principles" behind his fourth win in a European final that also allowed Manchester United to join the select group who have claimed every trophy on offer outside the domestic game, a list that includes Ajax, Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Juventus.
Amid this show of self-proclaimed humility Mourinho still found time to take aim at "the poets" (presumably pundits) who he claimed win every game they play, and also take a swipe at his rivals in the Premier League.
"In a bad season when sometimes I felt my team were the worst team in the world, where I felt I was the worst manager in the world, we managed to win three trophies [the Community Shield in August being the other] and go into the Champions League by winning a trophy not by finishing second, third or fourth," he said.
It was a less than subtle jab in the direction of Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham, his old adversary Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp - with Mourinho perhaps taking notice of Sunday's wild celebrations on and off the pitch at Anfield after fourth place was confirmed.
It was a win Mourinho desperately needed - and how it showed on his face. The scowl that has been a trademark this season was replaced by a beaming smile.
The pressure was released and the years seemed to roll away as he turned to his family behind the technical area at the final whistle and raised an index finger to the skies. It was a gesture he said was a coded message to his loved ones but it could also have been a reminder that the manager who was a Premier League title winner only seven months before the sack at Chelsea was in the winners' enclosure once more.
It was a night high on emotion after Monday's attack in Manchester and it also seemed a night when Mourinho's bond with United's fans was sealed.
He has occasionally looked an uneasy fit at Old Trafford but here he was at home. As he held the trophy aloft in front of United's elated support, Mourinho's name was chanted in a manner rarely heard this season. It looked and sounded like he was finally right at home.
Mourinho gambled on winning the Europa League to put Manchester United back in the Champions League. The fight for a place in the Premier League's top four was cast aside weeks ago as he concentrated on a competition he once derided but which now offered the opportunity to win a spot against Europe's best.
And the success of Mourinho's gamble means United's summer strategy can be built around not simply offering targets that Old Trafford can deliver financially but also the lure of the Champions League.
United were still able to bring world record transfer Paul Pogba back to Old Trafford without that enticement last summer - but Mourinho and Old Trafford's decision-makers know that an offer without Champions League football would soon result in diminishing returns.
It was virtually seconds after victory over Ajax that the odds on Atletico Madrid's world-class forward Antoine Griezmann joining United shortened considerably, despite a reported £85m release clause in his contract.
Mourinho revealed executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has been in possession of his transfer hit-list for two months but this Europa League win could act as even more of a game-changer with United being viewed an even more attractive proposition now.
This was not just a night of huge significance for Mourinho. The stakes were high for United's status - and they were all winners.
Two major trophies in his first season cannot disguise that Manchester United still need further renovation. The grim statistic of 15 draws in what was a largely unsatisfactory league campaign tells the tale.
And there is every chance the list Mourinho passed to Woodward eight weeks ago will have outlined demands to strengthen the spine of a team that has failed too often, despite its eventual success, to get the result required.
Goalkeeper David de Gea, who watched Wednesday's win as Sergio Romero took his traditional Europa League place, is still linked with a move to Real Madrid so Mourinho may be looking for a replacement there, with Atletico Madrid's Jan Oblak a contender.
Eric Bailly, suspended against Ajax, has been a big success since his £30m move from Villarreal and Mourinho is a fan of Marcos Rojo - but there must be question marks against both Phil Jones and Chris Smalling.
Not only has their form been mixed, Mourinho has appeared to question the speed with which the England pair recovered from injury, calling on them on one occasion "to be brave - risk".
United are in a strong position to sign Burnley's 24-year-old England defender Michael Keane, although there would be a measure of embarrassment, as there was with Pogba's return, after he was packed off from Old Trafford to Turf Moor by Van Gaal in January 2015 for only £2m.
He would cost around £25m but United would pay a smaller fee because they would activate the 25% sell-on clause they included in his move to Burnley.
Keane also represents a fitter and younger option than Jones, 25, and 27-year-old Smalling.
Mourinho may also look to bring in extra midfield strength, with links to Monaco's £70m Bernardo Silva while the desire to bring the class and quality of 26-year-old France forward Griezmann to United is an open secret.
The list may not be long but it might be very expensive. The Europa League win and the return of Champions League football means Mourinho is in a better position to demand and Woodward is in a better position to deliver.
One name sticks out when the question of departures is raised - Wayne Rooney.
For all Mourinho's public assurances that he would be happy to keep the 31-year-old, there was a real sense of farewell as he came on as substitute a minute from time, Antonio Valencia making great play of offering him the captain's armband.
Rooney was also greeted by the sort of noise and affection from United's fans that has decreased with his decline, a gesture of thanks and perhaps a goodbye to a player who has been a magnificent contributor since his £27m move from Everton in the summer of 2004.
He has a club record of 253 goals from 558 games and has won five league titles, three League Cups, the Champions League, the FA Cup and now the Europa League.
It does seem, however, that the credits are rolling and options appear to be a move to China, the United States or a return to his first love Everton, although that would take some serious financial compromise on Rooney's part as he is on a reported £300,000 a week and has two years to run on his contract.
And what of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, an outstanding success even at 35, scoring 28 goals after his free transfer move from Paris St-Germain until he sustained a serious knee injury?
Mourinho spoke with genuine affection about a player and personality he first forged a bond with at Inter Milan but his option for a second year on his contract has not been taken up and United will surely want to study his recovery from an injury that would be a serious setback for any player, let alone a 35-year-old.
He may survive if Mourinho feels he does not wish to lose Rooney and Ibrahimovic's experience - but it will be a delicate decision.
Michael Carrick is also waiting to commit his future. The 35-year-old, who has a testimonial at Old Trafford on 4 June, has been involved in contract talks that have progressed well - but will the veteran feel he might get more football elsewhere?
It will not be a matter of Mourinho simply handing that list to Woodward. United may also want to cut back on their squad for next season.
Mourinho has never been held back by modesty - but he looked like a man with confidence and self-belief fully restored as United's season came to this successful conclusion in Stockholm.
Now, buoyed by this success, Mourinho and United must set sights higher next season.
United's sixth place in the Premier League was simply not good enough and a serious title challenge must be the target after what is likely to be a summer of huge investment as a show of faith in Mourinho's management.
The Champions League has always had a special place in Mourinho's affections and he will want to make another journey into its later stages.
Manchester United winning the League Cup and the Europa League can be considered a highly successful return - but now Mourinho must take the lift to the next floor and challenge for the Premier League and Champions League.
Jean-Claude Juncker said the lack of a "permanent structure" resulted in money being wasted on missions.
Part of his annual state of the union address was devoted to the UK's unexpected vote to leave the EU.
He insisted that the bloc was not at risk but called for Brexit negotiations to take place as quickly as possible.
Modelled on the state of the union address by the US president, the Commission president's annual speech was introduced in 2010 to detail the state of the EU and future legislative plans.
The Brexit vote has given added impetus to plans for greater defence co-operation, because the UK has always objected to the potential conflict of interest with Nato.
But Mr Juncker said a common military force "should be in complement to Nato". "More defence in Europe doesn't mean less transatlantic solidarity."
A European Defence Fund would stimulate military research and development, he said.
All EU members have military forces; most are also members of Nato; and several have extensive experience of operations abroad, from peace-keeping to war-fighting.
The real question is how to organise these component parts to get greater security. Mr Juncker insists that the EU must have a role here.
He wants to improve EU command and control facilities and appears to be suggesting that EU civil and military aspects of a given mission should be run out of the same headquarters.
He also insists that whatever the EU does it should not detract from Nato. But defence resources are finite. His critics will say nothing should be done that duplicates existing Nato activities, as that sends a signal of disarray in Western ranks to Moscow.
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Europe's media unimpressed by Juncker
Since 2003 the EU has launched some 30 civilian and military operations in Europe, Africa and Asia - under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Sixteen are still going on, including six military operations::
On future Brexit negotiations, Mr Juncker warned that the UK could only have unlimited access to the single market if it accepted free movement of people and goods. "There can be no a la carte access to the single market," he said.
The single market has dominated the Brexit debate in the UK.
Prime Minister Theresa May distanced herself last week from remarks by Brexit minister David Davis, when he said remaining in the single market would be "very improbable" if it meant giving up control of British borders.
Jean-Claude Juncker and his team agonised over the wording of Wednesday's speech.
The UK's vote to leave the EU is undoubtedly one of the biggest crises the bloc has ever faced but Mr Juncker was determined not to dwell on it.
There were few words on Brexit. His main message: "The European project continues. Let's choose to look forward. Be positive."
Applause resounded around the chamber of the European Parliament but how will the voters outside react?
Are they even listening? The drumbeat of nationalist, Eurosceptic populism reverberates around the continent.
Public trust in the establishment is low - whether traditional politicians, bankers or EU bureaucrats - and Mr Juncker is an unelected president.
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Mr Juncker admitted the EU was facing an "existential crisis", and he also warned that splits in the union had left space for "galloping populism".
In a blunt criticism of recent attacks on immigrants in the UK, he said he would "never accept Polish workers being beaten up, harassed or even murdered on the streets of Essex".
Mr Juncker said the EU had to deliver "concrete results" including:
He urged a renewed focus on the EU as a "driving force that can bring about unification, for instance in Cyprus".
Anti-EU MEPs lined up to criticise Mr Juncker's rallying cry:
Karen Baker is standing down from the role two weeks after concerns were raised that the trust could be put into special measures.
Ms Baker said the CQC report would contain "important messages".
The executive medical director, Dr Mark Pugh, has been asked to stand in as acting chief executive.
Ms Baker had been in post for five years.
She said: "It is true that the NHS on the Isle of Wight - like elsewhere - faces many big challenges and it is clear to me that we have not always provided the quality of care the public expects. I am very sorry about that."
Ms Baker added that the trust needed a "fresh pair of eyes".
It comes after she had to reassure staff following newspaper reports the trust had received a draft copy of the CQC report and appointed an improvement director.
Ms Baker confirmed Philippa Slinger has been appointed to the role but a report was yet to be published.
She added: "It would be wrong to say more about this report before publication but I know it will contain some important messages about how we can improve healthcare on the island. I do not want questions about my own position to detract from these important messages."
Eve Richardson, chair of the trust, said: "It is a tribute to Karen that she was the first to recognise the need for a fresh start. Karen will not be receiving any kind of severance payment."
The trust board said it will be confirming an interim appointment in April and they will be in the role for up to six months, while the recruitment for a permanent chief executive takes place.
Adams, 34, stopped Mexico's Maryan Salazar in her second professional fight in Leeds on Saturday.
American Esparza won her second bout as a professional a week earlier, becoming the first woman to box three-minute rounds, rather than the standard two.
"We have room on the mantlepiece for a world title," said Adams. "I'll not hear the end of it if I'm not first."
She added: "We were both keen to get the three-minute rounds over the line. I thought I'd be the first person to do it but she pipped me, I'm still the first in Britain though."
Adams and Esparza competed for the same women's flyweight title at London 2012, though the pair did not meet in the competition as the Briton won gold and the American bronze.
They have sparred in the past, though Adams believes they will never meet in the ring going forward as they now seek titles at different weights.
Adams, who impressed in overwhelming Salazar at flyweight, feels she still has "a lot to do" to reach world-title level.
"I'm hoping in a year I will be able to fight for a world title," she told BBC Radio 5 live's boxing podcast. "I need more rounds under my belt. I'd love to be able to say let's just go for it but I want to be right and ready so that when I go for that title I come back as champion."
BBC Radio 5 live pundit Richie Woodhall:
When Nicola made her debut, I was a little bit worried. I was disappointed with the crowd as it went mild. She needed a good performance in her second bout and a stoppage as people want to be entertained.
Now we've seen all those skills but with more power.
I've seen her in spars and I've seen her spar lads. At 34 years of age with experience of two Olympics, her engine and conditioning is more seasoned than someone of 22 years of age. She could go into eight and 10-round contests from now, no problem whatsoever.
It's the Brit's first win of the year and German driver Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel finished second.
It looks like 2017 will be a fight between the two multiple champions.
The next time the two men meet will be in Bahrain in the Middle East next weekend.
The turnout - 42.42% - is higher than an earlier 7% estimate by opposition parties that boycotted the polls.
Backed by President Alassane Ouattara, the change scraps a requirement that both parents of presidential candidates must be native-born Ivorians.
Opponents accuse Mr Ouattara of using it as a way to hand-pick his successor.
In the lead-up to the referendum, there were street protests by opposition supporters against the constitutional reforms.
On Monday, President Ouattara acknowledged that there were some disturbances during the vote, but said they were isolated incidents.
In one instance, youths destroyed some polling stations in the Abidjan district of Yopougon - a stronghold of the opposition Ivorian Popular Front.
The new constitution is billed by President Alassane Ouattara as an opportunity to turn a page on instability, mainly around the divisive issue of identity, which has fuelled decades of civil strife.
The new construction removes the age limit of 75 for those seeking to be elected to the post of president.
Mr Ouattara will be over the current age limit at the end of his current term. Initially, some of his critics accused him of trying to stay in power himself but the draft retains a ban on third terms so he cannot seek re-election.
The new constitution also introduces:
Electoral commission president Youssouf Bakayoko announced the yes campaign's win on state-owned television on Tuesday.
MSPs Kezia Dugdale and Ken Macintosh will fight for the leadership role.
Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson and MSPs Alex Rowley and Richard Baker will battle it out for the deputy leader post.
The elections were sparked after leader Jim Murphy and his deputy Ms Dugdale resigned from their positions.
The changes at the top of the Scottish party come in the wake of Labour losing all but one of its 41 seats at May's general election.
On Monday, Ms Dugdale said she had secured backing from 30 of the Scottish Labour Party's 40 parliamentarians.
She added: "My campaign will be reaching out to people whose support Labour has lost, and those who've never voted for us before - because our values are as relevant today as they have ever been."
Mr Macintosh, who is MSP for Eastwood, said the election was a "terrible defeat" for Labour.
He added: "Scottish Labour needs to become more open, more transparent and we must shift control of our party from the corridors of power to the communities of Scotland - I believe a healthy, robust leadership contest which listens to Scotland will start that process."
Council leader Mr Matheson said he believed he had the necessary experience to take on the deputy leader role.
He said: "The Scottish Labour Party needs to stop feeling sorry for itself and instead focus on the concerns of the people of Scotland.
"I offer the distinct combination of experience and change. I have successfully led Scotland's largest city for over five years. But because I'm not an MSP I offer a fresh perspective on the national political scene."
Mr Baker said he was aware of the scale of the challenge facing Labour and said he wanted to play his part in overcoming those challenges.
He added: "I am looking forward to meeting members across the country over the coming weeks to discuss how we can work together to rebuild our great party."
Following changes spearheaded by Mr Murphy before his departure at the weekend, the election for both the leader and deputy leader will be based on one-member-one-vote.
To stand as leader, candidates must already have been elected as an MP, MSP or MEP.
Candidates for deputy must already have been elected an MP, MSP, MEP or councillor.
To stand as deputy, candidates must achieve at least 15% of support from the elected parliamentary group, which includes MSPs, Labour's sole Scottish MP Ian Murray and MEPs, or 15% of Scottish Labour councillors.
All the contestants will take part in a series of hustings at four venues including;
The results of the two contests will be announced at a special gathering on Saturday 15 August.
15 June - Nominations open for leader and deputy leader
19 June (12 noon) - Nominations close
19 June (17:00) - Supporting nominations open
22 June - Hustings period opens
13 July - Last date to join as member, affiliated supporter, or registered supporter in order to vote in the leadership ballot
10 July (12 noon) - Supporting nominations close
20 July - Ballot opens
14 August - Ballot closes
15 August - Result announced
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England won the first Test by 169 runs, with Watson twice being dismissed lbw.
He has been out in such fashion 14 times in 35 Ashes innings.
"You don't want to be getting out lbw all the time and you want to make more runs. Shane would be disappointed, so are we," head coach Lehmann said.
"We'll certainly look at the wicket and work out the best XI to win in those conditions and if it means making changes, we'll make changes.
"That won't be an issue for the selection panel. It's going to be a tight call heading into the second Test."
All-rounder Watson, 34, has played 59 Tests in which he has scored 3,731 runs and taken 75 wickets.
However, he has passed 50 only once this calendar year and he is coming under increasing pressure from 23-year-old Mitchell Marsh who hit centuries in both of Australia's tour warm-up games.
Australia will be loathe to make changes and show "any hint of panic", according to Australian broadcaster Jim Maxwell, but there is increasing clamour for Watson, who made his international debut in 2002, to be dropped.
He has become the target of ridicule from England's supporters, with ex-England spinner Graeme Swann noting: "The Barmy Army have a new song for Watson to the tune of the Andy Williams classic 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You', you know that bit where it builds to the chorus? It goes 'lb, lb, lbw'" they were singing it and sure enough Shane got out lbw!"
Geoff Lemon, writing on the ABC website, said: "You sense that Watson's time is up: not because of his critics but because of himself. His confidence is shot. He doesn't look like he's enjoying himself."
Watson's inability to be effective with the ball could finally force Australia's hand.
"One of the reasons he was playing this game, I understood, was because his bowling was going to be so useful in plugging the game up," said Maxwell. "That was barely the case and he didn't get a wicket.
"In two innings he got in for a while but didn't get a score (30 & 19) and his position is in jeopardy. Given the form of Mitchell Marsh with the bat I think the time might be right to move on. "
English fans might not know much about Marsh, but he already has four Test caps.
His father, Geoff, played 50 Tests for Australia between 1985 and 1992 while his batsman brother Shaun is also part of Australia's touring party.
"He's a very hard-hitting batsman who can change the direction of the game if he gets in," said Maxwell of Marsh. "He's also a lively medium-fast bowler who can bowl wicket-taking deliveries but doesn't have the control of a Watson and could leak a few runs.
"He's a young, exciting player and he deserves a chance on the evidence of his early form on this tour."
Of the other players to have their place in the team questioned, Brad Haddin is likely to come under the most scrutiny.
The 37-year-old dropped England's first innings centurion Joe Root on nought at Cardiff and failed twice with the bat.
He does, however, have a good record against England - averaging 41 with the bat set against a career average of 33.
Maxwell believes Haddin will be given another chance, saying: "Brad had a bad game but it was all exacerbated by the miss of Joe Root, which probably cost Australia a strong position in the game.
"I actually thought some of his keeping to Nathan Lyon was pretty good but he's also there to make a few runs and he hasn't done that for a while. Another poor game might see them make a change and bring in another very good wicketkeeper, Peter Nevill."
It's unlikely. Now Mitchell Starc is hoping to be fit for the second Test, Peter Siddle is likely to remain on the sidelines.
"Siddle is an option because he bowls pretty straight but I'm not sure he has the penetration of Starc," adds Maxwell. "Elsewhere in the team, Shaun Marsh might push Voges for the number five spot but Voges deserves another game."
The self-described YouTube prankster, who gave his name as Kenny, said he was "only chasing his friends" in a video shot on Brunel University grounds.
Meanwhile, reports of "creepy clown" sightings have continued to rise.
Police have increased patrols outside some schools, and asked fancy dress shops to remove clown masks from sale.
The craze - which involves people dressing up in clown costumes and scaring unsuspecting members of the public - has received widespread attention.
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More than 60,000 tweets using the hashtag #killerclowns have been posted in the UK since 10 September.
Some, including professional clowns, have branded the trend dangerous and irresponsible.
Kenny, a media studies student, sparked panic on campus with his chainsaw video.
He said he had used the tool in previous prank videos, and was filming with friends.
But he conceded it "looked like he was terrorising" fellow students and that he should have informed people he was filming.
"I regret filming so much on campus. I'm never ever doing that again," he said.
Sightings of "creepy" clowns and reports of people in costume intimidating the public have been received by police all over the UK.
Speaking to BBC Radio Cumbria, Supt Mark Pannone of Cumbria Police warned people were committing a public order offence if they try to scare others.
"Last night alone, we had 19 incidents between 15:00 and midnight where the public rightly called us to say 'look, we're really worried because things are happening with clowns, people are scaring us'," he said
North Yorkshire Police received "at least" eight reports on the evening of 10 October, with people complaining of "young people dressed up as clowns, jumping out at them or chasing after them".
They included youths dressed as clowns in Whitley Bridge, Selby, one "carrying what appeared to be a knife", chasing after a group of girls.
Essex Police arrested two boys aged 14 and 16 following reports of people dressed as clowns and scaring children in Wills Hill, Stanford-le-Hope. The teenagers were questioned and released without charge, but warned about their conduct.
There have also been reports of people on social media discussing dressing as clowns and going to schools in Essex with a knife.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary said it received a call at about 10.30pm from a man who says someone in a clown mask with "possibly something in his hand" had jumped out at him in Woodston, Peterborough earlier in the day.
"The informant punched him in the face," said a spokesperson.
Kent Police say there have been 59 incidents involving clowns reported to them between 7-10 October, and that a 23-year-old man from Sittingbourne had been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence.
In London, the Met said it knew of three clown-related incidents which had "met the criminal threshold".
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In the North East of England, police said they had received more than 200 reports of clown sightings, and 14 recorded incidents involving "harassment, alarm and distress".
Vera Baird, Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria, told BBC 5 Live most of those stopped were aged about 16.
"We've got officers now calling into schools. They're asking head teachers to tell young people that they shouldn't dress up as clowns now," she said.
Officers from the force have asked shop staff to remove clown costumes from sale.
"Our police... are going round all the shops and saying... it is unwise to sell these. Take them off sale for now and don't sell them to anybody because you'll just add to it," she said.
Pupils at the Oasis Academy in Lambeth, south London, have been asked not to like, follow or share anything on social media connected to clowns following reports of threats.
In a letter to parents the school stated: "It has been brought to our attention that there has been online threatening behaviour over the weekend from groups of people wearing clown fancy dress/masks.
"We have notified the Metropolitan Police who have assured us that they are working with the appropriate agencies to eliminate this online threatening behaviour. The police will be present outside all Lambeth and Southwark secondary schools this afternoon."
Thousands of people have used the hashtag #killerclowns with a surge since the beginning of October.
It is believed the fad began in America before spreading to Canada and Australia and then the UK.
The most interest in web searches for "clowns" was recorded in Essex and Northumberland, according to Google Trends.
The horror author Stephen King, whose story It featuring a terrifying clown is being re-made by Hollywood, has called for an end to the "hysteria" on Twitter.
The researchers say that India is also forecast to beat Europe's CO2 output in 2019.
Scientists say that global totals are increasing fast and will likely exceed the limit for dangerous climate change within 30 years.
The world has already used up two thirds of the warming gases researchers calculate will breach 2 degrees C.
The Global Carbon Project involves researchers from several different institutes around the world and it provides objective details on the scale of annual emissions.
The latest data shows that a record 36 billion tonnes of carbon from all human sources were emitted in 2013.
The biggest emitters were China, which produced 29% of the total, followed by the US at 15%, the EU at 10% and India at 7.1%
But in an interesting development, China's emissions per head of population exceeding those of the European Union for the first time.
While the per capita average for the world as a whole is 5 tonnes of carbon dioxide, China is now producing 7.2 tonnes per person, to the EU's 6.8 tonnes. The US is still far ahead on 16.5 tonnes per person.
"We now see China's per capita emissions surpassing the EU," said Dr Robbie Andrew, from the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Norway, who was involved in the research.
"They are still nowhere near the US or Australia, but the fact that they have surpassed the EU will be quite surprising to a lot of people."
This development will shine an interesting light on global climate negotiations where China has often used its relatively low per capita emissions to argue that it is on the same page as other developing countries, and that restrictions on its use of carbon were not justified.
China's rapid industrialisation over the past 20 years has seen the construction of huge numbers of mainly coal fired power stations.
This build-up means that the emissions that China is committed to in the future, now exceed the total of everything it has emitted to date.
Prof Corinne Le Quere from the University of East Anglia, who is also involved with Carbon Project, said that a significant proportion of China's emissions were in fact, driven by demand from consumers in Europe and the US.
"In China about 20% of their emissions are for producing clothes, furniture even solar panels that are shipped to Europe and America."
"If you look at the emissions in Europe with that perspective, they would be 30% higher if we accounted for those goods that are produced elsewhere."
The other major emissions growth is seen in India. In 2013 the country's carbon grew by 5.1%, and it is now on track to overtake the EU in 2019.
"India has enormous problems, if the current government could sort out the issues with toilets that would an enormous achievement," said Dr Andrew.
"They have so many things to focus on in that country, to ask them to pull back on emissions, is a big problem."
For 2014, the carbon record is likely to be broken again as emissions are likely to hit 40bn tonnes, 65% above 1990 levels.
The researchers involved say the recent rise is due to the global economic recovery combined with a lower than expected increases in carbon intensity, especially in the developing world.
The scientists have calculated that to have a good chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees C, total emissions of carbon will have stay under 3,200 billion tonnes.
The world has about 1,200 billion tonnes left, but the latest data shows that there is a now a declining chance of now staying below the 2 degree target.
"The global emissions are continuing to increase at an incredible rate," said Prof Le Quere.
"In about 30 years we will have used up the remaining quota, that's extremely rapidly, that's to have a 66% chance to remain below 2 degrees."
The researchers say that existing reserves of oil, gas and coal exceed the 2 degrees target. Prof Le Quere says that this message has not been understood by politicians.
"We have not accepted that we will not be able to burn all this fuel, the scale of action that is required has not sunk in."
The new research comes as 125 heads of state and government are set to meet at the UN in New York to discuss climate change.
UN Secretary General has asked global leaders to come to the UN next week and to bring commitments with them to tackle the issue.
The meeting is meant to kick start the process to a new global deal that will be agreed in Paris at the end of 2015. According to the scientists, the politicians have a long way to go, if they are to prevent the world breaching the 2 degree target.
"China and India are doing exactly the same as other countries," said Prof Le Quere.
"I really think we need to show leadership in the way we use energy in rich countries so that others can follow different pathways to development. At the moment we don't see any countries that have that leadership."
Details of the studies dealing with the Global Carbon Project have been published in the journals, Nature Climate change, and Nature Geoscience.
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The regulations will not force takeaway firms to print their actual rating on their leaflets but they will need to print a bilingual statement pointing to a website where it can be found.
Outlets are rated according to how they prepare, cook and store food, the condition of their premises and food safety management.
The ratings are set by local councils.
The statement will also tell customers that they have a legal right to ask the food business for their hygiene rating when they order over the phone.
Takeaways can voluntarily display their valid rating on the leaflet.
But the Welsh Government has not sought to force takeaways to print the ratings in the same way they have to display them, so firms do not have to go to the expense of reprinting leaflets when their ratings change.
Wales became the first part of the UK in 2013 to force food businesses like restaurants and takeaways to display ratings on their premises.
Lonsana Doumbouya headed Inverness ahead against the run of play, but Kenny McLean's free-kick levelled.
Jonny Hayes long run was halted by Gary Warren, earning the Dons a penalty, which Adam Rooney dispatched to put them ahead.
McLean sealed the points when Hayes was influential again, picking out the Dons midfielder on the counter attack.
Celtic's seemingly unassailable lead at the top suggests Aberdeen's best hope in league terms is to finish second once again.
This second successive away win was an important step with a number of sides bunched within striking distance before kick off.
They started well but fell behind to Inverness' first chance of the match. Ross Draper supplied an accurate ball which Doumbouya attacked and brilliantly glanced into the corner.
Defensively, Derek Mcinnes might feel his back line should have dealt with the cross, but the finish was one of real quality.
Aberdeen won a free-kick in a central area which McLean hit firmly and on target. It found the net with goalkeeper Owain Fon Williams perhaps a touch slow to react given it sped past well inside the post.
Hayes created the second with direct, determined play which took him into the box at speed.
Warren mistimed it and clearly caught the winger. Rooney doesn't miss many penalties and this one was perfect, straight in the corner despite Fon Williams anticipating the direction of the ball.
Andrew Considine thought he'd added a third but saw Fon Willaims produce an outstanding close range save to deny a more comfortable passage to the points.
James Maddison also came very close with an excellent free kick that struck the base of the post.
The third eventually arrived with Inverness pressing. Hayes broke at speed, played in McLean and he sealed the points with Fon Williams exposed.
It's a positive result and a good way to enter a big week for the club with the League Cup final against Celtic to follow.
The balance between attacking threat and defensive solidity is something Inverness might improve on.
In an attacking sense they are a real threat. Doumbouya is a real handful and when a chance comes, he has the confidence and composure to take it.
A commitment to attack sometimes leaves them exposed, which one league clean sheet demonstrates.
Doumbouya was unlucky to see one header loop narrowly over. Draper then was so unlucky with a brilliant run which he narrowly failed to convert.
Richie Foran's side have shown they can match the best of the Premiership at home this season, and despite dropping to just two points clear of bottom, you'd think they have enough to start climbing again.
Inverness manager Richie Foran: "We scored against the run of play. Nearly all over the park we were second best. Aberdeen were the better team, they had more quality, they played us off the park at times. We were poor, Aberdeen were very good.
"We didn't deserve to go one up, simple as that. It's a good ball in for the goal and a good finish. Big Lons (Lonsana Doumbouya) was good, he was probably our only decent performance. Everyone else was second best.
"It's one of our poorest performances of the season. We lacked belief which was strange.
"Greg Tansey and Liam Polworth, even if things aren't going well for us, will keep the ball well. But if I'm doing my job right and having players who can come in like for like, then I shouldn't be looking for them excuses and I'm not looking for them excuses.
"I've got to take some of the blame. Overall we weren't good enough today, including me."
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes: "It was a poor goal to lose but the response was absolutely brilliant. It was three good goals from us and I thought we had some top performances, and we're in good nick now going into the Cup final.
"We've got eight games in December, almost a quarter of our season. It's mad. But when the fixtures are done at the end of that period we'll start to have an idea of where teams are.
"We're looking forward to the Cup final. I think we're past the stage of just going there and being happy to take part in a final. We're going there to enjoy it to the full and we can only do that by winning it. Celtic are a tough nut to crack but I feel the players here are capable of getting a result.
Aberdeen midfielder Kenny McLean: "We've played well in the last couple of games so going into next week we're really excited.
"Everyone wants to take points off us because we've done so well the last couple of years.
"A lot of the boys are still here that won that final (v Inverness in 2014) and there's a lot of stuff around the stadium highlighting that day. You want your name up on that wall, that's why I'm at this club. It's a massive club, you should be winning cups and challenging in the league."
Match ends, Inverness CT 1, Aberdeen 3.
Second Half ends, Inverness CT 1, Aberdeen 3.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Josh Meekings.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Mark Reynolds replaces Graeme Shinnie.
Ross Draper (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kenny McLean (Aberdeen).
Attempt missed. Gary Warren (Inverness CT) header from a difficult angle on the right is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Carl Tremarco (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Inverness CT 1, Aberdeen 3. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jonny Hayes.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Alex Fisher replaces Billy King.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Kenny McLean.
Lewis Horner (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen).
Substitution, Inverness CT. Lewis Horner replaces Brad McKay because of an injury.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Ash Taylor replaces James Maddison.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Niall McGinn replaces Jayden Stockley.
Brad McKay (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen).
Substitution, Inverness CT. Jake Mulraney replaces Larnell Cole.
James Maddison (Aberdeen) hits the left post with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.
Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ross Draper (Inverness CT).
James Maddison (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card.
James Maddison (Aberdeen) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Attempt missed. Lonsana Doumbouya (Inverness CT) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the left side of the box.
Aaron Doran (Inverness CT) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kenny McLean (Aberdeen).
Hand ball by Lonsana Doumbouya (Inverness CT).
Foul by Lonsana Doumbouya (Inverness CT).
Jayden Stockley (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Ross Draper (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andrew Considine (Aberdeen).
Iain Vigurs (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Iain Vigurs (Inverness CT).
Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ross Draper (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Jack (Aberdeen).
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Owain Fon Williams.
Attempt saved. Andrew Considine (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
The pub was threatened with legal action by Hollywood film firm the Saul Zaentz Company (SZC) which accused it of copyright infringement.
It later offered to resolve the dispute over the pub's name and decor by licensing it to use JRR Tolkien brands.
Landlady Stella Roberts said she had been shocked by the actors' offer.
She said: "I had a telephone call on Saturday evening, while we were trading, from Stephen Fry's business partner and manager. That's when he told me.
"I was very shocked.
"They've said as soon as they finish filming they would like to come down and visit the pub."
However Ms Roberts said she was not celebrating just yet.
She added: "Until everything is in black and white, on paper, we're going to be a bit reserved because it could be $100 this year and $20,000 next year.
"They have said to us they will offer us a licence to trade, but we don't know whether it means trading as The Hobbit, whether we still have to get rid of all our artwork, cocktail names, everything. We just don't know what's entailed."
Actor and presenter Fry, who is in New Zealand working on the forthcoming film of the Hobbit, posted on Twitter: "Ian McKellen and I v pleased that The Hobbit pub appears to be safe.
"Between his FB and my tweet I hope we helped common sense prevail."
His agent Hamilton Hodell confirmed that Fry and Sir Ian had agreed to pay the fee for the pub's copyright settlement with SZC.
Both actors had criticised the film company's action.
Sir Ian, who plays Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings films, described the film company's actions as "unnecessary pettiness" and Fry said it was "self-defeating bullying".
A Facebook campaign set up by the pub's users has more than 57,000 supporters.
SZC owns the worldwide rights to several brands associated with author JRR Tolkien, including The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings.
Producer Paul Zaentz told the BBC trademark law dictated it had to act against infringements of its brands, but were open to licensing the pub to use them.
He said: "When it's an established business, we like to get the company to acknowledge they are using our trademarks, stop selling infringing articles and then we will grant them a licence for a nominal fee - approximately $100 a year."
The pub in Bevois Valley, which is popular with students, has traded with the name for more than 20 years.
It features characters from Tolkien's stories on its signs, has "Frodo" and "Gandalf" cocktails on the menu and the face of Lord of the Rings film star Elijah Wood on its loyalty card.
A letter from SZC had asked the pub to remove all references to the characters.
Evans, 53, was relieved of his duties at Elland Road on Tuesday.
The Scot was the sixth head coach to work under Cellino since April 2014.
"In the last week or two it became obvious that I was not going to be around. I don't feel disrespected, I had a good working relationship with Mr Cellino," Evans told BBC Radio Leeds.
"The club secretary Stuart Hayton conveyed to me that my contract would not be extended beyond the end of the season and it was handled in a very professional phone call.
"I spoke to Massimo earlier in the summer but not in recent days or weeks.
"I certainly felt we had done enough to go forward but you don't make that decision as a manager. That lies with the owner and the board. I have to accept it, as much as I am saddened by it."
MK Dons boss Karl Robinson and Bristol Rovers manager Darrell Clarke have both turned down the opportunity to succeed Evans.
The former Rotherham boss, who had promised fans he would secure a play-off finish next season, believes the club need to hire an experienced British coach.
"It has to be a strong character and someone who is going to be very focused and understanding of what the remit is," he said.
"I was very clear that if Leeds United's aims for next season were to finish in the play-offs then that would be happening under Steve Evans and Paul Raynor.
"I can only take that the benchmark has been raised after the statement that Massimo put out yesterday, so if I was a Leeds United supporter I would be getting excited for a strong British coach."
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Top seed La Cruz, 27, outpointed Kazakhstan's Adilbek Niyazymbetov, winning all three rounds unanimously.
Cuban fighters have now won gold medals in all 12 weight categories to have featured at the Olympics.
Niyazymbetov, 27, took another silver medal, having also finishing second at London 2012.
La Cruz, who was beaten in the quarter-finals four years ago, earned Cuba their first boxing gold in Brazil.
The Caribbean island has now won 35 Olympic boxing medals - 67 in total - with only the United States bettering both tallies.
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Richie Woodhall, former WBC super-middleweight champion on BBC TV:
"It was a tremendous performance from La Cruz.
"You've got to be so skilful to box like he does and have exceptional reactions.
"He is a wonderful boxer."
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Salah Farah was on a bus travelling through Mandera in Kenya when it was attacked by al-Shabab in December.
The attackers told the Muslims and Christians to split up but he was among Muslim passengers who refused.
A bullet hit Mr Farah and almost a month on, he died in hospital in the capital, Nairobi.
In previous attacks in the area, al-Shabab has killed Christians and spared Muslims.
At the time, Mr Farah told the BBC's Bashkas Jugsodaay that attackers had offered him an escape.
"They told us if you are a Muslim, we are safe. There were some people who were not Muslim. They hid their heads," he said.
However, he recalled to Kenya's The Daily Nation that people were told to separate but they refused.
"We asked them to kill all of us or leave us alone."
Explaining his actions, he told Voice of America earlier this month that "people should live peacefully together".
"We are brothers.
"It's only the religion that is the difference, so I ask my brother Muslims to take care of the Christians so that the Christians also take care of us... and let us help one another and let us live together peacefully".
After his death, Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet paid tribute to Mr Farah, telling Kenya's Standard Mr Farah was "a true hero".
Mr Farah's brother Rashid told Kenya's The Star newspaper he hoped his brother's death would bring religious harmony and encourage Kenyans to live as one community.
Expecting pupils to go to their local school means poorer children are much less likely to attend high-achieving schools, says the study.
It shows that the choice of good schools expands with greater affluence.
The "size of your mortgage" should not be the way to allocate school places, say researchers.
The study examined how families made choices between state schools - and why children from deprived families were more likely to be concentrated in the worst performing schools.
The researchers, from Bristol University's Centre for Market and Public Organisation, Cambridge University and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, found that differences were not the result of wealthier families having better-informed, more strategic school preferences.
Instead they found the substantial difference was that wealthier families were more likely to live in areas with more high-achieving schools.
Even though poorer families might want to send their child to a school with good results, their choice was limited by a system based on prioritising those living locally.
The research used information from the Millennium Cohort Study, which tracks the progress of young people born at the beginning of the new century.
The research showed that the link between home address, house prices and the allocation of places allowed wealthy families to ring-fence more of the preferred options.
"Different families have different sets of schools to choose from. Richer families choose between schools that have on average much higher grades than poorer families," says the research.
Ellen Greaves, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said it was "disappointing" to see how parental choice was restricted by admissions rules based on distance, which meant children's education was "affected by the ability of their parents to move close to their preferred school".
This inequality worked on multiple levels.
Pupils in poorer areas were likely to have fewer high-performing schools in travelling distance.
And within local areas, when individual sought-after schools used distance as a tie-breaker, it meant that wealthier families could afford to buy houses to get nearer to the front of the queue.
"Poor parents have fewer high performing schools available to them. This will remain true as long as proximity, and hence the size of your mortgage, determines access to such schools," said Anna Vignoles, professor of education at Cambridge University.
But the use of proximity as a way of allocating places is very widespread - and the study noted that the idea of sending children to a local school is well established and popular with many parents, particularly at primary level.
Along with comparing academic results, the distance to school is an important factor when parents are making their school preferences.
The researchers also noted that using a lottery as an alternative has been widely discussed, but in practice is used infrequently.
Admissions system such as banding, designed to get a more varied mix of abilities or from a wider geographical area, are still based to some extent on where people live.
Prof Vignoles says that "more imaginative school allocation mechanisms are needed".
Simon Burgess, director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation, and research leader, said: "Obviously the overall goal for policy is to make all schools excellent.
"But until that nirvana arrives we should not ignore the question of how places in the better performing schools are allocated. At the moment, the proximity criterion for admissions means that differences in family income have a substantial and regressive impact on that allocation."
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) said a lack of scrutiny over building techniques meant lives could be at risk.
It follows the publication of a report which raised concerns about building standards at 17 schools in Edinburgh.
The Scottish government said it had written to councils about the issue.
The Cole report, published last week, was prompted by the collapse of a wall at Oxgangs Primary School in January 2016.
How Edinburgh built unsafe schools
It blamed poor building and a lack of oversight for the problems, which also affected 16 other schools and 7,600 children in the city.
The report also said that it was only due to "timing and luck" that the collapse of the wall, which sent nine tonnes of masonry crashing to the ground, did not result in child deaths.
Prof John Cole said the problems were not the result of one "rogue bricklayer", but were instead linked to the absence of proper inspections by the local council and building contractors.
RIAS said it "would be naive" to assume similar issues would not be present in hundreds of council projects constructed since the year 2000 across Scotland and the rest of the UK.
RIAS secretary Neil Baxter said Prof Cole's report was the most important he had seen in his 40-year career.
He added: "We are talking about hundreds of buildings just in Scotland.
"The same procurement process that applies in Scotland applies across the UK, so there is no reason this would be limited to Scotland.
"Councils have a responsibility to the public to ensure these buildings are safe."
RIAS has called on local authorities to ensure they have trained staff to carry out inspections as soon as possible and denied they had any vested interest in a future inspection programme.
The organisation's president Willie Watt added: "The message is simple and the responsibility of all commissioning authorities is clear.
"An early process of inspection by appropriately-qualified experts should proceed as urgently as the various public commissioning authorities, local, health and governmental, can muster the skilled individuals who can do this work."
Mr Watt added that without "diligent and careful checking at every stage of the building process" problems were almost inevitable.
A Scottish government spokesman said the safety of people in public buildings was an absolute priority.
He added: "That is why the housing minister has written to all local authorities highlighting the issues and recommendations the Cole Report raises and underlining the importance of adhering to building regulations, technical standards and the inspection processes which are in place to protect the public."
Cosla, the umbrella group that represents many of Scotland's councils, said the safety of public buildings was "of the highest priority".
The organisation said: "When problems were first identified with schools in Edinburgh, local authorities quickly prioritised the inspection of school buildings to check for similar issues.
"Local government takes these responsibilities extremely seriously. However, we should not forget that the report published last week also has implications for the construction sector.
"As a result, all involved must take time to consider carefully the lessons to be learned from what was a serious report."
Press reports said the girl, Daniela Mora, had been abducted by a criminal gang.
The government had offered a large reward for information and President Juan Manuel Santos said the security forces were pursuing the men who had taken her.
Daniela was kidnapped on Thursday as she was being driven out of school.
She is the daughter of Diego Mora, director of the National Protection Unit of Colombia.
The unit is responsible for providing protection for people who are considered to be at risk.
A reward of $60,000 had been offered for information about her whereabouts.
The kidnapping took place in the northern city of Cucuta, on the border with Venezuela.
The girl was taken by a group of unknown men as she was being driven out of her school in a bulletproof car.
This sort of high profile kidnapping has become unusual in recent years, says the BBC's Natalio Cosoy.
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Chasing 127 to win on a slow, low surface in Nagpur, the hosts were bowled out for a paltry 79 in 18.1 overs despite captain MS Dhoni's 30.
Mitchell Santner took 4-11, Ish Sodhi 3-18 and Nathan McCullum 2-15 as nine India wickets fell to spin.
New Zealand's total of 126-7 was built around Corey Anderson's patient 34.
The value of his innings only became apparent as India, in familiar conditions and with a fervent crowd behind them, slumped to only a second defeat in their past 12 T20s.
England start their Group 1 campaign against West Indies in Mumbai at 14:00 GMT on Wednesday, after Pakistan and Bangladesh meet in Kolkata at 09:30.
The manner of defeat as much as the margin will puncture India's hopes of becoming the first team to win the tournament twice.
All but Dhoni and Virat Kohli, who made 23, among the India batsmen found scoring difficult on a surface that was far from conducive to the explosive strokeplay so familiar with the shortest form of the game.
Off-spinner McCullum removed Shikhar Dhawan in the first over, slow left-armer Santner bowled with control and no little guile, and India-born Sodhi found considerable turn with his leg-spin.
Santner had Rohit Sharma stumped and Suresh Raina caught via a leading edge in his first over to reduce India to 12-3, before Yuvraj Singh offered McCullum a return catch.
Dhoni watched Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin fall to the impressive Sodhi - playing only his sixth T20 - and India's defeat was confirmed when the skipper was superbly held low down by McCullum at long-on in the 18th over.
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A New Zealand victory looked unlikely to say the least when they slipped to 13-2 and 35-3 amid a flurry of attacking strokes after Kane Williamson won the toss.
Martin Guptill was lbw to Ashwin immediately after hitting the first ball of the match for a towering straight six, while Colin Munro, who reverse-swept his first delivery for six, miscued a drive at Ashish Nehra to mid-on.
Anderson, boasting a career strike-rate of 144, managed only three fours in his 42-ball innings, the need for survival outweighing aggression as he lost regular partners.
Off-spinner Raina had Williamson stumped for eight before brilliantly running out Ross Taylor with a dive and flicked throw - all in one movement - in his follow-through.
Jasprit Bumrah's superbly directed yorkers accounted for Anderson, who was bowled attempting a paddle sweep, and limited the Kiwis' late-innings charge in a seemingly modest total.
Their spinners ensured it was more than enough.
New Zealand's next match is against Australia in Dharamsala on Friday, while India face neighbours and arch rivals Pakistan on Saturday, a match that was moved from Dharamsala to Kolkata because of security concerns.
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The 31-year-old first reached the top of the World Squash Association (WSA) world rankings in January 2006.
Although she slipped to number two in April 2006, she reclaimed pole position in August of that year.
Her winning run now includes 77 WSA World Tour titles, a record seven World Championship titles and two Commonwealth Games golds.
"To be the number one in the world for 100 consecutive months is simply remarkable," said WSA chief executive officer Tommy Berden.
"Nicol's achievements are unique within the global sporting community and it's great for the sport to have an ambassador like her."
The 26-year-old, who can play at right-back or centre-back, has agreed a two-year contract with the O's, with the option of a further year.
Erichot came through the youth ranks at AS Monaco and has also had spells on loan at Clermont and Unaio Leiria.
He is Orient's sixth signing of the transfer window.
Meanwhile, academy coach Danny Webb has been appointed first-team coach as the Matchroom Stadium.
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Derrylard Nurseries near Maghery grows salads for all the major supermarkets in Northern Ireland.
Its premises are beside the River Bann where it flows into Lough Neagh at Bannfoot.
Over the period of a week the flood waters have reached one of its giant grow tunnels.
They have now covered tens of thousands of lettuces which had been planted in November and were due for harvest in March.
Owner Seamus Donnelly said the loss would run to thousands of pounds.
"They'll all have to be thrown out now. There's no way they could survive that," he said.
The level of Lough Neagh has been rising steadily since Christmas. It's now half a metre higher than it was on Christmas Day across its 383sq kms.
Questions have been asked about the management of the lough levels. The Rivers Agency is responsible for that.
It will appear before a committee of MLAs at Stormont on Tuesday to answer questions about the impact of the winter storms.
Dr Mary Bousted, head of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said new performance-related pay structures meant new teachers could not predict their future earnings.
Teachers' pay had fallen 12% against inflation, she told the ATL conference.
The government said the changes would let heads pay good teachers more.
A new pay structure for teachers was introduced in England and Wales last September.
The move was controversial and led to industrial action by members of the National Union of Teachers and the NASUWT.
Dr Bousted said: "What was previously an expectation that if you worked for so many years, you would be earning X" was no longer there for younger teachers.
They were wary of rising interest rates and reluctant to commit to mortgages.
"The issue of teachers not knowing what they're going to be paid, and the workload, is making the profession deeply unattractive," said Dr Bousted.
She told the conference in Manchester: "[Education Secretary] Michael Gove told the School Teachers' Review Body that he wanted to pay the best teachers more.
"He said that the national pay framework was constraining individual schools from paying the best teachers more. So he abolished the national pay framework.
"He said teachers' incremental pay scales meant that they were rewarded just for turning up, not for good performance. So he abolished the pay scales."
In her conference speech, Dr Bousted also launched a stinging attack on Ofsted, saying senior management's desire to create an inspection-ready school "destroyed collaboration".
She said the inspectorate should be "radically slimmed down" and all inspectors properly trained and licensed, saying it was "so damaged, so tarnished" that it had to be completely transformed.
"Someone has to stand up for teachers and someone has to stand up to bullies," she told her members.
"School leaders, whose jobs are as secure as their Ofsted category, too often resort to dictatorial ways, telling teachers what to do, insisting on ridiculous bureaucracies around lesson planning and assessment frameworks, which take teachers' time and attention from a deep focus on teaching and learning."
Inspection findings were, she claimed, rarely valid or reliable.
"We know that, frankly, it's a lottery which depends on which Ofsted inspection team turns up - one that has a clue, or one that is clueless."
She said: "I am not alone in coming to the conclusion that Ofsted gets it very wrong far too often - the normally Tory-supporting, right-wing think-tank Policy Exchange, in its recent report on Ofsted, says that you might as well flip a coin to come to an Ofsted judgement on teaching quality."
The Policy Exchange report, Watching the Watchmen, recommended Ofsted abolish or radically reduce the number of inspectors it uses from private companies, saying many inspectors do not have the skills needed to make fair judgements of schools.
Dr Bousted expressed concern that the "Ofsted sword of Damocles" hung over any senior leader "foolish enough" to think they would be given sufficient time to turn around schools with problems.
"Ofsted has ensured that leaders taking these positions significantly raise their risk of committing career suicide."
An Ofsted spokeswoman said the inspectorate had played a major part in raising standards in England's schools over the past 21 years.
She said: "Our reports remain a valuable and independent source of information for parents, carers and the wider public.
"As Her Majesty's chief inspector has said, Ofsted does not expect schools to adopt a particular way of teaching.
"However, we have toughened our inspection frameworks over recent years and schools are rising to the challenge."
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On its blog,the company announced that it had failed to find any "viable sources of finance"and would soon cease operations.
The company tried to bring high-speed net services to rural areas by using local champions and private finance.
Rival net firms have stepped in to keep customers connected in some areas, but others have effectively been cut off.
Next Genus had been using a mixture of fibre cables and wireless to take very high speed broadband (10-60 megabits per second) to some parts of the UK that would struggle to get it any other way.
It provided marketing materials and support to locals to help them generate interest in getting the high-speed service and, once enough people had committed, began putting infrastructure in place to serve them.
The service had proved popular in parts of Cumbria, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where significant numbers of customers had signed up.
Many were cut off this week when the company revealed that there was "no realistic prospect" of it finding enough money to pay its creditors.
In Hull and East Yorkshire, rival Quickline stepped in to keep net connections running - as did ISP KCom in Hull.
In Cumbria, Next Genus's service was briefly stopped then restarted as talks began with a potential investor. It said it was working to find purchasers for other parts of its network.
Next Genus has not answered any requests for comment.
Its blog said that: "Customers will be receiving an email in the near future giving more information."
She started her first business aged just 11, was fast-tracked through school and graduated from university at 18 when most people just start.
In 1995, and still just in her 20s, she started her own auction firm seemingly on a whim. Two decades later American Auction Company holds online and live auctions selling anything from property and jewellery to heavy machinery across the US where sales totalled $245m (£161m) last year.
In 2012, the firm became the first wholly owned foreign firm to get a licence to run auctions in China.
Our mid-morning meeting has disrupted her usual routine. By this time she'd normally have spent over three hours writing - she's currently penning two business books as well as writing a regular newspaper column - and then typically works on the auction business from 9.30am until 1am.
In person, she's visibly driven. This is not a woman who bothers with small talk and her answers are succinct and to the point.
Realising not all her employees are as motivated as her, has been one of the hardest things to accept.
"I'm constantly pushing people to do more, have more, try harder and if you're just the kind of person who wants to show up at work and go home at a certain time then that probably doesn't work well for you."
Her approach has always been more go-getting than the average, but she says her success has been down to a handful of key strategies.
Ms Weidenhamer started school at four-years-old, like most US children, but that's where the similarities end. She was fast tracked through the system, finishing school four years early and starting university at 14.
"Disdain for her fellow students" drove her, she says. "They just didn't have any purpose in life. All they wanted to do was play and I had stuff to do."
She doesn't think she was unusually bright but says she was "persistent", pushing her teachers to be put in a particular class so she could move up.
And she showed some early business nous. Aged 11, after realising she wouldn't get a cut of the profit from her successful girl scout cookie selling, she set up her own door-to-door sales company selling anything from small household appliances to camping goods.
Understanding numbers is essential for an auctioneer so that they know how to advance the bid, essentially counting quickly forward and backwards.
"It's very easy to lose track of where the bidding is which could cost a client thousands or even millions of dollars," she says.
But Ms Weidenhamer started out selling insurance, which she saw as a natural fit for her interest in numbers and finance.
She then switched to a job in mergers and acquisitions. Her new role was in San Francisco but she lived a two-hour flight away in Phoenix. For five years she commuted weekly. By the end, she had tears streaming down her face each time she left because she was so sick of the journey.
On one such commute, she sat next to a man in his eighties who worked as an auctioneer. His description of his day and how much money he'd made in an industry she had never really thought about intrigued her.
A month later she quit her job and enrolled in auctioneer school where she learned how to "chant" - the fast talking used by US auctioneers.
She says it was her dissatisfaction in her old job that made her open to possibilities. "I joke he could have been selling cookies and I'd [have] thought that was a good idea."
But it was also the state of the auction industry - estimated to be worth $250bn in the US yet largely controlled by around 5,000 small "mom and pop" style firms - that made her think there was an opportunity.
She used her savings to rent a run-down warehouse in Phoenix - between a homeless shelter and a soup kitchen - and started marketing to businesses to persuade them to choose her firm to sell their assets.
Here her old job helped. "I understood businesses and I knew what appealed to businesses".
For the first 30 months she took no salary and invested anything she made back into the business. Each day she started at 7am and worked until 2 or 3am doing everything herself from driving the forklift truck to running the auctions.
Her first employee was a 150lb (68kg) guard dog hired for her own personal security. After six months, it became a pet dog.
"On the loneliness scale if I hadn't had a dog I'm not sure I could have done it."
Her determination to professionalise the industry - for many clients she says that hers was the first typewritten proposal they had received - shook up the status quo. Some of her competitors explicitly tried to harm her reputation - warning clients she didn't know what she was doing and told her she wouldn't last.
"I'm pretty tough. In many ways it fuelled me to prove them wrong," she says.
She also didn't want to go back to her old job.
A year in, she started hiring other people and now has almost 300 employees globally.
The firm takes a commission from each sale, typically about a third of the price an item is sold for, and its expansion has been steady, helped by a more fun approach to auctions, which are held after work or at weekends, and include loud music, cocktails and food.
She's worked hard to establish a presence in China, where the firm now does 24 to 30 auctions a month. Ms Weidenhamer now spends almost half her time there.
The country's "frontier-like" nature has kept her entrepreneurial instincts piqued, but has also offered a new avenue for growth.
"I joke to my friends that I could start three new businesses in China every day because there's just so much opportunity."
Led by Barcelona forward Neymar, Brazil could not find a way past their stubborn Group A rivals in Brasilia.
It is their second goalless draw of the tournament after another blank against South Africa on Thursday.
Elsewhere, Germany drew 3-3 with South Korea thanks to an injury-time free-kick from Arsenal's Serge Gnabry.
Brazil may have won the World Cup on a record five occasions, but the football-mad nation is desperate to finally claim the one prize that has so far eluded them - Olympic gold.
However, they were jeered by an impatient home crowd of more than 60,000 after failing to beat Iraq.
Brazil had 20 shots at goal, but only managed six on target as the Asian side held on.
"We need to apologise to the fans, to the people," said Brazil coach Rogerio Micale. "As the time passes and we can't score, the anxiety increases, and in this situation it's easier to make mistakes."
Iraq coach Abdulghani Alghazali said: "It's a historic day for Iraq to be able to draw against Brazil at its home. It's a great achievement for Iraqi football."
Denmark top the group with four points after Robert Skov's 69th-minute winner gave them a 1-0 victory over South Africa.
Defending Olympic champions Mexico recorded a 5-1 win over bottom side Fiji, who conceded eight against South Korea in their opening game.
Erick Gutierrez scored four second-half goals as the Mexicans came from behind to beat the minnows in Salvador.
Fiji held a shock half-time lead thanks to Roy Krishna's header. But Mexico, who drew 2-2 with Germany last time out, were impressive in the second half, particularly Gutierrez.
Mexico are second in Group C, level on four points with South Korea after they were pegged back by Gnabry's late equaliser.
There were seconds remaining when the 21-year-old winger fired in his second of the game via a deflection.
Germany are third in the table on two points.
In Group D, Portugal continued their 100% start with a 2-1 win over Honduras in Rio.
Alberth Elis gave Honduras a first-minute lead before goals by Tobias Figueiredo and Goncalo Paciencia earned Portugal the points.
They beat Argentina 2-0 in their opening game.
Argentina knocked Algeria out of the Olympic football competition with a 2-1 win over the north African team.
Atletico Madrid's Angel Correa scored and set up Jonathan Calleri's winner. Both teams finished the game with 10 men after Argentina captain Victor Cuesta and Ayoub Abdellaoui were sent off.
Nigeria became the first team to secure a spot in the quarter-finals by beating Sweden 1-0 in Group B.
Sadiq Umar scored a first-half winner for the African side, who have six points from two games.
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The first Champions League of Darts, featuring the world's top eight players, will be shown live across the BBC and staged at Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena between September 24-25.
"Darts is a huge deal in Wales and this was like the general election results for us," Hearn told BBC Wales Sport.
"We picked Cardiff because it is the fastest-selling venue we had."
He added: "We have 16 Premier League darts venue and always have a little race to see who sells out first.
"Cardiff has consistently won that race over the last three years, so we know there is the demand there.
"So two days, with the best eight players in the world, that's our way of saying thank you to Cardiff."
Hearn believes the event being on the BBC is a boost for the sport and his organisation.
"Being on the BBC is big news and another statement of how far the PDC has come," he said.
"It's good news they can announce a really world-class sporting event for their screens. I'm overjoyed."
Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: "Darts has always had wide appeal and it is great that audiences will get the chance to see all the action from the world's top players live on BBC Two and across our platforms."
Dennehy, 33, from Peterborough, is serving life for the murders of three men and the attempted murders of two dog walkers in 2013.
She is challenging a decision to continue to keep her separated from other inmates.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman confirmed Dennehy received legal aid.
"We robustly defend compensation claims as far as the evidence allows, and have successfully defended two-thirds of prisoner claims over the last three years," he said.
"Prisoners should not get legal aid unnecessarily, and we have already stopped funding for cases that can be dealt with through existing complaints processes."
Dennehy is serving her sentence at HMP Bronzefield, where she had initially been segregated while on remand.
The High Court was told her continued isolation leaves her "tearful and upset" and is a violation of her human rights.
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Jenni Richards QC, appearing for the prison, described Dennehy as "arguably the most dangerous female prisoner in custody".
She had been segregated over fears of a prison break by her and other inmates, and an alleged plan involved cutting off an officer's finger "to deceive the biometric security system at the prison".
Hugh Southey QC, for Dennehy, said the escape allegations were never properly put to her and no further action was taken.
He told Mr Justice Singh she was seeking a court ruling that her segregation amounted to "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" which is banned by the Human Rights Convention.
Dennehy, it is argued, should be compensated "to afford just satisfaction" for the breaches of her rights.
Mr Justice Singh is expected to reserve his decision until a later date.
Dennehy murdered Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, Kevin Lee, 48, and John Chapman, 56, in March 2013 before dumping their bodies.
She went on the run and subsequently stabbed dog walkers Robin Bereza, 64, and 56-year-old John Rogers in Hereford.
The Herald reported that she made it clear that "divisive Nationalists" in Holyrood would not have a veto over the UK's deal to exit the European Union.
The Scotsman said Mrs May "fired the starting pistol" on the Brexit process.
But she "drew fury" with her comments about supporters of Scotland's independence, according to The National.
The Scottish Daily Mail said the prime minister told "bitter Remainers" that she will deliver a "full-bodied" Brexit by early 2019.
And the Scottish edition of The Times said the speech put Britain on the path of a "hard Brexit".
The i newspaper reports that Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has urged Nicola Sturgeon to end the "political turf war" between London and Edinburgh.
Meanwhile The Daily Record reports that two boys have been reprimanded by police for racially abusing a six-year-old boy.
A Twitter troll who joked about the coach crash in which a Rangers supporter died has been branded a "sick little boy" by the victim's sister, according to The Scottish Sun.
The Press and Journal's Aberdeen edition reports that a "spectacular water feature" could form the centrepiece of a revamp of one of the city's roads.
In a letter to staff, Airbus Group said it makes "good economic sense" for the UK to stay in the EU due to its ability to trade freely and recruit workers.
While it would not relocate elsewhere in the event of EU exit, the company said it might reduce its investment.
The campaign to quit the EU said it was "another example of Project Fear".
Conservative MP Peter Bone of Grassroots Out, one of groups vying to be the official Leave campaign, said Airbus was ignoring the economic risks of staying in the EU, which he described as a "club that stops us from making our own trade deals with the rest of the world".
Airbus employs 15,000 workers at 25 sites across the UK, generating £6bn a year making large aeroplanes and helicopters for civilian airlines and the RAF as well as satellites and cyber defence equipment.
The company says it is indirectly responsible for a further 100,000 jobs among its British suppliers.
It is no surprise that Airbus - which has large operations in France, Germany and Spain as well as Britain - supports the UK remaining in the EU. The company signed a pro-Remain letter to The Times with many other businesses in February.
But what is significant is its decision to come to a clear corporate view and express that view to its staff. Many businesses choose to stay out of the debate or simply allow their bosses to speak out in a personal capacity.
Paul Kahn, the president of Airbus Group UK, told me: "We are not telling our staff how to vote, we are trying to explain to them why the company has the position that we do have."
Asked whether the company would move from the UK if there was a vote to leave the EU, he said: "We are not going anywhere" but warned investment could be diverted to China and the United States.
In the letter, the company emphasises what has helped to make the company a success because of its ability to move people and products around Europe.
"Airbus Group's success in the UK is predicated on a highly competitive, integrated European business model," it says.
"Our position... is we firmly believe that it makes good economic sense to stay inside the EU which has helped make the company the global success story it is today. Apart from anything else, we simply don't know what 'out' looks like."
It continues: "It is also reasonable for us as a responsible UK leadership team to explain to you why we think it is important for us to stay. Should the British electorate have a different view then clearly we wouldn't cease our activities in the UK, which are highly important and very prominent.
"However, our business model is entirely based on our ability to move products, people and ideas around Europe without any restriction and we do not believe leaving will increase the competitiveness of our British based operations.
"We all need to keep in the back of our minds that future investments depend very much on the economic environment in which the company operates.
"In fact we believe that the UK remaining active in reforming the EU can improve our position, and as a commercial business that operates in a globally competitive environment we need to maintain every competitive advantage in the UK we have."
But Mr Bone said many leading business figures did not support Airbus's stance, adding: "Many firms who struggle with relentless interference from the EU and rules that are stacked in the favour of a select few multi-nationals say we will be better off out."
Britain Stronger in Europe, which is campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU, said Airbus had an "absolute right" to speak out, describing the company as "a shining example of how being in the EU creates jobs and opportunities in Britain".
The Danish forward, who was top scorer for the Bluebirds last season, has been linked with moves to Brighton and Hull.
Zohore scored a late winner for Cardiff in their 1-0 victory at Burton, but his boss remains confident of keeping him.
"I hope Ken scores 10 goals before the end of the month, he still won't go," Warnock told BBC Wales Sport.
Warnock says Zohore is settled at Cardiff and is in the right place to ensure he gets a big money move in the future.
The Denmark U21 international is contracted to Cardiff until 2020 after agreeing a new deal in April 2017.
"Why would I be counting the days until the deadline?," Warnock said.
"Ken is happy here, in the dressing room after the game I asked him 'has your agent texted you yet' and he said 'yeah'. We have a good laugh!
"I've told him, 'if you don't chase money, it will come to you. If you get 25 goals this year or whatever, you wait and see what's what.'"
Warnock believes the Bluebirds showed at Burton that they have a deeper squad this season to contend in the Championship.
"All I know is that I couldn't have asked for more from the team and the substitutes," he said.
"We are going to need 18-20 players and isn't it nice to have a bench who can change a game, who can win a game?
"Last year we had six subs sometimes and three or four of them kids, and we conceded so many late goals. It is good to (be able to) use the subs to have an influence.
"We have signed good players who want to prove things. We've spent just over £3 million on seven players, we are trying to get value for money."
The agreement is another step towards allowing the German car maker to put the emissions cheating scandal behind it.
In June VW agreed to a $15bn (£12.1bn) settlement for another 475,000 vehicles affected by the scandal.
The new agreement will cost Volkswagen an estimated $1bn, US authorities said.
US District Judge Charles Breyer said owners of the 3-litre cars made between 2009 and 2016 would get "substantial compensation" for having them fixed or repaired.
However, there were some remaining issues to be resolved and another hearing will be held on Thursday, he said.
VW spokeswoman Jeannine Ginivan said the deal was "another important step forward in our efforts to make things right for our customers".
The firm admitted in September 2015 to installing secret software in 475,000 US 2-litre diesel cars to cheat exhaust emissions tests and make them appear cleaner in testing than they really were. They emitted up to 40 times the legally allowable pollution levels.
The $15bn settlement in June covered those vehicles, including an offer to buy them all back.
The US Justice Department said VW had agreed to contribute another $225m to a fund to offset excess diesel emissions.
In a separate filing, California's government said the company would increase the number of electric vehicles it sells in the state.
Robert Bosch, the German engineering firm that made the software for the VW diesels, has also agreed in principle to settle civil allegations at a cost of about $300m.
From the beginning of the year, boats had to start landing unwanted fish which were caught in their nets.
Incidents of throwing dead fish back into the sea had increased due to strict EU quotas on which fish could be landed in a bid to conserve stocks.
The Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) has now received funding for trials of design modifications.
The money is from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) and Marine Scotland.
The first phase will run from now until the end of the year and aims to have sea-trials of new designs of nets.
It will try to ensure that any skipper who comes forward with an idea will be the skipper who trials it.
It is expected a further phase will then run through to 2019, to help with development.
SFF chief executive Bertie Armstrong said: "If selective fishing gear is to play a part in meeting the challenges of the upcoming discard ban, innovation and practical input from the users is simply a must.
"This project is designed to gather the best ideas and turn them into optimised nets - teamwork will be everything."
Environment and Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead said: "I commend the industry for their work on such an important issue."
The ban came into force in January for species such as herring and mackerel, and takes effect next January for cod and haddock.
Ballymoney-based fUSe FM has secured one of five new community radio licences that were awarded by Ofcom.
The regulator has also granted a radio licence to Maghera-based Raidió G, the first Irish language station to be run from outside Belfast.
The three other licences were given to Portadown, Larne and Belfast stations.
The three community stations are Bridge FM in Portadown, Chaine FM in Larne and Belfast FM, which is aimed at Belfast citizens aged 55 and over.
In its application for a licence, fUSe FM said it would "reflect the traditions, language and culture of Ulster Scots in Ballymoney and surrounding areas".
Raidió told Ofcom it would "serve the Irish language community, and those with an interest in Irish language and culture within the broader English-speaking community, in the greater Maghera area in south County Derry".
Community radio stations usually cover a small geographical area and are run on a not-for-profit basis.
There are more than 200 operating across the UK.
Ofcom said that as well as providing "unique content", the stations bring wider benefits to their local communities.
"These include offering training and work experience opportunities and providing a voice to those, such as older people or speakers of minority languages, who may find it harder to access the media," the regulator added.
The five new licences will bring the number of community radio stations in Northern Ireland to 17.
Olive Cooke, 92, was found dead in the Avon Gorge, Bristol, on 6 May.
A friend said Mrs Cooke had been "exhausted" by charity requests, but her family said while the requests were "intrusive", they were not to blame.
Granddaughter Jessica Dunne said: "Nan would have wanted the work of charities to be promoted."
Mrs Cooke's friend Michael Earley said she was being sent 180 letters from charities a month and was plagued by phone calls.
He told BBC Radio Bristol that while he would not blame her death entirely on charities "pestering" her - she had been "under pressure".
Ms Dunne said her grandmother believed charities were the "backbone to our communities".
She said: "I think that the amount of contact from charities was starting to escalate and get slightly out of control, and the phone calls were beginning to get intrusive, but there is no blame or suggestion that this was a reason for her death."
Ms Dunne said her grandmother had left the family a note to explain the reasons for her death, and that it made no reference to charities but mentioned depression and being elderly.
She added: "Nan was not a victim. She did suffer with depression, but on the whole she was a happy soul."
She said her grandmother had been "brave and courageous" throughout her life.
"There was a headline that upset me, that she was 'killed by kindness' - it was not that at all," she said.
The mother of three is believed to have sold around 30,000 poppies, having started when she was 16.
Mrs Cooke, who lived in Fishponds, had sold poppies for the Royal British Legion (RBL) charity appeal for 76 years and was presented with the Lord Mayor's Medal for her work.
The Institute of Fundraising (IoF) Standards Committee said it would bring together representatives from across the charity sector to review the case.
These "tickets" or "shipper's tickets", that would be attached on the front of bales of fabric during shipment, are now important historical artefacts.
A collection of these rare textile mill labels was recently displayed at an exhibition in the western Indian city of Mumbai.
"These colourful chromolithographs are precursors of graphic design and mass communication, designed in Britain, printed in Germany, and shipped to distant markets in colonial India," said Radhi Parekh, director of Artisans, which organised the show.
"The labels were used in conjunction with water soluble ink trademarks to identify the brand, type and length of fabric in the piece," according to archivist Adrian Wilson.
Indian markets were flooded with British mill-woven cotton goods and the labels with images of Indian flora and fauna, gods and goddesses, mythology and important people were designed to make them more appealing to consumers in India, with whom the producers had little direct contact.
The early labels are chromolithographs which reached colonial India's ports in Karachi, Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Bombay (now Mumbai).
Textiles were also significant to the Indian independence movement.
When Mahatma Gandhi launched the Swadeshi movement in 1918, he called for a boycott on foreign cloth, and advocated the spinning of Khadi cotton.
Simultaneously, Indian industrialists launched the first spinning and weaving mills in Mumbai and Ahmedabad city in Gujarat.
Textile labels offer a rare insight into the evolution of the global cotton trade during the British Raj, and beyond - into independent India.
The move is a reaction to the cost of ensuring that diesel engines comply with tighter emissions regulations.
The crackdown follows last year's diesel emissions scandal involving German car maker Volkswagen.
Renault's move was reported by Reuters and has not yet been officially announced.
Senior Renault executive Thierry Bollore has said that tougher emissions standards and testing methods would make diesel engines uneconomic to make.
He told a meeting of Renault bosses in July that diesel engines had already been removed from the company's smallest cars, such as the Twingo, even before the Volkswagen scandal.
By 2020, when more stringent EU emissions standards come into force, larger Renault cars such as the Clio and the Megane are unlikely to have diesel engine variants.
More than 60% of the 1.6 million cars Renault sold in Europe last year were diesels.
Volkswagen's chief executive, Matthias Mueller, said in June that his company was now wondering "whether it still makes sense to invest a lot of money in further developing diesel".
From 2019, tougher European rules on diesel engines will involve measuring emissions in real-world driving conditions, making the new standards much harder to comply with.
For its part, Renault is being investigated by the French authorities for publishing suspected fraudulent emissions figures as the fallout from the Volkswagen scandal continues
According to French road tests on 100 vehicles, Renault and Nissan cars emit more than eight times the current limits for nitrogen oxide.
A pricing regulator in Jiangsu said the luxury German carmaker pressured local dealers into setting a minimum sales price on some of its car models.
Some of its local dealers were also fined 7.7m yuan, regulators said.
A Mercedes-Benz said it "accepts the decision and takes its responsibilities under competition law very seriously".
"We have taken all appropriate steps to ensure to fully comply with the law," a spokesperson told the Reuters news agency.
In a statement, the Chinese regulator said: "The investigation found Mercedes-Benz and its dealers in Jiangsu came to and carried out monopoly agreements to cap the lowest sales prices of E-Class, S-Class models and certain spare parts."
Last year, the Xinhua news agency reported that Mercedes had also been found guilty of manipulating the prices of after-sales services in China.
China is the world's largest car market and foreign automakers have been under scrutiny for allegedly reaping high profits by overcharging customers.
Last year, Chinese regulators fined the local units of Volkswagen and Fiat Chrysler a combined $46m for price-fixing.
They also levied a record fine totalling 1.24bn yuan on 12 Japanese car parts companies including Sumitomo Electric and Mitsubishi Electric for price-fixing.
Authorities also conducted investigations into foreign business practices in the pharmaceutical, technology and food sectors.
Last August, six producers of infant formula - all foreign companies - were given a record fine for price-fixing.
As a result, there have been rising concerns in the foreign business community that they are being targeted disproportionately.
However, China says it does not discriminate between domestic and overseas companies.
For trade, commerce and travel, locals tend to look as much to their neighbours in Colombia as they do to the rest of Venezuela and they have often responded with suspicion to attempts by central government to regulate their affairs.
It was here, in the town of San Cristobal, that anti-government protests began in February of 2014 - violent demonstrations, largely over shortages and the government's economic policies that soon spread across the country, leading to the deaths of more than 40 people.
Since then, although the protests have waned, the economic crisis in Venezuela has become more acute, just in time for this weekend's congressional elections - arguably the most serious challenge yet to 17 years of socialist revolution launched by the late President Hugo Chavez.
So when, just over three months ago, his successor Nicolas Maduro declared a "state of exception" in Tachira and other frontier areas, many locals were outraged.
Some saw it as a crude instrument to divert attention away from economic troubles elsewhere and to lay the blame at anyone's door but the government's.
Ever since its socialist revolution in 1998, Venezuela has had a frosty relationship with more conservative governments in Colombia.
The Maduro administration often accuses Bogota of deliberately trying to destabilise Venezuela and of fomenting "economic warfare".
At the heart of the row is oil, specifically petrol. Venezuela has some of the world's biggest oil reserves. Consequently it gives petrol virtually free of charge to its own consumers.
But that makes it a very attractive proposition to smugglers looking to make a fat profit in Colombia, where petrol prices are much higher. Hundreds of people were making the journey back and forth across the border every day, making money from the contents of their petrol tanks.
So at the end of August the Venezuelan authorities closed the border to all but essential and exceptional travel. And for good measure, it accused the Colombian government of facilitating the illegal trade in cheap Venezuelan fuel.
The impact on the economy of Tachira has been significant - but for the thousands of people of Colombian origin living in the border area it was traumatic.
Even though many had been living openly in Tachira for years, they were literally thrown out.
Thousands of people fled across the fast moving waters of the Rio Tachira by foot, carrying all their worldly goods on their backs.
Symbols were daubed on the walls of their homes by Venezuelan officials in the community known locally as "La Invasion."
The letter "R" meant that the house ownership was being reviewed. The letter "D" earmarked a house for demolition if the owner was regarded as an illegal occupant.
When I put it to a pro-government, Chavista deputy Nellyver Lugo that enforcing special measures and prohibiting large gatherings in border areas just before an election might be interpreted as undemocratic, she was unrepentant.
"Our fascist adversaries have always used tactics like economic warfare to undermine us," said Ms Lugo, a politician known for her uncompromising rhetoric.
"But we're convinced that people will see through such move at these elections and we will win this battle, defeating the efforts of the right wing," she continued.
If those words seem a touch "over the top", they are not uncommon in an election campaign in which Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party repeatedly warns that the "successes and achievements of the revolution" are at risk from what President Maduro often describes as "capitalist speculators and foreign subversives".
When I met the pro-government Governor of Tachira, Jose Vielma Mora, he told me the "state of exception" in the region had been a resounding success - driving down crime and stabilising the local economy.
I wondered if the governor, who like many of Venezuela's regional politicians is a former military officer, had seen the huge queues outside virtually every supermarket, pharmacy or automobile-parts shop in San Cristobal.
Heading out one morning, we found locals who had been camped out since the early hours, merely in the hope that the supermarket that day might have some basics like eggs, rice or oil.
Frustrated with the government's price control policy, which they blamed for the shortages, many were exasperated at how such a potentially rich nation as Venezuela - with its vast oil wealth - could end up in such a mess.
It's a mess the government of Nicolas Maduro has repeatedly failed to take responsibility for but which may hand "Chavismo" its first significant electoral setback in Sunday's congressional elections.
The men wore balaclavas and used a battering ram to enter David M Robinson Ltd in Railway Street, Altrincham, at about 12.20 BST on Wednesday.
A security guard was ordered to lie on the floor while the robbers smashed cabinets and placed the watches in a bag, police said.
They then escaped in a Land Rover.
The vehicle was later found abandoned on Ashworth Close in nearby Bowdon.
The robbers remain at large.
A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said the precise value of the goods was still being quantified but gave an estimate of between £250,000 and £750,000.
Det Insp Carl Gilbert said the robbery was "a planned and calculated heist, resulting in a hugely valuable haul being stolen".
He added: "They were heavily armed, knew exactly what they were doing, and were in and out in a matter of minutes.
"We are appealing for anyone who may have witnessed the heist itself, or the offenders in the act of escaping, to contact us."
The government has acknowledged holding them and says most will be put through a process it calls "rehabilitation".
It says the families have been informed, but this is disputed by the biggest Tamil party in Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lankan army defeated separatist Tamil Tiger rebels after 26 years of bloody civil war in 2009.
After at first denying reports that it had detained a new batch of people it suspects of past links to the Tamil Tigers, the Sri Lankan government now acknowledges it is holding them.
Thirty-eight people, out of 150 initially questioned, are under arrest after being detained in the Trincomalee area of north-east Sri Lanka, police said.
Police spokesman Ajith Rohana told the BBC that the 38 had past links to the rebels and that their families had been informed.
The leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), R Sampanthan, says relatives of the detainees have no idea where their husbands or sons are.
He told the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo: "I hope they are safe. I hope they're alive. But that is a matter which is in doubt, because the whereabouts of these persons are not known."
He added: "There is no reason whatever for the persons who have taken them into custody to be so secretive about where they are being held."
He insists the detainees are being held illegally and on an arbitrary basis. The government says all have been brought before magistrates.
The police spokesman said they were taken in under the Prevention of Terrorism Act on an order signed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as defence minister.
The spokesman said most of the detainees will be put through a year-long process known as rehabilitation, although those accused of serious offences would be tried.
Asked why this was happening now, he said it had recently been "observed" that not all former Tigers had surrendered, after three people were arrested on suspicion of killing a pro-government Tamil politician in March.
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After Bradshaw found the bottom right corner to cancel out defender Mark Ellis's early first-half opener, James Collins put Shrewsbury back in front.
His shot from outside the box looked to have avenged Shrewsbury's 3-0 Cup first-round exit at Walsall a year ago.
But Bradshaw levelled again to rescue the Saddlers in the 90th minute.
He deflected in a shot from Paul Downing for his ninth goal of the season just when the League Two side, who put out three higher-ranked teams on their way to this season's League Cup fourth round, were scenting another upset.
Town led inside five minutes when an inswinging corner from Liam Lawrence was only partially cleared and big defender Ellis slammed a low drive into the net from 10 yards.
Bradshaw then equalised in the 56th minute with a low drive from Romaine Sawyers' pass, only for Shrewsbury to regain the lead five minutes later, when Collins deflected in Andy Mangan's free-kick.
But, after Town keeper Jayson Leutwiler had gone off injured, Bradshaw popped up again to book his return to the Meadow on Tuesday week (18 November, 19:45 GMT).
Walsall manager Dean Smith told BBC WM:
"It was nice to see Tom Bradshaw bag a brace. He is a level-headed lad who works really hard. He was shackled well in the first half but good players persevere.
"We were the better team over the 90 minutes. We conceded an early goal, which was disappointing, but we took the game to them after that.
"We could have done a bit better in the final third, but we deservedly got ourselves back into the game. It would have been a travesty had we not been in the second round draw."
Shrewsbury manager Micky Mellon told BBC Radio Shropshire:
"I am very disappointed to have conceded a goal at the very end. I can't remember Walsall having a single chance in the build up to it.
"But we are in the hat for the draw on Monday. And we'll have a chance when we take them back to the Meadow - we'll know what the prize is.
"We've had a few changes forced upon us but, if you'd have said we'd score twice here at Walsall, I'd have said that would have given us a good chance."
Officers in the UK military warned that the price of goods such as fuel is likely to rise as conflict provoked by climate change increases.
A statement from the meeting adds that humanitarian disasters will put more and more strain on military resources.
It asks governments to adopt ambitious targets for curbing greenhouse gases.
The annual UN climate conference opens in about six weeks' time, and the doctors, academics and military experts represented at the meeting (held in the British Medical Association's (BMA) headquarters) argue that developed and developing countries alike need to raise their game.
Scientific studies suggest that the most severe climate impacts will fall on the relatively poor countries of the tropics.
UK military experts pointed out that much of the world's trade moves through such regions, with North America, Western Europe and China among the societies heavily dependent on oil and other imports.
Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti, climate and energy security envoy for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), said that conflict in such areas could make it more difficult and expensive to obtain goods on which countries such as Britain rely.
"If there are risks to the trade routes and other areas, then it's food, it's energy," he told BBC News.
"The price of energy will go up - for us, it's [the price of] petrol at the pumps - and goods made in southeast Asia, a lot of which we import."
A number of recent studies have suggested that climate impacts will make conflict more likely, by increasing competition for scarce but essential resources such as water and food.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies, for example, recently warned that climate change "will increase the risks of resource shortages, mass migration and civil conflict", while the MoD's view is that it will shift "the tipping point at which conflict occurs".
Alejandro Litovsky, founder of the Earth Security Initiative, said that even without the increasing effect of conflict, prices of essential goods were bound to rise.
"From the year 2000 onwards, we have been seeing commodity prices climb, and this is not likely to stop," he said.
"It is primarily driven by resource scarcity, and the trends suggest that depletion of these natural resources is unlikely to be reversed in the near future without drastic interventions."
He also said that degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater was removing much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.
Last week, multinational coffee house Starbucks warned that climate change threatened the world's coffee supplies in 20-30 years' time.
The military officers at the meeting also emphasised the interest that armed forces have in reducing their own carbon footprint.
In Afghanistan, for example, fuel has to be delivered by road from Pakistan.
By the time it reaches its destination, it can cost 10 times the pump price. And the convoys are regularly targeted by opposing forces.
Several officers admitted that armed forces were "the gas-guzzlers of the world" - and while that was sometimes necessary in operations, reducing fossil fuel use and adopting renewables wherever possible made sense from economic and tactical points of view.
Rear Admiral Morisetti recalled that when commanding an aircraft carrier, it took a gallon of oil to move just 12 inches (30cm), while as many as 20 tonnes per hour were burned during a period of intensive take-off and landing.
"You can do that [with oil prices at] $30 a barrel, but not at $100 or $200," he said.
On the health side, doctors warned of a raft of impacts, particularly in developing countries.
Hunger and malnutrition were likely to increase, and some infectious diseases were likely to spread, they said.
Poorer societies could expect to see an unholy symbiosis between the two, with under-nourished people more prone to succumb to infections.
Tackling carbon emissions, by contrast, would bring a range of health benefits, they argue in their statement.
"Changes in power generation improve air quality.
"Modest life style changes - such as increasing physical activity through walking and cycling - will cut rates of heart disease and stroke, obesity, diabetes, breast cancer, dementia and depressive illness.
"Climate change mitigation policies would thus significantly cut rates of preventable death and disability for hundreds of millions of people around the world."
As the UN summit in South Africa approaches, the statement here calls on the EU to increase its ambition and pledge to reduce emissions by 30% from 1990 levels by 2020, rather than the current target of 20%.
Currently, there does not appear to be political consensus for such a move within EU governments, however.
Additional recommendations are that developing country governments should analyse climate threats to their health and security, and that all governments should stop construction of new coal-fired power stations without carbon capture and storage (CCS) - which, as commercial CCS systems do not exist, would as things stand amount to a complete ban.
Without urgent action, carbon emissions could rise to levels that should cause major alarm, said Chris Rapley, professor of climate science at University College London.
Already, he noted, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has risen to about 380 parts per million [ppm] - whereas in the millions of years before the pre-industrial era, it fluctuated between about 180ppm during Ice Ages and about 280ppm in the warm interglacial periods.
"If we don't do something, then at the rate we're going, carbon emissions will continue to accelerate, and the atmospheric concentration is not going to be 450ppm or 650ppm by the end of the century, but 1,000ppm," he said.
"That is 10 times the difference between an Ice Age and an interglacial; and you have to be a pretty huge optimist to think that won't bring major changes."
The body was discovered on Tuesday evening after officers were called to Russell Terrace in the Carmarthenshire town.
A spokeswoman for Dyfed-Powys Police said: "The death is currently being treated as unexplained and the next of kin have been informed."
The coroner has been informed.
Frenchman Ribery, who missed the World Cup with a back injury, doubled Bayern's lead with a low angled shot after coming on as a substitute.
Mario Gotze, who scored Germany's World Cup-winning goal, opened the scoring.
Spanish midfielder Xabi Alonso made his debut after his move from Real Madrid.
The German champions were missing several players through injury, including Netherlands winger Arjen Robben, who will be a doubt for City's trip to the Allianz Arena with an ankle problem.
Defender Holger Badstuber will also be a concern for midweek after coming off with a thigh injury in the first half.
Stuttgart rarely threatened as Bayern remain unbeaten three games into their Bundesliga defence.
Match ends, FC Bayern München 2, VfB Stuttgart 0.
Second Half ends, FC Bayern München 2, VfB Stuttgart 0.
Attempt blocked. Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Claudio Pizarro.
Filip Kostic (VfB Stuttgart) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Filip Kostic (VfB Stuttgart).
Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Carlos Gruezo (VfB Stuttgart).
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Claudio Pizarro replaces Robert Lewandowski.
Corner, VfB Stuttgart. Conceded by Juan Bernat.
Goal! FC Bayern München 2, VfB Stuttgart 0. Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Robert Lewandowski following a fast break.
Foul by Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München).
Carlos Gruezo (VfB Stuttgart) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Timo Werner (VfB Stuttgart).
Attempt missed. Antonio Rüdiger (VfB Stuttgart) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Filip Kostic following a set piece situation.
Substitution, VfB Stuttgart. Alexandru Maxim replaces Moritz Leitner.
Foul by David Alaba (FC Bayern München).
Filip Kostic (VfB Stuttgart) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. David Alaba (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Carlos Gruezo (VfB Stuttgart).
Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Oriol Romeu (VfB Stuttgart).
Attempt missed. Antonio Rüdiger (VfB Stuttgart) header from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Moritz Leitner following a set piece situation.
Foul by Dante (FC Bayern München).
Martin Harnik (VfB Stuttgart) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Carlos Gruezo (VfB Stuttgart) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Martin Harnik.
Hand ball by Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München).
Attempt blocked. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Xabi Alonso.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Robert Lewandowski tries a through ball, but Thomas Müller is caught offside.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München) hits the right post with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Franck Ribéry.
Attempt missed. Timo Werner (VfB Stuttgart) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Martin Harnik following a fast break.
Substitution, VfB Stuttgart. Carlos Gruezo replaces Christian Gentner.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Franck Ribéry replaces Mario Götze.
Offside, VfB Stuttgart. Christian Gentner tries a through ball, but Timo Werner is caught offside.
Attempt saved. David Alaba (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Daniel Schwaab.
Foul by Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München).
Springwatch's Kate Humble will co-host along with Ant Antstead, presenter on Channel 4's For the Love of Cars.
The show will go behind the scenes of the UK's car manufacturing industry to explain the science and engineering involved.
It will consist of two 90 minute live episodes and will air in the autumn.
The programmes will track in real time the transformation from raw materials to finished vehicle and will broadcast live from BMW's Mini plant in Oxford.
A press release from the BBC announcing the show included a quote from May saying: "I can't wait to build a car. Live."
There had been speculation over May's future on Top Gear after Jeremy Clarkson was dropped by the BBC in March following a "fracas" with a producer.
There had been reports May and fellow host Richard Hammond had been offered massive pay deals to stay with the show.
But with the announcement this week that Chris Evans will take over Clarkson's role, it was confirmed the two former presenters would not be returning for the new series.
May will be seen once more on Top Gear on Clarkson's final episode which will air on 28 June.
May and Hammond will present links from the studio and it will feature two films shot before Clarkson was dropped from the show.
Meanwhile Evans has announced open auditions to find replacements for May and Hammond.
More than 50,000 have tweeted in support of the FBrape campaign and around 5,000 have emailed brands whose advertising appears around the content.
The campaign focuses on content that portrays rape and violence against women positively. Facebook has removed many examples already.
A separate petition online has gathered more than 220,000 signatures.
The new campaign has been organised by 40 women's groups and individuals, including US-based Women, Action and the Media (WAM) and the Everyday Sexism project, a UK-based Twitter feed that encourages women to share incidences of perceived sexism.
In an open letter to the social media giant, the groups demand "swift, comprehensive and effective action addressing the representation of rape and domestic violence on Facebook" and say they are also asking Facebook users to contact companies whose adverts appear around the offending content.
Sky, American Express and Dove beauty products are among the brands affected.
The letter also lists examples of material that the group feels is unacceptable.
They include Facebook groups with titles such as "This is why Indian girls get raped" and individual uploads of graphic photographs showing abused women.
One image of a woman lying at the foot of a flight of stairs is captioned "Next time, don't get pregnant".
Dove, a brand owned by Unilever, said it was "most upset" by the images, but both the brand and Facebook said the examples given had since been removed from the site.
"Dove takes this issue very seriously and does not condone any activity that intentionally insults any audience," said global communications director Stacie Bright.
"We are working to refine our targeting terms in case any further pages like these are created. Facebook advertising targets people's interests, not pages, and we do not select the pages our adverts appear on."
Both Ms Bright and a spokesperson for Facebook told the BBC that the examples mentioned in the letter had now been removed from the site.
"There is no place on Facebook for hate speech or content that is threatening, or incites violence, and we will not tolerate material deemed to be genuinely or directly harmful," said Facebook in a statement.
"We try to react quickly to remove reported language or images that violate our terms and we try to make it very easy for people to report questionable content using links located throughout the site."
The company added, however, that not all material that some users might consider to be "vulgar and distasteful" actually violated its policies.
Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism project, told the BBC the campaign had been born out of "sheer frustration" from a large number women who had tried to complain about the material and had then contacted her.
By Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology correspondent
Facebook learns a lesson
"Obviously it's difficult to moderate a platform with one billion users but it is disproportionately affecting women," she said.
"Facebook does crack down on issues like anti-Semitism and has been praised for it but when they see images of women being raped they don't consider that to be a form of hate speech.
"A lot of women are saying it's preventing them from using Facebook."
The social network has previously been taken to task for removing pictures of women breastfeeding infants and displaying their chests after mastectomy operations, she added.
"I don't think you can use the smokescreen of free speech when you take down other images which are often of women's bodies," said Ms Bates.
She also said that the groups and Facebook were "in communication" and both were hoping for a resolution as soon as possible.
Lucy Howarth was momentarily overcome as the Tory leader read a book to her and her classmates, and a photograph of the young girl with her head on the desk quickly went viral on social media.
Here are a few of the best responses:
Guardian journalist Simon Ricketts wondered whether Lucy, from Sacred Heart RC Primary in Westhoughton, near Bolton, had heard one of the Tories' election slogans one too many times:
Toby Young, a columnist for the Spectator, thought her reaction might have been provoked by Labour's latest policy:
John Dougherty, a children's writer, said Mr Cameron might have been explaining the Tories' election manifesto:
Meanwhile, cartoonist David McAndrews suggested the prime minister may have been revealing the extent of the UK's financial difficulties to Lucy:
The image, captured by photographer Stefan Rousseau, left much to the imagination but a video of the moment cleared up any doubt - Lucy was dejected after failing to master the name of the prince in Robert Munsch's The Paper Bag Princess.
Mr Cameron shouldn't feel alone though - his Australian counterpart, Tony Abbott, experienced exactly the same awkward moment last year:
Leitch-Smith, 26, the Valiants' top scorer in 2015-16 with 12 goals in 43 games, rejected a contract offer.
Northern Ireland international McGivern, also 26, was released by Vale, having played 32 times last term.
In addition, Swiss goalkeeper Jayson Leutwiler, 27, has signed a new two-year deal with the Shropshire side.
Leutwiler has played 90 times during his two years at Shrewsbury, who finished 20th in League One after being promoted from the fourth tier in 2014-15.
"The environment and everything to do with Shrewsbury is very important to me," he said. "That was a massive factor in me re-signing here."
Shrewsbury boss Micky Mellon has now signed three Port Vale players in little over a week, following the arrival of Louis Dodds.
Leitch-Smith, who came through Crewe's youth system, joins up again with another former Alex Academy product, defender Matt Tootle, who missed over half of last season, having been sidelined by an Achilles injury.
"The manager is very ambitious," said Leitch-Smith. "And so are the type of players he is bringing in at the minute."
Mellon has now made six summer signings, having also brought in Fleetwood winger Antoni Sarcevic, Southend midfielder Gary Deegan. and Rochdale defender Oliver Lancashire.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The announcement was supposed to bring with it the magical solution for many of Lebanon's ills, among them chronic public debt, power shortages and poor public services.
Back then, the prospect of major oil discoveries off the Mediterranean coast triggered dreams of a prosperous future, but today it seems like the Lebanese were the victims of false advertising.
Governments in Lebanon have a long history of mismanagement that seems to have extended to the country's oil and gas resources.
At the beginning of the 21st Century, seismic scans conducted in the so-called "Levant Basin", in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, suggested the existence of significant oil and gas resources off the coasts of Lebanon, Cyprus and Israel.
The three countries embarked on separate journeys to locate the wealth underneath the seafloor. They hoped not only to achieve energy self-sufficiency at home but also to become exporters.
From the onset, Lebanon has been very careful not to give figures about the size of the prospective resources or the wealth they might generate.
But caution here is more a sign of confidence than uncertainty.
There seems to be a consensus among experts that Lebanon's resources ought to be considerable.
Officials point to the impressive line-up of international oil and gas companies that showed interest in investing in projects in the part of the Levant Basin within Lebanon's territorial waters.
But for almost two years now these companies have been unable to submit their bids and compete for the exploration of specific areas.
They are still waiting for the Lebanese cabinet to approve two pieces of legislation even though the technical details having long been finalised.
One concerns the division of Lebanon's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) into blocs.
The boundaries of two of the blocs are disputed by Israel, though Lebanon maintains they are well inside its waters.
The second piece of legislation concerns the legal relationship between the state and the companies which won the bids to exploit the resources found within each of the blocs.
The process has been so delayed that some companies have become lukewarm about the prospect of doing business with Lebanon.
"One reason for this is the governance of the sector," says oil expert Ali Berro.
"Another might have to do with the international crisis [in the price] of petroleum products. But given the long-term investment, some companies that have excess reserves might be still looking to invest."
Despite widespread condemnation of the impasse within the cabinet, there does not seem to be a clear explanation for the delay.
A source summed up the situation: "On the one hand, there is resistance from some political forces which are not used to having to make such big deals transparently and without any commission being siphoned into their pockets.
"On the other is the long-term concern of some regional powers, which see Lebanon becoming a serious competitor once it starts producing oil and eventually offers it to European markets. These regional powers have their allies in the government."
But as Lebanon remains bogged down by political squabbles, other countries it the region have not lost time in exploiting their resources.
Israel has made the biggest advances so far. It has already started producing gas offshore from the Tamar field, while it has also made a major gas discovery in another field named the Leviathan.
Cyprus has also concluded the second licensing round for companies.
But officials in Lebanon still insist the country has a competitive edge over its neighbours.
Lebanon is connected to the Arab Gas Pipeline, a 1,200km (745-mile) natural gas pipeline that runs from El-Arish in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to Aqaba in Jordan, and ends next to the Syrian-Turkish border.
Lebanon is connected through a pipeline that connects Tripoli, in the north, to the Syrian city of Homs.
The Arab Gas Pipeline makes it potentially easy to deliver natural gas to Europe as it facilitates access via Turkey to Europe, where energy resources are scarce and countries are looking to reduce their dependence on Russia for gas.
The devastating conflict in Syria, the outcome of which is far from clear, has cast doubts on Lebanon's ability to use the pipeline. However, Mr Berro sees cause for optimism.
"Syria is the only land we have access through. It's the best option for Lebanon to develop its natural gas," he says.
"But Lebanon is not likely to start producing oil before five to eight years. By then things may have changed.
"This way we will be able to compete with other countries in the region because natural gas by pipelines costs much less than liquefying natural gas then re-gasifying it at import terminals."
Cesar Abou Khalil, an adviser to the minister of energy, seems to agree.
"The main competitive advantage that we would have is being able to export gas to Europe in a smooth and cheap way, while others have to build massive and costly structures that would force them to offer their products at a higher price," he says.
That reasoning hinges on the current uncertainty being resolved. It will take a long time for production to begin, and at the moment, politicians in Lebanon do not seem to be in a rush.
Daanish Zahid, 31, gave evidence during Imran Shahid's 2011 appeal against his conviction for the racially-motivated murder of the 15-year-old in 2004.
Judges threw out Shahid's appeal after concluding Zahid had lied.
Zahid was jailed for another six years after he admitted attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
He is already serving a minimum of 17 years after being found guilty of abducting and murdering the schoolboy.
The additional sentence, which will begin when the minimum term ends, means it could be 2027 before he is freed.
Three other men - Imran Shahid, his brother Zeeshan Shahid and Faisal Mushtaq - were also jailed for life for the murder after being convicted in 2006.
Shahid, who was the ringleader of the gang, was ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years - his brother received a minimum of 23 years and Mushtaq 22 years.
Mushtaq and Zeeshan Shahid abandoned their plans to appeal against their minimum jail terms in 2009.
Imran Shahid's appeal was eventually thrown out in 2011 despite Zahid giving evidence on his behalf.
During that case, Zahid insisted Shahid was "innocent" and that another Glasgow-based Asian gang was behind the murder.
Zahid claimed he had been threatened into silence and then revealed a string of texts supposedly naming the "real killers".
But appeal judges criticised the evidence - while also throwing out Shahid's appeal - before ordering an investigation into the lies.
It lead to Zahid being jailed again.
As Zahid was jailed again, Kriss Donald's mother Angela screamed "yes" and shouted: "Hope you die in jail".
The men demanded money from their victims during the incident in Rathlin Avenue at 22:40 on Thursday.
Officers said they made off with a three-figure sum, leaving their victims "uninjured but extremely distressed".
Det Con Scott Bradley appealed for help in tracing the men responsible for the robbery.
He said: "This was a very traumatic ordeal for the occupants and their friends who were in the house and it is vital that we trace the persons responsible.
"It is believed that the two suspects made off in a green coloured Ford Focus car which was driven by a third man."
Both men were white and aged between 25 and 35. One was about 5ft 9in tall, with brown, shaven hair. He was wearing a dark blue jacket and jogging trousers.
The second suspect was about 5ft 7in and of slim build. He was wearing a dark green jacket and green baseball cap.
Robson, 22, broke serve six times on her way to beating the 18-year-old wild card 6-1 6-1 on the clay.
The Briton's last WTA main draw win came in September 2013, before a wrist injury required surgery and put her out of action for 17 months.
Robson will play Hungarian fifth seed Timea Babos in the second round.
The former British number one is currently ranked 426th and has lost WTA first-round matches in Indian Wells, Miami and Charleston this year.
She beat world number 117 Klara Koukalova in Stuttgart last week but then lost in the final round of qualifying.
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Shabina Begum and her grandchildren Adyan Parwaiz Kayani, nine, Amaan, seven and nine-week-old Minahil, died, along with their aunt Anum Parwaiz.
The inquest heard Mrs Begum had the chance to escape the fire on Wake Road on 28 April but tried to rescue the children.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
Coroner Christopher Dorries commended the efforts of the grandmother in trying to rescue her family and praised firefighters who risked their own lives to get to the victims.
Giving evidence at the inquest in Sheffield, another of Mrs Begum's daughters Sadaf Parwaiz described how she and her mother unsuccessfully tried to fight the fire in the lounge of the terraced house.
She said her mother opened the front door and had a chance to escape, but wanted to save the children.
Ms Parwaiz told the inquest she noticed a "sparkle" in the lounge when she came down to collect her mobile phone shortly after midnight.
Firefighter Barry Ainsworth said it was the hottest domestic fire he had been to in his 25 years of service.
The inquest heard evidence that investigators had failed to establish an exact cause of the fire and there was no direct evidence a phone charger was to blame.
A filmmaker has released the footage which he says shows Michael Brown did not rob a shop, as police claimed, but instead exchanged marijuana for cigars.
He says it contradicts video released by police showing Brown threatening the shopkeeper as he walks out with cigars.
The 18-year-old was shot dead by a police officer moments later.
However, the convenience store maintains it was a robbery.
Policeman Darren Wilson was cleared of wrongdoing by investigators but the teenager's death led to violent protests and a national debate about lethal police force against African Americans.
On Sunday night, 100 people gathered outside the shop after news emerged of the new video.
On Monday, one St Louis man was charged with trying to set fire to a police car.
Henry Stokes, 44, was arrested by police after he was seen placing a napkin in the gas tank of a police car and trying to use a cigarette lighter to set fire to it.
The previously unreported footage shows Brown entering the Ferguson Market and Liquor around 01:00 on the day of his death.
He approaches the counter and hands over an item that appears to be a brown bag, and in exchange takes a shopping bag filled with cigars.
After walking towards the door, he then turns around and returns the cigars to the counter before leaving.
Jason Pollock, the filmmaker releasing the tape as part of his documentary Stranger Fruit, says it proves that Brown had not been committing a robbery when he returned to that store around noon later in the day.
In that encounter, he is seen shoving store owner Andy Patel before leaving with the cigars.
St Louis County prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch said investigators had been aware of the video all along and determined it was not "admissible".
"It was determined that it was neither relevant nor material to anything that happened that day," he told reporters in a news conference.
He added: "This is not new information. It's certainly not a surprise to anyone."
Video of Brown appearing to rob the shop was released by police to support their claim that he was stopped by police because he was a suspect.
Mr Pollock's film claims that the marijuana was exchanged as part of a pre-negotiated deal, and that Brown had then decided to leave the cigars behind the shop counter for safekeeping.
"They destroyed Michael's character with the tape, and they didn't show us what actually happened," Mr Pollock told the New York Times.
"There was some type of exchange, for one thing, for another," says Lesley McSpadden, Brown's mother, in the new film, which is debuting at the South by Southwest festival in Austin.
Jay Kanzler, a lawyer for the convenience shop, said they would release more footage to prove it was a robbery.
"There was no understanding. No agreement. Those folks didn't sell him cigarillos for pot. The reason he gave it back is he was walking out the door with unpaid merchandise and they wanted it back."
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Ms Suu Kyi, who arrived on Wednesday, will meet President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, but no other details have been provided.
Some media outlets have commented that Beijing was reluctant to invite her in the past because of "ideological considerations".
"After Myanmar's democratisation, Ms Suu Kyi has reconciled with the government. As she has been elected as a legislator, naturally she can visit China in an official capacity," argues a commentary on Phoenix TV's website.
It adds that China "must also consider the possibility of her becoming president if Myanmar's military decides to amend the constitution so that Suu Kyi can run for president".
Relations between the countries have cooled in recent years, partly because of violence near their mutual border. Myanmar (also known as Burma) has been fighting rebels in its eastern Kokang region, which borders China's Yunnan province.
A commentary in the China Daily says her visit will play an important role in improving co-operation between the two countries.
"For many in Myanmar, the lack of grassroots and party-to-party exchanges between China and Myanmar and some Western media outlets' biased reports against China have created many misunderstandings," it says.
The commentary also stresses that Ms Suu Kyi's meetings with Chinese citizens will create an atmosphere of trust.
"The misconceptions between Chinese and Myanmar people are likely to reduce after Ms Suu Kyi spends five days meeting Chinese people from all walks of life," it says.
'Bigger signal'
Some papers and pundits argue that the CPC's decision to host Ms Suu Kyi is a signal for Myanmar's government that China is willing to work with all political players.
Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at the Renmin University, sees her visit against the backdrop of tensions on the border.
"China has sent an even bigger signal that it is upset with Myanmar's government," the Chinese language edition of the South China Morning Post quotes him as saying. By inviting Ms Suu Kyi to visit, he says: "China is telling the Myanmar government that if it doesn't maintain friendly ties with Beijing, China will build ties with all the political factions willing to be friendly towards China, regardless of whether they are in power or not."
Other pundits point out that China should leverage her popularity in Myanmar to its advantage.
"It is said Ms Suu Kyi enjoys very good reputation among the people of Myanmar. If China had continued to refuse to get in touch with her, it would have been China's loss," a commentary in Shanghai-based news portal Guancha.cn says.
Lin Xixing, an expert on Southeast Asian affairs from the Jinan University in Guangzhou, feels China can work with Ms Suu Kyi to end the conflict in northern Myanmar.
"China is becoming impatient because Myanmar ignores its protests over the clashes in northern part of Myanmar... Perhaps Suu Kyi can use her influence to put pressure on both parties to end the conflict," the Hong Kong-based pro-Beijing paper Ta Kung Pao quotes him as saying.
And finally, a commentary on the Sohu news portal describes her as "an important symbol of Asian people fighting for freedom".
"China and Myanmar are like a family with long ties between the two peoples... We also hope Myanmar can start a new chapter of democratic and social development with a successful general election planned for October," it says.
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The plants were found during "routine checks" by park staff on Monday.
It is thought the building - outside of the park resort but on the theme park's land - was accessed from nearby land owned by the Queen.
A 40-year-old man from Windsor and a 34-year-old man from Burnham have been arrested on suspicion of producing cannabis.
Thames Valley Police are currently on-site investigating the discovery of the plants and equipment.
A Legoland spokesperson said the building "appears to have been accessed via the Crown Estate".
The arrested men have been bailed until 28 February.
The National Careers Council, which has been investigating the current state of careers provision, highlights a lack of consistency and availability.
It warns too many youngsters do not get the advice they need about work.
Deirdre Hughes, who chaired the council, said a "culture change in careers provision was urgently needed".
The report from the National Careers Council says there are "massive variations" in the advice available, depending on where young people live.
It says in one region there are 134 careers advisory services, and in another there is only one.
There are also concerns that the National Careers Service has been structured to focus mainly on the needs of adults, leaving a gap in school-age advice services.
The service provides over a million face-to-face advice sessions for adults, but there is no provision for such individual advice for young people.
Instead young people are offered phone advice lines and online information.
The council says that it has been "disappointed with the slow progress" in improving careers services for young people.
It calls for the setting up of an employer-led advisory body to supervise creating a better careers advice system.
And it calls for the government to give all schools free or subsidised access to "independent and impartial career development".
It suggests there should be a fund to invest in successful models of careers advice so that they can be spread more widely in other schools and regions.
There have been a series of critical reports about the quality of careers provision and doubts over the decision to transfer responsibility for careers advice to individual schools.
"It is worrying that the new arrangements are failing to provide good guidance," said Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw last year, when the education watchdog warned that too few schools had the skills to provide good quality advice.
The Education Select Committee also reported last year that careers services were showing a "worrying deterioration".
Neil Carberry, of the CBI, said: "The shift of responsibility for careers advice to schools has been a failure. Schools, government and businesses all have a role to play in fixing the problem, it cannot be shouldered by schools alone."
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said schools had been working hard to provide careers advice, but "many are finding it extremely difficult".
"A stark postcode lottery is putting many young people at a real disadvantage," said the head teachers' leader.
"Far too many young people are having to make vital and incredibly important decisions about their futures without access to good and reliable information," said Nick Chambers, director of the Education and Employers Taskforce charity.
Deirdre Hughes, who chaired the group that produced the report, said: "Some progress has been made in the last 12 months, but this has been far too slow.
"Meanwhile, our education and labour markets remain complex and confusing for young people, parents and teachers, and there are significant costs associated with this.
"We urge government and others to take action across England to halt the rapid decline in careers services for young people."
Labour's shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, said of the careers service: "There is surely no other policy agenda where the government has so miserably failed our young people."
He said he would reverse the decision to make work experience placements optional and would want every school to have a governor responsible for developing links with local businesses to help build provide careers advice and experience of the world of work.
The 21-year-old has a back injury and was not included as the initial squad of 28 was trimmed to a final 23 by manager Aidy Boothroyd.
Chelsea's Izzy Brown and Manchester City's Patrick Roberts are also out because of injuries.
Keeper Joe Wildsmith (Sheffield Wednesday) and defender Sam McQueen (Southampton) were omitted.
However, Wildsmith and McQueen are both on standby.
The tournament starts on Friday, 16 June when England face Sweden in their opening game of a group which also includes Poland and Slovakia.
Goalkeepers: Angus Gunn (Manchester City), Jonathan Mitchell (Derby County), Jordan Pickford (Sunderland).
Defenders: Calum Chambers (Arsenal), Ben Chilwell (Leicester City), Kortney Hause (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Rob Holding (Arsenal), Mason Holgate (Everton), Dominic Iorfa (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Alfie Mawson (Swansea City), Jack Stephens (Southampton), Matt Targett (Southampton).
Midfielders: Lewis Baker (Chelsea), Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea), Jack Grealish (Aston Villa), Will Hughes (Derby County), John Swift (Reading), James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
Forwards: Tammy Abraham (Chelsea), Demarai Gray (Leicester City), Jacob Murphy (Norwich City), Nathan Redmond (Southampton), Cauley Woodrow (Fulham).
The Inter Milan boss guided City, now managed by Manuel Pellegrini, to a first league title for 44 years in the 2011-12 season.
He also won the FA Cup during his three-year spell, and clearly his affection remains.
"I think that we win the league - Manchester City will win the league," he told BBC's World Football programme.
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Mancini was sacked in 2013, exactly a year after winning the title, and is now back for his second spell at Inter after a short stint in Turkey with Galatasaray.
"I was really proud about what I did in Manchester because we changed the situation there after many years," he said.
"Seven or eight years ago, they played for relegation or mid-table. In the last four or five years Manchester City is the best team in the Premier League."
Mancini joined City after his first spell at the San Siro, where he was succeeded by Jose Mourinho. The current Chelsea boss went on to win the Champions League with Inter but is now struggling in his second spell with the Blues.
"I think Chelsea are like Juventus," said Mancini, referring to the Italian champions who currently lie 10 points behind Serie A leaders Fiorentina.
"They had problems at the start of the season, but, for me, they will come up in two or three months.
"They have a good team and a good manager. I don't think they will have a problem to get a Champions League position."
The £2.3bn investment, which is not new money, will help prevent £30bn damage in areas including the Thames and Humber Estuaries in the next six years.
Other infrastructure, including roads, rail and the new garden city of Bicester have also been outlined this week ahead of the Autumn Statement.
Labour accused ministers of "playing catch-up on flood defences".
Shadow environment secretary Maria Eagle said the government had cut the flood protection budget by more than £100m a year, and was "promising to put some of that back, but perhaps not until towards the end of the next Parliament".
However, Environment Secretary Liz Truss told the BBC the government had spent £3.2bn in total on flood defences, "more in real terms than over the previous parliament because we recognise flood defences are vitally important for homes, for prosperity".
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) welcomed the funding, but said maintenance of existing defences was being neglected.
The CCC - an independent body that advises the UK government - told BBC News only a quarter of flood defences were being maintained fully. This means the remainder will degrade and need replacing at extra expense.
The condition of assets was in decline before the storms of last winter, mirroring the reduction in maintenance spending over the period, it said.
According to the CCC, the Environment Agency now had 800 fewer flood risk management staff than in 2010-11, including in asset management and incident control.
Among the £2.3bn investment is:
Surrey County Council leader David Hodge said that giving £196m to the Thames Estuary would leave the seven local authorities in the area searching for a further £120m for the flood defence projects needed.
He told BBC Radio 5 live his county had suffered especially badly with 1,600 homes flooded and 300 families still out of their homes.
Referring to the sum allocated by the government, he added: "That, I'm afraid to say, will not help us."
Some residents living near the Humber say they are waiting for repairs to their homes to take place after flooding last winter.
Lisa Moss said her family are still living in upstairs rooms and told the BBC of her frustration.
The housing estate where Cathie Wyatt lives in Buckskin, Hampshire, was flooded in February - only a handful of residents have returned and 86 people lost their homes, she told the BBC.
"What has been done since is minor maintenance work; sweeping leaves, cleaning gullies, etc," she said. "No major work has been completed to prevent it happening again.
"We have no more drainage. The area we have soaks anyway and the properties are built on chalk.
"We are all living on our nerves dreading the winter."
A Treasury spokesman said it was spending £171m on maintenance this year and had restored the Environment Agency budget to the same in cash terms as in 2010-11 (behind inflation).
It was working with the Environment Agency to improve efficiency, the spokesman added.
But he stressed that the National Infrastructure Plan (NIP) announcement for capital investment in major defences significantly reduced risk to households in highly vulnerable areas.
Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury, said: "We all saw the destruction and heartache caused by flooding last year and that is why this investment is vital to build Britain's defences for the future.
"The projects we are announcing today will protect some of the country's most at-risk locations ensuring that we will be as prepared as possible for future severe weather."
Guy Shrubsole, of Friends of the Earth, said the money set aside for flood defences was "certainly not enough to keep pace with climate change in the future".
He added: "We need to be doing far more to protect households and to prevent climate change in the first place."
Professor Richard Ashley, from Sheffield University, who advised a government inquiry into floods, said ministers were using "smoke and mirrors" to portray their plans. He referred to the fact that more money was being spent between 2011-15 and said the announcement was only "bringing some sort of stability".
The NIP, published ahead of the Autumn Statement, sets out how the government will spend money on major infrastructure projects.
Other schemes in the NIP, as outlined in a written ministerial statement, include:
Analysis
By Roger Harrabin, Environment Analyst
Critics will accuse the government of finding the cash for headline-grabbing projects while neglecting existing assets.
The committee thinks lack of maintenance may have caused some defences to fail in past storms.
The government appears to be following the logic that it is better to invest in big new projects in high-risk areas while allowing maintenance of some existing defences in low-risk areas to slip behind.
Flood defences took a battering in last winter's storms but the Treasury said it expected that 96.4% of the most important defences would be back at target condition by April 2015.
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BBC deputy political editor James Landale said the "entire week of announcements" from the government was intended to "crowd out" what opposition parties wanted to say.
But while setting out the "good news", official figures are expected to show "the deficit is not falling as fast as expected" this year, he added.
The UK deficit has fallen since 2010 but was £97.5bn in the year to April.
The CCC said it was not yet convinced the UK was properly prepared for floods as climate change threatened to make extreme weather worse while 4,000 homes a year were still being built in areas of significant risk.
And the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management has warned that more cash still might be needed to combat surface water flooding if the UK continued to experience the sort of violent downpours which had caused havoc in recent years.
Steffon Armitage touched down from a catch and drive, with Eric Escande kicking the conversion and a penalty for Toulon's first-half points.
Johnny Sexton's three penalties kept the visitors in touch, but Escande added three of his own after the break.
Armitage crossed again at the death to all but end Leinster's prospects of progressing from Pool Five.
With only one losing bonus point from three games, Leinster need to win all three of their remaining matches to stand any chance of avoiding a first group-stage exit since the 2012-13 campaign.
Armitage's try-scoring performance will once again raise the question over whether foreign-based players should represent England.
New England head coach Eddie Jones has said he is happy with the Rugby Football Union's policy of only selecting players from outside the Premiership in "exceptional circumstances".
But, when asked about the prospect of adding to his five Test caps, Armitage told Sky Sports: "I wouldn't say no, but my first thing is to keep playing well for Toulon and keep my place here.
"That's the only way I am going to get anywhere at international level - keep my head down and keep pushing. Who knows what is going to happen in the future?"
Toulon, champions in this competition for the past three seasons, were not at their fluid best against a resilient Leinster side, and struggled to work openings for their explosive wingers Bryan Habana and Drew Mitchell.
But the Top 14 club have at least got off the mark in Pool Five after their first fixture against Bath was postponed following the Paris attacks and they suffered a humbling 32-6 loss at Wasps three weeks ago.
Leinster had opportunities to hurt the hosts, with Johnny Sexton given the time and space to attempt kicks to the corners, but the Ireland fly-half's accuracy was uncharacteristically wayward.
And even when Armitage put the finishing touch on a catch and drive spearheaded by Duane Vermeulen, the visitors were still in with a chance thanks to three Sexton penalties.
The Blues' front three of Cian Healy, Richardt Strauss and Mike Ross put in an exhaustive defensive shift before they were replaced after 50 minutes, but it was Leinster's ill discipline that eventually cost them.
They survived Healy's first-half sin-binning unscathed, but saw the points margin widen when Escande landed two penalties during a period in the bin for Devin Toner.
Leinster conceded 17 penalties in total, and were finally finished off in the final minute when Tom Denton was shown a yellow card before Armitage barrelled through from a line-out.
Toulon: D. Armitage; Habana, Bastareaud, Nonu, Mitchell; Giteau, Escande; Fresia, Guirado, Stevens; Manoa, Taofifenua; Gorgodze, S. Armitage, Vermeulen.
Replacements: Taylor for D. Armitage (59), Mermoz for Nonu (69), Meric for Escande (76), Chiocci for Fresia (51), Etrillard for Guirado (59), Chilachava for Stevens (41), Suta for Manoa (53), J. Smith for Gorgodze (51).
Leinster: R. Kearney; McFadden, Te'o, Fitzgerald, Nacewa; Sexton, Boss; Healy, Strauss, Ross; Toner, McCarthy; Ruddock, Van der Flier, Heaslip.
Replacements: D. Kearney for R. Kearney (62), Madigan for Fitzgerald (76), Reddan for Boss (49), J. McGrath for Healy (49), Cronin for Strauss (49), Moore for Ross (49), Denton for McCarthy (62). Murphy for Van der Flier (69).
Sin bin: Healy (25), Toner (46), Denton (79).
Attendance: 12,590
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales).
There are more than 60 officially registered.
From today you can add another to the list: the Australian Muslim Party.
The party has been set up by Diaa Mohamed, a 34-year-old businessman from Sydney, who says he will initially target a seat in the Australian senate in federal elections next year.
Mr Mohamed said he was establishing the party to address the under-representation of Muslims in Australian political life.
And that is undoubtedly an issue, especially at a national level.
Australia has a long-established Muslim community numbering about a half-a-million people, roughly 2% of the national population.
But remarkably out of 250 MPs and senators in the federal parliament there is only one member who follows the Islamic faith, Labor's Ed Husic, who is of Bosnian heritage.
Indeed Mr Husic is the only Muslim ever to have been a member of a sitting government's front bench.
By comparison, in Britain Muslims make up roughly 5% of the population. There are 13 Muslim MPs out of a total of 650 - still an under-representation, but considerably better than Australia.
The timing of the announcement, just days after the attacks in Paris, is likely to draw criticism.
But saying he had given it some thought, Mr Mohamed defended the decision.
"There are going to be a lot of questions raised in the coming days of the events recently, and this is the whole reason we created this party," Mr Mohamed told ABC Radio.
"It's as good a time as any to launch it."
Australia's Muslim community has sometimes been criticised for not speaking out loudly enough in the debate about Islamic extremism.
"Maybe it is because we didn't know how, or we were a bit too fragmented, so hopefully this will at least give us that opportunity," he said.
He also said he established the party in response to the emergence of anti-Islamic parties.
This includes the recently registered Love Australia or Leave Party set up by Kim Vuga, a former star of the reality TV show Go Back to Where You Came From.
Mr Mohamed said he had consulted widely with religious community leaders of all faiths and stressed that the party would be open to non-Muslims.
But his chances of winning a senate seat are slim. Even in the parliamentary constituency with the highest proportion of Muslims, just over 20% of people follow the Islamic faith.
Senators in Australia are elected at a state or territory level. Approximately half of all senate seats, 40 in total, are contested at each federal election.
"Anyone can set up a political party," ABC's political analyst Antony Green told me.
"It doesn't mean you're going to get elected and it's far from clear how much community support he (Mr Mohammed) has."
That said, Australia's convoluted electoral system, where political wheeler-dealing is often more important than the number of votes registered, means it is possible to be elected with very limited support.
Ricky Muir of the Motoring Enthusiast Party, a political entity with a pretty limited agenda, won a senate seat in 2013 despite only receiving 0.51% of first preference votes.
In a tense second leg, the Pilgrims deserved their 3-2 aggregate win after making a host of chances at Home Park.
Argyle's Graham Carey had an early shot tipped over while Jamille Matt missed three second-half chances and Jake Jervis hit the post late on.
But Hartley bundled in Carey's corner to secure a Wembley final on 30 May against either Wimbledon or Accrington.
The victory came 20 years to the day after Argyle, then managed by Neil Warnock, beat Colchester to make the fourth-tier play-off final.
From the first minute, when Carey's long-range shot was tipped over by Pompey's on-loan goalkeeper Ryan Allsop, Argyle showed their intention.
Jervis skewed a shot high and wide towards the end of a first period low on quality and chances for either side.
But after the break the game went up a gear, with Pompey coming close through Gary Roberts and Adam McGurk.
Matt - Argyle's two-goal hero from Thursday's drawn first leg at Fratton Park - blazed over when clean through, missed with a free header and then watched as another header was kept out by Allsop in the 90th minute to set up the corner that Argyle scored from.
Pompey, who will be in League Two for a fourth successive season next term, struggled to seriously test Plymouth goalkeeper Luke McCormick.
Both cities may have fine naval heritages, but Plymouth and Portsmouth have both suffered falls from grace because of financial problems in recent years.
Argyle almost went out of business in 2011, while in 2012 the administrators were called in at Fratton Park.
And while neither side fell out of the Football League, this season is the first time both of them have had concerted efforts in the same season at getting out of League Two.
While Argyle's renaissance could begin with promotion after five seasons in League Two, Portsmouth must contemplate another 12 months in the fourth tier.
Plymouth manager Derek Adams told BBC Radio Devon: "It's a fantastic achievement for the football club. It's 20 years since we last went to Wembley and now we're going back.
"We hit the post and we had a couple of near misses, then it got nearer to the end of the game and you got worried that Portsmouth might nick one.
"But to score in the way we did has been very good for us.
"The fans were fantastic from start to finish. And I've got to say to Paul Cook that he was man enough to come in and see our lads and wish them all the best. It's not the easiest thing to do after you've been defeated but it was big of him to do that."
Match ends, Plymouth Argyle 1, Portsmouth 0.
Second Half ends, Plymouth Argyle 1, Portsmouth 0.
Foul by Enda Stevens (Portsmouth).
Kelvin Mellor (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Conor Chaplin replaces Kyle Bennett.
Goal! Plymouth Argyle 1, Portsmouth 0. Peter Hartley (Plymouth Argyle) header from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Peter Hartley (Plymouth Argyle) header from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Graham Carey with a cross.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Ryan Allsop.
Attempt saved. Jamille Matt (Plymouth Argyle) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Graham Carey with a cross.
Ben Close (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamille Matt (Plymouth Argyle).
Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Craig Tanner with a cross.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Hiram Boateng (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Adam McGurk (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Carl McHugh (Plymouth Argyle).
Attempt missed. Ben Close (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Enda Stevens with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Peter Hartley.
Attempt blocked. Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ben Davies.
Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jamille Matt (Plymouth Argyle).
Adam McGurk (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Peter Hartley (Plymouth Argyle).
Offside, Portsmouth. Michael Doyle tries a through ball, but Marc McNulty is caught offside.
Foul by Marc McNulty (Portsmouth).
Peter Hartley (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) because of an injury.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Craig Tanner replaces Gregg Wylde.
Attempt missed. Curtis Nelson (Plymouth Argyle) header from a difficult angle on the right is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Graham Carey with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Gregg Wylde (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Adam McGurk.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Adam McGurk.
Ben Close (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ben Close (Portsmouth).
Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Adam McGurk (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gary Sawyer (Plymouth Argyle).
Foul by Kyle Bennett (Portsmouth).
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20 January 2015 Last updated at 06:58 GMT
In a democracy, people get to elect their leaders and have more say in how their country is run.
That's something a lot of people around the world are still fighting for.
Ayshah went to the Houses of Parliament in London to find out how laws are made in the UK.
It will be the biggest single investment in council houses for a generation, according to North Lanarkshire Council.
Nationally, housing campaigners said it was only a step towards tackling the shortage of affordable housing across Scotland.
There are more than 12,000 on the council's waiting list.
Together with previously announced plans, the council intends to build a total of 1,800 new homes over the next 10 years.
More than 600 have already been built or are in the process of being constructed.
The council said the investment would be worth nearly £160m. The sites will be decided later.
Like most councils, North Lanarkshire has a substantial housing waiting list, though in the past two years it has fallen from about 13,000 to just over 12,000.
The size of the council's waiting list is second only to Edinburgh and South Lanarkshire.
The Scottish government says it wants 50,000 affordable homes built over the lifetime of this parliament - with 35,000 for rent by councils or housing associations.
The right to buy council homes was completely scrapped in Scotland in July, although in recent years it had been restricted.
The Labour-run council's housing convenor Barry McCulloch said: "This is a massive investment for the people of North Lanarkshire. As Scotland's biggest council landlord we understand that modern, accessible housing is a key priority and I'm delighted we will be able to deliver 1,800 new houses by 2026.
"We already had an extensive new-build programme in place, but we are determined to do what we can to meet considerable need. The quality of our new houses is unbelievable.
"They are energy-efficient, accessible and adaptable, which means the needs of people can really be taken into account. It means we can deliver a wide range of housing, including housing for older people, disabled people and young people setting up home for the first time."
Speaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr McCulloch called on the Scottish government to meet 50% of the cost of building new social housing.
However, Local Government and Housing Minister Kevin Stewart told the programme: "The government are providing North Lanarkshire with £23m this year and a minimum of £55m up until 2020 to enhance their programme, and I hope that programmes can be enhanced right across the country to meet our ambitious target of 50,000 new houses - 35,000 of which are for social rent."
He added: "The Scottish government have committed £3bn of investment over the course of this parliament.
"Obviously, we will talk to partners about how that investment is allocated but that money in itself is to help lever in money from housing revenue accounts and from other resources that councils and housing associations have."
According to housing charity Shelter, in March 2015 there were 317,000 council houses in Scotland but 150,000 on waiting lists.
At the rate new lets were being made at that time, it would have taken seven years to clear the national waiting list even if nobody joined it.
Adam Lang, who is the head of policy at Shelter Scotland welcomed the new homes but said at least 12,000 new affordable homes were needed each year to meet demand.
He said: "I think in the context of the housing crisis that Scotland faces as a whole, it is a first step, it is a small step.
"I think 150,000 households on the waiting list for a home, it's easy to throw these numbers around, but that is the equivalent of three full Hampdens filled with households who don't have a home of their own or are waiting for an appropriate home."
Shelter Scotland, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations and the Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland last year released research which argued that at least 12,000 new affordable homes needed to be built each year to tackle what it called "Scotland's housing crisis".
In North Lanarkshire, 1,900 homelessness applications made between 2015-16 - in Scotland as a whole the total was 34,600.
Waiting lists and homelessness should not be confused with rough sleeping.
For instance, they will typically include people in temporary accommodation, private rented accommodation or people with friends or relatives who want a home of their own.
Wins over Italy and the Netherlands, and a loss to hosts Russia, saw Wales qualify for the quarter-finals.
England proved too strong, winning 21-7, but Wales then beat Belgium and Poland in the repechage to claim fifth and book their place on the Gold Coast.
Head coach Nick Wakley can now start preparations for the Commonwealths.
Sian Williams (capt); Shona Powell-Hughes; Dyddgu Hywel; Gemma Rowland; Bethan Dainton; Rhiannon Parker; Ffion Lewis; Elinor Snowsill; Hannah Jones; Philippa Tuttiett; Sinead Breeze; Jasmine Joyce (travelling reserve: Jodie Evans).
The "scandalous" spreadsheet system contributed to Thomas Higgins' death at his home on the Isle of Wight, the island's coroner concluded last June.
On Wednesday, the NHS watchdog also noted the system had deleted patient details and lost staff visits records.
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust now says a new system will be in place by autumn.
The trust was placed in special measures after inspectors from watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) gave it an overall rating of "inadequate".
It had told last June's inquest into 96-year-old Mr Higgins' death that the database, used by community nurses, would be replaced by the end of last year.
During her investigations following Mr Higgins' death coroner Caroline Sumeray, said she had uncovered a "system that was unfit for purpose" and which had initially been a "temporary six-month database fix" still in use four years later.
She told the hearing: "It's an absolute scandal... Until it's rectified, everybody is at risk that is on the district nurse register."
Mr Higgins broke his neck in a fall at his home in Binstead, Isle of Wight, in November 2015.
Ms Sumeray heard he had probably slipped on fluid seeping from his swollen legs.
She said the district nursing team had missed five opportunities over three days to visit him to apply bandages.
In one case, a visit was missed because the system was "inadequate to record [appointments] more than a week in advance", she said.
Another missed visit came to light two weeks after Mr Higgins' death, because there was "no way of picking up missed appointments".
A nursing team leader, Jenni Edgington, told the hearing the database "collapsed frequently" and "changed data", because of its large size and wi-fi problems in Ryde.
She said it had been an "ongoing issue" for "two to three years", although a replacement system was anticipated by the end of 2016.
Ms Sumeray ruled Mr Higgins' death was an accident, contributed to by "systemic and individual neglect".
In a follow-up letter to the NHS trust in September, she said: "There does not appear to be sufficient urgency to replace this Excel database with one which is fit for purpose."
CQC inspectors, who visited the trust in November, said they found "numerous incidents of patients being deleted, lost staff visits and even visits being given to staff for deceased patients".
In January, the trust reported the spreadsheet was still losing about 10 patients a week, although a back-up folder was being used to detect errors.
It said the community nursing service was "taking all actions to mitigate the risk" to patients.
Mr Higgins' niece, Christine Newland, said: "Until a replacement is up and running, how many more mistakes are going to be made?"
His nephew, Peter Brand, said: "It's really upsetting that it was recognised as a problem but nothing was put in place."
The trust said its new replacement database, TPP SystmOne, "should see all areas active in autumn 2017".
Northcliffe Media, owned by the Daily Mail, filed a subpoena in the US to have the identity of '@UnSteveDorkland' revealed.
But the account holder successfully challenged the order and the media group has subsequently backed down.
The still-anonymous tweeter described the case on Friday as "shameful and unnecessary".
"By withdrawing the case against me they have, finally, recognised the futility of their heavy-handed approach and the entirely baseless nature of all the accusations they threw at me in a vainglorious attempt to divert attention from the real issue, namely their idea that by throwing money and bullying tactics at someone you can throttle freedom of speech," he said in an emailed statement.
"They underestimated me, they underestimated my lawyer Frank Sommers and they underestimated the power of the worldwide internet community."
In a statement, a Northcliffe spokesperson said the case was not about freedom of speech but about a barrage of messages that amounted to "cyber-bullying and harassment".
It said the number of tweets sent through the anonymous account, 700 in four weeks, indicated a "disturbing obsession".
"His or her intention may initially have been humorous, but these tweets went far beyond commentary and satire, causing pain and offence," said the spokesperson. "We encourage humour in our business, but no workplace should be expected to tolerate an unrelenting flow of derogatory and degrading comments of questionable legality."
"Free speech is the lifeblood of our newspapers and websites," said the media group. "Here, in weighing the rights of an anonymous writer against the rights of staff singled out by name, we believed it was reasonable to ask Twitter to supply the identity of the person making these comments."
The unidentified man, understood to have at some point had close ties to the company, had been spoofing Northcliffe's chief executive Steve Auckland.
Northcliffe, which publishes 84 of the UK's regional newspapers, had said the tweets had made staff "fear for their safety".
In documents filed to a Californian court at the beginning of July, lawyers acting for Northcliffe alleged that the account holder had gained information about the company by "hacking into an email account at the plaintiff's [Northcliffe] business".
It also alleged he had posted information "apparently obtained from surveillance of plaintiff's employees".
The company insisted it was employee safety alone which had prompted the action.
"I can confirm we have taken action to ask Twitter for help in identifying the individual in order to protect our staff from harassment," Mr Auckland said in a statement before the case was dropped.
"We made no request for, nor had any input in, a decision to stop tweeting. Our first priority is a duty of care to all of our employees."
Another source at the company told the BBC: "Steve is a very open guy. The idea that he would gag someone just for being critical is just not credible - it was the offensive nature of the tweets."
Twitter had been set to reveal the man's identity on 1 August. It said it would do so "absent the filing of a motion to quash".
That motion came thanks to a lawyer who took on the case pro-bono - provided free of charge "for the public good".
By dropping its legal action, Northcliffe has avoided a potentially long and expensive battle in the US courts.
The account holder had strongly denied the company's allegations.
In his most recent statement, he added: "The management of Northcliffe Media should be spending its time, resources and attention on supporting, protecting and developing its loyal and hard-working staff, rather than attempting to suggest my tweets were in any way affecting morale or performance of the company.
"I thank the thousands of people who have supported me in this campaign. Crack a smile for me tonight at this decision - I started tweeting as a way to make people smile and I hope we can all smile that justice has prevailed tonight."
Robin Waistell claimed he was unable to sell because the rail body had ignored requests to tackle the invasive weed on the bank behind his home in Maesteg.
The case was seen as a likely test for homeowners whose property is blighted by knotweed on railway embankments.
Network Rail said it would be "reviewing the judgement in detail".
It is understood the rail infrastructure body was refused immediate leave to appeal against the ruling.
Network Rail faces potential legal costs running into six figures after losing the case in Cardiff bought by Mr Waistell and a neighbour.
Widower Mr Waistell, 70, had moved to the bungalow from Spain after his wife died.
He had hoped to return to the sun, but found his property sale stymied by the knotweed growing on adjacent Network Rail land and was asking for £60,000 compensation for loss of value.
He was awarded £15,000, with a third of that to pay for an insurance-backed guarantee on a herbicide programme to tackle the knotweed.
He told BBC Radio Wales: "We've won the case. I'm pleased with the judgement, it's the amount I'm disappointed with.
"It's gone on for some four years now. Some days it really does get you down. But then you just pick yourself up and kick off again.
"I know there are so many people on the railway lines, and the road ways, they just seem to accept that it (Japanese knotweed) is there. But there is a lot of help if they decide to look for it. It is a horrible, horrible plant."
A spokesperson for Network Rail said: "We are aware of the outcome in this case and we are currently reviewing the judgement in detail."
A programme releasing insects brought in from Japan to bring the plant under control is under way in south Wales
Japanese knotweed was first found in the wild in Wales in the 1880s in Maesteg.
It was introduced by the Victorians for horticulture. Its 3-4m (10-13ft) stems, ornamental leaves and clusters of white flowers made it an attractive option for gardens.
But now the plant is prevalent throughout the UK and not only causes great damage to plant biodiversity, it is also causing problems for hard structures, including buildings and flood defences.
In 2015 UK ministers accepted a national eradication programme would be "prohibitively expensive" at £1.5bn.
A 35-year-old Eritrean, he came to public attention after being linked to the worst migrant disaster at sea - the deaths of 359 migrants in October 2013 after their boat sank near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Canada-based barrister Christine Duhaime, who specialises in money-laundering legislation, said Mr Mered was suspected to be a ringleader of the people-smuggling network which stretched across Africa and Europe.
"He is notorious just for the fact that he controlled a lot of money and a lot of people," she told the BBC's Newsday programme.
"As kingpin, the amount of money that went through him is apparently in the billions."
Italy's Corriere Della Serra newspaper reports that Mr Mered has boasted of being in league with local officials in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, while also having a network of workers in Italy.
He charged migrants up to €5,000 (£3,900; $5,680) to travel from African countries to northern Europe, the newspaper said.
Mr Mered is said to have once lived in Italy, where he came under the radar of anti-mafia investigators after trying to open a bank account in Dubai.
He later moved to Libya, where most African migrants start the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean, and finally to Sudan, where he was arrested in the capital, Khartoum.
"It's a good catch on the part of law enforcement. They've been following the money, and trying to track him down," said Ms Duhaime.
The speed with which he was extradited from Sudan to Italy was "remarkable", she added, something which usually happened when suspects faced money-laundering or terror-financing charges.
The UK Daily Mirror newspaper alleges his fixers also paid off Islamic State forces, which have gained a foothold in the North Africa state.
"When you are dealing with human trafficking from Libya over the Mediterranean and some parts of Africa there is obviously going to be an Isis connection," Ms Duhaime said.
Mr Mered has not commented on such allegations.
British investigators supported the Italian inquiry into the Lampedusa tragedy, and it was the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) that tracked Mr Mered down with the help of the Sudanese police.
The NCA said he like to called "the General", as he styled himself on the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.
He is said to have driven around in a tank and boasted: "Nobody is stronger than me."
But by 2015, the investigators were closing in.
Italy issued an international arrest warrant for Mr Mered, a Christian, and revealed details of phone tap evidence it had obtained on him.
They depicted a man who was kind and considerate when dealing with matters relating to his wife and children, who now live in Sweden, but ruthless and cynical in his work, Italy's La Repubblica newspaper said.
In one intercepted conversation, he is reportedly heard laughing at the overloading of migrant boats.
According to Canada's Globe and Mail, the recordings reveal he planned to invest part of his fortune in Canada and suggest his smuggling ambitions extended across the Atlantic, with one conversation offering €5,000 as the price to get to Canada using black-market passports.
According to the wiretap transcripts published in 2015, he boasted that business was good: "I've already sent off 7,000, 8,000 people.
"But this year will be better."
Paul O'Neill, 57, from Nottinghamshire, preyed on poverty-stricken families, paying £6,000 to people who procured children to be abused.
He admitted three counts of rape and a further 27 sexual offences at Nottingham Crown Court.
The CPS said the virtual rape case was thought to be the first of its kind.
He is due to be sentenced later.
Foraging teacher Mark Williams reckons we should eat more weeds.
He is urging shoppers to turn their backs on "tasteless imported Spanish lettuce" and instead head into the wild to fill our salad bowls.
Even in February, he says there are dozens of alternatives to shop-bought greens growing in abundance along the coast, in woodland and even in towns and cities.
And he has drawn up a list of six plants - or are they weeds? - which could grace our dinner plates tonight.
Mr Williams, who lives in Dumfries and Galloway and runs foraging courses, said: "None of them are in any way rare, in fact most are considered weeds.
"People expect foraging to be about looking for (possible rare) things, but it's really just about recognising abundance.
"Throughout the year, I can pick well over 300 different edible wild plants, fungi and seaweed within walking distance of my home in Gatehouse.
"Even in towns and cities, the list is huge."
The forager, who also runs a website offering advice on sourcing wild food safely and responsibly, says: "People worry about poisoning themselves by misidentifying something, but it only takes a tiny bit of effort to learn the few things to avoid.
"More people get ill from eating mass produced commodities than from eating the wrong wild plant.
Mr Williams says: "Provided you follow the first cardinal rule of foraging, nothing can go wrong: never eat anything that you can't identify with 100% confidence, and know is safe to eat."
If you have ever detected the smell of garlic as you wander through woodland in the springtime, it is likely you passed by a crop of wild garlic.
These fragrant, small green leaves are abundant in open, well-established deciduous woodland and shady hedgerows.
They have been at the forefront of a renaissance in wild food in recent years, according to Mr Williams.
He said: "It isn't hard to work out why: it is easy to find, delicious and fairly straightforward to identify.
"In most areas of the UK, there is absolutely no need for anyone who lives anywhere near a park, woodland or shady riverbank to spend a single penny on spring onions between February and July."
Despite its abundance, he urged foragers to pick wild garlic considerately, not clearing large areas.
In the kitchen, wild garlic works well with cheese - in pesto, for example - and it can be used to make excellent soups of sauces.
A note of caution however: although wild garlic is fairly straightforward to identify as it has a distinct smell of garlic, its leaves can be confused with lily of the valley, autumn crocus, daffodils, snowdrops and lords and ladies - all of which are toxic to humans.
Find more information on how to identify wild garlic here.
"If you come across a plant that reminds you of wild garlic, but has narrower leaves and less of a garlic smell, you may have found wild leeks," said Mr Williams.
"These aren't the hulking great Frankenstein leeks you might expect to find in shops and gardens, but something tender and elegant, much more closely resembling spring onions."
Most common in the west of Scotland and the north of England, they start to grow between November and February
They can carpet vast areas and can be found in parks, hedgerows and woods, often in urban and suburban areas.
Mr Williams added: "Be aware that crocuses, snowdrops, daffodils and bluebells grow around the same time and can be mixed through wild leek colonies.
"They are all toxic, but unlikely to do you much harm. If in doubt, wait for the distinctive flowers to appear."
He said wild leeks can be used in place of spring onions, cooked or raw, and are particularly tasty in pesto, hummus, salads and sauces.
Find more information about wild leeks here.
Not very hairy or bitter, this little weed is loathed by gardeners. But they make a very tasty addition to any salad, according to Mr Williams.
"They have overtones of rocket and watercress and come in lovely little garnish sized rosettes," he said.
"Great in a roast beef sandwich or crab salad, or to spice up any salad."
Found in gardens, field edges, flower beds and even window boxes, it is at its best between March and August.
Find out more about similar plants - all varieties of cardamines - here.
Ideal for a winter salad is pink puslane, an easy-to-come-by plant with an earthy beetroot flavour.
It is quite common in damp, shady wood edges, on riverbanks and hedgerows and it available all year round.
Mr Williams said the distinctive leaves often form extensive mats made of many rosettes - between April and June pale pink or white flowers with five petals can help identify it.
He added: "I love to employ its earthy flavour in winter salads with pickled fish, beetroot and elderberry vinegar, though it works well as a mild "bulker" with sharper-tasting leaves in spring.
"When you find a good patch, harvesting is quick and efficient - simply hold the tops of the rosettes and cut off below. It grows back within a few weeks."
Find more information about pink purslane here.
It's a common weed that can be found growing from cracks in pavements, but Mr Williams says chickweed is a "delight to eat - though you may wish to avoid that which grows in dog-walking areas."
He said its mild flavour means it is perfect for bulking out salads of wild leaves.
It can also be found in grass and beds in parks and gardens, on waste ground and under trees in fields.
Identify it by looking for small, white, star-like flowers made up of five deeply notched petals. If in doubt, close inspection will reveal a single line of hairs running down one side of the stem only.
There's more information about chickweed here.
Watercress can be found in mild coastal areas, in shallow slow-flowing streams and ditches, all year round.
Its peppery leaves are well worth harvesting but Mr Williams warned that it really should be cooked before it's eaten.
The plant is prone to infestation by the cyst stage of a parasite when it grows in land containing livestock.
The forager said: "This means if you eat it uncooked, you are at risk of them hatching into liver flukes inside you - which obviously isn't pleasant.
"Fortunately, it also makes fantastic soup or flan filling (I combine it with parmesan) and cooking destroys the parasite."
Care must also be taken that no lethal hemlock water-dropwort is growing through the plant when it is harvested - anyone planning to forage aquatic greens should learn to recognise it first.
For more about wild watercress, click here.
They said the money was obtained illegally and not declared.
He denies the charges and says he is being unfairly targeted by the Prosecutor's Office.
Mr Cunha has been leading calls for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, but he is now facing calls from other parties to step down.
As speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, he holds the power to allow impeachment proceedings against Ms Rousseff.
The main opposition parties made public a demand last week for Mr Cunha to resign.
A request for his resignation had already come from government supporters in Congress.
Mr Cunha is being investigated for alleged corruption in a kick-back scheme at the state run oil company, Petrobras.
Brazil's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Prosecutor's Office was allowed to investigate allegations of corruption against Mr Cunha.
Prosecutors said on Friday that he hid millions of dollars in Swiss accounts opened in his wife's and his children's names.
"There is sufficient proof that the foreign bank accounts were not declared and that at least in relation to Eduardo Cunha the money was obtained illegally," said a Prosecutor's Office statement.
A Brazilian audit court ruled earlier this month that President Dilma Rousseff broke the law in managing last year's budget.
She was accused of borrowing money illegally from state banks to make up for budget shortfalls.
Government supporters say calls for an impeachment less than a year after Ms Rousseff was re-elected are tantamount to a coup attempt.
House Democrats have complained that technical issues with the insurance enrolment websites had overshadowed the law's current and future benefits.
Some demanded Mr Obama find and sack those responsible for the glitches.
Mr Obama has said technical problems with the site are "unacceptable" and pledges they will soon be fixed.
He assured Americans on Monday that technical experts from both inside and outside the government were working around the clock to fix the website and its underpinnings.
The health law, known formally as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and informally as Obamacare, was passed in 2010 and is Mr Obama's foremost domestic policy initiative.
Among its central provisions are an expansion of the Medicaid public health programme for poor people, a requirement that Americans who do not have insurance from their employers or the government buy it on their own - with subsidies to aid the purchase, and a rule allowing children to remain on their parents' insurance until age 26.
Mr Obama and the law's supporters say it will eventually reshape America's costly and inefficient healthcare system and provide insurance to most of the estimated 46 million Americans who lack it.
At issue currently are websites run by the federal government and some states that serve as online marketplaces where individuals can compare private insurance plans, learn about available public subsidies, and sign up for a plan.
The sites, known as exchanges, opened on 1 October. The White House aims to enrol as many as seven million people through the exchanges by the 31 March end of the enrolment period.
The central site run by the federal government, healthcare.gov, has been plagued with problems, notably extremely long wait times. Websites run by individual states have not performed as poorly.
The Republicans, who have opposed the law from the beginning and have sought to undermine it at every turn, are now calling for the rollout to be delayed and for deadlines for enrolment to be pushed back.
The Republicans have also loudly demanded an investigation into the exchanges' shortcomings.
"It is our job to hold them accountable, and when it comes to Obamacare clearly there is a lot to hold accountable," House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Wednesday.
In light of the technical difficulties, some Democrats have also said Mr Obama should consider extending the enrolment period beyond 31 March.
But House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi advised against that.
"I think we should try to fix what we have, move forward with the deadline we have," she said. "What we want to do is fix it and go forward with it, not make policies that are predicated on its not working."
Complaints from Mr Obama's fellow Democrats are a relatively new part of the debate.
Democratic members of the House of Representatives left a briefing provided by the administration on Wednesday saying they had resolved not to let the problems with one part of the rollout overwhelm the law's benefits.
"The president needs to man up, find out who was responsible, and fire them," Minnesota Congressman Richard Nolan said. "You don't get many second chances to get a good first impression."
The White House has sought to reassure political allies and Americans at large that the government is working to resolve the issues.
The Obama administration has launched what senior officials called a "tech surge", with senior economic aide Jeffrey Zients tasked with analysing and repairing the problems.
On Wednesday, executives from top health insurance companies agreed to form technical teams to help the Obama administration fix the website and the systems underlying it.
"We are collaborating closely with the insurers to address problems we have witnessed," the White House said in a statement, after executives from 14 insurance companies met Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other senior administration officials.
Metamaterials are engineered to have properties that don't occur naturally, such as getting wider when stretched instead of just longer and thinner.
These perforated rubber sheets made by a Canadian team do just that - and then remain stable in their expanded state until they are squeezed back again.
Such designs could help make expandable stents or spacecraft components.
"In conventional materials, when you pull in one direction it will contract in other directions," said Dr Ahmad Rafsanjani, from McGill University in Montreal.
"But with 'auxetic' materials, due to their internal architecture, when you pull in one direction they expand in the lateral direction."
He was speaking to journalists at the American Physical Society's March Meeting, where the research will be presented on Wednesday.
Dr Rafsanjani's search for new designs to create such "auxeticity" found inspiration in the stonework of two 1,000-year-old tomb towers in Iran.
"When you look at Islamic motifs, there is a huge library of geometries," he said.
"On the walls of these two towers, you can find about 70 different architectures: tessellations and curlicue patterns."
Two of those patterns in particular yielded an unusual combination of properties, when Dr Rafsanjani recreated them in a simplified form using a laser cutter and rubber sheets. Not only were these sheets auxetic - expanding in all directions when stretched - but they could snap easily back and forth between stretched and unstretched states.
Such "bistability" is unusual in these materials, Dr Rafsanjani explained. Only a few other examples have been described, and they mostly use origami-like folding techniques.
"These designs are easier to fabricate; all you need is a laser cutter. Depending on the resolution of the laser you could downscale your samples, probably to the micro scale.
"Or you could upscale it for larger components like satellites or solar panels."
He and his colleagues also found they could tweak the properties of the sheets by, for example, changing the basis of the patterns from straight lines to curved ones.
At the heart of the materials' reversible change are small sections of the sheet that rotate as the rubber is stretched.
Rotating units like this - highlighted with colours in the images and video above - have formed the basis of many previous auxetic materials. But Dr Rafsanjani's sheets are unique in the way they snap between configurations.
"We wanted to find structures for these rotating auxetic materials, [such] that when we deform it and it expands, it keeps its deformed shape," he said.
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Terry McSpadden, from Elm in Norfolk, was 24 when he disappeared after a night out at The Locomotive pub in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on 1 March 2007.
The father of two is presumed dead and a pre-inquest hearing has been held in King's Lynn.
His mother Helen Thrower said the family "needed closure".
She said: "Please, somebody needs to come forward, we need to know what happened to Terry.
"You get up every morning, it's like living in a nightmare because it's the same thing, day in, day out.
"You just think, birthdays, Christmases, where is he, why can't I just send him a card, why can't we do anything?
"Why do we have to live in this nightmare when somebody could easily just stop it for us?"
The last sighting of Mr McSpadden was at Tesco in Wisbech at 01:00 on 2 March when he said he was going home to nearby Elm, but never arrived.
Norfolk coroner Jacqueline Lake held the pre-inquest hearing to make preparations for a full inquest later in the year.
Norfolk Police said the case remains "unsolved" and, while it is not currently conducting an active investigation, "should any new information come to light it would be reviewed accordingly".
The raids in the Liberton, Gilmerton and Craigmillar areas were part of Operation Amyloid, a huge operation targeting organised crime.
Police said 22 residential properties were targeted, involving more than 170 officers.
A kilo of heroin worth £100,000 was recovered at a house in Niddrie.
Further dealer quantities of heroin, drug paraphernalia and 250g of cannabis were seized along with about £5,000 in cash.
Fourteen men, aged between 21 and 48, and six women, aged from 19 to 44, are expected appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
A 27-year-old woman has also been reported to the procurator fiscal.
Det Ch Insp Kenny Gray said: "This operation has been the culmination of months of intelligence gathering, but I want to make it clear that it isn't over.
"Police Scotland will continue to target those involved in serious and organised crime throughout Edinburgh and to send a message that these sort of offences will not be tolerated."
The former Huddersfield coach and Great Britain assistant coach leaves ahead of the upcoming Championship Qualifiers.
Sharp departs along with assistant Danny Evans after two years at the club, with Featherstone set to announce his successor within the next 24 hours.
"We feel leaving Jon in charge for the Qualifiers, only for him to depart in October, would make little sense," chairman Mark Campbell said.
"We are now looking forward to seeing how our Super 8s campaign unfolds. We are aiming high and expect to leave a mark this time around."
Sharp joined Featherstone in July 2015, helping them win the Championship Shield, achieve consecutive top-four finishes in the Championship and reach a Challenge Cup quarter-final.
Featherstone have already secured a place in the Qualifiers, but need to beat Toulouse in their final league game of the season on Saturday to be sure of finishing in third place.
Coleman, whose current deal expires this summer, is expected to be rewarded with a new contract after guiding Wales to Euro 2016.
The 45-year-old is the first Wales boss to qualify for a major tournament since Jimmy Murphy at the 1958 World Cup.
"Ideally we'll know what we're doing before we go to the tournament so everybody is settled," said Coleman.
The former Fulham manager will meet FAW chief executive Jonathan Ford and president Dai Griffiths to discuss whether to extend his four-year tenure.
"In fairness to the FAW, at Christmas they said let's sit down, so they were pro-active," said Coleman.
"But we've had so much going on trying to prepare for this tournament and we said the best time will be March, so next week we'll sit down and discuss it.
"If the talks go well and everything is fine, then brilliant. But if we're miles apart on different things, then let's just concentrate on the tournament."
Coleman said he did not want to get "sidetracked" by the issue, saying the focus needed to be on the championships.
"We've worked so hard to get here, that's all that matters," he said. "What comes after, comes after."
Coleman was appointed Wales boss in 2012, succeeding good friend Gary Speed following the former Wales captain's death.
He signed a two-year extension in 2014.
FAW chief Ford had previously said: "I'm very confident, knowing Chris very well, that you don't just qualify and then leave."
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But it'll be down to the viewers at home who comes out on top.
Louise Redknapp, Danny Mac and Ore Oduba remain. So who do you think deserves to win? Tell us here.
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Reports of dead fish in the River Leadon, in Gloucestershire, were first made on Friday, before tests revealed high levels of the gas, earlier.
Sarah Dennis, from the agency, said: "The total quantity is unknown at the moment but we believe it could be several thousand."
The cause of the leak has not yet been confirmed by the authorities.
Ms Dennis added: "I can't confirm where this has come from - this will be an ongoing legal investigation."
She said the agency was removing fish from the river where possible, but added that if any dead fish were seen in the river people should call the agency in to remove them.
The warning about the second attack came from Swift, which oversees the financial messaging network that underpins global money transfers.
Swift said the target was a commercial bank but did not name the organisation or reveal if any cash had been taken.
The attack used techniques and tools resembling those used to steal cash from Bangladesh in February, it said.
Swift is used by about 11,000 financial institutions around the world to move large amounts of cash.
The attackers had a "deep and sophisticated knowledge of specific operational controls" at the targeted bank, and could have been aided in their theft by "malicious insiders", said Swift.
In both attacks the thieves sought to submit fraudulent messages to the Swift network to transfer large amounts of cash to accounts they controlled.
Analysis of February's attack suggested the gang aimed to steal about $1bn by moving cash from an account held by Bangladesh's central bank at New York's Federal Reserve to other accounts.
A spelling mistake in one of the transfer orders alerted staff and stopped much of the money going astray.
The second attack showed that the Bangladesh theft was not an isolated incident but "part of a wider and highly adaptive campaign targeting banks", said Swift.
It added that its core network remained secure despite the attempts by cyberthieves to manipulate it.
In April, Swift released software updates that it said would help customers improve security.
An investigation into February's attack revealed that the cyberthieves won access to the central bank network because of poor security controls.
The bank had no firewall, which is designed to block unauthorised access requests. It also used second-hand internet routers, which had cost $10, to connect to global financial networks.
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